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1. In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth.
2. And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkenesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters.
3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God diuided the light from the darkenesse.
5. And God called the light, Day, and the darknesse he called Night: and the euening and the morning were the first day.
6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it diuide the waters from the waters.
7. And God made the firmament; and diuided the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters, which were aboue the firmament: and it was so.
8. And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.
9. And God said, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together vnto one place, and let the dry land appeare: and it was so.
10. And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11. And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.
12. And the earth brought foorth grasse, and herbe yeelding seed after his kinde, and the tree yeelding fruit, whose seed was in it selfe, after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.
13. And the euening and the morning were the third day.
14. And God said, Let there bee lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide the day from the night: and let them be for signes and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.
15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heauen, to giue light vpon the earth: and it was so.
16. And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the starres also.
17. And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to giue light vpon the earth:
18. And to rule ouer the day, and ouer the night, and to diuide the light from the darkenesse: and God saw that it was good.
19. And the euening and the morning were the fourth day.
20. And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flie aboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
21. And God created great whales, and euery liuing creature that moueth, which the waters brought forth aboundantly after their kinde, and euery winged foule after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.
22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and fill the waters in the Seas, and let foule multiply in the earth.
23. And the euening and the morning were the fift day.
24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liuing creature after his kinde, cattell, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kinde: and it was so.
25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kinde, and cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth, after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.
26. And God said, Let vs make man in our Image, after our likenesse: and let them haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer the cattell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth. 
27. So God created man in his owne Image, in the Image of God created hee him; male and female created hee them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said vnto them, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer euery liuing thing that mooueth vpon the earth. 
29. And God said, Behold, I haue giuen you euery herbe bearing seede, which is vpon the face of all the earth, and euery tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yeelding seed, to you it shall be for meat:
30. And to euery beast of the earth, and to euery foule of the aire, and to euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth, wherein there is life, I haue giuen euery greene herbe for meat: and it was so.
31. And God saw euery thing that hee had made: and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the morning were the sixth day.
1. Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the hoste of them.
2. And on the seuenth day God ended his worke, which hee had made: And he rested on the seuenth day from all his worke, which he had made.
3. And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made.
4. These are the generations of the heauens, & of the earth, when they were created; in the day that the LORD God made the earth, and the heauens,
5. And euery plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6. But there went vp a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, & breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a liuing soule.
8. And the LORD God planted a garden Eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow euery tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euill.
10. And a riuer went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into foure heads.
11. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where there is gold.
12. And the gold of that land is good: There is Bdellium and the Onix stone.
13. And the name of the second riuer is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14. And the name of the third riuer is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the East of Assyria: and the fourth riuer is Euphrates.
15. And the LORD God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dresse it, and to keepe it.
16. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of euery tree of the garden thou mayest freely eate.
17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
18. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
19. And out of ye ground the LORD God formed euery beast of the field, and euery foule of the aire, and brought them vnto Adam, to see what he would call them: and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.
20. And Adam gaue names to all cattell, and to the foule of the aire, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam there was not found an helpe meete for him.
21. And the LORD God caused a deepe sleepe to fall vpon Adam, and hee slept; and he tooke one of his ribs, and closed vp the flesh in stead thereof.
22. And the rib which the LORD God had taken from man, made hee a woman, & brought her vnto the man.
23. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shalbe called woman, because shee was taken out of man.
24. Therefore shall a man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue vnto his wife: and they shalbe one flesh.
25. And they were both naked, the man & his wife, and were not ashamed.
1. Now the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?
2. And the woman said vnto the serpent, Wee may eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden:
3. But of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shal not eate of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4. And the Serpent said vnto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.
5. For God doeth know, that in the day ye eate thereof, then your eyes shalbee opened: and yee shall bee as Gods, knowing good and euill.
6. And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tooke of the fruit thereof, and did eate, and gaue also vnto her husband with her, and hee did eate.
7. And the eyes of them both were opened, & they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge leaues together, and made themselues aprons.
8. And they heard the voyce of the LORD God, walking in the garden in the coole of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselues from the presence of the LORD God, amongst the trees of the garden.
9. And the LORD God called vnto Adam, and said vnto him, Where art thou?
10. And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid my selfe.
11. And he said, Who told thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eate?
12. And the man said, The woman whom thou gauest to be with mee, shee gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.
13. And the LORD God said vnto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
14. And the LORD God said vnto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the field: vpon thy belly shalt thou goe, and dust shalt thou eate, all the dayes of thy life.
15. And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seed and her seed: it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorowe and thy conception. In sorow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and hee shall rule ouer thee.
17. And vnto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commaunded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorow shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.
18. Thornes also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee: and thou shalt eate the herbe of the field.
19. In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne vnto the ground: for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and vnto dust shalt thou returne.
20. And Adam called his wiues name Eue, because she was the mother of all liuing.
21. Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the LORD God make coates of skinnes, and cloathed them.
22. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of vs, to know good & euill. And now lest hee put foorth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eate and liue for euer:
23. Therefore the LORD God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground, from whence he was taken.
24. So he droue out the man: and he placed at the East of the garden of Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming sword, which turned euery way, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
1. And Adam knew Eue his wife, and shee conceiued, and bare Cain, and said, I haue gotten a man from the LORD.
2. And she againe bare his brother Abel, and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3. And in processe of time it came to passe, that Cain brought of the fruite of the ground, an offering vnto the LORD.
4. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flocke, and of the fat thereof: and the LORD had respect vnto Abel, and to his offering.
5. But vnto Cain, and to his offring he had not respect: and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6. And the LORD said vnto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?
7. If thou doe well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sinne lieth at the doore: And vnto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule ouer him.
8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to passe when they were in the field, that Cain rose vp against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9. And the LORD said vnto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And hee said, I know not: Am I my brothers keeper?
10. And he said, What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me, from the ground.
11. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thy hand.
12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13. And Cain said vnto the LORD, My punishment is greater, then I can beare.
14. Behold, thou hast driuen me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitiue, and a vagabond in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that findeth me, shall slay me.
15. And the LORD said vnto him, Therefore whosoeuer slayeth Cain, vengeance shalbe taken on him seuen fold. And the LORD set a marke vpon Cain, lest any finding him, should kill him.
16. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden.
17. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceiued and bare Enoch, and hee builded a City, and called the name of the City, after the name of his sonne, Enoch.
18. And vnto Enoch was borne Irad: and Irad begate Mehuiael, and Mehuiael begate Methusael, and Methusael begate Lamech.
19. And Lamech tooke vnto him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20. And Adah bare Iabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as haue cattell.
21. And his brothers name was Iubal: hee was the father of all such as handle the harpe and organ.
22. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-Cain, an instructer of euery artificer in brasse and iron: and the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
23. And Lamech sayd vnto his wiues, Adah and Zillah, Heare my voyce, yee wiues of Lamech, hearken vnto my speech: for I haue slaine a man to my wounding, and a yong man to my hurt.
24. If Cain shall bee auenged seuen fold, truely Lamech seuenty and seuen folde.
25. And Adam knew his wife againe, and she bare a sonne, & called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed mee another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26. And to Seth, to him also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to call vpon the Name of the LORD.
1. This is the booke of the generations of Adam: In the day that God created man, in the likenes of God made he him.
2. Male and female created hee them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3. And Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a sonne in his owne likenesse, after his image; and called his name Seth.
4. And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred yeeres: and he begate sonnes and daughters.
5. And all the dayes that Adam liued, were nine hundred and thirtie yeeres: and he died.
6. And Seth liued an hundred and fiue yeeres: and begate Enos.
7. And Seth liued, after he begate Enos, eight hundred and seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
8. And all the dayes of Seth, were nine hundred and twelue yeeres, and he died.
9. And Enos liued ninetie yeeres, and begate Cainan.
10. And Enos liued after hee begate Cainan, eight hundred and fifteene yeeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
11. And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundred & fiue yeres; and he died.
12. And Cainan liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Mahalaleel.
13. And Cainan liued after he begate Mahalaleel, eight hundred and fourtie yeeres, & begate sonnes and daughters.
14. And al the dayes of Cainan were nine hundred & ten yeres; and he died.
15. And Mahalaleel liued sixtie and fiue yeeres, and begat Iared.
16. And Mahalaleel liued after he begate Iared, eight hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
17. And all the dayes of Mahalaleel, were eight hundred ninetie and fiue yeeres, and he died.
18. And Iared liued an hundred sixtie and two yeeres, & he begat Enoch.
19. And Iared liued after he begate Enoch, eight hundred yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
20. And all the dayes of Iared were nine hundred sixtie and two yeeres, and he died.
21. And Enoch liued sixtie and fiue yeeres, and begate Methuselah.
22. And Enoch walked with God, after he begate Methuselah, three hundred yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
23. And all the dayes of Enoch, were three hundred sixtie and fiue yeeres.
24. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God tooke him.
25. And Methuselah liued an hundred eightie and seuen yeeres, and begat Lamech.
26. And Methuselah liued, after hee begate Lamech, seuen hundred, eightie and two yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
27. And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundred, sixtie and nine yeeres, and he died.
28. And Lamech liued an hundred eightie and two yeeres: and begate a sonne.
29. And he called his name Noah, saying; This same shall comfort vs, concerning our woorke and toyle of our hands, because of the ground, which the LORD hath cursed.
30. And Lamech liued, after hee begate Noah, fiue hundred ninetie and fiue yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
31. And all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundred seuentie and seuen yeeres, and he died.
32. And Noah was fiue hundred yeeres olde: and Noah begate Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
1. And it came to passe, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were borne vnto them:
2. That the sonnes of God saw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they took them wiues, of all which they chose.
3. And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not alwayes striue with man; for that hee also is flesh: yet his dayes shalbe an hundred and twenty yeeres.
4. There were Giants in the earth in those daies: and also after that, when the sonnes of God came in vnto the daughters of men, & they bare children to them; the same became mightie men, which were of old, men of renowme.
5. And God saw, that the wickednes of man was great in the earth, and that euery imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely euill continually.
6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieued him at his heart.
7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man, whom I haue created, from the face of the earth: both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the foules of the aire: for it repenteth me that I haue made them.
8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a iust man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10. And Noah begate three sonnes: Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
11. The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.
12. And God looked vpon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way vpon the earth.
13. And God said vnto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before mee; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14. Make thee an Arke of Gopher-wood: roomes shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15. And this is the fashion, which thou shalt make it of: the length of the arke shalbe three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirtie cubits.
16. A window shalt thou make to the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it aboue; and the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: With lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17. And behold, I, euen I doe bring a flood of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from vnder heauen, and euery thing that is in the earth shall die.
18. But with thee wil I establish my Couenant: and thou shalt come into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
19. And of euery liuing thing of all flesh, two of euery sort shalt thou bring into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shall be male and female.
20. Of fowles after their kinde, and of cattel after their kinde: of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, to keepe them aliue.
21. And take thou vnto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food, for thee, and for them.
22. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
1. And the LORD saide vnto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me, in this generation.
2. Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take to thee by seuens, the male and his female: and of beastes that are not cleane, by two, the male and his female.
3. Of fowles also of the aire, by seuens, the male & the female; to keepe seed aliue vpon the face of all the earth.
4. For yet seuen dayes, and I will cause it to raine vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and forty nights: and euery liuing substance that I haue made, will I destroy, fro off the face of the earth.
5. And Noah did according vnto all that the LORD commanded him.
6. And Noah was sixe hundred yeeres old, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.
7. And Noah went in, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him, into the Arke, because of the waters of the Flood.
8. Of cleane beasts, & of beasts that are not cleane, & of fowles, and of euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth,
9. There went in two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, the male & the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the Flood were vpon the earth.
11. In the sixe hundredth yeere of Noahs life, in the second moneth, the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the same day, were al the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened.
12. And the raine was vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and fortie nights.
13. In the selfe same day entred Noah, and Sem, and Ham, and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them, into the Arke,
14. They, and euery beast after his kinde, & all the cattell after their kinde: and euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euery birde of euery sort.
15. And they went in vnto Noah into the Arke, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commaunded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17. And the Flood was fortie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters increased, and bare vp the Arke, and it was lift vp aboue the earth.
18. And the waters preuailed, and were encreased greatly vpon the earth: and the Arke went vpon the face of the waters.
19. And the waters preuailed exceedingly vpon the earth, and all the high hils, that were vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
20. Fifteene cubits vpward, did the waters preuaile; and the mountaines were couered.
21. And all flesh died, that mooued vpon the earth, both of fowle, & of cattell, and of beast, and of euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth, and euery man.
22. All in whose nosethrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23. And euery liuing substance was destroyed, which was vpon the face of the ground, both man and cattell, and the creeping things, and the foule of the heauen; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah onely remained aliue, and they that were with him in the Arke.
24. And the waters preuailed vpon the earth, an hundred and fifty dayes.
1. And God remembred Noah, and euery liuing thing, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: and God made a winde to passe ouer the earth, and the waters asswaged.
2. The fountaines also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the raine from heauen was restrained.
3. And the waters returned from off the earth, continually: and after the end of the hundred and fiftie dayes, the waters were abated.
4. And the Arke rested in the seuenth moneth, on the seuenteenth day of the moneth, vpon the mountaines of Ararat.
5. And the waters decreased continually vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, on the first day of the moneth, were the tops of the mountaines seene.
6. And it came to passe at the end of forty dayes, that Noah opened the window of the Arke which he had made.
7. And he sent forth a Rauen, which went foorth to and fro, vntill the waters were dried vp from off the earth.
8. Also hee sent foorth a doue from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
9. But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put foorth his hand, and tooke her, and pulled her in vnto him, into the Arke.
10. And hee stayed yet other seuen dayes; and againe hee sent foorth the doue out of the Arke.
11. And the doue came in to him in the euening, and loe, in her mouth was an Oliue leafe pluckt off: So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12. And hee stayed yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.
13. And it came to passe in the sixe hundredth and one yeere, in the first moneth, the first day of the moneth, the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remooued the couering of the Arke, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was drie.
14. And in the second moneth, on the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth, was the earth dried.
15. And God spake vnto Noah, saying,
16. Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wiues with thee:
17. Bring foorth with thee euery liuing thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowle, and of cattell, and of euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitfull, and multiply vpon the earth. 
18. And Noah went foorth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him:
19. Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery fowle, and whatsoeuer creepeth vpon the earth, after their kinds, went foorth out of the Arke.
20. And Noah builded an Altar vnto the LORD, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane fowle, and offred burnt offrings on the Altar.
21. And the LORD smelled a sweete sauour, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not againe curse the ground any more for mans sake; for the imagination of mans heart is euil from his youth: neither will I againe smite any more euery thing liuing, as I haue done.
22. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and haruest, and cold, and heat, and Summer, and Winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
1. And God blessed Noah, and his sonnes, and said vnto them, Bee fruitfull and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2. And the feare of you, & the dread of you shall be vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery fowle of the aire, vpon all that mooueth vpon the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they deliuered.
3. Euery mouing thing that liueth, shalbe meat for you; euen as the greene herbe haue I giuen you all things.
4. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eate.
5. And surely your blood of your liues will I require: at the hand of euery beast will I require it, & at the hand of man, at the hand of euery mans brother will I require the life of man.
6. Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7. And you, be ye fruitfull, and multiply, bring foorth aboundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8. And God spake vnto Noah, and to his sonnes with him, saying;
9. And I, behold, I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you:
10. And with euery liuing creature that is with you, of the fowle, of the cattell, and of euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, to euery beast of the earth.
11. And I wil establish my couenant with you, neither shal all flesh be cut off any more, by the waters of a flood, neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12. And God said, This is the token of the Couenant which I make betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature that is with you, for perpetuall generations.
13. I doe set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a couenant, betweene me and the earth.
14. And it shall come to passe, when I bring a cloud ouer the earth, that the bow shall be seene in the cloud.
15. And I will remember my couenant, which is betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16. And the bow shalbe in the cloud; and I will looke vpon it, that I may remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God and euery liuing creature, of all flesh that is vpon the earth.
17. And God said vnto Noah, This is the token of the couenant, which I haue established betweene mee and all flesh, that is vpon the earth.
18. And the sonnes of Noah that went forth of the Arke, were Shem, and Ham, and Iaphet: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19. These are the three sonnes of Noah: and of them was the whole earth ouerspread.
20. And Noah began to bee an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
21. And he dranke of the wine, and was drunken, and hee was vncouered within his tent.
22. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakednesse of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23. And Shem and Iaphet tooke a garment, and layed it vpon both their shoulders, and went backward, and couered the nakednesse of their father, and their faces were backward, and they saw not their fathers nakednesse.
24. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger sonne had done vnto him.
25. And he said, Cursed bee Canaan: a seruant of seruants shall hee be vnto his brethren.
26. And hee saide, Blessed bee the LORD God of Shem, and Canaan shalbe his seruant.
27. God shall enlarge Iaphet, and he shal dwel in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shalbe his seruant.
28. And Noah liued after the flood, three hundred and fifty yeeres.
29. And all the dayes of Noah were nine hundred & fifty yeeres, and he died.
1. Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Iaphet: and vnto them were sonnes borne after the Flood.
2. The sonnes of Iaphet: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, & Tubal, and Meshech, & Tiras.
3. And the sonnes of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4. And the sons of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5. By these were the Iles of the Gentiles diuided in their lands, euery one after his tongue: after their families, in their nations.
6. And the sonnes of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7. And the sonnes of Cush, Seba, and Hauilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
8. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is saide, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the LORD.
10. And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah,
12. And Resen betweene Nineueh and Calah: the same is a great citie.
13. And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
14. And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (out of whome came Philistiim) and Caphtorim.
15. And Canaan begate Sidon his first borne, and Heth,
16. And the Iebusite, and the Emorite, and the Girgasite,
17. And the Hiuite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18. And the Aruadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
19. And the border of the Canaanites, was from Sidon, as thou commest to Gerar, vnto Gaza, as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorah, and Admah, & Zeboim, euen vnto Lasha.
20. These are the sonnes of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
21. Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Iaphet the elder, euen to him were children borne.
22. The children of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
23. And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24. And Arphaxad begate Salah, and Salah begate Eber.
25. And vnto Eber were borne two sonnes: the name of one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth diuided, and his brothers name was Ioktan.
26. And Ioktan begate Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,
27. And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28. And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29. And Ophir, and Hauilah, & Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.
30. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest vnto Sephar, a mount of the East.
31. These are the sonnes of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands after their nations.
32. These are the families of the sonnes of Noah after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations diuided in the earth after the Flood.
1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speach.
2. And it came to passe as they iourneyed from the East, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3. And they sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and burne them thorowly. And they had bricke for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4. And they said; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whose top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest we be scattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth.
5. And the LORD came downe to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6. And the LORD said; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe.
7. Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cofound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.
8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.
9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth.
10. These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred yeres old, and begate Arphaxad two yeeres after the Flood.
11. And Shem liued, after he begate Arphaxad, fiue hundred yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
12. And Arphaxad liued fiue and thirtie yeeres, and begate Salah.
13. And Arphaxad liued, after he begate Salah, foure hundred and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
14. And Salah liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Eber.
15. And Salah liued, after hee begate Eber, foure hundred and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
16. And Eber liued foure and thirty yeeres, and begate Peleg.
17. And Eber liued, after hee begate Peleg, foure hundred and thirtie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
18. And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Reu.
19. And Peleg liued, after hee begate Reu, two hundred and nine yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
20. And Reu liued two and thirtie yeeres, and begate Serug.
21. And Reu liued, after hee begate Serug, two hundreth and seuen yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
22. And Serug liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Nahor.
23. And Serug liued, after he begate Nahor, two hundred yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
24. And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.
25. And Nahor liued, after he begate Terah, an hundred & nineteene yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
26. And Terah liued seuenty yeeres, and begate Abram, Nahor, & Haran.
27. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: And Haran begate Lot.
28. And Haran died, before his father Terah in the land of his natiuity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29. And Abram and Nahor tooke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahors wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30. But Sarai was barren; she had no childe.
31. And Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, and they went foorth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to goe into the land of Canaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.
32. And the dayes of Terah, were two hundred and fiue yeres: and Terah died in Haran.
1. Now the LORD had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and from thy fathers house, vnto a land that I will shew thee.
2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I wil blesse thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt bee a blessing.
3. And I will blesse them that blesse thee, and curse him, that curseth thee: and in thee shal all families of the earth be blessed.
4. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken vnto him, and Lot went with him: And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeeres old when he departed out of Haran.
5. And Abram tooke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, and they went foorth to goe into the land of Canaan: and into the land of Canaan they came.
6. And Abram passed through the land, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7. And the LORD appeared vnto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed wil I giue this land: and there builded hee an altar vnto the LORD, who appeared vnto him.
8. And he remoued from thence vnto a mountaine, on the East of Beth-el, and pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the West, and Hai on the East: and there hee builded an altar vnto the LORD, and called vpon the Name of the LORD.
9. And Abram iourneyed, going on still toward the South.
10. And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went downe into Egypt, to soiourne there: for the famine was grieuous in the land.
11. And it came to passe when he was come neere to enter into Egypt, that he said vnto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpon.
12. Therefore it shall come to passe, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will saue thee aliue.
13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be wel with me, for thy sake; and my soule shall liue, because of thee.
14. And it came to passe, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that shee was very faire.
15. The Princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaohs house.
16. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheepe, and oxen, and hee asses, and men seruants, and maid seruants, and shee asses, and camels.
17. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh & his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.
18. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done vnto me? Why diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?
19. Why saidest thou, Shee is my sister? so I might haue taken her to mee to wife: now therfore behold, thy wife, take her and goe thy way.
20. And Pharaoh comanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
1. And Abram went vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
2. And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer, and in gold.
3. And hee went on his iourneyes from the South, euen to Beth-el, vnto the place where his tent had bene at the beginning, betweene Beth-el and Hai:
4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the LORD.
5. And Lot also which went with Abram, had flocks and heards, & tents.
6. And the land was not able to beare them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
7. And there was a strife betweene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell: And the Canaanite, and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
8. And Abram said vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene mee and thee, and betweene my heardmen and thy heardmen: for wee bee brethren.
9. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thy selfe, I pray thee, from mee: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will goe to the left.
10. And Lot lifted vp his eyes, and beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where before the Lord destroyed Sodome and Gomorah, euen as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou commest vnto Zoar.
11. Then Lot chose him all the plaine of Iordane: and Lot iourneyed East; and they separated themselues the one from the other.
12. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent toward Sodome.
13. But the men of Sodome were wicked, and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
14. And the LORD said vnto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift vp now thine eyes, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and Westward.
15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seede for euer.
16. And I will make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbred.
17. Arise, walke through the land, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will giue it vnto thee.
18. Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelt in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar vnto the LORD.
1. And it came to passe in the dayes of Amraphel King of Shinar, Arioch King of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer King of Elam, and Tidal King of nations:
2. That these made warre with Bera King of Sodome, and with Birsha King of Gomorrah, Shinab King of Admah, and Shemeber King of Zeboiim, and the King of Bela, which is Zoar.
3. All these were ioyned together in the vale of Siddim; which is the salt Sea.
4. Twelue yeeres they serued Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth yeere they rebelled.
5. And in the fourteenth yeere came Chedorlaomer, and the Kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims, in Ashteroth Karnaim, & the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaueh Kiriathaim;
6. And the Horites in their mount Seir, vnto El-Paran, which is by the wildernesse.
7. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, & smote all the countrey of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
8. And there went out the King of Sodome, and the King of Gomorrah, and the King of Admah, and the King of Zeboiim, and the King of Bela, (the same is Zoar) and they ioyned battell with them, in the vale of Siddim,
9. With Chedorlaomer the King of Elam, and with Tidal King of nations, and Amraphel King of Shinar, and Arioch King of Ellasar; foure Kings with fiue.
10. And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits: and the Kings of Sodome & Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained, fled to the mountaine.
11. And they tooke all the goods of Sodome and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
12. And they tooke Lot, Abrams brothers sonne, (who dwelt in Sodome) and his goods, and departed.
13. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, for hee dwelt in the plaine of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
14. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captiue, he armed his trained seruants borne in his owne house, three hundred and eighteene, and pursued them vnto Dan.
15. And hee diuided himselfe against them, he and his seruants by night, and smote them, and pursued them vnto Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus:
16. And hee brought backe all the goods, and also brought againe his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
17. And the king of Sodome went out to meete him, (after his returne from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the Kings that were with him) at the valley of Saueh, which is the Kings dale.
18. And Melchizedek King of Salem brought foorth bread and wine: and he was the Priest of the most high God.
19. And hee blessed him, and saide; Blessed bee Abram of the most high God, possessour of heauen and earth,
20. And blessed bee the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thy hand: and hee gaue him tithes of all.
21. And the King of Sodome said vnto Abram, giue me the persons, and take the goods to thy selfe.
22. And Abram said to the King of Sodome, I haue lift vp my hand vnto the LORD, the most high God, the possessour of heauen and earth,
23. That I wil not take from a threed euen to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I haue made Abram rich:
24. Saue onely that which the yong men haue eaten, and the portion of the men which went with mee, Aner, Eschol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
1. After these things, the word of the LORD came vnto Abram in a vision, saying; Feare not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
2. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse? and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.
3. And Abram said; Behold, to mee thou hast given no seed: and loe, one borne in my house is mine heire.
4. And behold, the word of the LORD came vnto him, saying; This shall not be thine heire: but he that shall come foorth out of thy owne bowels, shalbe thine heire.
5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Looke now towards heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And hee said vnto him, So shall thy seed be.
6. And he beleeued in the LORD; and hee counted it to him for righteousnesse.
7. And he said vnto him; I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Caldees, to give thee this land, to inherit it.
8. And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shal I know that I shall inherit it?
9. And he said vnto him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres old, and a shee goat of three yeeres old, and a ramme of three yeeres old, and a turtle doue, and a yong pigeon.
10. And he tooke vnto him all these, and diuided them in the midst, and layd each peece one against another: but the birds diuided he not.
11. And when the fowles came downe vpon the carcases, Abram droue them away.
12. And when the Sunne was going downe, a deepe sleepe fell vpon Abram: and loe, an horrour of great darkenesse fell vpon him.
13. And he said vnto Abram, Know of a surety, that thy seed shalbe a stranger, in a land that is not theirs, and shal serue them, and they shall afflict them foure hundred yeeres.
14. And also that nation whom they shall serue, wil I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15. And thou shalt goe to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither againe: for the iniquitie of the Amorites is not yet full.
17. And it came to passe that when the Sunne went downe, and it was darke, behold, a smoking furnace, and a burning lampe that passed betweene those pieces.
18. In that same day the LORD made a couenant with Abram, saying; Unto thy seed haue I giuen this land from the riuer of Egypt vnto the great riuer, the riuer Euphrates:
19. The Kenites, and the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites:
20. And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21. And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Iebusites.
1. Now Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaide, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2. And Sarai said vnto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee go in vnto my maid: it may bee that I may obtaine children by her: and Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
3. And Sarai Abrams wife, tooke Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten yeeres in the land of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram, to be his wife.
4. And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceiued: And when shee saw that shee had conceiued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes.
5. And Sarai said vnto Abram, My wrong be vpon thee: I haue giuen my maid into thy bosome, and when shee saw that she had conceiued, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD iudge betweene me and thee.
6. But Abram said vnto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; doe to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, shee fled from her face.
7. And the Angel of the LORD found her by a fountaine of water, in the wildernesse, by the fountaine, in the way to Shur:
8. And he said, Hagar Sarais maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou goe? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistresse Sarai.
9. And the Angel of the LORD said vnto her, Returne to thy mistresse, and submit thy selfe vnder her hands.
10. And the Angel of the LORD said vnto her, I will multiply thy seede exceedingly, that it shall not be numbred for multitude.
11. And the Angel of the LORD said vnto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12. And he will be a wilde man; his hand will be against euery man, and euery mans hand against him: & he shal dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13. And shee called the name of the LORD that spake vnto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Haue I also here looked after him that seeth me?
14. Wherefore the well was called, Beer-lahai-roi: Behold, It is betweene Cadesh and Bered.
15. And Hagar bare Abram a sonne: and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16. And Abram was fourescore and sixe yeeres old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
1. And when Abram was ninetie yeres old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.
2. And I wil make my couenant betweene me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3. And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,
4. As for me, behold, my couenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall bee Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.
6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and I will make nations of thee, and Kings shall come out of thee.
7. And I will establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee, in their generations for an euerlasting couenant, to bee a God vnto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8. And I will giue vnto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
9. And God said vnto Abraham, Thou shalt keepe my couenant therefore, thou, and thy seede after thee, in their generations.
10. This is my couenant, which yee shall keepe betweene me and you, and thy seed after thee: euery man child among you shall be circumcised.
11. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskinne; and it shal be a token of the couenant betwixt me and you.
12. And he that is eight dayes olde, shalbe circumcised among you, euery man child in your generations, he that is borne in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
13. He that is borne in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my couenant shall be in your flesh, for an euerlasting couenant.
14. And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.
15. And God said vnto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16. And I will blesse her, and giue thee a sonne also of her: yea I wil blesse her, and she shalbe a mother of nations; Kings of people shall be of her.
17. Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be borne vnto him that is an hundred yeeres old? and shal Sarah that is ninetie yeeres old, beare?
18. And Abraham said vnto God, O that Ishmael might liue before thee.
19. And God said, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my couenant with him, for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seed after him.
20. And as for Ishmael, I haue heard thee: behold, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
21. But my couenant wil I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, at this set time, in the next yeere.
22. And he left off talking with him, and God went vp from Abraham.
23. And Abraham tooke Ishmael his sonne, and all that were borne in his house, and all that were bought with his money, euery male, among the men of Abrahams house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskinne, in the selfesame day, as God had said vnto him. 
24. And Abraham was ninety yeeres old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskinne.
25. And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeeres old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskinne.
26. In the selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne.
27. And all the men of his house, borne in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
1. And the LORD appeared vnto him, in the plaines of Mamre: and he sate in the tent doore, in the heat of the day.
2. And he lift vp his eyes and looked, and loe, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, hee ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed himselfe toward the ground,
3. And said, My Lord, If now I haue found fauour in thy sight, passe not away, I pray thee, fro thy seruant:
4. Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feete, and rest your selues vnder the tree:
5. And I will fetch a morsell of bread; and comfort ye your hearts, after that you shall passe on: for therefore are you come to your seruant. And they said; So doe, as thou hast said.
6. And Abraham hastened into the tent, vnto Sarah, & said; Make ready quickly three measures of fine meale, knead it, and make cakes vpon the hearth.
7. And Abraham ranne vnto the heard, and fetcht a calfe, tender and good, and gaue it vnto a yong man: and he hasted to dresse it.
8. And he tooke butter, and milke, and the calfe which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them vnder the tree: and they did eate.
9. And they said vnto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
10. And he said, I will certainly returne vnto thee according to the time of life; and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne. And Sarah heard it in the tent doore, which was behind him.
11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age: and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women.
12. Therefore Sarah laughed within her selfe, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I haue pleasure, my lord being old also?
13. And the LORD said vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying; Shall I of a surety beare a childe, which am old?
14. Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.
15. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraid. And he said, Nay, but thou diddest laugh.
16. And the men rose vp from thence, and looked toward Sodome: and Abraham went with them, to bring them on the way.
17. And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I doe;
18. Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19. For I know him, that hee will command his children, and his household after him, and they shall keepe the way of the LORD, to doe iustice and iudgement, that the LORD may bring vpon Abraham, that which hee hath spoken of him.
20. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodome and Gomorrah is great, and because their sinne is very grieuous:
21. I will goe downe now, and see whether they haue done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come vnto me: and if not, I will know.
22. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodome: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
23. And Abraham drew neere, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
24. Peraduenture there be fifty righteous within the citie; wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous, that are therein?
25. That be farre from thee, to do after this maner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be farre from thee: Shall not the Iudge of all the earth doe right?
26. And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fiftie righteous, within the citie, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
27. And Abraham answered, and said, Behold now, I haue taken vpon me to speake vnto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes.
28. Peraduenture there shall lacke fiue of the fiftie righteous: wilt thou destroy all the citie for lacke of fiue? And he said, If I find there fourtie and fiue, I will not destroy it.
29. And hee spake vnto him yet againe, and said, Peraduenture there shall be fourtie found there: and he said, I will not doe it for fourties sake.
30. And he said vnto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speake: Peraduenture there shall thirtie bee found there. And he said, I will not doe it, if I find thirtie there.
31. And he said, Behold now, I haue taken vpon mee to speake vnto the Lord: Peraduenture there shall bee twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenties sake.
32. And hee saide, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speake yet but this once: Peraduenture ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for tennes sake.
33. And the LORD went his way, assoone as hee had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned vnto his place.
1. And there came two Angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate in the gate of Sodome: and Lot seeing them, rose vp to meet them, and he bowed himselfe with his face toward the ground.
2. And he said, Beholde now my Lords, turne in, I pray you, into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, and ye shall rise vp early and goe on your wayes. And they said, Nay: but we wil abide in the street all night.
3. And he pressed vpon them greatly, and they turned in vnto him, and entred into his house: and he made them a feast, and did bake vnleauened bread, and they did eate.
4. But before they lay downe, the men of the citie, euen the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and yong, all the people from euery quarter.
5. And they called vnto Lot, and said vnto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out vnto vs, that we may know them.
6. And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, & shut the doore after him,
7. And said, I pray you, brethren, doe not so wickedly.
8. Behold now, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man; let mee, I pray you, bring them out vnto you, and doe ye to them, as is good in your eyes: onely vnto these men do nothing: for therefore came they vnder the shadow of my roofe.
9. And they said, Stand backe. And they said againe, This one fellow came in to soiourne, and he will needs bee a Iudge: Now wil we deale worse with thee, then with them. And they pressed sore vpon the man, euen Lot, and came neere to breake the doore.
10. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the doore.
11. And they smote the men that were at the doore of the house, with blindnes, both small and great: so that they wearied themselues to finde the doore.
12. And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place.
13. For we will destroy this place, because the crie of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD: and the LORD hath sent vs to destroy it.
14. And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
15. And when the morning arose, then the Angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, & thy two daughters, which are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquitie of the citie.
16. And while he lingred, the men laid hold vpon his hand, and vpon the hand of his wife, and vpon the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being mercifull vnto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the citie.
17. And it came to passe, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, looke not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plaine: escape to the mountaine, lest thou bee consumed.
18. And Lot said vnto them, Oh not so, my Lord.
19. Beholde now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed vnto me, in sauing my life, and I cannot escape to the mountaine, lest some euill take me, and I die.
20. Behold now, this citie is neere to flee vnto, and it is a litle one: Oh let me escape thither, (is it not a litle one?) and my soule shall liue.
21. And he said vnto him, See, I haue accepted thee concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.
22. Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot doe any thing till thou bee come thither: therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.
23. The sunne was risen vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.
24. Then the LORD rained vpon Sodome & vpon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, from the LORD out of heauen.
25. And he ouerthrew those cities, and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew vpon the ground.
26. But his wife looked backe from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27. And Abraham gate vp earely in the morning, to the place, where hee stood before the LORD.
28. And he looked toward Sodome and Gomorrah, & toward all the land of the plaine, and beheld, and loe, the smoke of the countrey went vp as the smoke of a furnace.
29. And it came to passe, when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, that God remembred Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrew the cities, in the which Lot dwelt.
30. And Lot went vp out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountaine, and his two daughters with him: for hee feared to dwell in Zoar, and he dwelt in a caue, he and his two daughters.
31. And the first borne saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs, after the maner of all the earth.
32. Come, let vs make our father drinke wine, and we will lye with him, that we may preserue seed of our father.
33. And they made their father drinke wine that night, & the first borne went in, and lay with her father: and he perceiued not, when shee lay downe, nor when she arose.
34. And it came to passe on the morrow, that the first borne said vnto the yonger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let vs make him drinke wine this night also, and goe thou in, and lye with him, that we may preserue seed of our father.
35. And they made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger arose, and lay with him: and he perceiued not, when she lay downe, nor when she arose.
36. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with childe by their father.
37. And the first borne bare a sonne, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day.
38. And the yonger, she also bare a sonne, and called his name, Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon, vnto this day.
1. And Abraham iourneyed from thence, toward the South-Countrey, and dwelled betweene Cadesh and Shur, and soiourned in Gerar.
2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: And Abimelech King of Gerar sent, and tooke Sarah.
3. But God came to Abimelech in a dreame by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken: for shee is a mans wife.
4. But Abimelech had not come neere her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
5. Said he not vnto me, She is my sister? and she, euen she herselfe said, Hee is my brother: in the integritie of my heart, and innocencie of my hands haue I done this.
6. And God saide vnto him in a dreame, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integritie of thy heart: for I also withheld thee from sinning against mee, therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
7. Now therefore restore the man his wife: for he is a Prophet, and he shal pray for thee, and thou shalt liue: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
8. Therefore Abimelech rose earely in the morning, and called all his seruants, and told all these things in their eares: and the men were sore afraid.
9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said vnto him, What hast thou done vnto vs? and what haue I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me, and on my kingdome a great sinne? thou hast done deeds vnto mee that ought not to be done.
10. And Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
11. And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the feare of God is not in this place: and they will slay mee for my wiues sake.
12. And yet indeed shee is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and shee became my wife.
13. And it came to passe when God caused me to wander from my fathers house, that I said vnto her, This is thy kindnesse which thou shalt shew vnto me; at euery place whither wee shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
14. And Abimelech tooke sheepe and oxen, and men-seruants, and women seruants, and gaue them vnto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
15. And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee; dwel where it pleaseth thee.
16. And vnto Sarah hee said, Behold, I haue giuen thy brother a thousand pieces of siluer: behold, he is to thee a couering of the eyes, vnto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus shee was reproued.
17. So Abraham prayed vnto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-seruants, and they bare children.
18. For the LORD had fast closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abrahams wife.
1. And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did vnto Sarah as he had spoken.
2. For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his old age, at the set time, of which God had spoken to him.
3. And Abraham called the name of his sonne, that was borne vnto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4. And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac, being eight dayes old, as God had commanded him.
5. And Abraham was an hundred yeeres old, when his sonne Isaac was borne vnto him.
6. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that heare, will laugh with me.
7. And she said, Who would haue said vnto Abraham, that Sarah should haue giuen children sucke? for I haue borne him a sonne in his old age.
8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9. And Sarah saw the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian, which shee had borne vnto Abraham, mocking.
10. Wherfore she said vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman, and her sonne: for the sonne of this bond woman shall not be heire with my sonne, euen with Isaac.
11. And the thing was very grieuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.
12. And God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond woman. In all that Sarah hath said vnto thee, hearken vnto her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
13. And also, of the sonne of the bond woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
14. And Abraham rose vp earely in the morning, and tooke bread, and a bottle of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, (putting it on her shoulder,) and the child, and sent her away: and shee departed, and wandered in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.
15. And the water was spent in the bottle, and shee cast the child vnder one of the shrubs.
16. And she went, and sate her downe ouer against him, a good way off, as it were a bow shoot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And shee sate ouer against him, and lift vp her voice, and wept.
17. And God heard the voice of the lad, and the Angel of God called to Hagar out of heauen, and said vnto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? feare not: for God hath heard the voice of the ladde, where he is.
18. Arise, lift vp the lad, and hold him in thine hand: for I will make him a great nation.
19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and shee went, and filled the bottle with water, and gaue the lad drinke.
20. And God was with the lad, and he grew, and dwelt in the wildernesse, and became an archer.
21. And hee dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran: and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22. And it came to passe at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chiefe captaine of his hoste spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.
23. Now therefore sweare vnto mee here by God, that thou wilt not deale falsly with me, nor with my sonne, nor with my sonnes sonne: but according to the kindnesse that I haue done vnto thee, thou shalt doe vnto me, and to the land wherein thou hast soiourned.
24. And Abraham saide, I will sweare.
25. And Abraham reproued Abimelech, because of a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.
26. And Abimelech saide, I wote not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27. And Abraham tooke sheepe and oxen, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: and both of them made a couenant.
28. And Abraham set seuen ewe lambes of the flocke by themselues.
29. And Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen ewe lambes, which thou hast set by themselues?
30. And he said, For these seuen ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witnesse vnto me, that I haue digged this well.
31. Wherefore he called that place, Beer-sheba: because there they sware both of them.
32. Thus they made a couenant at Beeer-sheba: then Abimelech rose vp, and Phichol the chiefe captaine of his hoste, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33. And Abraham planted a groue in Beer-sheba, and called there on the Name of the LORD, the euerlasting God.
34. And Abraham soiourned in the Philistines land, many dayes.
1. And it came to passe after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. And hee said, Beholde, heere I am.
2. And he said, Take now thy sonne, thine onely sonne Isaac, whom thou louest, and get thee into the land of Moriah: and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the Mountaines which I will tell thee of.
3. And Abraham rose vp earely in the morning, and sadled his asse, and tooke two of his yong men with him, and Isaac his sonne, and claue the wood for the burnt offering, and rose vp, and went vnto the place of which God had told him.
4. Then on the third day Abraham lift vp his eyes, and saw the place afarre off.
5. And Abraham said vnto his yong men, Abide you here with the asse, and I and the lad will goe yonder and worship, and come againe to you.
6. And Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offering, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne: and he tooke the fire in his hand, and a knife: and they went both of them together.
7. And Isaac spake vnto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my sonne. And hee said, Behold the fire and wood: but where is the lambe for a burnt offring?
8. And Abraham said, My sonne, God will prouide himselfe a lambe for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9. And they came to the place which God had tolde him of, and Abraham built an Altar there, and layd the wood in order, and bound Isaac his sonne, and layde him on the Altar vpon the wood.
10. And Abraham stretched foorth his hand, and tooke the knife to slay his sonne.
11. And the Angel of the LORD called vnto him out of heauen, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.
12. And he said, Lay not thine hand vpon the lad, neither do thou any thing vnto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withhelde thy sonne, thine onely sonne from mee.
13. And Abraham lifted vp his eyes, and looked, and beholde, behinde him a Ramme caught in a thicket by his hornes: And Abraham went and tooke the Ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering, in the stead of his sonne.
14. And Abraham called the name of that place Iehouah-ijreh, as it is said to this day, In the Mount of the LORD it shalbe seene.
15. And the Angel of the LORD called vnto Abraham out of heauen the second time,
16. And said, By my selfe haue I sworne, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy sonne, thine onely sonne,
17. That in blessing I will blesse thee, and in multiplying, I will multiply thy seed as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seed shall possesse the gate of his enemies.
18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19. So Abraham returned vnto his yong men, and they rose vp, and went together to Beer-sheba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
20. And it came to passe after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold Milcah, shee hath also borne children vnto thy brother Nahor,
21. Huz his first borne, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22. And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel.
23. And Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight Milcah did beare to Nahor, Abrahams brother.
24. And his concubine whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
1. And Sarah was an hundred and seuen and twenty yeeres olde: these were the yeeres of the life of Sarah.
2. And Sarah died in Kiriath arba, the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: And Abraham came to mourne for Sarah, and to weepe for her.
3. And Abraham stood vp from before his dead, & spake vnto the sonnes of Heth, saying,
4. I am a stranger and a soiourner with you: giue me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying vnto him,
6. Heare vs, my Lord, thou art a mightie Prince amongst vs: in the choise of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7. And Abraham stood vp and bowed himselfe to the people of the land, euen to the children of Heth.
8. And hee communed with them, saying, if it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, heare me, and entreat for me to Ephron the sonne of Zohar:
9. That he may giue me the caue of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field: for as much money as it is worth he shall giue it mee, for a possession of a burying place amongst you.
10. And Ephron dwelt amongst the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, euen of all that went in at the gates of his citie, saying,
11. Nay, my lord, heare mee: the field giue I thee, and the caue that is therein, I giue it thee, in the presence of the sonnes of my people giue I it thee: bury thy dead.
12. And Abraham bowed downe himselfe before the people of the land.
13. And he spake vnto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt giue it, I pray thee, heare mee: I will giue thee money for the field: take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
14. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying vnto him,
15. My lord, hearken vnto mee: the land is worth foure hundred shekels of siluer: what is that betwixt mee and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
16. And Abraham hearkened vnto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the siluer, which he had named, in the audience of the sonnes of Heth, foure hundred shekels of siluer, currant money with the merchant.
17. And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the fielde and the caue which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
18. Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gates of his Citie.
19. And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the caue of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
20. And the field, and the caue that is therein, were made sure vnto Abraham, for a possession of a burying place, by the sonnes of Heth.
1. And Abraham was olde and well stricken in age: And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
2. And Abraham said vnto his eldest seruant of his house, that ruled ouer all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand vnder my thigh:
3. And I will make thee sweare by the LORD the God of heauen, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites amongst whom I dwell.
4. But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isaac.
5. And the seruant said vnto him, Peraduenture the woman will not bee willing to follow mee vnto this land: must I needes bring thy sonne againe, vnto the land from whence thou camest?
6. And Abraham said vnto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my sonne thither againe.
7. The LORD God of heauen which tooke mee from my fathers house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake vnto mee, and that sware vnto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne from thence.
8. And if the woman wil not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt bee cleare from this my othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.
9. And the seruant put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
10. And the seruant tooke ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, ( for all the goods of his master were in his hand) and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, vnto the citie of Nahor.
11. And he made his camels to kneele downe without the citie, by a well of water, at the time of the euening, euen the time that women goe out to draw water.
12. And he said, O LORD, God of my master Abraham, I pray thee send me good speed this day, and shew kindnesse vnto my master Abraham.
13. Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the Citie come out to draw water:
14. And let it come to passe, that the damsell to whom I shall say, Let downe thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drinke, and she shall say, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also; let the same be shee that thou hast appointed for thy seruant Isaac: and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindnesse vnto my master.
15. And it came to passe before hee had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was borne to Bethuel, sonne of Milcah, the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother, with her pitcher vpon her shoulder.
16. And the damsell was very faire to looke vpon, a virgine, neither had any man knowen her; and shee went downe to the wel, and filled her pitcher, and came vp.
17. And the seruant ranne to meete her, and said, Let mee (I pray thee) drinke a little water of thy pitcher.
18. And she said, Drinke, my lord: and she hasted, and let downe her pitcher vpon her hand, and gaue him drinke.
19. And when shee had done giuing him drinke, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, vntill they haue done drinking.
20. And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ranne againe vnto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
21. And the man wondering at her, helde his peace, to wit, whether the LORD had made his iourney prosperous, or not.
22. And it came to passe as the camels had done drinking, that the man tooke a golden eare-ring, of halfe a shekel weight, & two bracelets for her handes, of ten shekels weight of gold,
23. And said, whose daughter art thou? tell mee, I pray thee: is there roome in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in?
24. And she said vnto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcah, which she bare vnto Nahor:
25. She said moreouer vnto him, We haue both straw & prouender ynough, and roome to lodge in.
26. And the man bowed downe his head, and worshipped the LORD.
27. And hee saide, Blessed bee the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy, and his trueth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my masters brethren.
28. And the damsell ranne, and told them of her mothers house, these things.
29. And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ranne out vnto the man, vnto the well.
30. And it came to passe when he saw the eare-ring, and bracelets vpon his sisters hands, and when hee heard the wordes of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man vnto me, that he came vnto the man; and behold, hee stood by the camels, at the well.
31. And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD, wherefore standest thou without? for I haue prepared the house, and roome for the camels.
32. And the man came into the house: and he vngirded his camels, and gaue straw and prouender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the mens feet that were with him.
33. And there was set meat before him to eate: but he said, I will not eate, vntill I haue tolde mine errand. And hee said, Speake on.
34. And he said, I am Abrahams seruant.
35. And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly, and hee is become great: and hee hath giuen him flocks, and heards, and siluer, and gold, and men seruants, and mayd seruants, and camels, and asses.
36. And Sarah my masters wife bare a sonne to my master when shee was old: and vnto him hath hee giuen all that he hath.
37. And my master made me sweare, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my sonne, of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
38. But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.
39. And I said vnto my master, Peraduenture the woman will not followe me.
40. And hee saide vnto me, The LORD, before whom I walke, will send his Angel with thee, and prosper thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my sonne, of my kinred, and of my fathers house.
41. Then shalt thou bee cleare from this my oath, when thou commest to my kinred, and if they giue not thee one, thou shalt be cleare from my oath.
42. And I came this day vnto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou doe prosper my way, which I goe:
43. Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to passe, that when the virgine commeth foorth to draw water, and I say to her, Giue me, I pray thee, a litle water of thy pitcher to drinke;
44. And she say to me, Both drinke thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman, who the LORD hath appointed out for my masters sonne.
45. And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth, with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went downe vnto the well, and drew water: and I said vnto her, Let me drinke, I pray thee.
46. And she made haste, & let downe her pitcher from her shoulder, and saide, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also: so I dranke, and she made the camels drinke also.
47. And I asked her, and said, whose daughter art thou? and she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahors sonne, whom Milcah bare vnto him: and I put the earering vpon her face, and the bracelets vpon her hands.
48. And I bowed downe my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led mee in the right way to take my masters brothers daughter vnto his sonne.
49. And now if you wil deale kindly and truely with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me, that I may turne to the right hand, or to the left.
50. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speake vnto thee bad or good.
51. Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and goe, and let her be thy masters sonnes wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
52. And it came to passe, that when Abrahams seruant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himselfe to the earth.
53. And the seruant brought foorth iewels of siluer, and iewels of gold, and raiment, and gaue them to Rebekah: He gaue also to her brother, and to her mother precious things.
54. And they did eate and drinke, he and the men that were with him, and taried all night, and they rose vp in the morning, and he said, Send me away vnto my master.
55. And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsell abide with vs a few dayes, at the least ten; after that, she shall goe.
56. And he said vnto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may goe to my master.
57. And they said, wee will call the Damsell, and enquire at her mouth.
58. And they called Rebekah, and said vnto her, Wilt thou go with this man? and she said, I will goe.
59. And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abrahams seruant, and his men.
60. And they blessed Rebekah, and said vnto her, Thou art our sister, bee thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possesse the gate of those which hate them.
61. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, & they rode vpon the camels, and followed the man: and the seruant tooke Rebekah, and went his way.
62. And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi, for he dwelt in the South countrey.
63. And Isaac went out, to meditate in the field, at the euentide: and hee lift vp his eyes, and saw, and behold, the camels were comming.
64. And Rebekah lift vp her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
65. For she had said vnto the seruant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet vs? and the seruant had said, It is my master: therefore shee tooke a vaile and couered her selfe.
66. And the seruant tolde Isaac all things that he had done.
67. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarahs tent, and tooke Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loued her: and Isaac was comforted after his mothers death.
1. Then againe Abraham tooke a wife, & her name was Keturah.
2. And shee bare him Zimran, and Iokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
3. And Iokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sonnes of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
4. And the sonnes of Midian, Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah: all these were the children of Keturah.
5. And Abraham gaue all that he had, vnto Isaac.
6. But vnto the sonnes of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gaue gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his sonne (while he yet liued) Eastward, vnto the East country.
7. And these are the dayes of the yeres of Abrahams life which he liued; an hundred, threescore & fifteene yeeres.
8. Then Abraham gaue vp the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of yeeres, and was gathered to his people.
9. And his sonnes Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the caue of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the sonne of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
10. The field which Abraham purchased of the sonnes of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
11. And it came to passe after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his sonne Isaac, and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.
12. Now these are the generations of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, whom Hagar the Egyptian Sarahs handmayd, bare vnto Abraham:
13. And these are the names of the sonnes of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations; The first borne of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
14. And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15. Hadar, and Tema, Ietur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16. These are the sonnes of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their townes and by their castels; twelue princes according to their nations.
17. And these are the yeeres of the life of Ishmael; an hundred and thirty and seuen yeeres: and he gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people.
18. And they dwelt from Hauilah vnto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest towards Assyria: and hee died in the presence of all his brethren.
19. And these are the generations of Isaac, Abrahams sonne: Abraham begate Isaac.
20. And Isaac was fortie yeeres old when hee tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21. And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued.
22. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? and shee went to enquire of the LORD.
23. And the LORD said vnto her, Two nations are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shall be separated from thy bowels: and the one people shalbe stronger then the other people: and the elder shall serue the yonger.
24. And when her dayes to be deliuered were fulfilled, behold, there were twinnes in her wombe.
25. And the first came out red, all ouer like an hairy garment: and they called his name, Esau.
26. And after that came his brother out, and his hand tooke holde on Esaus heele; and his name was called Iacob: and Isaac was threescore yeres old, when shee bare them.
27. And the boyes grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fielde: and Iacob was a plaine man, dwelling in tents.
28. And Isaac loued Esau, because he did eate of his venison: but Rebekah loued Iacob.
29. And Iacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and hee was faint.
30. And Esau said to Iacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage: for I am faint; therefore was his name called Edom.
31. And Iacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright doe to me?
33. And Iacob said, Sweare to mee this day: and he sware to him: and he sold his birthright vnto Iacob.
34. Then Iacob gaue Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eate and drinke, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
1. And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the dayes of Abraham. And Isaac went vnto Abimelech King of the Philistims, vnto Gerar.
2. And the LORD appeared vnto him and said, Goe not downe into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
3. Soiourne in this land, and I wil be with thee, and will blesse thee: for vnto thee, and vnto thy seed I will giue all these countreys, and I wil performe the othe, which I sware vnto Abraham thy father.
4. And I wil make thy seed to multiply as the starres of heauen, and will giue vnto thy seed all these countreys: and in thy Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
5. Because that Abraham obeyed my voyce, and kept my charge, my Commandements, my Statutes and my Lawes.
6. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7. And the men of the place asked him of his wife: and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because shee was faire to looke vpon.
8. And it came to passe when he had bene there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistims looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9. And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold, of a suretie she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said vnto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10. And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.
11. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Hee that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely bee put to death.
12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and receiued in the same yeere an hundred fold: & the LORD blessed him.
13. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew vntill he became very great.
14. For he had possession of flocks, and possession of heards, and great store of seruants, and the Philistims enuied him.
15. For all the wels which his fathers seruants had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, the Philistims had stopped them, & filled them with earth.
16. And Abimelech said vnto Isaac, Goe from vs: for thou art much mightier then we.
17. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18. And Isaac digged againe the wels of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19. And Isaacs seruants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20. And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isaacs heardmen, saying, The water is ours; and hee called the name of the well, Esek, because they stroue with him.
21. And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and hee called the name of it, Sitnah.
22. And he remoued from thence, and digged another well, and for that they stroue not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth: and he said, For now the LORD hath made roome for vs, and we shall be fruitfull in the land.
23. And he went vp from thence to Beer-sheba.
24. And the LORD appeared vnto him the same night, and saide, I am the God of Abraham thy father: feare not, for I am with thee, and will blesse thee, and multiply thy seede, for my seruant Abrahams sake.
25. And he builded an altar there, and called vpon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaacs seruants digged a well.
26. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chiefe captaine of his armie.
27. And Isaac saide vnto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and haue sent me away from you?
28. And they said, we saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and wee said, Let there be now an othe betwixt vs, euen betwixt vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee,
29. That thou wilt doe vs no hurt, as we haue not touched thee, and as we haue done vnto thee nothing but good, and haue sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
30. And he made them a feast, and they did eate and drinke.
31. And they rose vp betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32. And it came to passe the same day, that Isaacs seruants came, and tolde him concerning the well which they had digged, and said vnto him, we haue found water.
33. And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the citie is Beer-sheba vnto this day.
34. And Esau was forty yeeres old, when he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35. Which were a griefe of minde vnto Isaac and to Rebekah.
1. And it came to passe that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dimme, so that he could not see, hee called Esau his eldest son, and said vnto him, My sonne. And hee said vnto him, Behold, here am I.
2. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.
3. Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiuer, and thy bow, and goe out to the field, and take mee some venison.
4. And make me sauoury meat, such as I loue, and bring it to mee, that I may eate, that my soule may blesse thee before I die.
5. And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his sonne: and Esau went to the fielde to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6. And Rebekah spake vnto Iacob her sonne, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speake vnto Esau thy brother, saying,
7. Bring me venison, and make mee sauoury meat, that I may eate, and blesse thee before the LORD, before my death.
8. Now therefore, my sonne, obey my voyce, according to that which I command thee.
9. Goe now to the flocke, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goates, and I will make them sauoury meat for thy father, such as he loueth.
10. And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eate, and that he may blesse thee, before his death.
11. And Iacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
12. My father peraduenture will feele me, and I shall seeme to him as a deceiuer, and I shall bring a curse vpon me, and not a blessing.
13. And his mother said vnto him, Upon me be thy curse, my sonne: onely obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
14. And hee went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother, and his mother made sauoury meat, such as his father loued.
15. And Rebekah tooke goodly raiment of her eldest sonne Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them vpon Iacob her yonger sonne:
16. And shee put the skinnes of the kids of the goats vpon his hands, and vpon the smooth of his necke.
17. And she gaue the sauoury meate, and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her sonne Iacob.
18. And he came vnto his father, and said, My father: And he said, Here am I: who art thou, my sonne?
19. And Iacob said vnto his father, I am Esau, thy first borne; I haue done according as thou badest mee: arise, I pray thee, sit, and eate of my venison, that thy soule may blesse me.
20. And Isaac said vnto his sonne, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my sonne? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.
21. And Isaac saide vnto Iacob, Come neere, I pray thee, that I may feele thee, my sonne, whether thou bee my very sonne Esau, or not.
22. And Iacob went neere vnto Isaac his father: and hee felt him, and said, The voyce is Iacobs voyce, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairie, as his brother Esaus hands: So he blessed him.
24. And he said, Art thou my very sonne Esau? And he said, I am.
25. And he said, Bring it neere to me, and I will eate of my sonnes venison, that my soule may blesse thee: and hee brought it neere to him, and he did eate: and he brought him wine, & he dranke.
26. And his father Isaac saide vnto him, Come neere now, and kisse me, my sonne.
27. And hee came neere, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field, which the LORD hath blessed.
28. Therefore God giue thee of the dew of heauen, and the fatnesse of the earth, and plenty of corne and wine.
29. Let people serue thee, and nations bow downe to thee: bee lord ouer thy brethren, & let thy mothers sonnes bow downe to thee: Cursed bee euery one that curseth thee, and blessed be hee that blesseth thee.
30. And it came to passe, as soone as Isaac had made an ende of blessing Iacob, and Iacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
31. And hee also had made sauoury meate, and brought it vnto his father, and said vnto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his sonnes venison, that thy soule may blesse me.
32. And Isaac his father said vnto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy sonne, thy first borne Esau.
33. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? Where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I haue eaten of all before thou camest, and haue blessed him? Yea and he shalbe blessed.
34. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said vnto his father, Blesse mee, euen me also, O my father.
35. And hee said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
36. And he said, Is not he rightly naned Iacob? For he hath supplanted me these two times: hee tooke away my birthright, and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing: and hee said, Hast thou not reserued a blessing for mee?
37. And Isaac answered and saide vnto Esau, Behold, I haue made him thy lord, and all his brethren haue I giuen to him for seruants: and with corne and wine haue I susteined him: and what shall I doe now vnto thee, my sonne?
38. And Esau said vnto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Blesse mee, euen mee also, O my father. And Esau lift vp his voyce, and wept.
39. And Isaac his father answered, and said vnto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatnesse of the earth, and of the dew of heauen from aboue.
40. And by thy sword shalt thou liue, and shalt serue thy brother: and it shall come to passe when thou shalt haue the dominion, that thou shalt breake his yoke from off thy necke.
41. And Esau hated Iacob, because of the blessing, wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The dayes of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Iacob.
42. And these words of Esau her elder sonne were told to Rebekah: And shee sent and called Iacob her yonger sonne, and said vnto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doeth comfort himselfe, purposing to kill thee.
43. Now therefore my sonne, obey my voice: and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother, to Haran.
44. And tary with him a few dayes, vntill thy brothers furie turne away;
45. Untill thy brothers anger turne away from thee, and hee forget that, which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be depriued also of you both in one day?
46. And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: If Iacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life doe me?
1. And Isaac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and saide vnto him, Thou shalt not take a wife, of the daughters of Canaan.
2. Arise, goe to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and take thee a wife from thence, of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.
3. And God Almighty blesse thee, and make thee fruitfull, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people:
4. And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherit the lande wherein thou art a stranger, which God gaue vnto Abraham.
5. And Isaac sent away Iacob, and hee went to Padan-Aram vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Iacobs and Esaus mother.
6. When Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob, and sent him away to Padan-Aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him, he gaue him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
7. And that Iacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram;
8. And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father.
9. Then went Esau vnto Ishmael, and tooke vnto the wiues which hee had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
10. And Iacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
11. And hee lighted vpon a certaine place, and taried there all night, because the sunne was set: and hee tooke of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillowes, and lay downe in that place to sleepe.
12. And he dreamed, and beholde, a ladder set vp on the earth, and the top of it reached to heauen: and beholde the Angels of God ascending and descending on it.
13. And behold, the LORD stood aboue it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I giue it, and to thy seede.
14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South: and in thee, and in thy seed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
15. And behold, I am with thee, and will keepe thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this land: for I will not leaue thee, vntill I haue done that which I haue spoken to thee of.
16. And Iacob awaked out of his sleepe, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place, and I knew it not.
17. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place? this is none other, but the house of God, and this is the gate of heauen.
18. And Iacob rose vp earely in the morning, and tooke the stone that hee had put for his pillowes, and set it vp for a pillar, and powred oile vpon the top of it.
19. And hee called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that citie was called Luz, at the first.
20. And Iacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keepe me in this way that I goe, and will giue me bread to eate, and raiment to put on,
21. So that I come againe to my fathers house in peace: then shall the LORD be my God.
22. And this stone which I haue set for a pillar, shall be Gods house: and of all that thou shalt giue me, I will surely giue the tenth vnto thee.
1. Then Iacob went on his iourney, and came into the land of the people of the East.
2. And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and loe, there were three flocks of sheepe lying by it: for out of that wel they watered the flocks: and a great stone was vpon the welles mouth.
3. And thither were all the flockes gathered, and they rolled the stone from the wels mouth, & watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the wels mouth in his place.
4. And Iacob said vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? and they saide, Of Haran are we.
5. And he said vnto them, Know ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? And they sayde, We knowe him.
6. And he said vnto them, Is hee well? and they said, He is well: and behold, Rachel his daughter commeth with the sheepe.
7. And hee said, Loe, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattell should be gathered together: water yee the sheepe, and goe and feed them.
8. And they said, We cannot, vntill all the flockes bee gathered together, and till they rolle the stone from the welles mouth: then wee water the sheepe.
9. And while hee yet spake with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheepe: for she kept them.
10. And it came to passe, when Iacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother; that Iacob went neere, and rolled the stone from the wels mouth, and watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother.
11. And Iacob kissed Rachel, and lifted vp his voyce, and wept.
12. And Iacob told Rachel, that hee was her fathers brother, and that hee was Rebekahs sonne: and she ranne, and told her father.
13. And it came to passe, when Laban heard the tidings of Iacob his sisters sonne, that he ranne to meete him, and imbraced him, and kissed him, & brought him to his house: and hee tolde Laban all these things.
14. And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh: and he abode with him the space of a moneth.
15. And Laban said vnto Iacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serue me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
16. And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the yonger was Rachel.
17. Leah was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautiful and well fauoured.
18. And Iacob loued Rachel, and said, I will serue thee seuen yeeres for Rachel thy yonger daughter.
19. And Laban said, It is better that I giue her to thee, then that I should giue her to another man: abide with mee.
20. And Iacob serued seuen yeeres for Rachel: and they seemed vnto him but a few dayes, for the loue hee had to her.
21. And Iacob said vnto Laban, Giue me my wife (for my dayes are fulfilled) that I may goe in vnto her.
22. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
23. And it came to passe in the euening, that he tooke Leah his daughter, and brought her to him, and he went in vnto her.
24. And Laban gaue vnto his daughter Leah, Zilpah his mayde, for a handmayd.
25. And it came to passe, that in the morning, behold it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done vnto mee? did not I serue with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
26. And Laban said, It must not be so done in our countrey, to giue the yonger, before the first borne.
27. Fulfill her weeke, and wee will giue thee this also, for the seruice which thou shalt serue with mee, yet seuen other yeeres.
28. And Iacob did so, and fulfilled her weeke: and he gaue him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29. And Laban gaue to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmayd, to be her mayd.
30. And hee went in also vnto Rachel, and he loued also Rachel more then Leah, and serued with him yet seuen other yeeres.
31. And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, hee opened her wombe: but Rachel was barren.
32. And Leah conceiued and bare a sonne, and shee called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely, the LORD hath looked vpon my affliction; now therefore my husband will loue me.
33. And shee conceiued againe, and bare a sonne, and saide, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, hee hath therefore giuen mee this sonne also, and she called his name Simeon.
34. And shee conceiued againe, and bare a sonne, and said, Now this time will my husband be ioyned vnto me, because I haue borne him three sonnes: therefore was his name called Leui.
35. And shee conceiued againe, and bare a sonne: and she said, Now wil I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Iudah, and left bearing.
1. And when Rachel saw that shee bare Iacob no children, Rachel enuied her sister, and said vnto Iacob, Giue mee children, or els I die.
2. And Iacobs anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in Gods stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the wombe?
3. And she said, Behold my mayde Bilhah: goe in vnto her, and she shall beare vpon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
4. And shee gaue him Bilhah her handmayd to wife: and Iacob went in vnto her.
5. And Bilhah conceiued and bare Iacob a sonne.
6. And Rachel said, God hath iudged me, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath giuen me a sonne; therefore called she his name Dan.
7. And Bilhah Rachels mayd conceiued againe, and bare Iacob a second sonne.
8. And Rachel saide, With great wrastlings haue I wrastled with my sister, and I haue preuailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9. When Leah saw that she had left bearing, shee tooke Zilpah her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wife.
10. And Zilpah Leahs mayde bare Iacob a sonne.
11. And Leah said, A troupe commeth: and she called his name Gad.
12. And Zilpah Leahs mayde bare Iacob a second sonne.
13. And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14. And Reuben went in the dayes of wheat haruest, & found Mandrakes in the field, and brought them vnto his mother Leah. Then Rachel saide to Leah, Giue me, I pray thee, of thy sonnes Mandrakes.
15. And shee said vnto her, Is it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldst thou take away my sonnes Mandrakes also? and Rachel said, Therefore hee shall lye with thee to night, for thy sonnes Mandrakes.
16. And Iacob came out of the field in the euening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in vnto mee: for surely I haue hired thee with my sonnes Mandrakes. And hee lay with her that night.
17. And God hearkened vnto Leah, and she conceiued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne.
18. And Leah said, God hath giuen mee my hire, because I haue giuen my mayden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
19. And Leah conceiued againe, and bare Iacob the sixth sonne.
20. And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry: Now will my husband dwel with me, because I haue borne him sixe sonnes: and shee called his name Zebulun.
21. And afterwardes shee bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22. And God remembred Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her wombe.
23. And shee conceiued and bare a sonne, and said; God hath taken away my reproch:
24. And shee called his name Ioseph, and saide, The LORD shall adde to me another sonne.
25. And it came to passe when Rachel had borne Ioseph, that Iacob said vnto Laban, Send me away, that I may goe vnto mine owne place, and to my countrey.
26. Giue mee my wiues and my children, for whom I haue serued thee, and let me goe: for thou knowest my seruice which I haue done thee.
27. And Laban said vnto him, I pray thee, if I haue found fauour in thine eyes, tary: for I haue learned by experience, that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
28. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will giue it.
29. And hee said vnto him, Thou knowest how I haue serued thee, and how thy cattell was with me.
30. For it was little which thou hadst before I came; and it is now increased vnto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my comming: and now when shall I prouide for mine owne house also?
31. And hee said, what shall I giue thee? and Iacob said, Thou shalt not giue me any thing; if thou wilt doe this thing for mee, I will againe feed and keepe thy flocke.
32. I will passe through all thy flocke to day, remoouing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattell: and all the browne cattell among the sheepe, and the spotted and speckled among the goates, and of such shalbe my hire.
33. So shall my righteousnesse answere for mee in time to come, when it shall come for my hire, before thy face: euery one that is not speckled and spotted amongst the goates, and browne amongst the sheepe, that shalbe counted stollen with me.
34. And Laban saide, Beholde, I would it might bee according to thy word.
35. And he remoued that day the hee goates that were ring-straked, and spotted, and all the shee goats that were speckled and spotted, and euery one that had some white in it, and all the browne amongst the sheepe, and gaue them into the hand of his sonnes.
36. And hee set three dayes iourney betwixt himselfe and Iacob: and Iacob fed the rest of Labans flocks.
37. And Iacob tooke him rods of greene poplar, and of the hasel and chesnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appeare which was in the rods.
38. And he set the rods which he had pilled, before the flockes in the gutters in the watering troughes when the flocks came to drinke, that they should conceiue when they came to drinke.
39. And the flockes conceiued before the rods, and brought forth cattell ringstraked, speckled and spotted.
40. And Iacob did separate the lambes, and set the faces of the flockes toward the ring-straked, and all the browne in the flocke of Laban: and he put his owne flocks by themselues, and put them not vnto Labans cattell.
41. And it came to passe whensoeuer the stronger cattell did conceiue, that Iacob layd the rods before the eyes of the cattell in the gutters, that they might conceiue among the rods.
42. But when the cattel were feeble, hee put them not in: so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs.
43. And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattell, and maydseruants, and men seruants, and camels, and asses.
1. And he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iacob hath taken away all that was our fathers; and of that which was of our fathers, hath hee gotten all this glory.
2. And Iacob behelde the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.
3. And the LORD said vnto Iacob, Returne vnto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I wil be with thee.
4. And Iacob sent and called Rachel and Leah, to the field vnto his flocke,
5. And said vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not toward mee as before: but the God of my father hath bene with me.
6. And yee know, that with all my power I haue serued your father.
7. And your father hath deceiued mee, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8. If hee said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages, then all the cattell bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-straked shalbe thy hire, then bare all the cattell ring-straked.
9. Thus God hath taken away the cattell of your father, and giuen them to mee.
10. And it came to passe at the time that the cattell conceiued, that I lifted vp mine eyes and saw in a dreame, and behold, the rammes which leaped vpon the cattell were ring-straked, speckled and grisled.
11. And the Angel of God spake vnto me in a dreame, saying, Iacob; And I said, Here am I.
12. And hee said, Lift vp now thine eyes, and see, all the rammes which leape vpon the cattell are ring-straked, speckled and grisled: for I haue seene all that Laban doeth vnto thee.
13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow vnto mee: now arise, get thee out from this land, and returne vnto the land of thy kindred.
14. And Rachel and Leah answered, and said vnto him; Is there yet any portion or inheritance for vs in our fathers house?
15. Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold vs, and hath quite deuoured also our money.
16. For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our childrens: now then whatsoeuer God hath said vnto thee, doe.
17. Then Iacob rose vp, and set his sonnes and his wiues vpon camels.
18. And he caried away all his cattell, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattell of his getting, which hee had gotten in Padan Aram, for to goe to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19. And Laban went to sheare his sheepe: and Rachel had stollen the Images that were her fathers.
20. And Iacob stale away vnawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
21. So hee fled with all that hee had, and he rose vp and passed ouer the Riuer, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
22. And it was tolde Laban on the third day, that Iacob was fled.
23. And hee tooke his brethren with him, and pursued after him seuen dayes iourney, and they ouertooke him in the mount Gilead.
24. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dreame by night, and saide vnto him, Take heed that thou speake not to Iacob either good or bad.
25. Then Laban ouertooke Iacob. Now Iacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
26. And Laban said to Iacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stollen away vnawares to me, and caried away my daughters, as captiues taken with the sword?
27. Wherefore didst thou flie away secretly, and steale away from me, and didst not tell mee? that I might haue sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harpe,
28. And hast not suffered me to kisse my sonnes and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
29. It is in the power of my hand to doe you hurt: but the God of your father spake vnto mee yesternight, saying, Take thou heed, that thou speake not to Iacob either good or bad.
30. And now though thou wouldest needes bee gone, because thou sore longedst after thy fathers house; yet wherefore hast thou stollen my gods?
31. And Iacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peraduenture thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
32. With whomsoeuer thou findest thy gods, let him not liue: before our brethren discerne thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee: for Iacob knew not that Rachel had stollen them.
33. And Laban went into Iacobs tent, and into Leahs tent, and into the two maid seruants tents: but he found them not. Then went he out of Leahs tent, and entred into Rachels tent.
34. Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camels furniture, and sate vpon them: and Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
35. And shee said to her father, Let it not displease my lord, that I cannot rise vp before thee; for the custome of women is vpon mee: and he searched, but found not the images.
36. And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Iacob answered and said to Laban, what is my trespasse? what is my sinne, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
37. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuffe, what hast thou found of all thy houshold stuffe? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may iudge betwixt vs both.
38. This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy shee goates haue not cast their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.
39. That which was torne of beasts, I brought not vnto thee: I bare the losse of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stollen by day, or stollen by night.
40. Thus I was in ye day, the drought consumed mee, and the frost by night, aud my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41. Thus have I bene twentie yeres in thy house: I serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeres for thy cattel; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isaac had bin with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now emptie: God hath seene mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, & rebuked thee yesternight.
43. And Laban answered and said vnto Iacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattell are my cattell, and all that thou seest, is mine: and what can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or vnto their children which they haue borne?
44. Now therefore come thou, let vs make a couenant, I and thou: and let it be for a witnesse betweene me and thee.
45. And Iacob tooke a stone, and set it vp for a pillar.
46. And Iacob saide vnto his brethren, Gather stones: and they tooke stones, and made an heape, and they did eate there vpon the heape.
47. And Laban called it Iegar-Sahadutha: but Iacob called it Galeed.
48. And Laban said, This heape is a witnesse betweene mee and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,
49. And Mizpah: for he said, The LORD watch betweene me and thee when we are absent one from another.
50. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wiues beside my daughters, no man is with vs; See, God is witnesse betwixt mee and thee.
51. And Laban said to Iacob, Behold this heape, and behold this pillar, which I haue cast betwixt me and thee.
52. This heape be witnesse, and this pillar be witnesse, that I will not passe ouer this heape to thee, and that thou shalt not passe ouer this heape, and this pillar vnto me, for harme.
53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, iudge betwixt vs. And Iacob sware by the feare of his father Isaac.
54. Then Iacob offred sacrifice vpon the mount, and called his brethren to eate bread, and they did eate bread, and taried all night in the mount.
55. And earely in the morning, Laban rose vp and kissed his sonnes, and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned vnto his place.
1. And Iacob went on his way, and the Angels of God met him.
2. And when Iacob saw them, he said, This is Gods hoste: and hee called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3. And Iacob sent messengers before him, to Esau his brother, vnto the land of Seir, the countrey of Edom.
4. And he commaunded them, saying, Thus shall ye speake vnto my lord Esau, Thy seruant Iacob saith thus, I haue soiourned with Laban, and stayed there vntill now.
5. And I haue oxen, and asses, flockes, and men seruants and women seruants: and I haue sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
6. And the messengers returned to Iacob, saying, Wee came to thy brother Esau, and also he commeth to meet thee, and foure hundred men with him.
7. Then Iacob was greatly afraid, and distressed, and he diuided the people that was with him, and the flockes, and herdes, and the camels into two bands,
8. And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left, shall escape.
9. And Iacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst vnto me, Returne vnto thy countrey, and to thy kinred, and I will deale well with thee:
10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the trueth, which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant: for with my staffe I passed ouer this Iordan, and now I am become two bands.
11. Deliuer me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I feare him, lest he will come, and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12. And thou saidst, I will surely doe thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbred for multitude.
13. And he lodged there that same night, and tooke of that which came to his hand, a present for Esau his brother:
14. Two hundred shee goats, and twentie hee goats, two hundred ewes, and twentie rammes,
15. Thirtie milch camels with their colts, fortie kine, and ten bulles, twenty shee ashes, and ten foales.
16. And hee deliuered them into the hand of his seruants, euery droue by themselues, and said vnto his seruants, Passe ouer before me, and put a space betwixt droue and droue.
17. And he commanded the formost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
18. Then thou shalt say, They be thy seruant Iacobs: it is a present sent vnto my lord Esau: and behold also, he is behind vs.
19. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droues, saying, On this maner shal you speake vnto Esau, when you find him.
20. And say ye moreouer, Beholde, thy seruant Iacob is behind vs: for he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peraduenture he will accept of me.
21. So went the present ouer before him: and himselfe lodged that night in the company.
22. And hee rose vp that night, and tooke his two wiues, and his two women seruants, and his eleuen sonnes, and passed ouer the foord Iabbok.
23. And he tooke them, and sent them ouer the brooke, and sent ouer that hee had.
24. And Iacob was left alone: and there wrestled a man with him, vntill the breaking of the day.
25. And when he saw, that he preuailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Iacobs thigh was out of ioynt, as hee wrestled with him.
26. And he said, Let me goe, for the day breaketh: and he said, I will not let thee goe, except thou blesse me.
27. And he said vnto him, what is thy name? and he said, Iacob.
28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Iacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast preuailed.
29. And Iacob asked him, and saide, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name: and he said, wherefore is it, that thou doest aske after my name? and he blessed him there.
30. And Iacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I haue seene God face to face, and my life is preserued.
31. And as he passed ouer Penuel, the sunne rose vpon him, and he halted vpon his thigh.
32. Therefore the children of Israel eate not of the sinewe which shranke, which is vpon the hollow of the thigh, vnto this day: because hee touched the hollow of Iacobs thigh, in the sinewe that shranke.
1. And Iacob lifted vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, Esau came, and with him foure hundreth men: and hee diuided the children vnto Leah, and vnto Rachel, and vnto the two handmaids.
2. And he put the handmaides, and their chidren foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Ioseph hindermost.
3. And hee passed ouer before them, and bowed himselfe to the ground seuen times, vntill hee came neere to his brother.
4. And Esau ran to meete him, and imbraced him, and fell on his necke, and kissed him, and they wept.
5. And he lift vp his eyes, and sawe the women, and the children, and said, who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously giuen thy seruant.
6. Then the handmaidens came neere; they and their children, and they bowed themselues.
7. And Leah also with her children came neere, and bowed themselues: and after came Ioseph neere and Rachel, and they bowed themselues.
8. And he said, What meanest thou by all this droue, which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
9. And Esau said, I haue enough: my brother, keepe that thou hast vnto thy selfe.
10. And Iacob saide, Nay, I pray thee: if now I haue found grace in thy sight, then receiue my present at my hand: for therefore I haue seene thy face, as though I had seene the face of God; and thou wast pleased with me.
11. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with mee, and because I haue enough: and hee vrged him, and he tooke it.
12. And he said, Let vs take our iourney, and let vs goe, and I will goe before thee.
13. And hee said vnto him, My lord knoweth, that the children are tender, and the flockes and heards with yong are with mee: and if men should ouer-driue them one day, all the flocke will die.
14. Let my lord, I pray thee, passe ouer before his seruant, and I will leade on softly, according as the cattell that goeth before me, and the children be able to endure, vntill I come vnto my lord vnto Seir.
15. And Esau said, Let me now leaue with thee some of the folke that are with me: And hee said, What needeth it? let me finde grace in the sight of my lord.
16. So Esau returned that day, on his way vnto Seir.
17. And Iacob iourneyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made boothes for his cattell: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18. And Iacob came to Shalem, a citie of Shechem, which is the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan Aram, and pitched his tent before the Citie.
19. And he bought a parcell of a field where hee had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor Shechems father, for an hundred pieces of money.
20. And hee erected there an Altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
1. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which shee bare vnto Iacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
2. And when Shechem the sonne of Hamor the Hiuite, prince of the countrey saw her, he tooke her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
3. And his soule claue vnto Dinah the daughter of Iacob, and hee loued the damsell, and spake kindly vnto the damsell.
4. And Shechem spake vnto his father Hamor, saying, Get mee this damsell to wife.
5. And Iacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter (now his sonnes were with his cattel in the field) and Iacob helde his peace vntill they were come.
6. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out vnto Iacob to commune with him.
7. And the sonnes of Iacob came out of the field when they heard it, and the men were grieued: and they were very wroth, because hee had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Iacobs daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
8. And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soule of my sonne Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you giue her him to wife.
9. And make ye mariages with vs, and giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.
10. And ye shall dwell with vs, and the land shall be before you: dwell and trade you therein, and get you possessions therein.
11. And Shechem said vnto her father, and vnto her brethren, Let mee finde grace in your eyes, and what yee shall say vnto me, I will giue.
12. Aske mee neuer so much dowrie and gift, and I will giue according as yee shall say vnto mee: but giue me the damsell to wife.
13. And the sonnes of Iacob answered Shechem, and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
14. And they saide vnto them, wee cannot doe this thing, to giue our sister to one that is vncircumcised: for that were a reproch vnto vs.
15. But in this will we consent vnto you: If ye will be as we be, that euery male of you be circumcised:
16. Then wil we giue our daughters vnto you, and we wil take your daughters to vs, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
17. But if ye will not hearken vnto vs, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18. And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamors sonne.
19. And the yong man deferred not to doe the thing, because he had delight in Iacobs daughter: and he was more honourable then all the house of his father.
20. And Hamor and Shechem his sonne came vnto the gate of their citie, and communed with the men of their citie, saying:
21. These men are peaceable with vs, therefore let them dwel in the land, and trade therein: for the land, behold, it is large enough for them: let vs take their daughters to vs for wiues, and let vs giue them our daughters.
22. Onely herein will the men consent vnto vs, for to dwell with vs to be one people, if euery male among vs bee circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23. Shall not their cattell, and their substance, and euery beast of theirs bee ours? onely let vs consent vnto them, and they will dwell with vs.
24. And vnto Hamor and vnto Shechem his sonne, hearkened all that went out of the gate of his citie; and euery male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his citie.
25. And it came to passe on the thirde day when they were sore, that two of the sonnes of Iacob, Simeon and Leui, Dinahs brethren, tooke each man his sword and came vpon the citie boldly, and slew all the males.
26. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his sonne, with the edge of the sword, and tooke Dinah out of Shechems house, and went out.
27. The sonnes of Iacob came vpon the slaine, and spoiled the citie, because they had defiled their sister.
28. They tooke their sheepe, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the citie, and that which was in the field.
29. And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wiues tooke they captiue, and spoiled euen all that was in the house.
30. And Iacob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me to make me to stinke among the inhabitants of the land, amongst the Canaanites, and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselues together against me, and slay me, and I shal be destroyed, I and my house.
31. And they said, Should hee deale with our sister, as with an harlot?
1. And God said vnto Iacob, Arise, goe vp to Bethel, and dwel there: and make there an Altar vnto God, that appeared vnto thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
2. Then Iacob said vnto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and bee cleane, and change your garments,
3. And let vs arise, and goe vp to Bethel, and I will make there an Altar vnto God, who answered me in the day of my distresse, and was with me in the way which I went.
4. And they gaue vnto Iacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their eare-rings which were in their eares, and Iacob hid them vnder the oke which was by Shechem.
5. And they iourneyed: and the terrour of God was vpon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sonnes of Iacob.
6. So Iacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is Bethel) hee and all the people that were with him.
7. And hee built there an Altar, and called the place El-Bethel, because there God appeared vnto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8. But Deborah Rebekahs nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel vnder an oke: and the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.
9. And God appeared vnto Iacob againe, when he came out of Padan Aram, and blessed him.
10. And God said vnto him, Thy name is Iacob: thy name shall not bee called any more Iacob, but Israel shall bee thy name; and hee called his name Israel.
11. And God saide vnto him, I am God Almightie: be fruitfull and multiply: a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and Kings shall come out of thy loynes.
12. And the land which I gaue Abraham, and Isaac, to thee I will giue it, and to thy seed after thee will I giue the land.
13. And God went vp from him, in the place where he talked with him.
14. And Iacob set vp a pillar in the place where he talked with him, euen a pillar of stone: and hee powred a drinke offering thereon, and he powred oile thereon.
15. And Iacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
16. And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour.
17. And it came to passe when shee was in hard labour, that the midwife said vnto her, Feare not: thou shalt haue this sonne also.
18. And it came to passe as her soule was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Beniamin.
19. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20. And Iacob set a pillar vpon her graue: that is the pillar of Rachels graue vnto this day.
21. And Israel iourneyed and spread his tent beyond the towre of Edar.
22. And it came to passe when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went & lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sonnes of Iacob were twelue.
23. The sonnes of Leah: Reuben Iacobs first borne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. The sonnes of Rachel: Ioseph, and Beniamin.
25. And the sonnes of Bilhah, Rachels handmaid: Dan and Naphtali.
26. And the sonnes of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid: Gad, and Asher. These are the sonnes of Iacob, which were borne to him in Padan Aram.
27. And Iacob came vnto Isaac his father vnto Mamre, vnto the citie of Arbah (which is Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac soiourned.
28. And the dayes of Isaac were an hundred and fourescore yeeres.
29. And Isaac gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people, being old and full of dayes: and his sonnes Esau and Iacob buried him.
1. Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
2. Esau tooke his wiues of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hiuite:
3. And Bashemath Ishmaels daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
4. And Adah bare to Esau, Eliphaz: and Bashemath bare Revelation
5. And Aholibamah bare Ieush, and Iaalam, and Korah: these are the sonnes of Esau, which were borne vnto him in the land of Canaan.
6. And Esau tooke his wiues, and his sonnes, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattell, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the lande of Canaan: and went into the countrey from the face of his brother Iacob.
7. For their riches were more then that they might dwell together: and the land wherein they were strangers, could not beare them, because of their cattell.
8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in mount Seir.
10. These are the names of Esaus sonnes: Eliphaz the sonne of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the sonne of Bashemath, the wife of Esau.
11. And the sonnes of Eliphaz were, Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esaus sonne, and shee bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sonnes of Adah Esaus wife.
13. And these are the sonnes of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sonnes of Bashemath, Esaus wife.
14. And these were the sonnes of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon Esaus wife: and she bare to Esau, Ieush and Iaalam, and Korah.
15. These were dukes of the sonnes of Esau: the sonnes of Eliphaz the first borne sonne of Esau, duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
16. Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: These are the dukes that came of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom: These were the sonnes of Adah.
17. And these are the sonnes of Reuel Esaus sonne: duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah. These are the dukes that came of Reuel, in the land of Edom: these are the sonnes of Bashemath, Esaus wife.
18. And these are the sonnes of Aholibamah Esaus wife: duke Ieush, duke Iaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah Esaus wife.
19. These are the sonnes of Esau, (who is Edom) and these are their dukes.
20. These are the sonnes of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land, Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah.
21. And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites the children of Seir in the lande of Edom.
22. And the children of Lotan, were Hori, and Hemam: and Lotans sister was Timna.
23. And the children of Shobal were these: Aluan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24. And these are the children of Zibeon, both Aiah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wildernesse, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
25. And the children of Anah were these: Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
26. And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban, & Ithran, and Cheran.
27. The children of Ezer are these: Bilhan and Zaauan, and Akan.
28. The children of Dishan are these: Uz, and Aran.
29. These are the dukes that came of the Horites: duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
30. Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
31. And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king ouer the children of Israel.
32. And Bela the sonne of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his citie was Dinhabah.
33. And Bela died, and Iobab the sonne of Zerah of Bozra reigned in his stead.
34. And Iobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.
35. And Husham died, and Hadad the sonne of Bedad, (who smote Midian in the field of Moab,) reigned in his stead: & the name of his citie was Auith.
36. And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah, reigned in his stead.
37. And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth, by the riuer, reigned in his stead.
38. And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his stead.
39. And Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his citie was Pau, and his wiues name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
40. And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: duke Timnah, duke Aluah, duke Ietheth,
41. Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
42. Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
43. Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations, in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
1. And Iacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2. These are the generations of Iacob: Ioseph being seuenteene yeeres old, was feeding the flocke with his brethren, and the lad was with the sonnes of Bilhah, and with the sonnes of Zilpah, his fathers wiues: and Ioseph brought vnto his father their euill report.
3. Now Israel loued Ioseph more then all his children, because he was the sonne of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
4. And when his brethren saw that their father loued him more then all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speake peaceably vnto him.
5. And Ioseph dreamed a dreame, and he told it his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.
6. And he said vnto them, Heare, I pray you, this dreame which I haue dreamed.
7. For beholde, wee were binding sheaues in the field, and loe, my sheafe arose, and also stood vpright; and behold, your sheaues stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheafe.
8. And his brethren saide to him, Shalt thou indeed reigne ouer vs? or shalt thou indeed haue dominion ouer vs? and they hated him yet the more, for his dreames, and for his words.
9. And hee dreamed yet another dreame, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I haue dreamed a dreame more: and behold, the sunne and the moone, and the eleuen starres made obeisance to me.
10. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said vnto him, What is this dreame that thou hast dreamed? shal I, and thy mother, and thy brethren indeed come to bow downe our selues to thee, to the earth?
11. And his brethren enuied him: but his father obserued the saying.
12. And his brethren went to feed their fathers flocke in Shechem.
13. And Israel saide vnto Ioseph, Doe not thy brethren feed the flocke in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee vnto them: & he said to him, Here am I.
14. And he said to him, Goe, I pray thee, see whether it bee well with thy brethren, and well with the flockes, and bring me word againe: so hee sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15. And a certaine man found him, and behold, hee was wandring in the field, and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16. And he said, I seeke my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feede their flockes.
17. And the man said, They are departed hence: for I heard them say, Let vs goe to Dothan. And Ioseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
18. And when they saw him a farre off, euen before he came neere vnto them, they conspired against him, to slay him.
19. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer commeth.
20. Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some euill beast hath deuoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreames.
21. And Reuben heard it, and he deliuered him out of their hands, and said; Let vs not kill him.
22. And Reuben saide vnto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hand vpon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliuer him to his father againe.
23. And it came to passe when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, that they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his coat of many colours that was on him.
24. And they tooke him and cast him into a pit: and the pit was emptie, there was no water in it.
25. And they sate downe to eat bread: and they lift vp their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead, with their camels, bearing spicery, & baulme, and myrrhe, going to cary it downe to Egypt.
26. And Iudah saide vnto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceale his blood?
27. Come, and let vs sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand bee vpon him: for he is our brother, and our flesh; and his brethren were content.
28. Then there passed by Midianites merchant men, and they drew and lift vp Ioseph out of the pit, and sold Ioseph to the Ishmeelites for twentie pieces of siluer: and they brought Ioseph into Egypt.
29. And Reuben returned vnto the pit, and behold, Ioseph was not in the pit: and he rent his clothes.
30. And hee returned vnto his brethren and said, The childe is not, and I, whither shall I goe?
31. And they tooke Iosephs coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood.
32. And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, This haue we found: know now whether it bee thy sonnes coat or no.
33. And he knew it, and said, It is my sonnes coat: an euil beast hath deuoured him; Ioseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
34. And Iacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth vpon his loines, & mourned for his sonne many dayes.
35. And all his sonnes, and all his daughters rose vp to comfort him: but he refused to be comforted: and he said, For I will goe downe into the graue vnto my sonne, mourning; thus his father wept for him.
36. And the Medanites sold him into Egypt vnto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaohs, and captaine of the guard.
1. And it came to passe at that time, that Iudah went downe from his brethren, and turned in to a certaine Adullamite, whose name was Hirah:
2. And Iudah saw there a daughter of a certaine Canaanite, whose name was Shuah: and he tooke her, and went in vnto her.
3. And she conceiued & bare a sonne, and he called his name Er.
4. And shee conceiued againe, and bare a sonne, and shee called his name, Onan.
5. And she yet againe conceiued and bare a sonne, and called his name Shelah: and hee was at Chezib, when shee bare him.
6. And Iudah tooke a wife for Er his first borne, whose name was Tamar.
7. And Er, Iudahs first borne was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD slew him.
8. And Iudah said vnto Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers wife, and marrie her, and raise vp seed to thy brother.
9. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to passe when hee went in vnto his brothers wife, that hee spilled it on the ground, least that hee should giue seed to his brother.
10. And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD: wherefore hee slew him also.
11. Then said Iudah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remaine a widow at thy fathers house, til Shelah my sonne be growen: (for he said, Lest peraduenture he die also as his brethren did) and Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house.
12. And in processe of time, the daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife died: and Iudah was comforted, and went vp vnto his sheepe-shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13. And it was told Lamar, saying, Behold, thy father in law goeth vp to Timnath to sheare his sheepe.
14. And shee put her widowes garments off from her, and couered her with a vaile, and wrapped her selfe, and sate in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath: for shee sawe that Shelah was growen, and she was not giuen vnto him to wife.
15. When Iudah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot: because she had couered her face.
16. And hee turned vnto her by the way, and said, Goe to, I pray thee, let me come in vnto thee: (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law) and she said, what wilt thou giue mee, that thou mayest come in vnto me?
17. And hee said, I will send thee a kid from the flocke: and shee saide, Wilt thou giue mee a pledge, till thou send it?
18. And he said, What pledge shall I giue thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staffe, that is in thine hand: and he gaue it her, & came in vnto her, and she conceived by him.
19. And shee arose and went away, and laid by her vaile from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
20. And Iudah sent the kidde by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the womans hand: but he found her not.
21. Then hee asked the men of that place, saying, where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
22. And he returned to Iudah, and said, I cannot finde her: and also the men of the place said, That there was no harlot in this place.
23. And Iudah said, Let her take it to her, lest we bee shamed: behold, I sent this kidde, and thou hast not found her.
24. And it came to passe about three moneths after, that it was tolde Iudah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot, and also behold, she is with child by whoredom: and Iudah said, Bring her foorth, and let her be burnt.
25. When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man whose these are, am I with child: and shee said, Discerne, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staffe.
26. And Iudah acknowledged them, and said, She hath bin more righteous then I: because that I gaue her not to Shelah my sonne: and he knew her againe no more.
27. And it came to passe in the time of her trauaile, that beholde, twinnes were in her wombe.
28. And it came to passe when shee trauailed, that the one put out his hand, and the midwife tooke and bound vpon his hand a skarlet threed, saying, This came out first.
29. And it came to passe as he drewe backe his hand, that behold, his brother came out: and she said, how hast thou broken foorth? this breach bee vpon thee: Therefore his name was called Pharez.
30. And afterward came out his brother that had the skarlet threed vpon his hand, and his name was called Zarah.
1. And Ioseph was brought downe to Egypt, and Potiphar an Officer of Pharaoh, captaine of ye guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him downe thither.
2. And the LORD was with Ioseph, and hee was a prosperous man, and hee was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3. And his master sawe that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did, to prosper in his hand.
4. And Ioseph found grace in his sight, and he serued him; and hee made him ouerseer ouer his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5. And it came to passe from the time that hee had made him overseer in his house, and ouer all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptians house for Iosephs sake: and the blessing of the LORD was vpon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
6. And he left all that he had, in Iosephs hand: and he knew not ought he had, saue the bread which he did eate: and Ioseph was a goodly person, and well fauoured.
7. And it came to passe after these things, that his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and shee said, Lie with me.
8. But he refused, and said vnto his masters wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with mee in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath, to my hand.
9. There is none greater in this house then I: neither hath hee kept backe any thing from me, but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I doe this great wickednesse, and sinne against God?
10. And it came to passe as she spake to Ioseph day by day, that hee hearkened not vnto her, to lie by her, or to bee with her.
11. And it came to passe about this time, that Ioseph went in to the house, to doe his busines, and there was none of the men of the house there within.
12. And shee caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
13. And it came to passe, when she saw that hee had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth;
14. That she called vnto the men of her house, and spake vnto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew vnto vs, to mocke vs: he came in vnto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
15. And it came to passe, when hee heard that I lifted vp my voice, and cried, that he left his garment with mee, and fled, and got him out.
16. And she laid vp his garment by her, vntill her lord came home.
17. And she spake vnto him, according to these words, saying, The Hebrew seruant which thou hast brought vnto vs, came in vnto me to mocke me.
18. And it came to passe as I lift vp my voice, and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
19. And it came to passe when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake vnto him, saying, After this maner did thy seruant to me, that his wrath was kindled.
20. And Iosephs master tooke him, and put him into the prison, a place, where ye kings prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
21. But the LORD was with Ioseph, and shewed him mercie, and gaue him fauour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22. And the keeper of the prison committed to Iosephs hand all the prisoners that were in the prison, and whatsoeuer they did there, he was the doer of it:
23. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing, that was vnder his hand, because the LORD was with him: & that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
1. And it came to passe after these things, that the Butler of the King of Egypt, and his Baker, had offended their lord the King of Egypt.
2. And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chiefe of the Butlers, and against the chiefe of the Bakers.
3. And he put them in ward in the house of the captaine of the guard, into the prison, the place where Ioseph was bound.
4. And the captaine of the guard charged Ioseph with them, and he serued them, and they continued a season in warde.
5. And they dreamed a dreame both of them, each man his dreame in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dreame, the Butler and the Baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
6. And Ioseph came in vnto them in the morning, and looked vpon them, and behold, they were sad.
7. And he asked Pharaohs officers that were with him in the warde of his lords house, saying, wherefore looke ye so sadly to day?
8. And they said vnto him, we haue dreamed a dreame, and there is no interpreter of it. And Ioseph said vnto them, Doe not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
9. And the chiefe Butler tolde his dreame to Ioseph, and said to him; In my dreame, beholde, a vine was before mee:
10. And in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot foorth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes.
11. And Pharaohs cup was in my hand, and I tooke the grapes and pressed them into Pharaohs cup: and I gaue the cup into Pharaohs hand.
12. And Ioseph said vnto him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three dayes,
13. Yet within three dayes shall Pharaoh lift vp thine head, and restore thee vnto thy place, and thou shalt deliuer Pharaohs cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his Butler.
14. But thinke on me, when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindenesse, I pray thee, vnto mee, and make mention of me vnto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
15. For indeed I was stollen away out of the land of the Hebrewes: and here also haue I done nothing, that they should put me into the dungeon.
16. When the chiefe Baker saw, that the interpretation was good, he said vnto Ioseph, I also was in my dreame, and behold, I had three white baskets on my head.
17. And in the vppermost basket there was of all maner of bake-meats for Pharaoh, and the birds did eat them out of the basket vpon my head.
18. And Ioseph answered, and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three dayes:
19. Yet within three dayes shall Pharaoh lift vp thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall eate thy flesh from off thee.
20. And it came to passe the third day, which was Pharaohs birth day, that hee made a feast vnto all his seruaunts: and he lifted vp by the head of the chiefe Butler, and of the chiefe Baker among his seruants.
21. And he restored the chiefe Butler vnto his Butlership againe, and hee gaue the cup into Pharaohs hand.
22. But he hanged the chiefe Baker, as Ioseph had interpreted to them.
23. Yet did not the chiefe Butler remember Ioseph, but forgate him.
1. And it came to passe at the end of two ful yeeres, that Pharaoh dreamed: and beholde, hee stood by the riuer.
2. And behold, there came vp out of the riuer seuen well fauoured kine, and fat fleshed, and they fed in a medow.
3. And behold, seuen other kine came vp after them out of the riuer, ill fauoured and leane fleshed, and stood by the other kine, vpon the brinke of the riuer.
4. And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.
5. And hee slept and dreamed the second time: and beholde, seuen eares of corne came vp vpon one stalke, ranke and good.
6. And beholde, seuen thinne eares and blasted with the Eastwind, sprang vp after them.
7. And the seuen thinne eares deuoured the seuen ranke and full eares: and Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dreame.
8. And it came to passe in the morning, that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the Magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh tolde them his dreame; but there was none that could interprete them vnto Pharaoh. 
9. Then spake the chiefe Butler vnto Pharaoh, saying, I doe remember my faults this day.
10. Pharaoh was wroth with his seruants, and put mee in warde, in the captaine of the guards house, both mee, and the chiefe Baker.
11. And we dreamed a dreame in one night, I and he: we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dreame.
12. And there was there with vs a yong man an Hebrew, seruant to the captaine of the guard: and wee told him, and he interpreted to vs our dreames, to each man according to his dreame, he did interpret.
13. And it came to passe, as he interpreted to vs, so it was; mee he restored vnto mine office, and him he hanged.
14. Then Pharaoh sent and called Ioseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: And he shaued himselfe, and changed his raiment, and came in vnto Pharaoh.
15. And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, I haue dreamed a dreame, and there is none that can interpret it: and I haue heard say of thee, that thou canst vnderstand a dreame, to interpret it.
16. And Ioseph answered Pharaoh, saying; It is not in me: God shall giue Pharaoh an answere of peace.
17. And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph; In my dreame, behold, I stood vpon the banke of the riuer.
18. And behold, there came vp out of the riuer seuen kine, fat fleshed and well fauoured, and they fed in a medow.
19. And behold, seuen other kine came vp after them, poore and very ill fauoured, and leane fleshed, such as I neuer saw in all the land of Egypt for badnes.
20. And the leane, & the ill fauoured kine, did eate vp the first seuen fat kine.
21. And when they had eaten them vp, it could not bee knowen that they had eaten them, but they were still ill fauoured, as at the beginning: So I awoke.
22. And I saw in my dreame, and behold, seuen eares came vp in one stalke, full and good.
23. And behold, seuen eares withered, thin & blasted with the East wind, sprung vp after them.
24. And the thin eares deuoured the seuen good eares: and I told this vnto the magicians, but there was none that could declare it to me.
25. And Ioseph said vnto Pharaoh, the dreame of Pharaoh is one; God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to doe.
26. The seuen good kine are seuen yeeres: and the seuen good eares are seuen yeeres: the dreame is one.
27. And the seuen thin and ill fauoured kine that came vp after them, are seuen yeeres: and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind, shall bee seuen yeeres of famine.
28. This is the thing which I haue spoken vnto Pharaoh: what God is about to doe, he sheweth vnto Pharaoh.
29. Behold, there come seuen yeeres of great plentie, throughout all the land of Egypt.
30. And there shall arise after them, seuen yeeres of famine, and all the plentie shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt: and the famine shall consume the land.
31. And the plentie shal not be knowen in the land, by reason of that famine following: for it shalbe very grieuous.
32. And for that the dreame was doubled vnto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God: and God will shortly bring it to passe.
33. Now therfore let Pharaoh looke out a man discreet and wise, and set him ouer the land of Egypt.
34. Let Pharaoh doe this, and let him appoint officers ouer the land, & take vp the fift part of the land of Egypt, in the seuen plenteous yeeres.
35. And let them gather all the food of those good yeeres that come, and lay vp corne vnder the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keepe food in the cities.
36. And that food shall be for store to the land, against the seuen yeeres of famine, which shall bee in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.
37. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his seruants.
38. And Pharaoh said vnto his seruants, Can we find such a one, as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is?
39. And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreete and wise, as thou art:
40. Thou shalt be ouer my house, and according vnto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater then thou.
41. And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, See, I haue set thee ouer all the land of Egypt.
42. And Pharaoh tooke off his ring from his hand, & put it vpon Iosephs hand, and arayed him in vestures of fine linnen, and put a gold chaine about his necke.
43. And he made him to ride in the second charet which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler ouer all the land of Egypt.
44. And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift vp his hand or foote, in all the land of Egypt.
45. And Pharaoh called Iosephs name, Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he gaue him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah, priest of On: and Ioseph went out ouer all the lande of Egypt.
46. ( And Ioseph was thirtie yeeres old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt) and Ioseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went thorowout all the land of Egypt.
47. And in the seuen plenteous yeres the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48. And he gathered vp all the foode of the seuen yeeres, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid vp the foode in the cities: the foode of the field which was round about euery citie, laid he vp in the same.
49. And Ioseph gathered corne as the sand of the sea, very much, vntill he left numbring: for it was without number.
50. And vnto Ioseph were borne two sonnes, before the yeeres of famine came: which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah, Priest of On bare vnto him.
51. And Ioseph called the name of the first borne Manasseh: for God, said hee, hath made me forget all my toile, and all my fathers house.
52. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused mee to be fruitfull in the land of my affliction.
53. And the seuen yeeres of plenteousnesse, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54. And the seuen yeeres of dearth beganne to come according as Ioseph had saide, and the dearth was in all lands: but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said vnto all the Egyptians, Goe vnto Ioseph: what he saith to you, doe.
56. And the famine was ouer all the face of the earth; and Ioseph opened all the storehouses, and solde vnto the Egyptians: and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57. And all countreys came into Egypt to Ioseph, for to buy corne, because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
1. Now when Iacob saw that there was corne in Egypt, Iacob said vnto his sonnes, Why doe ye looke one vpon an other?
2. And hee said, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.
3. And Iosephs ten brethren went downe to buy corne in Egypt.
4. But Beniamin Iosephs brother, Iacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest peraduenture mischiefe befall him.
5. And the sonnes of Israel came to buy corne among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6. And Ioseph was the gouernour ouer the land, and hee it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Iosephs brethren came, & bowed downe themselues before him, with their faces to the earth.
7. And Ioseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himselfe strange vnto them, and spake roughly vnto them; and hee saide vnto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy food.
8. And Ioseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9. And Ioseph remembred the dreames which hee dreamed of them, and said vnto them, Ye are spies: to see the nakednes of the land you are come.
10. And they said vnto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy seruants come.
11. We are all one mans sonnes, we are true men: thy seruants are no spies.
12. And he said vnto them, Nay: but to see the nakednesse of the land, you are come.
13. And they said, Thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.
14. And Ioseph said vnto them, That is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.
15. Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not goe foorth hence, except your yongest brother come hither.
16. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shalbe kept in prison, that your wordes may be proued, whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17. And he put them all together into warde, three dayes.
18. And Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This doe, and liue: for I feare God.
19. If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: goe ye, carry corne for the famine of your houses.
20. But bring your yongest brother vnto mee, so shall your wordes be verified, and yee shall not die: and they did so.
21. And they said one to another, We are verily guiltie concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare: therefore is this distresse come vpon vs.
22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not vnto you, saying, Doe not sinne against the childe, and ye would not heare? therefore behold also, his blood is required.
23. And they knew not that Ioseph vnderstood them: for hee spake vnto them by an interpreter.
24. And hee turned himselfe about from them and wept, and returned to them againe, and communed with them, and tooke from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25. Then Ioseph commanded to fill their sackes with corne, and to restore euery mans money into his sacke, and to giue them prouision for the way: and thus did he vnto them.
26. And they laded their asses with the corne, and departed thence.
27. And as one of them opened his sacke, to giue his asse prouender in the Inne, he espied his money: for behold, it was in his sackes mouth.
28. And he said vnto his brethren, My money is restored, and loe, it is euen in my sacke: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to an other, What is this that God hath done vnto vs?
29. And they came vnto Iacob their father, vnto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell vnto them, saying;
30. The man who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to vs, and tooke vs for spies of the countrey.
31. And we said vnto him, We are true men; we are no spies.
32. We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father, in the land of Canaan.
33. And the man the lord of the countrey said vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode for the famine of your housholds, and be gone.
34. And bring your yongest brother vnto me: then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and ye shall traffique in the land.
35. And it came to passe as they emptied their sacks, that behold, euery mans bundle of money was in his sacke: and when both they and their father saw the bundels of money, they were afraid.
36. And Iacob their father said vnto them, We haue ye bereaued of my children: Ioseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye wil take Beniamin away: all these things are against me.
37. And Reuben spake vnto his father, saying; Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee: deliuer him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee againe.
38. And he said, My sonne shall not goe downe with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischiefe befall him by the way in the which yee goe, then shall ye bring downe my gray haires with sorrow to the graue.
1. And the famine was sore in the land.
2. And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne, which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said vnto them, Goe againe, buy vs a little foode.
3. And Iudah spake vnto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest vnto vs, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
4. If thou wilt send our brother with vs, we will goe downe and buy thee food.
5. But if thou wilt not send him, we will not goe downe: for the man saide vnto vs, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
6. And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
7. And they said, The man asked vs straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue yee another brother? and we tolde him according to the tenour of these words: Could we certainely knowe that he would say, Bring your brother downe?
8. And Iudah said vnto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and wee will arise and go, that we may liue, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
9. I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not vnto thee, and set him before thee, then let me beare the blame for euer.
10. For except we had lingred, surely now wee had returned this second time.
11. And their father Israel said vnto them, If it must bee so now, doe this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carie downe the man a Present, a litle balme, and a litle honie, spices, and myrrhe, nuts, and almonds.
12. And take double money in your hand, and the money that was brought againe in the mouth of your sackes: carie it againe in your hand, peraduenture it was an ouersight.
13. Take also your brother, and arise, goe againe vnto the man.
14. And God Almightie giue you mercie before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Beniamin: If I be bereaued of my children, I am bereaued.
15. And the men tooke that Present, and they tooke double money in their hand, and Beniamin, and rose vp, and went downe to Egypt, and stood before Ioseph.
16. And when Ioseph sawe Beniamin with them, hee said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready: for these men shall dine with me at noone.
17. And the man did as Ioseph hade: and the man brought the men into Iosephs house.
18. And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Iosephs house, and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sackes at the first time are we brought in, that hee may seeke occasion against vs, and fall vpon vs, and take vs for bondmen, and our asses.
19. And they came neere to the steward of Iosephs house, and they communed with him at the doore of the house,
20. And said, O Sir, we came indeed downe at the first time to buy food.
21. And it came to passe when wee came to the Inne, that wee opened our sackes, and behold, euery mans money was in the mouth of his sacke, our money in ful weight: and we haue brought it againe in our hand.
22. And other money haue wee brought downe in our handes to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sackes.
23. And he said, Peace be to you, feare not: your God, and the God of your father, hath giuen you treasure in your sackes: I had your money. And hee brought Simeon out vnto them.
24. And the man brought the men into Iosephs house, and gaue them water, and they washed their feete, and he gaue their asses prouender.
25. And they made ready the Present against Ioseph came at noone: for they heard that they should eate bread there.
26. And when Ioseph came home, they brought him the Present which was in their hand, into the house, and bowed themselues to him to the earth.
27. And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet aliue?
28. And they answered, Thy seruant our father is in good health, hee is yet aliue: & they bowed downe their heads, and made obeisance.
29. And he lift vp his eyes, and sawe his brother Beniamin, his mothers sonne, and said, Is this your yonger brother, of whom yee spake vnto mee? and he said, God be gracious vnto thee, my sonne.
30. And Ioseph made haste: for his bowels did yerne vpon his brother: and he sought where to weepe, and hee entred into his chamber, & wept there.
31. And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himselfe, and saide, Set on bread.
32. And they set on for him by himselfe, and for them by themselues, and for the Egyptians which did eate with him, by themselues: because the Egyptians might not eate bread with the Hebrewes: for that is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.
33. And they sate before him, the first borne according to his birthright, and the yongest according to his youth: and the men marueiled one at another.
34. And hee tooke and sent measses vnto them from before him: but Beniamins measse was fiue times so much as any of theirs: and they drunke, and were merry with him.
1. And hee commaunded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the mens sackes with food, as much as they can carie, and put euery mans money in his sacks mouth.
2. And put my cup, the siluer cup, in the sackes mouth of the youngest, and his corne money: and he did according to the word that Ioseph had spoken.
3. Assoone as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they, and their asses.
4. And when they were gone out of the citie, and not yet farre off, Ioseph said vnto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou doest ouertake them, say vnto them, Wherefore haue ye rewarded euill for good?
5. Is not this it, in which my lord drinketh? and whereby indeed he diuineth? ye haue done euill in so doing.
6. And he ouertooke them, and he spake vnto them these same words.
7. And they said vnto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy seruants should doe according to this thing.
8. Behold, the money which wee found in our sackes mouthes, wee brought againe vnto thee, out of the land of Canaan: how then should wee steale out of thy lords house, siluer or golde?
9. With whom soeuer of thy seruants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lords bondmen.
10. And he said, Now also let it be according vnto your wordes: hee with whom it is found, shall be my seruant: and ye shall be blamelesse.
11. Then they speedily tooke downe euery man his sacke to the ground, and opened euery man his sacke.
12. And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the yongest: and the cup was found in Beniamins sacke.
13. Then they rent their clothes, and laded euery man his asse, and returned to the citie.
14. And Iudah and his brethren came to Iosephs house: (for he was yet there) and they fell before him on the ground.
15. And Ioseph said vnto them, What deed is this that ye haue done? wote ye not, that such a man as I can certainely diuine?
16. And Iudah said, What shall wee say vnto my lord? what shal we speake? or how shall we cleare our selues? God hath found out the iniquitie of thy seruants: beholde, wee are my lords seruants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
17. And he said, God forbid that I should doe so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shal be my seruant; and as for you, get you vp in peace vnto your father.
18. Then Iudah came neere vnto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy seruant, I pray thee, speake a word in my lords eares, & let not thine anger burne against thy seruant: for thou art euen as Pharaoh.
19. My lord asked his seruants, saying; Haue ye a father, or a brother?
20. And we said vnto my lord, Wee haue a father, an olde man, and a childe of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.
21. And thou saidst vnto thy seruants, Bring him downe vnto mee, that I may set mine eyes vpon him.
22. And we said vnto my lord, The lad cannot leaue his father: for if hee should leaue his father, his father would die.
23. And thou saidst vnto thy seruants, Except your yongest brother come downe with you, you shall see my face no more.
24. And it came to passe when wee came vp vnto thy seruant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25. And our father said, Goe againe, and buy vs a little food.
26. And we saide, Wee cannot goe downe: if our yongest brother be with vs, then will we goe downe: for wee may not see the mans face, except our yongest brother be with vs.
27. And thy seruant my father said vnto vs, Ye know that my wife bare me two sonnes.
28. And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torne in pieces: and I saw him not since.
29. And if ye take this also from me, and mischiefe befall him, ye shall bring downe my gray haires with sorrow to the graue.
30. Now therefore when I come to thy seruant my father, and the lad bee not with vs; (seeing that his life is bound vp in the lads life.)
31. It shall come to passe, when he seeth that the lad is not with vs, that he will die, and thy seruants shall bring downe the gray haires of thy seruant our father with sorrow to the graue.
32. For thy seruant became surety for the lad vnto my father, saying, If I bring him not vnto thee, then I shall beare the blame to my father, for euer.
33. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy seruant abide in stead of the lad, a bondman to my lord, and let the lad goe vp with his brethren.
34. For how shall I goe vp to my father, and the lad be not with mee, lest peraduenture I see the euill that shall come on my father?
1. Then Ioseph could not refraine himselfe before all them that stood by him: and he cried, Cause euery man to goe out from me; and there stood no man with him, while Ioseph made himselfe knowen vnto his brethren.
2. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3. And Ioseph said vnto his brethren, I am Ioseph; Doeth my father yet liue? and his brethren could not answere him: for they were troubled at his presence.
4. And Ioseph said vnto his brethren, Come neere to me, I pray you: and they came neere; and he said, I am Ioseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5. Now therefore bee not grieued, nor angry with your selues, that yee sold me hither: for God did send me before you, to preserue life.
6. For these two yeeres hath the famine bene in the land: and yet there are fiue yeeres, in the which there shall neither be earing nor haruest.
7. And God sent me before you, to preserue you a posteritie in the earth, and to saue your liues by a great deliuerance.
8. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9. Haste you, and goe vp to my father, and say vnto him, Thus saith thy sonne Ioseph; God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come downe vnto me, tary not.
10. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be neere vnto me, thou, and thy children, and thy childrens children, and thy flockes, and thy heards, and all that thou hast.
11. And there wil I nourish thee, (for yet there are fiue yeeres of famine) lest thou and thy houshold, and all that thou hast, come to pouertie.
12. And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Beniamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh vnto you.
13. And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you haue seene, and ye shall haste, and bring downe my father hither.
14. And he fel vpon his brother Beniamins necke, and wept: and Beniamin wept vpon his necke.
15. Moreouer hee kissed all his brethren, and wept vpon them: and after that, his brethren talked with him.
16. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaohs house, saying, Iosephs brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his seruants.
17. And Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say vnto thy brethren, This doe yee, lade your beasts and goe, get you vnto the land of Canaan.
18. And take your father, and your housholds, and come vnto mee: and I wil giue you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
19. Now thou art commanded, this doe yee; Take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wiues, and bring your father, and come.
20. Also regard not your stuffe: for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
21. And the children of Israel did so: and Ioseph gaue them wagons, according to the commandement of Pharaoh, and gaue them prouision for the way.
22. To all of them he gaue each man changes of raiment: but to Beniamin hee gaue three hundred pieces of siluer, and fiue changes of raiment.
23. And to his father hee sent after this maner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten shee asses laden with corne, and bread and meat for his father by the way.
24. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and hee said vnto them, See that yee fall not out by the way.
25. And they went vp out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan vnto Iacob their father,
26. And told him, saying, Ioseph is yet aliue, and he is gouernour ouer all the land of Egypt. And Iacobs heart fainted, for he beleeued them not.
27. And they told him all the words of Ioseph, which hee had saide vnto them: and when hee saw the wagons which Ioseph had sent to carie him, the spirit of Iacob their father reuiued.
28. And Israel said, It is enough; Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue: I will goe and see him before I die.
1. And Israel tooke his iourney with all that hee had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices vnto the God of his father Isaac.
2. And God spake vnto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Iacob, Iacob. And he said, Here am I.
3. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.
4. I will goe downe with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee vp againe: and Ioseph shall put his hand vpon thine eyes.
5. And Iacob rose vp from Beersheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iacob their father, and their litle ones, and their wiues, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to cary him.
6. And they tooke their cattell, and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Iacob, and all his seed with him:
7. His sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters, and his sonnes daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
8. And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Iacob and his sonnes: Reuben Iacobs first borne;
9. And the sonnes of Reuben, Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10. And the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel, and Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman.
11. And the sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12. And the sonnes of Iudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: But Er & Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sonnes of Pharez, were Hezron, and Hamul.
13. And the sonnes of Issachar: Tola, and Phuuah, and Iob, and Shimron.
14. And the sonnes of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Iahleel.
15. These bee the sonnes of Leah, which she bare vnto Iacob in Padan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the soules of his sonnes and his daughters, were thirtie and three.
16. And the sonnes of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17. And the sonnes of Asher: Iimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: And the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
18. These are the sonnes of Zilpah, whome Laban gaue to Leah his daughter: and these she bare vnto Iacob, euen sixteene soules.
19. The sonnes of Rachel Iacobs wife: Ioseph, and Beniamin.
20. And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt, were borne Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah Priest of On bare vnto him.
21. And the sonnes of Beniamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
22. These are the sonnes of Rachel which were borne to Iacob: all the soules were fourteene.
23. And the sonnes of Dan: Hushim.
24. And the sonnes of Naphtali: Iahzeel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shillem.
25. These are the sonnes of Bilhah, which Laban gaue vnto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these vnto Iacob: all the soules were seuen.
26. All the soules that came with Iacob into Egypt, which came out of his loines, besides Iacobs sonnes wiues, all the soules were threescore and sixe.
27. And the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: all the soules of the house of Iacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
28. And he sent Iudah before him vnto Ioseph, to direct his face vnto Goshen, and they came into the lande of Goshen.
29. And Ioseph made ready his charet, and went vp to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himselfe vnto him: and he fell on his necke, and wept on his necke a good while.
30. And Israel saide vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, because thou art yet aliue.
31. And Ioseph said vnto his brethren, and vnto his fathers house, I will goe vp, and shew Pharaoh, and say vnto him, My brethren, & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me.
32. And the men are sheapheards, for their trade hath bene to feed cattell: and they haue brought their flocks, and their heards, and all that they haue.
33. And it shall come to passe when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
34. That ye shall say, Thy seruants trade hath bene about cattell, from our youth euen vntill now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for euery shepheard is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.
1. Then Ioseph came and tolde Pharaoh, and saide, My father and my brethren, and their flockes, and their heards, and all that they haue, are come out of the land of Canaan: and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2. And hee tooke some of his brethren, euen fiue men, & presented them vnto Pharaoh.
3. And Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said vnto Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both wee and also our fathers.
4. They said moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in the land are we come: for thy seruants haue no pasture for their flockes, for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore we pray thee, let thy seruants dwel in the land of Goshen.
5. And Pharaoh spake vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.
6. The land of Egypt is before thee: in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell, in the lande of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any man of actiuitie amongst them, then make them rulers ouer my cattell.
7. And Ioseph brought in Iacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Iacob blessed Pharaoh.
8. And Pharaoh said vnto Iacob, How old art thou?
9. And Iacob said vnto Pharaoh, The dayes of the yeeres of my pilgrimage are an hundred & thirtie yeres: few and euill haue the dayes of the yeeres of my life bene, and haue not attained vnto the dayes of the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimage.
10. And Iacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
11. And Ioseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gaue them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12. And Ioseph nourished his father and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread, according to their families.
13. And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14. And Ioseph gathered vp all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corne which they bought: and Ioseph brought the money into Pharaohs house.
15. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came vnto Ioseph, and said, Giue vs bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16. And Ioseph said, Giue your cattell: and I will giue you for your catell, if money faile.
17. And they brought their cattel vnto Ioseph: and Ioseph gaue them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flockes, and for the cattell of the heards, and for the asses, and he fed them with bread, for all their cattel, for that yeere.
18. When that yeere was ended, they came vnto him the second yeere, and said vnto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent, my lord also had our heards of cattell: there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
19. Wherfore shall we die before thine eyes, both we, and our land? buy vs and our land for bread, and we and our land will be seruants vnto Pharaoh: and giue vs seede that we may liue and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20. And Ioseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians sold euery man his field, because the famine preuailed ouer them: so the land became Pharaohs.
21. And as for the people, he remoued them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt, euen to the other ende thereof.
22. Onely the land of the Priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eate their portion which Pharaoh gaue them: wherefore they solde not their lands.
23. Then Ioseph said vnto the people, Behold, I haue bought you this day, and your land for Pharaoh: Loe, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
24. And it shall come to passe in the increase, that you shall giue the fift part vnto Pharaoh, and foure parts shall be your owne, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your litle ones.
25. And they said, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.
26. And Ioseph made it a law ouer the land of Egypt vnto this day, that Pharaoh should haue the fift part: except the land of the priests onely, which became not Pharaohs.
27. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the countrey of Goshen, and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28. And Iacob liued in the land of Egypt seuenteene yeres: so the whole age of Iacob was an hundred fourtie and seuen yeeres.
29. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die, and he called his sonne Ioseph, and said vnto him, If now I haue found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand vnder my thigh, and deale kindly and truely with mee, bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.
30. But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carie mee out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place: and he said, I will doe as thou hast said.
31. And he said, Sweare vnto mee: and he sware vnto him. And Israel bowed himselfe vpon the beds head.
1. And it came to passe after these things, that one told Ioseph, Behold, thy father is sicke: and he tooke with him his two sonnes, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2. And one told Iacob, and said, Behold, thy sonne Ioseph commeth vnto thee: and Israel strengthened himselfe, and sate vpon the bed.
3. And Iacob saide vnto Ioseph, God Almightie appeared vnto mee at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed mee,
4. And said vnto me, Behold, I wil make thee fruitfull, and multiplie thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people, and will giue this land to thy seede after thee, for an euerlasting possession.
5. And now thy two sonnes, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were borne vnto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came vnto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shalbe mine.
6. And thy issue which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
7. And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come vnto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem.
8. And Israel behelde Iosephs sonnes, and said, Who are these?
9. And Ioseph said vnto his father, They are my sonnes, whom God hath giuen me in this place: and he said, Bring them, I pray thee, vnto me, and I will blesse them.
10. (Now the eyes of Israel were dimme for age, so that he could not see,) and hee brought them neere vnto him, and he kissed them, and imbraced them.
11. And Israel said vnto Ioseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and loe, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
12. And Ioseph brought them out from betweene his knees, and hee bowed himselfe with his face to the earth.
13. And Ioseph tooke them both, Ephraim in his right hand, toward Israels left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israels right hand, and brought them neere vnto him.
14. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and layd it vpon Ephraims head who was the yonger; and his left hand vpon Manassehs head, guiding his hands wittingly: for Manasseh was the first borne.
15. And he blessed Ioseph and said, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walke, the God which fedde mee all my life long vnto this day,
16. The Angel which redeemed mee from all euill, blesse the laddes, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
17. And when Ioseph saw that his father laide his right hand vpon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held vp his fathers hand, to remoue it from Ephraims head, vnto Manassehs head.
18. And Ioseph saide vnto his father, Not so my father: for this is the first borne; put thy right hand vpon his head.
19. And his father refused, and said, I know it, my sonne, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truely his yonger brother shall be greater then he; and his seede shall become a multitude of nations.
20. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel blesse, saying, God make thee as Ephraim, and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21. And Israel saide vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers.
22. Moreouer I haue giuen to thee one portion aboue thy brethren, which I tooke out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword, and with my bow.
1. And Iacob called vnto his sonnes, and said, Gather your selues together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last dayes.
2. Gather your selues together, and heare ye sonnes of Iacob, and hearken vnto Israel your father.
3. Reuben, thou art my first borne, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellencie of dignitie, and the excellencie of power:
4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excell, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bed: then defiledst thou it. He went vp to my couche.
5. Simeon and Leui are brethren, instruments of crueltie are in their habitations.
6. O my soule, come not thou into their secret: vnto their assembly mine honour be not thou vnited: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfe will they digged downe a wall.
7. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruell: I will diuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8. Iudah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the necke of thine enemies, thy fathers children shall bow downe before thee.
9. Iudah is a Lyons whelpe: from the pray my sonne thou art gone vp: he stouped downe, hee couched as a Lyon, and as an old Lyon: who shall rouse him vp?
10. The scepter shall not depart from Iudah, nor a Law-giuer from betweene his feete, vntill Shiloh come: and vnto him shall the gathering of the people be:
11. Binding his foale vnto the vine, and his asses colt vnto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.
12. His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milke.
13. Zebulun shall dwell at the hauen of the sea, and hee shall be for an Hauen of ships: and his border shall be vnto Zidon.
14. Issachar is a strong asse, couching downe betweene two burdens.
15. And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant: and bowed his shoulder to beare, and became a seruant vnto tribute.
16. Dan shall iudge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17. Dan shalbe a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heeles, so that his rider shall fall backward.
18. I haue waited for thy saluation, O LORD.
19. Gad, a troupe shall ouercome him: but he shall ouercome at the last.
20. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yeeld royall dainties.
21. Naphtali is a hinde let loose: He giueth goodly words.
22. Ioseph is a fruitfull bough, euen a fruitfull bough by a well, whose branches runne ouer the wall.
23. The archers haue sorely grieued him, and shot at him, and hated him.
24. But his bow abode in strength, and the armes of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Iacob: from thence is the Sheapheard, the stone of Israel,
25. Euen by the God of thy father who shall helpe thee, and by the Almightie, who shall blesse thee with blessings of heauen aboue, blessings of the deepe that lyeth vnder, blessings of the breasts and of the wombe.
26. The blessings of thy father haue preuailed aboue the blessings of my progenitors: vnto the vtmost bound of the euerlasting hils, they shall bee on the head of Ioseph, and on the crowne of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27. Beniamin shall rauine as a wolfe: In the morning hee shall deuoure the pray, and at night he shall diuide the spoile.
28. All these are the twelue tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spake vnto them, and blessed them: euery one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29. And hee charged them and said vnto them, I am to bee gathered vnto my people: burie me with my fathers, in the caue that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30. In the caue that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying place.
31. (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.)
32. The purchase of the field and of the caue that is therein, was from the children of Heth.
33. And when Iacob had made an end of commanding his sonnes, he gathered vp his feete into the bed, and yeelded vp the ghost, and was gathered vnto his people.
1. And Ioseph fell vpon his fathers face, and wept vpon him, and kissed him.
2. And Ioseph commanded his seruants the physicians to imbalme his father: and the physicians imbalmed Israel.
3. And fortie dayes were fulfilled for him, (for so are fulfilled the dayes of those which are imbalmed) and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten dayes.
4. And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake vnto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I haue found grace in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, saying,
5. My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die: in my graue which I haue digged for me, in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therfore let me goe vp, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come againe.
6. And Pharaoh said, Goe vp, and bury thy father, according as he made thee sweare.
7. And Ioseph went vp to bury his father: and with him went vp all the seruants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8. And all the house of Ioseph, and his brethren, and his fathers house: onely their litle ones, and their flockes, and their heards, they left in the land of Goshen.
9. And there went vp with him both charets and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
10. And they came to the threshing floore of Atad, which is beyond Iordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seuen dayes.
11. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites sawe the mourning in the floore of Atad, they saide, This is a grieuous mourning to the Egyptians: wherfore the name of it was called, Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Iordan.
12. And his sonnes did vnto him according as he commanded them.
13. For his sonnes caried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the caue of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14. And Ioseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went vp with him, to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15. And when Iosephs brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Ioseph will peraduenture hate vs, and will certainely requite vs all the euill which we did vnto him.
16. And they sent a messenger vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
17. So shall ye say vnto Ioseph, Forgiue, I pray thee now, the trespasse of thy brethren, and their sinne: for they did vnto thee euill: And now wee pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of the seruants of the God of thy father. And Ioseph wept, when they spake vnto him.
18. And his brethren also went and fell downe before his face, and they said, Behold, we be thy seruants.
19. And Ioseph saide vnto them, Feare not: for am I in the place of God?
20. But as for you, yee thought euill against me, but God meant it vnto good, to bring to passe, as it is this day, to saue much people aliue.
21. Now therefore feare yee not: I will nourish you, and your litle ones. And hee comforted them, and spake kindly vnto them.
22. And Ioseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house: and Ioseph liued an hundred and ten yeeres.
23. And Ioseph sawe Ephraims children, of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh were brought vp vpon Iosephs knees.
24. And Ioseph saide vnto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, vnto the land which hee sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob.
25. And Ioseph tooke an othe of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visite you, and ye shal carie vp my bones from hence.
26. So Ioseph died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old: and they imbalmed him, and he was put in a coffin, in Egypt.
1. Nowe these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, euery man & his household, came with Iacob. 
2. Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah, 
3. Issachar, Zebulun and Beniamin, 
4. Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 
5. And all the soules that came out of the loynes of Iacob, were seuentie soules: for Ioseph was in Egypt already. 
6. And Ioseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 
7. And the children of Israel were fruitfull, and increased aboundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty, and the land was filled with them. 
8. Now there arose vp a new King ouer Egypt, which knew not Ioseph. 
9. And he said vnto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are moe and mightier then we. 
10. Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land. 
11. Therefore they did set ouer them task-masters, to afflict them with their burdens: And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 
12. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew: and they were grieued because of the children of Israel. 
13. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serue with rigour. 
14. And they made their liues bitter, with hard bondage, in morter and in bricke, and in all maner of seruice in the fielde: all their seruice wherein they made them serue, was with rigour. 
15. And the King of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwiues, (of which the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah.) 
16. And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew-women, and see them vpon the stooles, if it be a sonne, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then shee shall liue. 
17. But the midwiues feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commanded them, but saued the men children aliue. 
18. And the King of Egypt called for the midwiues, & said vnto them, Why haue ye done this thing, and haue saued the men children aliue? 
19. And the midwiues said vnto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they are liuely, and are deliuered ere the midwiues come in vnto them. 
20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwiues: and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty. 
21. And it came to passe, because the midwiues feared God, that hee made them houses. 
22. And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Euery sonne that is borne, yee shall cast into the riuer, and euery daughter ye shall saue aliue. 
1. And there went a man of the house of Leui, & tooke to wife a daughter of Leui. 
2. And the woman conceiued, and bare a sonne: and when shee saw him that hee was a goodly childe, shee hid him three moneths. 
3. And when shee could not longer hide him, she tooke for him an arke of bul-rushes, and daubed it with slime, and with pitch, and put the childe therein, and shee layd it in the flags by the riuers brinke. 
4. And his sister stood afarre off, to wit what would be done to him. 
5. And the daughter of Pharaoh came downe to wash her selfe at the riuer, and her maydens walked along by the riuer side: and when shee saw the arke among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 
6. And when she had opened it, she saw the childe: and beholde, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrewes children. 
7. Then said his sister to Pharaohs daughter, Shall I goe, and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew-women, that she may nurse the childe for thee? 
8. And Pharaohs daughter said to her, Goe: And the mayd went and called the childs mother. 
9. And Pharaohs daughter said vnto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will giue thee thy wages. And the woman tooke the childe, and nursed it. 
10. And the childe grew, and shee brought him vnto Pharaohs daughter, and he became her sonne. And she called his name Moses: And she said, Because I drew him out of the water. 
11. And it came to passe in those dayes, when Moses was growen, that he went out vnto his brethren, and looked on their burdens, and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 
12. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 
13. And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrewes stroue together: And hee said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 
14. And he said, Who made thee a Prince and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is knowen. 
15. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sate downe by a well. 
16. Now the Priest of Midian had seuen daughters, and they came and drew water, and filled the troughes to water their fathers flocke. 
17. And the shepheards came and droue them away: but Moses stood vp and helped them, & watred their flocke. 
18. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soone to day? 
19. And they said, An Egyptian deliuered vs out of the hand of the shepheards, and also drew water enough for vs, and watered the flocke. 
20. And he said vnto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that yee haue left the man? Call him, that hee may eate bread. 
21. And Moses was content to dwel with the man, and he gaue Moses Zipporah his daughter. 
22. And she bare him a sonne, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I haue bene a stranger in a strange land. 
23. And it came to passe in processe of time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came vp vnto God, by reason of the bondage. 
24. And God heard their groning, and God remembred his Couenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Iacob. 
25. And God looked vpon the children of Israel, and God had respect vnto them. 
1. Nowe Moses kept the flocke of Iethro his father in law, the Priest of Midian: and hee led the flocke to the backeside of the desert, and came to the mountaine of God, euen to Horeb. 
2. And the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto 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. 
3. And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 
4. And when the Lord sawe that he turned aside to see, God called vnto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he saide, Here am I. 
5. And he said, Drawe not nigh hither: put off thy shooes from off thy feete, for the place whereon thou standest, is holy ground. 
6. Moreouer hee said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. And Moses hid his face: for he was afraid to looke vpon God. 
7. And the Lord said, I haue surely seene the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie, by reason of their taske-masters: for I know their sorrowes, 
8. And I am come downe to deliuer them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them vp out of that land, vnto a good land and a large, vnto a lande flowing with milke and hony, vnto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites. 
9. Now therefore behold, the crie of the children of Israel is come vnto me: and I haue also seene the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppresse them. 
10. Come now therefore, and I will send thee vnto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 
11. And Moses saide vnto God, Who am I, that I should goe vnto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 
12. And he said, Certainely I will be with thee, and this shall be a token vnto thee, that I haue sent thee: When thou hast brought foorth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serue God vpon this mountaine. 
13. And Moses saide vnto God, Behold, when I come vnto the children of Israel, and shall say vnto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me vnto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say vnto them? 
14. And God saide vnto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: And he said, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me vnto you. 
15. And God said moreouer vnto Moses, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of Israel; The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob hath sent me vnto you: this is my name for euer, and this is my memoriall vnto all generations. 
16. Goe and gather the Elders of Israel together, and say vnto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Iacob appeared vnto me, saying, I haue surely visited you, and seene that which is done to you in Egypt. 
17. And I haue said, I will bring you vp out of the affliction of Egypt, vnto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, vnto a land flowing with milke and hony. 
18. And they shall hearken to thy voyce: and thou shalt come, thou and the Elders of Israel vnto the King of Egypt, and you shall say vnto him, The Lord God of the Hebrewes hath met with vs: and now let vs goe, (wee beseech thee) three dayes iourney into the wildernes, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 
19. And I am sure that the King of Egypt will not let you goe, no not by a mightie hand. 
20. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will doe in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you goe. 
21. And I will giue this people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to passe that when ye goe, ye shall not goe empty: 
22. But euery woman shal borrow of her neighbour, and of her that soiourneth in her house, iewels of siluer, and iewels of gold, and rayment: and ye shall put them vpon your sonnes and vpon your daughters, and yee shall spoile the Egyptians. 
1. And Moses answered, and said, But behold, they will not beleeue mee, nor hearken vnto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared vnto thee. 
2. And the Lord said vnto him, What is that in thine hand? and hee said, A rod. 
3. And he said, Cast it on the ground: And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent: and Moses fled from before it. 
4. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the taile: And he put foorth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: 
5. That they may beleeue that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob hath appeared vnto thee. 
6. And the Lord said furthermore vnto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosome. And he put his hand into his bosome: and when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snowe. 
7. And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosome againe. And hee put his hand into his bosome againe, and plucked it out of his bosome, and behold, it was turned againe as his other flesh. 
8. And it shall come to passe, if they wil not beleeue thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first signe, that they will beleeue the voice of the latter signe. 
9. And it shall come to passe, if they will not beleeue also these two signes, neither hearken vnto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the riuer, and powre it vpon the drie land: and the water which thou takest out of the riuer, shall become blood vpon the drie land. 
10. And Moses saide vnto the Lord, O my lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken vnto thy seruant: but I am slow of speach, and of a slow tongue. 
11. And the Lord said vnto him, Who hath made mans mouth? or who maketh the dumbe or deafe, or the seeing, or ye blind? haue not I the Lord ? 
12. Now therefore goe, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 
13. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. 
14. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and hee said, Is not Aaron the Leuite thy brother? I know that he can speake well. And also behold, he commeth foorth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, hee will be glad in his heart. 
15. And thou shalt speake vnto him, and put words in his mouth, and I wil be with thy mouth, & with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall doe. 
16. And he shal be thy spokesman vnto the people: and he shall be, euen hee shall be to thee in stead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him in stead of God. 
17. And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt doe signes. 
18. And Moses went and returned to Iethro his father in law, and said vnto him, Let me goe, I pray thee, and returne vnto my brethren, which are in Egypt, and see whether they bee yet aliue. And Iethro said to Moses, Goe in peace. 
19. And the Lord said vnto Moses in Midian, Goe, returne into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. 
20. And Moses tooke his wife, and his sonnes, and set them vpon an asse, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses tooke the rod of God in his hand. 
21. And the Lord said vnto Moses, When thou goest to returne into Egypt, see that thou doe all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I haue put in thine hand: but I wil harden his heart, that hee shall not let the people goe. 
22. And thou shalt say vnto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my sonne, euen my first borne. 
23. And I say vnto thee, let my sonne goe, that he may serue mee: and if thou refuse to let him goe, behold, I will slay thy sonne, euen thy first borne. 
24. And it came to passe by the way in the Inne, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. 
25. Then Zipporah tooke a sharpe stone, and cut off the foreskinne of her sonne, and cast it at his feete, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to mee. 
26. So he let him goe: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the Circumcision. 
27. And the Lord said to Aaron, Goe into the wildernesse to meete Moses. And hee went and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. 
28. And Moses tolde Aaron all the wordes of the Lord, who had sent him, and all the signes which hee had commanded him. 
29. And Moses and Aaron went, and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. 
30. And Aaron spake all the wordes which the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, and did the signes in the sight of the people. 
31. And the people beleeued: And when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked vpon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. 
1. And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and tolde Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people goe, that they may holde a feast vnto mee in the wildernesse. 
2. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voyce to let Israel goe? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel goe. 
3. And they said, The God of the Hebrewes hath met with vs: let vs goe, we pray thee, three dayes iourney into the desert, and sacrifice vnto the Lord our God, lest hee fall vpon vs with pestilence, or with the sword. 
4. And the King of Egypt said vnto them, Wherfore doe ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their workes? get you vnto your burdens. 
5. And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, & you make them rest from their burdens. 
6. And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taske-masters of the people, and their officers, saying; 
7. Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues. 
8. And the tale of the brickes which they did make heretofore, you shall lay vpon them: you shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us goe and sacrifice to our God. 
9. Let there more worke be layde vpon the men, that they may labour therein, and let them not regard vaine wordes. 
10. And the taske-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not giue you straw. 
11. Goe ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your worke shall be diminished. 
12. So the people were scattered abroad throughout al the land of Egypt, to gather stubble in stead of straw. 
13. And the taske-masters hasted them, saying; Fulfill your workes, your dayly taskes, as when there was straw. 
14. And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaohs task-masters had set ouer them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore haue ye not fulfilled your taske, in making bricke, both yesterday and to day, as heretofore? 
15. Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cryed vnto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy seruants? 
16. There is no straw giuen vnto thy seruants, and they say to vs, Make bricke: and beholde, thy seruants are beaten; but the fault is in thine owne people. 
17. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let vs goe and doe sacrifice to the Lord. 
18. Goe therefore now and worke: for there shall no straw bee giuen you, yet shall ye deliuer the tale of brickes. 
19. And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in euill case, after it was said, Yee shall not minish ought from your brickes of your dayly taske. 
20. And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came foorth from Pharaoh. 
21. And they said vnto them; The Lord looke vpon you, and iudge, because you haue made our sauour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his seruants, to put a sword in their hand to slay vs. 
22. And Moses returned vnto the Lord, and said, Lord, Wherefore hast thou so euill intreated this people? Why is it that thou hast sent me? 
23. For since I came to Pharaoh to speake in thy Name, he hath done euill to this people, neither hast thou deliuered thy people at all. 
1. Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will doe to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall hee let them goe, and with a strong hand shall he driue them out of his land. 
2. And God spake vnto Moses, and said vnto him, I am the Lord. 
3. And I appeared vnto Abraham, vnto Isaac, and vnto Iacob, by the Name of God Almighty, but by my name IEHOVAH was I not knowen to them. 
4. And I haue also established my Couenant with them, to giue them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. 
5. And I haue also heard the groning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keepe in bondage: and I haue remembred my Couenant. 
6. Wherefore say vnto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from vnder the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage: and I will redeeme you with a stretched out arme, and with great iudgements. 
7. And I will take you to mee for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from vnder the burdens of the Egyptians. 
8. And I will bring you in vnto the lande concerning the which I did sweare to giue it, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob, and I will giue it you for an heritage, I am the Lord. 
9. And Moses spake so vnto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not vnto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruell bondage. 
10. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
11. Goe in, speake vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel goe out of his land. 
12. And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel haue not hearkened vnto me: how then shal Pharaoh heare me, who am of vncircumcised lips? 
13. And the Lord spake vnto Moses and vnto Aaron, & gaue them a charge vnto the children of Israel, and vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 
14. These be the heads of their fathers houses: The sonnes of Reuben the first borne of Israel, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben. 
15. And the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel, and Iamin, and Ohad and Iachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon. 
16. And these are the names of the sonnes of Leui, according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the yeeres of the life of Leui, were an hundred, thirtie and seuen yeeres. 
17. The sonnes of Gershon: Libni and Shimi, according to their families. 
18. And the sonnes of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the yeeres of the life of Kohath, were an hundred thirtie and three yeeres. 
19. And the sonnes of Merari: Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Leui, according to their generations. 
20. And Amram tooke him Iochebed his fathers sister to wife, and shee bare him Aaron and Moses: and the yeeres of the life of Amram were an hundred, and thirtie and seuen yeeres. 
21. And the sonnes of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg, and Zichri. 
22. And the sonnes of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. 
23. And Aaron tooke him Elisheba daughter of Amminadab sister of Naashon to wife, and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 
24. And the sonnes of Korah, Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites. 
25. And Eleazar Aarons sonne tooke him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife, and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Leuites, according to their families. 
26. These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, according to their armies. 
27. These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: These are that Moses and Aaron. 
28. And it came to passe on the day when the Lord spake vnto Moses in the land of Egypt, 
29. That the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speake thou vnto Pharaoh king of Egypt, all that I say vnto thee. 
30. And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of vncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken vnto mee? 
1. And the Lord said vnto Moses, See, I haue made thee a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shalbe thy prophet. 
2. Thou shalt speake all that I command thee, and Aaron thy brother shall speake vnto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. 
3. And I will harden Pharaohs heart, and multiplie my signes and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 
4. But Pharaoh shall not hearken vnto you, that I may lay my hand vpon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great iudgments. 
5. And the Egyptians shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 
6. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they. 
7. And Moses was fourescore yeres olde, and Aaron fourescore and three yeeres old, when they spake vnto Pharaoh. 
8. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying: 
9. When Pharaoh shall speake vnto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. 
10. And Moses and Aaron went in vnto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast downe his rod before Pharaoh, and before his seruants, and it became a serpent. 
11. Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers; now the Magicians of Egypt, they also did in like maner with their enchantments. 
12. For they cast downe euery man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aarons rod swallowed vp their rods. 
13. And hee hardened Pharaohs heart, that hee hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had said. 
14. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Pharaohs heart is hardened: he refuseth to let the people goe. 
15. Get thee vnto Pharaoh in the morning, loe, he goeth out vnto the water, and thou shalt stand by the riuers brinke, against hee come: and the rod which was turned to a serpent, shalt thou take in thine hand. 
16. And thou shalt say vnto him, The Lord God of the Hebrewes hath sent me vnto thee, saying; Let my people goe, that they may serue mee in the wildernesse: and beholde, hitherto thou wouldest not heare. 
17. Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand, vpon the waters which are in the riuer, and they shalbe turned to blood. 
18. And the fish that is in the riuer shall die, and the riuer shall stincke, and the Egyptians shall loathe to drinke of the water of the riuer. 
19. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, Say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod, & stretch out thine hand vpon the waters of Egypt, vpon their streames, vpon their riuers, and vpon their ponds, and vpon all their pooles of water, that they may become blood, and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. 
20. And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded: and he lift vp the rod and smote the waters that were in the riuer, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his seruants: and all the waters that were in the riuer, were turned to blood. 
21. And the fish that was in the riuer died: and the riuer stunke, and the Egyptians could not drinke of the water of the riuer: and there was blood throughout all the land Egypt. 
22. And the Magicians of Egypt did so, with their enchantments: and Pharaohs heart was hardened, neither did he hearken vnto them, as the Lord had said. 
23. And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did hee set his heart to this also. 
24. And all the Egyptians digged round about the riuer for water to drinke: for they could not drinke of the water of the riuer. 
25. And seuen dayes were fulfilled after that the Lord had smitten the riuer. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, Goe vnto Pharaoh, and say vnto him; Thus sayeth the Lord, Let my people goe, that they may serue me. 
2. And if thou refuse to let them goe, beholde, I will smite all thy borders with frogges. 
3. And the riuer shall bring foorth frogges abundantly, which shall goe vp and come into thine house, and into thy bed-chamber, and vpon thy bed, and into the house of thy seruants, and vpon thy people, and into thine ouens, and into thy kneading troughes. 
4. And the frogges shall come vp both on thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon all thy seruants. 
5. And the Lord spake vnto Moses; Say vnto Aaron, Stretch foorth thine hand with thy rodde ouer the streames, ouer the riuers, and ouer the ponds, and cause frogges to come vp vpon the land of Egypt. 
6. And Aaron stretched out his hand ouer the waters of Egypt, and the frogges came vp, and couered the land of Egypt. 
7. And the Magicians did so with their inchantments, and brought vp frogges vpon the land of Egypt. 
8. Then Pharaoh called for Moses, and Aaron, and said, Intreat the Lord, that hee may take away the frogges from me, and from my people: and I will let the people goe, that they may doe sacrifice vnto the Lord. 
9. And Moses saide vnto Pharaoh, Glory ouer mee: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy seruants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogges from thee, and thy houses, that they may remaine in the riuer onely? 
10. And he said, To morrow. And hee said, Bee it according to thy word: That thou mayest know that there is none like vnto the Lord our God. 
11. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy seruants, and from thy people; they shall remaine in the riuer onely. 
12. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried vnto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 
13. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogges died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. 
14. And they gathered them together vpon heapes, and the land stanke. 
15. But when Pharaoh saw that there was respit, he hardned his heart, and hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had said. 
16. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Say vnto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice, thorowout all the land of Egypt. 
17. And they did so: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice, in man and in beast: all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 
18. And the Magicians did so with their enchantments to bring foorth lice, but they could not: so there were lice vpon man and vpon beast. 
19. Then the Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the singer of God. And Pharaohs heart was hardned, and he hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had said. 
20. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Rise vp early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh: loe, he commeth foorth to the water, and say vnto him; Thus saith the Lord, Let my people goe, that they may serue me. 
21. Els, if thou wilt not let my people goe, beholde, I will send swarmes of flies vpon thee, and vpon thy seruants, and vpon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall bee full of swarmes of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 
22. And I will seuer in that day the lande of Goshen in which my people dwell, that no swarmes of flies shall be there, to the end thou maiest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. 
23. And I will put a diuision betweene my people and thy people: to morrow shall this signe be. 
24. And the Lord did so: and there came a grieuous swarme of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his seruants houses, and into all the lande of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarme of flies. 
25. And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Goe yee, sacrifice to your God in the land. 
26. And Moses said, It is not meete so to doe; for we shal sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians, to the Lord our God: Loe, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone vs? 
27. We will goe three dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command vs. 
28. And Pharaoh said, I wil let you goe that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God, in the wildernes: onely you shall not goe very farre away: intreate for me. 
29. And Moses said, Behold, I goe out from thee, and I will intreate the Lord that the swarmes of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his seruants, and from his people to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deale deceitfully any more, in not letting the people goe to sacrifice to the Lord. 
30. And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord: 
31. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and he remooued the swarmes of flies from Pharaoh, from his seruants, and from his people: there remained not one. 
32. And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would hee let the people goe. 
1. Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Goe in vnto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrewes, Let my people goe, that they may serue me. 
2. For if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt hold them still, 
3. Behold, the hand of the Lord is vpon thy cattell which is in the field, vpon the horses, vpon the asses, vpon the camels, vpon the oxen, and vpon the sheepe: there shall be a very grieuous murraine. 
4. And the Lord shall seuer betweene the cattell of Israel, and the cattell of Egypt, and there shall nothing die of all that is the childrens of Israel. 
5. And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall doe this thing in the land. 
6. And the Lord did that thing on the morrow; and all the cattell of Egypt died, but of the cattell of the children of Israel died not one. 
7. And Pharaoh sent, and beholde, there was not one of the cattell of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people goe. 
8. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the fornace, and let Moses sprinkle it towards the heauen, in the sight of Pharaoh: 
9. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall bee a boyle breaking forth with blaines, vpon man and vpon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 
10. And they tooke ashes of the fornace, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it vp toward heauen: and it became a boile breaking forth with blaines, vpon man and vpon beast. 
11. And the Magicians could not stand before Moses, because of the boiles: for the boile was vpon the magicians, and vpon all the Egyptians. 
12. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and hee hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had spoken vnto Moses. 
13. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Rise vp earely in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrewes, Let my people goe, that they may serue me. 
14. For I will at this time send all my plagues vpon thine heart, and vpon thy seruants, and vpon thy people: that thou mayest knowe that there is none like me in all the earth. 
15. For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. 
16. And in very deede, for this cause haue I raised thee vp, for to shewe in thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 
17. As yet exaltest thou thy selfe against my people, that thou wilt not let them goe? 
18. Behold, to morrow about this time, I wil cause it to raine a very grieuous haile, such as hath not bene in Egypt, since the foundation thereof euen vntill now. 
19. Send therefore now, and gather thy cattell, and all that thou hast in the field: for vpon euery man and beast which shal be found in the field, and shal not bee brought home, the haile shall come downe vpon them, and they shall die. 
20. Hee that feared the word of the Lord amongst the seruants of Pharaoh, made his seruants and his cattell flee into the houses. 
21. And he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his seruants and his cattell in the field. 
22. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heauen, that there may be haile in all the land of Egypt, vpon man and vpon beast, and vpon euery herbe of the field, thorowout the land of Egypt. 
23. And Moses stretched foorth his rod toward heauen, and the Lord sent thunder and haile, and the fire ranne along vpon the ground, and the Lord rained haile vpon the land of Egypt. 
24. So there was haile, and fire mingled with the haile, very grieuous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation. 
25. And the haile smote throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast: and the haile smote euery herbe of the fielde, and brake euery tree of the field. 
26. Onely in the land of Goshen where the children of Israel were, was there no haile. 
27. And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said vnto them, I haue sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 
28. Entreat the Lord, (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and haile, and I will let you goe, and ye shall stay no longer. 
29. And Moses saide vnto him, Assoone as I am gone out of the citie, I will spread abroad my hands vnto the Lord, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more haile: that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lords. 
30. But as for thee and thy seruants, I know that ye will not yet feare the Lord God. 
31. And the flaxe, and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the eare, and the flaxe was bolled: 
32. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not growen vp. 
33. And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands vnto the Lord: and the thunders and haile ceased, and the raine was not powred vpon the earth. 
34. And when Pharaoh saw that the raine, and the haile and the thunders were ceased, hee sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his seruants. 
35. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel goe, as the Lord had spoken by Moses. 
1. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Goe in vnto Pharaoh: for I haue hardned his heart, and the heart of his seruants, that I might shew these my signes before him: 
2. And that thou mayest tell in the eares of thy sonne, and of thy sonnes sonne, what things I haue wrought in Egypt, and my signes which I haue done amongst them, that ye may know how that I am the Lord. 
3. And Moses and Aaron came in vnto Pharaoh, and saide vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrewes, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy selfe before mee? Let my people goe, that they may serue me. 
4. Els, if thou refuse to let my people goe, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast. 
5. And they shall couer the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth, and they shall eate the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth vnto you from the haile, and shall eate euery tree, which groweth for you out of the field. 
6. And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy seruants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers fathers haue seene, since the day that they were vpon the earth, vnto this day. And he turned himselfe, and went out from Pharaoh. 
7. And Pharaohs seruants said vnto him, How long shall this man be a snare vnto vs? Let the men goe, that they may serue the Lord their God: Knowest thou not yet, that Egypt is destroyed? 
8. And Moses and Aaron were brought againe vnto Pharaoh: and he said vnto them, Goe, serue the Lord your God: but who are they that shall goe? 
9. And Moses said, We wil goe with our yong, and with our old, with our sonnes and with our daughters, with our flockes and with our heards will we goe: for we must hold a feast vnto the Lord. 
10. And he said vnto them; Let the Lord bee so with you, as I will let you goe, and your litle ones. Looke to it, for euill is before you. 
11. Not so: goe now yee that are men, and serue the Lord, for that you did desire: and they were driuen out from Pharaohs presence. 
12. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hand ouer the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come vp vpon the land of Egypt, and eate euery herbe of the land, euen all that the haile hath left. 
13. And Moses stretched forth his rod ouer the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an East wind vpon the land all that day, and all that night: and when it was morning, the East wind brought the locusts. 
14. And the locusts went vp ouer all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grieuous were they: before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 
15. For they couered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkned, and they did eate euery herbe of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the haile had left, and there remained not any greene thing in the trees, or in the herbes of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 
16. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste: and he said, I haue sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 
17. Now therefore forgiue, I pray thee, my sinne onely this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that hee may take away from mee this death onely. 
18. And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord. 
19. And the Lord turned a mighty strong West wind, which tooke away the locusts, and cast them into the red sea: there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. 
20. But the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart, so that hee would not let the children of Israel goe. 
21. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heauen, that there may be darkenesse ouer the land of Egypt, euen darkenes which may be felt. 
22. And Moses stretched foorth his hand toward heauen: and there was a thicke darkenesse in all the land of Egypt three dayes. 
23. They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three dayes: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 
24. And Pharaoh called vnto Moses, and said, Goe ye, serue the Lord: onely let your flockes and your herds be stayed: let your litle ones also goe with you. 
25. And Moses saide, Thou must giue vs also sacrifices, and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice vnto the Lord our God. 
26. Our cattell also shall goe with vs: there shall not an hoofe bee left behind: for thereof must we take to serue the Lord our God: and we knowe not with what wee must serue the Lord, vntill we come thither. 
27. But the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart, and he would not let them goe. 
28. And Pharaoh said vnto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thy selfe: see my face no more: for in that day thou seest my face, thou shalt die. 
29. And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face againe no more. 
1. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more vpon Pharaoh, and vpon Egypt, afterwards hee will let you goe heuce: when hee shall let you goe, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. 
2. Speake now in the eares of the people, and let euery man borrowe of his neighbour, and euery woman of her neighbour, iewels of siluer, and iewels of gold. 
3. And the Lord gaue the people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreouer the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaohs seruants, and in the sight of the people. 
4. And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, about midnight will I goe out into the midst of Egypt. 
5. And all the first borne in the lande of Egypt shall die, from the first borne of Pharaoh, that sitteth vpon his throne, euen vnto the first borne of the maid seruant that is behind the mill, and all the first borne of beasts. 
6. And there shall bee a great crie throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall bee like it any more. 
7. But against any of the children of Israel, shal not a dog moue his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference betweene the Egyptians and Israel. 
8. And all these thy seruants shall come downe vnto me, and bow downe themselues vnto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I wil goe out: and he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger. 
9. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken vnto you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 
10. And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel goe out of his land. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 
2. This moneth shalbe vnto you the beginning of moneths: it shall be the first moneth of the yeere to you. 
3. Speake ye vnto all the Congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this moneth they shall take to them euery man a lambe, according to the house of their fathers, a lambe for an house. 
4. And if the houshold be too little for the lambe, let him and his neighbour next vnto his house, take it according to the number of the soules: euery man according to his eating shall make your count for the lambe. 
5. Your lambe shall be without blemish, a male of the first yeere: yee shall take it out from the sheepe or from the goates. 
6. And ye shall keepe it vp vntill the fourteenth day of the same moneth: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the euening. 
7. And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side postes, and on the vpper doore poste, of the houses wherin they shall eate it. 
8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roste with fire, and vnleauened bread, and with bitter herbes they shall eate it. 
9. Eate not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roste with fire: his head, with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 
10. And ye shall let nothing of it remaine vntill the morning: and that which remaineth of it vntill the morning, ye shall burne with fire. 
11. And thus shall ye eate it: with your loines girded, your shooes on your feet, and your staffe in your hand: and ye shall eate it in haste: it is the Lords Passeouer. 
12. For I will passe through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first borne in the land of Egypt, both man & beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute iudgement: I am the Lord. 
13. And the blood shall be to you for a token vpon the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will passe ouer you, and the plague shall not bee vpon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 
14. And this day shall be vnto you for a memoriall: and you shall keepe in a feast to the Lord, throughout your generations: you shall keepe it a feast by an ordinance for euer. 
15. Seuen dayes shall ye eate vnleauened bread, euen the first day yee shall put away leauen out of your houses: For whosoeuer eateth leauened bread, from the first day vntil the seuenth day, that soule shall be cut off from Israel. 
16. And in the first day there shalbe an holy conuocation, and in the seuenth day there shall be an holy conuocation to you: no maner of worke shalbe done in them, saue that which euery man must eate, that onely may bee done of you. 
17. And yee shall obserue the feast of vnleauened bread: for in this selfe same day haue I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye obserue this day in your generations, by an ordinance for euer. 
18. In the first moneth, on the fourteenth day of the moneth at euen, ye shall eate vnleauened bread vntill the one and twentieth day of the moneth at euen. 
19. Seuen dayes shall there bee no leauen found in your houses: for whosoeuer eateth that which is leauened, euen that soule shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or borne in the land. 
20. Yee shall eate nothing leauened: in all your habitations shall ye eate vnleauened bread. 
21. Then Moses called for all the Elders of Israel, and said vnto them; Draw out and take you a lambe, according to your families, and kill the Passeouer. 
22. And ye shall take a bunch of hysope, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side postes with the blood that is in the bason: and none of you shall goe out at the doore of his house, vntill the morning. 
23. For the Lord wil passe through to smite the Egyptians: and when hee seeth the blood vpon the lintel, and on the two side-postes, the Lord will passe ouer the doore, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in vnto your houses to smite you. 
24. And ye shall obserue this thing for an ordinance to thee, and to thy sonnes for euer. 
25. And it shall come to passe when yee bee come to the land, which the Lord will giue you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keepe this seruice. 
26. And it shall come to passe, when your children shall say vnto you, What meane you by this seruice? 
27. That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lords Passeouer, who passed ouer the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and deliuered our houses. And the people bowed the head, and worshipped. 
28. And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 
29. And it came to passe that at midnight the Lord smote all the first borne in the land of Egypt, from the first borne of Pharaoh that sate on his throne, vnto the first borne of the captiue that was in the dungeon, and all the first borne of cattell. 
30. And Pharaoh rose vp in the night, hee and all his seruants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house, where there was not one dead. 
31. And hee called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise vp, and get you forth from amongst my people, both you and the children of Israel: and goe, serue the Lord, as ye haue said. 
32. Also take your flockes and your heards, as ye haue said: and bee gone, and blesse me also. 
33. And the Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste: for they said, We be all dead men. 
34. And the people tooke their dough before it was leauened, their kneading troughes beeing bound vp in their clothes vpon their shoulders. 
35. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses: and they borrowed of the Egyptians iewels of siluer, and iewels of gold, and raiment. 
36. And the Lord gaue the people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent vnto them such things as they required: and they spoiled the Egyptians. 
37. And the children of Israel iourneyed from Rameses to Succoth, about sixe hundred thousand on foote that were men, beside children. 
38. And a mixed multitude went vp also with them, and flocks and heards, euen very much cattell. 
39. And they baked vnleauened cakes of the dough, which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it was not leauened: because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselues any victuall. 
40. Now the soiourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was foure hundred and thirtie yeeres. 
41. And it came to passe at the end of the foure hundred and thirtie yeeres, euen the selfe same day it came to passe, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 
42. It is a night to be much obserued vnto the Lord, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: This is that night of the Lord to be obserued of all the children of Israel, in their generations. 
43. And the Lord saide vnto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passeouer: there shall no stranger eate thereof. 
44. But euery mans seruant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eate thereof. 
45. A forreiner, and an hired seruant shall not eate thereof. 
46. In one house shall it be eaten, thou shalt not carie foorth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall ye breake a bone thereof. 
47. All the Congregation of Israel shall keepe it. 
48. And when a stranger shall soiourne with thee, and will keepe the Passeouer to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come neere, and keepe it: and he shall be as one that is borne in the land: for no vncircumcised person shall eate thereof. 
49. One law shall be to him that is home-borne, and vnto the stranger that soiourneth among you. 
50. Thus did all the children of Israel: as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 
51. And it came to passe the selfe same day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by their armies. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Sanctifie vnto me all the first borne, whatsoeuer openeth the wombe, among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. 
3. And Moses said vnto the people, Remember this day, in which yee came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage: for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leauened bread be eaten. 
4. This day came yee out, in the moneth Abib. 
5. And it shalbe when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee, a land flowing with milke and hony, that thou shalt keepe this seruice in this moneth. 
6. Seuen dayes thou shalt eate vnleauened bread, and in the seuenth day shall be a feast to the Lord. 
7. Unleauened bread shall be eaten seuen dayes: and there shall no leauened bread bee seene with thee: neither shall there be leauen seene with thee in all thy quarters. 
8. And thou shalt shew thy sonne in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did vnto mee, when I came forth out of Egypt. 
9. And it shall bee for a signe vnto thee, vpon thine hand, and for a memoriall betweene thine eyes, that the Lords law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hande hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt. 
10. Thou shalt therfore keepe this ordinance in his season from yeere to yere. 
11. And it shalbe when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites as he sware vnto thee, and to thy fathers, and shall giue it thee: 
12. That thou shalt set apart vnto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and euery firstling that commeth of a beast, which thou hast, the males shall be the Lords. 
13. And euery firstling of an asse thou shalt redeeme with a lambe: and if thou wilt not redeeme it, then thou shalt breake his necke, and all the first borne of man amongst thy children shalt thou redeeme. 
14. And it shalbe when thy sonne asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? That thou shalt say vnto him; By strength of hand the Lord brought vs out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. 
15. And it came to passe when Pharaoh would hardly let vs goe, that the Lord slew all the first borne in the land of Egypt, both the first borne of man, and the first borne of beast: Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males: but all the first borne of my children I redeeme. 
16. And it shall be for a token vpon thine hand, and for frontlets betweene thine eyes. For by strength of hand the Lord brought vs foorth out of Egypt. 
17. And it came to passe when Pharaoh had let the people goe, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was neere: For God saide, Lest peraduenture the people repent when they see warre, and they returne to Egypt: 
18. But God ledde the people about through the way of the wildernesse of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went vp harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 
19. And Moses tooke the bones of Ioseph with him: for hee had straitly sworne the children of Israel, saying; God will surely visite you, and ye shall cary vp my bones away hence with you. 
20. And they tooke their iourney from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wildernesse. 
21. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to giue them light to goe by day and night. 
22. He tooke not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, that they turne and encampe before Pi-hahiroth, betweene Migdol and the sea, ouer against Baal-Zephon: before it shall ye encampe by the sea. 
3. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are intangled in the land, the wildernesse hath shut them in. 
4. And I will harden Pharaohs heart, that he shall follow after them, and I will be honoured vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his hoste, That the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so. 
5. And it was told the King of Egypt, that the people fled: And the heart of Pharaoh and of his seruants was turned against the people, and they said, Why haue wee done this, that we haue let Israel goe from seruing vs? 
6. And hee made ready his charet, and tooke his people with him. 
7. And hee tooke sixe hundred chosen charets, and all the charets of Egypt, and captaines ouer euery one of them. 
8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 
9. But the Egyptians pursued after them (all the horses and charets of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army) and ouertooke them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth before Baal-Zephon. 
10. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lift vp their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them, and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel lift vp their eyes, and beholde, the Egyptians marched after them, and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out vnto the Lord. 
11. And they said vnto Moses, Because there were no graues in Egypt, hast thou taken vs away to die in the wildernesse? Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with vs, to cary vs foorth out of Egypt? 
12. Is not this the word that wee did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let vs alone, that we may serue the Egyptians? For it had bene better for vs to serue the Egyptians, then that wee should die in the wildernesse. 
13. And Moses saide vnto the people, Feare ye not, stand still, and see the saluation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye haue seene to day, ye shall see them againe no more for euer. 
14. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 
15. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Wherefore criest thou vnto me? Speake vnto the children of Israel, that they goe forward. 
16. But lift thou vp thy rodde, and stretch out thine hand ouer the Sea, and diuide it: and the children of Israel shall goe on dry ground thorow the mids of the Sea. 
17. And I, beholde, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get mee honour vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his hoste, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen. 
18. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen. 
19. And the Angel of God which went before the campe of Israel, remoued and went behind them, and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behinde them. 
20. And it came betweene the campe of the Egyptians, and the campe of Israel, and it was a cloud and darkenesse to them, but it gaue light by night to these: so that the one came not neere the other all the night. 
21. And Moses stretched out his hand ouer the Sea, and the Lord caused the Sea to goe backe by a strong East winde all that night, and made the Sea dry land, and the waters were diuided. 
22. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea vpon the dry ground, and the waters were a wall vnto them on their right hand, and on their left. 
23. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them, to the midst of the Sea, euen all Pharaohs horses, his charets and his horsemen. 
24. And it came to passe, that in the morning watch the Lord looked vnto the hoste of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire, and of the cloude, and troubled the hoste of the Egyptians, 
25. And tooke off their charet wheeles, that they draue them heauily: So that the Egyptians said, Let vs flee from the face of Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them, against the Egyptians. 
26. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hand ouer the Sea, that the waters may come againe vpon the Egyptians, vpon their charets, and vpon their horsemen. 
27. And Moses stretched foorth his hand ouer the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared: and the Egyptians fled against it: and the Lord ouerthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 
28. And the waters returned, and couered the charets, and the horsemen, and all the hoste of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them: there remained not so much as one of them. 
29. But the children of Israel walked vpon drie land, in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall vnto them on their right hand, and on their left. 
30. Thus the Lord saued Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians: and Israel sawe the Egyptians dead vpon the sea shore. 
31. And Israel saw that great worke which the Lord did vpon the Egyptians: & the people feared the Lord, and beleeued the Lord, and his seruant Moses. 
1. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song vnto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing vnto the Lord: for he hath triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider hath he throwen into the Sea. 
2. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my saluation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation, my fathers God, and I wil exalt him. 
3. The Lord is a man of warre: the Lord is his Name. 
4. Pharaohs charets and his hoste hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captaines also are drowned in the red Sea. 
5. The depths haue couered them: they sanke into the bottome as a stone. 
6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power, thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemie. 
7. And in the greatnesse of thine excellencie thou hast ouerthrowen them, that rose vp against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. 
8. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together: the floods stood vpright as an heape, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the Sea. 
9. The enemie said, I will pursue, I wil ouertake, I wil diuide the spoile: my lust shall be satisfied vpon them: I will draw my sword, mine hand shall destroy them. 
10. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea couered them, they sanke as lead in the mighty waters. 
11. Who is like vnto thee, O Lord, amongst the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holinesse, fearefull in praises, doing wonders! 
12. Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 
13. Thou in thy mercie hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength vnto thy holy habitation. 
14. The people shall heare, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 
15. Then the dukes of Edom shal be amased: the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold vpon them: all the inhabitants of Canaan shal melt away. 
16. Feare and dread shall fall vpon them, by the greatnesse of thine arme they shall be as still as a stone, till thy people passe ouer, O Lord, till the people passe ouer which thou hast purchased. 
17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountaine of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands haue established. 
18. The Lord shal reigne for euer and euer. 
19. For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his charets and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought againe the waters of the Sea vpon them: But the children of Israel went on drie land in the mids of the sea. 
20. And Miriam the prophetesse the sister of Aaron, tooke a timbrell in her hand, and all the women went out after her, with timbrels & with dances. 
21. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he throwen into the sea. 
22. So Moses brought Israel from the red sea, and they went out into the wildernesse of Shur: and they went three dayes in the wildernesse, and found no water. 
23. And when they came to Marah, they could not drinke of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 
24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall wee drinke? 
25. And he cried vnto the Lord: and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when hee had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweete: there he made a statute & an ordinance, and there he proued them, 
26. And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt doe that which is right in his sight, and wilt giue eare to his Commandements, and keepe all his Statutes, I will put none of these diseases vpon thee, which I haue brought vpon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. 
27. And they came to Elim: where were twelue wels of water, and threescore and ten palme trees, and they encamped there by the waters. 
1. And they tooke their iourney from Elim, and all the Congregation of the children of Israel came vnto the wildernesse of Sin, which is betweene Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second moneth after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 
2. And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wildernesse. 
3. And the children of Israel saide vnto them, Would to God wee had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when wee sate by the flesh pots, and when we did eate bread to the full: for ye haue brought vs forth into this wildernesse, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 
4. Then said the Lord vnto Moses, Behold, I will raine bread from heauen for you: and the people shall goe out, and gather a certaine rate euery day, that I may proue them, whether they will walke in my Law, or no. 
5. And it shall come to passe, that on the sixt day, they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather dayly. 
6. And Moses and Aaron said vnto all the children of Israel, At euen, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt. 
7. And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord, for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: And what are wee, that yee murmure against vs? 
8. And Moses said, This shalbe when the Lord shal giue you in the euening flesh to eate, and in the morning bread to the full: for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmure against him; and what are wee? Your murmurings are not against vs, but against the Lord. 
9. And Moses spake vnto Aaron, Say vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, Come neere before the Lord: for hee hath heard your murmurings. 
10. And it came to passe as Aaron spake vnto the whole Congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wildernesse, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloude. 
11. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
12. I haue heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: Speake vnto them, saying, At euen ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shalbe filled with bread: and ye shal know that I am the Lord your God. 
13. And it came to passe, that at euen the Quailes came vp, and couered the campe: and in the morning the dew lay round about the hoste. 
14. And when the dewe that lay was gone vp, behold, vpon the face of the wildernesse there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoare frost on the ground. 
15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is Manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said vnto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath giuen you to eate. 
16. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: gather of it euery man according to his eating: an Omer for euery man, according to the number of your persons, take yee euery man for them which are in his tents. 
17. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some lesse. 
18. And when they did mete it with an Omer, he that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and he that gathered litle, had no lacke: they gathered euery man according to his eating. 
19. And Moses saide, Let no man leaue of it till the morning. 
20. Notwithstanding they hearkened not vnto Moses, but some of them left of it vntill the morning, and it bred wormes, and stanke: and Moses was wroth with them. 
21. And they gathered it euery morning, euery man according to his eating: and when the Sunne waxed hot, it melted. 
22. And it came to passe that on the sixt day they gathered twice as much bread, two Omers for one man: and all the rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses. 
23. And he said vnto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath vnto the Lord: bake that which you will bake, to day, and seethe that ye will seethe, and that which remaineth ouer, lay vp for you to be kept vntill the morning. 
24. And they laid it vp till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stinke, neither was there any worme therein. 
25. And Moses saide, Eate that to day, for to day is a Sabbath vnto the Lord: to day yee shall not finde it in the field. 
26. Sixe dayes ye shall gather it, but on the seuenth day which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. 
27. And it came to passe, that there went out some of the people on the seuenth day for to gather, and they found none. 
28. And the Lord said vnto Moses, How long refuse yee to keepe my Commandements, and my Lawes? 
29. See, for that the Lord hath giuen you the Sabbath, therefore hee giueth you on the sixt day the bread of two dayes: abide yee euery man in his place: let no man goe out of his place on the seuenth day. 
30. So the people rested on the seuenth day. 
31. And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like Coriander seed, white: and the taste of it was like wafers made with hony. 
32. And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth: Fill an Omer of it to bee kept for your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I haue fed you in the wildernesse, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 
33. And Moses sayd vnto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an Omer full of Manna therein, and lay it vp before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. 
34. As the Lord commaunded Moses, so Aaron layd it vp before the Testimonie, to be kept. 
35. And the children of Israel did eat Manna fortie yeeres, vntill they came to a land inhabited: they did eate Manna, vntill they came vnto the borders of the land of Canaan. 
36. Now an Omer is the tenth part of an Ephah. 
1. And all the Congregation of the children of Israel iourneyed from the wildernesse of Sin after their iourneys, according to the commandement of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drinke. 
2. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said, Giue vs water that wee may drinke. And Moses said vnto them, Why chide you with mee? Wherefore doe ye tempt the Lord ? 
3. And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought vs vp out of Egypt, to kill vs and our children, and our cattell with thirst? 
4. And Moses cried vnto the Lord, saying, What shall I doe vnto this people? They be almost ready to stone me. 
5. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Goe on before the people, and take with thee of the Elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the riuer, take in thine hand, and goe. 
6. Behold, I will stand before thee there, vpon the rocke in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rocke, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drinke. And Moses did so, in the sight of the Elders of Israel. 
7. And hee called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord amongst vs, or not? 
8. Then came Amalek, & fought with Israel in Rephidim. 
9. And Moses said vnto Ioshua, Choose vs out men, and goe out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rodde of God in mine hand. 
10. So Ioshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went vp to the top of the hill. 
11. And it came to passe when Moses held vp his hand, that Israel preuailed: and when he let downe his hand, Amalek preuailed. 
12. But Moses hands were heauie, and they tooke a stone, and put it vnder him, and he sate thereon: and Aaron and Hur stayed vp his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side, and his handes were steady vntill the going downe of the Sunne. 
13. And Ioshua discomfited Amalek, and his people, with the edge of the sword. 
14. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Write this for a memoriall in a booke, and rehearse it in the eares of Ioshua: for I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen. 
15. And Moses built an Altar, and called the name of it IEHOUAH Nissi. 
16. For he said, Because the Lord hath sworne that the Lord will haue warre with Amalek from generation to generation. 
1. When Iethro the Priest of Midian, Moses father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt: 
2. Then Iethro Moses father in law tooke Zipporah Moses wife, after he had sent her backe, 
3. And her two sonnes, of which the name of the one was Gershom: for he said, I haue bene an alien in a strange land. 
4. And the name of the other was Eliezer: for the God of my father, said he, was mine helpe, and deliuered me from the sword of Pharaoh. 
5. And Iethro Moses father in law came with his sonnes and his wife vnto Moses into the wildernes, where he encamped at the mount of God. 
6. And he said vnto Moses, I thy father in law Iethro am come vnto thee, and thy wife, and her two sonnes with her. 
7. And Moses went out to meete his father in law, and did obeysance, and kissed him: and they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. 
8. And Moses told his father in law, all that the Lord had done vnto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israels sake, and all the trauaile that had come vpon them by the way, and how the Lord deliuered them. 
9. And Iethro reioyced for all the goodnesse which the Lord had doue to Israel: whom he had deliuered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 
10. And Iethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath deliuered the people from vnder the hand of the Egyptians. 
11. Now I know that the Lord is greater then all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, hee was aboue them. 
12. And Iethro, Moses father in law, tooke a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the Elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses father in law before God. 
13. And it came to passe on the morrow, that Moses sate to iudge the people: and the people stood by Moses, from the morning vnto the euening. 
14. And when Moses father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning vnto euen? 
15. And Moses said vnto his father in law, Because the people come vnto me to enquire of God. 
16. When they haue a matter, they come vnto mee, and I iudge betweene one and another, and I doe make them know the statutes of God and his Lawes. 
17. And Moses father in law saide vnto him, The thing that thou doest, is not good. 
18. Thou wilt surely weare away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heauy for thee; thou art not able to performe it thy selfe alone. 
19. Hearken now vnto my voyce, I will giue thee counsell, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Godward, that thou mayest bring the causes vnto God: 
20. And thou shalt teach them ordinances and lawes, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walke, and the worke that they must doe. 
21. Moreouer thou shalt prouide out of all the people able men, such as feare God, men of trueth, hating couetousnesse, and place such ouer them, to bee rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tennes. 
22. And let them iudge the people at all seasons: and it shall bee that euery great matter they shall bring vnto thee, but euery small matter they shal iudge: so shall it be easier for thy selfe, and they shall beare the burden with thee. 
23. If thou shalt doe this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt bee able to endure, and all this people shall also goe to their place in peace. 
24. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 
25. And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads ouer the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tennes. 
26. And they iudged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought vnto Moses, but euery small matter they iudged themselues. 
27. And Moses let his father in law depart, and he went his way into his owne land. 
1. In the third moneth when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wildernesse of Sinai. 
2. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wildernesse, and there Israel camped before the mount. 
3. And Moses went vp vnto God: and the Lord called vnto him out of the mountaine, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Iacob, and tell the children of Israel: 
4. Ye haue seene what I did vnto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on Eagles wings, and brought you vnto my selfe. 
5. Now therfore if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keepe my couenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure vnto me aboue all people: for all the earth is mine. 
6. And ye shall be vnto me a kingdome of Priestes, and an holy nation. These are the wordes which thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel. 
7. And Moses came and called for the Elders of the people, and layd before their faces all these wordes which the Lord commanded him. 
8. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken, we will doe. And Moses returned the wordes of the people vnto the Lord. 
9. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Loe, I come vnto thee in a thicke cloud, that the people may heare when I speake with thee, and beleeue thee for euer: And Moses told the wordes of the people vnto the Lord. 
10. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Goe vnto the people, and sanctifie them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes. 
11. And be ready against the thirde day: for the third day the Lord will come downe in the sight of all the people, vpon mount Sinai. 
12. And thou shalt set bounds vnto the people round about, saying, Take heed to your selues, that ye goe not vp into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoeuer toucheth the mount, shall be surely put to death. 
13. There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot thorow, whether it be beast, or man, it shall not liue: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come vp to the mount. 
14. And Moses went downe from the mount vnto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 
15. And hee said vnto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wiues. 
16. And it came to passe on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thicke cloud vpon the mount, and the voyce of the trumpet exceeding lowd, so that all the people that was in the campe, trembled. 
17. And Moses brought foorth the people out of the campe to meete with God, and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 
18. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended vpon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 
19. And when the voyce of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed lowder and lowder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voyce. 
20. And the Lord came downe vpon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses vp to the top of the mount, and Moses went vp. 
21. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Goe downe, charge the people, lest they breake thorow vnto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. 
22. And let the Priestes also which come neere to the Lord, sanctifie themselues, lest the Lord breake foorth vpon them. 
23. And Moses said vnto the Lord, The people cannot come vp to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst vs, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctifie it. 
24. And the Lord said vnto him, Away, get thee downe, and thou shalt come vp, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the Priestes and the people breake through, to come vp vnto the Lord, lest hee breake foorth vpon them. 
25. So Moses went downe vnto the people, and spake vnto them. 
1. And God spake all these words, saying, 
2. I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: 
3. Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me. 
4. Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water vnder the earth. 
5. Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them, nor serue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me: 
6. And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee, and keepe my Commandements. 
7. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse, that taketh his Name in vaine. 
8. Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy. 
9. Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke: 
10. But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayd seruant, nor thy cattell, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 
11. For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and halowed it. 
12. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may bee long vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 
13. Thou shalt not kill. 
14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
15. Thou shalt not steale. 
16. Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour. 
17. Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his maid seruant, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours. 
18. And all the people saw the thundrings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking: and when the people saw it, they remooued, and stood a farre off. 
19. And they saide vnto Moses, Speake thou with vs, and wee will heare: But let not God speake with vs, lest we die. 
20. And Moses said vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to prooue you, and that his feare may bee before your faces, that ye sinne not. 
21. And the people stood afarre off, and Moses drew neere vnto the thicke darkenes, where God was. 
22. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Yee haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen. 
23. Ye shall not make with me gods of siluer, neither shall ye make vnto you gods of gold. 
24. An Altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: In all places where I record my Name, I will come vnto thee, and I will blesse thee. 
25. And if thou wilt make mee an Altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewen stone: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon it, thou hast polluted it. 
26. Neither shalt thou goe vp by steps vnto mine Altar, that thy nakednesse be not discouered thereon. 
1. Now these are the Iudgements which thou shalt set before them. 
2. If thou buy an Hebrew seruant, sixe yeeres he shall serue, and in the seuenth he shall goe out free for nothing. 
3. If he came in by himselfe, he shal goe out by himselfe: if he were married, then his wife shall goe out with him. 
4. If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her masters, and he shall go out by himselfe. 
5. And if the seruant shall plainely say, I loue my master, my wife, and my children, I will not goe out free: 
6. Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, hee shall also bring him to the doore, or vnto the doore post, and his master shall boare his eare through with an aule, and he shall serue him for euer. 
7. And if a man sell his daughter to be a mayd seruant, shee shall not goe out as the men seruants doe. 
8. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himselfe, then shall he let her be redeemed: To sell her vnto a strange nation hee shall haue no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 
9. And if he haue betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her after the maner of daughters. 
10. If he take him another wife, her food, her rayment, and her duety of mariage shall he not diminish. 
11. And if he doe not these three vnto her, then shall she goe out free without money. 
12. He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shalbe surely put to death. 
13. And if a man lye not in wait, but God deliuer him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place whither hee shall flee: 
14. But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine Altar, that he may die. 
15. And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall bee surely put to death. 
16. And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 
17. And hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely bee put to death. 
18. And if men striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: 
19. If hee rise againe, and walke abroad vpon his staffe, then shall hee that smote him, be quit: onely he shall pay for the losse of his time, and shall cause him to be throughly healed. 
20. And if a man smite his seruant, or his mayd, with a rod, and hee die vnder his hand, hee shall bee surely punished: 
21. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, hee shall not be punished, for he is his money. 
22. If men striue, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischiefe follow, he shalbe surely punished, according as the womans husband will lay vpon him, and hee shall pay as the Iudges determine. 
23. And if any mischiefe follow, then thou shalt giue life for life, 
24. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, 
25. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 
26. And if a man smite the eye of his seruant, or the eye of his mayd, that it perish, hee shall let him goe free for his eyes sake. 
27. And if he smite out his man seruants tooth, or his mayde seruants tooth, hee shal let him goe free for his tooths sake. 
28. If an oxe gore a man, or a woman, that they die, then the oxe shal be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: but the owner of the oxe shall be quitte. 
29. But if the oxe were wont to push with his horne in time past, and it hath bene testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the oxe shall be stoned, and his owner also shall bee put to death. 
30. If there be layed on him a summe of money, then he shall giue for the ransome of his life, whatsoeuer is layd vpon him. 
31. Whether hee haue gored a sonne, or haue gored a daughter, according to this iudgement shall it bee done vnto him. 
32. If the oxe shall push a man seruant, or a mayd seruant, hee shall giue vnto their master thirty shekels, and the oxe shalbe stoned. 
33. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall digge a pit, and not couer it, and an oxe or an asse fall therein: 
34. The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money vnto the owner of them, and the dead beast shalbe his. 
35. And if one mans oxe hurt anothers, that he die, then they shall sell the liue oxe, and diuide the money of it, and the dead oxe also they shall diuide. 
36. Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, hee shall surely pay oxe for oxe, and the dead shall be his owne. 
1. If a man shal steale an oxe, or a sheepe, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore fiue oxen for an oxe, and foure sheepe for a sheepe. 
2. If a thiefe bee found breaking vp, and be smitten that he die, there shal no blood be shed for him. 
3. If the Sunne be risen vpon him, there shall be blood shed for him: for hee should make full restitution: if he haue nothing, then he shall bee sold for his theft. 
4. If the theft be certainely found in his hand aliue, whether it bee oxe or asse, or sheepe, he shall restore double. 
5. If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feede in another mans field: of the best of his owne field, and of the best of his owne vineyard shall he make restitution. 
6. If fire breake out, and catch in thornes, so that the stackes of corne, or the standing corne, or the field be consumed therewith; hee that kindled the fire, shall surely make restitution. 
7. If a man shal deliuer vnto his neighbour money or stuffe to keepe, and it be stollen out of the mans house; if the thiefe be found, let him pay double. 
8. If the thiefe be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought vnto the Iudges, to see whether he haue put his hande vnto his neighbours goods. 
9. For all maner of trespasse, whether it be for oxe, for asse, for sheepe, for raiment, or for any maner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the Iudges, and whome the Iudges shall condemne, he shall pay double vnto his neighbour. 
10. If a man deliuer vnto his neighbour an asse, or an oxe, or a sheepe, or any beast to keepe, and it die, or be hurt, or driuen away, no man seeing it, 
11. Then shall an othe of the Lord be betweene them both, that hee hath not put his hand vnto his neighbours goods: and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 
12. And if it be stollen from him, he shall make restitution vnto the owner thereof. 
13. If it be torne in pieces, then let him bring it for witnesse, and hee shall not make good that which was torne. 
14. And if a man borrowe ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. 
15. But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: If it bee an hired thing, it came for his hire. 
16. And if a man entice a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 
17. If her father vtterly refuse to giue her vnto him, he shall pay money according to the dowrie of virgins. 
18. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue. 
19. Whosoeuer lieth with a beast, shall surely be put to death. 
20. Hee that sacrificeth vnto any god saue vnto the Lord onely, hee shall be vtterly destroyed. 
21. Thou shalt neither vexe a stranger, nor oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 
22. Yee shall not afflict any widow, or fatherlesse child. 
23. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they crie at all vnto mee, I will surely heare their crie. 
24. And my wrath shall waxe hote, and I will kill you with the sword: and your wiues shall be widowes, and your children fatherlesse. 
25. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poore by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an vsurer, neither shalt thou lay vpon him vsurie. 
26. If thou at all take thy neighbors raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliuer it vnto him by that the sun goeth downe. 
27. For that is his couering onely, it is his raiment for his skinne: wherein shal he sleepe? And it shal come to passe, when he crieth vnto mee, that I will heare: for I am gracious. 
28. Thou shalt not reuile the Gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 
29. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the first borne of thy sonnes shalt thou giue vnto me. 
30. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheepe: seuen dayes it shall be with his damme, on the eight day thou shalt giue it me. 
31. And ye shall be holy men vnto me: neither shall ye eate any flesh that is torne of beasts in the field: yee shall cast it to the dogs. 
1. Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to bee an vnrighteous witnesse. 
2. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill: neither shalt thou speake in a cause, to decline after many, to wrest iudgement: 
3. Neither shalt thou countenance a poore man in his cause. 
4. If thou meete thine enemies oxe or his asse going astray, thou shalt surely bring it backe to him againe. 
5. If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee, lying vnder his burden, and wouldest forbeare to helpe him, thou shalt surely helpe with him. 
6. Thou shalt not wrest the iudgement of thy poore in his cause. 
7. Keepe thee farre from a false matter: and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not iustifie the wicked. 
8. And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the words of the righteous. 
9. Also thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for yee know the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt. 
10. And sixe yeres thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruites thereof: 
11. But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest, and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eate, and what they leaue, the beasts of the field shall eate. In like maner thou shalt deale with thy vineyard, and with thy oliue yard. 
12. Sixe dayes thou shalt doe thy worke, and on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: that thine oxe and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy handmayd, & the stranger may be refreshed. 
13. And in all things that I haue said vnto you, be circumspect: and make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 
14. Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere. 
15. Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie: 
16. And the feast of haruest, the first fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sowen in the field: and the feast of ingathering which is in the end of the yeere, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 
17. Three times in the yeere all thy males shall appeare before the Lord God. 
18. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread, neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remaine vntill the morning. 
19. The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke. 
20. Behold, I send an Angel before thee to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I haue prepared. 
21. Beware of him, and obey his voice, prouoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 
22. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and doe all that I speake, then I wil be an enemie vnto thine enemies, and an aduersarie vnto thine aduersaries. 
23. For mine Angel shall goe before thee, and bring thee in vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites: and I will cut them off. 
24. Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, nor serue them, nor doe after their workes: but thou shalt vtterly ouerthrowe them, and quite breake downe their images. 
25. And yee shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread, and thy water: and I will take sicknes away from the midst of thee. 
26. There shall nothing cast their yong, nor bee barren in thy land: the number of thy dayes I will fulfill. 
27. I will send my feare before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto thee. 
28. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall driue out the Hiuite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. 
29. I will not driue them out from before thee in one yeere, lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. 
30. By little and little I will driue them out from before thee, vntill thou be increased and inherit the land. 
31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea, euen vnto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert vnto the riuer: for I will deliuer the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt driue them out before thee. 
32. Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods. 
33. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sinne against me: for if thou serue their gods, it will surely be a snare vnto thee. 
1. And hee said vnto Moses, Come vp vnto ye Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seuentie of the Elders of Israel: and worship ye a farre off. 
2. And Moses alone shall come neere the Lord: but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people goe vp with him. 
3. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the iudgements: and all the people answered with one voyce, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said, will we doe. 
4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose vp early in the morning, and builded an Altar vnder the hill, and twelue pillars, according to the twelue tribes of Israel. 
5. And he sent yong men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen, vnto the Lord. 
6. And Moses tooke halfe of the blood, and put it in basons, and halfe of the blood he sprinkled on the Altar. 
7. And he tooke the booke of the couenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they saide, All that the Lord hath said, will we doe, and be obedient. 
8. And Moses tooke the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Couenant which the Lord hath made with you, concerning all these words. 
9. Then went vp Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seuenty of the Elders of Israel: 
10. And they saw the God of Israel: and there was vnder his feet, as it were a paued worke of a Saphire stone, and as it were the body of heauen in his clearenesse. 
11. And vpon the Nobles of the children of Israel he layd not his hand: also they saw God, and did eate and drinke. 
12. And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Come vp to me into the mount, and be there, and I will giue thee Tables of stone, and a Law, and Commandements which I haue written, that thou mayest teach them. 
13. And Moses rose vp, and his minister Ioshua: and Moses went vp into the mount of God. 
14. And hee saide vnto the Elders, Tary ye here for vs, vntill wee come againe vnto you: and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: If any man haue any matters to doe, let him come vnto them. 
15. And Moses went vp into the Mount, and a cloud couered the Mount. 
16. And the glory of the Lord abode vpon mount Sinai, and the cloud couered it sixe dayes: and the seuenth day hee called vnto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 
17. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like deuouring fire, on the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel. 
18. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gate him vp into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty dayes, and forty nights. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of euery man that giueth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take my offering. 
3. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; Gold, and siluer, and brasse, 
4. And blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linnen, and goats haire: 
5. And rammes skinnes died red, and badgers skinnes, and Shittim wood: 
6. Oile for the light, spices for anointing oile, and for sweet incense: 
7. Onix stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brest plate. 
8. And let them make mee a Sanctuary, that I may dwell amongst them: 
9. According to all that I shew thee, after the patterne of the Tabernacle, and the patterne of all the instruments thereof, euen so shall ye make it. 
10. And they shall make an Arke of Shittim wood: two cubites and a halfe shalbe the length thereof, and a cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof, and a cubite & a halfe the height thereof. 
11. And thou shalt ouerlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou ouerlay it: and shalt make vpon it a crowne of gold round about. 
12. And thou shalt cast foure rings of gold for it, and put them in the foure corners thereof, and two rings shal be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 
13. And thou shalt make staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with gold. 
14. And thou shalt put the staues into the rings, by the sides of the Arke, that the Arke may be borne with them. 
15. The staues shall be in the rings of the Arke: they shal not be taken from it. 
16. And thou shalt put into the Arke the Testimonie which I shall giue thee. 
17. And thou shalt make a Mercieseat of pure gold: two cubites and a halfe shalbe the length thereof, and a cubite and a halfe the breadth thereof. 
18. And thou shalt make two Cherubims of gold: of beaten worke shalt thou make them, in the two endes of the Mercie-seat. 
19. And make one Cherub on the one end, and the other Cherub on the other end: euen of the Mercie-seat shall yee make the Cherubims, on the two ends thereof. 
20. And the Cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, couering the Mercie-seat with their wings, and their faces shall looke one to another: toward the Mercie-seat shall the faces of the Cherubims be. 
21. And thou shalt put the Mercie-seat aboue vpon the Arke, and in the Arke thou shalt put the Testimonie that I shall giue thee. 
22. And there I wil meet with thee, and I will commune with thee, from aboue the Mercie-seat, from betweene the two Cherubims which are vpon the Arke of the Testimonie, of all things which I will giue thee in commaundement vnto the children of Israel. 
23. Thou shalt also make a table of Shittim wood: two cubites shall bee the length thereof, and a cubite the bredth thereof, and a cubite and a halfe the height thereof. 
24. And thou shalt ouerlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crowne of gold round about. 
25. And thou shalt make vnto it a border of an hand bredth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crowne to the border thereof round about. 
26. And thou shalt make for it foure rings of gold, and put the rings in the foure corners that are on the foure feete thereof. 
27. Ouer against the border shall the rings be for places of the staues to beare the table. 
28. And thou shalt make the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 
29. And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoones therof, and couers thereof, and bowles thereof, to couer withall: of pure gold shalt thou make them. 
30. And thou shalt set vpon the Table Shew-bread before me alway. 
31. And thou shalt make a Candlesticke of pure gold: of beaten worke shall the candlesticke bee made; his shaft and his branches, his bowles, his knops, and his flowers shall be of the same. 
32. And sixe branches shall come out of the sides of it: three branches of the candlesticke out of the one side, and three branches of the candlesticke out of the other side: 
33. Three bowles made like vnto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch: and three bowles made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the sixe branches that come out of the candlesticke. 
34. And in the candlesticke shall bee foure bowles made like vnto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. 
35. And there shal be a knop vnder two branches of the same, and a knop vnder two branches of the same, and a knop vnder two branches of the same, according to the sixe branches that proceede out of the candlesticke. 
36. Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall bee one beaten worke of pure gold. 
37. And thou shalt make the seuen lamps thereof: and they shall light the lampes thereof, that they may giue light ouer against it. 
38. And the tongs thereof, and the snuffe dishes therof shalbe of pure gold. 
39. Of a talent of pure gold shall hee make it, with all these vessels. 
40. And looke that thou make them after their patterne, which was shewed thee in the mount. 
1. Moreouer thou shalt make the Tabernacle with ten curtaines of fine twined linnen, and blew, and purple, and scarlet: with Cherubims of cunning worke shalt thou make them. 
2. The length of one curtaine shalbe eight and twenty cubits, and the bredth of one curtaine, foure cubits: and euery one of the curtaines shall haue one measure. 
3. The fiue curtaines shalbe coupled together one to another: and other fiue curtaines shalbe coupled one to another. 
4. And thou shalt make loopes of blew vpon the edge of the one curtaine, from the seluedge in the coupling, and likewise shalt thou make in the vttermost edge of another curtaine, in the coupling of the second. 
5. Fiftie loopes shalt thou make in the one curtaine, and fiftie loopes shalt thou make in the edge of the curtaine, that is in the coupling of the second, that the loopes may take hold one of another. 
6. And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. 
7. And thou shalt make curtaines of goats haire, to be a couering vpon the tabernacle: eleuen curtaines shalt thou make. 
8. The length of one curtaine shalbe thirtie cubites, and the bredth of one curtaine foure cubites: and the eleuen shalbe all of one measure. 
9. And thou shalt couple fiue curtaines by themselues, and sixe curtaines by themselues, and shalt double the sixt curtaine in the forefront of the tabernacle. 
10. And thou shalt make fiftie loopes on the edge of the one curtaine, that is outmost in the coupling, and fiftie loopes in the edge of the curtaine which coupleth the second. 
11. And thou shalt make fiftie taches of brasse, and put the taches into the loopes, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 
12. And the remnant that remaineth of the curtaines of the tent, the halfe curtaine that remaineth shall hang ouer the backe side of the tabernacle. 
13. And a cubite on the one side, and a cubite on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtaines of the tent, it shall hang ouer the sides of the tabernacle, on this side, and on that side to couer it. 
14. And thou shalt make a couering for the tent of rammes skinnes died red, and a couering aboue of badgers skinnes. 
15. And thou shalt make boards for the Tabernacle of Shittim wood standing vp. 
16. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubite and an halfe shall be the breadth of one board. 
17. Two tenons shall there be in one board set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle. 
18. And thou shalt make the boards for the Tabernacle, twentie boards on the Southside Southward. 
19. And thou shalt make fourtie sockets of siluer, vnder the twenty boards: two sockets vnder one board for his two tenons, and two sockets vnder another board for his two tenons. 
20. And for the second side of the Tabernacle on the Northside there shall bee twentie boards, 
21. And their fourtie sockets of siluer: two sockets vnder one board, and two sockets vnder another board. 
22. And for the sides of the Tabernacle Westward thou shalt make sixe boards. 
23. And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 
24. And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together aboue the head of it vnto one ring: thus shall it bee for them both; they shall be for the two corners. 
25. And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of siluer sixteene sockets: two sockets vnder one board, and two sockets vnder another board. 
26. And thou shalt make barres of Shittim wood: fiue for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle, 
27. And fiue barres for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and fiue barres for the boards of the side of the Tabernacle for the two sides Westward. 
28. And the middle barre in the mids of the boards, shall reach from ende to ende. 
29. And thou shalt ouerlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the barres: and thou shalt ouerlay the barres with gold. 
30. And thou shalt reare vp the Tabernacle according to the fashion therof, which was shewed thee in the mount. 
31. And thou shalt make a Uaile of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen of cunning worke: with Cherubims shall it be made. 
32. And thou shalt hang it vpon foure pillars of Shittim wood, ouerlayd with gold: their hookes shalbe of gold, vpon the foure sockets of siluer. 
33. And thou shalt hang vp the Uaile vnder the taches, that thou maist bring in thither within the Uaile, the Arke of the Testimony: and the Uaile shall diuide vnto you, betweene the holy place and the most holy. 
34. And thou shalt put the Mercie-seat vpon the Arke of the Testimony, in the most holy place. 
35. And thou shalt set the table without the Uaile, and the candlesticke ouer against the table, on the side of the Tabernacle toward the South: and thou shalt put the table on the North side. 
36. And thou shalt make an Hanging for the doore of the Tent, of blew, and purple and scarlet, and fine twined linnen, wrought with needle worke. 
37. And thou shalt make for the Hanging fiue pillars of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with gold, and their hookes shalbe of gold: and thou shalt cast fiue sockets of brasse for them. 
1. And thou shalt make an Altar of Shittim wood, fiue cubits long, and fiue cubites broad: the Altar shall be foure square, and the height thereof shalbe three cubits. 
2. And thou shalt make the hornes of it vpon the foure corners thereof: his hornes shall be of the same: and thou shalt ouerlay it with brasse. 
3. And thou shalt make his pannes to receiue his ashes, and his shouels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepannes: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brasse. 
4. And thou shalt make for it a grate of networke of brasse; and vpon the net shalt thou make foure brasen rings in the foure corners thereof. 
5. And thou shalt put it vnder the compasse of the Altar beneath, that the net may bee euen to the midst of the Altar. 
6. And thou shalt make staues for the Altar, staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with brasse. 
7. And the staues shalbe put into the rings, and the staues shall be vpon the two sides of the Altar, to beare it. 
8. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it. 
9. And thou shalt make the Court of the Tabernacle for the Southside, Southward: there shall be hangings for the Court, of fine twined linnen of an hundred cubits long, for one side. 
10. And the twenty pillars thereof, and their twenty sockets, shall be of brasse: the hookes of the pillars, and their fillets shalbe of siluer. 
11. And likewise for the Northside in length, there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars, and their twenty sockets of brasse: the hookes of the pillars, and their fillets of siluer. 
12. And for the breadth of the Court, on the Westside shalbe hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars tenne, and their sockets ten. 
13. And the breadth of the Court on the Eastside Eastward, shall bee fiftie cubits. 
14. The hangings of one side of the gate shalbe fifteene cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. 
15. And on the other side shalbe hangings, fifteene cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. 
16. And for the gate of the Court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen, wrought with needle worke: and their pillars shall be foure, and their sockets foure. 
17. All the pillars round about the Court shalbe filletted with siluer: their hookes shalbe of siluer, and their sockets of brasse. 
18. The length of the Court shalbe an hundred cubits, and the breadth fiftie euery where, and the height fiue cubits of fine twined linnen, and their sockets of brasse. 
19. All the vessels of the Tabernacle in all the seruice thereof, and all the pinnes thereof, and all the pinnes of the Court, shalbe of brasse. 
20. And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oyle Oliue beaten, for the light, to cause the lampe to burne alwayes. 
21. In the Tabernacle of the Congregation without the Uaile, which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sonnes shall order it from euening to morning before the Lord: It shall be a statute for euer, vnto their generations, on the behalfe of the children of Israel. 
1. And take thou vnto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sonnes with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister vnto me in the Priests office, euen Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aarons sonnes. 
2. And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty. 
3. And thou shalt speake vnto all that are wise hearted, whom I haue filled with the spirit of wisedome, that they may make Aarons garments to consecrate him, that hee may minister vnto me in the Priests office. 
4. And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an Ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a Miter, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sonnes, that hee may minister vnto mee in the Priestes office. 
5. And they shall take gold, and blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linnen. 
6. And they shall make the Ephod of gold, of blew and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linnen, with cunning worke. 
7. It shall haue the two shoulder pieces thereof, ioyned at the two edges thereof; and so it shall bee ioyned together. 
8. And the curious girdle of the Ephod which is vpon it, shall bee of the same, according to the worke thereof, euen of gold, of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen. 
9. And thou shalt take two Onix stones, and graue on them the names of the children of Israel: 
10. Sixe of their names on one stone, and the other sixe names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth: 
11. With the worke of an engrauer in stone; like the engrauings of a signet shalt thou engraue the two stones, with the names of the children of Israel; thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. 
12. And thou shalt put the two stones vpon the shoulders of the Ephod, for stones of memoriall vnto the children of Israel. And Aaron shall beare their names before the Lord, vpon his two shoulders for a memoriall. 
13. And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 
14. And two chaines of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen worke shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chaines to the ouches. 
15. And thou shalt make the brestplate of Iudgement, with cunning worke, after the worke of the Ephod thou shalt make it: of gold, of blew, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linnen shalt thou make it. 
16. Foure square it shall be being doubled; a spanne shalbe the length thereof, and a span shalbe the breadth thereof. 
17. And thou shalt set in it settings of stones; euen foure rowes of stones: the first row shalbe a Sardius, a Topaz, and a Carbuncle: this shall be the first row. 
18. And the second row shall be an Emeraude, a Saphir, and a Diamond. 
19. And the third row a Lygure, an Agate, and an Amethist. 
20. And the fourth row, a Berill, and an Onix, and a Iasper: they shalbe set in gold in their inclosings. 
21. And the stones shall bee with the names of the children of Israel, twelue, according to their names, like the engrauings of a signet: euery one with his name shall they bee according to the twelue tribes. 
22. And thou shalt make vpon the brestplate chaines at the ends, of wreathen worke, of pure gold. 
23. And thou shalt make vpon the brestplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two endes of the brestplate. 
24. And thou shalt put the two wreathen chaines of gold in the two rings, which are on the ends of the brestplate. 
25. And the other two endes of the two wreathen chaines, thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the Ephod before it. 
26. And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them vpon the two ends of the breastplate, in the border thereof, which is in the side of the Ephod inward. 
27. And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the Ephod vnderneath towards the forepart thereof, ouer against the other coupling thereof, aboue the curious girdle of the Ephod. 
28. And they shall bind the brestplate by the rings thereof, vnto the rings of the Ephod with a lace of blewe, that it may be aboue the curious girdle of the Ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the Ephod. 
29. And Aaron shal beare the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of iudgement, vpon his heart, when hee goeth in vnto the holy place, for a memoriall before the Lord continually. 
30. And thou shalt put in the breastplate of iudgement, the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall bee vpon Aarons heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall beare the iudgement of the children of Israel vpon his heart, before the Lord continually. 
31. And thou shalt make the robe of the Ephod all of blew. 
32. And there shall bee an hole in the top of it, in the mids thereof: it shall haue a binding of wouen worke, round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent. 
33. And beneath vpon the hemme of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blew, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hemme thereof, and belles of gold betweene them round about. 
34. A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, vpon the hemme of the robe round about. 
35. And it shall be vpon Aaron, to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in vnto the holy place before the Lord, and when he commeth out, that he die not. 
36. And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and graue vpon it, like the engrauings of a signet, HOLINES TO THE LORD. 
37. And thou shalt put it on a blewe lace, that it may be vpon the miter; vpon the forefront of the miter it shall be. 
38. And it shall be vpon Aarons forehead, that Aaron may beare the iniquitie of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow, in all their holy gifts: and it shall be alwayes vpon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord. 
39. And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linnen, and thou shalt make the miter of fine linnen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needle worke. 
40. And for Aarons sonnes thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beautie. 
41. And thou shalt put them vpon Aaron thy brother, and his sonnes with him: and shalt annoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctifie them, that they may minister vnto mee in the Priests office. 
42. And thou shalt make them linnen breeches, to couer their nakednes, from the loines euen vnto the thighes they shall reach. 
43. And they shall be vpon Aaron, & vpon his sonnes, when they come in vnto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, or when they come neere vnto the Altar to minister in the holy place, that they beare not iniquitie, and die. It shall be a statute for euer vnto him and his seede after him. 
1. And this is the thing that thou shalt doe vnto them, to hallow them, to minister vnto me in the Priests office: Take one yong bullocke, and two rammes without blemish, 
2. And vnleauened bread, and cakes unleauened, tempered with oyle, and wafers vnleauened, annointed with oile: of wheaten flowre shalt thou make them. 
3. And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullocke and the two rammes. 
4. And Aaron and his sonnes thou shalt bring vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shalt wash them with water. 
5. And thou shalt take the garments, and put vpon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the Ephod, and the Ephod, and the brestplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the Ephod. 
6. And thou shalt put the Miter vpon his head, and put the holy Crowne vpon the Miter. 
7. Then shalt thou take the annointing oyle, and powre it vpon his head, and annoint him. 
8. And thou shalt bring his sonnes, and put coats vpon them. 
9. And thou shalt gird them with girdles, (Aaron and his sonnes) and put the bonnets on them: and the priests office shall be theirs for a perpetuall statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sonnes. 
10. And thou shalt cause a bullocke to bee brought before the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and Aaron and his sonnes shall put their hands vpon the head of the bullocke. 
11. And thou shalt kill the bullocke before the Lord, by the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
12. And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullocke, and put it vpon the hornes of the altar with thy finger, and powre all the blood beside the bottome of the Altar. 
13. And thou shalt take all the fat that couereth the inwards, and the caule that is aboue the liuer, and the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, and burne them vpon the altar. 
14. But the flesh of the bullocke, and his skinne, and his doung shalt thou burne with fire without the campe, it is a sinne offering. 
15. Thou shalt also take one ram, and Aaron and his sonnes shall put their hands vpon the head of the ram. 
16. And thou shalt slay the ramme, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about vpon the altar. 
17. And thou shalt cut the ramme in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them vnto his pieces, and vnto his head. 
18. And thou shalt burne the whole ramme vpon the Altar: it is a burnt offering vnto the Lord: It is a sweet sauour, an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
19. And thou shalt take the other ramme: and Aaron and his sonnes shall put their hands vpon the head of the ramme. 
20. Then shalt thou kill the ramme, and take of his blood, and put it vpon the tip of the right eare of Aaron, and vpon the tip of the right eare of his sonnes, and vpon the thumbe of their right hand, and vpon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinckle the blood vpon the Altar round about. 
21. And thou shalt take of the blood that is vpon the Altar, and of the anointing oyle, and sprinkle it vpon Aaron, and vpon his garments, and vpon his sonnes, and vpon the garments of his sonnes with him: and hee shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sonnes, and his sonnes garments with him. 
22. Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rumpe, and the fat that couereth the inwards, & the caule aboue the liuer, and the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, and the right shoulder, for it is a ram of consecration: 
23. And one loafe of bread, and one cake of oyled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the vnleauened bread, that is before the Lord. 
24. And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sonnes, and shalt waue them for a waue-offering before the Lord. 
25. And thou shalt receiue them of their hands, and burne them vpon the Altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet sauour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
26. And thou shalt take the brest of the ramme of Aarons consecrations, and waue it for a waue-offering before the Lord, and it shalbe thy part. 
27. And thou shalt sanctifie the brest of the waue-offering, and the shoulder of the heaue offering, which is waued, and which is heaued vp of the ramme of the consecration, euen of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sonnes. 
28. And it shalbe Aarons, and his sonnes by a statute for euer, from the children of Israel: for it is an heaue offering: and it shall be an heaue offering from the children of Israel, of the sacrifice of their peace offrings, euen their heaue offering vnto the Lord. 
29. And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sonnes after him, to bee anoynted therein, and to be consecrated in them. 
30. And that sonne that is Priest in his stead, shal put them on seuen dayes, when he commeth into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to minister in the holy place. 
31. And thou shalt take the ramme of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. 
32. And Aaron and his sonnes shall eate the flesh of the ramme, and the bread that is in the basket, by the doore of the Tabernacle of the Cogregation. 
33. And they shall eate those things, wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctifie them: but a stranger shall not eate thereof, because they are holy. 
34. And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread remaine vnto the morning, then thou shalt burne the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 
35. And thus shalt thou doe vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, according to all things which I haue commaunded thee: seuen dayes shalt thou consecrate them. 
36. And thou shalt offer euery day a bullocke for a sinne offering, for atonement: and thou shalt clense the Altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoynt it, to sanctifie it. 
37. Seuen dayes thou shalt make an atonement for the Altar, and sanctifie it: and it shalbe an Altar most holy: whatsoeuer toucheth the Altar, shalbe holy. 
38. Now this is that which thou shalt offer vpon the Altar; two lambs of the first yere, day by day continually. 
39. The one lambe thou shalt offer in the morning: and the other lambe thou shalt offer at euen: 
40. And with the one lambe a tenth deale of flowre mingled with the fourth part of an Hin of beaten oyle: and the fourth part of an Hin of wine for a drinke offering. 
41. And the other lambe thou shalt offer at Euen, and shalt doe thereto, according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drinke offering thereof, for a sweet sauour, an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
42. This shalbe a continuall burnt offering throughout your generations, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Lord, where I wil meete you, to speake there vnto thee. 
43. And there I will meet with the children of Israel: and the Tabernacle shalbe sanctified by my glory. 
44. And I will sanctifie the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Altar: I will sanctifie also both Aaron and his sonnes, to minister to me in the Priests office. 
45. And I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will be their God. 
46. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them foorth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell amongst them: I am the Lord their God. 
1. And thou shalt make an Altar to burne incense vpon: of Shittim wood shalt thou make it. 
2. A cubite shall bee the length thereof, and a cubite the breadth thereof, (foure square shall it bee) and two cubits shalbe the height thereof: the hornes thereof shalbe of the same. 
3. And thou shalt ouerlay it with pure gold, the top therof, and the sides thereof round about, and the hornes thereof: and thou shalt make vnto it a crowne of gold round about. 
4. And two golden rings shalt thou make to it vnder the crowne of it, by the two corners thereof, vpon the two sides of it shalt thou make it: and they shalbe for places for the staues to beare it withall. 
5. And thou shalt make the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with gold. 
6. And thou shalt put it before the Uaile, that is by the Arke of the Testimonie before the Mercie-seat, that is, ouer the Testimonie where I will meet with thee. 
7. And Aaron shall burne thereon sweet incense euery morning: when he dresseth the lamps he shal burne incense vpon it. 
8. And when Aaron lighteth the lampes at euen, he shall burne incense vpon it, a perpetuall incense before the Lord, throughout your generations. 
9. Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meate offering, neither shall ye powre drinke offering thereon. 
10. And Aaron shall make an atonement vpon the hornes of it once in a yeere, with the blood of the sinne offering of atonements: once in the yeere shall hee make atonement vpon it, throughout your generations: it is most holy vnto the Lord. 
11. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
12. When thou takest the summe of the children of Israel, after their number, then shall they giue euery man a ransome for his soule vnto the Lord, when thou numbrest them, that there be no plague amongst them, when thou numbrest them. 
13. This they shall giue, euery one that passeth among them that are numbred: halfe a shekel after the shekel of the Sanctuary: A shekel is twenty gerahs: an halfe shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. 
14. Euery one that passeth among them that are numbred from twentie yeeres old and aboue, shall giue an offering vnto the Lord. 
15. The rich shal not giue more, and the poore shall not giue lesse then halfe a shekel, when they giue an offering vnto the Lord, to make an atonement for your soules. 
16. And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, that it may be a memoriall vnto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your soules. 
17. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
18. Thou shalt also make a Lauer of brasse, and his foote also of brasse, to wash withall, and thou shalt put it betweene the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 
19. For Aaron and his sonnes shall wash their hands and their feet thereat. 
20. When they goe into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not: or when they come neere to the altar to minister, to burne offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
21. So they shall wash their handes and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for euer to them, euen to him and to his seed throughout their generations. 
22. Moreouer the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
23. Take thou also vnto thee principall spices, of pure myrrhe fiue hundred shekels, and of sweet cinamon halfe so much, euen two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fiftie shekels, 
24. And of Cassia fiue hundred shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, and of oyle oliue an Hin. 
25. And thou shalt make it an oyle of holy oyntment, an oyntment compound after the arte of the Apothecarie: it shalbe an holy anointing oyle. 
26. And thou shalt anoint the Tabernacle of the Congregation therewith, and the Arke of the Testimonie: 
27. And the Table and all his vessels, and the Candlesticke, and his vessels, and the Altar of incense: 
28. And the Altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the Lauer and his foot. 
29. And thou shalt sanctifie them, that they may bee most holy: whatsoeuer toucheth them, shall be holy. 
30. And thou shalt annoint Aaron and his sonnes, and consecrate them, that they may minister vnto mee in the priests office. 
31. And thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, This shall bee an holy anointing oile vnto mee, throughout your generations. 
32. Upon mans flesh shall it not bee powred, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy vnto you. 
33. Whosoeuer compoundeth any like it, or whosoeuer putteth any of it vpon a stranger, shall euen be cut off from his people. 
34. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Take vnto thee sweete spices, Stacte, and Onicha, and Galbanum: these sweete spices with pure frankincense, of each shall there be a like weight. 
35. And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the arte of the Apothecarie, tempered together, pure and holy. 
36. And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the Congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shalbe vnto you most holy. 
37. And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, you shall not make to your selues, according to the composition thereof: it shall be vnto thee holy for the Lord. 
38. Whosoeuer shall make like vnto that, to smell thereto, shall euen bee cut off from his people. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. See, I haue called by name, Bezaleel the sonne of Uri, the sonne of Hur, of the tribe of Iudah: 
3. And I haue filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisedome, and in vnderstanding, and in knowledge, and in all maner of workemanship, 
4. To deuise cunning workes, to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse, 
5. And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in caruing of timber, to worke in all maner of workemanship. 
6. And I, behold, I haue giuen with him, Aholiab the sonne of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I haue put wisedome, that they may make all that I haue commanded thee: 
7. The Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Arke of the Testimony, and the Mercie-seat that is thereupon, & all the furniture of the Tabernacle: 
8. And the Table, and his furniture, and the pure Candlesticke, with all his furniture, and the Altar of incense: 
9. And the Altar of burnt offering, with all his furniture, and the Lauer and his foote: 
10. And the clothes of seruice, and the holy garments for Aaron the Priest, and the garments of his sonnes, to minister in the Priests office: 
11. And the anointing oyle, and sweet incense for the Holy place: according to all that I haue commanded thee, shall they doe. 
12. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
13. Speake thou also vnto the children of Israel, saying, Uerely my Sabbaths ye shall keepe: for it is a signe betweene me and you, throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord, that doth sanctifie you. 
14. Yee shall keepe the Sabbath therefore: for it is holy vnto you: Euery one that defileth it, shall surely be put to death: for whosoeuer doth any worke therein, that soule shall be cut off from amongst his people. 
15. Sixe dayes may worke bee done, but in the seuenth is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoeuer doth any worke in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 
16. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keepe the Sabbath, to obserue the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetuall couenant. 
17. It is a signe betweene me and the children of Israel for euer: for in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth, and on the seuenth day he rested, and was refreshed. 
18. And he gaue vnto Moses, when hee had made an end of communing with him vpon mount Sinai, two tables of Testimonie, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. 
1. And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come downe out of the mount, the people gathered themselues together vnto Aaron, and said vnto him, Up, make vs gods which shall goe before vs: for as for this Moses, the man that brought vs vp out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 
2. And Aaron saide vnto them, Breake off the golden earerings which are in the eares of your wiues, of your sonnes, and of your daughters, and bring them vnto me. 
3. And all the people brake off the golden earerings, which were in their eares, and brought them vnto Aaron. 
4. And hee receiued them at their hand, and fashioned it with a grauing toole, after hee had made it a molten calfe: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt. 
5. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord. 
6. And they rose vp early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings: and the people sate downe to eate and to drinke, and rose vp to play. 
7. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Goe, get thee downe: for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, haue corrupted themselues. 
8. They haue turned aside quickly out of the way which I commaunded them: they haue made them a molten Calfe, and haue worshipped it, and haue sacrificed thereunto, and saide, These bee thy gods, O Israel, which haue brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt. 
9. And the Lord said vnto Moses, I haue seene this people, and behold, it is a stiffenecked people. 
10. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may waxe hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. 
11. And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doeth thy wrath ware hot against thy people, which thou hast brought foorth out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? 
12. Wherefore should the Egyptians speake and say, For mischiefe did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountaines, & to consume them from the face of the earth? Turne from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this euill against thy people. 
13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy seruants, to whom thou swarest by thine owne selfe, and saidest vnto them, I will multiply your seed as the starres of heauen: and all this land that I haue spoken of, will I giue vnto your seed, and they shall inherit it for euer. 
14. And the Lord repented of the euill which he thought to doe vnto his people. 
15. And Moses turned, and went downe from the Mount, and the two Tables of the Testimony were in his hand: the Tables were written on both their sides; on the one side, and on the other were they written. 
16. And the Tables were the worke of God; and the writing was the writing of God, grauen vpon the Tables. 
17. And when Ioshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, hee said vnto Moses, There is a noise of warre in the campe. 
18. And he said, It is not the voyce of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voyce of them that cry for being ouercome: but the noyse of them that sing doe I heare. 
19. And it came to passe, assoone as he came nigh vnto the campe, that he saw the Calfe, and the dancing: and Moses anger waxed hot, and he cast the Tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. 
20. And he tooke the Calfe which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it vpon the water, and made the children of Israel drinke of it. 
21. And Moses said vnto Aaron, What did this people vnto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them? 
22. And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord waxe hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischiefe. 
23. For they said vnto me, Make vs gods which shall goe before vs: for as for this Moses, the man that brought vs vp out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 
24. And I said vnto them, Whosoeuer hath any gold, let them breake it off: So they gaue it mee: then I cast it into the fire, & there came out this Calfe. 
25. And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had made them naked vnto their shame, amongst their enemies) 
26. Then Moses stood in the gate of the campe, and saide, Who is on the Lords side? let him come vnto mee. And all the sonnes of Leui gathered themselues together vnto him. 
27. And hee said vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put euery man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the campe, and slay euery man his brother, and euery man his companion, and euery man his neighbour. 
28. And the children of Leui did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 
29. For Moses had said, Consecrate your selues to day to the Lord, euen euery man vpon his sonne, and vpon his brother, that he may bestow vpon you a blessing this day. 
30. And it came to passe on the morrow, that Moses said vnto the people, Ye haue sinned a great sinne: And now I will goe vp vnto the Lord; peraduenture I shall make an atonement for your sinne. 
31. And Moses returned vnto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people haue sinned a great sinne, and haue made them gods of gold. 
32. Yet now, if thou wilt forgiue their sinne; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy Booke, which thou hast written. 
33. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Whosoeuer hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my Booke. 
34. Therefore now goe, leade the people vnto the place of which I haue spoken vnto thee: Behold, mine Angel shall goe before thee; Neuerthelesse in the day when I visit, I will visit their sinne vpon them. 
35. And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the Calfe, which Aaron made. 
1. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Depart, and goe vp hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought vp out of the land of Egypt, vnto the land which I sware vnto Abraham, to Isaac, & to Iacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I giue it. 
2. And I will send an Angel before thee, and I will driue out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hiuite, and the Iebusite: 
3. Unto a land flowing with milke and hony: For I will not goe vp in the midst of thee: for thou art a stiffenecked people, lest I consume thee in the way. 
4. And when the people heard these euill tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. 
5. For the Lord had saide vnto Moses, Say vnto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffenecked people: I wil come vp into the midst of thee in a moment, & consume thee: Therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to doe vnto thee. 
6. And the children of Israel stript themselues of their ornaments, by the mount Horeb. 
7. And Moses tooke the Tabernacle, & pitched it without the campe, a farre off from the campe, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation: And it came to passe, that euery one which sought the Lord, went out vnto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was without the campe. 
8. And it came to passe when Moses went out vnto the Tabernacle, that all the people rose vp, and stood euery man at his tent doore, and looked after Moses, vntill he was gone into the Tabernacle. 
9. And it came to passe as Moses entred into the Tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the doore of the Tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. 
10. And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the Tabernacle doore: and all the people rose vp, and worshipped euery man in his tent doore. 
11. And the Lord spake vnto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh vnto his friend. And he turned againe into the campe, but his seruant Ioshua the sonne of Nun, a yong man, departed not out of the Tabernacle. 
12. And Moses saide vnto the Lord, See, thou sayest vnto mee, Bring vp this people, and thou hast not let mee know whome thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I knowe thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. 
13. Now therefore, I pray thee, If I haue found grace in thy sight, shewe mee now thy way that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. 
14. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will giue thee rest. 
15. And he said vnto him, If thy presence goe not with mee, carie vs not vp hence. 
16. For wherein shall it bee knowen here, that I and thy people haue found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with vs? So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are vpon the face of the earth. 
17. And the Lord said vnto Moses, I will doe this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. 
18. And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. 
19. And he said, I will make all my goodnesse passe before thee, and I will proclaime the name of the Lord before thee: and will bee gracious to whom I wil be gracious, and wil shew mercie on whom I will shew mercie. 
20. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see mee, and liue. 
21. And the Lord said, Beholde, there is a place by mee, and thou shalt stand vpon a rocke. 
22. And it shall come to passe, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rocke, and will couer thee with my hand, while I passe by. 
23. And I wil take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my backe parts: but my face shall not be seene. 
1. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Hew thee two Tables of stone, like vnto the first: and I will write vpon these Tables, the words that were in the first Tables which thou brakest. 
2. And be ready in the morning, and come vp in the morning vnto mount Sinai, and present thy selfe there to me, in the top of the mount. 
3. And no man shall come vp with thee, neither let any man bee seene throughout all the mount, neither let the flockes nor herds feede before that mount. 
4. And he hewed two Tables of stone, like vnto the first, and Moses rose vp earely in the morning, and went vp vnto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and tooke in his hand the two tables of stone. 
5. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of the Lord. 
6. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, mercifull and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in goodnesse and trueth, 
7. Keeping mercie for thousands, forgiuing iniquitie and transgression and sinne, and that will by no meanes cleere the guiltie, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, and vpon the childrens children, vnto the third and to the fourth generation. 
8. And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. 
9. And he said, If now I haue found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, goe amongst vs, (for it is a stiffenecked people,) and pardon our iniquitie, and our sinne, and take vs for thine inheritance. 
10. And he said, Behold, I make a couenant: before all thy people, I wil doe marueiles, such as haue not beene done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people amongst which thou art, shall see the worke of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will doe with thee. 
11. Obserue thou that which I command thee this day: Behold, I driue out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hiuite, and the Iebusite. 
12. Take heed to thy selfe, lest thou make a couenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee. 
13. But ye shall destroy their altars, breake their images, and cut downe their groues. 
14. For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Ielous, is a Ielous God: 
15. Lest thou make a couenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they goe a whoring after their gods, and doe sacrifice vnto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eate of his sacrifice, 
16. And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters goe a whoring after their gods, and make thy sonnes goe a whoring after their gods. 
17. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 
18. The feast of vnleauened bread shalt thou keepe: Seuen dayes thou shalt eate vnleauened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the moneth Abib: for in the moneth Abib thou camest out from Egypt. 
19. All that openeth the matrixe is mine: and euery firstling amongst thy cattell, whether oxe or sheepe, that is male. 
20. But the firstling of an Asse thou shalt redeeme with a lambe: and if thou redeeme him not, then shalt thou breake his necke. All the first borne of thy sonnes thou shalt redeeme: and none shall appeare before me empty. 
21. Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, but on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest. 
22. And thou shalt obserue the feast of weekes, of the first fruits of wheat haruest, and the feast of ingathering at the yeeres end. 
23. Thrice in the yeere shall all your men children appeare before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 
24. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt goe vp to appeare before the Lord thy God, thrice in the yeere. 
25. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauen, neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of Passeouer be left vnto the morning. 
26. The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring vnto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seeth a kid in his mothers milke. 
27. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenour of these wordes, I haue made a couenant with thee, and with Israel. 
28. And hee was there with the Lord forty dayes and forty nights: he did neither eat bread, nor drinke water; and he wrote vpon the Tables the words of the couenant, the ten Commandements. 
29. And it came to passe when Moses came downe from mount Sinai (with the two Tables of Testimony in Moses hand, when hee came downe from the mount) that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone, while he talked with him. 
30. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skinne of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him. 
31. And Moses called vnto them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the Congregation returned vnto him, and Moses talked with them. 
32. And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gaue them in commandement all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 
33. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vaile on his face. 
34. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speake with him, hee tooke the vaile off, vntill he came out: And hee came out and spake vnto the children of Israel, that which he was commanded. 
35. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skinne of Moses face shone: and Moses put the vaile vpon his face againe, vntill hee went in to speake with him. 
1. And Moses gathered all the Congregation of the children of Israel together, and said vnto them; These are the wordes which the Lord hath commanded, that yee should doe them. 
2. Sixe dayes shall worke be done, but on the seuenth day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoeuer doeth worke therein, shall be put to death. 
3. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations vpon the Sabbath day. 
4. And Moses spake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying, 
5. Take ye from amongst you an offring vnto the Lord: Whosoeuer is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord, gold, and siluer, and brasse, 
6. And blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linnen, and goats haire, 
7. And rammes skinnes died red, & badgers skinnes, and Shittim wood, 
8. And oyle for the light, and spices for anoynting oyle, and for the sweet incense: 
9. And Onix stones, and stones to be set for the Ephod, and for the brestplate. 
10. And euery wise hearted among you, shall come and make all that the Lord hath commanded: 
11. The Tabernacle, his tent, and his couering, his taches, & his barres, his pillars, and his sockets: 
12. The Arke and the staues thereof, with the Mercy seat, and the Uaile of the couering: 
13. The Table and his staues, and all his vessels, and the Shewbread, 
14. The Candlesticke also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oyle for the light, 
15. And the incense Altar, and his staues, and the anoynting oyle, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the doore, at the entring in of the Tabernacle: 
16. The Altar of burnt offering with his brasen grate, his staues, and all his vessels, the Lauer and his foot: 
17. The hangings of the Court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the doore of the Court: 
18. The pinnes of the Tabernacle, and the pinnes of the Court, and their coards: 
19. The cloathes of seruice, to doe seruice in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the Priest, and the garments of his sonnes to minister in the Priests office. 
20. And all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 
21. And they came euery one whose heart stirred him vp, and euery one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lords offering to the worke of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and for all his seruice, and for the holy garments. 
22. And they came both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earerings, and rings, & tablets, all iewels of gold: and euery man that offered, offered an offering of gold vnto the Lord. 
23. And euery man with whom was found blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linnen, and goates haire, and red skinnes of rammes, and badgers skinnes, brought them. 
24. Euery one that did offer an offering of siluer and brasse, brought the Lords offering: and euery man with whom was found Shittim wood for any worke of the seruice, brought it. 
25. And all the women that were wise hearted, did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blew, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linnen. 
26. And all the women whose heart stirred them vp in wisedome, spunne goats haire. 
27. And the rulers brought Onix stones, and stones to be set for the Ephod, and for the brestplate: 
28. And spice, and oyle for the light, and for the anoynting oyle, and for the sweet incense. 
29. The children of Israel brought a willing offering vnto the Lord, euery man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all maner of worke, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hands of Moses. 
30. And Moses said vnto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the sonne of Uri, the sonne of Hur, of the tribe of Iudah. 
31. And he hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisedome, in vnderstanding, and in knowledge, and in all maner of workemanship: 
32. And to deuise curious workes, to worke in gold, & in siluer, and in brasse, 
33. And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in caruing of wood, to make any maner of cunning worke. 
34. And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Aholiab the sonne of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. 
35. Them hath hee filled with wisedome of heart, to worke all manner of worke, of the ingrauer, and of the cunning workeman, and of the embroiderer, in blew, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linnen, and of the weauer, euen of them that doe any worke, and of those that deuise cunning worke. 
1. Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and euery wise hearted man, in whome the Lord put wisedome and vnderstanding, to know how to worke all maner of worke for the seruice of the Sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded. 
2. And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and euery wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisedome, euen euery one whose heart stirred him vp to come vnto the worke to doe it. 
3. And they receiued of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought, for the worke of the seruice of the Sanctuarie, to make it withall. And they brought yet vnto him free offerings euery morning. 
4. And al the wisemen that wrought all the worke of the Sanctuary, came euery man from his worke which they made. 
5. And they spake vnto Moses, saying, The people bring much more then enough for the seruice of the worke which the Lord commaunded to make. 
6. And Moses gaue commandement, and they caused it to bee proclaimed throughout the campe, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more worke for the offering of the Sanctuarie: so the people were restrained from bringing. 
7. For the stuffe they had was sufficient for all the worke to make it, and too much. 
8. And euery wise hearted man, among them that wrought the worke of the Tabernacle, made ten curtaines, of fine twined linnen, and blew, and purple, and scarlet: with Cherubims of cunning worke made he them. 
9. The length of one curtaine was twentie & eight cubites, and the breadth of one curtaine foure cubites: the curtaines were all of one cise. 
10. And he coupled the fiue curtaines one vnto another: and the other fiue curtaines he coupled one vnto another. 
11. And he made loopes of blew, on the edge of one curtaine, from the seluedge in the coupling: likewise hee made in the vttermost side of another curtaine, in the coupling of the second. 
12. Fiftie loopes made he in one curtaine, and fiftie loopes made hee in the edge of the curtaine which was in the coupling of the second: the loopes held one curtaine to another. 
13. And he made fiftie taches of gold, and coupled the curtaines one vnto another with the taches. So it became one tabernacle. 
14. And he made curtaines of goats haire, for the tent ouer the Tabernacle: eleuen curtaines he made them. 
15. The length of one curtaine was thirtie cubites, and foure cubites was the breadth of one curtaine: the eleuen curtaines were of one cise. 
16. And he coupled fiue curtaines by themselues, and sixe curtaines by themselues. 
17. And he made fiftie loopes vpon the vttermost edge of the curtaine in the coupling, and fiftie loopes made he vpon the edge of the curtaine, which coupleth the second. 
18. And he made fiftie taches of brasse to couple the tent together that it might be one. 
19. And he made a couering for the tent of rammes skinnes died red, and a couering of badgers skinnes aboue that. 
20. And hee made boards for the Tabernacle of Shittim wood, standing up. 
21. The length of a board was ten cubites, and the breadth of a board one cubite and a halfe. 
22. One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 
23. And he made boards for the Tabernacle: twentie boards for the South side, Southward. 
24. And fourtie sockets of siluer hee made vnder the twentie boards: two sockets vnder one board for his two tenons, and two sockets vnder another board, for his two tenons. 
25. And for the other side of the Tabernacle which is toward the North corner, he made twentie boards. 
26. And their fourtie sockets of siluer: two sockets vnder one board, and two sockets vnder another board. 
27. And for the sides of the Tabernacle westward, he made sixe boards. 
28. And two boards made he for the corners of the Tabernacle, in the two sides. 
29. And they were coupled beneath and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus hee did to both of them in both the corners. 
30. And there were eight boards, and their sockets were sixteene sockets of siluer: vnder euery board two sockets. 
31. And he made barres of Shittim wood: five for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle, 
32. And fiue barres for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and fiue barres for the boards of the Tabernacle for the sides westward. 
33. And he made the middle barre to shoot thorow the boards from the one end to the other. 
34. And he ouerlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of golde to be places for the barres, and ouerlaide the barres with gold. 
35. And he made a Uaile of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen: with Cherubims made he it of cunning worke. 
36. And he made thereunto foure pillars of Shittim wood, and ouerlaide them with golde: their hookes were of gold: and he cast for them foure sockets of siluer. 
37. And hee made an hanging for the Tabernacle doore of blew and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen, of needle worke, 
38. And the fiue pillars of it with their hooks: and he ouerlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their fiue sockets were of brasse. 
1. And Bezaleel made the Arke of Shittim wood: two cubites and a halfe was the length of it, and a cubite and a halfe the breadth of it, and a cubite and a halfe the height of it. 
2. And he ouerlaid it with pure gold within & without, and made a crowne of gold to it round about. 
3. And hee cast for it foure rings of gold, to be set by the foure corners of it: euen two rings vpon the one side of it, and two rings vpon the other side of it. 
4. And he made staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlaid them with gold. 
5. And hee put the staues into the rings, by the sides of the Arke, to beare the Arke. 
6. And he made the Mercie seat of pure gold: two cubites and an halfe was the length thereof, and one cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof. 
7. And he made two Cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made hee them, on the two endes of the Mercie seate: 
8. One Cherub on the end on this side, and another Cherub on the other end, on that side: out of the Mercie seat made hee the Cherubims on the two ends thereof. 
9. And the Cherubims spread out their wings on high, and couered with their wings ouer the Mercie seat with their faces one to another: euen to the Mercie seat ward were the faces of the Cherubims. 
10. And hee made the Table of Shittim wood: two cubites was the length thereof, and a cubite the breadth thereof, and a cubite and a halfe the height thereof. 
11. And he ouerlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crowne of gold round about. 
12. Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth, round about: and made a crowne of gold for the border thereof round about. 
13. And hee cast for it foure rings of gold, and put the rings vpon the foure corners that were in the foure feete thereof. 
14. Ouer against the border were the rings, the places for the staues, to beare the Table. 
15. And he made the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlayed them with gold, to beare the Table. 
16. And hee made the vessels which were vpon the Table, his dishes, and his spoones, and his bowles, and his couers to couer withall, of pure gold. 
17. And he made the Candlesticke of pure gold, of beaten worke made he the Candlesticke, his shaft & his branch, his bowles, his knops, and his flowers were of the same. 
18. And sixe branches going out of the sides thereof: three branches of the candlesticke out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlesticke out of the other side thereof. 
19. Three bowles made he after the fashion of almonds, in one branch, a knop and a flower: and three bowles made like almonds, in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the sixe branches, going out of the Candlesticke. 
20. And in the candlesticke were foure bowles made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers: 
21. And a knop vnder two branches of the same, & a knop vnder two branches of the same, and a knop vnder two branches of the same, according to the sixe branches going out of it. 
22. Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten worke of pure gold. 
23. And he made his seuen lampes, and his snuffers, and his snuffe-dishes of pure gold. 
24. Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof. 
25. And he made the incense Altar of Shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit: it was foure square, and two cubites was the height of it; the hornes thereof were of the same. 
26. And he ouerlayed it with pure gold, both the top of it and the sides thereof round about, and the hornes of it: also he made vnto it a crowne of gold round about. 
27. And he made two rings of gold for it vnder the crowne thereof, by the two corners of it, vpon the two sides thereof, to bee places for the staues to beare it withall. 
28. And he made the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlayed them with gold. 
29. And he made the holy anoynting oyle, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the worke of the Apothecary. 
1. And he made the Altar of burnt offring of Shittim wood: fiue cubits was the length thereof, and fiue cubits the breadth thereof: it was foure square, and three cubits the height thereof. 
2. And hee made the hornes thereof on the foure corners of it: the hornes thereof were of the same, and he ouerlayed it with brasse. 
3. And he made all the vessels of the Altar, the pots and the shouels, and the basons, and the fleshhookes, and the firepannes: all the vessels thereof made he of brasse. 
4. And he made for the Altar a brasen grate of networke, vnder the compasse thereof, beneath vnto the midst of it. 
5. And hee cast foure rings for the foure ends of the grate of brasse, to bee places for the staues. 
6. And he made the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlayed them with brasse. 
7. And hee put the staues into the rings on the sides of the Altar, to beare it withall; hee made the Altar hollow with boards. 
8. And hee made the Lauer of brasse, and the foot of it of brasse, of the looking glasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
9. And he made the Court: on the Southside Southward, the hangings of the Court were of fine twined linnen, a hundred cubits. 
10. Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twentie: the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets were of siluer. 
11. And for the North side, the hangings were an hundred cubites, their pillars were twentie, and their sockets of brasse twentie: the hoopes of the pillars, and their fillets of siluer. 
12. And for the West side were hangings of fiftie cubites, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten: the hookes of the pillars, and their fillets of siluer. 
13. And for the East side Eastward fiftie cubites. 
14. The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteene cubites, their pillars three, and their sockets three. 
15. And for the other side of the court gate on this hand and that hand were hangings of fifteene cubites, their pillars three, and their sockets three. 
16. All the hangings of the court round about, were of fine twined linnen. 
17. And the sockets for the pillars were of brasse, the hookes of the pillars, and their fillets of siluer, and the ouerlaying of their chapiters of siluer, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with siluer. 
18. And the hanging for the gate of the Court was needle worke, of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen: and twentie cubites was the length, and the height in the breadth was fiue cubites, answerable to the hangings of the Court. 
19. And their pillars were foure, and their sockets of brasse foure, their hookes of siluer, and the ouerlaying of their chapiters, & their fillets of siluer. 
20. And all the pinnes of the Tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brasse. 
21. This is the summe of the Tabernacle, euen of the Tabernacle of Testimonie, as it was counted, according to the commaundement of Moses, for the seruice of the Leuites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the Priest. 
22. And Bezaleel the sonne of Uri, the sonne of Hur, of the tribe of Iudah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses. 
23. And with him was Aholiab, sonne of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engrauer, and a cunning workeman, and an embroiderer in blew, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linnen. 
24. All the gold that was occupied for the worke in all the worke of the holy place, euen the gold of the offring, was twentie and nine talents, and seuen hundred and thirtie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary. 
25. And the siluer of them that were numbred of the Congregation, was an hundred talents, and a thousand, seuen hundred and threescore and fifteene shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary. 
26. A Bekah for euery man, that is, halfe a shekel, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, for euery one that went to be numbred, from twentie yeeres olde and vpward, for sixe hundred thousand, and three thousand, and fiue hundred, and fiftie men. 
27. And of the hundred talents of siluer, were cast the sockets of the Sanctuary, and the sockets of the vaile: an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 
28. And of the thousand, seuen hundred, seuentie and fiue shekels, he made hookes for the pillars, and ouerlaide their chapiters, and filleted them. 
29. And the brasse of the offring was seuentie talents, and two thousand and foure hundred shekels. 
30. And therewith he made the sockets to the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the brasen Altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the Altar, 
31. And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pinnes of the Tabernacle, and all the pinnes of the court round about. 
1. And of the blew, and purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of seruice, to doe seruice in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
2. And he made the Ephod of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen. 
3. And they did beate the golde into thinne plates, and cut it into wiers, to worke it in the blew, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linnen, with cunning worke. 
4. They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together; by the two edges was it coupled together. 
5. And the curious girdle of his Ephod that was vpon it, was of the same, according to the worke thereof: of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
6. And they wrought Onix stones enclosed in ouches of gold, grauen as signets are grauen, with the names of the children of Israel. 
7. And hee put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, that they should be stones for a memoriall to the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
8. And he made the brestplate of cunning worke, like the worke of the Ephod, of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen. 
9. It was foure square, they made the brestplate double: a spanne was the length therof, and a spanne the breadth thereof being doubled. 
10. And they set in it foure rowes of stones: the first row was a Sardius, a Topaz, and a Carbuncle: this was the first row. 
11. And the second row an Emeraude, a Saphire and a Diamond. 
12. And the third row a Lygure, an Agate, and an Amethist. 
13. And the fourth row, a Berill, an Onix and a Iasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings. 
14. And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelue according to their names, like the ingrauings of a signet, euery one with his name, according to the twelue tribes. 
15. And they made vpon the brestplate chaines, at the ends, of wrethen worke of pure gold. 
16. And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings: and put the two rings in the two ends of the brestplate. 
17. And they put the two wreathen chaines of golde in the two rings on the ends of the brestplate. 
18. And the two endes of the two wreathen chaines they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the Ephod, before it. 
19. And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two endes of the brest plate vpon the border of it, which was on the side of the Ephod inward. 
20. And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod vnderneath, toward the forepart of it, ouer against the other coupling thereof, aboue the curious girdle of the Ephod. 
21. And they did bind the brest plate by his rings vnto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blew, that it might be aboue the curious girdle of the Ephod, and that the brest plate might not bee loosed from the Ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
22. And he made the robe of the Ephod of wouen worke, all of blew. 
23. And there was a hole in the midst of the robe as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rent. 
24. And they made vpon the hemmes of the robe pomegranates, of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linnen. 
25. And they made belles of pure gold, and put the belles betweene the pomegranates, vpon the hemme of the robe, round about betweene the pomegranates. 
26. A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about the hemme of the robe to minister in, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
27. And they made coats of fine linnen, of wouen worke, for Aaron and for his sonnes. 
28. And a miter of fine linnen, and goodly bonnets of fine linnen, and linnen breeches of fine twined linnen, 
29. And a girdle of fine twined linnen and blew, and purple, and scarlet of needle worke, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
30. And they made the plate of the holy Crowne of pure gold, and wrote vpon it a writing, like to the engrauings of a signet, HOLINES TO THE LORD. 
31. And they tied vnto it a lace of blew to fasten it on high vpon the mitre, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
32. Thus was all the worke of the Tabernacle of the tent of the Congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to al that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. 
33. And they brought the Tabernacle vnto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his barres, and his pillars, and his sockets. 
34. And the couering of rammes skinnes died red, and the couering of badgers skinnes, and the vaile of the couering: 
35. The Arke of the Testimony, and the staues thereof, and the Mercie seat, 
36. The Table, and all the vessels thereof, and the Shew bread: 
37. The pure Candlesticke, with the lampes thereof, euen with the lampes to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oyle for light: 
38. And the golden altar, and the anointing oyle, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the Tabernacle doore: 
39. The brasen altar, and his grate of brasse, his staues, and all his vessels, the lauer and his foote: 
40. The hangings of the Court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his coards, and his pinnes, and all the vessels of the seruice of the Tabernacle, for the tent of the Congregation: 
41. The clothes of seruice to doe seruice in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the Priest, and his sonnes garments to minister in the Priests office. 
42. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the worke. 
43. And Moses did looke vpon all the worke, and behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, euen so had they done it: and Moses blessed them. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. On the first day of the first moneth shalt thou set vp the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Congregation. 
3. And thou shalt put therein the Arke of the Testimonie, and couer the Arke with the Uaile: 
4. And thou shalt bring in the Table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order vpon it, and thou shalt bring in the Candlesticke, and light the lampes thereof. 
5. And thou shalt set the Altar of gold for the incense before the Arke of the Testimonie, and put the hanging of the doore to the Tabernacle. 
6. And thou shalt set the Altar of the burnt offering, before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Congregation. 
7. And thou shalt set the Lauer betweene the Tent of the Congregation and the Altar, and shalt put water therein. 
8. And thou shalt set vp the Court round about, and hang vp the hanging at the Court gate. 
9. And thou shalt take the annoynting oyle, and annoynt the Tabernacle and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shalbe holy. 
10. Aud thou shalt annoynt the Altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctifie the Altar: and it shalbe an Altar most Holy. 
11. And thou shalt annoynt the Lauer and his foot, and sanctifie it. 
12. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sonnes vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and wash them with water. 
13. And thou shalt put vpon Aaron the holy garments, and anoynt him, and sanctifie him, that he may minister vnto me in the Priests office. 
14. And thou shalt bring his sonnes, and clothe them with coats. 
15. And thou shalt anoynt them, as thou didst anoynt their father, that they may minister vnto mee in the Priests office: For their anoynting shall surely be an euerlasting Priesthood, throughout their generations. 
16. Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. 
17. And it came to passe in the first moneth, in the second yeere, on the first day of the moneth, that the Tabernacle was reared vp. 
18. And Moses reared vp the Tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set vp the boards thereof, and put in the barres thereof, and reared vp his pillars. 
19. And he spread abroad the tent ouer the Tabernacle, and put the couering of the Tent aboue vpon it, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
20. And he tooke and put the testimony into the Arke, and set the staues on the Arke, and put the Mercie-seat aboue vpon the Arke. 
21. And he brought the Arke into the Tabernacle, and set vp the Uaile of the couering, and couered the Arke of the Testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
22. And hee put the Table in the Tent of the Congregation, vpon the side of the Tabernacle Northwaed, without the Uaile. 
23. And he set the bread in order vpon it, before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 
24. And he put the candlesticke in the Tent of the Congregation, ouer against the Table, on the side of the Tabernacle Southward. 
25. And he lighted the lampes before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
26. And he put the golden Altar in the Tent of the Congregation, before the Uaile. 
27. And he burnt sweet incense thereon, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
28. And hee set vp the hanging, at the doore of the Tabernacle. 
29. And he put the Altar of burnt offering by the doore of the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Congregation, and offered vpon it the burnt offering, and the meat offring, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
30. And he set the Lauer betweene the Tent of the Congregation and the Altar, & put water there, to wash withall. 
31. And Moses, and Aaron and his sonnes, washed their hands, and their feet thereat. 
32. When they went into the Tent of the Congregation, and when they came neere vnto the Altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
33. And hee reared vp the Court round about the Tabernacle, and the Altar, & set vp the hanging of the Court gate: so Moses finished the worke. 
34. Then a cloud couered the Tent of the Congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. 
35. 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. 
36. And when the cloud was taken vp from ouer the Tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their iourneys: 
37. But if the cloud were not taken vp, then they iourneyed not, till the day that it was taken vp. 
38. For the cloud of the Lord was vpon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their iourneys. 
1. And the Lord called vnto Moses, and spake vnto him out of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, If any man of you bring an offering vnto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattell, euen of the herd, and of the flocke. 
3. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his owne voluntary will, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord. 
4. And he shall put his hand vpon the head of the burnt offering: and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 
5. And he shall kill the bullocke before the Lord: and the Priests Aarons sonnes shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about vpon the altar, that is by the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
6. And hee shall slay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. 
7. And the sonnes of Aaron the Priest shall put fire vpon the Altar, and lay the wood in order vpon the fire. 
8. And the Priests Aarons sonnes shall lay the parts, the head and the fat in order vpon the wood that is in the fire which is vpon the altar. 
9. But the inwards and his legges shall he wash in water, and the Priest shall burne all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
10. And if his offring be of the flocks, namely of the sheepe, or of the goates for a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring it a male without blemish. 
11. And hee shall kill it on the side of the Altar Northward, before the Lord: and the Priestes Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle his blood round about vpon the altar. 
12. And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the Priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire, which is vpon the altar: 
13. But hee shall wash the inwards and the legs with water, and the Priest shall bring it all, and burne it vpon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
14. And if the burnt sacrifice for his offring to the Lord be of foules, then he shall bring his offering of turtle doues, or of yong pigeons. 
15. And the Priest shall bring it vnto the altar, and wring off his head, and burne it on the altar: and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar. 
16. And he shall plucke away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the East part, by the place of the ashes. 
17. And hee shall cleane it with the wings thereof, but shall not diuide it asunder: And the Priest shall burne it vpon the altar, vpon the wood that is vpon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
1. And when any will offer a meate offering vnto the Lord, his offring shall be of fine flowre: and hee shall powre oyle vpon it, and put frankincense thereon. 
2. And he shall bring it to Aarons sonnes the Priests: and hee shall take thereout his handfull of the flowre thereof, and of the oile thereof, with all the frankincense thereof, and the Priest shall burne the memoriall of it vpon the altar, to be an offering made by fire of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
3. And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aarons and his sonnes: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. 
4. And if thou bring an oblation of a meate offering baken in the ouen, it shall bee an vnleauened cake of fine flowre mingled with oyle, or vnleauened wafers anointed with oyle. 
5. And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in a panne, it shall bee of fine flowre vnleauened, mingled with oyle. 
6. Thou shalt part it in pieces, and powre oyle thereon: it is a meate offering. 
7. And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan, it shalbe made of fine flowre with oyle. 
8. And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things vnto the Lord, and when it is presented vnto the Priest, he shall bring it vnto the Altar. 
9. And the Priest shall take from the meat offering a memoriall thereof, and shall burne it vpon the Altar, it is an offering made by fire of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
10. And that which is left of the meat offering, shalbe Aarons and his sonnes: It is a thing most holy, of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. 
11. No meat offering, which ye shall bring vnto the Lord, shall be made with leauen: For ye shall burne no leauen, nor any hony, in any offering of the Lord made by fire. 
12. As for the oblation of the first fruits, yee shall offer them vnto the Lord, but they shall not be burnt on the Altar for a sweet sauour. 
13. And euery oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the Couenant of thy God to bee lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. 
14. And if thou offer a meat offering of thy first fruits vnto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy first fruits, greene eares of corne dried by the fire, euen corne beaten out of full eares. 
15. And thou shalt put oyle vpon it, and lay frankincense theron; it is a meat offering. 
16. And the Priest shall burne the memoriall of it, part of the beaten corne thereof, and part of the oyle thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
1. And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if hee offer it of the herd, whether it be a male or female, he shal offer it without blemish before the Lord. 
2. And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of his offering, and kil it at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and Aarons sonnes the Priests shall sprinckle the blood vpon the Altar round about. 
3. And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering, an offering made by fire vnto the Lord; the fat that couereth the inwards, and all the fat that is vpon the inwards. 
4. And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks: and the caule aboue the liuer with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 
5. And Aarons sonnes shall burne it on the Altar vpon the burnt sacrifice, which is vpon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
6. And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering vnto the Lord, be of the flocke, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 
7. If hee offer a lambe for his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord. 
8. And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation: And Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle the blood thereof, round about vpon the Altar. 
9. And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering, an offering made by fire vnto the Lord: the fat thereof and the whole rumpe, it shall he take off hard by the backe bone: and the fat that couereth the inwards, and all the fat that is vpon the inwards. 
10. And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, which is by the flankes, and the caule aboue the liuer, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 
11. And the Priest shall burne it vpon the Altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
12. And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord. 
13. And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of it, and kill it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and the sonnes of Aaron shall sprinckle the blood thereof vpon the Altar, round about. 
14. And he shall offer thereof his offering, euen an offering made by fire vnto the Lord; the fat that couereth the inwards, and al the fat that is vpon the inwards. 
15. And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, which is by the flancks, and the caule aboue the liuer with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 
16. And the Priest shall burne them vpon the Altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet sauour: All the fat is the Lords. 
17. It shall be a perpetuall statute for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat, nor blood. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a soule shall sinne through ignorance against any of the commandements of the Lord (concerning things which ought not to bee done) and shall do against any of them: 
3. If the Priest that is anointed, doe sinne according to the sinne of the people, then let him bring for his sinne which he hath sinned, a yong bullocke without blemish, vnto the Lord for a sinne offering. 
4. And hee shall bring the bullocke vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord, and shall lay his hand vpon the bullockes head, and kill the bullocke before the Lord. 
5. And the Priest that is anointed, shall take of the bullocks blood, and bring it to the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
6. And the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seuen times before the Lord, before the Uaile of the Sanctuary. 
7. And the Priest shall put some of the blood vpon the hornes of the Altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shal powre all the blood of the bullocke at the bottome of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
8. And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullocke for the sinne offering: the fat that couereth the inwards, and all the fat that is vpon the inwards. 
9. And the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, which is by the flankes, and the caule aboue the liuer with the kidneis, it shall he take away, 
10. As it was taken off from the bullocke of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar of the burnt offering. 
11. And the skinne of the bullocke, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his doung, 
12. Euen the whole bullocke shall he carie foorth without the campe, vnto a cleane place, where the ashes are powred out, and burne him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are powred out, shall he be burnt. 
13. And if the whole Congregation of Israel sinne through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they haue done somewhat against any of the Commandements of the Lord, concerning things which should not be done, and are guiltie: 
14. When the sinne which they haue sinned against it, is knowen, then the Congregation shall offer a yong bullocke for the sinne, and bring him before the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
15. And the Elders of the Congregation shall lay their hands vpon the head of the bullocke, before the Lord: and the bullocke shall be killed before the Lord. 
16. And the Priest that is anointed, shall bring of the bullockes blood to the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
17. And the Priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seuen times before the Lord, euen before the vaile. 
18. And he shal put some of the blood vpon the hornes of the altar, which is before the Lord, that is in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shall powre out all the blood at the bottome of the altar of the burnt offring, which is at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
19. And he shall take all his fat from him, and burne it vpon the altar. 
20. And he shall do with the bullocke as he did with the bullocke for a sinne offring, so shall he do with this: And the Priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiuen them. 
21. And he shall carie foorth the bullocke without the campe, and burne him as he burned the first bullocke: it is a sinne offering for the Congregation. 
22. When a ruler hath sinned and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the Commandements of the Lord his God, concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty: 
23. Or if his sinne wherein hee hath sinned, come to his knowledge: he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goates, a male without blemish. 
24. And hee shall lay his hand vpon the head of the goate, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is a sinne offring. 
25. And the Priest shall take of the blood of the sinne offering with his finger, and put it vpon the hornes of the Altar of burnt offring, and shall powre out his blood at the bottome of the Altar of burnt offering. 
26. And he shall burne all his fat vpon the Altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him, as concerning his sinne, and it shall be forgiuen him. 
27. And if any one of the common people sinne through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandements of the Lord, concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guiltie: 
28. Or if his sinne which he hath sinned come to his knowledge, then hee shall bring his offering, a kidde of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sinne which he hath sinned. 
29. And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of the sinne offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. 
30. And the Priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it vpon the hornes of the Altar of burnt offering, and shall powre out all the blood thereof at the bottome of the Altar. 
31. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the Priest shall burne it vpon the Altar, for a sweet sauour vnto the Lord, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiuen him. 
32. And if he bring a lambe for a sinne offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish. 
33. And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of the sinne offering, and slay it for a sinne offering, in the place where they kill the burnt offering. 
34. And the Priest shall take of the blood of the sinne offering with his finger, and put it vpon the hornes of the Altar of burnt offring, and shall powre out all the blood thereof at the bottome of the Altar. 
35. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lambe is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings: and the Priest shall burnt them vpon the Altar, according to the offerings made by fire vnto the Lord, and the Priest shall make an atonement for his sinne that he hath committed, and it shalbe forgiuen him. 
1. And if a soule sinne, and heare the voyce of swearing, and is a witnesse, whether he hath seene or knowen of it, if he doe not vtter it, then he shall beare his iniquity. 
2. Or if a soule touch any vncleane thing, whether it be a carcase of an vncleane beast, or a carcase of vncleane cattell, or the carcase of vncleane creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he also shall be vncleane, and guilty: 
3. Or if he touch the vncleannesse of man, whatsoeuer vncleannesse it be that a man shalbe defiled withall, and it be hid from him, when he knoweth of it, then he shalbe guilty. 
4. Or if a soule sweare, pronouncing with his lips to do euill, or to do good, whatsoeuer it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him, when he knoweth of it, then he shalbe guilty in one of these. 
5. And it shalbe when he shalbe guiltie in one of these things, that he shall confesse that hee hath sinned in that thing. 
6. And he shall bring his trespasse offering vnto the Lord for his sinne which he hath sinned, a female from the flocke, a lambe, or a kidde of the goates, for a sinne offering: And the Priest shal make an atonement for him concerning his sinne. 
7. And if hee be not able to bring a lambe, then he shall bring for his trespasse which hee hath committed, two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons vnto the Lord: one for a sinne offring, and the other for a burnt offering. 
8. And he shall bring them vnto the Priest, who shall offer that which is for the sinne offering first, and wring off his head from his necke, but shall not diuide it asunder. 
9. And he shall sprinckle of the blood of the sinne offering vpon the side of the Altar, and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottome of the altar: it is a sinne offering. 
10. And hee shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the maner: and the Priest shal make an atonement for him for his sinne, which he had sinned, and it shall be forgiuen him. 
11. But if hee be not able to bring two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons; then he that sinned, shall bring for his offring the tenth part of an Ephah of fine flowre for a sinne offering: hee shall put no oyle vpon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sinne offering. 
12. Then shall hee bring it to the Priest, and the Priest shall take his handfull of it, euen a memoriall thereof, and burne it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire vnto the Lord: it is a sinne offering. 
13. And the Priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sinne that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiuen him: and the remnant shall be the Priests, as a meat offering. 
14. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
15. If a soule commit a trespasse, and sinne through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then hee shall bring for his trespasse vnto the Lord, a ramme without blemish, out of the flockes, with thy estimation by shekels of siluer, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, for a trespasse offering. 
16. And hee shall make amends for the harme that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall adde the fift part thereto, and giue it vnto the Priest: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him with the ramme of the trespasse offering, and it shall be forgiuen him. 
17. And if a soule sinne, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commaundements of the Lord, though he wist it not, yet is hee guiltie, and shall beare his iniquitie. 
18. And he shall bring a ramme without blemish out of the flocke, with thy estimation, for a trespasse offering vnto the Priest: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred, and wist it not: and it shall be forgiuen him. 
19. It is a trespasse offring: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. If a soule sinne, and commit a trespasse against the Lord, and lie vnto his neighbour in that which was deliuered him to keepe, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceiued his neighbour: 
3. Or haue found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsly: in any of all these that a man doth, sinning therein: 
4. Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guiltie, that hee shall restore that which he tooke violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was deliuered him to keepe, or the lost thing which he found: 
5. Or all that about which hee hath sworne falsly: hee shall euen restore it in the principall, and shall adde the fift part more thereto, and giue it vnto him to whom it apperteineth, in the day of his trespasse offering. 
6. And hee shall bring his trespasse offering vnto the Lord, a ramme without blemish out of the flocke, with thy estimation, for a trespasse offering vnto the Priest. 
7. And the Priest shall make an atonement for him, before the Lord: and it shall bee forgiuen him, for any thing of all that he hath done, in trespassing therein. 
8. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
9. Command Aaron and his sonnes, saying, This is the law of the burnt offring: (It is the burnt offring, because of the burning vpon the Altar all night vnto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.) 
10. And the Priest shal put on his linnen garment, & his linnen breeches shal he put vpon his flesh, and take vp the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the Altar, and he shall put them besides the Altar. 
11. And he shal put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry foorth the ashes without the Campe, vnto a cleane place. 
12. And the fire vpon the Altar shall be burning in it: it shall not be put out; And the Priest shall burne wood on it euery morning, and lay the burnt offering in order vpon it, and he shall burne thereon the fatte of the peace offerings. 
13. The fire shall euer be burning vpon the Altar: it shall neuer goe out. 
14. And this is the law of the meat offering: the sonnes of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the Altar. 
15. And he shall take of it his handfull, of the flowre of the meat offering, and of the oyle therof, and all the frankincense which is vpon the meat offring, and shall burne it vpon the Altar, for a sweet sauour, euen the memoriall of it vnto the Lord. 
16. And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sonnes eat: with vnleauened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place: in the court of the Tabernacle of the Congregation they shall eat it. 
17. It shall not be baken with leauen: I haue giuen it vnto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire: it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespasse offering. 
18. All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it: It shalbe a statute for euer in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: euery one that toucheth them shalbe holy. 
19. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
20. This is the offering of Aaron, and of his sonnes which they shall offer vnto the Lord, in the day when he is anoynted: The tenth part of an Ephah of fine flowre for a meat offering perpetuall, halfe of it in the morning, and halfe thereof at night. 
21. In a panne it shalbe made with oyle, and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
22. And the Priest of his sonnes that is anoynted in his stead, shal offer it: It is a statute for euer vnto the Lord, it shalbe wholly burnt. 
23. For euery meat offering for the Priest shal be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten. 
24. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
25. Speake vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, saying, This is the law of the sinne offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed, shall the sinne offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy. 
26. The Priest that offereth it for sinne, shall eat it: In the holy place shal it be eaten, in the court of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
27. Whatsoeuer shall touch the flesh thereof, shalbe holy: and when there is sprinckled of the blood thereof vpon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinckled, in the holy place. 
28. But the earthen vessell wherein it is sodden, shall be broken: And if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scowred, and rinsed in water. 
29. All the males among the Priests shall eate thereof: it is most holy. 
30. And no sinne offering whereof any of the blood is brought into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to reconcile withall in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire. 
1. Likewise this is the lawe of the trespasse offering: it is most holy. 
2. In the place where they kil the burnt offring, shall they kil the trespasse offering; and the blood thereof shall hee sprinckle round about vpon the Altar. 
3. And he shall offer of it, all the fat thereof; the rumpe, and the fat that couereth the inwards, 
4. And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flankes, and the caule that is aboue the liuer, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 
5. And the Priest shall burne them vpon the Altar, for an offering made by fire vnto the Lord: it is a trespasse offering. 
6. Euery male among the Priestes shall eate thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. 
7. As the sinne offering is, so is the trespasse offering: there is one law for them: the Priest that maketh atonement therewith, shall haue it. 
8. And the Priest that offereth any mans burnt offering, euen the Priest shall haue to himselfe the skinne of the burnt offering which he hath offered. 
9. And all the meate offering that is baken in the ouen, and all that is dressed in the frying panne, and in the panne, shall be the Priests that offereth it. 
10. And euery meate offering mingled with oyle, and drie, shall all the sonnes of Aaron haue, one as much as another. 
11. And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer vnto the Lord. 
12. If hee offer it for a thankesgiuing, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thankesgiuing vnleauened cakes mingled with oyle, and vnleauened wafers anointed with oile, and cakes mingled with oyle of fine flowre fried. 
13. Besides the cakes, hee shall offer for his offring leauened bread, with the sacrifice of thankesgiuing of his peace offerings. 
14. And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation, for an heaue offering vnto the Lord, and it shall bee the Priests that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. 
15. And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thankesgiuing, shall be eaten the same day that it is offered: he shall not leaue any of it vntill the morning. 
16. But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrowe also the remainder of it shall be eaten. 
17. But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall bee burnt with fire. 
18. And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shal it be imputed vnto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soule that eateth of it, shall beare his iniquitie. 
19. And the flesh that toucheth any vncleane thing, shal not be eaten: it shal be burnt with fire, and as for the flesh, all that be cleane shall eate thereof. 
20. But the soule that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertaine vnto the Lord, hauing his vncleanesse vpon him, euen that soule shall be cut off from his people. 
21. Moreouer, the soule that shall touch any vncleane thing, as the vncleannesse of man, or any vncleane beast, or any abominable vncleane thing, and eate of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which pertaine vnto the Lord, euen that soule shall be cut off from his people. 
22. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
23. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no maner fat of oxe, or of sheepe, or of goat. 
24. And the fat of the beast that dieth of it selfe, and the fat of that which is torne with beasts, may be vsed in any other vse: but yee shall in no wise eate of it. 
25. For whosoeuer eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offring made by fire vnto the Lord, euen the soule that eateth it, shall be cut off from his people. 
26. Moreouer ye shall eat no maner of blood, whether it bee of foule or of beast in any of your dwellings. 
27. Whatsoeuer soule it be that eateth any maner of blood, euen that soule shalbe cut off from his people. 
28. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
29. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, Hee that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings vnto the Lord, shall bring his oblation vnto the Lord, of the sacrifice of his peaceofferings. 
30. His owne hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the brest, it shall hee bring, that the brest may be waued for a waue offering before the Lord. 
31. And the Priest shall burne the fat vpon the Altar: but the brest shalbe Aarons and his sonnes. 
32. And the right shoulder shall ye giue vnto the Priest for an heaue offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 
33. Hee among the sonnes of Aaron that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall haue the right shoulder for his part. 
34. For the waue brest and the heaue shoulder haue I taken of the children of Israel, from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and haue giuen them vnto Aaron the Priest, and vnto his sonnes, by a statute for euer, from among the children of Israel. 
35. This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sonnes, out of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them, to minister vnto the Lord in the Priests office: 
36. Which the Lord commanded to be giuen them of the children of Israel, in the day that hee anointed them, by a statute for euer, throughout their generations. 
37. This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meate offering, and of the sinne offering, and of the trespasse offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings: 
38. Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations vnto the Lord, in the wildernesse of Sinai. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Take Aaron and his sonnes with him, and the garments, and the anointing oyle, and a bullocke for the sinne offering, and two rammes, and a basket of vnleauened bread. 
3. And gather thou all the Congregation together vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
4. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, & the assembly was gathered together vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
5. And Moses saide vnto the Congregation, This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done. 
6. And Moses brought Aaron and his sonnes, and washed them with water. 
7. And he put vpon him the coate, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the Ephod vpon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the Ephod, and bound it vnto him therewith. 
8. And hee put the brest plate vpon him: also he put in the brest plate the Urim and the Thummim. 
9. And he put the miter vpon his head; also vpon the miter, euen vpon his forefront did hee put the golden plate, the holy crowne, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
10. And Moses tooke the anointing oile, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. 
11. And he sprinkled thereof vpon the altar seuen times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the lauer and his foot, to sanctifie them. 
12. And he powred of the anointing oile vpon Aarons head, and anointed him, to sanctifie him. 
13. And Moses brought Aarons sonnes, and put coats vpon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets vpon them, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
14. And he brought the bullocke for the sinne offering, and Aaron and his sonnes laid their hands vpon the head of the bullocke for the sinne offering. 
15. And he slew it, and Moses tooke the blood, and put it vpon the hornes of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and powred the blood at the bottome of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation vpon it. 
16. And he tooke all the fat that was vpon the inwards, and the kall aboue the liuer, and the two kidneis, and their fat, and Moses burned it vpon the Altar. 
17. But the bullocke, and his hide, his flesh and his doung, he burnt with fire without the campe, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
18. And he brought the ramme for the burnt offring: and Aaron and his sonnes laid their hands vpon the head of the ramme. 
19. And he killed it, and Moses sprinkled the blood vpon the Altar round about. 
20. And he cut the ramme into pieces, and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. 
21. And he washed the inwards and the legges in water, and Moses burnt the whole ramme vpon the Altar: It was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet sauour, and an offering made by fire vnto the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
22. And hee brought the other ramme, the ramme of consecration: and Aaron and his sonnes layd their hands vpon the head of the ramme. 
23. And he slew it, and Moses tooke of the blood of it, and put it vpon the tip of Aarons right eare, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foot. 
24. And he brought Aarons sonnes, and Moses put of the blood vpon the tippe of their right eare, and vpon the thumbs of their right hands, and vpon the great toes of their right feete: and Moses sprinkled the blood vpon the Altar round about. 
25. And hee tooke the fat, and the rumpe, and all the fat that was vpon the inwards, and the caule aboue the liuer, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right shoulder. 
26. And out of the basket of vnleauened bread, that was before the Lord, he tooke one vnleauened cake, and a cake of oyled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and vpon the right shoulder. 
27. And hee put all vpon Aarons hands, and vpon his sonnes hands, and waued them for a waue offering before the Lord. 
28. And Moses tooke them from off their hands, and burnt them on the Altar, vpon the burnt offering: They were consecrations for a sweet sauour: It is an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
29. And Moses tooke the brest, and waued it for a waue offering before the Lord: For of the ramme of consecration it was Moses part, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
30. And Moses tooke of the anoynting oyle, and of the blood which was vpon the Altar, and sprinckled it vpon Aaron, and vpon his garments, and vpon his sonnes, and vpon his sunnes garments with him: and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sonnes, and his sonnes garments with him. 
31. And Moses said vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, Boile the flesh at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sonnes shall eat it. 
32. And that which remaineth of the flesh, and of the bread, shall yee burne with fire. 
33. And ye shall not goe out of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation in seuen dayes, vntill the dayes of your consecration be at an end: for seuen dayes shall he consecrate you. 
34. As he hath done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to doe, to make an atonement for you. 
35. Therefore shall ye abide at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation day and night, seuen dayes, and keepe the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded. 
36. So Aaron and his sonnes did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses. 
1. And it came to passe on the eight day, that Moses called Aaron and his sonnes, and the elders of Israel. 
2. And hee saide vnto Aaron, Take thee a yong calfe for a sinne offering, and a ramme for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord. 
3. And vnto the children of Israel thou shalt speake, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats, for a sinne offering, and a calfe, and a lambe, both of the first yeere without blemish, for a burnt offering. 
4. Also a bullocke and a ramme, for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a meat offring mingled with oyle: for to day the Lord will appeare vnto you. 
5. And they brought that which Moses commanded, before the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and all the Congregation drew neere and stood before the Lord. 
6. And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should doe: and the glory of the Lord shall appeare vnto you. 
7. And Moses said vnto Aaron, Goe vnto the Altar, and offer thy sinne offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thy selfe, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them, as the Lord commanded. 
8. Aaron therefore went vnto the Altar, and slew the calfe of the sinne offering, which was for himselfe. 
9. And the sonnes of Aaron brought the blood vnto him, and he dipt his finger in the blood, and put it vpon the hornes of the Altar, and powred out the blood at the bottome of the Altar. 
10. But the fat and the kidneys, and the caule aboue the liuer of the sinne offering he burnt vpon the Altar, as the Lord commanded Moses. 
11. And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire, without the campe. 
12. And hee slew the burnt offering, and Aarons sonnes presented vnto him the blood, which he sprinckled round about vpon the Altar. 
13. And they presented the burnt offering vnto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them vpon the Altar. 
14. And he did wash the inwards, and the legs, and burnt them vpon the burnt offering on the Altar. 
15. And he brought the peoples offering, and tooke the goat, which was the sinne offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sinne, as the first. 
16. And he brought the burnt offring, and offered it according to the maner. 
17. And he brought the meat offring, and tooke an handfull thereof, and burnt it vpon the Altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning. 
18. He slew also the bullocke and the ramme, for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: And Aarons sonnes presented vnto him the blood, (which hee sprinckled vpon the Altar round about) 
19. And the fat of the bullocke and of the ramme, the rumpe, and that which couereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caule aboue the liuer, 
20. And they put the fat vpon the brests, & he burnt the fat vpon the altar: 
21. And the breasts and the right shoulder, Aaron waued for a waue offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded. 
22. And Aaron lift up his hand towards the people, and blessed them, and came downe from offering of the sinne offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings. 
23. 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 vnto all the people. 
24. And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed vpon the Altar the burnt offering, and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces. 
1. And Nadab and Abihu, the sonnes of Aaron, tooke either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which hee commaunded them not. 
2. And there went out fire from the Lord and deuoured them, and they died before the Lord. 
3. Then Moses said vnto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will bee sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified: And Aaron held his peace. 
4. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan the sonnes of Uzziel, the vncle of Aaron, and said vnto them, Come neere, cary your brethren from before the Sanctuary, out of the campe. 
5. So they went neere, and caried them in their coats out of the campe, as Moses had said. 
6. And Moses said vnto Aaron, and vnto Eleazar and vnto Ithamar his sonnes, Uncouer not your heads, neither rend your clothes, lest you die, and lest wrath come vpon all the people: But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewaile the burning which the Lord hath kindled. 
7. And ye shal not goe out from the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest you die: for the anointing oyle of the Lord is vpon you: and they did according to the word of Moses. 
8. And the Lord spake vnto Aaron, saying, 
9. Doe not drinke wine nor strong drinke, thou, nor thy sonnes with thee, when ye goe into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest yee die: It shall bee a statute for euer, throughout your generations: 
10. And that ye may put difference betweene holy and vnholy, and betweene vncleane and cleane: 
11. And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken vnto them by the hand of Moses. 
12. And Moses spake vnto Aaron, and vnto Eleazar and vnto Ithamar his sonnes that were left, Take the meate offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eate it without leauen, beside the altar: for it is most holy. 
13. And ye shal eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sonnes due of the sacrifices of the Lord, made by fire: for so I am commanded. 
14. And the waue breast and heaue shoulder shall ye eate in a cleane place, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters with thee: For they be thy due and thy sonnes due, which are giuen out of the sacrifice of peace offerings, of the children of Israel. 
15. The heaue shoulder, and the waue breast shal they bring, with the offrings made by fire of the fat, to waue it for a waue offering before the Lord: and it shall bee thine, and thy sonnes with thee, by a statute for euer, as the Lord hath commanded. 
16. And Moses diligently sought the goate of the sinne offering, and behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sonnes of Aaron, which were left aliue, saying, 
17. Wherefore haue ye not eaten the sinne offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath giuen it you to beare the iniquitie of the Congregation, to make atonement for them, before the Lord? 
18. Behold, the blood of it was not brought in, within the holy place: yee should indeed haue eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded. 
19. And Aaron said vnto Moses, Behold, this day haue they offered their sinne offering, and their burnt offering before the Lord: and such things haue befallen me: and if I had eaten the sinne offering to day, should it haue bin accepted in the sight of the Lord? 
20. And when Moses heard that, he was content. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying vnto them, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shal eat among all the beasts that are on the earth: 
3. Whatsoever parteth the hoofe, and is clouen footed, & cheweth cud among the beasts, that shall ye eate. 
4. Neuerthelesse, these shall ye not eate, of them that chewe the cud, or of them that diuide the hoofe: as the camel, because hee cheweth the cud, but diuideth not the hoofe, he is vncleane vnto you. 
5. And the conie, because he cheweth the cud, but diuideth not the hoofe, he is vncleane vnto you. 
6. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but diuideth not the hoofe, he is vncleane vnto you. 
7. And the swine, though he diuide the hoofe, and be clouen footed, yet hee cheweth not the cud: he is vncleane to you. 
8. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch: they are vncleane to you. 
9. These shal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatsoeuer hath finnes and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the riuers, them shall ye eate. 
10. And all that haue not finnes nor scales in the seas, and in the riuers, of all that moue in the waters, and of any liuing thing which is in the waters, they shalbe an abomination vnto you: 
11. They shalbe euen an abomination vnto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall haue their carcases in abomination. 
12. Whatsoeuer hath no finnes nor scales in the waters, that shalbe an abomination vnto you. 
13. And these are they which ye shall haue in abomination among the foules, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: The Eagle, and the Ossifrage, and the Ospray, 
14. And the Uulture, and the Kite, after his kinde: 
15. Euery Rauen after his kinde: 
16. And the Owle, and the nighthauke, & the Cuckow, and the Hawke after his kinde, 
17. And the little Owle, and the Cormorant, and the great Owle, 
18. And the Swanne, and the Pellicane, and the Gier-eagle, 
19. And the Storke, the Heron after her kinde, and the Lapwing, and the Batte. 
20. All foules that creepe, going vpon all foure, shalbe an abomination vnto you. 
21. Yet these may ye eat, of euery flying creeping thing that goeth vpon all foure, which haue legges aboue their feet, to leape withall vpon the earth. 
22. Euen these of them ye may eate: the Locust, after his kinde, and the Bald-locust after his kinde, and the Beetle after his kinde, and the Grassehopper after his kinde. 
23. But al other flying creeping things which haue foure feet, shall be an abomination vnto you. 
24. And for these ye shalbe vncleane: whosoeuer toucheth the carkasse of them, shall be vncleane vntill the euen. 
25. And whosoeuer beareth ought of the carkasse of them, shall wash his clothes, & be vncleane vntill the euen. 
26. The carkasses of euery beast which diuideth the hoofe, and is not clouen footed, nor cheweth the cud, are vncleane vnto you: euery one that toucheth them, shalbe vncleane. 
27. And whatsoeuer goeth vpon his pawes, among all maner of beasts, that goe on all foure, those are vncleane vnto you: who so toucheth their carkasse, shall be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
28. And he that beareth the carkasse of them, shall wash his clothes, and be vncleane vntill the Euen: they are vncleane vnto you. 
29. These also shalbe vncleane vnto you, among the creeping things that creepe vpon the earth: the Weasell, and the Mouse, and the Tortois, after his kinde, 
30. And the Ferret, and the Cameleon, and the Lyzard, and the Snaile, and the Molle. 
31. These are vncleane to you among all that creepe: whosoeuer doth touch them when they bee dead, shall be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
32. And vpon whatsoeuer any of them, when they are dead, doeth fall, it shalbe vncleane, whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skinne, or sacke, whatsoeuer vessell it be, wherein any worke is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be vncleane vntill the Euen; so it shalbe cleansed. 
33. And euery earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoeuer is in it shall bee vncleane; and yee shall breake it. 
34. Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water commeth, shall be vncleane: And all drinke that may be drunkein euery such vessell, shalbe vncleane. 
35. And euery thing, whereupon any part of their carkasse falleth, shall be vncleane, whether it be ouen, or ranges for pots, they shalbe broken downe: for they are vncleane, and shall be vncleane vnto you. 
36. Neuerthelesse, a fountaine or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shalbe cleane: but that which toucheth their carkasse shalbe vncleane. 
37. And if any part of their carkasse fall vpon any sowing seed which is to be sowen, it shalbe cleane: 
38. But if any water be put vpon the seed, and any part of their carkasse fall thereon, it shalbe vncleane vnto you. 
39. And if any beast of which ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carkasse thereof, shall be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
40. And hee that eateth of the carkasse of it, shall wash his clothes, and be vncleane vntil the Euen: he also that beareth the carkasse of it, shal wash his clothes, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen. 
41. And euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth, shalbe an abomination: it shall not be eaten. 
42. Whatsoeuer goeth vpon the bellie, and whatsoeuer goeth vpon all foure, or whatsoeuer hath more feet among all creeping things that creepe vpon the earth, them ye shall not eate, for they are an abomination. 
43. Yee shall not make your selues abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make your selues vncleane with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. 
44. For I am the Lord your God: yee shall therefore sanctifie your selues, and ye shall be holy, for I am holy: neither shall ye defile your selues with any maner of creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth. 
45. For I am the Lord that bringeth you vp out of the land of Egypt to be your God: ye shal therefore be holy, for I am holy. 
46. This is the law of the beasts, and of the foule, and of euery liuing creature that moueth in the waters, and of euerie creature that creepeth vpon the earth: 
47. To make a difference betweene the vncleane and the cleane, & betweene the beast that may be eaten, and the beast that may not be eaten. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman haue conceiued seed, and borne a man child, then she shal be vncleane seuen dayes: according to the dayes of the separation for her infirmitie shall she be vncleane. 
3. And in the eight day, the flesh of his foreskinne shall be circumcised. 
4. And she shal then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirtie dayes: Shee shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the Sanctuary, vntill the dayes of her purifying be fulfilled. 
5. But if she beare a maid child, then she shalbe vncleane two weekes, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and sixe dayes. 
6. And when the dayes of her purifying are fulfilled, for a sonne, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offring, & a yong pigeon, or a turtle doue for a sinne offering, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, vnto the Priest: 
7. Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath borne a male or a female. 
8. And if she be not able to bring a lambe, then she shall bring two turtles, or two yong pigeons, the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sinne offering: and the Priest shall make an atonement for her, and shee shall bee cleane. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses and Aaron, saying, 
2. When a man shall haue in the skinne of his flesh, a rising, a scabbe, or bright spot, and it bee in the skinne of his flesh like the plague of leprosie, then he shall bee brought vnto Aaron the Priest, or vnto one of his sonnes the Priests. 
3. And the Priest shall looke on the plague in the skinne of the flesh: and when the haire in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper then the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosie: and the Priest shall looke on him, and pronounce him vncleane. 
4. If the bright spot be white in the skinne of his flesh, and in sight bee not deeper then the skinne, and the haire thereof be not turned white, then the Priest shall shut vp him that hath the plague, seuen dayes. 
5. And the Priest shall looke on him the seuenth day: and beholde, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skinne, then the Priest shall shut him vp seuen dayes more. 
6. And the Priest shall looke on him againe the seuenth day: and beholde, if the plague be somewhat darke, and the plague spread not in the skin; the Priest shall pronounce him cleane: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be cleane.  
7. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skinne after that hee hath beene seene of the Priest, for his cleansing hee shall be seene of the Priest againe. 
8. And if the Priest see, that behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane: it is a leprosie. 
9. When the plague of leprosie is in a man, then he shall be brought vnto the Priest; 
10. And the Priest shall see him: and behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it haue turned the haire white, and there be quicke raw flesh in the rising: 
11. It is an old leprosie in the skinne of his flesh, and the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane, and shal not shut him vp: for he is vncleane. 
12. And if a leprosie breake out abroad in the skin, and the leprosie couer all the skin of him that hath the plague, from his head euen to his foot, wheresoeuer the Priest looketh: 
13. Then the Priest shall consider: and behold, if the leprosie haue couered al his flesh, he shal pronounce him cleane that hath the plague, it is all turned white; he is cleane. 
14. But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be vncleane. 
15. And the Priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to bee vncleane: for the raw flesh is vncleane: it is a leprosie. 
16. Or if the raw flesh turne againe, and bee changed vnto white, hee shall come vnto the Priest: 
17. And the Priest shall see him: and beholde, if the plague bee turned into white, then the Priest shall pronounce him cleane that hath the plague; hee is cleane. 
18. The flesh also, in which, euen in the skinne thereof was a bile, and is healed, 
19. And in the place of the bile there be a white rising, or a bright spot white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the Priest: 
20. And if when the Priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower then the skinne, and the haire thereof be turned white, the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane: it is a plague of leprosie broken out of the bile. 
21. But if the Priest looke on it, and behold, there be no white haires therein, and if it be not lower then the skin, but be somewhat darke; then the Priest shall shut him vp seuen dayes. 
22. And if it spread much abroad in the skinne, then the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane; it is a plague. 
23. But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning bile; and the Priest shall pronounce him cleane. 
24. Or if there be any flesh in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quicke flesh that burneth haue a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white; 
25. Then the Priest shall looke vpon it: and behold, if the haire in the bright spot be turned white, and it bee in sight deeper then the skinne, it is a leprosie broken out of the burning: wherefore the Priest shal pronounce him vncleane: it is the plague of leprosie. 
26. But if the Priest looke on it, and behold, there be no white haire in the bright spot, and it be no lower then the other skin, but be somewhat darke, then the Priest shal shut him vp seuen dayes. 
27. And the Priest shall looke vpon him the seuenth day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane; it is the plague of leprosie. 
28. And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat darke; it is a rising of the burning, and the Priest shall pronounce him cleane: for it is an inflammation of the burning. 
29. If a man or woman hath a plague vpon the head or the beard, 
30. Then the Priest shall see the plague: and behold, if it be in sight deeper then the skin, and there be in it a yellow thin haire, then the Priest shall pronounce him vncleane, it is a dry skall, euen a leprosie vpon the head or beard. 
31. And if the Priest looke on the plague of the skall, and behold, it be not in sight deeper then the skin, and that there is no blacke haire in it; then the Priest shall shut vp him that hath the plague of the skall, seuen dayes. 
32. And in the seuenth day the Priest shall looke on the plague: and behold, if the skall spread not, and there be in it no yellow haire, and the skall be not in sight deeper then the skin; 
33. He shall be shauen, but the skall shall he not shaue: and the Priest shall shut vp him that hath the skall, seuen dayes more. 
34. And in the seuenth day the Priest shall looke on the skall: and behold, if the skall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper then the skin, then the Priest shall pronounce him cleane: and he shall wash his clothes, and be cleane. 
35. But if the skall spread much in the skinne after his cleansing, 
36. Then the Priest shall looke on him, and behold, if the skall be spread in the skinne, the Priest shall not seeke for yellow haire: he is vncleane. 
37. But if the skall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is blacke haire growen vp therein: the skall is healed, he is cleane, and the Priest shall pronounce him cleane. 
38. If a man also or a woman haue in the skinne of their flesh bright spots, euen white bright spots, 
39. Then the Priest shall looke: and behold, if the bright spots in the skinne of their flesh bee darkish white, it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin: he is cleane. 
40. And the man whose haire is fallen off his head, he is bald: yet is hee cleane. 
41. And he that hath his haire fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead-bald: yet is hee cleane. 
42. And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is a leprosie sprung vp in his bald-head, or his bald forehead. 
43. Then the Priest shall looke vpon it: and beholde, if the rising of the sore bee white reddish in his balde head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosie appeareth in the skinne of the flesh, 
44. Hee is a leprous man, he is vncleane: the Priest shall pronounce him vtterly vncleane, his plague is in his head. 
45. And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a couering vpon his vpper lip, and shall cry, Uncleane, vncleane. 
46. All the dayes wherein the plague shall bee in him, he shall bee defiled, hee is vncleane: he shall dwell alone, without the campe shall his habitation be. 
47. The garment also, that the plague of leprosie is in, whether it bee a woollen garment, or a linnen garment, 
48. Whether it bee in the warpe, or woofe of linnen or of woollen, whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skinne: 
49. And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warpe, or in the woofe, or in any thing of skinne, it is a plague of leprosie, and shall be shewed vnto the Priest. 
50. And the Priest shall looke vpon the plague, and shut vp it that hath the plague, seuen dayes. 
51. And he shall looke on the plague on the seuenth day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warpe, or in the woofe, or in a skin, or in any worke that is made of skinne, the plague is a fretting leprosie; it is vncleane. 
52. Hee shall therefore burne that garment, whether warpe or woofe, in wollen or in linnen, or any thing of skinne, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosie; it shall bee burnt in the fire. 
53. And if the Priest shall looke, and behold the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warpe, or in the woofe, or in any thing of skinne; 
54. Then the Priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it vp seuen dayes more. 
55. And the Priest shall looke on the plague after that it is washed: and behold, if the plague haue not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread, it is vncleane, thou shalt burne it in the fire, it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without. 
56. And if the Priest looke, and behold, the plaine be somewhat darke after the washing of it, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warpe, or out of the woofe. 
57. And if it appeare still in the garment, either in the warpe, or in the woofe, or in any thing of skinne, it is a spreading plague, thou shalt burne that wherein the plague is, with fire. 
58. And the garment, either warpe, or woofe, or whatsoeuer thing of skin it bee, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shalbe cleane. 
59. This is the law of the plague of leprosie in a garment of woollen or linnen, either in the warpe, or woofe, or any thing of skinnes, to pronounce it cleane, or to pronounce it vncleane. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. This shalbe the law of the leper, in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought vnto the Priest. 
3. And the Priest shall goe forth out of the campe, and the Priest shall looke: and beholde, if the plague of leprosie be healed in the leper, 
4. Then shall the Priest command to take for him that is to bee cleansed, two birds aliue, and cleane, and Cedar wood, and scarlet, and hysope. 
5. And the Priest shall command that one of the birds bee killed in an earthen vessell, ouer running water. 
6. As for the liuing bird, he shal take it, and the Cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hysope, and shall dip them and the liuing bird in the blood of the bird that was killed ouer the running water. 
7. And he shall sprinckle vpon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosie, seuen times, and shall pronounce him cleane, and shall let the liuing bird loose into the open field. 
8. And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shaue off all his haire, and wash himselfe in water, that he may be cleane: And after that hee shall come into the Campe, and shall tary abroad out of his tent seuen dayes. 
9. But it shall be on the seuenth day, that he shall shaue all his haire off his head and his beard, and his eyebrowes, euen all his haire he shal shaue off: And he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be cleane. 
10. And on the eight day he shall take two hee lambes without blemish, and one ewe-lambe of the first yeere, without blemish, and three tenth deales of fine flowre for a meat offering, mingled with oyle, and one log of oyle. 
11. And the Priest that maketh him cleane, shall present the man that is to be made cleane, and those things before the Lord, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: 
12. And the Priest shall take one hee lambe, and offer him for a trespasse offering, and the log of oile, and waue them for a waue offering before the Lord. 
13. And he shall slay the lambe in the place where he shall kil the sin-offering, and the burnt offring in the holy place: for as the sinne offering is the Priests, so is the trespasse offering: it is most Holy. 
14. And the Priest shall take some of the blood of the trespasse offering, and the Priest shall put it vpon the tip of the right eare of him that is to be cleansed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foot. 
15. And the Priest shall take some of the log of oile, and powre it into the palme of his owne left hand: 
16. And the Priest shall dip his right finger in the oile that is in his left hand, and shall sprinckle of the oile with his finger, seuen times before the Lord. 
17. And of the rest of the oile that is in his hand, shall the Priest put vpon the tip of the right eare of him that is to be cleansed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hande, and vpon the great toe of his right foot, vpon the blood of the trespasse offering. 
18. And the remnant of the oile that is in the Priests hand, he shall powre vpon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord. 
19. And the Priest shal offer the sinne offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his vncleannesse, and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. 
20. And the Priest shall offer the burnt offering, and the meat offering vpon the Altar: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shalbe cleane. 
21. And if he be poore, and cannot get so much, then hee shall take one lambe for a trespasse offring to be waued, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deale of fine flowre mingled with oile, for a meat offering, and a log of oile, 
22. And two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons, such as he is able to get: and the one shalbe a sinne offering, and the other a burnt offering. 
23. And hee shall bring them on the eight day, for his cleansing vnto the Priest, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Lord. 
24. And the Priest shall take the lambe of the trespasse offering, and the log of oile, and the Priest shall waue them for a waue offering before the Lord. 
25. And he shall kill the lambe of the trespasse offering, and the Priest shall take some of the blood of the trespasse offering, and put it vpon the tip of the right eare of him that is to be cleansed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foote. 
26. And the Priest shall powre of the oyle into the palme of his owne left hand. 
27. And the Priest shal sprinkle with his right finger, some of the oile that is in his left hand, seuen times before the Lord. 
28. And the Priest shall put of the oile that is in his hand, vpon the tip of the right eare of him that is to be cleansed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foot; vpon the place of the blood of the trespasse offering. 
29. And the rest of the oile that is in the Priests hand, he shall put vpon the head of him that is to bee cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord. 
30. And he shall offer the one of the turtle doues, or of the yong pigeons, such as he can get: 
31. Euen such as he is able to get, the one for a sinne offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering. And the Priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed, before the Lord. 
32. This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosie, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing. 
33. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying, 
34. When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I giue to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosie in a house of the land of your possession; 
35. And hee that oweth the house shall come, and tell the Priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: 
36. Then the Priest shall command that they emptie the house, before the Priest goe into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made vncleane: and afterward the Priest shall goe in, to see the house. 
37. And he shal looke on the plague: and behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house, with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower then the wall; 
38. Then the Priest shall goe out of the house, to the doore of the house, and shut vp the house seuen dayes. 
39. And the Priest shall come againe the seuenth day, and shall looke: and behold, if the plague bee spread in the walls of the house; 
40. Then the Priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an vncleane place without the Citie. 
41. And hee shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall powre out the dust that they scrape off, without the citie into an vncleane place. 
42. And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and hee shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. 
43. And if the plague come againe, and breake out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered; 
44. Then the Priest shall come and looke, and behold, if the plague bee spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosie in the house: it is vncleane. 
45. And he shall breake downe the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house: and he shall cary them foorth out of the city into an vncleane place. 
46. Moreouer, he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut vp, shalbe vncleane vntill the Euen. 
47. And hee that lieth in the house, shall wash his clothes: and hee that eateth in the house, shall wash his clothes. 
48. And if the Priest shall come in, and looke vpon it, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then the Priest shall pronounce the house cleane, because the plague is healed. 
49. And he shall take to cleanse the house, two birds, and Cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssope. 
50. And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessell, ouer running water. 
51. And he shall take the Cedar-wood and the hyssope, and the scarlet, and the liuing bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaine bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seuen times. 
52. And he shall clense the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the liuing bird, and with the Cedar wood, and with the hyssope, and with the scarlet. 
53. But hee shall let goe the liuing bird out of the citie into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be cleane. 
54. This is the law for all manner plague of leprosie and skall, 
55. And for the leprosie of a garment, and of an house, 
56. And for a rising, and for a scabbe, and for a bright spot: 
57. To teach when it is vncleane, and when it is cleane: this is the lawe of leprosie. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, when any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is vncleane. 
3. And this shall be his vncleannesse in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his vncleannesse. 
4. Euery bed whereon he lieth, that hath the issue, is vncleane: and euery thing whereon he sitteth, shall bee vncleane. 
5. And whosoeuer toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and bath himselfe in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen. 
6. And hee that sitteth on any thing whereon hee sate that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and bath himselfe in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen. 
7. And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
8. And if he that hath the issue, spit vpon him that is cleane, then hee shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen. 
9. And what saddle soeuer he rideth vpon, that hath the issue, shall bee vncleane. 
10. And whosoeuer toucheth any thing that was vnder him, shall be vncleane vntil the Euen: And he that beareth any of those things, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
11. And whomsoeuer hee toucheth that hath the issue (and hath not rinsed his hands in water) he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
12. And the vessell of earth that hee toucheth which hath the issue, shall bee broken: and euery vessell of wood shall be rinsed in water. 
13. And when hee that hath an issue, is cleansed of his issue, then hee shall number to himselfe seuen dayes for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be cleane. 
14. And on the eight day hee shall take to him two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons, and come before the Lord, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and giue them vnto the Priest. 
15. And the Priest shall offer them, the one for a sinne offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue. 
16. And if any mans seede of copulation goe out from him, then hee shall wash all his flesh in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen. 
17. And euery garment and euery skinne whereon is the seede of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
18. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bath themselues in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
19. And if a woman haue an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, shee shall bee put apart seuen dayes: and whosoeuer toucheth her, shall bee vncleane vntil the Euen. 
20. And euery thing that she lieth vpon in her separation, shall be vncleane: euery thing also that she sitteth vpon, shalbe vncleane. 
21. And whosoeuer toucheth her bed, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
22. And whosoeuer toucheth any thing that she sate vpon, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
23. And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when hee toucheth it, he shall be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
24. And if any man lye with her at all, and her flowers be vpon him, hee shall be vncleane seuen dayes: and all the bed whereon he lyeth, shall be vncleane. 
25. And if a woman haue an issue of her blood many dayes out of the time of her separation, or if it runne beyond the time of her separation, all the dayes of the issue of her vncleannesse, shall be as the dayes of her separation: she shalbe vncleane. 
26. Euery bed whereon she lyeth all the dayes of her issue, shall be vnto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoeuer shee sitteth vpon, shall bee vncleane, as the vncleannesse of her separation. 
27. And whosoeuer toucheth those things, shalbe vncleane, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen. 
28. But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to her selfe seuen dayes: and after that, she shalbe cleane. 
29. And on the eight day she shall take vnto her two turtles or two yong pigeons, & bring them vnto the Priest, to the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
30. And the Priest shall offer the one for a sinne offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and the Priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord, for the issue of her vncleannesse. 
31. Thus shall yee separate the children of Israel from their vncleannesse, that they die not in their vncleannesse, when they defile my Tabernacle that is among them. 
32. This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; 
33. And of her that is sicke of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, & of him that lyeth with her which is vncleane. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, after the death of the two sonnes of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died. 
2. And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Speake vnto Aaron thy brother, that hee come not at all times in to the Holy place within the Uaile, before the Mercy seat, which is vpon the Arke, that hee die not: for I will appeare in the cloud vpon the Mercy seat. 
3. Thus shall Aaron come into the Holy place: with a yong bullocke for a sinne offering, and a ramme for a burnt offering. 
4. Hee shall put on the holy linnen coate, and he shall haue the linnen breeches vpon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linnen girdle, and with the linnen Miter shall hee be attired. These are holy garments: therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. 
5. And he shall take of the Congregation of the children of Israel, two kiddes of the Goates for a sinne offering, and one ramme for a burnt offering. 
6. And Aaron shall offer his bullocke of the sinne offering, which is for himselfe, and make an atonement for himselfe, and for his house. 
7. And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
8. And Aaron shall cast lottes vpon the two Goates: one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the Scape goat. 
9. And Aaron shall bring the goate vpon which the Lords lot fell, and offer him for a sinne offering. 
10. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the Scape goate, shalbe presented aliue before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him goe for a Scape goate into the wildernesse. 
11. And Aaron shal bring the bullocke of the sinne offering, which is for himselfe, and shall make an atonement for himselfe, and for his house, and shal kill the bullocke of the sinne offering which is for himselfe. 
12. And he shall take a censer full of burning coales of fire from off the Altar before the Lord, and his handes full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vaile. 
13. And he shall put the incense vpon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may couer the mercie seate that is vpon the testimonie, that he die not. 
14. And he shall take of the blood of the bullocke, and sprinkle it with his finger vpon the Mercie seat Eastward: and before the Mercie seate shall hee sprinkle of the blood with his finger seuen times. 
15. Then shall he kill the goate of the sinne offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the Uaile, and doe with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullocke, and sprinkle it vpon the Mercie seat, and before the Mercie seat.  
16. And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the vncleannesse of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sinnes: and so shall hee doe for the Tabernacle of the Congregation that remaineth among them, in the middest of their vncleannesse. 
17. And there shall bee no man in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, when hee goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, vntill hee come out, and haue made an atonement for himselfe, and for his houshold, and for all the Congregation of Israel. 
18. And he shall goe out vnto the Altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it, & shall take of the blood of the bullocke, and of the blood of the goate, and put it vpon the hornes of the Altar round about. 
19. And he shall sprinkle of the blood vpon it with his finger seuen times, and clense it, and hallow it from the vncleannesse of the children of Israel. 
20. And when hee hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Altar, hee shall bring the liue goate. 
21. And Aaron shall lay both his hands vpon the head of the liue goate, and confesse ouer him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sinnes, putting them vpon the head of the goate, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wildernesse. 
22. And the goate shall beare vpon him all their iniquities, vnto a land not inhabited; and he shall let goe the goat in the wildernesse. 
23. And Aaron shall come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shal put off the linnen garments which he put on, when he went in to the holy place, and shall leaue them there. 
24. And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come foorth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himselfe, and for the people. 
25. And the fat of the sinne offering shall he burne vpon the Altar. 
26. And he that let goe the goat for the Scape-goat, shal wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the Campe. 
27. And the bullocke for the sinne offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in, to make atonement in the holy place, shall one cary foorth without the Campe, and they shal burne in the fire their skinnes and their flesh, and their doung. 
28. And he that burneth them, shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the Campe. 
29. And this shall be a statute for euer vnto you: that in the seuenth moneth, on the tenth day of the moneth, ye shall afflict your soules, & doe no worke at all, whether it bee one of your owne countrey, or a stranger that soiourneth among you. 
30. For on that day shal the Priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that yee may bee cleane from all your sinnes before the Lord. 
31. It shall be a Sabbath of rest vnto you, and ye shall afflict your soules by a statute for euer. 
32. And the Priest whom he shall anoynt, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the Priests office in his fathers stead, shall make the atonement, and shal put on the linnen clothes, euen the holy garments. 
33. And he shall make an atonement for the holy Sanctuary, and hee shall make an atonement for the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and for the Altar: and he shall make an atonement for the Priests, and for all the people of the Congregation. 
34. And this shall be an euerlasting statute vnto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sinnes once a yeere. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto Aaron and vnto his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel, and say vnto them; This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying; 
3. What man soeuer there bee of the house of Israel, that killeth an oxe, or lambe, or goat in the Campe, or that killeth it out of the Campe, 
4. And bringeth it not vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to offer an offering vnto the Lord before the Tabernacle of the Lord, blood shall be imputed vnto that man; he hath shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people:  
5. To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, euen that they may bring them vnto the Lord, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation vnto the Priest, and offer them for peace offerings vnto the Lord. 
6. And the Priest shall sprinckle the blood vpon the Altar of the Lord, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and burne the fat for a sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
7. And they shall no more offer their sacrifices vnto deuils, after whom they haue gone a whoring: This shall be a statute for euer vnto them throughout their generations. 
8. And thou shalt say vnto them, whatsoeuer man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which soiourne among you, that offreth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 
9. And bringeth it not vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to offer it vnto the Lord, euen that man shall be cut off from among his people. 
10. And whatsoeuer man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that soiourne among you, that eateth any maner of blood, I will euen set my face against that soule that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 
11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I haue giuen it to you vpon the Altar, to make an atonement for your soules: for it is the blood, that maketh an atonement for the soule. 
12. Therefore I said vnto the children of Israel, No soule of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that soiourneth among you, eat blood. 
13. And whatsoeuer man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that soiourne among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or foule that may be eaten, he shall euen powre out the blood thereof, and couer it with dust. 
14. For it is the life of all flesh, the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said vnto the children of Israel, Ye shall not eat the blood of no maner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoeuer eateth it, shalbe cut off. 
15. And euery soule that eateth that which died of it selfe, or that which was torne with beasts, whether it bee one of your owne countrey, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen: then shall he be cleane. 
16. But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shal beare his iniquity. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the Lord your God. 
3. After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, shal ye not doe: and after the doings of land of Canaan whither I bring you, shall ye not doe: neither shall yee walke in their ordinances. 
4. Ye shall doe my iudgements, and keepe mine ordinances, to walke therein: I am the Lord your God. 
5. Yee shall therefore keepe my statutes, and my iudgements: which if a man doe, hee shall liue in them: I am the Lord. 
6. None of you shall approche to any that is neere of kinne to him, to vncouer their nakednesse: I am the Lord. 
7. The nakednesse of thy father, or the nakednesse of thy mother, shalt thou not vncouer: she is thy mother, thou shalt not vncouer her nakednesse. 
8. The nakednesse of thy fathers wife shalt thou not vncouer: it is thy fathers nakednesse. 
9. The nakednesse of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether shee be borne at home, or borne abroad, euen their nakednesse thou shalt not vncouer. 
10. The nakednesse of thy sonnes daughter, or of thy daughters daughter, euen their nakednesse thou shalt not vncouer: for theirs is thine owne nakednesse. 
11. The nakednesse of thy fathers wiues daughter, begotten of thy father, (she is thy sister,) thou shalt not vncouer her nakednesse. 
12. Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy fathers sister: she is thy fathers neere kinswoman. 
13. Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy mothers sister: for she is thy mothers neere kinswoman. 
14. Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy fathers brother, thou shalt not approche to his wife: shee is thine aunt. 
15. Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy daughter in law: shee is thy sonnes wife, thou shalt not vncouer her nakednesse. 
16. Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy brothers wife: it is thy brothers nakednesse. 
17. Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her sonnes daughter, or her daughters daughter, to vncouer her nakednesse: For they are her neere kinsewomen: it is wickednesse. 
18. Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vexe her, to vncouer her nakednes besides the other, in her life time. 
19. Also thou shalt not approche vnto a woman to vncouer her nakednes, as long as shee is put apart for her vncleannesse. 
20. Moreouer, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbours wife, to defile thy selfe with her. 
21. And thou shalt not let any of thy seed passe through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou prophane the Name of thy God: I am the Lord. 
22. Thou shalt not lie with mankinde, as with womankinde: it is abomination. 
23. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast, to defile thy selfe therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie downe thereto: It is confusion. 
24. Defile not you your selues in any of these things: for in all these, the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. 
25. And the land is defiled: Therefore I doe visit the iniquitie thereof vpon it, and the land it selfe vomiteth out her inhabitants. 
26. Ye shall therefore keepe my Statutes and my Iudgements, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your owne nation, nor any stranger that soiourneth among you: 
27. (For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled.) 
28. That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. 
29. For whosoeuer shall commit any of these abominations, euen the soules that commit them, shall be cut off from among their people. 
30. Therefore shal ye keepe mine Ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customes, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not your selues therein: I am the Lord your God. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Ye shalbe holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. 
3. Yee shall feare euery man his mother, and his father, and keepe my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 
4. Turne ye not vnto idoles, nor make to your selues molten gods: I am the Lord your God. 
5. And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings vnto the Lord, ye shall offer it, at your owne will. 
6. It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remaine vntill the third day, it shalbe burnt in the fire. 
7. And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. 
8. Therefore euery one that eateth it, shal beare his iniquitie, because he hath prophaned the halowed thing of the Lord; and that soule shalbe cut off from among his people. 
9. And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest. 
10. And thou shalt not gleane thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather euery grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leaue them for the poore and stranger: I am the Lord your God. 
11. Ye shall not steale, neither deale falsly, neither lie one to another. 
12. And ye shall not sweare by my Name falsly, neither shalt thou prophane the Name of thy God: I am the Lord. 
13. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired, shal not abide with thee all night, vntill the morning. 
14. Thou shalt not curse the deafe, nor put a stumbling blocke before the blind, but shalt feare thy God: I am the Lord. 
15. Ye shall doe no vnrighteousnes in iudgement; thou shalt not respect the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie: but in righteousnesse shalt thou iudge thy neighbour. 
16. Thou shalt not goe vp and downe as a tale-bearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord. 
17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sinne vpon him. 
18. Thou shalt not auenge nor beare any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt loue thy neighbor as thy selfe: I am the Lord. 
19. Yee shall keepe my Statutes: Thou shalt not let thy cattell gender with a diuerse kinde: Thou shalt not sowe thy field with mingled seed: Neither shall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee. 
20. And whosoeuer lieth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, she shall be scourged: they shall not be put to death, because she was not free: 
21. And he shall bring his trespasse offering vnto the Lord, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, euen a ramme for a trespasse offering. 
22. And the Priest shall make an atonement for him with the ramme of the trespasse offering before the Lord for his sinne which hee hath done: and the sinne which he hath done shall bee forgiuen him. 
23. And when yee shall come in to the land, and shall haue planted all maner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit therof as vncircumcised: three yeeres shall it be as vncircumcised vnto you: it shall not be eaten of. 
24. But in the fourth yeere all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withall. 
25. And in the fift yeere shall ye eate of the fruit thereof, that it may yeelde vnto you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God. 
26. Ye shall not eate any thing with the blood, neither shall ye vse inchantment, nor obserue times. 
27. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou marre the corners of thy beard. 
28. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any markes vpon you: I am the Lord. 
29. Doe not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land fall to whoredome, and the land become full of wickednesse. 
30. Ye shall keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord. 
31. Regard not them that haue familiar spirits, neither seeke after Wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. 
32. Thou shalt rise vp before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and feare thy God: I am the Lord. 
33. And if a stranger soiourne with thee in your land, yee shall not vexe him. 
34. But the stranger that dwelleth with you, shalbe as one borne amongst you, and thou shalt loue him as thy selfe, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 
35. Ye shall doe no vnrighteousnes in iudgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 
36. Iust ballances, iust weights, a iust Ephah, and a iust Hin shall ye haue: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. 
37. Therefore shall ye obserue all my Statutes, and all my Iudgements, and doe them: I am the Lord. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Againe, thou shalt say to the children of Israel; whosoeuer he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that soiourne in Israel, that giueth any of his seed vnto Molech, he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 
3. And I wil set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people: because he hath giuen of his seed vnto Molech, to defile my Sanctuary, and to prophane my holy Name. 
4. And if the people of the land doe any wayes hide their eyes from the man, when he giueth of his seed vnto Molech, and kill him not: 
5. Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that goe a whoring after him, to commit whoredome with Molech, from among their people. 
6. And the soule that turneth after such as haue familiar spirits, and after wizards, to goe a whoring after them, I will euen set my face against that soule, and will cut him off from among his people. 
7. Sanctifie your selues therefore, and bee yee holy: for I am the Lord your God. 
8. And ye shall keepe my Statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctifie you. 
9. For euery one that curseth his father or his mother, shalbe surely put to death: hee hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shalbe vpon him. 
10. And the man that committeth adulterie with another mans wife, euen he that committeth adulterie with his neighbours wife, the adulterer, and the adulteresse shall surely bee put to death. 
11. And the man that lieth with his fathers wife, hath vncouered his fathers nakednesse: both of them shalbe put to death; their blood shalbe vpon them. 
12. And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they haue wrought confusion; their blood shall be vpon them. 
13. If a man also lie with mankind, as hee lyeth with a woman, both of them haue committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shalbe vpon them. 
14. And if a man take a wife, and her mother, it is wickednesse: They shalbe burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickednesse among you. 
15. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. 
16. And if a woman approch vnto any beast, and lie downe thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death, their blood shalbe vpon them. 
17. And if a man shall take his sister, his fathers daughter, or his mothers daughter, and see her nakednesse, and she see his nakednesse, it is a wicked thing, and they shall bee cut off in the sight of their people: he hath vncouered his sisters nakednesse, he shall beare his iniquitie. 
18. And if a man shall lie with a woman hauing her sickenesse, and shal vncouer her nakednesse: he hath discouered her fountaine, and she hath vncouered the fountaine of her blood: and both of them shall bee cut off from among their people. 
19. And thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy mothers sister, nor of thy fathers sister: for hee vncouereth his neere kinne: they shall beare their iniquitie. 
20. And if a man shall lie with his vncles wife, he hath vncouered his vncles nakednesse: they shall beare their sinne, they shall die childlesse. 
21. And if a man shall take his brothers wife, it is an vncleane thing: hee hath vncouered his brothers nakednesse, they shall be childlesse. 
22. Ye shall therefore keepe all my Statutes, and all my Iudgements, and doe them: that the lande whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 
23. And ye shall not walke in the maners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, & therefore I abhorred them. 
24. But I haue said vnto you, Yee shall inherit their land, and I will giue it vnto you, to possesse it, a land that floweth with milke and hony: I am the Lord your God, which haue separated you from other people. 
25. Ye shall therefore put difference betweene cleane beasts, and vncleane, and betweene vncleane foules, and cleane: & ye shall not make your soules abominable by beast or by foule, or by any maner of liuing thing, that creepeth on the ground, which I haue separated from you as vncleane. 
26. And ye shal be holy vnto me: for I the Lord am holy, & haue seuered you from other people, that ye should be mine. 
27. A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizzard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shalbe vpon them. 
1. And the Lord said vnto Moses; Speake vnto the Priests the sonnes of Aaron, and say vnto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 
2. But for his kinne, that is neere vnto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his sonne, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 
3. And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh vnto him, which hath had no husband: for her may he be defiled. 
4. But hee shall not defile himselfe being a chiefe man among his people, to prophane himselfe. 
5. They shall not make baldnesse vpon their head, neither shall they shaue off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh: 
6. They shalbe holy vnto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offrings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they doe offer: therefore they shall be holy. 
7. They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane, neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy vnto his God. 
8. Thou shalt sanctifie him therfore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shalbe holy vnto thee: for I the Lord which sanctifie you, am holy. 
9. And the daughter of any Priest, if she profane her selfe, by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: shee shall be burnt with fire. 
10. And he that is the high Priest among his brethren, vpon whose head the anointing oyle was powred, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not vncouer his head, nor rent his clothes: 
11. Neither shall he goe in to any dead body, nor defile himselfe for his father, or for his mother: 
12. Neither shall hee goe out of the Sanctuary, nor prophane the Sanctuary of his God; for the crowne of the anointing oile of his God is vpon him: I am the Lord. 
13. And he shall take a wife in her virginitie. 
14. A widow, or a diuorced woman, or prophane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgine of his owne people to wife. 
15. Neither shal he prophane his seed among his people: for I the Lord doe sanctifie him. 
16. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
17. Speake vnto Aaron, saying, Whosoeuer he be of thy seed in their generations, that hath any blemish, let him not approche to offer the bread of his God: 
18. For whatsoeuer man hee be that hath a blemish, he shall not approche: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 
19. Or a man that is broken footed, or broken handed, 
20. Or crooke backt, or a dwarfe, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scuruy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken: 
21. No man that hath a blemish, of the seed of Aaron the Priest, shall come nigh to offer the offrings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 
22. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most Holy, and of the holy: 
23. Onely he shall not goe in vnto the Uaile, nor come nigh vnto the Altar, because he hath a blemish, that he prophane not my Sanctuaries: for I the Lord doe sanctifie them. 
24. And Moses told it vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, that they separate themselues from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they prophane not my holy Name, in those things which they halow vnto me: I am the Lord. 
3. Say vnto them, Whosoeuer he be of all your seed, among your generations, that goeth vnto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow vnto the Lord, hauing his vncleannesse vpon him, that soule shalbe cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. 
4. What man soeuer of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, vntill he be cleane. And who so toucheth any thing that is vncleane by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him: 
5. Or whosoeuer toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made vncleane, or a man of whom hee may take vncleannesse, whatsoeuer vncleannesse he hath: 
6. The soule which hath touched any such, shalbe vncleane vntill Euen, and shall not eate of the holy things, vnlesse he wash his flesh with water. 
7. And when the Sunne is downe, he shall be cleane, and shall afterward eate of the holy things, because it is his food. 
8. That which dieth of it selfe, or is torne with beasts, hee shall not eate to defile himselfe therewith: I am the Lord. 
9. They shall therefore keepe mine Ordinance, lest they beare sinne for it, and die therefore, if they prophane it: I the Lord doe sanctifie them. 
10. There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing; a soiourner of the Priests, or an hired seruant shall not eate of the holy thing. 
11. But if the Priest buy any soule with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is borne in his house: they shall eat of his meat. 
12. If the Priests daughter also bee married vnto a stranger, she may not eate of an offering of the holy things. 
13. But if the Priests daughter be a widow, or diuorced, and haue no childe, and is returned vnto her fathers house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her fathers meat, but there shall no stranger eate thereof. 
14. And if a man eate of the holy thing vnwittingly, then he shall put the fift part thereof vnto it; and shall giue it vnto the Priest, with the holy thing. 
15. And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer vnto the Lord: 
16. Or suffer them to beare the iniquitie of trespasse, when they eate their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctifie them. 
17. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
18. Speake vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Whatsoeuer he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vowes, and for all his free will offerings, which they will offer vnto the Lord for a burnt offering: 
19. Ye shal offer at your owne wil a male without blemish, of the beeues, of the sheepe, or of the goats. 
20. But whatsoeuer hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 
21. And whosoeuer offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings vnto the Lord, to accomplish his vow, or a free will offring in beeues or sheepe, it shalbe perfect, to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 
22. Blind, or broken, or maimed, or hauing a wenne, or scuruie, or scabbed, ye shal not offer these vnto the Lord, nor make an offring by fire of them vpon the Altar vnto the Lord. 
23. Either a bullocke, or a lambe that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a free will offring: but for a vow it shal not be accepted. 
24. Ye shal not offer vnto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, neither shall you make any offering thereof in your land. 
25. Neither from a strangers hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes bee in them: they shall not be accepted for you. 
26. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
27. When a bullocke, or a sheepe, or a goat is brought forth, then it shall bee seuen dayes vnder the damme, and from the eight day and thencefoorth, it shal be accepted for an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
28. And whether it be cowe or ewe, ye shall not kill it, and her yong, both in one day. 
29. And when yee will offer a sacrifice of thankesgiuing vnto the Lord, offer it at your owne will. 
30. On the same day it shall be eaten vp, ye shall leaue none of it vntill the morrow: I am the Lord. 
31. Therefore shall ye keepe my Commandements, and doe them: I am the Lord. 
32. Neither shal ye profane my holy Name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you, 
33. That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which yee shall proclaime to be holy conuocations, euen these are my feasts. 
3. Sixe dayes shall worke be done, but the seuenth day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy conuocation; ye shall doe no worke therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. 
4. These are the feastes of the Lord, euen holy conuocations, which ye shall proclaime in their seasons. 
5. In the fourteenth day of the first moneth at euen, is the Lords Passeouer. 
6. And on the fifteenth day of the same moneth, is the feast of vnleauened bread vnto the Lord: seuen dayes ye must eate vnleauened bread. 
7. In the first day ye shall haue an holy conuocation: ye shall do no seruile worke therein. 
8. But ye shal offer an offring made by fire vnto the Lord seuen dayes: in the seuenth day is an holy conuocation, Ye shall doe no seruile worke therein. 
9. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
10. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When yee be come into the land which I giue vnto you, and shal reape the haruest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheafe of the first fruits of your haruest vnto the Priest: 
11. And hee shall waue the sheafe before the Lord to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the Priest shall waue it. 
12. And ye shall offer that day, when ye waue the sheafe, an hee lambe without blemish of the first yeere, for a burnt offering vnto the Lord. 
13. And the meat offring thereof shall be two tenth deales of fine flowre, mingled with oile, an offering made by fire vnto the Lord, for a sweet sauour: and the drinke offering thereof shalbe of wine, the fourth part of an Hin. 
14. And ye shall eate neither bread, nor parched corne, nor greene eares, vntill the selfe same day that yee haue brought an offering vnto your God: It shalbe a statute for euer, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings. 
15. And ye shall count vnto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheafe of the waue offering; seuen Sabbaths shalbe complete. 
16. Euen vnto the morrow after the seuenth Sabbath, shall ye number fifty dayes, and ye shall offer a new meat offering vnto the Lord. 
17. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two waue-loaues, of two tenth deales: they shalbe of fine flowre, they shall be baken with leauen, they are the first fruits vnto the Lord. 
18. And ye shall offer with the bread seuen lambes without blemish, of the first yeere, and one yong bullocke and two rammes: they shall be for a burnt offering vnto the Lord, with their meat offring and their drinke offrings, euen an offering made by fire of sweet sauour vnto the Lord. 
19. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goates, for a sinne offering, and two lambes of the first yeere, for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 
20. And the Priest shall waue them with the bread of the first fruits, for a waue-offring before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shalbe holy to the Lord for the Priests. 
21. And ye shal proclaime on the selfe same day, that it may be an holy conuocation vnto you: ye shall doe no seruile worke therein: it shall be a statute for euer in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 
22. And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not make cleane riddance of the corners of the field, when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy haruest: thou shalt leaue them vnto the poore, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God. 
23. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
24. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, In the seuenth moneth, in the first day of the moneth shall yee haue a Sabbath, a memoriall of blowing of trumpets, an holy conuocation. 
25. Ye shall do no seruile worke therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
26. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
27. Also on the tenth day of this seuenth moneth, there shalbe a day of atonement, it shalbe an holy conuocation vnto you, & ye shall afflict your soules, and offer an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
28. And ye shall doe no worke in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you, before the Lord your God. 
29. For whatsoeuer soule it bee that shall not bee afflicted in that same day, hee shall bee cut off from among his people. 
30. And whatsoeuer soule it bee that doeth any worke in that same day, the same soule will I destroy from among his people. 
31. Ye shall doe no maner of worke: it shall be a statute for euer throughout your generations, in all your dwellings. 
32. It shalbe vnto you a Sabbath of rest, and yee shall afflict your soules in the ninth day of the moneth at Euen, from Euen vnto Euen shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. 
33. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
34. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seuenth moneth, shall be the feast of Tabernacles for seuen dayes vnto the Lord. 
35. On the first day shalbe an holy conuocation: ye shall doe no seruile worke therein. 
36. Seuen dayes ye shall offer an offring made by fire vnto the Lord, on the eight day shall be an holy conuocation vnto you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire vnto the Lord: It is a solemne assembly, and ye shall doe no seruile worke therein. 
37. These are the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaime to be holy conuocations, to offer an offering made by fire vnto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, & drinke offerings, euery thing vpon his day; 
38. Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vowes, and beside all your free will offerings, which ye giue vnto the Lord. 
39. Also in the fifteenth day of the seuenth moneth when yee haue gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keepe a feast vnto the Lord seuen dayes. On the first day shall bee a Sabbath, and on the eight day shall bee a Sabbath. 
40. And ye shall take you on the first day the boughes of goodly trees, branches of Palme trees, and the boughes of thicke trees, and willowes of the brooke, and yee shall reioyce before the Lord your God seuen dayes. 
41. And yee shall keepe it a feast vnto the Lord seuen dayes in the yeere: It shalbe a Statute for euer in your generations, ye shall celebrate it in the seuenth moneth. 
42. Ye shall dwell in boothes seuen dayes: all that are Israelites borne, shall dwell in boothes; 
43. That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in boothes, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 
44. And Moses declared vnto the children of Israel the feastes of the Lord. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Command the children of Israel, that they bring vnto thee pure oyle Oliue, beaten, for the light, to cause the lampes to burne continually. 
3. Without the Uaile of the Testimonie, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, shal Aaron order it from the euening vnto the morning, before the Lord continually: It shall be a Statute for euer in your generations. 
4. He shall order the lampes vpon the pure Candlesticke before the Lord continually. 
5. And thou shalt take fine flowre, and bake twelue cakes thereof: two tenth deales shall be in one cake. 
6. And thou shalt set them in two rowes, sixe on a row vpon the pure Table, before the Lord. 
7. And thou shalt put pure frankincense vpon ech row, that it may bee on the bread for a memorial, euen an offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 
8. Euery Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an euerlasting couenant. 
9. And it shall be Aarons and his sonnes, and they shall eate it in the holy place: for it is most holy vnto him, of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetuall statute. 
10. And the sonne of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this sonne of the Israelitish woman, and a man of Israel stroue together in the campe. 
11. And the Israelitish womans sonne blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed, and they brought him vnto Moses: and his mothers name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 
12. And they put him in ward, that the minde of the Lord might bee shewed them. 
13. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
14. Bring forth him that hath cursed, without the Campe, and let all that heard him, lay their hands vpon his head, and let all the Congregation stone him. 
15. And thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoeuer curseth his God, shall beare his sinne. 
16. And hee that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the Congregation shall certainely stone him: Aswell the stranger, as he that is borne in the land, when he blasphemeth the Name of the Lord, shall be put to death. 
17. And he that killeth any man, shall surely be put to death. 
18. And he that killeth a beast, shall make it good; beast for beast. 
19. And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shal it be done to him: 
20. Breach, for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him againe. 
21. And hee that killeth a beast, hee shall restore it: and hee that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. 
22. Ye shall haue one maner of law, aswell for the stranger, as for one of your owne countrey: for I am the Lord your God. 
23. And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring foorth him that had cursed, out of the Campe, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them: when yee come into the land which I giue you, then shall the land keepe a Sabbath vnto the Lord. 
3. Sixe yeeres thou shalt sow thy field, and sixe yeeres thou shalt prune thy Uineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof. 
4. But in the seuenth yeere shalbe a Sabbath of rest vnto the land, a Sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy Uineyard. 
5. That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou shalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Uine vndressed: for it is a yeere of rest vnto the land. 
6. And the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy seruant, and for thy mayd, and for thy hired seruant, and for the stranger that soiourneth with thee, 
7. And for thy cattel, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the encrease thereof be meat. 
8. And thou shalt number seuen Sabbaths of yeeres vnto thee, seuen times seuen yeeres, and the space of the seuen Sabbaths of yeeres, shall be vnto thee fourtie and nine yeeres. 
9. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Iubile to sound, on the tenth day of the seuenth moneth; in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 
10. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth yeere, and proclaime libertie throughout all the land, vnto al the inhabitants thereof: It shalbe a Iubile vnto you, and ye shall returne euery man vnto his possession, and ye shall returne euery man vnto his family. 
11. A Iubile shall that fiftieth yeere be vnto you: Ye shall not sow, neither reape that which groweth of it selfe in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy Uine vndressed. 
12. For it is the Iubile, it shall be holy vnto you: ye shall eate the encrease thereof out of the field. 
13. In the yeere of this Iubile yee shall returne euery man vnto his possession. 
14. And if thou sell ought vnto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand, ye shall not oppresse one another. 
15. According to the number of yeres after the Iubile, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according vnto the number of yeeres of the fruits, he shall sell vnto thee. 
16. According to the multitude of yeeres, thou shalt encrease the price thereof, and according to the fewnesse of yeeres, thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the yeeres of the fruites doeth hee sell vnto thee. 
17. Yee shall not therefore oppresse one another; but thou shalt feare thy God: For I am the Lord your God. 
18. Wherefore ye shall do my Statutes, and keepe my Iudgements, and doe them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safetie. 
19. And the land shall yeeld her fruit, and ye shal eat your fill, and dwell therin in safetie. 
20. And if ye shall say, What shall we eate the seuenth yeere? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 
21. Then I will command my blessing vpon you in the sixt yeere, and it shall bring forth fruit for three yeeres. 
22. And ye shall sow the eight yeere, and eat yet of old fruit, vntill the ninth yeere: vntill her fruits come in, ye shall eate of the old store. 
23. The land shall not be sold for euer: for the land is mine, for ye were strangers and soiourners with me. 
24. And in all the land of your possession, ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 
25. If thy brother be waxen poore, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kinne come to redeeme it, then shall hee redeeme that which his brother sold. 
26. And if the man haue none to redeeme it, and himselfe bee able to redeeme it: 
27. Then let him count the yeeres of the sale therof, and restore the ouerplus vnto the man, to whom he sold it, that he may returne vnto his possession. 
28. But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold, shall remaine in the hand of him that hath bought it, vntill the yeere of Iubile: and in the Iubile it shall goe out, and he shall returne vnto his possession. 
29. And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled citie, then he may redeeme it within a whole yeere after it is solde: within a full yeere may he redeeme it. 
30. And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full yeere, then the house that is in the walled citie, shall be stablished for euer to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not goe out in the Iubile. 
31. But the houses of the villages which haue no walles round about them, shall bee counted as the fields of the countrey: they may ee redeemed, and they shall goe out in the Iubile. 
32. Notwithstanding, the cities of the Leuites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Leuites redeeme at any time. 
33. And if a man purchase of the Leuites, then the house that was sold, and the citie of his possession shall goe out in the yeere of Iubile: for the houses of the cities of the Leuites are their possession among the children of Israel. 
34. But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetuall possession. 
35. And if thy brother bee waxen poore, and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt relieue him, yea though he be a stranger, or a soiourner, that hee may liue with thee. 
36. Take thou no vsurie of him, or increase: but feare thy God, that thy brother may liue with thee. 
37. Thou shalt not giue him thy money vpon vsurie, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 
38. I am the Lord your God, which brought you foorth out of the land of Egypt, to giue you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 
39. And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poore, and be sold vnto thee, thou shalt not compell him to serue as a bond seruant. 
40. But as an hired seruant, and as a soiourner he shall be with thee, and shall serue thee vnto the yere of Iubile. 
41. And then shall hee depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall returne vnto his owne familie, and vnto the possession of his fathers shall he returne. 
42. For they are my seruants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bond men. 
43. Thou shalt not rule ouer him with rigour, but shalt feare thy God. 
44. Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt haue, shall be of the Heathen, that are round about you: of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 
45. Moreouer, of the children of the strangers that do soiourne among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shalbe your possession. 
46. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherite them for a possession, they shal bee your bondmen for euer: but ouer your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one ouer another with rigour. 
47. And if a soiourner or stranger waxe rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him waxe poore, and sell himselfe vnto the stranger or soiourner by thee, or to the stocke of the strangers family: 
48. After that he is sold, hee may be redeemed againe: one of his brethren may redeeme him. 
49. Either his vncle, or his vncles sonne may redeeme him, or any that is nigh of kinne vnto him, of his family, may redeeme him: or if he be able, hee may redeeme himselfe. 
50. And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the yeere that he was sold to him, vnto the yeere of Iubile, and the price of his sale shalbe according vnto the number of yeeres, according to the time of an hired seruant shall it be with him. 
51. If there be yet many yeeres behinde, according vnto them hee shall giue againe the price of his redemption, out of the money that hee was bought for. 
52. And if there remaine but few yeeres vnto the yeere of Iubile, then he shall count with him, and according vnto his yeeres shall he giue him againe the price of his redemption. 
53. And as a yeerely hired seruant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour ouer him in thy sight. 
54. And if hee be not redeemed in these yeeres, then he shall goe out in the yeere of Iubile, both he, and his children with him. 
55. For vnto me the children of Israel are seruants, they are my seruants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 
1. Yee shall make you no Idoles nor grauen Image, neither reare you vp a standing image, neither shall yee set vp any Image of stone in your land, to bow downe vnto it: For I am the Lord your God. 
2. Ye shal keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord. 
3. If ye walke in my Statutes, and keepe my Commandements, and doe them; 
4. Then I will giue you raine in due season, and the land shall yeeld her increase, and the trees of the field shall yeeld their fruit. 
5. And your threshing shall reach vnto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach vnto the sowing time: and yee shal eat your bread to the full, and dwel in your land safely. 
6. And I wil giue peace in the land, and ye shall lye downe, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid euill beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword goe through your land. 
7. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 
8. And fiue of you shal chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 
9. For I wil haue respect vnto you, and make you fruitfull, and multiply you, & establish my couenant with you. 
10. And yee shall eate old store, and bring forth the old, because of the new. 
11. And I will set my Tabernacle amongst you: and my soule shall not abhorre you. 
12. And I will walke among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 
13. I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that yee should not be their bondmen, & I haue broken the bandes of your yoke, and made you go vpright. 
14. But if ye will not hearken vnto me, and will not doe all these Commandements: 
15. And if ye shall despise my Statutes, or if your soule abhorre my Iudgements, so that ye wil not doe all my Commandements, but that yee breake my Couenant: 
16. I also will doe this vnto you, I will euen appoint ouer you terrour, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seede in vaine, for your enemies shall eate it. 
17. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slaine before your enemies: they that hate you shall reigne ouer you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 
18. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken vnto me, then I will punish you seuen times more for your sinnes. 
19. And I will breake the pride of your power, and I will make your heauen as yron, and your earth as brasse: 
20. And your strength shall be spent in vaine: for your land shall not yeeld her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yeeld their fruits. 
21. And if ye walke contrary vnto me, and will not hearken vnto mee, I will bring seuen times moe plagues vpon you, according to your sinnes. 
22. I will also send wilde beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattell, and make you few in number, and your high wayes shall be desolate. 
23. And if ye will not be reformed by these things, but will walke contrary vnto me: 
24. Then will I also walke contrary vnto you, and will punish you yet seuen times for your sinnes. 
25. And I will bring a sword vpon you, that shall auenge the quarell of my couenant: and when yee are gathered together within your cities, I wil send the pestilence among you, and ye shalbe deliuered into the hand of the enemie. 
26. And when I haue broken the staffe of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one ouen, and they shall deliuer you your bread againe by weight: and ye shall eate, and not bee satisfied. 
27. And if ye wil not for all this hearken vnto me, but walke contrary vnto mee, 
28. Then I wil walke contrary vnto you also in fury, and I, euen I will chastise you seuen times for your sinnes. 
29. And ye shal eate the flesh of your sonnes, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eate. 
30. And I will destroy your high places, and cut downe your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the carkeises of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you. 
31. And I wil make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries vnto desolation, and I will not smell the sauour of your sweet odours. 
32. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwel therein, shall be astonished at it. 
33. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 
34. Then shall the lande enioy her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and yee be in your enemies land, euen then shall the land rest, and enioy her Sabbaths. 
35. As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest: because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt vpon it. 
36. And vpon them that are left aliue of you, I will send a faintnesse into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leafe shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword: and they shall fall, when none pursueth. 
37. And they shall fall one vpon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and yee shall haue no power to stand before your enemies. 
38. And yee shall perish among the Heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eate you vp. 
39. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquitie in your enemies lands, and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 
40. If they shall confesse the iniquitie of their fathers, with their trespasse which they trespassed against me, and that also they haue walked contrary vnto me: 
41. And that I also haue walked contrary vnto them, and haue brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their vncircumcised hearts bee humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquitie: 
42. Then will I remember my couenant with Iacob, and also my couenant with Isaac, and also my couenant with Abraham will I remember, and I will remember the land. 
43. The land also shalbe left of them, and shall enioy her Sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquitie: because, euen because they despised my Iudgements, and because their soule abhorred my Statutes 
44. And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhorre them, to destroy them vtterly, and to breake my couenant with them: for I am the Lord their God. 
45. But I wil for their sakes remember the couenant of their Ancestours, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. 
46. These are the Statutes, and Iudgements, and Lawes which the Lord made betweene him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When a man shal make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord, by thy estimation. 
3. And thy estimation shall be: Of the male from twentie yeeres old, euen vnto sixtie yeeres old: euen thy estimation shall be fiftie shekels of siluer, after the shekel of the Sanctuary. 
4. And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirtie shekels. 
5. And if it be from fiue yeeres olde, euen vnto twentie yeeres old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twentie shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 
6. And if it be from a moneth old, euen vnto fiue yeeres old, then thy estimation shall be of the male, fiue shekels of siluer, and for the female, thy estimation shall be three shekels of siluer. 
7. And if it be from sixtie yeeres old, and aboue, if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteene shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 
8. But if he bee poorer then thy estimation, then he shall present himselfe before the Priest, and the Priest shall value him: according to his abilitie that vowed, shall the Priest value him. 
9. And if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering vnto the Lord, all that any man giueth of such vnto the Lord, shall be holy. 
10. He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: And if hee shall at all change beast for beast, then it, and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 
11. And if it be any vncleane beast, of which they doe not offer a sacrifice vnto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the Priest: 
12. And the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it who art the Priest: so shall it be. 
13. But if hee will at all redeeme it, then he shall adde a fift part thereof vnto thy estimation. 
14. And when a man shall sanctifie his house to be holy vnto the Lord, then the Priest shal estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the Priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 
15. And if he that sanctified it, will redeeme his house, then he shall adde the fift part of the money of thy estimation vnto it, and it shall be his. 
16. And if a man shall sanctifie vnto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: An Homer of barley seed shall be valued at fiftie shekels of siluer. 
17. If hee sanctifie his field from the yeere of Iubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. 
18. But if hee sanctifie his field after the Iubile, then the Priest shall reckon vnto him the money, according to the yeeres that remaine, euen vnto the yeere of the Iubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. 
19. And if he that sanctified the field, will in any wise redeeme it, then he shal adde the fift part of the money of thy estimation vnto it, and it shall be assured to him. 
20. And if hee will not redeeme the field, or if he haue sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. 
21. But the field, when it goeth out in the Iubile, shall be holy vnto the Lord, as a field deuoted: the possession thereof shalbe the Priests. 
22. And if a man sanctifie vnto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fieldes of his possession: 
23. Then the Priest shall reckon vnto him the worth of thy estimation, euen vnto the yeere of the Iubile, and hee shall giue thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing vnto the Lord. 
24. In the yeere of the Iubile, the field shall returne vnto him of whom it was bought, euen to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 
25. And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the Sanctuarie: twentie Gerahs shall bee the shekel. 
26. Onely the firstling of the beasts which should be the Lords firstling, no man shall sanctifie it, whether it bee oxe, or sheepe: It is the Lords. 
27. And if it be of an vncleane beast, then hee shall redeeme it according to thine estimation, and shall adde a fifth part of it thereto: Or if it be not redeemed, then it shalbe sold according to thy estimation. 
28. Notwithstanding, no deuoted thing that a man shall deuote vnto the Lord, of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: euery deuoted thing is most holy vnto the Lord. 
29. None deuoted, which shalbe deuoted of men, shall be redeemed: but shall surely be put to death. 
30. And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lords: it is holy vnto the Lord. 
31. And if a man will at all redeeme ought of his tithes, he shall adde thereto the fifth part thereof. 
32. And concerning the tithe of the herde, or of the flocke, euen of whatsoeuer passeth vnder the rod, the tenth shalbe holy vnto the Lord. 
33. He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it, and the change thereof, shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. 
34. These are the Commandements which the Lord commanded Moses, for the children of Israel in mount Sinai. 
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, on the first day of the second moneth, in the second yeere, after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2. Take yee the summe of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, euery male by their polle:
3. From twentie yeeres old and vpward, all that are able to goe foorth to warre in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4. And with you there shalbe a man of euery Tribe: euery one head of the house of his fathers.
5. And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.
6. Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7. Of Iudah: Nahshon, the sonne of Amminadab.
8. Of Issachar: Nethaneel, the sonne of Zuar.
9. Of Zebulun: Eliab the sonne of Helon.
10. Of the children of Ioseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the sonne of Ammihud: of Manasseh, Gamaliel the sonne of Pedahzur.
11. Of Beniamin: Abidan, the sonne of Gideoni.
12. Of Dan: Ahiezer, the sonne of Ammishaddai.
13. Of Asher: Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.
14. Of Gad: Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel.
15. Of Naphthali: Ahira the sonne of Enan.
16. These were the renowned of the Congregation, Princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
17. And Moses and Aaron tooke these men, which are expressed by their names.
18. And they assembled all the Congregation together on the first day of the second moneth, and they declared their pedegrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward by their polle.
19. As the Lord commaunded Moses, so he numbred them in the wildernesse of Sinai.
20. And the children of Reuben Israels eldest sonne, by their generations after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polle, euery male from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to go forth to warre:
21. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Reuben, were fourty and sixe thousand and fiue hundred.
22. Of the children of Simeon by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbred of them, according to the number of the names, by their polles, euery male from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
23. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Simeon, were fiftie and nine thousand, and three hundred.
24. Of the children of Gad by their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
25. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Gad, were fourty and fiue thousand, sixe hundred and fiftie.
26. Of the children of Iudah by their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
27. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Iudah, were threescore and fourteene thousand, and sixe hundred.
28. Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
29. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Issachar, were fiftie and foure thousand, and foure hundred.
30. Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
31. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Zebulun, were fiftie and seuen thousand and foure hundred.
32. Of the children of Ioseph; namely of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
33. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Ephraim, were fourty thousand and fiue hundred.
34. Of the children of Manasseh by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to go forth to warre:
35. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand, and two hundred.
36. Of the children of Beniamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
37. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Beniamin, were thirtie and fiue thousand, and foure hundred.
38. Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twentie yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre:
39. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand, and seuen hundred.
40. Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twentie yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre:
41. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Asher, were fourtie and one thousand, and fiue hundred.
42. Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twentie yeeres olde and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre:
43. Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Naphtali, were fiftie and three thousand, and foure hundred.
44. These are those that were numbred, which Moses and Aaron numbred, and the Princes of Israel, being twelue men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
45. So were all those that were numbred of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre in Israel:
46. Euen all they, that were numbred, were sixe hundred thousand, and three thousand, and fiue hundred and fiftie.
47. But the Leuites after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbred among them.
48. For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, saying,
49. Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the children of Israel.
50. But thou shalt appoint the Leuites ouer the Tabernacle of Testimonie, and ouer all the vessels thereof, and ouer all things that belong to it: they shall beare the Tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof, and they shall minister vnto it, and shall encampe round about the Tabernacle.
51. And when the Tabernacle setteth forward, the Leuites shall take it downe: and when the Tabernacle is to be pitched, the Leuites shall set it vp: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall be put to death.
52. And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents euery man by his own campe, and euery man by his owne standerd, throughout their hostes.
53. But the Leuites shall pitch round about the Tabernacle of Testimonie, that there be no wrath vpon the Congregation of the children of Israel: and the Leuites shall keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of Testimonie.
54. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
2. Euery man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his owne standerd, with the ensigne of their fathers house: farre off about the Tabernacle of the Congregation shall they pitch.
3. And on the East side toward the rising of the Sunne, shall they of the standerd of the campe of Iudah pitch, throughout their armies: and Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab, shall bee captaine of the children of Iudah.
4. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were threescore and fourteene thousand, and sixe hundred.
5. And those that doe pitch next vnto him, shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the sonne of Zuar, shall bee captaine of the children of Issachar.
6. And his hoste, and those that were numbred thereof, were fiftie and foure thousand, and foure hundred.
7. Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the sonne of Helon, shalbe captaine of the children of Zebulun.
8. And his hoste and those that were numbred thereof, were fiftie and seuen thousand, and foure hundred.
9. All that were numbred in the Campe of Iudah, were an hundred thousand, and fourescore thousand, and sixe thousand, and foure hundred, throughout their armies: these shall first set foorth.
10. On the Southside shall be the standerd of the Campe of Reuben, according to their armies: and the captaine of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.
11. And his hoste, and those that were numbred thereof, were fourtie and sixe thousand, and fiue hundred.
12. And those which pitch by him, shall bee the tribe of Simeon, and the captaine of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai.
13. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were fiftie and nine thousand, and three hundred.
14. Then the tribe of Gad: and the captaine of the sonnes of Gad shall be Eliasaph the sonne of Revelation
15. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were fourtie and fiue thousand, and sixe hundred and fiftie.
16. All that were numbred in the Campe of Reuben were an hundred thousand, and fiftie and one thousand, and foure hundred and fiftie throughout their armies: and they shall set foorth in the second ranke.
17. Then the Tabernacle of the Congregation shall set forward with the Campe of the Leuites, in the midst of the Campe: as they encampe, so shall they set forward, euery man in his place by their standerds.
18. On the West side shall bee the standerd of the Campe of Ephraim, according to their armies: and the captaine of the sonnes of Ephraim, shall be Elishama the sonne of Ammihud.
19. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were fourtie thousand and fiue hundred.
20. And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captaine of the children of Manasseh, shalbe Gamaliel the sonne of Pedahzur.
21. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were thirtie and two thousand, and two hundred.
22. Then the tribe of Beniamin: and the captaine of the sonnes of Beniamin, shall bee Abidan the sonne of Gideoni.
23. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were thirtie and fiue thousand, and foure hundred.
24. All that were numbred of the Campe of Ephraim, were an hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and an hundred, throughout their armies: and they shall goe forward in the third ranke.
25. The standerd of the Campe of Dan shall be on the Northside by their armies: and the captaine of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer, the sonne of Ammishaddai.
26. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were threescore and two thousand, and seuen hundred.
27. And those that encampe by him, shalbe the tribe of Asher: and the captaine of the children of Asher, shalbe Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.
28. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were fourtie and one thousand, and fiue hundred.
29. Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captaine of the children of Naphtali, shall bee Ahira the sonne of Enan.
30. And his hoste, and those that were numbred of them, were fiftie and three thousand, and foure hundred.
31. All they that were numbred in the Campe of Dan, were an hundred thousand, and fifty and seuen thousand, and sixe hundred: they shall goe hindmost with their standerds.
32. These are those which were numbred of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers; all those that were numbred of the Campes throughout their hostes, were sixe hundred thousand, and three thousand, and fiue hundred and fiftie.
33. But the Leuites were not numbred among the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
34. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standerds, and so they set forward euery one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
1. These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.
2. And these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the first borne, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
3. These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the Priests, which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the Priests office.
4. And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wildernesse of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministred in the Priests office in the sight of Aaron their father.
5. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
6. Bring the tribe of Leui neere, and present them before Aaron the Priest, that they may minister vnto him.
7. And they shall keepe his charge, and the charge of the whole Congregation before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.
8. And they shall keepe all the instruments of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.
9. And thou shalt giue the Leuites vnto Aaron and to his sonnes: they are wholly giuen vnto him out of the children of Israel.
10. And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sonnes, and they shall waite on their priests office: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall bee put to death.
11. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
12. And I, behold, I haue taken the Leuites from among the children of Israel, in stead of all the first borne that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel: therefore the Leuites shall be mine,
13. Because all the first borne are mine: for on the day that I smote all the first borne in the land of Egypt, I halowed vnto mee all the first borne in Israel, both man, and beast, mine they shall be: I am the Lord.
14. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying,
15. Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them.
16. And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
17. And these were the sonnes of Leui, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
18. And these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon, by their families: Libni, and Shimei.
19. And the sonnes of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel.
20. And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli, and Mushi: these are the families of the Leuites, according to the house of their fathers.
21. Of Gershon was the familie of the Libnites, and the familie of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
22. Those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males, from a moneth old and vpward, euen those that were numbred of them, were seuen thousand and fiue hundred.
23. The families of the Gershonites shal pitch behind the Tabernacle Westward.
24. And the chiefe of the house of the father of the Gershonites, shall be Eliasaph the sonne of Lael.
25. And the charge of the sonnes of Gershon, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, shall be the Tabernacle, and the tent, the couering thereof, and the hanging for the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation:
26. And the hangings of the Court, and the curtaine for the doore of the court, which is by the Tabernacle, and by the Altar round about, and the cords of it, for all the seruice therof.
27. And of Kohath was the familie of the Amramites, and the familie of the Izeharites, and the familie of the Hebronites, and the familie of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
28. In the number of all the males, from a moneth olde and vpward, were eight thousand, and sixe hundred, keeping the charge of the Sanctuary.
29. The families of the sonnes of Kohath, shall pitch on the side of the Tabernacle Southward.
30. And the chiefe of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shalbe Elizaphan the sonne of Uzziel.
31. And their charge shall be the Arke, and the Table, and the Candlesticke, and the altars, and the vessels of the Sanctuarie, wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the seruice thereof.
32. And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, shall be chiefe ouer the chiefe of the Leuites, and haue the ouersight of them that keepe the charge of the Sanctuary.
33. Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
34. And those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males from a moneth old & vpward, were sixe thousand and two hundred.
35. And the chiefe of the house of the father of the families of Merari, was Zuriel the sonne of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the Tabernacle Northwards.
36. And vnder the custody and charge of the sonnes of Merari, shall bee the boards of the Tabernacle, and the barres thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, & all the vessels thereof, and all that serueth thereto:
37. And the pillars of the Court round about, and their sockets, and their pinnes, and their cords.
38. But those that encampe before the Tabernacle toward the East, euen before the Tabernacle of the Congregation Eastward, shall be Moses and Aaron, and his sonnes, keeping the charge of the Sanctuary, for the charge of the children of Israel: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall be put to death.
39. All that were numbred of the Leuites, which Moses and Aaron numbred at the commaundement of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a moneth old and vpward, were twenty and two thousand.
40. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Number all the first borne of the males of the children of Israel, from a moneth old and vpward, and take the number of their names.
41. And thou shalt take the Leuites for me, (I am the Lord ) in stead of all the first borne among the children of Israel, and the cattell of the Leuites, in stead of all the firstlings among the cattell of the children of Israel.
42. And Moses numbred as the Lord commanded him, all the first borne among the children of Israel.
43. And all the first borne males, by the number of names, from a moneth old & vpward, of those that were numbred of them, were twenty and two thousand, two hundred, and threescore and thirteene.
44. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
45. Take the Leuites in stead of all the first borne among the children of Israel, and the cattell of the Leuites in stead of their cattell, and the Leuites shalbe mine: I am the Lord.
46. And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteene, of the first borne of the children of Israel, which are more then the Leuites;
47. Thou shalt euen take fiue shekels a piece, by the polle, after the shekel of the Sanctuary shalt thou take them; the shekel is twenty gerahs.
48. And thou shalt giue the money, wherewith the odde number of them is to be redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes.
49. And Moses tooke the redemption money, of them that were ouer and aboue them that were redeemed by the Leuites.
50. Of the first borne of the children of Israel tooke he the money; a thousand, three hundred, and threescore and fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary.
51. And Moses gaue the money of them that were redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
2. Take the summe of the sonnes of Kohath, from among the sonnes of Leui, after their families, by the house of their fathers.
3. From thirty yeeres old and vpward, euen vntil fifty yeres old, all that enter into the hoste, to doe the worke in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
4. This shall bee the seruice of the sonnes of Kohath, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, about the most Holy things.
5. And when the Campe setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sonnes, and they shall take downe the couering Uaile, and couer the Arke of Testimony with it:
6. And shall put thereon the couering of badgers skinnes, & shall spread ouer it a cloth wholly of blew, and shall put in the staues thereof.
7. And vpon the table of Shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blew, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoones, and the bowles, and couers to couer withall: and the continual bread shalbe thereon.
8. And they shall spread vpon them a clothe of scarlet, and couer the same with a couering of badgers skinnes, and shall put in the staues thereof.
9. And they shall take a cloth of blew, and couer the candlesticke of the light, and his lampes, and his tongs, and his snuffe dishes, and all the oyle vessels thereof, wherewith they minister vnto it.
10. And they shall put it, and all the vessels thereof, within a couering of badgers skinnes, and shall put it vpon a barre.
11. And vpon the golden Altar they shall spread a cloth of blew, and couer it with a couering of badgers skinnes, and shall put to the staues thereof.
12. And they shall take all the instruments of ministery, wherewith they minister in the Sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blew, and couer them with a couering of badgers skinnes, and shall put them on a barre.
13. And they shall take away the ashes from the Altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
14. And they shall put vpon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, euen the censers, the fleshhookes, and the shouels, and the basons, all the vessels of the Altar: and they shall spread vpon it a couering of badgers skinnes, and put to the staues of it.
15. And when Aaron and his sonnes haue made an end of couering the Sanctuary, and all the vessels of the Sanctuary, as the campe is to set forward; after that, the sonnes of Kohath shall come to beare it: but they shal not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sonnes of Kohath in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
16. And to the office of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, perteineth the oile for the light, and the sweet incense, and the dayly meat offering, and the anoynting oyle, and the ouersight of all the Tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the Sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
17. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
18. Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites, from among the Leuites.
19. But thus doe vnto them, that they may liue, and not die: when they approche vnto the most Holy things, Aaron and his sonnes shall goe in, and appoint them euery one to his seruice, and to his burden.
20. But they shall not goe in to see when the holy things are couered, lest they die.
21. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
22. Take also the summe of the sonnes of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families:
23. From thirtie yeeres old and vpward, vntill fiftie yeeres old shalt thou number them: all that enter in to performe the seruice, to doe the worke in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
24. This is the seruice of the families of the Gershonites, to serue, and for burdens.
25. And they shall beare the curtaines of the Tabernacle, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation; his couering, and the couering of the badgers skinnes that is aboue vpon it, and the hanging for the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation:
26. And the hangings of the Court, and the hanging for the doore of the gate of the Court which is by the Tabernacle, and by the Altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their seruice, and all that is made for them: so shall they serue.
27. At the appointment of Aaron and his sonnes, shall be all the seruice of the sonnes of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their seruice: and yee shall appoint vnto them in charge all their burdens.
28. This is the seruice of the families of the sonnes of Gershon, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and their charge shalbe vnder the hande of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the Priest.
29. As for the sonnes of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers:
30. From thirty yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fiftie yeeres old shalt thou number them, euery one that entreth in to the seruice, to doe the worke of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
31. And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their seruice, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, the boards of the Tabernacle, and the barres thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof:
32. And the pillars of the Court round about, and their sockets, and their pinnes, and their coards, with all their instruments, and with all their seruice: and by name yee shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
33. This is the seruice of the families of the sonnes of Merari, according to all their seruice in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, vnder the hand of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the Priest.
34. And Moses and Aaron, and the chiefe of the Congregation, numbred the sonnes of the Kohathites, after their families, and after the house of their fathers;
35. From thirtie yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fiftie yeeres old, euery one that entreth in to the seruice, for the worke in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
36. And those that were numbred of them by their families, were two thousand, seuen hundred and fiftie.
37. These were they that were numbred of the families of the Kohathites; all that might doe seruice in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number, according to the commandement of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
38. And those that were numbred of the sonnes of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers;
39. From thirtie yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fiftie yeeres old, euery one that entreth in to the seruice, for the worke in the Tabernacle of the Congregation:
40. Euen those that were numbred of them, throughout their families, by the houses of their fathers, were two thousand, and sixe hundred and thirtie.
41. These are they that were numbred of the families of the sonnes of Gershon, of all that might doe seruice in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number, according to the commandement of the Lord.
42. And those that were numbred of the families of the sonnes of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers:
43. From thirtie yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fiftie yeeres old, euery one that entreth in to the seruice, for the worke in the Tabernacle of the Congregation:
44. Euen those that were numbred of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
45. These be those that were numbred of the families of the sonnes of Merari, whom Moses & Aaron numbred according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
46. All those that were numbred of the Leuites, whom Moses and Aaron, and the chiefe of Israel numbred, after their families, and after the house of their fathers:
47. From thirty yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fifty yeeres old, euery one that came to doe the seruice of the ministery, and the seruice of the burden in the Tabernacle of the Congregation:
48. Euen those that were numbred of them, were eight thousand, and fiue hundred, and fourescore.
49. According to the commandement of the Lord, they were numbred by the hand of Moses, euery one according to his seruice, and according to his burden: Thus were they numbred of him, as the Lord commanded Moses.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Commaund the children of Israel, that they put out of the campe euery leper, and euery one that hath an issue, and whosoeuer is defiled by the dead:
3. Both male and female shal ye put out, without the campe shall yee put them, that they defile not their campes in the middest whereof I dwell.
4. And the children of Israel did so, and put them out, without the campe: as the Lord spake vnto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
6. Speake vnto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sinne that men commit, to doe a trespasse against the Lord, and that person be guiltie;
7. Then they shall confesse their sinne, which they haue done: and hee shall recompense his trespasse, with the principall thereof, and adde vnto it the fifth part thereof, and giue it vnto him against whom he hath trespassed.
8. But if the man haue no kinsman to recompense the trespasse vnto, let the trespasse be recompensed vnto the Lord, euen to the Priest: beside the ramme of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9. And euery offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring vnto the Priest, shall be his.
10. And euery mans halowed things shall be his: whatsoeuer any man giueth the Priest, it shall be his.
11. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
12. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, If any mans wife goe aside, and commit a trespasse against him;
13. And a man lye with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witnesse against her, neither she be taken with the maner;
14. And the spirit of ielousie come vpon him, and he be ielous of his wife, and shee be defiled: or if the spirit of ielousie come vpon him, and hee be ielous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15. Then shall the man bring his wife vnto the Priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an Ephah of barley meale: hee shall powre no oyle vpon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of ielousie, an offering of memoriall, bringing iniquitie to remembrance:
16. And the Priest shall bring her neere, and set her before the Lord.
17. And the Priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessell, and of the dust that is in the floore of the Tabernacle the Priest shall take, and put it into the water:
18. And the Priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and vncouer the womans head, and put the offering of memoriall in her hands, which is the Ielousie offering: and the Priest shall haue in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse.
19. And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.
20. But if thou hast gone aside to another in stead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man hath lien with thee beside thine husband:
21. Then the Priest shall charge the woman with an othe of cursing, and the Priest shall say vnto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse, and an othe among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell.
22. And this water that causeth the curse, shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: and the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.
23. And the Priest shall write these curses in a booke, and hee shall blot them out with the bitter water:
24. And he shall cause the woman to drinke the bitter water, that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
25. Then the Priest shall take the ielousie offering out of the womans hand, and shall waue the offering before the Lord, and offer it vpon the Altar.
26. And the Priest shal take an handfull of the offering, euen the memoriall thereof, and burne it vpon the Altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drinke the water.
27. And when he hath made her to drinke the water, then it shall come to passe, that if shee be defiled, and haue done trespasse against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse, shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shal rot: and the woman shalbe a curse among her people.
28. And if the woman be not defiled, but be cleane, then she shall be free, and shall conceiue seed.
29. This is the law of ielousies, when a wife goeth aside to another in stead of her husband, and is defiled:
30. Or when the spirit of ielousie commeth vpon him, and hee be ielous ouer his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the Priest shal execute vpon her all this law.
31. Then shall the man bee guiltlesse from iniquitie, and this woman shall beare her iniquitie.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselues to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselues vnto the Lord:
3. Hee shall separate himselfe from wine, and strong drinke, and shal drinke no vineger of wine, or vineger of strong drinke, neither shal he drinke any liquor of grapes, nor eate moist grapes, or dried.
4. All the dayes of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels euen to the huske.
5. All the dayes of the vow of his separation, there shall no rasour come vpon his head: vntill the dayes bee fulfilled in the which hee separateth himselfe vnto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the lockes of the haire of his head grow.
6. All the dayes that he separateth himselfe vnto the Lord, hee shall come at no dead body.
7. Hee shall not make himselfe vncleane for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is vpon his head.
8. All the dayes of his separation he is holy vnto the Lord.
9. And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shaue his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seuenth day shall he shaue it.
10. And on the eight day he shal bring two turtles or two yong pigeons to the Priest, to the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
11. And the Priest shall offer the one for a sinne offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that hee sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
12. And hee shall consecrate vnto the Lord the dayes of his separation, and shall bring a lambe of the first yeere for a trespasse offering: but the dayes that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
13. And this is the Lawe of the Nazarite: when the dayes of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
14. And he shall offer his offring vnto the Lord, one hee lambe of the first yeere without blemish, for a burnt offering, and one ewe lambe of the first yeere without blemish, for a sinne offering, and one lambe without blemish for peace offerings,
15. And a basket of vnleauened bread, cakes of fine flowre mingled with oyle, and wafers of vnleauened bread anointed with oyle, and their meate offering, and their drinke offerings.
16. And the Priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sinne offering, and his burnt offering.
17. And he shall offer the ramme for a sacrifice of peace offerings vnto the Lord, with the basket of vnleauened bread: the Priest shall offer also his meate offering, and his drinke offering.
18. And the Nazarite shal shaue the head of his separation, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shall take the haire of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is vnder the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
19. And the Priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ramme, and one vnleauened cake out of the basket, and one vnleauened wafer, and shall put them vpon the hands of the Nazarite, after the haire of his separation is shauen.
20. And the Priest shall waue them for a waue offring before the Lord: this is holy for the Priest, with the waue breast, and heaue shoulder: and after that, the Nazarite may drinke wine.
21. This is the Law of the Nazarite, who hath vowed, and of his offering vnto the Lord for his separation, besides that, that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
22. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
23. Speake vnto Aaron, and vnto his sonnes, saying, On this wise ye shall blesse the children of Israel, saying vnto them:
24. The Lord blesse thee, and keepe thee:
25. The Lord make his face shine vpon thee, and be gracious vnto thee:
26. The Lord lift vp his countenance vpon thee, and giue thee peace.
27. And they shall put my Name vpon the children of Israel, and I will blesse them.
1. And it came to passe on the day that Moses had fully set vp the Tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the Altar, and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them:
2. That the Princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, (who were the Princes of the tribes, and were ouer them that were numbred) offered:
3. And they brought their offering before the Lord, sixe couered wagons, and twelue oxen: a wagon for two of the Princes, and for each one an oxe, and they brought them before the Tabernacle.
4. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
5. Take it of them, that they may be to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and thou shalt giue them vnto the Leuites, to euery man according to his seruice.
6. And Moses tooke the wagons, and the oxen, and gaue them vnto the Leuites.
7. Two wagons and foure oxen he gaue vnto the sonnes of Gershon, according to their seruice.
8. And foure wagons and eight oxen he gaue vnto the sonnes of Merari, according vnto their seruice, vnder the hand of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the Priest.
9. But vnto the sonnes of Kohath he gaue none: because the seruice of the Sanctuary belonging vnto them, was that they should beare vpon their shoulders.
10. And the Princes offered for dedicating of the Altar, in the day that it was anointed, euen the Princes offered their offering before the Altar.
11. And the Lord said vnto Moses, They shall offer their offering eche Prince on his day, for the dedicating of the Altar.
12. And he that offered his offring the first day, was Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab, of the tribe of Iudah.
13. And his offering was one siluer charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flowre mingled with oile for a meat offering:
14. One spoone of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
15. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere, for a burnt offering,
16. One kid of the goats for a sinne offering:
17. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere: this was the offering of Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab.
18. On the second day Nethaneel the sonne of Zuar, Prince of Issachar did offer.
19. He offered for his offering one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuenty shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oile, for a meat offering:
20. One spoone of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
21. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
22. One kid of the goats for a sinne offering:
23. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere: this was the offering of Nethaneel the sonne of Zuar.
24. On the third day Eliab the sonne of Helon, Prince of the children of Zebulun did offer.
25. His offering was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oile, for a meat offering:
26. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
27. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
28. One kid of the goats for a sinne offering:
29. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere: This was the offring of Eliab the sonne of Helon.
30. On the fourth day Elizur the sonne of Shedeur, Prince of the children of Reuben did offer.
31. His offering was one siluer charger of an hundred and thirty shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oyle, for a meat offering:
32. One golden spoone of tenne shekels, full of incense:
33. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
34. One kid of the goats for a sinne offering:
35. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambs of the first yere: This was the offering of Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.
36. On the fifth day Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai Prince of the children of Simeon, did offer.
37. His offring was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre, mingled with oyle, for a meate offering:
38. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
39. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
40. One kidde of the goates for a sinne offering:
41. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of the first yeere: This was the offering of Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai.
42. On the sixt day, Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel, Prince of the children of Gad, offered:
43. His offering was one siluer charger of the weight of an hundred and thirtie shekels, a siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both of them ful of fine flowre mingled with oyle, for a meate offering:
44. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
45. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere, for a burnt offering:
46. One kid of the goates for a sinne offering:
47. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of the first yeere. This was the offering of Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel.
48. On the seuenth day, Elishama the sonne of Ammiud, Prince of the children of Ephraim offered.
49. His offering was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oile for a meat offering:
50. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
51. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere, for a burnt offering:
52. One kid of the goates for a sinne offering:
53. And for a sacrifice of peace offrings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere. This was the offering of Elishama the sonne of Ammiud.
54. On the eight day offered Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur, Prince of the children of Manasseh.
55. His offering was one siluer charger of an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oile, for a meate offering:
56. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
57. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere, for a burnt offering:
58. One kid of the goates for a sinne offering:
59. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere. This was the offering of Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur.
60. On the ninth day, Abidan the sonne of Gideoni, prince of the children of Beniamin offered.
61. His offering was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, a siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oyle, for a meate offering:
62. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
63. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
64. One kid of the goats for a sinne offering:
65. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of the first yeere. This was the offering of Abidan, the sonne of Gideoni.
66. On the tenth day Ahiezer the sonne of Ammishaddai, Prince of the children of Dan offered.
67. His offring was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oyle, for a meate offering:
68. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
69. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere, for a burnt offering:
70. One kid of the goates for a sinne offering:
71. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere. This was the offering of Ahiezer the sonne of Ammishaddai.
72. On the eleuenth day, Pagiel the sonne of Ocran, Prince of the children of Asher offered.
73. His offering was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oyle, for a meat offering:
74. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
75. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
76. One kid of the goates for a sinne offering:
77. And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambes of the first yeere. This was the offering of Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.
78. On the twelfth day, Ahira the sonne of Enan, Prince of the children of Naphtali, offered.
79. His offering was one siluer charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirtie shekels, one siluer bowle of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them full of fine flowre mingled with oyle, for a meate offering:
80. One golden spoone of ten shekels, full of incense:
81. One yong bullocke, one ramme, one lambe of the first yeere for a burnt offering:
82. One kidde of the goats for a sinne offering:
83. And for a sacrifice of peace offrings, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue hee goats, fiue lambs of the first yeere. This was the offering of Ahira the sonne of Enan.
84. This was the dedication of the Altar (in the day when it was annointed) by the Princes of Israel: twelue chargers of siluer, twelue siluer bowles, twelue spoones of gold:
85. Each charger of siluer weighing an hundred and thirtie shekels, each bowle seuentie: all the siluer vessels weighed two thousand and foure hundred shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary.
86. The golden spoones were twelue, full of incense, weighing ten shekels a piece, after the shekel of the Sanctuary: all the gold of the spoones, was an hundred and twentie shekels.
87. All the oxen for the burnt offering, were twelue bullocks, the rams twelue, the lambes of the first yeere twelue, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sinne offering, twelue.
88. And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings, were twenty and foure bullocks, the rammes sixtie, the hee goates sixtie, the lambes of the first yeere sixtie. This was the dedication of the Altar, after that it was anoynted.
89. And when Moses was gone into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to speake with him, then he heard the voyce of one speaking vnto him, from off the Mercie seat, that was vpon the Arke of Testimony from betweene the two Cherubims: and he spake vnto him.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Speake vnto Aaron, and say vnto him, When thou lightest the lampes, the seuen lampes shall giue light, ouer against the candlesticke.
3. And Aaron did so; he lighted the lampes therof, ouer against the candlestick, as the Lord comanded Moses.
4. And this worke of the candlestick was of beaten gold, vnto the shaft thereof, vnto the flowres thereof was beaten worke: according vnto the paterne which the Lord had shewed Moses, so he made the candlesticke.
5. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
6. Take the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7. And thus shalt thou doe vnto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle water of purifying vpon them, and let them shaue all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselues cleane.
8. Then let them take a yong bullocke with his meat offering, euen fine flowre mingled with oyle, and an other yong bullock shalt thou take for a sinne offering.
9. And thou shalt bring the Leuites before the Tabernacle of the Congregation; and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together.
10. And thou shalt bring the Leuites before the Lord, and the children of Israel shall put their hands vpon the Leuites.
11. And Aaron shall offer the Leuites before the Lord for an offring of the children of Israel, that they may execute the seruice of the Lord.
12. And the Leuites shall lay their hands vpon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sinne offering, and the other for a burnt offering vnto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Leuites.
13. And thou shalt set the Leuites before Aaron, and before his sonnes, and offer them for an offering vnto the Lord.
14. Thus shalt thou separate the Leuites from among the children of Israel: and the Leuites shalbe mine.
15. And after that, shall the Leuites goe in; to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and thou shalt clense them, and offer them for an offering.
16. For they are wholly giuen vnto me, from among the children of Israel: in stead of such as open euery wombe, euen in stead of the first borne of all the children of Israel, haue I taken them vnto me.
17. For all the first borne of the children of Israel, are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote euery first borne in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for my selfe.
18. And I haue taken the Leuites for all the first borne of the children of Israel.
19. And I haue giuen the Leuites as a gift to Aaron, and to his sonnes, from among the children of Israel, to do the seruice of the children of Israel, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there bee no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh vnto the Sanctuarie.
20. And Moses and Aaron, and all the Congregation of the children of Israel did to the Leuites according vnto all that the Lord commanded Moses, concerning the Leuites, so did the children of Israel vnto them.
21. And the Leuites were purified, and they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord, and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
22. And after that, went the Leuites in, to do their seruice in the Tabernacle of the Congregation before Aaron and and before his sonnes: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Leuites, so did they vnto them.
23. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
24. This is it that belongeth vnto the Leuites: from twentie and fiue yeeres old, and vpward, they shall goe in to waite vpon the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
25. And from the age of fiftie yeeres they shall cease waiting vpon the seruice thereof, and shall serue no more:
26. But shall minister with their brethren in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to keepe the charge, and shall doe no seruice: thus shalt thou doe vnto the Leuites, touching their charge.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai, in the first moneth of the second yeere; after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2. Let the children of Israel also keepe the Passeouer, at his appointed season.
3. In the fourteenth day of this moneth at euen, ye shall keepe it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keepe it.
4. And Moses spake vnto the children of Israel that they should keepe the Passeouer.
5. And they kept the Passeouer on the fourteenth day of the first moneth at Euen, in the wildernesse of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6. And there were certaine men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keepe the Passeouer on that day: and they came before Moses, and before Aaron on that day.
7. And those men said vnto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept backe, that wee may not offer an offring of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
8. And Moses saide vnto them, Stand still, and I will heare what the Lord wil command concerning you.
9. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
10. Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you, or of your posteritie shall be vncleane by reason of a dead body, or bee in a iourney afarre off, yet he shall keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord.
11. The fourteenth day of the second moneth at Euen they shall keepe it, and eat it with vnleauened bread and bitter herbes.
12. They shall leaue none of it vnto the morning, nor breake any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the Passeouer they shall keepe it.
13. But the man that is cleane, and is not in a iourney, and forbeareth to keep the Passeouer, euen the same soule shall be cut off from his people, because hee brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season: that man shall beare his sinne.
14. And if a stranger shall soiourne among you, and will keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the Passeouer, and according to the maner thereof, so shall he doe: ye shall haue one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was borne in the land.
15. And on the day that the Tabernacle was reared vp, the cloud couered the Tabernacle, namely the Tent of the Testimony: and at Euen there was vpon the Tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, vntill the morning.
16. So it was always: the cloud couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17. And when the cloud was taken vp from the Tabernacle, then after that, the children of Israel iourneyed, and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18. At the commandement of the Lord the children of Israel iourneied, and at the commandement of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode vpon the Tabernacle, they rested in the tents.
19. And when the cloud taried long vpon the Tabernacle many daies, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and iourneyed not.
20. And so it was when the cloude was a few daies vpon the Tabernacle, according to the commandement of the Lord, they abode in their tents, and according to the commandement of the Lord, they iourneyed.
21. And so it was when the cloude abode from Euen vnto the morning, and that the cloude was taken vp in the morning, then they iourneyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloude was taken vp, they iourneyed.
22. Or whether it were two dayes, or a moneth, or a yeere that the cloude taried vpon the Tabernacle, remayning thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and iourneyed not: but when it was taken vp, they iourneyed.
23. At the commandement of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commaundement of the Lord they iourneyed: they kept the charge of the Lord, at the commandement of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Make thee two trumpets of siluer: of an whole piece shalt thou make them, that thou mayest vse them for the calling of the assembly, and for the iourneying of the campes.
3. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselues to thee, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
4. And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the Princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselues vnto thee.
5. When ye blow an alarme, then the campes that lie on the East parts, shall goe forward.
6. When you blow an alarme the second time, then the campes that lye on the Southside, shall take their iourney: they shall blow an alarme for their iourneys.
7. But when the Congregation is to be gathered together, you shal blow: but you shall not sound an alarme.
8. And the sonnes of Aaron the Priests shall blow with the trumpets; and they shalbe to you for an ordinance for euer throughout your generations.
9. And if ye goe to warre in your land, against the enemie that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarme with the trumpets, and ye shalbe remembred before the Lord your God, and yee shalbe saued from your enemies.
10. Also in the day of your gladnesse, and in your solemne dayes, and in the beginnings of your monethes, ye shall blow with the trumpets ouer your burnt offerings, and ouer the sacrifices of your peace offerings, that they may bee to you for a memoriall before your God: I am the Lord your God.
11. And it came to passe on the twentieth day of the second moneth, in the second yeere, that the cloude was taken vp from off the Tabernacle of the Testimony.
12. And the children of Israel tooke their iourneys out of the wildernesse of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wildernesse of Paran.
13. And they first tooke their iourney, according to the commandement of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
14. In the first place went the standerd of the campe of the children of Iudah, according to their armies, and ouer his hoste was Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab.
15. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Issachar, was Nethaneel the sonne of Zuar.
16. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, was Eliab the sonne of Helon.
17. And the Tabernacle was taken downe, and the sonnes of Gershon, and the sonnes of Merari set forward, bearing the Tabernacle.
18. And the standerd of the campe of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and ouer his hoste was Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.
19. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Simeon, was Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai.
20. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Gad, was Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel.
21. And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the Sanctuary, and the other did set vp the Tabernacle against they came.
22. And the standerd of the campe of the children of Ephraim set forward, according to their armies, and ouer his hoste was Elishama the sonne of Ammiud.
23. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur.
24. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, was Abidan the soune of Gideoni.
25. And the standerd of the campe of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rere-ward of all the campes throughout their hostes: and ouer his hoste was Ahiezer the sonne of Ammishaddai.
26. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Asher, was Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.
27. And ouer the hoste of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the sonne of Enan.
28. Thus were the iourneyings of the children of Israel, according to their armies, when they set forward.
29. And Moses said vnto Hobab the sonne of Raguel the Midianite Moses father in law, Wee are iourneying vnto the place of which the Lord said, I wil giue it you: come thou with vs, and we will doe thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
30. And he said vnto him, I will not goe, but I will depart to mine owne land, and to my kinred.
31. And he said, Leaue vs not, I pray thee, forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encampe in the wilderuesse, and thou mayest bee to vs in stead of eyes.
32. And it shall bee if thou goe with vs, yea it shall be, that what goodnesse the Lord shall doe vnto vs, the same will we doe vnto thee.
33. And they departed from the Mount of the Lord three dayes iourney: and the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord went before them in the three dayes iourney, to search out a resting place for them.
34. And the cloude of the Lord was vpon them by day, when they went out of the campe.
35. And it came to passe when the Arke set forward, that Moses said, Rise vp Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee before thee.
36. And when it rested, he said, Returne, O Lord, vnto the many thousands of Israel.
1. 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 vttermost parts of the campe.
2. And the people cried vnto Moses, and when Moses prayed vnto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
3. And hee called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
4. And the mixt multitude that was among them, fell a lusting, and the children of Israel also wept againe, and said, Who shal giue vs flesh to eate?
5. We remember the fish which wee did eate in Egypt freely: the cucumbers and the melons, and the leekes, and the onions, and the garlicke.
6. But now our soule is dried away, there is nothing at all, besides this Manna, before our eyes.
7. And the Manna was as Coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of Bdelium:
8. And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in milles, or beat it in a morter, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oyle.
9. And when the dew fell vpon the campe in the night, the Manna fell vpon it.
10. Then Moses heard the people weepe throughout their families, euery man in the doore of his tent, and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses also was displeased.
11. And Moses said vnto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy seruant? and wherefore haue I not found fauour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people vpon me?
12. Haue I conceiued all this people? haue I begotten them, that thou shouldest say vnto me, Cary them in thy bosome (as a nursing father beareth the sucking child) vnto the land which thou swarest vnto their fathers?
13. Whence should I haue flesh to giue vnto all this people? for they weep vnto me, saying, Giue vs flesh, that we may eate.
14. I am not able to beare all this people alone, because it is too heauie for mee.
15. And if thou deale thus with mee, kill me, I pray thee out of hand, if I haue found fauour in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchednesse.
16. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Gather vnto me seuentie men, of the Elders of Israel, whome thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers ouer them: and bring them vnto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
17. And I will come downe and talke with thee there, and I will take of the spirit which is vpon thee, and wil put it vpon them, and they shall beare the burden of the people with thee, that thou beare it not thy selfe alone.
18. And say thou vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues against to morrow, and yee shall eate flesh: (for you haue wept in the eares of the Lord, saying, Who shall giue vs flesh to eate? for it was well with vs in Egypt:) therfore the Lord wil giue you flesh, and ye shall eate.
19. Ye shall not eate one day, nor two dayes, nor fiue dayes, neither ten dayes, nor twentie dayes:
20. But euen a whole moneth, vntill it come out at your nostrels, and it bee loathsome vnto you, because that yee haue despised the Lord which is among you, and haue wept before him, saying, Why came we foorth out of Egypt?
21. And Moses said, The people amongst whome I am, are sixe hundred thousand footmen, and thou hast said, I will giue them flesh, that they may eate a whole moneth.
22. Shall the flockes and the herds be slaine for them to suffice them? or shal all the fish of the sea bee gathered together for them, to suffice them?
23. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Is the Lords hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to passe vnto thee, or not.
24. And Moses went out, and tolde the people the wordes of the Lord, and gathered the seuenty men of the Elders of the people, and set them round about the Tabernacle.
25. And the Lord came downe in a cloude, and spake vnto him, and tooke of the spirit that was vpon him, and gaue it vnto the seuentie Elders: and it came to passe that when the spirit rested vpon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
26. But there remained two of the men in the campe, the name of the one was Eldad, & the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested vpon them, (and they were of them that were written, but went not out vnto the Tabernacle) and they prophesied in the campe.
27. And there ranne a yong man, and tolde Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad doe prophesie in the campe.
28. And Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of Moses, one of his yong men, answered and said, My lord Moses, Forbid them.
29. And Moses said vnto him, Enuiest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit vpon them.
30. And Moses gate him into the campe, he, and the Elders of Israel.
31. And there went forth a winde from the Lord, and brought quailes from the sea, and let them fall by the campe, as it were a dayes iourney on this side, and as it were a dayes iourney on the other side round about the campe, and as it were two cubits high vpon the face of the earth.
32. And the people stood vp all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quailes: he that gathered least, gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselues round about the campe.
33. And while the flesh was yet betweene their teeth, yer it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
34. And he called the name of that place, Kibroth-Hattaauah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
35. And the people iourneyed from Kibroth-Hattaauah, vnto Hazeroth: and abode at Hazeroth.
1. And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, because of the Ethiophian woman, whom hee had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2. And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken onely by Moses? Hath hee not spoken also by vs? And the Lord heard it.
3. (Now the man Moses was very meeke, aboue all the men which were vpon the face of the earth.)
4. And the Lord spake suddenly vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, and vnto Miriam, Come out ye three vnto the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and they three came out.
5. And the Lord came downe in the pillar of the cloude, and stood in the doore of the Tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came foorth.
6. And hee saide, Heare now my words: If there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make my selfe knowen vnto him in a vision, and will speake vnto him in a dreame:
7. My seruant Moses is not so, who is faithfull in all mine house.
8. With him will I speake mouth to mouth euen apparantly, and not in darke speeches, and the similitude of the Lord shall hee behold: wherefore then were yee not afraid to speake against my seruant Moses?
9. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.
10. And the cloud departed from off the Tabernacle, and behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked vpon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
11. And Aaron said vnto Moses, Alas my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sinne vpon vs, wherein we haue done foolishly, and wherein we haue sinned:
12. Let her not bee as one dead, of whom the flesh is halfe consumed, when he commeth out of his mothers wombe.
13. And Moses cryed vnto the Lord, saying, Heale her now, O God, I beseech thee.
14. And the Lord said vnto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not bee ashamed seuen dayes? let her be shut out from the campe seuen dayes, and after that let her be receiued in againe.
15. And Miriam was shut out from the campe seuen dayes: and the people iourneied not, til Miriam was brought in againe.
16. And afterward the people remoued from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wildernesse of Paran.

1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Send thou men, that they may search the lande of Canaan, which I giue vnto the children of Israel: of euery tribe of their fathers shal ye send a man, euery one a ruler among them.
3. And Moses by the commaundement of the Lord, sent them from the wildernes of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
4. And these were their names. Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the sonne of Zaccur.
5. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the sonne of Hori.
6. Of the tribe of Iudah, Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh.
7. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the sonne of Ioseph.
8. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the sonne of Nun.
9. Of the tribe of Beniamin, Palti the sonne of Raphu.
10. Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the sonne of Sodi.
11. Of the tribe of Ioseph, namely of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the sonne of Susi.
12. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the sonne of Gemalli.
13. Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the sonne of Michael.
14. Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the sonne of Uophsi.
15. Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the sonne of Machi.
16. These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spie out the land: and Moses called Oshea the sonne of Nun, Iehoshua.
17. And Moses sent them to spie out the land of Canaan, and said vnto them, Get you by this way Southward, and goe vp into the mountaine:
18. And see the lande what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they bee strong or weake, fewe or many:
19. And what the lande is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad, and what cities they bee that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds:
20. And what the land is, whether it be fat or leane, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land: (Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes)
21. So they went vp, and searched the land, from the wildernesse of Zin, vnto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
22. And they ascended by the South, and came vnto Hebron: where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak were: Now Hebron was built seuen yeeres before Zoan in Egypt.
23. And they came vnto the brooke of Eshcol, and cut downe from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it betweene two vpon a staffe, and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs.
24. The place was called the brooke Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut downe from thence.
25. And they returned from searching of the land after fourty dayes.
26. And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the Congregation of the children of Israel vnto the wildernesse of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought backe word vnto them, and vnto all the Congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27. And they told him, and said, We came vnto the land whither thou sentest vs, & surely it floweth with milke and honie; and this is the fruit of it.
28. Neuerthelesse, the people bee strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and very great: and moreouer, we saw the children of Anak there.
29. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South: and the Hittites, and the Iebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountaines: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Iordane.
30. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let vs goe vp at once, and possesse it, for we are well able to ouercome it.
31. But the men that went vp with him, said, Wee be not able to goe vp against the people, for they are stronger then we.
32. And they brought vp an euill report of the land which they had searched, vnto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we haue gone, to search it, is a land that eateth vp the inhabitants thereof, and all the people that we saw in it, are men of a great stature.
33. And there we saw the giants, the sonnes of Anak, which come of the giants: and wee were in our owne sight as grashoppers, and so wee were in their sight.
1. And all the Congregation lifted vp their voyce and cried; and the people wept that night.
2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron: and the whole Congregation said vnto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would God we had died in this wildernesse.
3. And wherefore hath the Lord brought vs vnto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wiues, and our children should be a pray? Were it not better for vs to returne into Egypt?
4. And they saide one to another, Let vs make a captaine, and let vs returne into Egypt.
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the Congregation of the children of Israel.
6. And Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes.
7. And they spake vnto all the company of the children of Israel, saying. The land which wee passed thorow to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8. If the Lord delight in vs, then he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, a land which floweth with milke and hony.
9. Onely rebell not yee against the Lord, neither feare yee the people of the land, for they are bread for vs: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with vs: feare them not.
10. 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.
11. And the Lord said vnto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? And how long will it bee, yer they beleeue me, for all the signes which I haue shewed among them?
12. I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherite them, and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier then they.
13. And Moses said vnto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest vp this people in thy might from among them:)
14. And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they haue heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seene face to face, and that thy cloud standeth ouer them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15. Now if thou shalt kill all this people, as one man, then the nations which haue heard the fame of thee, will speake, saying,
16. Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the lande which he sware vnto them, therefore he hath slaine them in the wildernesse.
17. And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18. The Lord is long suffering, and of great mercie, forgiuing iniquitie and transgression, and by no meanes clearing the guiltie, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the chldren, vnto the third and fourth generation.
19. Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquitie of this people, according vnto the greatnesse of thy mercie, and as thou hast forgiuen this people, from Egypt, euen vntill now.
20. And the Lord said, I haue pardoned, according to thy word.
21. But as truly as I liue, all the earth shalbe filled with the glory of the Lord.
22. Because all those men which haue seene my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt, and in the wildernesse, and haue tempted mee now these ten times, and haue not hearkened to my voice,
23. Surely they shall not see the land which I sware vnto their fathers, neither shall any of them that prouoked me, see it.
24. But my seruant Caleb, because hee had another spirit with him, (and hath followed mee fully) him will I bring into the land, whereinto he went, and his seed shall possesse it.
25. (Now the Amalekites, and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley) to morrow turne you and get you into the wildernesse, by the way of the Red sea.
26. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
27. How long shall I beare with this euil congregation which murmure against mee? I haue heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmure against mee.
28. Say vnto them, As truly as I liue, saith the Lord, as ye haue spoken in mine eares, so will I doe to you:
29. Your carcases shall fall in this wildernesse, and all that were numbred of you, according to your whole number from twentie yeeres old and vpward, which haue murmured against mee,
30. Doubtlesse ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun.
31. But your little ones, which yee said should be a pray, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye haue despised.
32. But as for you, your carkases, they shall fall in this wildernesse.
33. And your children shall wander in the wildernes forty yeres, and beare your whoredomes, vntill your carkases be wasted in the wildernesse.
34. After the number of the dayes in which ye searched the land, euen fortie dayes (each day for a yeere) shall yee beare your iniquities, euen forty yeeres, and yee shall know my breach of promise.
35. I the Lord haue said, I will surely doe it vnto all this euill Congregation, that are gathered together against mee: in this wildernesse they shalbe consumed, & there they shall die.
36. And the men which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the Congregation to murmure against him, by bringing vp a slander vpon the land,
37. Euen those men that did bring vp the euill report vpon the land, died by the plague, before the Lord.
38. But Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, liued still.
39. And Moses told these sayings vnto all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
40. And they rose vp early in the morning, and gate them vp into the top of the mountaine, saying, Loe, we be here, and will goe vp vnto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we haue sinned.
41. And Moses said, Wherefore now doe you transgresse the commaundement of the Lord ? but it shall not prosper.
42. Goe not vp, for the Lord is not among you, that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43. For the Amalekites, and the Canaanites are there before you, and yee shall fall by the sword, because yee are turned away from the Lord; therefore the Lord will not bee with you.
44. But they presumed to go vp vnto the hill top: neuertheles the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, and Moses departed not out of the campe.
45. Then the Amalekites came downe, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, euen vnto Hormah.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I giue vnto you,
3. And will make an offering by fire vnto the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a free will offering, or in your solemne feasts, to make a sweet sauour vnto the Lord, of the herd or of the flocke:
4. Then shall he that offereth his offering vnto the Lord, bring a meat offring of a tenth deale of flowre, mingled with the fourth part of an Hyn of oyle.
5. And the fourth part of an Hyn of wine for a drinke offring shalt thou prepare, with the burnt offering or sacrifice for one lambe.
6. Or for a ramme, thou shalt prepare for a meate offering two tenth deales of flowre mingled with the third part of an Hyn of oyle.
7. And for a drinke offering, thou shalt offer the third part of an Hyn of wine, for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.
8. And when thou preparest a bullocke for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings vnto the Lord:
9. Then shall hee bring with a bullocke a meate offering of three tenth deales of flowre, mingled with halfe an Hyn of oyle.
10. And thou shalt bring for a drinke offering halfe an Hyn of wine, for an offering made by fire of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord.
11. Thus shall it be done for one bullocke, or for one ramme, or for a lambe, or a kidde.
12. According to the number that yee shall prepare, so shall yee doe to euery one, according to their number.
13. All that are borne of the countrey shall doe these things after this maner, in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet sauour, vnto the Lord.
14. And if a stranger soiourne with you, or whosoeuer bee among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire of a sweete sauour vnto the Lord: as ye doe, so hee shall doe.
15. One ordinance shall be both for you of the Congregation, and also for the stranger that soiourneth with you, an ordinance for euer in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger bee, before the Lord.
16. One law, and one maner shall be for you, and for the stranger that soiourneth with you.
17. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
18. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
19. Then it shall be that when ye eate of the bread of the land, yee shall offer vp an heaue offring vnto the Lord.
20. Ye shall offer vp a cake of the first of your dough, for an heaue offring: as ye doe the heaue offering of the threshing floore, so shall ye heaue it.
21. Of the first of your dough ye shal giue vnto the Lord, an heaue offering in your generations.
22. And if yee haue erred, and not obserued all these Commaundements which the Lord hath spoken vnto Moses,
23. Euen all that the Lord hath commanded you, by the hand of Moses from the day that the Lord commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations:
24. Then it shalbe, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the Congregation, that all the Congregation shall offer one yong bullocke for a burnt offering, for a sweet sauour vnto the Lord, with his meate offering, and his drinke offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sinne offering.
25. And the Priest shall make an atonement for all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and it shal be forgiuen them, for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offring, a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord, and their sinne offering before the Lord, for their ignorance.
26. And it shall bee forgiuen all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that soiourneth among them, seeing all the people were in ignorance.
27. And if any soule sinne through ignorance, then hee shall bring a shee goat of the first yeere for a sinne offring.
28. And the Priest shall make an atonement for the soule that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him, & it shalbe forgiuen him.
29. You shall haue one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is borne amongst the children of Israel, and for the stranger that soiourneth among them.
30. But the soule that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be borne in the land, or a stranger, the same reprocheth the Lord: and that soule shall be cut off from among his people.
31. Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandement, that soule shall vtterly be cut off: his iniquitie shall be vpon him.
32. And while the children of Israel were in the wildernes, they found a man that gathered stickes vpon the Sabbath day.
33. And they that found him gathering sticks, brought him vnto Moses and Aaron, and vnto all the Congregation.
34. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35. And the Lord said vnto Moses, The man shall bee surely put to death: all the Congregation shall stone him with stones without the campe.
36. And all the Cogregation brought him without the campe, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord commanded Moses.
37. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
38. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and bidde them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments, throughout their generations, and that they put vpon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blew.
39. And it shall bee vnto you for a fringe, that ye may looke vpon it, and remember all the commandements of the Lord, and doe them: and that ye seeke not after your owne heart, and your owne eyes, after which ye vse to goe a whoring:
40. That ye may remember, and doe all my commandements, and be holy vnto your God.
41. I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to bee your God: I am the Lord your God.
1. Now Korah the sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the sonne of Leui, and Dathan, and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab, and On the sonne of Peleth, sonnes of Reuben, tooke men.
2. And they rose vp before Moses, with certaine of the children of Israel, two hundred and fiftie Princes of the assembly, famous in the Congregation, men of renowne.
3. And they gathered themselues together against Moses, and against Aaron, and said vnto them, Ye take too much vpon you, seeing all the Congregation are holy euery one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherfore then lift you vp your selues aboue the Congregation of the Lord ?
4. And when Moses heard it, he fell vpon his face.
5. And hee spake vnto Korah, and vnto all his company, saying, Euen to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come neere vnto him: euen him whom he hath chosen, will he cause to come neere vnto him.
6. This doe: take you censers, Korah, and all his company:
7. And put fire therein, and put incense in them, before the Lord to morrow; And it shall be, that the man whom the Lord doeth choose, hee shall be holy: yee take too much vpon you, ye sonnes of Leui.
8. And Moses saide vnto Korah, Heare, I pray you, ye sonnes of Leui.
9. Seemeth it but a small thing vnto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the Congregation of Israel, to bring you neere to himselfe, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the Congregation to minister vnto them? 
10. And he hath brought thee neere to him, and all thy brethren the sonnes of Leui with thee: and seeke ye the Priesthood also?
11. For which cause both thou, and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmure against him?
12. And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab: which said, We will not come vp.
13. Is it a small thing that thou hast brought vs vp out of a land that floweth with milke and hony, to kill vs in the wildernesse, except thou make thy selfe altogether a prince ouer vs?
14. Moreouer, thou hast not brought vs into a land that floweth with milke and hony, or giuen vs inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come vp.
15. And Moses was very wroth, and said vnto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I haue not taken one asse from them, neither haue I hurt one of them.
16. And Moses said vnto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron to morrow.
17. And take euery man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring yee before the Lord euery man his censer, two hundred and fiftie censers, thou also and Aaron, each of you his censer.
18. And they tooke euery man his censer, and put fire in them, and laide incense thereon, and stood in the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation with Moses and Aaron.
19. And Korah gathered all the Congregation against them, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and the glory of the Lord appeared vnto all the Congregation.
20. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
21. Separate your selues from among this Congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
22. And they fell vpon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shal one man sinne, and wilt thou be wroth with all the Congregation?
23. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
24. Speake vnto the Congregation, saying, Get you vp from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
25. And Moses rose vp, and went vnto Dathan and Abiram: and the Elders of Israel followed him.
26. And hee spake vnto the Congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sinnes.
27. So they gate vp from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on euery side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the doore of their tents, and their wiues, & their sonnes, and their little children.
28. And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to doe all these workes: for I haue not done them of mine owne mind.
29. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me:
30. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them vp, with all that appertaine vnto them, and they go downe quicke into the pit: then ye shall vnderstand that these men haue prouoked the Lord.
31. And it came to passe as he had made an ende of speaking all these words, that the ground claue asunder that was vnder them:
32. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, and their houses, and all the men that appertained vnto Korah, and all their goods.
33. They, and all that appertained to them, went downe aliue into the pit, and the earth closed vpon them: and they perished from among the Congregation.
34. And all Israel that were round about them, fled at the crie of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow vs vp also.
35. And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense.
36. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
37. Speake vnto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, that he take vp the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder, for they are hallowed.
38. The censers of these sinners against their owne soules, let them make them broad plates for a couering of the Altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed, and they shall be a signe vnto the children of Israel.
39. And Eleazar the Priest tooke the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered, and they were made broad plates for a couering of the Altar:
40. To bee a memoriall vnto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come neere to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Korah, and as his company, as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.
41. But on the morrow, all the Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye haue killed the people of the Lord.
42. And it came to passe when the Congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and behold, the cloud couered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43. And Moses and Aaron came before the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
44. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
45. Get you vp from among this Congregation, that I may consume them, as in a moment: and they fell vpon their faces.
46. And Moses said vnto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the Altar, and put on incense, and goe quickly vnto the Congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.
47. And Aaron tooke as Moses commanded, and ranne into the midst of the Congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
48. And he stood betweene the dead and the liuing, and the plague was stayed.
49. Now they that died in the plague, were foureteene thousand and seuen hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
50. And Aaron returned vnto Moses, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation; and the plague was stayed.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and take of euery one of them a rod, according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes, according to the house of their fathers, twelue rods: write thou euery mans name vpon his rodde.
3. And thou shalt write Aarons name vpon the rod of Leui: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
4. And thou shalt lay them vp in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
5. And it shall come to passe, that the mans rod whom I shall choose, shall blossome: and I will make to cease from mee the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmure against you.
6. And Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, and euery one of their Princes gaue him a rod a piece, for each Prince one, according to their fathers houses, euen twelue rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
7. And Moses layd vp the rods before the Lord, in the Tabernacle of Witnesse.
8. And it came to passe that on the morrow Moses went into the Tabernacle of Witnesse, and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Leui was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossomes, and yeelded almonds.
9. And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord, vnto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and tooke euery man his rod.
10. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Bring Aarons rod againe before the Testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels, and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
11. And Moses did so: as the Lord commanded him, so did he.
12. And the children of Israel spake vnto Moses, saying, Behold, wee die, we perish, we all perish.
13. Whosoeuer commeth any thing neere vnto the Tabernacle of the Lord, shall die: Shall wee be consumed with dying?
1. And the Lord sayd vnto Aaron, Thou and thy sonnes, and thy fathers house with thee, shall beare the iniquitie of the Sanctuary: and thou and thy sonnes with thee, shall beare the iniquitie of your Priesthood.
2. And thy brethren also of the tribe of Leui, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be ioyned vnto thee, and minister vnto thee: but thou and thy sonnes with thee shall minister before the Tabernacle of Witnesse.
3. And they shall keepe thy charge, and the charge of all the Tabernacle: onely they shall not come nigh the vessels of the Sanctuarie, and the Altar, that neither they, nor you also die.
4. And they shall bee ioyned vnto thee, and keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, for all the seruice of the Tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh vnto you.
5. And yee shall keepe the charge of the Sanctuary, and the charge of the Altar, that there be no wrath any more vpon the children of Israel.
6. And I, beholde, I haue taken your brethren the Leuites from among the children of Israel: to you they are giuen as a gift for the Lord, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
7. Therefore thou and thy sonnes with thee, shall keepe your Priests office for euery thing of the Altar, and within the Uaile, and yee shall serue: I haue giuen your Priests office vnto you, as a seruice of gift: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall bee put to death.
8. And the Lord spake vnto Aaron, Behold, I also haue giuen thee the charge of mine heaue offerings, of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel, vnto thee haue I giuen them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sonnes by an ordinance for euer.
9. This shall bee thine of the most holy things, reserued from the fire: euery oblation of theirs, euery meat offering of theirs, and euery sinne offering of theirs, and euery trespasse offering of theirs, which they shal render vnto me, shall be most holy for thee, and for thy sonnes.
10. In the most holy place shalt thou eate it, euery male shall eate it: it shall be holy vnto thee.
11. And this is thine: the heaue offering of their gift, with all the waue offrings of the children of Israel: I haue giuen them vnto thee, & to thy sonnes, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for euer: euery one that is cleane in thy house, shall eate of it.
12. All the best of the oyle, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first fruits of them which they shall offer vnto the Lord, them haue I giuen thee.
13. And whatsoeuer is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring vnto the Lord, shall be thine, euery one that is cleane in thine house, shall eat of it.
14. Euery thing deuoted in Israel, shall be thine.
15. Euery thing that openeth the matrice in all flesh, which they bring vnto the Lord, whether it bee of men or beasts, shall be thine: Neuertheles the first borne of man shalt thou surely redeeme, and the firstling of vncleane beasts shalt thou redeeme.
16. And those that are to be redeemed, from a moneth old shalt thou redeeme according to thine estimation, for the money of fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, which is twentie gerahs.
17. But the firstling of a cowe, or the firstling of a sheepe, or the firstling of a goat thou shalt not redeeme, they are holy: thou shalt sprinckle their blood vpon the Altar, and shalt burne their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet sauour vnto the Lord.
18. And the flesh of them shall bee thine: as the waue breast, and as the right shoulder are thine.
19. All the heaue offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer vnto the Lord, haue I giuen thee and thy sonnes, and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for euer: it is a couenant of salt for euer, before the Lord vnto thee, and to thy seed with thee.
20. And the Lord spake vnto Aaron, Thou shalt haue no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou haue any part among them: I am thy part, and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
21. And behold, I haue giuen the children of Leui all the tenth in Israel, for an inheritance, for their seruice which they serue, euen the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
22. Neither must the children of Israel hencefoorth come nigh the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest they beare sinne, and die.
23. But the Leuites shall doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and they shal beare their iniquitie: it shall be a statute for euer throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they haue no inheritance.
24. But the tithes of the children of Israel which they offer as an heaue offering vnto the Lord, I haue giuen to the Leuites to inherite: therefore I haue said vnto them, Among the children of Israel they shall haue no inheritance.
25. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
26. Thus speake vnto the Leuites, and say vnto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes, which I haue giuen you from them for your inheritance, then ye shal offer vp an heaue offering of it for the Lord, euen a tenth part of the tithe.
27. And this your heaue offering shall be reckoned vnto you, as though it were the corne of the threshing floore, and as the fulnesse of the wine presse.
28. Thus you also shal offer an heaue offering vnto the Lord of all your tithes which ye receiue of the children of Israel, and ye shall giue thereof the Lords heaue offering to Aaron the Priest.
29. Out of all your gifts ye shall offer euery heaue offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, euen the hallowed part thereof, out of it.
30. Therefore thou shalt say vnto them, When yee haue heaued the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted vnto the Leuites, as the encrease of the threshing floore, and as the encrease of the wine presse.
31. And ye shall eate it in euery place, ye and your housholds: for it is your reward for your seruice, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
32. And yee shall beare no sinne by reason of it, when ye haue heaued from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
2. This is the ordinance of the Law, which the Lord hath commaunded, saying, Speake vnto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and vpon which neuer came yoke.
3. And ye shall giue her vnto Eleazar the Priest, that hee may bring her forth without the campe, and one shall slay her before his face.
4. And Eleazar the Priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinckle of her blood directly before the Tabernacle of the Congregation seuen times.
5. And one shall burne the heifer in his sight: her skinne, and her flesh, and her blood, with her doung, shall he burne.
6. And the Priest shall take Cedarwood, and hysope, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7. Then the Priest shall wash his clothes, and hee shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the campe, and the Priest shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.
8. And he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the Euen.
9. And a man that is cleane, shall gather vp the ashes of the heifer, and lay them vp without the campe in a cleane place, and it shall bee kept for the Congregation of the children of Israel, for a water of separation: it is a purification for sinne.
10. And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer, shall wash his clothes, and be vncleane vntil the Euen: and it shall be vnto the children of Israel, and vnto the stranger that soiourneth among them, for a statute for euer.
11. He that toucheth the dead body of any man, shall bee vncleane seuen dayes.
12. He shall purifie himselfe with it on the third day, and on the seuenth day he shall be cleane: but if he purifie not himselfe the third day, then the seuenth day he shall not be cleane.
13. Whosoeuer toucheth the dead bodie of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himselfe, defileth the Tabernacle of the Lord, and that soule shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of separation was not sprinckled vpon him: he shall be vncleane, his vncleannesse is yet vpon him.
14. This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent; all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shalbe vnclean seuen dayes.
15. And euery open vessel which hath no couering bound vpon it, is vncleane.
16. And whosoeuer toucheth one that is slaine with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a graue, shall be vncleane seuen dayes.
17. And for an vncleane person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sinne, and running water shall bee put thereto in a vessell:
18. And a cleane person shall take hysope, and dippe it in the water, and sprinckle it vpon the tent, and vpon all the vessels, and vpon the persons that were there, and vpon him that touched a bone, or one slaine, or one dead, or a graue.
19. And the cleane person shal sprinkle vpon the vncleane on the third day, and on the seuenth day: and on the seuenth day he shall purifie himselfe, and wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and shall be cleane at Euen.
20. But the man that shall bee vncleane, and shall not purifie himselfe, that soule shall bee cut off from among the Congregation: because he hath defiled the Sanctuary of the Lord, the water of separation hath not beene sprinkled vpon him, he is vncleane.
21. And it shall be a perpetuall statute vnto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation, shall wash his clothes: and he that toucheth the water of separation, shall be vncleane vntill Euen.
22. And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shall be vncleane: and the soule that toucheth it, shall bee vncleane vntill Euen.
1. Then came the children of Israel, euen the whole Congregation, into the desert of Zin, in the first moneth: and the people abode in Kadesh, and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2. And there was no water for the Congregation: and they gathered themselues together against Moses and against Aaron.
3. And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord.
4. And why haue yee brought vp the Congregation of the Lord into this wildernesse, that we and our cattell should die there?
5. And wherefore haue ye made vs to come vp out of Egypt, to bring vs in vnto this euil place? it is no place of seed, or of figges, or vines, or of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drinke.
6. And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell vpon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared vnto them.
7. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
8. Take the rodde, and gather thou the assembly together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speake yee vnto the rocke before their eyes, and it shall giue foorth his water, and thou shalt bring foorth to them, water out of the rocke: so thou shalt giue the Congregation, and their beasts drinke.
9. And Moses tooke the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
10. And Moses and Aaron gathered the Congregation together before the rocke, and hee said vnto them, Heare now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rocke?
11. And Moses lift vp his hand, and with his rod he smote the rocke twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the Congregation dranke, and their beasts also.
12. And the Lord spake vnto Moses and Aaron, Because ye beleeue me not, to sanctifie me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this Congregation into the land which I haue giuen them.
13. This is the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel stroue with the Lord; and he was sanctified in them.
14. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh, vnto the King of Edom; Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the trauaile that hath befallen vs:
15. How our fathers went downe into Egypt, and we haue dwelt in Egypt a long time: and the Egyptians vexed vs, and our fathers.
16. And when wee cryed vnto the Lord, he heard our voyce, and sent an Angel, and hath brought vs foorth out of Egypt: and behold, wee are in Kadesh, a citie in the vttermost of thy border.
17. Let vs passe, I pray thee, thorow thy countrey: we will not passe thorow the fields, or thorow the Uineyards, neither will we drinke of the water of the wells: wee will goe by the Kings high-way, we wil not turne to the right hand nor to the left, vntill wee haue passed thy borders.
18. And Edom said vnto him, Thou shalt not passe by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
19. And the children of Israel said vnto him, We will goe by the high-way: and if I and my cattell drinke of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will onely (without doing any thing else) go thorow on my feet.
20. And he said, Thou shalt not goe thorow. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
21. Thus Edom refused to giue Israel passage thorow his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
22. And the children of Israel, euen the whole Congregation, iourneyed from Kadesh, and came vnto mount Hor.
23. And the Lord spake vnto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying;
24. Aaron shall bee gathered vnto his people: for hee shall not enter into the land which I haue giuen vnto the children of Israel, because yee rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
25. Take Aaron, and Eleazar his sonne, and bring them vp vnto mount Hor.
26. And strippe Aaron of his garments, and put them vpon Eleazar his sonne, and Aaron shall be gathered vnto his people, and shall die there.
27. And Moses did as the Lord commaunded: and they went vp into mount Hor, in the sight of all the Congregation.
28. And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them vpon Eleazar his sonne, and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came downe from the mount.
29. And when all the Congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty dayes, euen all the house of Israel.
1. And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies, then hee fought against Israel, and tooke some of them prisoners.
2. And Israel vowed a vow vnto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt in deed deliuer this people into my hand, then I wil vtterly destroy their cities.
3. And the Lord hearkened to the voyce of Israel, and deliuered vp the Canaanites: and they vtterly destroyed them, and their cities, and hee called the name of the place Hormah.
4. And they iourneyed from mount Hor, by the way of the red sea, to compasse the land of Edom: and the soule of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5. And the people spake against God and against Moses, Wherefore haue ye brought vs vp out of Egypt, to die in the wildernesse? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soule loatheth this light bread.
6. And the Lord sent fierie serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.
7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We haue sinned: for wee haue spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray vnto the Lord that hee take away the serpents from vs: and Moses prayed for the people.
8. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Make thee a fierie serpent, and set it vpon a pole: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that is bitten, when hee looketh vpon it, shall liue.
9. And Moses made a serpent of brasse, and put it vpon a pole, and it came to passe, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when hee beheld the serpent of brasse, he liued.
10. And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
11. And they iourneyed from Oboth, and pitched at Iie-Abarim, in the wildernes which is before Moab, toward the Sunne rising.
12. From thence they remooued, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
13. From thence they remooued, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wildernesse that commeth out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, betweene Moab and the Amorites.
14. Wherefore it is said in the booke of the warres of the Lord, what he did in the Red sea, and in the brookes of Arnon,
15. And at the streame of the brookes that goeth downe to the dwelling of Ar, & lieth vpon the border of Moab.
16. And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake vnto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will giue them water.
17. Then Israel sang this song, Spring vp O well, Sing ye vnto it:
18. The Princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the Law-giuer, with their staues. And from the wildernesse they went to Mattanah:
19. And from Mattanah, to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20. And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the countrey of Moab, to the toppe of Pisgah, which looketh toward Ieshimon.
21. And Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22. Let me passe thorow thy land, we will not turne into the fields, or into the vineyards, we will not drinke of the waters of the well: but we will goe along by the kings high way, vntill wee be past thy borders.
23. And Sihon would not suffer Israel to passe thorow his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wildernes: and he came to Iahaz, and fought against Israel.
24. And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon vnto Iabok, euen vnto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25. And Israel tooke all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
26. For Heshbon was the citie of Sihon the King of the Amorites, who had fought against the former King of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, euen vnto Arnon.
27. Wherefore they that speake in prouerbes, say, Come into Heshbon: let the citie of Sihon bee built and prepared.
28. For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the citie of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lordes of the high places of Arnon.
29. Woe to thee, Moab, thou art vndone, O people of Chemosh: he hath giuen his sonnes that escaped, and his daughters, into captiuitie vnto Sihon King of the Amorites.
30. We haue shot at them; Heshbon is perished euen vnto Dibon, and we haue layde them waste euen vnto Nophah, which reacheth vnto Medeba.
31. Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32. And Moses sent to spy out Iaazer, and they tooke the villages thereof, and droue out the Amorites that were there.
33. And they turned and went vp by the way of Bashan: and Og the King of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battell at Edrei.
34. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Feare him not: for I haue deliuered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land, and thou shalt doe to him as thou didst vnto Sihon King of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35. So they smote him & his sonnes, and all his people, vntill there was none left him aliue, and they possessed his land.
1. And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plaines of Moab, on this side Iordane by Iericho.
2. And Balak the sonne of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3. And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many, and Moab was distressed, because of the children of Israel.
4. And Moab said vnto the elders of Midian; Now shall this company licke vp all that are round about vs, as the oxe licketh vp the grasse of the field. And Balak the sonne of Zippor, was King of the Moabites at that time.
5. He sent messengers therefore vnto Balaam the sonne of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the riuer of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: beholde, they couer the face of the earth, and they abide ouer against me.
6. Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse mee this people, for they are too mightie for me: peraduenture I shall preuaile, that we may smite them, and that I may driue them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest, is blessed, and hee whom thou cursest, is cursed.
7. And the elders of Moab, and the elders of Midian departed, with the rewards of diuination in their hand; and they came vnto Balaam, and spake vnto him the words of Balak.
8. And hee said vnto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word againe as the Lord shal speake vnto mee: and the Princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
9. And God came vnto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
10. And Balaam said vnto God, Balak the sonne of Zippor, King of Moab, hath sent vnto me, saying;
11. Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which couereth the face of the earth: Come now, curse me them; peraduenture I shalbe able to ouercome them, and driue them out.
12. And God saide vnto Balaam; Thou shalt not goe with them, thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
13. And Balaam rose vp in the morning, and said vnto the Princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to giue mee leaue to goe with you.
14. And the Princes of Moab rose vp, and they went vnto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with vs.
15. And Balak sent yet againe Princes, moe, and more honourable then they.
16. And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor; Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from comming vnto me:
17. For I wil promote thee vnto very great honour, and I will do whatsoeuer thou saiest vnto me: Come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
18. And Balaam answered and said vnto the seruants of Balak, If Balak would giue me his house full of siluer and gold, I cannot goe beyond the word of the Lord my God, to doe lesse or more.
19. Now therefore, I pray you, tarie yee also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say vnto me more.
20. And God came vnto Balaam at night, and said vnto him, If the men come to call thee, rise vp, and goe with them: but yet the word which I shall say vnto thee, that shalt thou doe.
21. And Balaam rose vp in the morning, and sadled his asse, and went with the princes of Moab.
22. And Gods anger was kindled, because he went: and the Angel of the Lord stood in the way for an aduersarie against him: Now he was riding vpon his asse, and his two seruants were with him.
23. And the Asse sawe the Angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawen in his hand: and the asse turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the asse, to turne her into the way.
24. But the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, & a wall on that side.
25. And when the asse saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust her selfe vnto the wall, and crusht Balaams foote against the wall: and hee smote her againe.
26. And the Angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrowe place, where was no way to turne, either to the right hand, or to the left.
27. And when the asse sawe the Angel of the Lord, shee fell downe vnder Balaam, and Balaams anger was kindled, and hee smote the asse with a staffe.
28. And the Lord opened the mouth of the asse, and shee saide vnto Balaam, What haue I done vnto thee, that thou hast smitten mee these three times?
29. And Balaam said vnto the asse, Because thou hast mocked mee: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
30. And the asse said vnto Balaam, Am not I thine asse, vpon which thou hast ridden euer since I was thine, vnto this day? was I euer wont to do so vnto thee? And he said, Nay.
31. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and hee saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawen in his hand: and hee bowed downe his head, and fell flat on his face.
32. And the Angel of the Lord said vnto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine asse these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is peruerse before me.
33. And the asse saw me, and turned from me these three times: vnlesse shee had turned from me, surely now also I had slaine thee, and saued her aliue.
34. And Balaam said vnto the Angel of the Lord, I haue sinned: for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against mee: Now therefore if it displease thee, I will get mee backe againe.
35. And the Angel of the Lord said vnto Balaam, Goe with the men: but onely the word that I shall speake vnto thee, that thou shalt speake: So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
36. And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, hee went out to meete him, vnto a citie of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the vtmost coast.
37. And Balak said vnto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send vnto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not vnto me? Am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
38. And Balaam saide vnto Balak, Loe, I am come vnto thee: haue I now any power at all to say any thing? the worde that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speake.
39. And Balaam went with Balak, and they came vnto Kiriath-Huzoth.
40. And Balak offered oxen, and sheepe, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
41. And it came to passe on the morrow, that Balak tooke Balaam, and brought him vp into the high places of Baal, that thence hee might see the vtmost part of the people.
1. And Balaam saide vnto Balak, Build me here seuen Altars, and prepare mee here seuen oxen, and seuen rammes.
2. And Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak & Balaam offered on euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.
3. And Balaam said vnto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offring, and I wil goe: peraduenture the Lord will come to meete mee; and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
4. And God met Balaam, and he said vnto him, I haue prepared seuen altars, and I haue offered vpon euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.
5. And the Lord put a word in Balaams mouth, and said, Returne vnto Balak, & thus thou shalt speake.
6. And he returned vnto him, and loe, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, hee, and all the Princes of Moab.
7. And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Balak the King of Moab hath brought mee from Aram, out of the mountaines of the East, saying, Come, curse me Iacob, and come, defie Israel.
8. How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defie, whom the Lord hath not defied?
9. For from the top of the rockes I see him, and from the hilles I behold him: loe, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not bee reckoned among the nations.
10. Who can count the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let mee die the death of the righteous, & let my last end be like his.
11. And Balak saide vnto Balaam, What hast thou done vnto me? I tooke thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
12. And he answered, and said, Must I not take heede to speake that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?
13. And Balak said vnto him, Come, I pray thee, with me, vnto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
14. And hee brought him into the fielde of Zophim, to the toppe of Pisgah, and built seuen altars, and offered a bullocke and a ramme on euery altar.
15. And he said vnto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meete the Lord yonder.
16. And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and saide, Goe againe vnto Balak, and say thus.
17. And when hee came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offring, and the Princes of Moab with him. And Balak said vnto him, What hath the Lord spoken?
18. And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Rise vp Balak, & heare; hearken vnto me, thou sonne of Zippor:
19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the sonne of man, that hee should repent: hath he said, and shall he not doe it? or, hath hee spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20. Behold, I haue receiued commandement to blesse: and hee hath blessed, and I cannot reuerse it.
21. Hee hath not beheld iniquitie in Iacob, neither hath he seene peruersenesse in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shoute of a King is among them.
22. God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an Unicorne.
23. Surely there is no inchantment against Iacob, neither is there any diuination against Israel: according to this time it shalbe said of Iacob, and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
24. Beholde, the people shall rise vp as a great Lion, and lift vp himselfe as a yong Lion: hee shall not lie downe vntill he eate of the pray, and drinke the blood of the slaine.
25. And Balak said vnto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor blesse them at all.
26. But Balaam answered, and said vnto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must doe?
27. And Balak saide vnto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee vnto another place, peraduenture it will please God, that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
28. And Balak brought Balaam vnto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Ieshimon.
29. And Balaam saide vnto Balak, Build mee here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes.
30. And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offred a bullocke and a ramme on euery altar.
1. And when Balaam sawe that it pleased the Lord to blesse Israel, hee went not, as at other times to seeke for inchantments, but hee set his face toward the wildernesse.
2. And Balaam lift vp his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents, according to their Tribes: and the Spirit of God came vpon him.
3. And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Balaam the sonne of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
4. Hee hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almightie, falling into a trance, but hauing his eyes open:
5. How goodly are thy tents, O Iacob, and thy Tabernacles, O Israel!
6. As the valleyes are they spread forth, as gardens by the riuer side, as the trees of Lign-Aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as Cedar trees beside the waters.
7. He shall powre the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his King shall be higher then Agag, and his Kingdome shall be exalted.
8. God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the strength of an Unicorne: he shall eate vp the nations his enemies, and shall breake their bones, and pierce them thorow with his arrowes.
9. Hee couched, he lay downe as a Lyon, and as a great Lyon: who shal stirre him vp? Blessed is hee that blesseth thee, and cursed is hee that curseth thee.
10. And Balaks anger was kindled against Balaam, and hee smote his hands together: and Balak said vnto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
11. Therefore now, flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee vnto great honour, but loe, the Lord hath kept thee backe from honour.
12. And Balaam said vnto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest vnto me, saying,
13. If Balak would give mee his house full of siluer and gold, I cannot goe beyond the commandement of the Lord, to doe either good or bad of mine owne mind? But what the Lord saith, that will I speake.
14. And now beholde, I goe vnto my people: come therefore, and I will aduertise thee, what this people shall doe to thy people in the latter dayes.
15. And hee tooke vp his parable, and said, Balaam the sonne of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open, hath said:
16. He hath said which heard the words of God, and knewe the knowledge of the most High, which sawe the vision of the Almightie, falling into a trance, but hauing his eyes open.
17. I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: There shall come a starre out of Iacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
18. And Edom shall bee a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies, and Israel shall doe valiantly.
19. Out of Iacob shall come he that shall haue dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the citie.
20. And when he looked on Amalek, he tooke vp his parable, and sayd, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall bee, that hee perish for euer.
21. And hee looked on the Kenites, and tooke vp his parable, and saide, Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rocke:
22. Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shall be wasted, vntil Asshur shal carie thee away captiue.
23. And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Alas! who shall liue when God doeth this?
24. And shippes shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shal afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and hee also shall perish for euer.
25. And Balaam rose vp, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
1. And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people begun to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab.
2. And they called the people vnto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eate, and bowed downe to their gods.
3. And Israel ioyned himselfe vnto Baal-Peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
4. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them vp before the Lord against the Sunne, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
5. And Moses said vnto the Iudges of Israel, Slay ye euery one his men, that were ioyned vnto Baal-Peor.
6. And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought vnto his brethren a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
7. And when Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest saw it, hee rose vp from amongst the Congregation, and tooke a iauelin in his hand.
8. And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them thorow, the man of Israel, and the woman, thorow her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9. And those that died in the plague, were twentie and foure thousand.
10. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
11. Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, (while hee was zealous for my sake among them) that I consumed not the children of Israel in my ielousie.
12. Wherefore say, Behold, I giue vnto him my Couenant of peace.
13. And he shall haue it, and his seed after him, euen the Couenant of an euerlasting Priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
14. Now the name of the Israelite that was slaine, euen that was slaine with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri the sonne of Salu, a Prince of a chiefe house among the Simeonites.
15. And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slaine, was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, hee was head ouer a people, and of a chiefe house in Midian.
16. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
17. Uexe the Midianites, and smite them:
18. For they vexe you with their wiles, wherewith they haue beguiled you, in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a Prince of Midian their sister, which was slaine in the day of the plague, for Peors sake.
1. And it came to passe after the plague, that the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, saying,
2. Take the summe of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, throughout their fathers house, all that are able to goe to warre in Israel.
3. And Moses & Eleazar the Priest spake with them in the plaines of Moab by Iordane neere Iericho, saying,
4. Take the summe of the people from twenty yeeres old and vpward, as the Lord commanded Moses, and the children of Israel which went foorth out of the land of Egypt.
5. Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel: the children of Reuben, Hanoch, of whom commeth the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu the family of the Palluites:
6. Of Hesron the family of the Hesronites: of Carmi the family of the Carmites.
7. These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbred of them, were fourtie and three thousand, and seuen hundred and thirtie.
8. And the sonnes of Pallu, Eliab.
9. And the sonnes of Eliab, Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram: this is that Dathan & Abiram, which were famous in the Congregation, who stroue against Moses and against Aaron in the companie of Korah, when they stroue against the Lord:
10. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp together with Korah when that companie died, what time the fire deuoured two hundred and fiftie men: and they became a signe.
11. Notwithstanding, the children of Korah died not.
12. The sonnes of Simeon, after their families: Of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: Of Iamin, the familie of the Iaminites: Of Iachin, the familie of the Iachinites:
13. Of Zerah, the familie of the Zarhites: Of Shaul, the familie of the Shaulites.
14. These are the families of the Simeonites, twentie and two thousand, and two hundred.
15. The children of Gad after their families: Of Zephon, the familie of the Zephonites: of Haggi the familie of the Haggites: of Shuni the familie of the Shunites.
16. Of Ozni, the familie of the Oznites: Of Eri the familie of the Erites.
17. Of Arod the familie of the Arodites: of Areli the familie of the Arelites.
18. These are the families of the children of Gad, according to those that were numbred of them, fourtie thousand and fiue hundred.
19. The sonnes of Iudah, were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20. And the sonnes of Iudah after their families were: Of Shelah the familie of the Shelanites: Of Pharez the familie of the Pharzites: Of Zerah the familie of the Zarhites.
21. And the sonnes of Pharez were: Of Hesron the familie of the Hesronites: Of Hamul the familie of the Hamulites.
22. These are the families of Iudah according to those that were numbred of them, threescore and sixteene thousand and fiue hundred.
23. Of the sonnes of Issachar after their families: Of Tola the familie of the Tolaites: of Pua the familie of the Punites.
24. Of Iashub the familie of the Iashubites: of Shimron the familie of the Shimronites.
25. These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbred of them, threescore and foure thousand, and three hundred.
26. Of the sonnes of Zebulun after their families, of Sered the familie of the Sardites: Of Elon the familie of the Elonites: of Iahleel the familie of the Iahleelites.
27. These are the families of the Zebulunites, according to those that were numbred of them, threescore thousand and fiue hundred.
28. The sonnes of Ioseph after their families, were Manasseh and Ephraim.
29. Of the sonnes of Manasseh: Of Machir the familie of the Machirites: and Machir begate Gilead: Of Gilead come the familie of the Gileadites.
30. These are the sonnes of Gilead: Of Ieezer the family of the Ieezerites: Of Helek the familie of the Helekites.
31. And of Asriel the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem the familie of the Shechemites.
32. And of Shemida the familie of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher the familie of the Hepherites.
33. And Zelophehad the sonne of Hepher had no sonnes, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad, were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
34. These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbred of them, fiftie and two thousand and seuen hundred.
35. These are the sonnes of Ephraim, after their families: Of Shuthelah the familie of the Shuthalhites: Of Becher the familie of the Bachrites: Of Tahan the familie of the Tahanites.
36. And these are the sonnes of Shuthelah: Of Eran the familie of the Eranites.
37. These are the families of the sonnes of Ephraim, according to those that were numbred of them, thirtie and two thousand, and fiue hundred. These are the sonnes of Ioseph after their families.
38. The sonnes of Beniamin after their families: Of Bela the familie of the Belaites: Of Ashbel the familie of the Ashbelites: Of Ahiram the family of the Ahiramites:
39. Of Shupham the family of the Shuphamites: Of Hupham the family of the Huphamites.
40. And the sonnes of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman the family of the Naamites.
41. These are the sonnes of Beniamin after their families; and they that were numbred of them, were fourty and fiue thousand, and sixe hundred.
42. These are the sonnes of Dan after their families: Of Shuham the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan, after their families.
43. All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbred of them, were three score and foure thousand, and foure hundred.
44. Of the children of Asher after their families: Of Iimna the family of the Iimnites: Of Iesui the family of the Iesuites: Of Beriah the family of the Beriites.
45. Of the sonnes of Beriah; of Heber the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
46. And the name of the daughter of Asher, was Sarah.
47. These are the families of the sonnes of Asher, according to those that were numbred of them; who were fiftie and three thousand, and foure hundred.
48. Of the sonnes of Naphtali, after their families, of Iahzeel the family of the Iahzeelites: Of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
49. Of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: Of Shillem the family of the Shillemites.
50. These are the families of Naphtali, according to their families: and they that were numbred of them, were fourty and fiue thousand, and foure hundred.
51. These were the numbred of the children of Israel, sixe hundred thousand, and a thousand, seuen hundred and thirtie.
52. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
53. Unto these the land shall be diuided for an inheritance, according to the number of names.
54. To many thou shalt giue the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt giue the lesse inheritance: to euery one shall his inheritance be giuen, according to those that were numbred of him.
55. Notwithstanding the land shall bee diuided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherite.
56. According to the lot shall the possession thereof be diuided betweene many and few.
57. And these are they that were numbred of the Leuites, after their families: Of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: Of Kohath the family of the Kohathites: Of Merari the family of the Merarites.
58. These are the families of the Leuites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites: and Kohath begate Amram.
59. And the name of Amrams wife was Iochebed the daughter of Leui, whom her mother bare to Leui in Egypt: And shee bare vnto Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
60. And vnto Aaron was borne Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
61. And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
62. And those that were numbred of them, were twenty and three thousand, all males from a moneth old and vpward: for they were not numbred among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance giuen them among the children of Israel.
63. These are they that were numbred by Moses and Eleazar the Priest, who numbred the children of Israel in the plaines of Moab, by Iordane neere Iericho.
64. But among these there was not a man of them, whom Moses and Aaron the Priest numbred, when they numbred the children of Israel in the wildernesse of Sinai.
65. For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wildernesse: and there was not left a man of them, saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun.
1. Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the sonne of Hepher, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the sonne of Ioseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
2. And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the Priest, and before the Princes, and all the Congregation, by the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, saying,
3. Our father died in the wildernesse, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselues together against the Lord in the company of Korah: but died in his owne sinne, and had no sonnes.
4. Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no sonne? Giue vnto vs therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
5. And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.
6. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
7. The daughters of Zelophehad speake right: thou shalt surely giue them a possession of an inheritance among their fathers brethren, and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to passe vnto them.
8. And thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and haue no sonne, then yee shall cause his inheritance to passe vnto his daughter.
9. And if he haue no daughter, then yee shall giue his inheritance vnto his brethren.
10. And if he haue no brethren, then yee shall giue his inheritance vnto his fathers brethren.
11. And if his father haue no brethren, then ye shall giue his inheritance vnto his kinseman that is next to him of his family, and hee shall possesse it: And it shall be vnto the children of Israel a statute of iudgement, as the Lord commanded Moses.
12. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Get thee vp into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I haue giuen vnto the children of Israel.
13. And when thou hast seene it, thou also shalt be gathered vnto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
14. For ye rebelled against my Commandement (in the desart of Zin, in the strife of the Congregation) to sanctifie me at the water, before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin.
15. And Moses spake vnto the Lord, saying,
16. Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man ouer the Congregation,
17. Which may goe out before them, and which may goe in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in, that the Congregation of the Lord bee not as sheepe which haue no shepheard.
18. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Take thee Ioshua the sonne of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand vpon him.
19. And set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation: and giue him a charge in their sight.
20. And thou shalt put some of thine honour vpon him, that all the Congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
21. And he shall stand before Eleazar the Priest, who shall aske counsell for him, after the iudgement of Urim before the Lord: at his word shal they goe out, and at his word they shal come in, both he, and al the children of Israel with him, euen all the Congregation.
22. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he tooke Ioshua and set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation.
23. And hee layd his handes vpon him, and gaue him a charge, as the Lord commaunded by the hand of Moses.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Command the children of Israel, and say vnto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices, made by fire for a sweet sauour vnto mee, shall yee obserue, to offer vnto me, in their due season.
3. And thou shalt say vnto them, This is the offering made by fire, which ye shall offer vnto the Lord: Two lambes of the first yeere without spot day by day, for a continuall burnt offering.
4. The one lambe shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lambe shalt thou offer at Euen.
5. And a tenth part of an Ephah of flowre for a meate offering, mingled with the fourth part of an Hyn of beaten oyle.
6. It is a continuall burnt offering which was ordeined in mount Sinai for a sweete sauour, a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord.
7. And the drinke offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an Hyn for the one lambe: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to bee powred vnto the Lord for a drinke offring.
8. And the other lambe shalt thou offer at Euen: as the meate offring of the morning, and as the drinke offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord.
9. And on the Sabbath day, two lambes of the first yeere without spot, and two tenth deales of flowre for a meate offering mingled with oyle, and the drinke offering thereof.
10. This is the burnt offring of euery Sabbath, beside the continuall burnt offering, and his drinke offering.
11. And in the beginnings of your moneths, ye shall offer a burnt offering vnto the Lord: Two yong bullocks and one ramme, seuen lambs of the first yeere, without spot,
12. And three tenth deales of flowre for a meate offering, mingled with oyle, for one bullocke, and two tenth deales of flowre for a meat offering, mingled with oyle, for one ramme:
13. And a seueral tenth deale of flowre mingled with oyle for a meate offering, vnto one lambe, for a burnt offering of a sweet sauour, a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord.
14. And their drinke offerings shal be halfe an Hin of wine vnto a bullocke, and the third part of an Hin vnto a ramme, and a fourth part of an Hin vnto a lambe: This is the burnt offring of euery moneth, throughout the moneths of the yeere.
15. And one kidde of the goates for a sinne offering vnto the Lord shalbe offered, besides the continuall burnt offring and his drinke offering.
16. And in the fourteenth day of the first moneth, is the Passeouer of the Lord.
17. And in the fifteenth day of this moneth is the feast: seuen dayes shall vnleauened bread be eaten.
18. In the first day shall bee an holy conuocation, yee shall doe no maner of seruile worke therein.
19. But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering vnto the Lord, two yong bullockes, and one ramme, and seuen lambes of the first yeere: they shall be vnto you without blemish.
20. And their meate offering shall be of flowre mingled with oyle: three tenth deales shall ye offer for a bullocke, and two tenth deales for a ramme.
21. A seuerall tenth deale shalt thou offer for euery lambe, throughout the seuen lambes:
22. And one goat for a sinne offering, to make an atonement for you.
23. Ye shal offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continuall burnt offering.
24. After this maner yee shall offer dayly throughout the seuen dayes, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord: it shal be offred beside the continuall burnt offring, and his drinke offering.
25. And on the seuenth day yee shall haue an holy conuocation: yee shall doe no seruile worke.
26. Also in the day of the first fruits when ye bring a new meat offering vnto the Lord, after your weekes bee out: ye shall haue an holy conuocation, ye shall doe no seruile worke.
27. But yee shall offer the burnt offering for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord, two yong bullockes, one ramme, seuen lambes of the first yeere.
28. And their meat offering of flowre mingled with oyle, three tenth deales vnto one bullocke, two tenth deales vnto one ramme,
29. A seuerall tenth deale vnto one lambe, thorowout the seuen lambes,
30. And one kidde of the goates, to make an atonement for you.
31. Ye shall offer them besides the continuall burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be vnto you without blemish) and their drinke offerings.
1. And in the seuenth moneth, on the first day of the moneth, ye shall haue an holy conuocation, yee shall doe no seruile worke: it is a day of blowing the trumpets vnto you.
2. And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet sauour vnto the Lord, one yong bullocke, one ramme, and seuen lambes of the first yeere without blemish.
3. And their meat offering shall be of floure mingled with oyle, three tenth deales for a bullocke, and two tenth deales for a ramme:
4. And one tenth deale for one lambe thorowout the seuen lambes:
5. And one kidde of the goats for a sinne offering to make an atonement for you:
6. Beside the burnt offering of the moneth, and his meat offering, and the dayly burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drinke offerings, according vnto their maner, for a sweet sauour, a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord.
7. And ye shall haue on the tenth day of this seuenth moneth an holy conuocation; and yee shall afflict your soules: yee shall not doe any worke therein.
8. But ye shall offer a burnt offering vnto the Lord for a sweet sauour, one yong bullock, one ramme, and seuen lambes of the first yeere, they shall bee vnto you without blemish.
9. And their meate offering shall be of floure mingled with oyle, three tenth deales to a bullocke, and two tenth deales to one ramme:
10. A seuerall tenth deale for one lambe, thorowout the seuen lambes;
11. One kidde of the goats for a sinne offering, beside the sinne offering of atonement, and the continuall burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drinke offerings.
12. And on the fifteenth day of the seuenth moneth, yee shall haue an holy conuocation, yee shall doe no seruile worke, and ye shall keepe a feast vnto the Lord seuen dayes.
13. And ye shall offer a burnt offring, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord, thirteene yong bullocks, two rammes, and fourteene lambes of the first yeere: They shall be without blemish.
14. And their meat offering shall be of floure mingled with oyle, three tenth deales vnto euery bullocke of the thirteene bullocks, two tenth deales to each ramme of the two rammes:
15. And a seuerall tenth deale to each lambe of the foureteene lambes:
16. And one kidde of the goats for a sinne offring, beside the continual burnt offering, his meate offering, and his drinke offering.
17. And on the second day ye shal offer twelue yong bullocks, two rammes, foureteene lambes of the first yeere without spot.
18. And their meat offring, and their drinke offerings for the bullockes, for the rammes, and for the lambes, shall be according to their number, after the maner:
19. And one kidde of the goats for a sinne offering, beside the continuall burnt offering, and the meate offering thereof, and their drinke offerings.
20. And on the third day eleuen bullocks, two rammes, foureteene lambs of the first yere without blemish.
21. And their meate offering, and their drinke offerings for the bullocks, for the rammes, and for the lambes, shall be according to their number after the maner:
22. And one goat for a sinne offering, beside the continuall burnt offering, and his meate offering, and his drinke offering.
23. And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rammes, and foureteene lambs of the first yere without blemish.
24. Their meat offering, and their drinke offerings, for the bullocks, for the rammes, and for the lambes, shall be according to their number after the maner:
25. And one kidde of the goats for a sin offering, beside the continuall burnt offering, his meate offering, and his drinke offering.
26. And on the fift day, nine bullockes, two rammes, and fourteene lambes of the first yeere, without spot:
27. And their meat offring and their drinke offerings, for the bullockes, for the rammes, and for the lambes, shall be according to their number after the maner:
28. And one goate for a sinne offring, beside the continuall burnt offring, and his meate offering and his drinke offering.
29. And on the sixt day eight bullockes, two rammes, and fourteene lambes of the first yeere without blemish:
30. And their meat offring, and their drinke offerings, for the bullockes, for the rammes, and for the lambes, shall be according to their number, after the maner:
31. And one goat for a sinne offering, beside the continuall burnt offering, his meate offering and his drinke offering.
32. And on the seuenth day, seuen bullockes, two rammes, and fourteene lambes of the first yeere without blemish.
33. And their meate offring, and their drinke offerings, for the bullockes, for the rammes, and for the lambes, shall be according to their number, after the maner:
34. And one goat for a sinne offring, beside the continuall burnt offering, his meate offering, and his drinke offring.
35. On the eight day, ye shall haue a solemne assembly: ye shall do no seruile worke therein:
36. But ye shal offer a burnt offring, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet sauour vnto the Lord, one bullocke, one ramme, seuen lambes of the first yeere without blemish:
37. Their meate offering, and their drinke offrings, for the bullocke, for the ramme, and for the lambes shall be according to their number, after the maner:
38. And one goat for a sinne offering, beside the continuall burnt offring, and his meate offering, and his drinke offering.
39. These things ye shall doe vnto the Lord in your set feasts, besides your vowes, and your free will offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meate offerings, and for your drinke offerings, and for your peace offerings.
40. And Moses tolde the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.

1. And Moses spake vnto the heads of the tribes, concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
2. If a man vowe a vow vnto the Lord, or sweare an othe to bind his soule with a bond: he shall not breake his word, hee shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
3. If a woman also vow a vow vnto the Lord, and binde her selfe by a bond, being in her fathers house in her youth;
4. And her father heare her vow, and her bond wherewith shee hath bound her soule, and her father shall holde his peace at her: then all her vowes shall stand, and euery bond wherewith shee hath bound her soule, shall stand.
5. But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vowes or of her bonds, wherewith she hath bound her soule, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgiue her, because her father disallowed her.
6. And if she had at all an husband when she vowed, or vttered ought out of her lips, wherewith shee bound her soule,
7. And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that hee heard it: then her vowes shall stand, and her bonds wherewith shee bound her soule, shall stand.
8. But if her husband disallowe her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vowe which she vowed, and that which she vttered with her lippes wherewith shee bound her soule, of none effect, and the Lord shall forgiue her.
9. But euery vow of a widow, and of her that is diuorced, wherewith they haue bound their soules, shall stand against her.
10. And if she vowed in her husbands house, or bound her soule by a bond with an oath;
11. And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vowes shall stand, and euery bond wherewith shee bound her soule, shall stand.
12. But if her husband hath vtterly made them voyd on the day hee heard them: then whatsoeuer proceeded out of her lips concerning her vowes, or concerning the bond of her soule, shall not stand: her husband hath made them voyd, and the Lord shal forgiue her. 
13. Euery vow, and euery binding othe to afflict the soule, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it voyd.
14. But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her, from day to day, then he establisheth all her vowes, or all her bonds which are vpon her: hee confirmeth them, because hee held his peace at her, in the day that hee heard them.
15. But if hee shall any wayes make them voyd after that he hath heard them, then he shall beare her iniquitie.
16. These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses betweene a man and his wife, betweene the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth, in her fathers house.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Auenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people.
3. And Moses spake vnto the people, saying, Arme some of your selues vnto the warre, and let them goe against the Midianites, and auenge the Lord of Midian.
4. Of euery tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the warre.
5. So there were deliuered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of euery tribe, twelue thousand armed for warre.
6. And Moses sent them to the warre, a thousand of euery tribe, them and Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest, to the warre, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow, in his hand.
7. And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males.
8. And they slew the Kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slaine; namely Eui, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, fiue Kings of Midian; Balaam also the sonne of Beor they slew with the sword.
9. And the children of Israel tooke all the women of Midian captiues, and their little ones, and tooke the spoile of all their cattell, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
10. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles with fire:
11. And they tooke all the spoile, and all the pray, both of men and of beasts.
12. And they brought the captiues, and the pray, and the spoile vnto Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, vnto the campe at the plaines of Moab, which are by Iordan neere Iericho.
13. And Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the Princes of the Congregation went foorth to meete them without the campe.
14. And Moses was wroth with the officers of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the battel.
15. And Moses said vnto them, Haue ye saued all the women aliue?
16. Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsell of Balaam, to commit trespasse against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the Congregation of the Lord.
17. Now therefore kill euery male among the little ones, and kill euery woman that hath knowen man, by lying with him.
18. But all the women children that haue not knowen a man by lying with him, keepe aliue for your selues.
19. And doe yee abide without the campe seuen dayes: whosoeuer hath killed any person, and whosoeuer hath touched any slaine, purifie both your selues, and your captiues, on the third day, and on the seuenth day.
20. And purifie all your raiment, and all that is made of skinnes, and all worke of goates haire, and all things made of wood.
21. And Eleazar the Priest said vnto the men of warre which went to the battell, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commaunded Moses.
22. Onely the gold, and the siluer, the brasse, the yron, the tinne, and the lead,
23. Euery thing that may abide the fire, yee shall make it goe through the fire, and it shall be cleane: neuerthelesse, it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire, yee shall make goe through the water.
24. And ye shall wash your clothes on the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane, and afterward yee shall come into the campe.
25. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
26. Take the summe of the pray, that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation:
27. And diuide the pray into two parts, betweene them that tooke the warre vpon them, who went out to battell, and betweene all the Congregation.
28. And leuie a tribute vnto the Lord of the men of warre which went out to battell: one soule of fiue hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeues, and of the asses, and of the sheepe.
29. Take it of their halfe, and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, for an heaue offering of the Lord.
30. And of the children of Israels halfe, thou shalt take one portion of fiftie, of the persons, of the beeues, of the asses, and of the flockes, of all maner of beasts, and giue them vnto the Leuites, which keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord.
31. And Moses and Eleazar the Priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32. And the bootie being the rest of the pray which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand, and seuenty thousand, and fiue thousand sheepe,
33. And threescore and twelue thousand beeues,
34. And threescore and one thousand asses:
35. And thirtie and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not knowen man by lying with him.
36. And the halfe which was the portion of them that went out to warre, was in number three hundred thousand, and seuen and thirtie thousand, and fiue hundred sheepe.
37. And the Lords tribute of the sheepe was sixe hundred and threescore and fifteene.
38. And the beeues were thirtie and sixe thousand, of which the Lords tribute was threescore and twelue.
39. And the asses were thirtie thousand and fiue hundred, of which the Lords tribute was threescore and one.
40. And the persons were sixteene thousand, of which the Lords tribute was thirtie and two persons.
41. And Moses gaue the tribute which was the Lords heaue offering, vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
42. And of the children of Israels halfe, which Moses diuided from the men that warred:
43. (Now the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation, was three hundred thousand, and thirtie thousand, and seuen thousand, and fiue hundred sheepe:
44. And thirtie and sixe thousand beeues:
45. And thirtie thousand asses, and fiue hundred:
46. And sixteene thousand persons)
47. Euen of the children of Israels halfe, Moses tooke one portion of fiftie, both of man and of beast, and gaue them vnto the Leuites, which kept the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
48. And the officers which were ouer thousands of the hoste, the captaines of thousands, and captaines of hundreds came neere vnto Moses.
49. And they said vnto Moses, Thy seruants haue taken the summe of the men of warre which are vnder our charge, and there lacketh not one man of vs.
50. Wee haue therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what euerie man hath gotten, of iewels of golde chaines, and bracelets, rings, earerings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our soules before the Lord.
51. And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the gold of them: euen all wrought iewels.
52. And all the gold of the offring that they offered vp to the Lord, of the captaines of thousands, and of the captaines of hundreds, was sixteene thousand, seuen hundred and fiftie shekels.
53. (For the men of warre had taken spoile, euery man for himselfe.)
54. And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the gold of the captaines, of thousands, and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, for a memoriall for the children of Israel before the Lord.
1. Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a very great multitude of cattell: and when they saw the land of Iazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattell;
2. The children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, came and spake vnto Moses, and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Princes of the Congregation, saying,
3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Iazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
4. Euen the countrey which the Lord smote before the Congregation of Israel, is a land for cattell, and thy seruants haue cattell.
5. Wherefore, said they, if wee haue found grace in thy sight, let this lande be giuen vnto thy seruants for a possession, and bring vs not ouer Iordane.
6. And Moses said vnto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren goe to warre, and shall ye sit here?
7. And wherefore discourage yee the heart of the children of Israel from going ouer into the lande, which the Lord hath giuen them?
8. Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9. For when they went vp vnto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not goe into the land which the Lord had giuen them.
10. And the Lords anger was kindled the same time, and hee sware, saying,
11. Surely none of the men that came vp out of Egypt, from twentie yeeres old and vpward, shall see the lande which I sware vnto Abraham, vnto Isaac, and vnto Iacob, because they haue not wholly followed me:
12. Saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun: for they haue wholly followed the Lord.
13. And the Lords anger was kindled against Israel, and hee made them wander in the wildernesse fourty yeeres, vntill all the generation that had done euill in the sight of the Lord was consumed.
14. And beholde, ye are risen vp in your fathers stead, an increase of sinfull men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.
15. For if yee turne away from after him, hee will yet againe leaue them in the wildernesse, and ye shall destroy all this people.
16. And they came neere vnto him, and said, Wee will build sheepfoldes here for our cattell, and cities for our litle ones.
17. But we ourselues will goe ready armed before the children of Israel, vntill wee haue brought them vnto their place: and our litle ones shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabitants of the land.
18. Wee will not returne vnto our houses, vntill the children of Israel haue inherited euery man his inheritance:
19. For wee will not inherite with them on yonder side Iordane, or forward, because our inheritance is fallen to vs on this side Iordane Eastward.
20. And Moses said vnto them, If ye will doe this thing, if ye will goe armed before the Lord to warre,
21. And will goe all of you armed ouer Iordane before the Lord, vntill he hath driuen out his enemies from before him,
22. And the land bee subdued before the Lord: then afterward ye shall returne, and bee guiltlesse before the Lord, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
23. But if ye will not doe so, behold, yee haue sinned against the Lord: and bee sure your sinne will finde you out.
24. Build ye cities for your litle ones, and folds for your sheepe, and doe that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
25. And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben spake vnto Moses, saying, Thy seruants will doe as my lord commandeth.
26. Our little ones, our wiues, our flocks, and all our cattell shall be there in the cities of Gilead.
27. But thy seruants will passe ouer, euery man armed for warre, before the Lord to battell, as my lord saith.
28. So concerning them Moses commaunded Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
29. And Moses said vnto them, If the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben will passe with you ouer Iordane, euery man armed to battell before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall giue them the land of Gilead for a possession:
30. But if they will not passe ouer with you armed, they shall haue possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
31. And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said vnto thy seruants, so will we doe.
32. Wee will passe ouer armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Iordane may be ours.
33. And Moses gaue vnto them, euen to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben; and vnto halfe the tribe of Manasseh the sonne of Ioseph, the kingdome of Sihon King of the Amorites, and the kingdome of Og King of Bashan, the land with the cities thereof, in the coastes, euen the cities of the countrey round about.
34. And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
35. And Atroth, Shophan, and Iaazer, and Iogbehah,
36. And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and foldes for sheepe.
37. And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
38. And Nebo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Shibmah: and gaue other names vnto the cities which they builded.
39. And the children of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, went to Gilead, and tooke it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
40. And Moses gaue Gilead vnto Machir the sonne of Manasseh, and he dwelt therein.
41. And Iair the sonne of Manasseh went and tooke the small townes thereof, and called them Hauoth-Iair.
42. And Nobah went and tooke Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his owne name.
1. These are the iourneyes of the children of Israel, which went foorth out of the land of Egypt, with their armies, vnder the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2. And Moses wrote their goings out according to their iourneyes, by the commandement of the Lord: and these are their iourneyes according to their goings out.
3. And they departed from Rameses in the first moneth, on the fifteenth day of the first moneth: on the morrow after the Passeouer, the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
4. (For the Egyptians buried all their first borne, which the Lord had smitten among them: vpon their gods also the Lord executed iudgements.)
5. And the children of Israel remoued from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
6. And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wildernesse.
7. And they remoued from Etham, and turned againe vnto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
8. And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed thorow the midst of the sea, into the wildernes, and went three dayes iourney in the wildernesse of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
9. And they remoued from Marah, and came vnto Elim, and in Elim were twelue fountaines of water, and three score and ten palme trees, and they pitched there.
10. And they remooued from Elim, and encamped by the red sea.
11. And they remooued from the red sea, and encamped in the wildernesse of Sin.
12. And they tooke their iourney out of the wildernesse of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
13. And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
14. And they remoued from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drinke.
15. And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai.
16. And they remoued from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth Hattaauah.
17. And they departed from Kibroth Hattaauah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
18. And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
19. And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon Parez.
20. And they departed from Rimmon Parez, and pitched in Libnah.
21. And they remoued from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
22. And they iourneyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
23. And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
24. And they remoued from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
25. And they remooued from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
26. And they remooued from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
27. And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
28. And they remoued from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
29. And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
30. And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
31. And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-Iaakan.
32. And they remooued from Bene-Iaakan, & encamped at Horhagidgad.
33. And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Iotbathah.
34. And they remooued from Iotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
35. And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
36. And they remoued from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wildernes of Zin, which is Kadesh.
37. And they remooued from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
38. And Aaron the Priest went vp into mount Hor, at the commandement of the Lord, and died there in the fourtieth yeere, after the children of Israel were come out of the lande of Egypt, in the first day of the fift moneth.
39. And Aaron was an hundred and twentie and three yeeres old, when hee died in mount Hor.
40. And King Arad the Canaanite (which dwelt in the South, in the land of Canaan) heard of the comming of the children of Israel.
41. And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
42. And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
43. And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
44. And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Iie-Abarim, in the border of Moab.
45. And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon Gad.
46. And they remoued from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon-Diblathaim.
47. And they remooued from Almon-Diblathaim, and pitched in the mountaines of Abarim, before Nebo.
48. And they departed from the mountaines of Abarim, and pitched in the plaines of Moab, by Iordan neere Iericho.
49. And they pitched by Iordane from Beth-Iesimoth, euen vnto Abel Shittim, in the plaines of Moab.
50. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying,
51. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye are passed ouer Iordane into the land of Canaan;
52. Then ye shall driue out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite plucke downe all their high places.
53. And ye shall dispossesse the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I haue giuen you the land to possesse it.
54. And ye shall diuide the land by lot, for an inheritance among your families, and to the moe ye shall giue the more inheritance, and to the fewer yee shall giue the lesse inheritance: euery mans inheritance shall bee in the place where his lot falleth, according to the tribes of your fathers, ye shall inherite.
55. But if ye will not driue out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to passe that those which ye let remaine of them, shall be prickes in your eyes, and thornes in your sides, and shal vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell.
56. Moreouer, it shall come to passe, that I shall do vnto you, as I thought to doe vnto them.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
2. Command the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall vnto you for an inheritance, euen the land of Canaan, with the coasts thereof.)
3. Then your South quarter shall be from the wildernesse of Zin, along by the coast of Edom, and your South border shall be the outmost coast of the salt Sea Eastward.
4. And your border shal turne from the South to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passe on to Zin: and the going foorth thereof shall be from the South to Kadesh-Barnea, and shall goe on to Hazar-Addar, and passe on to Azmon.
5. And the border shall fetch a comcompasse from Azmon vnto the riuer of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
6. And as for the Westerne border, you shall euen haue the great sea for a border: this shall be your West border.
7. And this shall be your North border: from the great sea, you shall point out for you, mount Hor.
8. From mount Hor, ye shall point out your border vnto the entrance of Hamath: and the goings foorth of the border shall be to Zedad.
9. And the border shall goe on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall bee at Hazar Enan: this shall be your North border.
10. And ye shall point out your East border, from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
11. And the coast shall goe downe from Shepham to Riblah, on the East side of Ain: and the border shall descend and shall reach vnto the side of the sea of Chinnereth Eastward.
12. And the border shall goe downe to Iordane, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coastes thereof round about.
13. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherite by lot, which the Lord commanded to giue vnto the nine tribes, and to the halfe tribe.
14. For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad, according to the house of their fathers, haue receiued their inheritance, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh haue receiued their inheritance.
15. The two tribes, and the halfe tribe haue receiued their inheritance on this side Iordane neere Iericho, Eastward, toward the Sunne rising.
16. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
17. These are the names of the men which shall diuide the land vnto you: Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun.
18. And yee shall take one Prince of euery tribe, to diuide the land by inheritance.
19. And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Iudah, Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh.
20. And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the sonne of Ammihud.
21. Of the tribe of Beniamin, Elidad the sonne of Chislon.
22. And the Prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the sonne of Iogli.
23. The Prince of the children of Ioseph: for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the sonne of Ephod.
24. And the Prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the sonne of Shiphtan.
25. And the Prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the sonne of Parnach.
26. And the Prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the sonne of Azzan.
27. And the Prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the sonne of Shelomi.
28. And the Prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the sonne of Ammihud.
29. These are they whom the Lord commaunded to diuide the inheritance vnto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
1. And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying,
2. Command the children of Israel, that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in: and yee shall giue also vnto the Leuites suburbs for the cities round about them.
3. And the cities shall they haue to dwell in, and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattell, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
4. And the suburbs of the cities, which yee shall giue vnto the Leuites, shall reach from the wall of the citie, and outward, a thousand cubites round about.
5. And ye shall measure from without the city on the Eastside two thousand cubites, and on the Southside two thousand cubites, and on the Westside two thousand cubites, & on the Northside two thousand cubites: and the citie shall be in the midst; this shalbe to them the suburbs of the cities.
6. And among the cities which yee shal giue vnto the Leuites, there shalbe sixe cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that hee may flee thither: And to them ye shall adde fourty and two cities.
7. So all the cities which ye shall giue to the Leuites, shall be fourty and eight cities: them shall yee giue with their suburbs.
8. And the cities which ye shal giue, shalbe of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that haue many ye shall giue many; but from them that haue few, ye shall giue few. Euery one shal giue of his cities vnto the Leuites, according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
9. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
10. Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye bee come ouer Iordane, into the land of Canaan:
11. Then ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither which killeth any person at vnawares.
12. And they shall be vnto you cities for refuge from the auenger, that the man-slayer die not, vntill he stand before the Congregation in iudgement.
13. And of these cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.
14. Yee shall giue three cities on this side Iordane, and three cities shall yee giue in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
15. These sixe cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the soiourner among them: that euery one that killeth any person vnawares, may flee thither.
16. And if he smite him with an instrument of Iron, (so that he die,) hee is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
17. And if he smite him with throwing a stone, (wherewith hee may die) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
18. Or if he smite him with an handweapon of wood, (wherewith he may die) and he die, hee is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
19. The reuenger of blood himselfe shall slay the murtherer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
20. But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurle at him by laying of waite that he die,
21. Or in enmitie smite him with his hand, that he die: hee that smote him shall surely be put to death, for hee is a murderer: the reuenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when hee meeteth him.
22. But if hee thrust him suddenly without enmitie, or haue cast vpon him any thing without laying of wait,
23. Or with any stone wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it vpon him, that he die, and was not his enemie, neither sought his harme:
24. Then the Congregation shall iudge betweene the slayer, and the reuenger of blood, according to these iudgements.
25. And the Congregation shall deliuer the slayer out of the hand of the reuenger of blood, and the Congregation shal restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it vnto the death of the high Priest, which was annoynted with the holy oyle.
26. But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the citie of his refuge, whither he was fled:
27. And the reuenger of blood finde him without the borders of the citie of his refuge, and the reuenger of blood kill the slayer, he shall not be guiltie of blood:
28. Because he should haue remained in the citie of his refuge, vntill the death of the high Priest: but after the death of the hie Priest, the slayer shal returne into the land of his possession.
29. So these things shall be for a statute of iudgment vnto you, thorowout your generations in al your dwellings.
30. Who so killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death, by the mouth of witnesses: but one witnesse shall not testifie against any person, to cause him to die.
31. Moreouer, yee shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guiltie of death, but he shalbe surely put to death.
32. And yee shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the citie of his refuge, that hee should come againe to dwell in the land, vntil the death of the Priest.
33. So ye shall not pollute the lande wherein ye are: for blood, it defileth the land: and the land cannot bee cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
34. Defile not therefore the lande which yee shall inhabite, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
1. And the chiefe fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, of the families of the sonnes of Ioseph, came neere, and spake before Moses, and before the Princes the chiefe fathers of the children of Israel. 
2. And they said, The Lord commanded my lord to giue the lande for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the Lord, to giue the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother, vnto his daughters.
3. And if they bee married to any of the sonnes of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall bee put to the inheritance of the tribe, whereinto they are receiued: so shal it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4. And when the Iubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put vnto the inheritance of the tribe, whereunto they are receiued: So shal their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, according to the worde of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sonnes of Ioseph hath said well.
6. This is the thing which the Lord doeth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they thinke best: onely to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
7. So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remooue from tribe to tribe: for euery one of the children of Israel shall keepe himselfe to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8. And euery daughter that possesseth an inheritance, in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife vnto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enioy euery man the inheritance of his fathers.
9. Neither shall the inheritance remoue from one tribe to another tribe: but euery one of the tribes of the children of Israel, shall keepe himselfe to his owne inheritance.
10. Euen as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
11. For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad, were married vnto their fathers brothers sonnes.
12. And they were married into the families of the sonnes of Manasseh, the sonne of Ioseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13. These are the commandements and the iudgements which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, vnto the children of Israel in the plaines of Moab, by Iordane, neere Iericho.
1. These bee the woordes which Moses spake vnto all Israel, on this side Iordane in the wildernes, in the plaine ouer against the Red sea, betweene Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 
2. (There are eleuen daies iourney from Horeb, by the way of mount Seir, vnto Kadesh Barnea.) 
3. And it came to passe in the fourtieth yeere, in the eleuenth moneth, on the first day of the moneth, that Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, according vnto all that the Lord had giuen him in commandement vnto them: 
4. After hee had slaine Sihon the King of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the King of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth, in Edrei. 
5. On this side Iordane, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 
6. The Lord our God spake vnto vs in Horeb, saying, Ye haue dwelt long ynough in this mount: 
7. Turne you, and take your iourney, and goe to the mount of the Amorites, and vnto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plaine, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the South, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and vnto Lebanon, vnto the great riuer, the riuer Euphrates. 
8. Behold, I haue set the land before you: Goe in, and possesse the land, which the Lord sware vnto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, to giue vnto them, and to their seed after them. 
9. And I spake vnto you at that time, saying, I am not able to beare you my selfe alone: 
10. The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and beholde, you are this day as the starres of heauen for multitude. 
11. (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promised you.) 
12. How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 
13. Take ye wise men, and vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you. 
14. And ye answered me, and saide, The thing which thou hast spoken, is good for vs to doe. 
15. So I tooke the chiefe of your tribes, wise men, and knowen, and made them heads ouer you, captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, and captaines ouer fifties, and captaines ouer tennes, and officers among your tribes. 
16. And I charged your Iudges at that time, saying, Heare the causes betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betweene euery man and his brother, & the stranger that is with him. 
17. Ye shall not respect persons in iudgement, but you shall heare the small aswell as the great: you shall not bee afraid of the face of man, for the iudgment is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it vnto me, and I will heare it. 
18. And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should doe. 
19. And when wee departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wildernes, which you saw by the way of the mountaine of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded vs: and wee came to Kadesh Barnea. 
20. And I said vnto you, Ye are come vnto the mountaine of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth giue vnto vs. 
21. Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: Goe vp, and possesse it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said vnto thee: Feare not, neither be discouraged. 
22. And ye came neere vnto mee euery one of you, and said, We will send men before vs, and they shall search vs out the land, and bring vs word againe, by what way we must goe vp, and into what cities we shall come. 
23. And the saying pleased mee well: and I tooke twelue men of you, one of a tribe. 
24. And they turned and went vp into the mountaine, and came vnto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 
25. And they tooke of the fruit of the land in their handes, and brought it downe vnto vs, and brought vs worde againe, and said, It is a good lande which the Lord our God doeth giue vs. 
26. Notwithstanding, ye would not goe vp, but rebelled against the commandement of the Lord your God. 
27. And ye murmured in your tents and said, Because the Lord hated vs, he hath brought vs forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy vs: 
28. Whither shall wee goe vp? our brethren haue discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller then we, the cities are great, and walled vp to heauen, and moreouer we haue seene the sonnes of the Anakims there. 
29. Then I said vnto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 
30. The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that hee did for you in Egypt before your eyes: 
31. And in the wildernes, where thou hast seene how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth beare his sonne, in all the way that ye went, vntil ye came into this place. 
32. Yet in this thing ye did not beleeue the Lord your God, 
33. Who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should goe, and in a cloud by day. 
34. And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 
35. Surely there shall not one of these men of this euill generation see that good land, which I sware to giue vnto your fathers: 
36. Saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I giue the land that he hath troden vpon, and to his children, because hee hath wholly followed the Lord. 
37. Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not goe in thither. 
38. But Ioshua the sonne of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall goe in thither. Encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherite it. 
39. Moreouer, your litle ones, which ye said should be a pray, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge betweene good and euil, they shall goe in thither; and vnto them will I giue it, and they shall possesse it. 
40. But as for you, turne ye, and take your iourney into the wildernesse, by the way of the Red sea. 
41. Then ye answered, and said vnto mee, Wee haue sinned against the Lord, we will goe vp and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded vs. And when ye had girded on euery man his weapons of warre, yee were ready to goe vp into the hill. 
42. And the Lord said vnto me, Say vnto them, Goe not vp, neither fight, for I am not among you: least ye be smitten before your enemies. 
43. So I spake vnto you, and you would not heare, but rebelled against the commandement of the Lord, and went presumptuously vp into the hill. 
44. And the Amorites which dwelt in that mountaine, came out against you, and chased you, as Bees doe, and destroyed you in Seir, euen vnto Hormah. 
45. And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voyce, nor giue eare vnto you. 
46. So yee abode in Kadesh many dayes, according vnto the dayes that ye abode there. 
1. Then we turned, and tooke our iourney into the wildernesse, by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake vnto mee: and wee compassed mount Seir many dayes. 
2. And the Lord spake vnto me, saying, 
3. Yee haue compassed this mountaine long enough: turne you Northward. 
4. And commaund thou the people, saying, Ye are to passe through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed vnto your selues therefore. 
5. Meddle not with them, for I will not giue you of their land, no not so much as a foote breadth, because I haue giuen mount Seir vnto Esau for a possession. 
6. Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat, and yee shall also buy water of them for money, that yee may drinke. 
7. For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, in all the workes of thy hand: hee knoweth thy walking thorow this great wildernesse: these fourtie yeres the Lord thy God hath bene with thee, thou hast lacked nothing. 
8. And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, thorow the way of the plaine from Elath, and from Ezion-Gaber, wee turned and passed by the way of the wildernesse of Moab. 
9. And the Lord said vnto mee, Distresse not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battell: for I wil not giue thee of their land for a possession, because I haue giuen Ar vnto the children of Lot for a possession. 
10. The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: 
11. Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims, but the Moabites call them Emims. 
12. The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them when they had destroyed them from before them, & dwelt in their stead, as Israel did vnto the land of his possession, which the Lord gaue vnto them. 
13. Now rise vp, said I, and get you ouer the brooke Zered: and we went ouer the brooke Zered. 
14. And the space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, vntill we were come ouer the brooke Zered, was thirtie and eight yeeres; vntill all the generation of the men of warre were wasted out from among the hoste, as the Lord sware vnto them. 
15. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the hoste, vntill they were consumed. 
16. So it came to passe, when all the men of warre were consumed and dead from among the people, 
17. That the Lord spake vnto me, saying, 
18. Thou art to passe ouer thorow Ar, the coast of Moab, this day. 
19. And when thou commest nigh ouer against the children of Ammon, distresse them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not giue thee of the lande of the children of Ammon any possession, because I haue giuen it vnto the children of Lot for a possession: 
20. (That also was accounted a land of Giants: giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims. 
21. A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them & dwelt in their stead:) 
22. As he did to the children of Esau which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them, and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead euen vnto this day. 
23. And the Auims which dwelt in Hazerim, euen vnto Azzah, the Caphtorims which came foorth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. 
24. Rise ye vp, take your iourney, and passe ouer the riuer Arnon: Behold, I haue giuen into thy hand Sihon the Amorite king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possesse it, and contend with him in battell. 
25. This day will I begin to put the dread of thee, and the feare of thee vpon the nations, that are vnder the whole heauen, who shall heare report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. 
26. And I sent messengers out of the wildernesse of Kedemoth, vnto Sihon king of Heshbon, with wordes of peace, saying, 
27. Let me passe through thy land: I will goe along by the high way, I will neither turne vnto the right hand, nor to the left. 
28. Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eate, and giue me water for money that I may drinke: Only I will passe through on my feet: 
29. As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did vnto me, vntill I shall passe ouer Iordan, into the land which the Lord our God giueth vs. 
30. But Sihon King of Heshbon would not let vs passe by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that hee might deliuer him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. 
31. And the Lord said vnto mee, Behold, I haue begun to giue Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possesse, that thou mayest inherit his land. 
32. Then Sihon came out against vs, he & all his people to fight at Iahaz. 
33. And the Lord our God deliuered him before vs, and wee smote him, and his sonnes, and all his people. 
34. And we tooke all his cities at that time, and vtterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the litle ones of euery citie, we left none to remaine: 
35. Onely the cattell wee tooke for a pray vnto our selues, and the spoyle of the cities, which we tooke: 
36. From Aroer, which is by the brinke of the riuer of Arnon, and from the citie that is by the riuer euen vnto Gilead, there was not one citie too strong for vs: the Lord our God deliuered all vnto vs. 
37. Onely vnto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor vnto any place of the riuer Iabbok, nor vnto the cities in the mountaines, nor vnto whatsoeuer the Lord our God forbade vs. 
1. Then we turned, and went vp the way to Bashan: and Og the King of Bashan came out against vs, hee, and all his people to battell at Edrei. 
2. And the Lord said vnto mee, Feare him not: for I will deliuer him, and all his people, and his land into thy hand, and thou shalt doe vnto him as thou didst vnto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 
3. So the Lord our God deliuered into our hands Og also the King of Bashan, and all his people: and wee smote him vntill none was left to him remayning. 
4. And we tooke all his cities at that time, there was not a citie which wee tooke not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdome of Og in Bashan. 
5. All these cities were fenced with high walles, gates and barres, beside vnwalled townes a great many. 
6. And we vtterly destroyed them, as we did vnto Sihon King of Heshbon, vtterly destroying the men, women, and children of euery citie. 
7. But all the cattell, and the spoile of the cities, we tooke for a pray to our selues. 
8. And we tooke at that time out of the hand of the two Kings of the Amorites, the land that was on this side Iordan, from the riuer of Arnon, vnto mount Hermon: 
9. (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Syrion: and the Amorites call it Shenir.) 
10. All the cities of the plaine, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, vnto Salchah, and Edrei, cities of the kingdome of Og in Bashan. 
11. For onely Og King of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedsted was a bedsted of yron: is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine cubites was the length thereof, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man. 
12. And this land which we possessed at that time, from Aroer which is by the riuer Arnon, and halfe mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gaue I vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites. 
13. And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdome of Og, gaue I vnto the halfe tribe of Manasseh: All the region of Argob with all Bashan, which was called the land of Giants. 
14. Iair the sonne of Manasseh tooke all the countrey of Argob, vnto the coastes of Geshuri, and Maachathi; and called them after his owne name, Bashan Hauoth Iair, vnto this day. 
15. And I gaue Gilead vnto Machir. 
16. And vnto the Reubenites, and vnto the Gadites, I gaue from Gilead, euen vnto the riuer Arnon, halfe the valley, and the border, euen vnto the riuer Iabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon: 
17. The plaine also, and Iordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth, euen vnto the sea of the plaine, euen the salt sea, vnder Ashdoth Pisgah Eastward. 
18. And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath giuen you this land to possesse it: ye shall passe ouer armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the warre. 
19. But your wiues, and your little ones, and your cattell (for I know that ye haue much cattel) shall abide in your cities, which I haue giuen you: 
20. Untill the Lord haue giuen rest vnto your brethren, as well as vnto you, and vntill they also possesse the land which the Lord your God hath giuen them beyond Iordan: and then shall ye returne euery man vnto his possession, which I haue giuen you. 
21. And I commanded Ioshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes haue seene all that the Lord your God hath done vnto these two Kings: so shal the Lord doe vnto all the kingdomes whither thou passest. 
22. Ye shall not feare them: for the Lord your God, he shal fight for you. 
23. And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, 
24. O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy seruant thy greatnesse, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heauen, or in earth, that can do according to thy workes, and according to thy might? 
25. I pray thee let me goe ouer, and see the good land that is beyond Iordan, that goodly mountaine and Lebanon. 
26. But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not heare mee: and the Lord said vnto me, Let it suffice thee, speake no more vnto me of this matter. 
27. Get thee vp into the top of Pisgah, and lift vp thine eyes Westward, and Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and beholde it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not goe ouer this Iordan. 
28. But charge Ioshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for hee shall goe ouer before this people, and he shall cause them to inherite the land which thou shalt see. 
29. So we abode in the valley, ouer against Beth-Peor. 
1. Nowe therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the Iudgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may liue, and goe in and possesse the lande, which the Lord God of your fathers giueth you. 
2. Ye shall not adde vnto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that ye may keepe the Commaundements of the Lord your God, which I command you. 
3. Your eyes haue seene what the Lord did because of Baal Peor: for all the men that followed Baal Peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. 
4. But yee that did cleaue vnto the Lord your God, are aliue euery one of you this day. 
5. Behold, I haue taught you Statutes, and Iudgements, euen as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so, in the land whither ye goe to possesse it. 
6. Keepe therefore, and doe them; for this is your wisedome and your vnderstanding in the sight of the nations, which shall heare all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and vnderstanding people. 
7. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh vnto them, as the Lord our God is in all things, that we call vpon him for? 
8. And what nation is there so great, that hath Statutes and Iudgements so righteous, as all this Law which I set before you this day? 
9. Onely take heed to thy selfe, and keepe thy soule diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes haue seene, and lest they depart from thy heart all the dayes of thy life: but teach them thy sonnes, & thy sonnes sonnes: 
10. Specially, the day that thou stoodst before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said vnto mee, Gather me the people together, and I will make them heare my wordes, that they may learne to feare mee all the dayes that they shall liue vpon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 
11. And ye came neere and stood vnder the mountaine, and the mountaine burnt with fire vnto the midst of heauen, with darkenes, cloudes, and thicke darkenesse. 
12. And the Lord spake vnto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voyce of the words, but saw no similitude, onely ye heard a voyce. 
13. And he declared vnto you his couenant, which he commanded you to performe, euen ten comandements, and he wrote them vpon two tables of stone. 
14. And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you Statutes, and Iudgements, that yee might doe them in the land whither ye goe ouer to possesse it. 
15. Take ye therfore good heed vnto your selues, (for ye saw no maner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire) 
16. Lest yee corrupt your selues, and make you a grauen image, the similitude of any figure, the likenes of male, or female, 
17. The likenesse of any beast that is on the earth, the likenes of any winged foule that flieth in the aire, 
18. The likenesse of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likenesse of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 
19. And lest thou lift vp thine eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sun, and the moone, and the starres, euen all the hoste of heauen, shouldest be driuen to worship them, and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath diuided vnto all nations vnder the whole heauen. 
20. But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you foorth out of the yron fornace, euen out of Egypt, to bee vnto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 
21. Furthermore, the Lord was angry with mee for your sakes, and sware that I should not goe ouer Iordan, and that I should not goe in vnto that good land which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance. 
22. But I must die in this lande, I must not goe ouer Iordan: but ye shall goe ouer and possesse that good land. 
23. Take heed vnto your selues, lest ye forget the couenant of the Lord your God, which hee made with you, and make you a grauen image, or the likenes of any thing which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. 
24. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, euen a iealous God. 
25. When thou shalt beget children, and childrens children, and shalt haue remained long in the land, and shal corrupt your selues, & make a grauen image, or the likenes of any thing, and shall doe euil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to prouoke him to anger: 
26. I call heauen and earth to witnesse against you this day, that ye shall soone vtterly perish from off the land whereunto you goe ouer Iordan, to possesse it: yee shall not prolong your dayes vpon it, but shall vtterly bee destroyed. 
27. And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you. 
28. And there ye shall serue gods, the worke of mens hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor heare, nor eate, nor smell. 
29. But if from thence thou shalt seeke the Lord thy God, thou shalt finde him, if thou seeke him with all thy heart, and with all thy soule. 
30. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come vpon thee, euen in the latter dayes, if thou turne to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient vnto his voice: 
31. (For the Lord thy God is a mercifull God) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the couenant of thy fathers, which he sware vnto them. 
32. For aske now of the dayes that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man vpon earth, and aske from the one side of heauen vnto the other, whether there hath bene any such thing as this great thing is, or hath bene heard like it? 
33. Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and liue? 
34. Or hath God assayed to goe and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signes, and by wonders, and by warre, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretehed out arme, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 
35. Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know, that the Lord hee is God; there is none else besides him. 
36. Out of heauen hee made thee to heare his voice, that he might instruct thee: and vpon earth hee shewed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 
37. And because he loued thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mightie power out of Egypt: 
38. To driue out nations from before thee, greater and mightier then thou art, to bring thee in, to giue thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 
39. Know therefore this day, & consider it in thine heart, that the Lord hee is God in heauen aboue, and vpon the earth beneath: there is none else. 
40. Thou shalt keepe therefore his Statutes, and his Commandements, which I command thee this day; that it may goe well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy dayes vpon the earth, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, for euer. 
41. Then Moses seuered three cities on this side Iordan, toward the Sunne rising: 
42. That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour vnawares, and hated him not in times past, and that fleeing vnto one of these cities he might liue: 
43. Namely, Bezer in the wildernesse, in the plaine countrey of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 
44. And this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 
45. These are the Testimonies, and the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, after they came foorth out of Egypt; 
46. On this side Iordan in the valley ouer against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon King of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come foorth out of Egypt. 
47. And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Iordan toward the sun rising, 
48. From Aroer, which is by the banke of the riuer Arnon, euen vnto mount Sion, which is Hermon, 
49. And all the plaine of this side Iordan Eastward, euen vnto the sea, of the plaine vnder the springs of Pisgah. 
1. And Moses called all Israel, and sayd vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the Statutes and Iudgements which I speake in your eares this day, that ye may learne them, and keepe and doe them. 
2. The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb. 
3. The Lord made not this couenant with our fathers, but with vs: euen vs, who are all of vs here aliue this day. 
4. The Lord talked with you, face to face, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, 
5. (I stood betweene 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 vp into the mount,) saying, 
6. I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 
7. Thou shalt haue none other gods before me. 
8. Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. 
9. Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 
10. And shewing mercy vnto thousands, of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements. 
11. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine. 
12. Keepe the Sabbath day to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. 
13. Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and doe all thy worke. 
14. But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy maid seruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy man seruant and thy maid seruant may rest as well as thou. 
15. And remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence, through a mightie hand, and by a stretched out arme: Therefore the Lord thy God commaunded thee to keepe the Sabbath day. 
16. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thy daies may be prolonged, and that it may goe well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 
17. Thou shalt not kill. 
18. Neither shalt thou commit adulterie. 
19. Neither shalt thou steale. 
20. Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour. 
21. Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours wife, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours house, his field, or his man seruant, or his maide seruant, his oxe, or his asse, or any thing that is thy neighbours. 
22. These wordes the Lord spake vnto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thicke darkenesse, with a great voice, and he added no more, and he wrote them in two Tables of stone, and deliuered them vnto me. 
23. And it came to passe when yee heard the voice out of the midst of the darkenes (for the mountaine did burne with fire) that ye came neere vnto mee, euen all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 
24. And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glory, and his greatnesse, and we haue heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: wee haue seene this day that God doth talke with man, and he liueth. 
25. Now therefore why should wee die? for this great fire will consume vs. If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die. 
26. For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the liuing God, speaking out of the midst of the fire (as we haue) and liued? 
27. Goe thou neere, and heare all that the Lord our God shall say; and speake thou vnto vs all that the Lord our God shall speake vnto thee, and we will heare it, and doe it. 
28. And the Lord heard the voice of your words, when ye spake vnto me, and the Lord said vnto me, I haue heard the voice of the wordes of this people, which they haue spoken vnto thee: they haue well said, all that they haue spoken. 
29. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would feare me, and keepe my commandements alwayes, that it might bee well with them, and with their children for euer. 
30. Goe, say to them, Get you into your tents againe. 
31. But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speake vnto thee all the Commandements, and the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which thou shalt teach them, that they may doe them in the land which I giue them to possesse it. 
32. Ye shall obserue to doe therefore, as the Lord your God hath commanded you: you shall not turne aside to the right hand, or to the left. 
33. You shall walke in all the wayes which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may liue, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your dayes in the land which ye shall possesse. 
1. Now these are the Commaundements, the Statutes, & the Iudgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye goe to possesse it: 
2. That thou mightest feare the Lord thy God, to keepe all his Statutes, and his Commandements which I command thee; thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne, all the dayes of thy life: and that thy dayes may be prolonged. 
3. Heare therefore, O Israel, and obserue to do it, that it may be wel with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milke and hony. 
4. Heare, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. 
5. And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might. 
6. And these words which I command thee this day, shall bee in thine heart. 
7. And thou shalt teach them diligently vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp. 
8. And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes. 
9. And thou shalt write them vpon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 
10. And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall haue brought thee into the land which hee sware vnto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob to giue thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 
11. And houses full of all good things which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliue trees which thou plantedst not, when thou shalt haue eaten and be full, 
12. Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 
13. Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and serue him, & shalt sweare by his Name. 
14. Yee shall not goe after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you: 
15. (For the Lord thy God is a ielous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God bee kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 
16. Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as yee tempted him in Massah. 
17. You shall diligently keepe the Commandements of the Lord your God, and his Testimonies, and his Statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 
18. And thou shalt doe that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest goe in, and possesse the good land which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers: 
19. To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. 
20. And when thy sonne asketh thee in time to come, saying, What meane the Testimonies, & the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? 
21. Then thou shalt say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 
22. And the Lord shewed signes and wonders, great and sore vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his houshold, before our eyes: 
23. And hee brought vs out from thence, that hee might bring vs in, to giue vs the land which hee sware vnto our fathers. 
24. And the Lord commanded vs to doe all these Statutes, to feare the Lord our God, for our good alwayes, that he might preserue vs aliue, as it is at this day. 
25. And it shall be our righteousnes, if we obserue to doe all these Commandements, before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded vs. 
1. When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou: 
2. And when the Lord thy God shall deliuer them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and vtterly destroy them, thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor shew mercy vnto them. 
3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not giue vnto his sonne, nor his daughter shalt thou take vnto thy sonne. 
4. For they will turne away thy sonne from following mee, that they may serue other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. 
5. But thus shal ye deale with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and breake downe their images, and cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire. 
6. For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the face of the earth. 
7. The Lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor choose you, because yee were moe in number then any people: (for ye were the fewest of all people,) 
8. But because the Lord loued you, and because hee would keepe the othe which hee had sworne vnto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 
9. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithfull God, which keepeth Couenant and Mercy with them that loue him, and keepe his Commandements, to a thousand generations; 
10. And repaieth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he wil not be slacke to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 
11. Thou shalt therefore keepe the Commandements, and the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which I command thee this day, to doe them. 
12. Wherefore it shal come to passe, if ye hearken to these iudgements, and keepe and do them: That the Lord thy God shall keepe vnto thee the Couenant and the Mercy which he sware vnto thy fathers. 
13. And hee will loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiply thee: Hee will also blesse the fruit of thy wombe, and the fruit of thy land, thy corne, and thy wine, and thine oile, the encrease of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe, in the land which hee sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee. 
14. Thou shalt bee blessed aboue all people: there shall not bee male or female barren among you or among your cattell. 
15. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickenesse, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee: but will lay them vpon all them that hate thee. 
16. And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliuer thee: thine eye shall haue no pitie vpon them, neither shalt thou serue their gods, for that will be a snare vnto thee. 
17. If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, howe can I dispossesse them? 
18. Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember, what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all Egypt, 
19. The great temptations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and the wonders, and the mightie hand, and the stretched out arme, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God doe vnto all the people of whom thou art afraid. 
20. Moreouer, the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, vntill they that are left and hide themselues from thee, be destroyed. 
21. Thou shalt not bee affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God, and terrible. 
22. And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by litle and litle: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beastes of the field increase vpon thee. 
23. But the Lord thy God shall deliuer them vnto thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be destroyed. 
24. And he shall deliuer their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: There shal no man be able to stand before thee, vntil thou haue destroyed them. 
25. The grauen images of their gods shall yee burne with fire: thou shalt not desire the siluer or golde that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, lest thou bee snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 
26. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou bee a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt vtterly detest it, and thou shalt vtterly abhorre it, for it is a cursed thing. 
1. All the commaundements which I commaund thee this day, shall yee obserue to doe, that yee may liue, and multiply, and goe in, and possesse the land which the Lord sware vnto your fathers. 
2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these fourtie yeeres in the wildernesse, to humble thee, and to proue thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keepe his commandements, or no. 
3. And he humbled thee, and suffred 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 liue by bread onely, but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man liue. 
4. Thy raiment waxed not old vpon thee, neither did thy foote swell these fourtie yeeres. 
5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. 
6. Therefore thou shalt keepe the Commandements of the Lord thy God, to walke in his wayes, and to feare him. 
7. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a lande of brookes of water, of fountaines, and depths that spring out of valleys and hilles, 
8. A land of wheate, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranats, a land of oyle oliue, and hony, 
9. A lande wherein thou shalt eate bread without scarcenes, thou shalt not lacke any thing in it: a lande whose stones are yron, and out of whose hils thou mayest digge brasse. 
10. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt blesse the Lord thy God, for the good lande which hee hath giuen thee. 
11. Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his Commandements, and his Iudgements, and his Statutes which I command thee this day: 
12. Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 
13. And when thy heards and thy flocks multiply, and thy siluer and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied: 
14. Then thine heart bee lifted vp, and thou forget the Lord thy God (which brought thee foorth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, 
15. Who led thee through that great and terrible wildernesse, wherein were fierie serpents, and scorpions, & drought, where there was no water, who brought thee foorth water out of the rocke of flint, 
16. Who fed thee in the wildernesse with Manna, which thy fathers knew not, that hee might humble thee, and that hee might prooue thee, to doe thee good at thy latter end:) 
17. And thou say in thine heart, My power, and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 
18. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giueth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his Couenant, which he sware vnto thy fathers, as it is this day. 
19. And it shalbe, if thou doe at all forget the Lord thy God, and walke after other gods, and serue them, and worship them; I testifie against you this day, that ye shall surely perish. 
20. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall yee perish; because ye would not be obedient vnto the voice of the Lord your God. 
1. Heare, O Israel, thou art to passe ouer Iordan this day, to goe in, to possesse nations greater & mightier then thy selfe, Cities great, and fenced vp to heauen, 
2. A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak? 
3. Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he, which goeth ouer before thee, as a consuming fire: he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them downe before thy face: So shalt thou driue them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said vnto thee. 
4. Speake not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousnesse the Lord hath brought mee in to possesse this land: but for the wickednesse of these nations, the Lord doeth driue them out from before thee. 
5. Not for thy righteousnesse, or for the vprightnesse of thine heart, doest thou goe to possesse their land: But for the wickednesse of these nations the Lord thy God doeth driue them out from before thee, and that he may performe the word which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob. 
6. Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giueth thee not this good land to possesse it, for thy righteousnesse; for thou art a stiffe-necked people. 
7. Remember and forget not, how thou prouokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wildernesse: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, vntill ye came vnto this place, yee haue bene rebellious against the Lord. 
8. Also in Horeb yee prouoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you, to haue destroyed you. 
9. When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the Tables of stone, euen the Tables of the Couenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount fortie dayes, and fortie nights, I neither did eate bread, nor drinke water: 
10. And the Lord deliuered vnto me two Tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and on them was written according to all the words which the Lord spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of fire, in the day of the assembly. 
11. And it came to passe at the end of fortie dayes, and fortie nights, that the Lord gaue mee the two Tables of stone, euen the Tables of the Couenant. 
12. And the Lord said vnto mee, Arise, get thee downe quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought foorth out of Egypt, haue corrupted themselues: they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they haue made them a molten image. 
13. Furthermore, the Lord spake vnto me, saying, I haue seene this people, and behold, it is a stifnecked people. 
14. Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from vnder heauen: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater then they. 
15. So I turned and came downe from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two Tables of the Couenant were in my two hands. 
16. And I looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calfe: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you. 
17. And I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 
18. And I fell downe before the Lord, as at the first, fortie dayes and fortie nights, I did neither eate bread nor drinke water, because of all your sinnes which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to prouoke him to anger. 
19. (For I was afraid of the anger, and whot displeasure wherewith the Lord was wroth against you, to destroy you.) But the Lord hearkned vnto me at that time also. 
20. And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, to haue destroyed him: And I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 
21. And I tooke your sinne, the calfe which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, euen vntill it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust therof into the brooke that descended out of the mount. 
22. And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-Hattaauah, ye prouoked the Lord to wrath. 
23. Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Goe vp and possesse the land which I haue giuen you, then you rebelled against the commandement of the Lord your God, and ye beleeued him not, nor hearkened to his voyce. 
24. You haue bin rebellious against the Lord, from the day that I knew you. 
25. Thus I fell downe before the Lord fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, as I fel downe at the first, because the Lord had said, he would destroy you. 
26. I prayed therefore vnto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatnes, which thou hast brought foorth out of Egypt, with a mightie hand. 
27. Remember thy seruants, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, looke not vnto the stubburnnesse of this people, nor to their wickednes, nor to their sinne: 
28. Lest the land whence thou broughtest vs out, say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which hee promised them, and because hee hated them, hee hath brought them out, to slay them in the wildernesse. 
29. Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out by thy mightie power, and by thy stretched out arme. 
1. At that time the Lord said vnto me, Hew thee two Tables of stone, like vnto the first, and come vp vnto mee into the mount, and make thee an Arke of wood. 
2. And I will write on the Tables the words that were in the first Tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke. 
3. And I made an Arke of Shittim wood, and hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and went vp into the mount, hauing the two Tables in mine hand. 
4. And he wrote on the Tables, according to the first writing, the tenne Commandements, which the Lord spake vnto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gaue them vnto me. 
5. And I turned my selfe and came downe from the mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made, and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. 
6. And the children of Israel tooke their iourney from Beeroth, of the children of Iaakan, to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his sonne ministred in the Priests office in his stead. 
7. From thence they iourneyed vnto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Iotbath, a land of riuers of waters. 
8. At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Leui, to beare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his Name, vnto this day. 
9. Wherefore Leui hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him. 
10. And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, fortie dayes, and fortie nights: and the Lord hearkened vnto mee at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee. 
11. And the Lord said vnto me, Arise, take thy iourney before the people, that they may goe in, and possesse the land which I sware vnto their fathers to giue vnto them. 
12. And now Israel, what doeth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare the Lord thy God, to walke in all his waies, and to loue him, and to serue the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, 
13. To keepe the Commandements of the Lord, and his Statutes, which I commaund thee this day for thy good? 
14. Behold, the heauen, & the heauen of heauens is the Lords thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 
15. Onely the Lord had a delight in thy fathers, to loue them, and hee chose their seed after them, euen you, aboue all people, as it is this day. 
16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and bee no more stiffenecked. 
17. For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 
18. He doeth execute the iudgement of the fatherlesse, and widow, and loueth the stranger, in giuing him food and raiment. 
19. Loue yee therefore the stranger: for yee were strangers in the land of Egypt. 
20. Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serue, and to him shalt thou cleaue, and sweare by his Name. 
21. He is thy praise, and he is thy God that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes haue seene. 
22. Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with threescore and ten persons: and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the starres of heauen, for multitude. 
1. Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and keepe his charge, and his Statutes, and his Iudgements, and his Commandements alway. 
2. And know you this day: for I speake not with your children which haue not knowen, and which haue not seene the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatnesse, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arme, 
3. And his miracles, and his actes, which he did in the midst of Egypt, vnto Pharaoh the King of Egypt, and vnto all his land, 
4. And what hee did vnto the army of Egypt, vnto their horses, and to their charets, how he made the water of the Red sea to ouerflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them vnto this day, 
5. And what hee did vnto you in the wildernesse, vntill yee came into this place, 
6. And what he did vnto Dathan, and Abiram, the sonnes of Eliab the sonne of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them vp, and their housholds, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession in the middest of all Israel.  
7. But your eyes haue seene all the great acts of the Lord, which he did. 
8. Therefore shall yee keepe all the Commandements which I command you this day, that ye may be strong and goe in, and possesse the land whither ye goe to possesse it: 
9. And that yee may prolong your dayes in the lande which the Lord sware vnto your fathers to giue vnto them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milke and hony. 
10. For the land whither thou goest in to possesse it, is not as the lande of Egypt from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbes: 
11. But the lande whither ye goe to possesse it, is a lande of hilles and valleys, and drinketh water of the raine of heauen: 
12. A lande, which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are alwayes vpon it, from the beginning of the yeere, euen vnto the end of the yeere. 
13. And it shall come to passe, if you shall hearken diligently vnto my Commandements which I command you this day, to loue the Lord your God, and to serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule; 
14. That I will giue you the raine of your land in his due season, the first raine and the latter raine, that thou mayest gather in thy corne, and thy wine, and thine oyle. 
15. And I will send grasse in thy fields for thy cattell, that thou mayest eate and be full. 
16. Take heede to your selues, that your heart be not deceiued, and ye turne aside, and serue other gods, and worship them: 
17. And then the Lords wrath be kindled against you, and hee shut vp the heauen, that there be no raine, and that the land yeeld not her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giueth you. 
18. Therefore shall ye lay vp these my words in your heart, and in your soule, and bind them for a signe vpon your hand, that they may bee as frontlets betweene your eyes. 
19. And ye shal teach them your children, speaking of them, when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp. 
20. And thou shalt write them vpon the doore posts of thine house, and vpon thy gates: 
21. That your dayes may bee multiplied, and the dayes of your children, in the land which the Lord sware vnto your fathers to giue them, as the dayes of heauen vpon the earth. 
22. For if ye shall diligently keepe all these Commaundements which I command you, to doe them, to loue the Lord your God, to walke in all his wayes, and to cleaue vnto him: 
23. Then will the Lord driue out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possesse greater nations, and mightier then your selues. 
24. Euery place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours: from the wildernesse, and Lebanon, from the riuer, the riuer Euphrates, euen vnto the vttermost sea, shall your coast be. 
25. There shall no man bee able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the feare of you, and the dread of you vpon all the land that yee shall tread vpon, as hee hath said vnto you. 
26. Behold, I set before you this day, a blessing and a curse: 
27. A blessing, if ye obey the Commandements of the Lord your God which I command you this day: 
28. And a curse, if ye will not obey the Commandements of the Lord your God, but turne aside out of the way, which I command you this day, to goe after other gods which yee haue not knowen. 
29. And it shall come to passe when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in, vnto the land whither thou goest to possesse it, that thou shalt put the blessing vpon mount Gerizim, and the curse vpon mount Ebal. 
30. Are they not on the other side Iordan, by the way where the Sunne goeth downe, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champion ouer against Gilgal, beside the plaines of Moreh? 
31. For ye shall passe ouer Iordan, to goe in to possesse the land which the Lord your God giueth you, and ye shall possesse it, and dwell therein. 
32. And yee shall obserue to doe all the Statutes, and Iudgements, which I set before you this day. 
1. These are the Statutes, and Iudgements, which ye shal obserue to do, in the land which the Lord God of thy fathers giueth thee to possesse it, all the dayes that yee liue vpon the earth. 
2. Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which yee shall possesse, serued their gods, vpon the high mountaines, and vpon the hils, and vnder euery greene tree. 
3. And you shall ouerthrow their altars, and breake their pillars, and burne their groues with fire, and you shall hew downe the grauen images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 
4. Yee shall not doe so vnto the Lord your God. 
5. But vnto the place which the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes, to put his name there, euen vnto his habitation shall yee seeke, and thither thou shalt come: 
6. And thither yee shall bring your burnt offrings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heaue offrings of your hand, and your vowes, and your free wil offerings, and the firstlings of your heards, and of your flocks. 
7. And there ye shall eate before the Lord your God, and yee shall reioyce in all that you put your hand vnto, ye and your housholds, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. 
8. Ye shall not do after all the things that we doe here this day, euery man whatsoeuer is right in his owne eyes. 
9. For yee are not as yet come to the rest, and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giueth you. 
10. But when yee goe ouer Iordan, and dwel in the land which the Lord your God giueth you to inherite, and when he giueth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety: 
11. Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heaue offring of your hand, & all your choice vowes, which ye vow vnto the Lord. 
12. And yee shall reioyce before the Lord your God, ye and your sonnes and your daughters, and your men seruants, and your maid seruants, and the Leuite that is within your gates, forasmuch as hee hath no part nor inheritance with you. 
13. Take heed to thy selfe, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in euery place that thou seest: 
14. But in the place which the Lord shal choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. 
15. Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eate flesh in all thy gates, whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath giuen thee: the vncleane and the cleane may eate thereof, as of the Roe bucke, and as of the Hart. 
16. Onely ye shall not eat the blood: yee shall powre it vpon the earth as water. 
17. Thou mayest not eate within thy gates the tithe of thy corne, or of thy wine, or of thy oyle, or the firstlings of thy heards, or of thy flocke, nor any of thy vowes which thou vowest, nor thy free will offerings, or heaue offering of thine hand: 
18. But thou must eate them before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hands vnto. 
19. Take heed to thy selfe, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth. 
20. When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eate flesh (because thy soule longeth to eat flesh) thou mayest eat flesh whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after. 
21. If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his Name there, be too farre from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flocke, which the Lord hath giuen thee, as I haue commaunded thee, and thou shalt eate in thy gates, whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after. 
22. Euen as the Roe bucke and the Hart is eaten, so thou shalt eate them: the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike. 
23. Onely be sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the flesh. 
24. Thou shalt not eate it; thou shalt powre it vpon the earth as water. 
25. Thou shalt not eate it, that it may goe well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which is right in the sight of the Lord. 
26. Onely thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vowes, thou shalt take, and goe vnto the place which the Lord shall chuse. 
27. And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, vpon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be powred out vpon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 
28. Obserue & heare all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for euer, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God. 
29. When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possesse them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land: 
30. Take heede to thy selfe that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serue their gods? euen so will I doe likewise. 
31. Thou shalt not doe so vnto the Lord thy God: for euery abomination to the Lord which hee hateth, haue they done vnto their gods: for euen their sonnes and their daughters they haue burnt in the fire to their gods. 
32. What thing soeuer I command you, obserue to doe it: thou shalt not adde thereto, nor diminish from it. 
1. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreames, and giueth thee a signe, or a wonder: 
2. And the signe or the wonder come to passe, wherof he spake vnto thee, saying, Let vs go after other gods (which thou hast not knowen) and let vs serue them: 
3. Thou shalt not hearken vnto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreames: for the Lord your God prooueth you, to know whether you loue the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soule. 
4. Ye shall walke after the Lord your God, and feare him, and keepe his commandements, and obey his voyce, and you shall serue him, and cleaue vnto him. 
5. And that prophet or that dreamer of dreames shalbe put to death (because hee hath spoken to turne you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walke in) So shalt thou put the euill away from the midst of thee. 
6. If thy brother, the sonne of thy mother, or thy sonne, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosome, or thy friend, which is as thine owne soule, entise thee secretly, saying, Let vs goe and serue other gods which thou hast not knowen, thou, nor thy fathers: 
7. Namely of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh vnto thee, or farre off from thee, from the one end of the earth, euen vnto the other end of the earth: 
8. Thou shalt not consent vnto him nor hearken vnto him, neither shall thine eye pitie him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceale him. 
9. But thou shalt surely kill him: Thine hand shall be first vpon him, to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 
10. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that hee die: because hee hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 
11. And all Israel shall heare, and feare, and shall doe no more any such wickednesse as this is, among you. 
12. If thou shalt heare say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee to dwell there, saying, 
13. Certaine men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and haue withdrawen the inhabitants of their citie, saying, Let vs goe & serue other gods, which ye haue not knowen: 
14. Then shalt thou enquire and make search, and aske diligently: and behold, if it be trueth, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought among you: 
15. Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that citie with the edge of the sword, destroying it vtterly, and all that is therein, and the cattell thereof, with the edge of the sword. 
16. And thou shalt gather all the spoile of it, into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burne with fire the citie, and all the spoile thereof euery whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heape for euer, it shall not bee built againe. 
17. And there shall cleaue nought of the cursed thing to thine hand, that the Lord may turne from the fiercenesse of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and haue compassion vpon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers; 
18. When thou shalt hearken to the voyce of the Lord thy God, to keepe all his Commaundements which I command thee this day, to doe that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God. 
1. Yee are the children of the Lord your God: yee shall not cutte your selues, nor make any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead. 
2. For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people vnto himselfe, aboue all the nations that are vpon the earth. 
3. Thou shalt not eate any abominable thing. 
4. These are the beasts which yee shall eate: the oxe, the sheepe, and the goat, 
5. The Hart, and the Roe bucke, and the fallow deere, and the wilde goat, and the Pygarg, and the wilde oxe, and the chamois. 
6. And euery beast that parteth the hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and cheweth the cud amongst the beasts: that ye shall eate. 
7. Neuerthelesse these yee shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, or of them that diuide the clouen hoofe, as the camel, and the hare, and the cony: for they chew the cudde, but diuide not the hoofe, therefore they are vncleane vnto you. 
8. And the swine, because it diuideth the hoofe, yet cheweth not the cud, it is vncleane vnto you: ye shall not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeise. 
9. These yee shall eate of all that are in the waters: all that haue finnes and scales shall ye eate: 
10. And whatsoeuer hath not sinnes and scales, ye may not eat: it is vncleane vnto you. 
11. Of all cleane birds ye shall eate. 
12. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the Eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 
13. And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kinde, 
14. And euery rauen after his kinde, 
15. And the owle, & the night hawke, and the cuckow, and the hawke after his kinde, 
16. The little owle, and the great owle, and the swanne, 
17. And the pellicane, and the Geer-eagle, and the cormorant, 
18. And the Storke, and the Heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the batte. 
19. And euery creeping thing that flyeth, is vncleane vnto you: they shall not be eaten. 
20. But of all cleane foules ye may eat. 
21. Ye shall not eate of any thing that dieth of it selfe: thou shalt giue it vnto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eate it, or thou mayest sell it vnto an alien: for thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kidde in his mothers milke. 
22. Thou shalt truely tithe all the increase of thy seede, that the field bringeth forth yeere by yeere. 
23. And thou shalt eate before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall chuse to place his Name there, the tithe of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the firstlings of thy herdes, and of thy flockes: that thou mayest learne to feare the Lord thy God alwayes. 
24. And if the way bee too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carie it, or if the place be too farre from thee, which the Lord thy God shall chuse to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: 
25. Then shalt thou turne it into money, and binde vp the money in thine hand, and shalt goe vnto the place which the Lord thy God shal chuse. 
26. And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheepe, or for wine, or for strong drinke, or for whatsoeuer thy soule desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt reioyce, thou and thine houshold. 
27. And the Leuite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 
28. At the end of three yeres thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same yeere, and shalt lay it vp within thy gates. 
29. And the Leuite, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe which are within thy gates, shall come and shal eate, and be satisfied, that the Lord thy God may blesse thee, in all the worke of thine hande which thou doest. 
1. At the end of euery seuen yeeres thou shalt make a release. 
2. And this is the maner of the release: Euery creditour that lendeth ought vnto his neighbour, shall release it: hee shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother, because it is called the Lords release. 
3. Of a forreiner thou mayest exact it againe: but that which is thine with thy brother, thine hand shall release. 
4. Saue when there shall bee no poore among you: for the Lord shal greatly blesse thee in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance to possesse it: 
5. Onely if thou carefully hearken vnto the voice of the Lord thy God, to obserue to doe all these commandedements, which I commaund thee this day. 
6. For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee, and thou shalt lend vnto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow, and thou shalt reigne ouer many nations, but they shall not reigne ouer thee. 
7. If there be among you a poore man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates, in thy lande which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother: 
8. But thou shalt open thine hand wide vnto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his neede, in that which he wanteth. 
9. Beware that there bee not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seuenth yeere, the yeere of release is at hand, and thine eye be euill against thy poore brother, and thou giuest him nought, and hee crie vnto the Lord against thee, and it be sinne vnto thee. 
10. Thou shalt surely giue him, and thine heart shall not bee grieued when thou giuest vnto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hand vnto. 
11. For the poore shall neuer cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide vnto thy brother, to thy poore, and to thy needy in the land. 
12. And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold vnto thee, and serue thee sixe yeres, then in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee. 
13. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away emptie: 
14. Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flocke, and out of thy floore, and out of thy wine presse, of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt giue vnto him. 
15. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. 
16. And it shall be if he say vnto thee, I will not goe away from thee, because he loueth thee, and thine house, because he is well with thee: 
17. Then thou shalt take an aule, and thrust it through his eare vnto the doore, and hee shall be thy seruant for euer: and also vnto thy mayd seruant thou shalt doe likewise. 
18. It shall not seeme hard vnto thee when thou sendest him away free from thee: for hee hath bene worth a double hired seruant to thee, in seruing thee sixe yeeres: and the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all that thou doest. 
19. All the firstling males that come of thy heard, and of thy flock, thou shalt sanctifie vnto the Lord thy God: thou shalt doe no worke with the firstling of thy bullocke, nor sheare the firstling of thy sheepe. 
20. Thou shalt eate it before the Lord thy God yeere by yeere, in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy houshold. 
21. And if there be any blemish therein; as if it be lame, or blinde, or haue any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it vnto the Lord thy God. 
22. Thou shalt eate it within thy gates: the vncleane and the cleane person shall eat it alike, as the Roe bucke, and as the Hart. 
23. Onely thou shalt not eate the blood thereof: thou shalt powre it vpon the ground as water. 
1. Obserue the moneth of Abib, and keepe the Passeouer vuto the Lord thy God: for in the moneth of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee foorth out of Egypt by night. 
2. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the Passeouer vnto the Lord thy God, of the flocke and the heard, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 
3. Thou shalt eat no leauened bread with it: seuen dayes shalt thou eat vnleauened bread therewith, euen the bread of affliction, (for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste) that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest foorth out of the land of Egypt, all the dayes of thy life. 
4. And there shall bee no leauened bread seene with thee in all thy coasts seuen dayes, neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at Euen, remaine all night, vntill the morning. 
5. Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passeouer within any of the gates, which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 
6. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his Name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passeouer at Euen, at the going downe of the Sunne, at the season that thou camest foorth out of Egypt. 
7. And thou shalt roste and eate it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt turne in the morning, and goe vnto thy tents. 
8. Sixe dayes thou shalt eate vnleauened bread, and on the seuenth day shall be a solemne assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt doe no worke therein. 
9. Seuen weekes shalt thou number vnto thee: beginne to number the seuen weekes, from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corne. 
10. And thou shalt keepe the feast of weekes vnto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a free will offering of thine hand, which thou shalt giue vnto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. 
11. And thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his Name there. 
12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt obserue & do these Statutes. 
13. Thou shalt obserue the feast of Tabernacles seuen dayes, after that thou hast gathered in thy corne, and thy wine. 
14. And thou shalt reioice in thy feast, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite, the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 
15. Seuen dayes shalt thou keepe a solemne feast vnto the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse: because the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thy increase, and in all the workes of thine handes, therefore thou shalt surely reioyce. 
16. Three times in a yeere shal all thy males appeare before the Lord thy God, in the place which hee shall chuse: in the feast of Unleauened bread, and in the feast of Weekes, and in the feast of Tabernacles: and they shal not appeare before the Lord emptie. 
17. Euery man shall giue as hee is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath giuen thee. 
18. Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates which the Lord thy God giueth thee throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with iust iudgement. 
19. Thou shalt not wrest iudgement, thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and peruert the wordes of the righteous. 
20. That which is altogether iust shalt thou followe, that thou mayest liue, and inherite the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 
21. Thou shalt not plant thee a groue of any trees neere vnto the Altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee: 
22. Neither shalt thou set thee vp any image, which the Lord thy God hateth. 
1. Thou shalt not sacrifice vnto the Lord thy God any bullocke, or sheepe wherein is blemish, or any euilfauourednes: for that is an abomination vnto the Lord thy God. 
2. If there bee found among you within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giueth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickednes in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his couenant, 
3. And hath gone and serued other gods, and worshipped them, either the Sunne, or Moone, or any of the hoste of heauen, which I haue not commanded, 
4. And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 
5. Then shalt thou bring forth that man, or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thing) vnto thy gates, euen that man, or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones till they die. 
6. At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, be put to death: but at the mouth of one witnesse he shall not bee put to death. 
7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first vpon him, to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people: so thou shalt put the euil away from among you. 
8. If there arise a matter too hard for thee in iudgement, betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, and betweene stroke and stroke, being matters of controuersie within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee vp into the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose; 
9. And thou shalt come vnto the Priests the Leuites, & vnto the Iudge that shal be in those dayes, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of Iudgement. 
10. And thou shalt doe according to the sentence which they of that place (which the Lord shall choose) shall shew thee, and thou shalt obserue to do according to all that they enforme thee: 
11. According to the sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee, and according to the Iudgement which they shall tell thee thou shalt doe: thou shalt not decline from the Sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.  
12. And the man that will doe presumptuously, and will not hearken vnto the Priest (that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God) or vnto the Iudge, euen that man shall die, and thou shalt put away the euill from Israel. 
13. And all the people shal heare, and feare, and doe no more presumptuously. 
14. When thou art come vnto the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a King ouer mee, like as all the nations that are about me: 
15. Thou shalt in any wise set him King ouer thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose. One from among thy brethren shalt thou set King ouer thee: thou mayest not set a stranger ouer thee, which is not thy brother. 
16. But he shall not multiply horses to himselfe, nor cause the people to returne to Egypt, to the ende that hee should multiply horses: for as much as the Lord hath said vnto you, Yee shall hencefoorth returne no more that way. 
17. Neither shall he multiply wiues to himselfe, that his heart turne not away: neither shall hee greatly multiply to himselfe siluer and gold. 
18. And it shall be when he sitteth vpon the Throne of his kingdome, that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a booke, out of that which is before the Priests the Leuites. 
19. And it shall be with him, and hee shall reade therein all the dayes of his life, that hee may learne to feare the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this Law, and these Statutes, to do them: 
20. That his heart bee not lifted vp aboue his brethren, and that hee turne not aside from the Commandement, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that hee may prolong his dayes in his kingdome, hee, and his children in the midst of Israel.  
1. The Priests, the Leuites, and all the tribe of Leui, shall haue no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eate the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance. 
2. Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said vnto them. 
3. And this shalbe the Priests due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it bee oxe or sheepe: and they shall giue vnto the Priest the shoulder, and the two cheekes, and the maw. 
4. The first fruit also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thy oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe, shalt thou giue him. 
5. 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 sonnes for euer. 
6. And if a Leuite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he soiourned, and come with all the desire of his minde, vnto the place which the Lord shall choose; 
7. Then hee shall minister in the Name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Leuites doe, which stand there before the Lord. 
8. They shall haue like portions to eate, beside that which commeth of the sale of his patrimonie. 
9. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to doe after the abominations of those nations. 
10. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his sonne, or his daughter to passe thorow the fire, or that vseth diuination, or an obseruer of times, or an inchanter, or a witch, 
11. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wyzard, or a Necromancer. 
12. For all that do these things, are an abomination vnto the Lord: and because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth driue them out from before thee. 
13. Thou shalt bee perfite with the Lord thy God. 
14. For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearkened vnto obseruers of times, and vnto diuiners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to doe. 
15. The Lord thy God will raise vp vnto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like vnto me, vnto him ye shall hearken, 
16. According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let mee not heare again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let mee see this great fire any more, that I die not. 
17. And the Lord said vnto mee, They haue well spoken that which they haue spoken. 
18. I will raise them vp a Prophet from among their brethren, like vnto thee, and will put my wordes in his mouth, and hee shall speake vnto them all that I shall command him. 
19. And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my words, which hee shall speake in my name, I will require it of him. 
20. But the prophet which shall presume to speake a word in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that shall speake in the name of other gods, euen that prophet shall die. 
21. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall wee know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? 
22. When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to passe, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not bee afraid of him. 
1. When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose lande the Lord thy God giueth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses: 
2. Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee to possesse it. 
3. Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and diuide the coasts of thy land (which the Lord thy God giueth thee to inherit) into three parts, that euery slayer may flee thither. 
4. And this is the case of the slayer which shall flee thither, that hee may liue: who so killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past, 
5. As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor, to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut downe the tree, and the head slippeth from the helue, and lighteth vpon his neighbour that he die, he shall flee vnto one of those cities, and liue: 
6. Lest the auenger of the blood pursue the slaier, while his heart is hot, and ouertake him, because the way is long, and slay him, whereas he was not worthy of death, in as much as hee hated him not in time past. 
7. Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 
8. And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast (as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers) and giue thee all the lande which hee promised to giue vnto thy fathers: 
9. (If thou shalt keepe all these commandements to doe them, which I command thee this day, to loue the Lord thy God, and to walke euer in his wayes) then shalt thou adde three cities moe for thee, beside these three: 
10. That innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be vpon thee. 
11. But if any man hate his neighbour and lie in wait for him, and rise vp against him, and smite him mortally that hee die, and fleeth into one of these Cities: 
12. Then the Elders of his citie shall send and fetch him thence, and deliuer him into the hand of the auenger of blood, that he may die. 
13. Thine eye shall not pittie him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may goe wel with thee. 
14. Thou shalt not remooue thy neighbours land-marke, which they of old time haue set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherite, in the land that the Lord thy God giueth thee to possesse it. 
15. One witnesse shall not rise vp against a man for any iniquitie, or for any sinne, in any sinne that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be stablished. 
16. If a false witnes rise vp against any man to testifie against him that which is wrong: 
17. Then both the men betweene whom the controuersie is, shall stand before the Lord, before the Priests, and the Iudges, which shall be in those dayes. 
18. And the Iudges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witnesse be a false witnesse, and hath testified falsly against his brother: 
19. Then shall ye doe vnto him, as he had thought to haue done vnto his brother: so shalt thou put the euil away from among you. 
20. And those which remaine shall heare, and feare, and shall hencefoorth commit no more any such euill among you. 
21. And thine eye shall not pitie, but life shall goe for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 
1. When thou goest out to battell against thine enemies, and seest horses and charets, and a people more then thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt. 
2. And it shall bee when ye are come nigh vnto the battell, that the Priest shall approach and speake vnto the people, 
3. And shall say vnto them, Heare O Israel, you approach this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, feare not, and doe not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them. 
4. For the Lord your God is hee that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to saue you. 
5. And the Officers shall speake vnto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him goe and returne to his house, lest hee die in the battell, and an other man dedicate it. 
6. And what man is hee that hath planted a Uineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and returne vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and an other man eate of it. 
7. And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him goe and returne vnto his house, lest he die in battell, and another man take her. 
8. And the Officers shall speake further vnto the people: and they shall say, What man is there that is fearefull and faint hearted? let him goe and returne vnto his house, lest his brethrens heart faint as well as his heart. 
9. And it shall be when the Officers haue made an end of speaking vnto the people, that they shall make Captaines of the armies to leade the people. 
10. When thou commest nigh vnto a City to fight against it, then proclaime peace vnto it. 
11. And it shall be, if it make thee answere of peace, and open vnto thee, then it shalbe that all the people that is found therein, shall be tributaries vnto thee, and they shall serue thee. 
12. And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make warre against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. 
13. And when the Lord thy God hath deliuered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite euery male thereof with the edge of the sword. 
14. But the women, and the litle ones, and the cattell, and all that is in the citie, euen all the spoile thereof, shalt thou take vnto thy selfe, and thou shalt eate the spoile of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee. 
15. Thus shalt thou doe vnto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 
16. But of the cities of these people which the Lord thy God doth giue thee for an inheritance, thou shalt saue aliue nothing that breatheth: 
17. But thou shalt vtterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: 
18. That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, so should ye sinne against the Lord your God. 
19. When thou shalt besiege a citie a long time, in making warre against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof, by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eate of them, and thou shalt not cut them downe ( for the tree of the field is mans life) to employ them in the siege. 
20. Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meate, thou shalt destroy, and cut them downe, and thou shalt build bulwarkes against the city that maketh warre with thee, vntil it be subdued. 
1. If one bee found slaine in the lande, which the Lord thy God giueth thee to possesse it, lying in the fielde, and it bee not knowen who hath slaine him: 
2. Then thy Elders and thy Iudges shall come forth, and they shall measure vnto the cities which are round about him that is slaine. 
3. And it shall be that the citie which is next vnto the slaine man, euen the Elders of that citie shall take an heifer which hath not bene wrought with, and which hath not drawen in the yoke. 
4. And the Elders of that citie shall bring downe the heifer vnto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sowen, and shall strike off the heifers necke there in the valley. 
5. And the Priests the sonnes of Leui shall come neere (for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister vnto him, and to blesse in the Name of the Lord: ) and by their worde shall euery controuersie and euery stroke bee tried. 
6. And all the Elders of that city that are next vnto the slaine man, shal wash their hands ouer the heifer that is beheaded in the valley. 
7. And they shall answere, and say, Our hands haue not shedde this blood, neither haue our eyes seene it. 
8. Be merciful, O Lord, vnto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood vnto thy people of Israels charge, and the blood shall be forgiuen them. 
9. 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. 
10. When thou goest forth to warre against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath deliuered them into thine hands, & thou hast taken them captiue, 
11. And seest among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast a desire vnto her, that thou wouldest haue her to thy wife: 
12. Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and shee shall shaue her head, and pare her nailes. 
13. And shee shall put the raiment of her captiuitie from off her, and shall remaine in thine house, and bewaile her father and her mother a full moneth: and after that, thou shalt go in vnto her and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 
14. And it shall be if thou haue no delight in her, then thou shalt let her goe whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her at al for money, thou shalt not make merchandize of her, because thou hast humbled her. 
15. If a man haue two wiues, one beloued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the beloned, and the hated: and if the first borne sonne be hers that was hated: 
16. Then it shall be, when he maketh his sonnes to inherite that which hee hath, that he may not make the sonne of the beloued, first borne, before the sonne of the hated, which is indeed the first borne: 
17. But hee shall acknowledge the sonne of the hated for the first borne, by giuing him a double portion of all that hee hath: for hee is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first borne is his. 
18. If a man haue a stubborne and rebellious sonne, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they haue chastened him, wil not hearken vnto them: 
19. Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, and vnto the gate of his place: 
20. And they shall say vnto the Elders of his citie, This our sonne is stubborne, and rebellious, hee will not obey our voice: he is a glutton, & a drunkard. 
21. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that hee die: so shalt thou put euill away from among you, and all Israel shall heare, & feare. 
22. And if a man haue committed a sinne worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 
23. His body shall not remaine all night vpon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day: for he that is hanged, is accursed of God: that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance. 
1. Thou shalt not see thy brothers oxe, or his sheepe go astray, and hide thy selfe from them: thou shalt in any case bring them againe vnto thy brother. 
2. And if thy brother be not nigh vnto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it vnto thine owne house, and it shall be with thee, vntil thy brother seeke after it, and thou shalt restore it to him againe. 
3. In like maner shalt thou do with his asse, and so shalt thou doe with his raiment: and with all lost thing of thy brothers which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thy selfe. 
4. Thou shalt not see thy brothers asse or his oxe fall downe by the way, and hide thy selfe from them: thou shalt surely helpe him to lift them vp againe. 
5. The woman shall not weare that which pertaineth vnto a man, neither shall a man put on a womans garment: for all that doe so, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God. 
6. If a birds nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be yong ones, or egges, and the damme sitting vpon the yong, or vpon the egges, thou shalt not take the damme with the yong. 
7. But thou shalt in any wise let the damme goe, and take the yong to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy dayes. 
8. When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roofe, that thou bring not blood vpon thine house, if any man fall from thence. 
9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diuers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sowen, and the fruit of thy Uineyard be defiled. 
10. Thou shalt not plow with an oxe and an asse together. 
11. Thou shalt not weare a garment of diuers sorts, as of woollen, and linnen together. 
12. Thou shalt make thee fringes vpon the foure quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou couerest thy selfe. 
13. If any man take a wife, and go in vnto her, and hate her, 
14. And giue occasions of speach against her, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayd: 
15. Then shal the father of the damosell, and her mother take, and bring forth the tokens of the damosels virginitie, vnto the Elders of the citie in the gate. 
16. And the damosels father shall say vnto the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife, & he hateth her: 
17. And loe, he hath giuen occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid: and yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginity; and they shall spread the cloth before the Elders of the citie. 
18. And the Elders of that citie shall take that man, and chastise him. 
19. And they shall amearse him in an hundred shekels of siluer, and giue them vnto the father of the damosell, because he hath brought vp an euill name vpon a virgine of Israel: and she shall be his wife, hee may not put her away all his dayes. 
20. But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginitie be not found for the damosel: 
21. Then they shall bring out the damosell to the doore of her fathers house, and the men of her city shal stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her fathers house: so shalt thou put euill away from among you. 
22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away euill from Israel. 
23. If a damosell that is a virgin be betrothed vnto an husband, and a man find her in the citie, and lie with her: 
24. Then yee shall bring them both out vnto the gate of that citie, and yee shall stone them with stones that they die; the damosel, because shee cried not, being in the citie; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away euill from among you. 
25. But if a man find a betrothed damosel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her, shall die. 
26. But vnto the damosel thou shalt doe nothing, there is in the damosel no sinne worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, euen so is this matter. 
27. For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damosel cried, and there was none to saue her. 
28. If a man finde a damosel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found: 
29. Then the man that lay with her, shall giue vnto the damosels father fifty shekels of siluer, and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all his dayes. 
30. A man shall not take his fathers wife, nor discouer his fathers skirt. 
1. Hee that is wounded in the stones, or hath his priuie member cut off, shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord. 
2. A bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord: euen to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Congregation of the Lord. 
3. An Ammonite, or Moabite shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord, euen to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the Congregation of the Lord for euer, 
4. Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 
5. Neuerthelesse, the Lord thy God would not hearken vnto Balaam: but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing vnto thee, because the Lord thy God loued thee. 
6. Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy dayes for euer. 
7. Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhorre an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 
8. The children that are begotten of them, shal enter into the cogregation of the Lord, in their third generation. 
9. When the hoste goeth foorth against thine enemies, then keepe thee from euery wicked thing. 
10. If there bee among you any man that is not cleane, by reason of vncleannesse that chanceth him by night, then shall hee goe abroad out of the campe, hee shall not come within the campe. 
11. But it shalbe when euening commeth on, he shall wash himselfe with water: and when the Sunne is downe, he shall come into the campe againe. 
12. Thou shalt haue a place also without the campe, whither thou shalt goe foorth abroad. 
13. And thou shalt haue a paddle vpon thy weapon: and it shall be when thou wilt ease thy selfe abroad, thou shalt digge therewith, and shalt turne backe and couer that which commeth from thee. 
14. For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy campe, to deliuer thee, and to giue vp thine enemies before thee: therefore shall thy campe be holy, that he see no vncleane thing in thee, and turne away from thee. 
15. Thou shalt not deliuer vnto his master, the seruant which is escaped from his master vnto thee. 
16. He shall dwell with thee, euen among you, in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppresse him. 
17. There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sonnes of Israel. 
18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dogge into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for euen both these are abomination vnto the Lord thy God. 
19. Thou shalt not lend vpon vsury to thy brother; vsury of money, vsury of victuals, vsury of any thing that is lent vpon vsury. 
20. Unto a stranger thou maiest lend vpon vsury, but vnto thy brother thou shalt not lend vpon vsury: that the Lord thy God may blesse thee, in all that thou settest thine hand to, in the land whither thou goest to possesse it. 
21. When thou shalt vow a vow vnto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slacke to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sinne in thee. 
22. But if thou shalt forbeare to vow, it shall be no sinne in thee. 
23. That which is gone out of thy lippes, thou shalt keepe and performe; euen a freewill offering according as thou hast vowed vnto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. 
24. When thou commest into thy neighbors Uineyard, then thou mayest eate grapes thy fill, at thine owne pleasure, but thou shalt not put any in thy vessell. 
25. When thou commest into the standing corne of thy neighbours, then thou maiest plucke the eares with thine hand: but thou shalt not mooue a sickle vnto thy neighbours standing corne. 
1. When a man hath taken a wife and married her, and it come to passe that shee find no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath found some vncleannesse in her: then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and giue it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 
2. And when shee is departed out of his house, she may goe and be another mans wife. 
3. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of diuorcement, and giueth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house: Or if the latter husband die, which tooke her to be his wife, 
4. Her former husband which sent her away, may not take her againe to be his wife, after that she is defiled: for that is abomination before the Lord, and thou shalt not cause the land to sinne, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance. 
5. When a man hath taken a new wife, he shal not goe out to warre, neither shall hee be charged with any businesse: but hee shall be free at home one yeere, and shall cheere vp his wife which he hath taken. 
6. No man shall take the nether or the vpper milstone to pledge: for hee taketh a mans life to pledge. 
7. If a man bee found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandize of him, or selleth him: then that thiefe shall die, and thou shalt put euill away from among you. 
8. Take heede, in the plague of leprosie, that thou obserue diligently, and doe according to all that the Priests the Leuites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall obserue to doe. 
9. Remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Miriam by the way, after that yee were come forth out of Egypt. 
10. When thou doest lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not goe into his house to fetch his pledge. 
11. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whome thou doest lend, shall bring out the pledge abroad vnto thee. 
12. And if the man be poore, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge: 
13. In any case thou shalt deliuer him the pledge againe when the Sun goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his owne raiment, and blesse thee: and it shall be righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God. 
14. Thou shalt not oppresse an hired seruant that is poore and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy lande within thy gates. 
15. At his day thou shalt giue him his hire, neither shall the Sun goe downe vpon it, for he is poore, and setteth his heart vpon it, lest hee crie against thee vnto the Lord, and it bee sinne vnto thee. 
16. The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne. 
17. Thou shalt not peruert the iudgement of the stranger, nor of the fatherles, nor take a widowes raiment to pledge. 
18. But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to doe this thing. 
19. When thou cuttest downe thine haruest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheafe in the field, thou shalt not go againe to fetch it: it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in all the worke of thine hands. 
20. When thou beatest thine oliue tree thou shalt not goe ouer the boughes againe: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widow. 
21. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gleane it afterward, it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widow. 
22. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therfore I command thee to doe this thing. 
1. If there bee a controuersie betweene men, and they come vnto iudgment, that the Iudges may iudge them, then they shall iustifie the righteous, and condemne the wicked. 
2. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the Iudge shall cause him to lie downe, and to bee beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certaine number. 
3. Fourtie stripes he may giue him, and not exceed: lest if he should exceede, and beate him aboue these, with many stripes, then thy brother should seeme vile vnto thee. 
4. Thou shalt not mussell the oxe when he treadeth out the corne. 
5. If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and haue no child, the wife of the dead shall not marrie without, vnto a stranger: her husbands brother shall go in vnto her, and take her to him to wife, and performe the duetie of an husbands brother vnto her. 
6. And it shall be, that the first borne which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 
7. And if the man like not to take his brothers wife, then let his brothers wife go vp to the gate, vnto the Elders, and say, My husbands brother refuseth to raise vp vnto his brother a name in Israel: he will not performe the dutie of my husbands brother. 
8. Then the Elders of his citie shall call him and speake vnto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her: 
9. Then shal his brothers wife come vnto him in the presence of the Elders, and loose his shooe from off his foote, and spit in his face, and shall answere, and say, So shall it bee done vnto that man that will not build vp his brothers house. 
10. And his name shall bee called in Israel, the house of him that hath his shooe loosed. 
11. When men striue together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth neere, for to deliuer her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth foorth her hand and taketh him by the secrets: 
12. Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pitie her. 
13. Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge diuers weights, a great, and a small. 
14. Thou shalt not haue in thine house diuers measures, a great, and a small. 
15. But thou shalt haue a perfect and iust weight, a perfect and iust measure shalt thou haue: that thy dayes may bee lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 
16. For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are an abomination vnto the Lord thy God. 
17. Remember what Amalek did vnto thee by the way, when ye were come foorth out of Egypt: 
18. How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, euen all that were feeble behinde thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 
19. Therefore it shall bee when the Lord thy God hath giuen thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance to possesse it; that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen: thou shalt not forget it. 
1. And it shall be when thou art come in vnto the land which the Lord giueth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein: 
2. That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giueth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt goe vnto the place which the Lord thy God shal choose to place his Name there: 
3. And thou shalt goe vnto the Priest that shall be in those dayes, and say vnto him, I professe this day vnto the Lord thy God, that I am come vnto the countrey which the Lord sware vnto our fathers for to giue vs. 
4. And the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it downe before the Altar of the Lord thy God. 
5. And thou shalt speake and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and hee went downe into Egypt, and soiourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 
6. And the Egyptians euil intreated vs, and afflicted vs, and layd vpon vs hard bondage. 
7. And when wee cryed vnto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voyce, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression. 
8. And the Lord brought vs foorth out of Egypt with a mightie hand, and with an out-stretched arme, and with great terriblenesse, and with signes, and with wonders. 
9. And he hath brought vs into this place, and hath giuen vs this land, euen a land that floweth with milke and honie. 
10. And now behold, I haue brought the First fruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast giuen mee: and thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God. 
11. And thou shalt reioyce in euery good thing, which the Lord thy God hath giuen vnto thee, and vnto thine house, thou, and the Leuite, and the stranger that is among you. 
12. When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase, the third yeere, which is the yeere of tything, and hast giuen it vnto the Leuite, the stranger, the fatherlesse, and the widow, that they may eate within thy gates, and be filled: 
13. Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I haue brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also haue giuen them vnto the Leuite, and vnto the stranger, to the fatherlesse, and to the widow, according to all thy commandements, which thou hast commanded me: I haue not transgressed thy commandements, neither haue I forgotten them. 
14. I haue not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither haue I taken away ought thereof for any vncleane vse, nor giuen ought thereof for the dead: but I haue hearkened to the voyce of the Lord my God, and haue done according to all that thou hast commaunded me. 
15. Looke downe from thy holy habitation, from heauen, and blesse thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast giuen vs, as thou swarest vnto our fathers, a land that floweth with milke and hony. 
16. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to doe these Statutes and Iudgements: thou shalt therefore keepe and doe them with all thine heart, and with all thy soule. 
17. Thou hast auouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walke in his wayes, and to keepe his Statutes, and his Commaundements, and his Iudgements, and to hearken vnto his voice. 
18. And the Lord hath auouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keepe all his Commaundements: 
19. And to make thee high aboue all nations which he hath made, in praise and in name, and in honour, and that thou mayest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken. 
1. And Moses with the Elders of Israel commaunded the people, saying, Keepe all the Commandements which I command you this day. 
2. And it shall be on the day when you shall passe ouer Iordan, vnto the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, that thou shalt set thee vp great stones, and plaister them with plaister. 
3. And thou shalt write vpon them all the words of this Law when thou art passed ouer, that thou mayest goe in vnto the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, a land that floweth with milke and hony, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 
4. Therefore it shall be when ye bee gone ouer Iordan, that yee shall set vp these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. 
5. And there shalt thou build an Altar vnto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift vp any yron toole vpon them. 
6. Thou shalt build the Altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings theron vnto the Lord thy God. 
7. And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eate there, and reioyce before the Lord thy God. 
8. And thou shalt write vpon the stones all the words of this Law very plainely. 
9. And Moses, and the Priestes the Leuites, spake vnto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken O Israel, this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. 
10. Thou shalt therefore obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, and doe his Commandements, and his Statutes which I command thee this day. 
11. And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 
12. These shall stand vpon mount Gerizzim to blesse the people, when yee are come ouer Iordan: Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Ioseph, and Beniamin. 
13. And these shall stand vpon mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, & Naphtali. 
14. And the Leuites shal speake, and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loud voyce: 
15. Cursed be the man that maketh any grauen or molten image, an abomination vnto the Lord, the worke of the handes of the craftesman, and putteth it in a secret place: and all the people shall answere and say, Amen. 
16. Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
17. Cursed be he that remooueth his neighbours land-marke: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
18. Cursed be hee that maketh the blinde to wander out of the way: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
19. Cursed be hee that peruerteth the iudgement of the stranger, fatherlesse, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
20. Cursed be hee that lieth with his fathers wife, because he vncouereth his fathers skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
21. Cursed be hee that lieth with any maner of beast: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
22. Cursed be hee that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
23. Cursed be hee that lieth with his mother in law: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
24. Cursed be hee that smiteth his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
25. Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen. 
26. Cursed be hee that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to doe them: and al the people shal say, Amen. 
1. And it shall come to passe, if thou shalt hearken diligently vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, to obserue and to doe all his Commandements which I command thee this day; that the Lord thy God will set thee on high aboue all nations of the earth. 
2. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and ouertake thee, if thou shalt hearken vnto the voice of the Lord thy God. 
3. Blessed shalt thou bee in the citie, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 
4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattell, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheepe. 
5. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 
6. Blessed shalt thou bee when thou commest in, and blessed shalt thou bee when thou goest out. 
7. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise vp against thee, to bee smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seuen wayes. 
8. The Lord shall command the blessing vpon thee in thy store-houses, and in all that thou settest thine hand vnto, and he shall blesse thee in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 
9. The Lord shall establish thee an holy people vnto himselfe, as hee hath sworne vnto thee, if thou shalt keepe the Commaundements of the Lord thy God, and walke in his wayes. 
10. And all people of the earth shall see, that thou art called by the Name of the Lord, and they shall bee afraid of thee. 
11. And the Lord shal make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattell, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee. 
12. The Lord shal open vnto thee his good treasure, the heauen to giue the raine vnto thy land in his season, and to blesse all the worke of thine hand: and thou shalt lend vnto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 
13. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, and thou shalt be aboue onely, and thou shalt not be beneath: if that thou hearken vnto the Commandements of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to obserue, and to doe them:  
14. And thou shalt not go aside from any of the wordes which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to goe after other gods, to serue them. 
15. But it shal come to passe, if thou wilt not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, to obserue to doe all his Commandements and his Statutes, which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come vpon thee, and ouertake thee. 
16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 
17. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 
18. Cursed shalbe the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheepe. 
19. Cursed shalt thou bee when thou commest in, and cursed shalt thou bee when thou goest out. 
20. The Lord shall send vpon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand vnto, for to doe, vntill thou be destroyed, and vntill thou perish quickely, because of the wickednesse of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 
21. The Lord shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto thee, vntill he haue consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possesse it. 
22. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a feuer, and with an inflammation, & with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildewe: and they shall pursue thee vntill thou perish. 
23. And the heauen that is ouer thy head shall be brasse, and the earth that is vnder thee shall be yron. 
24. The Lord shall make the raine of thy land powder & dust: from heauen shall it come downe vpon thee, vntill thou be destroyed. 
25. The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seuen wayes before them, and shalt be remoued into all the kingdomes of the earth. 
26. And thy carkeise shalbe meat vnto all foules of the aire, and vnto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 
27. The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed. 
28. The Lord shall smite thee with madnesse, and blindnesse, and astonishment of heart. 
29. And thou shalt grope at noone dayes, as the blind gropeth in darknes, and thou shalt not prosper in thy waies: and thou shalt be onely oppressed, and spoiled euermore, and no man shal saue thee. 
30. Thou shalt betrothe a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 
31. Thine oxe shall be slaine before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shall bee giuen vnto thine enemies, and thou shalt haue none to rescue them. 
32. Thy sonnes, and thy daughters shall be giuen vnto another people, and thine eyes shal looke, and faile with longing for them al the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. 
33. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not, eate vp: and thou shalt be onely oppressed and crushed alway: 
34. So that thou shalt bee mad, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 
35. The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legges with a sore botch that cannot bee healed, from the sole of thy foot, vnto the top of thy head. 
36. The Lord shal bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set ouer thee, vnto a nation which neither thou, nor thy fathers haue knowen, and there shalt thou serue other gods, wood and stone. 
37. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a prouerbe, and a by-worde, among all nations whither the Lord shall leade thee. 
38. Thou shalt carie much seede out into the field, and shalt gather but litle in: for the locust shall consume it. 
39. Thou shalt plant vineyards and dresse them, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate them. 
40. Thou shalt haue Oliue trees throughout al thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thy selfe with the oyle: for thine Oliue shall cast his fruit. 
41. Thou shalt beget sonnes and daughters, but thou shalt not enioy them: for they shall goe into captiuitie. 
42. All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locusts consume. 
43. The stranger that is within thee shall get vp aboue thee very high: and thou shalt come downe very low. 
44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall bee the head, and thou shalt be the taile. 
45. Moreouer, all these curses shall come vpon thee, and shall pursue thee, and ouertake thee, til thou be destroied: because thou hearkenedst not vnto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keepe his Commandements, and his Statutes which he commanded thee. 
46. And they shall be vpon thee for a signe, and for a wonder, and vpon thy seed for euer: 
47. Because thou seruedst not the Lord thy God with ioyfulnesse, and with gladnesse of heart, for the aboundance of all things. 
48. Therefore shalt thou serue thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakednesse, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron vpon thy necke, vntill he haue destroyed thee. 
49. The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from farre, from the end of the earth, as swift as the Eagle fleeth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not vnderstand: 
50. A nation of fierce countenance, which shal not regard the person of the old, nor shew fauour to the yong: 
51. And hee shall eat the fruit of thy cattell, and the fruit of thy land, vntill thou be destroyed: which also shall not leaue thee either corne, wine, or oyle, or the increase of thy kine, or flockes of thy sheepe, vntill he haue destroyed thee. 
52. And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, vntill thy high and fenced walles come downe wherein thou trustedst throughout all thy land: and hee shall besiege thee in all thy gates, throughout all thy land which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee. 
53. And thou shalt eate the fruit of thine owne body, the flesh of thy sonnes, and of thy daughters (which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee) in the siege, and in the straitnesse wherewith thine enemies shall distresse thee. 
54. So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shalbe euill toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosome, and towards the remnant of his children which he shall leaue: 
55. So that he wil not giue to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eate: because hee hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitnesse wherewith thine enemies shal distresse thee, in all thy gates. 
56. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not aduenture to set the sole of her foote vpon the ground, for delicatenesse and tendernesse, her eye shall be euill towards the husband of her bosome, and towards her sonne, and towards her daughter,  
57. And towards her yong one that commeth out from betweene her feete, and towards her children which shee shall beare: for shee shall eate them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitnes, wherewith thine enemie shall distresse thee in thy gates. 
58. If thou wilt not obserue to doe all the wordes of this Law that are written in this booke, that thou mayest feare this glorious and fearefull Name, The Lord thy God: 
59. Then the Lord wil make thy plagues wonderfull, and the plagues of thy seed, euen great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 
60. Moreouer, hee will bring vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shal cleaue vnto thee. 
61. Also euery sickenesse, and euery plague which is not written in the booke of this Law, them will the Lord bring vpon thee, vntill thou be destroyed. 
62. And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the starres of heauen for multitude: because thou wouldest not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God. 
63. And it shall come to passe, that as the Lord reioyced ouer you to doe you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will reioyce ouer you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shalbe plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possesse it. 
64. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth, euen vnto the other: and there thou shalt serue other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers haue knowen, euen wood and stone. 
65. And among these nations shalt thou finde no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest: but the Lord shall giue thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, & sorrow of minde. 
66. And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shalt feare day and night, and shalt haue none assurance of thy life. 
67. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were Euen: and at Euen thou shalt say, Would God it were morning, for the feare of thine heart wherewith thou shalt feare, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 
68. And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt againe, with ships, by the way whereof I spake vnto thee, Thou shalt see it no more againe: and there ye shall bee sold vnto your enemies for bondmen, and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. 
1. These are the woordes of the Couenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the Couenant which he made with them in Horeb. 
2. And Moses called vnto all Israel, and said vnto them, Yee haue seene all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all his seruants, and vnto all his land; 
3. The great temptations which thine eyes haue seene, the signes and those great miracles: 
4. Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day. 
5. And I haue led you fourtie yeres in the wildernes: your clothes are not waxen old vpon you, and thy shooe is not waxen old vpon thy foot. 
6. Ye haue not eaten bread, neither haue you drunke wine, or strong drink: that yee might knowe that I am the Lord your God. 
7. And when yee came vnto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the King of Bashan, came out against vs vnto battell, and wee smote them. 
8. And wee tooke their lande, and gaue it for an inheritance vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh. 
9. Keepe therefore the wordes of this Couenant and doe them, that yee may prosper in all that ye doe. 
10. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God: your captaines of your tribes, your Elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 
11. Your litle ones, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe, from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water: 
12. That thou shouldest enter into Couenant with the Lord thy God, and into his othe which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: 
13. That he may establish thee to day for a people vnto himselfe, and that hee may be vnto thee a God, as he hath said vnto thee, and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob. 
14. Neither with you onely doe I make this couenant and this othe: 
15. But with him that standeth here with vs this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with vs this day: 
16. (For ye know how we haue dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came thorow the nations which ye passed by. 
17. And ye haue seene their abominations, and their idoles, wood, and stone, siluer, and gold, which were among them.) 
18. Lest there should be among you man or woman, or familie, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day fro the Lord our God, to goe and serue the gods of these nations: lest there should bee among you a root that beareth gall and wormewood, 
19. And it come to passe when he heareth the wordes of this curse, that hee blesse himselfe in his heart, saying, I shall haue peace, though I walke in the imagination of mine heart, to adde drunkennesse to thirst: 
20. The Lord wil not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord, and his ielousie shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this booke shall lie vpon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from vnder heauen. 
21. And the Lord shall separate him vnto euill, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the Couenant, that are written in this booke of the Law: 
22. So that the generation to come of your children, that shall rise vp after you, and the stranger that shall come from a farre land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath layd vpon it; 
23. And that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sowen, nor beareth, nor any grasse groweth therein, like the ouerthrow of Sodome, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 
24. Euen al nations shal say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 
25. Then men shall say, Because they haue forsaken the Couenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them foorth out of the land of Egypt. 
26. For they went and serued other gods, & worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not giuen vnto them. 
27. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring vpon it all the curses, that are written in this booke. 
28. And the Lord rooted them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 
29. The secret things belong vnto the Lord our God: but those things which are reuealed belong vnto vs, and to our children for euer, that wee may doe all the words of this Law. 
1. And it shall come to passe when all these things are come vpon thee, the blessing, and the curse, which I haue set before thee, and thou shalt call them to minde among all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath driuen thee, 
2. And shalt returne vnto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voyce according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children with al thine heart, and with all thy soule: 
3. That then the Lord thy God will turne thy captiuitie, and haue compassion vpon thee, and wil returne and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. 
4. If any of thine be driuen out vnto the outmost parts of heauen, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee. 
5. And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possesse it: and he will doe thee good, and multiply thee aboue thy fathers. 
6. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, that thou mayest liue. 
7. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses vpon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 
8. And thou shalt returne and obey the voice of the Lord, and doe all his Commandements which I command thee this day. 
9. And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in euery worke of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattell, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will againe reioyce ouer thee for good, as he reioyced ouer thy fathers: 
10. If thou shalt hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to keepe his Commandements, and his Statutes which are written in this booke of the Law, and if thou turne vnto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule. 
11. For this Commaundement which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it farre off. 
12. It is not in heauen, that thou shouldest say, Who shal goe vp for vs to heauen, and bring it vnto vs, that wee may heare it, and doe it? 
13. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall goe ouer the sea for vs, and bring it vnto vs, that we may heare it, and doe it? 
14. But the word is very nigh vnto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest doe it. 
15. See, I haue set before thee this day, life and good, and death, and euill: 
16. In that I command thee this day to loue the Lord thy God, to walke in his wayes, and to keepe his Commandements, and his Statutes, and his Iudgements, that thou maiest liue and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in the land, whither thou goest to possesse it. 
17. But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not heare, but shalt bee drawen away, and worship other gods and serue them: 
18. I denounce vnto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that yee shall not prolong your dayes vpon the land, whither thou passest ouer Iordan, to goe to possesse it. 
19. I call heauen and earth to record this day against you, that I haue set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may liue: 
20. That thou maiest loue the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voyce, and that thou mayest cleaue vnto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy dayes, that thou mayest dwell in the land, which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob, to giue them. 
1. And Moses went & spake these wordes vnto all Israel. 
2. And hee saide vnto them, I am an hundred and twentie yeeres old this day; I can no more goe out and come in: also the Lord hath said vnto mee, Thou shalt not goe ouer this Iordan. 
3. The Lord thy God, hee will goe ouer before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possesse them: and Ioshua, hee shall goe ouer before thee, as the Lord hath said. 
4. And the Lord shall doe vnto them, as hee did to Sihon, and to Og Kings of the Amorites, and vnto the land of them, whom he destroyed. 
5. And the Lord shall giue them vp before your face, that ye may doe vnto them according vnto all the Commandements which I haue commanded you. 
6. Be strong, and of a good courage, feare not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doeth goe with thee, he will not faile thee, nor forsake thee. 
7. And Moses called vnto Ioshua, and said vnto him in the sight of all Israel, Bee strong, and of a good courage: for thou must goe with this people vnto the land, which the Lord hath sworne vnto their fathers to giue them; and thou shalt cause them to inherite it. 
8. And the Lord, he it is that doth goe before thee, he will be with thee, hee will not faile thee, neither forsake thee: feare not, neither be dismayed. 
9. And Moses wrote this Law, and deliuered it vnto the Priests the sonnes of Leui, which bare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, and vnto all the Elders of Israel. 
10. And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of euery seuen yeeres, in the solemnitie of the yeere of release, in the feast of Tabernacles, 
11. When all Israel is come to appeare before the Lord thy God, in the place which hee shall choose; thou shalt reade this Law before all Israel, in their hearing. 
12. Gather the people together, men, and women and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may heare, and that they may learne, and feare the Lord your God, and obserue to doe all the wordes of this Law: 
13. And that their children which haue not knowen any thing, may heare, and learne to feare the Lord your God, as long as yee liue in the land, whither ye goe ouer Iordan to possesse it. 
14. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Beholde, thy dayes approach that thou must die: call Ioshua, and present your selues in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, that I may giue him a charge. And Moses and Ioshua went and presented themselues in the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 
15. And the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloude stood ouer the doore of the Tabernacle. 
16. And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people wil rise vp, and goe a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they goe to be amongst them, and wil forsake me, and breake my couenant which I haue made with them. 
17. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be deuoured, and many euils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Are not these euils come vpon vs, because our God is not amongst vs? 
18. And I will surely hide my face in that day, for all the euils which they shal haue wrought, in that they are turned vnto other gods. 
19. Now therefore, write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouthes, that this song may be a witnesse for mee, against the children of Israel. 
20. For when I shall haue brought them into the land which I sware vnto their fathers, that floweth with milke and hony; and they shall haue eaten and filled themselues, and waxen fat; then will they turne vnto other gods, and serue them, and prouoke me, and breake my couenant. 
21. And it shall come to passe, when many euils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testifie against them as a witnesse: for it shall not bee forgotten out of the mouthes of their seed: for I know their imagination which they goe about euen now, before I haue brought them into the land, which I sware. 
22. Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 
23. And he gaue Ioshua the sonne of Nun a charge, and said, Bee strong, and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware vnto them: and I will be with thee. 
24. And it came to passe when Moses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this Law in a booke, vntill they were finished, 
25. That Moses commaunded the Leuites which bare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, saying, 
26. Take this booke of the Law, and put it in the side of the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord your God, that it may bee there for a witnesse against thee. 
27. For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiffe necke: Beholde, while I am yet aliue with you this day, yee haue bene rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death? 
28. Gather vnto mee all the Elders of your tribes, and your Officers, that I may speake these words in their eares, and call heauen and earth to record against them. 
29. For I know, that after my death yee will vtterly corrupt your selues, and turne aside from the way, which I haue commauded you: and euil wil befall you in the latter dayes, because yee wil doe euil in the sight of the Lord, to prouoke him to anger through the worke of your hands. 
30. And Moses spake in the eares of al the Cogregation of Israel the words of this song, vntill they were ended. 
1. Giue eare, O yee heauens, and I will speake; And heare, O earth, the words of my mouth. 
2. My doctrine shall drop as the raine: my speech shall distill as the deaw, as the smal raine vpon the tender herbe, and as the showres vpon the grasse. 
3. Because I wil publish the Name of the Lord: ascribe yee greatnesse vnto our God. 
4. He is the rocke, his worke is perfect: for all his wayes are Iudgement: A God of trueth, and without iniquity, iust and right is he. 
5. They haue corrupted themselues, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a peruerse and crooked generation. 
6. Doe ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people, & vnwise? Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee? 
7. Remember the dayes of olde, consider the yeeres of many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee, thy Elders, and they wil tell thee. 
8. When the most High diuided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sonnes of Adam, hee set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 
9. For the Lords portion is his people: Iacob is the lot of his inheritance. 
10. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wildernesse: Hee ledde him about, he instructed him, hee kept him as the apple of his eye. 
11. As an Eagle stirreth vp her nest, fluttereth ouer her yong, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 
12. So the Lord alone did leade him, and there was no strange God with him. 
13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eate the increase of the fields, and he made him to sucke hony out of the rocke, and oyle out of the flintie rocke, 
14. Butter of kine, & milke of sheepe, with fat of lambes, and rammes of the breed of Bashan, & goats, with the fat of kidneis of wheat, and thou diddest drinke the pure blood of the grape. 
15. But Iesurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxen fat, thou art growen thicke, thou art couered with fatnes: then he forsooke God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rocke of his saluation. 
16. They prouoked him to ielousie with strange gods, with abominations prouoked they him to anger. 
17. They sacrificed vnto deuils, not to God: to gods whom they knew not, to new gods, that came newly vp, whom your fathers feared not. 
18. Of the Rocke that begate thee thou art vnmindfull, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. 
19. And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the prouoking of his sonnes, & of his daughters. 
20. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their ende shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 
21. They haue mooued me to ielousie with that which is not god, they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will moue them to ielousie with those which are not a people, I will prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 
22. For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burne vnto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines. 
23. I will heape mischiefes vpon them, I will spend mine arrowes vpon them. 
24. They shall bee burnt with hunger and deuoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts vpon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 
25. The sword without, and terrour within shall destroy both the yong man, and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray haires. 
26. I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease fro among men: 
27. Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie, lest their aduersaries should behaue themselues strangely, and lest they should say, Our hande is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. 
28. For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them. 
29. O that they were wise, that they vnderstood this, that they would consider their latter end. 
30. How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rocke had sold them, and the Lord had shut them vp? 
31. For their rocke is not as our Rocke, euen our enemies themselues being iudges. 
32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodome, and of the fields of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. 
33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruell venime of Aspes. 
34. Is not this laide vp in store with me, and sealed vp among my treasures? 
35. To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence, their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamitie is at hand, and the things that shal come vpon them, make haste. 
36. For the Lord shall iudge his people, and repent himselfe for his seruants, when he seeth that their power is gone; and there is none shut vp, or left. 
37. And he shall say, where are their gods? Their Rocke in whom they trusted; 
38. Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, & dranke the wine of their drinke offerings? Let them rise vp and helpe you, and be your protection. 
39. See now, that I, euen I am he, and there is no god with mee; I kill, and I make aliue: I wound, and I heale: neither is there any that can deliuer out of my hand. 
40. For I lift vp my hand to heauen, and say, I liue for euer. 
41. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take holde on Iudgement, I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 
42. I will make mine arrowes drunke with blood, (and my sword shal deuoure flesh) and that with the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, from the beginning of reuenges vpon the enemie. 
43. Reioyce, O ye nations with his people, for he will auenge the blood of his seruants, and will render vengeance to his aduersaries, and wil be mercifull vnto his land, and to his people. 
44. And Moses came and spake all the wordes of this song in the eares of the people, he and Hoshea the sonne of Nun. 
45. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel. 
46. And hee said vnto them, Set your hearts vnto all the wordes which I testifie among you this day, which yee shall commaund your children to obserue to doe all the wordes of this Law. 
47. For it is not a vaine thing for you: because it is your life, and through this thing yee shall prolong your dayes, in the land whither yee goe ouer Iordan to possesse it. 
48. And the Lord spake vnto Moses that selfe same day, saying, 
49. Get thee vp into this mountaine Abarim, vnto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is ouer against Iericho, and behold the land of Canaan which I giue vnto the children of Israel for a possession: 
50. And die in the mount whither thou goest vp, and bee gathered vnto thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered vnto his people: 
51. Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel, at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the wildernesse of Zin: because yee sanctified mee not in the midst of the children of Israel. 
52. Yet thou shalt see the land before thee, but thou shalt not goe thither vnto the land which I giue the children of Israel. 
1. And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 
2. And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose vp from Seir vnto them, hee shined foorth from mount Paran, and hee came with ten thousands of Saints: from his Right hand went a fierie Law for them. 
3. Yea hee loued the people; all his Saints are in thy hand: and they sate downe at thy feete; euery one shall receiue of thy wordes. 
4. Moses commaunded vs a Law, euen the inheritance of the Congregation of Iacob. 
5. And hee was King in Iesurun, when the heads of the people, and the Tribes of Israel were gathered together. 
6. Let Reuben liue, and not die, and let not his men be few. 
7. And this is the blessing of Iudah: and he said, Heare, Lord, the voice of Iudah, and bring him vnto his people: let his hands bee sufficient for him, and bee thou an helpe to him from his enemies. 
8. And of Leui hee said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou diddest prooue at Massah, & with whom thou didst striue at the waters of Meribah: 
9. Who said vnto his father & to his mother, I haue not seene him, neither did hee acknowledge his brethren; nor knew his owne children: for they haue obserued thy word, and kept thy Couenant. 
10. They shal teach Iacob thy iudgments, and Israel thy Lawe: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice vpon thine Altar. 
11. Blesse, Lord, his substance, and accept the worke of his handes, smite thorow the loines of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not againe. 
12. And of Beniamin he said, The beloued of the Lord shall dwell in safetie by him, and the Lord shall couer him all the day long, and he shall dwell betweene his shoulders. 
13. And of Ioseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heauen, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath; 
14. And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sunne, and for the precious things put forth by the moone, 
15. And for the chiefe things of the ancient mountaines, and for the precious things of the lasting hils, 
16. And for the precious things of the earth, and fulnesse thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come vpon the head of Ioseph, and vpon the top of the head of him that was separated fro his brethren. 
17. His glory is like the firstling of his bullocke, & his hornes are like the hornes of Unicornes: with them he shall push the people together, to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. 
18. And of Zebulun he said, Reioyce, Zebulun, in thy going out; and Issachar, in thy tents. 
19. They shall call the people vnto the mountaine, there they shal offer sacrifices of righteousnesse: for they shall sucke of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. 
20. And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lyon, and teareth the arme with the crowne of the head. 
21. And he prouided the first part for himselfe, because there, in a portion of the lawgiuer was he seated, and hee came with the heads of the people, he executed the iustice of the Lord, and his iudgments with Israel. 
22. And of Dan he said, Dan is a Lyons whelpe: hee shall leape from Bashan. 
23. And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with fauour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possesse thou the West and the South. 
24. And of Asher hee said, let Asher be blessed with children, Let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oile. 
25. Thy shooes shall bee yron and brasse, and as thy dayes, so shall thy strength bee. 
26. There is none like vnto the God of Iesurun, who rideth vpon the heauen in thy helpe, and in his excellencie on the skie. 
27. The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnderneath are the euerlasting armes: and he shall thrust out the enemie from before thee, and shall say, Destroy them. 
28. Israel then shall dwell in safetie alone: the fountaine of Iacob shalbe vpon a land of corne and wine, also his heauens shall drop downe deaw. 
29. Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like vnto thee, O people! saued by the Lord, the shield of thy helpe, and who is the sword of thy excellencie: and thine enemies shal be found liars vnto thee, and thou shalt tread vpon their high places. 
1. And Moses went vp from the plaines of Moab, vnto the mountaine of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is ouer against Iericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, vnto Dan, 
2. And all Naphtali, and the lande of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Iudah, vnto the vtmost sea. 
3. And the South, and the plaine of the valley of Iericho, the citie of palme trees vnto Zoar. 
4. And the Lord said vnto him, This is the land which I sware vnto Abraham, vnto Isaac, and vnto Iacob, saying, I will giue it vnto thy seed: I haue caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go ouer thither. 
5. So Moses the seruant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. 
6. And hee buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, ouer against Beth-Peor: but no man knoweth of his Sepulchre vnto this day. 
7. And Moses was an hundred and twentie yeeres olde when he died: his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated. 
8. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plaines of Moab thirty dayes: So the dayes of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. 
9. And Ioshua the sonne of Nun was full of the Spirit of wisedome: for Moses had layd his handes vpon him, and the children of Israel hearkened vnto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses. 
10. And there arose not a Prophet since in Israel like vnto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face: 
11. In al the signes and the wonders which the Lord sent him to doe in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his seruants, and to all his land, 
12. And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terrour, which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel. 
1. Nowe after the death of Moses the seruant of the Lord, it came to passe, that the Lord spake vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun, Moses minister, saying,
2. Moses my seruant is dead: now therefore arise, goe ouer this Iordan, thou, and all this people, vnto the land which I doe giue to them, euen to the children of Israel.
3. Euery place that the sole of your foote shall tread vpon, that haue I giuen vnto you, as I said vnto Moses.
4. From the wildernesse and this Lebanon, euen vnto the great Riuer, the riuer Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and vnto the great sea, toward the going downe of the Sunne, shalbe your coast.
5. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the dayes of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not faile thee, nor forsake thee.
6. Bee strong, and of a good courage: for vnto this people shalt thou diuide for an inheritance the land which I sware vnto their fathers to giue them.
7. Onely bee thou strong, and very courageous, that thou mayest obserue to doe according to all the Law, which Moses my seruant commaunded thee: turne not from it to the right hand, or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whither soeuer thou goest.
8. This booke of the Law shal not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest obserue to doe according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt haue good successe.
9. Haue not I commanded thee? be strong, and of a good courage, bee not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee, whither soeuer thou goest.
10. Then Ioshua commanded the Officers of the people, saying,
11. Passe through the hoste, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals: for within three dayes ye shal passe ouer this Iordan, to goe in to possesse the land which the Lord your God giueth you, to possesse it.
12. And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to halfe the tribe of Manasseh, spake Ioshua, saying,
13. Remember the word which Moses the seruant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath giuen you rest, and hath giuen you this land:
14. Your wiues, your litle ones, and your cattell shall remaine in the lande which Moses gaue you on this side Iordan; but ye shall passe before your brethren armed, all the mightie men of valour, and helpe them:
15. Untill the Lord haue giuen your brethren rest, as he hath giuen you, and they also haue possessed the lande which the Lord your God giueth them: then yee shall returne vnto the land of your possession, and enioy it, which Moses the Lords seruant gaue you on this side Iordan toward the Sunne rising.
16. And they answered Ioshua, saying, All that thou commandest vs, we will doe, and whither soeuer thou sendest vs, we will goe.
17. According as we hearkened vnto Moses in all things, so will we hearken vnto thee: onely the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.
18. Whosoeuer he be that doth rebell against thy commandement, and will not hearken vnto thy words, in all that thou commandest him, he shall bee put to death: onely be strong, and of a good courage.
1. And Ioshua the sonne of Nun sent out of Shittim two men, to spie secretly, saying, Go, view the land, euen Iericho: and they went, and came into an harlots house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
2. And it was told the king of Iericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night, of the children of Israel, to search out the countrey.
3. And the king of Iericho sent vnto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entred into thine house: for they bee come to search out all the countrey.
4. And the woman tooke the two men, and hid them, & said thus: There came men vnto mee, but I wist not whence they were:
5. And it came to passe about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was darke, that the men went out: whither the men went, I wote not: pursue after them quickely, for ye shall ouertake them.
6. But shee had brought them vp to the roofe of the house, and hid them with the stalkes of flaxe, which she had laid in order vpon the roofe.
7. And the men pursued after them the way to Iordan, vnto the foords: and assoone as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
8. And before they were laide downe, shee came vp vnto them vpon the roofe.
9. And she said vnto the men, I know that the Lord hath giuen you the land, and that your terrour is fallen vpon vs, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you:
10. For wee haue heard how the Lord dried vp the water of the red Sea for you; when you came out of Egypt, and what you did vnto the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side Iordan, Sihon and Og; whom ye vtterly destroyed.
11. And assoone as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remaine any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heauen aboue, and in earth beneath.
12. Now therfore, I pray you, sweare vnto me by the Lord, since I haue shewed you kindnesse, that ye will also shew kindnesse vnto my fathers house, and giue me a true token:
13. And that ye will saue aliue my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue, and deliuer our liues from death.
14. And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if yee vtter not this our businesse. And it shall bee when the Lord hath giuen vs the land, that wee will deale kindely and truely with thee.
15. Then shee let them downe by a coard thorow the window: for her house was vpon the towne wall, and she dwelt vpon the wall.
16. And she said vnto them, Get you to the mountaine, lest the pursuers meete you; and hide your selues there three dayes, vntill the pursuers bee returned, and afterward may ye goe your way.
17. And the men said vnto her, Wee will bee blamelesse of this thine oath which thou hast made vs sweare:
18. Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt binde this line of scarlet threed in the window which thou didst let vs downe by: and thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy fathers houshold home vnto thee.
19. And it shall bee, that whosoeuer shall goe out of the doores of thy house into the street, his blood shalbe vpon his head, and wee will bee guiltlesse: and whosoeuer shall bee with thee in the house, his blood shalbe on our head, if any hand be vpon him.
20. And if thou vtter this our businesse, then we wilbe quit of thine oath which thou hast made vs to sweare.
21. And shee saide, According vnto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, & they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
22. And they went, and came vnto the mountaine, and abode there three dayes, vntill the pursuers were returned. And the pursuers sought them thorowout all the way, but found them not.
23. So the two men returned, and descended from the mountaine, and passed ouer, and came to Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and told him all things that befell them.
24. And they saide vnto Ioshua, Truely the Lord hath deliuered into our hands all the land; for euen all the inhabitants of the countrey doe faint because of vs.
1. And Ioshua rose early in the morning, and they remooued from Shittim, and came to Iordan, hee and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed ouer.
2. And it came to passe after three dayes, that the Officers went thorow the hoste;
3. And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord your God, and the Priests the Leuites bearing it, then yee shall remooue from your place, and goe after it.
4. Yet there shalbe a space betweene you and it, about two thousand cubites by measure: come not neere vnto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must goe: for yee haue not passed this way heretofore.
5. And Ioshua said vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morrow the Lord wil do woders among you.
6. And Ioshua spake vnto the Priests, saying, Take vp the Arke of the Couenant, and passe ouer before the people. And they tooke vp the Arke of the Couenant, and went before the people.
7. And the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, This day wil I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
8. And thou shalt commaund the Priests that beare the Arke of the Couenant, saying; When ye are come to the brinke of the water of Iordan, yee shall stand still in Iordan.
9. And Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the words of the Lord your God.
10. And Ioshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the liuing God is among you, and that he will without faile driue out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hiuites, and the Perizzites, and Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Iebusites.
11. Behold, the Arke of the Couenant, euen the Lord of all the earth, passeth ouer before you, into Iordan.
12. Now therefore take yee twelue men out of the Tribes of Israel, out of euery Tribe a man.
13. And it shall come to passe, assoone as the soles of the feete of the Priestes that beare the Arke of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Iordan, that the waters of Iordan shall be cut off, from the waters that come downe from aboue: and they shall stand vpon an heape.
14. And it came to passe when the people remooued from their tents, to passe ouer Iordan, and the Priests bearing the Arke of the Couenant before the people;
15. And as they that bare the Arke were come vnto Iordan, and the feet of the Priestes that bare the Arke, were dipped in the brimme of the water, (for Iordan ouerfloweth all his banks at the time of haruest)
16. That the waters which came downe from aboue, stood and rose vp vpon an heape very farre, from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came downe toward the sea of the plaine, euen the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed ouer right against Iericho.
17. And the Priestes that bare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, stood firme on drie ground, in the midst of Iordan, and all the Israelites passed ouer on drie ground, vntill all the people were passed cleane ouer Iordan.
1. And it came to passe when all the people were cleane passed ouer Iordan, that the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,
2. Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,
3. And command you them, saying, Take you hence out of the mids of Iordan, out of the place where the Priests feet stood firme, twelue stones, and yee shal cary them ouer with you, and leaue them in the lodging place where you shall lodge this night. 
4. Then Ioshua called the twelue men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of euery tribe a man:
5. And Ioshua said vnto them, Passe ouer before the Arke of the Lord your God into the mids of Iordan, and take ye vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder, according vnto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
6. That this may be a signe among you, that when your children aske their fathers in time to come, saying, What meane you by these stones?
7. Then yee shall answere them, That the waters of Iordan were cut off before the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, when it passed ouer Iordan, the waters of Iordan were cut off: and these stones shall bee for a memoriall vnto the children of Israel for euer.
8. And the children of Israel did so as Ioshua commanded, and tooke vp twelue stones out of the midst of Iordan, as the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and caried them ouer with them, vnto the place where they lodged, and laid them downe there.
9. And Ioshua set vp twelue stones in the midst of Iordan, in the place where the feet of the Priests which bare the Arke of the Couenant, stood: and they are there vnto this day.
10. For the Priests which bare the Arke, stood in the midst of Iordan, vntill euery thing was finished that the Lord commanded Ioshua to speake vnto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Ioshua: and the people hasted and passed ouer.
11. And it came to passe when all the people were cleane passed ouer, that the Arke of the Lord passed ouer, and the Priests in the presence of the people.
12. And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, passed ouer armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake vnto them:
13. About fourty thousand prepared for war, passed ouer before the Lord vnto battell, to the plaines of Iericho.
14. On that day the Lord magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses all the dayes of his life.
15. And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,
16. Command the Priests that beare the Arke of the Testimony, that they come vp out of Iordan.
17. Ioshua therefore commaunded the Priests, saying, Come yee vp out of Iordan.
18. And it came to passe when the Priests that bare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, were come vp out of the mids of Iordan, and the soles of the Priests feete were lift vp vnto the dry land, that the waters of Iordan returned vnto their place, and flowed ouer all his banks, as they did before.
19. And the people came vp out of Iordan on the tenth day of the first moneth, and encamped in Gilgal, in the East border of Iericho.
20. And those twelue stones which they tooke out of Iordan, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.
21. And he spake vnto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shal aske their fathers in time to come, saying, What meane these stones?
22. Then yee shall let your children know, saying, Israel came ouer this Iordan on dry land.
23. For the Lord your God dried vp the waters of Iordan from before you, vntill yee were passed ouer, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which hee dried vp from before vs, vntill we were gone ouer:
24. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that ye might feare the Lord your God for euer.
1. And it came to passe when all the Kings of the Amorites which were on the side of Iordan Westward, and all the Kings of the Canaanites, which were by the Sea, heard that the Lord had dried vp the waters of Iordan from before the children of Israel, vntill we were passed ouer, that their heart melted; neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
2. At that time the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Make thee sharpe kniues, and circumcise againe the children of Israel the second time.
3. And Ioshua made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskinnes.
4. And this is the cause why Ioshua did circumcise: all the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, euen all the men of warre, died in the wildernes by the way after they came out of Egypt.
5. Now all the people that came out, were circumcised, but all the people that were borne in the wildernesse by the way, as they came foorth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
6. For the children of Israel walked fourtie yeeres in the wildernesse, till all the people that were men of warre which came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voyce of the Lord, vnto whome the Lord sware that hee would not shew them the land which the Lord sware vnto their fathers, that he would giue vs, a land that floweth with milke & honie.
7. And their children, whom hee raised vp in their stead, them Ioshua circumcised, for they were vncircumcised: because they had not circumcised them by the way.
8. And it came to passe when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the campe, till they were whole.
9. And the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, This day haue I rolled away the reproch of Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal vnto this day.
10. And the children of Israel incamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passeouer, on the fourteenth day of the moneth at euen, in the plaines of Iericho.
11. And they did eate of the olde corne of the land, on the morrow after the Passeouer, vnleauened cakes, and parched corne in the selfe same day.
12. And the Manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corne of the land, neither had the children of Israel Manna any more, but they did eate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that yeere.
13. And it came to passe when Ioshua was by Iericho, that he lift vp his eyes, and looked, and beholde, there stood a man ouer against him, with his sword dawen in his hand: and Ioshua went vnto him, and said vnto him, Art thou for vs, or for our aduersaries? 
14. And he said, Nay, but as captaine of the hoste of the Lord am I now come. And Ioshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said vnto him, What saith my Lord vnto his seruant?
15. And the captaine of the Lords hoste said vnto Ioshua, Loose thy shooe from off thy foote, for the place whereon thou standest, is holy: And Ioshua did so.

1. Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
2. And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3. And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.
4. And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5. And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.
6. And Ioshua the sonne of Nun called the Priests, and said vnto them, Take vp the Arke of the Couenant, and let seuen Priests beare seuen trumpets of rammes-hornes, before the Arke of the Lord.
7. And he said vnto the people, Passe on, and compasse the city, and let him that is armed passe on before the Arke of the Lord.
8. And it came to passe when Ioshua had spoken vnto the people, that the seuen Priestes bearing the seuen trumpets of rammes hornes, passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord followed them.
9. And the armed men went before the Priests that blew with the trumpets: and the rereward came after the Arke, the Priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10. And Ioshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, vntill the day I bid you shoute, then shall ye shoute.
11. So the Arke of the Lord compassed the citie, going about it once: and they came into the campe, and lodged in the campe.
12. And Ioshua rose earely in the morning, and the Priests tooke vp the Arke of the Lord.
13. And seuen Priests bearing seuen trumpets of rammes hornes before the Arke of the Lord, went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them, but the rereward came after the Arke of the Lord, the Priests going on and blowing with the trumpets.
14. And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the campe: so they did sixe dayes.
15. And it came to passe on the seuenth day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the citie after the same maner, seuen times: only on that day they compassed the citie seuen times.
16. And it came to passe at the seuenth time, when the Priests blewe with the trumpets, Ioshua said vnto the people, Shout, for the Lord hath giuen you the citie.
17. And the citie shalbe accursed, euen it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: onely Rahab the harlot shal liue, she, and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18. And you, in any wise keepe your selues from the accursed thing, lest yee make your selues accursed, when yee take of the accursed thing, and make the campe of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
19. But all the siluer, and gold, and vessels of brasse and yron, are consecrated vnto the Lord: they shall come into the treasurie of the Lord.
20. So the people shouted when the Priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to passe when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell downe flat, so that the people went vp into the citie, euery man straight before him, and they tooke the citie.
21. And they vtterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, yong and old, and oxe, and sheepe, and asse, with the edge of the sword.
22. But Ioshua had said vnto the two men that had spied out the countrey; Goe into the harlots house, and bring out thence the woman and all that she hath, as ye sware vnto her.
23. And the yong men that were spies, went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had: and they brought out all her kinred, and left them without the campe of Israel.
24. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: onely the siluer & the gold, and the vessels of brasse and of yron, they put into the Treasury of the house of the Lord.
25. And Ioshua saued Rahab the harlot aliue, and her fathers houshold, and all that she had: and she dwelleth in Israel euen vnto this day, because she hid the messengers which Ioshua sent to spy out Iericho.
26. And Ioshua adiured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth vp and buildeth this city Iericho: he shall lay the foundation therof in his first borne, and in his yongest sonne shall hee set vp the gates of it.
27. So the Lord was with Ioshua, and his fame was noised throughout all the countrey.
1. But the children of Israel committed a trespasse in the accursed thing: for Achan the sonne of Carmi, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Zerah, of the tribe of Iudah, tooke of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.
2. And Ioshua sent men from Iericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-auen, on the East side of Bethel, and spake vnto them, saying, Goe vp and view the countrey. And the men went vp, and viewed Ai.
3. And they returned to Ioshua, and said vnto him, Let not all the people goe vp: but let about two or three thousand men goe vp, and smite Ai, and make not all the people to labour thither, for they are but few.
4. So there went vp thither of the people about three thousand men, and they fled before the men of Ai.
5. And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and sixe men: for they chased them from before the gate euen vnto Shebarim, and smote them in the going downe: Wherefore the hearts of the people melted, & became as water.
6. And Ioshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth vpon his face, before the Arke of the Lord, vntill the euentide, he and the Elders of Israel, and put dust vpon their heads.
7. And Ioshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people ouer Iordan, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy vs? Would to God we had bene content, and dwelt on the other side Iordan.
8. Oh Lord! what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backes before their enemies?
9. For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land shall heare of it, and shall enuiron vs round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou doe vnto thy great Name?
10. And the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Get thee vp; wherefore liest thou thus vpon thy face?
11. Israel hath sinned, and they haue also transgressed my Couenant which I commaunded them: for they haue euen taken of the accursed thing, and haue also stollen, and dissembled also, and they haue put it euen amongst their owne stuffe.
12. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I bee with you any more, except yee destroy the accursed from amongst you.
13. Up, sanctifie the people, and say, Sanctifie your selues against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, vntill ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
14. In the morning therefore ye shal be brought, according to your tribes: and it shall be that the tribe which the Lord taketh, shall come according to the families thereof, and the familie which the Lord shall take, shal come by housholdes: and the housholdes which the Lord shall take, shal come man by man.
15. And it shalbe that he that is taken with the accursed thing, shall bee burnt with fire, he, and all that hee hath: because he hath transgressed the couenant of the Lord, and because hee hath wrought folly in Israel.
16. So Ioshua rose vp earely in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Iudah was taken.
17. And hee brought the familie of Iudah, and he tooke the familie of the Zarhites: and he brought the familie of the Zarhites, man by man, and Zabdi was taken.
18. And hee brought his houshold, man by man, and Achan the sonne of Carmi, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Zerah, of the tribe of Iudah, was taken.
19. And Ioshua said vnto Achan, My sonne, giue, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession vnto him, and tel me now, what thou hast done, hide it not from me.
20. And Achan answered Ioshua, and said, Indeed I haue sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus haue I done.
21. When I saw among the spoiles a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of siluer, and a wedge of gold of fiftie shekels weight, then I coueted them, and tooke them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the siluer vnder it.
22. So Ioshua sent messengers, and they ran vnto the tent, and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the siluer vnder it.
23. And they tooke them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them vnto Ioshua, and vnto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord.
24. And Ioshua and all Israel with him tooke Achan the sonne of Zerah, and the siluer, and the garment, and the wedge of golde, and his sonnes, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheepe, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them vnto the valley of Achor.
25. And Ioshua said, Why hast thou troubled vs? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
26. And they raised ouer him a great heape of stones vnto this day: so the Lord turned from the fiercenesse of his anger: Wherefore the name of the place was called, The valley of Achor, vnto this day.
1. And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Feare not, neither be thou dismaid: take all the people of warre with thee, and arise, goe vp to Ai: See, I haue giuen into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his citie, and his land.
2. And thou shalt doe to Ai and her king, as thou diddest vnto Iericho and her king: Onely the spoile thereof and the cattell thereof shall ye take for a pray vnto your selues: lay thee an ambush for the citie, behind it.
3. So Ioshua arose, and all the people of warre, to goe vp against Ai: and Ioshua chose out thirtie thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night:
4. And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the citie, euen behind the citie: goe not very farre from the citie, but be ye all ready:
5. And I, and all the people that are with mee, will approch vnto the citie: and it shall come to passe when they come out against vs, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
6. (For they will come out after vs) till we haue drawen them from the citie; for they will say, They flee before vs, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
7. Then yee shall rise vp from the ambush, and seise vpon the citie: for the Lord your God will deliuer it into your hand.
8. And it shall be when yee haue taken the citie, that ye shall set the citie on fire: according to the commandement of the Lord shall ye do. See, I haue commanded you.
9. Ioshua therefore sent them foorth, and they went to lie in ambush, and abode betweene Bethel and Ai, on the West side of Ai: but Ioshua lodged that night among the people.
10. And Ioshua rose vp early in the morning, and numbred the people, and went vp; he, and the Elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11. And all the people, euen the people of warre that were with him, went vp, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the North side of Ai: now there was a valley betweene them and Ai.
12. And he tooke about fiue thousand men, and set them to lye in ambush betweene Bethel and Ai, on the West side of the citie.
13. And when they had set the people, euen all the hoste that was on the North of the city, and their liers in wait on the West of the citie: Ioshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14. And it came to passe when the King of Ai saw it, that they hasted, and rose vp early, and the men of the citie went out against Israel to battell, hee, and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plaine, but hee wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
15. And Ioshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wildernesse.
16. And all the people that were in Ai, were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Ioshua, and were drawen away from the city.
17. And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the citie open, and pursued after Israel.
18. And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Stretch out the speare that is in thy hand, toward Ai; for I will giue it into thine hand. And Ioshua stretched out the speare that hee had in his hand, toward the city.
19. And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand: and they entred into the city, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.
20. And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended vp to heauen, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wildernesse, turned backe vpon the pursuers.
21. And when Ioshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned againe and slew the men of Ai.
22. And the other issued out of the citie against them, so they were in the midst of Israel; some on this side, and some on that side, and they smote them; so that they let none of them remaine or escape.
23. And the King of Ai they tooke aliue, and brought him to Ioshua.
24. And it came to passe when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai, in the field, in the wildernesse wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, vntill they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned vnto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25. And so it was that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelue thousand, euen all the men of Ai.
26. For Ioshua drew not his hand backe wherewith hee stretched out the speare, vntill he had vtterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27. Onely the cattell, and the spoile of that city Israel tooke for a pray vnto themselues, according vnto the word of the Lord, which he commaunded Ioshua.
28. And Ioshua burnt Ai, and made it an heape for euer, euen a desolation vnto this day.
29. And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree vntil euentide: and assoone as the sunne was downe, Ioshua commaunded that they should take his carkeise downe from the tree, and cast it at the entring of the gate of the citie, and raise thereon a great heape of stones that remaineth vnto this day.
30. Then Ioshua built an Altar vnto the Lord God of Israel in mount Ebal,
31. As Moses the seruant of the Lord commaunded the children of Israel, as it is written in the booke of the Law of Moses, an Altar of whole stones, ouer which no man hath lift vp any yron: and they offred theron burnt offerings vnto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32. And he wrote there vpon the stones a copie of the Lawe of Moses, which hee wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33. And all Israel, and their Elders, and Officers, and their Iudges, stood on this side the Arke, and on that side, before the Priests the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, aswell the stranger, as he that was borne among them: halfe of them ouer against mount Gerizim, and halfe of them ouer against mount Ebal, as Moses the seruant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should blesse the people of Israel.
34. And afterward hee read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the booke of the Law.
35. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Ioshua read not before all the Congregation of Israel, with the women and the litle ones, and the strangers that were conuersant among them.
1. And it came to passe when all the kings which were on this side Iordan in the hilles, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea, ouer against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hiuite, and the Iebusite heard thereof:
2. That they gathered themselues together to fight with Ioshua, and with Israel, with one accord.
3. And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Ioshua had done vnto Iericho, and to Ai,
4. They did worke wilily, and went and made as if they had beene embassadours, and tooke old sackes vpon their asses, and wine-bottels, old, and rent, and bound vp,
5. And old shooes and clowted vpon their feet, & olde garments vpon them, and all the bread of their prouision was drie and mouldie.
6. And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.
7. And the men of Israel said vnto the Hiuites, Peraduenture yee dwell among vs, and how shall wee make a league with you.?
8. And they said vnto Ioshua, Wee are thy seruants. And Ioshua said vnto them, Who are ye? And from whence come ye?
9. And they said vnto him, From a very farre countrey thy seruants are come, because of the Name of the Lord thy God: for wee haue heard the fame of him, and all that hee did in Egypt,
10. And all that hee did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Iordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
11. Wherefore our Elders and all the inhabitants of our countrey, spake to vs, saying, Take victuals with you for the iourney, and goe to meete them, and say vnto them, Wee are your seruants: therefore now make ye a league with vs.
12. This our bread, wee tooke hote for our prouision out of our houses, on the day we came forth to goe vnto you: but now behold, it is dry, & it is mouldy.
13. And these bottels of wine which we filled, were new, and behold, they be rent: and these our garments, and our shooes are become old, by reason of the very long iourney.
14. And the men tooke of their victuals, and asked not counsell at the mouth of the Lord.
15. And Ioshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them liue: and the princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.
16. And it came to passe at the end of three dayes, after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
17. And the children of Israel iourneyed, and came vnto their cities on the third day: now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath iearim.
18. And the children of Israel smote them not, because the Princes of the Congregation had sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: And all the Congregation murmured against the Princes.
19. But all the Princes said vnto all the Congregation, We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
20. This we will doe to them; wee will euen let them liue, lest wrath be vpon vs, because of the oath which wee sware vnto them.
21. And the Princes said vnto them, Let them liue, (but let them bee hewers of wood, and drawers of water, vnto all the Congregation,) as the Princes had promised them.
22. And Ioshua called for them, and he spake vnto them, saying, Wherefore haue ye beguiled vs, saying, We are very farre from you? when ye dwell among vs.
23. Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you bee freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the house of my God.
24. And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done this thing.
25. And now behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right vnto thee to doe vnto vs, doe.
26. And so did he vnto them, and deliuered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
27. And Ioshua made them that day, hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the Congregation, and for the Altar of the Lord, euen vnto this day, in the place which he should choose.
1. Now it came to passe when Adoni-zedek King of Ierusalem, had heard how Ioshua had taken Ai, and had vtterly destroyed it, ( as he had done to Iericho, and her King, so hee had done to Ai, and her King) and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
2. That they feared greatly because Gibeon was a great citie, as one of the royall cities, and because it was greater then Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
3. Wherefore Adoni-zedek King of Ierusalem, sent vnto Hoham King of Hebron, and vnto Piram, king of Iarmuth, and vnto Iaphia king of Lachish, and vnto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
4. Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Ioshua, and with the children of Israel.
5. Therefore the fiue Kings of the Amorites, the king of Ierusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Iarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselues together, and went vp, they, and all their hostes, and encamped before Gibeon, and made warre against it.
6. And the men of Gibeon sent vnto Ioshua to the campe to Gilgal, saying, Slacke not thy hand from thy seruants, come vp to vs quickly, and saue vs, and helpe vs: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountaines, are gathered together against vs.
7. So Ioshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of warre with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
8. And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Feare them not: for I haue deliuered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
9. Ioshua therefore came vnto them suddenly, and went vp from Gilgal all night.
10. And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slewe them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth vp to Bethoron, and smote them to Azekah and vnto Makkedah.
11. And it came to passe as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going downe to Bethoron, that the Lord cast downe great stones from heauen vpon them, vnto Azekah, and they died: they were moe which died with hailestones, then they whome the children of Israel slew with the sword.
12. Then spake Ioshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord deliuered vp the Amorites before the children of Israel, and hee said in the sight of Israel, Sunne, stand thou still vpon Gibeon, and thou Moone in the valley of Aialon.
13. And the Sunne stood still, and the Moone stayed, vntill the people had auenged themselues vpon their enemies. Is not this written in the booke of Iasher? So the Sunne stood still in the midst of heauen, and hasted not to goe downe, about a whole day.
14. And there was no day like that, before it, or after it, that the Lord hearkened vnto the voyce of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.
15. And Ioshua returned, and all Israel with him, vnto the campe to Gilgal.
16. But these fiue kings fled, and hid themselues in a caue at Makkedah.
17. And it was told Ioshua, saying, The fiue kings are found hid in a caue at Makkedah.
18. And Ioshua said, Roule great stones vpon the mouth of the caue, and set men by it, for to keepe them.
19. And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them, suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath deliuered them into your hand.
20. And it came to passe when Ioshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them, entred into fenced cities.
21. And all the people returned to the campe to Ioshua at Makkedah in peace: none mooued his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
22. Then said Ioshua, Open the mouth of the caue, and bring out those fiue kings vnto me out of the caue.
23. And they did so, and brought forth those fiue kings vnto him out of the caue, the king of Ierusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Iarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
24. And it came to passe when they brought out those kings vnto Ioshua, that Ioshua called for all the men of Israel, and saide vnto the captaines of the men of war which went with him, Come neere, put your feete vpon the neckes of these kings. And they came neere, and put their feet vpon the necks of them.
25. And Ioshua said vnto them, Feare not, nor be dismaid, bee strong, and of good courage: for thus shall the Lord doe to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
26. And afterward Ioshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on fiue trees: and they were hanging vpon the trees vntill the euening.
27. And it came to passe at the time of the going downe of the Sunne, that Ioshua commanded, and they tooke them downe off the trees, and cast them into the caue, wherein they had beene hid, and laid great stones in the caues mouth, which remain vntil this very day.
28. And that day Ioshua tooke Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof hee vtterly destroyed, them, and all the soules that were therein, he let none remaine: and he did to the king of Makkedah, as hee did vnto the king of Iericho.
29. Then Ioshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, vnto Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
30. And the Lord deliuered it also and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel, and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein: He let none remaine in it, but did vnto the king therof, as he did vnto the king of Iericho.
31. And Ioshua passed from Libnah and all Israel with him, vnto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.
32. And the Lord deliuered Lachish into the hande of Israel, which tooke it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
33. Then Horam king of Gezer, came vp to helpe Lachish, and Ioshua smote him and his people, vntill he had left him none remayning.
34. And from Lachish, Ioshua passed vnto Eglon, and all Israel with him, and they encamped against it, and fought against it.
35. And they tooke it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein he vtterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
36. And Ioshua went vp from Eglon, and all Israel with him, vnto Hebron, and they fought against it.
37. And they tooke it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the soules that were therein, he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon: but destroyed it vtterly, and all the soules that were therein.
38. And Ioshua returned, and all Israel with him to Debir, and fought against it.
39. And hee tooke it, and the King thereof, and all the cities thereof, and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and vtterly destroyed all the soules that were therein, he left none remayning: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof, as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
40. So Ioshua smote all the countrey of the hils, and of the South, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings, hee left none remayning, but vtterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
41. And Ioshua smote them from Kadesh-Barnea, euen vnto Gaza, and all the countrey of Goshen, euen vnto Gibeon.
42. And all these Kings and their land did Ioshua take at one time: because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.
43. And Ioshua returned & al Israel with him, vnto the campe to Gilgal.
1. And it came to passe, when Iabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that hee sent to Iobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, & to the king of Achshaph,
2. And to the kings that were on the North of the mountaines, and of the plaines South of Cinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor, on the West;
3. And to the Canaanite on the East and on the West, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Iebusite in the mountaines, and to the Hiuite vnder Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
4. And they went out, they and all their hostes with them, much people, euen as the sand that is vpon the Seashore in multitude, with horses and charets very many.
5. And when all these Kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
6. And the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliuer them vp al slaine before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burne their charets with fire.
7. So Ioshua came, and all the people of warre with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fell vpon them.
8. And the Lord deliuered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them vnto great Zidon, and vnto Misrephothmaim, and vnto the valley of Mizpeh Eastward, and they smote them, vntill they left them none remayning.
9. And Ioshua did vnto them as the Lord bade him: hee houghed their horses, and burnt their charets with fire.
10. And Ioshua at that time turned backe, and tooke Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdomes.
11. And they smote all the soules that were therein with the edge of the sword, vtterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe; and he burnt Hazor with fire.
12. And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Ioshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he vtterly destroied them, as Moses the seruant of the Lord commanded.
13. But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, saue Hazor onely; that did Ioshua burne.
14. And all the spoile of these cities, and the cattell, the children of Israel tooke for a pray vnto themselues: but euery man they smote with the edge of the sword, vntill they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
15. As the Lord commanded Moses his seruant, so did Moses command Ioshua, and so did Ioshua: hee left nothing vndone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.
16. So Ioshua tooke all that land, the hilles, and all the South countrey, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plaine, and the mountaine of Israel, and the valley of the same:
17. Euen from the mount Halak, that goeth vp to Seir, vnto Baal-Gad, in the valley of Lebanon, vnder mount Hermon: and all their kings he tooke, and smote them, and slew them.
18. Ioshua made warre a long time, with all those kings.
19. There was not a citie that made peace with the children of Israel, saue the Hiuites the inhabitants of Gibeon; all other they tooke in battell.
20. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battell, that he might destroy them vtterly, & that they might haue no fauour: but that hee might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
21. And at that time came Ioshua and cut off the Anakims from the mountaines, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountaines of Iudah, and from all the mountaines of Israel: Ioshua destroyed them vtterly with their cities.
22. There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: onely in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
23. So Ioshua tooke the whole land according to all that the Lord saide vnto Moses, and Ioshua gaue it for an inheritance vnto Israel, according to their diuisions by their tribes: and the land rested from warre.
1. Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Iordan, toward the rising of the Sunne: from the riuer Arnon, vnto mount Hermon, and all the plaine on the East.
2. Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is vpon the banke of the riuer of Arnon, and from the middle of the riuer, and from halfe Gilead vnto the riuer Iabbok; which is the border of the children of Ammon:
3. And from the plaine, to the Sea of Cinneroth on the East, and vnto the sea of the plaine, euen the salt sea on the East, the way to Beth-Ieshimoth: and from the South, vnder Ashdoth-Pisgah.
4. And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the Giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth, and at Edrei,
5. And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, vnto the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites, and halfe Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6. Them did Moses the seruant of the Lord, and the children of Israel smite, and Moses the seruant of the Lord gaue it for a possession vnto the Reubenites, and Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh.
7. And these are the kings of the countrey which Ioshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Iordan on the West, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon, euen vnto the mount Halak, that goeth vp to Seir, which Ioshua gaue vnto the tribes of Israel for a possession, according to their diuisions:
8. In the mountaines and in the valleys, and in the plaines, and in the springs, and in the wildernesse, and in the South countrey: the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.
9. The king of Iericho, one: the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one:
10. The king of Ierusalem, one: the king of Hebron, one:
11. The king of Iarmuth, one: the king of Lachis, one:
12. The king of Eglon, one: the king of Gezer, one:
13. The king of Debir, one: the king of Geder, one:
14. The king of Hormah one: the king of Arad, one:
15. The king of Libnah, one: the king of Adullam, one:
16. The king of Makkedah, one: the king of Bethel, one:
17. The king of Tappuah, one: the king of Hepher, one:
18. The king of Aphek, one: the king of Lasharon, one:
19. The king of Madon, one: the king of Hazor, one:
20. The king of Shimron-Meron, one: the king of Achshaph, one:
21. The king of Taanach, one: the king of Megiddo, one:
22. The king of Kedesh, one: the king of Iokneam of Carmel, one:
23. The king of Dor, in the coast of Dor, one: the king of the nations of Gilgal, one:
24. The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirtie and one.
1. Now Ioshua was old and stricken in yeeres, and the Lord saide vnto him; Thou art old, and stricken in yeres, and there remaineth yet very much land to bee possessed.
2. This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
3. From Sihor, which is before Egypt, euen vnto the borders of Ekron Northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: fiue lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; Also the Auites.
4. From the South, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, vnto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
5. And the land of the Giblites, and al Lebanon toward the Sunne rising, from Baal-Gad vnder mount Hermon, vnto the entring into Hamath.
6. All the inhabitants of the hill countrey, from Lebanon vnto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I driue out from before the children of Israel: onely diuide thou it by lot vnto the Israelites, for an inheritance, as I haue commanded thee.
7. Now therefore, diuide this land for an inheritance vnto the nine tribes, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh,
8. With whom the Reubenites, and the Gadites haue receiued their inheritance, which Moses gaue them, beyond Iordan Eastward, euen as Moses the seruant of the Lord gaue them:
9. From Aroer that is vpon the banke of the riuer Arnon, and the citie that is in the middest of the riuer, and all the plaine of Medeba vnto Dibon:
10. And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, vnto the border of the children of Ammon:
11. And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites, and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan vnto Salcah:
12. All the kingdome of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
13. Neuerthelesse, the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwel among the Israelites vntill this day.
14. Onely vnto the tribe of Leui hee gaue none inheritance: the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire, are their inheritance, as he said vnto them.
15. And Moses gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families:
16. And their coast was from Aroer that is on the banke of the riuer Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the riuer, and all the plaine by Medeba.
17. Heshbon and all her cities that are in the plaine: Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baalmeon,
18. And Iahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
19. And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar, in the mount of the valley,
20. And Bethpeor, and Ashdoth-Pisgah, and Beth-ieshimoth:
21. And all the cities of the plaine, and all the kingdome of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Eui, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the countrey.
22. Balaam also the sonne of Beor the Sooth-sayer did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slaine by them.
23. And the border of the children of Reuben, was Iordan and the border therof: This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities, and villages thereof.
24. And Moses gaue inheritance vnto the tribe of Gad, euen vnto the children of Gad, according to their families:
25. And their coast was Iazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and halfe the land of the children of Ammon, vnto Aroer that is before Rabbah:
26. And from Heshbon vnto Ramath-Mizpeh, and Betonim: and from Mahanaim vnto the border of Debir.
27. And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon the rest of the kingdome of Sihon king of Heshbon, Iordan, and his border, euen vnto the edge of the sea of Cinneroth, on the other side Iordan Eastward.
28. This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families: the cities and their villages.
29. And Moses gaue inheritance vnto the halfe tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, by their families.
30. And their coast was fro Mahanaim all Bashan, all the kingdome of Og king of Bashan, and all the townes of Iair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
31. And halfe Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were perteining vnto the children of Machir the sonne of Manasseh, euen to the one halfe of the children of Machir by their families.
32. These are the countreyes which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plaines of Moab, on the other side Iordan by Iericho Eastward.
33. But vnto the tribe of Leui Moses gaue not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said vnto them.
1. And these are the countreys which the children of Israel inherited in the lande of Canaan, which Eleazar the Priest, & Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance to them:
2. By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hande of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the halfe tribe.
3. For Moses had giuen the inheritance of two tribes and an halfe tribe, on the other side Iordan: but vnto the Leuites hee gaue none inheritance among them.
4. For the children of Ioseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gaue no part vnto the Leuites in the land, saue cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattell, and for their substance.
5. As the Lord commaunded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they diuided the land.
6. Then the children of Iudah came vnto Ioshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite, said vnto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said vnto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee, in Kadesh Barnea.
7. Fourtie yeeres olde was I when Moses the seruant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea, to espie out the land, and I brought him worde againe, as it was in mine heart.
8. Neuerthelesse, my brethren that went vp with me, made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
9. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
10. And now beholde, the Lord hath kept me aliue, as he said, these forty and fiue yeres, euen since the Lord spake this word vnto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wildernesse: and now loe, I am this day fourescore and fiue yeeres old.
11. As yet I am as strong this day, as I was in the day that Moses sent mee: as my strength was then, euen so is my strength now, for warre, both to goe out and to come in.
12. Now therefore giue mee this mountaine, whereof the Lord spake in that day, (for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced) if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall bee able to driue them out, as the Lord said.
13. And Ioshua blessed him, and gaue vnto Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance.
14. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite vnto this day: because that hee wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
15. And the name of Hebron before, was Kiriath-Arba, which Arba was a great man among the Anakims: and the land had rest from warre.
1. This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Iudah by their families, euen to the border of Edom; the wildernesse of Zin Southward, was the vttermost part of the South coast:
2. And their South border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh Southward.
3. And it went out to the Southside to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended vp on the Southside vnto Kadesh-Barnea: and passed along to Hezron, and went vp to Adar, and fetched a compasse to Karkaa.
4. From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out vnto the riuer of Egypt, and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shalbe your South coast.
5. And the East border was the salt Sea, euen vnto the end of Iordan: and their border in the North quarter, was from the bay of the sea, at the vttermost part of Iordan.
6. And the border went vp to Bethhogla, and passed along by the North of Beth-arabah, and the border went vp to the stone of Bohan the sonne of Reuben.
7. And the border went vp toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so Northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going vp to Adummim, which is on the Southside of the riuer: and the border passed towards the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-Rogel.
8. And the border went vp by the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, vnto the South side of the Iebusite, the same is Ierusalem: and the border went vp to the top of the mountaine, that lieth before the valley of Hinnom, Westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants, Northward.
9. And the border was drawen from the top of the hill vnto the fountaine of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron, and the border was drawen to Baalah, which is Kiriath-iearim.
10. And the border compassed from Baalah Westward vnto mount Seir, and passed along vnto the side of mount Iearim, (which is Chesalon) on the North side, and went downe to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah.
11. And the border went out vnto the side of Ekron Northward: and the border was drawen to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out vnto Iabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
12. And the West border was to the great sea, and the coast therof: this is the coast of the children of Iudah round about, according to their families.
13. And vnto Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, he gaue a part among the children of Iudah, according to the comandement of the Lord to Ioshua, euen the citie of Arba the father of Anak, which citie is Hebron.
14. And Caleb droue thence the three sonnes of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
15. And he went vp thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kiriath-Sepher.
16. And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-Sepher, and taketh it, to him will I giue Achsah my daughter to wife.
17. And Othniel the sonne of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, tooke it: and hee gaue him Achsah his daughter to wife.
18. And it came to passe as shee came vnto him, that she moued him to aske of her father a field, and she lighted off her asse; and Caleb said vnto her, What wouldest thou?
19. Who answered, Giue mee a blessing; for thou hast giuen mee a Southland, giue me also springs of water; and he gaue her the vpper springs, and the nether springs.
20. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Iudah according to their families.
21. And the vttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Iudah toward the coast of Edom Southward, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Iagur,
22. And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
23. And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
24. Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
25. And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth: and Hezron, which is Hazor,
26. Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
27. And Hazar-Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet,
28. And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,
29. Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
30. And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
31. And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
32. And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twentie and nine, with their villages.
33. And in the valley, Esthaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
34. And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
35. Iarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
36. And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteene cities with their villages.
37. Zenam, and Hadashah, & Migdalgad,
38. And Dileam, and Mizpeh, and Ioktheel,
39. Lachish, and Bozkath, & Eglon,
40. And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
41. And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteene cities with their villages.
42. Lebnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
43. And Iiphta, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
44. And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
45. Ekron with her townes, and her villages.
46. From Ekron euen vnto the sea, all that lay neere Ashdod, with their villages.
47. Ashdod with her townes and her villages, Gaza with her townes and her villages, vnto the riuer of Egypt, and the great sea and the border thereof.
48. And in the mountaines, Shamir, and Iattir, and Socoh,
49. And Dannah, & Kiriath-Sannath, which is Debir,
50. And Anab, and Ashtemoh, and Anim,
51. And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleuen cities with their villages.
52. Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
53. And Ianum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
54. And Humtah, and Kiriatharba (which is Hebron) and Zior, nine cities with their villages.
55. Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Iuttah,
56. Ind Iezreel, and Iokdeam, and Zanoah,
57. Cain, Gibbeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.
58. Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
59. And Maarah, and Bethanoth, & Eltekon: six cities with their villages.
60. Kiriath-baal, which is Kiriathiearim, and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.
61. In the wildernesse, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
62. And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi: sixe cities with their villages.
63. As for the Iebusites the inhabitants of Ierusalem, the children of Iudah could not driue them out: but the Iebusites dwell with the children of Iudah at Ierusalem vnto this day.
1. And the lot of the children of Ioseph fell from Iordan by Iericho, vnto the water of Iericho on the East, to the wildernesse that goeth vp from Iericho throughout mount Bethel;
2. And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along vnto the borders of Archi, to Ataroth,
3. And goeth downe Westward, to the coast of Iaphleti, vnto the coast of Bethoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the Sea.
4. So the children of Ioseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim, tooke their inheritance.
5. And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families, was thus: euen the border of their inheritance on the East side was Ataroth-Addar, vnto Bethoron the vpper.
6. And the border went out toward the Sea, to Michmethah on the Northside, and the border went about Eastward vnto Taanath Shiloh, and passed by it on the East to Ianohah:
7. And it went downe from Ianohah to Ataroth and to Naarath, and came to Iericho, and went out at Iordane.
8. The border went out from Tappuah Westward vnto the riuer Kanah: and the goings out thereof were at the Sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
9. And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
10. And they draue not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephramites vnto this day, and serue vnder tribute.
1. There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; ( for hee was the first borne of Ioseph) to wit, for Machir the first borne of Manasseh the father of Gilead: because he was a man of warre, therefore hee had Gilead and Bashan.
2. There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh, the sonne of Ioseph by their families.
3. But Zelophehad the sonne of Hepher, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, had no sonnes but daughters: And these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
4. And they came neere before Eleazar the Priest, and before Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and before the Princes, saying, The Lord commanded Moses to giue vs an inheritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commaundement of the Lord, hee gaue them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
5. And there fel ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Iordan;
6. Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sonnes: and the rest of Manassehs sonnes had the land of Gilead.
7. And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem, and the border went along on the right hand, vnto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
8. Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
9. And the coast descended vnto the riuer Kanah, Southward of the riuer: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the North side of the riuer, and the outgoings of it were at the Sea.
10. Southward it was Ephraims, and Northward it was Manassehs, and the sea is his border, and they met together in Asher on the North, and in Issachar on the East.
11. And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Bethshean & her townes, and Ibleam and her townes, and the inhabitants of Dor and her townes, and the inhabitants of Endor and her townes, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her townes, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her townes, euen three countreyes.
12. Yet the children of Manasseh could not driue out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
13. Yet it came to passe when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute: but did not vtterly driue them out.
14. And the children of Ioseph spake vnto Ioshua, saying, Why hast thou giuen me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto?
15. And Ioshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee vp to the wood countrey, and cut downe for thy selfe there in the land of the Perizzites, and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16. And the children of Ioseph saide, The hill is not enough for vs: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the lande of the valley, haue charets of yron, both they who are of Bethshean and her townes, and they who are of the valley of Iezreel.
17. And Ioshua spake vnto the house of Ioseph, euen to Ephraim, and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: Thou shalt not haue one lot onely.
18. But the mountaine shalbe thine, for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it downe: and the outgoings of it shalbe thine: for thou shalt driue out the Canaanites, though they haue yron charets, and though they be strong.
1. And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, & set vp the Tabernacle of the Congregation there, and the land was subdued before them.
2. And there remained among the children of Israel seuen tribes, which had not yet receiued their inheritance.
3. And Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, how long are you slacke to goe to possesse the lande which the Lord God of your fathers hath giuen you?
4. Giue out from among you three men, for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, & goe through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shal come againe to me.
5. And they shall diuide it into seuen parts: Iudah shall abide in their coast on the South, and the house of Ioseph shall abide in their coasts on the North.
6. Ye shall therfore describe the land into seuen parts, and bring the description hither to me: that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
7. But the Leuites haue no part among you, for the Priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, haue receiued their inheritance beyond Iordan on the East, which Moses the seruant of the Lord gaue them.
8. And the men arose, and went away: and Ioshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Goe, and walke through the land, & describe it, and come againe to me, that I may here cast lots for you, before the Lord in Shiloh.
9. And the men went, and passed thorow the land, and described it by cities, into seuen parts in a booke, and came againe to Ioshua to the hoste at Shiloh.
10. And Ioshua cast lots for them in Shiloh, before the Lord: and there Ioshua diuided the land vnto the children of Israel according to their diuisions.
11. And the lot of the tribe of the children of Beniamin came vp according to their families: and the coast of their lot came foorth betweene the children of Iudah, and the children of Ioseph.
12. And their border on the Northside was from Iordan, and the border went vp to the side of Iericho, on the North side, and went vp through the mountaines Westward, and the goings out thereof were at the wildernesse of Beth-auen.
13. And the border went ouer from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, (which is Bethel) Southward, and the border descended to Ataroth-Adar, neere the hill that lieth on the South side of the nether Beth-horon.
14. And the border was drawen thence, and compassed the corner of the Sea Southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon Southward: and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-iearim) a city of the children of Iudah: This was the West quarter.
15. And the South quarter was from the end of Kiriath-iearim, & the border went out on the West, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah.
16. And the border came downe to the end of the mountaine, that lieth before the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the Giants on the North, and descended to the valley of Hinnom to the side of Iebusi on the South, and descended to En-Rogel,
17. And was drawen fro the North, and went foorth to Enshemesh, and went foorth toward Geliloth, which is ouer against the going vp of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the sonne of Reuben,
18. And passed along toward the side ouer against Arabah Northward, and went downe vnto Arabah.
19. And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah Northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the North bay of the salt Sea at the South end of Iordane: This was the South coast.
20. And Iordane was the border of it on the East side: this was the inheritance of the children of Beniamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
21. Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Beniamin according to their families, were Iericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
22. And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
23. And Auim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24. And Chephar-Haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba, twelue cities with their villages.
25. Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
26. And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
27. And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
28. And Zela, Eleph, and Iebusi, (which is Ierusalem) Gibeath, and Kiriath, foureteene cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Beniamin according to their families.
1. And the second lot came foorth to Simeon, euen for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Iudah.
2. And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
3. And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
4. And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
5. And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,
6. And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteene cities and their villages.
7. Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities and their villages,
8. And all the villages that were round about these cities, to Baalath-Beer, Ramath of the South: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
9. Out of the portion of the children of Iudah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Iudah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
10. And the third lot came vp for the children of Zebulun, according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was vnto Sarid.
11. And their border went vp toward the Sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the riuer that is before Iokneam,
12. And turned from Sarid Eastward, toward the Sunne rising, vnto the border of Chisloth Tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth vp to Iaphia,
13. And from thence passeth on along on the East to Gittah-Hepher, to Ittah-Kazin, and goeth out to Remmon Methoar to Neah.
14. And the border compasseth it on the North side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Iiphthah-el.
15. And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.
16. This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
17. And the fourth lot came out to Issachar for the children of Issachar according to their families.
18. And their border was toward Izreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
19. And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
20. And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
21. And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez.
22. And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimath, and Bethshemesh, and the outgoings of their border were at Iordan, sixteene cities with their villages.
23. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities, and their villages.
24. And the fift lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
25. And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
26. And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal, and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-Libnath,
27. And turneth toward the Sunne rising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of of Iiphthahel toward the Northside of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
28. And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, euen vnto great Zidon:
29. And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong citie Tyre, and the coast turneth to Hosah: and the outgoings thereof are at the Sea from the coast to Achzib.
30. Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twentie and two cities with their villages.
31. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
32. The sixt lot came out to the children of Naphtali: euen for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
33. And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Iabneel vnto Lakum: and the outgoings thereof were at Iordan.
34. And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-Tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the Southside, and reacheth to Asher on the Westside, and to Iudah vpon Iordan toward the Sun rising.
35. And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Cinnereth,
36. And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
37. And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
38. And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Bethanah, and Bethshemesh, nineteene cities with their villages.
39. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
40. And the seuenth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families:
41. And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
42. And Shaalabbin, and Aiialon, and Iethlah,
43. And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
44. And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalah,
45. And Iehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
46. And Meiarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Iapho.
47. And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went vp to fight against Leshem, and tooke it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
48. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
49. When they had made an end of diuiding the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gaue an inheritance to Ioshua the sonne of Nun among them:
50. According to the word of the Lord, they gaue him the citie which he asked, euen Timnath-Serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the citie, and dwelt therein.
51. These are the inheritances which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, diuided for an inheritance by lot, in Shiloh before the Lord, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so they made an end of diuiding the countrey.
1. The Lord also spake vnto Ioshua, saying,
2. Speake to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake vnto you by the hand of Moses:
3. That the slayer that killeth any person vnawares and vnwittingly, may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the auenger of blood.
4. And when he that doeth flee vnto one of those cities, shall stand at the entring of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the eares of the Elders of that citie; they shall take him into the citie vnto them, and giue him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5. And if the auenger of blood pursue after him, then they shal not deliuer the slayer vp into his hand: because hee smote his neighbour vnwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
6. And hee shall dwell in that citie, vntill he stand before the Congregation for iudgement, and vntill the death of the high Priest that shall bee in those dayes: then shall the slayer returne, and come vnto his owne city, and vnto his owne house, vnto the citie from whence he fled.
7. And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah.
8. And on the other side Iordan by Iericho Eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wildernesse vpon the plaine, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
9. These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that soiourneth among them, that whosoeuer killeth any person at vnawares might flee thither, & not die by the hand of the auenger of blood, vntill he stood before the Congregation.
1. Then came neere the heads of the fathers of the Leuites vnto Eleazar the Priest, and vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and vnto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.
2. And they spake vnto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commaunded by the hand of Moses, to giue vs Cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattell.
3. And the children of Israel gaue vnto the Leuites out of their inheritance at the commandement of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.
4. And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the Priest, which were of the Leuites, had by lot out of the tribe of Iudah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Beniamin, thirteene cities.
5. And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot, out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
6. And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.
7. The children of Merari by their families, had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelue cities.
8. And the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
9. And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,
10. Which the children of Aaron being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Leui, had: (for theirs was the first lot.)
11. And they gaue them the citie of Arbah the father of Anak (which citie is Hebron) in the hill countrey of Iudah, with ye suburbs thereof round about it.
12. But the fields of the citie, and the villages thereof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, for his possession.
13. Thus they gaue to the children of Aaron the Priest Hebron with her suburbs to bee a citie of refuge for the slayer, and Libnah with her suburbs,
14. And Iattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs:
15. And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs:
16. And Ain with her suburbs, and Iuttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs, nine cities out of those two tribes.
17. And out of the tribe of Beniamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
18. Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs, foure cities.
19. All the cities of the children of Aaron the Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbs.
20. And the families of the children of Kohath the Leuites, which remained of the children of Kohath, euen they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21. For they gaue them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a citie of refuge for the slayer: and Gezer with her suburbs,
22. And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs, foure cities.
23. And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibethon with her suburbs,
24. Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon, with her suburbs: foure cities.
25. And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs, two cities.
26. All the cities were ten with their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
27. And vnto the children of Gershon of the families of the Leuites, out of the other halfe tribe of Manasseh, they gaue Golan in Bashan, with her suburbs, to be a citie of refuge for the slayer: and Beeshterah with her suburbs, two cities.
28. And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,
29. Iarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs, foure cities.
30. And out of the tribe of Asher Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
31. Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs, foure cities.
32. And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a citie of refuge for the slayer, and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs, three cities.
33. All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
34. And vnto the families of the children of Merari the rest of the Leuites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Iokneam, with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
35. Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs, foure cities.
36. And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Iahazah with her suburbs,
37. Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs, foure cities.
38. And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
39. Heshbon with her suburbs, Iazer with her suburbs, foure cities in all.
40. So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remayning of the families of the Leuites, were by their lot, twelue cities.
41. All the cities of the Leuites within the possession of the children of Israel, were fourty and eight cities, with their suburbs.
42. These cities were euery one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
43. And the Lord gaue vnto Israel all the land which hee sware to giue vnto their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
44. And the Lord gaue them rest round about, according to all that he sware vnto their fathers, and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them: the Lord deliuered all their enemies into their hand.
45. There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken vnto the house of Israel: all came to passe.
1. Then Ioshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh,
2. And said vnto them, Yee haue kept all that Moses the seruant of the Lord commanded you, and haue obeyed my voyce in all that I commanded you.
3. Yee haue not left your brethren these many dayes vnto this day, but haue kept the charge of the commandement of the Lord your God.
4. And now the Lord your God hath giuen rest vnto your brethren, as hee promised them: therefore now returne yee, and get yee vnto your tents, and vnto the land of your possession, which Moses the seruant of the Lord gaue you on the other side Iordane.
5. But take diligent heed, to doe the Commandement and the Law, which Moses the seruant of the Lord charged you, to loue the Lord your God, and to walke in all his wayes, and to keepe his Commaundements, and to cleaue vnto him, and to serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule.
6. So Ioshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went vnto their tents.
7. Now to the one halfe of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had giuen possession in Bashan: but vnto the other halfe therof gaue Ioshua among their brethren on this side Iordane Westward. And when Ioshua sent them away also vnto their tents, then hee blessed them,
8. And he spake vnto them, saying; Returne with much riches vnto your tents, and with very much cattell, with siluer and with gold, and with brasse, and with iron, and with very much raiment: Diuide the spoile of your enemies with your brethren.
9. And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to goe vnto the countrey of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
10. And when they came vnto the borders of Iordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Iordan, a great altar to see to.
11. And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh, haue built an altar ouer against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Iordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
12. And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole Congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselues together at Shiloh, to goe vp to warre against them.
13. And the children of Israel sent vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh into the lande of Gilead, Phinehas son of Eleazar the Priest,
14. And with him ten princes, of ech chiefe house a prince, throughout all the tribes of Israel, and each one was an head of the house of their fathers, among the thousands of Israel.
15. And they came vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh vnto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
16. Thus saith the whole Congregation of the Lord, What trespasse is this that ye haue committed against the God of Israel, to turne away this day from following the Lord, in that ye haue builded you an altar, that yee might rebell this day against the Lord ? 
17. Is the iniquitie of Peor too litle for vs, from which we are not cleansed vntil this day, (although there was a plague in the Congregation of the Lord )
18. But that ye must turne away this day from following the Lord ? And it will be, seeing yee rebell to day against the Lord, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole Congregation of Israel.
19. Notwithstanding, if the lande of your possession be vncleane, then passe yee ouer vnto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lords Tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among vs: but rebell not against the Lord, nor rebell against vs, in building you an altar, beside the Altar of the Lord our God.
20. Did not Achan the sonne of Zerah commit a trespasse in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the Congregation of Israel? And that man perished not alone in his iniquitie.
21. Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh, answered and saide vnto the heads of the thousands of Israel,
22. The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, hee knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it bee in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (saue vs not this day,)
23. That wee haue built vs an altar to turne from following the Lord, or if to offer thereon burnt offering, or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himselfe require it;
24. And if we haue not rather done it for feare of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speake vnto our children, saying, What haue you to doe with the Lord God of Israel?
25. For the Lord hath made Iordan a border betweene vs and you, yee children of Reuben, and children of Gad, yee haue no part in the Lord: so shal your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord:
26. Therefore we said, Let vs now prepare to build vs an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,
27. But that it may bee a witnesse betweene vs and you, and our generations after vs, that we might do the seruice of the Lord before him with our burnt offrings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings, that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye haue no part in the Lord.
28. Therefore said we, that it shalbe, when they should so say to vs, or to our generations in time to come, that wee may say againe, Beholde the paterne of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offrings, nor for sacrifices, but it is a witnes betweene vs and you.
29. God forbid that we should rebell against the Lord, and turne this day from following the Lord, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meate offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the Altar of the Lord our God that is before his Tabernacle.
30. And when Phinehas the Priest and the Princes of the Congregation, and Heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them. 
31. And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest said vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceiue that the Lord is among vs, because ye haue not committed this trespasse against the Lord: now ye haue deliuered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.
32. And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest, and the Princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, vnto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, & brought them word againe.
33. And the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to goe vp against them in battel, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
34. And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall bee a witnesse betweene vs, that the Lord is God.
1. And it came to passe, a long time after that the Lord had giuen rest vnto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Ioshua waxed old, and stricken in age.
2. And Ioshua called for all Israel, and for their Elders, & for their Heads, and for their Iudges, and for their Officers, and said vnto them; I am old, and stricken in age.
3. And yee haue seene all that the Lord your God hath done vnto all these nations, because of you; for the Lord your God is hee that hath fought for you.
4. Behold, I haue diuided vnto you by lot these nations that remaine, to bee an inheritance for your tribes, from Iordan, with all the nations that I haue cut off, euen vnto the great Sea Westward.
5. And the Lord your God, hee shall expell them from before you, and driue them from out of your sight, & ye shall possesse their land, as the Lord your God hath promised vnto you.
6. Be ye therefore very courageous to keepe and to doe all that is written in the booke of the Law of Moses, that yee turne not aside therefrom, to the right hand, or to the left,
7. That yee come not among these nations, these that remaine amongst you, neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to sweare by them, neither serue them, nor bow your selues vnto them.
8. But cleaue vnto the Lord your God, as yee haue done vnto this day.
9. For the Lord hath driuen out from before you, great nations, and strong: But as for you, no man hath beene able to stand before you vnto this day.
10. One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as hee hath promised you.
11. Take good heed therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
12. Else, if ye do in any wise go backe, and cleaue vnto the remnant of these nations, euen these that remaine among you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe in vnto them, and they to you:
13. Know for a certainety, that the Lord your God will no more driue out any of these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and traps vnto you, and scourges in your sides, and thornes in your eyes, vntill yee perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath giuen you.
14. And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth, and ye know in all your hearts, and in all your soules, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to passe vnto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
15. Therefore it shall come to passe, that as all good things are come vpon you, which the Lord your God promised you: so shall the Lord bring vpon you all euill things, vntill he haue destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath giuen you.
16. When yee haue transgressed the Couenant of the Lord your God, which hee commaunded you, and haue gone and serued other gods, and bowed your selues to them: then shall the anger of the Lord bee kindled against you, and yee shall perish quickly from off the good land which hee hath giuen vnto you.
1. And Ioshua gathered all the Tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the Elders of Israel, and for their Heads, and for their Iudges, and for their Officers, and they presented themselues before God.
2. And Ioshua said vnto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, euen Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they serued other gods.
3. And I tooke your father Abraham fro the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gaue him Isaac.
4. And I gaue vnto Isaac, Iacob and Esau: & I gaue vnto Esau mount Seir, to possesse it: but Iacob and his children went downe into Egypt.
5. I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did amongst them: and afterward, I brought you out.
6. And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came vnto the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with charets and horsemen vnto the red sea.
7. And when they cried vnto the Lord, hee put darkenesse betweene you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea vpon them, and couered them, and your eyes haue seene what I haue done in Egypt, and ye dwelt in the wildernes a long season.
8. And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Iordan: and they fought with you, and I gaue them into your hand, that ye might possesse their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
9. Then Balak the sonne of Zippor king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the sonne of Beor to curse you:
10. But I would not hearken vnto Balaam, therefore he blessed you still: so I deliuered you out of his hand.
11. And ye went ouer Iordan, and came vnto Iericho: and the men of Iericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, & the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, and I deliuered them into your hand.
12. And I sent the hornet before you, which draue them out from before you, euen the two kings of the Amorites: but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
13. And I haue giuen you a land for which ye did not labour, & cities which ye built not, and yee dwell in them: of the vineyards and Oliue-yards which ye planted not, doe ye eate.
14. Now therefore, feare the Lord, and serue him in sinceritie, and in trueth, and put away the gods which your fathers serued on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt: and serue yee the Lord.
15. And if it seeme euill vnto you to serue the Lord, choose you this day whome you will serue, whether the gods which your fathers serued that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose lande ye dwell: but as for mee and my house, we will serue the Lord.
16. And the people answered and said, God forbid that wee should forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.
17. For the Lord our God, he it is that brought vs vp and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, & which did those great signes in our sight, and preserued vs in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed.
18. And the Lord draue out from before vs all the people, euen the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serue the Lord, for he is our God.
19. And Ioshua said vnto the people, Ye cannot serue the Lord: for hee is an holy God: he is a ielous God, he will not forgiue your transgressions nor your sinnes.
20. If yee forsake the Lord, and serue strange gods, then he will turne, and doe you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
21. And the people said vnto Ioshua, Nay, but we will serue the Lord.
22. And Ioshua said vnto the people, Yee are witnesses against your selues, that yee haue chosen you the Lord, to serue him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23. Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and encline your heart vnto the Lord God of Israel.
24. And the people saide vnto Ioshua; The Lord our God will we serue, and his voice will we obey.
25. So Ioshua made a couenant with the people that day, and set them a Statute, & an Ordinance in Shechem.
26. And Ioshua wrote these words in the booke of the Law of God, and tooke a great stone, and set it vp there, vnder an oake, that was by the Sanctuary of the Lord.
27. And Ioshua saide vnto all the people, Behold, this stone shalbe a witnesse vnto vs; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which hee spake vnto vs; it shall be there for a witnesse vnto you, lest ye deny your God.
28. So Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance.
29. And it came to passe after these things, that Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of the Lord died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old.
30. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the North side of the hill of Gaash.
31. And Israel serued the Lord all the dayes of Ioshua, & all the dayes of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua, and which had knowen al the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.
32. And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought vp out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcell of ground which Iacob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundred pieces of siluer; and it became the inheritance of the children of Ioseph.
33. And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.



1. Now after the death of Ioshua, it came to passe, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shal goe vp for vs against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
2. And the Lord sayd, Iudah shall goe vp: Behold, I haue deliuered the land into his hand.
3. And Iudah saide vnto Simeon his brother, Come vp with me into my lot, that wee may fight against the Canaanites, and I likewise will goe with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
4. And Iudah went vp, and the Lord deliuered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
5. And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.
6. But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbes, and his great toes.
7. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore & ten kings, hauing their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meate vnder my table: as I haue done, so God hath requited mee, and they brought him to Ierusalem, and there he died.
8. (Now the children of Iudah had fought against Ierusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the citie on fire)
9. And afterward the children of Iudah went downe to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the moutaine, & in the South, and in the valley.
10. And Iudah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron (nowe the name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
11. And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir, (& the name of Debir before was Kiriath-sepher)
12. And Caleb said, Hee that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I giue Achsah my daughter to wife.
13. And Othniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother tooke it: and he gaue him Achsah his daughter to wife.
14. And it came to passe when shee came to him, that she moued him to aske of her father a field: and shee lighted from off her asse, and Caleb said vnto her, What wilt thou?
15. And she said vnto him, Giue me a blessing: for thou hast giuen mee a South land, giue me also springs of water. And Caleb gaue her the vpper springs, and the nether springs.
16. And the children of the Kenite, Moses father in law, went vp out of the citie of palme trees, with the children of Iudah into the wildernesse of Iudah, which lieth in the South of Arad, and they went and dwelt among the people.
17. And Iudah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and vtterly destroyed it, (and the name of the citie was called Hormah.)
18. Also Iudah tooke Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
19. And the Lord was with Iudah, and hee draue out the inhabitants of the mountaine, but could not driue out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had charets of yron.
20. And they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, as Moses saide: and hee expelled thence the three sonnes of Anak.
21. And the children of Beniamin did not driue out the Iebusites that inhabited Ierusalem: but the Iebusites dwel with the children of Beniamin in Ierusalem, vnto this day.
22. And the house of Ioseph, they also went vp against Bethel: and the Lord was with them.
23. And the house of Ioseph sent to descrie Bethel (now the name of the citie before was Luz)
24. And the spies sawe a man come forth out of the citie, and they said vnto him, Shew vs, wee pray thee, the entrance into the citie, and we will shew thee mercie.
25. And when hee shewed them the entrance into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sword: but they let goe the man and all his familie.
26. And the man went into the lande of the Hittites, and built a citie, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof vnto this day.
27. Neither did Manasseh driue out the inhabitants of Bethshean, and her townes, nor Taanach and her townes, nor the inhabitants of Dor, and her townes, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam, and her townes, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo, and her townes: but the Canaanites would dwel in that land.
28. And it came to passe when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not vtterly driue them out.
29. Neither did Ephraim driue out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
30. Neither did Zebulun driue out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol: but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
31. Neither did Asher driue out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor Achzib, nor Helbath, nor Aphik, nor of Rehob:
32. But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not driue them out.
33. Neither did Naphtali driue out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath, but hee dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: neuerthelesse, the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, and of Bethanath, became tributaries vnto them.
34. And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountaine: for they would not suffer them to come downe to the valley.
35. But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aiialon, & in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Ioseph preuailed, so that they became tributaries.
36. And the coast of the Amorites was from the going vp to Akrabbim, from the rocke, and vpward.
1. And an Angel of the Lord came vp from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to goe vp out of Egypt, and haue brought you vnto the land which I sware vnto your fathers, and I said, I will neuer breake my Couenant with you.
2. And yee shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land, you shal throw downe their altars: But ye haue not obeyed my voyce; Why haue ye done this?
3. Wherefore I also said, I will not driue them out from before you: but they shalbe as thornes in your sides, and their gods shalbe a snare vnto you.
4. And it came to passe when the Angel of the Lord spake these words vnto all the children of Israel, that the people lift vp their voice, and wept.
5. And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there vnto the Lord.
6. And when Ioshua had let the people goe, the children of Israel went euery man vnto his inheritance, to possesse the land.
7. And the people serued the Lord all the dayes of Ioshua, and all the dayes of the Elders that outliued Ioshua, who had seene all the great workes of the Lord, that hee did for Israel.
8. And Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruant of the Lord died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old.
9. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the North side of the hill Gaash.
10. And also all that generation were gathered vnto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the woorkes which hee had done for Israel.
11. And the children of Israel did euil in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim:
12. And they forsooke 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 themselues vnto them, and prouoked the Lord to anger.
13. And they forsooke the Lord, and serued Baal and Ashtaroth.
14. And the anger of the Lord was hote against Israel, and he deliuered 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.
15. Whither soeuer they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for euill, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworne vnto them: and they were greatly distressed.
16. Neuerthelesse, the Lord raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hand of those that spoyled them.
17. And yet they would not hearken vnto their Iudges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselues vnto them: they turned quickly out of the way, which their fathers walked in, obeying the Commandements of the Lord; but they did not so.
18. And when the Lord raised them vp Iudges, then the Lord was with the Iudge, and deliuered them out of the hand of their enemies, all the dayes of the Iudge (for it repented the Lord, because of their gronings by reason of them that oppressed them, and vexed them:)
19. And it came to passe when the Iudge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselues more then their fathers, in following other gods, to serue them, and to bow downe vnto them: they ceased not from their owne doings, nor from their stubborne way.
20. And the anger of the Lord was hote against Israel, and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my Couenant which I commanded their fathers, and haue not hearkened vnto my voice:
21. I also will not henceforth driue out any from before them of the nations which Ioshua left when he died:
22. That through them I may proue Israel, whether they will keepe the way of the Lord, to walke therein, as their fathers did keepe it, or not.
23. Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driuing them out hastily, neither deliuered he them into the hand of Ioshua.
1. Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prooue Israel by them, (euen as many of Israel as had not knowen all the warres of Canaan;
2. Onely that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them warre, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof:)
3. Namely fiue lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hiuites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-Hermon, vnto the entring in of Hamath.
4. And they were to prooue Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken vnto the Commandements of the Lord, which hee commaunded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5. And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hiuites, and Iebusites,
6. And they tooke their daughters to be their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.
7. And the children of Israel did euill in the sight of the Lord, and forgate the Lord their God, and serued Baalim, and the groues.
8. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hote against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel serued Chushan-Rishathaim eight yeeres.
9. And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lord, the Lord raised vp a deliuerer to the children of Israel, who deliuered them, euen Othniel the sonne of Kenaz, Calebs yonger brother.
10. And the Spirit of the Lord came vpon him, and he iudged Israel, and went out to warre, & the Lord deliuered Chushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand preuailed against Chushan-Rishathaim.
11. And the land had rest forty yeres: and Othniel the sonne of Kenaz died.
12. And the children of Israel did euill againe in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done euill in the sight of the Lord.
13. And hee gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of Palme-trees.
14. So the children of Israel serued Eglon the King of Moab eighteene yeeres.
15. But when the children of Israel cried vnto the Lord, the Lord raised them vp a deliuerer, Ehud the sonne of Gera, a Beniamite, a man left handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a Present vnto Eglon the king of Moab.
16. But Ehud made him a dagger (which had two edges) of a cubite length, and he did gird it vnder his raiment, vpon his right thigh,
17. And he brought the present vnto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
18. And when he had made an end to offer the Present, he sent away the people that bare the Present.
19. But hee himselfe turned againe from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I haue a secret errand vnto thee, O king: who said, Keepe silence. And all that stood by him, went out from him.
20. And Ehud came vnto him, and he was sitting in a Summer parlour, which hee had for himselfe alone: And Ehud said, I haue a message from God vnto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
21. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and tooke the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
22. And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.
23. Then Ehud went forth through the porche, and shut the doores of the parlour vpon him, and locked them.
24. When he was gone out, his seruants came, and when they saw, that behold, the doores of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he couereth his feet in his Summer chamber.
25. And they taried till they were ashamed: and behold, he opened not the doores of the parlour, therefore they tooke a key, and opened them: and behold, their lord was fallen downe dead on the earth.
26. And Ehud escaped while they taried: and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped vnto Seirath.
27. And it came to passe when hee was come, that hee blew a trumpet in the mountaine of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went downe with him from the mount, & he before them.
28. And hee said vnto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath deliuered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went downe after him, and tooke the foords of Iordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to passe ouer.
29. And they slewe of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour, and there escaped not a man.
30. So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hand of Israel: and the land had rest fourescore yeeres.
31. And after him was Shamgar the sonne of Anath, which slew of the Philistines sixe hundred men with an oxe goad, and he also deliuered Israel.
1. And the children of Israel againe did euil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
2. And the Lord sold them into the hande of Iabin king of Canaan: that reigned in Hazor, the captaine of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3. And the children of Israel cried vnto the Lord: for he had nine hundred charets of yron: and twentie yeres hee mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4. And Deborah a prophetesse, the wife of Lapidoth, shee iudged Israel at that time.
5. And shee dwelt vnder the palme tree of Deborah, betweene Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came vp to her for iudgement.
6. And shee sent and called Barak the sonne of Abinoam, out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and said vnto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commaunded, saying, Goe, and drawe toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun?
7. And I wil draw vnto thee to the riuer Kishon, Sisera the captaine of Iabins army, with his charets, and his multitude, and I will deliuer him into thine hand.
8. And Barak said vnto her, If thou wilt goe with me, then I wil goe: but if thou wilt not goe with mee, then I will not goe.
9. And she said, I wil surely go with thee, notwithstanding the iourney that thou takest, shal not be for thine honor: for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, & went with Barak to Kedesh.
10. And Barak called Zebulun, and Naphtali to Kedesh, and he went vp with ten thousand men at his feete: and Deborah went vp with him.
11. Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had seuered himselfe from the Kenites, and pitched his tent vnto the plaine of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
12. And they shewed Sisera, that Barak the sonne of Abinoam was gone vp to mount Tabor.
13. And Sisera gathered together all his charets, euen nine hundred charets of iron, and al the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, vnto the riuer of Kishon.
14. And Deborah said vnto Barak, Up, for this is the day in which the Lord hath deliuered Sisera into thine hand: Is not the Lord gone out before thee? so Barak went downe from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15. And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his charets, and all his hoste with the edge of the sword, before Barak: so that Sisera lighted downe off his charet, and fled away on his feet.
16. But Barak pursued after the charets, and after the hoste vnto Harosheth of the Gentiles, and all the host of Sisera fell vpon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
17. Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet, to the tent of Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace betweene Iabin the king of Hazor, and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18. And Iael went out to meete Sisera, and said vnto him, Turne in, my lord, turne in to me, feare not. And when hee had turned in vnto her, into the tent, shee couered him with a mantle.
19. And he said vnto her, Giue me, I pray thee, a litle water to drinke, for I am thirstie. And she opened a bottle of milke, and gaue him drinke, and couered him.
20. Againe he said vnto her, Stand in the doore of the tent, and it shall bee when any man doeth come and enquire of thee and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21. Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.
22. And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Iael came out to meet him, and said vnto 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 naile was in his temples.
23. So God subdued on that day, Iabin the king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.
24. And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, & preuailed against Iabin the king of Canaan, vntill they had destroyed Iabin king of Canaan.
1. Then sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,
2. Praise ye the Lord, for the auenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselues.
3. Heare, O ye kings, giue eare, O ye Princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord, I wil sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
4. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5. The mountaines melted from before the Lord, euen that Sinai, from before the Lord God of Israel.
6. In the dayes of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the dayes of Iael, the high wayes were vnoccupied, and the traueilers walked thorow by-wayes.
7. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, vntill that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
8. They chose new gods; then was warre in the gates: was there a shield or speare seene among fourtie thousand in Israel?
9. My heart is toward the gouernours of Israel, that offered themselues willingly among the people: Blesse ye the Lord.
10. Speake yee that ride on white asses, yee that sit in Iudgement, and walke by the way.
11. They that are deliuered from the noise of Archers in the places of drawing water; there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, euen the righteous acts towards the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord goe downe to the gates.
12. Awake, awake Deborah: awake, awake, vtter a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam.
13. Then hee made him that remaineth, haue dominion ouer the Nobles among the people: the Lord made me haue dominion ouer the mightie.
14. Out of Ephraim was there a roote of them against Amalek, after thee Beniamin, among thy people: Out of Machir came downe gouernours, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
15. And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah: euen Issachar, and also Barak, he was sent on foot into the valley: for the diuisions of Reuben, there were great thoughts of heart.
16. Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flocks? for the diuisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17. Gilead abode beyond Iordan: and why did Dan remaine in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18. Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that ieoparded their liues vnto the death, in the high places of the field.
19. The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they tooke no gaine of money.
20. They fought from heauen, the starres in their courses fought against Sisera.
21. The riuer of Kishon swept them away, that ancient riuer, the riuer Kishon: O my soule, thou hast troden downe strength.
22. Then were the horse hoofes broken, by the meanes of the pransings, the pransings of their mightie ones.
23. Curse ye Meroz (said the Angel of the Lord ) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because they came not to the helpe of the Lord, to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty.
24. Blessed aboue women shal Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be aboue women in the tent.
25. He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought foorth butter in a lordly dish.
26. Shee put her hand to the naile, and her right hand to the workemens hammer: and with the hammer shee smote Sisera, shee smote off his head, when she had pearsed & striken through his temples.
27. At her feete he bowed, he fell, he lay downe: at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fel down dead.
28. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattesse, Why is his charet so long in comming? Why tarie the wheeles of his charets?
29. Her wise ladies answered her, yea she returned answere to her selfe,
30. Haue they not sped? haue they not diuided the pray to euery man a damosell or two? To Sisera a pray of diuers colours, a pray of diuers colours, of needle worke, of diuers colours of needle worke on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoile?
31. So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that loue him, be as the Sunne when he goeth foorth in his might. And the land had rest fourtie yeeres.
1. And the children of Israel did euill in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord deliuered them into the hande of Midian seuen yeeres.
2. And the hand of Midian preuailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made them the dennes which are in the mountaines, and caues, & strong holds.
3. And so it was when Israel had sowen, that the Midianites came vp, & the Amalekites, & the children of the East, euen they came vp against them,
4. And they encamped against them, and destroyed the encrease of the earth, till thou come vnto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheepe, nor oxe, nor asse.
5. For they came vp with their cattell and their tents, and they came as Grashoppers for multitude, for both they and their camels were without number: and they entred into the land to destroy it.
6. And Israel was greatly impouerished, because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lord.
7. And it came to passe when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lord, because of the Midianites,
8. That the Lord sent a Prophet vnto the children of Israel, which said vnto them; Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought you vp from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage,
9. And I deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of al that oppressed you, and draue them out from before you, and gaue you their land:
10. And I said vnto you, I am the Lord your God, feare not the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwel: But ye haue not obeyed my voice.
11. And there came an Angel of the Lord, and sate vnder an Oake which was in Ophrah, that pertained vnto Ioash the Abi-Ezrite: and his sonne Gideon threshed wheat by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites.
12. And the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him, and said vnto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mightie man of valour.
13. And Gideon said vnto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord bee with vs, why then is all this befallen vs? and where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, saying, Did not the Lord bring vs vp from Egypt? But now the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the hands of the Midianites.
14. And the Lord looked vpon him, and said, Goe in this thy might, and thou shalt saue Israel from the hand of the Midianites: haue not I sent thee?
15. And hee said vnto him, Oh my lord, wherewith shall I saue Israel? Behold, my family is poore in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house.
16. And the Lord said vnto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.
17. And he said vnto him, If now I haue found grace in thy sight, then shew me a signe, that thou talkest with me.
18. Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring forth my Present, and set it before thee. And hee saide, I will tary vntill thou come againe.
19. And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and vnleauened cakes of an Ephah of floure: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out vnto him vnder the oake, and presented it.
20. And the Angel of God sayd vnto him, Take the flesh, and the vnleauened cakes, and lay them vpon this rocke, and powre out the broth. And he did so.
21. Then the Angel of the Lord put foorth the end of the staffe that was in his hand, and touched the flesh, and the vnleauened cakes, and there rose vp fire out of the rocke, and consumed the flesh and the vnleauened cakes: then the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
22. And when Gideon perceiued that hee was an Angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God: for because I haue seene an Angel of the Lord face to face.
23. And the Lord said vnto him, Peace be vnto thee, feare not, thou shalt not die.
24. Then Gideon built an Altar there vnto the Lord, and called it Iehouah shalom: vnto this day it is yet in Ophrah, of the Abi-Ezrites.
25. And it came to passe the same night, that the Lord said vnto him, Take thy fathers yong bullocke, euen the second bullocke of seuen yeeres old, and throw downe the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut downe the groue that is by it:
26. And builde an Altar vnto the Lord thy God vpon the top of this rocke, in the ordered place, and take the second bullocke, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the groue, which thou shalt cut downe.
27. Then Gideon tooke ten men of his seruants, and did as the Lord had said vnto him: And so it was because hee feared his fathers houshold, and the men of the city, that he could not doe it by day, that hee did it by night.
28. And when the men of the citie arose earely in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast downe, and the groue was cut downe that was by it, and the second bullocke was offered vpon the altar that was built.
29. And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the sonne of Ioash hath done this thing.
30. Then the men of the citie said vnto Ioash, Bring out thy sonne, that he may die: because he hath cast downe the altar of Baal, and because hee hath cut downe the groue that was by it.
31. And Ioash said vnto all that stood against him, Will ye pleade for Baal? will ye saue him? He that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilest it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himselfe, because one hath cast down his altar.
32. Therefore on that day hee called him Ierubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because hee hath throwen downe his altar.
33. Then all the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the children of the East were gathered together, and went ouer, and pitched in the valley of Iezreel.
34. But the Spirit of the Lord came vpon Gideon, and hee blewe a trumpet, and Abiezer was gathered after him.
35. And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also was gathered after him, and hee sent messengers vnto Asher, and vnto Zebulun, and vnto Naphtali, and they came vp to meete them.
36. And Gideon said vnto God, If thou wilt saue Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
37. Beholde, I will put a fleece of wooll in the floore: and if the deaw be on the fleece onely, and it bee drie vpon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt saue Israel by my hande, as thou hast said.
38. And it was so: for he rose vp early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the deaw out of the fleece, a bowle full of water.
39. And Gideon said vnto God, Let not thine anger be hote against me, and I will speake but this once: Let mee prooue, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Let it now be drie onely vpon the fleece, and vpon all the ground let there be deaw.
40. And God did so that night: for it was drie vpon the fleece onely, and there was deaw on all the ground.
1. Then Ierubbaal (who is Gideon) and all the people that were with him, rose vp earely, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the hoste of the Midianites were on the North side of them by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2. And the Lord said vnto Gideon, The people that are with thee, are too many for me to giue the Midianites into their handes, lest Israel vaunt themselues against mee, saying, Mine owne hand hath saued me.
3. Now therefore go to, proclaime in the eares of the people, saying, Whosoeuer is fearefull and afraid, let him returne and depart earely from mount Gilead: and there returned of the people twentie and two thousand, & there remained ten thousand.
4. And the Lord said vnto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them downe vnto the water, and I wil trie them for thee there: and it shall bee that of whome I say vnto thee, This shall goe with thee, the same shall goe with thee: and of whomsoeuer I say vnto thee, This shal not goe with thee, the same shall not goe.
5. So he brought downe the people vnto the water: and the Lord sayd vnto Gideon, Euery one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himselfe, likewise euery one that boweth downe vpon his knees to drinke.
6. And the number of them that lapped putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed downe vpon their knees to drinke water.
7. And the Lord said vnto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped, will I saue you, and deliuer the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people goe euery man vnto his place.
8. So the people tooke victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and reteined those three hundred men: and the hoste of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9. And it came to passe the same night, that the Lord sayd vnto him, Arise, get thee downe vnto the hoste, for I haue deliuered it into thine hand.
10. But if thou feare to goe downe, goe thou with Phurah thy seruant downe to the hoste.
11. And thou shalt heare what they say, and afterward shall thine handes be strengthened to goe downe vnto the hoste. Then went hee downe, with Phurah his seruant, vnto the outside of the armed men, that were in the hoste.
12. And the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and all the children of the East, lay along in the valley like grashoppers for multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the Sea side for multitude.
13. And when Gideon was come, beholde, there was a man that tolde a dreame vnto his fellow, and sayd, Behold, I dreamed a dreame, and loe, a cake of Barley bread tumbled into the hoste of Midian, and came vnto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and ouerturned it, that the tent lay along.
14. And his fellow answered, and said, This is nothing els saue the sword of Gideon the sonne of Ioash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God deliuered Midian, and all the hoste.
15. And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dreame, and the interpretation thereof, that hee worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and sayd, Arise, for the Lord hath deliuered into your hand the host of Midian.
16. And he diuided the three hundred men into three companies, and hee put a trumpet in euery mans hand, with empty pitchers, and lampes within the pitchers,
17. And hee said vnto them, Looke on mee, and doe likewise; and beholde, when I come to the outside of the campe, it shall be that as I doe, so shall ye doe.
18. When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with mee, then blow ye the trumpets also on euery side of all the campe, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
19. So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him, came vnto the outside of the campe, in the beginning of the middle watch, and they had but newly set the watch, and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lampes in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withall: and they cryed, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
21. And they stood euery man in his place, round about the campe: and all the host ranne, and cried, and fled.
22. And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set euery mans sword against his fellow, euen throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah, in Zererath, and to the border of Abel Meholah, vnto Tabbath.
23. And the men of Israel gathered themselues together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
24. And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying; Come downe against the Midianites, and take before them the waters vnto Beth-barah, and Iordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselues together, and tooke the waters vnto Beth-barah, and Iordane.
25. And they tooke two Princes of the Midianites, Oreb, and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb vpon the rocke Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepresse of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb, to Gideon on the other side Iordan.
1. And the men of Ephraim said vnto him, Why hast thou serued vs thus, that thou calledst vs not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharpely.
2. And he said vnto them, What haue I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer?
3. God hath deliuered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to doe in comparison of you? then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
4. And Gideon came to Iordan, and passed ouer, hee, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
5. And he said vnto the men of Succoth, Giue, I pray you, loaues of bread vnto the people that follow me, for they bee faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6. And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hands, that wee should giue bread vnto thine armie?
7. And Gideon said, Therfore when the Lord hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I wil teare your flesh with the thornes of the wildernesse, and with briers.
8. And he went vp thence to Penuel, and spake vnto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth had answered him.
9. And he spake also vnto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come againe in peace, I will breake downe this towre.
10. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hostes with them, about fifteene thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the East: for there fell an hundred and twentie thousand men that drew sword.
11. And Gideon went vp by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the East of Nobah, and Iogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
12. And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah, and Zalmunna, & discomfited all the host.
13. And Gideon the sonne of Ioash returned from battel before the Sunne was vp,
14. And caught a yong man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described vnto him the princes of Succoth and the elders thereof, euen threescore and seuenteene men.
15. And he came vnto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did vpbraid me, saying, Are the handes of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should giue bread vnto thy men that are wearie?
16. And hee tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes, and briers, and with them hee taught the men of Succoth.
17. And he beat downe the towre of Penuel, and slew the men of the citie.
18. Then said he vnto Zebah and Zalmunna, What maner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they, ech one resembled the children of a king.
19. And hee said, They were my brethren, euen the sonnes of my mother: as the Lord liueth, if yee had saued them aliue, I would not slay you.
20. And he said vnto Iether his first borne, Up, and slay them: but the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
21. Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall vpon vs: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slewe Zebah and Zalmunna, & tooke away the ornaments that were on their camels neckes.
22. Then the men of Israel saide vnto Gideon, Rule thou ouer vs, both thou, and thy sonne, & thy sonnes sonne also: for thou hast deliuered vs from the hand of Midian.
23. And Gideon said vnto them, I will not rule ouer you, neither shall my sonne rule ouer you: the Lord shall rule ouer you.
24. And Gideon said vnto them, I would desire a request of you, that you would giue me euery man the earerings of his pray. For they had golden eare-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.
25. And they answered, We will willingly giue them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein, euery man the earerings of his pray.
26. And the weight of the golden eare-rings that hee requested, was a thousand and seuen hundred shekels of gold, beside ornaments, and collars, & purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chaines that were about their camels necks.
27. And Gideon made an Ephod thereof, and put it in his citie, euen in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it; which thing became a snare vnto Gideon, and to his house.
28. Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel; so that they lifted vp their heads no more: and the countrey was in quietnesse fourtie yeeres, in the dayes of Gideon.
29. And Ierubbaal the sonne of Ioash went & dwelt in his owne house.
30. And Gideon had threescore and ten sonnes of his body begotten: for he had many wiues.
31. And his concubine that was in Shechem, shee also bare him a sonne, whose name he called Abimelech.
32. And Gideon the sonne of Ioash died, in a good olde age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Ioash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrites.
33. And it came to passe as soone as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned againe, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-Berith their god.
34. And the children of Israel remembred not the Lord their God, who had deliuered them out of the hands of all their enemies, on euery side:
35. Neither shewed they kindnesse to the house of Ierubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodnesse which he had shewed vnto Israel.
1. And Abimelech the sonne of Ierubbaal went to Shechem, vnto his mothers brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mothers father, saying;
2. Speake, I pray you, in the eares of all the men of Shechem; Whether is better for you, either that all the sonnes of Ierubbaal (which are threescore and ten persons) reigne ouer you, or that one reigne ouer you? Remember also, that I am your bone, and your flesh.
3. And his mothers brethren spake of him in the eares of all the men of Shechem, all these wordes, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech: for they said, He is our brother.
4. And they gaue him threescore and ten pieces of siluer, out of the house of Baal-Berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vaine & light persons, which followed him.
5. And hee went vnto his fathers house at Ophrah, and slewe his brethren the sonnes of Ierubbaal, being threescore and tenne persons, vpon one stone: notwithstanding, yet Iotham the youngest sonne of Ierubbaal was left; for he hid himselfe.
6. And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech King, by the plaine of the pillar that was in Shechem.
7. And when they told it to Iotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lift vp his voice, and cried, and said vnto them, Hearken vnto mee, you men of Shechem, that God may hearken vnto you.
8. The trees went foorth on a time to annoint a King ouer them, and they said vnto the Oliue tree, Reigne thou ouer vs.
9. But the Oliue tree saide vnto them, Should I leaue my fatnesse, wherewith by mee they honour God and man, and goe to bee promoted ouer the trees?
10. And the trees said to the Figge tree, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.
11. But the Figge tree saide vnto them, Should I forsake my sweetenesse, and my good fruit, and goe to be promoted ouer the trees?
12. Then saide the trees vnto the Uine, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.
13. And the Uine said vnto them, Should I leaue my wine, which cheareth God and man, and goe to bee promoted ouer the trees?
14. Then said all the trees vnto the Bramble, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.
15. And the Bramble said vnto the trees, If in trueth ye anoint me King ouer you, then come, and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the Bramble, and deuoure the Cedars of Lebanon.
16. Now therefore, if yee haue done truely and sincerely, in that yee haue made Abimelech King, and if yee haue dealt well with Ierubbaal, and his house, and haue done vnto him according to the deseruing of his hands:
17. (For my father fought for you, and aduentured his life farre, and deliuered you out of the hand of Midian:
18. And yee are risen vp against my fathers house this day, and haue slaine his sonnes, threescore aud ten persons, vpon one stone, and haue made Abimelech the sonne of his maidseruant, king ouer the men of Shechem, because he is your brother.)
19. If yee then haue dealt truely and sincerely with Ierubbaal, and with his house this day, then reioyce yee in Abimelech, aud let him also reioyce in you.
20. But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and deuoure the men of Shechem and the house of Millo: and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and deuoure Abimeleeh.
21. And Iotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there for feare of Abimeleeh his brother.
22. When Abimelech had reigned three yeeres ouer Israel,
23. Then God sent an euill spirit betweene Abimelech & the men of Shechem: and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
24. That the crueltie done to the threescore and ten sonnes of Ierubbaal might come, and their blood be laid vpon Abimelech their brother which slew them, and vpon the men of Shechem which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
25. And the men of Shechem set lyers in wait for him in the toppe of the mountaines, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
26. And Gaal the sonne of Ebed came with his brethren, and went ouer to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
27. And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eate and drinke, and cursed Abimelech.
28. And Gaal the sonne of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serue him? Is not he the sonne of Ierubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serue the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serue him?
29. And would to God this people were vnder my hand; then would I remoue Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine armie and come out.
30. And when Zebul the ruler of the citie heard the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
31. And he sent messengers vnto Abimelech priuily, saying, Behold, Gaal the sonne of Ebed, and his brethren, be come to Shechem, and behold, they fortifie the citie against thee.
32. Now therefore vp by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field.
33. And it shalbe, that in the morning assoone as the Sunne is vp, thou shalt rise earely, and set vpon the citie: and behold, when he and the people that is with him, come out against thee, then mayest thou doe to them as thou shalt finde occasion.
34. And Abimelech rose vp, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in foure companies.
35. And Gaal the sonne of Ebed went out, and stood in the entring of the gate of the citie: and Abimelech rose vp, and the people that were with him, from lying in waite.
36. And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people downe fro the top of the mountaines. And Zebul saide vnto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountaines, as if they were men.
37. And Gaal spake againe, and said, See, there come people downe by the middle of the land, and another companie come along by the plaine of Meonenim.
38. Then said Zebul vnto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherwith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that wee should serue him? Is not this the people that thou hast despised? Goe out, I pray now, and fight with them.
39. And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
40. And Abimelech chased him, and hee fledde before him, and many were ouerthrowen and wounded, euen vnto the entring of the gate.
41. And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
42. And it came to passe on the morrow, that the people went out into the field, and they tolde Abimelech.
43. And he tooke the people, and diuided them into three companies, and laide waite in the field, and looked, and behold, the people were come forth out of the citie, and he rose vp against them, and smote them.
44. And Abimelech, and the companie that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entring of the gate of the citie: and the two other companies ranne vpon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.
45. And Abimelech fought against the citie all that day, and he tooke the citie, and slewe the people that was therein, and beat downe the citie, and sowed it with salt.
46. And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entred into an holde of the house of the god Berith.
47. And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the towre of Shechem were gathered together.
48. And Abimelech gate him vp to mount Zalmon, hee and all the people that were with him, & Abimelech tooke an axe in his hand, and cut downe a bough from the trees, and tooke it, and laide it on his shoulder, and said vnto the people that were with him, What ye haue seene me doe, make haste, and doe as I haue done.
49. And all the people likewise cut downe euery man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the holde, and set the holde on fire vpon them: so that all the men of the towre of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
50. Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and tooke it.
51. But there was a strong towre within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the citie, and shut it to them, and gate them vp to the top of the towre.
52. And Abimelech came vnto the towre, and fought against it, and went hard vnto the doore of the towre, to burne it with fire.
53. And a certaine woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon Abimelechs head, and all to brake his scull.
54. Then hee called hastily vnto the young man his armour-bearer, and said vnto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slewe him: and his young man thrust him through, and he died.
55. And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his place.
56. Thus God rendred the wickednesse of Abimelech which hee did vnto his father, in slaying his seuentie brethren.
57. And all the euill of the men of Shechem, did God render vpon their heads: and vpon them came the curse of Iotham the sonne of Ierubbaal.
1. And after Abimelech, there arose to defend Israel, Tola the sonne of Puah, the sonne of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
2. And he iudged Israel twenty and three yeeres, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3. And after him arose Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Israel twentie and two yeeres.
4. And hee had thirtie sonnes that rode on thirtie asse-colts, and they had thirtie cities, which are called Hauoth-Iair vnto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
5. And Iair died, and was buried in Camon.
6. And the children of Israel did euill againe in the sight of the Lord, and serued 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 forsooke the Lord, and serued not him.
7. And the anger of the Lord was hot agaiust Israel, and hee solde them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
8. And that yere they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteene yeeres, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Iordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9. Moreouer, the children of Ammon passed ouer Iordan, to fight also against Iudah, and against Beniamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
10. And the children of Israel cried vnto the Lord, saying, Wee haue sinned against thee, both because wee haue forsaken our God, and also serued Baalim.
11. And the Lord said vnto the children of Israel, Did not I deliuer you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12. The Zidonians also and the Amalekites, and the Maonites did oppresse you, and ye cried to me, and I deliuered you out of their hand.
13. Yet ye haue forsaken me, and serued other gods: wherefore I will deliuer you no more.
14. Go, and cry vnto the gods which ye haue chosen, let them deliuer you in the time of your tribulation.
15. And the children of Israel said vnto the Lord, We haue sinned, doe thou vnto vs whatsoeuer seemeth good vnto thee, deliuer vs onely, wee pray thee, this day.
16. And they put away the strange gods from among them, and serued the Lord: and his soule was grieued for the misery of Israel.
17. Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead: and the children of Israel assembled themselues together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
18. And the people and Princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is hee that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be Head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.
1. Now Iephthah the Gileadite was a mightie man of valour, and he was the sonne of an harlot: and Gilead begate Iephthah.
2. And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and his wiues sonnes grew vp, and they thrust out Iephthah, and said vnto him, Thou shalt not inherite in our fathers house, for thou art the son of a strange woman.
3. Then Iephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vaine men to Iephthah, and went out with him.
4. And it came to passe, in processe of time, that the children of Ammon made warre against Israel.
5. And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the Elders of Gilead went to fetch Iephthah out of the land of Tob,
6. And they said vnto Iephthah, Come and bee our Captaine, that wee may fight with the children of Ammon.
7. And Iephthah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expell me out of my fathers house? And why are ye come vnto mee now when ye are in distresse?
8. And the Elders of Gilead said vnto Iephthah, Therefore we turne againe to thee now, that thou mayest go with vs, and fight against the children of Ammon, and bee our head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.
9. And Iephthah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliuer them before me; shall I be your Head?
10. And the Elders of Gilead said vnto Iephthah, The Lord be witnes betweene vs, if we doe not so according to thy words.
11. Then Iephthah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captaine ouer them: and Iephthah vttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.
12. And Iephthah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against mee to fight in my land?
13. And the king of the children of Ammon answered vnto the messengers of Iephthah; Because Israel tooke away my land when they came vp out of Egypt, from Arnon euen vnto Iabbok, and vnto Iordan: now therfore restore those lands againe peaceably.
14. And Iephthah sent messengers againe vnto the king of the children of Ammon:
15. And said vnto him, Thus saith Iephthah; Israel tooke not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
16. But when Israel came vp from Egypt, and walked through the wildernesse, vnto the red sea, and came to Kadesh;
17. Then Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom saying, Let me, I pray thee, passe through thy land. But the king of Edom would not hearken thereto: And in like maner they sent vnto the king of Moab: but hee would not consent: & Israel abode in Kadesh.
18. Then they went along through the wildernes, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the Eastside of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
19. And Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said vnto him, Let vs passe, we pray thee, thorow thy land, vnto my place.
20. But Sihon trusted not Israel, to passe through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Iahaz, and fought against Israel.
21. And the Lord God of Israel deliuered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that countrey.
22. And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon euen vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse euen vnto Iordan.
23. So nowe the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possesse it?
24. Wilt not thou possesse that which Chemosh thy god giueth thee to possesse? so whomsoeuer the Lord our God shal driue out from before vs, them will we possesse.
25. And now, art thou any thing better then Balak the sonne of Zippor king of Moab? Did hee euer striue against Israel, or did hee euer fight against them,
26. While Israel dwelt in Heshbon, and her townes, and in Aroer, and her townes, and in all the cities that bee along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred yeeres? Why therefore did yee not recouer them within that time?
27. Wherefore, I haue not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to warre against mee: the Lord the Iudge, bee Iudge this day betweene the children of Israel, and the children of Ammon.
28. Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the words of Iephthah which hee sent him.
29. Then the Spirit of the Lord came vpon Iephthah, and he passed ouer Gilead and Manasseh, and passed ouer Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead hee passed ouer vnto the children of Ammon.
30. And Iephthah vowed a vowe vnto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without faile deliuer the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31. Then it shall be, that whatsoeuer commeth forth of the doores of my house to meete me, when I returne in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lords, and I will offer it vp for a burnt offering.
32. So Iephthah passed ouer vnto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord deliuered them into his hands.
33. And he smote them from Aroer, euen till thou come to Minnith, euen twentie cities, and vnto the plaine of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter: thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
34. And Iephthah came to Mizpeh vnto his house, and beholde, his daughter came out to meete him with timbrels and with dances, and she was his onely childe: beside her he had neither sonne nor daughter.
35. And it came to passe when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter, thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I haue opened my mouth vnto the Lord, and I cannot goe backe.
36. And she said vnto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth vnto the Lord, doe to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, euen of the children of Ammon.
37. And she said vnto her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two moneths, that I may goe vp and downe vpon the mountaines, and bewaile my virginitie, I, and my fellowes.
38. And he said, Goe. And he sent her away for two moneths, and shee went with her companions, and bewailed her virginitie vpon the mountaines.
39. And it came to passe at the ende of two moneths that shee returned vnto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man: & it was a custome in Israel,
40. That the daughters of Israel went yeerely to lament the daughter of Iephthah the Gileadite foure dayes in a yeere.
1. And the men of Ephraim gathered themselues together, and went Northward, & said vnto Iephthah, Wherefore passedst thou ouer to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call vs to goe with thee? Wee will burne thine house vpon thee with fire.
2. And Iephthah saide vnto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon: and when I called you, ye deliuered me not out of their hands.
3. And when I sawe that ye deliuered me not, I put my life in my handes, and passed ouer against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliuered them into my hand: Wherfore then are ye come vp vnto me this day, to fight against me?
4. Then Iephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Yee Gileadites are fugitiues of Ephraim, among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.
5. And the Gileadites tooke the passages of Iordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so that when those Ephraimites which were escaped saide, Let me go ouer, that the men of Gilead said vnto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay:
6. Then said they vnto him, Say now, Shibboleth: and he said, Sibboleth: for hee could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they tooke him, and slewe him at the passages of Iordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites, fourtie & two thousand.
7. And Iephthah iudged Israel sixe yeeres: then died Iephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
8. And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem iudged Israel.
9. And hee had thirtie sonnes, and thirtie daughters, whome hee sent abroad, and tooke in thirtie daughters from abroad for his sonnes. And hee iudged Israel seuen yeeres.
10. Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
11. And after him, Elon, a Zebulonite iudged Israel, and he iudged Israel ten yeeres.
12. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aiialon in the countrey of Zebulun.
13. And after him, Abdon, the sonne of Hillel a Pirathonite iudged Israel.
14. And he had fourty sonnes, and thirtie nephewes, that rode on threescore and ten asse-colts: and he iudged Israel eight yeeres,
15. And Abdon the sonne of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
1. And the children of Israel did euill againe in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord deliuered them into the hand of the Philistines forty yeeres.
2. And there was a certaine man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and bare not.
3. And the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto the woman, and said vnto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceiue and beare a sonne.
4. Now therefore beware I pray thee, and drinke not wine, nor strong drinke, and eat not any vncleane thing.
5. For loe, thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne, and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite vnto God from the wombe: and he shall begin to deliuer Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
6. Then the woman came, and told her husband, saying; A man of God came vnto mee, and his countenance was like the countenance of an Angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
7. But he said vnto mee, Behold, thou shalt conceiue and beare a sonne; and now, drinke no wine nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing: for the childe shal be a Nazarite to God, from the wombe, to the day of his death.
8. Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send, come againe vnto vs, & teach vs what we shall do vnto the childe that shall be borne.
9. And God hearkened to the voyce of Manoah; and the Angel of God came againe vnto the woman as shee sate in the field: But Manoah her husband was not with her.
10. And the woman made haste, and ranne, and shewed her husband, and said vnto him; Behold, the man hath appeared vnto me, that came vnto me the other day.
11. And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said vnto him, Art thou the man that spakest vnto the woman? And he said, I am.
12. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to passe: How shall wee order the childe, and how shall we doe vnto him?
13. And the Angel of the Lord said vnto Manoah, Of all that I said vnto the woman, let her beware.
14. She may not eate of any thing that commeth of the Uine, neither let her drinke wine or strong drinke, nor eat any vncleane thing: all that I commanded her, let her obserue.
15. And Manoah saide vnto the Angel of the Lord, I pray thee let vs deteine thee, vntill wee shall haue made ready a kid for thee.
16. And the Angel of the Lord said vnto Manoah, Though thou deteine mee, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it vnto the Lord: for Manoah knew not that he was an Angel of the Lord.
17. And Manoah said vnto the Angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to passe, we may doe thee honour?
18. And the Angel of the Lord said vnto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
19. So Manoah tooke a kid, with a meat offering, and offered it vpon a rocke vnto the Lord: and the Angel did wonderously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
20. For it came to passe, when the flame went vp toward heauen from off the altar, that the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
21. (But the Angel of the Lord did no more appeare to Manoah and to his wife:) then Manoah knewe that he was an Angel of the Lord.
22. And Manoah said vnto his wife, Wee shall surely die, because wee haue seene God.
23. But his wife said vnto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill vs, he would not haue receiued a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would hee haue shewed vs all these things, nor would as at this time haue told vs such things as these.
24. And the woman bare a sonne, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, & the Lord blessed him.
25. And the Spirit of the Lord beganne to mooue him at times in the campe of Dan, betweene Zorah and Eshtaol.
1. And Samson went down to Timnath, and sawe a woman in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines.
2. And hee came vp, and told his father and his mother, and said, I haue seene a woman in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines: nowe therefore get her for me to wife.
3. Then his father and his mother said vnto him, Is there neuer a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the vncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said vnto his father, Get her for me, for shee pleaseth me well.
4. But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that hee sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion ouer Israel.
5. Then went Samson downe, and his father & his mother, to Timnath, and came, to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young Lion roared against him.
6. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him, and hee rent him as he would haue rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but hee told not his father or his mother what hee had done.
7. And hee went downe and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
8. And after a time hee returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carkeis of the Lion: and beholde, there was a swarme of Bees, and honie in the carkeis of the Lion.
9. And hee tooke thereof in his handes, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and hee gaue them, and they did eate: but he told not them that he had taken the hony out of the carkeis of the Lion.
10. So his father went downe vnto the woman, and Samson made there a feast: for so vsed the young men to doe.
11. And it came to passe when they saw him, that they brought thirtie companions to be with him.
12. And Samson said vnto them, I will now put foorth a riddle vnto you: if you can certeinly declare it me, within the seuen dayes of the feast, and finde it out, then I will giue you thirtie sheetes, and thirtie change of garments:
13. But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall yee giue me thirtie sheetes, and thirtie change of garments. And they said vnto him, Put foorth thy riddle, that we may heare it.
14. And hee said vnto them, Out of the eater came foorth meate, aud out of the strong came foorth sweetnesse. And they could not in three dayes expound the riddle.
15. And it came to passe on the seuenth day, that they said vnto Samsons wife, Entice thy husband, that hee may declare vnto vs the riddle, lest we burne thee and thy fathers house with fire: Haue yee called vs, to take that wee haue? is it not so?
16. And Samsons wife wept before him, and said, Thou doest but hate me, and louest me not: thou hast put foorth a riddle vnto the children of my people, and hast not tolde it me. And hee said vnto her, Behold, I haue not tolde it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
17. And shee wept before him the seuen dayes, while the feast lasted: and it came to passe on the seuenth day, that he tolde her, because shee lay sore vpon him: and she tolde the riddle to the children of her people.
18. And the men of the city said vnto him on the seuenth day before the sunne went downe, What is sweeter then honie? and what is stronger then a Lion? And he said vnto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, yee had not found out my riddle.
19. And the Spirit of the Lord came vpon him, and hee went downe to Ashkelon, and slewe thirtie men of them, and tooke their spoile, and gaue change of garments vnto them which expounded the riddle, and his anger was kindled; and hee went vp to his fathers house.
20. But Samsons wife was giuen to his companion, whom hee had vsed as his friend.
1. But it came to passe within a while after, in the time of wheat haruest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid, and he said, I will goe in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to goe in.
2. And her father saide, I verily thought that thou haddest vtterly hated her, therfore I gaue her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer then she? take her, I pray thee, in stead of her.
3. And Samson said concerning them, Now shal I be more blamelesse then the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
4. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned taile to taile, and put a firebrand in the midst betweene two tailes.
5. And when hee had set the brands on fire, he let them goe into the standing corne of the Philistines, and burnt vp both the shockes, and also the standing corne, with the vineyards and oliues.
6. Then the Philistines saide, Who hath done this? and they answered, Samson the sonne in law of the Timnite, because hee had taken his wife, and giuen her to his companion. And the Philistines came vp, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7. And Samson said vnto them, Though ye haue done this, yet will I be auenged of you, and after that, I wil cease.
8. And he smote them hip and thigh, with a great slaughter; and hee went down and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.
9. Then the Philistines went vp, and pitched in Iudah, and spread themselues in Lehi.
10. And the men of Iudah said, Why are ye come vp against vs? and they answered, To bind Samson are we come vp, to doe to him, as he hath done to vs.
11. Then three thousand men of Iudah went to the top of the rocke Etam, and sayd to Samson; Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers ouer vs? What is this that thou hast done vnto vs? And he said vnto them, As they did vnto me, so haue I done vnto them.
12. And they said vnto him, Wee are come downe to binde thee, that we may deliuer thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said vnto them, Sweare vnto me, that yee will not fall vpon me your selues.
13. And they spake vnto him, saying; No: but wee will binde thee fast, and deliuer thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cordes, and brought him vp from the rocke.
14. And when he came vnto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes became as flaxe that was burnt with fire, & his bands loosed from off his hands.
15. And he found a new iawbone of an asse, and put foorth his hand, and tooke it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
16. And Samson said, With the iawbone of an asse, heapes vpon heapes, with the iaw of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.
17. And it came to passe when he had made an end of speaking, that hee cast away the iaw bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
18. And hee was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast giuen this great deliuerance into the hand of thy seruant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the vncircumcised?
19. But God claue an hollow place that was in the iawe, and there came water thereout, & when he had drunke, his spirit came againe, and he reuiued: wherefore hee called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, vnto this day:
20. And he iudged Israel in the dayes of the Philistines twentie yeeres.
1. Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in vnto her.
2. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and layd wait for him all night in the gate of the citie, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning when it is day, we shall kill him.
3. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and tooke the doores of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, barre and all, and put them vpon his shoulders, and caried them vp to the toppe of an hill that is before Hebron.
4. And it came to passe afterward, that he loued a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
5. And the lords of the Philistines came vp vnto her, and said vnto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what meanes we may preuaile against him, that we may bind him, to afflict him: and we will giue thee euery one of vs, eleuen hundreth pieces of siluer.
6. And Delilah said to Samson, Tel me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lyeth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound, to afflict thee.
7. And Samson said vnto her, If they binde mee with seuen greene withs, that were neuer dried, then shall I be weake, and be as another man.
8. Then the lords of the Philistines brought vp to her seuen greene withs, which had not bene dried, & she bound him with them.
9. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber: and she said vnto him, The Philistines be vpon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a threed of tow is broken, when it toucheth the fire: so his strength was not knowen.
10. And Delilah said vnto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told mee lies: now tell mee, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
11. And he said vnto her, If they bind me fast with newe ropes that neuer were occupied, then shall I bee weake, and be as another man.
12. Delilah therfore tooke new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said vnto him, The Philistines be vpon thee, Samson. (And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber.) and hee brake them from off his armes, like a threed.
13. And Delilah said vnto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said vnto her, If thou weauest the seuen lockes of my head with the web.
14. And she fastened it with the pinne, and said vnto him, The Philistines be vpon thee, Samson. And hee awaked out of his sleepe, and went away with the pinne of the beame, & with the web.
15. And shee said vnto him, How canst thou say, I loue thee, when thine heart is not with mee? Thou hast mocked mee these three times, and hast not told me wherin thy great strength lieth.
16. And it came to passe, when she pressed him daily with her wordes, and vrged him so that his soule was vexed vnto death,
17. That he told her all his heart, and said vnto her, There hath not come a rasor vpon mine head: for I haue bene a Nazarite vnto God from my mothers wombe: If I bee shauen, then my strength will goe from me, and I shall become weake, and bee like any other man.
18. And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the Lords of the Philistines, saying, Come vp this once, for hee hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came vp vnto her, & brought money in their hand.
19. And she made him sleepe vpon her knees, and she called for a man, and she caused him to shaue off the seuen lockes of his head, and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20. And she said, The Philistines be vpon thee, Samson. And hee awoke out of his sleepe, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake my selfe. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.
21. But the Philistines tooke him and put out his eyes, and brought him downe to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brasse, and he did grind in the prison house.
22. Howbeit, the haire of his head began to grow againe, after he was shauen.
23. Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together, for to offer a great sacrifice vnto Dagon their god, and to reioyce: for they said, Our god hath deliuered Samson our enemy into our hand.
24. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath deliuered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our countrey, which slew many of vs.
25. And it came to passe when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that hee may make vs sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house, and he made them sport, and they set him betweene the pillars.
26. And Samson said vnto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer mee, that I may feele the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may leane vpon them.
27. Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there: and there were vpon the roofe about three thousand men and women, that behelde while Samson made sport.
28. And Samson called vnto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, & strengthen mee, I pray thee, onely this once, O God, that I may be at once auenged of the Philistines, for my two eyes.
29. And Samson tooke hold of the two middle pillars, vpon which the house stood, and on which it was borne vp, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
30. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines: & he bowed himselfe with all his might: and the house fel vpon the lords, and vpon all the people that were therein: so the dead which he slew at his death, were moe, then they which he slew in his life.
31. Then his brethren, and all the house of his father, came downe, and tooke him, and brought him vp, and buried him betweene Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying place of Manoah his father: and hee iudged Israel twentie yeeres.
1. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
2. And he said vnto his mother, The eleuen hundred shekels of siluer, that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine eares, behold, the siluer is with mee, I tooke it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my sonne.
3. And when hee had restored the eleuen hundred shekels of siluer to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the siluer vnto the Lord, from my hand, for my sonne, to make a grauen image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it vnto thee.
4. Yet hee restored the money vnto his mother, and his mother tooke two hundred shekels of siluer, and gaue them to the founder, who made thereof a grauen image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.
5. And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an Ephod, and Teraphim, and consecrated one of his sonnes, who became his Priest.
6. In those dayes there was no king in Israel, but euery man did that which was right in his owne eyes.
7. And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Iudah, of the family of Iudah, who was a Leuite, and he soiourned there.
8. And the man departed out of the citie from Bethlehem Iudah, to soiourne where he could finde a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he iourneyed.
9. And Micah said vnto him, Whence commest thou? And he said vnto him, I am a Leuite, of Bethlehem Iudah, and I goe to soiourne where I may finde a place.
10. And Micah said vnto him, Dwell with me, and be vnto me a father and a Priest, and I will giue thee ten shekels of siluer by the yeere, and a suite of apparell, and thy victuals. So the Leuite went in.
11. And the Leuite was content to dwell with the man, and the yong man was vnto him as one of his sonnes.
12. And Micah consecrated the Leuite, and the young man became his Priest, and was in the house of Micah.
13. Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will doe me good, seeing I haue a Leuite to my Priest.
1. In those dayes there was no king in Israel: and in those daies the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwel in: for vnto that day, all their inheritance had not fallen vnto them, among the tribes of Israel.
2. And the children of Dan sent of their family, fiue men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it, and they said vnto them, Goe, search the land: Who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
3. When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the yong man the Leuite: and they turned in thither, & said vnto him, Who brought thee hither? And what makest thou in this place? And what hast thou here?
4. And hee said vnto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his Priest.
5. And they sayd vnto him, Aske counsell, we pray thee, of God, that we may know, whether our way which we goe, shall be prosperous.
6. And the Priest said vnto them, Goe in peace: before the Lord is your way wherein ye goe.
7. Then the fiue men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt carelesse, after the maner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure, and there was no magistrate in the land that might put them to shame in any thing, and they were farre from the Zidonians, and had no businesse with any man.
8. And they came vnto their brethren to Zorah, and Eshtaol: and their brethren said vnto them, What say yee?
9. And they said, Arise, that we may goe vp against them: for we haue seene the land, and behold, it is very good: and are ye still? Bee not slothfull to goe, and to enter to possesse the land.
10. When ye goe, ye shall come vnto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath giuen it into your handes: a place where there is no want of any thing, that is in the earth.
11. And there went from thence of the family of the Danites out of Zorah, and out of Eshtaol, sixe hundred men, appoynted with weapons of warre.
12. And they went vp, and pitched in Kiriath-iearim, in Iudah: Wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-Dan, vnto this day: behold, it is behinde Kiriath-iearim.
13. And they passed thence vnto mount Ephraim, and came vnto the house of Micah.
14. Then answered the fiue men that went to spie out the countrey of Laish, and saide vnto their brethren, Doe ye know that there is in these houses an Ephod, and Teraphim, and a grauen image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what ye haue to doe.
15. And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the yong man the Leuite, euen vnto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
16. And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entring of the gate.
17. And the fiue men that went to spie out the land, went vp and came in thither, and tooke the grauen image, and the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image: and the Priest stood in the entring of the gate, with the sixe hundreth men that were appointed with weapons of warre.
18. And these went into Micahs house, and fetched the carued image, the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image: then said the Priest vnto them, What doe ye?
19. And they said vnto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth, and goe with vs, and bee to vs a father and a Priest: Is it better for thee to bee a Priest vnto the house of one man, or that thou be a Priest vnto a tribe and a family in Israel?
20. And the Priests heart was glad, and he tooke the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the grauen image, and went in the middest of the people.
21. So they turned, and departed, and put the little ones, and the cattell, and the cariage before them.
22. And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses neere to Micahs house, were gathered together, and ouertooke the children of Dan.
23. And they cried vnto the children of Dan: and they turned their faces, and said vnto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou commest with such a company?
24. And he said, Yee haue taken away my gods which I made, and the Priest, and ye are gone away: and what haue I more? And what is this that yee say vnto me, What aileth thee?
25. And the children of Dan said vnto him, Let not thy voyce bee heard among vs, lest angry fellowes run vpon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the liues of thy houshold.
26. And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah sawe that they were too strong for him, he turned and went backe vnto his house.
27. And they tooke the things which Micah had made, and the Priest which hee had, and came vnto Laish, vnto a people that were at quiet, and secure, and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the citie with fire.
28. And there was no deliuerer, because it was farre from Zidon, and they had no businesse with any man: and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob, and they built a citie, and dwelt therein.
29. And they called the name of the city, Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was borne vnto Israel: howbeit the name of the citie was Laish at the first.
30. And the children of Dan set vp the grauen image: and Ionathan the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Manasseh, hee and his sonnes, were Priests to the tribe of Dan, vntill the day of the captiuitie of the land.
31. And they set them vp Micahs grauen image, which hee made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
1. And it came to passe in those dayes, when there was no King in Israel, that there was a certaine Leuite soiourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who tooke to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Iudah.
2. And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Bethlehem Iudah, and was there foure whole moneths.
3. And her husband arose, and went after her to speake friendly vnto her, and to bring her againe, hauing his seruant with him, and a couple of asses: and shee brought him into her fathers house, and when the father of the damsell saw him, he reioyced to meet him.
4. And his father in law, the damosels father, reteined him, and hee abode with him three dayes: so they did eate and drinke, and lodged there.
5. And it came to passe on the fourth day, when they arose earely in the morning, that he rose vp to depart: and the damosels father saide vnto his sonne in lawe, Comfort thine heart with a morsell of bread, and afterward goe your way.
6. And they sate downe, and did eat and drinke both of them together: for the damosels father had saide vnto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tary all night, and let thine heart be merrie.
7. And when the man rose vp to depart, his father in law vrged him: therfore he lodged there againe.
8. And hee arose early in the morning on the fift day to depart, and the damosels father sayd, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they taried vntill after noone, and they did eate both of them.
9. And when the man rose vp to depart, hee and his concubine, and his seruant; his father in law, the damsels father, said vnto him, Behold, now the day draweth towardes euening, I pray you tarie all night: behold, the day groweth to an ende, lodge heere, that thine heart may be merrie; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest goe home.
10. But the man would not tary that night, but he rose vp and departed, and came ouer against Iebus (which is Ierusalem:) and there were with him two asses sadled, his concubine also was with him.
11. And when they were by Iebus, the day was farre spent, and the seruant said vnto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let vs turne in into this citie of the Iebusites, and lodge in it.
12. And his master said vnto him, We will not turne aside hither into the citie of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel, we will passe ouer to Gibeah.
13. And hee sayde vnto his seruant, Come, and let vs draw neere to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
14. And they passed on and went their way, and the sunne went downe vpon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Beniamin.
15. And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sate him downe in a street of the citie: for there was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging.
16. And behold, there came an olde man from his worke out of the field at euen, which was also of mount Ephraim; and hee soiourned in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Beniamites.
17. And when he had lift vp his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the streete of the citie: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? And whence commest thou?
18. And he said vnto him, We are passing from Bethlehem Iudah, toward the side of mount Ephraim, from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehem Iudah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord, and there is no man that receiueth me to house.
19. Yet there is both straw and prouender for our asses, and there is bread and wine also for me and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy seruants: there is no want of any thing.
20. And the olde man said, Peace be with thee; howsoeuer, let all thy wants lie vpon me; only lodge not in the street.
21. So he brought him into his house, and gaue prouender vnto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eate and drinke.
22. Now as they were making their hearts merrie, behold, the men of the citie, certaine sonnes of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the doore, and spake to the master of the house, the olde man, saying; Bring foorth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
23. And the man, the master of the house, went out vnto them, and said vnto them, Nay my brethren, nay, I pray you doe not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, doe not this folly.
24. Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine, them I wil bring out now, and humble yee them, and doe with them what seemeth good vnto you: but vnto this man doe not so vile a thing.
25. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.
26. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell downe at the doore of the mans house, where her lord was, till it was light.
27. And her lord rose vp in the morning, & opened the doores of the house, and went out to goe his way: and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen downe at the doore of the house, and her hands were vpon the threshold.
28. And he said vnto her, Up, and let vs be going. But none answered: then the man tooke her vp vpon an asse, and the man rose vp, and gate him vnto his place.
29. And when he was come into his house, hee tooke a knife, and layd hold on his concubine, and diuided her, together with her bones, into twelue pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
30. And it was so that all that saw it, said, There was no such deed done nor seene, from the day that the children of Israel came vp out of the land of Egypt, vnto this day: consider of it, take aduise, and speake your mindes.
1. Then all the children of Israel went out, and the Congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, vnto the Lord in Mizpeh.
2. And the chiefe of al the people, euen of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselues in the assembly of the people of God, foure hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
3. (Now the children of Beniamin heard that the children of Israel were gone vp to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell vs, how was this wickednesse?
4. And the Leuite the husband of the woman that was slaine, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Beniamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
5. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about vpon me by night, and thought to haue slaine mee, and my concubine haue they forced that she is dead.
6. And I tooke my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the countrey of the inheritance of Israel: for they haue committed lewdnesse and folly in Israel.
7. Behold, ye are all children of Israel, giue here your aduise and counsell.
8. And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of vs goe to his tent, neither will wee any of vs turne into his house:
9. But now, this shall bee the thing which we will doe to Gibeah, we will goe vp by lot against it:
10. And we wil take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuall for the people, that they may doe, when they come to Gibeah of Beniamin, according to all the folly that they haue wrought in Israel.
11. So all the men of Israel were gathered against the citie, knit together as one man.
12. And the tribes of Israel sent men thorow all the tribe of Beniamin, saying, What wickednesse is this that is done among you?
13. Now therfore deliuer vs the men, the children of Belial which are in Gibeah, that wee may put them to death, and put away euill from Israel: but the children of Beniamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
14. But the children of Beniamin gathered themselues together out of the cities, vnto Gibeah, to goe out to battell against the children of Israel.
15. And the children of Beniamin were numbred at that time out of the cities, twentie and sixe thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbred seuen hundred chosen men.
16. Among all this people there were seuen hundred chosen men left handed, euery one could sling stones at an haire breadth, and not misse.
17. And the men of Israel, beside Beniamin, were numbred foure hundred thousand men that drewe sword; all these were men of warre.
18. And the children of Israel arose, and went vp to the house of God, and asked counsell of God, and saide, Which of vs shall goe vp first to the battell against the children of Beniamin? And the Lord said, Iudah shall goe vp first.
19. And the children of Israel rose vp in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
20. And the men of Israel went out to battell against Beniamin, and the men of Israel put themselues in aray to fight against them at Gibeah.
21. And the children of Beniamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroied downe to the ground of the Israelites that day, twenty & two thousand men.
22. And the people the men of Israel incouraged themselues, & set their battel againe in aray, in the place where they put themselues in aray the first day.
23. (And the children of Israel went vp and wept before the Lord vntill Euen, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I goe vp againe to battell against the children of Beniamin my brother? And the Lord saide, Goe vp against him.)
24. And the children of Israel came neere against the children of Beniamin, the second day.
25. And Beniamin went foorth against them out of Gibeah the second day, & destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel againe, eighteene thousand men, all these drew the sword.
26. Then all the children of Israel, and all the people went vp, and came vnto the house of God, and wept, and sate there before the Lord, and fasted that day vntill Euen, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings before the Lord.
27. And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the Arke of ye couenant of God was there in those daies,
28. And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron stood before it in those dayes.) saying; Shall I yet againe goe out to battel against the children of Beniamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Goe vp; for to morrow I will deliuer them into thine hand.
29. And Israel set lyers in waite round about Gibeah.
30. And the children of Israel went vp against the children of Beniamin on the third day, and put themselues in aray against Gibeah, as at other times.
31. And the children of Beniamin went out against the people, and were drawen away from the citie, and they began to smite of the people and kill as at other times, in the high wayes, of which one goeth vp to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirtie men of Israel.
32. And the children of Beniamin said, They are smitten downe before vs, as at the first: But the children of Israel said, Let vs flee, and draw them from the citie, vnto the high wayes.
33. And all the men of Israel rose vp out of their place, and put themselues in aray at Baal Tamar: and the lyers in waite of Israel came foorth out of their places, euen out of the medowes of Gibeah.
34. And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men, out of all Israel, and the battell was sore: but they knew not that euill was neere them.
35. And the Lord smote Beniamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Beniamites that day, twentie and fiue thousand, and an hundred men; all these drew the sword.
36. So the children of Beniamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gaue place to the Beniamites, because they trusted vnto the lyers in wait, which they had set beside Gibeah.
37. And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed vpon Gibeah, and the liers in wait drew themselues along, and smote all the citie with the edge of the sword.
38. Nowe there was an appointed signe between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise vp out of the citie.
39. And when the men of Israel retired in the battell, Beniamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirtie persons; for they saide, Surely they are smitten downe before vs, as in the first battell.
40. But when the flame began to arise vp out of the citie, with a pillar of smoke, the Beniamites looked behind them, and behold, the flame of the citie ascended vp to heauen.
41. And when the men of Israel turned againe, the men of Beniamin were amased; for they saw that euill was come vpon them.
42. Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel, vnto ye way of the wildernes, but the battel ouertooke them: & them which came out of the cities, they destroyed in the midst of them.
43. Thus they inclosed the Beniamites round about, and chased them, and trode them downe with ease ouer against Gibeah toward the sunne rising.
44. And there fell of Beniamin eighteene thousand men; all these were men of valour.
45. And they turned and fled toward the wildernesse vnto the rocke of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the high wayes fiue thousand men: and pursued hard after them vnto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
46. So that all which fell that day of Beniamin, were twentie and fiue thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
47. But sixe hundred men turned and fledde to the wildernesse vnto the rocke Rimmon, and abode in the rocke Rimmon foure moneths.
48. And the men of Israel turned againe vpon the children of Beniamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of euery citie, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
1. Nowe the men of Israel had sworne in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of vs giue his daughter vnto Beniamin to wife.
2. And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till euen before God, and lift vp their voices, and wept sore:
3. And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to passe in Israel, that there should bee to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
4. And it came to passe on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an Altar, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings.
5. And the children of Israel sayd, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, that came not vp with the congregation vnto the Lord ? for they had made a great oath concerning him that came not vp to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6. And the children of Israel repented them for Beniamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day:
7. How shall wee doe for wiues for them that remaine, seeing wee haue sworne by the Lord, that wee will not giue them of our daughters to wiues?
8. And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel, that came not vp to Mizpeh to the Lord ? And beholde, there came none to the campe from Iabesh Gilead to the assembly.
9. For the people were numbred, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead there.
10. And the congregation sent thither twelue thousand men of the valiantest, and commaunded them, saying, Goe, and smite the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
11. And this is the thing that yee shall doe, Yee shall vtterly destroy euery male, and euery woman that hath lien by man.
12. And they found among the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead, foure hundred yong virgins that had knowen no man, by lying with any male: and they brought them vnto the campe to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13. And the whole Congregation sent some to speake to the children of Beniamin that were in the rocke Rimmon, and to call peaceably vnto them.
14. And Beniamin came againe at that time, and they gaue them wiues which they had saued aliue of the women of Iabesh Gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
15. And the people repented them for Beniamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16. Then the Elders of the Congregation said, How shall we doe for wiues for them that remaine? seeing the women are destroyed out of Beniamin.
17. And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that bee escaped of Beniamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
18. Howbeit wee may not giue them wiues of our daughters. For the children of Israel haue sworne, saying, Cursed be he that giueth a wife to Beniamin.
19. Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yerely, in a place which is on the Northside of Bethel on the East side of the hie way that goeth vp from Bethel to Shechem, and on the South of Lebanon.
20. Therefore they commanded the children of Beniamin, saying, Goe and lie in wait in the vineyards.
21. And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to daunce in daunces, then come yee out of the vineyards, and catch you euery man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and goe to the land of Beniamin.
22. And it shall bee when their fathers or their brethren come vnto vs to complaine, that we will say vnto them, Bee fauourable vnto them for our sakes: because we reserued not to each man his wife in the warre: for yee did not giue vnto them at this time, that you should be guiltie.
23. And the children of Beniamin did so, and tooke them wiues according to their number, of them that daunced, whome they caught: and they went and returned vnto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
24. And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, euery man to his tribe, and to his family, and they went out from thence euery man to his inheritance.
25. In those dayes there was no King in Israel: euery man did that which was right in his owne eyes.
1. Nowe it came to passe in the dayes when ye Iudges ruled, that there was a famine in the land: and a certaine man of Bethlehem Iudah, went to soiourne in the countrey of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sonnes.
2. And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi, and the name of his two sonnes, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Iudah: and they came into the countrey of Moab, and continued there.
3. And Elimelech Naomies husband died, and shee was left, and her two sonnes;
4. And they tooke them wiues of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other rthh: and they dwelled there about ten yeeres.
5. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them, and the woman was left of her two sonnes, and her husband.
6. Then shee arose with her daughters in law, that shee might returne from the countrey of Moab: for shee had heard in the countrey of Moab, how that the Lord had visited his people, in giuing them bread.
7. Wherefore she went foorth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her: and they went on the way to returne vnto the land of Iudah.
8. Aud Naomi said vnto her two daughters in law, Goe, returne each to her mothers house: the Lord deale kindly with you, as ye haue dealt with the dead, and with me.
9. The Lord graunt you, that you may finde rest each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lift vp their voyce and wept.
10. And they said vnto her, Surely wee will returne with thee, vnto thy people.
11. And Naomi said, Turne againe, my daughters: why will you goe with mee? Are there yet any moe sonnes in my wombe, that they may be your husbands?
12. Turne againe, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to haue an husband: if I should say, I haue hope, if I should haue a husband also to night, and should also beare sonnes:
13. Would ye tary for them till they were growen? would ye stay for them from hauing husbands? nay my daughters: for it grieueth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
14. And they lift vp their voyce, and wept againe: and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but rthh claue vnto her.
15. And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone backe vnto her people, and vnto her gods: returne thou after thy sister in law.
16. And rthh said, Intreate mee not to leaue thee, or to returne from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will goe; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
17. Where thou diest, wil I die, and there will I bee buried: the Lord doe so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
18. When shee sawe that shee was stedfastly minded to goe with her, then shee left speaking vnto her.
19. So they two went vntill they came to Bethlehem: And it came to passe when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the citie was mooued about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
20. And she said vnto them, Call me not Naomi; call mee Mara: for the Almightie hath dealt very bitterly with me.
21. I went out full, and the Lord hath bought me home againe emptie: Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
22. So Naomi returned, and rthh the Moabitesse her daughter in law with her, which returned out of the countrey of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem, in the beginning of barley haruest.
1. And Naomi had a kinseman of her husbands, a mighty man of wealth, of the familie of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2. And rthh the Moabitesse saide vnto Naomi, Let me now goe to the field, and gleane eares of corne after him, in whose sight I shall finde grace. And shee saide vnto her, Goe, my daughter.
3. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her happe was to light on a part of the fielde belonging vnto Boaz, who was of the kinred of Elimelech.
4. And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said vnto the reapers, The Lord bee with you; and they answered him, The Lord blesse thee.
5. Then said Boaz vnto his seruant, that was set ouer the reapers, Whose damosell is this?
6. And the seruaunt that was set ouer the reapers, answered and said, It is the Moabitish damosell that came backe with Naomi out of the countrey of Moab:
7. And she said, I pray you, let mee gleane and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaues: so shee came, and hath continued euen from the morning vntill now, that she taried a little in the house.
8. Then said Boaz vnto rthh, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Goe not to gleane in another field, neither goe from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
9. Let thine eyes be on the field that they doe reape, and go thou after them: Haue I not charged the young men, that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, goe vnto the vessels, and drinke of that which the yong men haue drawen.
10. Then she fel on her face, and bowed her selfe to the ground, and said vnto him, Why haue I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
11. And Boaz answered and said vnto her, It hath fully bene shewed me, all that thou hast done vnto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy natiuitie, and art come vnto a people, which thou knewest not heretofore.
12. The Lord recompense thy worke, and a full reward be giuen thee of the Lord God of Israel, vnder whose wings thou art come to trust.
13. Then she said, Let me finde fauour in thy sight, my lord, for that thou hast comforted mee, and for that thou hast spoken friendly vnto thine handmaid, though I be not like vnto one of thy hand-maidens.
14. And Boaz sayde vnto her, At meale time come thou hither, and eate of the bread, and dip thy morsell in the vineger. And shee sate beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corne, and she did eate, and was sufficed, and left.
15. And when shee was risen vp to gleane, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her gleane euen among the sheaues, & reproch her not.
16. And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leaue them that she may gleane them, and rebuke her not.
17. So she gleaned in the field vntill euen, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an Ephah of barley.
18. And shee tooke it vp, and went into the citie: and her mother in lawe saw what shee had gleaned; and shee brought foorth, and gaue to her that she had reserued, after she was sufficed.
19. And her mother in law said vnto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be hee that did take knowledge of thee. And shee shewed her mother in lawe with whom shee had wrought, and said, The mans name with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.
20. And Naomi said vnto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindnesse to the liuing and to the dead. And Naomi said vnto her, The man is neere of kin vnto vs, one of our next kinsemen.
21. And rthh the Moabitesse said, He said vnto me also, Thou shalt keepe fast by my yong men, vntill they haue ended all my haruest.
22. And Naomi said vnto rthh her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou goe out with his maidens, that they meete thee not in any other field.
23. So shee kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to gleane, vnto the end of barley haruest, and of wheat haruest, and dwelt with her mother in law.
1. Then Naomi her mother in law said vnto her, My daughter, shal I not seeke rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
2. And now is not Boaz of our kinred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshing floore.
3. Wash thy selfe therefore, and annoint thee, and put thy raiment vpon thee, and get thee downe to the floore: but make not thy selfe knowen vnto the man, vntill hee shall haue done eating and drinking.
4. And it shall be when hee lieth downe, that thou shalt marke the place where hee shall lie, and thou shalt goe in, and vncouer his feete, and lay thee downe, and he will tell thee what thou shalt doe.
5. And shee said vnto her, All that thou sayest vnto me, I will doe.
6. And she went downe vnto the floore, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
7. And when Boaz had eaten and drunke, and his heart was merrie, hee went to lie downe at the ende of the heape of corne: and she came softly, and vncouered his feet, and laid her downe.
8. And it came to passe at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himselfe: and behold, a woman lay at his feete.
9. And hee said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am rthh thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt ouer thine handmaid, for thou art a neare kinseman.
10. And hee said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindnesse in the latter ende, then at the beginning, in as much as thou followedst not yong men, whether poore, or rich.
11. And now my daughter, feare not, I will doe to thee all that thou requirest: for all the citie of my people doeth know, that thou art a vertuous woman.
12. And now it is true, that I am thy neare kinseman: howbeit there is a kinseman nearer then I.
13. Tary this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if hee will performe vnto thee the part of a kinseman, well, let him doe the kinsemans part; but if hee will not doe the part of a kinseman to thee, then will I doe the part of a kinseman to thee, as the Lord liueth: lie downe vntill the morning.
14. And shee lay at his feete vntill the morning: and she rose vp before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be knowen, that a woman came into the floore.
15. Also he said, Bring the vaile that thou hast vpon thee, and holde it. And when she helde it, he measured sixe measures of barley, and laide it on her: and he went into the citie.
16. And when shee came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? and she tolde her all that the man had done to her.
17. And she said, These sixe measures of barley gaue he me, for he said to me, Go not emptie vnto thy mother in law.
18. Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, vntill thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, vntil he haue finished the thing this day.
1. Then went Boaz vp to the gate, and sate him downe there: and beholde, the kinseman of whome Boaz spake, came by, vnto whom he said, Ho, such a one: turne aside, sit downe here. And hee turned aside, and sate downe.
2. And hee tooke ten men of the Elders of the citie, and said, Sit ye downe here. And they sate downe.
3. And he said vnto the kinseman: Naomi that is come againe out of the countrey of Moab, selleth a parcell of land, which was our brother Elimelechs.
4. And I thought to aduertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the Elders of my people. If thou wilt redeeme it, redeeme it, but if thou wilt not redeeme it, then tell mee, that I may know: for there is none to redeeme it, besides thee, and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeeme it.
5. Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of rthh the Moabitesse, the wife of the dead, to raise vp the name of the dead vpon his inheritance.
6. And the kinseman said, I cannot redeeme it for my selfe, lest I marre mine owne inheritance: redeeme thou my right to thy selfe, for I cannot redeeme it.
7. Now this was the maner in former time in Israel, concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirme all things: a man plucked off his shooe, and gaue it to his neighbour: and this was a testimonie in Israel.
8. Therfore the kinseman said vnto Boaz, Buy it for thee: so he drew off his shooe.
9. And Boaz saide vnto the Elders, and vnto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I haue bought all that was Elimelechs, and all that was Chilions, and Mahlons, of the hande of Naomi.
10. Moreouer, rthh the Moabitesse, the wife of Mahlon, haue I purchased to be my wife, to raise vp the name of the dead vpon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
11. And all the people that were in the gate, and the Elders said, Wee are witnesses: The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house, like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and bee famous in Bethlehem.
12. And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, ( whom Tamar bare vnto to Iudah) of the seed which the Lord shall giue thee of this yong woman.
13. So Boaz tooke rthh, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lord gaue her conception, and she bare a sonne.
14. And the women said vnto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinseman, that his name may bee famous in Israel:
15. And he shalbe vnto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law which loueth thee, which is better to thee then seuen sonnes, hath borne him.
16. And Naomi tooke the childe, and laid it in her bosome, and became nurse vnto it.
17. And the women her neighbours gaue it a name, saying, There is a sonne borne to Naomi, and they called his name Obed: hee is the father of Iesse the father of Dauid.
18. Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begate Hezron,
19. And Hezron begate Ram, and Ram begate Amminadab,
20. And Amminadab begate Nahshon, and Nahshon begate Salmon,
21. And Salmon begate Boaz, and Boaz begate Obed,
22. And Obed begat Iesse, and Iesse begate Dauid.
1. Now there was a certaine man of Ramathaim Zophim, of mount Ephraim, & his name was Elkanah, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Elihu, the sonne of Tohu, the sonne of Zuph, an Ephrathite;
2. And he had two wiues, the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
3. And this man went vp out of his citie yeerely, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hostes in Shiloh; and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas, the Priests of the Lord, were there.
4. And when the time was, that Elkanah offered, he gaue to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sonnes, and her daughters, portions.
5. But vnto Hannah he gaue a worthy portion: (for he loued Hannah, but the Lord had shut vp her wombe.
6. And her aduersary also prouoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut vp her wombe.)
7. And as he did so yeere by yeere, when she went vp to the house of the Lord, so she prouoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
8. Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieued? Am not I better to thee, then ten sonnes?
9. So Hannah rose vp after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunke; (now Eli the Priest sate vpon a seat by a poste of the Temple of the Lord. )
10. And shee was in bitternesse of soule, and prayed vnto the Lord, and wept sore.
11. And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hostes, if thou wilt indeed looke on the affliction of thine handmayd, and remember me, and not forget thine handmayd, but wilt giue vnto thine handmayd a man childe, then I will giue him vnto the Lord all the dayes of his life, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.
12. And it came to passe as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth.
13. Now Hannah, shee spake in her heart; onely her lippes mooued, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had beene drunken.
14. And Eli said vnto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
15. And Hannah answered, and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowfull spirit: I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord.
16. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and griefe, haue I spoken hitherto.
17. Then Eli answered, and said, Goe in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, that thou hast asked of him.
18. And she said, Let thine handmaid finde grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eate, and her countenance was no more sad.
19. And they rose vp in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knewe Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembred her.
20. Wherefore it came to passe when the time was come about, after Hannah had conceiued, that shee bare a sonne, and called his name Samuel, saying; Because I haue asked him of the Lord.
21. And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went vp to offer vnto the Lord the yeerely sacrifice, and his vowe.
22. But Hannah went not vp; for shee said vnto her husband, I will not goe vp vntill the childe be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appeare before the Lord, and there abide for euer.
23. And Elkanah her husband said vnto her, Do what seemeth thee good, tary vntill thou haue weaned him, only the Lord establish his word: so the woman abode, and gaue her sonne sucke vntill she weaned him.
24. And when shee had weaned him, shee tooke him vp with her, with three bullocks, and one Ephah of floure, and a bottle of wine, and brought him vnto the house of the Lord in Shiloh: and the childe was young.
25. And they slew a bullocke, and brought the childe to Eli.
26. And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman, that stood by thee heere, praying vnto the Lord.
27. For this childe I prayed, and the Lord hath giuen me my petition, which I asked of him:
28. Therefore also I haue lent him to the Lord as long as hee liueth, he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there.
1. And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart reioyceth in the Lord, mine horne is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is inlarged ouer mine enemies: because I reioyce in thy saluation.
2. There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any Rocke like our God.
3. Talke no more so exceeding proudly, let not arrogancie come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
4. The vowes of the mightie men are broken, and they that stumbled are girt with strength.
5. They that were full, haue hired out themselues for bread: and they that were hungry, ceased: so that the barren hath borne seuen, and she that hath many children, is waxed feeble.
6. The Lord killeth and maketh aliue, he bringeth downe to the graue, and bringeth vp.
7. The Lord maketh poore, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth vp.
8. He raiseth vp the poore out of the dust, and lifteth vp the begger from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lords, and hee hath set the world vpon them.
9. He will keepe the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall bee silent in darkenesse; for by strength shall no man preuaile.
10. The aduersaries of the Lord shalbe broken to pieces: out of heauen shal he thunder vpon them: the Lord shall iudge the ends of the earth, and he shal giue strength vnto his king, and exalt the horne of his Anointed.
11. And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the child did minister vnto the Lord before Eli the Priest.
12. Now the sonnes of Eli were sonnes of Belial, they knewe not the Lord.
13. And the priests custome with the people was, that when any man offred sacrifice, the priestes seruant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhooke of three teeth in his hand,
14. And he strooke it into the panne, or kettle, or caldron, or pot: all that the flesh-hooke brought vp, the priest tooke for himselfe: so they did in Shiloh vnto all the Israelites that came thither.
15. Also before they burnt the fat, the priests seruant came, & said to the man that sacrificed, Giue flesh to roste for the priest, for he wil not haue sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
16. And if any man said vnto him, Let them not faile to burne the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soule desireth: then hee would answere him, Nay, but thou shalt giue it mee now: and if not, I will take it by force.
17. Wherefore the sinne of the yong men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.
18. But Samuel ministred before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linnen Ephod.
19. Moreouer, his mother made him a litle coate, and brought it to him from yeere to yeere, when she came vp with her husband, to offer the yeerely sacrifice.
20. And Eli blessed Elkanah, and his wife, and said, The Lord giue thee seed of this woman, for the loane which is lent to the Lord. And they went vnto their owne home.
21. And the Lord visited Hannah, so that shee conceiued, and bare three sonnes, and two daughters: and the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
22. Now Eli was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did vnto all Israel, and how they lay with the women that assembled at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation
23. And he said vnto them, Why doe ye such things? for I heare of your euil dealings, by all this people.
24. Nay my sonnes: for it is no good report that I heare; yee make the Lords people to transgresse.
25. If one man sinne against another, the Iudge shall iudge him: but if a man sinne against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not vnto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
26. (And the child Samuel grew on, and was in fauour, both with the Lord, and also with men.)
27. And there came a man of God vnto Eli, and saide vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did I plainely appeare vnto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaohs house?
28. And did I chuse him out of all the tribes of Israel, to be my Priest, to offer vpon mine altar, to burne incense, to weare an Ephod before me? and did I giue vnto the house of thy father, all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
29. Wherefore kicke ye at my sacrifice, and at mine offering, which I haue commaunded in my habitation, and honourest thy sonnes aboue mee, to make your selues fat with the chiefest of all the offrings of Israel my people?
30. Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I sayd indeede that thy house, & the house of thy father should walke before me for euer: but now the Lord saith, Be it farre from mee; for them that honour me, I will honour, and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.
31. Behold, the dayes come, that I will cut off thine arme, and the arme of thy fathers house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
32. And thou shalt see an enemie in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall giue Israel, and there shall not bee an olde man in thine house for euer.
33. And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine Altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieue thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the floure of their age.
34. And this shall bee a signe vnto thee, that shall come vpon thy two sonnes, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
35. And I will raise me vp a faithfull Priest, that shall doe according to that which is in my heart and in my mind, and I will build him a sure house, and hee shall walke before mine Anointed for euer.
36. And it shall come to passe, that euery one that is left in thine house, shal come and crouch to him for a piece of siluer, and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me (I pray thee) into one of the Priests offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
1. And the child Samuel ministred vnto the Lord before Eli: and the word of the Lord was precious in those daies; there was no open vision.
2. And it came to passe at that time, when Eli was layd downe in his place, and his eyes beganne to waxe dimme, that he could not see;
3. And yer the lampe of God went out in the Temple of the Lord, where the Arke of God was, and Samuel was layd downe to sleepe;
4. That the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, Here am I.
5. And he ranne vnto Eli, and sayd, Here am I, for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie downe againe. And he went and lay downe.
6. And the Lord called yet againe, Samuel. And Samuel arose, and went to Eli, and said, Here am I, for thou diddest call me. And he answered, I called not, my sonne; lie downe againe.
7. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet reuealed vnto him.
8. And the Lord called Samuel againe the third time. And hee arose, and went to Eli, and said, Here am I, for thou diddest call me. And Eli perceiued that the Lord had called the childe.
9. Therefore Eli said vnto Samuel, Go, lie downe, & it shal be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speake Lord, for thy seruant heareth. So Samuel went, and lay downe in his place.
10. And the Lord came, and stood and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speake, for thy seruant heareth.
11. And the Lord sayd to Samuel, Behold, I will doe a thing in Israel, at which, both the eares of euery one that heareth it, shall tingle.
12. In that day, I will performe against Eli, all things which I haue spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
13. For I haue tolde him, that I will iudge his house for euer, for the iniquitie which hee knoweth: because his sonnes made themselues vile, and he restrained them not.
14. And therefore I haue sworne vnto the house of Eli, that the iniquitie of Elies house shall not be purged with sacrifice, nor offering for euer.
15. And Samuel lay vntill the morning, and opened the doores of the house of the Lord: and Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
16. Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel my sonne. And he answered, Here am I.
17. And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said vnto thee? I pray thee hide it not from mee: God doe so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me, of all the things that hee said vnto thee.
18. And Samuel tolde him euery whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: Let him doe what seemeth him good.
19. And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
20. And all Israel from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, knew that Samuel was established to bee a Prophet of the Lord.
21. And the Lord appeared againe in Shiloh: for the Lord reueiled himselfe to Samuel in Shiloh, by the word of the Lord.
1. And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battell, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
2. And the Philistines put themselues in aray against Israel: and when they ioyned battell, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the armie in the field, about foure thousand men.
3. And when the people were come into the campe, the Elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten vs to day before the Philistines? Let vs fetch the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord out of Shiloh vnto vs, that when it commeth among vs, it may saue vs out of the hand of our enemies.
4. So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth betweene the Cherubims: and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas were there, with the Arke of the Couenant of God.
5. And when the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord came into the campe, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang againe.
6. And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the campe of the Hebrewes? And they vnderstood, that the Arke of the Lord was come into the campe.
7. And the Philistines were afraid, for they saide, God is come into the campe. And they said, Woe vnto vs: for there hath not bene such a thing heretofore.
8. Woe vnto vs: who shall deliuer vs out of the hand of these mightie Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wildernesse.
9. Bee strong, and quit your selues like men, O ye Philistines, that yee be not seruants vnto the Hebrewes, as they haue bene to you: quit your selues like men, and fight.
10. And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled euery man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirtie thousand footmen.
11. And the Arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas were slaine.
12. And there ran a man of Beniamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth vpon his head.
13. And when hee came, loe, Eli sate vpon a seat by the way side, watching: for his heart trembled for the Arke of God. And when the man came into the citie, and told it, all the city cried out.
14. And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, hee said; What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
15. Now Eli was ninetie and eight yeeres old, and his eyes were dimme, that he could not see.
16. And the man said vnto Eli, I am he, that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my sonne?
17. And the messenger answered, and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath bene also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sonnes also, Hophni & Phinehas, are dead, and the Arke of God is taken.
18. And it came to passe when hee made mention of the Arke of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his necke brake, and hee died: for hee was an old man, and heauie, and hee had iudged Israel fortie yeeres.
19. And his daughter in law Phinehas wife was with childe neere to be deliuered: and when shee heard the tidings that the Arke of God was taken, and that her father in law, and her husband were dead, shee bowed her selfe and traueyled; for her paines came vpon her.
20. And about the time of her death, the women that stood by her, said vnto her: Feare not, for thou hast borne a sonne. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
21. And she named the childe Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, (because the Arke of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.)
22. And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the Arke of God is taken.
1. And the Philistines tooke the Arke of God, and brought it from Ebenezer vnto Ashdod.
2. When the Philistines tooke the Arke of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
3. And when they of Ashdod arose earely on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen vpon his face to the earth, before the Arke of the Lord: and they tooke Dagon, and set him in his place againe.
4. And when they arose earely on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen vpon his face to the ground, before the Arke of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palmes of his hands were cut off vpon the threshold, only the stumpe of Dagon was left to him.
5. Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagons house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod vnto this day.
6. But the hand of the Lord was heauy vpon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with Emerods, euen Ashdod, and the coastes thereof.
7. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The Arke of the God of Israel shall not abide with vs: for his hand is sore vpon vs, and vpon Dagon our god.
8. They sent therefore, and gathered all the lords of the Philistines vnto them, and said, What shall we doe with the Arke of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the Arke of the God of Israel bee caried about vnto Gath. And they caried the Arke of the God of Israel about thither.
9. And it was so, that after they had caried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the citie with a very great destruction: and hee smote the men of the citie both small and great, and they had Emerods in their secret parts.
10. Therfore they sent the Arke of God to Ekron: and it came to passe as the Arke of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They haue brought about the Arke of the God of Israel to vs, to slay vs, and our people.
11. So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the Arke of the God of Israel, and let it goe againe to his owne place, that it slay vs not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the citie: The hand of God was very heauy there.
12. And the men that died not, were smitten with the Emerods: and the cry of the citie went vp to heauen.
1. And the Arke of the Lord was in the countrey of the Philistines seuen moneths.
2. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diuiners, saying, What shall we doe to the Arke of the Lord ? Tell vs wherewith we shall send it to his place?
3. And they said, If yee send away the Arke of the God of Israel, send it not empty: but in any wise returne him a trespasse offring: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be knowen to you, why his hand is not remooued from you.
4. Then said they, What shall be the trespasse offering, which wee shall returne to him? They answered, Fiue golden Emerods, and fiue golden mice, according to the number of the lordes of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5. Wherefore ye shall make images of your Emerodes, and images of your Mice, that marre the land, and ye shall giue glory vnto the God of Israel: peraduenture hee will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6. Wherefore then doe yee harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people goe, and they departed?
7. Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch-kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring the calues home from them.
8. And take the Arke of the Lord, and lay it vpon the cart, and put the iewels of golde, which ye returne him for a trespasse offering, in a coffer by the side thereof, and send it away, that it may goe.
9. And see, if it goeth vp by the way of his owne coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done vs this great euill: but if not, then wee shall know that it is not his hand that smote vs; it was a chance that happened to vs.
10. And the men did so: and tooke two milch-kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut vp their calues at home.
11. And they layde the Arke of the Lord vpon the cart, and the coffer, with the mice of golde, and the images of their Emerods.
12. And the kine tooke the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the high way, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left: and the lords of the Philistines went after them, vnto the border of Bethshemesh.
13. And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat haruest in the valley: and they lifted vp their eyes, and saw the Arke, and reioyced to see it.
14. And the cart came into the field of Ioshua a Bethshemite, & stood there, where there was a great stone: and they claue the wood of the cart, and offered the kine, a burnt offering vnto the Lord.
15. And the Leuites tooke downe the Arke of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the iewels of golde were, and put them on the great stone: And the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offrings, and sacrificed sacrifices the same day vnto the Lord.
16. And when the fiue lordes of the Philistines had seene it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17. And these are the golden Emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespasse offering vnto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one.
18. And the golden Mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the fiue lordes, both of fenced cities, and of countrey villages, euen vnto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set downe the Arke of the Lord; which stone remaineth vnto this day, in the field of Ioshua the Bethshemite.
19. And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the Arke of the Lord, euen he smote of the people fiftie thousand, and threescore and tenne men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
20. And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shal he goe vp from vs?
21. And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-iearim, saying, The Philistines haue brought againe the Arke of the Lord; come ye downe, and fetch it vp to you.
1. And the men of Kiriath-iearim came, and fetcht vp the Arke of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his sonne, to keepe the Arke of the Lord.
2. And it came to passe while the Arke abode in Kiriath-iearim, that the time was long: for it was twentie yeeres: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
3. And Samuel spake vnto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye doe returne vnto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods, and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts vnto the Lord, and serue him onely: & he will deliuer you out of the hand of the Philistines.
4. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and serued the Lord onely.
5. And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you vnto the Lord.
6. And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and powred it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We haue sinned against the Lord. And Samuel iudged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
7. And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went vp against Israel: and when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
8. And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to crie vnto the Lord our God for vs, that he will saue vs out of the hand of the Philistines.
9. And Samuel tooke a sucking lambe, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly vnto the Lord; and Samuel cried vnto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.
10. And as Samuel was offering vp the burnt offering, the Philistines drewe neere to battell against Israel: but the Lord thundred with a great thunder on that day vpon the Philistines, and discomfited them, and they were smitten before Israel.
11. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, vntill they came vnder Bethcar.
12. Then Samuel tooke a stone, and set it betweene Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-Ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped vs.
13. 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 dayes of Samuel.
14. And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were restored to Israel, from Ekron euen vnto Gath, and the coasts thereof did Israel deliuer out of the hands of the Philistines: and there was peace betweene Israel and the Amorites.
15. And Samuel iudged Israel all the dayes of his life.
16. And he went from yeere to yeere in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and iudged Israel in all those places.
17. And his returne was to Ramah: for there was his house: and there hee iudged Israel, and there hee built an altar vnto the Lord.
1. And it came to passe, when Samuel was old, that he made his sonnes Iudges ouer Israel.
2. Now the name of his first borne was Ioel, and the name of his second, Abiah: they were Iudges in Beer-sheba.
3. And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke bribes, & peruerted iudgement.
4. Then all the Elders of Israel gathered themselues together, and came to Samuel vnto Ramah,
5. And said vnto him, Behold, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in thy wayes: now make vs a King to iudge vs, like all the nations.
6. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Giue vs a King to iudge vs: and Samuel prayed vnto the Lord.
7. And the Lord said vnto Samuel, Hearken vnto the voyce of the people in all that they say vnto thee: for they haue not reiected thee, but they haue reiected mee, that I should not reigne ouer them.
8. According to all the works which they haue done since the day that I brought them vp out of Egypt euen vnto this day, wherewith they haue forsaken me, and serued other gods: so doe they also vnto thee.
9. Nowe therefore hearken vnto their voyce: howbeit, yet protest solemnly vnto them, and shew them the maner of the King that shall reigne ouer them.
10. And Samuel told all the words of the Lord vnto the people, that asked of him a King.
11. And hee sayd, This will be the maner of the king that shall reigne ouer you: Hee will take your sonnes, and appoint them for himselfe for his charets, and to bee his horsemen, and some shall runne before his charets.
12. And hee will appoint him Captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer fifties, and will set them to eare his ground, and to reape his haruest, and to make his instruments of warre, and instruments of his charets.
13. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cookes, and to be bakers.
14. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliue-yards, euen the best of them, and giue them to his seruants.
15. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and giue to his officers, and to his seruants.
16. And hee will take your men seruants, and your mayd seruants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his worke.
17. Hee will take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants.
18. And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king which ye shall haue chosen you; and the Lord will not heare you in that day.
19. Neuerthelesse, the people refused to obey the voyce of Samuel; and they said, Nay, but we will haue a King ouer vs:
20. That we also may be like all the nations, and that our King may iudge vs, and goe out before vs, and fight our battels.
21. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the eares of the Lord.
22. And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken vnto their voyce, and make them a King. And Samuel said vnto the men of Israel, Goe yee euery man vnto his citie.
1. Now there was a man of Beniamin, whose name was Kish, the sonne of Abiel, the sonne of Zeror, the sonne of Bechorath, the sonne of Aphiah, a Beniamite, a mighty man of power.
2. And he had a sonne, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person then hee: from his shoulders and vpward, hee was higher then any of the people.
3. And the asses of Kish, Sauls father, were lost; and Kish said to Saul his sonne, Take nowe one of the seruants with thee, and arise, goe seeke the asses.
4. And he passed thorow mount Ephraim, and passed thorow the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed thorow the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and hee passed thorow the land of the Beniamites, but they found them not.
5. And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his seruant that was with him, Come, and let vs returne, lest my father leaue caring for the asses, and take thought for vs.
6. And hee said vnto him, Behold now, there is in this citie a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith, commeth surely to passe: Now let vs goe thither; peraduenture he can shew vs our way that we should goe.
7. Then said Saul to his seruaunt, But behold, if we goe, what shall wee bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: What haue wee?
8. And the seruant answered Saul againe, and said, Behold, I haue here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of siluer; that wil I giue to the man of God, to tell vs our way.
9. (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake; Come, and let vs go to the Seer: for he that is now called a Prophet, was beforetime called a Seer.)
10. Then said Saul to his seruant, Wel said, come, let vs go: so they went vnto the city where the man of God was.
11. And as they went vp the hill to the city, they found yong maydens going out to draw water, and said vnto them, Is the Seer here?
12. And they answered them, and said, He is: behold, he is before you, make haste now: for he came to day to the citie; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the hie place.
13. Assoone as ye be come into the citie, ye shall straightway finde him, before he goe vp to the high place to eate: for the people will not eate vntill hee come, because he doth blesse the sacrifice, and afterwards they eat that be bidden: Now therefore get you vp, for about this time ye shall finde him.
14. And they went vp into the citie: and when they were come into the citie, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to goe vp to the hie place.
15. Now the Lord had told Samuel in his eare a day before Saul came, saying,
16. To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Beniamin, and thou shalt anoynt him to be Captaine ouer my people Israel, that he may saue my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I haue looked vpon my people, because their cry is come vnto me.
17. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said vnto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of: this same shall reigne ouer my people.
18. Then Saul drew neere to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the Seers house is.
19. And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the Seer: Goe vp before me vnto the high place, for ye shall eate with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee goe, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
20. And as for thine asses that were lost three dayes agoe, set not thy minde on them, for they are found: And on whom is all the desire of Israel? is it not on thee, & on all thy fathers house?
21. And Saul answered, and said, Am not I a Beniamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Beniamin? Wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
22. And Samuel tooke Saul, and his seruant, and brought them into the parlour, & made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirtie persons.
23. And Samuel said vnto the cooke, Bring the portion which I gaue thee, of which I said vnto thee, Set it by thee.
24. And the cooke took vp the shoulder, and that which was vpon it, and set it before Saul, and Samuel said, Behold, that which is left, set it before thee, and eate: for vnto this time hath it bene kept for thee, since I said I haue inuited the people: So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
25. And when they were come downe from the high place into the citie, Samuel communed with Saul vpon the top of the house.
26. And they arose early: and it came to passe about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away: And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, hee and Samuel, abroad.
27. And as they were going downe to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the seruant passe on before vs, (and he passed on) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
1. Then Samuel tooke a viall of oile, and powred it vpon his head, & kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anoynted thee to be captain ouer his inheritance?
2. When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachels sepulchre in the border of Beniamin, at Zelzah: and they will say vnto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seeke, are found: and loe, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I doe for my sonne?
3. Then shalt thou goe on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plaine of Tabor, and there shall meete thee three men, going vp to God to Bethel, one carying three kids, and another carying three loaues of bread, and another carying a bottle of wine.
4. And they will salute thee, and giue thee two loaues of bread, which thou shalt receiue of their hands.
5. After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garison of the Philistines: and it shall come to passe when thou art come thither to the citie, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets comming downe from the high place, with a psalterie, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harpe before them, and they shall prophecie.
6. And the Spirit of the Lord will come vpon thee, and thou shalt prophecie with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
7. And let it be when these signes are come vnto thee, that thou doe as occasion serue thee, for God is with thee.
8. And thou shalt goe downe before me to Gilgal, and behold, I will come downe vnto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seuen dayes shalt thou tarie, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt doe. 
9. And it was so that when he had turned his backe to go from Samuel, God gaue him another heart: and all those signes came to passe that day.
10. And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of the prophets met him, and the spirit of God came vpon him, and hee prophesied among them.
11. And it came to passe when all that knew him beforetime, saw, that behold, hee prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come vnto the sonne of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
12. And one of the same place answered, and sayd, But who is their father? Therefore it became a prouerbe, Is Saul also among the Prophets?
13. And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
14. And Sauls vncle saide vnto him, and to his seruant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seeke the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
15. And Sauls vncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said vnto you.
16. And Saul sayd vnto his vncle; He told vs plainely that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdome, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
17. And Samuel called the people together vnto the Lord to Mizpeh;
18. And said vnto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought vp Israel out of Egypt, and deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdomes, and of them that oppressed you.
19. And ye haue this day reiected your God, who himselfe saued you out of all your aduersities & your tribulations: and ye haue said vnto him, Nay, but set a king ouer vs. Now therefore present your selues before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.
20. And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come neere, the tribe of Beniamin was taken.
21. When he had caused the tribe of Beniamin to come neere by their families, the familie of Matri was taken, and Saul the sonne of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
22. Therefore they enquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither: and the Lord answered, Behold, hee hath hid himselfe among the stuffe.
23. And they ranne, and fetched him thence, and when he stood among the people, he was higher then any of the people, from the shoulders & vpward.
24. And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whome the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and saide, God saue the King.
25. Then Samuel tolde the people the maner of the kingdome, and wrote it in a booke, and layd it vp before the Lord, and Samuel sent all the people away, euery man to his house.
26. And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
27. But the children of Belial sayd, Howe shall this man saue vs? and they despised him, and brought him no presents: but he held his peace.
1. Then Nahash the Ammonite came vp, and encamped against Iabesh Gilead: and all the men of Iabesh sayde vnto Nahash, Make a couenant with vs, and we will serue thee.
2. And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a couenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproch vpon all Israel.
3. And the Elders of Iabesh sayd vnto him, Giue vs seuen daies respite, that we may send messengers vnto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to saue vs, we will come out to thee.
4. Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the eares of the people: and all the people lift vp their voyces, and wept.
5. And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field, and Saul sayd, What aileth the people that they weep? and they told him the tidings of the men of Iabesh.
6. And the Spirit of God came vpon Saul, when he heard those tydings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
7. And he tooke a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoeuer commeth not foorth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it bee done vnto his oxen: and the feare of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
8. And when he numbred them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Iudah thirty thousand.
9. And they said vnto the messengers that came, Thus shall yee say vnto the men of Iabesh Gilead, To morrow by that time the sunne be hote, ye shal haue helpe. And the messengers came, and shewed it to the men of Iabesh, and they were glad.
10. Therfore the men of Iabesh said, To morrow wee will come out vnto you, and ye shall doe with vs all that seemeth good vnto you.
11. And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three copanies, and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slewe the Ammonites, vntill the heat of the day: and it came to passe, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
12. And the people said vnto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reigne ouer vs? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
13. And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the Lord hath wrought saluation in Israel.
14. Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let vs goe to Gilgal, and renew the kingdome there.
15. And all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul King before the Lord in Gilgal: and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord: and there Saul and all the men of Israel reioyced greatly.
1. And Samuel saide vnto all Israel, Beholde, I haue hearkned vnto your voice in all that ye said vnto mee, and haue made a King ouer you.
2. And now behold, the King walketh before you: and I am olde, and gray headed, and behold, my sonnes are with you: and I haue walked before you from my childhood vnto this day.
3. Behold, here I am, witnesse against me before the Lord, and before his Anoynted: Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? or whom haue I defrauded? whom haue I oppressed? or of whose hand haue I receiued any bribe to blinde mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
4. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded vs, nor oppressed vs, neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand.
5. And hee said vnto them, The Lord is witnesse against you, and his Anointed is witnesse this day, that ye haue not found ought in my hand: And they answered, He is witnesse.
6. And Samuel said vnto the people, It is the Lord that aduanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers vp out of the land of Egypt.
7. 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 your fathers.
8. When Iacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried vnto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought foorth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
9. And when they forgat the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera captaine of the hoste of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
10. And they cried vnto the Lord, and said, Wee haue sinned, because we haue forsaken the Lord, and haue serued Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliuer vs out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serue thee.
11. And the Lord sent Ierubbaal, and Bedan, and Iephthah, and Samuel, and deliuered you out of the hand of your enemies on euery side, and yee dwelled safe.
12. And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said vnto me, Nay, but a King shall reigne ouer vs, when the Lord your God was your King.
13. Now therefore, behold the King whom yee haue chosen, and whom yee haue desired: and behold, the Lord hath set a King ouer you.
14. If ye will feare the Lord, and serue him, and obey his voice, and not rebell against the Commandement of the Lord, then shall both ye and also the King that reigneth ouer you, continue following the Lord your God.
15. But if ye wil not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the Commandement of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers.
16. Now therefore stand and see this great thing which the Lord will doe before your eyes.
17. Is it not wheat haruest to day? I will call vnto the Lord, and hee shall send thunder and raine, that ye may perceiue and see that your wickednesse is great, which ye haue done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a King.
18. So Samuel called vnto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and raine that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
19. And all the people said vnto Samuel, Pray for thy seruants vnto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we haue added vnto all our sinnes, this euil, to aske vs a King.
20. And Samuel saide vnto the people, Feare not: (ye haue done al this wickednesse, yet turne not aside from following the Lord, but serue the Lord with all your heart:
21. And turne ye not aside, for then should ye goe after vaine things, which cannot profit, nor deliuer, for they are vaine.)
22. For the Lord wil not forsake his people, for his great Names sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
23. Moreouer, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.
24. Onely feare the Lord, and serue him in trueth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
25. But if yee shall still doe wickedly, yee shall be consumed, both yee and your King.
1. Saul reigned one yeere, and when he had reigned two yeeres ouer Israel,
2. Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash, and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Ionathan in Gibeah of Beniamin: and the rest of the people he sent euery man to his tent.
3. And Ionathan smote the garison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it: and Saul blew the trumpet thorowout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrewes heare.
4. And all Israel heard say, that Saul had smitten a garison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines: and the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
5. And the Philistines gathered themselues together, to fight with Israel, thirtie thousand charets, and sixe thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude, and they came vp, and pitched in Michmash, Eastward from Bethauen. 
6. When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait: (for the people were distressed:) then the people did hide themselues in caues, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
7. And some of the Hebrewes went ouer Iordane, to the land of Gad and Gilead; as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
8. And he taried seuen dayes, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him.
9. And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offring to me, and peace offrings. And he offered the burnt offering.
10. And it came to passe that assoone as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came, and Saul went out to meete him, that he might salute him.
11. And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I sawe that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the dayes appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselues together to Michmash:
12. Therfore said I, The Philistines will come downe now vpon me to Gilgal, and I haue not made supplication vnto the Lord: I forced my selfe therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
13. And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandement of the Lord thy God, which hee commanded thee: for now would the Lord haue established thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer.
14. But now thy kingdome shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his owne heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to bee captaine ouer his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
15. And Samuel arose, and gate him vp from Gilgal, vnto Gibeah of Beniamin, and Saul numbred the people that were present with him, about sixe hundred men.
16. And Saul and Ionathan his sonne, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Beniamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
17. And the spoilers came out of the campe of the Philistines, in three companies: one company turned vnto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, vnto the land of Shual.
18. And another company turned the way to Bethoron: and another companie turned to the way of the border, that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse.
19. Now there was no smith found thorowout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrewes make them swords or speares.
20. But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines, to sharpen euery man his share and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattocke.
21. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forkes, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
22. So it came to passe in the day of battell, that there was neither sword nor speare found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan: but with Saul & with Ionathan his sonne was there found.
23. And the garison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
1. Now it came to passe vpon a day, that Ionathan the sonne of Saul said vnto the yong man that bare his armour, Come, and let vs goe ouer to the Philistines garison, that is on the other side: but hee told not his father.
2. And Saul taried in the vttermost part of Gibeah, vnder a Pomegranate tree, which is in Migron: and the people that were with him, were about sixe hundred men:
3. And Ahiah the sonne of Ahitub, Ichabods brother, the sonne of Phinehas, the sonne of Eli, the Lords Priest in Shiloh, wearing an Ephod: and the people knew not that Ionathan was gone.
4. And betweene the passages, by which Ionathan sought to go ouer vnto the Philistines garison, there was a sharpe rocke on the one side, and a sharp rocke on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5. The forefront of the one was situate Northward ouer against Michmash, and the other Southward ouer against Gibeah.
6. And Ionathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let vs goe ouer vnto the garison of these vncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will worke for vs: for there is no restraint to the Lord, to saue by many, or by few.
7. And his armour bearer sayd vnto him, Doe all that is in thine heart: turne thee, behold, I am with thee, according to thy heart.
8. Then said Ionathan, Behold, we will passe ouer vnto these men, and we will discouer our selues vnto them.
9. If they say thus vnto vs, Tary vntill we come to you: then wee will stand still in our place, and will not goe vp vnto them.
10. But if they say thus, Come vp vnto vs: then we will goe vp; for the Lord hath deliuered them into our hand: and this shall be a signe vnto vs.
11. And both of them discouered themselues vnto the garison of the Philistines: and the Philistines sayd, Behold, the Hebrewes come foorth out of the holes, where they had hid themselues.
12. And the men of the garison answered Ionathan and his armour bearer, and said, Come vp to vs, and wee will shew you a thing. And Ionathan said vnto his armour bearer, Come vp after me; for the Lord hath deliuered them into the hand of Israel.
13. And Ionathan climed vp vpon his hands, and vpon his feete, and his armour bearer after him: and they fell before Ionathan; and his armour bearer slew after him.
14. And that first slaughter which Ionathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twentie men, within as it were an halfe acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
15. And there was trembling in the hoste, in the field, and among all the people: the garison and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
16. And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Beniamin looked: and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating downe one another.
17. Then said Saul vnto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from vs. And when they had numbred, behold, Ionathan and his armour bearer were not there.
18. And Saul said vnto Ahiah, Bring hither the Arke of God: (for the Arke of God was at that time with the children of Israel.)
19. And it came to passe while Saul talked vnto the Priest, that the noise that was in the hoste of the Philistines went on, and increased: And Saul said vnto the Priest, Withdraw thine hand.
20. And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselues, and they came to the battel, and behold, euery mans sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
21. Moreouer, the Hebrewes that were with the Philistines before that time, which went vp with them into the campe from the countrey round about; euen they also turned to be with the Israelites, that were with Saul and Ionathan.
22. Likewise all the men of Israel, which had hid themselues in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, euen they also followed hard after them in the battell.
23. So the Lord saued Israel that day: and the battell passed ouer vnto Beth-auen.
24. And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adiured the people, saying, Cursed bee the man that eateth any foode vntill euening, that I may be auenged on mine enemies: so none of the people tasted any food.
25. And all they of the land came to a wood, and there was honie vpon the ground.
26. And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honie dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
27. But Ionathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath; wherefore he put foorth the ende of the rodde that was in his hand, and dipt it in an hony combe, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
28. Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
29. Then said Ionathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes haue beene enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honie:
30. How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoile of their enemies which they found? for had there not beene now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31. And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aiialon: and the people were very faint.
32. And the people flewe vpon the spoile, and tooke sheepe, and oxen, and calues, and slew them on the ground, and the people did eate them with the blood.
33. Then they tolde Saul, saying, Behold, the people sinne against the Lord, in that they eate with the blood. And he said, Yee haue transgressed: roule a great stone vnto mee this day.
34. And Saul said, Disperse your selues among the people, and say vnto them, Bring me hither euery man his oxe, and euery man his sheepe, and slay them here, and eat, and sinne not against the Lord in eating with the blood. And all the people brought euery man his oxe with him that night, and slew them there.
35. And Saul built an altar vnto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he built vnto the Lord.
36. And Saul saide, Let vs goe downe after the Philistines by night, and spoile them vntil the morning light, and let vs not leaue a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoeuer seemeth good vnto thee. Then said the priest, Let vs draw neere hither vnto God.
37. And Saul asked counsell of God, Shall I goe downe after the Philistines? Wilt thou deliuer them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
38. And Saul said, Draw yee neere hither all the chiefe of the people: and know and see, wherein this sinne hath beene this day.
39. For as the Lord liueth, which saueth Israel, though it bee in Ionathan my sonne, he shall surely die: But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
40. Then said he vnto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I, and Ionathan my sonne will be on the other side. And the people said vnto Saul, Doe what seemeth good vnto thee.
41. Therefore Saul saide vnto the Lord God of Israel, Giue a perfect lot. And Saul and Ionathan were taken: but the people escaped.
42. And Saul said, Cast lots betweene me and Ionathan my sonne. And Ionathan was taken.
43. Then Saul said to Ionathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Ionathan tolde him, and said, I did but taste a litle hony with the end of the rodde that was in mine hand, and loe, I must die.
44. And Saul answered, God do so, and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Ionathan.
45. And the people said vnto Saul, Shall Ionathan die, who hath wrought this great saluation in Israel? God forbid: as the Lord liueth, there shal not one haire of his head fall to the ground: for hee hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Ionathan, that hee died not.
46. Then Saul went vp from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their owne place.
47. So Saul tooke the kingdom ouer Israel, and fought against all his enemies on euery side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoeuer hee turned himselfe, he vexed them.
48. And he gathered an hoste, and smote the Amalekites, and deliuered Israel out of the handes of them that spoiled them.
49. Now the sonnes of Saul, were Ionathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the first borne Merab, and the name of the yonger Michal:
50. And the name of Sauls wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz, and the name of the captaine of his host was Abner, the sonne of Ner, Sauls vncle.
51. And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the sonne of Abiel.
52. And there was sore warre against the Philistines, all the dayes of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he tooke him vnto him.
1. Samuel also saide vnto Saul, The Lord sent me to annoint thee to bee king ouer his people, ouer Israel: nowe therefore hearken thou vnto the voyce of the words of the Lord.
2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way when he came vp from Egypt.
3. Now goe, and smite Amalek, and vtterly destroy all that they haue, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, oxe and sheepe, camell and asse.
4. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbred them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Iudah.
5. And Saul came to a citie of Amalek, and laid waite in the valley.
6. And Saul saide vnto the Kenites, Goe, depart, get you downe from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for yee shewed kindnesse to all the children of Israel when they came vp out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7. And Saul smote the Amalekites from Hauilah, vntill thou commest to Shur, that is ouer against Egypt.
8. And hee tooke Agag the king of the Amalekites aliue, and vtterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9. But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambes, and all that was good, and would not vtterly destroy them: but euery thing that was vile, and refuse, that they destroyed vtterly.
10. Then came the word of the Lord vnto Samuel, saying;
11. It repenteth me that I haue set vp Saul to be king: for hee is turned backe from following me, and hath not performed my commandements. And it grieued Samuel; and he cried vnto the Lord all night.
12. And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was tolde Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him vp a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone downe to Gilgal.
13. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said vnto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I haue performed the commandement of the Lord.
14. And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare?
15. And Saul sayde, They haue brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, to sacrifice vnto the Lord thy God, and the rest we haue vtterly destroyed.
16. Then Samuel sayd vnto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to mee this night. And he said vnto him, Say on.
17. And Samuel said, When thou wast litle in thine owne sight, wast thou not made the Head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee King ouer Israel?
18. And the Lord sent thee on a iourney, and said, Goe, and vtterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them, vntill they be consumed.
19. Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst flie vpon the spoile, and didst euill in the sight of the Lord ?
20. And Saul said vnto Samuel; Yea, I haue obeyed the voice of the Lord, and haue gone the way which the Lord sent me, and haue brought Agag the king of Amalek, and haue vtterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21. But the people tooke of the spoile, sheepe and oxen, the chiefe of the things which should haue bene vtterly destroyed, to sacrifice vnto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.
22. And Samuel saide, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey, is better then sacrifice: and to hearken, then the fat of rammes.
23. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubburnnesse is as iniquitie and idolatrie: because thou hast reiected the word of the Lord, he hath also reiected thee from being king.
24. And Saul said vnto Samuel, I haue sinned: for I haue transgressed the Commandement of the Lord, and thy wordes; because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25. Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sinne, and turne againe with me, that I may worship the Lord.
26. And Samuel said vnto Saul, I will not returne with thee: for thou hast reiected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath reiected thee from being king ouer Israel.
27. And as Samuel turned about to goe away, he laid hold vpon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
28. And Samuel said vnto him, The Lord hath rent the kingdome of Israel from thee this day, and hath giuen it to a neighbour of thine, that is better then thou.
29. And also the strength of Israel will not lie, nor repent: for he is not a man that he should repent.
30. Then he said, I haue sinned; yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the Elders of my people, and before Israel, and turne againe with me, that I may worship the Lord thy God.
31. So Samuel turned againe after Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.
32. Then said Samuel, Bring you hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites: and Agag came vnto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitternesse of death is past.
33. And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childlesse, so shall thy mother bee childlesse among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
34. Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went vp to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
35. And Samuel came no more to see Saul vntill the day of his death: neuerthelesse, Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king ouer Israel.
1. And the Lord said vnto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourne for Saul, seeing I haue reiected him from reigning ouer Israel? Fill thine horne with oile, and goe, I will send thee to Iesse the Bethlehemite: for I haue prouided mee a King among his sonnes.
2. And Samuel said, How can I goe? if Saul heare it, he will kill mee. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
3. And call Iesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt doe: and thou shalt anoynt vnto mee him whom I name vnto thee.
4. And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem: and the elders of the towne trembled at his comming, and said, Commest thou peaceably?
5. And hee said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice vnto the Lord: sanctifie your selues, and come with me to the sacrifice: and he sanctified Iesse, and his sonnes, and called them to the sacrifice.
6. And it came to passe when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lords anointed is before him.
7. But the Lord said vnto Samuel, Looke not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I haue refused him: for the Lord seeth not, as man seeth; For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
8. Then Iesse called Abinadab, and made him passe before Samuel: and he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
9. Then Iesse made Shammah to passe by: and he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
10. Againe Iesse made seuen of his sonnes to passe before Samuel; and Samuel said vnto Iesse, The Lord hath not chosen these.
11. And Samuel saide vnto Iesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the yongest, and behold, he keepeth the sheepe. And Samuel said vnto Iesse, Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit downe, till hee come hither.
12. And he sent, and brought him in: now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautifull countenance, and goodly to looke to: And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13. Then Samuel tooke the horne of oile, and annointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came vpon Dauid, from that day forward: So Samuel rose vp and went to Ramah.
14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an euil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
15. And Sauls seruants said vnto him, Behold now, an euill spirit from God troubleth thee.
16. Let our lord now command thy seruants which are before thee, to seeke out a man, who is a cunning player on an harpe: and it shall come to passe when the euill spirit from God is vpon thee, that hee shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
17. And Saul said vnto his seruants, Prouide mee now a man, that can play well, and bring him to me.
18. Then answered one of the seruants, and said, Behold, I haue seene a sonne of Iesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of warre, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him. 
19. Wherefore Saul sent messengers vnto Iesse, and said, Send me Dauid thy sonne, which is with the sheepe.
20. And Iesse tooke an asse laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by Dauid his sonne vnto Saul.
21. And Dauid came to Saul, and stood before him: and hee loued him greatly, and hee became his armour bearer.
22. And Saul sent to Iesse, saying, Let Dauid, I pray thee, stand before me: for hee hath found fauour in my sight.
23. And it came to passe, when the euill spirit from God was vpon Saul, that Dauid tooke an harpe, and played with his hand: So Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the euill spirit departed from him.
1. Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battell, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Iudah, and pitched betweene Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim.
2. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battell in aray against the Philistines.
3. And the Philistines stood on a mountaine on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountaine on the other side: and there was a valley betweene them.
4. And there went out a champion out of the campe of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: whose height was sixe cubites and a span.
5. And he had an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and he was armed with a coate of male: and the weight of the coat was fiue thousand shekels of brasse.
6. And he had greaues of brasse vpon his legs, and a target of brasse betweene his shoulders.
7. And the staffe of his speare was like a weauers beame, and his speares head weighed sixe hundred shekels of yron: and one bearing a shield, went before him.
8. And hee stood and cried vnto the armies of Israel, and said vnto them, Why are yee come out to set your battell in aray? Am not I a Philistine, and you seruants to Saul? Chuse you a man for you, and let him come downe to me.
9. If he be able to fight with mee, and to kill me, then will we be your seruants: but if I preuaile against him, and kill him, then shall yee be our seruants, and serue vs.
10. And the Philistine said, I defie the armies of Israel this day; giue me a man, that we may fight together.
11. When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12. Now Dauid was the sonne of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Iudah, whose name was Iesse, and hee had eight sonnes: and the man went among men for an old man in the dayes of Saul.
13. And the three eldest sonnes of Iesse went, and followed Saul to the battell: and the names of his three sonnes that went to the battell, were, Eliab the first borne, and next vnto him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.
14. And Dauid was the yongest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
15. But Dauid went, and returned from Saul, to feed his fathers sheepe at Bethlehem.
16. And the Philistine drewe neere, morning and euening, and presented himselfe forty dayes.
17. And Iesse said vnto Dauid his sonne, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corne, and these ten loaues, and run to the campe to thy brethren.
18. And carie these ten cheeses vnto the Captaine of their thousand, and looke how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
19. Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20. And Dauid rose vp earely in the morning, and left the sheepe with a keeper, and tooke, and went, as Iesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battell.
21. For Israel and the Philistines had put the battel in aray, army against armie.
22. And Dauid left his cariage in the hand of the keeper of the cariage, and ranne into the armie, and came and saluted his brethren.
23. And as he talked with them, behold, there came vp the champion (the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name) out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and Dauid heard them.
24. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25. And the men of Israel said, Haue yee seene this man that is come vp? Surely to defie Israel is he come vp: and it shall be that the man who killeth him, the king wil enrich him with great riches, and will giue him his daughter, and make his fathers house free in Israel.
26. And Dauid spake to the men that stood by him, saying; What shall bee done to the man that killeth this Philistine; and taketh away the reproch from Israel? For who is this vncircumcised Philistine, that he should defie the armies of the liuing God?
27. And the people answered him after this maner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
28. And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto the men, and Eliabs anger was kindled against Dauid, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? And with whom hast thou left those few sheepe in the wildernesse? I know thy pride, and the naughtinesse of thine heart; for thou art come downe, that thou mightest see the battell.
29. And Dauid saide, What haue I now done? Is there not a cause?
30. And hee turned from him towards another, and spake after the same maner: and the people answered him againe after the former maner.
31. And when the words were heard which Dauid spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
32. And Dauid said to Saul, Let no mans heart faile, because of him: thy seruant will goe and fight with this Philistine.
33. And Saul said to Dauid, Thou art not able to goe against this Philistine, to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of warre from his youth.
34. And Dauid said vnto Saul, Thy seruant kept his fathers sheepe, and there came a Lyon, and a Beare, and tooke a lambe out of the flocke:
35. And I went out after him, and smote him, and deliuered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
36. Thy seruant slew both the Lyon and the Beare: and this vncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the liuing God.
37. Dauid saide moreouer, The Lord that deliuered me out of the paw of the Lyon, and out of the pawe of the Beare, he will deliuer me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said vnto Dauid, Goe, and the Lord be with thee.
38. And Saul armed Dauid with his armour, and hee put an helmet of brasse vpon his head, also he armed him with a coat of male.
39. And Dauid girded his sword vpon his armour, and he assayed to goe, for he had not proued it: and Dauid said vnto Saul, I cannot goe with these: for I haue not proued them. And Dauid put them off him.
40. And hee tooke his staffe in his hand, and chose him fiue smoothe stones out of the brooke, and put them in a shepheards bag which he had, euen in a scrip, and his sling was in his hande, and he drew neere to the Philistine.
41. And the Philistine came on and drew neere vnto Dauid, and the man that bare the shield, went before him.
42. And when the Philistine looked about, and saw Dauid, hee disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a faire countenance.
43. And the Philistine said vnto Dauid, Am I a dog, that thou commest to me with staues? And the Philistine cursed Dauid by his gods.
44. And the Philistine said to Dauid, Come to me, and I will giue thy flesh vnto the foules of the aire, and to the beasts of the field.
45. Then said Dauid to the Philistine, Thou commest to mee with a sword, and with a speare, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of hostes, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
46. This day wil the Lord deliuer thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee, and I wil giue the carkeises of the host of the Philistines this day vnto the foules of the aire, and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
47. And all this assembly shal know that the Lord saueth not with sword & speare (for the battell is the Lords ) and he will giue you into our hands.
48. And it came to passe when the Philistine arose, and came, and drewe nigh to meet Dauid, that Dauid hasted, and ran toward the armie to meete the Philistine.
49. And Dauid put his hande in his bag, and tooke thence a stone, and slang it, & smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunke into his forehead, and he fell vpon his face to the earth.
50. So Dauid preuailed ouer the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him, but there was no sword in the hande of Dauid.
51. Therefore Dauid ran and stood vpon the Philistine, and tooke his sword, and drewe it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines sawe their champion was dead, they fled.
52. And the men of Israel, and of Iudah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, vntill thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron: and the wounded of the Philistines fell downe by the way to Shaaraim, euen vnto Gath, and vnto Ekron. 
53. And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
54. And Dauid tooke the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Ierusalem, but he put his armour in his tent.
55. And when Saul sawe Dauid goe forth against the Philistine, he sayd vnto Abner the captaine of the hoste, Abner, whose sonne is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soule liueth, O king, I cannot tell.
56. And the king said, Enquire thou whose sonne the stripling is.
57. And as Dauid returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner tooke him, & brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58. And Saul saide to him, Whose sonne art thou, thou yong man? And Dauid answered, I am the sonne of thy seruant Iesse, the Bethlehemite.
1. And it came to passe when hee made an ende of speaking vnto Saul, that the soule of Ionathan was knit with the soule of Dauid, and Ionathan loued him as his owne soule.
2. And Saul tooke him that day, and would let him go no more home to his fathers house.
3. Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenant, because he loued him as his owne soule.
4. And Ionathan stript himselfe of the robe that was vpon him, and gaue it to Dauid, and his garments, euen to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5. And Dauid went out, whither soeuer Saul sent him, and behaued himselfe wisely: and Saul set him ouer the men of warre, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Sauls seruants.
6. And it came to passe as they came when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meete king Saul, with tabrets, with ioy, and with instruments of musicke.
7. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slaine his thousands, and Dauid his ten thousands.
8. And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him, and he sayd, They haue ascribed vnto Dauid tenne thousands, and to me they haue ascribed but thousands: and what can he haue more, but the kingdome?
9. And Saul eyed Dauid from that day, and forward.
10. And it came to passe on the morrow, that the euill spirit from God came vpon Saul, and he prophecied in the midst of the house: and Dauid played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a iauelin in Sauls hand.
11. And Saul cast the iauelin; for hee said, I will smite Dauid euen to the wall with it: and Dauid auoided out of his presence twice.
12. And Saul was afraid of Dauid, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
13. Therefore Saul remooued him from him, and made him his captaine ouer a thousand, and hee went out and came in before the people.
14. And Dauid behaued himselfe wisely in all his wayes; & the Lord was with him.
15. Wherefore when Saul saw that hee behaued himselfe very wisely, hee was afraid of him.
16. But all Israel and Iudah loued Dauid, because hee went out and came in before them.
17. And Saul said to Dauid, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I giue thee to wife: onely be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lords battels: for Saul said, Let not mine hand be vpon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be vpon him.
18. And Dauid said vnto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my fathers family in Israel, that I should be sonne in law to the king?
19. But it came to passe at the time when Merab Sauls daughter should haue beene giuen to Dauid, that shee was giuen vnto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
20. And Michal Sauls daughter loued Dauid: and they tolde Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21. And Saul said, I will giue him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to Dauid, Thou shalt this day be my sonne in law, in the one of the twaine.
22. And Saul commanded his seruants, saying, Commune with Dauid secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his seruants loue thee: now therefore be the kings sonne in law.
23. And Sauls seruants spake those wordes in the eares of Dauid: And Dauid said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a kings sonne in law, seeing that I am a poore man, and lightly esteemed?
24. And the seruants of Saul tolde him, saying; On this manner spake Dauid.
25. And Saul said, Thus shall yee say to Dauid, The King desireth not any dowrie, but an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistines, to be auenged of the kings enemies. But Saul thought to make Dauid fal by the hand of the Philistines.
26. And when his seruants told Dauid these wordes, it pleased Dauid well to be the kings sonne in lawe: and the dayes were not expired.
27. Wherefore Dauid arose, hee and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and Dauid brought their foreskinnes, and they gaue them in full tale to the king, that hee might be the kings sonne in law: and Saul gaue him Michal his daughter to wife. 
28. And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with Dauid, and that Michal Sauls daughter loued him.
29. And Saul was yet the more afraid of Dauid; and Saul became Dauids enemie continually.
30. Then the Princes of the Philistines went foorth: and it came to passe after they went foorth, that Dauid behaued himselfe more wisely then all the seruants of Saul, so that his name was much set by.
1. And Saul spake to Ionathan his sonne, and to all his seruants, that they should kill Dauid.
2. But Ionathan Sauls sonne delighted much in Dauid, and Ionathan told Dauid, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: Now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thy selfe vntill the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thy selfe:
3. And I will goe out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee, and what I see, that I will tell thee.
4. And Ionathan spake good of Dauid vnto Saul his father, and said vnto him, Let not the King sinne against his seruant, against Dauid: because hee hath not sinned against thee, and because his workes haue bene to thee ward very good.
5. For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, & the Lord wrought a great saluation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst reioyce: Wherefore then wilt thou sinne against innocent blood, to slay Dauid without a cause?
6. And Saul hearkened vnto the voyce of Ionathan; and Saul sware, As the Lord liueth, he shall not be slaine.
7. And Ionathan called Dauid, and Ionathan shewed him all those things: and Ionathan brought Dauid to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
8. And there was warre againe, and Dauid went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter, & they fled from him.
9. And the euill spirit from the Lord was vpon Saul, as he sate in his house with his iauelin in his hand: and Dauid played with his hand.
10. And Saul sought to smite Dauid euen to the wall with the iauelin: but hee slipt away out of Sauls presence, and he smote the iauelin into the wall: and Dauid fled, and escaped that night.
11. Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal Dauids wife tolde him, saying, If thou saue not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slaine.
12. So Michal let Dauid downe thorow a window: and hee went and fled, and escaped.
13. And Michal tooke an image, and laid it in the bedde, and put a pillow of goats haire for his bolster, and couered it with a cloth.
14. And when Saul sent messengers to take Dauid, she said, He is sicke.
15. And Saul sent the messengers againe to see Dauid, saying, Bring him vp to me in the bedde, that I may slay him.
16. And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goates haire for his bolster.
17. And Saul said vnto Michal, Why hast thou deceiued me so, and sent away mine enemie, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, Hee said vnto me, Let mee goe; Why should I kill thee?
18. So Dauid fledde, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him: and hee and Samuel went, and dwelt in Naioth.
19. And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, Dauid is at Naioth in Ramah.
20. And Saul sent messengers to take Dauid: and when they sawe the company of the Prophets prophecying, and Samuel standing as appointed ouer them, the Spirit of God was vpon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophecied.
21. And when it was tolde Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophecied likewise: and Saul sent messengers againe the third time, and they prophecied also.
22. Then went hee also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked, and said, Where are Samuel and Dauid? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
23. And hee went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was vpon him also, and he went on and prophecied vntill hee came to Naioth in Ramah:
24. And he stript off his clothes also, and prophecied before Samuel in like manner, and lay downe naked all that day, and all that night: wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the Prophets?
1. And Dauid fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Ionathan, What haue I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sinne before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
2. And he said vnto him, God forbid, thou shalt not die; beholde, my father will doe nothing, either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
3. And Dauid sware moreouer, and said, Thy father certeinly knoweth that I haue found grace in thine eyes, and he sayth, Let not Ionathan know this, lest he be grieued: but truely, as the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, there is but a step betweene me & death.
4. Then said Ionathan vnto Dauid, Whatsoeuer thy soule desireth, I will euen doe it for thee.
5. And Dauid said vnto Ionathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moone, and I should not faile to sit with the king at meate: but let me goe, that I may hide my selfe in the fields vnto the third day at euen.
6. If thy father at all misse me, then say, Dauid earnestly asked leaue of me that he might runne to Bethlehem his citie: for there is a yeerely sacrifice there for all the family.
7. If he say thus, It is well, thy seruant shall haue peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that euill is determined by him.
8. Therefore thou shalt deale kindly with thy seruant, for thou hast brought thy seruant into a couenant of the Lord with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquitie, slay me thy selfe: for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
9. And Ionathan said, Farre be it from thee: for if I knew certainely that euill were determined by my father to come vpon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
10. Then said Dauid to Ionathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answere thee roughly?
11. And Ionathan said vnto Dauid, Come, and let vs goe out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
12. And Ionathan said vnto Dauid, O Lord God of Israel, when I haue sounded my father, about to morrow any time, or the third day, and behold, if there be good toward Dauid, and I then send not vnto thee, and shew it thee;
13. The Lord doe so and much more to Ionathan: but if it please my father to doe thee euill, then I wil shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest goe in peace, and the Lord be with thee, as hee hath beene with my father.
14. And thou shalt not onely while yet I liue, shew me the kindnesse of the Lord, that I die not:
15. But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindnesse from my house for euer: no not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of Dauid, euery one from the face of the earth.
16. So Ionathan made a couenant with the house of Dauid, saying, Let the Lord euen require it at the hande of Dauids enemies.
17. And Ionathan caused Dauid to sweare againe, because he loued him: for he loued him as he loued his owne soule.
18. Then Ionathan said to Dauid, To morrow is the newe moone: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat wil be emptie.
19. And when thou hast stayed three dayes, then thou shalt goe downe quickly, and come to the place where thou diddest hide thy selfe, when the businesse was in hand, and shalt remaine by the stone Ezel.
20. And I will shoot three arrowes on the side thereof, as though I shot at a marke.
21. And behold, I will send a ladde, saying, Goe, find out the arrowes. If I expresly say vnto the lad, Behold, the arrowes are on this side of thee, take them: then come thou, for there is peace to thee, and no hurt, as the Lord liueth.
22. But if I say thus vnto the yong man, Behold, the arrowes are beyond thee: goe thy way, for the Lord hath sent thee away.
23. And as touching the matter which thou and I haue spoken of, behold, the Lord be betweene thee and mee for euer.
24. So Dauid hid himselfe in the field: and when the newe moone was come, the king sate him downe to eate meate.
25. And the king sate vpon his seate, as at other times, euen vpon a seate by the wall: and Ionathan arose, and Abner sate by Sauls side, and Dauids place was emptie.
26. Neuerthelesse, Saul spake not any thing that day: for hee thought, Some thing hath befallen him, hee is not cleane; surely he is not cleane.
27. And it came to passe on the morrow which was the second day of the moneth, that Dauids place was emptie: and Saul said vnto Ionathan his sonne, Wherefore commeth not the sonne of Iesse to meat, neither yesterday nor to day?
28. And Ionathan answered Saul, Dauid earnestly asked leaue of me, to goe to Bethlehem.
29. And he said, Let me goe, I pray thee, for our familie hath a sacrifice in the citie, and my brother, hee hath commanded mee to be there: and now if I haue found fauour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren: Therefore he commeth not vnto the kings table.
30. Then Sauls anger was kindled against Ionathan, and hee said vnto him, Thou sonne of the peruerse rebellious woman, doe not I know that thou hast chosen the sonne of Iesse to thine owne confusion, and vnto the confusion of thy mothers nakednesse? 
31. For as long as the sonne of Iesse liueth vpon the ground, thou shalt not be stablished, nor thy kingdome: wherefore now send and fetch him vnto mee, for he shall surely die.
32. And Ionathan answered Saul his father, and said vnto him, Wherefore shall hee be slaine? what hath hee done?
33. And Saul cast a iauelin at him to smite him, whereby Ionathan knewe that it was determined of his father to slay Dauid.
34. So Ionathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eate no meat the second day of the moneth: for hee was grieued for Dauid, because his father had done him shame.
35. And it came to passe in the morning, that Ionathan went out into the field, at the time appointed with Dauid, and a little ladde with him.
36. And he said vnto his lad, Runne, finde out now the arrowes which I shoote. And as the ladde ranne, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37. And when the ladde was come to the place of the arrow, which Ionathan had shot, Ionathan cryed after the ladde, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
38. And Ionathan cryed after the ladde, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Ionathans ladde gathered vp the arrowes, and came to his master.
39. But the lad knew not any thing: onely Ionathan and Dauid knew the matter.
40. And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie.
41. And assoone as the ladde was gone, Dauid arose out of a place toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himselfe three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, vntill Dauid exceeded.
42. And Ionathan said to Dauid, Goe in peace, forasmuch as wee haue sworne both of vs in the Name of the Lord, saying; The Lord be betweene me and thee, and betweene my seede and thy seede for euer. And hee arose, and departed: and Ionathan went into the citie.

1. Then came Dauid to Nob, to Ahimelech the Priest, and Ahimelech was afraide at the meeting of Dauid, and said vnto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
2. And Dauid said vnto Ahimelech the Priest, The king hath commanded me a businesse, and hath said vnto me, Let no man know any thing of the businesse whereabout I send thee, and what I haue commanded thee: and I haue appointed my seruants to such and such a place.
3. Now therefore what is vnder thine hand? giue me fiue loaues of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
4. And the Priest answered Dauid, and said, There is no common bread vnder mine hand, but there is hallowed bread: if the young men haue kept themselues at least from women.
5. And Dauid answered the Priest, and said vnto him, Of a trueth women haue beene kept from vs about these three dayes, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessell.
6. So the Priest gaue him hallowed bread; for there was no bread there, but the Shewbread that was taken from before the Lord, to put hote bread in the day when it was taken away.
7. Now a certaine man of the seruants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord, and his name was Doeg an Edomite, the chiefest of the heardmen that belonged to Saul.
8. And Dauid said vnto Ahimelech, And is there not here vnder thine hand speare or sword? for I haue neither brought my sword nor my weapons with mee, because the kings businesse required haste.
9. And the Priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whome thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is heere wrapt in a cloth behinde the Ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other saue that, here. And dauid saide, There is none like that, giue it me.
10. And Dauid arose, and fled that day, for feare of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
11. And the seruants of Achish sayd vnto him, Is not this Dauid the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in daunces, saying, Saul hath slaine his thousands, and Dauid his ten thousands?
12. And Dauid layd vp these wordes in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13. And he changed his behauiour before them, and fained himselfe mad in their hands, and scrabled on the doores of the gate, and let his spittle fall downe vpon his beard.
14. Then saide Achish vnto his seruants, Loe, you see the man is mad: wherefore then haue yee brought him to mee?
15. Haue I need of mad-men, that ye haue brought this fellow to play the mad-man in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?
1. Dauid therefore departed thence, and escaped to the caue Adullam: and when his brethren, and all his fathers house heard it, they went downe thither to him.
2. And euery one that was in distresse, and euery one that was in debt, and euery one that was discontented, gathered themselues vnto him, and he became a captaine ouer them: and there were with him about foure hundred men.
3. And Dauid went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said vnto the king of Moab, Let my father, and my mother, I pray thee, come foorth, and be with you, till I know what God will doe for me.
4. And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that Dauid was in the hold.
5. And the Prophet Gad said vnto Dauid, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Iudah. Then Dauid departed, and came into the forrest of Hareth.
6. When Saul heard that Dauid was discouered, and the men that were with him: (now Saul abode in Gibeah vnder a tree in Ramah, hauing his speare in his hand, and all his seruants were standing about him.)
7. Then Saul saide vnto his seruants that stood about him, Heare now, ye Beniamites: Will the sonne of Iesse giue euery one of you fields, and Uineyards, and make you all captaines of thousands, and captaines of hundreds:
8. That all of you haue conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth mee, that my sonne hath made a league with the sonne of Iesse, and there is none of you that is sory for me, or sheweth vnto me that my sonne hath stirred vp my seruant against me, to lye in wait, as at this day?
9. Then answered Doeg the Edomite, (which was set ouer the seruants of Saul) and saide, I saw the sonne of Iesse comming to Nob, to Ahimelech the sonne of Ahitub.
10. And hee enquired of the Lord for him, and gaue him victuals, and gaue him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
11. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the Priest, the sonne of Ahitub, and all his fathers house, the Priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
12. And Saul said, Heare now thou sonne of Ahitub: and hee answered, Here I am, my lord.
13. And Saul saide vnto him, Why haue ye conspired against me, thou and the sonne of Iesse, in that thou hast giuen him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against mee, to lye in waite, as at this day?
14. Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithfull among all thy seruants, as Dauid, which is the kings sonne in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
15. Did I then beginne to enquire of God for him? be it farre from mee: let not the king impute any thing vnto his seruant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy seruant knew nothing of all this, lesse or more.
16. And the king saide, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy fathers house.
17. And the king said vnto the footmen that stood about him, Turne and slay the Priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with Dauid, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to mee. But the seruants of the king would not put foorth their hand to fall vpon the Priestes of the Lord.
18. And the king said to Doeg, Turne thou and fall vpon the Priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and hee fell vpon the Priests, and slew on that day foure score and fiue persons that did weare a linnen Ephod.
19. And Nob the citie of the Priests smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses, and sheepe, with the edge of the sword.
20. And one of the sonnes of Ahimelech, the sonne of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after Dauid:
21. And Abiathar shewed Dauid that Saul had slaine the Lords Priests.
22. And Dauid said vnto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I haue occasioned the death of all the persons of thy fathers house.
23. Abide thou with me, feare not: for he that seeketh my life, seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt bee in safegard.
1. Then they told Dauid, saying, Beholde, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floores.
2. Therefore Dauid enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said vnto Dauid, Goe, and smite the Philistines, and saue Keilah.
3. And Dauids men said vnto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Iudah: how much more then if wee come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
4. Then Dauid enquired of the Lord yet againe: And the Lord answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I will deliuer the Philistines into thine hand.
5. So Dauid and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistins, and brought away their cattell, and smote them with a great slaughter: so Dauid saued the inhabitants of Keilah.
6. And it came to passe when Abiathar the sonne of Ahimelech fled to Dauid to Keilah, that hee came downe with an Ephod in his hand.
7. And it was told Saul that Dauid was come to Keilah: and Saul said, God hath deliuered him into mine hand: for he is shut in, by entring into a towne that hath gates and barres.
8. And Saul called all the people together to warre, to goe downe to Keilah, to besiege Dauid, and his men.
9. And Dauid knewe that Saul secretly practised mischiefe against him, and hee said to Abiathar the Priest, Bring hither the Ephod.
10. Then saide Dauid, O Lord God of Israel, thy seruant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the citie for my sake.
11. Will the men of Keilah deliuer me vp into his hande? will Saul come downe, as thy seruant hath heard, O Lord God of Israel? I beseech thee tell thy seruant. And the Lord said, He will come downe.
12. Then said Dauid, Will the men of Keilah deliuer me, and my men, into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said, They will deliuer thee vp.
13. Then Dauid and his men, which were about sixe hundred, arose, and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoeuer they could goe: and it was told Saul that Dauid was escaped from Keilah, and hee forbare to goe foorth.
14. And Dauid abode in the wildernesse in strong holds, and remained in a mountaine in the wildernes of Ziph: and Saul sought him euery day, but God deliuered him not into his hand.
15. And Dauid saw that Saul was come out to seeke his life: and Dauid was in the wildernes of Ziph in a wood.
16. And Ionathan Sauls sonne arose, & went to Dauid into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
17. And he said vnto him, Feare not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not finde thee, and thou shalt be king ouer Israel, and I shall be next vnto thee: and that also Saul my father knoweth.
18. And they two made a couenant before the Lord: and Dauid abode in the wood, and Ionathan went to his house.
19. Then came vp the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not Dauid hide himselfe with vs in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the South of Ieshimon?
20. Now therefore, O king, come downe according to all the desire of thy soule to come downe, and our part shall be to deliuer him into the kings hand.
21. And Saul said, Blessed be yee of the Lord, for yee haue compassion on me.
22. Goe, I pray you, prepare yet, and know, and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seene him there: for it is told mee that he dealeth very subtilly.
23. See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himselfe, and come ye againe to me with the certainty, and I will goe with you: and it shall come to passe, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Iudah.
24. And they arose, & went to Ziph before Saul: but Dauid and his men were in the wildernesse of Maon, in the plaine on the South of Ieshimon.
25. Saul also and his men went to seeke him, and they told Dauid: wherefore he came downe into a rocke, and abode in the wildernesse of Maon: and when Saul heard that, he pursued after Dauid in the wildernes of Maon.
26. And Saul went on this side of the mountaine, and Dauid and his men on that side of the mountaine: and Dauid made haste to get away for feare of Saul: for Saul and his men compassed Dauid and his men round about to take them.
27. But there came a messenger vnto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come: for the Philistines haue inuaded the land.
28. Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after Dauid, & went against the Philistines; therefore they called that place Sela-Hammahlekoth.
29. And Dauid went vp from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.
1. And it came to passe when Saul was returned from folowing the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, Dauid is in the wildernesse En-gedi.

2. Then Saul tooke three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to secke Dauid and his men vpon the rockes of the wilde goates.
3. And hee came to the sheepe coates by the way, where was a caue, and Saul went in to couer his feete: and Dauid and his men remained in the sides of the caue.
4. And the men of Dauid sayd vnto him, Beholde the day of which the Lord sayd vnto thee, Behold, I wil deliuer thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest doe to him as it shall seeme good vnto thee. Then Dauid arose, and cut off the skirt of Sauls robe priuily.
5. And it came to passe afterward, that Dauids heart smote him, because he had cut off Sauls skirt.
6. And hee sayd vnto his men, The Lord forbid that I should doe this thing vnto my master the Lords Anoynted, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the Anoynted of the Lord.
7. So Dauid stayed his seruants with these wordes, and suffered them not to rise against Saul: but Saul rose vp out of the caue, and went on his way.
8. Dauid also rose afterward, and went out of the caue, and cryed after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behinde him, Dauid stouped with his face to the earth, and bowed himselfe.
9. And Dauid said to Saul, Wherfore hearest thou mens words, saying, Behold, Dauid seeketh thy hurt?
10. Behold, this day thine eyes haue seene, how that the Lord had deliuered thee to day into mine hand in the caue: and some bade me kill thee, but mine eye spared thee, and I said, I will not put foorth mine hand against my lord, for hee is the Lords Anointed.
11. Moreouer my father, See, yea see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see, that there is neither euill nor transgression in mine hand, and I haue not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soule, to take it.
12. The Lord iudge betweene me and thee, and the Lord auenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be vpon thee.
13. As saith the prouerbe of the ancients, Wickednesse proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be vpon thee.
14. After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom doest thou pursue? After a dead dogge, after a flea.
15. The Lord therfore be Iudge, and iudge betweene me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliuer me out of thine hand.
16. And it came to passe when Dauid had made an ende of speaking these words vnto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my sonne Dauid? And Saul lift vp his voice, and wept.
17. And he said to Dauid, Thou art more righteous then I: for thou hast rewarded mee good, whereas I haue rewarded thee euill.
18. And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had deliuered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
19. For if a man finde his enemie, will hee let him goe well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good, for that thou hast done vnto me this day.
20. And now behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be King, and that the kingdome of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
21. Sweare now therefore vnto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seede after mee, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my fathers house.
22. And Dauid sware vnto Saul, and Saul went home: but Dauid and his men gate them vp vnto the holde.
1. And Samuel died, and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And Dauid arose, & went downe to the wildernesse of Paran.
2. And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great, and hee had three thousand sheepe, and a thousand goates: and he was shearing his sheepe in Carmel.
3. Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife, Abigail: and shee was a woman of good vnderstanding, and of a beautifull countenance: but the man was churlish and euill in his doings, and hee was of the house of Caleb.
4. And Dauid heard in the wildernesse, that Nabal did sheare his sheepe.
5. And Dauid sent out ten yong men, and Dauid said vnto the young men, Get you vp to Carmel, and goe to Nabal, and greete him in my name;
6. And thus shall ye say to him that liueth in prosperitie, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be vnto all that thou hast.
7. And now, I haue heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepheards which were with vs, wee hurt them not, neither was there ought missing vnto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
8. Aske thy yong men, and they will shew thee: wherefore let the yong men finde fauour in thine eyes: (for we come in a good day) giue, I pray thee, whatsoeuer commeth to thine hand, vnto thy seruants, and to thy sonne Dauid.
9. And when Dauids yong men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of Dauid, and ceased.
10. And Nabal answered Dauids seruants, and said, Who is Dauid? and who is the sonne of Iesse? There bee many seruants now a daies that breake away euery man from his master.
11. Shall I then take my bread and my water, and my flesh that I haue killed for my shearers, and giue it vnto men, whom I know not whence they bee?
12. So Dauids yong men turned their way, and went againe, and came and told him all those sayings.
13. And Dauid said vnto his men, Gird you on euery man his sword. And they girded on euery man his sword, and Dauid also girded on his sword: and there went vp after Dauid about foure hundred men, and two hundred abode by the stuffe.
14. But one of the yong men told Abigail Nabals wife, saying, Behold, Dauid sent messengers out of the wildernesse to salute our master: and he railed on them.
15. But the men were very good vnto vs, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing as long as wee were conuersant with them, when we were in the fields.
16. They were a wall vnto vs both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.
17. Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt doe: for euill is determined against our master, and against all his houshold: for he is such a sonne of Belial, that a man cannot speake to him.
18. Then Abigail made haste, and tooke two hundred loaues, and two bottles of wine, and fiue sheepe readie dressed, and fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figges, and laid them on asses.
19. And she said vnto her seruants, Goe on before me, behold, I come after you: but she told not her husband Nabal.
20. And it was so as she rode on the asse, that she came downe by the couert of the hill, and behold, Dauid and his men came downe against her, and she met them.
21. (Now Dauid had said, Surely in vaine haue I kept all that this fellow hath in the wildernesse, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained vnto him: and he hath requited me euil for good.
22. So and more also doe God vnto the enemies of Dauid, if I leaue of all that pertaine to him by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.)
23. And when Abigail saw Dauid, she hasted, and lighted off the asse, and fell before Dauid on her face, and bowed her selfe to the ground,
24. And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, vpon me let this iniquitie be, and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speake in thine audience, and heare the words of thine handmaid.
25. Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, euen Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: But I thine handmaid saw not the yong men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
26. Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from comming to shed blood, and from auenging thy selfe with thine owne hand: now let thine enemies and they that secke euill to my lord, bee as Nabal.
27. And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought vnto my lord, let it euen be giuen vnto the yong men that follow my lord.
28. I pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of thine handmaide: for the Lord will certainely make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battels of the Lord, and euill hath not bene found in thee all thy dayes.
29. Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seeke thy soule: but the soule of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God, and the soules of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
30. And it shall come to passe when the Lord shal haue done to my lord, according to all the good that hee hath spoken concerning thee, and shall haue appointed thee ruler ouer Israel;
31. That this shall bee no griefe vnto thee, nor offence of heart vnto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causelesse, or that my lord hath auenged himselfe: But when the Lord shall haue dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmayd.
32. And Dauid sayd to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me.
33. And blessed bee thy aduice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from comming to shed blood, and from auenging my selfe with mine owne hand.
34. For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liueth, which hath kept mee backe from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not bene left vnto Nabal, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.
35. So Dauid receiued of her hand that which shee had brought him, and sayd vnto her, Goe vp in peace to thine house; See, I haue hearkened to thy voyce, and haue accepted thy person.
36. And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; & Nabals heart was merry within him, for hee was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, lesse or more, vntill the morning light.
37. But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38. And it came to passe about ten dayes after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
39. And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproch from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his seruant from euil: for the Lord hath returned the wickednesse of Nabal vpon his owne head. And Dauid sent, and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
40. And when the seruants of Dauid were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake vnto her, saying, Dauid sent vs vnto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
41. And shee arose, and bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and sayd, Beholde, let thine handmayd bee a seruant to wash the feet of the seruants of my lord.
42. And Abigail hasted, and rose, and rode vpon an asse, with fiue damosels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of Dauid, and became his wife.
43. Dauid also tooke Ahinoam of Iezreel, and they were also both of them his wiues.
44. But Saul had giuen Michal his daughter, Dauids wife, to Phalti the sonne of Laish, which was of Gallim.
1. And the Ziphites came vnto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doeth not Dauid hide himselfe in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Ieshimon?
2. Then Saul arose, and went downe to the wildernesse of Ziph, hauing three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seeke Dauid in the wildernesse of Ziph.
3. And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Ieshimon by the way: but Dauid abode in the wildernesse, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wildernesse.
4. Dauid therefore sent out spies, and vnderstood that Saul was come in very deed.
5. And Dauid arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the sonne of Ner the captaine of his hoste: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
6. Then answered Dauid, and sayd to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah brother to Ioab, saying, Who will goe downe with me to Saul to the campe? And Abishai sayd, I will goe downe with thee.
7. So Dauid and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his speare stucke in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
8. Then said Abishai to Dauid, God hath deliuered thine enemie into thine hand this day: now therefore let mee smite him, I pray thee, with the speare, euen to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
9. And Dauid sayd to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed, and be guiltlesse?
10. Dauid said furthermore, As the Lord liueth, the Lord shal smite him, or his day shall come to die, or hee shall descend into battell, and perish.
11. The Lord forbid that I should stretch foorth mine hand against the Lords Anointed: but I pray thee, take thou now the speare that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let vs goe.
12. So Dauid tooke the speare and the cruse of water from Sauls bolster, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleepe, because a deepe sleepe from the Lord was fallen vpon them.
13. Then Dauid went ouer to the other side, and stood on the toppe of an hill afarre off (a great space being betweene them:)
14. And Dauid cryed to the people, and to Abner the sonne of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered, and sayd, Who art thou that cryest to the King?
15. And Dauid said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? Wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in, to destroy the king thy lord.
16. This thing is not good that thou hast done: as the Lord liueth, ye are worthy to die, because yee haue not kept your master the Lords Anointed: and now see where the Kings speare is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
17. And Saul knew Dauids voyce, and said, Is this thy voice, my sonne Dauid? And Dauid saide, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
18. And he said, Wherefore doeth my lord thus pursue after his seruant? for what haue I done? or what euill is in mine hand?
19. Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king heare the words of his seruant: If the Lord haue stirred thee vp against mee, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the Lord: for they haue driuen me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Goe serue other gods.
20. 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 seeke a flea, as when one doeth hunt a partridge in the mountaines.
21. Then said Saul, I haue sinned: Returne, my sonne Dauid, for I will no more doe thee harme, because my soule was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I haue played the foole, and haue erred exceedingly.
22. And Dauid answered, and sayd, Behold the kings speare, and let one of the yong men come ouer and fetch it.
23. The Lord render to euery man his righteousnesse, and his faithfulnesse: for the Lord deliuered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch foorth mine hand against the Lords Anointed.
24. And behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes: so let my life bee much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliuer me out of all tribulation.
25. Then Saul said to Dauid, Blessed be thou, my sonne Dauid: thou shalt both doe great things, and also shalt still preuaile. So Dauid went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1. And Dauid sayd in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me, then that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shal despaire of me, to seeke me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
2. And Dauid arose, and hee passed ouer with the sixe hundred men that were with him, vnto Achish the sonne of Maoch king of Gath.
3. And Dauid dwelt with Achish at Gath, he, and his men, euery man with his houshold, euen Dauid with his two wiues, Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse, and Abigail the Carmelitesse Nabals wife.
4. And it was told Saul, that Dauid was fled to Gath, and he sought no more againe for him.
5. And Dauid said vnto Achish, If I haue now found grace in thine eyes, let them giue mee a place in some towne in the countrey, that I may dwel there: for why should thy seruant dwell in the royall citie with thee?
6. Then Achish gaue him Ziklag that day: wherfore Ziklag pertaineth vnto the kings of Iudah vnto this day.
7. And the time that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistines, was a full yeere, and foure moneths.
8. And Dauid and his men went vp and inuaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, euen vnto the land of Egypt.
9. And Dauid smote the land, and left neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke away the sheepe, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparell, and returned, and came to Achish.
10. And Achish said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Against the South of Iudah, and against the South of the Ierahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
11. And Dauid saued neither man nor woman aliue, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on vs, saying, So did Dauid, and so will be his maner, all the while he dwelleth in the countrey of the Philistines.
12. And Achish beleeued Dauid, saying, Hee hath made his people Israel vtterly to abhorre him, therefore hee shall be my seruant for euer.
1. And it came to passe in those dayes, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel: And Achish said vnto Dauid, Knowe thou assuredly, that thou shalt goe out with me to battell, thou, and thy men.
2. And Dauid said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy seruant can doe. And Achish said to Dauid, Therfore will I make thee keeper of mine head for euer.
3. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, euen in his owne citie: and Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wyzards, out of the land.
4. And the Philistines gathered themselues together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
5. And when Saul saw the hoste of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
6. And when Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreames, nor by Urim, nor by Prophets.
7. Then said Saul vnto his seruants, Seeke me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may goe to her, and enquire of her. And his seruant said to him, Beholde, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
8. And Saul disguised himselfe, and put on other raiment, and hee went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said, I pray thee diuine vnto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him vp whom I shall name vnto thee.
9. And the woman saide vnto him, Beholde, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how hee hath cut off those that haue familiar spirits, and the wyzards out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
10. And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord liueth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
11. Then said the woman, Whome shall I bring vp vnto thee? and he said, Bring me vp Samuel.
12. And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a lowd voyce; and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceiued me? for thou art Saul.
13. And the king sayd vnto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said vnto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
14. And he said vnto her, What forme is he of? And she said, An old man commeth vp, and he is couered with a mantle. And Saul perceiued that it was Samuel, and hee stouped with his face to the ground, and bowed himselfe.
15. And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me vp? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistins make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by Prophets, nor by dreames: therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayst make knowen vnto me, what I shall doe.
16. Then said Samuel, Wherefore then doest thou aske of mee, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
17. And the Lord hath done to him, as hee spake by mee: for the Lord hath rent the kingdome out of thine hand, and giuen it to thy neighbour, euen to Dauid:
18. Because thou obeiedst not the voice of the Lord, nor executedst his fierce wrath vpon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing vnto thee this day.
19. Moreouer, the Lord will also deliuer Israel with thee, into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sonnes bee with mee: the Lord also shall deliuer the hoste of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
20. Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel, & there was no strength in him: for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor al the night.
21. And the woman came vnto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and sayd vnto him, Behold, thine handmayd hath obeyed thy voice, and I haue put my life in my hand, and haue hearkened vnto thy words which thou spakest vnto me:
22. Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also vnto the voyce of thine handmaid, & let me set a morsel of bread before thee; & eat, that thou mayest haue strength, when thou goest on thy way.
23. But hee refused, and said, I will not eate. But his seruants together with the woman compelled him, and he hearkened vnto their voyce: so he arose from the earth, & sate vpon the bed.
24. And the woman had a fat calfe in the house, and she hasted, and killed it, and tooke flower and kneaded it, and did bake vnleauened bread thereof.
25. And she brought it before Saul, and before his seruants, and they did eate: then they arose vp, and went away that night.
1. Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountaine which is in Iezreel.
2. And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but Dauid and his men passed on in the rere-ward with Achish.
3. Then said the princes of the Philistines, What doe these Hebrewes here? And Achish said vnto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this Dauid the seruant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath bene with me these dayes, or these yeeres, and I haue found no fault in him since he fell vnto me, vnto this day?
4. And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him, and the princes of the Philistines said vnto him, Make this fellow returne, that he may goe againe to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go downe with vs to battel, lest in the battell he be an aduersary to vs: for wherewith should hee reconcile himselfe vnto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
5. Is not this Dauid, of whom they sang one to another in daunces, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and Dauid his ten thousands?
6. Then Achish called Dauid, and said vnto him, Surely, as the Lord liueth, thou hast bene vpright, and thy going out and thy comming in with me in the hoste is good in my sight: for I haue not found euil in thee, since the day of thy comming vnto me vnto this day: neuertheles, the lords fauour thee not.
7. Wherefore now returne and goe in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
8. And Dauid said vnto Achish, But what haue I done? and what hast thou found in thy seruant so long as I haue bene with thee vnto this day, that I may not goe fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
9. And Achish answered, and said to Dauid, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an Angel of God: notwithstanding the Princes of the Philistines haue said, Hee shall not goe vp with vs to the battell.
10. Wherfore now rise vp early in the morning, with thy masters seruants that are come with thee: and assoone as yee be vp early in the morning, and haue light, depart.
11. So Dauid and his men rose vp early to depart in the morning, to returne into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went vp to Iezreel.
1. And it came to passe when Dauid and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had inuaded the South and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burnt it with fire:
2. And had taken the women captiues, that were therein; they slewe not any either great or smal, but caried them away, and went on their way.
3. So Dauid and his men came to the citie, and beholde, it was burnt with fire, and their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters were taken captiues.
4. Then Dauid and the people that were with him, lift vp their voice, and wept, vntill they had no more power to weepe.
5. And Dauids two wiues were taken captiues, Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6. And Dauid was greatly distressed: for the people spake of stoning him, because the soule of all the people was grieued, euery man for his sonnes, and for his daughters: but Dauid encouraged himselfe in the Lord his God.
7. And Dauid said to Abiathar the Priest Ahimelechs sonne, I pray thee, bring mee hither the Ephod: and Abiathar brought thither the Ephod to Dauid.
8. And Dauid enquired at the Lord, saying; Shall I pursue after this troupe? shall I ouertake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely ouertake them, and without faile recouer all.
9. So Dauid went, hee, and the sixe hundred men that were with him, and came to the brooke Besor, where those that were left behinde, stayed.
10. But Dauid pursued, he and foure hundred men: (for two hundred abode behinde, which were so faint that they could not goe ouer the brooke Besor.)
11. And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to Dauid, and gaue him bread, and he did eate, and they made him drinke water.
12. And they gaue him a piece of a cake of figges, and two clusters of raisins: and when hee had eaten, his spirit came againe to him: for hee had eaten no bread, nor drunke any water, three dayes and three nights.
13. And Dauid sayde vnto him, To whome belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a yong man of Egypt, seruant to an Amalekite, and my master left me, because three dayes agone I fell sicke.
14. Wee made an inuasion vpon the South of the Cherethites, and vpon the coast which belongeth to Iudah, and vpon the South of Caleb, and wee burnt Ziklag with fire.
15. And Dauid sayde to him, Canst thou bring me downe to this company? And he said, Sweare vnto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliuer mee into the handes of my master, and I will bring thee downe to this company.
16. And when he had brought him downe, behold, they were spread abroad vpon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dauncing, because of all the great spoile that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Iudah.
17. And Dauid smote them from the twilight, euen vnto the euening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, saue foure hundred yong men which rode vpon camels, and fled.
18. And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid rescued his two wiues.
19. And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sonnes nor daughters, neither spoile, nor any thing that they had taken to them: Dauid recouered all.
20. And Dauid tooke all the flockes, and the herds, which they draue before those other cattell, and said, This is Dauids spoile.
21. And Dauid came to the two hundred men which were so faint that they could not follow Dauid, whome they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet Dauid, and to meete the people, that were with him; and when Dauid came neere to the people, he saluted them.
22. Then answered all the wicked men, and men of Belial, of those that went with Dauid, and said, Because they went not with vs, we wil not giue them ought of the spoile, that wee haue recouered, saue to euery man his wife and his children, that they may leade them away, and depart.
23. Then said Dauid, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath giuen vs, who hath preserued vs, and deliuered the companie that came against vs, into our hand.
24. For who will hearken vnto you in this matter? But as his part is that goeth downe to the battell, so shall his part bee that tarieth by the stuffe: they shall part alike.
25. And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute, and an ordinance for Israel, vnto this day.
26. And when Dauid came to Ziklag, hee sent of the spoile vnto the Elders of Iudah, euen to his friends, (saying, Behold a Present for you, of the spoile of the enemies of the Lord )
27. To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in South Ramoth, and to them which were in Iattir,
28. And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
29. And to them which were in Rachal, and them which were in the cities of the Ierahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
30. And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
31. And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where Dauid himselfe and his men were wont to haunt.
1. Nowe the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.
2. And the Philistines followed hard vpon Saul, and vpon his sonnes, and the Philistines slewe Ionathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Sauls sonnes.
3. And the battell went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was sore wounded of the archers.
4. Then said Saul vnto his armour bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these vncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse mee. But his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therfore Saul tooke a sword, & fell vpon it.
5. And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon his sword, and died with him.
6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour bearer, and all his men that same day together.
7. And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Iordane, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sonnes were dead, they forsooke the cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8. And it came to passe on the morrow when the Philistines came to strip the slaine, that they found Saul, and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9. And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about to publish it in the house of their idoles, and among the people.
10. And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
11. And when the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul:
12. All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Iabesh, and burnt them there.
13. And they tooke their bones, and buried them vnder a tree at Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.
1. Now it came to passe after ye death of Saul, when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and Dauid had abode two daies in Ziklag,
2. It came euen to passe on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the campe from Saul, with his clothes rent, and earth vpon his head: and so it was when he came to Dauid, that hee fell to the earth, and did obeysance.
3. And Dauid said vnto him, From whence commest thou? And he said vnto him, Out of the campe of Israel am I escaped.
4. And Dauid said vnto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell mee. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battell, and many of the people also are fallen and dead, and Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead also.
5. And Dauid said vnto the yong man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Ionathan his sonne be dead?
6. And the yong man that told him, said, As I happened by chance vpon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned vpon his speare: and loe, the charets and horsemen followed hard after him.
7. And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called vnto mee: and I answered, Here am I.
8. And hee said vnto mee, Who art thou? and I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
9. He said vnto me againe, Stand, I pray thee, vpon me, and slay me: for anguish is come vpon mee, because my life is yet whole in me.
10. So I stood vpon him, and slew him, because I was sure that hee could not liue after that hee was fallen: And I tooke the crowne that was vpon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arme, and haue brought them hither vnto my lord.
11. Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.
12. And they mourned and wept, and fasted vntill Euen, for Saul and for Ionathan his sonne, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
13. And Dauid said vnto the yong man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the sonne of a stranger, an Amalekite.
14. And Dauid said vnto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch foorth thine hand, to destroy the Lords Anointed?
15. And Dauid called one of the yong men, and sayd, Goe neere, and fall vpon him. And hee smote him, that hee dyed.
16. And Dauid said vnto him, Thy blood be vpon thy head: for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I haue slaine the Lords Annoynted.
17. And Dauid lamented with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne:
18. (Also hee bade them teach the children of Iudah the vse of the bow: behold, it is written in the booke of Iasher.)
19. The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen!
20. Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streetes of Askelon: lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce, lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph.
21. Yee mountaines of Gilboa, let there bee no dewe, neither let there be raine vpon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mightie is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though hee had not beene annointed with oile.
22. From the blood of the slaine, from the fat of the mightie, the bow of Ionathan turned not backe, and the sword of Saul returned not emptie.
23. Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasant in their liues, and in their death they were not diuided: they were swifter then Eagles, they were stronger then Lions.
24. Yee daughters of Israel, weepe ouer Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of golde vpon your apparell.
25. How are the mightie fallen in the midst of the battell! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine high places.
26. I am distressed for thee, my brother Ionathan, very pleasant hast thou beene vnto mee: thy loue to mee was wonderfull, passing the loue of women.
27. How are the mightie fallen, and the weapons of warre perished!
1. And it came to passe after this, that Dauid enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I goe vp into any of the Cities of Iudah? And the Lord said vnto him, Goe vp. And Dauid said, Whither shall I goe vp? And he said, Unto Hebron.
2. So Dauid went vp thither, and his two wiues also, Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse, and Abigail Nabals wife the Carmelite.
3. And his men that were with him, did Dauid bring vp, euery man with his houshold: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
4. And the men of Iudah came, and there they anointed Dauid king ouer the house of Iudah: and they tolde Dauid, saying; That the men of Iabesh Gilead were they that buried Saul.
5. And Dauid sent messengers vnto the men of Iabesh Gilead, and said vnto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye haue shewed this kindnesse vnto your lord, euen vnto Saul, and haue buried him.
6. And now the Lord shewe kindnesse and trueth vnto you: and I also will requite you this kindnesse, because ye haue done this thing.
7. Therefore now let your handes be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Iudah haue anointed me king ouer them.
8. But Abner the sonne of Ner, captaine of Sauls hoste, tooke Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, and brought him ouer to Mahanaim.
9. And hee made him king ouer Gilead, and ouer the Ashurites, and ouer Iezreel, and ouer Ephraim, and ouer Beniamin, and ouer all Israel.
10. Ishbosheth Sauls sonne was fortie yeeres olde when he began to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned two yeres: but the house of Iudah followed Dauid.
11. (And the time that Dauid was King in Hebron ouer the house of Iudah, was seuen yeeres, and sixe moneths)
12. And Abner the sonne of Ner, and the seruants of Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, went out from Mahanaim, to Gibeon.
13. And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, and the seruants of Dauid went out, and met together by the poole of Gibeon: and they sate downe, the one on the one side of the poole, and the other on the other side of the poole.
14. And Abner said to Ioab, Let the yong men now arise, and play before vs: and Ioab saide, Let them arise.
15. Then there arose and went ouer by number twelue of Beniamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, and twelue of the seruants of Dauid.
16. And they caught euery one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellowes side, so they fell downe together: Wherfore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
17. And there was a very sore battell that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the seruants of Dauid.
18. And there were three sonnes of Zeruiah there, Ioab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wilde Roe.
19. And Asahel pursued after Abner, and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
20. Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.
21. And Abner said to him, Turne thee aside to thy right hand, or to thy left, and lay thee holde on one of the yong men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turne aside from following of him.
22. And Abner said againe to Asahel, Turne thee aside from following me: Wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I holde vp my face to Ioab thy brother?
23. Howbeit he refused to turne aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder ende of the speare smote him vnder the fift ribbe, that the speare came out behinde him, and hee fell downe there, and died in the same place: and it came to passe, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell downe and died, stood still.
24. Ioab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the Sunne went downe when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wildernesse of Gibeon.
25. And the children of Beniamin gathered themselues together after Abner, and became one troupe, and stood on the top of an hill.
26. Then Abner called to Ioab, and said, Shall the sword deuoure for euer? Knowest thou not that it wil be bitternesse in the latter end? How long shall it bee then, yer thou bid the people returne from following their brethren?
27. And Ioab said, As God liueth, vnlesse thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone vp euery one from following his brother.
28. So Ioab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
29. And Abner and his men walked all that night thorow the plaine, and passed ouer Iordane, and went thorow all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
30. And Ioab returned from folowing Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of Dauids seruants nineteene men, and Asahel.
31. But the seruants of Dauid had smitten of Beniamin and of Abners men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
32. And they tooke vp Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father which was in Bethlehem: and Ioab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at breake of day.
1. Now there was long war betweene the house of Saul, and the house of Dauid: but Dauid waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
2. And vnto Dauid were sonnes borne in Hebron: and his first borne was Ammon, of Ahinoam the Iezreelitesse.
3. And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite: and the third, Absalom the sonne of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4. And the fourth, Adoniiah the son of Haggith: and the fifth, Shephatiah the sonne of Abital;
5. And the sixth, Ithream by Eglah Dauids wife: these were borne to Dauid in Hebron.
6. And it came to passe while there was warre between the house of Saul and the house of Dauid, that Abner made himselfe strong for the house of Saul.
7. And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth saide to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in vnto my fathers concubine?
8. Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dogs head, which against Iudah doe shew kindnesse this day vnto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and haue not deliuered thee into the hand of Dauid, that thou chargest mee to day with a fault concerning this woman?
9. So doe God to Abner, and more also, except, as the Lord hath sworne to Dauid, euen so I doe to him:
10. To translate the kingdome from the house of Saul, and to set vp the throne of Dauid ouer Israel, and ouer Iudah, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba.
11. And he could not answere Abner a word againe, because he feared him.
12. And Abner sent messengers to Dauid on his behalfe, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and behold, my hand shall bee with thee, to bring about all Israel vnto thee.
13. And he said, Well, I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Sauls daughter, when thou commest to see my face.
14. And Dauid sent messengers to Ishbosheth Sauls sonne, saying, Deliuer mee my wife Michal, which I espoused to mee for an hundred foreskinnes of the Philistines.
15. And Ishbosheth sent, and tooke her from her husband, euen from Phaltiel the sonne of Laish.
16. And her husband went with her along weeping behinde her to Bahurim: then said Abner vnto him, Goe, returne. And he returned.
17. And Abner had communication with the Elders of Israel, saying, Yee sought for Dauid in times past, to be king ouer you.
18. Now then doe it, for the Lord hath spoken of Dauid, saying; By the hand of my seruant Dauid I will saue my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
19. And Abner also spake in the eares of Beniamin: and Abner went also to speake in the eares of Dauid in Hebron, all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Beniamin.
20. So Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, and twenty men with him: and Dauid made Abner, and the men that were with him, a feast.
21. And Abner said vnto Dauid, I will arise, and goe, and will gather all Israel vnto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest raigne ouer all that thine heart desireth. And Dauid sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
22. And behold, the seruants of Dauid, and Ioab came from pursuing a troupe, and brought in a great spoile with them: (but Abner was not with Dauid in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.)
23. When Ioab and all the host that was with him, were come, they told Ioab, saying, Abner the sonne of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
24. Then Ioab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came vnto thee, why is it that thou hast sent him away, & he is quite gone?
25. Thou knowest Abner the sonne of Ner, that he came to deceiue thee, and to know thy going out, and thy comming in, & to know all that thou doest.
26. And when Ioab was come out from Dauid, hee sent messengers after Abner, which brought him againe from the well of Siriah; but Dauid knew it not.
27. And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Ioab tooke him aside in the gate to speake with him quietly: and smote him there vnder the fift ribbe, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
28. And afterward when Dauid heard it, hee said, I and my kingdome are guiltlesse before the Lord for euer, from the blood of Abner the sonne of Ner:
29. Let it rest on the head of Ioab, and on all his fathers house, & let there not faile from the house of Ioab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staffe, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
30. So Ioab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slaine their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battell.
31. And Dauid said to Ioab, and to all the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and girde you with sackecloth, and mourne before Abner. And king Dauid himselfe followed the biere.
32. And they buried Abner in Hebron, and the king lift vp his voice, and wept at the graue of Abner; and all the people wept.
33. And the king lamented ouer Abner, and said, Died Abner as a foole dieth?
34. Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feete put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept againe ouer him.
35. And when all the people came to cause Dauid to eate meate while it was yet day, Dauid sware, saying, So doe God to mee, and more also, if I taste bread or ought else, till the Sunne be downe.
36. And all the people tooke notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoeuer the King did, pleased all the people.
37. For all the people, and all Israel vnderstood that day, that it was not of the King to slay Abner the sonne of Ner.
38. And the King said vnto his seruants, Knowe yee not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
39. And I am this day weake, though anointed King, and these men the sonnes of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the Lord shall reward the doer of euill, according to his wickednesse.
1. And when Sauls sonne heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2. And Sauls sonne had two men that were captaines of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sonnes of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Beniamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Beniamin:
3. And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were soiourners there vntill this day.)
4. And Ionathan, Sauls sonne, had a sonne that was lame of his feete, and was fiue yeeres olde when the tidings came of Saul and Ionathan out of Iezreel, and his nource tooke him vp, and fled: and it came to passe as she made haste to flee, that hee fell, and became lame, and his name was Mephibosheth.
5. And the sonnes of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noone.
6. And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would haue fetched wheat, and they smote him vnder the fift rib, and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7. For when they came into the house, hee lay on his bedde in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and tooke his head, and gate them away thorow the plaine all night.
8. And they brought the head of Ishbosheth vnto Dauid to Hebron, and said to the King, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul, thine enemie, which sought thy life, and the Lord hath auenged my lord the king this day of Saul and of his seed.
9. And Dauid answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sonnes of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said vnto them, As the Lord liueth, who hath redeemed my soule out of all aduersitie,
10. When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, ( thinking to haue brought good tidings) I tooke hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would haue giuen him a reward for his tidings:
11. How much more, when wicked men haue slaine a righteous person, in his owne house, vpon his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
12. And Dauid commanded his yong men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feete, and hanged them vp ouer the poole in Hebron: but they tooke the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner, in Hebron.
1. Then came all the tribes of Israel to Dauid vnto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone, and thy flesh.
2. Also in time past when Saul was king ouer vs, thou wast hee that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt bee a captaine ouer Israel.
3. So all the Elders of Israel came to the King to Hebron, and King Dauid made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed Dauid King ouer Israel.
4. Dauid was thirtie yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fourtie yeeres.
5. In Hebron he reigned ouer Iudah seuen yeeres, and sixe moneths: and in Ierusalem he reigned thirty and three yeres ouer all Israel and Iudah.
6. And the king and his men went to Ierusalem, vnto the Iebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake vnto Dauid, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: Thinking, Dauid cannot come in hither.
7. Neuerthelesse, Dauid tooke the strong hold of Zion: the same is the citie of Dauid.
8. And Dauid said on that day, Whosoeuer getteth vp to the gutter, and smiteth the Iebusites, and the lame, and the blind, that are hated of Dauids soule, he shall be chiefe and captaine: Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
9. So Dauid dwelt in the fort, and called it the citie of Dauid, and Dauid built round about, from Millo and inward.
10. And Dauid went on, and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.
11. And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to Dauid, and Cedar trees, and carpenters, and Masons: and they built Dauid an house.
12. And Dauid perceiued that the Lord had established him King ouer Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdome for his people Israels sake.
13. And Dauid tooke him mo concubines and wiues out of Ierusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and there were yet sonnes and daughters borne to Dauid.
14. And these be the names of those that were borne vnto him in Ierusalem, Shammua, & Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon:
15. Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,
16. And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
17. But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed Dauid King ouer Israel, all the Philistines came vp to seeke Dauid, and Dauid heard of it, and went downe to the hold.
18. The Philistines also came, and spred themselues in the valley of Rephaim.
19. And Dauid enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I goe vp to the Philistines? wilt thou deliuer them into mine hand? And the Lord said vnto Dauid, Goe vp: for I will doubtlesse deliuer the Philistines into thine hand.
20. And Dauid came to Baal-Perazim, and Dauid smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken foorth vpon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place, Baal-Perazim.
21. And there they left their images, and Dauid and his men burnt them.
22. And the Philistines came vp yet againe, and spread themselues in the valley of Rephaim.
23. And when Dauid enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not goe vp: but fetch a compasse behinde them, and come vpon them ouer against the Mulbery trees.
24. And let it be when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulbery trees, that then thou shalt bestirre thy selfe: for then shal the Lord goe out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25. And Dauid did so, as the Lord had commaunded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba, vntil thou come to Gazer.
1. Againe, Dauid gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirtie thousand:
2. And Dauid arose and went with all the people that were with him, from Baale of Iudah, to bring vp from thence the Arke of God, whose Name is called by the Name of the Lord of hostes, that dwelleth betweene the Cherubims.
3. And they set the Arke of God vpon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio the sonnes of Abinadab, draue the new cart.
4. And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the Arke of God; and Ahio went before the Arke.
5. And Dauid and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of Firrewood, euen on harpes, and on Psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cimbals.
6. And when they came to Nachons threshing floore, Uzzah put forth his hand to the Arke of God, and tooke hold of it, for the oxen shooke it.
7. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his errour, and there he died by the Arke of God.
8. And Dauid was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach vpon Uzzah: And hee called the name of the place, Perez-Uzzah to this day.
9. And Dauid was afraide of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the Arke of the Lord come to me?
10. So Dauid would not remoue the Arke of the Lord vnto him into the citie of Dauid: but Dauid caried it aside into the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite.
11. And the Arke of the Lord continued in the house of Obed Edom the Gittite, three moneths: and the Lord blessed Obed Edom, and all his household.
12. And it was told king Dauid, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obed Edom, and all that pertained vnto him, because of the Arke of God. So Dauid went, and brought vp the Arke of God, from the house of Obed Edom, into the citie of Dauid, with gladnesse.
13. And it was so, that when they that bare the Arke of the Lord, had gone sixe paces, hee sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
14. And Dauid daunced before the Lord with all his might, and Dauid was girded with a linnen Ephod.
15. So Dauid and all the house of Israel brought vp the Arke of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16. And as the Arke of the Lord came into the citie of Dauid, Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and saw king Dauid leaping and dauncing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
17. And they brought in the Arke of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the Tabernacle that Dauid had pitched for it: and Dauid offered burnt offerings, and peace offrings before the Lord.
18. And assoone as Dauid had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, hee blessed the people in the Name of the Lord of hostes.
19. And hee dealt among all the people, euen among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to euery one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine: so all the people departed euery one to his house.
20. Then Dauid returned to blesse his houshold: and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meete Dauid, and said, How glorious was the King of Israel to day, who vncouered himselfe to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his seruants, as one of the vaine fellowes shamelessely vncouereth himselfe!
21. And Dauid said vnto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, & before all his house, to appoint me ruler ouer the people of the Lord, ouer Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.
22. And I will yet be more vile then thus, and will be base in mine owne sight: and of the maid seruants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
23. Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no childe vnto the day of her death.
1. And it came to passe, when the King sate in his house, and the Lord had giuen him rest round about fro all his enemies;
2. That the king said vnto Nathan the Prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of Cedar, but the Arke of God dwelleth within curtaines.
3. And Nathan sayde to the King, Go, doe all that is in thine heart: for the Lord is with thee.
4. And it came to passe that night, that the word of the Lord came vnto Nathan, saying;
5. Goe and tell my seruant Dauid, Thus sayth the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
6. Whereas I haue not dwelt in any house, since the time that I brought vp the children of Israel out of Egypt, euen to this day, but haue walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7. In all the places wherein I haue walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whome I commanded to feede my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of Cedar?
8. Now therefore so shalt thou say vnto my seruant Dauid; Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, I tooke thee from the sheepe-cote, from following the sheepe, to be ruler ouer my people, ouer Israel.
9. And I was with thee withersoeuer thou wentest, and haue cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and haue made thee a great name, like vnto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10. (Moreouer I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their owne, and mooue no more: neither shall the children of wickednesse afflict them any more, as beforetime,
11. And as since the time that I commanded Iudges to bee ouer my people Israel, and haue caused thee to rest from all thine enemies:) Also the Lord telleth thee, that he will make thee an house.
12. And when thy dayes be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, I will set vp thy seede after thee, which shall proceede out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdome.
13. Hee shall build an house for my Name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdome for euer.
14. I will be his father, and he shall be my sonne: if hee commit iniquitie, I will chasten him with the rodde of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.
15. But my mercie shall not depart away from him, as I tooke it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
16. And thine house, and thy kingdome shall be stablished for euer before thee: thy throne shall be stablished for euer.
17. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speake vnto Dauid.
18. Then went king Dauid in, and sate before the Lord, and hee said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
19. And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God: but thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for a great while to come, and is this the maner of man, O Lord God?
20. And what can Dauid say more vnto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy seruant.
21. For thy words sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make thy seruant know them.
22. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we haue heard with our eares.
23. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, euen like Israel, whom God went to redeeme for a people to himselfe, & to make him a name, and to doe for you great things, and terrible, for thy lande, before thy people which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations, and their gods?
24. For thou hast confirmed to thy selfe thy people Israel to be a people vnto thee for euer: and thou, Lord art become their God.
25. And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy seruant, and concerning his house, establish it for euer, and doe as thou hast said.
26. And let thy name bee magnified for euer, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God ouer Israel: and let the house of thy seruant Dauid bee established before thee.
27. For thou, O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, hast reuealed to thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therfore hath thy seruant found in his heart to pray this prayer vnto thee.
28. And now, O Lord GOD, (thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodnesse vnto thy seruant.)
29. Therefore now let it please thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may continue for euer before thee: for thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy seruant be blessed for euer.
1. And after this it came to passe, that Dauid smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and Dauid tooke Metheg-Ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
2. And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them downe to the ground: euen with two lines measured he, to put to death, and with one full line to keepe aliue: and so the Moabites became Dauids seruants, and brought gifts.
3. Dauid smote also Hadadezer the sonne of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recouer his border at the riuer Euphrates.
4. And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen hundred horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen: and Dauid houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them for an hundred charets.
5. And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, Dauid slew of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men.
6. Then Dauid put garisons in Syria of Damascus: And the Syrians became seruants to Dauid, and brought gifts: and the Lord preserued Dauid whithersoeuer he went.
7. And Dauid tooke the shields of gold that were on the seruants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Ierusalem.
8. And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King Dauid tooke exceeding much brasse.
9. When Toi king of Hamath heard that Dauid had smitten all the hoste of Hadadezer,
10. Then Toi sent Ioram his sonne vnto king Dauid to salute him, and to blesse him, because hee had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: (for Hadadezer had warres with Toi) and Ioram brought with him vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brasse;
11. Which also king Dauid did dedicate vnto the Lord, with the siluer and gold that he had dedicate of all nations which he subdued:
12. Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, & of Amalek, and of the spoile of Hadadezer sonne of Rehob king of Zobah.
13. And Dauid gate him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteene thousand men.
14. And he put garrisons in Edom; thorowout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became Dauids seruants: and the Lord preserued Dauid whithersoeuer he went.
15. And Dauid reigned ouer all Israel, and Dauid executed iudgement and iustice vnto all his people.
16. And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the host, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Recorder.
17. And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, were the Priests, and Seraiah was the scribe.
18. And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer both the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and Dauids sonnes were chiefe rulers.
1. And Dauid said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindnesse for Ionathans sake?
2. And there was of the house of Saul, a seruant whose name was Ziba: and when they had called him vnto Dauid, the king said vnto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy seruant is he.
3. And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindnesse of God vnto him? and Ziba said vnto the king, Ionathan hath yet a sonne, which is lame on his feete.
4. And the king saide vnto him, Where is hee? and Ziba said vnto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the sonne of Ammiel, in Lodebar.
5. Then king Dauid sent, and fet him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
6. Now when Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, was come vnto Dauid, hee fell on his face, and did reuerence: and Dauid said, Mephibosheth! And he answered, Behold thy seruant.
7. And Dauid saide vnto him, Feare not; for I will surely shew thee kindnesse, for Ionathan thy fathers sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eate bread at my table continually.
8. And hee bowed himselfe, and saide, What is thy seruant, that thou shouldest looke vpon such a dead dogge as I am?
9. Then the king called to Ziba Sauls seruant, and said vnto him, I haue giuen vnto thy masters sonne all that pertained to Saul, and to all his house.
10. Thou therefore and thy sonnes, and thy seruants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy masters sonne may haue food to eate: but Mephibosheth thy masters sonne shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteene sonnes, and twenty seruants.
11. Then saide Ziba vnto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his seruant, so shall thy seruant doe: as for Mephibosheth, said the King, he shall eate at my table, as one of the kings sonnes.
12. And Mephibosheth had a yong sonne whose name was Micha: and all that dwelt in the house of Ziba, were seruants vnto Mephibosheth.
13. So Mephibosheth dwelt in Ierusalem: for hee did eate continually at the kings table, and was lame on both his feete.
1. And it came to passe, after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his sonne reigned in his stead.
2. Then said Dauid, I will shewe kindnes vnto Hanun the sonne of Nahash, as his father shewed kindnes vnto me. And Dauid sent to comfort him by the hand of his seruants, for his father: and Dauids seruants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
3. And the princes of the children of Ammon saide vnto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that Dauid doeth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters vnto thee? Hath not Dauid rather sent his seruants vnto thee, to search the citie, and to spie it out, and to ouerthrow it?
4. Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued off the one halfe of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, euen to their buttocks, and sent them away.
5. When they told it vnto Dauid, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the King saide, Tarie at Iericho vntill your beards be growen, and then returne.
6. And when the children of Ammon saw that they stanke before Dauid, the children of Ammon sent, and hired the Syrians of Beth-Rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twentie thousand footmen, and of king Maacah, a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelue thousand men.
7. And when Dauid heard of it, he sent Ioab, and all the hoste of the mightie men.
8. And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battell in aray at the entring in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselues in the field.
9. When Ioab saw that the front of the battell was against him, before and behind, he chose of all the choise men of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians.
10. And the rest of the people he deliuered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in aray against the children of Ammon.
11. And he said, If the Syrians bee too strong for me, then thou shalt helpe me: but if the children of Ammon bee too strong for thee, then I will come and helpe thee.
12. Be of good courage, and let vs play the men, for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord doe that which seemeth him good.
13. And Ioab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, vnto the battell against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
14. And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fledde, then fled they also before Abishai, and entred into the citie: so Ioab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Ierusalem.
15. And when the Syrians sawe that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselues together.
16. And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the riuer, and they came to Helam, and Shobach the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer went before them.
17. And when it was told Dauid, he gathered all Israel together, and passed ouer Iordane, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set themselues in aray against Dauid, and fought with him.
18. And the Syrians fled before Israel, and Dauid slew the men of seuen hundred charets of the Syrians, and fourtie thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captaine of their hoste, who died there.
19. And when all the kings that were seruants to Hadarezer sawe, that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and serued them: so the Syrians feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more.
1. And it came to passe, that after the yeere was expired, at the time when kings goe foorth to battell, that Dauid sent Ioab and his seruants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but Dauid taried still at Ierusalem.
2. And it came to passe in an euening tide, that Dauid arose from off his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the kings house: and from the roofe he saw a woman washing her selfe; and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.
3. And Dauid sent and enquired after the woman: and one said, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4. And Dauid sent messengers, and tooke her, and shee came in vnto him, and he lay with her, ( for she was purified from her vncleannesse) and shee returned vnto her house.
5. And the woman conceiued, and sent and tolde Dauid, and said, I am with childe.
6. And Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Ioab sent Uriah to Dauid.
7. And when Uriah was come vnto him, Dauid demanded of him how Ioab did, and how the people did, and how the warre prospered.
8. And Dauid said to Uriah, Goe downe to thy house, and wash thy feete. And Uriah departed out of the Kings house, and there followed him a messe of meat from the king.
9. But Uriah slept at the doore of the kings house, with all the seruants of his lord, and went not downe to his house.
10. And when they had tolde Dauid, saying, Uriah went not downe vnto his house, Dauid said vnto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy iourney? why then diddest thou not goe downe vnto thine house?
11. And Uriah said vnto Dauid, The Arke, and Israel, and Iudah abide in tents, and my lord Ioab, and the seruants of my lord are encamped in the open fields; shall I then goe into mine house, to eate and to drinke, and to lie with my wife? As thou liuest, and as thy soule liueth, I will not doe this thing.
12. And Dauid said to Uriah, Tary here to day also, and to morow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Ierusalem that day, and the morrow.
13. And when Dauid had called him, hee did eate and drinke before him, and he made him drunke: and at euen hee went out to lie on his bed with the seruants of his lord, but went not downe to his house.
14. And it came to passe in the morning, that Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set yee Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battel, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16. And it came to passe when Ioab obserued the citie, that he assigned Uriah vnto a place where hee knewe that valiant men were.
17. And the men of the city went out, and fought with Ioab: and there fell some of the people of the seruants of Dauid, and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18. Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre:
19. And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling the matters of the warre vnto the King;
20. And if so be that the kings wrath arise, and hee say vnto thee, Wherefore approched ye so nigh vnto the city when yee did fight? Knew yee not that they would shoot from the wall?
21. Who smote Abimelech the sonne of Ierubesheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? Then say thou, Thy seruant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
22. So the messenger went, and came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for.
23. And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Surely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, and we were vpon them euen vnto the entring of the gate.
24. And the shooters shot from off the wall vpon thy seruants, and some of the Kings seruants be dead, and thy seruant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
25. Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing displease thee: for the sword deuoureth one as well as another: Make thy battell more strong against the citie, and ouerthrow it; and encourage thou him.
26. And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27. And when the mourning was past, Dauid sent, and fet her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but the thing that Dauid had done, displeased the Lord.
1. And the Lord sent Nathan vnto Dauid: and he came vnto him, and said vnto him, There were two men in one citie; the one rich, and the other poore.
2. The rich man had exceeding many flockes and herds.
3. But the poore man had nothing saue one litle ewe lambe, which he had bought and nourished vp: and it grew vp together with him, and with his children, it did eate of his owne meate, and dranke of his owne cup, and lay in his bosome, and was vnto him as a daughter.
4. And there came a traueller vnto the rich man, and he spared to take of his owne flocke, and of his owne herd, to dresse for the wayfaring man that was come vnto him, but tooke the poore mans lambe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. 
5. And Dauids anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liueth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely die.
6. And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie.
7. And Nathan said to Dauid, Thou art the man: thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king ouer Israel, and I deliuered thee out of the hand of Saul,
8. And I gaue thee thy Masters house, and thy Masters wiues into thy bosome, and gaue thee the house of Israel and of Iudah, and if that had bene too litle, I would moreouer haue giuen vnto thee such and such things.
9. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the Lord, to doe euill in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slaine him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10. Now therefore the sword shall neuer depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.
11. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise vp euill against thee out of thine owne house, and I will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this Sunne.
12. For thou diddest it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the Sunne.
13. And Dauid saide vnto Nathan, I haue sinned against the Lord. And Nathan saide vnto Dauid, The Lord also hath put away thy sinne, thou shalt not die.
14. Howbeit, because by this deede thou hast giuen great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the childe also that is borne vnto thee, shall surely die.
15. And Nathan departed vnto his house: and the Lord strake the childe that Uriahs wife bare vnto Dauid, and it was very sicke.
16. Dauid therfore besought God for the childe, and Dauid fasted, and went in, and lay all night vpon the earth.
17. And the Elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him vp from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eate bread with them.
18. And it came to passe on the seuenth day, that the childe died: and the seruants of Dauid feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they saide, Behold, while the childe was yet aliue, we spake vnto him, and he would not hearken vnto our voice: how will he then vexe himselfe, if we tell him that the childe is dead?
19. But when Dauid saw that his seruants whispered, Dauid perceiued that the childe was dead: therefore Dauid said vnto his seruants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is dead.
20. Then Dauid arose from the earth and washed, and anointed himselfe, and changed his apparell, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then hee came to his owne house, and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eate.
21. Then said his seruants vnto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weepe for the childe, while it was aliue, but when the childe was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
22. And he said, While the child was yet aliue, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell, whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may liue?
23. But now hee is dead, Wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him backe againe? I shall goe to him, but he shall not returne to me.
24. And Dauid comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in vnto her, and lay with her: and she bare a sonne, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loued him.
25. And hee sent by the hand of Nathan the Prophet, and hee called his name Iedidiah, because of the Lord.
26. And Ioab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and tooke the royall citie.
27. And Ioab sent messengers to Dauid, and said, I haue fought against Rabbah, and haue taken the citie of waters.
28. Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together, and encampe against the citie, and take it: lest I take the citie, and it be called after my name.
29. And Dauid gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and tooke it.
30. And he tooke their kings crowne from off his head (the weight whereof was a talent of gold, with the precious stones) and it was set on Dauids head, and he brought forth the spoile of the citie in great abundance.
31. And he brought foorth the people that were therein, and put them vnder sawes, and vnder harrowes of yron, and vnder axes of yron, and made them passe through the bricke-kilne: And thus did he vnto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So Dauid and all the people returned vnto Ierusalem.
1. And it came to passe after this, that Absalom the sonne of Dauid had a faire sister, whose name was Tamar: and Amnon the sonne of Dauid loued her.
2. And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sicke for his sister Tamar: for she was a virgine, and Amnon thought it hard for him to doe any thing to her.
3. But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Ionadab, the sonne of Shimeah, Dauids brother: and Ionadab was a very subtill man.
4. And he saide vnto him, Why art thou, being the Kings sonne, leane from day to day? Wilt thou not tel me? and Amnon said vnto him, I loue Tamar my brother Absaloms sister.
5. And Ionadab said vnto him, Lay thee downe on thy bed, and make thy selfe sicke: and when thy father commeth to see thee, say vnto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and giue me meat, and dresse the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eate it at her hand.
6. So Amnon lay downe, and made himselfe sicke: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said vnto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, & make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
7. Then Dauid sent home to Tamar, saying, Goe now to thy brother Amnons house, and dresse him meat.
8. So Tamar went to her brother Amnons house (and hee was laide downe) and she tooke flowre, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
9. And she tooke a pan, and powred them out before him, but hee refused to eate: and Amnon said, Haue out all men from mee: And they went out euery man from him.
10. And Amnon saide vnto Tamar, Bring the meate into the chamber, that I may eate of thine hand. And Tamar tooke the cakes which shee had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
11. And when shee had brought them vnto him to eate, hee tooke hold of her, and said vnto her, Come lye with mee, my sister.
12. And she answered him, Nay, my brother, doe not force me: for no such thing ought to bee done in Israel; doe not thou this folly.
13. And I, whither shall I cause my shame to goe? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fooles in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, speake vnto the king, for he will not withhold me from thee.
14. Howbeit hee would not hearken vnto her voice, but being stronger then shee, forced her, and lay with her.
15. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred wherwith he hated her, was greater then the loue wherewith hee had loued her: And Amnon said vnto her, Arise, be gone.
16. And she said vnto him, There is no cause: this euill in sending me away, is greater then the other that thou diddest vnto me: But he would not hearken vnto her.
17. Then hee called his seruant that ministred vnto him, and said, Put now this woman out from mee, and bolt the doore after her.
18. And shee had a garment of diuers colours vpon her: for with such robes were the Kings daughters, that were virgins, apparelled. Then his seruant brought her out, and bolted the doore after her.
19. And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of diuers colours that was on her, and layde her hand on her head, and went on, crying.
20. And Absalom her brother sayde vnto her, Hath Amnon thy brother beene with thee? But holde nowe thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother, regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absaloms house.
21. But when King Dauid heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
22. And Absalom spake vnto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
23. And it came to passe after two full yeeres, that Absalom had sheepeshearers in Baal-Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom inuited all the kings sonnes.
24. And Absalom came to the King, and said, Behold now, thy seruant hath sheepe-shearers, Let the King, I beseech thee, and his seruants, goe with thy seruant.
25. And the King sayde to Absalom, Nay, my sonne, let vs not all now goe, lest we be chargeable vnto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not goe, but blessed him.
26. Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon goe with vs. And the King said vnto him, Why should he goe with thee?
27. But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the kings sonnes goe with him.
28. Now Absalom had commanded his seruants, saying, Marke yee now when Amnons heart is merrie with wine, and when I say vnto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him, feare not: haue not I commanded you? be couragious, and be valiant.
29. And the seruants of Absalom did vnto Amnon as Absalom had commanded: then all the Kings sonnes arose, and euery man gate him vp vpon his mule, and fled.
30. And it came to passe while they were in the way, that tidings came to Dauid, saying, Absalom hath slaine all the Kings sonnes, and there is not one of them left.
31. Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth: and all his seruants stoode by with their clothes rent.
32. And Ionadab the sonne of Shimeah Dauids brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they haue slaine all the yong men the Kings sonnes; for Amnon onely is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath beene determined, from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
33. Now therefore let not my lord the King take the thing to his heart, to thinke that all the Kings sonnes are dead: for Amnon onely is dead.
34. But Absalom fled: and the yong man that kept the watch, lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
35. And Ionadab said vnto the king, Behold, the kings sonnes come: as thy seruant said, so it is.
36. And it came to passe assoone as hee had made an ende of speaking, that behold, the kings sonnes came, and lift vp their voice, and wept; and the King also and all his seruants wept very sore.
37. But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the sonne of Ammihud king of Geshur: and Dauid mourned for his sonne euery day.
38. So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three yeeres.
39. And the soule of king Dauid longed to goe foorth vnto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
1. Now Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, perceiued that the kings heart was toward Absalom.
2. And Ioab sent to Tekoah, and fetcht thence a wise woman, and said vnto her, I pray thee, faine thy selfe to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thy selfe with oile, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
3. And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto him: so Ioab put the words in her mouth.
4. And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, shee fell on her face to the ground, and did obeysance, and said, Helpe, O king.
5. And the king said vnto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
6. And thy handmayd had two sonnes, and they two stroue together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
7. And behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmayd, and they said, Deliuer him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew, and we will destroy the heire also: and so they shall quench my cole which is left, and shall not leaue to my husband neither name nor remainder vpon the earth.
8. And the king saide vnto the woman, Goe to thine house, and I will giue charge concerning thee.
9. And the woman of Tekoah said vnto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquitie bee on mee, and on my fathers house: and the king and his throne bee guiltlesse.
10. And the king said, Whosoeuer saith ought vnto thee, bring him to mee, and he shall not touch thee any more.
11. Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the reuengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my sonne. And he said, As the Lord liueth, there shall not one haire of thy sonne fall to the earth.
12. Then the woman said, Let thine handmayd, I pray thee, speake one word vnto my lord the king. And hee said, Say on.
13. And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? For the king doeth speake this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doeth not fetch home againe his banished.
14. For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot bee gathered vp againe: neither doeth God respect any person, yet doeth he deuise meanes, that his banished bee not expelled from him.
15. Now therefore that I am come to speake of this thing vnto my lord the king, it is because the people haue made me afraid: and thy handmayd said, I will now speake vnto the king; it may bee that the king will performe the request of his handmayd. 
16. For the king wil heare, to deliuer his handmayd out of the hand of the man that would destroy mee, and my sonne together out of the inheritance of God:
17. Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an Angel of God, so is my lord the king to discerne good and bad: therfore the Lord thy God will be with thee.
18. Then the king answered and said vnto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall aske thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speake.
19. And the king said, Is not the hand of Ioab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soule liueth, my lord the king, none can turne to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy seruant Ioab, hee bade me, and he put all these wordes in the mouth of thine handmaid:
20. To fetch about this forme of speech hath thy seruant Ioab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisedome of an Angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
21. And the king said vnto Ioab, Behold now, I haue done this thing: goe therefore, bring the yong man Absalom againe.
22. And Ioab fell to the ground on his face, & bowed himselfe, and thanked the king: and Ioab said, To day thy seruant knoweth that I haue found grace in thy sight, my lord O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his seruant.
23. So Ioab arose, and went to Geshur, & brought Absalom to Ierusalem.
24. And the king said, Let him turne to his owne house, & let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his owne house, and sawe not the kings face.
25. But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom, for his beautie: from the sole of his foot euen to the crowne of his head, there was no blemish in him.
26. And when he polled his head, (for it was at euery yeres end that he polled it: because the haire was heauy on him, therefore he polled it) hee weighed the haire of his head at two hundred shekels after the kings weight.
27. And vnto Absalom there were borne three sonnes, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: shee was a woman of a faire countenance.
28. So Absalom dwelt two full yeeres in Ierusalem, and saw not the kings face.
29. Therefore Absalom sent for Ioab, to haue sent him to the king, but hee would not come to him: and when hee sent againe the second time, hee would not come.
30. Therefore hee said vnto his seruants, See, Ioabs field is neere mine, and he hath barley there: goe, and set it on fire: and Absaloms seruants set the field on fire.
31. Then Ioab arose, and came to Absalom vnto his house, and said vnto him, Wherefore haue thy seruants set my field on fire?
32. And Absalom answered Ioab, Behold, I sent vnto thee, saying, come hither, that I may send thee to the king to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? It had bene good for mee to haue bene there still: now therefore let me see the kings face: and if there bee any iniquitie in me, let him kill me.
33. So Ioab came to the King, and told him: and when hee had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himselfe on his face to the ground before the king, and the King kissed Absalom.
1. And it came to passe after this, that Absalom prepared him charets and horses, and fiftie men to runne before him.
2. And Absalom rose vp earely, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controuersie, came to the king for iudgment, then Absalom called vnto him, and said, Of what citie art thou? And he said, Thy seruant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
3. And Absalom said vnto him, See, thy matters are good & right, but there is no man deputed of the king to heare thee.
4. Absalom said moreouer, Oh that I were made Iudge in the land, that euery man which hath any suit or cause, might come vnto me, and I would do him iustice.
5. And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him, to doe him obeisance, he put foorth his hand, and tooke him, and kissed him.
6. And on this maner did Absalom to all Israel, that came to the King for iudgement: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
7. And it came to passe after fourtie yeeres, that Absalom said vnto the king, I pray thee, let mee goe and pay my vow which I haue vowed vnto the Lord in Hebron.
8. For thy seruant vowed a vowe while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring mee againe in deed to Ierusalem, then I will serue the Lord.
9. And the king said vnto him, Goe in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
10. But Absalom sent spies thorowout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soone as yee heare the sound of the trumpet, then yee shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
11. And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Ierusalem, that were called, and they went in their simplicitie, and they knew not any thing.
12. And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, Dauids counseller, from his citie, euen from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices: and the conspiracie was strong, for the people encreased continually with Absalom.
13. And there came a messenger to Dauid, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
14. And Dauid said vnto all his seruants that were with him at Ierusalem, Arise, and let vs flee; for wee shall not else escape from Absalom: make speede to depart, lest hee ouertake vs suddenly, and bring euill vpon vs, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
15. And the kings seruants said vnto the king, Behold, thy seruants are readie to doe whatsoeuer my lord the king shall appoint.
16. And the king went foorth, and all his houshold after him: and the King left tenne women, which were concubines, to keepe the house.
17. And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and taried in a place that was farre off.
18. And all his seruants passed on beside him: and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, sixe hundred men, which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
19. Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with vs? Returne to thy place, and abide with the King: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
20. Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee goe vp and downe with vs? Seeing I goe whither I may, returne thou, and take backe thy brethren: mercie and trueth be with thee.
21. And Ittai answered the King, and said, As the Lord liueth, and as my lord the king liueth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, euen there also will thy seruant be.
22. And Dauid said to Ittai, Goe, and passe ouer. And Ittai the Gittite passed ouer, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
23. And all the countrey wept with a loude voice, and all the people passed ouer: the King also himselfe passed ouer the brooke Kidron, and all the people passed ouer, toward the way of the wildernesse.
24. And loe, Zadok also, and all the Leuites were with him, bearing the Arke of the Couenant of God, and they set downe the Arke of God; and Abiathar went vp, vntill all the people had done passing out of the citie.
25. And the King said vnto Zadok, Cary backe the Arke of God into the citie: if I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the Lord, he wil bring me againe, and shew me both it, and his habitation.
26. But if he thus say, I haue no delight in thee: beholde, here am I, let him doe to me, as seemeth good vnto him.
27. The king said also vnto Zadok the Priest, Art not thou a Seer? Returne into the citie in peace, and your two sonnes with you, Ahimaaz thy sonne, and Ionathan the sonne of Abiathar.
28. See, I will tarie in the plaine of the wildernesse, vntill there come word from you to certifie me.
29. Zadok therefore and Abiathar caried the Arke of God againe to Ierusalem; and they taried there.
30. And Dauid went vp by the ascent of mount Oliuet, and wept as he went vp, and had his head couered, and he went barefoote, and all the people that was with him, couered euery man his head, and they went vp, weeping as they went vp.
31. And one tolde Dauid, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And Dauid sayde, O Lord, I pray thee turne the counsell of Ahithophel into foolishnesse.
32. And it came to passe, that when Dauid was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him, with his coat rent, and earth vpon his head:
33. Unto whom Dauid said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden vnto me.
34. But if thou returne to the citie, and say vnto Absalom, I wil be thy seruant, O king: as I haue bene thy fathers seruant hitherto, so will I now also be thy seruant: then mayest thou for mee defeat the counsell of Ahithophel.
35. And hast thou not there with thee Zadok, and Abiathar the Priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soeuer thou shalt heare out of the kings house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the Priests.
36. Behold, they haue there with them their two sonnes, Ahimaaz Zadoks sonne, and Ionathan Abiathars sonne: and by them ye shall send vnto me euery thing that ye can heare.
37. So Hushai Dauids friend came into the citie, and Absalom came into Ierusalem.
1. And when Dauid was a little past the top of the hill, Beholde, Ziba the seruant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of asses sadled, and vpon them two hundred loaues of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottell of wine.
2. And the King saide vnto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba saide, The asses bee for the kings houshold to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit for the yong men to eate, and the wine, that such as be faint in the wildernesse, may drinke.
3. And the king said, And where is thy masters sonne? and Ziba said vnto the king, Behold, he abideth at Ierusalem: for hee said, To day shall the house of Israel restore mee the kingdome of my father.
4. Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained vnto Mephibosheth. And Ziba saide, I humbly beseech thee that I may finde grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
5. And when king Dauid came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei the sonne of Gera: hee came foorth, and cursed still as he came.
6. And he cast stones at Dauid, and at all the seruants of king Dauid: and all the people, and all the mighty men were on his right hand, and on his left.
7. And thus said Shimei when hee cursed, Come out, come out thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
8. The Lord hath returned vpon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast raigned, and the Lord hath deliuered the kingdome into the hand of Absalom thy sonne: and behold, thou art taken to thy mischiefe, because thou art a bloody man. 
9. Then said Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah vnto the king, Why should this dead dogge curse my lord the king? let mee goe ouer, I pray thee, and take off his head.
10. And the king said, What haue I to doe with you, ye sonnes of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the Lord hath said vnto him, Curse Dauid. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
11. And Dauid said to Abishai, and to all his seruants, Beholde, my sonne which came foorth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Beniamite doe it? let him alone, and let him curse: for the Lord hath bidden him.
12. It may bee that the Lord will looke on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day.
13. And as Dauid and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hilles side ouer against him, and cursed as hee went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
14. And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselues there.
15. And Absalom and al the people the men of Israel, came to Ierusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
16. And it came to passe when Hushai the Archite, Dauids friend, was come vnto Absalom, that Hushai said vnto Absalom, God saue the king, God saue the king.
17. And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindnesse to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?
18. And Hushai said vnto Absalom, Nay, but whom the Lord and this people, and all the men of Israel chuse, his will I bee, and with him will I abide.
19. And againe, whom should I serue? should I not serue in the presence of his sonne? as I haue serued in thy fathers presence, so will I be in thy presence.
20. Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Giue counsell among you what we shall doe.
21. And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Goe in vnto thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house, and all Israel shall heare that thou art abhorred of thy father, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
22. So they spread Absalom a tent vpon the top of the house, and Absalom went in vnto his fathers concubines, in the sight of all Israel.
23. And the counsell of Ahithophel which he counselled in those dayes, was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God: so was all the counsell of Ahithophel, both with Dauid and with Absalom.
1. Moreouer Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Let mee nowe chuse out twelue thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after Dauid this night.
2. And I wil come vpon him while hee is wearie and weake handed, and wil make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee, and I will smite the king onely.
3. And I wil bring backe all the people vnto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
4. And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.
5. Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let vs heare likewise what he saith.
6. And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake vnto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this maner: shall we doe after his saying? if not, speake thou.
7. And Hushai said vnto Absalom, The counsell that Ahithophel hath giuen, is not good at this time.
8. For, (said Hushai,) thou knowest thy father and his men, that they bee mightie men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a beare robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of warre, and will not lodge with the people.
9. Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it wil come to passe when some of them bee ouerthrowen at the first, that whosoeuer heareth it, wil say, There is a slaughter among the people that followe Absalom.
10. And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a Lyon, shall vtterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mightie man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
11. Therefore I counsell, that all Israel be generally gathered vnto thee, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that thou goe to battell in thine owne person.
12. So shall wee come vpon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light vpon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him, there shall not be left so much as one.
13. Moreouer, if hee be gotten into a citie, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the riuer, vntill there be not one small stone found there.
14. And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsell of Hushai the Archite, is better then the counsell of Ahithophel: For the Lord had appointed to defeate the good counsell of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring euill vpon Absalom.
15. Then said Hushai vnto Zadok and to Abiathar the Priestes, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsell Absalom and the Elders of Israel, and thus and thus haue I counselled.
16. Now therefore send quickly, and tell Dauid, saying, Lodge not this night in the plaines of the wildernes, but speedily passe ouer, lest the King be swallowed vp, and all the people that are with him.
17. Now Ionathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel: (for they might not be seene to come into the citie) and a wench went and tolde them: and they went, and tolde king Dauid.
18. Neuerthelesse, a ladde saw them, and tolde Absalom: but they went both of them away quickely, and came to a mans house in Bahurim, which had a Well in his court, whither they went downe.
19. And the woman tooke and spread a couering ouer the welles mouth, and spread ground corne thereon; and the thing was not knowen.
20. And when Absaloms seruants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Ionathan? And the woman said vnto them, They be gone ouer the brooke of water. And when they had sought, and could not finde them, they returned to Ierusalem.
21. And it came to passe after they were departed, that they came vp out of the Well, and went and tolde king Dauid, and said vnto Dauid, Arise, and passe quickely ouer the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
22. Then Dauid arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed ouer Iordane: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone ouer Iordane.
23. And when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and gate him home to his house, to his citie, and put his houshold in order, and hanged himselfe, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
24. Then Dauid came to Mahanaim: and Absalom passed ouer Iordane, he and all the men of Israel with him.
25. And Absalom made Amasa captaine of the hoste in stead of Ioab: which Amasa was a mans sonne whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Ioabs mother.
26. So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
27. And it came to passe when Dauid was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the sonne of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the sonne of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, of Rogelim,
28. Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and floure, and parched corne, & beanes, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
29. And honie, and butter, and sheepe, and cheese of kine for Dauid, and for the people that were with him, to eate: for they said, The people is hungrie, and wearie, and thirstie in the wildernesse.
1. And Dauid numbred the people that were with him, and set captaines of thousands, and captaines of hundreds ouer them.
2. And Dauid sent forth a third part of the people vnder the hand of Ioab, and a third part vnder the hand of Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah Ioabs brother, and a third part vnder the hand of Ittai the Gittite: and the king said vnto the people, I will surely goe foorth with you my selfe also.
3. But the people answered, Thou shalt not goe foorth: for if we flee away, they will not care for vs, neither if halfe of vs die will they care for vs: but now thou art worth ten thousand of vs: therfore now it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie.
4. And the King sayde vnto them, What seemeth you best, I will doe. And the King stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds, and by thousands.
5. And the king commanded Ioab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Deale gently for my sake with the yong man, euen with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gaue all the captaines charge concerning Absalom.
6. So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim,
7. Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
8. For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured.
9. And Absalom met the seruants of Dauid; and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule went vnder the thicke boughs of a great Oke, and his head caught hold of the Oke, and hee was taken vp betweene the heauen and the earth, and the mule that was vnder him, went away.
10. And a certaine man saw it, and told Ioab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an Oke.
11. And Ioab said vnto the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground, and I would haue giuen thee tenne shekels of siluer, and a girdle?
12. And the man saide vnto Ioab, Though I should receiue a thousand shekels of siluer in mine hand, yet would I not put foorth mine hand against the Kings sonne: for in our hearing the King charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the yong man Absalom.
13. Otherwyse, I should haue wrought falshood against mine owne life: for there is no matter hid from the King, and thou thy selfe wouldest haue set thy selfe against me.
14. Then said Ioab, I may not tary thus with thee. And hee tooke three darts in his hand, and thrust them thorow the heart of Absalom, while hee was yet aliue in the midst of the Oke.
15. And ten yong men that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
16. And Ioab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.
17. And they tooke Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and layd a very great heape of stones vpon him: and all Israel fled euery one to his tent.
18. Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared vp for himselfe a pillar, which is in the Kings dale: for hee said, I haue no sonne to keepe my name in remembrance: And hee called the pillar after his owne name, and it is called vnto this day, Absaloms place.
19. Then said Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok, Let mee now runne, and beare the King tidings, how that the Lord hath auenged him of his enemies.
20. And Ioab said vnto him, Thou shalt not beare tidings this day, but thou shalt beare tidings another day: but this day thou shalt beare no tidings, because the Kings sonne is dead.
21. Then said Ioab to Cushi, Goe tell the King what thou hast seene. And Cushi bowed himselfe vnto Ioab, and ranne.
22. Then said Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok yet againe to Ioab, But howsoeuer, let mee, I pray thee, also runne after Cushi. And Ioab said, Wherefore wilt thou runne, my sonne, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
23. But howsoeuer, (said he) let mee runne: And hee said vnto him, Runne. Then Ahimaaz ranne by the way of the plaine, and ouerranne Cushi.
24. And Dauid sate betweene the two gates: and the watchman went vp to the roofe ouer the gate vnto the wall, and lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, a man running alone.
25. And the watchman cried, and told the King. And the king said, If he bee alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew neere.
26. And the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called vnto the porter, and said, Behold, another man running alone. And the King said, He also bringeth tidings.
27. And the watchman said, Mee thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok. And the King said, Hee is a good man, and commeth with good tidings.
28. And Ahimaaz called, and said vnto the King, All is well. And hee fell downe to the earth vpon his face before the King, and saide, Blessed bee the Lord thy God which hath deliuered vp the men that lift vp their hande against my lord the King.
29. And the king said, Is the yong man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Ioab sent the kings seruant, and me thy seruant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
30. And the king said vnto him, Turne aside and stand here. And hee turned aside, and stood still.
31. And behold, Cushi came, and Cushi said, Tidings my lord the king: for the Lord hath auenged thee this day of all them that rose vp against thee.
32. And the king said vnto Cushi, Is the yong man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to doe thee hurt, be as that yong man is.
33. And the king was much moued, and went vp to the chamber ouer the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus hee said, O my sonne Absalom, my sonne, my sonne Absalom: would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my sonne, my sonne.
1. And it was told Ioab, Beholde, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2. And the victorie that day was turned into mourning vnto all the people: for the people heard say that day, how the king was grieued for his sonne.
3. And the people gate them by stealth that day into the citie, as people beeing ashamed steale away when they flee in battell.
4. But the king couered his face, and the king cried with a loud voyce, O my sonne Absalom, O Absalom my sonne, my sonne.
5. And Ioab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy seruants, which this day haue saued thy life, and the liues of thy sonnes, & of thy daughters, and the liues of thy wiues, and the liues of thy concubines,
6. In that thou louest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends; for thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes, nor seruants: for this day I perceiue, that if Absalom had liued, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. 
7. Now therefore arise, goe foorth, and speake comfortably vnto thy seruants: for I sweare by the Lord, if thou goe not forth, there wil not tarie one with thee this night, and that will be worse vnto thee then all the euill that befell thee from thy youth vntill now.
8. Then the King rose, and sate in the gate: and they told vnto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate: and all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled euery man to his tent.
9. And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saued vs out of the hand of our enemies, and he deliuered vs out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
10. And Absalom whom wee anointed ouer vs, is dead in battell: nowe therefore why speake ye not a word of bringing the king backe?
11. And King Dauid sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speake vnto the Elders of Iudah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king backe to his house? (seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, euen to his house.)
12. Yee are my brethren, Yee are my bones and my flesh: wherfore then are ye the last to bring backe the king?
13. And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captaine of the hoste before me continually in the roome of Ioab.
14. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Iudah, euen as the heart of one man, so that they sent this word vnto the King, Returne thou and all thy seruants.
15. So the King returned, and came to Iordan: and Iudah came to Gilgal, to goe to meet the King, to conduct the king ouer Iordane.
16. And Shimei the sonne of Gera, a Beniamite, which wass of Bahurim, hasted, & came downe with the men of Iudah, to meet King Dauid.
17. And there were a thousand men of Beniamin with him, and Ziba the seruant of the house of Saul, and his fifteene sonnes and his twenty seruants with him, and they went ouer Iordane before the King.
18. And there went ouer a ferry-boat to cary ouer the kings houshold, and to doe what he thought good: and Shimei the sonne of Gera fell downe before the king as he was come ouer Iordane;
19. And said vnto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquitie vnto me, neither do thou remember that which thy seruant did peruersly the day that my lord the king went out of Ierusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
20. For thy seruant doeth know that I haue sinned: therefore behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Ioseph, to goe downe to meete my lord the king.
21. But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah answered, and sayd, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because hee cursed the Lords Anointed?
22. And Dauid said, What haue I to doe with you, yee sonnes of Zeruiah, that yee should this day be aduersaries vnto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for doe not I know, that I am this day King ouer Israel?
23. Therfore the king said vnto Shimei, Thou shalt not die: and the King sware vnto him.
24. And Mephibosheth the sonne of Saul came downe to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feete, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the King departed, vntill the day hee came againe in peace.
25. And it came to passe when he was come to Ierusalem to meete the King, that the King sayd vnto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
26. And hee answered, My lord O king, my seruant deceiued mee; for thy seruant sayd, I will saddle me an asse that I may ride thereon, and goe to the king, because thy seruant is lame:
27. And hee hath slandered thy seruant vnto my lord the king, but my lord the King is as an Angel of God: doe therefore what is good in thine eyes.
28. For all of my fathers house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet diddest thou set thy seruant among them that did eate at thine owne table: what right therefore haue I yet to crie any more vnto the king?
29. And the king said vnto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I haue said, Thou and Ziba diuide the land.
30. And Mephibosheth said vnto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lorde the king is come againe in peace vnto his owne house.
31. And Barzillai the Gileadite came downe from Rogelim, and went ouer Iordane with the king, to conduct him ouer Iordane.
32. Now Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeeres olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a very great man.
33. And the king said vnto Barzillai, Come thou ouer with me, and I will feede thee with me in Ierusalem.
34. And Barzillai sayde vnto the king, How long haue I to liue, that I should goe vp with the King vnto Ierusalem?
35. I am this day fourescore yeeres olde: and can I discerne betweene good and euill? Can thy seruant taste what I eate, or what I drinke? can I heare any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherfore then should thy seruant bee yet a burden vnto my lord the king?
36. Thy seruant will goe a little way ouer Iordane with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
37. Let thy seruant, I pray thee, turne backe againe, that I may die in mine owne citie, and be buried by the graue of my father, and of my mother: but behold thy seruant Chimham, let him go ouer with my lord the king, and doe to him what shall seeme good vnto thee.
38. And the king answered, Chimham shal goe ouer with me, and I will doe to him that which shall seeme good vnto thee: and whatsoeuer thou shalt require of me, that will I doe for thee.
39. And all the people went ouer Iordane: and when the king was come ouer, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him, and he returned vnto his owne place.
40. Then the King went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Iudah conducted the king, and also halfe the people of Israel.
41. And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said vnto the king, Why haue our brethren the men of Iudah stollen thee away, and haue brought the King and his houshold, and all Dauids men with him, ouer Iordane?
42. And all the men of Iudah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is neere of kinne to vs: wherefore then be ye angrie for this matter? Haue we eaten at all of the kings cost? or hath he giuen vs any gift?
43. And the men of Israel answered the men of Iudah, and said, Wee haue ten parts in the king, and we haue also more right in Dauid then yee: why then did yee despise vs, that our aduice should not be first had in bringing backe our king? And the wordes of the men of Iudah were fiercer then the words of the men of Israel.
1. And there happened to bee there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba the sonne of Bichri, a Beniamite, & hee blew a trumpet, and said, Wee haue no part in Dauid, neither haue we inheritance in the sonne of Iesse: euery man to his tents, O Israel.
2. So euery man of Israel went vp from after Dauid, and followed Sheba the sonne of Bichri: but the men of Iudah claue vnto their king, from Iordane euen to Ierusalem.
3. And Dauid came to his house at Ierusalem, and the king tooke the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in vnto them: so they were shut vp vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhood.
4. Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Iudah within three dayes, and be thou here present.
5. So Amasa went to assemble the men of Iudah; but hee taried longer then the set time which he had appointed him.
6. And Dauid said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the sonne of Bichri doe vs more harme then did Absalom: take thou thy lords seruants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape vs.
7. And there went out after him Ioabs men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Ierusalem, to pursue after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.
8. When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them: and Ioabs garment that he had put on, was girded vnto him, and vpon it a girdle with a sword fastned vpon his loynes in the sheath thereof, and as hee went forth, it fell out.
9. And Ioab saide to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Ioab tooke Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him.
10. But Amasa tooke no heed to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: so hee smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and strake him not againe, and he died: so Ioab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.
11. And one of Ioabs men stood by him, and said, He that fauoureth Ioab, and hee that is for Dauid, let him goe after Ioab.
12. And Amasa wallowed in blood in the mids of the high way: and when the man saw that all the people stood still, he remoued Amasa out of the high way into the field, and cast a cloth vpon him, when hee saw that euery one that came by him, stood still.
13. When he was remoued out of the high way, all the people went on after Ioab, to pursue after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.
14. And hee went thorow all the tribes of Israel vnto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
15. And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast vp a banke against the citie, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Ioab, battered the wall, to throw it downe.
16. Then cried a wise woman out of the citie, Heare, heare; say, I pray you, vnto Ioab, Come neere hither, that I may speake with thee.
17. And when he was come neere vnto her, the woman said, Art thou Ioab? And he answered, I am he: Then shee said vnto him, Heare the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I doe heare.
18. Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speake in old time, saying, They shall surely aske counsell at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
19. I am one of them that are peaceable and faithfull in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a citie, and a mother in Israel: Why wilt thou swallow vp the inheritance of the Lord ?
20. And Ioab answered and saide, Farre be it, farre be it from me, that I should swallow vp or destroy.
21. The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim (Sheba the sonne of Bichri by name) hath lift vp his hand against the king, euen against Dauid: deliuer him onely, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said vnto Ioab, Behold, his head shall be throwen to thee ouer the wall.
22. Then the woman went vnto all the people in her wisedome, and they cut off the head of Sheba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it out to Ioab: and hee blew a trumpet, and they retired from the citie, euery man to his tent: & Ioab returned to Ierusalem vnto the king.
23. Now Ioab was ouer all the hoste of Israel, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the Cherethites, and ouer the Pelethites.
24. And Adoram was ouer the tribute, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Recorder.
25. And Sheua was scribe, and Zadok, and Abiathar were the Priests.
26. And Ira also the Iairite, was a chiefe ruler about Dauid.
1. Then there was a famine in the dayes of Dauid three yeeres, yeere after yeere, and Dauid enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloodie house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2. And the king called the Gibeonites, and said vnto them, (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworne vnto them: and Saul sought to slay them, in his zeale to the children of Israel and Iudah)
3. Wherefore Dauid said vnto the Gibeonites, What shall I doe for you? and wherwith shall I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord ?
4. And the Gibeonites saide vnto him, We will haue no siluer nor golde of Saul, nor of his house, neither for vs shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What you shall say, that will I doe for you.
5. And they answered the king, The man that consumed vs, and that deuised against vs, that we should be destroied from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
6. Let seuen men of his sonnes bee deliuered vnto vs, and wee will hang them vp vnto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whome the Lord did chuse. And the king said, I will giue them.
7. But the king spared Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the Lords othe that was between them, betweene Dauid, and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.
8. But the king tooke the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare vnto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the fiue sonnes of Michal the daughter of Saul, whome she brought vp for Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the Meholathite.
9. And hee deliuered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seuen together, and were put to death in the dayes of haruest, in the first dayes, in the beginning of barley haruest.
10. And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah tooke sackecloth, and spread it for her vpon the rocke, from the beginning of haruest, vntill water dropped vpon them out of heauen, and suffered neither the birds of the aire to rest on them by day, nor the beastes of the fielde by night.
11. And it was tolde Dauid what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done.
12. And Dauid went and tooke the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne from the men of Iabesh Gilead, which had stollen them from the street of Bethshan where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slaine Saul in Gilboa.
13. And hee brought vp from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14. And the bones of Saul and Ionathan his sonne buried they in the countrey of Beniamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they perfourmed all that the king commanded: and after that, God was entreated for the land.
15. Moreouer, the Philistines had yet warre againe with Israel, and Dauid went down, and his seruants with him, and fought against the Philistines, and Dauid waxed faint.
16. And Ishbi-benob which was of the sonnes of the gyant, (the weight of whose speare weighed three hundred shekels of brasse in weight) he being girded with a new sword, thought to haue slaine Dauid.
17. But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of Dauid sware vnto him, saying, Thou shalt goe no more out with vs to battell, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
18. And it came to passe after this, that there was againe a battell with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sonnes of the Gyant.
19. And there was againe a battell in Gob, with the Philistines, where Elhanan the sonne of Iaare-Oregim a Bethlehemite, slewe the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame.
20. And there was yet a battell in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on euery hand sixe fingers, and on euery foote sixe toes, foure and twenty in number, and he also was borne to the Gyant.
21. And when he defied Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shimea the brother of Dauid, slew him.
22. These foure were borne to the Gyant in Gath, and fell by the hand of Dauid, and by the hand of his seruants.
1. And Dauid spake vnto the Lord the wordes of this song, in the day that the Lord had deliuered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.
2. And he said, The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse, and my deliuerer:
3. The God of my rocke, in him will I trust: hee is my shield, and the horne of my saluation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Sauiour; thou sauest me from violence.
4. I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saued from mine enemies.
5. When the waues of death compassed me: the floods of vngodly men made me afraid.
6. The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.
7. In my distresse I called vpon the Lord, and cryed to my God, and hee did heare my voice out of his Temple, and my crie did enter into his eares.
8. Then the earth shooke and trembled: the foundations of heauen mooued and shooke, because hee was wroth.
9. There went vp a smoake out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured: coales were kindled by it.
10. Hee bowed the heauens also and came downe: and darkenesse was vnder his feete.
11. And he rode vpon a Cherub, and did flie: and hee was seene vpon the wings of the winde.
12. And hee made darkenesse pauilions round about him, darke waters, and thicke clouds of the skies.
13. Through the brightnesse before him, were coales of fire kindled.
14. The Lord thundred from heauen: and the most high vttered his voice.
15. And he sent out arrowes, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16. And the channels of the Sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discouered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17. He sent from aboue, he tooke me: he drew me out of many waters.
18. He deliuered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated mee: for they were too strong for me.
19. They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.
20. Hee brought me forth also into a large place: he deliuered me, because hee delighted in me.
21. The Lord rewarded mee according to my righteousnesse: according to the cleannesse of my hands, hath hee recompensed me.
22. For I haue kept the wayes of the Lord, and haue not wickedly departed from my God.
23. For all his iudgements were before me: and as for his Statutes, I did not depart from them.
24. I was also vpright before him: and haue kept my selfe from mine iniquitie.
25. Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me, according to my righteousnesse: according to my cleannesse in his eye sight.
26. With the merciful thou wilt shew thy selfe mercifull, and with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.
27. With the pure thou wilt shew thy selfe pure: and with the froward, thou wilt shew thy selfe vnsauoury.
28. And the afflicted people thou wilt saue: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie, that thou mayest bring them downe.
29. For thou art my lampe, O Lord: and the Lord wil lighten my darkenesse.
30. For by thee I haue run through a troupe: by my God haue I leaped ouer a wall.
31. 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.
32. For who is God, saue the Lord ? and who is a rocke, saue our God?
33. God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
34. Hee maketh my feet like hindes feet: and setteth mee vpon my high places.
35. He teacheth my hands to warre: so that a bow of steele is broken by mine armes.
36. Thou hast also giuen mee the shield of thy saluation: and thy gentlenesse hath made me great.
37. Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder me: so that my feet did not slip.
38. I haue pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them: and turned not againe vntill I had consumed them.
39. And I haue consumed them and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen vnder my feet.
40. For thou hast girded mee with strength to battel: them that rose vp against me, hast thou subdued vnder me.
41. Thou hast also giuen mee the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42. They looked, but there was none to saue: euen vnto the Lord, but he answered them not.
43. Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I did stampe them as the myre of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44. Thou also hast deliuered mee from the striuings of my people, thou hast kept mee to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not, shall serue me.
45. Strangers shall submit themselues vnto me: as soone as they heare, they shall be obedient vnto me.
46. Strangers shall fade away: and they shall bee afraid out of their close places.
47. The Lord liueth, and blessed be my rocke: and exalted be the God of the rocke of my saluation.
48. It is God that auengeth mee, and that bringeth downe the people vnder me:
49. And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted mee vp on high aboue them that rose vp against me: thou hast deliuered me from the violent man.
50. Therefore I will giue thankes vnto thee, O Lord, among the heathen: and I will sing praises vnto thy Name.
51. He is the towre of saluation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his Anointed, vnto Dauid, and to his seede for euermore.
1. Nowe these bee the last words of Dauid: Dauid the sonne of Iesse saide, and the man who was raised vp on high, the Anointed of the God of Iacob, and the sweet Psalmist of Israel, said,
2. The spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3. The God of Israel said, the Rocke of Israel spake to me: he that ruleth ouer men must be iust, ruling in the feare of God:
4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the Sunne riseth, euen a morning, without cloudes; as the tender grasse springing out of the earth by cleare shining after raine:
5. Although my house be not so with God: yet he hath made with mee an euerlasting couenant, ordred in al things and sure: for this is all my saluation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
6. But the sonnes of Belial shall bee all of them as thornes thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands,
7. But the man that shal touch them, must be fenced with yron, and the staffe of a speare, and they shall bee vtterly burnt with fire in the same place.
8. These be the names of the mightie men whome Dauid had: The Tachmonite that sate in the seat, chiefe among the captaines, (the same was Adino the Eznite:) hee lift vp his speare against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
9. And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mightie men with Dauid, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battell, and the men of Israel were gone away.
10. He arose, and smote the Philistines vntill his hand was wearie, and his hand claue vnto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victorie that day, and the people returned after him onely to spoile.
11. And after him was Shammah the sonne of Agee the Hararite: and the Philistines were gathered together into a troupe, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
12. But hee stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slewe the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victorie.
13. And three of the thirtie chiefe went downe and came to Dauid in the haruest time, vnto the caue of Adullam: and the troupe of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
14. And Dauid was then in an holde, and the garison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
15. And Dauid longed, and said, Oh that one would giue mee drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate.
16. And the three mightie men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the Well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and tooke it, and brought it to Dauid: neuerthelesse he would not drinke thereof, but powred it out vnto the Lord.
17. And he said, Be it farre from me, O Lord, that I should doe this: is not this the blood of the men that went in ieopardie of their liues? therefore he would not drinke it. These things did these three mightie men.
18. And Abishai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among three, and he lift vp his speare against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
19. Was hee not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captaine: howbeit, hee attained not vnto the first three.
20. And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many actes, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: hee went downe also, and slewe a Lyon in the middest of a pit in time of snow.
21. And he slew an Egyptian a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a speare in his hand; but he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare.
22. These things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had the name among three mightie men.
23. Hee was more honourable then the thirtie, but hee attained not to the first three: and Dauid set him ouer his guard.
24. Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem,
25. Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
26. Helez the Paltite, Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
27. Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
28. Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
29. Heleb the sonne of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the sonne of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin.
30. Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brookes of Gaash,
31. Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaueth the Barhumite,
32. Elihaba the Shaalbonite: of the sonnes of Iashen, Ionathan,
33. Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hararite,
34. Eliphelet the sonne of Ahasbai, the sonne of the Maachathite, Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
35. Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
36. Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
37. Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, armour-bearer to Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah,
38. Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
39. Uriah the Hittite: thirtie and seuen in all.
1. And againe the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and hee mooued Dauid against them, to say, Goe, number Israel and Iudah.
2. For the king said to Ioab the captaine of the hoste, which was with him, Goe now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3. And Ioab sayde vnto the King, Now the Lord thy God adde vnto the people (how many soeuer they be) an hundred folde, and that the eyes of my lorde the king may see it: but why doeth my lord the king delight in this thing?
4. Notwithstanding, the kings word preuailed against Ioab, and against the captaines of the hoste: and Ioab and the captaines of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
5. And they passed ouer Iordane, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the citie that lieth in the midst of the riuer of Gad, and toward Iazer.
6. Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-Hodshi; and they came to Dan-Iaan, and about to Zidon,
7. And came to the strong holde of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hiuites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Iudah, euen to Beer-sheba.
8. So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Ierusalem at the ende of nine moneths, and twentie dayes.
9. And Ioab gaue vp the summe of the number of the people vnto the king, and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drewe the sword: and the men of Iudah were fiue hundred thousand men.
10. And Dauids heart smote him, after that hee had numbred the people: and Dauid sayde vnto the Lord, I haue sinned greatly in that I haue done: and nowe I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquitie of thy seruant, for I haue done very foolishly. 
11. For when Dauid was vp in the morning, the word of the Lord came vnto the Prophet Gad Dauids Seer, saying,
12. Goe and say vnto Dauid, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; chuse thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.
13. So Gad came to Dauid, and told him, and said vnto him, Shall seuen yeeres of famine come vnto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three moneths before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three dayes pestilence in thy land? Now aduise, and see what answere I shall returne to him that sent me.
14. And Dauid saide vnto Gad, I am in a great strait: let vs fall now into the hand of the Lord (for his mercies are great,) and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15. So the Lord sent a pestilence vpon Israel, from the morning, euen to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan euen to Beersheba, seuentie thousand men.
16. And when the Angel stretched out his hand vpon Ierusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the euill, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, It is ynough: stay now thine hand. And the Angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Araunah the Iebusite.
17. And Dauid spake vnto the Lord when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, Loe, I haue sinned, and I haue done wickedly: but these sheepe, what haue they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, be against mee, and against my fathers house.
18. And Gad came that day to Dauid, and said vnto him, Goe vp, reare an Altar vnto the Lord, in the threshing floore of Araunah the Iebusite.
19. And Dauid, according to the saying of Gad, went vp, as the Lord commanded.
20. And Araunah looked, and saw the King and his seruants comming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himselfe before the King on his face vpon the ground.
21. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the King come to his seruant? and Dauid saide, To buy the threshing floore of thee, to build an Altar vnto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22. And Araunah said vnto Dauid, Let my lord the King take and offer vp what seemeth good vnto him: Beholde, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments, and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
23. All these things did Araunah, as a king, giue vnto the King: and Araunah saide vnto the King, The Lord thy God accept thee.
24. And the King said vnto Araunah, Nay, but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings vnto the Lord my God, of that which doeth cost mee nothing. So Dauid bought the threshing floore, and the oxen, for fiftie shekels of siluer.
25. Aud Dauid built there an Altar vnto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings: so the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
1. Now King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, and they couered him with clothes, but hee gate no heate.
2. Wherefore his seruants said vnto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a yong virgin, and let her stand before the King, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosome, that my lord the King may get heate.
3. So they sought for a faire damosel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the King.
4. And the damosell was very faire, and cherished the king, and ministred to him: but the king knew her not.
5. Then Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith exalted himselfe, saying, I wil be king: And he prepared him charets and horesemen, and fiftie men to runne before him.
6. And his father had not displeased him at any time, in saying, Why hast thou done so? And hee also was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him after Absalom.
7. And hee conferred with Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the Priest: and they following Adoniiah, helped him.
8. But Zadok the Priest, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and Nathan the Prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mightie men which belonged to Dauid, were not with Adoniiah.
9. And Adoniiah slew sheepe, and oxen, and fat cattell, by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-Rogel, and called all his brethren the kings sonnes, and all the men of Iudah the kings seruants.
10. But Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah, and the mightie men, and Solomon his brother he called not.
11. Wherefore Nathan spake vnto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adoniiah the son of Haggith doth reigne, and Dauid our lord knoweth it not?
12. Now therefore come, let mee, I pray thee, giue thee counsell, that thou mayest saue thine owne life, and the life of thy sonne Solomon.
13. Goe, and get thee in vnto King Dauid, and say vnto him, Diddest not thou, my lord, O king, sweare vnto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy sonne shall reigne after mee, and he shall sit vpon my throne? why then doth Adoniiah reigne?
14. Beholde, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirme thy words.
15. And Bath-sheba went in vnto the King into the chamber: and the king was very olde, and Abishag the Shunammite ministred vnto the king.
16. And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeysance vnto the king: and the king said, What wouldest thou?
17. And she said vnto him, My lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God vnto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shall sit vpon my throne:
18. And now behold, Adoniiah reigneth; and now my lord the king, thou knowest it not.
19. And he hath slaine oxen, and fat cattell, and sheepe in abundance, and hath called all the sonnes of the king, and Abiathar the Priest, and Ioab the captaine of the hoste: but Solomon thy seruant hath he not called.
20. And thou, my lord O king, the eyes of all Israel are vpon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21. Otherwise it shall come to passe, when my lord the king shal sleepe with his fathers, that I and my sonne Solomon shall be counted offenders.
22. And loe, while shee yet talked with the king, Nathan the Prophet also came in.
23. And they tolde the king, saying, Beholde Nathan the Prophet. And when hee was come in before the king, he bowed himselfe before the king with his face to the ground.
24. And Nathan said, My lord O king, hast thou said, Adoniiah shall reigne after mee, and hee shall sit vpon my throne?
25. For hee is gone downe this day, and hath slaine oxen, and fat cattel, and sheepe in abundance, and hath called all the kings sonnes, and the captaines of the host, and Abiathar the Priest: and behold, they eate and drinke before him, and say, God saue king Adoniiah.
26. But me, euen me thy seruant, and Zadok the Priest, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and thy seruant Solomon hath he not called.
27. Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king, after him?
28. Then king Dauid answered, and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the kings presence, and stood before the king.
29. And the king sware, and said, As the Lord liueth, that hath redeemed my soule out of all distresse,
30. Euen as I sware vnto thee by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shal sit vpon my throne in my stead; euen so wil I certainly doe this day.
31. Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reuerence to the king, and said, Let my lord king Dauid liue for euer.
32. And king Dauid said, Call me Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada. And they came before the king.
33. The king also saide vnto them, Take with you the seruants of your lord, and cause Solomon my sonne to ride vpon mine owne mule, and bring him downe to Gihon.
34. And let Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, anoint him there King ouer Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God saue King Solomon.
35. Then ye shall come vp after him, that hee may come and sit vpon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I haue appointed him to be ruler ouer Israel, and ouer Iudah.
36. And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada answered the King, and said, Amen: The Lord God of my lord the king say so too.
37. As the Lord hath bene with my lord the King, euen so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater then the throne of my lord King Dauid.
38. So Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went downe, and caused Solomon to ride vpon King Dauids mule, and brought him to Gihon.
39. And Zadok the Priest tooke an horne of oile out of the Tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, God saue King Solomon.
40. And all the people came vp after him, and the people piped with pipes, and reioyced with great ioy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
41. And Adoniiah and all the ghests that were with him, heard it as they had made an end of eating: and when Ioab heard the sound of the trumpet, hee said, Wherefore is this noise of the citie, being in an vproare?
42. And while hee yet spake, behold, Ionathan the sonne of Abiathar the Priest came, and Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
43. And Ionathan answered, and said to Adoniiah, Uerily our lorde king Dauid hath made Solomon king.
44. And the king hath sent with him Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they haue caused him to ride vpon the kings mule.
45. And Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet haue anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come vp from thence reioycing, so that the citie rang againe: this is the noyse that yee haue heard.
46. And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdome.
47. And moreouer, the kings seruants came to blesse our lorde king Dauid, saying, God make the name of Solomon better then thy name, and make his throne greater then thy throne. And the king bowed himselfe vpon the bed.
48. And also thus sayde the King, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which hath giuen one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes euen seeing it.
49. And all the guests that were with Adoniiah, were afraid, and rose vp, and went euery man his way.
50. And Adoniiah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the hornes of the Altar.
51. And it was tolde Solomon, saying, Behold, Adoniiah feareth King Solomon: for loe, he hath caught hold on the hornes of the Altar, saying, Let King Solomon sweare vnto mee to day, that hee will not slay his seruant with the sword.
52. And Solomon sayd, If hee will shewe himselfe a worthy man, there shall not an haire of him fall to the earth: but if wickednesse shall be found in him, he shall die.
53. So king Solomon sent, and they brought him downe from the Altar, and hee came and bowed himselfe to king Solomou: and Solomon sayde vnto him, Goe to thine house.
1. Now the dayes of Dauid drew nigh, that he should die, and he charged Solomon his sonne, saying;
2. I goe the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thy selfe a man.
3. And keepe the charge of the Lord thy God, to walke in his wayes, to keepe his Statutes, and his Commandements, & his Iudgements, and his Testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoeuer thou turnest thy selfe:
4. That the Lord may continue his word which hee spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heede to their way, to walke before mee in trueth, with all their heart, and with all their soule, there shall not faile thee (sayd hee) a man on the throne of Israel.
5. Moreouer thou knowest also what Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah did to mee, and what he did to the two captaines of the hostes of Israel, vnto Abner the sonne of Ner, and vnto Amasa the sonne of Iether, whom hee slewe, and shed the blood of warre in peace, and put the blood of warre vpon his girdle that was about his loynes, and in his shooes that were on his feet.
6. Doe therefore according to thy wisedome, and let not his hoare head goe downe to the graue in peace.
7. But shewe kindnesse vnto the sonnes of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eate at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
8. And behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the sonne of Gera, a Beniamite of Bahurim, which cursed mee with a grieuous curse, in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but hee came downe to meete me at Iordane, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
9. Nowe therefore holde him not guiltlesse: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to doe vnto him, but his hoare head bring thou downe to the graue with blood.
10. So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.
11. And the dayes that Dauid raigned ouer Israel, were fourty yeeres: seuen yeeres raigned hee in Hebron, and thirty and three yeeres raigned hee in Ierusalem.
12. Then sate Solomon vpon the throne of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was established greatly.
13. And Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, Commest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
14. He said moreouer, I haue somewhat to say vnto thee. And she saide, Say on.
15. And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdome was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should raigne: howbeit the kingdome is turned about, and is become my brothers: for it was his from the Lord.
16. And now I aske one petition of thee, deny me not. And she saide vnto him, Say on.
17. And hee saide, Speake, I pray thee, vnto Solomon the king (for hee will not say thee nay) that he giue me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
18. And Bathsheba said, Wel, I will speake for thee vnto the king.
19. Bathsheba therefore went vnto king Solomon, to speake vnto him for Adoniiah: and the king rose vp to meete her, and bowed himselfe vnto her, and sate downe on his throne, and caused a seate to bee set for the Kings mother, and she sate on his right hand.
20. Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee, I pray thee say me not nay: and the King said vnto her, Aske on, my mother, for I will not say thee nay.
21. And she saide, Let Abishag the Shunammite be giuen to Adoniiah thy brother to wife.
22. And king Solomon answered, and said vnto his mother, And why doest thou aske Abishag the Shunammite for Adoniiah? Aske for him the kingdome also (for he is mine elder brother) euen for him, and for Abiathar the Priest, & for Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah.
23. Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God doe so to me, and more also, if Adoniiah haue not spoken this word against his owne life.
24. Now therefore as the Lord liueth, which hath established mee, and set mee on the throne of Dauid my father, and who hath made me an house as he promised, Adoniiah shall be put to death this day.
25. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and he fell vpon him that he died.
26. And vnto Abiathar the Priest saide the King, Get thee to Anathoth, vnto thine own fields, for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the arke of the Lord God before Dauid my father, and because thou hast bene afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
27. So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from beeing Priest vnto the Lord: that hee might fulfill the word of the Lord, which hee spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28. Then tidings came to Ioab (for Ioab had turned after Adoniiah, though hee turned not after Absalom) and Ioab fled vnto the Tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the hornes of the Altar.
29. And it was told king Solomon that Ioab was fled vnto the Tabernacle of the Lord, and behold, hee is by the Altar: Then Solomon sent Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, saying, Goe fall vpon him.
30. And Benaiah came to the Tabernacle of the Lord, and said vnto him, Thus saith the king, Come foorth. And he said, Nay, but I will die heere. And Benaiah brought the king word againe, saying, Thus said Ioab, and thus he answered me.
31. And the king saide vnto him, Doe as he hath said, and fall vpon him, and bury him, that thou mayest take away the innocent blood which Ioab shed, from mee, and from the house of my father.
32. And the Lord shall returne his blood vpon his owne head, who fell vpon two men, more righteous and better then hee, and slew them with the sword, my father Dauid not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the sonne of Ner, captaine of the hoste of Israel, and Amasa the sonne of Iether, captaine of the hoste of Iudah.
33. Their blood shall therefore returne vpon the head of Ioab, and vpon the head of his seed for euer: but vpon Dauid, and vpon his seede, and vpon his house, and vpon his throne, shall there bee peace for euer from the Lord.
34. So Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada went vp, and fell vpon him, and slewe him, and hee was buried in his owne house in the wildernesse.
35. And the king put Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada in his roome ouer the hoste, and Zadok the Priest did the king put in the roume of Abiathar.
36. And the king sent, and called for Shimei, and said vnto him, Build thee an house in Ierusalem, and dwell there, and goe not forth thence any whither.
37. For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, & passest ouer the brooke Kidron, thou shalt know for certaine, that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shal be vpon thine owne head.
38. And Shimei said vnto the King, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy seruant doe. And Shimei dwelt in Ierusalem many dayes.
39. And it came to passe at the end of three yeeres, that two of the seruants of Shimei ranne away vnto Achish sonne of Maachah king of Gath: and they told Shimei, saying, Beholde, thy seruants be in Gath.
40. And Shimei arose, and sadled his asse, and went to Gath to Achish, to seeke his seruants: and Shimei went and brought his seruants from Gath.
41. And it was told Solomon, that Shimei had gone from Ierusalem to Gath, and was come againe.
42. And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said vnto him, Did I not make thee to sweare by the Lord, and protested vnto thee, saying, Know for a certaine, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? And thou saidest vnto me, The word that I haue heard, is good.
43. Why then hast thou not kept the Oath of the Lord, and the commandement that I haue charged thee with?
44. The king said moreuer to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickednesse which thine heart is priuie to, that thou diddest to Dauid my father: therefore the Lord shall returne thy wickednesse vpon thine owne head.
45. And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of Dauid shall bee established before the Lord for euer.
46. So the king commaunded Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, which went out, and fell vpon him, that he died, and the kingdome was established in the hand of Solomon.
1. And Solomon made affinitie with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tooke Pharaohs daughter, and brought her into the citie of Dauid, vntill he had made an end of building his owne house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Ierusalem round about.
2. Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built vnto the Name of the Lord vntill those dayes.
3. And Solomon loued the Lord, walking in the statutes of Dauid his father: onely he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
4. And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer vp on that Altar.
5. In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dreame by night: and God sayd, Aske what I shall giue thee.
6. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant Dauid my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in trueth, and in righteousnesse, and in vprightnesse of heart with thee, and thou hast kept for him this great kindnesse, that thou hast giuen him a sonne to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
7. And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy seruant King in stead of Dauid my father: and I am but a litle childe: I know not how to goe out or come in.
8. And thy seruant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbred, nor counted for multitude.
9. Giue therefore thy seruant an understanding heart, to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good and bad: for who is able to iudge this thy so great a people?
10. And the speach pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11. And God said vnto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thy selfe long life, neither hast asked riches for thy selfe, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thy selfe vnderstanding to discerne iudgement;
12. Behold, I haue done according to thy word: loe, I haue giuen thee a wise and an vnderstanding heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like vnto thee.
13. And I haue also giuen thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the Kings like vnto thee, all thy dayes.
14. And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to keepe my Statutes and my Commandements, as thy father Dauid did walke, then I will lengthen thy dayes.
15. And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dreame: and he came to Ierusalem, and stood before the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, and offered vp burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his seruants.
16. Then came there two women that were harlots, vnto the king, and stood before him.
17. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe, with her in the house.
18. And it came to passe the third day after that I was deliuered, that this woman was deliuered also: and wee were together; there was no stranger with vs in the house, saue we two in the house.
19. And this womans childe died in the night: because she ouerlaid it.
20. And shee arose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and layd it in her bosome, and layd her dead childe in my bosome.
21. And when I rose in the morning to giue my childe sucke, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, which I did beare.
22. And the other woman said, Nay, but the liuing is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: And this said, No, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne. Thus they spake before the king.
23. Then said the King, The one saith, This is my sonne, that liueth, and thy sonne is the dead: and the other saith Nay: but thy sonne is the dead, and my sonne is the liuing.
24. And the King said, Bring mee a sword. And they brought a sword before the king:
25. And the king said, Diuide the liuing childe in two, and giue halfe to the one, and halfe to the other.
26. Then spake the woman whose the liuing childe was, vnto the king, (for her bowels yerned vpon her sonne) and she said, O my lord, giue her the liuing childe, and in no wise slay it: But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but diuide it.
27. Then the King answered and said, Giue her the liuing child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28. And all Israel heard of the Iudgement which the king had iudged, and they feared the King: for they saw that the wisedome of God was in him, to doe Iudgement.
1. So King Solomon was king ouer all Israel.
2. And these were the Princes which he had, Azariah the sonne of Zadok, the Priest,
3. Elihoreph, and Ahiah the sonnes of Shisha, Scribes: Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud the Recorder;
4. And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the host: And Zadok and Abiathar were the Priests:
5. And Azariah the sonne of Nathan was ouer the officers: and Zabud the sonne of Nathan was principall officer, and the kings friend.
6. And Ahishar was ouer the houshold: and Adoniram the sonne of Abda was ouer the tribute.
7. And Solomon had twelue officers ouer all Israel, which prouided victuals for the king and his houshold: each man his moneth in a yeere made prouision.
8. And these are their names: the sonne of Hur in mount Ephraim,
9. The sonne of Dekar in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elon-Bethhanan.
10. The sonne of Heseb in Aruboth, to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher;
11. The sonne of Abinadab in all the region of Dor, which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
12. Baana the sonne of Ahilud, to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Iezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, euen vnto the place that is beyond Iokneam:
13. The sonne of Geber in Ramoth Gilead, to him pertained the townes of Iair the sonne of Manasseh, which are in Gilead: to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities, with walles, and brasen barres.
14. Ahinadab the sonne of Iddo had Mahanaim.
15. Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also tooke Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife.
16. Baanah the sonne of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
17. Iehoshaphat the sonne of Paruah in Issachar:
18. Shimei the sonne of Elah in Beniamin:
19. Geber the sonne of Uri was in the countrey of Gilead, in the countrey of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and hee was the onely officer which was in the land.
20. Iudah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merrie.
21. And Solomon reigned ouer all kingdoms from the riuer vnto the land of the Philistines, and vnto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and serued Solomon all the dayes of his life.
22. And Solomons prouision for one day, was thirtie measures of fine floure, and threescore measures of meale,
23. Ten fat oxen, and twentie oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheepe, beside Harts, and Roe-buckes, and fallow Deere, and fatted foule.
24. For he had dominion ouer all the region on this side the Riuer, from Tiphsah euen to Azzah ouer all the kings on this side the Riuer: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
25. And Iudah and Israel dwelt safely, euery man vnder his Uine, and vnder his Figtree, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, all the dayes of Solomon.
26. And Solomon had fourtie thousand stalles of horses for his charets, and twelue thousand horsemen.
27. And those officers prouided victuall for king Solomon, and for all that came vnto king Solomons table, euery man in his moneth: they lacked nothing.
28. Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries, brought they vnto the place where the officers were, euery man according to his charge.
29. And God gaue Solomon wisdome, and vnderstanding, exceeding much, and largenesse of heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shoare.
30. And Solomons wisedome excelled the wisedome of all the children of the East countrey, and all the wisedome of Egypt.
31. For hee was wiser then all men; then Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda the sonnes of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
32. And he spake three thousand prouerbes: and his songs were a thousand and fiue.
33. And hee spake of trees, from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon, euen vnto the Hyssope that springeth out of the wall: hee spake also of beasts, and of foule, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
34. And there came of all people to heare the wisedome of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisedome.
1. And Hiram king of Tyre sent his seruants vnto Solomon: (for hee had heard that they had anointed him King in the roume of his father,) for Hiram was euer a louer of Dauid.
2. And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3. Thou knowest how that Dauid my father could not build an house vnto the Name of the Lord his God, for the warres which were about him on euery side, vntill the Lord put them vnder the soles of his feet.
4. But now the Lord my God hath giuen me rest on euery side, so that there is neither aduersary, nor euill occurrent.
5. And behold, I purpose to build an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake vnto Dauid my father, saying, Thy sonne, whom I will set vpon thy throne in thy roume, he shall build an house vnto my Name.
6. Now therefore command thou, that they hew me Cedar trees out of Lebanon, and my seruants shall bee with thy seruants: and vnto thee will I giue hire for thy seruants, according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among vs, any that can skill to hew timber, like vnto the Sidonians.
7. And it came to passe when Hiram heard the wordes of Solomon, that hee reioyced greatly, and said, Blessed be the Lord this day, which hath giuen vnto Dauid a wise sonne ouer this great people.
8. And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I haue considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will doe all thy desire concerning timber of Cedar, and concerning timber of firre.
9. My seruants shall bring them downe from Lebanon vnto the Sea: and I wil conuey them by sea in flotes, vnto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receiue them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giuing food for my houshold.
10. So Hiram gaue Solomon Cedar trees, and Firre trees, according to all his desire.
11. And Solomon gaue Hiram twentie thousand measures of wheate for food to his houshold, and twentie measures of pure oile: thus gaue Solomon to Hiram yeere by yeere.
12. And the Lord gaue Solomon wisedome, as hee promised him: and there was peace betweene Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league together.
13. And King Solomon raised a leuie out of all Israel, and the leuie was thirtie thousand men.
14. And hee sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a moneth by courses: a moneth they were in Lebanon, and two moneths at home: and Adoniram was ouer the leuie.
15. And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand hewers in the mountaines:
16. Besides the chiefe of Solomons officers which were ouer the worke, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled ouer the people that wrought in the worke.
17. And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
18. And Solomons builders, and Hirams builders, did hewe them, and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
1. And it came to passe in the foure hundred and fourescore yeere after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth yere of Solomons reigne ouer Israel, in the moneth Zif, which is the second moneth, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
2. And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubites, and the breadth thereof twentie cubits, and the height thereof thirtie cubites.
3. And the porch before the Temple of the house: twentie cubites was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, and tenne cubites was the breadth thereof before the house.
4. And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.
5. And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walles of the house round about, both of the Temple and of the Oracle: and hee made chambers round about.
6. The nethermost chamber was fiue cubites broad, and the middle was sixe cubites broad, and the third was seuen cubites broad: for without in the wall of the house hee made narrowed rests round about, that the beames should not bee fastened in the walles of the house.
7. And the house when it was in building, was built of stone, made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8. The doore for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went vp with winding staires into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
9. So he built the house and finished it: and couered the house with beams and boards of Cedar.
10. And then hee built chambers against all the house, fiue cubites high: and they rested on the house with timber of Cedar.
11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying;
12. Concerning this House which thou art in building, if thou wilt walke in my Statutes, and execute my Iudgments, and keepe all my Commandements to walke in them: then will I performe my word with thee, which I spake vnto Dauid thy father.
13. And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14. So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15. And hee built the walles of the house within with boards of Cedar, both the floore of the house, and the walles of the sieling: and hee couered them on the inside with wood, and couered the floore of the house with plankes of firre.
16. And hee built twentie cubites on the sides of the house, both the floore, and the walles with boards of Cedar: he euen built them for it within, euen for the Oracle, euen for the most holy place.
17. And the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fortie cubites long.
18. And the Cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and open flowres: all was Cedar, there was no stone seene.
19. And the Oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord.
20. And the Oracle in the forepart, was twenty cubits in length and twentie cubites in breadth, and twentie cubites in the height thereof: and hee ouerlayd it with pure golde, and so couered the Altar which was of Cedar.
21. So Solomon ouerlayd the house within with pure golde: and he made a partition, by the chaines of golde before the Oracle, and he ouerlaid it with gold.
22. And the whole house he ouerlaid with golde vntill he had finished all the house: also the whole Altar that was by the Oracle he ouerlaide with golde.
23. And within the Oracle he made two Cherubims of Oliue tree, each ten cubites high.
24. And fiue cubits was the one wing of the Cherub, and fiue cubits the other wing of the Cherub: from the vttermost part of the one wing, vnto the vttermost part of the other, were ten cubites.
25. And the other Cherub was tenne cubites: both the Cherubims were of one measure, and one size.
26. The height of the one Cherub was ten cubites, and so was it of the other Cherub.
27. And he set the Cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched foorth the wings of the Cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other Cherub touched the other wall: & their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
28. And he ouerlayd the Cherubims with golde.
29. And he carued all the walles of the house round about with carued figures of Cherubims, and palme trees, and open flowers, within & without.
30. And the floore of the house hee ouerlayed with gold, within and without.
31. And for the entring of the Oracle he made doores of Oliue tree: the lintell and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32. The two doores also were of Oliue tree, and he carued vpon them caruings of Cherubims, and palme trees, and open flowers, and ouerlayd them with gold, and spread gold vpon the Cherubims, and vpon the palme trees.
33. So also made hee for the doore of the Temple postes of Oliue tree a fourth part of the wall.
34. And the two doores were of firre tree: the two leaues of the one doore were folding, and the two leaues of the other doore were folding.
35. And he carued thereon Cherubims, and palme trees, and open flowers: and couered them with gold, fitted vpon the carued worke.
36. And hee built the inner Court with three rowes of hewed stone, and a row of Cedar beames.
37. In the fourth yeere was the foundation of the house of the Lord layd, in the moneth Zif.
38. And in the eleuenth yeere in the moneth Bul (which is the eight moneth) was the house finished throughout all the parts therof, and according to all the fashion of it: So was he seuen yeeres in building it.
1. But Solomon was building his owne house thirteene yeres, and he finished all his house.
2. Hee built also the house of the forrest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubites, and the breadth thereof fiftie cubites, and the height thereof thirtie cubites, vpon foure rowes of Cedar pillars, with Cedar beames vpon the pillars.
3. And it was couered with Cedar aboue vpon the beames, that lay on fortie fiue pillars, fifteene in a row.
4. And there were windowes in three rowes, and light was against light in three rankes.
5. And all the doores and postes were square, with the windowes: and light was against light in three rankes.
6. And he made a porch of pillars, the length thereof was fiftie cubites, and the breadth thereof thirtie cubites: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars, and the thicke beame were before them.
7. Then hee made a porch for the throne where he might iudge, euen the porch of Iudgement: and it was couered with Cedar from one side of the floore to the other.
8. And his house where he dwelt, had another court within the porch, which was of the like worke: Solomon made also an house for Pharaohs daughter, ( whom he had taken to wife) like vnto this porch.
9. All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with sawes, within and without, euen from the foundation vnto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
10. And the foundation was of costly stones, euen great stones; stones of ten cubites, and stones of eight cubites.
11. And aboue were costly stones (after the measures of hewed stones) and Cedars.
12. And the great court round about, was with three rowes of hewed stones, and a row of Cedar beames, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
13. And king Solomon sent and fet Hiram out of Tyre.
14. Hee was a widowes sonne of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brasse, and he was filled with wisedome, and vnderstanding, and cunning to worke all workes in brasse: and hee came to king Solomon, and wrought all his worke. 
15. For he cast two pillars of brasse of eighteene cubites high a piece: and a line of twelue cubites did compasse either of them about.
16. And hee made two Chapiters of molten brasse, to set vpon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was fiue cubites, and the height of the other chapiter was fiue cubites:
17. And nets of checker worke, and wreathes of chaine worke, for the chapiters which were vpon the top of the pillars: seuen for the one chapiter, and seuen for the other chapiter.
18. And he made the pillars, and two rowes round about vpon the one networke, to couer the chapiters that were vpon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19. And the chapiters that were vpon the top of the pillars, were of lillie worke in the porch, foure cubites.
20. And the chapiters vpon the two pillars had pomegranates also, aboue, ouer against the belly which was by the networke: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rowes round about, vpon the other chapiter.
21. And he set vp the pillars in the porch of the temple: and hee set vp the right pillar, and called the name therof Iachin: and he set vp the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22. And vpon the top of the pillars was lillie worke: so was the worke of the pillars finished.
23. And he made a moulten Sea, ten cubites from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, & his height was fiue cubits: and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it round about.
24. And vnder the brimme of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubite, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rowes, when it was cast.
25. It stood vpon twelue oxen, three looking toward the North, and three looking toward the West, and three looking toward the South, and three looking toward the East: and the Sea was set aboue vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26. And it was an hand breadth thicke, and the brimme thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowres of lillies: it contained two thousand Baths.
27. And he made ten bases of brasse; foure cubites was the length of one base, and foure cubites the breadth thereof, and three cubites the height of it.
28. And the worke of the bases was on this maner: they had borders, and the borders were betweene the ledges:
29. And on the borders that were betweene the ledges were lyons, oxen, and Cherubims: and vpon the ledges there was a base aboue: and beneath the lyons and oxen were certaine additions made of thinne worke.
30. And euery base had foure brasen wheeles, and plates of brasse: and the foure corners therof had vndersetters: vnder the lauer were vndersetters molten, at the side of euery addition.
31. And the mouth of it within the chapiter, and aboue, was a cubite: but the mouth thereof was round after the worke of the base, a cubite and an halfe: and also vpon the mouth of it were grauings with their borders, foure square not round.
32. And vnder the borders were foure wheeles: & the axletrees of the wheeles were ioyned to the base, and the height of a wheele was a cubite and halfe a cubite.
33. And the worke of the wheeles was like the worke of a charet wheele: their axletrees and their naues, and their felloes, and their spokes were all molten.
34. And there were foure vndersetters to the foure corners of one base: and the vndersetters were of the very base it selfe.
35. And in the top of the base was there a round compasse of halfe a cubite high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof, and the borders thereof were of the same.
36. For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graued Cherubims, lions, and palme trees, according to the proportion of euery one, and additions round about.
37. After this maner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
38. Then made hee ten lauers of brasse: one lauer conteined fourtie baths: and euery lauer was foure cubites, and vpon euery one of the ten bases, one lauer.
39. And he put fiue bases on the right side of the house, and fiue on the left side of the house: and he set the Sea on the right side of the house Eastward, ouer against the South.
40. And Hiram made the lauers, and the shouels, and the basons: So Hiram made an ende of doing all the worke that hee made King Solomon, for the house of the Lord.
41. The two pillars, and the two bowles of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars: and the two networkes, to couer the two bowles of the chapiters which were vpon the top of the pillars:
42. And foure hundred Pomegranates for the two networkes, euen two rowes of Pomegranates for one networke, to couer the two bowles of the chapiters that were vpon the pillars:
43. And the ten bases, and ten lauers on the bases.
44. And one Sea, and twelue oxen vnder the Sea.
45. And the pots, and the shouels, and the basons: and all these vessels which Hiram made to King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of bright brasse.
46. In the plaine of Iordane did the king cast them in the clay ground, betweene Succoth and Zarthan.
47. And Solomon left all the vessels vnweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brasse found out.
48. And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained vnto the house of the Lord: the Altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the Shewbread was:
49. And the candlesticks of pure gold, fiue on the right side, and fiue on the left, before the Oracle, with the flowers, and the lampes, and the tongs of gold,
50. And the boules, and the snuffers, and the basons, & the spoones, and the censers of pure gold: and the hindges of gold, both for the doores of the inner house the most Holy place, and for the doores of the house, to wit, of the temple.
51. So was ended all the worke that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord: and Solomon brought in the things which Dauid his father had dedicated, euen the siluer, and the gold, & the vessels did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.
1. Then Solomon assembled the Elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chiefe of the fathers of the children of Israel, vnto king Solomon in Ierusalem, that they might bring vp the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, out of the citie of Dauid, which is Zion.
2. And all the men of Israel assembled themselues vnto king Solomon, at the feast, in the moneth Ethanim, which is the seuenth moneth.
3. And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Priests tooke vp the Arke.
4. And they brought vp the Arke of the Lord, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle, euen those did the Priests & the Leuites bring vp.
5. And king Solomon, and all the Congregation of Israel, that were assembled vnto him, were with him before the Arke, sacrificing sheepe, and oxen, that could not bee told nor numbred for multitude.
6. And the Priests brought in the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord vnto his place, into the Oracle of the house to the most holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims.
7. For the Cherubims spread forth their two wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke, and the staues thereof aboue.
8. And they drew out the staues, that the ends of the staues were seene out in the Holy place before the Oracle, and they were not seene without: and there they are vnto this day.
9. There was nothing in the Arke, saue the two Tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a Couenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10. And it came to passe when the Priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord;
11. 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.
12. Then spake Solomon; The Lord said that hee would dwell in the thicke darkenesse.
13. I haue surely built thee an house to dwel in, a setled place for thee to abide in for euer.
14. And the King turned his face about, and blessed all the Congregation of Israel: (and all the Congregation of Israel stood.)
15. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth vnto Dauid my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying;
16. Since the day that I brought foorth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no citie out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house that my Name might be therein; but I chose Dauid to be ouer my people Israel.
17. And it was in the heart of Dauid my father, to builde an house for the Name of the Lord God of Israel.
18. And the Lord sayd vnto Dauid my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house vnto my Name, thou diddest well that it was in thine heart.
19. Neuerthelesse, thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne that shall come foorth out of thy loynes, hee shall build the house vnto my Name.
20. And the Lord hath perfourmed his word that he spake, and I am risen vp in the roume of Dauid my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and haue built an House for the Name of the Lord God of Israel.
21. And I haue set there a place for the Arke, wherein is the Couenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22. And Solomon stood before the Altar of the Lord, in the presence of all the Congregation of Israel, and spread foorth his handes toward heauen:
23. And hee said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heauen aboue, or on earth beneath, who keepest couenant and mercy with thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their heart:
24. Who hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
25. Therefore now Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou promisedst him, saying; There shall not faile thee a man in my sight to sit on the Throne of Israel; so that thy children take heede to their way, that they walke before me as thou hast walked before me:
26. And now, O God of Israel, let thy worde (I pray thee) bee verified, which thou spakest vnto thy seruant Dauid my father.
27. But will God indeede dwell on the earth? Behold, the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot conteine thee: how much lesse this House that I haue builded?
28. Yet haue thou respect vnto the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken vnto the crie and to the prayer, which thy seruant prayeth before thee to day:
29. That thine eyes may be open toward this house, night and day, euen toward the place of which thou hast said, My Name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken vnto the prayer which thy seruant shall make towards this place.
30. And hearken thou to the supplication of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray towards this place: and heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest, forgiue.
31. If any man trespasse against his neighbour, and an oath be laid vpon him to cause him to sweare, and the oath come before thine Altar in this house:
32. Then heare thou in heauen, and doe, and iudge thy seruants, condemning the wicked to bring his way vpon his head, and iustifying the righteous, to giue him according to his righteousnesse.
33. When thy people Israel bee smitten downe before the enemie, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall turne againe to thee, and confesse thy Name, and pray, and make supplication vnto thee in this house:
34. Then heare thou in heauen, and forgiue the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land, which thou gauest vnto their fathers.
35. When heauen is shut vp, and there is no raine, because they haue sinned against thee: if they pray towards this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou afflictest them:
36. Then heare thou in heauen, and forgiue the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walke, and giue raine vpon thy land which thou hast giuen to thy people for an inheritance.
37. If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;
38. What prayer and supplication soeuer be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know euery man the plague of his owne heart, and spread forth his handes towards this house:
39. Then heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and forgiue, and do, and giue to euery man according to his wayes, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, euen thou onely knowest the hearts of all the children of men,)
40. That they may feare thee all the dayes that they liue, in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.
41. Moreouer, concerning a stranger that is not of thy people Israel, but commeth out of a farre countrey, for thy Names sake;
42. (For they shall heare of thy great Name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arme) when hee shall come and pray towards this house:
43. Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and doe according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy Name, to feare thee, as doe thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I haue builded, is called by thy Name.
44. If thy people goe out to battell against their enemie, whithersoeuer thou shalt send them, and shall pray vnto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I haue built for thy Name:
45. Then heare thou in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and mainteine their cause.
46. If they sinne against thee, ( for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them to the enemy, so that they cary them away captiues, vnto the land of the enemy, farre or neere;
47. Yet if they shall bethinke themselues, in the land whither they were caried captiues, and repent, and make supplication vnto thee in the land of them that caried them captiues, saying, Wee haue sinned, and haue done peruersly, we haue committed wickednes; 
48. And so returne vnto thee with all their heart, and with all their soule, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captiue, and pray vnto thee toward their land, which thou gauest vnto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I haue built for thy Name:
49. Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and mainteine their cause,
50. And forgiue thy people that haue sinned against thee, and all their transgressions, wherein they haue transgressed against thee, and giue them compassion before them who caried them captiue, that they may haue compassion on them:
51. For they bee thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest foorth out of Egypt, from the mids of the furnace of iron:
52. That thine eyes may be open vnto the supplication of thy seruant, and vnto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken vnto them in all that they call for vnto thee.
53. For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy seruant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.
54. And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication vnto the Lord, he arose from before the Altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees, with his handes spread vp to heauen.
55. And he stood, and blessed all the Congregation of Israel, with a lowd voice, saying;
56. Blessed be the Lord, that hath giuen rest vnto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his seruant.
57. The Lord our God be with vs, as he was with our fathers: let him not leaue vs, nor forsake vs:
58. That hee may encline our hearts vnto him, to walke in all his wayes, and to keepe his Commaundements, and his Statutes, and his Iudgements which hee commaunded our fathers.
59. And let these my wordes wherewith I haue made supplication before the Lord, be nigh vnto the Lord our God, day and night, that hee maintaine the cause of his seruant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
60. That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God: and that there is none else.
61. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord your God, to walke in his Statutes, and to keepe his Commandements, as at this day.
62. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
63. And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered vnto the Lord, two and twentie thousand oxen, and an hundred and twentie thousand sheepe: so the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
64. The same day did the king hallow the middle of the Court that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee 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 receiue the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65. And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great Congregation, from the entring in of Hamath, vnto the riuer of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seuen dayes and seuen dayes, euen fourteene dayes.
66. On the eight day he sent the people away: and they blessed the King, and went vnto their tents ioyfull, and glad of heart, for all the goodnesse that the Lord had done for Dauid his seruant, and for Israel his people.
1. And it came to passe, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the kings house, and all Solomons desire which hee was pleased to doe,
2. That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as hee had appeared vnto him at Gibeon.
3. And the Lord said vnto him, I haue heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me: I haue hallowed this house which thou hast built, to put my Name there for euer, and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4. And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, in integritie of heart, and in vprightnesse, to doe according to all that I haue commanded thee, and wilt keepe my Statutes, and my Iudgements:
5. Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer, as I promised to Dauid thy father, saying, There shall not faile thee a man vpon the throne of Israel.
6. But if you shall at all turne from following me, you or your children, and will not keepe my Commandements, and my Statutes, which I haue set before you, but goe and serue other gods, and worship them:
7. Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I haue giuen them; and this house which I haue hallowed for my Name, will I cast out of my sight, and Israel shall bee a prouerbe, and a by-word among all people:
8. And at this house which is high, euery one that passeth by it, shalbe astonished, and shall hisse, and they shal say, Why hath the Lord done thus vnto this land, and to this house?
9. And they shall answere, Because they forsooke the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and haue taken hold vpon other gods, and haue worshipped them, and serued them: therefore hath the Lord brought vpon them all this euill.
10. And it came to passe at the end of twentie yeeres, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the Kings house,
11. (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with Cedar trees, and firre trees, and with golde according to al his desire) that then Solomon gaue Hiram twentie cities in the land of Galile.
12. And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had giuen him, and they pleased him not.
13. And he said, What cities are these which thou hast giuen me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul vnto this day.
14. And Hiram sent to the king sixe score talents of gold.
15. And this is the reason of the leuie which king Solomon raised, for to build the house of the Lord, and his owne house, and Millo, and the wall of Ierusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone vp, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slaine the Canaanites that dwelt in the citie, and giuen it for a present vnto his daughter Solomons wife.
17. And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
18. And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wildernesse, in the land.
19. And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his charets, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon disired to build in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20. And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittittes, Perizzites, Hiuites, and Iebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
21. Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able vtterly to destroy, vpon those did Solomon leuie a tribute of bond-seruice vnto this day.
22. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of warre, and his seruants, and his princes, and his captaines, and rulers of his charets, and his horsemen.
23. These were the chiefe of the officers that were ouer Solomons worke, fiue hundred and fiftie, which bare rule ouer the people that wrought in the worke.
24. But Pharaohs daughter came vp out of the citie of Dauid, vnto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
25. And three times in a yeere did Solomon offer burnt offerings, and peace offerings vpon the Altar which he built vnto the Lord, and he burnt incense vpon the altar that was before the Lord: so he finished the house.
26. And king Solomon made a nauie of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shoare of the red sea, in the land of Edom.
27. And Hiram sent in the nauie his seruants, shipmen that had knowledge of the Sea, with the seruants of Solomon.
28. And they came to Ophir, and fet from thence gold foure hundred and twentie talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1. And when the Queene of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, concerning the Name of the Lord; shee came to prooue him with hard questions.
2. And she came to Ierusalem with a very great traine, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when shee was come to Solomon, she communed with him, of all that was in her heart.
3. And Solomon tolde her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which hee told her not.
4. And when the Queene of Sheba had seene all Solomons wisedome, and the house that he had built,
5. And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparell, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which hee went vp vnto the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her.
6. And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine owne land, of thy actes and of thy wisedome.
7. Howbeit, I beleeued not the words, vntill I came and mine eyes had seene it: and beholde, the halfe was not told me: thy wisedom and prosperitie exceedeth the fame which I heard.
8. Happie are thy men, happy are these thy seruants, which stand continually before thee, and that heare thy wisedom.
9. Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loued Israel for euer, therefore made he thee King, to doe iudgement and iustice.
10. And she gaue the king an hundred and twentie talents of gold, and of spices very great store, & precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices, as these, which the Queene of Sheba gaue to king Solomon.
11. And the nauie also of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir, great plentie of Almug trees, and precious stones.
12. And the king made of the Almug trees, pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the Kings house, Harpes also and Psalteries for singers: there came no such Almug trees, nor were seene vnto this day.
13. And king Solomon gaue vnto the Queene of Sheba, al her desire whatsoeuer she asked, besides that which Solomon gaue her of his royall bountie: so she turned and went to her owne countrey, she and her seruants.
14. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred, threescore & six talents of gold,
15. Besides that he had of the merchant men, and of the traffique of the spicemerchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the gouernours of the countrey.
16. And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten golde: sixe hundred shekels of golde went to one target.
17. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold, three pound of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forrest of Lebanon.
18. Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaide it with the best gold.
19. The throne had sixe steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stayes on either side on the place of the seate, and two lyons stood beside the stayes.
20. And twelue lions stood there on the one side and on the other vpon the sixe steps: there was not the like made in any kingdome.
21. And all king Solomons drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of siluer, it was nothing accounted of in the dayes of Solomon.
22. For the king had at sea a nauie of Tharshish, with the nauie of Hiram: once in three yeeres came the nauie of Tharshish, bringing golde and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacocks.
23. So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth, for riches and for wisedome.
24. And all the earth sought to Solomon, to heare his wisedom which God had put in his heart.
25. And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate yeere by yeere.
26. And Solomon gathered together charets and horsemen. And hee had a thousand and foure hundred charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for charets, and with the king at Ierusalem.
27. And the king made siluer to be in Ierusalem as stones, and Cedars made he to be as the Sycomore trees, that are in the vale for abundance.
28. And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarne: the kings merchants receiued the linen yarne at a price.
29. And a charet came vp and went out of Egypt for sixe hundred shekels of siluer, and an horse for an hundred and fiftie: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their meanes.
1. But King Solomon loued many strange women, ( together with ye daughter of Pharaoh) women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians & Hittites:
2. Of the nations concerning which the Lord said vnto the children of Israel, Yee shall not goe in to them, neither shall they come in vnto you, for surely they will turne away your heart after their gods: Solomon claue vnto these in loue.
3. And he had seuen hundred wiues, Princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wiues turned away his heart.
4. For it came to passe when Solomon was old, that his wiues turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father.
5. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddesse of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Amorites.
6. And Solomon did euill in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did Dauid his father.
7. Then did Solomon build an hie place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Ierusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8. And likewise did hee for all his strange wiues, which burnt incense and sacrificed vnto their gods.
9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared vnto him twise,
10. And had commaunded him concerning this thing, that hee should not goe after other gods: but hee kept not that which the Lord commanded.
11. Wherefore the Lord said vnto Solomon; Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my Couenant, and my Statutes which I haue commanded thee, I wil surely rend the kingdome from thee, and will giue it to thy seruant.
12. Notwithstanding in thy dayes I wil not doe it, for Dauid thy fathers sake: but I wil rend it out of the hand of thy sonne.
13. Howbeit, I wil not rend away all the kingdome: but wil giue one tribe to thy sonne, for Dauid my seruants sake, and for Ierusalems sake, which I haue chosen.
14. And the Lord stirred vp an aduersary vnto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: hee was of the kings seed in Edom.
15. For it came to passe when Dauid was in Edom, and Ioab the captaine of the host was gone vp to bury the slaine, after he had smitten euery male in Edom:
16. (For sixe moneths did Ioab remaine there with all Israel, vntil hee had cut off euery male in Edom.)
17. That Hadad fled, he and certaine Edomites of his fathers seruants with him, to goe into Egypt: Hadad being yet a litle childe.
18. And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran, and they tooke men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, vnto Pharaoh king of Egypt, which gaue him an house, and appointed him vitailes, and gaue him land.
19. And Hadad found great fauour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gaue him to wife the sister of his owne wife, the sister of Tahpenes the Queene.
20. And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his sonne, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaohs house: and Genubath was in Pharaohs houshold among the sonnes of Pharaoh.
21. And when Hadad heard in Egypt that Dauid slept with his fathers, and that Ioab the captaine of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine owne countrey.
22. Then Pharaoh said vnto him, But what hast thou lacked with mee, that, behold, thou seekest to goe to thine owne countrey? And hee answered, Nothing: Howbeit, let mee goe in any wise.
23. And God stirred him vp another aduersary: Rezon, the sonne of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
24. And he gathered men vnto him, and became captaine ouer a band, when Dauid slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25. And he was an aduersarie to Israel all the dayes of Solomon, beside the mischiefe that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned ouer Syria.
26. And Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomons seruant, (whose mothers name was Zeruah a widow woman) euen he lift vp his hand against the king.
27. And this was the cause that hee lift vp his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the citie of Dauid his father.
28. And the man Ieroboam was a mightie man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, hee made him ruler ouer all the charge of the house of Ioseph.
29. And it came to passe at that time when Ieroboam went out of Ierusalem, that the Prophet Ahiiah the Shilonite found him in the way: and hee had clad himselfe with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.
30. And Ahiiah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelue pieces.
31. And he said to Ieroboam, Take thee tenne pieces: for thus sayth the Lord the God of Israel, Behold, I will rent the kingdome out of the hand of Solomon, and will giue ten tribes to thee:
32. (But hee shall haue one tribe, for my seruant Dauids sake, and for Ierusalems sake, the citie which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
33. Because that they haue forsaken mee, and haue worshipped Ashtaroth the goddesse of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Anunon, and haue not walked in my wayes, to doe that which is right in mine eyes, and to keepe my Statutes, and my Iudgements, as did Dauid his father.
34. Howbeit, I will not take the whole kingdome out of his hand: but I will make him Prince all the dayes of his life, for Dauid my seruants sake, whom I chose, because hee kept my Commandements and my Statutes:
35. But I will take the kingdome out of his sonnes hand, and will giue it vnto thee, euen ten tribes.
36. And vnto his sonne will I giue one tribe, that Dauid my seruant may haue a light alway before me in Ierusalem, the citie which I haue chosen me to put my Name there.
37. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reigne according to all that thy soule desireth, and shalt be King ouer Israel.
38. And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken vnto all that I command thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and doe that is right in my sight, to keepe my Statutes and my Commandements, as Dauid my seruant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for Dauid, and will giue Israel vnto thee.
39. And I will for this afflict the seed of Dauid, but not for euer.
40. Solomon sought therefore to kill Ieroboam, and Ieroboam arose, and fledde into Egypt, vnto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt vntill the death of Solomon.
41. And the rest of the actes of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisedome, are they not written in the booke of the actes of Solomon?
42. And the time that Solomon reigned in Ierusalem, ouer all Israel, was fourtie yeeres.
43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid his father: and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
2. And it came to passe when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it (for hee was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Ieroboam dwelt in Egypt:)
3. That they sent, and called him: and Ieroboam and all the Congregation of Israel came, and spake vnto Rehoboam, saying;
4. Thy father made our yoke grieuous: now therefore, make thou the grieuous seruice of thy father, and his heauy yoke which he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.
5. And hee said vnto them, Depart yet for three daies, then come againe to me. And the people departed.
6. And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father, while he yet liued, and said, How doe you aduise, that I may answere this people?
7. And they spake vnto him, saying, If thou wilt be a seruant vnto this people this day, and wilt serue them, and answere them, and speake good words to them, then they will be thy seruants for euer.
8. But hee forsooke the counsell of the old men, which they had giuen him, and consulted with the yong men, that were growen vp with him, and which stood before him.
9. And hee said vnto them, What counsell giue ye, that we may answere this people, who haue spoken to mee, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put vpon vs, lighter?
10. And the young men that were growen vp with him, spake vnto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speake vnto this people that spake vnto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heauy, but make thou it lighter vnto vs; thus shalt thou say vnto them, My litle finger shall bee thicker then my fathers loynes.
11. And now whereas my father did lade you with a heauy yoke, I wil adde to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whippes, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12. So Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me againe the third day.
13. And the king answered the people roughly, and forsooke the old mens counsell that they gaue him:
14. And spake to them after the counsell of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heauy, and I will adde to your yoke; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15. Wherefore the king hearkened not vnto the people: for the cause was from the Lord, that hee might performe his saying, which the Lord spake by Ahiiah the Shilonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.
16. So when all Israel saw that the king hearkned not vnto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion haue we in Dauid? neither haue we inheritance in the sonne of Iesse: to your tents, O Israel: nowe see to thine owne house, Dauid. So Israel departed vnto their tents.
17. But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Iudah, Rehoboam reigned ouer them.
18. Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was ouer the tribute, and all Israel stoned him with stones that hee died: therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him vp to his charet, to flee to Ierusalem.
19. So Israel rebelled against the house of Dauid vnto this day.
20. And it came to passe when all Israel heard that Ieroboam was come againe, that they sent and called him vnto the Congregation, and made him king ouer all Israel: there was none that followed the house of Dauid, but the tribe of Iudah onely.
21. And when Rehoboam was come to Ierusalem, hee assembled all the house of Iudah, with the tribe of Beniamin, an hundred and fourescore thousand chosen men which were warriers, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdome againe to Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon.
22. But the word of God came vnto Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,
23. Speake vnto Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon king of Iudah, and vnto all the house of Iudah and Beniamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
24. Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not goe vp, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: returne euery 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.
25. Then Ieroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein, and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
26. And Ieroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdome returne to the house of Dauid:
27. If this people goe vp, to doe sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Ierusalem, then shall the heart of this people turne againe vnto their lorde, euen vnto Rehoboam king of Iudah, and they shall kill mee, and goe againe to Rehoboam king of Iudah.
28. Whereupon the king tooke counsell, and made two calues of gold, and said vnto them, It is too much for you to goe vp to Ierusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt.
29. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
30. And this thing became a sinne: for the people went to worship before the one, euen vnto Dan.
31. And he made an house of hie places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.
32. And Ieroboam ordeined a feast in the eight moneth, on the fifteenth day of the moneth, like vnto the feast that is in Iudah, and he offered vpon the altar (so did he in Bethel,) sacrificing vnto the calues that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
33. So hee offered vpon the altar, which hee had made in Bethel, the fifteenth day of the eighth moneth, euen in the moneth which he had deuised of his owne heart: and ordeined a feast vnto the children of Israel, and he offered vpon the altar, and burnt incense.
1. And behold, there came a man of God out of Iudah by the word of the Lord vnto Bethel: and Ieroboam stood by the altar to burne incense.
2. And hee cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Behold, a child shalbe borne vnto the house of Dauid, Iosiah by name, and vpon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burne incense vpon thee, and mens bones shall bee burnt vpon thee.
3. And he gaue a signe the same day, saying, This is the signe which the Lord hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are vpon it, shalbe powred out.
4. And it came to passe when king Ieroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him: And his hand which hee put foorth against him, dried vp, so that hee could not pull it in againe to him.
5. The altar also was rent, and the ashes powred out from the altar, according to the signe which the man of God had giuen by the word of the Lord.
6. And the king answered, and said vnto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for mee, that my hand may be restored mee againe. And the man of God besought the Lord, and the kings hand was restored againe, and became as it was before.
7. And the king said vnto the man of God, Come home with mee, and refresh thy selfe, and I wil giue thee a reward.
8. And the man of God said vnto the king, If thou wilt giue mee halfe thine house, I will not goe in with thee, neither will I eat bread, nor drinke water in this place:
9. For so was it charged mee by the word of the Lord, saying, Eate no bread, nor drinke water, nor turne again by the same way that thou camest.
10. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that hee came to Bethel.
11. Now there dwelt an old Prophet in Bethel, and his sonne came and told him all the workes that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which hee had spoken vnto the king, them they tolde also to their father.
12. And their father said vnto them, What way went he? for his sonnes had seene what way the man of God went, which came from Iudah.
13. And hee saide vnto his sonnes, Saddle me the asse. So they sadled him the asse, and he rode thereon,
14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting vnder an oke; and he said vnto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Iudah? And he said, I am.
15. Then hee said vnto him, Come home with me, and eate bread.
16. And he said, I may not returne with thee, nor goe in with thee: neither will I eat bread, nor drinke water with thee in this place.
17. For it was said to mee by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eate no bread, nor drinke water there, nor turne againe to go by the way that thou camest.
18. He said vnto him, I am a prophet also as thou art, and an angel spake vnto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him backe with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread, and drinke water: But he lied vnto him.
19. So he went backe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and dranke water.
20. And it came to passe as they sate at the table, that the word of the Lord came vnto the prophet that brought him backe:
21. And he cried vnto the man of God that came from Iudah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeied the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandement which the Lord thy God commanded thee,
22. But camest backe, and hast eaten bread, and drunke water, in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eate no bread, and drinke no water; thy carcaise shall not come vnto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
23. And it came to passe after he had eaten bread, and after hee had drunke, that he sadled for him the asse, to wit, for the Prophet, whome hee had brought backe.
24. And when he was gone, a lyon met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcaise was cast in the way, and the asse stood by it, the lyon also stood by the carcaise.
25. And beholde, men passed by, and saw the carcaise cast in the way, and the lyon standing by the carcaise: and they came and told it in the citie where the old prophet dwelt.
26. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way, heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient vnto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath deliuered him vnto the lion, which hath torne him, and slaine him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake vnto him.
27. And he spake to his sonnes, saying, Saddle me the asse: and they sadled him.
28. And he went and found his carcaise cast in the way, and the asse and the lyon standing by the carcaise: the lyon had not eaten the carcaise, nor torne the asse.
29. And the prophet tooke vp the carcaise of the man of God, and laid it vpon the asse, and brought it backe: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourne, and to burie him.
30. And hee laid his carcaise in his owne graue, and they mourned ouer him, saying, Alas my brother.
31. And it came to passe after hee had buried him, that he spake to his sonnes, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre, wherein the man of God is buried, lay my bones beside his bones.
32. For the saying which hee 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 passe.
33. After this thing, Ieroboam returned not from his euill way, but made againe of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoeuer would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
34. And this thing became sinne vnto the house of Ieroboam, euen to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
1. At that time Abiiah the sonne of Ieroboam fell sicke.
2. And Ieroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thy selfe, that thou be not knowen to be the wife of Ieroboam: and get thee to Shiloh: Behold, there is Ahiiah the Prophet, which told mee that I should be king ouer this people.
3. And take with thee ten loaues, and cracknels, and a cruse of honie, and goe to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the childe.
4. And Ieroboams wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahiiah: but Ahiiah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
5. And the Lord said vnto Ahiiah, Behold, the wife of Ieroboam commeth to aske a thing of thee for her sonne, for hee is sicke: thus and thus shalt thou say vnto her: for it shall be when shee commeth in, that shee shall faine her selfe to be another woman.
6. And it was so, when Ahiiah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the doore, that hee said, Come in, thou wife of Ieroboam, why fainest thou thy selfe to be another? for I am sent to thee with heauie tidings.
7. Goe, tell Ieroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince ouer my people Israel,
8. And rent the kingdome away from the house of Dauid, and gaue it thee: and yet thou hast not beene as my seruant Dauid, who kept my Commandements, and who followed mee with all his heart, to doe that onely which was right in mine eyes,
9. But hast done euill aboue all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to prouoke me to anger, and hast cast me behinde thy backe:
10. Therefore behold, I will bring euill vpon the house of Ieroboam, and will cut off from Ieroboam, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut vp and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Ieroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11. Him that dieth of Ieroboam in the citie, shall the dogs eate: and him that dieth in the field, shall the foules of the aire eate: for the Lord hath spoken it.
12. Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine owne house: and when thy feete enter into the citie, the child shall die.
13. And all Israel shall mourne for him, and bury him: for he onely of Ieroboam shal come to the graue, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel, in the house of Ieroboam.
14. Moreouer, the Lord shall raise him vp a king ouer Israel, who shal cut off the house of Ieroboam that day: but what? euen now.
15. For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reede is shaken in the water, and hee shall root vp Israel out of this good land, which hee gaue to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the Riuer, because they haue made their groues, prouoking the Lord to anger.
16. And hee shall giue Israel vp, because of the sinnes of Ieroboam, who did sinne, & who made Israel to sinne.
17. And Ieroboams wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when shee came to the threshold of the doore, the child died.
18. And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by the hand of his seruant Ahiiah the Prophet.
19. And the rest of the actes of Ieroboam, how hee warred, and how hee reigned, behold, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20. And the dayes which Ieroboam reigned, were two and twentie yeeres: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his sonne reigned in his stead.
21. And Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon reigned in Iudah: Rehoboam was fourtie and one yeeres olde when he began to reigne, and hee reigned seuenteene yeeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the Lord did chuse out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse.
22. And Iudah did euill in the sight of the Lord, and they prouoked him to iealousie with their sinnes which they had committed, aboue all that their fathers had done.
23. For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
24. And there were also Sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
25. And it came to passe in the fift yeere of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem:
26. And he tooke away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, hee euen tooke away all: and he tooke away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27. And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them vnto the hands of the chiefe of the guard, which kept the doore of the kings house.
28. And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them backe into the guard-chamber.
29. Nowe the rest of the actes of Rehoboam, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
30. And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam all their dayes.
31. And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dauid: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse. And Abijam his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Nowe in the eighteenth yeere of king Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, reigned Abiiam ouer Iudah.
2. Three yeeres reigned hee in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3. And he walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of Dauid his father.
4. Neuerthelesse, for Dauids sake did the Lord his God giue him a lampe in Ierusalem, to set vp his sonne after him, and to establish Ierusalem:
5. Because Dauid did that which was right in the eies of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the daies of his life, saue onely in the matter of Uriiah the Hittite.
6. And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam all the dayes of his life.
7. Now the rest of the actes of Abiiam, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? And there was warre betweene Abiiam and Ieroboam.
8. And Abiiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid: and Asa his sonne reigned in his stead.
9. And in the twentieth yeere of Ieroboam king of Israel, reigned Asa ouer Iudah.
10. And forty and one yeeres reigned hee in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11. And Asa did that which was right in the eies of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.
12. And hee tooke away the Sodomites out of the land, and remooued all the idoles that his fathers had made.
13. And also Maachah his mother, euen her hee remoued from being Queene, because she had made an idole in a groue, and Asa destroyed her idole, and burnt it by the brooke Kidron.
14. But the high places were not remooued: neuerthelesse, Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his dayes.
15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himselfe had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, siluer, and gold, and vessels.
16. And there was war betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.
17. And Baasha king of Israel went vp against Iudah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to goe out or come in to Asa king of Iudah.
18. Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the golde that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the hand of his seruants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
19. There is a league betweene me and thee, and betweene my father and thy father: behold, I haue sent vnto thee a present of siluer and gold; come and breake the league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
20. So Benhadad hearkened vnto king Asa, and sent the captaines of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote Iion, and Dan, and Abel-Bethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
21. And it came to passe when Baasha heard thereof, that hee left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22. Then king Asa made a Proclamation throughout all Iudah, (none was exempted:) and they tooke away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof wherewith Baasha had builded, and king Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin, and Mizpah.
23. The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which hee built, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? Neuerthelesse in the time of his old age, hee was diseased in his feete.
24. And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the citie of Dauid his father: and Iehoshaphat his sonne reigned in his stead.
25. And Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam began to reigne ouer Israel, in the second yeere of Asa king of Iudah, and reigned ouer Israel two yeeres.
26. And he did euill in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sinne wherewith hee made Israel to sinne.
27. And Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belongeth to the Philistines, (for Nadab and all Israel layd siege to Gibbethon,)
28. Euen in the third yeere of Asa king of Iudah, did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
29. And it came to passe when hee raigned, that he smote all the house Ieroboam, hee left not to Ieroboam any that breathed, vntill hee had destroyed him, according vnto the saying of the Lord, which hee spake by his seruant Ahiiah the Shilonite:
30. Because of the sinnes of Ieroboam which he sinned, and which hee made Israel sinne, by his prouocation wherewith he prouoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
31. Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
32. And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha king of Israel al their dayes.
33. In the third yeere of Asa King of Iudah, began Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah to reigne ouer all Israel in Tirzah, twentie and foure yeeres.
34. And hee did euill in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Ieroboam, and in his sinne wherewith he made Israel to sinne.
1. Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,
2. Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee Prince ouer my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Ieroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sinne, to prouoke mee to anger with their sinnes:
3. Behold, I will take away the posteritie of Baasha, and the posteritie of his house: and will make thy house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.
4. Him that dieth of Baasha in the citie, shall the dogs eate: and him that dieth of his in the fields, shall the foules of the aire eate.
5. Now the rest of the actes of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6. So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his sonne reigned in his stead.
7. And also by the hand of the prophet Iehu the sonne of Hanani, came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, euen for all the euill that hee did in the sight of the Lord, in prouoking him to anger with the worke of his hands, in being like the house of Ieroboam, and because he killed him.
8. In the twentieth and sixt yeere of Asa king of Iudah, began Elah the sonne of Baasha to reigne ouer Israel in Tirzah, two yeeres.
9. And his seruant Zimri (captaine of halfe his charets) conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himselfe drunke in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
10. And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twentie and seuenth yeere of Asa king of Iudah, and reigned in his stead.
11. And it came to passe when hee began to reigne, assoone as hee sate on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: hee left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolkes, nor of his friends.
12. Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake against Baasha by Iehu the prophet,
13. For all the sinnes of Baasha and the sinnes of Elah his sonne, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sinne, in prouoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
14. Now the rest of the actes of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15. In the twentie and seuenth yeere of Asa king of Iudah, did Zimri reigne seuen dayes in Tirzah: and the people were encamped against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines.
16. And the people that were encamped, heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slaine the king: Wherfore all Israel made Omri the captaine of the hoste, king ouer Israel that day, in the campe.
17. And Omri went vp from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
18. And it came to passe when Zimri saw that the citie was taken, that hee went into the palace of the kings house, and burnt the kings house ouer him with fire, and died,
19. For his sinnes which he sinned in doing euill in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Ieroboam, and in his sinne which he did, to make Israel sinne.
20. Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that hee wrought, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
21. Then were the people of Israel diuided into two parts: halfe of the people followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath, to make him king: and halfe followed Omri.
22. But the people that followed Omri preuailed against the people that followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
23. In the thirtie and one yeere of Asa king of Iudah, began Omri to reigne ouer Israel twelue yeeres: sixe yeeres reigned he in Tirzah.
24. And hee bought the hill Samaria of Shemer, for two talents of siluer, and built on the hill, and called the name of the citie which hee built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
25. But Omri wrought euil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse then all that were before him.
26. For he walked in all the way of Ieroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sinne wherewith hee made Israel to sinne, to prouoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
27. Now the rest of the acts of Omri, which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
28. So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his sonne reigned in his stead.
29. And in the thirtie and eight yeere of Asa king of Iudah, began Ahab the sonne of Omri to reigne ouer Israel, and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Samaria, twentie and two yeeres.
30. And Ahab the sonne of Omri did euill in the sight of the Lord, aboue all that were before him.
31. And it came to passe, as if it had beene a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat; that hee tooke to wife Iezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and serued Baal, and worshipped him.
32. And hee reared vp an Altar for Baal, in the house of Baal, which hee had built in Samaria.
33. And Ahab made a groue, and Ahab did more to prouoke the Lord God of Israel to anger, then all the kings of Israel that were before him.
34. In his dayes did Hiel the Bethelite build Iericho: he laid the foundation therof in Abiram his first borne, and set vp the gates thereof in his yongest sonne Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by Ioshua the sonne of Nun.
1. And Eliiah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said vnto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liueth, before whome I stand, there shall not be deaw nor raine these yeres, but according to my word.
2. And the worde of the Lord came vnto him, saying,
3. Get thee hence, and turne thee Eastward, and hide thy selfe by the brooke Cherith, that is before Iordane.
4. And it shall bee, that thou shalt drinke of the brooke, and I haue commanded the rauens to feed thee there.
5. So hee went, and did according vnto the word of the Lord: for hee went and dwelt by the brooke Cherith, that is before Iordane.
6. And the rauens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the euening: and hee dranke of the brooke.
7. And it came to passe after a while, that the brooke dryed vp, because there had beene no raine in the land.
8. And the word of the Lord came vnto him, saying,
9. Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I haue commaunded a widow woman there to sustaine thee.
10. So he arose, and went to Zarephath: and when he came to the gate of the citie, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of stickes: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessell, that I may drinke.
11. And as shee was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring mee, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.
12. And she said, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but an handfull of meale in a barrell, and a little oyle in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two stickes, that I may goe in, and dresse it for me and my sonne, that we may eate it, and die.
13. And Eliiah said vnto her, Feare not, goe, and doe as thou hast said: but make mee thereof a little cake first, and bring it vnto mee, and after make for thee, and for thy sonne.
14. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrell of meale shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oile faile, vntill the day that the Lord sendeth raine vpon the earth.
15. And shee went, and did according to the saying of Eliiah: and she, and he, and her house did eate many dayes.
16. And the barrell of meale wasted not, neither did the cruse of oyle faile, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Eliiah.
17. And it came to passe after these things, that the sonne of the woman, the mistresse of the house, fell sicke, and his sickenesse was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
18. And shee sayd vnto Eliiah, What haue I to doe with thee? O thou man of God! Art thou come vnto me to call my sinne to remembrance, and to slay my sonne?
19. And he said vnto her, Giue me thy sonne. And he tooke him out of her bosome, and caried him vp into a loft, where he abode, and laide him vpon his owne bed.
20. And hee cried vnto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought euill vpon the widow, with whom I soiourne, by slaying her sonne?
21. And he stretched himselfe vpon the child three times, and cried vnto the Lord, and said; O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this childes soule come into him againe.
22. And the Lord heard the voice of Eliiah, and the soule of the child came into him againe, and he reuiued.
23. And Eliiah tooke the childe, and brought him downe out of the chamber into the house, and deliuered him vnto his mother: and Eliiah said, See, thy sonne liueth.
24. And the woman said to Eliiah, Now by this I know, that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is trueth.
1. And it came to passe after many daies, that the word of the Lord came to Eliiah in the third yeere, saying, Goe shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I will send raine vpon the earth.
2. And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a sore famine in Samaria.
3. And Ahab called Obadiah which was the gouernour of his house: (now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
4. For it was so, when Iezebel cut off the Prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah tooke an hundred Prophets, and hid them by fiftie in a caue, and fed them with bread and water.)
5. And Ahab said vnto Obadiah, Goe into the land, vnto all fountaines of water, and vnto all brookes: peraduenture we may finde grasse to saue the horses and mules aliue, that we leese not all the beasts.
6. So they diuided the land betweene them to passe throughout it: Ahab went one way by himselfe, and Obadiah went another way by himselfe.
7. And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Eliiah met him: and hee knew him, and fell on his face, and said; Art thou that my lord Eliiah?
8. And he answered him, I am: goe, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here.
9. And he said, What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest deliuer thy seruant into the hand of Ahab, to slay mee?
10. As the Lord thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lord hath not sent to seeke thee: and when they said, He is not there, hee tooke an oath of the kingdome and nation, that they found thee not.
11. And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here.
12. And it shall come to passe, as soone as I am gone from thee, that the spirit of the Lord shall cary thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot finde thee, he shall slay mee: but I thy seruant feare the Lord from my youth.
13. Was it not told my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord ? How I hid an hundred men of the Lords Prophets, by fiftie in a caue, and fedde them with bread and water?
14. And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here: and hee shall slay me.
15. And Eliiah said, As the Lord of hostes liueth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew my selfe vnto him to day.
16. So Obadiah went to meete Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meete Eliiah.
17. And it came to passe when Ahab saw Eliiah, that Ahab saide vnto him, Art thou hee that troubleth Israel?
18. And hee answered, I haue not troubled Israel, but thou and thy fathers house, in that yee haue forsaken the Commandements of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.
19. Now therefore send, and gather to mee all Israel vnto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure hundred and fiftie, and the prophets of the groues foure hundred, which eate at Iezebels table.
20. So Ahab sent vnto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together vnto mount Carmel.
21. And Eliiah came vnto all the people, and said, how long halt yee betweene two opinions? If the Lord bee God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him: and the people answered him not a word.
22. Then said Eliiah vnto the people, I, euen I onely remaine a Prophet of the Lord: but Baals prophets are foure hundred and fiftie men.
23. Let them therefore giue vs two bullocks, and let them chuse one bullocke for themselues, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire vnder: and I will dresse the other bullocke, and lay it on wood, and put no fire vnder.
24. 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.
25. And Eliiah said vnto the prophets of Baal, Chuse you one bullocke for your selues, and dresse it first, for yee are many: and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder.
26. And they took the bullocke which was giuen them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning, euen vntil noone, saying, O Baal, heare vs. But there was no voyce, nor any that answered: And they leapt vpon the altar which was made.
27. And it came to passe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and saide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
28. And they cried loud, and cut themselues after their maner, with kniues, and lancers, till the blood gushed out vpon them.
29. And it came to passe when midday was past, and they prophesied vntil the time of the offering of the euening sacrifice; that there was neither voice, nor any to answere, nor any that regarded.
30. And Eliiah said vnto all the people, Come neere vnto me. And all the people came neere vnto him. And he repaired the Altar of the Lord that was broken downe.
31. And Eliiah tooke twelue stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sonnes of Iacob, vnto whome the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall bee thy name.
32. And with the stones hee built an altar in the Name of the Lord, and hee made a trench about the altar, as great as would containe two measures of seed.
33. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullocke in pieces, and laide him on the wood, and said, Fill foure barrels with water, and powre it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34. And hee said, Doe it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Doe it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35. And the water ran round about the altar, and hee filled the trench also with water.
36. And it came to passe at the time of the offering of the euening sacrifice, that Eliiah the prophet came neere and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, Let it bee knowen this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy seruant, and that I haue done all these things at thy word.
37. Heare me, O Lord, heare me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart backe againe.
38. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked vp the water that was in the trench.
39. And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces: and they saide, The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God.
40. And Eliiah saide vnto them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them escape: And they tooke them, and Eliiah brought them downe to the brooke Kishon, and slewe them there.
41. And Eliiah said vnto Ahab, Get thee vp, eate and drinke, for there is a sound of abundance of raine.
42. So Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Eliiah went vp to the top of Carmel, and he cast himselfe downe vpon the earth, and put his face betweene his knees,
43. And said to his seruant, Goe vp now, looke toward the Sea. And hee went vp, and looked, and saide, There is nothing. And he said, Goe againe seuen times.
44. And it came to passe at the seuenth time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the Sea, like a mans hand. And he said, Goe vp, say vnto Ahab, Prepare thy charet, and get thee downe, that the raine stop thee not.
45. And it came to passe in the meane while, that the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great raine: and Ahab rode and went to Iezreel.
46. And the hand of the Lord was on Eliiah; and hee girded vp his loynes, and ranne before Ahab, to the entrance of Iezreel.
1. And Ahab told Iezebel all that Eliiah had done, and withall, how hee had slaine all the Prophets with the sword.
2. Then Iezebel sent a messenger vnto Eliiah, saying; So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them, by to morrow about this time.
3. And when he saw that, hee arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Iudah, and left his seruant there.
4. But he himselfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a Iuniper tree: and hee requested for himselfe that hee might die, and sayd, It is enough, now O Lord, take away my life: for I am not better then my fathers.
5. And as hee lay and slept vnder a Iuniper tree, behold then, an Angel touched him, and sayd vnto him, Arise, and eate.
6. And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baken on the coales, and a cruse of water at his head: and hee did eate and drinke, and laide him downe againe.
7. And the Angel of the Lord came againe the second time, and touched him, and sayd, Arise, and eate, because the iourney is too great for thee.
8. And hee arose, and did eate and drinke, and went in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.
9. And he came thither vnto a caue, and lodged there, and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said vnto him, What doest thou here, Eliiah?
10. And hee sayd, I haue beene very iealous for the Lord God of hostes: for the children of Israel haue forsaken thy Couenant, throwen downe thine Altars, and slaine thy Prophets with the sword: and I, euen I onely am left, and they seeke my life, to take it away.
11. And he sayd, Goe forth, and stand vpon the mount before the Lord. And beholde, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong winde rent the mountaines, and brake in pieces the rockes, before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the winde: and after the winde an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
12. And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.
13. And it was so, when Eliiah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entring in of the caue: and behold, there came a voice vnto him, and sayd, What doest thou here, Eliiah?
14. And he sayd, I haue beene very iealous for the Lord God of hostes, because the children of Israel haue forsaken thy Couenant, throwen downe thine Altars, and slaine thy Prophets with the sword, and I, euen I onely am left, and they seeke my life, to take it away.
15. And the Lord sayd vnto him, Goe, returne on thy way to the wildernesse of Damascus: and when thou commest, anoint Hazael to be King ouer Syria.
16. And Iehu the sonne of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to bee king ouer Israel: and Elisha the sonne of Shaphat of Abel Meholah, shalt thou annoint to be Prophet in thy roume.
17. And it shall come to passe, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael, shall Iehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Iehu, shall Elisha slay.
18. Yet I haue left me seuen thousand in Israel, all the knees which haue not bowed vnto Baal, and euery mouth which hath not kissed him.
19. So hee departed thence and found Elisha the sonne of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelue yoke of oxen before him, and hee with the twelfth: and Eliiah passed by him, and cast his mantle vpon him.
20. And he left the oxen, and ranne after Eliiah, and said, Let mee, I pray thee, kisse my father and my mother, and then I wil follow thee: and he said vnto him, Goe backe againe; for what haue I done to thee?
21. And he returned backe from him, and tooke a yoke of oxen, & slew them, and boyled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gaue vnto the people, and they did eat: then he arose, and went after Eliiah, and ministred vnto him.
1. And Benhadad the King of Syria gathered all his hoste together, and there were thirtie and two kings with him, and horses, and charets: and hee went vp and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
2. And hee sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and saide vnto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
3. Thy siluer and thy gold is mine, thy wiues also, and thy children, euen the goodliest, are mine.
4. And the king of Israel answered, and said, My lord O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I haue.
5. And the messengers came againe, and saide, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I haue sent vnto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliuer me thy siluer, and thy gold, and thy wiues, and thy children:
6. Yet I will send my seruants vnto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy seruants; and it shall be, that whatsoeuer is pleasant in thine eies, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
7. Then the king of Israel called all the Elders of the land, and saide; Marke, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischiefe: for hee sent vnto me for my wiues, and for my children, and for my siluer, and for my gold, and I denied him not.
8. And all the Elders, and all the people said vnto him; Hearken not vnto him, nor consent.
9. Wherefore hee said vnto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou diddest send for to thy seruant at the first, I will doe: but this thing I may not doe. And the messengers departed, and brought him word againe.
10. And Benhadad sent vnto him, and said, The gods doe so vnto me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
11. And the king of Israel answered, and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harnesse, boast himselfe, as he that putteth it off.
12. And it came to passe, when Benhadad heard this message (as hee was drinking, he and the kings in the pauilions) that hee said vnto his seruants, Set yourselues in aray. And they set themselues in aray against the citie.
13. And behold, there came a Prophet vnto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seene all this great multitude? behold, I will deliuer it into thine hand this day, and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.
14. And Ahab saide, By whom? and he saide, Thus saith the Lord, Euen by the young men of the Princes of the prouinces: Then he said, Who shall order the battell? And hee answered, Thou.
15. Then he numbred the young men of the Princes of the prouinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them hee numbred all the people, euen all the children of Israel, being seuen thousand.
16. And they went out at noone: But Benhadad was drinking himselfe drunke in the pauilions, hee and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
17. And the young men of the Princes of the Prouinces went out first, and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
18. And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them aliue: or whether they be come out for warre, take them aliue.
19. So these yong men of the princes of the prouinces, came out of the citie, and the armie which followed them:
20. And they slew euery one his man: and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse, with the horsemen.
21. And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and charets, and slewe the Syrians with a great slaughter.
22. And the Prophet came to the king of Israel, and said vnto him, Goe, strengthen thy selfe, and marke and see what thou doest: for at the returne of the yeere, the king of Syria will come vp against thee.
23. And the seruants of the King of Syria said vnto him, Their gods are gods of the hilles, therefore they were stronger then wee: but let vs fight against them in the plaine, and surely we shall be stronger then they.
24. And doe this thing, Take the kings away, euery man out of his place, and put captaines in their roumes.
25. And number thee an armie, like the armie that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and charet for charet: and wee will fight against them in the plaine, and surely wee shall be stronger then they. And hee hearkened vnto their voice, and did so.
26. And it came to passe at the returne of the yeere, that Benhadad numbred the Syrians, and went vp to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
27. And the children of Israel were numbred, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them, like two little flockes of kids: but the Syrians filled the countrey.
28. And there came a man of God, and spake vnto the king of Israel, and sayd, Thus sayth the Lord, Because the Syrians haue sayde, The Lord is God of the hilles, but hee is not God of the valleys: therefore will I deliuer all this great multitude into thine hand, and yee shall know that I am the Lord.
29. And they pitched one ouer against the other seuen daies, and so it was, that in the seuenth day the battell was ioyned: and the children of Israel slewe of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
30. But the rest fled to Aphek, into the citie, and there a wall fell vpon twentie and seuen thousand of the men that were left: and Benhadad fled, and came into the citie, into an inner chamber.
31. And his seruants said vnto him, Behold now, wee haue heard that the kings of the house of Israel are mercifull kings: let vs, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loines, and ropes vpon our heads, and goe out to the king of Israel; peraduenture he will saue thy life.
32. So they girded sackcloth on their loynes, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy seruant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me liue. And he said, Is he yet aliue? he is my brother.
33. Now the men did diligently obserue whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they saide, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Goe ye, bring him: then Benhadad came forth to him: and hee caused him to come vp into the charet.
34. And Benhadad said vnto him, The cities which my father tooke from thy father, I will restore, and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then, said Ahab, I will send thee away with this couenant. So he made a couenant with him, and sent him away.
35. And a certaine man of the sonnes of the Prophets, saide vnto his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
36. Then said he vnto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voyce of the Lord, beholde, assoone as thou art departed from me, a lyon shal slay thee. And assoone as hee was departed from him, a lyon found him, and slew him.
37. Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting hee wounded him.
38. So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himselfe with ashes vpon his face.
39. And as the king passed by, he cried vnto the king: and he saide, Thy seruant went out into the mids of the battell, and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man vnto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any meanes he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of siluer.
40. And as thy seruant was busie here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel saide vnto him, So shall thy iudgement bee, thy selfe hast discided it.
41. And he hasted, and tooke the ashes away from his face, and the king of Israel discerned him that hee was of the Prophets.
42. And hee said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let goe out of thy hand, a man whom I appointed to vtter destruction, therfore thy life shall goe for his life, and thy people for his people.
43. And the king of Israel went to his house, heauie, and displeased, and came to Samaria.
1. And it came to passe after these things, that Naboth the Iezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Iezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
2. And Ahab spake vnto Naboth, saying, Giue me thy vineyard, that I may haue it for a garden of herbes, because it is neere vnto my house, and I will giue thee for it a better vineyard then it: or if it seeme good to thee, I will giue thee the worth of it in money.
3. And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it mee, that I should giue the inheritance of my fathers vnto thee.
4. And Ahab came into his house, heauie, and displeased, because of the word which Naboth the Iezreelite had spoken to him: for he had saide, I will not giue thee the inheritance of my fathers: and he laid him downe vpon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eate no bread.
5. But Iezebel his wife came to him, and said vnto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
6. And he said vnto her, Because I spake vnto Naboth the Iezreelite, and said vnto him, Giue mee thy vineyard for money, or else if it please thee, I will giue thee another vineyard for it: And he answered, I wil not giue thee my vineyard.
7. And Iezebel his wife saide vnto him, Doest thou now gouerne the kingdome of Israel? Arise, and eate bread, and let thine heart bee merrie: I will giue thee the vineyard of Naboth the Iezreelite.
8. So shee wrote letters in Ahabs name, and sealed them with his seale, and sent the letters vnto the Elders, and to the Nobles that were in his citie dwelling with Naboth.
9. And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaime a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
10. And set two men, sonnes of Belial before him, to beare witnes against him, saying, Thou diddest blaspheme God and the king: and then carie him out, and stone him that he may die.
11. And the men of his citie, euen the Elders and the Nobles who were the inhabitants in his citie, did as Iezebel had sent vnto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent vnto them.
12. They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
13. And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sate before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, euen against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they caried him foorth out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that hee died.
14. Then they sent to Iezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
15. And it came to passe when Iezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, that Iezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the Uineyard of Naboth the Iezreelite, which hee refused to giue thee for money: for Naboth is not aliue, but dead. 
16. And it came to passe when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose vp to goe downe to the Uineyard of Naboth the Iezreelite, to take possession of it.
17. And the word of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,
18. Arise, goe downe to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, hee is in the Uineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone downe to possesse it.
19. And thou shalt speake vnto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speake vnto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord; In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogges licke thy blood, euen thine.
20. And Ahab said to Eliiah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue found thee: because thou hast sold thy selfe to worke euill in the sight of the Lord.
21. Behold, I will bring euill vpon thee, and will take away thy posteritie, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut vp, and left in Israel,
22. And will make thine house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah, for the prouocation wherewith thou hast prouoked mee to anger, and made Israel to sinne.
23. And of Iezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eate Iezebel by the wall of Iezreel.
24. Him that dieth of Ahab in the citie, the dogs shall eate: and him that dieth in the field, shall the foules of the aire eat.
25. But there was none like vnto Ahab, which did sell himselfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lord, whom Iezebel his wife stirred vp.
26. And hee did very abominably in following Idoles, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
27. And it came to passe when Ahab heard those wordes, that hee rent his clothes, and put sackecloth vpon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
28. And the word of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,
29. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himselfe before mee? because hee humbleth himselfe before mee, I will not bring the euill in his dayes: but in his sonnes dayes will I bring the euill vpon his house.
1. And they continued three yeeres without warre betweene Syria and Israel.
2. And it came to passe on the third yere, that Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah came downe to the king of Israel.
3. (And the king of Israel said vnto his seruants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and wee be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?)
4. And hee said vnto Iehoshaphat, Wilt thou goe with me to battel to Ramoth Gilead? And Iehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
5. And Iehoshaphat said vnto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.
6. Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together about foure hundred men, and said vnto them, Shall I goe against Ramoth Gilead to battell, or shall I forbeare? And they said, Goe vp, for the Lord shall deliuer it into the hand of the king. 
7. And Iehoshaphat said, Is there not here a Prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?
8. And the king of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat, There is yet one man, (Micaiah the sonne of Imlah) by whom we may enquire of the Lord; but I hate him, for he doth not prophesie good concerning me, but euill. And Iehoshaphat said, Let not the King say so.
9. Then the king of Israel called an Officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the sonne of Imlah.
10. And the King of Israel and Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah sate each on his throne, hauing put on their robes, in a voyd place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the Prophets prophecied before them.
11. And Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah made him hornes of yron: and he sayd, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, vntill thou haue consumed them.
12. And all the Prophets prophecied so, saying; Goe vp to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the kings hand.
13. And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah, spake vnto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good vnto the King with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, bee like the word of one of them, and speake that which is good. 
14. And Micaiah sayde, As the Lord liueth, what the Lord saith vnto me, that will I speake.
15. So he came to the king, and the king sayd vnto him, Micaiah, shall wee goe against Ramoth Gilead to battell, or shall we forbeare? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the hand of the king.
16. And the king said vnto him, How many times shall I adiure thee, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the Name of the Lord ?
17. And hee sayd, I saw all Israel scattered vpon the hilles, as sheepe that haue not a shepheard. And the Lord said, These haue no master, let them returne euery man to his house in peace.
18. And the King of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee, that he would prophecie no good concerning me, but euill?
19. And he said, Heare thou therefore the word of the Lord: I sawe the Lord sitting on his Throne, and all the hoste of heauen standing by him, on his right hand and on his left.
20. And the Lord said, Who shall perswade Ahab, that hee may goe vp and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one sayd on this manner, and another said on that manner.
21. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will perswade him.
22. And the Lord said vnto him, Wherewith? And hee sayd, I will goe foorth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt perswade him, and preuaile also: Goe forth, and doe so.
23. Now therfore behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken euill concerning thee.
24. But Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah went neere, and smote Micaiah on the cheeke, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me, to speake vnto thee?
25. And Micaiah sayde, Beholde, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt goe into an inner chamber, to hide thy selfe.
26. And the King of Israel sayde, Take Micaiah, and cary him backe vnto Amon the gouernour of the citie, and to Ioash the kings sonne:
27. And say, Thus sayth the King, Put this fellow in the prison, and feede him with bread of affliction, and with water of afflictio, vntil I come in peace.
28. And Micaiah saide, If thou returne at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, euery one of you.
29. So the King of Israel, and Iehoshaphat the king of Iudah, went vp to Ramoth Gilead.
30. And the king of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat, I wil disguise my selfe, & enter into the battell, but put thou on thy robes. And the King of Israel disguised himselfe, & went into the battell.
31. But the King of Syria commanded his thirtie and two Captaines that had rule ouer his charets, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, saue only with the king of Israel.
32. And it came to passe, when the captaines of the charets saw Iehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Iehoshaphat cryed out.
33. And it came to passe, when the captaines of the charets perceiued that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned backe from pursuing him.
34. And a certaine man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel betweene the ioynts of the harnesse: wherefore hee sayd vnto the driuer of his charet, Turne thine hand, and cary me out of the hoste, for I am wounded.
35. And the battell increased that day: and the king was stayed vp in his charet against the Syrians, and died at euen: and the blood ranne out of the wound, into the mids of the charet.
36. And there went a proclamation throughout the hoste, about the going downe of the Sunne, saying, Euery man to his citie, and euery man to his owne countrey.
37. So the King died, and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.
38. And one washed the charet in the poole of Samaria, and the dogges licked vp his blood, and they washed his armour, according vnto the word of the Lord which he spake.
39. Now the rest of the actes of Ahab, and all that he did, and the Iuory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
40. So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.
41. And Iehoshaphat the sonne of Asa began to reigne ouer Iudah in the fourth yeere of Ahab King of Israel.
42. Iehoshaphat was thirtie and fiue yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned twentie and fiue yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43. And he walked in all the wayes of Asa his father, hee turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: neuerthelesse, the high places were not taken away: for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
44. And Iehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45. Now the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat, and his might that hee shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?
46. And the remnant of the Sodomites which remained in the dayes of his father Asa, he tooke out of the land.
47. There was then no king in Edom: a deputie was king.
48. Iehoshaphat made shippes of Tharshish to goe to Ophir for golde: but they went not, for the shippes were broken at Ezion Geber.
49. Then said Ahaziah the sonne of Ahab vnto Iehoshaphat, Let my seruants goe with thy seruants in the ships: But Iehoshaphat would not.
50. And Iehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his stead.
51. Ahaziah the sonne of Ahab began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria the seuenteenth yeere of Iehoshaphat king of Iudah, and reigned two yeres ouer Israel.
52. And he did euill 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 Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne.
53. For he serued Baal, and worshipped him, and prouoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according vnto all that his father had done.
1. Then Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Ahab.
2. And Ahaziah fel downe thorow a lattesse in his vpper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sicke: and he sent messengers, and said vnto them, Goe, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, whether I shal recouer of this disease.
3. But the Angel of the Lord said to Eliiah the Tishbite, Arise, goe vp to meete the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say vnto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye goe to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
4. Now therefore, thus sayeth the Lord, Thou shalt not come downe from that bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt surely die. And Eliiah departed.
5. And when the messengers turned backe vnto him, he said vnto them, Why are ye now turned backe?
6. And they said vnto him, There came a man vp to meet vs, and said vnto vs, Goe, turne againe vnto the king that sent you, and say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come downe from that bedde on which thou art gone vp, but shalt surely die.
7. And hee said vnto them, What maner of man was he which came vp to meet you, and told you these words?
8. And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loynes: and he said, It is Eliiah the Tishbite.
9. Then the King sent vnto him a captaine of fiftie, with his fiftie: and he went vp to him, (and behold, he sate on the top of an hill) and hee spake vnto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come downe.
10. And Eliiah answered, and said to the captaine of fiftie, If I be a man of God, then let fire come downe from heauen, and consume thee and thy fiftie. And there came downe fire from heauen, and consumed him and his fiftie.
11. Againe also hee sent vnto him another captaine of fiftie, with his fiftie: And hee answered, and said vnto him, O man of God, Thus hath the king said, Come downe quickly.
12. And Eliiah answered, and saide vnto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come downe from heauen, and consume thee, and thy fiftie. And the fire of God came downe from heauen, and consumed him, and his fiftie.
13. And hee sent againe a captaine of the third fiftie, with his fiftie: and the third captaine of fiftie went vp, and came and fell on his knees before Eliiah, and besought him, and saide vnto him, Oh man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fiftie thy seruants, be precious in thy sight.
14. Behold, there came fire downe from heauen, and burnt vp the two captaines of the former fifties, with their fifties: Therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
15. And the Angel of the Lord said vnto Elijah, Goe downe with him, be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went downe with him vnto the king.
16. And he said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron (is it not because there is no God in Israel, to enquire of his word?) therefore thou shalt not come downe off that bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt surely die.
17. So he died, according to the worde of the Lord which Eliiah had spoken: and Iehoram reigned in his stead, in the second yeere of Iehoram the sonne of Iehoshaphat king of Iudah, because he had no sonne.
18. Now the rest of the actes of Ahaziah, which hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1. And it came to passe when the Lord would take vp Elijah into heauen by a whirlewinde, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2. And Elijah said vnto Elisha, Tarie here, I pray thee: for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel: and Elisha said vnto him, As the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I wil not leaue thee. So they went downe to Bethel.
3. And the sonnes of the Prophets that were at Bethel, came foorth to Elisha, and said vnto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it, hold you your peace.
4. And Elijah said vnto him, Elisha, tarie here, I pray thee: for the Lord hath sent me to Iericho: And hee said, As the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they came to Iericho.
5. And the sonnes of the Prophets that were at Iericho came to Elisha, and said vnto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And hee answered, Yea, I knowe it, holde you your peace.
6. And Elijah said vnto him, Tarie, I pray thee, here: for the Lord hath sent me to Iordan. And he said, As the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. And they two went on.
7. And fiftie men of the sonnes of the Prophets went, and stood to view afarre off: and they two stood by Iordan.
8. And Elijah tooke his mantle, and wrapt it together, and smote the waters, and they were diuided hither and thither, so that they two went ouer on drie ground.
9. And it came to passe when they were gone ouer, that Elijah said vnto Elisha, Aske what I shall doe for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be vpon me.
10. And hee said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: neuerthelesse, if thou see me, when I am taken from thee, it shall be so vnto thee: but if not, it shall not be so.
11. And it came to passe as they still went on and talked, that beholde, there appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went vp by a whirlewind into heauen.
12. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he tooke hold of his owne cloathes, and rent them in two pieces.
13. He tooke vp also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the banke of Iordan.
14. And he tooke the mantle of Eliiah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? And when hee also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went ouer.
15. And when the sonnes of the Prophets which were to view at Iericho, saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha: And they came to meet him, and bowed themselues to the ground before him.
16. And they said vnto him, Behold now, there bee with thy seruants fiftie strong men, let them goe, we pray thee, and seeke thy master: lest peraduenture the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him vp, and cast him vpon some mountaine, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17. And when they vrged him, till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fiftie men, and they sought three dayes, but found him not.
18. And when they came againe to him (for he taried at Iericho) hee said vnto them, Did I not say vnto you, Goe not?
19. And the men of the city said vnto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is nought, and the ground barren.
20. And hee said, Bring mee a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21. And he went forth vnto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I haue healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death, or barren land.
22. So the waters were healed vnto this day, according to the saying of Elisha, which he spake.
23. And he went vp from thence vnto Bethel: and as hee was going vp by the way, there came foorth little children out of the citie, and mocked him, and said vnto him, Goe vp thou bald head, Goe vp thou bald head.
24. And hee turned backe, and looked on them, and cursed them in the Name of the Lord: and there came foorth two shee Beares out of the wood, and tare fortie and two children of them.
25. And hee went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
1. Now Iehoram the sonne of Ahab began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, the eighteenth yere of Iehoshaphat king of Iudah, and reigned twelue yeeres.
2. And he wrought euill in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father and like his mother; for hee put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
3. Neuerthelesse, hee cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne; he departed not therefrom.
4. And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepe-master, and rendred vnto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambes, and an hundred thousand rammes, with the wooll.
5. But it came to passe when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6. And king Iehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbred all Israel.
7. And he went, and sent to Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against mee: Wilt thou goe with mee against Moab to battell? and he said, I will goe vp: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses. 
8. And he said, Which way shall we goe vp? And he answered, The way through the wildernesse of Edom.
9. So the king of Israel went, and the king of Iudah, and the king of Edom: and they fetcht a compasse of seuen dayes iourney: and there was no water for the hoste, and for the cattell that followed them.
10. And the king of Israel said, Alas, that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliuer them into the hand of Moab.
11. But Iehoshaphat said, Is there not here a Prophet of the Lord, that we may enquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israels seruants answered, and said, Here is Elisha the sonne of Shaphat, which powred water on the hands of Eliiah.
12. And Iehoshaphat saide, The word of the Lord is with him. So the king of Israel, & Iehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went downe to him.
13. And Elisha saide vnto the king of Israel, What haue I to doe with thee? Get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said vnto him, Nay: for the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliuer them into the hand of Moab.
14. And Elisha said, As the Lord of hostes liueth, before whom I stand, Surely were it not that I regard the presence of Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah, I would not looke toward thee, nor see thee.
15. But now bring me a minstrell. And it came to passe when the minstrell played, that the hand of the Lord came vpon him.
16. And hee sayde, Thus sayth the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.
17. For thus sayth the Lord, Yee shall not see winde, neither shall ye see raine, yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drinke, both ye, and your cattell, and your beasts.
18. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord, he will deliuer the Moabites also into your hand.
19. And ye shall smite euery fenced citie, and euery choice citie, and shall fell euery good tree, and stop all welles of water, and marre euery good piece of land with stones.
20. And it came to passe in the morning when the meate offering was offered, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the countrey was filled with water.
21. And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come vp to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and vpward, and stood in the border.
22. And they rose vp early in the morning, and the Sunne shone vpon the water, and the Moabites sawe the water on the other side as red as blood.
23. And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slaine, and they haue smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoile.
24. And when they came to the campe of Israel, the Israelites rose vp and smote the Moabites, so that they fledde before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, euen in their countrey.
25. And they beat downe the cities, and on euery good piece of land cast euery man his stone, and filled it, and they stopped all the welles of water, and felled all the good trees: onely in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof: howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
26. And when the king of Moab sawe that the battell was too sore for him, he tooke with him seuen hundred men that drewe swordes, to breake thorow euen vnto the king of Edom: but they could not.
27. Then hee tooke his eldest sonne that should haue reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering vpon the wall: and there was great indignation against Israel, and they departed from him, and returned to their owne land.
1. Now there cryed a certaine woman of the wiues of the sonnes of the Prophets vnto Elisha, saying, Thy seruant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy seruant did feare the Lord: and the creditour is come to take vnto him my two sonnes to be bondmen.
2. And Elisha said vnto her, What shall I doe for thee? Tell mee, what hast thou in the house? And shee sayd, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, saue a pot of oyle.
3. Then hee said, Goe, borrow thee vessels abroad, of all thy neighbours; euen emptie vessels, borrow not a few.
4. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the doore vpon thee, and vpon thy sonnes, and shalt powre out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
5. So shee went from him, and shut the doore vpon her, & vpon her sonnes: who brought the vessels to her, and shee powred out.
6. And it came to passe, when the vessels were full, that shee said vnto her sonne, Bring me yet a vessell. And hee said vnto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oyle stayed.
7. Then she came, and told the man of God: and he said, Goe, sell the oyle, and pay thy debt, and liue thou and thy children of the rest.
8. And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and shee constrained him to eate bread: And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, hee turned in thither to eate bread.
9. And shee said vnto her husband, Behold now, I perceiue that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by vs continually.
10. Let vs make a litle chamber, I pray thee, on the wall, and let vs set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stoole, and a candlesticke: and it shall be when he commeth to vs, that hee shall turne in thither.
11. And it fell on a day that hee came thither, and hee turned into the chamber, and lay there.
12. And he said to Gehazi his seruant, Call this Shunammite. And when hee had called her, she stood before him.
13. And he said vnto him, Say, now vnto her, Behold, thou hast beene carefull for vs with all this care; What is to be done for thee? Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captaine of the hoste? And she answered, I dwell among mine owne people.
14. And he said, What then is to bee done for her? And Gehazi answered, Uerily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
15. And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the doore.
16. And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt imbrace a sonne. And she said, Nay my lord, thou man of God, doe not lie vnto thine handmaid.
17. And the woman conceiued, and bare a sonne at that season, that Elisha had said vnto her, according to the time of life.
18. And when the child was growen, it fell on a day that hee went out to his father, to the reapers.
19. And he said vnto his father, My head, my head: and he said to a ladde, Carie him to his mother.
20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, hee sate on her knees till noone, and then died.
21. And she went vp, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the doore vpon him, and went out.
22. And she called vnto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the yong men, and one of the asses, that I may runne to the man of God, and come againe.
23. And he said, Wherefore wilt thou goe to him to day? it is neither newe moone nor Sabbath. And shee said, It shalbe well.
24. Then she sadled an asse, and said to her seruant, Driue, and goe forward: slacke not thy riding for mee, except I bid thee.
25. So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel: and it came to passe when the man of God saw her afarre off, that hee said to Gehazi his seruant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
26. Runne now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say vnto her, Is it wel with thee? is it wel with thy husband? is it wel with the child? And she answered, It is well.
27. And when shee came to the man of God to the hill, shee caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came neere to thrust her away. And the man of God saide, Let her alone, for her soule is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
28. Then shee said, Did I desire a sonne of my Lord ? did I not say, Doe not deceiue me?
29. Then he said to Gehazi, Gird vp thy loines, and take my staffe in thine hand, and goe thy way: if thou meete any man, salute him not: and if any salute thee, answere him not againe: and lay my staffe vpon the face of the childe.
30. And the mother of the childe said, As the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. And he arose, and followed her.
31. And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staffe vpon the face of the child, but there was neither voyce, nor hearing: wherefore he went againe to meete him, and tolde him, saying, The child is not awaked.
32. And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid vpon his bed.
33. He went in therefore, and shut the doore vpon them twaine, and prayed vnto the Lord.
34. And he went vp, and lay vpon the child, and put his mouth vpon his mouth, and his eyes vpon his eyes, and his hands vpon his hands, and he stretched himselfe vpon the child, and the flesh of the child waxed warme.
35. Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro, and went vp, and stretched himselfe vpon him: and the child neesed seuen times, and the child opened his eyes.
36. And hee called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So hee called her: and when shee was come in vnto him, he said, Take vp thy sonne.
37. Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed her selfe to the ground, and tooke vp her sonne, and went out.
38. And Elisha came againe to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the land, and the sonnes of the Prophets were sitting before him: and hee said vnto his seruant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sonnes of the Prophets.
39. And one went out into the field to gather herbes, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wilde gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
40. So they powred out for the men to eat: and it came to passe as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eate thereof.
41. But he said, Then bring meale. And he cast it into the pot: And he said, Powre out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harme in the pot.
42. And there came a man from Baal-Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twentie loaues of barley, and full eares of corne in the huske thereof: and he said, Giue vnto the people, that they may eate.
43. And his seruitour saide, What should I set this before an hundred men? He said againe, Giue the people, that they may eate: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eate, and shall leaue thereof.
44. So he set it before them, and they did eate, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.
1. Now Naaman captaine of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had giuen deliuerance vnto Syria: He was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captiue out of the land of Israel a litle maid, & she waited on Naamans wife.
3. And shee saide vnto her mistresse, Would God my lord were with the Prophet that is in Samaria, for hee would recouer him of his leprosie.
4. And one went in, and tolde his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the mayd that is of the land of Israel.
5. And the king of Syria said, Goe to, Goe, and I will send a letter vnto the king of Israel. And hee departed, and tooke with him ten talents of siluer, and sixe thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
6. And hee brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come vnto thee, behold, I haue therewith sent Naaman my seruant to thee, that thou mayest recouer him of his leprosie.
7. And it came to passe when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make aliue, that this man doeth send vnto me, to recouer a man of his leprosie? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrell against me.
8. And it was so when Elisha the man of God had heard, that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? Let him come now to mee, and he shall know that there is a Prophet in Israel. 
9. So Naaman came with his horses, and with his charet, and stood at the doore of the house of Elisha.
10. And Elisha sent a messenger vnto him, saying, Goe and wash in Iordane seuen times, and thy flesh shall come againe to thee, and thou shalt be cleane.
11. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and saide, Beholde, 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 ouer the place, and recouer the leper.
12. Are not Abana and Pharpar, riuers of Damascus, better then all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be cleane? So he turned, and went away in a rage.
13. And his seruants came neere and spake vnto him, and said, My father, If the Prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not haue done it? How much rather then, when hee saith to thee, Wash and be cleane?
14. Then went he downe, and dipped himselfe seuen times in Iordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came againe like vnto the flesh of a litle childe, and he was cleane.
15. And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy seruant.
16. But he said, As the Lord liueth, before whom I stand, I will receiue none: And hee vrged him to take it, but he refused.
17. And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be giuen to thy seruant two mules burden of earth? for thy seruant wil henceforth offer neither burnt offering, nor sacrifice vnto other gods, but vnto the Lord.
18. In this thing the Lord pardon thy seruant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and hee leaneth on my hand, and I bow myselfe in the house of Rimmon: when I bow downe my selfe in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy seruant in this thing.
19. And he said vnto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him, a litle way.
20. But Gehazi the seruant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiuing at his hands that which hee brought: but as the Lord liueth, I wil runne after him, and take somewhat of him.
21. So Gehazi followed after Naaman: and when Naaman saw him running after him, hee lighted downe from the charet to meet him, and said, Is all well?
22. And he said, All is well: my master hath sent me, saying, Behold, euen now there be come to mee from mount Ephraim two yong men, of the sonnes of the Prophets: Giue them, I pray thee, a talent of siluer, and two changes of garments.
23. And Naaman said, Bee content, take two talents: and hee vrged him, and bound two talents of siluer in two bags, with two changes of garments, and layde them vpon two of his seruants, and they bare them before him.
24. And when he came to the towre, he tooke them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house, and hee let the men goe, and they departed.
25. But he went in, and stood before his master: and Elisha said vnto him, Whence commest thou, Gehazi? And hee said, Thy seruant went no whither.
26. And he said vnto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned againe from his charet to meete thee? Is it a time to receiue money, and to receiue garments, and Oliue yards, and Uineyards, and sheepe, and oxen, and men seruants, and mayd seruants?
27. The leprosie therefore of Naaman shall cleaue vnto thee, and vnto thy seede for euer: And hee went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
1. And the sonnes of the Prophets saide vnto Elisha, Beholde now, the place where wee dwell with thee, is too strait for vs:
2. Let vs goe, wee pray thee, vnto Iordane, and take thence euery man a beame, and let vs make vs a place there where we may dwell. And hee answered, Goe ye.
3. And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and goe with thy seruants. And he answered, I will goe.
4. So hee went with them: and when they came to Iordane, they cut downe wood.
5. But as one was felling a beame, the axe head fell into the water: and hee cryed, and sayd, Alas master, for it was borrowed.
6. And the man of God said, Where fell it? and hee shewed him the place: and he cut downe a sticke, and cast it in thither, and the yron did swimme.
7. Therefore said he, Take it vp to thee: And hee put out his hand, and tooke it.
8. Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and tooke counsell with his seruants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my campe.
9. And the man of God sent vnto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou passe not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come downe.
10. And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God tolde him, and warned him of, and saued himselfe there, not once nor twise.
11. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing, and he called his seruants, and said vnto them, Will ye not shewe me which of vs is for the king of Israel?
12. And one of his seruants sayde, None, my lord O king; but Elisha the Prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel, the wordes that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.
13. And he said, Goe and spie where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was tolde him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14. Therefore sent he thither horses, and charets, and a great hoste: and they came by night, and compassed the citie about.
15. And when the seruant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the citie, both with horses and charets: and his seruant said vnto him, Alas my master, how shall we doe?
16. And he answered, Feare not: for they that be with vs, are moe then they that be with them.
17. And Elisha prayed, and sayde, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and hee saw: and behold, the mountaine was full of horses, and charets of fire round about Elisha.
18. And when they came downe to him, Elisha prayed vnto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindnesse. And hee smote them with blindnesse, according to the word of Elisha.
19. And Elisha saide vnto them, This is not the way, neither is this the citie: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seeke. But hee led them to Samaria.
20. And it came to passe when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw, and beholde, they were in the mids of Samaria.
21. And the king of Israel saide vnto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
22. And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captiue with thy sword, and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eate, and drinke, and go to their master.
23. And hee prepared great prouision for them, and when they had eaten and drunke, hee sent them away, and they went to their master: so the bands of Syria came no more into the lande of Israel.
24. And it came to passe after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his hoste, and went vp, and besieged Samaria.
25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, vntill an asses head was solde for fourescore pieces of siluer, and the fourth part of a kab of doues doung for fiue pieces of siluer.
26. And as the king of Israel was passing by vpon the wall, there cried a woman vnto him, saying, Helpe, my lord, O king.
27. And he said, If the Lord do not helpe thee, whence shall I helpe thee? out of the barne floore, or out of the wine presse?
28. And the king said vnto her, What aileth thee? And shee answered, This woman said vnto me, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and wee will eate my sonne to morrow.
29. So we boyled my sonne, and did eate him: and I saide vnto her on the next day, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him: and she hath hid her sonne.
30. And it came to passe when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes, and hee passed by vpon the wall, and the people looked, and behold, hee had sackcloth within, vpon his flesh.
31. Then he said, God doe so, and more also to mee, if the head of Elisha the sonne of Shaphat, shall stand on him this day.
32. But Elisha sate in his house (and the elders sate with him) and the king sent a man from before him: but yer the messenger came to him, hee said to the Elders, See yee how this sonne of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? Looke when the messenger commeth, shut the doore, and hold him fast at the doore: Is not the sound of his masters feete behind him?
33. And while hee yet talked with them, beholde, the messenger came downe vnto him: and he said, Behold, this euill is of the Lord, what should I waite for the Lord any longer?
1. Then Elisha said, Heare yee the word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, To morrowe about this time shal a measure of fine flower be sold for a shekell, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2. Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windowes in heauen, might this thing bee? and he saide, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eies, but shalt not eate thereof.
3. And there were foure leprous men at the entring in of the gate: and they saide one to another, Why sit wee here vntill we die?
4. If we say, We will enter into the citie, then the famine is in the citie, and wee shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let vs fall vnto the host of the Syrians: if they saue vs aliue, we shall liue; and if they kill vs, we shall but die.
5. And they rose vp in the twilight, to goe vnto the campe of the Syrians: and when they were come to the vttermost part of the campe of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6. For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to heare a noise of charets, and a noise of horses, euen the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Loe, the king of Israel hath hired against vs the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come vpon vs.
7. Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, euen the campe as it was, and fled for their life.
8. And when these lepers came to the vttermost part of the campe, they went into one tent, and did eate, and drinke, and carried thence siluer, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it, and came againe, and entred into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
9. Then they said one to another, We doe not well: this day is a day of good tydings, and we hold our peace: if we tarie till the morning light, some mischiefe will come vpon vs: nowe therefore come, that we may goe, and tell the kings houshold.
10. So they came, and called vnto the porter of the citie: and they told them, saying; We came to the campe of the Syrians, and behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tyed, and asses tyed, and the tents as they were.
11. And hee called the porters, and they told it to the kings house within.
12. And the king arose in the night, and said vnto his seruants, I will now shew you what the Syrians haue done to vs: They know that we be hungrie, therefore are they gone out of the camp, to hide themselues in the field, saying; When they come out of the citie, we shal catch them aliue, and get into the citie.
13. And one of his seruants answered, and said, Let some take, I pray thee, fiue of the horses that remaine, which are left in the citie: (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are euen as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed) and let vs send, and see.
14. They tooke therefore two charet horses, and the king sent after the hoste of the Syrians, saying, Goe, and see.
15. And they went after them vnto Iordane, and loe, all the way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste: and the messengers returned, and told the king.
16. And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians: So a measure of fine flowre was sold for a shekell, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
17. And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned, to haue the charge of the gate: and the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came downe to him.
18. And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flowre for a shekel, shalbe to morrow about this time, in the gate of Samaria:
19. And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now behold, if the Lord should make windowes in heauen, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eate thereof.
20. And so it fell out vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he died.
1. Then spake Elisha vnto the woman ( whose sonne he had restored to life) saying, Arise, and goe thou and thine housholde, and soiourne whersoeuer thou canst soiourne: for the Lord hath called for a famin, and it shall also come vpon the land seuen yeeres.
2. And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her housholde, and soiourned in the land of the Philistines seuen yeeres.
3. And it came to passe at the seuen yeeres ende, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went foorth to crie vnto the king for her house, and for her land.
4. And the king talked with Gehazi the seruant of the man of God, saying, Tell mee, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
5. And it came to passe as he was telling the King how hee had restored a dead body to life, that behold, the woman whose sonne he had restored to life, cryed to the King for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord O king, this is the woman, and this is her sonne, whom Elisha restored to life.
6. And when the king asked the woman, shee tolde him. So the King appointed vnto her a certaine officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruites of the field, since the day that she left the land, euen till now.
7. And Elisha came to Damascus, and Benhadad the king of Syria was sicke, and it was tolde him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
8. And the king said vnto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and goe meete the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recouer of this disease?
9. So Hazael went to meete him, and tooke a present with him, euen of euery good thing of Damascus, fourtie camels burden, and came, and stood before him, and said, Thy sonne Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recouer of this disease?
10. And Elisha said vnto him, Goe, say vnto him, Thou mayest certeinly recouer: howbeit, the Lord hath shewed me, that he shall surely die.
11. And hee setled his countenance stedfastly, vntill he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
12. And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the euill that thou wilt doe vnto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip vp their women with childe.
13. And Hazael said, But what, is thy seruant a dogge, that he should doe this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed mee that thou shalt be king ouer Syria.
14. So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who saide to him, What said Elisha to thee? and hee answered, He told me that thou shouldst surely recouer.
15. And it came to passe on the morrow, that he tooke a thicke cloth, and dipt it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died, and Hazael reigned in his stead.
16. And in the fifth yeere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab king of Israel, Iehoshaphat being then king of Iudah, Iehoram the sonne of Iehoshaphat king of Iudah began to reigne.
17. Thirtie and two yeeres old was he when he began to reigne, and hee reigned eight yeeres in Ierusalem.
18. 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 hee did euill in the sight of the Lord.
19. Yet the Lord would not destroy Iudah, for Dauid his seruants sake, as hee promised to giue to him alway a light, and to his children.
20. In his dayes Edom reuolted from vnder the hand of Iudah, and made a king ouer themselues.
21. So Ioram went ouer to Zair, and all the charets with him, and hee rose by night, and smote the Edomites, which compassed him about: and the captaines of the charets, and the people fled into their tents.
22. Yet Edom reuolted from vnder the hand of Iudah vnto this day. Then Libnah reuolted at the same time.
23. And the rest of the actes of Ioram, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
24. And Ioram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: And Ahaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.
25. In the twelfth yeere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, king of Israel, did Ahaziah, the sonne of Iehoram king of Iudah, begin to reigne.
26. Two and twentie yeeres old was Ahaziah when he began to reigne, and he reigned one yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27. And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did euill in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for hee was the sonne in law of the house of Ahab.
28. And he went with Ioram the sonne of Ahab, to the warre against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Ioram.
29. And king Ioram went backe to be healed in Iezreel, of the woundes which the Syrians had giuen him at Ramah, when hee fought against Hazael king of Syria: And Ahaziah the son of Iehoram king of Iudah, went downe to see Ioram the sonne of Ahab in Iezreel, because he was sicke.
1. And Elisha the Prophet called one of the children of the Prophets, and said vnto him, Gird vp thy loines, and take this boxe of oile in thine hand, and goe to Ramoth Gilead.
2. And when thou commest thither, looke out there Iehu the sonne of Iehoshaphat, the sonne of Nimshi, and goe in, and make him arise vp from among his brethren, and carie him to an inner chamber.
3. Then take the boxe of oile, and powre it on his head, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I haue anointed thee king ouer Israel: then open the doore, and flee, and tary not.
4. So the yong man, euen the yong man the Prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead:
5. And when hee came, behold, the captaines of the host were sitting; and hee said, I haue an errand to thee, O captaine: And Iehu said, Unto which of all vs? And he said, To thee, O captaine.
6. And hee arose, and went into the house, and hee powred the oyle on his head, and said vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, I haue anoynted thee king ouer the people of the Lord, euen ouer Israel.
7. And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of all the seruants of the Lord, at the hand of Iezebel.
8. For the whole house of Ahab shal perish, and I will cut off from Ahab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut vp and left in Israel.
9. And I will make the house of Ahab, like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah.
10. And the dogges shal eate Iezebel in the portion of Iezreel, and there shal be none to burie her. And he opened the doore, and fled.
11. Then Iehu came foorth to the seruants of his lord, and one said vnto him, Is all well? wherefore came this madde fellow to thee? And he said vnto them, Yee know the man, and his communication.
12. And they said, It is false, tell vs now: And hee sayde, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I haue anoynted thee King ouer Israel.
13. Then they hasted, and tooke euery man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe with trumpets, saying, Iehu is king.
14. So Iehu the sonne of Iehoshaphat, the sonne of Nimshi, conspired against Ioram: (now Ioram had kept Ramoth Gilead, hee, and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria:
15. But king Ioram was returned to bee healed in Iezreel, of the wounds which the Syrians had giuen him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Iehu said, If it be your minds, then let none goe forth nor escape out of the citie, to goe to tell it in Iezreel.
16. So Iehu rode in a charet, and went to Iezreel, (for Ioram lay there:) and Ahaziah king of Iudah was come downe to see Ioram.
17. And there stood a watchman on the towre in Iezreel, and hee spied the company of Iehu as he came, and said, I see a companie. And Ioram sayd, Take an horseman, and send to meete them, and let him say, Is it peace?
18. So there went one on horsebacke to meete him, and said, Thus sayth the king, Is it peace? And Iehu said, What hast thou to doe with peace? turne thee behinde me. And the watchman tolde, saying, The messenger came to them, but he commeth not againe.
19. Then he sent out a second on horsebacke, which came to them, and sayd, Thus sayth the king, Is it peace? And Iehu answered, What hast thou to doe with peace? turne thee behinde me.
20. And the watchman tolde, saying, He came euen vnto them, and commeth not againe: and the driuing is like the driuing of Iehu the sonne of Nimshi; for he driueth furiously.
21. And Ioram said, Make readie. And his charet was made ready. And Ioram king of Israel, and Ahaziah king of Iudah, went out, each in his charet, and they went out against Iehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Iezreelite.
22. And it came to passe when Ioram saw Iehu, that hee said, Is it peace, Iehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredomes of thy mother Iezebel, and her witchcrafts are so many?
23. And Ioram turned his hand, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
24. And Iehu drew a bowe with his full strength, and smote Iehoram betweene his armes, and the arrow went out at his heart, and hee sunke downe in his charet.
25. Then said Iehu to Bidkar his captaine, Take vp, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Iezreelite: for remember, how that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laide this burden vpon him:
26. Surely I haue seene yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sonnes, sayd the Lord, and I will requite thee in this plat, sayth the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the Lord.
27. But when Ahaziah the king of Iudah saw this, hee fled by the way of the garden house: and Iehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the charet; and they did so, at the going vp to Gur, which is by Ibleam: And hee fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28. And his seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the citie of Dauid.
29. And in the eleuenth yeere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, began Ahaziah to reigne ouer Iudah.
30. And when Iehu was come to Iezreel, Iezebel heard of it, and shee painted her face, and tyred her head, and looked out at a window.
31. And as Iehu entred in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
32. And he lift vp his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side, who? And there looked out to him two or three Eunuches.
33. And he said, Throw her downe. So they threw her downe, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her vnder foote.
34. And when he was come in, hee did eate and drinke, and saide, Goe, see now this cursed woman, and burie her: for she is a kings daughter.
35. And they went to burie her, but they found no more of her then the skul, and the feete, & the palmes of her hands.
36. Wherefore they came againe, and told him: and he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his seruant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Iezreel shall dogs eate the flesh of Iezebel:
37. And the carkeise of Iezebel shall be as doung vpon the face of the field in the portion of Iezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Iezebel.
1. And Ahab had seuentie sonnes in Samaria: and Iehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria vnto the rulers of Iezreel, to the Elders, and to them that brought vp Ahabs children, saying,
2. Now assoone as this letter commeth to you, seeing your masters sons are with you, and there are with you charets and horses, a fenced citie also, and armour:
3. Looke euen out the best and meetest of your masters sonnes, and set him on his fathers throne, and fight for your masters house.
4. But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
5. And he that was ouer the house, and he that was ouer the citie, the elders also, and the bringers vp of the children, sent to Iehu, saying, Wee are thy seruants, and will doe all that thou shalt bid vs, we will not make any king: doe thou that which is good in thine eyes.
6. Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If yee be mine, and if ye will hearken vnto my voyce, take ye the heads of the men your masters sonnes, and come to me to Iezreel by to morow this time: (now the kings sonnes being seuenty persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them vp.)
7. And it came to passe when the letter came to them, that they tooke the kings sonnes, and slewe seuentie persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Iezreel.
8. And there came a messenger, and tolde him, saying, They haue brought the heads of the kings sonnes. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entring in of the gate, vntill the morning.
9. And it came to passe in the morning, that he went out, & stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: But who slew all these?
10. Know now, that there shall fall vnto the earth nothing of the worde of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lord hath done that which he spake by his seruant Elijah.
11. So Iehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab, in Iezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsefolkes, and his priests, vntill he left him none remaining.
12. And hee arose, and departed, and came to Samaria: And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
13. Iehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Iudah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, Wee are the brethren of Ahaziah, and we go downe to salute the children of the King, and the children of the Queene.
14. And hee said, Take them aliue. And they tooke them aliue, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, euen two and fourty men; neither left he any of them.
15. And when hee was departed thence, he lighted on Iehonadab the sonne of Rechab, comming to meet him: and he saluted him, & said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Iehonadab answered, It is: If it be, giue mee thine hand. And hee gaue him his hand, and hee tooke him vp to him into the charet.
16. And he said, Come with me, and see my zeale for the Lord: so they made him ride in his charet.
17. And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained vnto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Eliiah.
18. And Iehu gathered all the people together, and said vnto them, Ahab serued Baal a litle, but Iehu shall serue him much.
19. Now therefore, call vnto me all the prophets of Baal, all his seruants, and all his priests, let none be wanting: for I haue a great sacrifice to doe to Baal; whosoeuer shall be wanting, he shall not liue. But Iehu did it in subtilitie, to the intent that hee might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
20. And Iehu said, Proclaime a solemne assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
21. And Iehu sent through all Israel, and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not: and they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
22. And he said vnto him that was ouer the vestrie, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
23. And Iehu went, and Iehonadab the sonne of Rechab into the house of Baal, and said vnto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and looke that there be here with you none of the seruants of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal onely.
24. And when they went in to offer sacrifices, and burnt offerings, Iehu appointed fourescore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I haue brought into your hands, escape, hee that letteth him goe, his life shall be for the life of him.
25. And it came to passe assoone as hee had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Iehu saide to the guard, and to the captaines, Goe in, and slay them, let none come foorth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword, and the guard, and the captaines cast them out, and went to the citie of the house of Baal.
26. And they brought foorth the Images out of the house of Baal, and burnt them.
27. And they brake downe the image of Baal, and brake downe the house of Baal, and made it a draughthouse, vnto this day.
28. Thus Iehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29. Howbeit, from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne, Iehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calues that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
30. And the Lord said vnto Iehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done vnto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation, shal sit on the throne of Israel.
31. But Iehu tooke no heede to walke in the Law of the Lord God of Israel, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam, which made Israel to sinne.
32. In those dayes the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel:
33. From Iordan Eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, (which is by the riuer Arnon) euen Gilead and Bashan.
34. Now the rest of the acts of Iehu, and all that he did, & all his might, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
35. And Iehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Iehoahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.
36. And the time that Iehu reigned ouer Israel in Samaria, was twentie and eight yeeres.
1. And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah sawe that her sonne was dead, she arose, and destroyed all the seed royall.
2. But Iehosheba the daughter of king Ioram, sister of Ahaziah, tooke Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah, and stale him from among the Kings sonnes which were slaine; and they hid him, euen him and his nurse in the bed-chamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slaine.
3. And he was with her hidde in the House of the Lord, sixe yeeres: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.
4. And the seuenth yeere Iehoiada sent and fet the rulers ouer hundreds, with the captains, and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a couenant with them, and tooke an othe of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the Kings sonne.
5. And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that yee shall doe; A third part of you that enter in on the Sabbath, shall euen be keepers of the watch of the kings house:
6. And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third part at the gate behinde the guard: so shall yee keepe the watch of the house, that it be not broken downe.
7. And two parts of all you, that goe foorth on the Sabbath, euen they shall keepe the watch of the house of the Lord about the King.
8. And yee shall compasse the King round about, euery man with his weapons in his hand: and he that commeth within the ranges, let him bee slaine: and be yee with the king, as hee goeth out, and as he commeth in.
9. And the captaines ouer the hundreds did according to all things that Iehoiada the Priest commanded: and they tooke euery man his men that were to come in on the Sabbath, with them that should goe out on the Sabbath, and came to Iehoiada the Priest.
10. And to the captaines ouer hundreds, did the Priest giue king Dauids speares and shields, that were in the Temple.
11. And the guard stood, euery man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the Temple, to the left corner of the Temple, along by the Altar and the Temple.
12. And he brought foorth the kings sonne, and put the crowne vpon him, and gaue him the Testimonie, and they made him King, and anointed him, and they clapt their hands, and said, God saue the King.
13. And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard, and of the people, she came to the people, into the Temple of the Lord.
14. And when shee looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the maner was, and the Princes, and the trumpetters by the King, and all the people of the land reioyced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cryed, Treason, treason.
15. But Iehoiada the Priest commanded the captaines of the hundreds, the officers of the hoste, and sayde vnto them, Haue her foorth without the ranges; and him that followeth her, kill with the sword: for the Priest had sayd, Let her not be slaine in the house of the Lord.
16. And they laid hands on her, and she went by the way, by the which the horses came into the kings house, and there was she slaine.
17. And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene the Lord and the king, and the people, that they should be the Lords people; betweene the king also and the people.
18. 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 throughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars: and the Priest appointed officers ouer the house of the Lord.
19. And hee tooke the rulers ouer hundreds, and the captaines, and the guard, and all the people of the land, and they brought downe the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard, to the kings house, and he sate on the throne of the kings.
20. And all the people of the land reioyced, and the citie was in quiet, and they slew Athaliah with the sword, beside the kings house.
21. Seuen yeeres old was Iehoash when he began to reigne.
1. In the seuenth yeere of Iehu, Iehoash began to reigne, and fourtie yeeres reigned he in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2. And Iehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his dayes, wherein Iehoiada the Priest instructed him.
3. But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.
4. And Iehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, euen the money of euery one that passeth the account, the money that euery man is set at, and all the money that commeth into any mans heart, to bring into the house of the Lord,
5. Let the priests take it to them, euery man of his acquaintance, and let them repaire the breaches of the house, wheresoeuer any breach shalbe found.
6. But it was so that in the three and twentieth yeere of king Iehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
7. Then king Iehoash called for Iehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and saide vnto them, Why repaire ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receiue no more money of your acquaintance, but deliuer it for the breaches of the house.
8. And the priests consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the breaches of the house.
9. But Iehoiada the priest tooke a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the Altar, on the right side, as one commeth into the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the doore, put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
10. And it was so when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the kings scribe, and the high priest came vp, and they put vp in bags and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord.
11. And they gaue the money, being told, into the handes of them that did the worke, that had the ouersight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought vpon the house of the Lord,
12. And to Masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber, and hewed stone to repaire the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repaire it.
13. Howbeit, there were not made for the house of the Lord, bowles of siluer, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of siluer, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:
14. But they gaue that to the workemen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.
15. Moreouer, they reckned not with the men, into whose hand they deliuered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16. The trespasse money, and sinnemoney was not brought into the house of the Lord: it was the Priests.
17. Then Hazael king of Syria went vp, and fought against Gath, and tooke it: and Hazael set his face to goe vp to Ierusalem.
18. And Iehoash king of Iudah tooke all the hallowed things that Iehoshaphat, and Iehoram, and Ahaziah his fathers, kings of Iudah had dedicate, and his owne hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the kings house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, and hee went away from Ierusalem.
19. And the rest of the actes of Iehoash, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
20. And his seruants arose, and made a conspiracie, and slew Iehoash in the house of Millo, which goeth downe to Silla.
21. For Iozachar the sonne of Shimeath, and Iehozabad the sonne of Shomer, his seruants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the citie of Dauid, and Amaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. In the three and twentieth yeere of Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah king of Iudah, Iehoahaz the sonne of Iehu beganne to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned seuenteene yeeres.
2. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne, he departed not there from.
3. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and hee deliuered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the sonne of Hazael, all their dayes.
4. And Iehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened vnto him: for hee saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
5. (And the Lord gaue Israel a sauiour, so that they went out from vnder the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before-time.
6. Neuerthelesse, they departed not from the sinnes of the house of Ieroboam, who made Israel sinne, but walked therein: and there remained the groue also in Samaria.)
7. Neither did he leaue of the people to Iehoahaz, but fiftie horsemen, and tenne charets, and tenne thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
8. Nowe the rest of the actes of Iehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
9. And Iehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Ioash his sonne reigned in his stead.
10. In the thirty and seuenth yeere of Ioash king of Iudah, beganne Iehoash the sonne of Iehoahaz to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteene yeeres.
11. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord; hee departed not from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel sinne: but hee walked therein.
12. And the rest of the actes of Ioash, and all that hee did, and his might, wherewith hee fought against Amaziah king of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13. And Ioash slept with his fathers, and Ieroboam sate vpon his throne: and Ioash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
14. Nowe Elisha was fallen sicke, of his sicknesse whereof he died, and Ioash the king of Israel came downe vnto him, and wept ouer his face, and said, O my father, my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
15. And Elisha said vnto him, Take bowe and arrowes. And he tooke vnto him bowe and arrowes.
16. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand vpon the bowe. And he put his hand vpon it: and Elisha put his hands vpon the kings hands.
17. And he sayd, Open the window Eastward. And hee opened it. Then Elisha sayd, Shoote. And he shot. And he said; The arrowe of the Lords deliuerance, and the arrowe of deliuerance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou haue consumed them.
18. And he sayd, Take the arrowes. And he tooke them. And hee said vnto the king of Israel, Smite vpon the ground. And he smote thrise, and stayed.
19. And the man of God was wroth with him, and saide, Thou shouldest haue smitten fiue or sixe times, then haddest thou smitten Syria till thou haddest consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
20. And Elisha died, and they buried him: And the bands of the Moabites inuaded the land at the comming in of the yeere.
21. And it came to passe as they were burying a man, that behold, they spyed a band of men, and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let downe, and touched the bones of Elisha, he reuiued, and stood vp on his feete.
22. But Hazael king of Syria, oppressed Israel all the dayes of Iehoahaz.
23. And the Lord was gracious vnto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect vnto them, because of his couenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast hee them from his presence as yet.
24. So Hazael the king of Syria dyed, and Benhadad his sonne reigned in his stead.
25. And Iehoash the sonne of Iehoahaz tooke againe out of the hand of Benhadad the sonne of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Iehoahaz his father, by warre: three times did Ioash beat him, and recouered the cities of Israel.
1. In the second yeere of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz king of Israel, reigned Amaziah the sonne of Ioash king of Iudah.
2. Hee was twentie and fiue yeeres olde when he began to reigne, and reigned twentie and nine yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Iehoaddan of Ierusalem.
3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like Dauid his father: hee did according to all things as Ioash his father did.
4. Howbeit, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice, and burnt incense on the high places.
5. And it came to passe assoone as the kingdome was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his seruants which had slaine the king his father.
6. But the children of the murderers he slew not, according vnto that which is written in the booke of the Law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shal not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers: but euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.
7. He slew of Edom in the valley of salt, ten thousand, and tooke Selah by warre, and called the name of it, Ioktheel, vnto this day.
8. Then Amaziah sent messengers to Iehoash the sonne of Iehoahaz sonne of Iehu king of Israel, saying, Come, let vs looke one another in the face.
9. And Iehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Iudah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon, sent to the Cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife. And there passed by a wilde beast that was in Lebanon, and trode downe the thistle.
10. Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee vp: glory of this, and tary at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, euen thou, and Iudah with thee?
11. But Amaziah would not heare: therefore Iehoash king of Israel went vp, and hee, and Amaziah king of Iudah, looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Iudah.
12. And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled euery man to their tents.
13. And Iehoash king of Israel tooke Amaziah king of Iudah, the sonne of Iehoash the sonne of Ahaziah at Bethshemesh, and came to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, from the gate of Ephraim, vnto the corner gate, foure hundred cubites.
14. And he tooke all the golde and siluer, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15. Now the rest of the acts of Iehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16. And Iehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel, and Ieroboam his sonne reigned in his stead.
17. And Amaziah the sonne of Ioash king of Iudah, liued after the death of Iehoash sonne of Iehoahaz king of Israel, fifteene yeeres.
18. And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
19. Now they made a conspiracie against him in Ierusalem: and he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20. And they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Ierusalem with his fathers, in the city of Dauid.
21. And all the people of Iudah tooke Azariah (which was sixteene yeeres old) and made him king in stead of his father Amaziah.
22. He built Elath, and restored it to Iudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
23. In the fifteenth yeere of Amaziah the sonne of Ioash king of Iudah, Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash king of Israel began to raigne in Samaria, and raigned forty and one yeeres:
24. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord: hee departed not from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne.
25. Hee restored the coast of Israel, from the entring of Hamath, vnto the sea of the plaine, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his seruant Ionah, the sonne of Amittai the Prophet, which was of Gath Hepher.
26. For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut vp, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
27. And the Lord said not, that hee would blot out the name of Israel from vnder heauen: but he saued them by the hand of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash.
28. Now the rest of the actes of Ieroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recouered Damascus and Hamath, which belonged to Iudah, for Israel, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29. And Ieroboam slept with his fathers, euen with the kings of Israel, and Zachariah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. In the twenty and seuenth yeere of Ieroboam king of Israel, began Azariah sonne of Amaziah king of Iudah to reigne.
2. Sixteene yeeres old was he when he began to reigne, and he reigned two aud fifty yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Iecholiah of Ierusalem.
3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
4. Saue that the high places were not remoued: the people sacrificed, and burnt incense still on the high places.
5. And the Lord smote the king, so that hee was a Leper vnto the day of his death, and dwelt in a seuerall house, and Iotham the kings sonne was ouer the house, iudging the people of the land.
6. And the rest of the actes of Azariah, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
7. So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of Dauid, and Iotham his sonne reigned in his stead.
8. In the thirty and eight yeere of Azariah king of Iudah, did Zachariah the sonne of Ieroboam reigne ouer Israel in Samaria sixe moneths.
9. And hee did that which was euil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne.
10. And Shallum the sonne of Iabesh, conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slewe him, and reigned in his stead.
11. And the rest of the actes of Zachariah, beholde, they are written in the booke of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
12. This was the word of the Lord which he spake vnto Iehu, saying, Thy sonnes shall sit on the throne of Israel, vnto the fourth generation. And so it came to passe.
13. Shallum the sonne of Iabesh began to reigne in the nine and thirtieth yeere of Uzziah king of Iudah, and he reigned a full moneth in Samaria.
14. For Menahem the sonne of Gadi, went vp from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the sonne of Iabesh, in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15. And the rest of the actes of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the booke of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
16. Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therfore he smote it, and all the women therein that were with child, he ript vp.
17. In the nine and thirtieth yeere of Azariah king of Iudah, began Menahem the sonne of Gadi to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned tenne yeres in Samaria.
18. And he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord: hee departed not all his dayes from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne.
19. And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gaue Pul a thousand talents of siluer, that his hand might be with him, to confirm the kingdome in his hand.
20. And Menahem exacted the mony of Israel, euen of all the mightie men of wealth, of each man fiftie shekels of siluer, to giue to the king of Assyria: so the king of Assyria turned backe, and stayed not there in the land.
21. And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22. And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his sonne reigned in his stead.
23. In the fiftieth yere of Azariah king of Iudah, Pekahiah the sonne of Menahem began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned two yeeres.
24. And he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, hee departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne.
25. But Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, a captaine of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the kings house, with Argob, and Arieh, and with him fiftie men of the Gileadites: and hee killed him, and reigned in his roume.
26. And the rest of the actes of Pekahiah, and all that he did, beholde, they are written in the booke of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27. In the two and fiftieth yeere of Azariah king of Iudah, Pekah the sonne of Remaliah began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned twentie yeeres.
28. And he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, hee departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne.
29. In the dayes of Pekah king of Israel, came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and tooke Iion, and Abel-Beth-maachah, and Ianoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and caried them captiue to Assyria.
30. And Hoshea the sonne of Elah, made a conspiracie against Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth yeere of Iotham the sonne of Uzziah.
31. And the rest of the actes of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
32. In the second yeere of Pekah the sonne of Remaliah king of Israel, began Iotham the sonne of Uzziah king of Iudah to reigne.
33. Fiue and twentie yeeres olde was he when he began to reigne, and hee reigned sixteene yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Ierusha, the daughter of Zadok.
34. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: hee did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
35. Howbeit, the high places were not remoued: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still in the high places: He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.
36. Now the rest of the actes of Iotham, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
37. (In those dayes the Lord began to send against Iudah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the sonne of Remaliah)
38. And Iotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father, and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. In the seuenteenth yeere of Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, Ahaz the sonne of Iotham King of Iudah began to reigne.
2. Twentie yeeres olde was Ahaz when hee began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeeres in Ierusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like Dauid his father:
3. But hee walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea & made his sonne to passe through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
4. And hee sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hils, and vnder euery greene tree.
5. Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah sonne of Remaliah king of Israel, came vp to Ierusalem to warre: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not ouercome him.
6. At that time Rezin king of Syria, recouered Elath to Syria, & draue the Iewes from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there vnto this day.
7. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy seruant, and thy sonne: come vp, and saue me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise vp against me.
8. And Ahaz tooke the siluer and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
9. And the king of Assyria hearkened vnto him: for the king of Assyria went vp against Damascus, and tooke it, and caried the people of it captiue to Kir, and slew Rezin.
10. And King Ahaz went to Damascus, to meete Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Uriiah the Priest the fashion of the altar, and the paterne of it, according to all the workemanship thereof.
11. And Uriiah the Priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriiah the Priest made it, against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
12. And when the king was come from Damascus, the King saw the altar: and the King approched to the altar, and offered thereon.
13. And he burnt his burnt offering, and his meate offering, and powred his drinke offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings vpon the altar.
14. And hee brought also the brasen altar which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from betweene the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the North side of the altar.
15. And king Ahaz commanded Uriiah the Priest, saying, Upon the great altar, burne the morning burnt offering, and the euening meate offering, and the Kings burnt sacrifice, and his meate offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meate offering, and their drinke offerings, and sprinkle vpon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
16. Thus did Uriiah the Priest, according to all that king Ahaz commaunded.
17. And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and remooued the lauer from off them, and tooke downe the sea from off the brasen oxen that were vnder it, and put it vpon a pauement of stones:
18. And the couert for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the kings entry without, turned hee from the house of the Lord, for the king of Assyria.
19. Now the rest of the actes of Ahaz, which he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
20. And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dauid, and Hezekiah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. In the twelfth yeere of Ahaz, king of Iudah, began Hoshea the sonne of Elah to reigne in Samaria, ouer Israel nine yeeres.
2. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
3. Against him came vp Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his seruant, and gaue him presents.
4. An the king of Assyria found conspiracie in Hoshea: for hee had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done yeere by yeere: therefore the king of Assyria shut him vp, and bound him in prison. 
5. Then the king of Assyria came vp thorowout all the land, and went vp to Samaria, and besieged it three yeres.
6. In the ninth yeere of Hoshea, the king of Assyria tooke Samaria, and caried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the riuer of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7. For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them vp out of the land of Egypt, from vnder the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8. And walked in the statutes of the heathen, (whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel) and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right, against the Lord their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen, to the fenced city.
10. And they set them vp images, and groues in euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
11. And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord caried away before them, and wrought wicked things to prouoke the Lord to anger.
12. For they serued idoles, whereof the Lord had said vnto them, Yee shall not doe this thing.
13. Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Iudah, by all the Prophets, and by all the Seers, saying, Turne ye from your euill wayes, and keepe my commandements, and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruants the Prophets.
14. Notwithstanding, they would not heare, but hardened their neckes, like to the necke of their fathers, that did not beleeue in the Lord their God.
15. And they reiected his Statutes, and his Couenant that hee made with their fathers, and his Testimonies which he testified against them, and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not doe like them.
16. And they left all the Commandements of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, euen two calues, and made a groue, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen, and serued Baal.
17. And they caused their sonnes and their daughters to passe through the fire, and vsed diuination, and inchantments, and sold themselues to doe euill in the sight of the Lord, to prouoke him to anger.
18. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and remoued them out of his sight, there was none left, but the tribe of Iudah onely.
19. Also Iudah kept not the Commandements of the Lord their God, but walked in the Statutes of Israel which they made.
20. And the Lord reiected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and deliuered them into the hand of spoilers, vntill he had cast them out of his sight.
21. For he rent Israel from the house of Dauid, and they made Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat king, and Ieroboam draue Israel from following the Lord, and made them sinne a great sinne.
22. For the children of Israel walked in al the sinnes of Ieroboam which he did, they departed not from them:
23. Untill the Lord remoued Israel out of his sight, as hee had said by all his seruants the Prophets: so was Israel caried away out of their owne land to Assyria, vnto this day.
24. And the King of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Aua, and from Hamath, and from Sepharuaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria, in stead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
25. And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord; therefore the Lord sent Lions among them, which slew some of them.
26. Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast remoued, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the maner of the God of the land: therfore he hath sent Lions among them, and beholde, they slay them, because they know not the maner of the God of the land.
27. Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carie thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence, and let them goe and dwell there, and let him teach them the maner of the God of the land.
28. Then one of the priests whom they had caried away from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them howe they should feare the Lord.
29. Howbeit, euery nation made gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritanes had made, euery nation in their cities wherein they dwelt:
30. And the men of Babylon made Succoth-Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima:
31. And the Auites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharuites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech, and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharuaim.
32. So they feared the Lord, and made vnto themselues of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
33. They feared the Lord, and serued their owne gods, after the maner of the nations whom they caried away from thence.
34. Unto this day they doe after the former maners: they feare not the Lord, neither doe they after their Statutes, or after their Ordinances, or after the Law and Commaundement which the Lord commaunded the children of Iacob, whom hee named Israel, 
35. With whom the Lord had made a Couenant, and charged them, saying, Yee shall not feare other gods, nor bow your selues to them, nor serue them, nor sacrifice to them:
36. But the Lord, who brought you vp out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and a stretched out arme, him shall ye feare, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye doe sacrifice.
37. And the Statutes, and the Ordinances, and the Law, and the Commandement which he wrote for you, ye shall obserue to doe for euermore, and ye shall not feare other gods:
38. And the Couenant that I haue made with you, ye shall no forget, neither shall ye feare other gods.
39. But the Lord your God yee shall feare, and he shall deliuer you out of the hand of all your enemies.
40. Howbeit, they did not hearken, but they did after their former maner.
41. So these nations feared the Lord, and serued their grauen images, both their children, and their childrens children: as did their fathers, so doe they vnto this day.
1. Now it came to passe in the third yere of Hoshea sonne of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaz king of Iudah, began to reigne.
2. Twentie and fiue yeeres old was he when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned twentie and nine yeeres in Ierusalem: His mothers name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Dauid his father did.
4. He remooued the high places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for vnto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Iudah, nor any that were before him.
6. For he claue to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandements, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7. And the Lord was with him, and hee prospered whithersoeuer hee went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and serued him not.
8. He smote the Philistines euen vnto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the towre of the watchmen to the fenced cities.
9. And it came to passe in the fourth yeere of king Hezekiah, (which was the seuenth yeere of Hoshea, sonne of Elah king of Israel) that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came vp against Samaria, and besieged it.
10. And at the end of three yeeres they tooke it: euen in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah (that is the ninth yeere of Hoshea king of Israel) Samaria was taken.
11. And the king of Assyria did carie away Israel vnto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the riuer of Gozan, & in the cities of the Medes:
12. Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his Couenant, and all that Moses the seruant of the Lord commanded, and would not heare them, nor doe them.
13. Now in the fourteenth yeere of king Hezekiah, did Sennacherib king of Assyria come vp against all the fenced cities of Iudah, and tooke them.
14. And Hezekiah king of Iudah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I haue offended, returne from me: that which thou puttest on me, wil I beare. And the king of Assyria appointed vnto Hezekiah king of Iudah, three hundred talents of siluer, and thirtie talents of gold.
15. And Hezekiah gaue him all the siluer that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house.
16. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doores of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Iudah had ouerlaid, and gaue it to the king of Assyria.
17. And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh, from Lachish to king Hezekiah, with a great hoste against Ierusalem: and they went vp, and came to Ierusalem: and when they were come vp, they came and stood by the conduit of the vpper poole, which is in the high way of the fullers field.
18. And when they had called to the king there came out to them Eliakim the sonne of Helkiah, which was ouer the houshold, and Shebna the Scribe, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the Recorder.
19. And Rabshakeh said vnto them, Speake yee now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20. Thou sayest, (but they are but vaine words) I haue counsell and strength for the warre: now on whom doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21. Now behold, thou trustest vpon the staffe of this bruised reed, euen vpon Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt vnto all that trust on him.
22. But if ye say vnto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that hee whose high places, and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Iudah and Ierusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Ierusalem?
23. Now therefore, I pray thee, giue pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliuer thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders vpon them.
24. How then wilt thou turne away the face of one captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and for horsemen?
25. Am I now come vp without the Lord against this place, to destroy it? The Lord sayd to me, Goe vp against this land, and destroy it.
26. Then said Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Ioah, vnto Rabshakeh, Speake, I pray thee, to thy seruants in the Syrian language, (for wee vnderstand it) and talke not with vs in the Iewes language, in the eares of the people that are on the wall.
27. But Rabshakeh sayd vnto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speake these wordes? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eate their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?
28. Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loude voice in the Iewes language, and spake, saying, Heare the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
29. Thus sayth the king, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you, for he shall not be able to deliuer you out of his hand:
30. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliuer vs, and this city shall not bee deliuered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus sayth the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eate yee euery man of his owne vine, and euery one of his figge tree, and drinke yee euery one the waters of his cisterne:
32. Untill I come and take you away to a land like your owne land, a land of corne and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oile Oliue, and of honie, that yee may liue, and not die: and hearken not vnto Hezekiah, when hee perswadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliuer vs.
33. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34. Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharuaim, Hena, and Iuah? haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand?
35. Who are they among all the gods of the countreys, that haue deliuered their countrey out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand?
36. But the people helde their peace, and answered him not a word: for the kings commaundement was, saying, Answere him not.
37. Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, which was ouer the houshold, and Shebna the Scribe, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the Recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the words of Rabshakeh.
1. And it came to passe when King Hezekiah heard it, that hee rent his clothes, and couered himselfe with sackecloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2. And hee sent Eliakim, which was ouer the houshold, and Shebna the Scribe, and the Elders of the Priests, couered with sackcloth, to Esai the Prophet the sonne of Amoz.
3. And they sayd vnto him, Thus sayth Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring foorth.
4. It may be, the Lord thy God will heare all the words of Rabshakeh whome the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproch the liuing God, and will reprooue the wordes which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5. So the seruants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6. And Isaiah said vnto them, Thus shal ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the wordes which thou hast heard, with which the seruants of the king of Assyria haue blasphemed me.
7. Behold, I will send a blast vpon him, and he shall heare a rumour, and shall returne to his owne land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his owne land.
8. So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for hee had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9. And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, hee is come out to fight against thee: hee sent messengers againe vnto Hezekiah, saying,
10. Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah king of Iudah, saying, Let not thy God in whome thou trustest, deceiue thee, saying, Ierusalem shall not be deliuered into the hande of the king of Assyria.
11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria haue done to all lands, by destroying them vtterly: and shalt thou be deliuered?
12. Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed? As Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13. Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the citie of Sepharuaim, of Hena, and Iuah?
14. And Hezekiah receiued the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went vp into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
15. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the Cherubims, thou art the God, euen thou alone, of all the kingdomes of the earth, thou hast made heauen and earth.
16. Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: open, Lord, thine eyes; and see: and heare the words of Sennacherib which hath sent him to reproch the liuing God.
17. Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue destroyed the nations and their lands,
18. And haue cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of mens hands, wood and stone: therfore they haue destroyed them.
19. Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, saue thou vs out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou art the Lord God, euen thou onely.
20. Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to mee against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I haue heard.
21. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him, The Uirgin, the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorne, the daughter of Ierusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22. Whome hast thou reproched and blasphemed? And against whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, and lift vp thine eyes on high? Euen against the Holy One of Israel.
23. By thy messengers thou hast reproched the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my charets, I am come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice firre trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forrest of his Carmel.
24. I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of besieged places.
25. Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times that I haue formed it? Now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heapes.
26. Therefore their Inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded, they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.
27. But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28. Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come vp into mine eares, therefore I will put my hooke in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turne thee backe by the way by which thou camest.
29. And this shalbe a signe vnto thee, Yee shall eate this yeere such things as grow of themselues, and in the second yeere that which springeth of the same, and in the third yeere sow ye and reape, and plant Uineyards, and eate the fruits thereof.
30. And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shall yet againe take root downeward, and beare fruit vpward.
31. For out of Ierusalem shall goe forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeale of the Lord of hostes shall doe this.
32. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a banke against it:
33. By the way that hee came, by the same shal he returne, and shal not come into this city, saith the Lord.
34. For I will defend this citie, to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.
35. And it came to passe that night, that the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the campe of the Assyrians, an hundred foure score and fiue thousand: and when they arose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.
37. And it came to passe as hee was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adramelech, and Sharezer his sonnes, smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia, and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. In those dayes was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amos came to him, and saide vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.
2. Then hee turned his face to the wall, and prayed vnto the Lord, saying;
3. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I haue walked before thee in trueth, and with a perfect heart, and haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.
4. And it came to passe afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
5. Turne againe, and tell Hezekiah the captaine of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, I haue seene thy teares: behold, I will heale thee; on the third day thou shalt goe vp vnto the house of the Lord.
6. And I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres, and I will deliuer thee, and this city, out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this citie for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.
7. And Isaiah said, Take a lumpe of figs. And they tooke and layd it on the boile, and he recouered.
8. And Hezekiah said vnto Isaiah, What shall bee the signe that the Lord wil heale me, and that I shall goe vp into the house of the Lord the third day?
9. And Isaiah said, This signe shalt thou haue of the Lord, that the Lord will doe the thing that hee hath spoken: shall the shadow goe forward ten degrees, or goe backe tenne degrees?
10. And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go downe tenne degrees: nay, but let the shadow returne backward tenne degrees.
11. And Isaiah the Prophet cryed vnto the Lord, and he brought the shadow tenne degrees backeward, by which it had gone downe in the diall of Ahaz.
12. At that time Berodach-Baladan the sonne of Baladan King of Babylon, sent letters and a present vnto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had beene sicke.
13. And Hezekiah hearkened vnto them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the siluer, and the golde, and the spices, and the precious oyntment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
14. Then came Isaiah the Prophet vnto King Hezekiah, and sayde vnto him, What sayd these men? and from whence came they vnto thee? And Hezekiah sayde, They are come from a farre countrey, euen from Babylon.
15. And he said, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that I haue not shewed them.
16. And Isaiah said vnto Hezekiah, Heare the word of the Lord.
17. Behold, the dayes come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers haue layde vp in store vnto this day, shall be caried vnto Babylon: nothing shall be left, sayth the Lord.
18. And of thy sonnes that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shall bee Eunuches in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19. Then said Hezekiah vnto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and trueth be in my dayes?
20. And the rest of the actes of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how hee made a poole and a conduit, & brought water into the city, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?
21. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Manasseh was twelue yeres olde when hee beganne to reigne, and reigned fiftie and fiue yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Hephzibah.
2. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
3. For he built vp againe the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and hee reared vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen, and serued them.
4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord sayd, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.
5. And he built altars for all the host of heauen, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
6. And he made his sonne passe thorow the fire, and obserued times, and vsed enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits, and wizards: he wrought much wickednesse in the sight of the Lord, to prouoke him to anger.
7. And he set a grauen image of the groue that he had made, in the house, of which the Lord said to Dauid, and to Solomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen out of all tribes of Israel, wil I put my Name for euer:
8. Neither will I make the feete of Israel mooue any more out of the land, which I gaue their fathers: onely if they will obserue to doe according to all that I haue commanded them, and according to all the Law, that my seruant Moses commanded them. 
9. But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to doe more euill then did the nations, whome the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
10. And the Lord spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,
11. Because Manasseh king of Iudah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly aboue all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Iudah also to sinne with his idoles:
12. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such euill vpon Ierusalem and Iudah, that whosoeuer heareth of it, both his eares shall tingle.
13. And I will stretch ouer Ierusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Ierusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it vpside downe.
14. And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliuer them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a pray and a spoile to all their enemies,
15. Because they haue done that which was euill in my sight, and haue prouoked me to anger since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, euen vnto this day.
16. Moreouer, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Ierusalem from one end to another, beside his sinne wherwith he made Iudah to sinne, in doing that which was euill in the sight of the Lord.
17. Now the rest of the actes of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sinne that he sinned, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
18. And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his owne house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his sonne reigned in his stead.
19. Amon was twentie and two yeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned two yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Iotbah.
20. And he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.
21. And he walked in all the wayes that his father walked in, and serued the idoles that his father serued, and worshipped them:
22. And he forsooke the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
23. And the seruants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his owne house.
24. And the people of the land slew al them that had conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made Iosiah his sonne king in his stead.
25. Now the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the booke of the chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
26. And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the garden of Uzza, and Iosiah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Iosiah was eight yeeres old when hee beganne to reigne, and hee reigned thirtie and one yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Iedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the wayes of Dauid his father, and turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left.
3. And it came to passe in the eighteenth yeere of king Iosiah, that the king sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, the sonne of Meshullam the Scribe to the house of the Lord, saying,
4. Goe vp to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may summe the siluer which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the doore haue gathered of the people.
5. And let them deliuer it into the hand of the doers of the worke, that haue the ouersight of the house of the Lord: and let them giue it to the doers of the worke, which is in the house of the Lord, to repaire the breaches of the house,
6. Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewen stone, to repaire the house.
7. Howbeit, there was no reckoning made with them, of the money that was deliuered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8. And Hilkiah the high Priest said vnto Shaphan the Scribe, I haue found the booke of the Law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gaue the booke to Shaphan, and he read it.
9. And Shaphan the Scribe came to the king, and brought the king word againe, and said, Thy seruants haue gathered the money that was found in the house, and haue deliuered it into the hand of them that doe the worke, that haue the ouersight of the house of the Lord.
10. And Shaphan the Scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath deliuered mee a booke: and Shaphan read it before the king.
11. And it came to passe when the king had heard the words of the booke of the Law, that he rent his clothes.
12. And the king commanded Hilkiah the Priest, and Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Achbor the sonne of Michaiah, and Shaphan the Scribe, and Asahiah a seruant of the Kings, saying,
13. Goe yee, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Iudah, concerning the wordes of this booke that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against vs, because our fathers haue not hearkened vnto the woordes of this booke, to doe according vnto all that which is written concerning vs.
14. So Hilkiah the Priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went vnto Huldah the Prophetesse, the wife of Shallum the sonne of Tikuah, the sonne of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe: now she dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge: And they communed with her.
15. And she said vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me;
16. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants thereof, euen all the words of the booke which the king of Iudah hath read.
17. Because they haue forsaken me, and haue burnt incense vnto other gods, that they might prouoke mee to anger with all the woorkes of their handes: therefore my wrath shall bee kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18. But to the king of Iudah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, Thus shall yee say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, as touching the woordes which thou hast heard:
19. Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy cloathes, and wept before me; I also haue heard thee, saith the Lord.
20. Behold therefore, I will gather thee vnto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy graue in peace, and thine eyes shal not see all the euil which I will bring vpon this place. And they brought the king word againe.
1. And the king sent, and they gathered vnto him all the Elders of Iudah, and of Ierusalem.
2. And the king went vp into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Iudah, and all the inhabitants of Ierusalem with him, and the Priestes, and the Prophets, and all the people both small and great: and he read in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the Couenant which was found in the house of the Lord.
3. And the King stood by a pillar, and made a Couenant before the Lord, to walke after the Lord, and to keepe his Commaundements, and his Testimonies, & his Statutes, with all their heart, and all their soule, to performe the words of this Couenant, that were written in this booke: and all the people stood to the Couenant.
4. And the king commanded Hilkiah the high Priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the doore to bring forth out of the Temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the groue, and for all the hoste of heauen: and he burnt them without Ierusalem in the fields of Kidron, and caried the ashes of them vnto Bethel.
5. And hee put downe the idolatrous priests whome the kings of Iudah had ordeined to burne incense in the high places, in the cities of Iudah and in the places round about Ierusalem: them also that burnt incense vnto Baal, to the Sunne, and to the Moone, and to the Planets, and to all the hoste of heauen.
6. And he brought out the groue from the house of the Lord, without Ierusalem, vnto the brooke Kidron, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron, and stampt it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof vpon the graues of the children of the people.
7. And he brake downe the houses of the Sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women woue hangings for the groue.
8. And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Iudah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake downe the hie places of the gates that were in the entring in of the gate of Ioshua the gouernour of the citie, which were on a mans left hand at the gate of the citie.
9. Neuerthelesse, the priests of the high places came not vp to the Altar of the Lord in Ierusalem, but they did eate of the vnleauened bread among their brethren.
10. And he defiled Topheth which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his sonne or his daughter to passe through the fire to Molech.
11. And he tooke away the horses that the kings of Iudah had giuen to the Sunne, at the entring in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlaine, which was in the suburbs, and burnt the charets of the Sunne with fire,
12. And the altars that were on the top of the vpper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Iudah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat downe, and brake them downe from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brooke Kidron.
13. And the high places that were before Ierusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milchom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14. And he brake in pieces the images, and cut downe the groues, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15. Moreouer the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, who made Israel to sinne, had made, both that altar, and the high place he brake downe, and burnt the high place, and stampt it small to powder, and burnt the groue.
16. And as Iosiah turned himselfe, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, & tooke the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them vpon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17. Then hee said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iudah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
18. And he said, Let him alone: let no man moue his bones: so they let his bones alone, with the bones of the Prophet that came out of Samaria.
19. And all the houses also of the hie places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to prouoke the Lord to anger, Iosiah tooke away, and did to them according to all the actes that hee had done in Bethel.
20. And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, vpon the altars, and burnt mens bones vpon them, and returned to Ierusalem.
21. And the King commanded all the people saying, Keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord your God, as it is written in this booke of the Couenant.
22. Surely there was not holden such a Passeouer, from the daies of the Iudges that iudged Israel, nor in all the dayes of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Iudah:
23. But in the eighteenth yeere of king Iosiah, wherein this Passeouer was holden to the Lord in Ierusalem.
24. Moreouer the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idoles, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Iudah, and in Ierusalem, did Iosiah put away, that he might performe the wordes of the lawe, which were written in the booke that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
25. And like vnto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soule, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, neither after him arose there any like him.
26. Notwithstanding, the Lord turned not from the fiercenesse of his great wrath, wherwith his anger was kindled against Iudah, because of all the prouocations that Manasseh had prouoked him withall.
27. And the Lord said, I will remoue Iudah also out of my sight, as I haue remoued Israel, and will cast off this citie Ierusalem, which I haue chosen, and the house of which I sayd, My name shall be there.
28. Now the rest of the actes of Iosiah, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the chronicles of the kings of Iudah?
29. In his dayes, Pharaoh Nechoh king of Egypt, went vp against the king of Assyria to the riuer Euphrates: and king Iosiah went against him, and hee slew him at Megiddo, when he had seene him.
30. And his seruants caried him in a charet dead from Megiddo, & brought him to Ierusalem, and buried him in his owne sepulchre: and the people of the land tooke Iehoahaz the sonne of Iosiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his fathers stead. 
31. Iehoahaz was twenty and three yeeres olde when he beganne to reigne, and hee reigned three moneths in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Hamital, the daughter of Ieremiah, of Libnah.
32. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33. And Pharaoh Nechoh put him in bandes at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reigne in Ierusalem, and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of siluer, and a talent of golde.
34. And Pharaoh Nechoh made Eliakim the sonne of Iosiah king, in the roume of Iosiah his father, and turned his name to Iehoiakim, and tooke Iehoahaz away: and hee came to Egypt, and died there.
35. And Iehoiakim gaue the siluer, and the golde to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to giue the money according to the commandement of Pharaoh: hee exacted the siluer and the golde of the people of the land, of euery one according to his taxation, to giue it vnto Pharaoh Nechoh.
36. Iehoiakim was twentie and fiue yeere olde when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37. And he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
1. In his dayes Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came vp, and Iehoiakim became his seruant three yeeres: then hee turned and rebelled against him.
2. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bandes of the Syrians, and bandes of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Iudah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by his seruants the Prophets.
3. Surely at the commandement of the Lord came this vpon Iudah, to remooue them out of his sight, for the sinnes of Manasseh, according to all that he did:
4. And also for the innocent blood that hee shedde: (for hee filled Ierusalem with innocent blood) which the Lord would not pardon.
5. Nowe the rest of the actes of Iehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?
6. So Iehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.
7. And the king of Egypt came not againe any more out of his land: for the King of Babylon had taken from the riuer of Egypt, vnto the riuer Euphrates, all that pertained to the King of Egypt.
8. Iehoiachin was eighteene yeres old when he began to reigne, & he reigned in Ierusalem three moneths: & his mothers name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, of Ierusalem.
9. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
10. At that time the seruants of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came vp against Ierusalem, and the citie was besieged.
11. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the citie, and his seruants did besiege it.
12. And Iehoiachin the King of Iudah went out to the king of Babylon, hee, and his mother, and his seruants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon tooke him in the eight yeere of his reigne.
13. And hee caried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasure of the kings 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.
14. And hee caried away all Ierusalem, and all the princes, & all the mighty men of valour, euen tenne thousand captiues, and all the craftsmen, and smiths: none remained, saue the poorest sort of the people of the land.
15. And he caried away Iehoiachin to Babylon, and the kings mother, and the kings wiues, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those caried hee into captiuitie, from Ierusalem to Babylon.
16. And all the men of might, euen seuen thousand, and craftesmen, & smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for warre, euen them the king of Babylon brought captiue to Babylon.
17. And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his fathers brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18. Zedekiah was twentie and one yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Hamutal, the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.
19. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Iehoiachin had done.
20. For through the anger of the Lord it came to passe in Ierusalem and Iudah, vntill he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1. And it came to passe in the ninth yeere of his reigne, in the tenth moneth, in the tenth day of the moneth, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, hee, and all his hoste, against Ierusalem, and pitched against it, and they built fortes against it, round about.
2. And the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of king Zedekiah.
3. And on the ninth day of the fourth moneth, the famine preuailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4. And the citie was broken vp, and all the men of warre fled by night, by the way of the gate, betweene two walles, which is by the kings garden, (now the Caldees were against the citie round about) and the King went the way toward the plaine.
5. And the army of the Caldees pursued after the King, and ouertooke him in the plaines of Iericho: and all his armie were scattered from him.
6. So they tooke the King, and brought him vp to the King of Babylon, to Riblah, and they gaue iudgement vpon him.
7. And they slew the sonnes of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brasse, and carried him to Babylon.
8. And in the fifth moneth, on the seuenth day of the moneth (which is the nineteenth yeere of King Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon) came Nebuzaradan captaine of the guard, a seruant of the king of Babylon, vnto Ierusalem:
9. And hee burnt the house of the Lord, and the kings house, and all the houses of Ierusalem, and euery great mans house burnt he with fire.
10. And all the army of the Caldees that were with the captaine of the guard, brake downe the walles of Ierusalem round about.
11. Now the rest of the people that were left in the citie, and the fugitiues that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard cary away.
12. But the captaine of the guard left of the poore of the land, to be Uine-dressers, and husbandmen.
13. And the pillars of brasse 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 Caldees breake in pieces, and caried the brasse of them to Babylon.
14. And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away.
15. And the fire-pans, and the bowles, & such things as were of golde, in golde, and of siluer, in siluer, the captaine of the guard tooke away.
16. The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, the brasse of al these vessels was without weight.
17. The height of the one pillar was eighteene cubits, and the chapiter vpon it was brasse: and the height of the chapiter three cubites; and the wreathen worke, and pomegranates vpon the chapiter round about, all of brasse: and like vnto these had the second pillar with wreathen worke.
18. And the captaine of the guard, tooke Seraiah the chiefe Priest, and Zephaniah the second Priest, and the three keepers of the doore.
19. And out of the citie hee tooke an Officer, that was set ouer the men of warre, and fiue men of them that were in the kings presence, which were found in the citie, and the principall Scribe of the hoste, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the citie.
20. And Nebuzaradan captaine of the guard tooke these, and brought them to the king of Babylon, to Riblah.
21. And the King of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath: so Iudah was caried away out of their land.
22. And as for the people that remained in the land of Iudah, whom Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon had left, euen ouer them he made Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, ruler.
23. And when all the captaines of the armies, they, and their men, heard that the King of Babylon had made Gedaliah gouernour, there came to Gedaliah to Mispah, euen Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, and Iohanan the sonne of Careah, and Seraiah the sonne of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Iaazaniah the sonne of a Maachathite, they, and their men.
24. And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and said vnto them, Feare not to be the seruants of the Caldees: dwell in the land, and serue the King of Babylon; and it shall bee well with you.
25. But it came to passe in the seuenth moneth, that Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, the sonne of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Iewes, and the Caldees that were with him at Mizpah. 
26. And all the people both small and great, and the captaines of the armies arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Caldees.
27. And it came to passe in the seuen and thirtieth yeere of the captiuitie of Iehoiachin king of Iudah, in the twelfth moneth, on the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth, that Euilmerodach king of Babylon, in the yeere that he began to reigne, did lift vp the head of Iehoiachin king of Iudah out of prison.
28. And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne aboue the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
29. And changed his prison garments: and he did eate bread continually before him all the dayes of his life.
30. And his allowance was a continuall allowance giuen him of the king, a dayly rate for euery day, all the dayes of his life.
1. Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
2. Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered,
3. Henoch, Methushelah, Lamech,
4. Noah, Shem, Ham, & Iapheth.
5. The sonnes of Iapheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
6. And the sonnes of Gomer: Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
7. And the sonnes of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
8. The sonnes of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
9. And the sonnes of Cush: Siba, and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
10. And Cush begate Nimrod: hee began to be mightie vpon the earth.
11. And Mizraim begate Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
12. And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (of whome came the Philistines) and Caphthorim.
13. And Canaan begate Zidon his first borne, and Heth.
14. The Iebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
15. And the Hiuite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
16. And the Aruadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
17. The sonnes of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, & Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
18. And Arphaxad begate Shelah, and Shelah begate Eber.
19. And vnto Eber were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, (because in his dayes the earth was diuided) and his brothers name was Ioktan.
20. And Ioktan begate Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazermaueth, and Ierah,
21. Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
22. And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
23. And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.
24. Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
25. Eber, Peleg, Rehu,
26. Serug, Nahor, Terah,
27. Abram, the same is Abraham.
28. The sonnes of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
29. These are their generations: The first-borne of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
30. Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
31. Ietur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sonnes of Ishmael.
32. Now the sonnes of Keturah, Abrahams Concubine: she bare Zimran, and Iokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sonnes of Iokshan, Sheba, and Dedan.
33. And the sonnes of Midian: Ephah, and Ephar, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sonnes of Keturah.
34. And Abraham begate Isaac. The sonnes of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.
35. The sonnes of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Ieush, and Iaalam, and Korah.
36. The sonnes of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
37. The sonnes of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
38. And the sonnes of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
39. And the sonnes of Lotan: Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotans sister.
40. The sonnes of Shobal: Atian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sonnes of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.
41. The sonnes of Anah: Dishon. And the sonnes of Dishon: Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
42. The sonnes of Ezer: Bilham, and Zauan, and Iakan. The sonnes of Dishon: Uz, and Aran.
43. Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned ouer the children of Israel. Bela the sonne of Beor; and the name of his citie, was Dinhabah.
44. And when Bela was dead, Iobab the sonne of Zerah of Bosrah, reigned in his stead.
45. And when Iobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanits, reigned in his stead.
46. And when Husham was dead, Hadad, the sonne of Bedad (which smote Midian in the field of Moab) reigned in his stead: and the name of his citie was Auith.
47. And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah, reigned in his stead.
48. And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the riuer, reigned in his stead.
49. And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor, reigned in his stead.
50. And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his citie was Pai: and his wiues name was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
51. Hadad dyed also. And the Dukes of Edom were: Duke Timnah, Duke Aliah, Duke Ietheth,
52. Duke Aholibamah, Duke Elah, Duke Pinon,
53. Duke Kenaz, Duke Teman, Duke Mibzar,
54. Duke Magdiel, Duke Iram. These are the Dukes of Edom.
1. These are the sonnes of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
2. Dan, Ioseph, and Beniamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3. The sonnes of Iudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah. Which three were borne vnto him, of the daughter of Shua the Canaanites. And Er the first-borne of Iudah, was euill in the sight of the Lord, and he slue him.
4. And Tamar his daughter-in law bare him Pharez, and Zerah. All the sonnes of Iudah were fiue.
5. The sonnes of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.
6. And the sonnes of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara. Fiue of them in all.
7. And the sonnes of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
8. And the sonnes of Ethan: Azariah.
9. The sonnes also of Hezron, that were borne vnto him: Ierahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
10. And Ram begate Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Iudah.
11. And Nahshon begate Salma, and Salma begate Boaz.
12. And Boaz begate Obed, and Obed begate Iesse.
13. And Iesse begate his first-borne Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
14. Nathanael the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
15. Ozem the sixth, Dauid the seuenth:
16. Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sonnes of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Ioab, and Asahel, three.
17. And Abigail bare Amasa. And the father of Amasa, was Iether the Ishmeelite.
18. And Caleb the sonne of Hezron, begate children of Azubah his wife, and of Ierioth: her sonnes are these: Iesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
19. And when Azubah was dead, Caleb tooke vnto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
20. And Hur begate Uri, and Uri begate Bezaleel.
21. And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom hee married when he was threescore yeeres old, and she bare him Segub.
22. And Segub begate Iair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
23. And he tooke Geshur, and Aram, with the townes of Iair, from them, with Kenath, and the townes thereof, euen threescore cities. All these belonged to the sonnes of Machir, the father of Gilead.
24. And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephratah, then Abiah Hezrons wife, bare him Ashur, the father of Tekoa.
25. And the sonnes of Ierahmeel the first-borne of Hezron, were Ram the first-borne, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozen, and Ahiiah.
26. Ierahmeel had also an other wife, whose name was Atarah, she was the mother of Onam.
27. And the sonnes of Ram the first-borne of Ierahmeel, were Maaz, and Iamin, and Ekar.
28. And the sonnes of Onam were, Shammai, and Iada. And the sonnes of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.
29. And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and shee bare him Ahban, and Molid.
30. And the sonnes of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim. But Seled died without children.
31. And the sonnes of Appaim, Ishi: and the sonnes of Ishi, Sheshan: and the children of Sheshan, Ahlai.
32. And the sonnes of Iada the brother of Shammai, Iether, and Ionathan: and Iether died without children.
33. And the sonnes of Ionathan, Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sonnes of Ierahmeel.
34. Now Sheshan had no sonnes, but daughters: and Sheshan had a seruant, an Egyptian, whose name was Iarha.
35. And Sheshan gaue his daughter to Iarha his seruant to wife, and she bare him Attai.
36. And Attai begate Nathan, and Nathan begate Zabad,
37. And Zabad begate Ephlal, and Ephlal begate Obed,
38. And Obed begate Iehu, and Iehu begate Azariah,
39. And Azariah begate Helez, and Helez begate Eleasah,
40. And Eleasah begate Sisamai, and Sisamai begate Shallum,
41. And Shallum begate Iekamiah, and Iekamiah begate Elishama.
42. Now the sonnes of Caleb the brother of Ierahmeel were, Mesha his first-borne, which was the father of Ziph: and the sonnes of Maresha the father of Hebron.
43. And the sonnes of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
44. And Shema begat Raham, the father of Iorkoam: and Rekem begate Shammai.
45. And the sonne of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
46. And Ephah Calebs concubine bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begate Gazez.
47. And the sonnes of Iahdai: Regem, and Iotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
48. Maacha Calebs concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
49. Shee bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheua the father of Machbenah, & the father of Gibea: And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
50. These were the sonnes of Caleb, the sonne of Hur, the first borne of Ephratah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim,
51. Salma the father of Bethlehem: Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
52. And Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim, had sonnes, Haroe, and halfe of the Manahethites.
53. And the families of Kiriath-iearim, the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites: of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
54. The sonnes of Salmah: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Ioab, and halfe of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
55. And the families of the Scribes, which dwelt at Iabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1. Now these were the sonnes of Dauid, which were borne vnto him in Hebron. The first borne Amnon, of Ahinoam the Iesreelitesse: the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitesse:
2. The third, Absalom the sonne of Maacha, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adoniah the sonne of Haggith:
3. The fifth, Shephatia of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
4. These sixe were borne vnto him in Hebron, and there hee reigned seuen yeeres, and sixe moneths: and in Ierusalem he reigned thirty and three yeres.
5. And these were borne vnto him in Ierusalem. Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, foure, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel.
6. Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
7. And Noga, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,
8. And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
9. These were all the sonnes of Dauid: beside the sonnes of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.
10. And Solomons sonne was Rehoboam: Abia his sonne: Asa his son: Iehoshaphat his sonne:
11. Ioram his sonne: Ahaziah his sonne: Ioash his sonne:
12. Amaziah his sonne: Azariah his sonne: Iotham his sonne:
13. Ahaz his sonne: Hezekiah his sonne: Manasseh his sonne:
14. Amon his sonne: Iosiah his sonne.
15. And the sonnes of Iosiah were: the first borne Iohanan, the second Ioakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Sallum.
16. And the sonnes of Ioakim: Ieconiah his sonne, Zedekiah his sonne.
17. And the sonnes of Ieconiah, Assir, Salathiel his sonne,
18. Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Iecamiah, Hosama, and Nedabiah.
19. And the sonnes of Pedaiah were: Zerubbabel, and Shimei: And the sonne of Zerubbabel, Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister.
20. And Hazubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, & Hasadiah, Iushabhesed, fiue.
21. And the sonnes of Hananiah, Pelatiah, and Iesaiah: the sonnes of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sonnes of Obadiah, the sonnes of Sechaniah.
22. And the sonnes of Sechaniah, Semaiah: and the sonnes of Semaiah, Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, sixe.
23. And the sonnes of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
24. And the sonnes of Elioenai, were: Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Iohanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seuen.
1. The sonnes of Iudah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2. And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, begate Iahath, and Iahath begate Ahumai, & Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
3. And these were of the father of Etam: Iezreel & Ishma, & Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi.
4. And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sonnes of Hur, the first borne of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
5. And Ashur the father of Tekoa, had two wiues: Helah, & Naarah.
6. And Naarah bare him Ahusam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Ahashtari. These were the sonnes of Naarah.
7. And the sonnes of Helah were: Zereth, and Zoar, and Ethnan.
8. And Coz begate Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel, the sonne of Harum.
9. And Iabez was more honourable then his brethren: and his mother called his name Iabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
10. And Iabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest blesse mee indeede, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might bee with me, and that thou wouldest keepe mee from euill, that it may not grieue me. And God granted him that which he requested.
11. And Chelub the brother of Shuah, begate Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
12. And Eshton begate Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Rechah.
13. And the sonnes of Kenaz: Othniel, and Saraia: and the sonnes of Othniel, Hathath.
14. And Meonothai begate Ophrah: and Seraiah begate Ioab, the father of the valley of Charasim, for they were craftesmen.
15. And the sonnes of Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam, and the sonnes of Elah, euen Kenaz.
16. And the sonnes of Iehaleleel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
17. And the sonnes of Ezra were: Iether, and Mered, and Epher, and Ialon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, & Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18. And his wife Iehudiiah bare Iered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Iekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sonnes of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered tooke.
19. And the sonnes of his wife Hodiah, the sister of Naham the father of Keilah, the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
20. And the sonnes of Simeon were: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sonnes of Ishi were: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
21. The sonnes of Shelah the sonne of Iudah were: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linnen, of the house of Ashbea.
22. And Iokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Ioash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, & Iashubi Lehem. And these are ancient things.
23. These were the Potters, and those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges. There they dwelt with the king for his worke.
24. The sonnes of Simeon were: Nemuel, and Iamin, Iarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
25. Shallum his sonne: Mibsam his sonne: Mishma his sonne.
26. And the sonnes of Mishma: Hamuel his sonne, Zacchur his sonne, Shimei his sonne.
27. And Shimei had sixteene sonnes, and sixe daughters, but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Iudah.
28. And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,
29. And at Bilha, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
30. And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
31. And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-Susim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities, vnto the reigne of Dauid.
32. And their villages were: Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, fiue cities.
33. And all their villages that were round about the same cities, vnto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogie:
34. And Meshobab, and Iamlech, and Ioshah the sonne of Amashiah,
35. And Ioel, and Iehu the sonne of Iosibia, the sonne of Seraia, the sonne of Asiel,
36. And Elioenai, and Iaakobah, and Iesohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Iesimiel, and Benaiah,
37. And Ziza the sonne of Shiphi, the sonne of Allon, the sonne of Iedaia, the sonne of Shimri, the sonne of Shemaiah.
38. These mentioned by their names, were Princes in their families, and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
39. And they went to the entrance of Gedor, euen vnto the East side of the valley, to seeke pasture for their flocks.
40. And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable: for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
41. And these written by name, came in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them vtterly vnto this day, and dwelt in their roomes: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42. And some of them, euen of the sonnes of Simeon, fiue hundred men, went to mount Seir, hauing for their captaines Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sonnes of Ishi.
43. And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there vnto this day.
1. Now the sonnes of Reuben the first borne of Israel, (for hee was the first borne, but, forasmuch as he defiled his fathers bed, his birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel: and the genealogie is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
2. For Iudah preuailed aboue his brethren, and of him came the chiefe rulers, but the birthright was Iosephs.
3. The sonnes, I say, of Reuben the first borne of Israel were: Hanoch, and Pallu, Ezron, and Carmi.
4. The sonnes of Ioel: Shemaiah his sonne: Gog his sonne: Shimei his sonne:
5. Micah his son: Reaia his sonne: Baal his sonne.
6. Beerah his sonne: whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, carried away captiue: He was Prince of the Reubenites.
7. And his brethren by their families (when the genealogie of their generations was reckoned) were the chiefe, Ieiel, and Zechariah,
8. And Bela the sonne of Azah, the sonne of Shema, the sonne of Ioel, who dwelt in Aroer, euen vnto Nebo, and Baalmeon.
9. And Eastward he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernes, from the riuer Euphrates: because their cattell were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
10. And in the dayes of Saul, they made warre with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the East land of Gilead.
11. And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them, in the land of Bashan vnto Salchah.
12. Ioel the chiefe, and Shapham the next: and Iaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
13. And their brethren of the house of their fathers, were: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Iorai, and Iachan, and Zia, and Heber, seuen.
14. These are the children of Abihail the sonne of Huri, the sonne of Iaroah, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Michael, the sonne of Ieshishai, the sonne of Iahdo, the sonne of Buz:
15. Ahi the sonne of Abdiel, the sonne of Guni, chiefe of the house of their fathers.
16. And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her townes, and in all the Suburbs of Sharon, vpon their borders.
17. All these were reckoned by genealogies in the dayes of Iotham king of Iudah, and in the dayes of Ieroboam king of Israel.
18. The sonnes of Reuben, and the Gadites, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to beare buckler and sword, and to shoote with bow, and skilfull in warre, were foure and fourtie thousand, seuen hundred and threescore, that went out to the warre.
19. And they made warre with the Hagarites, with Ietur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
20. And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battell, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
21. And they tooke away their cattell: of their camels fiftie thousand, and of sheepe two hundred and fiftie thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
22. For there fell downe many slaine, because the warre was of God. And they dwelt in their steads vntil the captiuity.
23. And the children of the halfe tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the lande: they increased from Bashan vnto Baal-hermon, and Senir, and vnto mount Hermon.
24. And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, euen Epher, and Ishi, & Eliel, and Azriel, and Ieremiah, and Hodauiah, and Iahdiel, mightie men of valour, famous men, & heads of the house of their fathers.
25. And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the Gods of the people of the land, whome God destroyed before them.
26. And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he caried them away (euen the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh:) & brought them vnto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the riuer Gozan, vnto this day.
1. The sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath & Merari.
2. And the sonnes of Kohath: Amram, Izahar, & Hebron, & Uzziel.
3. And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sonnes also of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
4. Eleazar begate Phinehas, Phinehas begate Abishua.
5. And Abishua begate Bukki, and Bukki begate Uzzi,
6. And Uzzi begate Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begate Meraioth,
7. Meraioth begate Amariah, and Amariah begate Ahitub,
8. And Ahitub begate Zadok, and Zadok begate Ahimaaz,
9. And Ahimaaz begate Azariah, and Azariah begate Iohanan,
10. And Iohanan begate Azariah, (hee it is that executed the Priests office, in the temple that Solomon built in Ierusalem)
11. And Azariah begate Amariah, and Amariah begate Ahitub,
12. And Ahitub begate Zadok, and Zadok begate Shallum,
13. And Shallum begate Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begate Azariah,
14. And Azariah begate Seraiah, and Seraiah begate Iehozadak,
15. And Iehozadak went into captiuitie, when the Lord caried away Iudah and Ierusalem by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar.
16. The sonnes of Leui: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
17. And these be the names of the sonnes of Gershom: Libni, & Shimei.
18. And the sonnes of Kohath were: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
19. The sonnes of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Leuites, according to their fathers.
20. Of Gershom: Libni his sonne, Iahath his sonne, Zimmah his sonne,
21. Ioah his sonne, Iddo his sonne, Zerah his sonne, Ieaterai his sonne,
22. The sonnes of Kohath: Amminadab his sonne, Korah his sonne, Assir his sonne,
23. Elkanah his sonne, and Ebiasaph his sonne, and Assir his sonne,
24. Tahath his sonne, Uriel his sonne, Uzziah his sonne, and Shaul his sonne.
25. And the sonnes of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
26. As for Elkanah: the sonnes of Elkanah, Zophai his sonne, and Nahath his sonne,
27. Eliab his sonne, Ieroham his sonne, Elkanah his sonne.
28. And the sonnes of Samuel: the first borne Uashni, and Abiah.
29. The sonnes of Merari: Mahli, Libni his sonne, Shimei his sonne, Uzza his sonne,
30. Shimea his sonne, Haggiah his sonne, Asaiah his sonne.
31. And these are they, whom Dauid set ouer the seruice of song in the house of the Lord, after that the Arke had rest.
32. And they ministred before the dwelling place of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, with singing, vntill Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Ierusalem: and then they waited on their office, according to their order.
33. And these are they that waited with their children of the sonnes of the Kohathites, Heman a singer: the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Shemuel,
34. The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Eliel, the sonne of Toah,
35. The sonne of Zuph, the sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Mahath, the sonne of Amasai,
36. The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Zephaniah,
37. The sonne of Tahath, the sonne of Assir, the sonne of Ebiasaph, the sonne of Korah,
38. The sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Israel.
39. And his brother Asaph (who stood on his right hand) euen Asaph the sonne of Berachiah, the sonne of Shimea,
40. The sonne of Michael, the sonne of Baasiah, the sonne of Melchiah,
41. The sonne of Ethni, the sonne of Zerah, the sonne of Adaiah,
42. The sonne of Ethan, the sonne of Zimmah, the sonne of Shimei,
43. The sonne of Iahath, the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Leui.
44. And their brethren the sonnes of Merari, stood on the left hand: Ethan the sonne of Kishi, the sonne of Abdi, the sonne of Malluch,
45. The sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Amaziah, the sonne of Hilkiah,
46. The sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Shamer,
47. The sonne of Mahli, the sonne of Mushi, the sonne of Merari, the sonne of Leui.
48. Their brethren also the Leuits were appointed vnto all maner of seruice of the Tabernacle of the house of God.
49. But Aaron, and his sonnes offered vpon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the worke of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded.
50. And these are the sonnes of Aaron: Eleazar his sonne, Phinehas his sonne, Abishua his sonne,
51. Bukki his sonne, Uzzi his sonne, Zerahiah his sonne,
52. Meraioth his sonne, Amariah his sonne, Ahitub his sonne,
53. Zadok his sonne, Ahimaaz his sonne.
54. Now these are their dwelling places, throughout their castels in their coasts, of the sonnes of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
55. And they gaue them Hebron in the land of Iudah, and the suburbes thereof round about it.
56. But the fields of the citie, and the villages thereof, they gaue to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh.
57. And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the cities of Iudah, namely Hebron the citie of refuge, and Libna with her suburbes, and Iattir and Eshtemoa, with their suburbes,
58. And Hilen with her suburbes, Debir with her suburbes,
59. And Ashan with her suburbes, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbes.
60. And out of the tribe of Beniamin, Geba with her suburbes, and Alemeth with her suburbes, Anathoth with her suburbes. All their cities throughout their families were thirteene cities.
61. And vnto the sonnes of Rohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities giuen out of the halfe tribe, namely out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
62. And to the sonnes of Gershom throughout their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.
63. Unto the sonnes of Merari were giuen by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelue cities.
64. And the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites these cities, with their suburbs.
65. And they gaue by lot, out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
66. And the residue of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities of their coasts, out of the tribe of Ephraim.
67. And they gaue vnto them of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, with her suburbs: they gaue also Gezer with her suburbs,
68. And Iokmeam with her suburbs, & Beth-horon with her suburbs,
69. And Aialon with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs.
70. And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath.
71. Unto the sonnes of Gershom, were giuen out of the family of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs.
72. And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
73. And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs.
74. And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
75. And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs.
76. And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee, with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kiriathaim with her suburbs.
77. Unto the rest of the children of Merari were giuen out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs.
78. And on the other side Iorden by Iericho, on the East side of Iorden, were giuen them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbs, & Iahzah with her suburbs,
79. Kedemoth also with her suburbs, & Mephaath with her suburbs.
80. And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
81. And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Iazer with her suburbs.
1. Now the sonnes of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Iashub, and Shimron, foure.
2. And the sonnes of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Ieriel, and Iahmai, and Iibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers house, to wit, of Tola, they were valiant men of might in their generations, whose number was in the dayes of Dauid two and twentie thousand and sixe hundred.
3. And the sonnes of Uzzi, Izrahiah: and the sonnes of Izrahiah, Michael, and Obadiah, and Ioel, Ishiah, fiue: all of them chiefe men.
4. And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of souldiers for warre, sixe and thirtie thousand men: for they had many wiues and sonnes.
5. And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, were men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies, fourescore and seuen thousand.
6. The sonnes of Beniamin: Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three.
7. And the sonnes of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Ierimoth, and Iri, fiue, heads of the house of their fathers, mightie men of valour, and were reckoned by their genealogies, twentie and two thousand, and thirtie and foure.
8. And the sonnes of Becher: Zemira, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sonnes of Becher.
9. And the number of them, after their genealogie by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mightie men of valour, was twentie thousand and two hundred.
10. The sonnes also of Iediael, Bilhan: and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11. All these the sonnes of Iediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seuenteene thousand and two hundred souldiers, fit to goe out for warre and battaile.
12. Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sonnes of Aher.
13. The sonnes of Naphtali, Iahziel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shallum, the sonnes of Bilhah.
14. The sonnes of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom shee bare (but his concnbine the Aramitesse, bare Machir the father of Gilead.
15. And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sisters name was Maachah) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
16. And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and shee called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sonnes were Ulam and Rakem.
17. And the sonnes of Ulam, Bedan. These were the sonnes of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh.
18. And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishad, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
19. And the sonnes of Shemida were: Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20. And the sonnes of Ephraim: Shuthelah: and Bered his sonne, and Tahath his sonne, and Eladah his sonne, and Tahath his sonne,
21. And Zabad his sonne, and Shuthelah his sonne, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath, that were borne in that land slewe, because they came downe to take away their cattell.
22. And Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him.
23. And when hee went in to his wife, shee conceiued and bare a sonne, and he called his name, Beriah, because it went euill with his house.
24. (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethoron the nether, and the vpper, and Uzzen Sherah.)
25. And Rephah was his sonne, also Rezeph, and Telah his sonne, and Tahan his sonne,
26. Laadan his sonne, Amihud his sonne, Elishama his sonne,
27. Non his sonne, Iehoshua his sonne.
28. And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel, and the townes thereof, and Eastward Naaran, and Westward Gezer with the townes thereof, Shechem also and the townes thereof, vnto Gaza and the townes thereof.
29. And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her townes, Taanach and her townes, Megiddo and her townes, Dor and her townes. In these dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel.
30. The sonnes of Asher: Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31. And the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzauith.
32. And Heber begate Iaphlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister.
33. And the sonnes of Iaphlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashuath. These are the children of Iaphlet.
34. And the sonnes of Shamer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Iehubbah, and Aram.
35. And the sonne of his brother, Helem: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36. The sonnes of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah:
37. Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
38. And the sonnes of Iether: Iephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
39. And the sonnes of Ulla: Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
40. All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers house, choice and mightie men of valour, chiefe of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogie of them, that were apt to the warre and to battell, was twentie and sixe thousand men.
1. Now Beniamin begate Bela his first borne, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
2. Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
3. And the sonnes of Bela were: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
4. And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
5. And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
6. And these are the sonnes of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they remoued them to Manahath:
7. And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he remooued them, and begate Uzza, and Ahihud.
8. And Shaharaim begate children in the countrey of Moab. After hee had sent them away: Hushim, and Baara were his wiues.
9. And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Iobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
10. And Ieuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sonnes, heads of the fathers.
11. And of Hushim he begate Ahitub, and Elpaal.
12. The sonnes of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, & Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod with the townes thereof.
13. Beriah also and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aialon, who droue away the inhabitants of Gath.
14. And Ahio, Shashak, and Ierimoth,
15. And Zebadiah, & Arad, & Ader,
16. And Michael, and Ispah, and Ioha the sonnes of Beriah,
17. And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,
18. Ishmerai also, and Iezliah, and Iobab the sonnes of Elpaal.
19. And Iakim, and Zichri, & Zabdi,
20. And Elienai, and Zilthai, & Eliel,
21. And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sonnes of Shimhi,
22. And Ishpan, and Heber, & Eliel,
23. And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
24. And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothiiah,
25. And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sonnes of Shashak,
26. And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
27. And Iaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri the sonnes of Ieroham.
28. These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chiefe men. These dwelt in Ierusalem.
29. And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, (whose wiues name was Maachah:)
30. And his first borne sonne Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, & Nadab,
31. And Gidor, & Ahio, and Zacher,
32. And Mikloth begate Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Ierusalem, ouer against them.
33. And Ner begate Kish, and Kish begate Saul, and Saul begate Ionathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
34. And the sonne of Ionathan was Meribbaal, and Meribbaal begate Micah.
35. And the sonnes of Micah were Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
36. And Ahaz begat Iehoadah, and Iehoadah begate Alemeth, and Asmaueth, and Zimri, and Zimri begate Moza,
37. And Moza begate Binea: Rapha was his sonne, Elasa his sonne, Azel his sonne:
38. And Azel had sixe sonnes, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sonnes of Azel.
39. And the sonnes of Eshek his brother were Ulam his first-borne, Iehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
40. And the sonnes of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sonnes, and sonnes sonnes, an hundred and fiftie. All these are of the sonnes of Beniamin.
1. So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies, & behold, they were written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah, who were caried away to Babylon for their transgression.
2. Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions, in their cities, were the Israelites, the Priests, Leuits, and the Nethinims.
3. And in Ierusalem dwelt of the children of Iudah, and of the children of Beniamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh.
4. Uthai the sonne of Amihud, the sonne of Omri, the sonne of Imri, the sonne of Bani, of the children of Pharez the sonne of Iudah.
5. And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first borne, and his sonnes.
6. And of the sonnes of Zerah: Ieuel, and their brethren, sixe hundred and ninetie.
7. And of the sonnes of Beniamin: Sallu the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Hodauiah, the sonne of Hasenuah:
8. And Ibneiah the sonne of Ieroham, and Elah the sonne of Uzzi, the sonne of Michri, and Meshullam the sonne of Shephatiah, the sonne of Reuel, the sonne of Ibniiah,
9. And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fiftie and sixe. All these men were chiefe of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
10. And of the Priests: Iedaiah, and Iehoiarib, and Iachin,
11. And Azariah the sonne of Hilkiah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Zadok, the sonne of Meraioth, the sonne of Ahitub the ruler of the house of God.
12. And Adaiah the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Passhur, the sonne of Malchiiah, and Maasia the sonne of Adiel, the sonne of Iahzerah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Meshillemith, the sonne of Immer.
13. And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.
14. And of the Leuites: Shemaiah the sonne of Hasshub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah, of the sonnes of Merari.
15. And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal: and Mattaniah the sonne of Micah, the sonne of Zichri, the sonne of Asaph.
16. And Obadiah the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun: and Berechiah the sonne of Asa, the sonne of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
17. And the Porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chiefe.
18. (Who hitherto waited in the kings gate Eastward) they were Porters in the companies of the children of Leui.
19. And Shallum the sonne of Kore, the sonne of Ebiasaph, the sonne of Korah, and his brethren (of the house of his father) the Korahites, were ouer the worke of the seruice, keepers of the gates of the Tabernacle: and their fathers being ouer the hoste of the Lord, were keepers of the entrie.
20. And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar was the ruler ouer them in time past, and the Lord was with him.
21. And Zechariah the sonne of Meshelemiah, was porter of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
22. All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates, were two hundred and twelue. These were reckoned by their genealogie in their villages: whom Dauid and Samuel the Seer, did ordeine in their set office.
23. So they and their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the Tabernacle, by wards.
24. In foure quarters were the porters: toward the East, West, North, and South.
25. And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seuen dayes, from time to time with them.
26. For these Leuites, the foure chiefe porters, were in their set office, and were ouer the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
27. And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was vpon them, and the opening thereof euery morning, perteined to them.
28. And certaine of them had the charge of the ministring vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
29. Some of them also were appointed to ouersee the vessels, and all the instruments of the Sanctuarie, and the fine floure, and the wine, and the oyle, and the frankincense, and the spices.
30. And some of the sonnes of the Priests made the oyntment of the spices.
31. And Mattithiah, one of the Leuites (who was the first borne of Shallum the Korahite) had the set office ouer the things that were made in the pannes.
32. And other of their brethren of the sonnes of the Kohathites, were ouer the Shew-bread to prepare it euery Sabbath.
33. And these are the singers, chiefe of the fathers of the Leuites, who remayning in the chambers, were free: for they were imployed in that worke, day and night.
34. These chiefe fathers of the Leuites, were chiefe throughout their generations; these dwelt at Ierusalem.
35. And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Iehiel, whose wiues name was Maacha:
36. And his first borne sonne Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
37. And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
38. And Mikloth begate Shimeam: and they also dwelt with their brethren at Ierusalem, ouer against their brethren.
39. And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begate Saul, and Saul begate Ionathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
40. And the sonne of Ionathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begate Micah.
41. And the sonnes of Micah were Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
42. And Ahaz begate Iarah, and Iarah begate Alemeth, & Azmaueth, and Zimri: and Zimri begate Moza,
43. And Moza begate Binea: and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his sonne, Azel his sonne.
44. And Azel had sixe sonnes, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ismael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sonnes of Azel.
1. Nowe the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.
2. And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sonnes, and the Philistines slew Ionathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sonnes of Saul.
3. And the battell went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.
4. Then saide Saul to his armour bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these vncircumcised come, and abuse mee: but his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. So Saul tooke a sword, and fell vpon it.
5. And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, hee fell likewise on the sword, and died.
6. So Saul died, and his three sonnes, and all his house died together.
7. And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley, saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sonnes were dead: then they forsooke their cities, and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8. And it came to passe on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slaine, that they found Saul and his sonnes fallen in mount Gilboa.
9. And when they had stripped him, they tooke his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to cary tidings vnto their idoles, and to the people.
10. And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
11. And when all Iabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul:
12. They arose, all the valiant men, and tooke away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabesh, and buried their bones vnder the oke in Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.
13. So Saul died for his transgression which hee committed against the Lord, euen against the word of the Lord which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it:
14. And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Iesse.
1. Then all Israel gathered themselues to Dauid vnHebron, saying, Behold, wee are thy bone and thy flesh.
2. And moreouer in time past, euen when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord thy God said vnto thee, Thou shalt feede my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler ouer my people Israel.
3. Therefore came all the Elders of Israel to the king to Hebron, and Dauid made a couenant with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they annointed Dauid king ouer Israel, according to the word of the Lord, by Samuel.
4. And Dauid & all Israel, went to Ierusalem, which is Iebus, where the Iebusites were the inhabitants of the land.
5. And the inhabitants of Iebus said to Dauid, Thou shalt not come hither. Neuerthelesse Dauid tooke the castle of Zion, which is the citie of Dauid.
6. And Dauid said, Whosoeuer smiteth the Iebusites first, shall be chiefe, and captaine. So Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah went first vp, and was chiefe.
7. And Dauid dwelt in the castell: therefore they called it the citie of Dauid.
8. And he built the citie round about, euen from Millo round about: and Ioab repaired the rest of the citie.
9. So Dauid waxed greater and greater: for the Lord of hostes was with him.
10. These also are the chiefe of the mightie men, whom Dauid had, who strenthened themselues with him in his kingdome, and with all Israel, to make him king according to the word of the Lord, concerning Israel.
11. And this is the number of the mightie men, whom Dauid had: Iashobeam an Hachmonite, the chiefe of the captaines: he lift vp his speare against three hundred, slaine by him at one time.
12. And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
13. He was with Dauid at Pasdammim; and there the Philistines were gathered together to battell, where was a parcell of ground full of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.
14. And they set themselues in the middest of that parcell, and deliuered it, and slue the Philistines, & the Lord saued them by a great deliuerance.
15. Now three of the thirtie captaines, went downe to the rocke of Dauid, into the caue of Adullam, and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
16. And Dauid was then in the hold, and the Philistines garison was then at Bethlehem.
17. And Dauid longed and said, Oh that one would giue me drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate.
18. And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and tooke it and brought it to Dauid. But Dauid would not drink of it, but powred it out to the Lord,
19. And said, My God forbid it mee, that I should doe this thing. Shall I drinke the blood of these men, that haue put their liues in ieopardie? for with the ieopardie of their liues, they brought it: therfore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
20. And Abishai the brother of Ioab, he was chiefe of the three. For lifting vp his speare against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
21. Of the three, hee was more honourable then the two, for he was their captaine; howbeit, he attained not to the first three.
22. Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, the sonne of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts: he slue two Lyon-like men of Moab, also he went downe and slue a Lyon in a pit in a snowy day.
23. And he slue an Egyptian, a man of great stature, fiue cubits high, and in the Egyptians hand was a speare like a weauers beame: and he went downe to him with a staffe, and pluckt the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slue him with his owne speare.
24. These things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
25. Behold, hee was honourable among the thirtie, but attained not to the first three: and Dauid set him ouer his guard.
26. Also the valiant men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem.
27. Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
28. Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
29. Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30. Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the sonne of Baanah the Netophathite,
31. Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah, that perteined to the children of Beniamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
32. Hurai of the brookes of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
33. Azmaueth the Baharumite, Elihaba the Shaalbonite,
34. The sonnes of Hashem the Gizonite: Ionathan the sonne of Shageh the Hararite,
35. Ahiham the sonne of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the sonne of Ur,
36. Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahiiah the Pelonite,
37. Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the sonne of Ezbai,
38. Ioel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the sonne of Haggeri,
39. Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armour bearer of Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah,
40. Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
41. Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the sonne of Ahlai,
42. Adina the sonne of Shiza the Reubenite, a captaine of the Reubenites, and thirtie with him,
43. Hanan the sonne of Maacah, and Ioshaphat the Mithnite,
44. Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Iehiel the sonnes of Hothan the Aroerite,
45. Iediael the sonne of Zimri, and Ioha his brother, the Tizite,
46. Eliel the Mahauite, and Ieribai, and Ioshauiah the sonnes of Elnaan, and Ithmah the Moabite,
47. Eliel, and Obed, and Iasiel the Mesobaite.
1. Now these are they that came to Dauid to Ziklag while hee yet kept himselfe close, because of Saul the sonne of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the warre.
2. They were armed with bowes, and could vse both the right hand and the left, in hurling stones, and shooting arrowes out of a bow, euen of Sauls brethren of Beniamin.
3. The chiefe was Ahiezer, then Ioash the sonnes of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Ieziel, and Pelet, the sonnes of Azmaueth, and Berachah, and Iehu the Antothite,
4. And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mightie man among the thirtie, and ouer the thirtie, and Ieremiah, and Iahaziel, and Iohanan, and Iosabad the Gederathite,
5. Eleuzai, and Ierimoth, and Bealiath, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
6. Elkanah, and Iesiah, and Azariel, and Ioezer, and Iashobeam, the Korhites,
7. And Ioelah, and Zebadiah the sonnes of Ieroam of Gedor.
8. And of the Gadites there separated themselues vnto Dauid, into the hold to the wildernesse, men of might, and men of warre, fit for the battel, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of Lyons, and were as swift as the Roes vpon the mountaines:
9. Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
10. Mashmannah the fourth, Ieremiah the fift,
11. Atthai the sixt, Eliel the seuenth,
12. Iohanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
13. Ieremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleuenth.
14. These were of the sonnes of Gad, captaines of the hoste: one of the least was ouer an hundred, and the greatest, ouer a thousand.
15. These are they that went ouer Iorden in the first moneth, when it had ouerflowen all his bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis, both toward the East, and toward the West.
16. And there came of the children of Beniamin, and Iudah, to the hold vnto Dauid.
17. And Dauid went out to meete them, and answered and sayd vnto them: If yee bee come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart shall be knit vnto you: but if yee be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands: the God of our fathers looke thereon, and rebuke it.
18. Then the spirit came vpon Amasai, who was chiefe of the captaines, and he sayd, Thine are we, Dauid, and on thy side, thou sonne of Iesse: Peace, peace be vnto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then Dauid receiued them, and made them captaines of the band.
19. And there fell some of Manasseh to Dauid, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battell, but they helped them not. For the Lords of the Philistines, vpon aduisement, sent him away, saying, Hee will fall to his master Saul, to the ieopardie of our heads.
20. As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Iozabad, and Iediel, and Michael, and Iozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captaines of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
21. And they helped Dauid against the band of the Rouers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captaines in the hoste.
22. For at that time day by day, there came to Dauid to helpe him, vntill it was a great hoste, like the hoste of God.
23. And these are the numbers of the bands, that were ready armed to the warre, and came to Dauid to Hebron, to turne the kingdome of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.
24. The children of Iudah that bare shield, and speare, were sixe thousand, and eight hundred, readie armed to the warre.
25. Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the warre, seuen thousand and one hundred.
26. Of the children of Leui, foure thousand and sixe hundred.
27. And Iehoiada was the leader of the Aaronits, and with him were three thousand, and seuen hundred.
28. And Zadok a young man mightie of valour, and of his fathers house twentie and two captaines.
29. And of the children of Beniamin the kinred of Saul three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
30. And of the children of Ephraim, twentie thousand, and eight hundred, mightie men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
31. And of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, eighteene thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make Dauid king.
32. And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had vnderstanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to doe: the heads of them were two hundred, and all their brethren were at their commandement.
33. Of Zebulun, such as went foorth to battell, expert in warre, with all instruments of warre, fifty thousand, which could keepe ranke: They were not of double heart.
34. And of Naphtali a thousand captaines, and with them, with shield and speare, thirtie and seuen thousand.
35. And of the Danites, expert in war, twentie and eight thousand, and sixe hundred.
36. And of Asher, such as went foorth to battell, expert in warre, fourtie thousand.
37. And on the other side of Iorden, of the Reubenites, & the Gadites, and of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, with all maner of instruments of warre for the battell, an hundred and twentie thousand.
38. All these men of warre, that could keepe ranke, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make Dauid king ouer all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make Dauid king.
39. And there they were with Dauid three dayes, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
40. Moreouer, they that were nigh them, euen vnto Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meale, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oyle, and oxen, and sheepe abundantly: for there was ioy in Israel.
1. And Dauid consulted with the captaines of thousands, and hundreds, and with euery leader.
2. And Dauid said vnto all the Congregation of Israel, If it seeme good vnto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let vs send abroad vnto our brethren euery where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the Priests and Leuites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselues vnto vs.
3. And let vs bring againe the Arke of our God to vs: for wee enquired not at it in the dayes of Saul.
4. And all the Congregation saide, that they would doe so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
5. So Dauid gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt, euen vnto the entring of Hemath, to bring the Arke of God from Kiriath-iearim.
6. And Dauid went vp, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-iearim, which belonged to Iudah, to bring vp thence the Arke of God the Lord, that dwelleth betweene the Cherubims, whose name is called on it.
7. And they caried the Arke of God in a new cart, out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza, and Ahio draue the cart.
8. And Dauid and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harpes, and with psalteries, and with tymbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
9. And when they came vnto the threshing floore of Chidon, Uzza put foorth his hand to hold the Arke, for the oxen stumbled.
10. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and hee smote him, because hee put his hand to the Arke: and there he died before God.
11. And Dauid was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach vpon Uzza; wherefore that place is called Perez-Uzza, to this day.
12. And Dauid was afraide of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the Arke of God home to me?
13. So Dauid brought not the Arke home to himselfe to the city of Dauid, but caried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
14. And the Arke of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three moneths. And the Lord blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that he had.
1. Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to Dauid, and timber of Cedars, with masons, and carpenters to build him an house.
2. And Dauid perceiued that the Lord had confirmed him king ouer Israel, for his kingdome was lift vp on high, because of his people Israel.
3. And Dauid tooke moe wiues at Ierusalem: and Dauid begate moe sonnes and daughters.
4. Now these are the names of his children which hee had in Ierusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
5. And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
6. And Noga, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,
7. And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Elpalet.
8. And when the Philistines heard that Dauid was anoynted king ouer all Israel, all the Philistines went vp to seeke Dauid: and Dauid heard of it, and went out against them.
9. And the Philistines came & spread themselues in the valley of Rephaim.
10. And Dauid enquired of God, saying, Shall I goe vp against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliuer them into mine hand? And the Lord said vnto him, Go vp, for I will deliuer them into thine hand.
11. So they came vp to Baal-Perazim, and Dauid smote them there. Then Dauid said, God hath broken in vpon mine enemies by mine hand, like the breaking foorth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place, Baal-Perazim.
12. And when they had left their gods there, Dauid gaue a commandement, and they were burnt with fire.
13. And the Philistines yet againe spread themselues abroad in the valley.
14. Therfore Dauid enquired againe of God, and God said vnto him, Goe not vp after them, turne away from them, and come vpon them ouer against the mulbery trees.
15. And it shall bee, when thou shalt heare a sound of going in the tops of the mulbery trees, that then thou shalt goe out to battaile: for God is gone foorth before thee, to smite the hoste of the Philistines.
16. Dauid therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the hoste of the Philistines from Gibeon euen to Gazer.
17. And the fame of Dauid went out into all lands, and the Lord brought the feare of him vpon all nations.
1. And Dauid made him houses in the citie of Dauid, and prepared a place for the Arke of God, and pitched for it a tent.
2. Then Dauid sayd, None ought to carie the Arke of God, but the Leuites: for them hath the Lord chosen to cary the Arke of God, and to minister vnto him for euer.
3. And Dauid gathered all Israel together to Ierusalem, to bring vp the Arke of the Lord vnto his place, which hee had prepared for it.
4. And Dauid assembled the children of Aaron, and the Leuites.
5. Of the sonnes of Kohath: Uriel the chiefe, and his brethren an hundred and twentie.
6. Of the sonnes of Merari: Asaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundred and twentie.
7. Of the sonnes of Gershom: Ioel the chiefe, and his brethren an hundred and thirtie.
8. Of the sonnes of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundred.
9. Of the sonnes of Hebron: Eliel the chiefe, and his brethren fourescore.
10. Of the sonnes of Uzziel: Amminadab the chiefe, and his brethren an hundred and twelue.
11. And Dauid called for Zadok and Abiathar the Priests, and for the Leuites, for Uriel, Asaiah and Ioel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
12. And said vnto them, Yee are the chiefe of the fathers of the Leuites: sanctifie your selues both yee and your brethren, that you may bring vp the Arke of the Lord God of Israel, vnto the place that I haue prepared for it.
13. For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach vpon vs, for that we sought him not after the due order.
14. So the Priestes and the Leuites sanctified themselues to bring vp the Arke of the Lord God of Israel.
15. And the children of the Leuites bare the Arke of God vpon their shoulders, with the staues thereon, as Moses commanded, according to the word of the Lord.
16. And Dauid spake to the chiefe of the Leuites, to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musicke, Psalteries, and Harpes, and Cymbales, sounding, by lifting vp the voice with ioy.
17. So the Leuites appointed Heman the sonne of Ioel: and of his brethren. Asaph the sonne of Berechiah: and of the sonnes of Merari their brethren, Ethan the sonne of Kushaiah.
18. And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zachariah, Ben, and Iaziel, & Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maasiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphaleh, and Mikniah, and Obed Edom, and Iehiel the Porters.
19. So the Singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbales of brasse.
20. And Zachariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maasiah, and Benaiah, with Psalteries on Alamoth.
21. And Mattithiah, and Eliphaleh, and Mikniah, and Obed Edom, and Ieiel, and Azzaziah, with harpes on the Sheminith to excell.
22. And Chenaniah chiefe of the Leuites was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilfull.
23. And Berechiah, and Elkanah were doore keepers for the Arke.
24. And Shebaniah, and Iehoshaphat, and Nathaneel, and Amasai, and Zachariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the Arke of God: and Obed Edom, and Iehiah were doore keepers for the Arke.
25. So Dauid and the Elders of Israel, and the captaines ouer thousands, went to bring vp the Arke of the couenant of the Lord, out of the house of Obed Edom with ioy.
26. And it came to passe when God helped the Leuites that bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lord, that they offered seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes.
27. And Dauid was clothed with a robe of fine linnen, and all the Leuites that bare the Arke, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song, with the singers. Dauid also had vpon him, an Ephod of linnen.
28. Thus all Israel brought vp the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harpes.
29. And it came to passe as the Arke of the couenant of the Lord came to the citie of Dauid, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window, saw King Dauid dauncing and playing: and shee despised him in her heart.
1. So they brought the Arke of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that Dauid had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices, and peace offerings before God.
2. And when Dauid had made an end of offering the burnt offerings, and the peace offrings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.
3. And hee dealt to euery one of Israel, both man and woman, to euery one a loafe of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
4. And he appointed certaine of the Leuites to minister before the Arke of the Lord, and to record, and to thanke and praise the Lord God of Israel,
5. Asaph the chiefe, and next to him Zachariah, Ieiel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed Edom: and Ieiel with Psalteries and with harpes: but Asaph made a sound with cymbals.
6. Benaiah also and Iahaziel the Priestes, with trumpets continually before the Arke of the Couenant of God.
7. Then on that day, Dauid deliuered first this Psalme to thanke the Lord, into the hand of Asaph and his brethren:
8. Giue thankes vnto the Lord, call vpon his name, make knowen his deeds among the people.
9. Sing vnto him, sing psalmes vnto him, talke you of all his wonderous workes.
10. Glory yee in his holy Name, let the heart of them reioyce that seeke the Lord.
11. Seeke the Lord, and his strength, seeke his face continually.
12. Remember his marueilous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the iudgements of his mouth,
13. O ye seed of Israel his seruant, ye children of Iacob his chosen ones.
14. He is the Lord our God, his iudgements are in all the earth.
15. Be ye mindfull alwayes of his Couenant: the worde which hee commanded to a thousand generations:
16. Euen of the Couenant which hee made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac:
17. And hath confirmed the same to Iacob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting Couenant,
18. Saying, vnto thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
19. When ye were but few, euen a few, and strangers in it:
20. And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another people:
21. Hee suffered no man to doe them wrong: yea, hee reprooued kings for their sakes,
22. Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.
23. Sing vnto the Lord all the earth: shew foorth from day to day his saluation.
24. Declare his glory among the heathen: his marueilous workes among all nations.
25. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared aboue all gods.
26. For all the gods of the people are idoles: but the Lord made the heauens.
27. Glory and honour are in his presence: strength and gladnesse are in his place.
28. Giue vnto the Lord, yee kinreds of the people: giue vnto the Lord glory and strength.
29. Giue vnto the Lord the glory due vnto his Name: bring an offering, and come before him, worship the Lord in the beautie of holinesse.
30. Feare before him all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not mooued.
31. Let the heauens be glad, and let the earth reioyce: and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth.
32. Let the sea roare, and the fulnesse thereof: let the fieldes reioyce, and all that is therein.
33. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because hee commeth to iudge the earth.
34. O giue thanks vnto the Lord, for hee is good: for his mercy endureth for euer.
35. And say yee, Saue vs, O God of our saluation, and gather vs together, and deliuer vs from the heathen, that we may giue thanks to thy holy Name, and glory in thy praise.
36. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer: and all the people saide, Amen, and praised the Lord.
37. So hee left there before the Arke of the couenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the Arke continually, as euery dayes worke required:
38. And Obed Edom with their brethren, threescore and eight: Obed Edom also the sonne of Ieduthun, and Hosah to be porters:
39. And Zadok the Priest, and his brethren the Priests, before the Tabernacle of the Lord, in the high place that was at Gibeon,
40. To offer burnt offerings vnto the Lord, vpon the Altar of the burnt offering continually morning and euening, and to doe according to all that is written in the Lawe of the Lord, which hee commanded Israel:
41. And with them Heman and Ieduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to giue thankes to the Lord, because his mercy endureth for euer.
42. And with them Heman and Ieduthun with trumpets and cymbales, for those that should make a sound, and with musicall instruments of God: and the sonnes of Ieduthun were Porters.
43. And all the people departed euery man to his house, and Dauid returned to blesse his house.
1. Now it came to passe, as Dauid sate in his house, that Dauid sayde to Nathan the Prophet, Loe, I dwell in an house of Cedars, but the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord remaineth vnder curtaines.
2. Then Nathan sayd vnto Dauid, Doe all that is in thine heart, for God is with thee.
3. And it came to passe the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4. Goe and tell Dauid my seruant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in.
5. For I haue not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought vp Israel, vnto this day, but haue gone from tent to tent, and from one Tabernacle to another.
6. Wheresoeuer I haue walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the Iudges of Israel (whom I commanded to feed my people) saying, Why haue ye not built me an house of Cedars?
7. Now therefore thus shalt thou say vnto my seruant Dauid, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I tooke thee from the Sheep-coat, euen from folowing the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler ouer my people Israel:
8. And I haue bene with thee whithersoeuer thou hast walked, and haue cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and haue made thee a name, like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9. Also I will ordeine a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moued no more: neither shal the children of wickednesse waste them any more (as at the beginning,
10. And since the time that I commanded Iudges to bee ouer my people Israel.) Moreouer, I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tel thee, that the Lord will build thee an house.
11. And it shall come to passe, when thy dayes be expired, that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise vp thy seed after thee, which shall bee of thy sonnes, and I wil stablish his kingdome.
12. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for euer.
13. I will be his father, and he shall be my sonne, and I will not take my mercie away from him, as I tooke it from him that was before thee.
14. But I will settle him in mine house, and in my kingdom for euer, and his throne shall bee established for euermore.
15. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speake vnto Dauid.
16. And Dauid the king came, and sate before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought mee hitherto?
17. And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God: for thou hast also spoken of thy seruants house, for a great while to come, and hast regarded mee according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
18. What can Dauid speake more to thee for the honour of thy seruant? for thou knowest thy seruant.
19. O Lord, for thy seruants sake, and according to thine owne heart, hast thou done all this greatnesse in making knowen all these great things.
20. O Lord, there is none like thee neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we haue heard with our eares.
21. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whome God went to redeeme to be his owne people, to make thee a name of greatnesse and terriblenesse, by driuing out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? 
22. For thy people Israel didst thou make thine owne people for euer, and thou, Lord, becamest their God.
23. Therefore now Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruant, and concerning his house, be established for euer, and doe as thou hast said.
24. Let it euen bee established, that thy name may bee magnified for euer, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, euen a God to Israel: and let the house of Dauid thy seruant be established before thee.
25. For thou, O my God, hast tolde thy seruant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy seruant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
26. And now, Lord (thou art God, and hast promised this goodnesse vnto thy seruant.)
27. Now therefore let it please thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may bee before thee for euer: for thou blessest, O Lord, and it shalbe blessed for euer.
1. Now after this, it came to passe, that Dauid smote the Philistines & subdued them, and tooke Gath, and her townes out of the hand of the Philistines.
2. And he smote Moab, and the Moabites became Dauids seruants, and brought gifts.
3. And Dauid smote Hadarezer king of Zobah vnto Hamath, as hee went to stablish his dominion by the riuer Euphrates.
4. And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and twentie thousand footmen: Dauid also houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them an hundred charets.
5. And when the Syrians of Damascus came to helpe Hadarezer king of Zobah, Dauid slew of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men.
6. Then Dauid put garisons in Syria Damascus, and the Syrians became Dauids seruants, and brought giftes. Thus the Lord preserued Dauid, whithersoeuer he went.
7. And Dauid tooke the shields of golde that were on the seruants of Hadarezer, & brought them to Ierusalem.
8. Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, broght Dauid very much brasse, wherewith Solomon made the brasen Sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brasse.
9. Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how Dauid had smitten all the hoste of Hadarezer king of Zobah:
10. Hee sent Hadoram his sonne to king Dauid, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because hee had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him (for Hadarezer had warre with Tou) and with him all manner of vessels of golde and siluer, and brasse.
11. Them also king Dauid dedicated vnto the Lord, with the siluer and the golde that he brought from all these nations: from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
12. Moreouer, Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah, slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt, eighteene thousand.
13. And he put garisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became Dauids seruants. Thus the Lord preserued Dauid whithersoeuer he went.
14. So Dauid reigned ouer all Israel, and executed iudgement and iustice among all his people.
15. And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the hoste, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud, Recorder.
16. And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Abimelech the sonne of Abiathar, were the Priests, and Shausha was Scribe.
17. And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the Cherethites, and the Pelethites: and the sonnes of Dauid were chiefe about the king.
1. Now it came to passe after this, that Nahash the King of the children of Ammon dyed, & his sonne reigned in his stead.
2. And Dauid sayde, I will shewe kindnesse vnto Hanun the sonne of Nahash, because his father shewed kindnesse to mee. And Dauid sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the seruants of Dauid came into the land of the children of Ammon, to Hanun, to comfort him.
3. But the Princes of the children of Ammon sayde to Hanun, Thinkest thou that Dauid doeth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters vnto thee? Are not his seruants come vnto thee for to search, and to ouerthrow, and to spie out the land?
4. Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued them, and cut off their garments in the middest, hard by their buttockes, and sent them away.
5. Then there went certeine, and told Dauid, how the men were serued, and hee sent to meet them (for the men were greatly ashamed) and the King sayde, Tary at Iericho vntill your beards be growen, and then returne.
6. And when the children of Ammon sawe, that they had made themselues odious to Dauid; Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of siluer, to hire them charets and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-Maachah, and out of Zobah.
7. So they hired thirtie and two thousand charets, and the king of Maachah and his people, who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselues together from their cities, and came to battaile.
8. And when Dauid heard of it, hee sent Ioab, and all the host of the mightie men.
9. And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battell in aray before the gate of the citie, and the kings that were come, were by themselues in the field.
10. Now when Ioab saw that the battell was set against him, before and behinde: hee chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians.
11. And the rest of the people hee deliuered vnto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselues in aray against the children of Ammon.
12. And he said, If the Syrians bee too strong for me, then thou shalt helpe me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I wil helpe thee.
13. Be of good courage, and let vs behaue our selues valiantly for our people, and for the Cities of our God: and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight.
14. So Ioab and the people that were with him, drew nigh before the Syrians, vnto the battell; and they fled before him.
15. And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entred into the city. Then Ioab came to Ierusalem.
16. And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians, that were beyond the Riuer: and Shophach the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer, went before them.
17. And it was tolde Dauid, and hee gathered all Israel, and passed ouer Iordane, and came vpon them, and set the battell in aray against them: so when Dauid had put the battell in aray against the Syrians, they fought with him.
18. But the Syrians fled before Israel, and Dauid slew of the Syrians seuen thousand men, which fought in charets, and fourty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captaine of the hoste.
19. And when the seruants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Dauid, and became his seruants: neither would the Syrians helpe the children of Ammon any more.
1. And it came to passe, that after the yeere was expired, at the time that kings goe out to battell, Ioab led forth the power of the armie, and wasted the countrey of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah (but Dauid taried at Ierusalem,) and Ioab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
2. And Dauid tooke the crowne of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it, and it was set vpon Dauids head; and hee brought also exceeding much spoile out of the city.
3. And hee brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with sawes, and with harrowes of yron, and with axes: euen so dealt Dauid with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And Dauid and all the people returned to Ierusalem.
4. And it came to passe after this, that there arose warre at Gezer with the Philistines, at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite, slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
5. And there was warre againe with the Philistines, and Elhanan the sonne of Iair, slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spearestaffe was like a weauers beame.
6. And yet againe there was warre at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were foure and twentie, sixe on each hand, and sixe on each foot. And he also was the sonne of the giant.
7. But when he defied Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shimea Dauids brother, slew him.
8. These were borne vnto the Giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of Dauid, and by the hand of his seruants.
1. And Satan stoode vp against Israel, and prouoked Dauid to number Israel.
2. And Dauid saide to Ioab, and to the rulers of the people, Goe, number Israel from Beer-sheba eueu to Dan: and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3. And Ioab answered, The Lord make his people an hundred times so many moe as they bee: but, my lord the king, are they not al my lords seruants? why then doeth my lord require this thing? why will hee bee a cause of trespasse to Israel?
4. Neuerthelesse, the kings word preuailed against Ioab: wherefore Ioab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Ierusalem.
5. And Ioab gaue the summe of the number of the people vnto Dauid: and all they of Israel were a thousand thousand, and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Iudah was foure hundred threescore and ten thousand men, that drew sword.
6. But Leui and Beniamin counted hee not among them: for the kings word was abominable to Ioab.
7. And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.
8. And Dauid saide vnto God, I haue sinned greatly, because I haue done this thing: but uow, I beseech thee, doe away the iniquitie of thy seruant, for I haue done very foolishly.
9. And the Lord spake vnto Gad, Dauids Seer, saying,
10. Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things, choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.
11. So Gad came to Dauid, and said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee
12. Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to bee destroyed before thy foes (while that the sword of thine enemies ouertaketh thee) or else three dayes the sword of the Lord, euen the pestilence in the land, and the Angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore aduise thy selfe, what word I shall bring againe to him that sent me.
13. And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a great strait. Let mee fall now into the hand of the Lord (for very great are his mercies,) but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14. So the Lord sent pestilence vpon Israel: and there fell of Israel, seuentie thousand men.
15. And God sent an Angel vnto Ierusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the euill, and said to the Angel that destroyed, It is ynough, stay now thine hand. And the Angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
16. And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and saw the Angel of the Lord stand betweene the earth and the heauen, hauing a drawen sword in his hand stretched out ouer Ierusalem. Then Dauid and the Elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackecloth, fell vpon their faces.
17. And Dauid said vnto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbred? euen I it is that haue sinned, and done euill indeed, but as for these sheepe, what haue they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my fathers house, but not on thy people, that they should bee plagued.
18. Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid should goe vp and set vp an Altar vnto the Lord, in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
19. And Dauid went vp at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the Name of the Lord.
20. And Ornan turned backe and saw the Angel, and his foure sonnes with him, hid themselues. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21. And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw Dauid, and went out of the threshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the ground.
22. Then Dauid saide to Ornan, Grant mee the place of this threshing floore, that I may build an Altar therein vnto the Lord: thou shalt grant it mee for the full price, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23. And Ornan saide vnto Dauid, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Loe, I giue thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meate offering, I giue it all.
24. And king Dauid said to Ornan; Nay, but I wil verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
25. So Dauid gaue to Ornan for the place, sixe hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26. And Dauid built there an Altar vnto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings, and called vpon the Lord, and hee answered him from heauen by fire vpon the Altar of burnt offering.
27. And the Lord commaunded the Angel, and hee put vp his sword againe into the sheath thereof.
28. At that time, when Dauid saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29. For the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wildernesse, and the Altar of the burnt offering were at that season, in the high place at Gibeon:
30. But Dauid could not goe before it to euquire of God; for he was afraid, because of the sword of the Angel of the Lord.
1. Then Dauid said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the Altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
2. And Dauid commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel: and hee set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
3. And Dauid prepared yron in abundance for the nailes for the doores of the gates, and for the ioynings, and brasse in abundance without weight;
4. Also Cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians, and they of Tyre, brought much Cedar wood to Dauid.
5. And Dauid said, Solomon my sonne is yong and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord, must be exceeding magnificall, of fame and of glory throughout all countreys: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So Dauid prepared abundantly before his death.
6. Then hee called for Solomon his sonne, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel.
7. And Dauid saide to Solomon; My sonne, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God.
8. But the word of the Lord came to mee, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great warres: thou shalt not build an house vnto my Name, because thou hast shed much blood vpon the earth in my sight.
9. Behold, a sonne shall bee borne to thee, who shall bee a man of rest, and I will giue him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shalbe Solomon, and I wil giue peace and quietnesse vnto Israel in his dayes.
10. Hee shall build an house for my Name, and he shal be my sonne, and I will be his father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdome ouer Israel for euer.
11. Now my sonne, The Lord be with thee, and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee.
12. Onely the Lord giue thee wisedome and vnderstanding, and giue thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keepe the Law of the Lord thy God.
13. Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfill the Statutes and Iudgements which the Lord charged Moses with, concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage, dread not, nor be dismayed.
14. Now beholde, in my trouble I haue prepared for the house of the Lord an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of siluer, and of brasse and yron without weight: (for it is in abundance) timber also and stone haue I prepared, and thou mayest adde thereto.
15. Moreouer, there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers, and workers of stone and timber, and all maner of cunning men for euery maner of worke:
16. Of the gold, the siluer, and the brasse, and the yron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.
17. Dauid also commanded all the Princes of Israel to helpe Solomon his sonne, saying,
18. Is not the Lord your God with you? and hath he not giuen you rest on euery side? for he hath giuen the inhabitants of the land into mine hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.
19. Now set your heart and your soule to seeke the Lord your God: arise therfore, and build ye the Sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, & the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the Name of the Lord. 
1. So when Dauid was old and full of dayes, he made Solomon his sonne king ouer Israel.
2. And he gathered together all the Princes of Israel, with the Priests and the Leuites.
3. Now the Leuites were numbred from the age of thirtie yeeres and vpward: and their number, by their polles, man by man, was thirtie and eight thousand.
4. Of which, twentie and foure thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord: and sixe thousand were Officers and Iudges.
5. Moreouer, foure thousand were porters, and foure thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made (said Dauid) to praise therewith.
6. And Dauid diuided them into courses among the sonnes of Leui, namely Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonites were Laadan, and Shimei.
8. The sonnes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, and Zetham, and Ioel, three.
9. The sonnes of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chiefe of the fathers of Laadan.
10. And the sonnes of Shimei were: Iahath, Zina, and Ieush, and Beriah. These foure were the sonnes of Shimei.
11. And Iahath was the chiefe, and Ziza the second: but Ieush and Beriah had not many sonnes: therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their fathers house.
12. The sonnes of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, foure.
13. The sonnes of Amram: Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctifie the most holy things, he and his sonnes for euer, to burne incense before the Lord, to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his Name for euer.
14. Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sonnes were named of the tribe of Leui.
15. The sonnes of Moses were: Gershom and Eliezer.
16. Of the sonnes of Gershom Shebuel was the chiefe.
17. And the sonnes of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chiefe. And Eliezer had none other sonnes: but the sonnes of Rehabiah were very many.
18. Of the sonnes of Izhar, Shelomith the chiefe.
19. Of the sonnes of Hebron, Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the third, and Iekamiam the fourth.
20. Of the sonnes of Uzziel: Michah the first, and Iesiah the second.
21. The sonnes of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sonnes of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
22. And Eleazar died, and had no sonnes but daughters: and their brethren the sonnes of Kish tooke them.
23. The sonnes of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Ierimoth, three.
24. These were the sonnes of Leui after the house of their fathers, euen the chiefe of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polles, that did the worke for the seruice of the house of the Lord, from the age of twentie yeeres and vpward.
25. For Dauid sayd, The Lord God of Israel hath giuen rest vnto his people, that they may dwell in Ierusalem for euer.
26. And also vnto the Leuites: they shall no more cary the Tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the seruice thereof.
27. For by the last words of Dauid, the Leuites were numbred from twentie yeeres olde, and aboue:
28. Because their office was to wait on the sonnes of Aaron, for the seruice of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the worke of the seruice of the house of God:
29. Both for the shew-bread, and for the fine floure for meat offering, and for the vnleauened cakes, and for that which is baked in the panne, and for that which is fried, and for all maner of measures and size:
30. And to stand euery morning to thanke and praise the Lord, and likewise at Euen:
31. And to offer all burnt sacrifices vnto the Lord in the Sabbaths, in the new moones, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded vnto them continually before the Lord:
32. And that they should keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sonnes of Aaron their brethren, in the seruice of the house of the Lord.
1. Now these are the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron. The sonnes of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2. But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: Therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the Priests office.
3. And Dauid distributed them, both Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar, according to their offices in their seruice.
4. And there were moe chiefe men found of the sonnes of Eleazar, then of the sonnes of Ithamar: and thus were they diuided. Among the sonnes of Eleazar there were sixteene chiefe men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sonnes of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
5. Thus were they diuided by lot, one sort with another; for the gouernours of the Sanctuarie, and gouernours of the house of God, were of the sonnes of Eleazar, and of the sonnes of Ithamar.
6. And Shemaiah the sonne of Nathanael the Scribe, one of the Leuites, wrote them before the King and the Princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before the chiefe of the fathers of the priests and Leuites: one principall houshold being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
7. Now the first lot came foorth to Iehoiarib: the second to Iedaiah,
8. The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
9. The fifth to Malchiiah, the sixth to Miiamin,
10. The seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah,
11. The ninth to Ieshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
12. The eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelfth to Iakim,
13. The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Ieshebeab,
14. The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
15. The seuenteenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
16. The ninteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Iehezekel,
17. The one and twentieth to Iachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
18. The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the foure and twentieth to Maaziah.
19. These were the orderings of them in their seruice to come into the house of the Lord according to their maner, vnder Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.
20. And the rest of the sonnes of Leui were these: of the sons of Amram, Shubael: of the sonnes of Shubael, Iedeiah.
21. Concerning Rehabiah, of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.
22. Of the Izharites, Shelomoth: of the sonnes of Shelomoth, Iahath.
23. And the sonnes of Hebron, Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the third, Iekameam the fourth.
24. Of the sonnes of Uzziel, Michah: of the sonnes of Michah, Shamir.
25. The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sonnes of Isshiah, Zechariah.
26. The sonnes of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sonnes of Iaaziah, Beno.
27. The sonnes of Merari by Iaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
28. Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sonnes.
29. Concerning Kish: the sonne of Kish was Ierahmeel.
30. The sonnes also of Mushi, Mahli, and Eder, and Ierimoth. These were the sonnes of the Leuites after the house of their fathers.
31. These likewise cast lots ouer against their brethren the sonnes of Aaron, in the presence of Dauid the King, and Zadok and Ahimelech, and the chiefe of the fathers of the priests and Leuites, euen the principall fathers ouer against their yonger brethren. 
1. Moreouer Dauid and the captaines of the hoste separated to the seruice of the sonnes of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Ieduthun, who should prophesie with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen, according to their seruice, was:
2. Of the sonnes of Asaph: Zaccur, and Ioseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sonnes of Asaph vnder the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
3. Of Ieduthun: the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Ieshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, sixe, vnder the handes of their father Ieduthun, who prophesied with a harpe, to giue thankes and to praise the Lord.
4. Of Heman: the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Ioshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:
5. All these were the sonnes of Heman the kings Seer in the wordes of God, to lift vp the horne. And God gaue to Heman fourteene sonnes and three daughters.
6. All these were vnder the hands of their father, for song in the house of the Lord with cymbals, psalteries and harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, according to the kings order, to Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman.
7. So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, euen all that were cunning, was two hundred, foure score and eight.
8. And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholler.
9. Now the first lot came foorth for Asaph to Ioseph, the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sonnes were twelue:
10. The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren were twelue:
11. The fourth to Izri, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:
12. The fift to Nethaniah, hee, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:
13. The sixt to Bukkiah, he, his sons and his brethren were twelue.
14. The seuenth to Iesharelah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren were twelue:
15. The eight to Ieshaiah, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue:
16. The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:
17. The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons and his brethren were twelue:
18. The eleuenth to Azareel, hee, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:
19. The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue:
20. The thirteenth to Shubael, hee, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue:
21. The fourteenth to Mattithiah, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.
22. The fifteenth to Ierimoth, hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:
23. The sixteenth to Hananiah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:
24. The seuenteenth to Ioshbekashah, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue:
25. The eighteenth to Hanani: hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:
26. The nineteenth to Mallothi, hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:
27. The twentieth to Eliathah, hee, his sonnes & his brethren, were twelue:
28. The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue.
29. The two and twentieth to Giddalti, hee, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.
30. The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.
31. The foure and twentieth to Romamti-Ezer, he, his sonnes and his brethren, were twelue.
1. Concerning the diuisions of the porters: of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the sonne of Kore, of the sonnes of Asaph.
2. And the sonnes of Meshelemiah were Zechariah the first borne, Iediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Iathniel the fourth,
3. Elam the fifth, Iehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seuenth.
4. Moreouer the sonnes of Obed-Edom were Shemaiah the first borne, Iehozabad the second, Ioah the thirde, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth.
5. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seuenth, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
6. Also vnto Shemaiah his sonne were sonnes borne, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
7. The sonnes of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men; Elihu, and Semachiah.
8. All these of the sonnes of Obed-Edom: they and their sonnes and their brethren, able men for strength for the seruice, were threescore and two of Obed-Edom.
9. And Meshelemiah had sonnes and brethren, strong men, eighteene.
10. Also Hosah of the children of Merari, had sonnes: Simri the chiefe, (for though he was not the first borne, yet his father made him the chiefe)
11. Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the thirde, Zechariah the fourth: all the sonnes and brethren of Hosah, were thirteene.
12. Among these were the diuisions of the porters, euen among the chiefe men, hauing wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.
13. And they cast lots as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers for euery gate.
14. And the lot Eastward fel to Shelemiah; then for Zechariah his sonne (a wise counseller:) they cast lots, and his lot came out Northward.
15. To Obed-Edom Southward, and to his sonnes, the house of Asuppim.
16. To Shuppim and Hosa, the lot came foorth Westward with the gate Shallecheth, by the causey of the going vp, ward against ward.
17. Eastward were sixe Leuites, Northward foure a day, Southward foure a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
18. And Parbar Westward, foure at the causey, and two at Parbar.
19. These are the diuisions of the porters among the sonnes of Kore, and among the sonnes of Merari.
20. And of the Leuites, Ahiiah was ouer the treasures of the house of God, and ouer the treasures of the dedicate things.
21. As concerning the sonnes of Laadan: the sonnes of the Gershonite Laadan, hiefe fathers; euen of Laadan the Gershonite, were Iehieli.
22. The sonnes of Iehieli, Zetham and Ioel his brother, which were ouer the treasures of the house of the Lord.
23. Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:
24. And Shebuel the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.
25. And his brethren by Eliezer: Rehabiah his sonne, and Ieshaiah his sonne, and Ioram his sonne, and Zichri his sonne, & Shelomith his sonne.
26. Which Shelomith and his brethren, were ouer all the treasures of the dedicate things, which Dauid the king and the chiefe fathers, the captaines ouer thousands and hundreds, and the captaines of the hoste had dedicated.
27. Out of the spoyles wonne in battels, did they dedicate to maintaine the house of the Lord.
28. And all that Samuel the Seer, and Saul the sonne of Kish, and Abner the sonne of Ner, and Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah had dedicated, and whosoeuer had dedicated any thing, it was vnder the hand of Shelomith and of his brethren.
29. Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sonnes, were for the outward busines ouer Israel, for officers and Iudges.
30. And of the Hebronits, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seuen hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Iorden westward, in all busines of the Lord, and in the seruice of the king.
31. Among the Hebronites was Ieriiah the chiefe, euen among the Hebronits, according to the generations of his fathers: in the fourtieth yeere of the reigne of Dauid, they were sought for, and there were found among them mightie men of valour, at Iazer of Gilead.
32. And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seuen hundred chiefe fathers, whom King Dauid made rulers ouer the Reubenites, the Gadites, & the halfe tribe of Manasseh, for euery matter perteining to God, and affaires of the king.
1. Nowe the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chiefe fathers and captaines of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that serued the king in any matter of the courses, which came in, and went out moneth by moneth, throughout all the moneths of the yeare, of euery course were twentie and foure thousand.
2. Ouer the first course for the first moneth was Iashobeam the sonne of Zabdiel, and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
3. Of the children of Perez, was the chiefe of all the captaines of the host, for the first moneth.
4. And ouer the course of the second moneth was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: In his course likewise were twentie and foure thousand.
5. The third captaine of the host for the third month was Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada a chiefe priest, and in his course were twenty and foure thousand.
6. This is that Benaiah, who was mightie among the thirtie, and aboue the thirty: and in his course was Amizabad his sonne.
7. The fourth captaine for the fourth moneth was Asahel the brother of Ioab, and Zebadiah his sonne after him: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
8. The fifth captaine for the fifth moneth, was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
9. The sixt captaine for the sixt moneth, was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
10. The seuenth captaine for the seuenth moneth was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
11. The eighth captaine for the eighth moneth, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
12. The ninth captaine for the ninth moneth, was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Beniamites: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
13. The tenth captaine for the tenth moneth, was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
14. The eleuenth captaine for the eleuenth moneth was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and foure thousand.
15. The twelfth captaine for the twelfth moneth, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twentie and foure thousand.
16. Furthermore, ouer the tribes of Israel: The Ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the sonne of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the sonne of Maachah.
17. Of the Leuites: Hashabiah the sonne of Kemuel; of the Aaronites, Zadok.
18. Of Iudah, Elihu, one of the brethren of Dauid: of Issachar, Omri the sonne of Michael.
19. Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Ierimoth the sonne of Azriel.
20. Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the sonne of Azazziah: of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Ioel the sonne of Pedaiah.
21. Of the halfe tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the sonne of Zechariah: of Beniamin, Iaasiel the son of Abner.
22. Of Dan, Azariel the sonne of Ieroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
23. But Dauid tooke not the number of them from twentie yeeres olde and vnder: because the Lord had said, hee would increase Israel like to the starres of the heauens.
24. Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel, neither was the number put in the account of the Chronicles of King Dauid.
25. And ouer the Kings treasures, was Azmaueth the sonne of Adiel: and ouer the store-houses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Iehonathan the sonne of Uzziah.
26. And ouer them that did the worke of the field, for tillage of the ground, was Ezri the sonne of Chelub.
27. And ouer the Uineyards, was Shimei the Ramathite: ouer the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars, was Sabdi the Ziphmite.
28. And ouer the Oliue trees, and the Sycomore trees that were in the lowe plaines, was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and ouer the cellars of oyle was Ioash.
29. And ouer the herdes that fed in Sharon, was Shetrai the Sharonite: and ouer the herds that were in the valleys, was Shaphat the sonne of Adlai.
30. Ouer the camels also, was Obil the Ishmaelite: and ouer the Asses, was Iehdeiah the Meronothite.
31. And ouer the flockes, was Iaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king Dauids.
32. Also Ionathan Dauids uncle, was a counseller, a wise man, and a Scribe: and Iehiel the sonne of Hachmoni, was with the kings sonnes.
33. And Ahitophel was the kings counseller, and Hushai the Archite, was the kings companion.
34. And after Ahitophel, was Iehoiada the sonne of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the Kings armie was Ioab.
1. And Dauid assembled all the Princes of Israel, the Princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministred to the king by course: and the captaines ouer the thousands, and captaines ouer the hundreds, and the stewards ouer all the substance and possession of the King, and of his sonnes, with the officers, and with the mightie men, and with all the valiant men, vnto Ierusalem.
2. Then Dauid the king stood vp vpon his feete, and said, Heare me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to builde an house of rest for the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, and for the footestoole of our God, & had made ready for the building.
3. But God said vnto me, Thou shalt not builde an house for my Name, because thou hast been a man of warre, and hast shed blood.
4. Howbeit, the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father, to be king ouer Israel for euer: for he hath chosen Iudah to be the ruler; & of the house of Iudah, the house of my father; and among the sonnes of my father, he liked me to make me king ouer all Israel:
5. And of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) hee hath chosen Solomon my sonne, to sit vpon the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer Israel.
6. And he said vnto me, Solomon thy sonne, hee shall build my house and my courts: for I haue chosen him to be my sonne, and I will be his father.
7. Moreouer, I will establish his kingdome for euer, if he be constant to do my commandements and my iudgements, as at this day.
8. Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, keepe, and seeke for all the commandements of the Lord your God, that ye may possesse this good land, and leaue it for an inheritance for your children after you, for euer.
9. And thou, Solomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a perfite heart, and with a willing minde: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for euer.
10. Take heed now, for the Lord hath chosen thee to builde an house for the Sanctuarie: be strong, and doe it.
11. Then Dauid gaue to Solomon his sonne the paterne of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the vpper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the Mercie-seate.
12. And the paterne of all that hee 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 dedicate things:
13. Also for the courses of the Priests and the Leuites, & for all the worke of the seruice of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of seruice in the house of the Lord.
14. Hee gaue of golde by weight, for things of golde, for all instruments of all manner of seruice: siluer also for all instruments of siluer, by weight, for all instruments of euery kinde of seruice:
15. Euen the weight for the Candlestickes of golde, and for their lampes of golde, by weight for euery candlesticke, and for the lampes thereof: and for the Candlestickes of siluer by weight, both for the Candlesticke and also for the lampes thereof, according to the vse of euery candlesticke.
16. And by weight hee gaue golde for the tables of shew-bread, for euery table, and likewise siluer for the tables of siluer.
17. Also pure golde for the fleshhookes, and the bowles, and the cups: and for the golden basins hee gaue golde by weight, for euery basin; and likewise siluer by weight, for euery basin of siluer.
18. And for the Altar of incense, refined golde by weight; and gold for the paterne of the charet of the Cherubims, that spread out their wings, and couered the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord.
19. All this, sayd Dauid, the Lord made mee understand in writing by his hand vpon mee, euen all the workes of this paterne.
20. And Dauid said to Solomon his sonne, Be strong, and of good courage, and doe it: feare not, nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, euen my God, will be with thee; he will not faile thee, nor forsake thee, vntill thou hast finished all the worke for the seruice of the house of the Lord.
21. And behold, the courses of the Priests and the Leuites, euen they shall be with thee for all the seruice of the house of God, and there shall be with thee for all manner of workemanship, euery willing skilfull man, for any maner of seruice: also the Princes and all the people will bee wholly at thy commandement.
1. Furthermore, Dauid the King said vnto all the congregation, Solomon my sonne, whome alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the worke is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.
2. Now I haue prepared with all my might for the house of my God, the gold for things to be made of gold, the siluer for things of siluer, and the brasse for things of brasse, the yron for things of yron, and wood for things of wood, onix stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of diuers colours, and all maner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
3. Moreouer, because I haue set my affection to the house of my God, I haue of mine owne proper good, of gold and siluer, which I haue giuen to the house of my God, ouer & aboue all that I haue prepared for the holy house:
4. Euen three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seuen thousand talents of refined siluer, to ouerlay the walles of the houses withall.
5. The gold for things of golde, and the siluer for things of siluer, and for all maner of worke to be made by the hands of Artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his seruice this day vnto the Lord?
6. Then the chiefe of the fathers and Princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captaines of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers ouer the Kings worke, offered willingly,
7. And gaue for the seruice of the house of God, of gold fiue thousand talents, and ten thousand drammes: and of siluer, ten thousand talents: and of brasse, eighteene thousand talents: and one hundred thousand talents of yron.
8. And they with whom precious stones were found, gaue them to the treasure of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Iehiel the Gershonite.
9. Then the people reioyced, for that they offred willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord: and Dauid the King also reioyced with great ioy.
10. Wherefore Dauid blessed the Lord before all the Congregation: and Dauid saide, Blessed bee thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for euer and euer.
11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatnes, and the power, and the glory, & the victorie, and the maiestie: for all that is in the heauen & in the earth, is thine: thine is the kingdome, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head aboue all.
12. Both riches, and honour come of thee, and thou reignest ouer all, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to giue strength vnto all.
13. Now therefore, our God, wee thanke thee, and praise thy glorious Name.
14. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine owne haue we giuen thee.
15. For we are strangers before thee, and soiourners, as were all our fathers: Our dayes on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
16. O Lord our God, all this store that we haue prepared to build thee an house for thine holy Name, commeth of thine hand, and is all thine owne.
17. I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in vprightnesse. As for me, in the vprightnes of mine heart I haue willingly offered all these things: and now haue I seene with ioy, thy people which are present here, to offer willingly vnto thee.
18. O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and of Israel our fathers, keepe this for euer in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart vnto thee:
19. And giue vnto Solomon my sonne a perfect heart to keepe thy Commaundements, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to doe all these things, and to build the pallace, for the which I haue made prouision.
20. And Dauid said to all the Congregation: Nowe blesse the Lord your God. And all the Congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed downe their heads, and worshipped the Lord, and the King.
21. And they sacrificed sacrifices vnto the Lord, & offered burnt offerings vnto the Lord on the morrow after that day, euen a thousand bullockes, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambes, with their drinke offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: 
22. And did eate and drinke before the Lord on that day with great gladnesse, and they made Solomon the sonne of Dauid King the second time, and anointed him vnto the Lord to be the chiefe gouernour, and Zadok to be Priest.
23. Then Solomon sate on the throne of the Lord, as king in stead of Dauid his father, and prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
24. And all the princes and the mightie men, and all the sonnes likewise of king Dauid, submitted themselues vnto Solomon the King.
25. And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed vpon him such royal maiestie, as had not bene on any king before him in Israel.
26. Thus Dauid the sonne of Iesse, reigned ouer all Israel.
27. And the time that he reigned ouer Israel, was fourtie yeeres. Seuen yeeres reigned hee in Hebron, and thirtie and three yeeres reigned hee in Ierusalem.
28. And he died in a good old age, full of dayes, riches and honour: and Solomon his sonne reigned in his stead.
29. Now the acts of Dauid the King first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of Samuel the Seer, and in the booke of Nathan the Prophet, and in the booke of Gad the Seer,
30. With all his reigne and his might, and the times that went ouer him, and ouer Israel, and ouer all the kingdomes of the countreys.
1. And Solomon the sonne of Dauid was strengthned in his kingdome, and the Lord his God was with him, & magnified him exceedingly.
2. Then Solomon spake vnto all Israel, to the captaines of thousands, and of hundreds, and to the Iudges, and to euery gouernour in all Israel, the chiefe of the fathers.
3. 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 seruant of the Lord had made in the wildernesse.
4. But the Arke of God had Dauid brought vp from Kiriath-iearim, to the place which Dauid had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Ierusalem.
5. Moreouer the brasen Altar that Bezaleel the sonne of Uri, the sonne of Hur, had made, hee put before the Tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the Congregation sought vnto it.
6. And Solomon went vp thither to the brasen Altar before the Lord, which was at the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings vpon it.
7. In that night did God appeare vnto Solomon, and saide vnto him; Aske what I shall giue thee.
8. And Solomon saide vnto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy vnto Dauid my father, and hast made me to reigne in his stead:
9. Now, O Lord God, let thy promise vnto Dauid my father be established: for thou hast made mee King ouer a people, like the dust of the earth in multitude.
10. Giue mee now wisedome and knowledge, that I may goe out and come in before this people. For who can iudge this thy people, that is so great?
11. And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisedome and knowledge for thy selfe, that thou mayest iudge my people, ouer whom I haue made thee King:
12. Wisedome and knowledge is granted vnto thee, and I will giue thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings haue had, that haue beene before thee, neither shall there any after thee haue the like.
13. Then Solomon came from his iourney to the high place that was at Gibeon, to Ierusalem, from before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and reigned ouer Israel.
14. And Solomon gathered charets and horsemen: and hee had a thousand and foure hundred charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, which he placed in the charet-cities, and with the King at Ierusalem.
15. And the King made siluer and gold at Ierusalem as plenteous as stones, and Cedar trees made hee as the Sycomore trees, that are in the vale for abundance.
16. And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarne: the Kings merchants receiued the linnen yarne at a price.
17. And they fetcht vp and brought foorth out of Egypt, a charet for sixe hundred shekels of siluer, and an horse for an hundred and fiftie: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their meanes.
1. And Solomon determined to build an house for the Name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome.
2. And Solomon told out threescore and tenne thousand men to beare burdens, and fourescore thousand to hewe in the mountaine, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them.
3. And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedars to builde him an house to dwell therein, euen so deale with me.
4. Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burne before him sweet incense, and for the continuall shew-bread, and for the burnt offrings morning and euening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new Moones, and on the solemne feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for euer to Israel.
5. And the house which I build, is great: for great is our God aboue all gods.
6. But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot conteine him? Who am I then that I should build him an house? Saue onely to burne sacrifice before him?
7. Send me now therefore a man, cunning to worke in gold and in siluer, and in brasse, and in yron, and in purple and crimson, and blew, and that can skil to graue, with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah, and in Ierusalem, whome Dauid my father did prouide.
8. Send me also Cedar trees, firre trees, and Algume trees, out of Lebanon: (for I know that thy seruants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon) and behold, my seruants shalbe with thy seruants,
9. Euen to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build, shalbe wonderfull great.
10. And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.
11. Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which hee sent to Solomon: Because the Lord hath loued his people, hee hath made thee King ouer them.
12. Huram said moreouer, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that made heauen and earth, who hath giuen to Dauid the King a wise sonne, indued with prudence and vnderstanding, that might build an house for the Lord, and an house for his kingdome.
13. And now I haue sent a cunning man (indued with vnderstanding) of Huram my fathers:
14. The sonne of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilfull to worke in golde and in siluer, in brasse, in yron, in stone and in timber, in purple, in blew, and in fine linen, and in crimson: also to graue any maner of grauing, and to find out euery deuice which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord Dauid thy father.
15. Now therefore the wheate and the barley, the oyle and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send vnto his seruants:
16. And wee will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need, and wee will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to Ioppa, and thou shalt carie it vp to Ierusalem.
17. And Solomon numbred all the strangers that were in the lande of Israel, after the numbring wherewith Dauid his father had numbred them: and they were found an hundred and fiftie thousand, and three thousand and sixe hundred.
18. And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourescore thousand to be hewers in the mountaine, and three thousand and sixe hundred ouerseers to set the people a worke.
1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Ierusalem in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared vnto Dauid his father, in the place that Dauid had prepared in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
2. And he began to build in the second day of the second moneth, in the fourth yeere of his reigne.
3. Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubites after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twentie cubites.
4. And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was atcording to the breadth of the house, twentie cubites, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he ouerlaid it within, with pure gold.
5. And the greater house hee sieled with firre tree, which he ouerlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palme trees and chaines.
6. And he garnished the house with precious stones for beautie, and the gold was gold of Paruaim.
7. Hee ouerlaid also the house, the beames, the postes and the wals thereof, and the doores thereof with gold, and graued Cherubims on the walles.
8. And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was, according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twentie cubits: and he ouerlaid it with fine gold amounting to sixe hundred talents.
9. And the weight of the nailes was fiftie shekels of gold: and he ouerlaide the vpper chambers with gold.
10. And in the most holy place hee made two Cherubims of image work, and ouerlaid them with gold.
11. And the wings of the Cherubims were twentie cubites long: one wing of the one Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise fiue cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub:
12. And one wing of the other Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was fiue cubites also, ioyning to the wing of the other Cherub.
13. The wings of these Cherubims spread themselues forth twentie cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
14. And he made the vaile of blue and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon.
15. Also hee made before the house, two pillars of thirtie and fiue cubites high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them, was fiue cubites.
16. And he made chaines, as in the Oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chaines.
17. And he reared vp the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, and called the name of that on the right hand, Iachin, and the name of that on the left, Boaz.
1. Moreouer he made an Altar of brasse, twentie cubites the length thereof, and twentie cubites the breadth thereof, and ten cubites the height therof.
2. Also he made a molten Sea of ten cubites, from brim to brim, round in compasse, and fiue cubites the height thereof, and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it round about.
3. And vnder it was the similitude of oxen, which did compasse it round about: tenne in a cubite compassing the Sea round about. Two rowes of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
4. It stood vpon twelue oxen: three looking toward the North, and three looking toward the West, and three looking toward the South, and three looking toward the East: and the Sea was set aboue vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
5. And the thicknes of it was an hand breadth, & the brim of it like the worke of the brim of a cup, with flowers of Lillies: and it receiued and held three thousand baths.
6. He made also ten Lauers, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offring, they washed in them, but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.
7. And hee made ten candlesticks of gold according to their forme, and set them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left.
8. He made also ten tables, and placed them in the Temple, fiue on the right side, and fiue on the left: and hee made an hundred basens of gold.
9. Furthermore, hee made the court of the Priests, and the great court, and doores for the court, and ouerlayd the doores of them with brasse.
10. And he set the Sea on the rightside of the East end, ouer against the South.
11. And Huram made the pots, and the shouels, and the basens, and Huram finished the worke that he was to make for King Solomon for the house of God:
12. To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreathes to couer the two pommels of the chapiters, which were on the top of the pillars:
13. And foure hundred Pomegranats on the two wreathes: two rowes of Pomegranats on each wreath, to couer the two pommels of the chapiters, which were vpon the pillars.
14. He made also bases; and lauers made he vpon the bases.
15. One Sea, & twelue oxen vnder it.
16. The pots also, and the shouels, and the fleshhookes, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to King Solomon for the house of the Lord, of bright brasse.
17. In the plaine of Iordan did the King cast them, in the clay-ground, betweene Succoth and Zeredathah.
18. Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brasse could not be found out.
19. And Solomon made all the vessels, that were for the house of God, the golden Altar also, and the tables whereon the Shew-bread was set.
20. Moreouer the candlesticks with their lampes, that they should burne after the maner, before the Oracle, of pure gold:
21. And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs made he of golde, and that perfect gold.
22. And the snuffers, and the basens, and the spoones, and the censers, of pure gold. And the entry of the house, the inner doores thereof for the most Holy place, and the doores of the house of the Temple, were of gold.
1. Thus al the worke that Solomon made for the house of the Lord, was finished: & Solomon brought in all the things that Dauid his father had dedicated; and the siluer, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2. Then Solomon assembled the Elders of Israel, and all the heads of the Tribes, the chiefe of the fathers of the children of Israel vnto Ierusalem, to bring vp the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, out of the citie of Dauid, which is Zion.
3. Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselues vnto the king in the feast, which was in the seuenth moneth.
4. And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke.
5. And they brought vp the Arke, and the tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the Priests and the Leuites bring vp.
6. Also king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him before the Arke, sacrificed sheepe and oxen, which could not be told nor numbred for multitude.
7. And the priests brought in the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord vnto his place, to the Oracle of the house, into the most holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims:
8. For the Cherubims spread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the staues thereof, aboue.
9. And they drew out the staues of the Arke, that the ends of the staues were seene from the Arke before the Oracle, but they were not seene without. And there it is vnto this day.
10. There was nothing in the Arke saue the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a couenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
11. And it came to passe when the Priests were come out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
12. Also the Leuites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, with their sonnes and their brethren, being arayed in white linnen hauing cymbals, and psalteries, and harpes, stood at the East end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twentie Priests, sounding with trumpets:)
13. It came euen to passe, as the trumpetters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord: and when they lift vp their voyce with the trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of musicke, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer: that then the house was filled with a cloude, euen the house of the Lord.
14. 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.
1. Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thicke darkenesse.
2. But I haue built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for euer.
3. And the King turned his face and blessed the whole Congregation of Israel, (and all the Congregation of Israel stood)
4. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath with his handes fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father Dauid, saying,
5. Since the day that I brought foorth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no citie among all the tribes of Israel to builde an house in, that my Name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel:
6. But I haue chosen Ierusalem, that my name might be there, and haue chosen Dauid to be ouer my people Israel.
7. Now it was in the heart of Dauid my father to build an house for the Name of the Lord God of Israel.
8. But the Lord said to Dauid my father: Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to builde an house for my Name, thou diddest well in that it was in thine heart.
9. Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come foorth out of thy loynes, he shall build the house for my Name.
10. The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen vp in the roome of Dauid my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and haue built the house for the Name of the Lord God of Israel.
11. And in it haue I put the Arke, wherein is the Couenant of the Lord, that hee made with the children of Israel.
12. And he stood before the Altar of the Lord, in the presence of all the Congregation of Israel, and spread foorth his hands:
13. (For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of fiue cubites long, and fiue cubites broad, and three cubites high, and had set it in the midst of the Court, and vpon it hee stood, and kneeled downe vpon his knees before all the Congregation of Israel, and spread foorth his hands towards heauen.)
14. And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heauen, nor in the earth, which keepest couenant, and shewest mercy vnto thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their hearts,
15. Thou which hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father, that which thou hast promised him: and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
16. Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not faile thee a man in my sight, to sit vpon the throne of Israel: yet so, that thy children take heede to their way, to walke in my Law, as thou hast walked before me.
17. Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken vnto thy seruant Dauid.
18. (But wil God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heauen, and the heauen of heauens cannot conteine thee: how much lesse this house which I haue built?)
19. Haue respect therfore to the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken vnto the cry, and the prayer which thy seruant prayeth before thee:
20. That thine eyes may bee open vpon this house day and night, vpon the place whereof thou hast saide, that thou wouldest put thy Name there, to hearken vnto the prayer, which thy seruant prayeth towards this place.
21. Hearken therefore vnto the supplications of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make towards this place: heare thou from thy dwelling place, euen from heauen; and when thou hearest, forgiue.
22. If a man sinne against his neighbour, and an oath be layd vpon him, to make him sweare, and the oath come before thine Altar in this house:
23. Then heare thou from heauen, and doe, and iudge thy seruants by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way vpon his owne head, and by iustifying the righteous, by giuing him according to his righteousnesse.
24. And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall returne and confesse thy Name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house:
25. Then heare thou from the heauens, and forgiue the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land which thou gauest to them, and to their fathers.
26. When the heauen is shut vp, and there is no raine, because they haue sinned against thee: yet if they pray towards this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them:
27. Then heare thou from heauen, and forgiue the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel; when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walke, and send raine vpon the land, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.
28. If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mil-dew, locusts or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land: whatsoeuer sore, or whatsoeuer sicknesse there be:
29. Then what prayer, or what supplication soeuer shall bee made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when euery one shal know his owne sore and his owne griefe, and shall spread foorth his hands in this house:
30. Then heare thou from heauen thy dwelling place, and forgiue, and render vnto euery man according vnto all his wayes, whose heart thou knowest (for thou onely knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
31. That they may feare thee, to walke in thy waies so long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.
32. Moreouer concerning the stranger which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a farre countrey for thy great Names sake, & thy mightie hand, and thy stretched out arme: if they come and pray in this house:
33. Then heare thou from the heauens, euen from thy dwelling place, and doe according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy Name, and feare thee, as doeth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I haue built, is called by thy Name.
34. If thy people goe out to warre against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray vnto thee toward this citie which thou hast chosen, and the house which I haue built for thy Name:
35. Then heare thou from the heauens their prayer and their supplication, and maintaine their cause.
36. If they sinne against thee (for there is no man which sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them ouer before their enemies, and they cary them away captiues vnto a land far off or neere:
37. Yet if they bethinke themselues in the land whither they are caried captiue, and turne and pray vnto thee in the land of their captiuitie, saying, Wee haue sinned, we haue done amisse, and haue dealt wickedly:
38. If they returne to thee with all their heart, and with all their soule, in the land of their captiuitie, whither they haue caried them captiues, and pray toward their land which thou gauest vnto their fathers, and toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name:
39. Then heare thou from the heauens, euen from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintaine their cause, and forgiue thy people, which haue sinned against thee.
40. Now, my God, let (I beseech thee) thine eyes bee open, and let thine eares be attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.
41. Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the Arke of thy strength: Let thy Priests, O Lord God, be clothed with saluation, and let thy Saints reioyce in goodnesse.
42. O Lord God, turne not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of Dauid thy seruant.
1. Now when Solomon had made an ende of praying, the fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the burnt offering, and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
2. And the Priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lords house.
3. And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came downe, and the glory of the Lord vpon the house, they bowed themselues with their faces to the ground vpon the pauement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For hee is good, for his mercy endureth for euer.
4. Then the King and all the people, offered sacrifices before the Lord.
5. And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twentie and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twentie thousand sheepe. So the King and all the people, dedicated the house of God.
6. And the Priests waited on their offices: the Leuites also with instruments of musicke of the Lord, which Dauid the King had made to praise the Lord, because his mercy endureth for euer, when Dauid praised by their ministerie: and the Priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
7. Moreouer, Solomon hallowed the middle of the Court, that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen Altar which Solomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
8. Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seuen dayes, and all Israel with him, a very great Congregation, from the entring in of Hamath, vnto the Riuer of Egypt.
9. And in the eight day they made a solemne assembly: for they kept the dedication of the Altar seuen dayes, and the feast seuen dayes.
10. And on the three and twentieth day of the seuenth moneth, he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodnesse that the Lord had shewed vnto Dauid, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11. Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the Kings house: and all that came into Solomons heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his owne house, hee prosperously effected.
12. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said vnto him, I haue heard thy prayer, and haue chosen this place to my selfe for an house of sacrifice.
13. If I shut vp heauen that there bee no raine, or if I command the locusts to deuoure the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:
14. If my people which are called by my Name, shall humble themselues and pray, and seeke my face, and turne from their wicked wayes: then will I heare from heauen, and will forgiue their sinne, and will heale their land.
15. Now mine eyes shalbe open, and mine eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.
16. For now haue I chosen, & sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes and mine heart shalbe there perpetually.
17. And as for thee, if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, and doe according to all that I haue commanded thee, and shalt obserue my Statutes, and my Iudgements:
18. Then wil I stablish the throne of thy kingdome, according as I haue couenanted with Dauid thy father, saying, There shall not faile thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
19. But if yee turne away and forsake my Statutes and my Commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worship them:
20. Then will I plucke them vp by the roots out of my land which I haue giuen them, and this house which I haue sanctified for my Name, wil I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a prouerbe, and a by-word among all nations.
21. And this house which is high, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it; so that hee shall say; Why hath the Lord done thus vnto this land, and vnto this house?
22. And it shalbe answered, Because they forsooke the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and layd hold on others gods, and worshipped them, aud serued them: Therefore hath hee brought all this euil vpon them.
1. And it came to passe (at the end of twentie yeeres, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, & his own house)
2. That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
3. And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and preuailed against it.
4. And he built Tadmor in the wildernesse, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
5. Also he built Beth-horon the vpper, and Beth-horon the nether, fensed cities with walles, gates and barres:
6. And Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the charet-cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
7. As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, which were not of Israel:
8. But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not; them did Solomon make to pay tribute, vntill this day.
9. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no seruants for his worke: but they were men of warre, and chiefe of his captains, and captains of his charets and horsemen.
10. And these were the chiefe of king Solomons officers, euen two hundred and fifty, that bare rule ouer the people.
11. And Solomon brought vp the daughter of Pharaoh out of the citie of Dauid, vnto the house that he had built for her: for hee said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of Dauid king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the Arke of the Lord hath come.
12. Then Solomon offered burnt offerings vnto the Lord on the Altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch:
13. Euen after a certaine rate euery day, offering according to the commandement of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new Moones, and on the solemne Feasts three times in the yeere, euen in the feast of Unleauened bread, and in the feast of Weekes, and in the feast of Tabernacles.
14. And he appointed, according to the order of Dauid his father, the courses of the Priests to their seruice, and the Leuites to their charges, to praise and minister before the Priests, as the duety of euery day required: the porters also by their courses, at euery gate: for so had Dauid the man of God commanded.
15. And they departed not from the commandement of the King vnto the Priests and Leuites, concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
16. Now all the worke of Solomon was prepared vnto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and vntill it was finished: so the house of God was perfected.
17. Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
18. And Huram sent him by the hands of his seruants, shippes, and seruants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the seruants of Solomon to Ophir, and tooke thence foure hundred and fiftie talents of golde, and brought them to king Solomon.
1. And when the Queene of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, shee came to prooue Solomon with hard questions at Ierusalem, with a very great companie, and camels that bare spices, and golde in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, shee communed with him of all that was in her heart.
2. And Solomon tolde her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon, which he told her not.
3. And when the Queene of Sheba had seene the wisedome of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
4. And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparell, his cup-bearers also, and their apparell, and his ascent, by which hee went vp into the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
5. And she said to the King, It was a true report which I heard in mine owne land, of thine actes, and of thy wisedome:
6. Howbeit, I beleeued not their wordes, vntill I came, and mine eyes had seene it: and behold, the one halfe of the greatnesse of thy wisedome was not tolde mee: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
7. Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruants, which stand continually before thee, and heare thy wisedome.
8. Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be King for the Lord thy God: because thy God loued Israel, to establish them for euer, therefore made hee thee King ouer them, to doe iudgement and iustice.
9. And she gaue the king an hundred and twentie talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, & precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the Queene of Sheba gaue King Solomon.
10. And the seruants also of Huram, and the seruants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought Algume trees and, precious stones.
11. And the king made of the Algume trees, terrises to the house of the Lord, and to the kings palace, and harpes and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seene before in the laud of Iudah.
12. And King Solomon gaue to the Queene of Sheba, all her desire, whatsoeuer she asked, besides that which she had brought vnto the king: So she turned, and went away to her owne land, she, and her seruants.
13. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one yeere, was sixe hundred and threescore and sixe talents of gold:
14. Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia, and gouernours of the countrie, brought gold and siluer to Solomon.
15. And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: sixe hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
16. And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forrest of Lebanon.
17. Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaid it with pure gold.
18. And there were sixe steps to the throne, with a footstoole of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stayes on each side of the sitting place, and two lyons standing by the stayes.
19. And twelue lyons stood there on the one side and on the other, vpon the sixe steps. There was not the like made in any kingdome.
20. And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of siluer; it was not any thing accounted of in the dayes of Solomon.
21. For the kings ships went to Tarshish with the seruants of Huram: euerie three yeeres once came the ships of Tarshish bringing golde, and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacocks.
22. And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.
23. And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to heare his wisedome, that God had put in his heart.
24. And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harnesse, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate yeere by yeere.
25. And Solomon had foure thousand stalles for horses, and charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, whom hee bestowed in the charet cities, and with the king at Ierusalem.
26. And hee reigned ouer all the kings, from the riuer, euen vnto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
27. And the king made siluer in Ierusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the Sycomore trees, that are in the low plaines, in abundance.
28. And they brought vnto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
29. Now the rest of the actes of Solomon first and last, are they not written in the booke of Nathan the Prophet, and in the prophesie of Ahiiah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the Seer, against Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat?
30. And Solomon reigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel, fourtie yeeres.
31. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and hee was buried in the citie of Dauid his father, and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
2. And it came to passe when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat (who was in Egypt, whither hee had fled from the presence of Solomon the king) heard it, that Ieroboam returned out of Egypt.
3. And they sent and called him. So Ieroboam and all Israel came, and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
4. Thy father made our yoke grieuous, nowe therefore ease thou somewhat the grieuous seruitude of thy father, and his heauy yoke that he put vpon vs, and we will serue thee.
5. And hee said vnto them, Come againe vnto me after three dayes. And the people departed.
6. And king Rehoboam tooke counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father, while hee yet liued, saying, What counsell giue ye me, to returne answere to this people?
7. And they spake vnto him, saying, If thou bee kinde to this people, and please them, and speake good words to them, they will be thy seruants for euer.
8. But he forsooke the counsel which the old men gaue him, and tooke counsell with the yong men, that were brought vp with him, that stood before him.
9. And he said vnto them, What aduice giue ye, that wee may returne answere to this people, which haue spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put vpon vs?
10. And the yong men that were brought vp with him, spake vnto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answere the people that spake vnto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heauy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for vs: thus shalt thou say vnto them, My litle finger shall be thicker then my fathers loynes.
11. For where as my father put a heauy yoke vpon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12. So Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the King bade, saying, Come againe to me on the third day.
13. And the king answered them roughly, and king Rehoboam forsooke the counsell of the old men,
14. And answered them after the aduice of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke heauy, but I will adde thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15. So the king hearkened not vnto the people, for the cause was of God, that the Lord might performe his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.
16. And when all Israel sawe that the king would not hearken vnto them, the people answered the king saying, What portion haue wee in Dauid? and wee haue none inheritance in the sonne of Iesse: Euery man to your tents, O Israel: and now Dauid, see to thine owne house. So all Israel went to their tents.
17. But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Iudah, Rehoboam reigned ouer them.
18. Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was ouer the tribute, and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died: but king Rehoboam made speed to get him vp to his charet, to flee to Ierusalem.
19. And Israel rebelled against the house of Dauid vnto this day.
1. And when Rehoboam was come to Ierusalem, he gathered of the house of Iudah and Beniamin, an hundred and fourescore thousand chosen men, which were warriers, to fight against Israel, that hee might bring the kingdome againe to Rehoboam.
2. But the worde of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
3. Speake vnto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Iudah, and to all Israel in Iudah & Beniamin, saying,
4. Thus saith the Lord; Ye shall not goe vp, nor fight against your brethren: returne euery man to his house, for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Ieroboam.
5. And Rehoboam dwelt in Ierusalem, and built cities for defence in Iudah.
6. He built euen Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
7. And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
8. And Gath, and Maresha, and Ziph,
9. And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
10. And Zorah, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Iudah and in Beniamin, fenced cities.
11. And he fortified the strong holds, and put captaines in them, and store of vitaile, and of oyle and wine.
12. And in euery seuerall citie he put shields and speares, and made them exceeding strong, hauing Iudah and Beniamin on his side.
13. And the Priests and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coasts.
14. For the Leuites left their suburbs, and their possession, and came to Iudah and Ierusalem: for Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them off from executing the Priests office vnto the Lord.
15. And hee ordeined him priests for the high places, and for the deuils, and for the calues which he had made.
16. And after them out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seeke the Lord God of Israel, came to Ierusalem, to sacrifice vnto the Lord God of their fathers.
17. So they strengthened the kingdome of Iudah, and made Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon strong, three yeeres: for three yeeres they walked in the way of Dauid and Solomon.
18. And Rehoboam tooke him Mahalath the daughter of Ierimoth the sonne of Dauid to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Iesse:
19. Which bare him children, Ieush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
20. And after her, hee tooke Maacah the daughter of Absalom, which bare him Abiiah, and Atthai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
21. And Rehoboam loued Maacah the daughter of Absalom, aboue all his wiues and his concubines: for he tooke eighteene wiues, and threescore concubines, and begate twentie and eight sonnes, and threescore daughters.
22. And Rehoboam made Abiiah the sonne of Maacah the chiefe, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
23. And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Iudah and Beniamin, vnto euery fenced citie: and he gaue them vitaile in abundance: and hee desired many wiues.
1. And it came to passe when Rehoboam had established the kingdome, and had strengthened himselfe, hee forsooke the Law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
2. And it came to passe, that in the fifth yere of Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, ( because they had transgressed against the Lord )
3. With twelue hundred charets, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubims, the Sukkiims, & the Ethiopians.
4. And hee tooke the fenced cities which perteined to Iudah, and came to Ierusalem.
5. Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the Princes of Iudah that were gathered together to Ierusalem because of Shishak, and said vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye haue forsaken me, and therfore haue I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
6. Whereupon, the Princes of Israel, and the king humbled themselues and they saide, The Lord is righteous.
7. And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselues, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They haue humbled themselues, therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliuerance, and my wrath shall not bee powred out vpon Ierusalem, by the hand of Shishak.
8. Neuerthelesse they shalbe his seruants, that they may know my seruice, and the seruice of the kingdomes of the countreys.
9. So Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, and tooke away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, hee tooke all: he caried away also the shields of gold, which Solomon had made.
10. In stead of which, king Rehoboam made shields of brasse, and committed them to the hands of the chiefe of the guard, that kept the entrance of the Kings house.
11. And when the king entred into the house of the Lord, the guard came and fet them, and brought them againe into the guard-chamber.
12. And when he humbled himselfe, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, that hee would not destroy him altogether: and also in Iudah things went well.
13. So king Rehoboam strengthened himselfe in Ierusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and fourty yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned seuenteen yeeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse.
14. And hee did euill, because hee prepared not his heart to seeke the Lord.
15. Now the acts of Rehoboam first and last, are they not written in the booke of Shemaiah the Prophet, and of Iddo the Seer, concerning genealogies? and there were warres betweene Rehoboam & Ieroboam continually.
16. And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid, and Abiiah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Nowe in the eighteenth yeere of king Ieroboam, began Abiiah to reigne ouer Iudah.
2. He reigned three yeres in Ierusalem: (his mothers name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibea:) and there was warre between Abiiah and Ieroboam.
3. And Abiiah set the battel in aray with an army of valiant men of warre, euen foure hundred thousand chosen men: Ieroboam also set the battell in aray against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mightie men of valour.
4. And Abiiah stood vp vpon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and sayde, Heare mee thou Ieroboam, and all Israel:
5. Ought you not to know, that the Lord God of Israel gaue the kingdome ouer Israel to Dauid for euer, euen to him and to his sonnes by a couenant of salt?
6. Yet Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, the seruant of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, is risen vp, and hath rebelled against his Lord.
7. And there are gathered vnto him vaine men the children of Belial, and haue strengthened themselues against Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young, & tender hearted, and could not withstand them.
8. And now ye thinke to withstand the kingdome of the Lord, in the hand of the sonnes of Dauid, and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calues, which Ieroboam made you for gods.
9. Haue yee not cast out the Priests of the Lord the sonnes of Aaron, and the Leuites, and haue made you priests after the maner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoeuer commeth to consecrate himselfe with a young bullocke and seuen rammes, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
10. But as for vs, the Lord is our God, and wee haue not forsaken him, and the Priests which minister vnto the Lord, are the sonnes of Aaron, and the Leuites waite vpon their businesse.
11. And they burne vnto the Lord euery morning, and euery euening, burnt sacrifices and sweete incense: the shew-bread also set they in order vpon the pure table, and the Candlesticke of golde with the lampes therof, to burne euery euening: for we keepe the charge of the Lord our God, but yee haue forsaken him.
12. And behold, God himselfe is with vs for our captaine, and his Priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarme against you: O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.
13. But Ieroboam caused an ambushment to come about behinde them: so they were before Iudah, and the ambushment was behind them.
14. And when Iudah looked backe, behold, the battel was before and behind; and they cried vnto the Lord, and the Priests sounded with the trumpets.
15. Then the men of Iudah gaue a shout: and as the men of Iudah shouted, it came to passe that God smote Ieroboam and all Israel, before Abiiah and Iudah.
16. And the children of Israel fled before Iudah: and God deliuered them into their hand.
17. And Abiiah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fel downe slaine of Israel, fiue hundred thousand chosen men.
18. Thus the children of Israel were brought vnder at that time, and the children of Iudah preuailed, because they relied vpon the Lord God of their fathers.
19. And Abiiah pursued after Ieroboam, & tooke cities from him, Beth-el with the townes thereof, and Ieshanah with the townes thereof, and Ephrain with the townes thereof.
20. Neither did Ieroboam recouer strength againe in the dayes of Abiiah: and the Lord strooke him, & he died.
21. But Abiiah waxed mighty, and married fourteene wiues, and begate twentie and two sonnes, and sixteene daughters.
22. And the rest of the acts of Abiiah, and his waies, and his sayings, are written in the story of the Prophet Iddo.
1. So Abiiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid, and Asa his sonne reigned in his stead: in his dayes the land was quiet ten yeeres.
2. And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
3. For hee tooke away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues:
4. And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the Law, and the Commandement.
5. Also he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah, the high places and the images: and the kingdome was quiet before him.
6. And hee built fenced cities in Iudah; for the land had rest, and hee had no warre in those yeeres; because the Lord had giuen him rest.
7. Therefore hee said vnto Iudah, Let vs build these cities, & make about them walles, and towers, gates and barres, while the land is yet before vs: because wee haue sought the Lord our God, wee haue sought him, and hee hath giuen vs rest on euery side: so they built, and prospered.
8. And Asa had an armie of men that bare targets and speares, out of Iudah three hundred thousand, and out of Beniamin, that bare shields and drew bowes, two hundred and fourescore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
9. And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian, with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred charets, and came vnto Mareshah.
10. Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battel in aray in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
11. And Asa cried vnto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to helpe, whether with many, or with them that haue no power. Helpe vs, O Lord our God, for we rest on thee, and in thy Name wee goe against this multitude: O Lord thou art our God, let not man preuaile against thee.
12. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians fled.
13. And Asa and the people that were with him, pursued them vnto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were ouerthrown, that they could not recouer themselues, for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his hoste, and they caried away very much spoile. 
14. And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the feare of the Lord came vpon them: and they spoiled all the cities, for there was exceeding much spoile in them.
15. They smote also the tents of cattell, and caried away sheepe and camels inabundance, and returned to Ierusalem.
1. And the Spirit of God came vpon Azariah the sonne of Oded.
2. And he went out to meet Asa, and said vnto him, Heare ye me, Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, The Lord is with you, while yee be with him: and if yee seeke him, he will be found of you: but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
3. Now for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
4. But when they in their trouble did turne vnto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, hee was found of them.
5. And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were vpon all the inhabitants of the countreys.
6. And nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God did vexe them with all aduersitie.
7. Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands bee weake: for your worke shall be rewarded.
8. And when Asa heard these words, and the prophesie of Oded the prophet, he tooke courage, and put away the abominable idoles out of all the lande of Iudah and Beniamin, and out of the cities which hee had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the Altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord.
9. And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: (for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.)
10. So they gathered themselues together at Ierusalem, in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Asa.
11. And they offered vnto the Lord the same time, of the spoile which they had brought, seuen hundred oxen, and seuen thousand sheepe.
12. And they entred into a couenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soule:
13. That whosoeuer would not seeke the Lord God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
14. And they sware vnto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15. And all Iudah reioyced at the oath: for they had sworne with all their heart, & sought him with their whole desire, and he was found of them: and the Lord gaue them rest round about.
16. And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he remooued her from beeing Queene, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa cut downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.
17. But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: neuerthelesse the heart of Asa was perfect all his dayes.
18. And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himselfe had dedicated, siluer, and gold, and vessels.
19. And there was no more warre vnto the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.
1. In the sixe and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came vp against Iudah, and built Ramah, to the intent that hee might let none goe out or come in to Asa king of Iudah.
2. Then Asa brought out siluer and golde out of the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the kings house, and sent to Benhadad King of Syria that dwelt at Damascus, saying;
3. There is a league betweene me and thee, as there was betweene my father and thy father: beholde, I haue sent thee siluer and golde, goe, breake thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
4. And Benhadad hearkened vnto king Asa, and sent the captaines of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Iion, and Dan, and Abelmaim, & all the store-cities of Naphtali.
5. And it came to passe, when Baasha heard it, that hee left off building of Ramah, and let his worke cease.
6. Then Asa the king tooke all Iudah, and they caried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was a building, and hee built there with Geba and Mizpah.
7. And at that time Hanani the Seer came to Asa king of Iudah, and said vnto him, Because thou hast relyed on the king of Syria, and not relyed on the Lord thy God, therefore is the hoste of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
8. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge hoste, with very many charets and horsemen? Yet because thou diddest relie on the Lord, he deliuered them into thine hand.
9. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shewe himselfe strong in the behalfe of them, whose heart is perfite towards him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; therefore, from hencefoorth thou shalt haue warres.
10. Then Asa was wroth with the Seer, and put him in a prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
11. And behold, the actes of Asa first and last, lo, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel.
12. And Asa in the thirtie and ninth yeere of his reigne, was diseased in his feete, vntill his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease hee sought not to the Lord, but to the Physicians.
13. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fourtieth yeere of his reigne.
14. And they buried him in his owne sepulchres which he had made for himselfe in the citie of Dauid, and laide him in the bed, which was filled with sweet odours, and diuers kindes of spices prepared by the Apothecaries arte: & they made a very great burning for him.
1. And Iehoshaphat his sonne reigned in his stead, and strengthened himselfe against Israel.
2. And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Iudah, and set garisons in the land of Iudah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3. And the Lord was with Iehoshaphat, because hee walked in the first wayes of his father Dauid, and sought not vnto Baalim:
4. But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandements, and not after the doings of Israel:
5. Therefore the Lord stablished the kingdome in his hand, and all Iudah brought to Iehoshaphat presents, and he had riches and honour in abundance.
6. And his heart was lift vp in the wayes of the Lord: moreouer hee tooke away the high places and groues out of Iudah.
7. Also in the third yeere of his reigne, hee sent to his princes, euen to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Iudah:
8. And with them hee sent Leuites, euen Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehonathan, and Adoniiah, and Tobiiah, and Tob-adoniiah, Leuites: and with them, Elishama and Iehoram, Priests.
9. And they taught in Iudah, and had the book of the Law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Iudah, and taught the people.
10. And the feare of the Lord fell vpon all the kingdomes of the lands that were round about Iudah, so that they made no warre against Iehoshaphat.
11. Also some of the Philistines brought Iehoshaphat presents, and tribute siluer, and the Arabians brought him flocks, seuen thousand and seuen hundred rammes, and seuen thousand and seuen hundred he goats.
12. And Iehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly, and he built in Iudah castles, and cities of store.
13. And he had much businesse in the cities of Iudah: and the men of warre, mightie men of valour, were in Ierusalem.
14. And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Iudah, the captaines of thousands, Adnah the chiefe, and with him mighty men of valour, three hundred thousand.
15. And next to him was Iehohanan the captaine, and with him two hundred and fourescore thousand.
16. And next him was Amasiah the sonne of Zichri, who willingly offered himselfe vnto the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand mightie men of valour.
17. And of Beniamin, Eliada a mightie man of valour, and with him, armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
18. And next him was Iehoshabad, and with him an hundred and foure score thousand, ready prepared for the warre.
19. These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Iudah.
1. Now Iehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and ioyned affinitie with Ahab.
2. And after certaine yeeres, he went downe to Ahab to Samaria: and Ahab killed sheepe and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and perswaded him to goe vp with him to Ramoth Gilead.
3. And Ahab king of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat king of Iudah, Wilt thou goe with me to Ramoth Gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the warre.
4. And Iehoshaphat saide vnto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.
5. Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets foure hundred men, and said vnto them, Shal we goe to Ramoth Gilead to battel, or shal I forbeare? And they said, Goe vp, for God will deliuer it into the kings hand.
6. But Iehoshaphat saide, Is there not here a Prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?
7. And the king of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him, for he neuer prophesied good vnto me, but alwayes euill: the same is Micaiah the sonne of Iimla. And Iehoshaphat saide, Let not the king say so.
8. And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and saide, Fetch quickly Micaiah the sonne of Iimla.
9. And the king of Israel and Iehoshaphat king of Iudah sate, either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sate in a voide place at the entring in of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.
10. And Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah, had made him hornes of yron, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria, vntil they be consumed.
11. And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Goe vp to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the hand of the king.
12. And the messenger that went to call Micaiah, spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent: let thy word therefore, I pray thee be like one of theirs, and speake thou good.
13. And Micaiah said, As the Lord liueth, euen what my God saith, that will I speake.
14. And when hee was come to the king, the king sayd vnto him, Micaiah, shall we goe to Ramoth Gilead to battell, or shall I fobreare? and he sayd, Goe yee vp, and prosper, and they shall be deliuered into your hand.
15. And the king sayd to him, Howe many times shall I adiure thee, that thou say nothing but the trthh to me, in the name of the Lord?
16. Then he sayd, I did see all Israel scattered vpon the mountaines, as sheepe that haue no shepheard: and the Lord sayd, These haue no master, let them returne therefore, euery man to his house in peace.
17. (And the king of Israel sayd to Iehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee, that hee would not prophesie good vnto mee, but euill?)
18. Againe he sayd; Therefore heare the word of the Lord: I sawe the Lord sitting vpon his throne, and all the hoste of heauen standing on his right hand, and on his left.
19. And the Lord sayd, Who shall entise Ahab king of Israel, that hee may goe vp and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one spake, saying after this maner, and another saying after that maner.
20. Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and sayd, I will entise him. And the Lord sayd vnto him, Wherewith?
21. And hee sayd, I will goe out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord sayd, Thou shalt entise him, and thou shalt also preuaile: goe out, and doe euen so.
22. Nowe therefore behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken euill against thee.
23. Then Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah, came neere, and smote Micaiah vpon the cheeke, and sayd, Which way went the spirit of the Lord from mee, to speake vnto thee?
24. And Micaiah sayd, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt goe into an inner chamber to hide thy selfe.
25. Then the king of Israel sayd, Take yee Micaiah, and carie him backe to Amon the gouernour of the citie, and to Ioash the kings sonne:
26. And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feede him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, vntill I returne in peace.
27. And Micaiah sayd, If thou certainly returne in peace, then hath not the Lord spoken by mee. And hee sayd, Hearken all yee people.
28. So the king of Israel, and Iehoshaphat the king of Iudah, went vp to Ramoth Gilead.
29. And the king of Israel sayd vnto Iehoshaphat, I will disguise my selfe, and will goe to the battell, but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himselfe, and they went to the battell.
30. Now the king of Syria had commaunded the captaines of the charets that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, saue onely with the king of Israel.
31. And it came to passe when the captaines of the charets saw Iehoshaphat, that they sayd, It is the king of Israel: therefore they compassed about him to fight. But Iehoshaphat cryed out, and the Lord helped him, and God moued them to depart from him.
32. For it came to passe, that when the captaines of the charets perceiued that it was not the king of Israel, they turned backe againe from pursuing him.
33. And a certaine man drew a bowe at a venture, and smote the king of Israel betweene the ioints of the harnesse: therefore hee sayd to his charetman, Turne thine hand, that thou mayest carie me out of the hoste, for I am wounded.
34. And the battell increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himselfe vp in his charet against the Syrians, vntill the Euen: and about the time of the sunne going downe, hee dyed.
1. And Iehoshaphat the king of Iudah returned to his house in peace to Ierusalem.
2. And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the seer, went out to meete him, and sayd to king Iehoshaphat, Shouldest thou helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the Lord ? Therefore is wrath vpon thee from before the Lord.
3. Neuerthelesse, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.
4. And Iehoshaphat dwelt at Ierusalem: and hee went out againe through the people, from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them backe vnto the Lord God of their fathers.
5. And he set Iudges in the land, throughout all the fenced cities of Iudah, city by city,
6. And said to the Iudges, Take heed what ye doe: for yee iudge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the iudgement.
7. Wherefore now, let the feare of the Lord be vpon you, take heed and doe it: for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
8. Moreouer in Ierusalem did Iehoshaphat set of the Leuites, and of the Priests, and of the chiefe of the fathers of Israel, for the iudgement of the Lord, and for controuersies, when they returned to Ierusalem.
9. And hee charged them, saying, Thus shall yee doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
10. And what cause soeuer shal come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, betweene blood and blood, betweene Law and Commandement, Statutes and Iudgements, yee shall euen warne them that they trespasse not against the Lord, and so wrath come vpon you, and vpon your brethren: this doe, & ye shall not trespasse.
11. And behold, Amariah the chiefe Priest is ouer you in all matters of the Lord, and Zebadiah the sonne of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Iudah, for all the Kings matters: Also the Leuites shall be officers before you. Deale couragiously, and the Lord shalbe with the good.
1. It came to passe after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them, other beside the Ammonites, came against Iehoshaphat to battell.
2. Then there came some that tolde Iehoshaphat, saying, There commeth a great multitude against thee from beyond the Sea on this side Syria, and behold, they bee in Hazazon-Tamar, which is En-gedi.
3. And Iehoshaphat feared, and set himselfe to seeke the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Iudah.
4. And Iudah gathered themselues together, to aske helpe of the Lord: euen out of all the cities of Iudah they came to seeke the Lord.
5. And Iehoshaphat stood in the Congregation of Iudah and Ierusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new Court,
6. And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heauen? and rulest not thou ouer all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
7. Art not thou our God, who didst driue out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gauest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for euer?
8. And they dwelt therein, and haue built thee a Sanctuarie therein for thy Name, saying,
9. If, when euill commeth vpon vs, as the sword, iudgement, or pestilence, or famine, wee stand before this house, and in thy presence (for thy Name is in this house) and cry vnto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt heare & helpe.
10. And now behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel inuade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not:
11. Beholde, I say, how they reward vs, to come to cast vs out of thy possession, which thou hast giuen vs to inherit.
12. O our God, wilt thou not iudge them? for wee haue no might against this great company that commeth against vs? neither know wee what to doe; but our eyes are vpon thee.
13. And all Iudah stood before the Lord, with their litle ones, their wiues and their children.
14. Then vpon Iahaziel the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Benaiah, the sonne of Iehiel, the sonne of Mattaniah, a Leuite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the Congregation:
15. And he said, Hearken yee, all Iudah, and ye inhabitants of Ierusalem, and thou king Iehoshaphat, Thus sayth the Lord vnto you; Be not afraid, nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battell is not yours, but Gods.
16. To morrow goe ye downe against them: behold, they come vp by the cliffe of Ziz, and ye shall finde them at the end of the brooke, before the wildernesse of Ieruel.
17. Yee shall not neede to fight in this battell; set your selues, stand yee still, and see the saluation of the Lord with you, O Iudah and Ierusalem: feare not, nor be dismayed; to morow goe out against them, for the Lord will bee with you.
18. And Iehoshaphat bowed his head, with his face to the ground: and all Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, fell before the Lord, worshipping the Lord.
19. And the Leuites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood vp to praise the Lord God of Israel, with a loude voice on high.
20. And they rose early in the morning, and went foorth into the wildernesse of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Iehoshaphat stood and said, Heare me, O Iudah, and yee inhabitants of Ierusalem; Beleeue in the Lord your God, so shall you be established; beleeue his Prophets, so shall yee prosper.
21. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed Singers vnto the Lord, and that should praise the beautie of holinesse, as they went out before the armie; and to say, Praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth for euer.
22. And when they beganne to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Iudah, and they were smitten.
23. For the children of Ammon and Moab, stood vp against the inhabitants of mount Seir, vtterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, euery one helped to destroy another.
24. And when Iudah came toward the watch-tower in the wildernesse, they looked vnto the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
25. And when Iehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoile of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious iewels (which they stript off for themselues) more then they could cary away: and they were three dayes in gathering of the spoile, it was so much.
26. And on the fourth day they assembled themselues in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the Lord: therfore the name of the same place was called the valley of Berachah vnto this day.
27. Then they returned, euery man of Iudah and Ierusalem, and Iehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go againe to Ierusalem with ioy: for the Lord had made them to reioyce ouer their enemies.
28. And they came to Ierusalem with Psalteries, and harpes, and trumpets, vnto the house of the Lord.
29. And the feare of God was on all the kingdoms of those countreys, when they had heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel.
30. So the Realme of Iehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gaue him rest round about.
31. And Iehoshaphat reigned ouer Iudah: Hee was thirtie and fiue yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned twentie and fiue yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
32. 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.
33. Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts vnto the God of their fathers.
34. Now the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of Iehu the sonne of Hanani; who is mentioned in the booke of the Kings of Israel.
35. And after this did Iehoshaphat king of Iudah ioine himselfe with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
36. And he ioyned himselfe with him to make ships to goe to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-Geber.
37. Then Eliezer the sonne of Dodanah of Mareshah, prophesied against Iehoshaphat, saying; Because thou hast ioyned thy selfe with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy workes: and the ships were broken, that they were not able to goe to Tarshish.
1. Now Iehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his stead.
2. And he had brethren the sonnes of Iehoshaphat, Azariah, and Iehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: All these were the sonnes of Iehoshaphat king of Israel.
3. And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Iudah: but the kingdome gaue hee to Iehoram, because he was the first borne.
4. Now when Iehoram was risen vp to the kingdome of his father, he strengthened himselfe, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and diuers also of the Princes of Israel.
5. Iehoram was thirtie and two yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned eight yeeres in Ierusalem.
6. And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for hee had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was euill in the eyes of the Lord.
7. Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenant that hee had made with Dauid, and as hee promised, to giue a light to him and to his sons for euer.
8. In his dayes the Edomites reuolted from vnder the dominion of Iudah, and made themselues a king.
9. Then Iehoram went forth with his Princes, and all his charets with him: and he rose vp by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captaines of the charets.
10. So the Edomites reuolted from vnder the hand of Iudah vnto this day. The same time also did Libnah reuolt from vnder his hand, because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.
11. Moreouer, he made high places in the mountaines of Iudah, and caused the inhabitants of Ierusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Iudah thereto.
12. And there came a writing to him from Eliiah the Prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehoshaphat thy father, nor in the wayes of Asa king of Iudah:
13. But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to goe a whoring, like to the whoredomes of the house of Ahab, and also hast slaine thy brethren of thy fathers house, which were better then thy selfe:
14. Behold, with a great plague wil the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy goods.
15. And thou shalt haue great sicknesse by disease of thy bowels, vntil thy bowels fall out, by reason of the sickenesse day by day.
16. Moreouer, the Lord stirred vp against Iehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were neere the Ethiopians.
17. And they came vp into Iudah, and brake into it, and caried away all the substance that was found in the kings house, and his sonnes also and his wiues; so that there was neuer a sonne left him, saue Iehoahaz, the yongest of his sonnes.
18. And after all this, the Lord smote him in his bowels, with an incurable disease.
19. And it came to passe, that in processe of time, after the end of two yeres, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickenesse: so hee dyed of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
20. Thirtie and two yeeres old was he when he began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem eight yeeres, and departed without being desired: howbeit, they buried him in the citie of Dauid, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
1. And the inhabitants of Ierusalem made Ahaziah his yongest sonne, king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the campe, had slaine all the eldest. So Ahaziah the sonne of Iehoram king of Iudah reigned.
2. Fourtie and two yeeres old was Ahaziah, when he began to reigne, and he reigned one yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
3. Hee also walked in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to doe wickedly.
4. Wherefore he did euill 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.
5. He walked also after their counsell, and went with Iehoram the sonne of Ahab king of Israel, to warre against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians smote Ioram.
6. And he returned to bee healed in Iezreel, because of the wounds which were giuen him at Ramah when hee fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the sonne of Iehoram king of Iudah, went downe to see Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Iezreel, because he was sicke.
7. And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by comming to Ioram: For when he was come, hee went out with Iehoram against Iehu the sonne of Nimshi, whome the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
8. And it came to passe, that when Iehu was executing iudgement vpon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Iudah, and the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministred to Ahaziah, he slew them.
9. And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him (for he was hid in Samaria) and brought him to Iehu: and when they had slaine him, they buried him: because, said they, hee is the sonne of Iehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keepe still the kingdome.
10. But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, sawe that her sonne was dead, shee arose, and destroyed all the seed royall of the house of Iudah.
11. But Iehoshabeath the daughter of the king, tooke Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the kings sonnes, that were slaine, and put him and his nurse in a bed chamber. So Iehoshabeath the daughter of king Iehoram, the wife of Iehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
12. And he was with them hid in the house of God sixe yeeres, and Athaliah reigned ouer the land.
1. And in the seuenth yeere Iehoiada strengthened himselfe, and tooke the captaines of hundreds, Azariah the sonne of Ieroham, and Ishmael the sonne of Iehohanan, and Azariah the sonne of Obed, and Maasiah the sonne of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the sonne of Zichri, into couenant with him.
2. And they went about in Iudah, and gathered the Leuites out of all the cities of Iudah, and the chiefe of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Ierusalem.
3. And all the Congregation made a couenant with the king in the house of God: and he said vnto them, Beholde, the kings sonne shall reigne, as the Lord hath said of the sonnes of Dauid.
4. This is the thing that yee shall doe, A third part of you entring on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Leuites, shalbe porters of the doores.
5. And a thirde part shall bee at the kings 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.
6. But let none come into the house of the Lord, saue the Priests, & they that minister of the Leuites, they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keepe the watch of the Lord.
7. And the Leuites shall compasse the king round about, euery man with his weapons in his hand, and whosoeuer else commeth into the house, hee shalbe put to death: but be you with the King when he commeth in, and when he goeth out.
8. So the Leuites and all Iudah did according to all things that Iehoiada the Priest had commanded: and tooke euery man his men that were to come in on the Sabbath, with them that were to goe out on the Sabbath: for Iehoiada the Priest dismissed not the courses.
9. Moreouer, Iehoiada the Priest deliuered to the captaines of hundreds, speares and bucklers, and shields, that had bene King Dauids, which were in the house of God.
10. And hee set all the people (euery man hauing his weapon in his hand) from the right side of the Temple, to the left side of the Temple, along by the Altar and the Temple, by the King, round about.
11. Then they brought out the kings sonne, and put vpon him the Crowne, and gaue him the Testimony, and made him King: and Iehoiada and his sonnes anointed him, and said, God saue the King.
12. 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.
13. And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar, at the entring in, and the Princes, and the trumpets by the King: and all the people of the land reioyced, and sounded with trumpets; also the singers with instruments of musicke; and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, treason.
14. Then Iehoiada the Priest brought out the captaines of hundreds, that were set ouer the host, and said vnto them, Haue her foorth of the ranges: and who so followeth her, let him bee slaine with the sword. For the Priest said; Slay her not in the house of the Lord.
15. So they layd handes on her, and when shee was come to the entring of the horse gate, by the kings house, they slew her there.
16. And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene him, and betweene all the people, and betweene the king, that they should be the Lords people.
17. Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it downe, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
18. Also Iehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the Lord by the hand of the Priests the Leuites, whom Dauid had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offrings of the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with reioycing and with singing, as it was ordeined by Dauid.
19. And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which was vncleane in any thing, should enter in.
20. And hee tooke the captaines of hundreds, and the nobles, and the gouernours of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought downe the king from the house of the Lord: and they came through the high gate into the kings house, and set the king vpon the throne of the kingdome.
21. And all the people of the land reioyced, and the city was quiet, after that they had slaine Athaliah wt the sword.
1. Ioash was seuen yeeres old when he beganne to reigne; and he reigned fortie yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba.
2. And Ioash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, all the dayes of Iehoiada the Priest.
3. And Iehoiada tooke for him two wiues, and he begat sonnes and daughters.
4. And it came to passe after this that Ioash was minded to repaire the house of the Lord.
5. And hee gathered together the priests and the Leuites, and saide to them, Go out vnto the cities of Iudah, and gather of all Israel money to repaire the house of your God from yeere to yere, and see that ye haste the matter: howbeit the Leuites hastened it not.
6. And the king called for Iehoiada the chiefe, and saide vnto him, Why hast thou not required of the Leuites to bring in out of Iudah and out of Ierusalem, the collection, according to the commandement of Moses the seruant of the Lord, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of Witnesse?
7. For the sonnes of Athaliah that wicked woman, had broken vp the house of God, and also all the dedicate things of the house of the Lord, did they bestow vpon Baalim.
8. And at the kings commandement they made a chest, and set it without, at the gate of the house of the Lord.
9. And they made a proclamation through Iudah & Ierusalem, to bring in to the Lord, the collection that Moses the seruant of God laid vpon Israel in the wildernesse.
10. And all the Princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill they had made an ende.
11. Now it came to passe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites: and when they sawe that there was much money: the kings Scribe, and the high priests officer, came and emptied the chest, and tooke it, and caried it to his place againe. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
12. And the king and Iehoiada gaue it to such as did the worke of the seruice of the house of the Lord, and hired Masons and carpenters to repaire the house of the Lord, and also such as wrought yron and brasse to mend the house of the Lord.
13. So the workemen wrought, and the worke was perfected by them: and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
14. And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Iehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the Lord, euen vessels to minister and to offer withall, and spoones, and vessels of golde and siluer: and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually, all the dayes of Iehoiada.
15. But Iehoiada waxed old, and was full of dayes when hee died: an hundred and thirtie yeeres olde was hee when hee died.
16. And they buried him in the citie of Dauid among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both towards God, and towards his house.
17. Now after the death of Iehoiada, came the Princes of Iudah, and made obeysance to the king: then the king hearkened vnto them.
18. And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and serued groues and idols: and wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem for this their trespasse.
19. Yet hee sent prophets to them to bring them againe vnto the Lord, and they testified against them: but they would not giue eare.
20. And the spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the priest, which stood aboue the people, and said vnto them: Thus saith God, Why transgresse yee the commandements of the Lord, that yee cannot prosper? Because yee haue forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.
21. And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandement of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord.
22. Thus Ioash the king remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his sonne: and when he died, he said, The Lord looke vpon it, and require it.
23. And it came to passe at the end of the yeere, that the hoste of Syria came vp against him: and they came to Iudah and Ierusalem, and destroyed all the Princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoile of them vnto the king of Damascus.
24. For the armie of the Syrians came with a small companie of men, and the Lord deliuered a very great hoste into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers: so they executed iudgement against Ioash.
25. And when they were departed from him (for they left him in great diseases) his owne seruants conspired against him, for the blood of the sonnes of Iehoiada the Priest, and slewe him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the citie of Dauid, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the Kings.
26. And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the sonne of Shimeah an Ammonitesse, and Iehozabad the sonne of Shimrith a Moabitesse.
27. Now concerning his sonnes, and the greatnesse of the burdens laide vpon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the booke of the Kings. And Amaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Amaziah was twentie and fiue yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned twentie and nine yeeres in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iehoadan of Ierusalem.
2. And hee did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfite heart.
3. Now it came to passe when the kingdome was established to him, that he slew his seruants, that had killed the king his father.
4. But hee slewe not their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the booke of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but euery man shall die for his owne sinne.
5. Moreouer, Amaziah gathered Iudah together, and made them Captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Iudah and Beniamin: And he numbred them from twentie yeeres olde and aboue, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to goe foorth to warre, that could handle speare and shield.
6. Hee hired also an hundred thousand mightie men of valour, out of Israel, for an hundred talents of siluer.
7. But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the armie of Israel goe with thee: for the Lord is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
8. But if thou wilt goe, doe it, bee strong for the battell: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to helpe, and to cast downe.
9. And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall wee doe for the hundred talents which I haue giuen to the armie of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to giue thee much more then this.
10. Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the armie that was come to him out of Ephraim, to goe home againe. Wherfore their anger was greatly kindled against Iudah, and they returned home in great anger.
11. And Amaziah strengthened himselfe, and ledde foorth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir, ten thousand.
12. And other ten thousand left aliue, did the children of Iudah cary away captiue, and brought them vnto the top of the rocke, and cast them downe from the top of the rocke, that they all were broken in pieces.
13. But the souldiers of the army which Amaziah sent backe, that they should not goe with him to battell, fell vpon the cities of Iudah, from Samaria euen vnto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoile.
14. Now it came to passe, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that hee brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them vp to be his gods, and bowed down himselfe before them, and burned incense vnto them.
15. Wherfore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amaziah, and hee sent vnto him a Prophet, which said vnto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliuer their owne people out of thine hand?
16. And it came to passe as hee talked with him, that the king said vnto him, Art thou made of the Kings counsell? forbeare; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the Prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened vnto my counsell.
17. Then Amaziah king of Iudah tooke aduice, and sent to Ioash the sonne of Iehoahaz the sonne of Iehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let vs see one another in the face.
18. And Ioash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Iudah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon, sent to the Cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode downe the thistle.
19. Thou sayest, Loe, thou hast smitten the Edomites, and thine heart lifteth thee vp to boast. Abide now at home, why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, euen thou, and Iudah with thee?
20. But Amaziah would not heare: for it came of God, that he might deliuer them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
21. So Ioash the King of Israel went vp, and they saw one another in the face, both hee and Amaziah King of Iudah at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Iudah.
22. And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled euery man to his tent.
23. And Ioash the king of Israel tooke Amaziah king of Iudah the son of Ioash, the son of Ioahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, foure hundred cubits. 
24. And hee tooke all the gold and the siluer, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the kings house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25. And Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah liued after the death of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz king of Israel, fifteene yeeres.
26. Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel?
27. Now after the time that Amaziah did turne away from following the Lord, they made a conspiracie against him in Ierusalem, and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
28. And they brought him vpon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the citie of Iudah.
1. Then all the people of Iudah tooke Uzziah, who was sixteene yeeres old, and made him King in the roome of his father Amaziah.
2. He built Eloth, and restored it to Iudah: after that the King slept with his fathers.
3. Sixteene yeeres old was Uzziah, when he began to reigne, and he reigned fiftie and two yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Iecoliah of Ierusalem.
4. And hee did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
5. And hee sought God in the dayes of Zechariah, who had vnderstanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.
6. And hee went foorth and warred against the Philistines, & brake downe the wall of Gath, and the wall of Iabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
7. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
8. And the Ammonites gaue gifts to Uzziah, and his name spread abroad euen to the entring in of Egypt: for hee strengthened himselfe exceedingly.
9. Moreouer Uzziah built towers in Ierusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
10. Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many welles, for hee had much cattell, both in the low countrey, and in the plaines: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountaines, and in Carmel: for hee loued husbandrie.
11. Moreouer, Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to warre by bands, according to the number of their account, by the hand of Ieiel the Scribe, and Maasiah the ruler, vnder the hand of Hananiah, one of the kings captaines.
12. The whole number of the chiefe of the fathers of the mightie men of valour, were two thousand and sixe hundred.
13. And vnder their hand was an armie, three hundred thousand, and seuen thousand, and fiue hundred, that made warre with mightie power, to helpe the king against the enemie.
14. And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the hoste, shields, and speares, and helmets, and habergions, and bowes, and slings to cast stones.
15. And hee made in Ierusalem engines inuented by cunning men, to bee on the towers, & vpon the bulwarks, to shoote arrowes and great stones withall: and his name spread farre abroad, for he was marueilously helped, till he was strong.
16. But when he was strong, his heart was lifted vp to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord, to burne incense vpon the altar of incense.
17. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourescore priests of the Lord, that were valiant men.
18. And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said vnto him, It perteineth not vnto thee, Uzziah, to burne incense vnto the Lord, but to the priestes the sonnes of Aaron, that are consecrated to burne incense. Goe out of the Sanctuarie; for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God.
19. Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand, to burne incense, and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosie euen rose vp in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar.
20. And Azariah the chiefe priest, and all the priests looked vpon him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence, yea himselfe hasted also to goe out, because the Lord had smitten him.
21. And Uzziah the king was a leper vnto the day of his death, and dwelt in a seuerall house being a leper, for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Iotham his sonne was ouer the kings house, iudging the people of the land.
22. Now the rest of the actes of Uzziah first and last, did Isaiah the prophet the sonne of Amoz write.
23. So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the buriall which belonged to the kings: for they saide, He is a leper: And Iotham his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Iotham was twenty and fiue yeeres olde, when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned sixteene yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Ierushah, the daughter of Zadok.
2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit hee entred not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.
3. He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel, he built much.
4. Moreouer hee built cities in the mountaines of Iudah, and in the forrests he built castles and towers.
5. He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and preuailed against them. And the children of Ammon gaue him the same yeere an hundred talents of siluer, and ten thousand measures of wheate, and tenne thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay vnto him, both the second yeere, and the third.
6. So Iotham became mightie, because he prepared his wayes before the Lord his God.
7. Now the rest of the actes of Iotham and all his warres, and his wayes, lo, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah.
8. Hee was fiue and twentie yeeres olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeeres in Ierusalem.
9. And Iotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Dauid: and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Ahaz was twentie yeeres olde when hee beganne to reigne, and he reigned sixteene yeres in Ierusalem: but hee did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like Dauid his father.
2. For he walked in the wayes of the Kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
3. Moreouer, he burnt incense in the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, & burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whome the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
4. Hee sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hils, and vnder euery greene tree.
5. Wherefore the Lord his God deliuered him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they smote him, and caried away a great multitude of them captiues, and brought them to Damascus: And he was also deliuered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him wich a great slaughter.
6. For Pekah the sonne of Remaliah slew in Iudah an hundred & twentie thousand in one day, which were all valiant men: because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.
7. And Zichri a mightie man of Ephraim, slue Maaseiah the kings sonne, and Azrikam the gouernour of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the King.
8. And the children of Israel caried away captiue of their brethren, two hundred thousand, women, sonnes and daughters, and tooke also away much spoile from them, and brought the spoile to Samaria.
9. But a Prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded: and hee went out before the hoste that came to Samaria, and said vnto them, Behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was wroth with Iudah, he hath deliuered them into your hand, and yee haue slaine them in a rage that reacheth vp vnto heauen.
10. And now ye purpose to keepe vnder the children of Iudah and Ierusalem for bondmen, and bondwomen vnto you: But are there not with you, euen with you, sinnes against the Lord your God?
11. Now heare me therefore, and deliuer the captiues againe, which ye haue taken captiue of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of God is vpon you.
12. Then certeine of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the sonne of Iohanan, Berechiah the sonne of Meshillemoth, and Iehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the sonne of Hadlai, stood vp against them that came from the warre,
13. And said vnto them, Ye shall not bring in the captiues hither: for whereas wee haue offended against the Lord already, ye intend to adde more to our sinnes and to our trespasse: for our trespasse is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
14. So the armed men left the captiues, and the spoile before the Princes, and all the congregation.
15. And the men which were expressed by name, rose vp and tooke the captiues, and with the spoile clothed all that were naked among them, and arayed them, and shod them, and gaue them to eate and to drinke, and anointed them, and caried all the feeble of them vpon asses, and brought them to Iericho, the city of palme-trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
16. At that time did king Ahaz send vnto the kings of Assyria to helpe him.
17. For againe the Edomites had come and smitten Iudah, and caried away captiues.
18. The Philistines also had inuaded the cities of the low-countrey, and of the South of Iudah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aialon, and Gedetoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also, and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
19. For the Lord brought Iudah low, because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Iudah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.
20. And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria came vnto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
21. For Ahaz tooke away a portion out of the house of the Lord, and out of the house of the King, and of the Princes, and gaue it vnto the King of Assyria: but he helped him not.
22. And in the time of this distresse did hee trespasse yet more against the Lord: This is that king Ahaz.
23. For he sacrificed vnto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helpe them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may helpe me: but they were the ruine of him, and of all Israel.
24. And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut vp the doores of the house of the Lord, and hee made him altars in euery corner of Ierusalem.
25. And in euery seuerall city of Iudah hee made high places to burne incense vnto other gods, and prouoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.
26. Now the rest of his acts, and of all his wayes, first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of the kings of Iudah and Israel.
27. And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie, euen in Ierusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Hezekiah began to reigne when hee was fiue and twentie yeeres old, and he reigned nine and twentie yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Abiiah the daughter of Zechariah.
2. And hee did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Dauid his father had done.
3. He, in the first yere of his reigne, in the first moneth, opened the doores of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
4. And hee brought in the Priests, and the Leuites, and gathered them together into the East street,
5. And said vnto them, Heare me, ye Leuites, sanctifie now your selues, and sanctifie the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and cary foorth the filthinesse out of the holy place.
6. For our fathers haue trespassed, and done that which was euill in the eyes of the Lord our God, and haue forsaken him, and haue turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
7. Also they haue shut vp the doores of the Porch, and put out the lampes, and haue not burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place, vnto the God of Israel.
8. Wherfore the wrath of the Lord was vpon Iudah and Ierusalem, and he hath deliuered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as yee see with your eyes.
9. For loe, our fathers haue fallen by the sword, and our sonnes and our daughters, and our wiues, are in captiuitie for this.
10. Now it is in mine heart to make a couenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turne away from vs.
11. My sonnes, bee not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serue him, and that you should minister vnto him, and burne incense.
12. Then the Leuites arose, Mahath the sonne of Amashai, and Ioel the sonne of Azariah, of the sonnes of the Kohathites: and of the sonnes of Merari, Kish the sonne of Abdi, and Azariah the sonne of Iahalelel: and of the Gershonites Ioah, the sonne of Zimmah, and Eden the sonne of Ioah:
13. And of the sonnes of Elizaphan, Shimri, and Iehiel: and of the sonnes of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah:
14. And of the sonnes of Heman, Iehiel, and Shimei: and of the sonnes of Ieduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15. And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselues, and came according to the commandement of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16. And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the vncleannes that they found in the temple of the Lord, into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Leuites tooke it, to carie it out abroad into the brooke Kidron.
17. Now they began on the first day of the first moneth to sanctifie, and on the eight day of the moneth, came they to the porch of the Lord. So they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight dayes, and in the sixteenth day of the first moneth, they made an end.
18. Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We haue cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shew-bread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19. Moreouer all the vessels which king Ahaz in his reigne did cast away in his transgression, haue we prepared and sanctified, and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
20. Then Hezekiah the king rose earely, and gathered the rulers of the citie, and went vp to the house of the Lord.
21. And they brought seuen bullocks and seuen rammes, and seuen lambes, and seuen hee goats for a sinne offring for the kingdome, and for the Sanctuarie, and for Iudah: and he commaunded the priests the sonnes of Aaron to offer them on the Altar of the Lord.
22. So they killed the bullockes, and the priestes receiued the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: like wise when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood vpon the altar: they killed also the lambes, and they sprinkled the blood vpon the altar.
23. And they brought foorth the hee goats for the sinne offering, before the king and the congregation, and laide their hands vpon them:
24. And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood vpon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offring and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
25. And hee set the Leuites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harpes, according to the commandement of Dauid, and of Gad the kings Seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandement of the Lord by his prophets.
26. And the Leuites stood with the instruments of Dauid, and the priestes with the trumpets.
27. And Hezekiah commaunded to offer the burnt offering vpon the altar: and when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordeined by Dauid king of Israel.
28. And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpetters sounded: and all this continued vntill the burnt offering was finished.
29. And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him, bowed themselues and worshipped.
30. Moreouer Hezekiah the king and the Princes, commanded the Leuites to sing praise vnto the Lord, with the words of Dauid, and of Asaph the Seer: and they sang praises with gladnes, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31. Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye haue consecrated your selues vnto the Lord: come neere and bring sacrifices, and thanke-offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices, and thank-offrings, and as many as were of a free heart, burnt offerings.
32. And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullockes, an hundred rammes, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offring to the Lord.
33. And the consecrated things were, sixe hundred oxen, and three thousand sheepe.
34. But the Priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Leuites did helpe them, till the worke was ended, and vntill the other Priestes had sanctified themselues: for the Leuites were more vpright in heart, to sanctifie themselues, then the Priests.
35. And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, & the drinke offrings, for euery burnt offering. So the seruice of the house of the Lord was set in order.
36. And Hezekiah reioyced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
1. And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Iudah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Ierusalem, to keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord God of Israel.
2. For the king had taken counsell, and his Princes, and all the congregation in Ierusalem, to keepe the Passeouer in the second moneth.
3. For they could not keepe it at that time, because the Priests had not sanctified themselues sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselues together to Ierusalem.
4. And the thing pleased the king, and all the Congregation.
5. So they established a decree, to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba euen to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passeouer vnto the Lord God of Israel at Ierusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort, as it was written.
6. So the Postes went with the letters from the King and his Princes, throughout all Israel and Iudah, and according to the commandement of the king, saying; Yee children of Israel, turne againe vnto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and hee wil returne to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
7. And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gaue them vp to desolation, as ye see.
8. Now be yee not stiffe-necked as your fathers were, but yeeld your selues vnto the Lord, and enter into his Sanctuarie, which he hath sanctified for euer: and serue the Lord your God, that the fiercenesse of his wrath may turne away from you.
9. For if yee turne againe vnto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall finde compassion before them that leade them captiue, so that they shall come againe into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and mercifull, and will not turne away his face from you, if ye returne vnto him.
10. So the Posts passed from citie to citie, through the countrey of Ephraim and Manasseh, euen vnto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorne, and mocked them.
11. Neuerthelesse, diuers of Asher, and Manasseh, and of Zebulun, humbled themselues, and came to Ierusalem.
12. Also in Iudah, the hand of God was to giue them one heart to doe the commandement of the king and of the Princes, by the word of the Lord.
13. And there assembled at Ierusalem much people, to keepe the feast of vnleauened bread in the second moneth, a very great congregation.
14. And they arose and tooke away the altars that were in Ierusalem, and all the altars for incense tooke they away, and cast them into the brooke Kidron.
15. Then they killed the Passeouer on the fourteenth day of the second moneth: and the Priests and the Leuites were ashamed, and sanctified themselues, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
16. And they stood in their place after their maner, according to the Law of Moses the man of God: The priests sprinckled the blood, which they receiued of the hand of the Leuites.
17. For there were many in the Congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Leuites had the charge of the killing of the Passeouers for euery one that was not cleane, to sanctifie them vnto the Lord.
18. For a multitude of the people, euen many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselues: yet did they eate the Passeouer otherwise then it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying; The good Lord pardon euery one,
19. That prepareth his heart to seeke God, the Lord God of his fathers, though hee be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary.
20. And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
21. And the children of Israel that were present at Ierusalem, kept the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes with great gladnesse: and the Leuites and the Priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with lowd instruments vnto the Lord.
22. And Hezekiah spake comfortably vnto all the Leuites, that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eate throughout the feast, seuen dayes, offering peace-offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.
23. And the whole assembly tooke counsel to keepe other seuen dayes: and they kept other seuen dayes with gladnesse.
24. For Hezekiah king of Iudah did giue to the Congregation, a thousand bullockes, and seuen thousand sheep: and the Princes gaue to the Congregation a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheepe, and a great number of Priests sanctified themselues.
25. And all the Congregation of Iudah, with the Priests and the Leuites, and all the Congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Iudah, reioyced.
26. So there was great ioy in Ierusalem: for since the time of Solomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel, there was not the like in Ierusalem.
27. Then the Priests the Leuites arose, and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came vp to his holy dwelling place, euen vnto heauen.
1. Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present, went out to the cities of Iudah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut downe the groues, and threw downe the high places and the altars out of all Iudah and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, vntill they had vtterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possession into their owne cities.
2. And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the Priests and the Leuites after their courses, euery man according to his seruice, the Priests and Leuites for burnt offerings, and for peace offerings, to minister and to giue thankes, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord.
3. He appointed also the kings portion of his substance, for the burnt offrings, to wit, for the morning and euening burnt offrings; and the burnt offrings for the Sabbaths, and for the Newmoones, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the Law of the Lord.
4. Moreouer, he commaunded the people that dwelt in Ierusalem, to giue the portion of the Priests, and the Leuites, that they might be incouraged in the Law of the Lord.
5. And assoone as the commaundement came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first fruits of corne, wine and oile, & hony, and of all the increase of the field, and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
6. And concerning the children of Israel and Iudah, that dwelt in the cities of Iudah, they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheepe, and the tithe of holy things, which were consecrated vnto the Lord their God, and layd them by heapes.
7. In the third moneth they began to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.
8. And when Hezekiah and the princes came, and saw the heapes, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
9. Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.
10. And Azariah the chiefe priest of the house of Zadok, answered him & said: Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, wee haue had enough to eate, and haue left plentie: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left, is this great store.
11. Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them,
12. And brought in the offerings and the tithes, and the dedicate things, faithfully: ouer which Cononiah the Leuite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
13. And Iehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Ierimoth, and Iozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were ouerseers vnder the hande of Cononiah, and Shimei his brother, at the commandement of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
14. And Kore the sonne of Immah the Leuite the porter toward the East, was ouer the free will offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the Lord, and the most holy things.
15. And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Ieshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shechaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to giue to their brethren by courses, as wel to the great as to the small:
16. Beside their genealogie of males, from three yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto euery one that entreth into the house of the Lord, his dayly portion for their seruice in their charges, according to their courses:
17. Both to the genealogie of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Leuites from twenty yeeres olde and vpward, in their charges by their courses:
18. And to the genealogie of all their litle ones, their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselues in holinesse.
19. Also of the sonnes of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in euery seuerall citie, the men that were expressed by name, to giue portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies, among the Leuites.
20. And thus did Hezekiah throughout al Iudah, and wrought that which was good and right, and trueth before the Lord his God.
21. And in euery worke that he began in the seruice of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandements to seeke his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
1. After these things and the establishment therof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entred into Iudah, & encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to winne them for himselfe.
2. And when Hezekiah sawe that Sennacherib was come, and that hee was purposed to fight against Ierusalem,
3. He tooke counsel with his princes, and his mightie men, to stop the waters of the fountaines, which were without the citie: and they did helpe him.
4. So there was gathered much people together, who stopt all the fountaines, and the brooke that ranne through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and finde much water?
5. Also he strengthened himselfe, and built vp all the wall that was broken, and raised it vp to the towers, and another wall without, and prepared Millo in the citie of Dauid, and made darts and shields in abundance.
6. And hee set captaines of warre ouer the people, and gathered them together to him in the streete of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying;
7. Be strong and couragious, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there bee moe with vs, then with him.
8. With him is an arme of flesh, but with vs is the Lord our God to helpe vs, and to fight our battels. And the people rested themselues vpon the words of Hezekiah king of Iudah.
9. After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his seruants to Ierusalem (but he himselfe laide siege against Lachish, and all his power with him) vnto Hezekiah king of Iudah, and vnto all Iudah that were at Ierusalem, saying;
10. Thus sayth Semacherib king of Assyria, Whereon doe ye trust, that yee abide in the siege in Ierusalem?
11. Doeth not Hezekiah perswade you to giue ouer your selues to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The Lord our God shall deliuer vs out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12. Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places, and his altars, and commanded Iudah and Ierusalem, saying; Yee shall worship before one altar, & burne incense vpon it?
13. Know ye not what I and my fathers haue done vnto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those landes any wayes able to deliuer their lands out of mine hand?
14. Who was there among all the gods of those nations, that my fathers vtterly destroyed, that could deliuer his people out of mine hand, that your God should bee able to deliuer you out of mine hand?
15. Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceiue you, nor perswade you on this manner, neither yet beleeue him: for no god of any nation or kingdome was able to deliuer his people out of mine hand, & out of the hand of my fathers: how much lesse shall your God deliuer you out of mine hand?
16. And his seruants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his seruant Hezekiah.
17. Hee wrote also letters to raile on the Lord God of Israel, & to speake against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands haue not deliuered their people out of mine hand: so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliuer his people out of mine hand.
18. Then they cryed with a loude voice in the Iewes speech vnto the people of Ierusalem that were on the wal, to affright them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city.
19. And they spake against the God of Ierusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth which were the worke of the hands of man.
20. For this cause Hezekiah the king, and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, prayed and cryed to heauen.
21. And the Lord sent an Angel, which cut off all the mightie men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the campe of the king of Assyria: so hee returned with shame of face to his owne land. And when hee was come into the house of his god, they that came foorth of his owne bowels, slew him there with the sword.
22. Thus the Lord saued Hezekiah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on euery side.
23. And many brought gifts vnto the Lord to Ierusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Iudah: so that hee was magnified in the sight of all nations, from thenceforth.
24. In those dayes Hezekiah was sicke to the death, and prayed vnto the Lord: and he spake vnto him, and he gaue him a signe.
25. But Hezekiah rendred not againe, according to the benefit done vnto him: for his heart was lifted vp, therefore there was wrath vpon him, and vpon Iudah and Ierusalem.
26. Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himselfe for the pride of his heart, (both hee and the inhabitants of Ierusalem) so that the wrath of the Lord came not vpon them in the dayes of Hezekiah.
27. And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches, and honour: and he made himselfe treasuries for siluer, and for golde, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all maner of pleasant iewels;
28. Store-houses also for the increase of corne, and wine and oile; and stalles for all maner of beasts, and coates for flocks.
29. Moreouer, hee prouided him cities, and possessions of flockes & heards in abundance: for God had giuen him substance very much.
30. This same Hezekiah also stopped the vpper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight downe to the Westside of the City of Dauid. And Hezekiah prospered in all his workes.
31. Howbeit, in the businesse of the Embassadours of the Princes of Babylon, who sent vnto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
32. Now, the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodnesse, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the Prophet, the sonne of Amoz, and in the booke of the kings of Iudah and Israel.
33. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the Sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid: and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. Manasseh was twelue yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Ierusalem:
2. But did that which was euil in the sight of the Lord, like vnto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
3. For hee built againe the high places, which Hezekiah his father had broken downe, and he reared vp altars for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the host of heauen, and serued them.
4. Also hee built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.
5. And he built altars for all the host of heauen, in the two Courts of the house of the Lord.
6. And he caused his children to passe through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he obserued times, and vsed inchantments, and vsed witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much euill in the sight of the Lord, to prouoke him to anger.
7. And hee set a carued image (the idole which he had made) in the house of God, of which God had said to Dauid, and to Solomon his sonne: In this house, and in Ierusalem which I haue chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer.
8. Neither will I any more remoue the foot of Israel from out of the land which I haue appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to doe all that I haue commanded them, according to the whole Law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
9. So Manasseh made Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
10. And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
11. Wherfore the Lord brought vpon them the captaines of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thornes, & bound him with setters, & caried him to Babylon.
12. And when hee was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himselfe greatly before the God of his fathers,
13. And prayed vnto him, and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him againe to Ierusalem into his kingdome. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord hee was God.
14. Now after this, hee built a wall without the citie of Dauid, on the Westside of Gihon, in the valley, euen to the entring in at the fish-gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it vp a very great height, and put captaines of warre in all the fenced cities of Iudah.
15. And hee tooke 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 Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.
16. And hee repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings, and thanke offerings, and commaunded Iudah to serue the Lord God of Israel.
17. Neuerthelesse, the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet vnto the Lord their God only.
18. Nowe the rest of the actes of Manasseh, & his prayer vnto 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 booke of the kings of Israel:
19. His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trespasse, and the places wherein he built high places, and set vp groues and grauen images before hee was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the Seers.
20. So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his owne house: and Amon his sonne reigned in his stead.
21. Amon was two and twentie yeeres old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned two yeares in Ierusalem.
22. But he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed vnto all the carued images, which Manasseh his father had made, and serued them;
23. And humbled not himselfe before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himselfe: but Amon trespassed more and more.
24. And his seruants conspired against him, and slew him in his owne house.
25. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made Iosiah his sonne, king in his stead.
1. Iosiah was eight yeeres old when hee beganne to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirty yeeres.
2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the wayes of Dauid his father, and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left.
3. For in the eight yeare of his reigne, while he was yet young, hee beganne to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelfth yeere hee beganne to purge Iudah and Ierusalem from the high places and the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images.
4. And they brake downe the altars of Baalim in his presence, and the images that were on high aboue them, he cut downe, and the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images he brake in peeces, and made dust of them, and strowed it vpon the graues of them, that had sacrificed vnto them.
5. And hee burnt the bones of the priests vpon their altars, and cleansed Iudah and Ierusalem.
6. And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their mattockes, round about.
7. And when he had broken downe the altars and the groues, and had beaten the grauen images into pouder, and cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem.
8. Now in the eighteenth yeere of his reigne, when hee had purged the land, and the house; he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maasiah the gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the Lord his God.
9. And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they deliuered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Leuites that kept the doores, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Iudah, and Beniamin, and they returned to Ierusalem.
10. And they put it in the hand of the workemen that had the ouersight of the house of the Lord, and they gaue it to the workemen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repaire and mend the house.
11. Euen to the artificers and builders gaue they it, to buy hewen stone, and timber for couplings, and to floore the houses, which the kings of Iudah had destroyed.
12. And the men did the worke faithfully, and the ouerseers of them were Iahath, and Obadiah, the Leuites, of the sonnes of Merari, and Sechariah, and Meshullam, of the sonnes of the Kohathites, to set it forward: and other of the Leuites, all that could skill of instruments of musicke.
13. Also they were ouer the bearers of burdens, and were ouerseers of all that wrought the worke in any manner of seruice: and of the Leuites there were Scribes, and officers, and porters.
14. And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a booke of the lawe of the Lord, giuen by Moses.
15. And Hilkiah answered and saide to Shaphan the scribe: I haue found the booke of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah deliuered the booke to Shaphan:
16. And Shaphan caried the booke to the king, and brought the king word backe againe, saying, All that was committed to thy seruants, they doe it.
17. And they haue gathered together the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and haue deliuered it into the hand of the ouerseers, and to the hand of the workemen.
18. Then Shaphan the scribe tolde the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath giuen me a booke. And Shaphan read it before the king.
19. And it came to passe when the king had heard the words of the lawe, that he rent his clothes.
20. And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Abdon the sonne of Mirah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a seruant of the kings, saying,
21. Goe, enquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Iudah, concerning the wordes of the booke that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is powred out vpon vs, because our fathers haue not kept the word of the Lord, to doe after all that is written in this booke.
22. And Hilkiah and they that the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetesse, the wife of Shallum the sonne of Tikuath, the sonne of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge,) and they spake to her to that effect.
23. And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
24. Thus saith the Lord, behold, I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants thereof, euen all the curses that are written in the booke which they haue read before the king of Iudah:
25. Because they haue forsaken mee, and haue burned incense vnto other gods, that they might prouoke mee to anger with all the workes of their hands, therefore my wrath shall bee powred out vpon this place, and shall not be quenched.
26. And as for the king of Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, concerning the words which thou hast heard:
27. Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before me, and diddest rend thy clothes, and weepe before me, I haue euen heard thee also, saith the Lord.
28. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt bee gathered to thy graue in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the euill that I will bring vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word againe.
29. Then the king sent, and gathered together all the Elders of Iudah and Ierusalem.
30. And the king went vp into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and the priests and the Leuites, and all the people great and small: and he read in their eares all the words of the booke of the couenant, that was found in the house of the Lord.
31. And the King stood in his place, & made a Couenant before the Lord, to walke after the Lord, and to keep his Commandements, and his Testimonies, and his Statutes, with all his heart, & with all his soule, to performe the words of the Couenant which are written in this booke.
32. And he caused all that were present in Ierusalem and Beniamin, to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God, the God of their fathers.
33. And Iosiah tooke away all the abominations out of all the countreys that perteined to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serue, euen to serue the Lord their God. And all his dayes they departed not from folowing the Lord the God of their fathers.
1. Moreouer Iosiah kept a Passeouer vnto ye Lord in Ierusalem: and they killed the Passeouer on the fourteenth day of the first moneth.
2. And hee set the Priestes in their charges, and encouraged them to the seruice of the house of the Lord,
3. And said vnto the Leuites, that taught all Israel, which were holy vnto the Lord, Put the holy Arke in the house, which Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden vpon your shoulders: serue now the Lord your God, and his people Israel.
4. And prepare your selues by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of Dauid king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his sonne.
5. And stand in the holy place according to the diuisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the diuision of the families of the Leuites.
6. So kill the Passeouer, and sanctifie your selues, and prepare your brethren, that they may doe according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
7. And Iosiah gaue to the people, of the flocke, lambes and kiddes, all for the Passeouer-offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirtie thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the kings substance.
8. And his Princes gaue willingly vnto the people, to the Priests and to the Leuites: Hilkiah, and Zachariah, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the Priests for the Passeouer-offerings, two thousand and sixe hundred small cattell, and three hundred oxen.
9. Conaniah also, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren, & Hashabiah, and Iehiel, and Ioshabad chiefe of the Leuites, gaue vnto the Leuites for Passeouer-offerings, fiue thousand small cattell, and fiue hundred oxen.
10. So the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stood in their place, and the Leuites in their courses, according to the kings commandement.
11. And they killed the Passeouer, and the Priestes sprinckled the blood from their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.
12. And they remooued the burnt offerings, that they might giue according to the diuisions of the families of the people, to offer vnto the Lord, as it is written in the booke of Moses: and so did they with the oxen.
13. And they rosted the Passeouer with fire, according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in cauldrons, and in pannes, and diuided them speedily among all the people.
14. And afterward they made ready for themselues, and for the Priests: because the Priests the sonnes of Aaron were busied in offring of burnt offrings, and the fat vntill night: therefore the Leuites prepared for themselues, and for the Priests the sonnes of Aaron.
15. And the singers the sonnes of Asaph, were in their place according to the commandement of Dauid, and Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun the kings Seer: and the Porters waited at euery gate: they might not depart from their seruice; for their brethren the Leuites prepared for them.
16. So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commaundement of king Iosiah.
17. And the children of Israel that were present, kept the Passeouer at that time, and the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes.
18. And there was no Passeouer like to that, kept in Israel, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neither did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer, as Iosiah kept, and the Priests and the Leuites, and all Iudah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
19. In the eighteenth yeere of the reigne of Iosiah, was this Passeouer kept.
20. After all this, when Iosiah had prepared the Temple, Necho king of Egypt came vp to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Iosiah went out against him.
21. But hee sent Embassadours to him, saying, What haue I to doe with thee, thou king of Iudah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house, wherewith I haue warre: for God commaunded mee to make haste: forbeare thee from medling with God, who is with mee, that hee destroy thee not.
22. Neuerthelesse Iosiah would not turne his face from him, but disguised himselfe that he might fight with him, and hearkened not vnto the wordes of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
23. And the archers shot at king Iosiah: and the King saide to his seruants, Haue mee away, for I am sore wounded.
24. His seruants therefore tooke him out of that charet, and put him in the second charet that hee had: and they brought him to Ierusalem, and hee died, and was buried in one of the Sepulchres of his fathers. And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah.
25. And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah, and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Iosiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel; and beholde, they are written in the Lamentations.
26. Now the rest of the acts of Iosiah, and his goodnes, according to that which was written in the Law of the Lord,
27. And his deedes first and last; behold, they are written in the booke of the kings of Israel and Iudah.
1. Then the people of the land tooke Iehoahaz the son of Iosiah, and made him King in his fathers stead in Ierusalem.
2. Iehoahaz was twentie and three yeeres old, when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned three moneths in Ierusalem.
3. And the king of Egypt put him downe at Ierusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of siluer, and a talent of gold.
4. And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother, king ouer Iudah and Ierusalem, and turned his name to Iehoiakim. And Necho tooke Iehoahaz his brother, and caried him to Egypt.
5. Iehoiakim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem: and hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord his God.
6. Against him came vp Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to cary him to Babylon.
7. Nebuchadnezzar also caried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8. Now the rest of the acts of Iehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah: and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.
9. Iehoiachin was eight yeeres old when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned three moneths and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord.
10. And when the yeere 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 ouer Iudah and Ierusalem.
11. Zedekiah was one and twentie yeres old, when he began to reigne, and reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem.
12. And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himselfe before Ieremiah the Prophet, speaking from the mouth of the Lord.
13. And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him sweare by God: but he stiffened his necke, and hardened his heart from turning vnto the Lord God of Israel.
14. Moreouer all the chiefe of the priests, and the people transgressed very much, after all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which hee had hallowed in Ierusalem.
15. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising vp betimes, and sending: because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his wordes, and misused his prophets, vntill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedie.
17. Therefore hee brought vpon them the king of the Caldees, who slew their yong men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuarie, and had no compassion vpon yong man or maiden, olde man, or him that stouped for age: he gaue them all into his hand.
18. 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.
19. And they burnt the house of God, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20. And them that had escaped from the sword, caried he away to Babylon: where they were seruants to him and his sonnes, vntil the reigne of the kingdome of Persia:
21. To fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah, vntill the land had enioyed her Sabbaths: for as long as shee lay desolate, shee kept Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and tenne yeeres.
22. Now in the first yeere of Cyrus king of Persia (that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Ieremiah, might bee accomplished) the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that hee made a proclamation throughout all his kingdome, and put it also in writing, saying,
23. Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdomes of the earth hath the Lord God of heauen giuen mee, and he hath charged me to build him an house in Ierusalem, which is in Iudah: Who is there among you of all his people? the Lord his God be with him, and let him goe vp.
1. Now in the first yeere of Cyrus King of Persia, (that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah, might be fulfilled) ye Lord stirred vp the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdome, and put it also in writing, saying;
2. Thus sayth Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heauen hath giuen mee all the kingdomes of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him an house at Ierusalem, which is in Iudah.
3. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him goe vp to Ierusalem, which is in Iudah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is the God) which is in Ierusalem.
4. And whosoeuer remaineth in any place where hee soiourneth, let the men of his place helpe him with siluer, and with golde, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will offering for the house of God that is in Ierusalem.
5. Then rose vp the chiefe of the fathers of Iudah and Beniamin, and the Priests, and the Leuites, with all them whose spirit God had raised to goe vp, to build the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem.
6. And all they that were about them, strengthened their hands with vessels of siluer, with golde, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things; besides all that was willingly offered.
7. Also Cyrus the king brought foorth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought foorth out of Ierusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods:
8. Euen those did Cyrus king of Persia bring foorth, by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbred them vnto Sheshbazzar the Prince of Iudah.
9. And this is the number of them: thirtie chargers of golde, a thousand chargers of siluer, nine and twentie kniues:
10. Thirtie basins of golde: siluer basins of a second sort, foure hundred and ten: and other vessels a thousand.
11. All the vessels of golde and of siluer, were fiue thousand and foure hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring vp with them of the captiuitie, that were brought vp from Babylon vnto Ierusalem.
1. Now these are the children of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie, of those which had beene caried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had caried away vnto Babylon, and came againe vnto Ierusalem and Iudah, euery one vnto his citie; 
2. Which came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah: The number of the men of the people of Israel.
3. The children of Parosh, two thousand, an hundred seuentie and two.
4. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seuentie and two.
5. The children of Arah, seuen hundred, seuentie and fiue.
6. The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundred and twelue.
7. The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred fiftie and foure.
8. The children of Zattu, nine hundred fourtie and fiue.
9. The children of Zaccai, seuen hundred and threescore.
10. The children of Bani, sixe hundred, fourtie and two.
11. The children of Bebai, sixe hundred, twentie and three.
12. The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred, twentie and two.
13. The children of Adonikam, sixe hundred, sixtie and sixe.
14. The children of Biguai, two thousand fiftie and sixe.
15. The children of Adin, foure hundred, fiftie and foure.
16. The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninetie and eight.
17. The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
18. The children of Iorah, an hundred and twelue.
19. The children of Hashum, two hundred twentie and three.
20. The children of Gibbar, ninetie and fiue.
21. The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twentie and three.
22. The children of Netophah, fiftie and sixe.
23. The men of Anathoth, an hundred twentie and eight.
24. The children of Azmaueth, fortie and two.
25. The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundred, and fourtie and three.
26. The children of Ramah and Gaba, sixe hundred, twentie and one.
27. The men of Michmas, an hundred, twentie and two.
28. The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred, twentie and three.
29. The children of Nebo, fiftie and two.
30. The children of Magbish, an hundred fiftie and sixe.
31. The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure.
32. The children of Harim, three hundred and twentie.
33. The children of Lod Hadid, and Ono, seuen hundred, twentie and fiue.
34. The children of Iericho, three hundred fourtie and fiue.
35. The children of Senaah, three thousand and sixe hundred and thirtie.
36. The Priests. The children of Iedaiah, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three.
37. The children of Immer, a thousand, fiftie and two.
38. The children of Pashur, a thousand, two hundred, fourtie and seuen.
39. The children of Harim, a thousand and seuenteene.
40. The Leuites. The children of Ieshua, and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodauia, seuentie and foure.
41. The singers. The children of Asaph, an hundred twentie and eight.
42. The children of the porters. The children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all, an hundred thirtie and nine.
43. The Nethinims. The children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
44. The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
45. The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
46. The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan.
47. The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
48. The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
49. The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
50. The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephushim,
51. The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
52. The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
53. The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
54. The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
55. The children of Solomons seruants. The children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
56. The children of Iaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
57. The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
58. All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons seruants, were three hundred ninetie and two.
59. And these were they which went vp from Tel-melah, Tel-Harfa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel.
60. The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: sixe hundred fiftie and two.
61. And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, (which tooke a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.)
62. These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but they were not found: therefore were they as polluted, put from the priesthood.
63. And the Tirshatha said vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy things, till there stood vp a priest with Urim & with Thummim.
64. The whole Congregation together, was fourtie and two thousand, three hundred and threescore:
65. Beside their seruants and their maids, of whom there were seuen thousand, three hundred thirtie and seuen: and there were among them two hundred singing men, and singing women.
66. Their horses were seuen hundred, thirtie and sixe: their mules, two hundred fourtie and fiue:
67. Their camels, foure hundred, thirty and fiue: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundred and twentie.
68. And some of the chiefe of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Ierusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to set it vp in his place:
69. They gaue after their abilitie, vnto the treasure of the worke, threescore and one thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pound of siluer, and one hundred priests garments.
70. So the priests and the Leuites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
1. And when the seuenth moneth was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities: the people gathered themselues together, as one man to Ierusalem.
2. Then stood vp Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, & his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the Altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offrings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3. And they set the altar vpon his bases, (for feare was vpon them, because of the people of those countreys) and they offered burnt offerings thereon vnto the Lord, euen burnt offerings, morning and euening.
4. They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offred the dayly burnt offrings, by number, according to the custome, as the duetie of euery day required:
5. And afterward offered the continuall burnt offering, both of the new moones, and of all the set feasts of the Lord, that were consecrated, and of euery one that willingly offred, offered a free will offering vnto the Lord.
6. From the first day of the seuenth moneth, began they to offer burnt offerings vnto the Lord: but the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
7. They gaue money also vnto the masons, and to the carpenters, and meate, and drinke, and oyle, vnto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring Cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Ioppa: according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
8. Now in the second yere of their coming vnto the house of God at Ierusalem, in the second moneth, began Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and the remnant of their brethren, the Priests and the Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Ierusalem: and appointed the Leuites, from twentie yeeres olde and vpward, to set forward the worke of the house of the Lord.
9. Then stood Ieshua, with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sonnes, the sonnes of Iudah together, to set forward the workemen in the house of God: the sonnes of Henadad, with their sonnes and their brethren the Leuites.
10. And when the builders laide the foundation of the Temple of the Lord, they set the Priests in their apparell with Trumpets, and the Leuites the sonnes of Asaph, with Cymbales, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of Dauid king of Israel.
11. And they sung together by course, in praising, and giuing thanks vnto the Lord; Because hee is good, for his mercy endureth for euer towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shoute, when they praised the Lord; because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laide.
12. But many of the Priests and Leuites, and chiefe of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seene the first house; when the foundation of this house was laide before their eyes, wept with a loude voice, and many shouted aloude for ioy:
13. So that the people could not discerne the noyse of the shout of ioy, from the noyse of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loude shout, and the noyse was heard afarre off.
1. Now when the aduersaries of Iudah and Beniamin, heard that the children of the captiuitie builded the Temple vnto the Lord God of Israel:
2. Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefe of the fathers, and said vnto them, Let vs build with you, for wee seeke your God, as yee doe, and we doe sacrifice vnto him, since the dayes of Esar-Haddon king of Assur, which brought vs vp hither. 
3. But Zerubbabel and Ieshua, and the rest of the chiefe of the fathers of Israel, said vnto them, You haue nothing to doe with vs, to build an house vnto our God, but we our selues together will build vnto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the King of Persia hath commanded vs.
4. Then the people of the land weakened the handes of the people of Iudah, and troubled them in building,
5. And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the dayes of Cyrus king of Persia, euen vntill the reigne of Darius king of Persia.
6. And in the reigne of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reigne, wrote they vnto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem.
7. And in the dayes of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, vnto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
8. Rehum the Chancellour, and Shimshai the Scribe, wrote a letter against Ierusalem, to Artaxerxes the king, in this sort:
9. Then, wrote Rehum the Chancellour, and Shimshai the Scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathkites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archeuites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehauites, and the Elamites,
10. And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought ouer, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the Riuer, and at such a time.
11. This is the copy of the Letter, that they sent vnto him, euen vnto Artaxerxes the king: Thy seruants on this side the Riuer, and at such a time,
12. Be it knowen vnto the king, that the Iewes which came vp from thee to vs, are come vnto Ierusalem, building the rebellious and the bad citie, and haue set vp the walles thereof, and ioyned the foundations.
13. Be it knowen now vnto the king, that if this city be builded, and the wals set vp againe, then will they not pay tolle, tribute, and custome, and so thou shalt endammage the reuenue of the kings.
14. Now because we haue maintenance from the Kings palace, and it was not meete for vs to see the kings dishonour: therefore haue we sent, and certified the king,
15. That search may be made in the booke of the Records of thy fathers: so shalt thou finde in the booke of the Records, and know, that this City is a rebellious city, and hurtfull vnto Kings and prouinces, and that they haue moued sedition within the same of olde time: for which cause was this citie destroyed.
16. We certifie the king, that if this citie be builded againe, & the walles thereof set vp: by this meanes, thou shalt haue no portion on this side the Riuer.
17. Then sent the king an answere vnto Rehum the Chancellour, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions, that dwell in Samaria, and vnto the rest beyond the Riuer, Peace, and at such a time.
18. The letter, which ye sent vnto vs, hath bene plainly read before me.
19. And I commaunded, and search hath bene made, and it is found, that this citie of old time hath made insurrection against Kings, and that rebellion & sedition haue bene made therein.
20. There haue bene mighty Kings also ouer Ierusalem, which haue ruled ouer all countreys beyond the Riuer, and tolle, tribute, and custome, was payd vnto them.
21. Giue ye now commandement, to cause these men to cease, and that this citie be not builded, vntill another commandement shall be giuen from me.
22. Take heed now that ye faile not to doe this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
23. Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went vp in haste to Ierusalem, vnto the Iewes, and made them to cease, by force and power.
24. Then ceased the woorke of the house of the God, which is at Ierusalem. So it ceased, vnto the second yeere of the reigne of Darius king of Persia.
1. Then the Prophets, Haggai the Prophet, and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo, prophesied vnto the Iewes that were in Iudah and Ierusalem, in the Name of the God of Israel, euen vnto them.
2. Then rose vp Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Ierusalem: and with them were the Prophets of God helping them.
3. At the same time came to them Tatnai, gouernour on this side the Riuer, and Shethar-Boznai, and their companions, and said thus vnto them; Who hath commaunded you to build this house, and to make vp this wall?
4. Then said wee vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
5. But the eye of their God was vpon the Elders of the Iewes, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answere by letter concerning this matter.
6. The copy of the letter that Tatnai, gouernour on this side the Riuer, and Shethar-Boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the Riuer, sent vnto Darius the King:
7. They sent a letter vnto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Darius the king, all peace.
8. Be it knowen vnto the king, that we went into the prouince of Iudea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, & timber is laied in the wals, and this worke goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
9. Then asked we those Elders, and said vnto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make vp these walles?
10. We asked their names also, to certifie thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chiefe of them.
11. And thus they returned vs answere, saying, We are the seruants of the God of heauen and earth, and build the house that was builded these many yeeres agoe, which a great King of Israel builded, and set vp.
12. But after that our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath: he gaue them into the hande of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Caldean, who destroyed this house, and caried the people away into Babylon.
13. But in the first yere of Cyrus the king of Babylon, the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
14. And the vessels also of golde and siluer of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke out of the Temple that was in Ierusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were deliuered vnto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whome he had made gouernour:
15. And said vnto him, Take these vessels, goe, carie them into the temple that is in Ierusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
16. Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God, which is in Ierusalem. And since that time, euen vntill now, hath it bin in building, & yet it is not finished.
17. Now therefore, if it seeme good to the king, let there be search made in the kings treasure house which is there at Babylon, whether it be so that a decree was made of Cyrus the king, to build this house of God at Ierusalem: and let the king send his pleasure to vs concerning this matter.
1. Then Darius the King made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolles, where the treasures were laide vp in Babylon.
2. And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the prouince of the Medes, a rolle, and therein was a record thus written:
3. In the first yeere of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Ierusalem: Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof of be strongly laid, the height therof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubites:
4. With three rowes of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences bee giuen out of the kings house.
5. And also let the golden, and siluer vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke foorth out of the temple which is at Ierusalem, and brought vnto Babylon, be restored, and brought againe vnto the temple which is at Ierusalem, euery one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
6. Now therefore Tatnai, gouernour beyond the riuer, Shethar-Boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the riuer, be ye farre from thence:
7. Let the worke of this house of God alone, let the gouernour of the Iewes, and the elders of the Iewes, build this house of God in his place.
8. Moreouer I make a decree, what ye shall doe to the Elders of these Iewes, for the building of this house of God: that of the kings goods, euen of the tribute beyond the riuer, forthwith expences be giuen vnto these men, that they be not hindered.
9. And that which they haue need of, both yong bullocks, and rammes, and lambes, for the burnt offerings of the God of heauen, wheat, salt, wine, and oyle, according to the appoyment of the priests which are at Ierusalem, let it be giuen them, day by day without faile:
10. That they may offer sacrifices of sweet sauours vnto the God of heauen, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sonnes.
11. Also I haue made a decree, that whosoeuer shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set vp, let him bee hanged thereon, and let his house bee made a doung hill for this.
12. And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy all kings and people that shall put to their hand, to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Ierusalem. I Darius haue made a decree, let it be done with speed.
13. Then Tatnai gouernour on this side the riuer, Shethar-Boznai, & their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.
14. And the elders of the Iewes builded, and they prospered, through the prophecying of Haggai the Prophet, and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo, and they builded, and finished it, according to the commandement of the God of Israel, and according to the commandement of Cyrus and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
15. And this honse was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixt yere of the reigne of Darius the king.
16. And the children of Israel, the Priests and the Leuites, and the rest of the children of the captiuitie, kept the dedicatio of this house of God, with ioy,
17. And offered at the dedication of this house of God, an hundred bullockes, two hundred rammes, foure hundred lambes; and for a sinne offering for all Israel, twelue hee goates, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18. And they set the Priests in their diuisions, and the Leuites in their courses, for the seruice of God, which is at Ierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moses.
19. And the children of the captiuitie kept the Passeouer, vpon the fourteenth day of the first moneth:
20. For the Priestes and the Leuites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the Passeouer for all the children of the captiuitie, and for their brethren the Priests, and for themselues.
21. And the children of Israel, which were come againe out of captiuitie, and all such as had separated themselues vnto them, from the filthinesse of the heathen of the land, to seeke the Lord God of Israel, did eate,
22. And kept the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes, with ioy: for the Lord had made them ioyfull, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria vnto them, to strengthen their handes in the worke of the house of God, the God of Israel.
1. Now after these things, in the reigne of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Hilkiah,
2. The sonne of Shallum, the sonne of Zadok, the sonne of Ahitub,
3. The sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Meraioth,
4. The sonne of Zeraiah, the sonne of Uzzi, the sonne of Bukki,
5. The sonne of Abishua, the sonne of Phinehas, the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the chiefe Priest:
6. This Ezra went vp from Babylon, and hee was a ready Scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had giuen: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God vpon him.
7. And there went vp some of the children of Israel, and of the Priests, and the Leuites, and the Singers, and the Porters, and the Nethinims, vnto Ierusalem, in the seuenth yeere of Artaxerxes the king.
8. And he came to Ierusalem in the fifth moneth, which was in the seuenth yeere of the king.
9. For vpon the first day of the first moneth, began he to go vp fro Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth moneth, came he to Ierusalem, according to the good hand of his God vpon him.
10. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seeke the Law of the Lord, and to doe it, and to teach in Israel, Statutes and Iudgements.
11. Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gaue vnto Ezra the Priest, the Scribe, euen a Scribe of the words of the commandements of the Lord, and of his Statutes to Israel.
12. Artaxerxes king of kings, Unto Ezra the Priest, a Scribe of the Law of the God of heauen, Perfect peace, and at such a time.
13. I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his Priests, and Leuites in my Realme, which are minded of their owne free-will to goe vp to Ierusalem, goe with thee.
14. Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seuen counsellers, to enquire concerning Iudah and Ierusalem, according to the Lawe of thy God, which is in thine hand;
15. And to cary the siluer and gold, which the king and his counsellers haue freely offered vnto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Ierusalem.
16. And all the siluer and gold, that thou canst find in all the prouince of Babylon, with the free-will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God, which is in Ierusalem:
17. That thou maiest buy speedily with this money, bullockes, rammes, lambes, with their meate offerings, and their drinke offerings, and offer them vpon the altar of the house of your God, which is in Ierusalem.
18. And whatsoeuer shall seeme good to thee, and to thy brethren, to doe with the rest of the siluer and gold; that doe, after the will of your God.
19. The vessels also that are giuen thee, for the seruice of the house of thy God, those deliuer thou before the God of Ierusalem.
20. And whatsoeuer more shall be needfull for the house of thy God, which thou shalt haue occasion to bestowe; bestowe it out of the kings treasure house.
21. And I, euen I Artaxerxes the king, doe make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the riuer, that whatsoeuer Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heauen, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
22. Unto an hundred talents of siluer, and to an hundred measures of wheate, and to an hundred bathes of wine, and to an hundred bathes of oyle, and salt, without prescribing how much.
23. Whatsoeuer is commanded by the God of heauen, let it be diligently done, for the house of the God of heauen: for why should there be wrath against the realme of the king and his sonnes?
24. Also we certifie you, that touching any of the priests, and Leuites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawfull to impose tolle, tribute, or custome vpon them.
25. And thou, Ezra, after the wisdome of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and iudges, which may iudge all the people, that are beyond the riuer, all such as know the lawes of thy God, and teach yee them that knowe them not.
26. And whosoeuer will not doe the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let iudgement be executed speedily vpon him, whether it be vnto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
27. Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this, in the kings heart, to beautifie the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem:
28. And hath extended mercy vnto me, before the king and his counsellers, and before all the kings mighty princes, and I was strengthned as the hand of the Lord my God was vpon me, and I gathered together out of Israel, chiefe men to goe vp with me.
1. These are now the chiefe of their fathers, and this is the genealogie of them that went vp with mee from Babylon, in the reigne of Artaxerxes the king.
2. Of the sonnes of Phinehas, Gershom: of the sonnes of Ithamar, Daniel: of the sonnes of Dauid, Hattush.
3. Of the sonnes of Shechaniah, of the sonnes of Pharosh, Zechariah, and with him were reckoned, by genealogie of the males, an hundred and fiftie.
4. Of the sonnes of Pahath Moab, Elihoenai the sonne of Zerahiah: and with him, two hundred males.
5. Of the sonnes of Shechaniah, the sonne of Iahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
6. Of the sonnes also of Adin, Ebed the sonne of Ionathan, and with him fiftie males.
7. And of the sonnes of Elam, Ieshaiah the sonne of Athaliah, and with him seuentie males.
8. And of the sonnes of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the sonne of Michael, and with him fourescore males.
9. Of the sonnes of Ioab, Obadiah the sonne of Iehiel: and with him two hundred and eighteene males.
10. And of the sonnes of Shelomith, the sonne of Iosiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
11. And of the sonnes of Bebai, Zechariah the sonne of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
12. And of the sonnes of Azgad, Iohanan the sonne of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
13. And of the last sonnes of Adonikam, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Iehiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
14. Of the sonnes also of Biguai, Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seuentie males.
15. And I gathered them together to the riuer, that runneth to Ahaua, and there abode wee in tents three dayes: and I viewed the people, and the Priests, and found there none of the sonnes of Leui.
16. Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Iarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chiefe men; also for Iarib, and for Elnathan, men of vnderstanding.
17. And I sent them with commandement vnto Iddo the chiefe at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say vnto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring vnto vs ministers for the house of our God.
18. And by the good hand of our God vpon vs, they brought vs a man of vnderstanding, of the sonnes of Mahli the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Israel, and Sherebiah, with his sonnes, and his brethren, eighteene.
19. And Hashabiah, and with him Ieshaiah of the sonnes of Merari, his brethren, and their sonnes, twentie.
20. Also of the Nethinims, whom Dauid, and the Princes had appointed for the seruice of the Leuites, two hundred and twentie Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
21. Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the riuer Ahaua, that we might afflict our selues before our God, to seeke of him a right way for vs, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
22. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of souldiers and horsmen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way: because wee had spoken vnto the king, saying, The hand of our God is vpon all them for good, that seeke him, but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
23. So we fasted, and besought our God for this, and hee was intreated of vs.
24. Then I separated twelue of the chiefe of the Priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
25. And weighed vnto them the siluer and the gold, and the vessels, euen the offering of the house of our God, which the king and his counsellours, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
26. I euen weighed vnto their hand, sixe hundred and fifty talents of siluer, and siluer vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents:
27. Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drammes, and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
28. And I said vnto them, Yee are holy vnto the Lord, the vessels are holy also, and the siluer and the gold are a free-will offring vnto the Lord God of your fathers.
29. Watch ye, and keepe them, vntill yee weigh them before the chiefe of the Priests, and the Leuites, and chiefe of the fathers of Israel at Ierusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.
30. So tooke the Priests and the Leuites the weight of the siluer and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Ierusalem, vnto the house of our God.
31. Then wee departed from the riuer of Ahaua, on the twelfth day of the first moneth, to goe vnto Ierusalem; and the hand of our God was vpon vs, and hee deliuered vs from the hand of the enemie, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
32. And we came to Ierusalem, and abode there three dayes.
33. Now on the fourth day was the siluer and the gold, and the vessels weighed in the house of our God, by the hand of Meremoth the sonne of Uriah the Priest, and with him was Eleazar the sonne of Phinehas, and with them was Iozabad the sonne of Ieshua, and Noadiah the sonne of Binnui, Leuites:
34. By number, and by weight of uery one: and all the weight was written at that time.
35. Also the children of those that had bene caried away which were come out of the captiuitie, offered burnt offrings vnto the God of Israel, twelue bullocks for all Israel, ninetie and sixe rammes, seuentie and seuen lambes, twelue hee goates for a sinne offering: All this was a burnt offering vnto the Lord.
36. And they deliuered the Kings commissions vnto the kings lieuteuants, and to the gouernours on this side the riuer, and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
1. Nowe when these things were done, the Princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Leuites, haue not separated themselues from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, euen of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Iebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
2. For they haue taken of their daughters for themselues, and for their sonnes: so that the holy seed haue mingled themselues with the people of those lands, yea the hand of the princes and rulers hath bin chiefe in this trespasse.
3. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and pluckt off the haire of my head, and of my beard, and sate downe astonied.
4. Then were assembled vnto me euery one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had bene caried away, and I sate astonied, vntill the euening sacrifice.
5. And at the euening sacrifice, I arose vp from my heauinesse, and hauing rent my garment and my mantle, I fell vpon my knees, and spread out my hands vnto the Lord my God,
6. And said, O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift vp my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased ouer our head, and our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauens.
7. Since the dayes of our fathers, haue wee beene in a great trespasse vnto this day, & for our iniquities haue we, our kings and our priests, bin deliuered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captiuitie, and to a spoile, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
8. And now for a litle space grace hath bene shewed from the Lord our God, to leaue vs a remnant to escape, and to giue vs a naile in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and giue vs a litle reuiuing in our bondage:
9. For wee were bondmen, yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath extended mercie vnto vs in the sight of the kings of Persia, to giue vs a reuiuing to set vp the house of our God, and to repaire the desolations thereof, and to giue vs a wall in Iudah and in Ierusalem.
10. And now, O our God, what shal we say after this? for we haue forsaken thy commandements,
11. Which thou hast commanded by thy seruants the prophets, saying, The land vnto which ye go to possesse it, is an vncleane land, with the filthinesse of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which haue filled it from one end to another, with their vncleannesse.
12. Nowe therefore giue not your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither take their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor seeke their peace or their wealth for euer: that ye may bee strong, and eate the good of the land, and leaue it for an inheritance to your children for euer.
13. And after all that is come vpon vs, for our euill deeds, and for our great trespasse, seeing that thou, our God, hast punished vs lesse, then our iniquities deserue, and hast giuen vs such deliuerance as this:
14. Should wee againe breake thy commandements, and ioyne in affinitie with the people of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with vs, til thou haddest consumed vs, so that there should be no remnant, nor escaping?
15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for wee remaine yet escaped, as it is this day: Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for wee can not stand before thee, because of this.
1. Now when Ezra had praised, and when he had confessed, weeping, and casting himselfe downe before the house of God, there assembled vnto him out of Israel, a very great congregation of men, and women, and children: for the people wept very sore.
2. And Shechaniah the sonne of Iehiel, one of the sonnes of Elam, answered and said vnto Ezra, Wee haue trespassed against our God, and haue taken strange wiues, of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
3. Now therefore let vs make a couenant with our God, to put away all the wiues, & such as are borne of them, according to the counsell of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandement of our God, and lee it be done according to the Law.
4. Arise, for this matter belongeth vnto thee, wee also will be with thee: be of good courage, and doe it.
5. Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefe Priests, the Leuites, and all Israel to sweare, that they should doe according to this word: and they sware.
6. Then Ezra rose vp from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Iohanan, the sonne of Eliashib: and when hee came thither, hee did eate no bread, nor drinke water: for hee mourned because of the transgression of them that had bene caried away.
7. And they made Proclamation throughout Iudah and Ierusalem, vnto all the children of the captiuitie, that they should gather themselues together vnto Ierusalem;
8. And that whosoeuer would not come within three dayes, according to the counsell of the Princes, and the Elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himselfe separated from the congregation of those that had beene caried away.
9. Then all the men of Iudah and Beniamin, gathered themselues together vnto Ierusalem, within three dayes: it was the ninth moneth, on the twentieth day of the moneth, and all the people sate in the streete of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great raine.
10. And Ezra the Priest stood vp, and said vnto them, Yee haue transgressed, and haue taken strange wiues, to encrease the trespasse of Israel.
11. Now therefore make confession vnto the Lord God of your fathers, and doe his pleasure: and separate your selues from the people of the land, and from the strange wiues.
12. Then all the congregation answered, and said with a loude voice, As thou hast said, so must we doe:
13. But the people are many, and it is a time of much raine, and we are not able to stand without; neither is this a worke of one day or two: for wee are many that haue transgressed in this thing.
14. Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which haue taken strange wiues in our cities, come at appointed times, & with them the Elders of euery citie, and the Iudges thereof; vntill the fierce wrath of our God for this matter, be turned from vs.
15. Onely Ionathan the sonne of Asahel, and Iahaziah the sonne of Tikuah, were employed about this matter: and Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Leuite, helped them.
16. And the children of the captiuitie did so: and Ezra the Priest, with certaine chiefe of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sate downe in the first day of the tenth moneth to examine the matter.
17. And they made an ende, with all the men that had taken strange wiues, by the first day of the first moneth.
18. And among the sonnes of the Priestes, there were found that had taken strange wiues: namely, of the sons of Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and his brethren, Maasiah, and Eliezer, and Iarib, and Gedaliah.
19. And they gaue their hands, that they would put away their wiues: and being guiltie, they offered a ramme of the flocke for their trespasse.
20. And of the sonnes of Immer, Hanani, and Zebadiah:
21. And of the sonnes of Harim, Maasiah, and Eliiah, and Shemaiah, and Iehiel, and Uzziah.
22. And of the sonnes of Pashur: Elioenai, Maasiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Iozabad and Elasah.
23. Also of the Leuites: Iozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelitah) Pethahiah, Iudah, and Eliezer.
24. Of the singers also, Eliashib; and of the porters, Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
25. Moreouer of Israel, of the sonnes of Parosh, Ramiah, and Iesiah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchiiah, and Benaiah.
26. And of the sonnes of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Iehiel, and Abdi, and Ieremoth, and Eliah.
27. And of the sonnes of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Ieremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
28. Of the sonnes also of Bebai: Iehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, & Athlai.
29. And of the sonnes of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Iashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
30. And of the sonnes of Pahath Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maasiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
31. And of the sonnes of Harim: Eliezer, Ishiiah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32. Beniamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
33. Of the sonnes of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattatha, Zabad, Eliphelet, Ieremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
34. Of the sonnes of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
35. Benaiah, Bedaiah, Chelluh,
36. Uaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37. Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Iaasau,
38. And Bani, and Bennui, Shimei,
39. And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
40. Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41. Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42. Shallum, Amariah, and Ioseph.
43. Of the sonnes of Nebo, Iehiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iadau, and Ioel, Benaiah.
44. All these had taken strange wiues: and some of them had wiues, by whom they had children.
1. The words of Nehemiah the sonne of Hachaliah. And it came to passe in the moneth Chisleu, in the twentieth yeere, as I was in Shushan the palace;
2. That Hanani, one of my brethren came, he and certaine men of Iudah, and I asked them concerning the Iewes that had escaped, which were left of the captiuitie, and concerning Ierusalem.
3. And they said vnto me, The remnant that are left of the captiuitie there in the prouince, are in great affliction and reproch: the wall of Ierusalem also is broken downe, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.
4. And it came to passe when I heard these words, that I sate downe and wept, and mourned certaine dayes, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heauen,
5. And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heauen, the great and terrible God, that keepeth couenant and mercie for them that loue him, and obserue his commandements:
6. Let thine eare now be attentiue, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest heare the prayer of thy seruant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy seruants, and confesse the sinnes of the children of Israel, which wee haue sinned against thee: both I, and my fathers house haue sinned.
7. We haue dealt very corruptly against thee, and haue not kept the commandements, nor the statutes, nor the iudgements, which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses.
8. Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy seruant Moses, saying, If yee transgresse, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
9. But if ye turne vnto me, and keepe my commandements, and doe them: though there were of you cast out vnto the vttermost part of the heauen, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them vnto the place that I haue chosen, to set my Name there.
10. Now these are thy seruants, and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
11. O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine eare be attentiue to the prayer of thy seruant, and to the prayer of thy seruants, who desire to feare thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy seruant this day, and grant him mercie in the sight of this man. For I was the kings cup-bearer.
1. And it came to passe, in the moneth Nisan, in the twentieth yeere of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I tooke vp the wine, and gaue it vnto the King: now I had not bene beforetime sad in his presence.
2. Wherefore the king said vnto me, Why is thy countenance sadde, seeing thou art not sicke? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
3. And said vnto the king, Let the king liue for euer: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers Sepulchres, lyeth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4. Then the king said vnto me, For what doest thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heauen.
5. And I said vnto the king, If it please the king, and if thy seruant haue found fauour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me vnto Iudah vnto the City of my fathers sepulchres, that I may build it.
6. And the king saide vnto mee (the Queene also sitting by him) For how long shall thy iourney bee? and when wilt thou returne? So it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time.
7. Moreouer I saide vnto the king, If it please the king, let letters be giuen mee to the gouernours beyond the Riuer, that they may conuey me ouer, till I come into Iudah;
8. And a letter vnto Asaph the keeper of the kings forrest, that he may giue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the Citie, and for the house that I shall enter into: And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God vpon me.
9. Then I came to the gouernours beyond the riuer, and gaue them the kings letters: (now the king had sent captaines of the army, and horsemen with me.)
10. When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the seruant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieued them exceedingly, that there was come a man, to seeke the welfare of the children of Israel.
11. So I came to Ierusalem, and was there three dayes.
12. And I arose in the night, I, and some few men with mee, neither tolde I any man what God had put in my heart to doe at Ierusalem: neither was there any beast with mee, saue the beast that I rode vpon.
13. And I went out by night, by the gate of the valley, euen before the dragon well, and to the doung-port, and viewed the walls of Ierusalem, which were broken downe, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
14. Then I went on to the gate of the fountaine, and to the kings poole: but there was no place for the beast that was vnder me, to passe.
15. Then went I vp in the night by the brooke, and viewed the wall, and turned backe, and entred by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
16. And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did, neither had I as yet tolde it to the Iewes, nor to the Priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the worke.
17. Then said I vnto them, Yee see the distresse that we are in, how Ierusalem lieth waste, and the gates therof are burnt with fire: come, and let vs builde vp the wall of Ierusalem, that we be no more a reproch.
18. Then I told them of the hand of my God, which was good vpon me; as also the kings wordes that he had spoken vnto me. And they said, Let vs rise vp and builde. So they strengthened their hands for this good worke.
19. But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the seruant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed vs to scorne, and despised vs, and said, What is this thing that yee doe? will ye rebell against the king?
20. Then answered I them, and said vnto them, The God of heauen, he will prosper vs, therefore wee his seruants will arise and build: But you haue no portion, nor right, nor memoriall in Ierusalem.
1. Then Eliashib the hie priest, rose vp with his brethren the Priests, and they built the sheepe-gate, they sanctified it, & set vp the doores of it, euen vnto the towre of Meah they sanctified it, vnto the towre of Hananeel.
2. And next vnto him builded the men of Iericho: and next to them builded Zaccur the sonne of Imri.
3. But the fish-gate did the sonnes of Hassenaah build, who also laide the beames thereof, and set vp the doores thereof, the locks thereof, and the barres thereof.
4. And next vnto them repaired Merimoth the son of Uriah, the sonne of Koz: and next vnto them repaired Meshullam the sonne of Berechiah, the sonne of Meshezabeel: and next vnto them repaired Zadok the sonne of Baana.
5. And uext vnto them, the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their neckes to the worke of their Lord.
6. Moreouer the olde gate repaired Iehoiada the sonne of Paseah, and Meshullam the sonne of Besodaiah; they laid the beames thereof, and set vp the doores thereof, and the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof.
7. And next vnto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Iadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, vnto the throne of the gouernour on this side the Riuer.
8. Next vnto him repaired Uzziel the sonne of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths: next vnto him also repaired Hananiah, the sonne of one of the Apothecaries, and they fortified Ierusalem vnto the broad wall.
9. And next vnto them repaired Rephaiah the sonne of Hur, the ruler of the halfe part of Ierusalem.
10. And next vnto them repaired Iedaiah the sonne of Harumaph, euen ouer against his house: and next vnto him repaired Hattush the sonne of Hashabniah.
11. Malchiiah the sonne of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath Moab, repaired the other piece, & the towre of the furnaces.
12. And next vnto him repaired Shallum the sonne of Halloesh the ruler of the halfe part of Ierusalem, hee, and his daughters.
13. The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set vp the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall, vnto the doung-gate.
14. But the doung-gate repaired Malchiah the sonne of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem: hee built it, and set vp the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof.
15. But the gate of the fountaine repaired Shallum the sonne of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah: hee built it, and couered it, and set vp the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof, and the wall of the poole of Siloah by the kings garden, and vnto the staires that goe downe from the citie of Dauid.
16. After him repaired Nehemiah the sonne of Azbuk, the ruler of the halfe part of Beth-zur, vnto the place ouer against the sepulchres of Dauid, and to the poole that was made, and vnto the house of the mightie.
17. After him repaired the Leuites, Rehum the sonne of Bani: next vnto him repaired Hashabiah the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah in his part.
18. After him repaired their brethren, Bauai, the sonne of Henadad the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah.
19. And next to him repaired Ezer the sonne of Ieshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece, ouer against the going vp to the armorie, at the turning of the wall.
20. After him Baruch the sonne of Zabbai, earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall vnto the doore of the house of Eliashib the high Priest.
21. After him repaired Merimoth the sonne of Uriiah, the sonne of Koz, another piece, from the doore of the house of Eliashib, euen to the end of the house of Eliashib.
22. And after him repaired the Priests, the men of the plaine.
23. After him repaired Beniamin, and Hashub, ouer against their house: after him repaired Azariah the sonne of Maaseiah, the sonne of Ananiah, by his house.
24. After him repaired Binnui the sonne of Henadad, another piece from the house of Azariah, vnto the turning of the wall, euen vnto the corner.
25. Palal the sonne of Uzai, ouer against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lyeth out, from the kings hie house, that was by the court of the prison: after him, Pedaiah the sonne of Parosh.
26. Moreouer the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, vnto the place ouer against the water gate, toward the East, and the tower that lieth out.
27. After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, ouer against the great tower that lieth out, euen vnto the wall of Ophel.
28. From aboue the horsegate repaired the Priests, euery one ouer against his house.
29. After them repaired Zadok the sonne of Immer, ouer against his house: after him repaired also Shemaiah, the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the East-gate.
30. After him repaired Hananiah the sonne of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth sonne of Zalaph, another piece: after him repaired Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah ouer against his chamber.
31. After him repaired Malchiah, the goldsmiths sonne, vnto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, ouer against the gate Miphkad, and to the going vp of the corner.
32. And betweene the going vp of the corner vnto the sheepe-gate, repaired the gold-smithes and the merchants.
1. But it came to passe, that when Sanballat heard, that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and tooke great indignation, and mocked the Iewes.
2. And he spake before his brethren, and the army of Samaria, and said, What doe these feeble Iewes? wil they fortifie themselues? will they sacrifice? wil they make an end in a day? wil they reuiue the stones, out of the heapes of the rubbish, which are burnt?
3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Euen that which they build, if a foxe goe vp, he shall euen breake downe their stone wall.
4. Heare, O our God, for we are despised: and turne their reproch vpon their owne head, and giue them for a pray, in the land of captiuitie.
5. And couer not their iniquitie, and let not their sinne bee blotted out from before thee: for they haue prouoked thee to anger before the builders.
6. So built we the wall, and all the wall was ioyned together vnto the halfe therof: for the people had a minde to worke.
7. But it came to passe that when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walles of Ierusalem were made vp, and that the breaches began to bee stopped, then they were very wroth,
8. And conspired all of them together, to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder it.
9. Neuertheles, we made our prayer vnto our God, and set a watch against them, day and night, because of them.
10. And Iudah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish, so that we are not able to build the wall.
11. And our aduersaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till wee come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.
12. And it came to passe that when the Iewes which dwelt by them, came, they said vnto vs ten time, From all places, whence yee shall returne vnto vs, they will be vpon you.
13. Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I euen set the people, after their families, with their swords, their speares, and their bowes.
14. And I looked, and rose vp, and said vnto the Nobles, and to the rulers, and to rest of the people, Bee not ye afraid of them: Remember the Lord which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sonnes and your daughters, your wiues & your houses.
15. And it came to passe when our enemies heard that it was knowen vnto vs, and God had brought their counsell to nought, that we returned all of vs to the wall, euery one vnto his worke.
16. And it came to passe from that time forth, that the halfe of my seruants wrought in the worke, and the other halfe of them held both the speares, the shields and the bowes, and the habergeons, and the rulers were behind all the house of Iudah.
17. They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, euery one with one of his hands wrought in the worke, and with the other hand held a weapon.
18. For the builders, euery one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded: and he that sounded the trumpet was by mee.
19. And I said vnto the Nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The worke is great and large, and wee are separated vpon the wall, one farre from another:
20. In what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs: our God shal fight for vs.
21. So wee laboured in the worke: and halfe of them held the speares, from the rising of the morning, til the starres appeared.
22. Likewise at the same time said I vnto the people, Let euery one, with his seruant, lodge within Ierusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to vs, and labour on the day.
23. So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my seruants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of vs put off our clothes, sauing that euery one put them off for washing.
1. And there was a great crie of the people, and of their wiues, against their brethren the Iewes.
2. For there were that said, We, our sonnes, and our daughters are many: therefore wee take vp corne for them, that we may eat, and liue.
3. Some also there were that saide, We haue morgaged our landes, vineyards and houses, that we might buy corne, because of the dearth.
4. There were also that said, Wee haue borrowed money for the kings tribute, and that vpon our lands and vineyards.
5. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and loe, wee bring into bondage our sonnes and our daughters, to bee seruants, and some of our daughters are brought vnto bondage already, neither is it in our power to redeeme them: for other men haue our lands and vineyards.
6. And I was very angry, when I heard their crie, and these words.
7. Then I consulted with my selfe, and I rebuked the Nobles, and the rulers, and said vnto them, You exact vsurie, euery one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them:
8. And I said vnto them, We, after our abilitie, haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were sold vnto the heathen; and will you euen sell your brethren? Or shall they be sold vnto vs? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answere.
9. Also I said, It is not good that yee doe: ought yee not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the reproch of the heathen our enemies?
10. I likewise, and my brethren, and my seruants, might exact of them money and corne: I pray you let vs leaue off this vsurie.
11. Restore, I pray you, to them, euen this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliue-yards, and their houses, also the hundreth part of the money, and of the corne, the wine, and the oyle, that ye exact of them.
12. Then said they, Wee will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we doe, as thou sayest. Then I called the Priests, and tooke an oath of them, that they should doe according to this promise.
13. Also I shooke my lap, and said, So God shake out euery man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, euen thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the Congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.
14. Moreouer, from the time that I was appointed to be their gouernor in the land of Iudah, from the twentieth yeere euen vnto the two and thirtieth yere of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelue yeres, I and my brethren, haue not eaten the bread of the gouernour:
15. But the former gouernours that had bene before me, were chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread, and wine, beside fourtie shekels of siluer, yea euen their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.
16. Yea also I continued in the worke of this wall, neither bought wee any land: and all my seruants were gathered thither vnto the worke.
17. Moreouer, there were at my table, an hundred and fiftie of the Iewes and rulers, besides those that came vnto vs from among the heathen that are about vs.
18. Now that which was prepared for me daily, was one oxe, and sixe choice sheepe; also foules were prepared for mee, and once in ten dayes, store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the gouernour, because the bondage was heauy vpon this people.
19. Thinke vpon mee, my God, for good, according to all that I haue done for this people.
1. Now it came to passe when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies heard, that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein: (though at that time I had not set vp the doores vpon the gates,)
2. That Sanballat, and Geshem sent vnto me, saying, Come, let vs meet together in some one of the villages in the plaine of Ono: But they thought to doe me mischiefe.
3. And I sent messengers vnto them, saying, I am doing a great worke, so that I can not come down: why should the worke cease, whilest I leaue it, and come downe to you?
4. Yet they sent vnto me foure times, after this sort; and I answered them after the same maner.
5. Then sent Sanballat his seruant vnto me, in like manner, the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand:
6. Wherein was written; It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu sayth it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebell: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their King, according to these words.
7. And thou hast also appointed Prophets to preach of thee at Ierusalem, saying, There is a King in Iudah. And now shall it be reported to the king, according to these wordes. Come now therefore, and let vs take counsell together.
8. Then I sent vnto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine owne heart.
9. For they all made vs afraid, saying, Their handes shall be weakened from the worke that it bee not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
10. Afterward I came vnto the house of Shemaiah the sonne of Delaiah, the sonne of Mehetabel, who was shut vp, and he said, Let vs meet together in the house of God, within the Temple, and let vs shut the doores of the Temple; for they will come to slay thee, yea in the night wil they come to slay thee.
11. And I said, Should such a man as I, flee? and who is there, that being as I am, would goe into the Temple to saue his life? I will not goe in.
12. And loe, I perceiued that God had not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecie against mee: for Tobiah, and Sanballat had hired him.
13. Therefore was hee hired, that I should be afraid, and doe so, and sinne, and that they might haue matter for an euill report, that they might reproch mee.
14. My God, thinke thou vpon Tobiah, and Sanballat, according to these their workes, and on the prophetesse Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would haue put me in feare.
15. So the wall was finished, in the twentie and fifth day of the moneth Elul, in fiftie and two dayes.
16. And it came to passe that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen, that were about vs, saw these things, they were much cast downe in their owne eyes: for they perceiued that this worke was wrought of our God.
17. Moreouer, in those dayes the nobles of Iudah sent many letters vnto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came vnto them.
18. For there were many in Iudah sworne vnto him: because hee was the sonne in law of Shechaniah the sonne of Arah, and his sonne Iohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah.
19. Also they reported his good deeds before me, and vttered my wordes to him: and Tobiah sent letters to put me in feare.
1. Now it came to passe when the wall was built, and I had set vp the doores; and the porters, and the singers, and the Leuites were appointed,
2. That I gaue my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge ouer Ierusalem (for hee was a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many.)
3. And I said vnto them, Let not the gates of Ierusalem be opened, vntill the Sunne bee hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doores, and barre them. And appoint watches of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, euery one in his wateh, and euery one to bee ouer against his house.
4. Now the city was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
5. And my God put into mine heart, to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, & the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogie. And I found a register of the genealogie of them which came vp at the first, and found written therein;
6. These are the children of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie, of those that had beene caried away whom Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had caried away, and came againe to Ierusalem and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie:
7. Who came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Biguai, Nahum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel, was this:
8. The children of Parosh, two thousand, an hundred, seuentie and two.
9. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred, seuentie and two.
10. The children of Arah, sixe hundred, fiftie and two.
11. The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Ieshua, and Ioab, two thousand, and eight hundred, and eighteene.
12. The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure.
13. The children of Zattu, eight hundred fourtie and fiue.
14. The children of Zaccai, seuen hundred and threescore.
15. The children of Binnui, sixe hundred, fourty and eight.
16. The children of Bebai, sixe hundred, twentie and eight.
17. The children of Azgad, two thousand, three hundred, twentie and two.
18. The children of Adonikam, sixe hundred, threescore and seuen.
19. The children of Biguai, two thousand, threescore and seuen.
20. The children of Adin, sixe hundred, fiftie and fiue.
21. The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninetie and eight.
22. The children of Hashum, three hundred, twentie and eight.
23. The children of Bezai, three hundred twentie and foure.
24. The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelue.
25. The children of Gibeon, ninetie and fiue.
26. The men of Bethlehem, and Netophah, an hundred, fourescore and eight.
27. The men of Anathoth, an hundred, twentie and eight.
28. The men of Bethazmaueth, fourtie and two.
29. The men of Kiriath-iearim, Chephirah and Beeroth, seuen hundred fourtie and three.
30. The men of Ramah and Geba, sixe hundred, twentie and one.
31. The men of Michmash, an hundred and twenty and two.
32. The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred, twentie and three.
33. The men of the other Nebo, fiftie and two.
34. The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie & foure.
35. The children of Harim, three hundred and twentie.
36. The children of Iericho, three hundred, fourtie and fiue.
37. The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seuen hundred, twentie and one.
38. The children of Senaa, three thousand, nine hundred, and thirty.
39. The Priests. The children of Iedaia, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three.
40. The children of Immer, a thousand, fifty and two.
41. The children of Pashur, a thousand, two hundred, fourtie and seuen.
42. The children of Harim, a thousand, and seuenteene.
43. The Leuites. The children of Ieshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodeuah, seuentie and foure.
44. The singers. The children of Asaph, an hundred, fourtie and eight.
45. The porters. The children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred, thirtie and eight.
46. The Nethinims. The children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabaoth,
47. The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
48. The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
49. The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
50. The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
51. The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
52. The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,
53. The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
54. The children of Baslith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
55. The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamiah,
56. The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
57. The children of Solomons seruants: The children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
58. The children of Iaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
59. The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Zebaim, the children of Amon,
60. All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons seruants, were three hundred ninetie and two.
61. And these were they which went vp also from Tel-Melah, Tel-Haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, nor their seede, whether they were of Israel.
62. The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, sixe hundred fourtie and two.
63. And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which tooke one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
64. These sought their register, among those that were reckoned by genealogie, but it was not found: therfore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
65. And the Tirshatha said vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy things, till there stood vp a priest with Urim and Thummim.
66. The whole congregation together, was fourtie and two thousand, three hundred and threescore:
67. Beside their man seruants, and their maid seruants, of whome there were seuen thousand, three hundred, thirtie and seuen: and they had two hundred fourtie and fiue singing men and singing women.
68. Their horses, seuen hundred, thirtie and sixe: their mules, two hundred fourtie and fiue:
69. Their camels, foure hundred thirtie and fiue: sixe thousand, seuen hundred and twentie asses.
70. And some of the chiefe of the fathers, gaue vnto the worke: The Tirshatha gaue to the treasure, a thousand drammes of gold, fiftie basons, fiue hundred and thirtie priests garments.
71. And some of the chiefe of the fathers gaue to the treasure of the worke twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousand and two hundred pound of siluer.
72. And that which the rest of the people gaue, was twentie thousand drammes of gold, and two thousand pound of siluer, and threescore and seuen priests garments.
73. So the priests, and the Leuites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities: And when the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
1. And all the people gathered themselues together, as one man, into the street that was before the water gate, and they spake vnto Ezra the scribe, to bring the booke of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
2. And Ezra the priest brought the Law before the Congregation, both of men and women, and all that could heare with vnderstanding, vpon the first day of the seuenth moneth.
3. And hee read therein before the street that was before the water gate, from the morning vntill midday, before the men and the women, and those that could vnderstand: And the eares of all the people were attentiue vnto the booke of the law.
4. And Ezra the scribe, stood vpon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose, and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand: and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
5. And Ezra opened the booke in the sight of all the people (for hee was aboue al the people) and when he opened it, all the people stood vp:
6. And Ezra blessed the Lord the great God: and al the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting vp their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord, with their faces to the ground.
7. Also Ieshua and Bani, and Sherebiah, Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Leuites, caused the people to vnderstand the law: and the people stood in their place.
8. So they read in the booke, in the Law of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, and caused them to vnderstand the reading.
9. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the Priest the Scribe, and the Leuites that taught the people, said vnto all the people, This day is holy vnto the Lord your God, mourne not, nor weepe: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.
10. Then hee sayd vnto them, Goe your way, eat the fat, & drinke the sweet, and send portions vnto them, for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy vnto our Lord: neither be ye sory, for the ioy of the Lord is your strength.
11. So the Leuites stilled all the people, saying, Holde your peace, for the day is holy, neither be ye grieued.
12. And all the people went their way to eate, and to drinke, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had vnderstood the wordes that were declared vnto them.
13. And on the second day were gathered together the chiefe of the fathers of all the people, the Priestes and the Leuites, vnto Ezra the Scribe, euen to vnderstand the wordes of the Law.
14. And they found written in the Law whith the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in boothes, in the feast of the seuenth moneth:
15. And that they should publish and proclaime in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Goe foorth vnto the mount, and fetch Oliue branches, and Pine branches, and Myrtle branches, and Palme branches, and branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is written.
16. So the people went foorth, and brought them, and made themselues boothes, euery one vpon the roofe of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the streete of the water-gate, and in the streete of the gate of Ephraim.
17. And all the congregation of them that were come againe out of the captiuitie, made boothes, and sate vnder the boothes: for since the dayes of Ieshua the sonne of Nun, vnto that day, had not the children of Israel done so: and there was very great gladnesse.
18. Also day by day from the first day vnto the last day, he read in the booke of the Law of God: and they kept the feast seuen dayes, and on the eight day was a solemne assembly according vnto the maner.
1. Now in the twentie and fourth day of this moneth, the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, & with sackclothes, and earth vpon them.
2. And the seede of Israel separated themselues from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sinnes, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3. And they stood vp in their place, and read in the booke of the Law of the Lord their God, one fourth part of the day, and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the Lord their God.
4. Then stoode vp, vpon the staires of the Leuites, Ieshua and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cryed with a loude voice vnto the Lord their God.
5. Then the Leuites, Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, sayde, Stand vp, and blesse the Lord your God for euer and euer, and blessed bee thy glorious Name, which is exalted aboue all blessing and praise.
6. Thou, euen thou art Lord alone, thou hast made heauen, the heauen of heauens, with all their hoste, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therin, and thou preseruest them all, and the hoste of heauen worshippeth thee.
7. Thou art the Lord the God, who diddest choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Caldees, and gauest him the name of Abraham:
8. And foundest his heart faithfull before thee, & madest a couenant with him, to giue the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Iebusites, and the Girgashites, to giue it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous,
9. And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the red Sea,
10. And shewedst signes and wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudlie against them: so didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
11. And thou didst diuide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the drie land, and their persecutours thou threwest into the deepes, as a stone into the mightie waters.
12. Moreouer thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar, and in the night, by a pillar of fire, to giue them light in the way wherin they should go.
13. Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, good statutes and commandements:
14. And madest knowen vnto them thy holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and lawes, by the hand of Moses thy seruant:
15. And gauest them bread from heauen for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rocke, for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should goe in to possesse the land, which thou hadst sworne to giue them.
16. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkned not to thy commandements:
17. And refused to obey, neither were mindful of the wonders that thou didst among them: but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captaine to returne to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnes, & forsookest them not.
18. Yea when they had made them a molten calfe, and said, This is thy God, that brought thee vp out of Egypt, and had wrought great prouocations:
19. Yet thou, in thy manifold mercies, forsookest them not in the wildernesse: the pillar of the cloude departed not from them by day, to leade them in the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherin they should goe.
20. Thou gauest also thy good spirit, to instruct them, and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth, and gauest them water for their thirst.
21. Yea fourtie yeeres diddest thou sustaine them in the wildernesse, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes wared not old, and their feet swelled not.
22. Moreouer, thou gauest them kingdomes and nations, and didst diuide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
23. Their children also multipliedst thou as the starres of heauen, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should goe in to possesse it.
24. So the children went in, and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the lande, the Canaanites, and gauest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might doe with them, as they would.
25. And they tooke strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses ful of all goods, welles digged, vineyards, and Olive yards, and fruit trees in abundance: So they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselues in thy great goodnesse. 
26. Neuerthelesse, they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backes, and slewe thy prophets, which testified against them to turne them to thee, and they wrought great prouocations.
27. Therefore thou deliueredst them into the hande of their enemies, who vexed them, & in the time of their trouble, when they cried vnto thee, thou heardest them from heauen: and according to thy manifold mercies, thou gauest them sauiours, who saued them out of the hand of their enemies.
28. But after they had rest, they did euill againe before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion ouer them: yet when they returned and cried vnto thee, thou heardest them from heauen, and many times didst thou deliuer them, according to thy mercies:
29. And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy lawe: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not vnto thy commaundements, but sinned against thy iudgements, (which if a man doe, he shal liue in them) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their necke, and would not heare.
30. Yet many yeres diddest thou forbeare them, and testifiedst against them by the Spirit in thy Prophets: yet would they not giue eare: therefore gauest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
31. Neuerthelesse, for thy great mercies sake, thou diddest not vtterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.
32. Now therefore, our God, the great, the mightie, and the terrible God, who keepest couenant and mercie: let not all the trouble seeme little before thee, that hath come vpon vs, on our Kings, on our Princes, & on our Priests, and on our Prophets, & on our fathers, & on al thy people, since the time of the Kings of Assyria, vnto this day.
33. Howbeit, thou art iust in all that is brought vpon vs, for thou hast done right, but we haue done wickedly:
34. Neither haue our kings, our Princes, our Priests, nor our fathers kept thy Law, nor hearkened vnto thy Commandements, and thy Testimonies, wherewith thou didst testifie against them.
35. For they haue not serued thee in their kingdome, and in thy great goodnesse that thou gauest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gauest before them, neither turned they from their wicked workes.
36. Behold, we are seruants this day; and for the land that thou gauest vnto our fathers, to eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof, behold, wee are seruants in it.
37. And it yeeldeth much increase vnto the kings, whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: also they haue dominion ouer our bodies, and ouer our cattell, at their pleasure; and wee are in great distresse.
38. And because of all this, wee make a sure couenant, and write it, and our Princes, Leuites, and Priestes, seale vnto it.
1. Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah the Tirshatha the sonne of Hachaliah, and Zidkiiah,
2. Seraiah, Azariah, Ieremiah,
3. Pashur, Amariah, Malchiah,
4. Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5. Harim, Merimoth, Obadiah,
6. Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7. Meshullam, Abiiah, Miiamin,
8. Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the Priests.
9. And the Leuites: both Ieshua the sonne of Azaniah, Binnui, of the sonnes of Henadad, Kadmiel;
10. And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
11. Micah, Rehob, Hashabiah,
12. Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
13. Hodiiah, Bani, Beninu,
14. The chiefe of the people. Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,
15. Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16. Adoniiah, Biguai, Adin,
17. Ater, Hizkiiah, Azzur,
18. Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
19. Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20. Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21. Meshezabeel, Zadok, Iaddua,
22. Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23. Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
24. Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
25. Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26. And Ahiiah, Hanan, Anan,
27. Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28. And the rest of the people, the Priests, the Leuites, the Porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselues from the people of the lands, vnto the Law of God, their wiues, their sonnes, and their daughters, euery one hauing knowledge, and hauing vnderstanding.
29. They claue to their brethren their nobles, and entred into a curse, and into an oath to walke in Gods law, which was giuen by Moses the seruant of God, and to obserue and doe all the commandements of the Lord our Lord, and his Iudgements, and his statutes:
30. And that we would not giue our daughters vnto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sonnes.
31. And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day, to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holyday, and that wee would leaue the seuenth yeere, and the exaction of euerie debt.
32. Also we made ordinances for vs, to charge our selues yeerely, with the third part of a shekel, for the seruice of the house of our God,
33. For the shew-bread, and for the continuall meate-offering, and for the continuall burnt offering, of the Sabbaths, of the new moones, for the set-feastes, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings, to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the worke of the house of our God.
34. And we cast the lots among the priests, the Leuites, 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, yeere by yeere, to burne vpon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law:
35. And to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruites of all fruit of all trees, yeere by yeere, vnto the house of the Lord.
36. Also the first-borne of our sonnes, and of our cattell (as it is written in the lawe) and the firstlings of our heards, and of our flockes, to bring to the house of our God, vnto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
37. And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all maner of trees, of wine and of oile, vnto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground vnto the Leuites, that the same Leuites might haue the tithes, in all the cities of our tillage.
38. And the priest the sonne of Aaron, shall be with the Leuites, when the Leuites take tithes, and the Leuites shal bring vp the tithe of the tithes vnto the house of our God, to the chambers into the treasure house.
39. For the children of Israel, and the children of Leui, shall bring the offering of the corne, of the new wine, and the oyle, vnto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuarie, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers, and we will not forsake the house of our God.
1. And the rulers of the people dwelt at Ierusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of tenne, to dwell in Ierusalem, the holy citie, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
2. And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselues, to dwell at Ierusalem.
3. Now these are the chiefe of the prouince that dwelt in Ierusalem: but in the cities of Iudah dwelt euerie one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Leuites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons seruants.
4. And at Ierusalem dwelt certaine of the children of Iudah, and of the children of Beniamin. Of the children of Iudah: Athaiah the sonne of Uzziah, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Shephatiah, the sonne of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez.
5. And Maaseiah the sonne of Baruch the sonne of Col-Hozeh, the sonne of Hazaiah the sonne of Adaiah, the sonne of Ioiarib, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Shiloni.
6. All the sonnes of Perez that dwelt at Ierusalem, were foure hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
7. And these are the sonnes of Beniamin: Sallu the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Ioed, the sonne of Pedaiah, the sonne of Kolaiah, the sonne of Maaseiah, the sonne of Ithiel, the sonne of Iesaiah.
8. And after him Gabai, Sallai, nine hundred twentie and eight.
9. And Ioel the sonne of Zichri was their ouerseer: and Iudah the sonne of Senuah, was second ouer the city.
10. Of the Priests: Iedaiah the sonne of Ioiarib, Iachin;
11. Seraiah the sonne of Hilkiah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Zadok, the sonne of Meraioth, the sonne of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
12. And their brethren that did the worke of the house, were eight hundred twentie and two: and Adaiah the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Pelaliah, the sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Pashur, the sonne of Malchiah,
13. And his brethren, chiefe of the fathers, two hundred fourty and two: and Amashai the sonne of Azareel, the sonne of Ahasai, the sonne of Meshilemoth, the sonne of Immer.
14. And their brethren mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight; and their ouerseer was Zaddiel, the sonne of one of the great men.
15. Also of the Leuites: Shemaiah the sonne of Hashub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Bunni.
16. And Shabbethai, and Iozabad, of the chiefe of the Leuits, had the ouersight of the outward businesse of the house of God.
17. And Mattaniah the sonne of Micha, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Asaph, was the principall to beginne the thankesgiuing in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the sonne of Shammua, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun.
18. All the Leuites in the holy City, were two hundred, fourescore and foure.
19. Moreouer, the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seuenty and two.
20. And the residue of Israel, of the Priests and the Leuites, were in all the cities of Iudah, euery one in his inheritance.
21. But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha, and Gispa were ouer the Nethinims.
22. The ouerseer also of the Leuites at Ierusalem, was Uzzi the sonne of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Micha: Of the sonnes of Asaph, the singers were ouer the businesse of the house of God.
23. For it was the kings commandement concerning them, that a certaine portion should be for the singers, due for euery day.
24. And Pethahiah the sonne of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the sonne of Iudah, was at the kings hand in all matters concerning the people.
25. And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Iudah dwelt at Kiriath-arba, and in the villages thereof; and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Iekabzeel, and in the villages thereof:
26. And at Ieshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet,
27. And at Hazer-Shual, and at Beer-sheba and in the villages thereof:
28. And at Ziglag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof:
29. And at En-Rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Iarmuth,
30. Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fieldes thereof: at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba, vnto the valley of Hinnom.
31. The children also of Beniamin, from Geba, dwelt at Michmash, and Aiia, and Beth-el, and in their villages:
32. And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
33. Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
34. Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
35. Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftes-men.
36. And of the Leuites, were diuisions in Iudah, and in Beniamin.
1. Now these are the Priests and the Leuits that went vp with Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua: Seraiah, Ieremiah, Ezra,
2. Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
3. Shecaniah, Rehum, Merimoth,
4. Iddo, Ginnetho, Abiiah,
5. Miamin, Madish, Bilgah,
6. Shemaiah, & Ioiarib, Iedaiah,
7. Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Iedaiah: these were the chiefe of the Priests, and of their brethren in the dayes of Ieshua.
8. Moreouer the Leuites: Ieshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Iudah, and Mattaniah, which was ouer the thankesgiuing, he and his brethren.
9. Also Bakbukiah, and Unni; their brethren, were ouer against them in the watches.
10. And Ieshua begate Ioiakim, Ioiakim also begate Eliashib, and Eliashib begate Ioiada,
11. And Ioiada begate Ionathan, and Ionathan begate Iaddua.
12. And in the dayes of Ioiakim, were Priests the chiefe of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah: of Ieremiah, Hananiah:
13. Of Ezra, Meshullam: of Amariah, Iehohanan:
14. Of Melicu, Ionathan: of Shebaniah, Ioseph:
15. Of Harim, Adna: of Meraioth, Helkai:
16. Of Iodo, Zechariah: of Ginnethon, Meshullam:
17. Of Abijah, Zichri: of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:
18. Of Bilgah, Shammua: of Shemaiah, Iehonathan:
19. And of Ioiarib, Mattenai: of Iedaiah, Uzzi:
20. Of Sallai, Kallai: of Amok, Eber:
21. Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah: of Iedaiah, Nethanael.
22. The Leuites in the dayes of Eliashib, Ioiada, and Iohanan, and Iaddua, were recorded chiefe of the fathers: also the Priests, to the reigne of Darius the Persian.
23. The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe of the fathers, were written in the booke of the Chronicles, euen vntill the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib.
24. And the chiefe of the Leuites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Ieshua the sonne of Kadmiel, with their brethren ouer against them, to praise and to giue thankes, according to the commandement of Dauid the man of God, ward ouer against ward.
25. Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward, at the thresholds of the gates.
26. These were in the dayes of Ioiakim, the sonne of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and in the dayes of Nehemiah the gouernour, and of Ezra the Priest, the Scribe.
27. And at the dedication of the wall of Ierusalem, they sought the Leuites out of all their places, to bring them to Ierusalem, to keepe the dedication with gladnesse, both with thankesgiuings and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harpes.
28. And the sonnes of the Singers gathered themselues together, both out of the plaine countrey round about Ierusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi.
29. Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba, and Azmaueth: for the Singers had builded them villages round about Ierusalem.
30. And the Priests and the Leuites purified themselues, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31. Then I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gaue thankes, whereof one went on the right hand vpon the wall toward the dounggate:
32. And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the Princes of Iudah,
33. And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34. Iudah, and Beniamin, and Shemaiah, and Ieremiah,
35. And certaine of the Priests sonnes with trumpets: namely, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, the sonne of Asaph:
36. And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Asarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanael, and Iudah, Hanani, with the musicall instruments of Dauid the man of God; and Ezra the Scribe before them.
37. And at the fountaine-gate, which was ouer against them, they went vp by the staires of the citie of Dauid, at the going vp of the wall, aboue the house of Dauid, euen vnto the water-gate, Eastward.
38. And the other company of them that gaue thankes, went ouer against them, and I after them, and the halfe of the people vpon the wall, from beyond the towre of the fornaces, euen vnto the broad wall,
39. And from aboue the gate of Ephraim, and aboue the olde gate, and aboue the fish-gate, and the towre of Hananeel, and the towre of Meah, euen vnto the sheepegate; and they stood still in the prison gate.
40. So stood the two companies of them that gaue thankes in the house of God, and I, and the halfe of the rulers with me:
41. And the Priests: Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zachariah, and Hananiah with trumpets:
42. And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the Singers sang loud, with Iezrahiah their ouerseer.
43. Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and reioyced; for God had made them reioyce with great ioy: the wiues also and the children reioyced: so that the ioy of Ierusalem was heard euen afarre off.
44. And at that time were some appointed ouer the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Leuites: for Iudah reioyced for the Priests, & for the Leuites that waited.
45. And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandement of Dauid, and of Solomon his sonne.
46. For in the dayes of Dauid and Asaph of old, there were chiefe of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiuing vnto God.
47. And all Israel in the dayes of Zerubbabel, and in the dayes of Nehemiah, gaue the portions of the singers, and the porters, euery day his portion, and they sanctified holy things vnto the Leuites, and the Leuites sanctified them vnto the children of Aaron.
1. On that day they read in the booke of Moses in the audience of the people, and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the Congregation of God for euer,
2. Because they met not the children of Israel with bread, and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3. Now it came to passe when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
4. And before this Eliashib the priest hauing the ouersight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied vnto Tobiah:
5. And hee had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offrings, the frankincense and the vessels, and the tithes of the corne, the new wine, and the oile, which was commanded to be giuen to the Leuites, and the singers, and the porters, and the offerings of the priests.
6. But in all this time was not I at Ierusalem: for in the two and thirtieth yeere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, and after certaine dayes, obtained I leaue of the King:
7. And I came to Ierusalem, and vnderstood of the euil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
8. And it grieued me sore, therefore I cast foorth all the houshold stuffe of Tobiah out of the chamber:
9. Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers, and thither brought I againe the vessels of the house of God, with the meate offering, and the frankincense.
10. And I perceiued that the portions of the Leuites had not beene giuen them: for the Leuites and the singers that did the worke, were fled euery one to his field.
11. Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
12. Then brought all Iudah the tithe of the corne, and the new wine, and the oyle, vnto the treasuries.
13. And I made treasurers ouer the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Leuites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the sonne of Zaccur, the sonne of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithfull, and their office was to distribute vnto their brethren.
14. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds, that I haue done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
15. In those dayes sawe I in Iudah, some treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaues, and lading asses, as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all maner of burdens, which they brought into Ierusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they solde victuals.
16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish and all maner of ware, and solde on the Sabbath vnto the children of Iudah, and in Ierusalem.
17. Then I contended with the Nobles of Iudah, and sayd vnto them, What euill thing is this that ye doe, and profane the Sabbath day?
18. Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this euill vpon vs, and vpon this citie? yet ye bring more wrath vpon Israel, by profaning the Sabbath.
19. And it came to passe, that when the gates of Ierusalem beganne to be darke before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my seruants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.
20. So the merchants, and sellers of all kinde of ware, lodged without Ierusalem once or twice.
21. Then I testified against them, and said vnto them, Why lodge yee about the wall? If ye doe so againe, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
22. And I commanded the Leuites, that they should cleanse themselues, and that they should come and keepe the gates, to sanctifie the Sabbath day: Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me, according to the greatnesse of thy mercie.
23. In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that had maried wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
24. And their children spake halfe in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, but according to the language of ech people.
25. And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certeine of them, and pluckt off their haire, and made them sweare by God, saying, Yee shall not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, nor take their daughters vnto your sonnes, or for your selues.
26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sinne by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloued of his God, and God made him king ouer all Israel: neuerthelesse, euen him did outlandish women cause to sinne.
27. Shall wee then hearken vnto you, to doe all this great euill, to transgresse against our God, in marrying strange wiues?
28. And one of the sonnes of Ioiada, the sonne of Eliashib the high Priest, was sonne in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therfore I chased him from me.
29. Remember them, O my God, because they haue defiled the Priesthood, and the couenant of the Priesthood, and of the Leuites.
30. Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the Priests and the Leuites, euery one in his businesse:
31. And for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































1. Now it came to passe in the dayes of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned from India, euen vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundred, and seuen and twentie prouinces.)
2. That in those dayes, when the King Ahasuerus sate on the throne of his kingdome, which was in Shushan the palace:
3. In the third yeere of his reigne, he made a feast vnto all his Princes, and his seruants, the power of Persia and Media, the Nobles and Princes of the prouinces being before him.
4. When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdome, and the honour of his excellent maiestie, many dayes, euen an hundred and fourescore dayes.
5. And when these dayes were expired, the king made a feast vnto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both vnto great and small, seuen dayes, in the court of the garden of the kings palace,
6. Where were white, greene and blew hangings, fastened with cords of fine linnen, and purple, to siluer rings, and pillers of marble: the beds were of gold and siluer, vpon a pauement of red, and blewe, and white, and blacke marble.
7. And they gaue them drinke in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
8. And the drinking was according to the law, none did compell: for the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should doe according to euery mans pleasure.
9. Also Uasthi the Queene made a feast for the women, in the royall house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
10. On the seuenth day, when the heart of the King was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seuen chamberlens that serued in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
11. To bring Uasthi the Queene before the king, with the Crowne royall, to shew the people, and the Princes her beautie: for she was faire to looke on.
12. But the Queene Uasthi refused to come at the Kings commandement by his chamberlens: therefore was the King very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
13. Then the king saide to the wise men, which knew the times (for so was the Kings maner towards all that knew law, and iudgement:
14. And the next vnto him, was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshis, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seuen Princes of Persia, and Media, which saw the Kings face, and which sate the first in the kingdome.)
15. What shall wee doe vnto the Queene Uasthi, according to law, because she hath not performed the commandement of the king Ahasuerus, by the chamberlens?
16. And Memucan answered before the king and the Princes; Uasthi the Queene hath not done wrong to the king onely, but also to all the Princes, and to all the people that are in all the prouinces of the king Ahasuerus.
17. For this deed of the queene shall come abroad vnto all women, so that they shal despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall bee reported; The king Ahasuerus commanded Uasthi the queene to be brought in before him, but she came not.
18. Likewise shall the Ladies of Persia and Media say this day vnto all the kings princes, which haue heard of the deed of the Queene. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
19. If it please the king, let there go a royall commandement from him, and let it bee written among the lawes of the Persians, and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Uasthi come no more before king Ahasuerus, and let the king giue her royall estate vnto another that is better then she.
20. And when the kings decree, which he shal make, shalbe published throughout all his empire, (for it is great:) all the wiues shall giue to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
21. And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
22. For he sent letters into all the kings prouinces, into euery prouince, according to the writing thereof, and to euery people after their language, that euery man should beare rule in his owne house, and that it should be published according to the language of euerie people.
1. After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, hee remembred Uasthi, and what shee had done, and what was decreed against her.
2. Then saide the kings seruants, that ministred vnto him, Let there bee faire yong virgins sought for the king:
3. And let the king appoint officers in all the prouinces of his kingdome, that they may gather together all the faire yong virgins vnto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women vnto the custodie of Hege the kings chamberlaine, keeper of the women, and let their things for purification bee giuen them:
4. And let the maiden which pleaseth the king, bee Queene in stead of Uasthi. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.
5. Now in Shushan the palace, there was a certaine Iew, whose name was Mordecai, the sonne of Iair, the sonne of Shimei, the sonne of Kish, a Beniamite,
6. Who had bene caried away from Ierusalem, with the captiuitie which had bene caried away with Ieconiah king of Iudah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had caried away.
7. And hee brought vp Hadassah (that is Esther) his vncles daughter, for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was faire and beautiful, whom Mordecai (when her father and mother were dead) tooke for his owne daughter.
8. So it came to passe, when the kings commandement and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together vnto Shushan the palace, to the custodie of Hegai, that Esther was brought also vnto the kings house, to the custodie of Hegai, keeper of the women.
9. And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindnesse of him, and hee speedily gaue her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seuen maidens, which were meet to be giuen her, out of the Kings house, and hee preferred her and her maids, vnto the best place of the house of the women.
10. Esther had not shewed her people, nor her kinred: for Mordecai had charged her, that she should not shew it.
11. And Mordecai walked euery day before the court of the womens house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
12. Now when euery maids turne was come, to goe in to King Ahasnerus, after that shee had bene twelue moneths, according to the maner of the women (for so were the dayes of their purifications accomplished, to wit, sixe moneths with oile of myrrhe, and sixe moneths with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women.)
13. Then thus came euery maiden vnto the king, whatsoeuer she desired, was giuen her, to goe with her out of the house of the women, vnto the kings house.
14. In the euening she went, and on the morrowe she returned into the second house of the women, to the custodie of Shaashgaz the kings chamberlen, which kept the concubines: shee came in vnto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that shee were called by name.
15. Now when the turne of Esther, the daughter of Abihail, the vncle of Mordecai (who had taken her for his daughter) was come, to goe in vnto the king: she required nothing, but what Hegai the kings chamberlen the keeper of the women, appointed: And Esther obtained fauour in the sight of all them that looked vpon her.
16. So Esther was taken vnto king Ahasuerus, into his house royall, in the tenth moneth (which is the moneth Tebeth) in the seuenth yeere of his reigne.
17. And the king loued Esther aboue all the women, and she obtained grace and fauour in his sight, more then all the virgins; so that hee set the royall crowne vpon her head, and made her queene, in stead of Uasthi.
18. Then the king made a great feast vnto all his princes and his seruants, euen Esthers feast, and hee made a release to the prouinces, and gaue gifts, according to the state of the king.
19. And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sate in the kings gate.
20. Esther had not yet shewed her kindred, nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her: For Esther did the commandement of Mordecai, like as when she was brought vp with him.
21. In those dayes, (while Mordecai sate in the kings gate) two of the kings chamberlens, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the doore, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus:
22. And the thing was knowen to Mordecai, who told it vnto Esther the Queene, and Esther certified the king thereof, in Mordecais name.
23. And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therfore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the booke of the chronicles before the king.
1. After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman, the sonne of Amedatha the Agagite, and aduanced him, and set his seate aboue all the princes that were with him.
2. And all the kings seruants, that were in the kings gate, bowed, and reuerenced Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him: but Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reuerence.
3. Then the kings seruants, which were in the kings gate, sayd vnto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the kings commandement?
4. Now it came to passe, when they spake daily vnto him, and he hearkened not vnto them; that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai his matters would stand, for he had told them that he was a Iewe.
5. And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reuerence, then was Haman full of wrath.
6. And hee thought scorne to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Iewes, that were throughout the whole kingdome of Ahasuerus, euen the people of Mordecai.
7. In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yeere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman, from day to day, and from moneth to moneth, to the twelfth moneth, that is the moneth Adar.
8. And Haman saide vnto king Ahasuerus: There is a certaine people scattered abroad, and dispersed among the people, in all the prouinces of thy kingdome, and their lawes are diuerse from all people, neither keepe they the kings lawes; therefore it is not for the kings profit to suffer them.
9. If it please the king, let it be written, that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of siluer to the handes of those that haue the charge of the businesse, to bring it into the kings treasuries.
10. And the king tooke his ring from his hand, and gaue it vnto Haman the sonne of Ammedatha the Agagite, the Iewes enemie.
11. And the king saide vnto Haman, The siluer is giuen to thee, the people also, to doe with them, as it seemeth good to thee.
12. Then were the kings scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, and there was written, according to all that Haman had commanded, vnto the kings Lieutenants, and to the gouernours, that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people of euery prouince, according to the writing thereof, and to euery people, after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the kings ring.
13. And the letters were sent by posts into all the kings prouinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Iewes, both yong and olde, litle children and women, in one day, euen vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) and to take the spoile of them for a pray.
14. The copie of the writing for a commandement to bee giuen in euery prouince, was published vnto all people, that they should bee ready against that day.
15. The postes went out, being hastened by the kings commandement, and the decree was giuen in Shushan the palace: and the king and Haman sate downe to drinke, but the citie Shushan was perplexed.
1. When Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the citie, and cried with a loud and a bitter crie:
2. And came euen before the kings gate: for none might enter into the kings gate clothed with sackcloth.
3. And in euery prouince, whithersoeuer the kings commaundement, and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4. So Esthers maides and her chamberlaines came, and told it her: then was the Queene exceedingly grieued, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away the sackcloth from him: but he receiued it not.
5. Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the kings chamberlaines, whom he had appointed to attend vpon her, and gaue him a commaundement to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
6. So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, vnto the street of the citie, which was before the kings gate:
7. And Mordecai tolde him of all that had happened vnto him, and of the summe of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the Kings treasuries for the Iewes, to destroy them.
8. Also he gaue him the copie of the writing of the decree, that was giuen at Shushan to destroy them, to shewe it vnto Esther, and to declare it vnto her, and to charge her that she should goe in vnto the king, to make supplication vnto him, and to make request before him, for her people.
9. And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10. Againe Esther spake vnto Hatach, and gaue him commaundement vnto Mordecai;
11. All the Kings seruants, and the people of the kings prouinces do know, that whosoeuer, whether man or woman, shall come vnto the King into the inner court, who is not called, there is one lawe of his to put him to death, except such to whom the King shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may liue: but I haue not beene called to come in vnto the King, these thirtie dayes.
12. And they tolde to Mordecai Esthers words.
13. Then Mordecai commanded to answere Esther; Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kings house, more then all the Iewes.
14. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliuerance arise to the Iewes from another place, but thou and thy fathers house shall be destroyed: And who knoweth, whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time as this?
15. Then Esther bade them returne Mordecai this answere:
16. Goe, gather together all the Iewes that are present in Shushan, and fast yee for me, and neither eate nor drinke three dayes, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, and so will I goe in vnto the king, which is not according to the Law, and if I perish, I perish.
17. So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
1. Now it came to passe on the third day, that Esther put on her royall apparell, and stood in the inner court of the kings house, ouer against the kings house: and the King sate vpon his royall throne in the royall house, ouer against the gate of the house. 
2. And it was so, when the king saw Esther the Queene standing in the court, that shee obtained fauour in his sight: and the king helde out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand: So Esther drew neere, and touched the top of the scepter.
3. Then sayd the King vnto her, What wilt thou, Queene Esther? and what is thy request? it shall bee euen giuen thee to the halfe of the kingdome.
4. And Esther answered, If it seeme good vnto the King, let the King and Haman come this day vnto the banquet that I haue prepared for him.
5. Then the King sayd, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may doe as Esther hath said: So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
6. And the king said vnto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, and it shall be granted thee? and what is thy request? euen to the halfe of the kingdome it shall be performed.
7. Then answered Esther, and said, My petition, and my request is,
8. If I haue found fauour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to performe my request, let the king, and Haman, come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I wil do to morow, as the king hath said.
9. Then went Haman foorth that day, ioyfull, and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the kings gate, that hee stood not vp, nor mooued for him, hee was full of indignation against Mordecai.
10. Neuerthelesse Haman refrained himselfe, and when he came home, hee sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
11. And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had aduanced him aboue the Princes, and seruants of the king.
12. Haman said moreouer, Yea Esther the Queene did let no man come in with the king vnto the banquet that she had prepared, but my selfe; and to morrow am I inuited vnto her also with the king.
13. Yet all this auaileth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Iew sitting at the kings gate.
14. Then saide Zeresh his wife, and all his friends vnto him, Let a gallous be made of fifty cubits hie, and to morrow speake thou vnto the king, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then goe thou in merily with the king vnto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and hee caused the gallous to be made.
1. On that night could not the King sleepe, and hee commaunded to bring the booke of Records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
2. And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana, and Teresh, two of the kings chamberleus, the keepers of the doore, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
3. And the king said, What honour and dignitie hath bene done to Mordecai for this? Then said the kings seruants that ministred vnto him, There is nothing done for him.
4. And the king said, Who is in the court? (now Haman was come into the outward court of the kings house, to speake vnto the king, to hang Mordecai on the gallons that hee had prepared for him.)
5. And the kings seruants said vnto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the King saide, Let him come in.
6. So Haman came in, and the king said vnto him, What shall be done vnto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? (now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to doe honour, more then to my selfe?)
7. And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
8. Let the royall apparell bee brought, which the King vseth to weare, and the horse that the King rideth vpon, and the crowne royal which is set vpon his head:
9. And let this apparell and horse bee deliuered to the hand of one of the kings most noble Princes, that they may aray the man withall, whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horsebacke through the streete of the city, and proclaime before him, Thus shal it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
10. Then the king saide to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparell, and the horse, as thou hast said, and doe euen so to Mordecai the Iew, that sitteth at the Kings gate: let nothing faile of all that thou hast spoken.
11. Then tooke Haman the apparell, and the horse, & arayed Mordecai, and brought him on hors-backe through the streete of the city, and proclaimed before him: Thus shall it bee done vnto the man whom the King delighteth to honour.
12. And Mordecai came againe to the kings gate: but Haman hasted to his house, mourning, and hauing his head couered.
13. And Haman told Zeresh his wife, and all his friends, euery thing that had befallen him. Then saide his wise men, and Zeresh his wife vnto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Iewes, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not preuaile against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
14. And while they were yet talking with him, came the kings chamberlens, and hasted to bring Haman vnto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
1. So the King and Haman came to banquet with Esther the Queene.
2. And the king said againe vnto Esther, on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, Queene Esther, and it shalbe granted thee? and what is thy request? and it shall bee performed, euen to the halfe of the kingdome.
3. Then Esther the Queene answered, and said; If I haue found fauour in thy sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be giuen me at my petition, and my people at my request.
4. For we are sold, I, and my people, to be destroyed, to be slaine, and to perish: but if we had bene sold for bondmen, and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not counteruaile the kings dammage.
5. Then the king Ahasuerus answered, & said vnto Esther the Queene: Who is he? and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
6. And Esther said, The aduersary and enemie, is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the King and the Queene.
7. And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, went into the palace garden: and Haman stood vp to make request for his life to Esther the Queene: for he saw that there was euill determined against him by the King.
8. Then the king returned out of the palace garden, into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen vpon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the King, Will hee force the Queene also before me in the house? As the word went out of the Kings mouth, they couered Hamans face.
9. And Harbonah one of the chamberlaines, said before the king; Behold also the gallowes, fiftie cubites high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the Kings wrath pacified.
1. On that day did the King Ahasuerus giue the house of Haman, the Iewes enemy, vnto Esther the Queene; and Mordecai came before the King; for Esther hade told what he was vnto her.
2. And the king tooke off his Ring which he had taken from Haman, and gaue it vnto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai ouer the house of Haman.
3. And Esther spake yet againe before the king, and fell downe at his feet, and besought him with teares, to put away the mischiefe of Haman the Agagite, and his deuice, that he had deuised against the Iewes.
4. Then the king helde out the golden scepter toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
5. And said, If it please the king, and if I haue found fauour in his sight, and the thing seeme right before the king, and I bee pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reuerse the letters deuised by Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, which hee wrote to destroy the Iewes, which are in all the kings prouinces.
6. For how can I endure to see the euill that shall come vnto my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kinred?
7. Then the king Ahasuerus said vnto Esther the Queene, and to Mordecai the Iewe, Behold, I haue giuen Esther the house of Haman, and him they haue hanged vpon the gallowes, because hee layde his hand vpon the Iewes.
8. Write ye also for the Iewes, as it liketh you, in the Kings name, and seale it with the Kings ring: for the writing which is written in the Kings name, and sealed with the Kings ring, may no man reuerse.
9. Then were the kings scribes called at that time, in the third moneth, (that is, the month Siuan) on the three and twentieth day thereof, and it was written (according to all that Mordecai commanded) vnto the Iewes, and to the Lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the prouinces, which are from India vnto Ethiopia, an hundred, twentie and seuen prouinces, vnto euery prouince according to the writing thereof, and vnto euery people after their language, and to the Iewes, according to their writing, and according to their language.
10. And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus name, and sealed it with the kings Ring, and sent letters by Postes, on horsebacke, and riders on mules, camels, and yong dromedaries:
11. Wherein the King granted the Iewes, which were in euery citie, to gather themselues together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and prouince that would assault them, both little ones, and women, and to take the spoile of them for a pray:
12. Upon one day, in all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus, namely vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth, which is the moneth Adar.
13. The copy of the writing, for a commandement to bee giuen in euery prouince, was published vnto all people, and that the Iewes should be readie against that day, to auenge themselues on their enemies.
14. So the posts that rode vpon mules and camels went out, being hastened, and pressed on by the kings commandement, and the decree was giuen at Shushan the palace.
15. And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king, in royall apparell, of blew and white, and with a great crowne of gold, and with a garment of fine linnen, and purple, and the citie of Shushan reioyced, and was glad:
16. The Iewes had light and gladnesse, and ioy and honour.
17. And in euery prouince, and in euery city, whithersoeuer the kings commandement, and his decree came, the Iewes had ioy and gladnes, a feast and a good day: And many of the people of the land became Iewes; for the feare of the Iewes fell vpon them.
1. Now in the twelfth month (that is the moneth Adar) on the thirteenth day of the same, when the Kings commaundement and his decree drew neere to bee put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer them: (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them.)
2. The Iewes gathered themselues together in their cities, throughout all the prouinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt, and no man could withstand them: for the feare of them fell vpon all people.
3. And all the rulers of the prouinces, and the Lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Iewes: because the feare of Mordecai fell vpon them.
4. For Mordecai was great in the kings house, and his fame went out, throughout all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
5. Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would vnto those that hated them.
6. And in Shushan the palace the Iewes slew and destroyed fiue hundred men:
7. And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
8. And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
9. And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Uaiezatha,
10. The ten sonnes of Haman the sonne of Hammedatha, the enemie of the Iewes, slew they, but on the spoile laid they not their hand.
11. On that day, the number of those that were slaine in Shushan the palace, was brought before the king.
12. And the king said vnto Esther the Queene; The Iewes haue slaine and destroied fiue hundred men in Shushan the palace, & the ten sonnes of Haman; what haue they done in the rest of the kings prouinces? now what is thy petition? and it shalbe granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
13. Then said Esther, If it please the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shushan, to doe to morow also, according vnto this dayes decree, and let Hamans ten sonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.
14. And the king commanded it so to be done; and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.
15. For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.
16. But the other Iewes that were in the kings prouinces, gathered themselues together, & stood for their liues, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seuenty and fiue thousand, but they laid not their handes on the pray.
17. On the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same, rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladnes.
18. But the Iewes that were at Shushan, assembled together on the thirteenth day therof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladnesse.
19. Therefore the Iewes of the villages, that dwelt in the vnwalled townes, made the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar, a day of gladnesse and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
20. And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters vnto all the Iewes, that were in all the prouinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh & farre,
21. To stablish this among them, that they should keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yeerely:
22. As the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, & the moneth which was turned vnto them, from sorrow to ioy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them daies of feasting and ioy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poore.
23. And the Iewes vndertooke to doe, as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written vnto them:
24. Because Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemie of all the Iewes, had deuised against the Iewes to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot) to consume them, and to destroy them.
25. But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters, that his wicked deuice which he deuised against the Iewes, should returne vpon his owne head, and that he and his sonnes, should be hanged on the gallous.
26. Wherefore they called these dayes Purim, after the name of Pur: therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seene concerning this matter, and which had come vnto them,
27. The Iewes ordeined, and tooke vpon them, and vpon their seed, and vpon all such as ioyned themselues vnto them, so as it should not faile, that they would keepe these two dayes, according to their writing, and according to their appointed time, euery yeere:
28. And that these dayes should be remembred, and kept throughout euery generation, euery family, euery prouince, and euery citie, and that these dayes of Purim should not faile from among the Iewes, nor the memoriall of them perish from their seed.
29. Then Esther the Queene, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Iew, wrote with all authoritie, to confirme this second letter of Purim.
30. And hee sent the letters vnto all the Iewes, to the hundred, twentie and seuen prouinces of the kingdome of Ahasuerus, with wordes of peace and trueth:
31. To confirme these dayes of Purim, in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Iew, and Esther the Queene had enioyned them, and as they had decreed for themselues and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
32. And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the booke.
1. And the king Ahasuerus layde a tribute vpon the land, and vpon the Isles of the sea.
2. And all the actes of his power, and of his might, and the declaration of the greatnesse of Mordecai, whereunto the king aduanced him, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
3. For Mordecai the Iew was next vnto King Ahasuerus, and great among the Iewes, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

1. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Iob, and that man was perfect and vpright, and one that feared God, and eschewed euill.
2. And there were borne vnto him seuen sonnes, and three daughters.
3. His substance also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great houshold; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.
4. And his sonnes went and feasted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent and called for their three sisters, to eate and to drinke with them.
5. And it was so, when the dayes of their feasting were gone about, that Iob sent and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: For Iob said, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and cursed God in their hearts: Thus did Iob continually.
6. Now there was a day, when the sons of God came to present themselues before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
7. And the Lord said vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking vp and downe in it.
8. And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou considered my seruant Iob, that there is none like him in the earth? A perfect and an vpright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?
9. Then Satan answered ye Lord, and sayd, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?
10. Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11. But put foorth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
12. And the Lord said vnto Satan, Behold, all that hee hath is in thy power, onely vpon himselfe put not foorth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
13. And there was a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house:
14. And there came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them,
15. And the Sabeans fell vpon them, and tooke them away: yea they haue slaine the seruants with the edge of the sword, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.
16. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe, and the seruants, and consumed them, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.
17. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Caldeans made out three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea, and slaine the seruants with the edge of the sword, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.
18. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, & said, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters, were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house.
19. And beholde, there came a great winde from the wildernes, and smote the foure corners of the house, and it fell vpon the yong men, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
20. Then Iob arose, and rent his mantle, and shaued his head, and fell downe vpon the ground and worshipped,
21. And said, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord gaue, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
22. In all this Iob sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
1. Againe there was a day when the sonnes of God came to present themselues before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himselfe before the Lord.
2. And the Lord said vnto Satan, From whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to & fro in the earth, and from walking vp and downe in it.
3. And the Lord said vnto Satan, Hast thou considered my seruant Iob, that there is none like him in the earth; a perfect and an vpright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? and still hee holdeth fast his integritie, although thou moouedst mee against him, to destroy him without cause.
4. And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skinne for skinne, yea all that a man hath, wil he giue for his life.
5. But put foorth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6. And the Lord said vnto Satan, Behold, hee is in thine hand, but saue his life.
7. So went Satan foorth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore biles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.
8. And hee tooke him a potsheard to scrape himselfe withall; and hee sate downe among the ashes.
9. Then saide his wife vnto him, Doest thou still reteine thine integritie? Curse God, and die.
10. But he said vnto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh; what? shall wee receiue good at the hand of God, and shall wee not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.
11. Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to comfort him.
12. And when they lift vp their eyes afarre off, and knew him not, they lifted vp their voice, and wept; and they rent euery one his mantle, and sprinckled dust vpon their heades toward heauen.
13. So they sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a word vnto him; for they saw that his griefe was very great.
1. After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day.
2. And Iob spake, and said,
3. Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.
4. Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.
5. Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.
6. As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.
7. Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.
8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning.
9. Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10. Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.
11. Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?
12. Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?
13. For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,
14. With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,
15. Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:
16. Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
17. There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest.
18. There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.
19. The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.
20. Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?
21. Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:
22. Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?
23. Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24. For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.
25. For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
26. I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.
1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
2. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking?
3. Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.
4. Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5. But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6. Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?
7. Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8. Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.
9. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10. The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.
11. The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.
12. Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof.
13. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men:
14. Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
15. Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.
16. It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,
17. Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?
18. Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly:
19. Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.
20. They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.
21. Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.
1. Call now, if there be any that wil answere thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turne?
2. For wrath killeth the foolish man, and enuy slayeth the silly one.
3. I haue seene the foolish taking roote: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4. His children are farre from safetie, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliuer them.
5. Whose haruest the hungry eateth vp, and taketh it euen out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth vp their substance.
6. Although affliction commeth not forth of the dust, neither doeth trouble spring out of the ground:
7. Yet man is borne vnto trouble, as the sparkes flie vpward.
8. I would seeke vnto God, and vnto God would I commit my cause:
9. Which doth great things & vnsearchable: marueilous things without number.
10. Who giueth raine vpon the earth, and sendeth waters vpon the fields:
11. To set vp on high those that be low; that those which mourne, may be exalted to safetie.
12. Hee disappointeth the deuices of the craftie, so that their hands cannot performe their enterprise.
13. He taketh the wise in their owne craftinesse: and the counsell of the froward is caried headlong.
14. They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope in the noone day as in the night.
15. But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mightie.
16. So the poore hath hope, and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth.
17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almightie.
18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth vp: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19. Hee shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, yea in seuen there shall no euill touch thee.
20. In famine he shall redeeme thee from death: and in warre from the power of the sword.
21. Thou shalt be hidde from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction, when it commeth.
22. At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23. For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall bee in peace; and thou shalt visite thy habitation, and shalt not sinne.
25. Thou shalt know also that thy seede shalbe great, and thine offspring as the grasse of the earth.
26. Thou shalt come to thy graue in a full age, like as a shocke of corne commeth in, in his season.
27. Loe this, wee haue searched it, so it is; heare it, and know thou it for thy good.
1. But Iob answered, and sayd,
2. Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie layd in the balances together.
3. For now it would be heauier then the sand of the sea, therefore my words are swallowed vp.
4. For the arrowes of the Almightie are within me, the poyson whereof drinketh vp my spirit: the terrors of God doe set themselues in aray against mee.
5. Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe ouer his fodder?
6. Can that which is vnsauery, bee eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?
7. The things that my soule refused to touch, are as my sorrowfull meat.
8. O that I might haue my request! and that God would graunt mee the thing that I long for!
9. Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.
10. Then should I yet haue comfort, yea I would harden my selfe in sorrow; let him not spare, for I haue not concealed the words of the holy One.
11. What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine ende, that I should prolong my life?
12. Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?
13. Is not my helpe in me? and is wisedome driuen quite from me?
14. To him that is afflicted, pitie should be shewed from his friend; But he forsaketh the feare of the Almighty.
15. My brethren haue delt deceitfully as a brooke, & as the streame of brookes they passe away,
16. Which are blackish by reason of the yce, and wherein the snow is hid:
17. What time they waxe warme, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18. The pathes of their way are turned aside; they goe to nothing, and perish.
19. The troupes of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20. They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
21. For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting downe, and are afraid.
22. Did I say, Bring vnto mee? or giue a reward for me of your substance?
23. Or deliuer me from the enemies hand, or redeeme me from the hand of the mighty?
24. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.
25. How forcible are right wordes? but what doeth your arguing reproue?
26. Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde?
27. Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend.
28. Now therefore be content, looke vpon mee, for it is euident vnto you, if I lie.
29. Returne, I pray you, let it not be iniquitie; yea returne againe: my righteousnesse is in it.
30. Is there iniquitie in my tongue? cannot my taste discerne peruerse things?
1. Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hireling?
2. As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke:
3. So am I made to possesse moneths of vanitie, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4. When I lie downe, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro, vnto the dawning of the day.
5. My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome.
6. My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7. O remember that my life is winde: mine eye shall no more see good.
8. The eye of him that hath seene me, shall see mee no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I am not.
9. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.
10. Hee shall returne no more to his house: neither shall his place know him any more.
11. Therefore I will not refraine my mouth, I wil speake in the anguish of my spirit, I will complaine in the bitternesse of my soule.
12. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me?
13. When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint:
14. Then thou skarest mee with dreames, and terrifiest me through visions.
15. So that my soule chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life.
16. I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.
17. What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?
18. And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment?
19. How long wilt thou not depart from me? nor let me alone till I swallow downe my spittle?
20. I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?
21. And why doest thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquitie? for now shall I sleepe in the dust, and thou shalt seeke me in the morning, but I shall not be.
1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2. How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3. Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice?
4. If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression:
5. If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:
6. If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous.
7. Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8. For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to the search of their fathers.
9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.)
10. Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, & vtter words out of their heart?
11. Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?
12. Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.
13. So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish:
14. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.
15. He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16. He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17. His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.
18. If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.
19. Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will hee helpe the euill doers:
21. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with reioycing.
22. They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
1. Then Iob answered, and said,
2. I know it is so of a trueth: but howe should man be iust with God.
3. If he will contend with him, he cannot answere him one of a thousand.
4. He is wise in heart, and mightie in strength: who hath hardened himselfe against him, and hath prospered?
5. Which remoueth the mountains, and they know not: which ouerturneth them in his anger:
6. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, & the pillars thereof tremble:
7. Which commandeth the Sunne, and it riseth not: and sealeth vp the starres.
8. Which alone spreadeth out the heauens, and treadeth vpon the waues of the Sea.
9. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South.
10. Which doeth great things past finding out, yea and wonders without number.
11. Loe, hee goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceiue him not.
12. Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say vnto him, What doest thou?
13. If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers doe stoupe vnder him.
14. How much lesse shall I answere him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
15. Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.
16. If I had called, and had answered me, yet would I not beleeue that he had hearkened vnto my voice:
17. For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18. Hee will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
19. If I speake of strength, loe, hee is strong: and if of iudgement, who shall set me a time to pleade?
20. If I iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prooue me peruerse.
21. Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soule: I would despise my life.
22. This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23. If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall of the innocent.
24. The earth is giuen into the hand of the wicked: he couereth the faces of the Iudges thereof; if not, where, and who is hee?
25. Now my dayes are swifter then a Poste: they flee away, they see no good.
26. They are passed away as the ships: as the Eagle that hasteth to the pray.
27. If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.
28. I am afraid of all my sorrowes, I know that thou wilt not holde me innocent.
29. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine?
30. If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane:
31. Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me.
32. For he is not a man as I am, that I should answere him, and we should come together in iudgement.
33. Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt vs, that might lay his hand vpon vs both.
34. Let him take his rodde away from me, & let not his feare terrifie me:
35. Then would I speake, and not feare him; but it is not so with me.
1. My soule is weary of my life, I will leaue my complaint vpon my selfe; I will speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
2. I will say vnto God, Doe not condemne mee; shewe me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3. Is it good vnto thee, that thou shouldest oppresse? that thou shouldest despise the worke of thine hands? and shine vpon the counsell of the wicked?
4. Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5. Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy yeeres as mans dayes,
6. That thou enquirest after mine iniquitie, and searchest after my sinne?
7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliuer out of thine hand.
8. Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou doest destroy me.
9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
10. Hast thou not powred me out as milke, and cruddled me like cheese?
11. Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinewes.
12. Thou hast granted me life and fauour, and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
13. And these things hast thou hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.
14. If I sinne, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquite me from mine iniquitie.
15. If I be wicked, woe vnto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift vp my head: I am full of confusion, therefore see thou mine affliction:
16. For it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce Lion: and againe thou shewest thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
17. Thou renuest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation vpon me; Changes and warre are against me.
18. Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!
19. I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue.
20. Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,
21. Before I goe whence I shall not returne, euen to the land of darknes and the shadow of death,
22. A land of darknes, as darknes it selfe, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkenes.
1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2. Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should man ful of talke be iustified?
3. Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
4. For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
5. But, O that God would speake, and open his lippes against thee,
6. And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisedome, that they are double to that which is: know therefore that God exacteth of thee lesse then thine iniquitie deserueth.
7. Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out the Almightie vnto perfection?
8. It is as high as heauen, what canst thou doe? deeper then hell, what canst thou know?
9. The measure therof is longer then the earth, and broader then the sea.
10. If he cut off, and shut vp, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
11. For, he knoweth vaine men: hee seeth wickednesse also, will he not then consider it?
12. For vaine man would be wise; though man be borne like a wilde asses coult.
13. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
14. If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let not wickednes dwell in thy tabernacles.
15. For then shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, yea thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not feare:
16. Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that passe away:
17. And thine age shalbe clearer then the noone day; thou shalt shine foorth, thou shalt be as the morning.
18. And thou shalt be secure because there is hope, yea thou shalt digge about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
19. Also thou shalt lye downe, and none shall make thee afraid; yea many shall make suite vnto thee.
20. But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giuing vp of the ghost.
1. And Iob answered, and sayd,
2. No doubt but ye are the people, and wisedome shall die with you.
3. But I haue vnderstanding as well as you, I am not inferiour to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4. I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he answereth him: the iust vpright man is laughed to scorne.
5. He that is ready to slippe with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that prouoke God are secure, into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7. But aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the foules of the aire, and they shall tell thee.
8. Or speake to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare vnto thee.
9. Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
10. In whose hand is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
11. Doeth not the eare trie wordes? And the mouth taste his meate?
12. With the ancient is wisedome, and in length of dayes, vnderstanding.
13. With him is wisedome & strength, he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
14. Behold, he breaketh downe, and it cannot be built againe: hee shutteth vp a man, and there can be no opening.
15. Behold, hee withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: also hee sendeth them out, and they ouerturne the earth.
16. With him is strength & wisedome: the deceiued, and the deceiuer, are his.
17. He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the Iudges fooles.
18. He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loines with a girdle.
19. He leadeth Princes away spoiled, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
20. He remooueth away the speech of the trustie, and taketh away the vnderstanding of the aged.
21. He powreth contempt vpon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mightie.
22. Hee discouereth deepe things out of darkenesse, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23. He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: hee inlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them againe.
24. He taketh away the heart of the chiefe of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wildernes where there is no way.
25. They grope in the darke without light, and hee maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
1. Loe, mine eye hath seene all this, mine eare hath heard and vnderstood it.
2. What yee know, the same doe I know also, I am not inferiour vnto you.
3. Surely I would speake to the Almighty, & I desire to reason with God.
4. But ye are forgers of lies, yee are all Physicians of no value.
5. O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome.
6. Heare now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7. Wil you speake wickedly for God? and talke deceitfully for him?
8. Will ye accept his person? Will yee contend for God?
9. Is it good that hee should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, doe ye so mocke him?
10. He will surely reprooue you, if yee doe secretly accept persons.
11. Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his dread fall vpon you?
12. Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13. Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will.
14. Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15. Though hee slay mee, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him.
16. Hee also shall be my saluation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17. Heare diligently my speach, and my declaration with your eares.
18. Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.
19. Who is hee that will plead with me? for now if I hold my tongue, I shall giue vp the ghost.
20. Only doe not two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
21. Withdrawe thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make mee afraid.
22. Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou mee.
23. How many are mine iniquities and sinnes? make mee to knowe my transgression, and my sinne.
24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemie?
25. Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
26. For thou writest bitter things against mee, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
27. Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes; thou settest a print vpon the heeles of my feete.
28. And hee, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
1. Man that is borne of a woman, is of few dayes, and full of trouble.
2. Hee commeth forth like a flower, and is cut downe: he fleeth also, as a shaddow and continueth not.
3. And doest thou open thine eies vpon such an one, and bringest me into iudgment with thee?
4. Who can bring a cleane thing out of an vncleane? not one.
5. Seeing his daies are determined, the number of his moneths are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot passe.
6. Turne from him that hee may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hircling, his day.
7. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut downe, that it will sprout againe, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8. Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground:
9. Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.
10. But man dyeth, and wasteth away; yea, man giueth vp the ghost, and where is hee?
11. As the waters faile from the sea, and the floud decayeth and dryeth vp:
12. So man lyeth downe, and riseth not, till the heauens be no more, they shall not awake; nor bee raised out of their sleepe.
13. O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue, that thou wouldest keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath bee past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me.
14. If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite, till my change come.
15. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt haue a desire to the worke of thine hands.
16. For nowe thou numbrest my steppes, doest thou not watch ouer my sinne?
17. My transgression is sealed vp in a bagge, and thou sowest vp mine iniquitie.
18. And surely the mountaine falling commeth to nought: and the rocke is remoued out of his place.
19. The waters weare the stones, thou washest away the things which growe out of the dust of the earth, and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20. Thou preuailest for euer against him, and hee passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21. His sonnes come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought lowe, but he perceiueth it not of them.
22. But his flesh vpon him shall haue paine, and his soule within him shall mourne.
1. Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2. Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde?
3. Should hee reason with vnprofitable talke? or with speeches wherewith he can doe no good?
4. Yea thou castest off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
5. For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie.
6. Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine owne lippes testifie against thee.
7. Art thou the first man that was borne? or wast thou made before the hilles?
8. Hast thou heard the secret of God? and doest thou restraine wisedome to thy selfe?
9. What knowest thou that we know not? what vnderstandest thou, which is not in vs?
10. With vs are both the gray headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy father.
11. Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12. Why doeth thine heart carie thee away? and what doe thine eyes winke at,
13. That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words goe out of thy mouth?
14. What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
16. How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
17. I will shew thee, heare me, and that which I haue seene, I wil declare,
18. Which wise men haue tolde from their fathers, and haue not hid it:
19. Unto whom alone the earth was giuen, and no stranger passed among them.
20. The wicked man trauaileth with paine all his dayes, and the number of yeeres is hidden to the oppressour.
21. A dreadfull sound is in his eares; in prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
22. He beleeueth not that he shall returne out of darkenesse, and he is waited for, of the sword.
23. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkenes is ready at his hand.
24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall preuaile against him, as a king ready to the battell.
25. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himselfe against the Almightie.
26. He runneth vpon him, euen on his necke, vpon the thicke bosses of his bucklers:
27. Because he couereth his face with his fatnesse, and maketh collops of fat on his flankes.
28. And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heapes.
29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof vpon the earth.
30. He shall not depart out of darkenesse, the flame shall drie vp his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he goe away.
31. Let not him that is deceiued, trust in vanitie: for vanitie shalbe his recompence.
32. It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not bee greene.
33. He shal shake off his vnripe grape as the Uine, and shall cast off his flowre as the Oliue.
34. For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of briberie.
35. They conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth vanitie, and their belly prepareth deceit.
1. Then Iob answered, and said,
2. I haue heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3. Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest?
4. I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the mouing of my lips should asswage your griefe.
6. Though I speake, my griefe is not asswaged: and though I forbeare; what am I eased?
7. But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate al my companie.
8. And thou hast filled mee with wrinckles, which is a witnesse against me: and my leannesse rising vp in me, beareth witnesse to my face.
9. He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth vpon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes vpon me.
10. They haue gaped vpon me with their mouth, they haue smitten me vpon the cheeke reprochfully, they haue gathered themselues together against mee.
11. God hath deliuered me to the vngodly, and turned me ouer into the hands of the wicked.
12. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my necke, and shaken me to pieces, and set me vp for his marke.
13. His archers compasse me round about, he cleaueth my reines asunder, and doeth not spare; he powreth out my gall vpon the ground.
14. He breaketh me with breach vpon breach, he runneth vpon me like a giant.
15. I haue sowed sackcloth vpon my skin, and defiled my horne in the dust.
16. My face is fowle with weeping, and on mine eye-lids is the shadow of death;
17. Not for any iniustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18. O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my cry haue no place.
19. Also now, behold my witnesse is in heauen, and my record is on high.
20. My friends scorne me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
21. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour.
22. When a few yeeres are come, then I shall goe the way whence I shall not returne.
1. My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
2. Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation?
3. Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4. For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5. Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.
6. He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret.
7. Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8. Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite.
9. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.
10. But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11. My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart:
12. They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes.
13. If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
14. I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16. They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,
2. How long will it bee, ere you make an ende of words? Marke, and afterwards we will speake.
3. Wherefore are wee counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
4. He teareth himselfe in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rocke bee remooued out of his place?
5. Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
6. The light shalbe darke in his tabernacle, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
7. The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.
8. For hee is cast into a net by his owne feete, & he walketh vpon a snare.
9. The grinne shall take him by the heele, and the robber shall preuaile against him.
10. The snare is laide for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11. Terrours shall make him afraid on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
12. His strength shalbe hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13. It shall deuoure the strength of his skinne: euen the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.
14. His confidence shalbe rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrours.
15. It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.
16. His rootes shall be dryed vp beneath: and aboue shall his branch be cut off.
17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and hee shall haue no name in the streete.
18. He shall be driuen from light into darkenesse, and chased out of the world.
19. Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20. They that come after him shalbe astonied at his day, as they that went before, were affrighted.
21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
1. Then Iob answered, and sayd,
2. How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words?
3. These tenne times haue ye reproched me: you are not ashamed that you make your selues strange to me.
4. And be it indeed that I haue erred, mine errour remaineth with my selfe.
5. If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch:
6. Know now that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloude, but there is no iudgement.
8. Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
9. Hee hath stript me of my glory, and taken the crowne from my head.
10. He hath destroyed me on euery side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he remooued like a tree.
11. He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and hee counteth me vnto him as one of his enemies.
12. His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle.
13. Hee hath put my brethren farre from me, and mine acquaintance are verely estranged from me.
14. My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.
15. They that dwell in mine house, and my maides count me for a stranger: I am an aliant in their sight.
16. I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth.
17. My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18. Yea, yong children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19. All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, are turned against me.
20. My bone cleaueth to my skinne, and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21. Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22. Why doe ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23. Oh that my wordes were now written, oh that they were printed in a booke!
24. That they were grauen with an iron pen and lead, in the rocke for euer.
25. For I know that my Redeemer liueth, and that he shall stand at the latter day, vpon the earth:
26. And though after my skin, wormes destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27. Whom I shal see for my selfe, and mine eyes shall beholde, and not another, though my reines bee consumed within me.
28. But ye should say, Why persecute we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
29. Bee ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that yee may know there is a iudgement.
1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide,
2. Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste.
3. I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
4. Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth,
5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6. Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the clouds:
7. Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?
8. He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe chased away as a vision of the night.
9. The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10. His children shall seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11. His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust.
12. Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue;
13. Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth:
14. Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him.
15. He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16. He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
17. Hee shall not see the riuers, the floods, the brookes of hony and butter.
18. That which he laboured for, shall he restore, & shall not swallow it downe: according to his substance shall the restitution bee, and hee shall not reioyce therein.
19. Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not:
20. Surely he shall not feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired.
21. There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods.
22. In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the wicked shall come vpon him.
23. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating.
24. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
25. It is drawen, and commeth out of the body; yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall; terrours are vpon him.
26. All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27. The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp against him.
28. The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed vnto him by God.
1. But Iob answered, and sayd,
2. Heare diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3. Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on.
4. As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
5. Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
6. Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.
7. Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power?
8. Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them.
10. Their bull gendreth and faileth not, their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
11. They send foorth their little ones like a flocke, and their children dance.
12. They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe.
13. They spend their daies in wealth, and in a moment goe downe to the graue.
14. Therefore they say vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
15. What is the Almightie, that wee should serue him? and what profite should we haue, if we pray vnto him?
16. Loe, their good is not in their hand, the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.
17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft commeth their destruction vpon them? God distributeth sorrowes in his anger.
18. They are as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
19. God layeth vp his iniquitie for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his moneths is cut off in the middest?
22. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he iudgeth those that are high.
23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24. His breasts are full of milke, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25. And another dieth in the bitternesse of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
26. They shall lie downe alike in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
27. Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices which yee wrongfully imagine against me.
28. For ye say, where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29. Haue ye not asked them that goe by the way? and doe ye not know their tokens?
30. That the wicked is reserued to the day of destruction; they shall bee brought foorth to the day of wrath.
31. Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
32. Yet shall hee be brought to the graue, & shall remaine in the tombe.
33. The cloudes of the valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
34. How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth falshood?
1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
2. Can a man be profitable vnto God? as hee that is wise may be profitable vnto himselfe.
3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gaine to him, that thou makest thy waies perfite?
4. Will hee reproue thee for feare of thee? will he enter with thee into iudgment?
5. Is not thy wickednesse great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6. For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7. Thou hast not giuen water to the wearie to drinke, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
8. But as for the mightie man, hee had the earth, and the honourable man dwelt in it.
9. Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.
10. Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden feare troubleth thee,
11. Or darkenes that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters couer thee.
12. Is not God in the height of heauen? and behold the height of the starres how high they are.
13. And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
14. Thicke cloudes are a couering to him that he seeth not, and hee walketh in the circuit of heauen.
15. Hast thou marked the olde way which wicked men haue troden?
16. Which were cut downe out of time, whose foundation was ouerflowen with a flood.
17. Which said vnto God, Depart from vs, and what can the Almightie doe for them?
18. Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.
19. The righteous see it, and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorne.
20. Whereas our substance is not cut downe, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21. Acquaint now thy selfe with him, and be at peace: thereby good shal come vnto thee.
22. Receiue, I pray thee, the Lawe from his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
23. If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be built vp, thou shalt put away iniquitie farre from thy tabernacles.
24. Then shalt thou lay vp golde as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes.
25. Yea the Almightie shall bee thy defence, and thou shalt haue plenty of siluer.
26. For then shalt thou haue thy delight in the Almightie, and shalt lift vp thy face vnto God.
27. Thou shalt make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt pay thy vowes.
28. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shal be established vnto thee: and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
29. When men are cast downe, then thou shalt say, There is lifting vp: and he shall saue the humble person.
30. He shall deliuer the Iland of the innocent: and it is deliuered by the purenesse of thine hands.
1. Then Iob answered, and said,
2. Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning.
3. O that I knewe where I might find him! that I might come euen to his seate!
4. I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5. I would know the words which he would answere me, and vnderstand what he would say vnto me.
6. Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but hee would put strength in me.
7. There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
8. Behold, I goe forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceiue him:
9. On the left hand where hee doeth worke, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himselfe on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
10. But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11. My foot hath held his steps, his way haue I kept, and not declined.
12. Neither haue I gone backe from the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then my necessary food.
13. But hee is in one minde, and who can turne him? and what his soule desireth, euen that he doeth.
14. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for mee: and many such things are with him.
15. Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
16. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
17. Because I was not cut off before the darknes, neither hath he couered the darknes from my face.
1. Why, seeing Times are not hidden from the Almightie, doe they, that know him not, see his dayes?
2. Some remooue the land-markes; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3. They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, they take the widowes oxe for a pledge.
4. They turne the needy out of the way: the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
5. Behold, as wilde asses in the desart, goe they foorth to their worke, rising betimes for a pray: the wildernes yeeldeth food for them, and for their children.
6. They reape euery one his corne in the fielde: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.
8. They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
9. They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.
10. They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,
11. Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12. Men groane from out of the city, and the soule of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13. They are of those that rebell against the light, they know not the wayes thereof, nor abide in the pathes thereof.
14. The murderer rising with the light, killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe.
15. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16. In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light.
17. For the morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadow of death.
18. Hee is swift as the waters, their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the Uineyards.
19. Drought and heate consume the snow waters: so doeth the graue those which haue sinned.
20. The wombe shall forget him, the worme shall feed sweetly on him, hee shall be no more remembred, and wickednes shalbe broken as a tree.
21. He euill intreateth the barren, that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22. He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth vp, and no man is sure of life.
23. Though it be giuen him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
24. They are exalted for a litle while, but are gone and brought low, they are taken out of the way as al other, and cut off as the tops of the eares of corne.
25. And if it be not so now, who will make mee a liar, and make my speach nothing worth?
1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
2. Dominion and feare are with him, hee maketh peace in his high places.
3. Is there any number of his armies? and vpon whom doeth not his light arise?
4. How then can man bee iustified with God? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman?
5. Behold euen to the moone, and it shineth not, yea the starres are not pure in his sight.
6. How much lesse man, that is a worme: and the sonne of man which is a worme?
1. But Iob answered and sayd,
2. Howe hast thou helped him that is without power? how sauest thou the arme that hath no strength?
3. How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisedome? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing, as it is?
4. To whom hast thou vttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5. Dead things are formed from vnder the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6. Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no couering.
7. He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.
8. Hee bindeth vp the waters in his thicke clouds, and the cloud is not rent vnder them.
9. Hee holdeth backe the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud vpon it.
10. Hee hath compassed the waters with bounds, vntill the day and night come to an end.
11. The pillars of heauen tremble, and are astonished at his reproofe.
12. Hee diuideth the sea with his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth through the proud.
13. By his spirit he hath garnished the heauens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
14. Loe, these are parts of his waies, but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can vnderstand?
1. Moreouer Iob continued his parable, and sayd,
2. As God liueth, who hath taken away my iudgment, and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soule;
3. All the while my breath is in mee, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
4. My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.
5. God forbid that I should iustifie you: till I die, I will not remoue my integritie from me.
6. My righteousnesse I hold fast, and will not let it goe: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I liue.
7. Let mine enemie be as the wicked, and he that riseth vp against me, as the vnrighteous.
8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soule?
9. Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?
10. Will he delight himselfe in the Almightie? will hee alwayes call vpon God?
11. I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almightie, will I not conceale.
12. Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then are yee thus altogether vaine?
13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressours which they shall receiue of the Almightie.
14. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offpring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15. Those that remaine of him shall bee buried in death: and his widowes shall not weepe.
16. Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay:
17. He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall diuide the siluer.
18. He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
19. The rich man shall lie downe, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not:
20. Terrours take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21. The East winde carieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storme hurleth him out of his place.
22. For God shall cast vpon him, and not spare: hee would faine flee out of his hand.
23. Men shall clap their handes at him, and shall hisse him out of his place.
1. Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it.
2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
3. Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death.
4. The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant; euen the waters forgotten of the foote: they are dried vp, they are gone away from men.
5. As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire.
6. The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde.
7. There is a path which no foule knoweth, and which the vulturs eye hath not seene.
8. The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it.
9. Hee putteth foorth his hand vpon the rocke; hee ouerturneth the mountaines by the rootes.
10. Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
11. He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light.
12. But where shall wisedome bee found? And where is the place of vnderstanding?
13. Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the liuing.
14. The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
15. It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.
16. It cannot be valued with the golde of Ophir, with the precious Onix, or the Saphire.
17. The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.
18. No mention shalbe made of Corall, or of Pearles: for the price of wisedome is aboue Rubies.
19. The Topaze of Ethiopia shall not equall it, neither shall it be valued with pure golde.
20. Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
21. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all liuing, and kept close from the foules of the ayre.
22. Destruction and death say, Wee haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
23. God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24. For hee looketh to the endes of the earth, and seeth vnder the whole heauen:
25. To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26. When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27. Then did he see it, and declare it, he prepared it, yea and searched it out.
28. And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord, that is wisedome, and to depart from euill, is vnderstanding.
1. Moreouer Iob continued his parable, and said,
2. O that I were as in moneths past, as in the dayes when God preserued me.
3. When his candle shined vpon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkenesse:
4. As I was in the dayes of my youth, when the secret of God was vpon my tabernacle:
5. When the Almightie was yet with me, when my children were about me:
6. When I washed my steps with butter, and the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
7. When I went out to the gate, through the citie, when I prepared my seate in the street.
8. The yong men saw me, and hid themselues: and the aged arose, and stood vp.
9. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10. The Nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.
11. When the eare heard mee, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gaue witnesse to me:
12. Because I deliuered the poore that cried, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.
13. The blessing of him that was readie to perish, came vpon me: and I caused the widowes heart to sing for ioy.
14. I put on righteousnesse, and it clothed me: my iudgement was as a robe and a diademe.
15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16. I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.
17. And I brake the iawes of the wicked, and pluckt the spoile out of his teeth.
18. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.
19. My roote was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night vpon my branch.
20. My glory was fresh in mee, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21. Unto me men gaue eare, and waited, and kept silence at my counsell.
22. After my words they spake not againe, & my speach dropped vpon them,
23. And they waited for me as for the raine, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter raine.
24. If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not, and the light of my countenance they cast not downe.
25. I chose out their way, and sate chiefe, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
1. But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke.
2. Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished?
3. For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:
4. Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.
5. They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)
6. To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes.
7. Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together.
8. They were children of fooles, yea children of base men: they were viler then the earth.
9. And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word.
10. They abhorre me, they flee farre from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11. Because hee hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they haue also let loose the bridle before me.
12. Upon my right hand rise the youth, they push away my feete, and they raise vp against mee the wayes of their destruction.
13. They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.
14. They came vpon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselues vpon me.
15. Terrours are turned vpon mee: they pursue my soule as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloude.
16. And now my soule is powred out vpon me: the dayes of affliction haue taken hold vpon me.
17. My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.
18. By the great force of my disease, is my garment changed: it bindeth mee about as the collar of my coat.
19. He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20. I crie vnto thee, and thou doest not heare me: I stand vp, and thou regardest me not.
21. Thou art become cruell to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thy selfe against me.
22. Thou liftest me vp to the wind: thou causest me to ride vpon it, and dissoluest my substance.
23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing.
24. Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
25. Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble? was not my soule grieued for the poore?
26. When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.
27. My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee.
28. I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.
29. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owles.
30. My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat.
31. My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.
1. I made a couenant with mine eyes; why then should I thinke vpon a mayd?
2. For what portion of God is there from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
4. Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps?
5. If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6. Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie.
7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaued to my hands:
8. Then let mee sow, and let another eate, yea let my off-spring be rooted out.
9. If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore:
10. Then let my wife grind vnto another, and let others bow downe vpon her.
11. For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquitie to bee punished by the Iudges.
12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would roote out all mine encrease.
13. If I did despise the cause of my man-seruant, or of my mayd-seruant, when they contended with me:
14. What then shall I do, when God riseth vp? and when hee visiteth, what shall I answere him?
15. Did not hee that made mee in the wombe, make him? and did not one fashion vs in the wombe?
16. If I haue withhelde the poore from their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile:
17. Or haue eaten my morsell my selfe alone, and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof:
18. (For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided her from my mothers wombe.)
19. If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:
20. If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
21. If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate:
22. Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
23. For destruction from God was a terrour to mee: and by reason of his highnesse, I could not endure.
24. If I haue made golde my hope, or haue said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence:
25. If I reioyced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much:
26. If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse:
27. And my heart hath bene secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28. This also were an iniquitie to be punished by the Iudge: For I should haue denied the God that is aboue.
29. If I reioyced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lift vp my selfe when euill found him:
30. (Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.)
31. If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! wee cannot be satisfied.
32. The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doores to the trauailer.
33. If I couered my transgressions, as Adam: by hiding mine iniquitie in my bosome:
34. Did I feare a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrifie me: that I kept silence, and went not out of the doore?
35. O that one would heare me! beholde, my desire is, that the Almightie would answere me, and that mine aduersary had written a booke.
36. Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me.
37. I would declare vnto him the number of my steps, as a prince would I goe neere vnto him.
38. If my land cry against me, or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine:
39. If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life:
40. Let thistles grow in stead of wheat, and cockle in stead of barley. The words of Iob are ended.
1. So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he was righteous in his owne eyes.
2. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu, the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram: against Iob was his wrath kindled, because he iustified himselfe rather then God.
3. Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled: because they had found no answere, and yet had condemned Iob.
4. Now Elihu had waited till Iob had spoken: because they were elder then he.
5. When Elihu saw that there was no answere in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
6. And Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite answered and sayd: I am yong, and yee are very old, wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
7. I said, Dayes should speake, and multitude of yeeres should teach wisedome.
8. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almightie giueth them vnderstanding.
9. Great men are not alwayes wise: neither doe the aged vnderstand iudgement.
10. Therfore I sayd, Hearken to me: I also will shew mine opinion.
11. Behold, I waited for your words: I gaue eare to your reasons, whilest you searched out what to say.
12. Yea, I attended vnto you: and beholde, there was none of you that conuinced Iob, or that answered his words:
13. Lest ye should say, We haue found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
14. Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answere him with your speeches.
15. They were amased, they answered no more, they left off speaking.
16. When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more.)
17. I sayd, I will answere also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
18. For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
19. Behold, my belly is as wine, which hath no vent, it is ready to burst like new bottles.
20. I will speake, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lippes, and answere.
21. Let me not, I pray you, accept any mans person: neither let me giue flattering titles vnto man.
22. For I know not to giue flattering titles: in so doing my maker would soone take me away.
1. Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my speeches, and hearken to all my wordes.
2. Behold, now I haue opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
3. My words shalbe of the vprightnesse of my heart: and my lippes shall vtter knowledge clearely.
4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.
5. If thou canst, answere me, set thy wordes in order before me, stand vp.
6. Behold, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
7. Behold, my terrour shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heauie vpon thee.
8. Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I haue heard the voice of thy words, saying,
9. I am cleane without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquitie in me.
10. Behold, hee findeth occasions against mee, hee counteth mee for his enemie.
11. He putteth my feete in the stockes, he marketh all my pathes.
12. Behold, in this thou art not iust: I will answere thee, That God is greater then man.
13. Why doest thou striue against him? for he giueth not account of any of his matters.
14. For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiueth it not.
15. In a dreame, in a vision of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth vpon men, in slumbrings vpon the bed:
16. Then hee openeth the eares of men, and sealeth their instruction,
17. That hee may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18. Hee keepeth backe his soule from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19. Hee is chastened also with paine vpon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong paine.
20. So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soule daintie meate.
21. His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seene; and his bones that were not seene, sticke out.
22. His soule draweth neere vnto the graue, and his life to the destroyers.
23. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew vnto man his vprightnesse:
24. Then hee is gracious vnto him, and sayth, Deliuer him from going downe to the pit; I haue found a ransome.
25. His flesh shall be fresher then a childes: he shall returne to the dayes of his youth.
26. He shall pray vnto God, and hee will be fauourable vnto him, and hee shall see his face with ioy: for hee will render vnto man his righteousnesse.
27. He looketh vpon men, and if any say, I haue sinned, and peruerted that which was right, and it profited mee not:
28. Hee will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29. Loe, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
30. To bring backe his soule from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the liuing.
31. Marke well, O Iob, hearken vnto me, hold thy peace, and I wil speake.
32. If thou hast any thing to say, answere me: speake, for I desire to iustifie thee.
33. If not, hearken vnto me: holde thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisedome.
1. Furthermore Elihu answered, and said,
2. Heare my wordes, O yee wise men, and giue eare vnto me, ye that haue knowledge.
3. For the eare trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meate.
4. Let vs chuse to vs iudgement: let vs know among our selues what is good.
5. For Iob hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my iudgement.
6. Should I lye against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
7. What man is like Iob, who drinketh vp scorning like water?
8. Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men.
9. For hee hath said, It profiteth a man nothing, that he should delight himselfe with God.
10. Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of vnderstanding: farre bee it from God, that he should doe wickednes, and from the Almighty, that hee should commit iniquitie.
11. For the worke of a man shall he render vnto him, and cause euery man to finde according to his wayes.
12. Yea surely God will not doe wickedly, neither will the Almighty peruert iudgement.
13. Who hath giuen him a charge ouer the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?
14. If he set his heart vpon man, if he gather vnto himselfe his spirit and his breath;
15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turne againe vnto dust.
16. If now thou hast vnderstanding, heare this: hearken to the voyce of my words.
17. Shall euen he that hateth right, gouerne? and wilt thou condemne him that is most iust?
18. Is it fit to say to a King, Thou art wicked? and to Princes, Ye are vngodly?
19. How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of Princes, nor regardeth the rich more then the poore? for they all are the woorke of his hands.
20. In a moment shall they die, and the people shalbe troubled at midnight, and passe away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
21. For his eyes are vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goings.
22. There is no darkenes, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquitie may hide themselues.
23. For hee will not lay vpon man more then right; that he should enter into iudgement with God.
24. He shall breake in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
25. Therefore hee knoweth their workes, and he ouerturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
26. He striketh them as wicked men, in the open sight of others:
27. Because they turned backe from him, and would not consider any of his wayes.
28. So that they cause the cry of the poore to come vnto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
29. When he giueth quietnesse, who then can make trouble? and when hee hideth his face, who then can beholde him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man onely:
30. That the hypocrite raigne not, lest the people be ensnared.
31. Surely it is meete to be said vnto God, I haue borne chastisement, I will not offend any more.
32. That which I see not, teach thou me; If I haue done iniquitie, I will doe no more.
33. Should it bee according to thy minde? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou chuse, and not I: therefore speake what thou knowest.
34. Let men of vnderstanding tell mee, and let a wise man hearken vnto mee.
35. Iob hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdome.
36. My desire is that Iob may bee tried vnto the ende, because of his answeres for wicked men.
37. For he addeth rebellion vnto his sinne, hee clappeth his handes amongst vs, and multiplieth his words against God.
1. Elihu spake moreouer, and said,
2. Thinkest thou this to bee right, that thou saydest, My righteousnesse is more then Gods?
3. For thou saydst, what aduantage will it bee vnto thee, and, what profite shall I haue, if I bee cleansed from my sinne?
4. I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
5. Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.
6. If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or it thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou vnto him?
7. If thou be righteous, what giuest thou him? or what receiueth hee of thine hand?
8. Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse may profit the sonne of man.
9. By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to crie: they crie out by reason of the arme of the mightie.
10. But none saith, where is God my maker, who giueth songs in the night?
11. Who teacheth vs more then the beasts of the earth, and maketh vs wiser then the foules of heauen.
12. There they crie, (but none giueth answere) because of the pride of euill men.
13. Surely God wil not heare vanitie, neither wil the Almightie regard it.
14. Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet iudgement is before him, therefore trust thou in him.
15. But now because it is not so, hee hath visited in his anger, yet he knoweth it not in great extremitie:
16. Therefore doeth Iob open his mouth in vaine: he multiplieth words without knowledge.
1. Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2. Suffer mee a little, and I will shewe thee, that I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.
3. I will fetch my knowledge from afarre, and will ascribe righteousnesse to my Maker.
4. For truely my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge, is with thee.
5. Behold, God is mightie, and despiseth not any: he is mightie in strength and wisedome.
6. He preserueth not the life of the wicked: but giueth right to the poore.
7. Hee withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne, yea he doth establish them for euer, and they are exalted.
8. And if they bee bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction:
9. Then hee sheweth them their worke, and their transgressions, that they haue exceeded.
10. He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth that they returne from iniquitie.
11. If they obey and serue him, they shall spend their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeeres in pleasures.
12. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13. But the hypocrites in heart heape vp wrath: they crie not when he bindeth them.
14. They die in youth, and their life is among the vncleane.
15. He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their eares in oppression.
16. Euen so would he haue remooued thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitnesse, and that which should be set on thy table, should be full of fatnesse.
17. But thou hast fulfilled the iudgement of the wicked: iudgement and iustice take hold on thee.
18. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransome cannot deliuer thee.
19. Will he esteeme thy riches? no not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20. Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21. Take heed, regard not iniquitie: for this hast thou chosen rather then affliction.
22. Beholde, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23. Who hath inioyned him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquitie?
24. Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.
25. Euery man may see it, man may behold it afarre off.
26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his yeeres be searched out.
27. For hee maketh small the drops of water: they powre downe raine according to the vapour thereof:
28. Which the clouds doe drop, and distill vpon man aboundantly.
29. Also can any vnderstand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30. Behold, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
31. For by them iudgeth he the people, he giueth meate in abundance.
32. With clouds he couereth the light, and commaundeth it not to shine, by the cloud that commeth betwixt.
33. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattel also concerning the Uapour.
1. At this also my heart trembleth, and is moued out of his place.
2. Heare attentiuely the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
3. Hee directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his lightning vnto the ends of the earth.
4. After it a voyce roareth: he thundreth with the voice of his excellencie, and hee will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5. God thundereth maruellously with his voice: great things doth hee, which we cannot comprehend.
6. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth: likewise to the small raine, and to the great raine of his strength.
7. He sealeth vp the hand of euery man; that all men may knowe his worke.
8. Then the beastes goe into dennes: and remaine in their places.
9. Out of the South commeth the whirlewinde: and cold out of the North.
10. By the breath of God, frost is giuen: and the breadth of the waters is straitned.
11. Also by watring he wearieth the thicke cloud: hee scattereth his bright cloud.
12. And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may doe whatsoeuer hee commaundeth them vpon the face of the world in the earth.
13. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14. Hearken vnto this, O Iob: stand still, and consider the wondrous workes of God.
15. Doest thou knowe when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16. Doest thou know the ballancings of the clouds, the wondrous workes of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17. How thy garments are warme, when hee quieteth the earth by the South wind?
18. Hast thou with him spread out the skie, which is strong, and as a molten looking glasse?
19. Teach vs what we shall say vnto him; for we cannot order our speach by reason of darknes.
20. Shall it bee told him that I speake? if a man speake, surely he shalbe swallowed vp.
21. And nowe men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth and cleanseth them.
22. Faire weather commeth out of the North: with God is terrible maiestie.
23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in iudgement, and in plenty of iustice: he will not afflict.
24. Men doe therefore feare him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
1. Then the Lord answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd,
2. Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge?
3. Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me.
4. Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding.
5. Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line vpon it?
6. Wherepuon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who layd the corner stone thereof?
7. When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.
8. Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
9. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,
10. And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,
11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed.
12. Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? And caused the day-spring to know his place,
13. That it might take hold of the endes of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14. It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.
15. And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken.
16. Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
17. Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?
18. Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
19. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof?
20. That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof.
21. Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? Or because the number of thy daies is great?
22. Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? Or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile,
23. Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?
24. By what way is the light parted? Which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.
25. Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? Or a way for the lightning of thunder,
26. To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
27. To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.
28. Hath the raine a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
29. Out of whose wombe came the yce? And the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?
30. The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen.
31. Canst thou bind the sweete influences of Pleiades? Or loose the bands of Orion?
32. Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
33. Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
34. Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee?
35. Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, Here we are?
36. Who hath put wisedome in the inward parts? Or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart?
37. Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? Or who can stay the bottles of heauen,
38. When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?
39. Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? Or fill the appetite of the young lyons,
40. When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?
41. Who prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate.
1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goates of the rocke bring forth? or canst thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
2. Canst thou number the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3. They bowe themselues, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrowes.
4. Their yong ones are in good liking, they grow vp with corne: they go forth, and returne not vnto them.
5. Who hath sent out the wild asse free? or who hath looosed the bands of the wild asse?
6. Whose house I haue made the wildernesse, and the barren lande his dwellings.
7. He scorneth the multitude of the citie, neither regardeth he the crying of the driuer.
8. The range of the mountaines is his pasture, and hee searcheth after euery greene thing.
9. Will the Unicorne be willing to serue thee? or abide by thy cribbe?
10. Canst thou binde the Unicorne with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleyes after thee?
11. Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? or wilt thou leaue thy labour to him?
12. Wilt thou beleeue him that hee will bring home thy seed? and gather it into thy barne?
13. Gauest thou the goodly wings vnto the peacocks, or wings and feathers vnto the Ostrich?
14. Which leaueth her egges in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
15. And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may breake them.
16. She is hardened against her yong ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vaine without feare.
17. Because God hath depriued her of wisedome, neither hath he imparted to her vnderstanding.
18. What time she lifteth vp her selfe on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19. Hast thou giuen the horse strength? hast thou clothed his necke with thunder?
20. Canst thou make him afraid as a grashopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
21. He paweth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: hee goeth on to meet the armed men.
22. He mocketh at feare, and is not affrighted: neither turneth he backe from the sword.
23. The quiuer ratleth against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
24. He swalloweth the ground with fiercenesse and rage: neither beleeueth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25. Hee saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha: and he smelleth the battaile afarre off, the thunder of the captaines, and the shouting.
26. Doeth the hawke flie by thy wisedome, and stretch her wings toward the South?
27. Doeth the Eagle mount vp at thy commaund? and make her nest on high?
28. She dwelleth and abideth on the rocke, vpon the cragge of the rocke, and the strong place.
29. From thence she seeketh the pray, and her eyes behold a farre off.
30. Her yong ones also suck vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is he.





1. Moreouer the Lord answered Iob, and said,
2. Shall hee that contendeth with the Almightie, instruct him? he that reproueth God, let him answere it.
3. Then Iob answered the Lord, and said,
4. Behold, I am vile, what shall I answere thee? I wil lay my hand vpon my mouth.
5. Once haue I spoken, but I will not answere: yea twise, but I will proceed no further.
6. Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirlewinde, and said:
7. Gird vp thy loynes now like a man: I will demaund of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
8. Wilt thou also disanul my iudgement? Wilt thou condemne mee, that thou mayest be righteous?
9. Hast thou an arme like God? or canst thou thunder with a voyce like him?
10. Decke thy selfe now with Maiestie, and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with glory, and beautie.
11. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold euery one that is proud, and abase him.
12. Looke on euery one that is proud, and bring him low: and tread downe the wicked in their place.
13. Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in secret.
14. Then will I also confesse vnto thee, that thine owne right hand can saue thee.
15. Beholde now Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth grasse as an oxe.
16. Loe now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauell of his belly.
17. Hee moueth his taile like a Cedar: the sinewes of his stones are wrapt together.
18. His bones are as strong pieces of brasse: his bones are like barres of iron.
19. Hee is the chiefe of the wayes of God: he that made him, can make his sword to approach vnto him.
20. Surely the mountaines bring him foorth foode: where all the beasts of the field play.
21. He lieth vnder the shady trees in the couert of the reede, and fennes.
22. The shady trees couer him with their shaddow: the willowes of the brooke compasse him about.
23. Behold, he drinketh vp a riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iordan into his mouth.
24. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pearceth through snares.








1. Canst thou draw out Leuiathan with an hooke? or his tongue with a corde which thou lettest downe?
2. Canst thou put an hooke into his nose? or bore his iawe through with a thorne?
3. Will he make many supplications vnto thee? will he speake soft words vnto thee?
4. Will he make a couenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a seruant for euer?
5. Wilt thou play with him as with a birde? wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?
6. Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7. Canst thou fill his skinne with barbed irons? or his head with fishspeares?
8. Lay thine hand vpon him, remember the battell: doe no more.
9. Behold, the hope of him is in vaine: shall not one be cast downe euen at the sight of him?
10. None is so fierce that dare stirre him vp: who then is able to stand before me?
11. Who hath preuented me that I should repay him? whatsoeuer is vnder the whole heauen, is mine.
12. I will not conceale his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13. Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who can come to him, with his double bridle?
14. Who can open the doores of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15. His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale.
16. One is so neere to another, that no ayre can come betweene them.
17. They are ioyned one to another, they sticke together, that they cannot be sundred.
18. By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.
19. Out of his mouth goe burning lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.
20. Out of his nostrels goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21. His breath kindleth coales, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22. In his necke remaineth strength, and sorrowe is turned into ioy before him.
23. The flakes of his flesh are ioyned together: they are firme in themselues, they cannot be moued.
24. His heart is as firme as a stone, yea as hard as a peece of the nether mil-stone.
25. When he rayseth vp himselfe, the mightie are afraid: by reason of breakings they purifie themselues.
26. The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the speare, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brasse as rotten wood.
28. The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
29. Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a speare.
30. Sharpe stones are vnder him: he spreadeth sharpe pointed things vpon the mire.
31. He maketh the deepe to boyle like a pot: hee maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.
32. Hee maketh a path to shine after him; one would thinke the deepe to bee hoarie.
33. Upon earth there is not his like: who is made without feare.
34. He beholdeth all high things: he is a king ouer all the children of pride.
1. Then Iob answered the Lord, and said,
2. I know that thou canst doe euery thing, and that no thought can bee withholden from thee.
3. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore haue I vttered that I vnderstood not, things too wonderfull for me, which I knew not.
4. Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demand of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
5. I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6. Wherefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.
7. And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words vnto Iob, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, & against thy two friends: for ye haue not spoken of mee the thing that is right, as my seruant Iob hath. 
8. Therefore take vnto you now seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes, and goe to my seruant Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruant Iob shal pray for you, for him wil I accept: lest I deale with you after your folly, in that ye haue not spoken of mee the thing which is right, like my seruant Iob.
9. So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Iob.
10. And the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twice as much as he had before.
11. Then came there vnto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had bin of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoned him, and comforted him ouer all the euill that the Lord had brought vpon him: euery man also gaue him a piece of money, and euery one an eare-ring of gold.
12. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Iob, more then his beginning: for he had fourteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses.
13. He had also seuen sonnes, and three daughters.
14. And he called the name of the first, Iemima, and the name of the second, Kezia, and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
15. And in all the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritance among their brethren.
16. After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeeres, and saw his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.
17. So Iob died being old, and full of dayes.
1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the vngodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornefull.
2. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doeth he meditate day and night.
3. And he shalbe like a tree planted by the riuers of water, that bringeth foorth his fruit in his season, his leafe also shall not wither, and whatsoeuer he doeth, shall prosper.
4. The vngodly are not so: but are like the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
5. Therefore the vngodly shall not stand in the iudgement, nor sinners in the Congregation of the righteous.
6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the vngodly shall perish.
1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vaine thing?
2. The Kings of the earth set themselues, and the rulers take counsell together, against the Lord, and against his Anoynted, saying,
3. Let vs breake their bandes asunder, and cast away their cords from vs.
4. Hee that sitteth in the heauens shal laugh: the Lord shall haue them in derision.
5. Then shall hee speake vnto them in his wrath, and vexe them in his sore displeasure.
6. Yet haue I set my King vpon my holy hill of Sion.
7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said vnto mee, Thou art my sonne, this day haue I begotten thee.
8. Aske of me, and I shall giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the vttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9. Thou shalt breake them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessell.
10. Bee wise now therefore, O yee Kings: be instructed ye Iudges of the earth.
11. Serue the Lord with feare, and reioyce with trembling.
12. Kisse the Sonne lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little: Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid when he fled from Absalom his sonne.</i> Lord, how are they increased that trouble mee? many are they that rise vp against me.
2. Many there bee which say of my soule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah.
3. But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head.
4. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
5. I layd me downe and slept; I awaked, for the Lord sustained me.
6. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that haue set themselues against me round about.
7. Arise, O Lord, saue mee, O my God; for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly.
8. Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord: thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician on Neginoth, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Heare me, when I call, O God of my righteousnesse: thou hast inlarged mee when I was in distresse, haue mercy vpon me, and heare my prayer.
2. O ye sonnes of men, how long will yee turne my glory into shame? how long will yee loue vanitie, and seeke after leasing? Selah.
3. But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly, for himselfe: the Lord will heare when I call vnto him.
4. Stand in awe, and sinne not: commune with your owne heart vpon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousnesse, and put your trust in the Lord.
6. There be many that say, Who wil shew vs any good? Lord lift thou vp the light of thy countenance vpon vs.
7. Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart, more then in the time that their corne and their wine increased.
8. I will both lay mee downe in peace, and sleepe: for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safetie.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician vpon Nehiloth, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Giue eare to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.
2. Hearken vnto the voice of my crie, my King, and my God: for vnto thee will I pray.
3. My voyce shalt thou heare in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer vnto thee, and will looke vp.
4. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse: neither shall euill dwell with thee.
5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest al workers of iniquity
6. Thou shalt destroy them that speake leasing: the Lord will abhorre the bloodie and deceitfull man.
7. But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy feare will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8. Lead me O Lord, in thy righteousnesse, because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
9. For there is no faithfulnes in their mouth, their inward part is very wickednesse: their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
10. Destroy thou them, O God, let them fall by their owne counsels: cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they haue rebelled against thee.
11. But let all those that put their trust in thee, reioyce: let them euer shout for ioy; because thou defendest them: let them also that loue thy name, be ioyfull in thee.
12. For thou, Lord, wilt blesse the righteous: with fauour wilt thou compasse him as with a shield.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician on Neginoth vpon Sheminith, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2. Haue mercy vpon me, O Lord, for I am weake: O Lord heale mee, for my bones are vexed.
3. My soule is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?
4. Returne, O Lord, deliuer my soule: oh saue mee, for thy mercies sake.
5. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the graue who shall giue thee thankes?
6. I am weary with my groning, all the night make I my bed to swim: I water my couch with my teares.
7. Mine eie is consumed because of griefe; it waxeth olde because of all mine enemies.
8. Depart from me, all yee workers of iniquitie: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9. The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receiue my prayer.
10. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them returne and be ashamed suddainly.
1. <i>Shiggaion of Dauid; which he sang vnto the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Beniamite.</i> O Lord, my God, in thee doe I put my trust: saue me from all them that persecute me, and deliuer me.
2. Least hee teare my soule like a lyon, renting it in pieces, while there is none to deliuer.
3. O Lord my God, if I haue done this; if there be iniquitie in my hands:
4. If I haue rewarded euill vnto him that was at peace with me: (yea I haue deliuered him that without cause is mine enemie.)
5. Let the enemie persecute my soule, and take it, yea let him tread downe my life vpon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6. Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift vp thy selfe, because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the iudgement that thou hast commanded.
7. So shall the congregation of the people compasse thee about: for their sakes therefore returne thou on high.
8. The Lord shal iudge the people: iudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousnesse, and according to mine integritie that is in me.
9. Oh let the wickednes of the wicked come to an end, but establish the iust: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reines.
10. My defence is of God, which saueth the vpright in heart.
11. God iudgeth the righteous, and God is angrie with the wicked euery-day.
12. If he turne not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bowe, and made it ready.
13. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrowes against the persecutors.
14. Behold, he trauelleth with iniquitie, and hath conceiued mischiefe, and brought forth falshood.
15. He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16. His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head, and his violent dealing shall come downe vpon his owne pate.
17. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musicion vpon Gittith, a Psalme of Dauid.</i> O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.
2. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.
3. When I consider thy heauens, the worke of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordained;
4. What is man, that thou art mindfull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?
5. For thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6. Thou madest him to haue dominion ouer the workes of thy hands; thou hast put all things vnder his feete.
7. All sheepe and oxen, yea and the beasts of the field.
8. The foule of the aire, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoeuer passeth through the paths of the seas.
9. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
1. <i>To the chiefe musician vpon MuthLabben. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> I wil praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will shewe foorth all thy maruellous workes.
2. I will bee glad and reioyce in thee: I will sing prayse to thy name, O thou most High.
3. When mine enemies are turned backe, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4. For thou hast maintained my right, and my cause: thou satest in the throne iudging right.
5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for euer and euer.
6. O thou enemie, destructions are come to a perpetuall end; and thou hast destroyed cities, their memoriall is perished with them.
7. But the Lord shall endure for euer: he hath prepared his throne for iudgement.
8. And hee shall iudge the world in righteousnesse; he shall minister iudgement to the people in vprightnesse.
9. The Lord also will bee a refuge for the oppressed: a refuge, in times of trouble.
10. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seeke thee.
11. Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Sion: declare among the people his doings.
12. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembreth them: he forgetteth not the crie of the humble.
13. Haue mercie vpon me O Lord, consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest mee vp from the gates of death:
14. That I may shew foorth all thy prayse in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will reioyce in thy saluation.
15. The heathen are sunke downe in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid, is their own foot taken.
16. The Lord is knowen by the iudgement which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18. For the needie shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poore shall not perish for euer.
19. Arise, O Lord, let not man preuaile: let the heathen bee iudged in thy sight.
20. Put them in feare, O Lord: that the nations may know themselues to be but men. Selah.
1. Why standest thou afarre off, O Lord? why hidest thou thy selfe in times of trouble?
2. The wicked in his pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the deuices that they haue imagined.
3. For the wicked boasteth of his hearts desire, and blesseth the couetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
4. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seeke after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5. His wayes are alwayes grieuous, thy iudgements are farre aboue out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6. He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moued: for I shall neuer be in aduersitie.
7. His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and vanitie.
8. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doeth he murder the innocent: his eyes are priuily set against the poore.
9. He lieth in waite secretly as a lyon in his denne, he lieth in wait to catch the poore: he doth catch the poore when he draweth him into his net.
10. He croucheth, and humbleth himselfe, that the poore may fall by his strong ones.
11. Hee hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face, hee will neuer see it.
12. Arise, O Lord, O God lift vp thine hand: forget not the humble.
13. Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14. Thou hast seene it, for thou beholdest mischiefe and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee, thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
15. Breake thou the arme of the wicked, and the euill man: seeke out his wickednes, till thou finde none.
16. The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17. Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine eare to heare,
18. To iudge the fatherlesse and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppresse.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> In the Lord put I my trust: how say yee to my soule, Flee as a bird to your mountaine?
2. For loe, the wicked bende their bow, they make ready their arrow vpon the string: that they may priuily shoote at the vpright in heart.
3. If the foundations bee destroyed: what can the righteous doe?
4. The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lords Throne is in heauen: his eyes beholde, his eye lids trie the children of men.
5. The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth violence, his soule hateth.
6. Upon the wicked hee shall raine snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7. For the righteous Lord loueth righteousnesse: his countenance doeth behold the vpright.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Sheminith. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Helpe Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithfull faile from among the children of men.
2. They speake vanitie euery one with his neighbour: with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speake.
3. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
4. Who haue said, with our tongue wil we preuaile, our lips are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?
5. For the oppression of the poore, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise (saith the Lord,) I will set him in safetie from him that puffeth at him.
6. The wordes of the Lord are pure wordes: as siluer tried in a fornace of earth purified seuen times.
7. Thou shalt keepe them, (O Lord,) thou shalt preserue them, from this generation for euer.
8. The wicked walke on euery side, when the vilest men are exalted.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> How long wilt thou forget mee (O Lord) for euer? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
2. How long shall I take counsel in my soule, hauing sorrow in my heart dayly? how long shall mine enemie be exalted ouer me?
3. Consider and heare me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleepe of death.
4. Least mine enimie say, I haue preuailed against him: and those that trouble mee, reioyce, when I am moued.
5. But I haue trusted in thy mercy, my heart shall reioyce in thy saluation.
6. I will sing vnto the Lord, because hee hath dealt bountifully with mee.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The foole hath sayd in his heart, There is no God: they are corrupt, they haue done abominable workes, there is none that doeth good.
2. The Lord looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men; to see if there were any that did vnderstand and seeke God.
3. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
4. Haue all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eate vp my people as they eate bread, and call not vpon the Lord.
5. There were they in great feare; for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6. You haue shamed the counsell of the poore; because the Lord is his refuge.
7. O that the saluation of Israel were come out of Sion! when the Lord bringeth backe the captiuitie of his people, Iacob shall reioyce, and Israel shalbe glad.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
2. Hee that walketh vprightly, and worketh righteousnesse, and speaketh the trueth in his heart.
3. Hee that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doth euill to his neighbour, nor taketh vp a reproach against his neighbour.
4. In whose eies a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that feare the Lord: he that sweareth to his owne hurt, and changeth not.
5. He that putteth not out his money to vsury, nor taketh reward against the innocent: he that doth these things, shall neuer be moued.
1. <i>Michtam of Dauid.</i> Preserue me, O God: for in thee doe I put my trust.
2. O my soule, thou hast sayd vnto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodnes extendeth not to thee:
3. But to the Saints, that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
4. Their sorrowes shalbe multiplied, that hasten after another God: their drinke offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take vp their names into my lippes.
5. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
6. The lines are fallen vnto mee in pleasant places; yea, I haue a goodly heritage.
7. I will blesse the Lord, who hath giuen me counsell: my reines also instruct me in the night seasons.
8. I haue set the Lord alwaies before me: because hee is at my right hand, I shall not be moued.
9. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory reioyceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10. For thou wilt not leaue my soule in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
11. Thou wilt shewe me the path of life: in thy presence is fulnesse of ioy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore.
1. <i>A prayer of Dauid.</i> Heare the right, O Lord, attend vnto my crie, giue eare vnto my prayer, that goeth not out of fained lips.
2. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence: let thine eyes beholde the things that are equall.
3. Thou hast prooued mine heart, thou hast visited me in the night, thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgresse.
4. Concerning the workes of men, by the word of thy lips, I haue kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5. Hold vp my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6. I haue called vpon thee, for thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare vnto me, and heare my speach.
7. Shewe thy marueilous louing kindnesse, O thou that sauest by thy right hand, them which put their trust in thee, fro those that rise vp against them.
8. Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide mee vnder the shadowe of thy wings,
9. From the wicked that oppresse me, from my deadly enemies, who compasse me about.
10. They are inclosed in their owne fat: with their mouth they speake proudly.
11. They haue now compassed vs in our steps: they haue set their eyes bowing downe to the earth:
12. Like as a lyon that is greedie of his pray, and as it were a yong lyon lurking in secret places.
13. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him downe: deliuer my soule from the wicked, which is thy sword:
14. From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which haue their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: They are full of children, and leaue the rest of their substance to their babes.
15. As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousnesse: I shall bee satisfied, when I awake, with thy likenesse.
1. <i>To the chiefe musicion, a psalme of Dauid, the seruant of the Lord, who spake vnto the Lord the words of this song, in the day that the Lord deliuered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,</i> I will loue thee, O Lord, my strength.
2. The Lord is my rocke, and my fortresse, and my deliuerer: my God, my strength in whome I will trust, my buckler, and the horne of my saluation, and my high tower.
3. I will call vpon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saued from mine enemies.
4. The sorrowes of death compassed me, and the floods of vngodly men made me afraid.
5. The sorrowes of hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.
6. In my distresse I called vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: hee heard my voyce out of his temple, and my crie came before him, euen into his eares.
7. Then the earth shooke and trembled; the foundations also of the hilles mooued and were shaken, because hee was wroth.
8. There went vp a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured, coales were kindled by it.
9. He bowed the heauens also, and came downe: and darkenesse was vnder his feet.
10. And he rode vpon a Cherub, and did flie: yea he did flie vpon the wings of the wind.
11. He made darkenes his secret place: his pauilion round about him, were darke waters, and thicke cloudes of the skies.
12. At the brightnes that was before him his thicke clouds passed, haile stones and coales of fire.
13. The Lord also thundered in the heauens, and the highest gaue his voyce; hailestones and coales of fire.
14. Yea, he sent out his arrowes, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15. Then the chanels of waters were seene, and the foundations of the world were discouered: at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16. He sent from aboue, he tooke me, he drew me out of many waters.
17. He deliuered me from my strong enemie, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18. They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.
19. He brought me forth also into a large place: he deliuered me, because he delighted in me.
20. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, according to the cleannesse of my hands hath hee recompensed me.
21. For I haue kept the wayes of the Lord, and haue not wickedly departed from my God.
22. For all his iudgements were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23. I was also vpright before him: and I kept my selfe from mine iniquity.
24. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousnesse, according to the cleannesse of my hands in his eye-sight.
25. With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy selfe mercifull, with an vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.
26. With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shew thy selfe froward.
27. For thou wilt saue the afflicted people: but wilt bring downe high lookes.
28. For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkenesse.
29. For by thee I haue run through a troupe? and by my God haue I leaped ouer a wall.
30. 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.
31. For who is God saue the Lord? or who is a rocke saue our God?
32. It is God that girdeth mee with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
33. Hee maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon my high places.
34. He teacheth my hands to warre, so that a bow of steele is broken by mine armes.
35. Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation: and thy right hand hath holden me vp, and thy gentlenesse hath made me great.
36. Thou hast enlarged my steppes vnder me; that my feete did not slippe.
37. I haue pursued mine enemies, and ouertaken them: neither did I turne againe till they were consumed.
38. I haue wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.
39. For thou hast girded mee with strength vnto the battell: thou hast subdued vnder me, those that rose vp against me.
40. Thou hast also giuen mee the neckes of mine enemies: that I might destroy them that hate me.
41. They cried, but there was none to saue them: euen vnto the Lord, but he answered them not.
42. Then did I beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did cast them out, as the dirt in the streetes.
43. Thou hast deliuered me from the striuings of the people, and thou hast made mee the head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen, shall serue me.
44. As soone as they heare of mee, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselues vnto me.
45. The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46. The Lord liueth, and blessed be my rocke: and let the God of my saluation be exalted.
47. It is God that auengeth mee, and subdueth the people vnder me.
48. He deliuereth me from mine enemies: yea thou liftest mee vp aboue those that rise vp against me; thou hast deliuered me from the violent man.
49. Therfore will I giue thankes vnto thee, (O Lord) among the heathen: and sing prayses vnto thy name.
50. Great deliuerance giueth he to his King: and sheweth mercy to his Annointed, to Dauid, and to his seede for euermore.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The heauens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy worke.
2. Day vnto day vttereth speach, and night vnto night sheweth knowledge.
3. There is no speach nor language, where their voyce is not heard.
4. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world: In them hath he set a tabernacle for the Sunne.
5. Which is as a bridegrome comming out of his chamber, and reioyceth as a strong man to runne a race.
6. His going forth is from the end of the heauen, and his circuite vnto the ends of it: and there is nothing hidde from the heat thereof.
7. The Law of the Lord is perfect, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8. The Statutes of the Lord are right, reioycing the heart: the Commandement of the Lord is pure, inlightning the eyes.
9. The feare of the Lord is cleane, enduring for euer: the Iudgements of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
10. More to bee desired are they then gold, yea, then much fine gold: sweeter also then hony, and the hony combe.
11. Moreouer by them is thy seruant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12. Who can vnderstand his errours? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
13. Keepe back thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes, let them not haue dominion ouer me: then shall I be vpright, and I shalbe innocent from the great transgression.
14. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, bee acceptable in thy sight, O Lord my strength, and my redeemer.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble, the Name of the God of Iacob defend thee.
2. Send thee helpe from the Sanctuary: and strengthen thee out of Sion.
3. Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah.
4. Graunt thee according to thine owne heart, and fulfill all thy counsell.
5. We will reioyce in thy saluation, and in the Name of our God we will set vp our banners: the Lord fulfill all thy petitions.
6. Now know I, that the Lord saueth his Anointed: he wil heare him from his holy heauen, with the sauing strength of his right hand.
7. Some trust in charets, and some in horses: but wee will remember the Name of the Lord our God.
8. They are brought downe and fallen: but we are risen, and stand vpright.
9. Saue Lord, let the King heare vs when we call.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The King shall ioy in thy strength, O Lord: and in thy saluation how greatly shall he reioyce?
2. Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire; and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
3. For thou preuentest him with the blessings of goodnesse: thou settest a Crowne of pure gold on his head.
4. He asked life of thee, and thou gauest it him, euen length of dayes for euer and euer.
5. His glory is great in thy saluation: honour and Maiestie hast thou layde vpon him.
6. For thou hast made him most blessed for euer: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
7. For the King trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High, he shall not be moued.
8. Thine hand shall finde out all thine enemies, thy right hand shal finde out those that hate thee.
9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them vp in his wrath, and the fire shall deuoure them.
10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11. For they intended euill against thee: they imagined a mischieuous deuice, which they are not able to performe.
12. Therefore shalt thou make them turne their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrowes vpon thy strings, against the face of them.
13. Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine owne strength: so will wee sing, aud praise thy power.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Aijeleth Shahar. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2. O my God, I crie in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel!
4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliuer them.
5. They cryed vnto thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6. But I am a worme, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7. All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they shoote out the lippe, they shake the head, saying,
8. He trusted on the Lord, that he would deliuer him: let him deliuer him, seeing he delighted in him.
9. But thou art hee that tooke mee out of the wombe; thou didst make me hope, when I was vpon my mothers breasts.
10. I was cast vpon thee from the wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.
11. Be not farre from me, for trouble is neere; for there is none to helpe.
12. Many bulles haue compassed me: strong bulles of Bashan haue beset me round.
13. They gaped vpon me with their mouthes, as a rauening and a roaring Lyon.
14. I am powred out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart is like waxe, it is melted in the middest of my bowels.
15. My strength is dried vp like a potsheard: and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16. For dogges haue compassed me: the assembly of the wicked haue inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feete.
17. I may tell all my bones: they looke and stare vpon me.
18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots vpon my vesture.
19. But be not thou farre from mee, O Lord; O my strength, hast thee to helpe me.
20. Deliuer my soule from the sword: my darling from the power of the dogge.
21. Saue me from the lyons mouth: for thou hast heard me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
22. I will declare thy name vnto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23. Yee that feare the Lord, praise him; all yee the seede of Iacob glorifie him, and feare him all yee the seede of Israel.
24. For he hath not despised, nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried vnto him, he heard.
25. My praise shalbe of thee, in the great congregation: I will pay my vowes, before them that feare him.
26. The meeke shall eate and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seeke him; your heart shall liue for euer.
27. All the ends of the world shall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28. For the kingdome is the Lords: and he is the gouernour among the nations.
29. All they that be fat vpon earth shall eate and worship: all they that goe downe to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keepe aliue his owne soule.
30. A seed shall serue him; it shalbe accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnes vnto a people that shalbe borne, that he hath done this.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The Lord is my shepheard, I shall not want.
2. He maketh me to lie downe in greene pastures: he leadeth mee beside the still waters.
3. He restoreth my soule: he leadeth me in the pathes of righteousnes, for his names sake.
4. Yea though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.
5. Thou preparest a table before me, in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oyle, my cuppe runneth ouer.
6. Surely goodnes and mercie shall followe me all the daies of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for euer.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2. For he hath founded it vpon the seas, and established it vpon the floods.
3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place?
4. He that hath cleane hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lift vp his soule vnto vanitie, nor sworne deceitfully.
5. Hee shall receiue the blessing from the Lord, and righteousnesse from the God of his saluation.
6. This is the generation of them that seeke him: that seeke thy face, O Iacob. Selah.
7. Lift vp your heads, O yee gates, and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores; and the King of glory shall come in.
8. Who is this king of glory? the Lord strong & mightie, the Lord mighty in battell.
9. Lift vp your heads, O ye gates, euen lift them vp, ye euerlasting doores; and the king of glory shall come in.
10. Who is this king of glory? the Lord of hostes, he is the king of glory. Selah.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Vnto thee, O Lord, doe I lift vp my soule.
2. O my God, I trust in thee, let me not be ashamed: let not mine enemies triumph ouer me.
3. Yea let none that waite on thee, be ashamed: let them bee ashamed which transgresse without cause.
4. Shewe mee thy wayes, O Lord: teach me thy pathes.
5. Lead me in thy trueth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my saluation, on thee doe I waite all the day.
6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy louing kindnesses: for they haue beene euer of old.
7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercie remember thou me, for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord.
8. Good and vpright is the Lord: therefore will hee teach sinners in the way.
9. The meeke will he guide in iudgement: and the meeke will he teach his way.
10. All the pathes of the Lord are mercy and truth: vnto such as keepe his couenant, and his testimonies.
11. For thy names sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquitie: for it is great.
12. What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse.
13. His soule shall dwell at ease: and his seede shall inherite the earth.
14. The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him: and he will shew them his couenant.
15. Mine eyes are euer towards the Lord: for hee shall plucke my feete out of the net.
16. Turne thee vnto me, and haue mercy vpon me: for I am desolate and afflicted.
17. The troubles of my heart are inlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
18. Looke vpon mine affliction, aud my paine, and forgiue all my sinnes.
19. Consider mine enemies: for they are many, and they hate me with cruell hatred.
20. O keepe my soule and deliuer me: let me not bee ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.
21. Let integritie and vprightnesse preserue me: for I wait on thee.
22. Redeeme Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Iudge me, O Lord, for I haue walked in mine integritie: I haue trusted also in the Lord: therfore I shall not slide.
2. Examine me, O Lord, and proue me; try my reines and my heart.
3. For thy louing kindnesse is before mine eyes: and I haue walked in thy trueth.
4. I haue not sate with vaine persons, neither will I goe in with dissemblers.
5. I haue hated the congregation of euill doers: and will not sit with the wicked.
6. I will wash mine hands in innocencie: so will I compasse thine Altar, O Lord:
7. That I may publish with the voyce of thankesgiuing, and tell of all thy wonderous workes.
8. Lord, I haue loued the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
9. Gather not my soule with sinners, nor my life with bloody men.
10. In whose hands is mischiefe: and their right hand is full of bribes.
11. But as for mee, I will walke in mine integritie: redeeme me, and bee mercifull vnto me.
12. My foot standeth in an euen place: in the congregations will I blesse the Lord.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The Lord is my light, and my saluation, whome shal I feare? the Lord is the strength of my life, of who shall I be afraid?
2. When the wicked, euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat vp my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3. Though an host should encampe against me, my heart shall not feare: though warre should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4. One thing haue I desired of the Lord, that will I seeke after: that I may dwel in the house of the Lord, all the dayes of my life, to behold the beautie of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
5. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pauilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me, hee shall set me vp vpon a rocke.
6. And now shall mine head be lifted vp aboue mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of ioy, I will sing, yea, I will sing praises vnto the Lord.
7. Heare, O Lord, when I crie with my voice: haue mercie also vpon mee, and answere me.
8. When thou saidst, Seeke ye my face, my heart said vnto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seeke.
9. Hide not thy face farre fro me, put not thy seruant away in anger: thou hast bin my helpe, leaue me not, neither forsake me, O God of my saluation.
10. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me vp.
11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and leade me in a plaine path, because of mine enemies.
12. Deliuer me not ouer vnto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen vp against me, and such as breath out crueltie.
13. I had fainted, vnlesse I had beleeued to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the liuing.
14. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Vnto thee will I cry, O Lord, my rocke, be not silent to mee: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that goe downe into the pit.
2. Heare the voyce of my supplications, when I cry vnto thee: when I lift vp my handes toward thy holy Oracle.
3. Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquitie: which speake peace to their neighbors, but mischiefe is in their hearts.
4. Giue them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their endeuours: giue them after the worke of their handes, render to them their desert.
5. Because they regard not the workes of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shal destroy them, and not build them vp.
6. Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voyce of my supplications.
7. The Lord is my strength, and my shield, my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly reioyceth, and with my song will I praise him.
8. The Lord is their strength, and hee is the sauing strength of his Anointed.
9. Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance, feede them also, and lift them vp for euer.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Giue vnto the Lord (O ye mighty) giue vnto the Lord glory and strength.
2. Giue vnto the Lord the glory due vnto his Name; worship the Lord in the beautie of holinesse.
3. The voice of the Lord is vpon the waters: the God of glory thundreth, the Lord is vpon many waters.
4. The voice of the Lord is powerfull; the voyce of the Lord is full of Maiestie.
5. The voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedars: yea, the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon.
6. He maketh them also to skip like a calfe: Lebanon, and Sirion like a yong Unicorne.
7. The voyce of the Lord diuideth the flames of fire.
8. The voyce of the Lord shaketh the wildernes: the Lord shaketh the wildernesse of Kadesh.
9. The voice of the Lord maketh the hindes to calue, and discouereth the forrests: and in his Temple doeth euery one speake of his glory.
10. The Lord sitteth vpon the flood: yea the Lord sitteth King for euer.
11. The Lord will giue strength vnto his people; the Lord will blesse his people with peace.
1. <i>A Psalme, and song at the dedication of the house of Dauid.</i> I wil extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me vp; and hast not made my foes to reioyce ouer me.
2. O Lord my God, I cried vnto thee, and thou hast healed me.
3. O Lord, thou hast brought vp my soule from the graue: thou hast kept me aliue, that I should not goe downe to the pit.
4. Sing vnto the Lord, (O yee Saints of his) and giue thanks at the remembrance of his holinesse.
5. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his fauour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but ioy commeth in the morning.
6. And in my prosperitie I said, I shall neuer be mooued.
7. Lord, by thy fauour thou hast made my mountaine to stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
8. I cried to thee, O Lord: and vnto the Lord I made supplication.
9. What profit is there in my blood, when I goe downe to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy trueth?
10. Heare, O Lord, and haue mercie vpon me: Lord be thou my helper.
11. Thou hast turned for mee my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put off my sackecloth, and girded mee with gladnesse:
12. To the end that my glory may sing prayse to thee, and not be silent: O Lord my God, I will giue thankes vnto thee for euer.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> In thee, O Lord, doe I put my trust, let me neuer be ashamed: deliuer me in thy righteousnesse.
2. Bowe downe thine eare to me, deliuer me speedily: be thou my strong rocke, for an house of defence to saue me.
3. For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therfore for thy names sake lead me, and guide me.
4. Pull me out of the net, that they haue layd priuily for me: for thou art my strength.
5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed mee, O Lord God of trueth.
6. I haue hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
7. I will be glad, and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities;
8. And hast not shut me vp into the hand of the enemie: thou hast set my feete in a large roome.
9. Haue mercy vpon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; mine eie is consumed with griefe, yea my soule and my belly.
10. For my life is spent with griefe, and my yeeres with sighing: my strength faileth, because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are consumed.
11. I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a feare to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without, fled from me.
12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
13. For I haue heard the slaunder of many, feare was on euery side: while they tooke counsell together against me, they deuised to take away my life.
14. But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I sayd, Thou art my God.
15. My times are in thy hand: deliuer me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16. Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant: saue me for thy mercies sake.
17. Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.
18. Let the lying lippes be put to silence: which speake grieuous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19. O how great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layd vp for them that feare thee: which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sonnes of men!
20. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence, from the pride of man: thou shalt keepe them secretly in a pauilion, from the strife of tongues.
21. Blessed be the Lord; for hee hath shewed me his maruellous kindnesse, in a strong citie.
22. For I sayd in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eies: Neuerthelesse thou heardest the voice of my supplications, when I cryed vnto thee.
23. O loue the Lord, all yee his Saints: for the Lord preserueth the faithfull, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
24. Be of good courage, and hee shall strenghten your heart: all ye that hope in the Lord.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid, Maschil.</i> Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiuen, whose sinne is couered.
2. Blessed is the man vnto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquitie: and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long.
4. For day and night thy hand was heauy vpon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5. I acknowledged my sin vnto thee, and mine iniquitie haue I not hid: I said, I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord; and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne. Selah.
6. For this shall euery one that is godly pray vnto thee, in a time when thou mayest bee found: surely in the floods of great waters, they shall not come nigh vnto him.
7. Thou art my hiding place, thou shalt preserue mee from trouble: thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliuerance. Selah.
8. I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt goe: I will guide thee with mine eye.
9. Be yee not as the horse, or as the mule which haue no vnderstanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, least they come neere vnto thee.
10. Many sorrowes shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compasse him about.
11. Be glad in the Lord, and reioyce yee righteous: and shout for ioy all ye that are vpright in heart.
1. Reioyce in the Lord, O yee righteous: for prayse is comely for the vpright.
2. Praise the Lord with harp: sing vnto him with the Psalterie, and an instrument of ten strings.
3. Sing vnto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
4. For the word of the Lord is right: and all his workes are done in trueth.
5. Hee loueth righteousnesse and iudgement: the earth is ful of the goodnesse of the Lord.
6. By the word of the Lord were the heauens made: and all the host of them, by the breath of his mouth.
7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together, as an heape: he layeth vp the depth in storehouses.
8. Let all the earth feare the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9. For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood fast.
10. The Lord bringeth the counsell of the heathen to nought: he maketh the deuices of the people, of none effect.
11. The counsaile of the Lord standeth for euer, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12. Blessed is the nation, whose God is the Lord: and the people, whom he hath chosen for his owne inheritance.
13. The Lord looketh from heauen: he beholdeth all the sonnes of men.
14. From the place of his habitation, he looketh vpon all the inhabitants of the earth.
15. He fashioneth their hearts alike: he considereth all their workes.
16. There is no king saued by the multitude of an hoste: a mightie man is not deliuered by much strength.
17. An horse is a vaine thing for safetie: neither shall he deliuer any by his great strength.
18. Behold, the eye of the Lord is vpon them that feare him: vpon them that hope in his mercy:
19. To deliuer their soule from death, and to keepe them aliue in famine.
20. Our soule waiteth for the Lord: he is our helpe, and our shield.
21. For our heart shall reioyce in him: because we haue trusted in his holy name.
22. Let thy mercy (O Lord) be vpon vs: according as we hope in thee.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech: who droue him away & he departed.</i> I will blesse the Lord at all times: his prayse shall continually bee in my mouth.
2. My soule shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall heare thereof, and be glad.
3. O magnifie the Lord with me, and let vs exalt his name together.
4. I sought the Lord, and hee heard me; and deliuered mee from all my feares.
5. They looked vnto him, and were lightned: and their faces were not ashamed.
6. This poore man cried, and the Lord heard him; and saued him out of all his troubles.
7. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him, and deliuereth them.
8. O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
9. O feare the Lord yee his Saints: for there is no want to them that feare him.
10. The young lyons doe lacke, and suffer hunger: but they that seeke the Lord, shall not want any good thing.
11. Come yee children, hearken vnto me: I will teach you the feare of the Lord.
12. What man is hee that desireth life; and loueth many dayes, that he may see good?
13. Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lippes from speaking guile.
14. Depart from euill, and doe good: seeke peace and pursue it.
15. The eies of the Lord are vpon the righteous; and his eares are open vnto their crie.
16. The face of the Lord is against them that doe euill; to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17. The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth; and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.
18. The Lord is nigh vnto them that are of a broken heart: and saueth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.
20. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21. Euill shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shalbe desolate.
22. The Lord redeemech the soule of his seruants: and none of them that trust in him, shalbe desolate.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Plead my cause (O Lord) with them that striue with mee: fight against them that fight against me.
2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
3. Draw out also the speare, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.
4. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe and brought to confusion, that deuise my hurt.
5. Let them be as chaffe before the wind: and let the Angel of the Lord chase them.
6. Let their way be darke and slippery, and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
7. For without cause haue they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they haue digged for my soule.
8. Let destruction come vpon him at vnawares, and let his net that hee hath hid, catch himselfe: into that very destruction let him fall.
9. And my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.
10. All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee which deliuerest the poore from him that is too strong for him, yea the poore and the needy, from him that spoileth him?
11. False witnesses did rise vp they layd to my charge things that I knew not.
12. They rewarded mee euill for good, to the spoiling of my soule.
13. But as for me, when they were sicke, my clothing was sack-cloth: I humbled my soule with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine owne bosome.
14. I behaued my selfe as though he had bene my friend, or brother: I bowed downe heauily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15. But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered themselues together: yea, the abiects gathered themselues together against me, & I knew it not, they did teare me, and ceased not,
16. With hypocriticall mockers in feasts: they gnashed vpon mee with their teeth.
17. Lord, how long wilt thou looke on? rescue my soule from their destructions, my darling from the lyons.
18. I will giue thee thankes in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
19. Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully, reioyce ouer me: neither let them winke with the eye, that hate me without a cause.
20. For they speake not peace: but they deuise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21. Yea they opened their mouth wide against me, and saide, Aha, Aha, our eye hath seene it.
22. This thou hast seene (O Lord) keepe not silence: O Lord be not farre from me.
23. Stirre vp thy selfe and awake to my iudgement, euen vnto my cause, my God and my Lord.
24. Iudge me O Lord my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer me.
25. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we haue it: let them not say, We haue swallowed him vp.
26. Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee cloathed with shame and dishonour, that magnifie themselues against me.
27. Let them shoute for ioy, and bee glad that fauour my righteous cause: yea let them say continually, Let the Lord bee magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his seruant
28. And my tongue shall speake of thy righteousnesse, and of thy praise all the day long.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, A Psalme of Dauid, the seruant of the Lord.</i> The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.
2. For he flatterech himselfe in his owne eyes, vntill his iniquitie be found to be hatefull.
3. The words of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: he hath left off to bee wise, and to doe good.
4. Hee deuiseth mischiefe vpon his bed, he setteth himselfe in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not euill.
5. Thy mercie (O Lord) is in the heauens; and thy faithfulnesse reacheth vnto the cloudes.
6. Thy righteousnesse is like the great mountaines; thy iudgements are a great deepe; O Lord, thou preseruest man and beast.
7. How excellent is thy louing kindnesse, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust vnder the shadowe of thy wings.
8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house: and thou shalt make them drinke of the riuer of thy pleasures.
9. For with thee is the fountaine of life: in thy light shall we see light.
10. O continue thy louing kindnesse vnto them that know thee; and thy righteousnesse to the vpright in heart.
11. Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remoue me.
12. There are the workers of iniquitie fallen: they are cast downe, and shal not be able to rise.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Fret not thy selfe because of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious against the workers of iniquitie.
2. For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse; and wither as the greene herbe.
3. Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verely thou shalt be fed.
4. Delight thy selfe also in the Lord; and he shall giue thee the desires of thine heart.
5. Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
6. And he shall bring forth thy righteousnes as the light, and thy iudgement as the noone day.
7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thy selfe because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked deuices to passe.
8. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thy selfe in any wise to doe euill.
9. For euil doers shall be cut off: but those that waite vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the earth.
10. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not bee: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11. But the meeke shall inherite the earth: and shall delight themselues in the abundance of peace.
12. The wicked plotteth against the iust, and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth.
13. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is comming.
14. The wicked haue drawen out the sword, and haue bent their bow to cast downe the poore and needy, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.
15. Their sword shall enter into their owne heart, and their bowes shall be broken.
16. A little that a righteous man hath, is better then the riches of many wicked.
17. For the armes of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord vpholdeth the righteous.
18. The Lord knoweth the dayes of the vpright: and their inheritance shall be for euer.
19. They shall not be ashamed in the euill time: and in the dayes of famine they shalbe satisfied.
20. But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambes: they shall consume: into smoke shall they consume away.
21. The wicked borroweth, and payeth not againe: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giueth.
22. For such as be blessed of him, shall inherite the earth: and they that be cursed of him, shalbe cut off.
23. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
24. Though hee fall, he shall not be vtterly cast downe: for the Lord vpholdeth him with his hand.
25. I haue bene yong, and now am old; yet haue I not seene the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begging bread.
26. He is euer mercifull, and lendeth: and his seede is blessed.
27. Depart from euill, and doe good; and dwell for euermore.
28. For the Lord loueth iudgement, and forsaketh not his Saints, they are preserued for euer: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
29. The righteous shall inherite the land, and dwell therein for euer.
30. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisedome; and his tongue talketh of iudgement.
31. The Law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slide.
32. The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
33. The Lord will not leaue him in his hand, nor condemne him when he is iudged.
34. Wait on the Lord, and keepe his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
35. I haue seene the wicked in great power: and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.
36. Yet he passed away, and loe he was not: yea, I sought him, but hee could not be found.
37. Marke the perfect man, and behold the vpright: for the end of that man is peace.
38. But the transgressours shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shalbe cut off.
39. But the saluation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40. And the Lord shall helpe them and deliuer them: he shall deliuer them from the wicked, and saue them because they trust in him.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid, to bring to remembrance.</i> O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2. For thine arrowes sticke fast in me; and thy hand presseth me sore.
3. There is no soundnesse in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sinne.
4. For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head: as an heauy burden, they are too heauie for me.
5. My wounds stinke, and are corrupt: because of my foolishnesse.
6. I am troubled, I am bowed downe greatly; I goe mourning all the day long.
7. For my loynes are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundnesse in my flesh.
8. I am feeble and sore broken; I haue roared by reason of the disquietnesse of my heart.
9. Lord, all my desire is before thee: and my groning is not hid from thee.
10. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eies, it also is gone from me.
11. My louers and my friends stand a loofe from my sore: and my kinsmen stand a farre off.
12. They also that seeke after my life, lay snares for me: and they that seeke my hurt, speake mischieuous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13. But I, as a deafe man, heard not; and I was as a dumbe man that openeth not his mouth.
14. Thus I was as a man that heareth not; and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
15. For in thee, O Lord, doe I hope: thou wilt heare, O Lord my God.
16. For I said, heare me, least otherwise they should reioyce ouer me: when my foot slippeth, they magnifie themselues against me.
17. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18. For I will declare mine iniquitie; I will be sory for my sinne.
19. But mine enemies are liuely, and they are strong: and they that hate mee wrongfully, are multiplied.
20. They also that render euill for good, are mine aduersaries: because I follow the thing that good is.
21. Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not farre from me.
22. Make haste to helpe mee, O Lord my saluation.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, euen to Ieduthun, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2. I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3. My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.
4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.
5. Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
6. Surely euery man walketh in a vaine shew: surely they are disquieted in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7. And now Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8. Deliuer me from all my transgressions: make mee not the reproch of the foolish.
9. I was dumbe, I opened not my mouth; because thou diddest it.
10. Remooue thy stroke away from mee: I am consumed by the blowe of thine hand.
11. When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
12. Heare my prayer, O Lord, and giue eare vnto my crie, hold not thy peace at my teares: for I am a straunger with thee, and a soiourner, as all my fathers were.
13. O spare me, that I may recouer strength: before I goe hence, and be no more.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my crie.
2. He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
3. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, euen praise vnto our God: many shall see it, and feare, and shall trust in the Lord.
4. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his truste: and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turne aside to lies.
5. Many, O Lord my God; are thy wonderfull workes which thou hast done, and thy thoughts, which are to vs ward: they cannot be reckoned vp in order vnto thee: if I would declare and speake of them, they are moe then can be numbred.
6. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, mine eares hast thou opened: burnt offering and sinne-offering hast thou not required.
7. Then sayd I, Loe, I come: in the volume of the booke it is written of me:
8. I delight to doe thy will, O my God: yea thy lawe is within my heart.
9. I haue preached righteousnesse in the great congregation: loe, I haue not refrained my lippes, O Lord, thou knowest.
10. I haue not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart, I haue declared thy faithfulnesse and thy saluation: I haue not concealed thy louing kindnesse, and thy truth, from the great congregation.
11. With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy louing kindnesse, and thy trueth continually preserue me.
12. For innumerable euils haue compassed me about, mine iniquities haue taken hold vpon me, so that I am not able to looke vp: they are moe then the haires of mine head, therefore my heart faileth me.
13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliuer me: O Lord, make haste to helpe me.
14. Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seeke after my soule to destroy it: let them be driuen backward, and put to shame, that wish me euill.
15. Let them be desolate, for a reward on their shame, that say vnto me, Aha, aha!
16. Let all those that seeke thee, reioyce and bee glad in thee: let such as loue thy saluation, say continually, The Lord be magnified.
17. But I am poore and needy, yet the Lord thinketh vpon me: thou art my helpe and my deliuerer, make no tarrying, O my God.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Blessed is he that considereth the poore; the Lord will deliuer him in time of trouble.
2. The Lord will preserue him, and keepe him aliue, and he shall be blessed vpon the earth; and thou wilt not deliuer him vnto the will of his enemies.
3. The Lord will strengthen him vpon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sicknesse.
4. I sayd, Lord be mercifull vnto me, heale my soule, for I haue sinned against thee.
5. Mine enemies speake euill of me: when shall hee die, and his name perish?
6. And if hee come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquitie to it selfe, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
7. All that hate me, whisper together against me; against me doe they deuise my hurt.
8. An euill disease, say they, cleaueth fast vnto him; and now that he lyeth, he shall rise vp no more.
9. Yea mine owne familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eate of my bread, hath lift vp his heele against me.
10. But thou, O Lord, be mercifull vnto mee, and raise me up vp that I may requite them.
11. By this I know that thou fauourest me: because mine enemie doeth not triumph ouer me.
12. And as for me, thou vpholdest me in mine integritie; and settest me before thy face for euer.
13. Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel, from euerlasting, and to euerlasting. Amen, and Amen.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, Maschil, for the sonnes of Korah.</i> As the Hart panteth after the water brookes, so panteth my soule after thee, O God.
2. My soule thirsteth for God, for the liuing God: when shall I come and appeare before God?
3. My teares haue bene my meate day and night; while they continually say vnto me, Where is thy God?
4. When I remember these things, I powre out my soule in mee; for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God; with the voyce of ioy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy day.
5. Why art thou cast downe, O my soule, and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him for the helpe of his countenance.
6. O my God, my soule is cast downe within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Iordane, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Missar.
7. Deepe calleth vnto deepe at the noyse of thy water-spouts: all thy waues, and thy billowes are gone ouer me.
8. Yet the Lord will command his louing kindnes in the day time, and in the night his song shalbe with me, and my prayer vnto the God of my life.
9. I will say vnto God, My rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? why goe I mourning, because of the oppression of the enemy?
10. As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproch mee: while they say dayly vnto me, Where is thy God?
11. Why art thou cast downe, O my soule? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
1. Iudge mee, O God, and plead my cause against an vngodly nation; O deliuer me from the deceitfull and vniust man.
2. For thou art the God of my strength, why doest thou cast me off? why goe I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3. O send out thy light & thy trueth; let them leade mee, let them bring mee vnto thy holy hill, and to thy Tabernacles.
4. Then will I goe vnto the Altar of God, vnto God my exceeding ioy: yea vpon the harpe will I praise thee, O God, my God.
5. Why art thou cast downe, O my soule? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician for the sonnes of Korah.</i> Wee haue heard with our eares, O God, our fathers haue told vs, what worke thou didst in their dayes, in the times of old.
2. How thou didst driue out the heathen with thy hand, & plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3. For they got not the land in possession by their owne sword, neither did their owne arme saue them: but thy right hand, and thine arme, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a fauour vnto them.
4. Thou art my King, O God: command deliuerances for Iacob.
5. Through thee will wee push downe our enemies: through thy Name will wee tread them vnder that rise vp against vs.
6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword saue me.
7. But thou hast saued vs from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated vs.
8. In God we boast all the day long: and praise thy Name for euer. Selah.
9. But thou hast cast off and put vs to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10. Thou makest vs to turne backe from the enemie: and they which hate vs, spoile for themselues.
11. Thou hast giuen vs like sheepe appointed for meate: and hast scattered vs among the heathen.
12. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and doest not increase thy wealth by their price.
13. Thou makest vs a reproch to our neighbours, a scorne and a derision to them that are round about vs.
14. Thou makest vs a by-word among the heathen: a shaking of the head among the people.
15. My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me.
16. For the voice of him that reproacheth, and blasphemeth: by reason of the enemie and auenger.
17. All this is come vpon vs; yet haue wee not forgotten thee, neither haue we dealt falsly in thy couenant.
18. Our heart is not turned backe: neither haue our steps declined from thy way,
19. Though thou hast sore broken vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.
20. If wee haue forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange God:
21. Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22. Yea for thy sake are wee killed all the day long: wee are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast vs not off for euer.
24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our affliction, and our oppression?
25. For our soule is bowed downe to the dust; our belly cleaueth vnto the earth.
26. Arise for our helpe, and redeeme vs for thy mercies sake.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Shoshannim, for the sonnes of Korah, Maschil: a song of loues.</i> My heart is inditing a good matter: I speake of the things which I haue made, touching the King: my tongue is the penne of a ready writer.
2. Thou art fairer then the children of men: grace is powred into thy lips: therfore God hath blessed thee for euer.
3. Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie.
4. And in thy maiestie ride prosperously, because of trueth and meekenes, and righteousnesse: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5. Thine arrowes are sharpe in the heart of the Kings enemies; whereby the people fall vnder thee.
6. Thy throne (O God) is for euer and euer: the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter.
7. Thou louest righteousnesse, and hatest wickednesse: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes.
8. All thy garments smell of myrrhe, and aloes, and cassia: out of the Iuorie palaces, whereby they haue made thee glad.
9. Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in golde of Ophir.
10. Hearken (O daughter) and consider, and incline thine eare; forget also thine owne people, and thy fathers house.
11. So shall the king greatly desire thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.
12. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift, euen the rich among the people shall intreate thy fauour.
13. The kings daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.
14. She shall bee brought vnto the king in raiment of needle worke: the virgins her companions that followe her, shall be brought vnto thee.
15. With gladnesse and reioycing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the kings palace.
16. In stead of thy fathers shall bee thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
17. I will make thy name to bee remembred in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for euer and euer.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician for the sonnes of Korah, a song vpon Alamoth.</i> God is our refuge and strength: a very present helpe in trouble.
2. Therfore will not we feare, though the earth be remoued: and though the mountaines be caried into the midst of the sea.
3. Though the waters thereof roare, and be troubled, though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4. There is a riuer, the streames wherof shall make glad the citie of God: the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High.
5. God is in the midst of her: she shal not be moued; God shall helpe her, and that right early.
6. The heathen raged, the kingdomes were mooued: he vttered his voyce, the earth melted.
7. The Lord of hosts is with vs; the God of Iacob is our refuge. Selah.
8. Come, behold the workes of the Lord, what desolations hee hath made in the earth.
9. He maketh warres to cease vnto the end of the earth: hee breaketh the bow, and cutteth the speare in sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10. Be stil, and know that I am God: I will bee exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11. The Lord of hosts is with vs; the God of Iacob is our refuge. Selah.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, a psalme for the sonnes of Korah.</i> O Clap your hands (all ye people:) shoute vnto God with the voyce of triumph:
2. For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King ouer all the earth.
3. Hee shall subdue the people vnder vs, and the nations vnder our feet.
4. He shall chuse our inheritance for vs, the excellencie of Iacob whom hee loued. Selah.
5. God is gone vp with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
6. Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises vnto our King, sing praises.
7. For God is the King of all the earth, sing ye praises with vnderstanding.
8. God reigneth ouer the heathen: God sitteth vpon the throne of his holinesse.
9. The princes of the people are gathered together, euen the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong vnto God: hee is greatly exalted.
1. <i>A song, and Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.</i> Great is the Lord, and greatly to bee praised in the citie of our God, in the mountaine of his holinesse.
2. Beautifull for situation, the ioy of the whole earth is mout Sion, on the sides of the North, the citie of the great King.
3. God is knowen in her palaces for a refuge.
4. For loe, the kings were assembled: they passed by together.
5. They sawe it, and so they marueiled, they were troubled and hasted away.
6. Feare tooke holde vpon them there, and paine, as of a woman in trauaile.
7. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind.
8. As we haue heard, so haue wee seene in the citie of the Lord of hosts, in the citie of our God, God will establish it for euer. Selah,
9. Wee haue thought of thy louing kindnesse, O God, in the middest of thy Temple.
10. According to thy Name, O God, so is thy praise vnto the endes of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousnesse.
11. Let mount Sion reioyce, let the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements.
12. Walke about Sion, and goe round about her: tell the towres thereof.
13. Marke yee well her bulwarkes, consider her palaces; that yee may tell it to the generation following.
14. For this God is our God for euer, and euer; he will be our guide euen vnto death.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.</i> Heare this, all yee people, giue eare all yee inhabitants of the world:
2. Both low, and high, rich and poore together.
3. My mouth shall speake of wisedome: and the meditation of my heart shalbe of vnderstanding.
4. I will incline mine eare to a parable; I will open my darke saying vpon the harpe.
5. Wherefore should I feare in the daies of euill, when the iniquitie of my heeles shall compasse me about?
6. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselues in the multitude of their riches:
7. None of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother, nor giue to God a ransome for him:
8. (For the redemption of their soule is precious, and it ceaseth for euer.)
9. That he should still liue for euer, and not see corruption.
10. For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the foole, and the brutish person perish, and leaue their wealth to others.
11. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for euer, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their owne names.
12. Neuerthelesse man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beastes that perish.
13. This their way is their follie; yet their posteritie approue their sayings. Selah.
14. Like sheepe they are layd in the graue, death shall feede on them; and the vpright shall haue dominion ouer them in the morning, and their beauty shall consume in the graue, from their dwelling.
15. But God will redeeme my soule from the power of the graue; for he shall receiue me. Selah.
16. Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.
17. For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18. Though whiles he liued, he blessed his soule: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thy selfe.
19. Hee shall goe to the generation of his fathers, they shall neuer see light.
20. Man that is in honour and vnderstandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
1. <i>A Psalme of Asaph.</i> The mightie God, euen the Lord hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sunne, vnto the going downe thereof.
2. Out of Sion the perfection of beautie, God hath shined.
3. Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.
4. He shall call to the heauens from aboue, and to the earth, that hee may iudge his people.
5. Gather my Saints together vnto mee: those that haue made a couenant with me, by sacrifice.
6. And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes; for God is iudge himselfe. Selah.
7. Heare, O my people, and I will speake, O Israel, and I will testifie against thee; I am God, euen thy God.
8. I will not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to haue bene continually before me.
9. I will take no bullocke out of thy house, nor hee goates out of thy folds.
10. For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.
11. I know all the foules of the mountaines: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof.
13. Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats?
14. Offer vnto God thankesgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high.
15. And call vpon mee in the day of trouble; I will deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
16. But vnto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to doe, to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Couenant in thy mouth?
17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behinde thee.
18. When thou sawest a thiefe, then thou consentedst with him, and hast bene partaker with adulterers.
19. Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne.
21. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy selfe: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I teare you in pieces, and there be none to deliuer.
23. Who so offereth praise, glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conuersation aright, will I shew the saluation of God.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid, when Nathan the Prophet came vnto him, after hee had gone in to Bath-sheba.</i> Haue mercie vpon mee, O God, according to thy louing kindnesse: according vnto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2. Wash mee throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne.
3. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sinne is euer before mee.
4. Against thee, thee onely haue I sinned, and done this euill in thy sight: that thou mightest bee iustified when thou speakest, and be cleare when thou iudgest.
5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquitie: and in sinne did my mother conceiue me.
6. Behold, thou desirest trueth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisedome.
7. Purge me with hyssope, and I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shall be whiter then snow.
8. Make mee to heare ioy and gladnesse: that the bones which thou hast broken, may reioyce.
9. Hide thy face from my sinnes; and blot out all mine iniquities.
10. Create in mee a cleane heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within mee.
11. Cast mee not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
12. Restore vnto me the ioy of thy saluation: and vphold mee with thy free Spirit.
13. Then will I teach transgressours thy wayes, and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee.
14. Deliuer mee from blood-guiltinesse, O God, thou God of my saluation: and my tongue shall sing alowd of thy righteousnesse.
15. O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew foorth thy praise.
16. For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I giue it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18. Doe good in thy good pleasure vnto Sion: build thou the walles of Ierusalem.
19. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnesse, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullockes vpon thine altar.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, Maschil, A Psalme of Dauid: When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said vnto him, Dauid is come to the house of Ahimelech.</i> Why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe, O mightie man? the goodnesse of God indureth continually. 
2. Thy tongue deuiseth mischiefes: like a sharpe rasor, working deceitfully.
3. Thou louest euill more then good; and lying rather then to speake righteousnesse. Selah.
4. Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue.
5. God shall likewise destroy thee for euer, hee shall take thee away and plucke thee out of thy dwelling place, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing. Selah.
6. The righteous also shall see, and feare, and shall laugh at him.
7. Loe, this is the man that made not God his strength: but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himselfe in his wickednesse.
8. But I am like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for euer and euer.
9. I will prayse thee for euer, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good before thy Saints.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician vpon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The foole hath sayde in his heart, There is no god; Corrupt are they, and haue done abhominable iniquitie; there is none that doth good.
2. God looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that did vnderstand, that did seeke God.
3. Euery one of them is gone backe, they are altogether become filthy: there is none that doth good, no not one.
4. Haue the workers of iniquitie no knowledge? who eate vp my people, as they eate bread; they haue not called vpon God.
5. There were they in great feare, where no feare was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that incampeth against thee, thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
6. O that the saluation of Israel were come out of Sion! when God bringeth backe the captiuitie of his people, Iaakob shall reioyce, and Israel shall be glad.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalme of Dauid. When the Ziphims came and sayde to Saul: doeth not Dauid hide himselfe with vs?</i> Saue me, O God, by thy name, and iudge me by thy strength.
2. Heare my prayer, O God; giue eare to the words of my mouth.
3. For strangers are risen vp against me, and oppressors seeke after my soule; they haue not set God before them. Selah.
4. Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that vphold my soule.
5. He shall reward euill vnto mine enemies: cut them off in thy trueth.
6. I will freely sacrifice vnto thee; I will praise thy name (O Lord:) for it is good.
7. For hee hath deliuered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seene his desire vpon mine enemies.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Giue eare to my prayer, O God: and hide not thy selfe from my supplication.
2. Attend vnto me, and heare me: I mourne in my complaint, and make a noise.
3. Because of the voyce of the enemie, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquitie vpon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4. My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.
5. Fearefulnesse and trembling are come vpon me, and horrour hath ouerwhelmed me.
6. And I said, O that I had wings like a doue; for then would I flee away and be at rest.
7. Loe, then would I wander farre off, and remaine in the wildernesse. Selah.
8. I would hasten my escape from the windie storme, and tempest.
9. Destroy, O Lord, and diuide their tongues: for I haue seene violence and strife in the citie.
10. Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: mischiefe also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
11. Wickednesse is in the midst thereof: deceite and guile depart not from her streets.
12. For it was not an enemie that reproached me, then I could haue borne it, neither was it hee that hated me, that did magnifie himselfe against me, then I would haue hid my selfe from him.
13. But it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
14. Wee tooke sweet counsell together, and walked vnto the house of God in companie.
15. Let death seaze vpon them, and let them goe downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellings, and among them.
16. As for me, I will call vpon God: and the Lord shall saue me.
17. Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and crie aloud: and he shall heare my voyce.
18. He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battell that was against me: for there were many with me.
19. God shall heare and afflict them, euen he that abideth of old, Selah: because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.
20. He hath put foorth his handes against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his couenant.
21. The words of his mouth were smoother then butter, but warre was in his heart: his words were softer then oyle, yet were they drawen swords.
22. Cast thy burden vpon the Lord, and he shall sustaine thee: hee shall neuer suffer the righteous to bee moued.
23. But thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pit of destruction: Bloody and deceitfull men shall not liue out halfe their dayes, but I will trust in thee.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician vpon Ionath Elem Rechokim, Michtam of Dauid, when the Philistines tooke him in Gath.</i> Be mercifull vnto mee, O God, for man would swallow me vp: he fighting daily, oppresseth me.
2. Mine enemies would dayly swallow me vp: for they bee many that fight against me, O thou most high.
3. What time I am afraide, I will trust in thee.
4. In God I will praise his worde, In God I haue put my trust, I will not feare what flesh can doe vnto me.
5. Euery day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against mee for euill.
6. They gather themselues together; they hide themselues, they marke my steps when they wait for my soule.
7. Shall they escape by iniquitie? in thine anger cast downe the people, O God.
8. Thou tellest my wanderings, put thou my teares into thy bottle: are they not in thy booke?
9. When I crie vnto thee, then shall mine enemies turne backe: this I know, for God is for me.
10. In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.
11. In God haue I put my trust: I will not bee afraid what man can doe vnto me.
12. Thy vowes are vpon me, O God: I will render praises vnto thee.
13. For thou hast deliuered my soule from death: wilt not thou deliuer my feet from falling? that I may walke before God in the light of the liuing.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, Michtam of Dauid, when hee fled from Saul in the caue.</i> Be mercifull vnto mee, O God, be merciful vnto me, for my soule trusteth in thee: yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, vntill these calamities bee ouerpast.
2. I will crie vnto God most high: vnto God that perfourmeth all things for mee.
3. Hee shall send from heauen, and saue me from the reproch of him, that would swallow me vp; Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his trueth.
4. My soule is among lyons, and I lie euen among them that are set on fire: euen the sonnes of men, whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
5. Be thou exalted, O God, aboue the heauens: let thy glory be aboue all the earth.
6. They haue prepared a net for my steppes, my soule is bowed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselues. Selah.
7. My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, and giue praise.
8. Awake vp my glory, awake psalterie and harpe; I my selfe will awake early.
9. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing vnto thee among the nations.
10. For thy mercy is great vnto the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the clouds.
11. Be thou exalted, O God, aboue the heauens: let thy glory be aboue all the earth.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, Michtam of Dauid.</i> Doe yee indeed speake righteousnesse, O congregation? doe ye iudge vprightly, O ye sonnes of men?
2. Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3. The wicked are estranged from the wombe, they goe astray as soone as they be borne, speaking lies.
4. Their poison is like the poyson of a serpent; they are like the deafe adder that stoppeth her eare:
5. Which will not hearken to the voyce of charmers, charming neuer so wisely.
6. Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouth: breake out the great teeth of the young lyons, O Lord.
7. Let them melt away as waters, which runne continually: When he bendeth his bow to shoote his arrowes, let them be as cut in pieces.
8. As a snaile which melteth, let euery one of them passe away: like the vntimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sunne.
9. Before your pots can feele the thornes, he shall take them away as with a whirlewind, both liuing, and in his wrath.
10. The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
11. So that a man shall say, Uerily there is a reward for the righteous: verily hee is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, Michtam of Dauid: when Saul sent, and they watcht the house to kill him.</i> Deliuer me from mine enemies, O my God: defend mee from them that rise vp against me.
2. Deliuer mee from the workers of iniquitie, and saue me from bloodie men.
3. For loe, they lye in waite for my soule; the mighty are gathered against me, not for my transgression, nor for my sinne, O Lord.
4. They runne and prepare themselues without my fault: awake to helpe me, and behold.
5. Thou therefore, O Lord God of hostes, the God of Israel, awake to visite all the heathen: be not mercifull to any wicked transgressours. Selah.
6. They returne at euening: they make a noise like a dogge, and go round about the citie.
7. Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lippes; for who, say they, doeth heare?
8. But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt haue all the heathen in derision.
9. Because of his strength will I wait vpon thee: for God is my defence.
10. The God of my mercy shall preuent me; God shall let mee see my desire vpon mine enemies.
11. Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them downe, O Lord our shield.
12. For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them euen be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speake.
13. Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Iacob, vnto the ends of the earth. Selah.
14. And at euening let them returne, and let them make a noise like a dogge, and goe round about the citie.
15. Let them wander vp and downe for meate, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
16. But I will sing of thy power; yea I will sing alowd of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast bene my defence and refuge, in the day of my trouble.
17. Vnto thee, O my strength, wil I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Shushan-Eduth Michtam of Dauid, to teach. When hee stroue with Aram Naharaim, and with Aram Zobah, when Ioab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt, twelue thousand.</i> O God, thou hast cast vs off; thou hast scattered vs, thou hast bene displeased, O turne thy selfe to vs againe.
2. Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heale the breaches thereof, for it shaketh.
3. Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made vs to drinke the wine of astonishment.
4. Thou hast giuen a banner to them that feare thee: that it may be displayed because of the trueth. Selah.
5. That thy beloued may be deliuered; saue with thy right hand, and heare mee.
6. God hath spoken in his holinesse, I wil reioyce: I will diuide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7. Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Iudah is my Lawgiuer.
8. Moab is my wash-pot, ouer Edom wil I cast out my shooe: Philistia, by an ironie.triumph thou because of me.
9. Who wil bring me into the strong citie? who will lead me into Edom?
10. Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast vs off? and thou, O God, which didst not goe out with our armies.
11. Giue vs helpe from trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.
12. Through God wee shall doe valiantly: for he it is that shall tread downe our enemies.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Neginah. A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Heare my cry, O God, attend vnto my prayer.
2. From the end of the earth wil I cry vnto thee, when my heart is ouerwhelmed: leade me to the rocke, that is higher then I.
3. For thou hast bene a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
4. I will abide in thy Tabernacle for euer: I will trust in the couert of thy wings. Selah.
5. For thou, O God, hast heard my vowes: thou hast giuen me the heritage of those that feare thy name.
6. Thou wilt prolong the kings life: and his yeeres as many generations.
7. He shall abide before God for euer: O prepare mercy and trueth which may preserue him.
8. So will I sing praise vnto thy name for euer, that I may daily performe my vowes.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, to Ieduthun, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Truely my soule waiteth vpon God: from him commeth my saluation.
2. He onely is my rocke and my saluation: he is my defence, I shall not be greatly moued.
3. How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shall be slaine all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
4. They onely consult to cast him downe from his excellency, they delight in lies: they blesse with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
5. My soule, wait thou onely vpon God: for my expectation is from him.
6. He onely is my rocke and my saluation; he is my defence; I shall not bee moued.
7. In God is my saluation, and my glorie: the rocke of my strength, and my refuge is in God.
8. Trust in him at all times; ye people, powre out your heart before him: God is a refuge for vs. Selah.
9. Surely men of low degree are vanitie, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ballance, they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
10. Trust not in oppression, become not vaine in robberie: if riches increase, set not your heart vpon them.
11. God hath spoken once; twice haue I heard this, that power belongeth vnto God.
12. Also vnto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercie: for thou renderest to euery man according to his worke.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid, when hee was in the wildernesse of Iudah.</i> O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, in a drie and thirstie lande, where no water is:
2. To see thy power and thy glory, so as I haue seen thee in the Sanctuary.
3. Because thy louing kindnes is better then life: my lips shal praise thee.
4. Thus will I blesse thee, while I liue: I will lift vp my handes in thy Name.
5. My soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse: and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lips:
6. When I remember thee vpon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
7. Because thou hast bene my helpe; therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I reioyce.
8. My soule followeth hard after thee: thy right hand vpholdeth me.
9. But those that seeke my soule to destroy it, shall goe into the lower parts of the earth.
10. They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
11. But the King shal reioyce in God; euery one that sweareth by him shall glorie: but the mouth of them that speake lies, shall be stopped.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, a Psalme of Dauid.</i> Heare my voice, O God, in my praier; preserue my life from feare of the enemie.
2. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked: from the insurrection of the workers of iniquitie:
3. Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bowes to shoote their arrowes, euen bitter words:
4. That they may shoote in secret at the perfect: suddenly doe they shoote at him, and feare not.
5. They incourage themselues in an euill matter: they commune of laying snares priuily; they say, Who shall see them?
6. They search out iniquities, they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of euery one of them, and the heart, is deepe.
7. But God shall shoote at them: with an arrowe, sodenly shall they be wounded.
8. So they shall make their owne tongue to fall vpon themselues: all that see them, shall flee away.
9. And all men shall feare, and shall declare the worke of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
10. The righteous shalbe glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the vpright in heart shall glory.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, a Psalme and song of Dauid.</i> Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and vnto thee shall the vowe be performed.
2. O thou that hearest prayer, vnto thee shall all flesh come.
3. Iniquities preuaile against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach vnto thee, that hee may dwell in thy Courts: we shalbe satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house, euen of thy holy temple.
5. By terrible things in righteousnesse, wilt thou answere vs, O God of our saluation: who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are a farre off vpon the sea.
6. Which by his strength setteth fast the mountaines; being girded with power.
7. Which stilleth the noise of the seas; the noise of their waues, and the tumult of the people.
8. They also that dwell in the vttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning, and euening to reioyce.
9. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it: thou greatly inrichest it with the riuer of God which is full of water; thou preparest them corne, when thou hast so prouided for it.
10. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrowes thereof: thou makest it soft with showres, thou blessest the springing thereof.
11. Thou crownest the yeere with thy goodnesse; and thy paths drop fatnesse.
12. They drop vpon the pastures of the wildernesse; and the little hilles reioyce on euery side.
13. The pastures are cloathed with flockes; the valleis also are couered ouer with corne; they shout for ioy, they also sing.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, a song or Psalme.</i> Make a ioyfull noise vnto God, all yee lands.
2. Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
3. Say vnto God, How terrible art thou in thy workes? through the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselues vnto thee.
4. All the earth shall worship thee; and shall sing vnto thee, they shall sing to thy name; Selah.
5. Come and see the workes of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
6. He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foote, there did we reioyce in him.
7. He ruleth by his power for euer, his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselues. Selah.
8. O blesse our God, yee people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard.
9. Which holdeth our soule in life, and suffereth not our feete to be moued.
10. For thou, O God, hast proued vs: thou hast tried vs, as siluer is tryed.
11. Thou broughtest vs into the net; thou layedst affliction vpon our loynes.
12. Thou hast caused men to ride ouer our heads, we went through fire, and through water: but thou broughtest vs out into a wealthy place.
13. I will goe into thy house, with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vowes,
14. Which my lips haue vttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
15. I will offer vnto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rammes: I will offer bullockes with goates. Selah.
16. Come and heare all ye that feare God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soule.
17. I cried vnto him with my mouth: and he was extolled with my tongue.
18. If I regard iniquitie in my heart: the Lord will not heare me.
19. But verily God hath heard mee; hee hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
20. Blessed bee God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercie from me.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician on Neginoth. A Psalme or song.</i> God be mercifull vnto vs, and blesse vs: and cause his face to shine vpon vs. Selah.
2. That thy way may bee knowen vpon earth, thy sauing health among all nations.
3. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
4. O let the nations be glad, and sing for ioy: for thou shalt iudge the people righteously; and gouerne the nations vpon earth. Selah.
5. Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise thee.
6. Then shall the earth yeeld her increase; and God, euen our owne God, shall blesse vs.
7. God shall blesse vs; and all the ends of the earth shall feare him.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme or song of Dauid.</i> Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him, flee before him.
2. As smoke is driuen away, so driue them away: as waxe melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3. But let the righteous be glad: let them reioyce before God, yea let them exceedingly reioyce.
4. Sing vnto God, sing praises to his Name: extoll him that rideth vpon the heauens, by his Name Iah, and reioyce before him.
5. A father of the fatherlesse, and a iudge of the widowes, is God in his holy habitation.
6. God setteth the solitary in a families: hee bringeth out those which are bound with chaines, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7. O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people; when thou didst march through the wildernes, Selah.
8. The earth shooke, the heauens also dropped at the presence of God: euen Sinai it selfe was mooued at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9. Thou, O God, didst send a plentifull raine, whereby thou didst confirme thine inheritance, when it was weary.
10. Thy Congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodnesse for the poore.
11. The Lord gaue the word: great was the company of those that published it.
12. Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that taried at home, diuided the spoile.
13. Though ye haue lien among the pots, yet shall yee bee as the wings of a doue, couered with siluer, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14. When the Almighty scattered Kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15. The hil of God is as the hill of Bashan, an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16. Why leape ye, ye high hilles? this is the Hil which God desireth to dwell in, yea the Lord will dwel in it for euer.
17. The chariots of God are twentie thousand, euen thousands of Angels: the Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the holy place.
18. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast ledde captiuitie captiue, thou hast receiued giftes for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth vs with benefits, euen the God of our saluation. Selah.
20. Hee that is our God, is the God of saluation; and vnto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
21. But God shall wound the head of his enemies: and the hairy scalpe of such a one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
22. The Lord said, I will bring againe from Bashan, I will bring my people againe from the depthes of the sea:
23. That thy foote may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogges in the same.
24. They haue seene thy goings, O God, euen the goings of my God, my King, in the Sanctuarie.
25. The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; amongst them were the damosels playing with timbrels.
26. Blesse yee God, in the Congregations, euen the Lord, from the fountaine of Israel.
27. There is little Beniamin with their ruler, the princes of Iudah and their Councill, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28. Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for vs.
29. Because of thy Temple at Ierusalem, shall kings bring presents vnto thee.
30. Rebuke the company of spearemen, the multitude of the bulles, with the calues of the people, till euery one submit himselfe with pieces of siluer: scatter thou the people that delite in warre.
31. Princes shall come out of Egypt, Ethiopia shall soone stretch out her hands vnto God.
32. Sing vnto God, yee kingdomes of the earth: O sing praises vnto the Lord, Selah:
33. To him that rideth vpon the heauens of heauens, which were of olde: loe, hee doeth send out his voice, and that a mightie voice.
34. Ascribe yee strength vnto God: his excellencie is ouer Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes.
35. O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giueth strength, and power vnto his people: blessed be God.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician vpon Shoshannim, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Saue mee, O God, for the waters are come in vnto my soule.
2. I sinke in deepe mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deepe waters, where the flouds ouerflow me.
3. I am weary of my crying, my throate is dried: mine eyes faile while I waite for my God.
4. They that hate mee without a cause, are moe then the haires of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mightie: then I restored that which I tooke not away.
5. O God, thou knowest my foolishnesse; and my sinnes are not hidde from thee.
6. Let not them that waite on thee, O Lord God of hostes, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seeke thee, be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7. Because for thy sake I haue borne reproch: shame hath couered my face.
8. I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, and an aliant vnto my mothers children.
9. For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee vp; and the reproches of them that reproched thee, are fallen vpon me.
10. When I wept, and chastened my soule with fasting, that was to my reproch.
11. I made sackecloth also my garment: & I became a prouerbe to them.
12. They that sit in the gate, speake against mee; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13. But as for mee, my prayer is vnto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercie heare me, in the trueth of thy saluation.
14. Deliuer me out of the mire, and let me not sinke: let me bee deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters.
15. Let not the water flood ouerflow me, neither let the deepe swallow mee vp, and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.
16. Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnesse is good: turne vnto mee according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17. And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: heare me speedily.
18. Draw nigh vnto my soule, and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.
19. Thou hast knowen my reproch and my shame and my dishonor: mine aduersaries are all before thee.
20. Reproch hath broken my heart, and I am full of heauines: and I looked for some to take pitie, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21. They gaue mee also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gaue mee vineger to drinke.
22. Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should haue bene for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and make their loines continually to shake.
24. Powre out thine indignation vpon them, and let thy wrathfull anger take hold of them.
25. Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.
26. For they persecute him who thou hast smitten, and they talke to the griefe of those whom thou hast wounded.
27. Adde iniquitie vnto their iniquitie: and let them not come into thy righteousnesse.
28. Let them bee blotted out of the booke of the liuing, and not be written with the righteous.
29. But I am poore, and sorowfull: let thy saluation (O God) set me vp on high.
30. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnifie him with thankesgiuing.
31. This also shall please the Lord better then an oxe or bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes.
32. The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall liue that seeke good.
33. For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34. Let the heauen and earth praise him, the seas, and euery thing that moueth therein.
35. For God will saue Sion, and will build the cities of Iudah, that they may dwell there, and haue it in possession.
36. The seede also of his seruants shall inherit it: and they that loue his name shall dwell therein.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, a psalme of Dauid, to bring to remembrance.</i> Make haste, O God, to deliuer mee, make haste to helpe me, O Lord.
2. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
3. Let them be turned backe for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha, aha.
4. Let all those that seeke thee, reioyce, and be glad in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say continually, Let God be magnified.
5. But I am poore and needy, make haste vnto me, O God: Thou art my helpe and my deliuerer, O Lord make no tarrying.
1. In thee, O Lord, doe I put my trust, let me neuer be put to confusion.
2. Deliuer mee in thy righteousnesse, and cause me to escape: incline thine eare vnto me, and saue me.
3. Bee thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast giuen commandement to saue mee, for thou art my rocke, and my fortresse.
4. Deliuer me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the vnrighteous, and cruel man.
5. For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
6. By thee haue I bene holden vp from the wombe: thou art hee that tooke mee out of my mothers vowels, my praise shalbe continually of thee.
7. I am as a wonder vnto many, but thou art my strong refuge.
8. Let my mouth bee filled with thy praise, and with thy honour all the day.
9. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
10. For mine enemies speake against mee: and they that lay waite for my soule, take counsell together,
11. Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him, for there is none to deliuer him.
12. O God, be not farre from mee: O my God, make haste for my helpe.
13. Let them be confounded and consumed, that are aduersaries to my soule: let them bee couered with reproch and dishonour, that seeke my hurt.
14. But I wil hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
15. My mouth shall shew foorth thy righteousnesse, and thy saluation all the day: for I know not the numbers thereof.
16. I will goe in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousnesse, euen of thine onely.
17. O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto haue I declared thy wonderous workes.
18. Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not: vntill I haue shewed thy strength vnto this generation, and thy power to euery one that is to come.
19. Thy righteousnes also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like vnto thee?
20. Thou which hast shewed mee great, and sore troubles, shalt quicken mee againe, and shalt bring mee vp againe from the depthes of the earth.
21. Thou shalt increase my greatnesse, and comfort me on euery side.
22. I will also praise thee with the psalterie, euen thy trueth, O my God: vnto thee will I sing with the harpe, O thou Holy one of Israel.
23. My lippes shall greatly reioyce when I sing vnto thee: and my soule, which thou hast redeemed.
24. My tongue also shall talke of thy righteousnesse all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought vnto shame, that seeke my hurt.
1. <i>A Psalme for Solomon.</i> Giue the King thy Iudgements, O God, and thy Righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne.
2. Hee shall iudge thy people with righteousnesse, and thy poore with iudgement.
3. The mountaines shal bring peace to the people, and the litle hils, by righteousnesse.
4. Hee shall iudge the poore of the people, he shall saue the children of the needie, and shall breake in pieces the oppressour.
5. They shall feare thee as long as the Sunne & Moone indure, throughout all generations.
6. Hee shall come downe like raine vpon the mowen grasse: as showres that water the earth.
7. In his dayes shall the righteous flourish: and abundance of peace so long as the Moone endureth.
8. He shall haue dominion also from sea to sea, and from the riuer, vnto the ends of the earth.
9. They that dwell in the wildernesse shall bowe before him: and his enemies shall licke the dust.
10. The kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11. Yea, all Kings shall fall downe before him: all nations shall serue him.
12. For hee shall deliuer the needy when he crieth: the poore also, and him that hath no helper.
13. He shal spare the poore and needy, and shall saue the soules of the needy.
14. He shall redeeme their soule from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
15. And he shall liue, and to him shalbe giuen of the gold of Sheba; prayer also shalbe made for him continually, and daily shall he be praised.
16. There shalbe an handfull of corne in the earth vpon the top of the mountaines; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the citie shall flourish like grasse of the earth.
17. His name shall endure for euer: his name shalbe continued as long as the sunne: and men shalbe blessed in him; all nations shall call him blessed.
18. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doth wonderous things.
19. And blessed be his glorious name for euer, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.
20. The prayers of Dauid the sonne of Iesse, are ended.
1. <i>A Psalme of Asaph.</i> Truely God is good to Israel, euen to such as are of a cleane heart.
2. But as for mee, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well-nigh slipt.
3. For I was enuious at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperity of the wicked.
4. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firme.
5. They are not in trouble as other men: neither are they plagued like other men.
6. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chaine: violence couereth them as a garment.
7. Their eies stand out with fatnes: they haue more then heart could wish.
8. They are corrupt, and speake wickedly concerning oppression: they speake loftily.
9. They set their mouth against the heauens; and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10. Therefore his people returne hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12. Behold, these are the vngodly: who prosper in the world, they increase in riches.
13. Uerily I haue cleansed my heart in vaine, and washed my hands in innocencie.
14. For all the day long haue I bene plagued, and chastened euery morning.
15. If I say, I will speake thus: behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16. When I thought to know this, it was too painfull for me,
17. Untill I went into the Sanctuarie of God; then vnderstood I their end.
18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them downe into destruction.
19. How are they brought into desolation as in a moment? they are vtterly consumed with terrours.
20. As a dreame when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image.
21. Thus my heart was greeued, and I was pricked in my reines.
22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23. Neuerthelesse I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsell; and afterward receiue me to glory.
25. Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee.
26. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer.
27. For loe, they that are farre from thee, shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that goe a whoring from thee.
28. But it is good for me, to drawe neere to God: I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.
1. <i>Maschil of Asaph.</i> O God, why hast thou cast vs off for euer? why doeth thine anger smoke against the sheepe of thy pasture?
2. Remember thy Congregation which thou hast purchased of olde: the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed, this mount Sion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3. Lift vp thy feete vnto the perpetuall desolations: euen all that the enemie hath done wickedly in the Sanctuarie.
4. Thine enemies roare in the midst of thy congregations: they set vp their ensignes for signes.
5. A man was famous according as he had lifted vp axes vpon the thicke trees.
6. But now they breake downe the carued worke thereof at once, with axes and hammers.
7. They haue cast fire into thy Sanctuary, they haue defiled by casting downe, the dwelling place of thy Nawe to the ground.
8. They said in their hearts, Let vs destroy them together: they haue burnt vp all the Synagogues of God in the land.
9. We see not our signes, there is no more any prophet, neither is there among vs any that knoweth howe long.
10. O God, how long shall the aduersarie reproach? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand, euen thy right hand? plucke it out of thy bosome.
12. For God is my King of old working saluation in the midst of the earth.
13. Thou didst diuide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14. Thou brakest the heads of Leuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to bee meat to the people inhabiting the wildernesse.
15. Thou didst cleaue the fountaine and the flood: thou driedst vp mightie riuers.
16. The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
17. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made Summer and Winter.
18. Remember this, that the enemie hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people haue blasphemed thy Name.
19. O deliuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the multitude of the wicked forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.
20. Haue respect vnto the couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of crueltie.
21. O let not the oppressed returne ashamed: let the poore and needie praise thy name.
22. Arise, O God, plead thine owne cause: remember how the foolish man reprocheth thee daily.
23. Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise vp against thee, increaseth continually.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, A Psalme or song of Asaph.</i> Unto thee, O God, doe we giue thankes, vnto thee doe we giue thanks: for that thy name is nere, thy wonderous works declare.
2. When I shall receiue the congregation, I will iudge vprightly.
3. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolued: I beare vp the pillars of it. Selah.
4. I said vnto the fooles, Deale not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not vp the horne.
5. Lift not vp your horne on high: speake not with a stiffe necke.
6. For promotion commeth neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South.
7. But God is the iudge: he putteth downe one, and setteth vp another.
8. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.
9. But I will declare for euer; I will sing praises to the God of Iacob.
10. All the hornes of the wicked also will I cut off; but the hornes of the righteous shall be exalted.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician on Neginoth, a Psalme or song of Asaph.</i> In Iudah is God knowen: his name is great in Israel.
2. In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Sion.
3. There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shield, and the sword, and the battell. Selah.
4. Thou art more glorious and excellent then the mountaines of pray.
5. The stout hearted are spoiled, they haue slept their sleepe: and none of the men of might haue found their hands.
6. At thy rebuke, O God of Iacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleepe.
7. Thou, euen thou art to be feared; and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
8. Thou didst cause iudgement to be heard from heauen: the earth feared and was still,
9. When God arose to iudgement, to saue all the meeke of the earth. Selah.
10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine.
11. Uowe, and pay vnto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared.
12. Hee shall cut off the spirit of princes: hee is terrible to the kings of the earth.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, to Ieduthun, a Psalme of Asaph.</i> I cryed vnto God with my voice: euen vnto God with my voice, and he gaue eare vnto me.
2. In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord; my sore ranne in the night, and ceased not: my soule refused to be comforted.
3. I remembred God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was ouerwhelmed. Selah.
4. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speake.
5. I haue considered the dayes of old, the yeeres of auncient times.
6. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine owne heart, and my spirit made diligent search.
7. Will the Lord cast off for euer? and will hee be fauourable no more?
8. Is his mercy cleane gone for euer? doth his promise faile for euermore?
9. Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies? Selah.
10. And I sayd, This is my infirmitie: but I will remember the yeeres of the right hand of the most high.
11. I will remember the workes of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12. I will meditate also of all thy worke, and talke of thy doings.
13. Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God, as our God?
14. Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
15. Thou hast with thine arme redeemed thy people, the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph. Selah.
16. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.
17. The cloudes powred out water, the skies sent out a sound; thine arrowes also went abroad.
18. The voice of thy thunder was in the heauen: the lightnings lightned the world, the earth trembled and shooke.
19. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters: and thy foot-steps are not knowen.
20. Thou leddest thy people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
1. <i>Maschil of Asaph.</i> Giue eare, O my people, to my Lawe: incline your eares to the wordes of my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old:
3. Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs.
4. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come, the praises of the Lord: and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5. For he established a Testimony in Iacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers: that they should make them knowen to their children.
6. That the generation to come might know them, euen the children which should be borne: who should arise and declare them to their children:
7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements,
8. And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9. The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell.
10. They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law:
11. And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12. Marueilous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13. Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape.
14. In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire.
15. Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.
16. Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers.
17. And they sinned yet more against him: by prouoking the most High in the wildernes.
18. And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust.
19. Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes?
20. Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? Can he prouide flesh for his people?
21. Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Iacob: and anger also came vp against Israel.
22. Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation:
23. Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen:
24. And had rained downe Manna vpon them to eate, and had giuen them of the corne of heauen.
25. Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full.
26. He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind.
27. He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea.
28. And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations.
29. So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire.
30. They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes,
31. The wrath of God came vpon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote downe the chosen men of Israel.
32. For all this they sinned still: and beleeued not for his wondrous works.
33. Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble.
34. When hee slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and inquired early after God.
35. And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer.
36. Neuerthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lyed vnto him with their tongues.
37. For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant.
38. But hee being full of compassion, forgaue their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.
39. For he remembred that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and commeth not againe.
40. How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernesse: and grieue him in the desert?
41. Yea they turned backe and tempted God: and limited the holy one of Israel.
42. They remembred not his hand: nor the day when hee deliuered them from the enemie:
43. How he had wrought his signes in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44. And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke.
45. Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them.
46. He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost.
48. He gaue vp their cattel also to the haile: and their flockes to hot thunder-bolts.
49. He cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath and indignation, and trouble: by sending euill angels among them.
50. He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence.
51. And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52. But made his owne people to goe forth like sheepe: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke.
53. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea ouerwhelmed their enemies.
54. And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased.
55. He cast out the heathen also before them, and diuided them an inheritance by line: and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56. Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies:
57. But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe.
58. For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images.
59. When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60. So that he forsooke the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men,
61. And deliuered his strength into captiuitie: and his glory into the enemies hand.
62. He gaue his people ouer also vnto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance.
63. The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage.
64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widowes made no lamentation.
65. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproch.
67. Moreouer he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim.
68. But chose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loued.
69. And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer.
70. He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the sheepe-folds:
71. From following the ewes great with young, hee brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72. So he fed them according to the integritie of his heart: and guided them by the skilfulnesse of his hands.
1. <i>A psalme of Asaph.</i> O God, the heathen are come into thine, inheritance, thy holy temple haue they defiled: they haue layd Ierusalem on heapes.
2. The dead bodies of thy seruants haue they giuen to bee meate vnto the foules of the heauen: the flesh of thy Saints vnto the beasts of the earth.
3. Their blood haue they shed like water round about Ierusalem: and there was none to burie them.
4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorne and derision to them that are round about vs.
5. How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry, for euer? shall thy ielousie burne like fire?
6. Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy name.
7. For they haue deuoured Iacob: and laid waste his dwelling place.
8. O remember not against vs former iniquities, let thy tender mercies speedily preuent vs: for we are brought very low.
9. Helpe vs, O God of our saluation, for the glory of thy Name: and deliuer vs, and purge away our sinnes for thy Names sake.
10. Wherfore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the reuenging of the blood of thy seruants which is shed.
11. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee, according to the greatnesse of thy power: preserue thou those that are appointed to die.
12. And render vnto our neighbours seuen fold into their bosome, their reproach wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.
13. So we thy people and sheepe of thy pasture, will giue thee thankes for euer: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalme of Asaph.</i> Giue eare, shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like a flocke, thou that dwellest betweene the Cherubims, shine forth.
2. Before Ephraim and Beniamin, and Manasseh, stirre vp thy strength: and come and saue vs.
3. Turne vs againe, O God: and cause thy face to shine, and we shall bee saued.
4. O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou bee angry against the prayer of thy people?
5. Thou feedest them with the bread of teares: and giuest them teares to drinke in great measure.
6. Thou makest vs a strife vnto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselues.
7. Turne vs againe, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saued.
8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9. Thou preparedst roome before it: and didst cause it to take deepe root, and it filled the land.
10. The hilles were couered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11. She sent out her boughs vnto the Sea: and her branches vnto the riuer.
12. Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges: so that all they which passe by the way, doe plucke her?
13. The boare out of the wood doth waste it: and the wild beast of the field doth deuoure it.
14. Returne, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: looke downe from heauen, and behold, and visit this vine:
15. And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted: and the branch that thou madest strong for thy selfe.
16. It is burnt with fire, it is cut downe: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17. Let thy hand be vpon the man of thy right hand: vpon the sonne of man, whom thou madest strong for thy selfe.
18. So will not wee goe backe from thee: quicken vs, and we will call vpon thy Name.
19. Turne vs againe, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine, and wee shall be saued.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician vpon Gittith. A Psalme of Asaph.</i> Sing alowd vnto God our strength: make a ioyfull noise vnto the God of Iacob.
2. Take a Psalme, and bring hither the timbrell: the pleasant harpe with the psalterie.
3. Blow vp the trumpet in the new Moone: in the time appointed on our solemne feast day.
4. For this was a Statute for Israel: and a Law of the God of Iacob.
5. This he ordained in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language, that I vnderstood not.
6. I remoued his shoulder from the burden: his handes were deliuered from the pots.
7. Thou calledst in trouble, and I deliuered thee, I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proued thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8. Heare, O my people, and I will testifie vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me:
9. There shall no strange God be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any strange God.
10. I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. But my people would not hearken to my voice: and Israel would none of me.
12. So I gaue them vp vnto their owne hearts lust: and they walked in in their owne counsels.
13. O that my people had hearkned vnto me: and Israel had walked in my wayes!
14. I should soone haue subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their aduersaries.
15. The haters of the Lord should haue submitted themselues vnto him: but their time should haue endured for euer.
16. Hee should haue fedde them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honie out of the rocke, should I haue satisfied thee.
1. <i>A Psalme of Asaph.</i> God standeth in the Congregation of the mightie: hee iudgeth among the gods.
2. How long will yee iudge vniustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3. Defend the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the afflicted and needie.
4. Deliuer the poore and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5. They know not, neither wil they vnderstand; they walke on in darknes: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6. I haue said, Ye are gods: and all of you are children of the most High:
7. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the Princes.
8. Arise, O God, iudge the earth: for thou shalt inherite all nations.
1. <i>A song or Psalme of Asaph.</i> Keepe not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2. For loe, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lift vp the head.
3. They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4. They haue said, Come, and let vs cut them off from being a nation: that the name of Israel may bee no more in remembrance.
5. For they haue consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee.
6. The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: of Moab, and the Hagarens.
7. Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8. Assur also is ioyned with them: they haue holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9. Doe vnto them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera, as to Iabin, at the brooke of Kison:
10. Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.
11. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12. Who sayd, Let vs take to our selues, the houses of God in possession.
13. O my God, make them like a wheele: as the stubble before the wind.
14. As the fire burneth a wood: and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:
15. So persecute them with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storme.
16. Fill their faces with shame: that they may seeke thy name, O Lord.
17. Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea let them be put to shame, and perish:
18. That men may knowe, that thou, whose name alone is IEHOVAH: art the most High ouer all the earth.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician vpon Gittith, a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.</i> How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hostes!
2. My soule longeth, yea euen fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the liuing God.
3. Yea the sparrowe hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for her selfe, where she may lay her young, euen thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my king and my God.
4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they wilbe still praysing thee. Selah.
5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee: in whose heart are the wayes of them:
6. Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well: the raine also filleth the pooles.
7. They goe from strength to strength: euery one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8. O Lord God of hostes, heare my prayer: giue eare, O God of Iacob. Selah.
9. Behold, O God our shield: and looke vpon the face of thine anointed.
10. For a day in thy courts, is better then a thousand: I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse.
11. For the Lord God is a sunne and shield: the Lord will giue grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.
12. O Lord of hostes: blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
1. <i>To the chiefe musician, a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.</i> Lord, thou hast bene fauourable vnto thy land: thou hast brought backe the captiuity of Iacob.
2. Thou hast forgiuen the iniquitie of thy people, thou hast couered all their sinne. Selah.
3. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thy selfe from the fiercenesse of thine anger.
4. Turne vs, O God of our saluation: and cause thine anger towards vs to cease.
5. Wilt thou be angry with vs for euer? wilt thou drawe out thine anger to all generations?
6. Wilt thou not reuiue vs againe: that thy people may reioyce in thee?
7. Shew vs thy mercy, O Lord; and graunt vs thy saluation.
8. I will heare what God the Lord will speake: for hee will speake peace vnto his people, and to his Saints: but let them not turne againe to folly.
9. Surely his saluation is nigh them that feare him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10. Mercy and truth are met together: righteousnesse and peace haue kissed each other.
11. Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousnesse shall looke downe from heauen.
12. Yea the Lord shall giue that which is good: and our land shall yeeld her increase.
13. Righteousnes shall go before him: and shall set vs in the way of his steps.
1. <i>A prayer of Dauid.</i> Bow downe thine eare, O Lord, heare me: for I am poore & needy.
2. Preserue my soule, for I am holy: O thou my God, saue thy seruant, that trusteth in thee.
3. Be merciful vnto me, O Lord: for I cry vnto thee daily.
4. Reioyce the soule of thy seruant: for vnto thee (O Lord) doe I lift vp my soule.
5. For thou Lord art good, and ready to forgiue: and plenteous in mercie vnto all them that call vpon thee.
6. Giue eare O Lord, vnto my prayer: and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7. In the day of my trouble I will call vpon thee: for thou wilt answere mee.
8. Among the gods there is none like vnto thee (O Lord:) neither are there any workes like vnto thy workes.
9. All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord: and shall glorifie thy Name.
10. For thou art great, and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone.
11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walke in thy trueth: vnite my heart to feare thy Name.
12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I wil glorifie thy Name for euermore.
13. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest hell.
14. O God, the proud are risen against mee, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought after my soule: and haue not set thee before them.
15. But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious: long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and trueth.
16. O turne vnto me, and haue mercie vpon me, giue thy strength vnto thy seruant: and saue the sonne of thine handmaid.
17. Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and bee ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
1. <i>A Psalme or song for the sonnes of Korah.</i> His foundation is in the holy mountaines.
2. The Lord loueth the gates of Zion: more then all the dwellings of Iacob.
3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O Citie of God. Selah.
4. I will make mention of Rahab, and Babylon, to them that know mee; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: this man was borne there.
5. And of Zion it shalbe said, This and that man was borne in her: and the highest himselfe shall establish her.
6. The Lord shall count when he writeth vp the people: that this man was borne there. Selah.
7. As wel the singers as the players on instruments shall bee there: all my springs are in thee.
1. <i>A song or Psalme for the sonnes of Korah, to the chiefe Musician vpon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.</i> O Lord God of my saluation, I haue cried day and night before thee.
2. Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine eare vnto my cry.
3. For my soule is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh vnto the graue.
4. I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
5. Free among the dead, like the slaine that lie in the graue, whom thou remembrest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in darkenesse, in the deepes.
7. Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah.
8. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: thou hast made me an abomination vnto them: I am shut vp, and I cannot come forth.
9. Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction, Lord, I haue called daily vpon thee: I haue stretched out my hands vnto thee.
10. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shal the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11. Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnesse in destruction?
12. Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnesse in the land of forgetfulnesse?
13. But vnto thee haue I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer preuent thee.
14. Lord, why castest thou off my soule? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15. I am afflicted and ready to die, from my youth vp: while I suffer thy terrours, I am distracted.
16. Thy fierce wrath goeth ouer me: thy terrours haue cut me off.
17. They came round about mee daily like water: they compassed mee about together.
18. Louer and friend hast thou put farre from me: and mine acquaintance into darkenesse.
1. <i>Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.</i> I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for euer: with my mouth will I make knowen thy faithfulnesse to all generations.
2. For I haue said, Mercie shall bee built vp for euer: thy faithfulnesse shalt thou establish in the very heauens.
3. I haue made a couenant with my chosen: I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruant.
4. Thy seed will I stablish for euer: and build vp thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5. And the heauens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulnes also in the congregation of the Saints.
6. For who in the heauen can be compared vnto the Lord? who among the sonnes of the mightie can be likened vnto the Lord?
7. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints: and to bee had in reuerence of all them that are about him.
8. O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like vnto thee? or to thy faithfulnesse round about thee?
9. Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise; thou stillest them.
10. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arme.
11. The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulnes thereof, thou hast founded them.
12. The North and the South, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall reioyce in thy Name.
13. Thou hast a mighty arme: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14. Iustice and iudgement are the habitation of thy throne: mercie and trueth shall goe before thy face.
15. Blessed is the people that knowe the ioyfull sound: they shall walke O Lord in the light of thy countenance.
16. In thy name shall they reioyce all the day: and in thy righteousnes shall they be exalted.
17. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy fauour our horne shall be exalted.
18. For the Lord is our defence: and the holy One of Israel is our king.
19. Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I haue laid helpe vpon one that is mightie: I haue exalted one chosen out of the people.
20. I haue found Dauid my seruant: with my holy oile haue I anointed him.
21. With whome my hand shall bee established: mine arme also shall strengthen him.
22. The enemie shall not exact vpon him: nor the sonne of wickednesse afflict him.
23. And I will beate downe his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him.
24. But my faithfulnesse and my mercy shalbe with him: and in my name shall his horne be exalted.
25. I will set his hand also in the sea: and his right hand in the riuers.
26. He shall crie vnto mee, Thou art my father: my God, and the rocke of my saluation.
27. Also I will make him my first borne: higher then the kings of the earth.
28. My mercy will I keepe for him for euermore: and my couenant shall stand fast with him.
29. His seed also will I make to indure for euer: and his throne as the dayes of heauen.
30. If his children forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgements;
31. If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:
32. Then will I visite their transgression with the rod, and their iniquitie with stripes.
33. Neuerthelesse, my louing kindnesse will I not vtterly take from him: nor suffer my faithfulnesse to faile.
34. My couenant will I not breake: nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lippes.
35. Once haue I sworne by my holinesse; that I will not lye vnto Dauid.
36. His seede shall endure for euer; and his throne as the sunne before me.
37. It shalbe established for euer as the Moone: and as a faithfull witnesse in heauen. Selah.
38. But thou hast cast off and abhorred: thou hast bene wroth with thine anointed.
39. Thou hast made voyd the couenant of thy seruant: thou hast profaned his crowne, by casting it to the ground.
40. Thou hast broken downe all his hedges: thou hast brought his strong holds to ruine.
41. All that passe by the way; spoile him: hee is a reproach to his neighbours.
42. Thou hast set vp the right hand of his aduersaries: thou hast made all his enemies to reioyce.
43. Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword: and hast not made him to stand in the battaile.
44. Thou hast made his glory to cease: and cast his throne downe to the ground.
45. The dayes of his youth hast thou shortned: thou hast couered him with shame. Selah.
46. How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thy selfe, for euer? shall thy wrath burne like fire?
47. Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vaine?
48. What man is he that liueth, and shall not see death? shall he deliuer his soule from the hand of the graue? Selah.
49. Lord, where are thy former louing kindnesses, which thou swarest vnto Dauid in thy trueth?
50. Remember (Lord) the reproach of thy seruants: how I doe beare in my bosome the reproache of all the mighty people.
51. Wherewith thine enemies haue reproached, O Lord: wherewith they haue reproached the foote-steppes of thine Annointed.
52. Blessed be the Lord for euermore, Amen, and Amen.
1. <i>A prayer of Moses the man of God.</i> Lord, thou hast bene our dwelling place in all generations.
2. Before the mountaines were broughtforth, or euer thou hadst formed the earth and the world: euen from euerlasting to euerlasting thou art God.
3. Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men.
4. For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night.
5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp.
6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.
7. For we are consumed by thine anger: and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee: our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
9. For all our dayes are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our yeeres as a tale that is told.
10. The dayes of our yeres are threescore yeeres and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourescore yeeres, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soone cut off, and we flie away.
11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? euen according to thy feare, so is thy wrath.
12. So teach vs to number our daies: that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisedome.
13. Returne (O Lord) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy seruants.
14. O satisfie vs early with thy mercie: that we may reioyce, and be glad all our dayes.
15. Make vs glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs: and the yeeres wherein we haue seene euil.
16. Let thy worke appeare vnto thy seruants: and thy glory vnto their children.
17. And let the beautie of the Lord our God be vpon vs, and establish thou the worke of our hands vpon vs: yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high: shall abide vnder the shadow of the Almightie.
2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, and my fortresse: my God, in him will I trust.
3. Surely he shall deliuer thee from the snare of the fouler: and from the noisome pestilence.
4. Hee shall couer thee with his feathers, and vnder his wings shalt thou trust: his trueth shall bee thy shield and buckler.
5. Thou shalt not bee afraid for the terrour by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day:
6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darknes: nor for the destruction, that wasteth at noone-day.
7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.
8. Onely with thine eyes shalt thou behold: & see the reward of the wicked.
9. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, euen the most High, thy habitation:
10. There shall no euill befall thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11. For hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee: to keepe thee in all thy wayes.
12. They shall beare thee vp in their hands: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13. Thou shalt tread vpon the Lion, and adder: the yong Lion and the dragon shalt thou trample vnder feete.
14. Because he hath set his loue vpon me, therefore will I deliuer him: I wil set him on high, because hee hath knowen my Name.
15. He shall call vpon me, and I will answere him: I will bee with him in trouble, I will deliuer him, and honour him.
16. With long life wil I satisfie him: and shew him my saluation.
1. <i>A Psalme or song for the Sabbath day.</i> It is a good thing to giue thanks vnto the Lord, and to sing praises vnto thy Name, O most High:
2. To shew foorth thy louing kindnesse in the morning: and thy faithfulnesse euery night:
3. Upon an instrument of tenne strings, and vpon the psalterie: vpon the harpe with a solemne sound.
4. For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy worke: I will triumph in the workes of thy hands.
5. O Lord, how great are thy workes! and thy thoughts are very deepe.
6. A brutish man knoweth not: neither doeth a foole vnderstand this.
7. When the wicked spring as the grasse, and when all the workers of iniquitie doe flourish: it is that they shall be destroyed for euer.
8. But thou, Lord, art most high for euermore.
9. For loe, thine enemies, O Lord, for loe, thine enemies shall perish: all the workers of iniquity shalbe scattred.
10. But my horne shalt thou exalt like the horne of an vnicorne: I shalbe anointed with fresh oyle.
11. Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies: and mine eares shall heare my desire of the wicked that rise vp against me.
12. The righteous shal flourish like the palme tree: hee shall growe like a cedar in Lebanon.
13. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14. They shal still bring forth fruit in old age: they shalbe fat, & flourishing:
15. To shew that the Lord is vpright: hee is my rocke, and there is no vnrighteousnesse in him.
1. The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with Maiestie, the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith hee hath girded himselfe: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moued.
2. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from euerlasting.
3. The floods haue lifted vp, O Lord, the floods haue lifted vp their voice: the floods lift vp their waues.
4. The Lord on high is mightier then the noise of many waters, yea then the mightie waues of the Sea.
5. Thy testimonies are very sure: holinesse becommeth thine house, O Lord, for euer.
1. O Lord God, to whome vengeance belongeth: O God to whome vengeance belongeth, shew thy selfe.
2. Lift vp thy selfe, thou iudge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3. Lord, how long shall the wicked? how long shall the wicked triumph?
4. How long shal they vtter, and speake hard things? and all the workers of iniquitie boast themselues?
5. They breake in pieces thy people, O Lord: and afflict thine heritage.
6. They slay the widowe and the stranger: and murder the fatherlesse.
7. Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Iacob regard it.
8. Understand, yee brutish among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
9. He that planted the eare, shall he not heare? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10. He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are vanitie.
12. Blessed is the man whome thou chastenest, O Lord: and teachest him out of thy Law:
13. That thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of aduersitie: vntill the pit be digged for the wicked.
14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15. But iudgement shall returne vnto righteousnesse: and all the vpright in heart shall follow it.
16. Who will rise vp for mee against the euill doers? or who will stand vp for me against the workers of iniquitie?
17. Unlesse the Lord had bene my helpe: my soule had almost dwelt in silence.
18. When I said, My foote slippeth: thy mercie, O Lord, held me vp.
19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soule.
20. Shal the throne of iniquitie haue fellowship with thee: which frameth mischiefe by a lawe?
21. They gather themselues together against the soule of the righteous: and condemne the innocent blood.
22. But the Lord is my defence: and my God is the rocke of my refuge.
23. And hee shall bring vpon them their owne iniquitie, and shall cut them off in their owne wickednesse: yea the Lord our God shall cut them off.
1. O come, let vs sing vnto the Lord: let vs make a ioyfull noise to the rocke of our saluation.
2. Let vs come before his presence with thanksgiuing: and make a ioyfull noise vnto him with psalmes.
3. For the Lord is a great God: and a great king aboue all Gods.
4. In his hand are the deepe places of the earth: the strength of the hilles is his also.
5. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6. O come, let vs worship and bowe downe: let vs kneele before the Lord our maker.
7. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hand: to day if yee will heare his voyce,
8. Harden not your heart, as in the prouocation: and as in the day of temptation, in the wildernesse:
9. When your fathers tempted me: proued me, and sawe my worke.
10. Fortie yeeres long was I grieued with this generation: and sayd, It is a people that doe erre in their heart: and they haue not knowen my wayes.
11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest.
1. O sing vnto the Lord a new song: sing vnto the Lord all the earth.
2. Sing vnto the Lord, blesse his name: shew forth his saluation from day to day.
3. Declare his glory among the heathen: his wonders among all people.
4. For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: hee is to be feared aboue all Gods.
5. For all the gods of the nations are idoles: but the Lord made the heauens.
6. Honour and maiestie are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7. Giue vnto the Lord (O yee kinreds of the people:) giue vnto the Lord glory and strength.
8. Giue vnto the Lord the glory due vnto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
9. O worship the Lord, in the beautie of holinesse: feare before him all the earth.
10. Say among the heathen, that the Lord reigneth: the world also shalbe established that it shall not be moued: he shall iudge the people righteously.
11. Let the heauens reioyce, and let the earth be glad: let the sea roare, and the fulnesse thereof.
12. Let the field be ioyfull, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce
13. Before the Lord, for hee commeth, for hee commeth to iudge the earth: hee shall iudge the world with righteousnesse, and the people with his trueth.
1. The Lord raigneth, let the earth reioyce: let the multitude of Isles bee glad thereof.
2. Clouds and darkenesse are round about him: righteousnesse and iudgement are the habitation of his throne.
3. A fire goeth before him: and burneth vp his enemies round about.
4. His lightnings inlightned the world: the earth sawe, and trembled.
5. The hilles melted like waxe at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6. The heauens declare his righteousnesse: and all the people see his glory.
7. Confounded be all they that serue grauen images, that boast themselues of idoles: worship him all yee gods.
8. Sion heard, and was glad, and the daughters of Iudah reioyced: because of thy iudgements, O Lord.
9. For thou, Lord, art high aboue all the earth: thou art exalted farre aboue all gods.
10. Yee that loue the Lord, hate euil; hee preserueth the soules of his Saints: hee deliuereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
11. Light is sowen for the righteous: and gladnesse for the vpright in heart.
12. Reioyce in the Lord, ye righteous: and giue thanks at the remembrance of his holinesse.
1. <i>A Psalme.</i> O sing vnto the Lord a New song, for hee hath done marueilous things: his right hand, and his holy arme hath gotten him the victorie.
2. The Lord hath made knowen his saluation: his righteousnesse hath hee openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
3. Hee hath remembred his mercie and his trueth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth haue seene the saluation of our God.
4. Make a ioyfull noise vnto the Lord, all the earth: make a lowd noise, and reioyce, and sing praise.
5. Sing vnto the Lord with the harpe: with the harpe, and the voice of a Psalme.
6. With trumpets and sound of cornet: make a ioyfull noise before the Lord, the King.
7. Let the sea roare, and the fulnesse thereof: the world, and they that dwell therein.
8. Let the floods clap their handes: let the hilles be ioyfull together
9. Before the Lord, for he commeth to iudge the earth: with righteousnesse shall hee iudge the world, and the people with equitie.
1. The Lord raigneth, let the people tremble: he sitteth betweene the Cherubims, let the earth bee mooued.
2. The Lord is great in Zion: and he is high aboue all people.
3. Let them praise thy great and terrible Name: for it is holy.
4. The Kings strength also loueth iudgement, thou doest establish equitie: thou executest iudgement and righteousnes in Iacob.
5. Exalt yee the Lord our God, and worship at his footstoole: for he is holy.
6. Moses and Aaron among his Priests, and Samuel among them that call vpon his Name: they called vpon the Lord, and he answered them.
7. He spake vnto them in the cloudie pillar: they kept his Testimonies, and the Ordinance that he gaue them.
8. Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgauest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inuentions.
9. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy.
1. <i>A Psalme of praise.</i> Make a ioyfull noise vnto the Lord, all ye lands.
2. Serue the Lord with gladnes: come before his presence with singing.
3. Know ye that the Lord, hee is God, it is he that hath made vs, and not we our selues: wee are his people, and the sheepe of his pasture.
4. Enter into his gates with thanksgiuing, and into his Courts with praise: bee thankfull vnto him, and blesse his Name.
5. For the Lord is good, his mercy is euerlasting: and his trueth endureth to all generations.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> I will sing of Mercie and Iudgement: vnto thee, O Lord, wil I sing.
2. I will behaue my selfe wisely in a perfect way, O when wilt thou come vnto me? I will walke within my house with a perfect heart.
3. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the worke of them that turne aside, it shal not cleaue to me.
4. A froward heart shall depart from me, I will not knowe a wicked person.
5. Whoso priuily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high looke, and a proud heart, will not I suffer.
6. Mine eyes shall be vpon the faithfull of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serue me.
7. He that worketh deceit, shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarie in my sight.
8. I will earely destroy all the wicked of the land: that I may cut off all wicked doers from the citie of the Lord.
1. <i>A prayer of the afflicted when he is ouerwhelmed, and powreth out his complaint before the Lord.</i> Heare my prayer, O Lord: and let my crie come vnto thee.
2. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble, incline thine eare vnto me: in the day when I call, answere mee speedily.
3. For my dayes are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as an hearth.
4. My heart is smitten, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.
5. By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.
6. I am like a Pelican of the wildernes: I am like an owle of the desert.
7. I watch, and am as a sparowe alone vpon the house top.
8. Mine enemies reproch me all the day: and they that are mad against me, are sworne against me.
9. For I haue eaten ashes like bread: and mingled my drinke with weeping.
10. Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me vp, and cast me downe.
11. My dayes are like a shadow, that declineth: & I am withered like grasse.
12. But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for euer: and thy remembrance vnto all generations.
13. Thou shalt arise, and haue mercie vpon Zion: for the time to fauour her, yea the set time is come.
14. For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones: and fauour the dust therof.
15. So the heathen shall feare the Name of the Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16. When the Lord shall build vp Zion: he shall appeare in his glory.
17. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord.
19. For hee hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: from heauen did the Lord beholde the earth:
20. To heare the groning of the prisoner: to loose those that are appointed to death:
21. To declare the Name of the Lord in Zion: and his praise in Ierusalem:
22. When the people are gathered together: and the kingdomes to serue the Lord.
23. He weakened my strength in the way: he shortened my dayes.
24. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my dayes: thy yeres are throughout all generations.
25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy hands.
26. They shall perish, but thou shalt indure, yea all of them shall waxe old like a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalbe changed.
27. But thou art the same: and thy yeeres shall haue no end.
28. The children of thy seruants shal continue: and their seed shall be established before thee.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Blesse the Lord, O my soule: and all that is within me, blesse his holy Name.
2. Blesse the Lord, O my soule: & forget not all his benefits.
3. Who forgiueth all thine iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.
4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with louing kindnesse and tender mercies.
5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things: so that thy youth is renewed like the Eagles.
6. The Lord executeth righteousnesse: and iudgement for all that are oppressed.
7. He made knowen his wayes vnto Moses: his actes vnto the children of Israel.
8. The Lord is mercifull and gracious: slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9. Hee will not alwayes chide: neither will he keepe his anger for euer.
10. Hee hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes: nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities.
11. For as the heauen is high aboue the earth: so great is his mercy toward them that feare him.
12. As farre as the East is from the West: so farre hath hee remooued our transgressions from vs.
13. Like as a father pitieth his children: so the Lord pitieth them that feare him.
14. For he knoweth our frame: hee remembreth that we are dust.
15. As for man, his dayes are as grasse: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16. For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17. But the mercy of the Lord is from euerlasting to euerlasting vpon them that feare him: and his righteousnesse vnto childrens children:
18. To such as keepe his couenant: and to those that remember his commandements to doe them.
19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heauens: and his kingdome ruleth ouer all.
20. Blesse the Lord yee his Angels, that excell in strength, that do his commandements: hearkening vnto the voice of his word.
21. Blesse ye the Lord all yee his hostes: ye ministers of his that doe his pleasure.
22. Blesse the Lord all his works in all places of his dominion: blesse the Lord, O my soule.
1. Blesse the Lord, O my soule, O Lord my God, thou art very great: thou art clothed with honour and maiestie.
2. Who couerest thy selfe with light, as with a garment: who stretchest out the heauens like a curtaine.
3. Who layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, who maketh the cloudes his charet: who walketh vpon the wings of the wind.
4. Who maketh his Angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire.
5. Who laid the foundations of the earth: that it should not be remoued for euer.
6. Thou coueredst it with the deepe as with a garment: the waters stood aboue the mountaines.
7. At thy rebuke they fled: at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
8. They go vp by the mountaines: they goe downe by the valleys vnto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9. Thou hast set a bound that they may not passe ouer: that they turne not againe to couer the earth.
10. He sendeth the springs into the valleys: which runne among the hilles.
11. They giue drinke to euery beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
12. By them shall the foules of the heauen haue their habitation: which sing among the branches.
13. He watereth the hilles from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy workes.
14. He causeth the grasse to grow for the cattell, and herbe for the seruice of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
15. And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oile to make his face to shine: and bread which strengtheneth mans heart.
16. The trees of the Lord are full of sappe: the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.
17. Where the birds make their nests: as for the Storke, the firre trees are her house.
18. The hie hilles are a refuge for the wilde goates: and the rockes for the conies.
19. He appointed the moone for seasons; the sunne knoweth his going downe.
20. Thou makest darknesse, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forrest doe creepe forth.
21. The young lyons roare after their pray: and seeke their meate from God.
22. The sunne ariseth, they gather themselues together: and lay them downe in their dennes.
23. Man goeth forth vnto his worke: and to his labour, vntill the euening.
24. O Lord, how manifold are thy workes! in wisedome hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25. So is this great and wide Sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable: both small and great beasts.
26. There goe the shippes; there is that Leuiathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
27. These waite all vpon thee: that thou mayest giue them their meate in due season.
28. That thou giuest them, they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
29. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled, thou takest away their breath, they die: and returne to their dust.
30. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
31. The glory of the Lord shall endure for euer: the Lord shall reioyce in his workes.
32. Hee looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the hilles, and they smoke.
33. I will sing vnto the Lord as long as I liue: I will sing praise to my God, while I haue my being.
34. My meditation of him shalbe sweete: I will be glad in the Lord.
35. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked bee no more: blesse thou the Lord, O my soule. Praise yee the Lord.
1. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, call vpon his name: make knowen his deeds among the people.
2. Sing vnto him; sing Psalmes vnto him: talke yee of all his wondrous workes.
3. Glory yee in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce, that seeke the Lord.
4. Seeke the Lord, and his strength: seeke his face euermore.
5. Remember his maruellous workes, that hee hath done: his wonders, and the iudgements of his mouth,
6. O yee seede of Abraham his seruant: yee children of Iacob his chosen.
7. He is the Lord our God: his iudgements are in all the earth.
8. He hath remembred his couenant for euer: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
9. Which couenant he made with Abraham, and his oath vnto Isaac:
10. And confirmed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant:
11. Saying, Unto thee will I giue the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance.
12. When they were but a few men in number: yea very few, & strangers in it.
13. When they went from one nation to another: from one kingdome to another people.
14. He suffred no man to doe them wrong: yea he reproued kings for their sakes:
15. Saying, Touch not mine anointed; and doe my Prophets no harme.
16. Moreouer hee called for a famine vpon the land: he brake the whole staffe of bread.
17. Hee sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was sold for a seruant.
18. Whose feete they hurt with fetters: he was layd in iron.
19. Untill the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.
20. The king sent and loosed him: euen the ruler of the people, and let him goe free.
21. Hee made him lord of his house: and ruler of all his substance:
22. To binde his princes at his pleasure: and teach his Senatours wisedome.
23. Israel also came into Egypt: and Iacob soiourned in the land of Ham.
24. And hee increased his people greatly: and made them stronger then their enemies.
25. He turned their heart to hate his people: to deale subtilly with his seruants.
26. Hee sent Moses his seruant: and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27. They shewed his signes among them: and wonders in the land of Ham.
28. Hee sent darknesse, and made it darke: and they rebelled not against his word.
29. Hee turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish.
30. The land brought foorth frogs in abundance: in the chambers of their kings.
31. He spake, and there came diuers sorts of flies: and lice in all their coasts.
32. Hee gaue them haile for raine: and flaming fire in their laud.
33. Hee smote their Uines also, and their figge trees: and brake the trees of their coastes.
34. He spake, and the locusts came: and catterpillers, and that without number,
35. And did eate vp all the herbes in their land: and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
36. Hee smote also all the first borne in their land: the chiefe of all their strength.
37. Hee brought them foorth also with siluer and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the feare of them fell vpon them.
39. He spread a cloud for a couering: and fire to giue light in the night.
40. The people asked, and he brought quailes: and satisfied them with the bread of heauen.
41. He opened the rocke, and the waters gushed out: they ranne in the dry places like a riuer.
42. For he remembred his holy promise: and Abraham his seruant.
43. And he brought forth his people with ioy: and his chosen with gladnesse:
44. And gaue them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people:
45. That they might obserue his statutes, and keepe his Lawes, Praise ye the Lord.
1. Praise ye the Lord. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.
2. Who can vtter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew foorth all his praise?
3. Blessed are they that keepe iudgement: and he that doeth righteousnesse at all times.
4. Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation:
5. That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may reioyce in the gladnesse of thy nation: that I may glory with thine inheritance.
6. Wee haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, we haue done wickedly.
7. Our fathers vnderstood not thy wonders in Egypt, they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies: but prouoked him at the sea, euen at the Red-sea.
8. Neuerthelesse hee saued them for his Names sake: that hee might make his mighty power to be knowen.
9. He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried vp: so hee led them through the depthes, as through the wildernes.
10. And he saued them from the hand of him that hated them: and redeemed them from the hand of the enemie.
11. And the waters couered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
12. Then beleeued they his words: they sang his praise.
13. They soone forgate his works: they waited not for his counsell:
14. But lusted exceedingly in the wildernes: & tempted God in the desert.
15. And he gaue them their request: but sent leannesse into their soule.
16. They enuied Moses also in the campe: and Aaron the Saint of the Lord.
17. The earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram.
18. And a fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt vp the wicked.
19. They made a calfe in Horeb: and worshipped the molten image.
20. Thus they changed their glory, into the similitude of an oxe that eateth grasse.
21. They forgate God their Sauiour: which had done great things in Egypt:
22. Wonderous workes in the lande of Ham: and terrible things by the red Sea.
23. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: to turne away his wrath, lest hee should destroy them.
24. Yea, they despised the pleasant land: they beleeued not his word:
25. But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not vnto the voyce of the Lord.
26. Therefore he lifted vp his hande against them: to ouerthrow them in the wildernesse:
27. To ouerthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
28. They ioyned themselues also vnto Baal-Peor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29. Thus they prouoked him to anger with their inuentions: and the plague brake in vpon them.
30. Then stood vp Phinehas, and executed iudgement: and so the plague was stayed.
31. And that was counted vnto him for righteousnesse: vnto all generations for euermore.
32. They angred him also at the waters of strife: so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33. Because they prouoked his spirit: so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.
34. They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them:
35. But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes.
36. And they serued their idoles: which were a snare vnto them.
37. Yea they sacrificed their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils,
38. And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whome they sacrificed vnto the idoles of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
39. Thus were they defiled with their owne works: and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
40. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritance.
41. And he gaue them into the hand of the heathen: and they that hated them, ruled ouer them.
42. Their enemies also oppressed them: and they were brought into subiection vnder their hand.
43. Many times did he deliuer them: but they prouoked him with their counsell, and were brought low for their iniquitie.
44. Neuertheles he regarded their affliction: when he heard their crie.
45. And hee remembred for them his couenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
46. He made them also to be pitied, of all those that caried them captiues.
47. Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen to giue thankes vnto thy holy Name: and to triumph in thy praise.
48. Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel from euerlasting to euerlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.
1. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, for hee is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.
2. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so: whome he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemie:
3. And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West: from the North and from the South.
4. They wandred in the wildernes, in a solitary way: they found no citie to dwell in.
5. Hungry and thirstie: their soule fainted in them.
6. Then they cryed vnto the Lord in their trouble: and he deliuered them out of their distresses.
7. And hee led them forth by the right way: that they might goe to a citie of habitation.
8. Oh that men would praise the Lord, for his goodnesse: and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men.
9. For he satisfieth the longing soule: and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse.
10. Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: being bound in affliction and yron:
11. Because they rebelled against the words of God: and contemned the counsell of the most high:
12. Therefore hee brought downe their heart with labour: they fel downe, and there was none to helpe.
13. Then they cryed vnto the Lord in their trouble: and he saued them out of their distresses.
14. Hee brought them out of darkenesse, and the shadowe of death: and brake their bands insunder.
15. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse: and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men.
16. For he hath broken the gates of brasse: and cut the barres of yron in sunder.
17. Fooles, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18. Their soule abhorreth all manner of meate: and they drawe neere vnto the gates of death.
19. Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble: he saueth them out of their distresses.
20. Hee sent his word, and healed them: and deliuered them from their destructions.
21. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse: and for his wonderfull workes, to the children of men.
22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thankesgiuing: and declare his workes with reioycing.
23. They that goe downe to the sea in shippes: that doe businesse in great waters:
24. These see the workes of the Lord: and his wonders in the deepe.
25. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy winde: which lifteth vp the waues thereof.
26. They mount vp to the heauen: they goe downe againe to the depthes: their soule is melted because of trouble.
27. They reele to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man; and are at their wits end.
28. Then they cry vnto the Lord in their trouble: and hee bringeth them out of their distresses.
29. He maketh the storme a calme: so that the waues thereof are still.
30. Then are they glad, because they be quiet: so he bringeth them vnto their desired hauen.
31. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse; and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men:
32. Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the Elders.
33. Hee turneth riuers into a wildernesse: and the water springs into dry ground:
34. A fruitfull land into barrennesse; for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein.
35. He turneth the wildernesse into a standing water: and dry ground into water-springs.
36. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell; that they may prepare a citie for habitation,
37. And sowe the fields, and plant vineyards; which may yeeld fruits of increase.
38. He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly: and suffreth not their cattell to decrease.
39. Againe, they are minished and brought lowe through oppression, affliction and sorrow.
40. Hee powreth contempt vpon princes: and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse, where there is no way.
41. Yet setteth he the poore on high from affliction: and maketh him families like a flocke.
42. The righteous shall see it, and reioyce; and all iniquitie shall stop her mouth.
43. Who so is wise, and will obserue those things; euen they shall vnderstand the louing kindenesse of the Lord.
1. <i>A song or Psalme of Dauid.</i> O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing & giue praise, euen with my glory.
2. Awake psaltery and harpe: I my selfe will awake early.
3. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I wil sing praises vnto thee among the nations.
4. For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens: and thy trueth reacheth vnto the clouds.
5. Be thou exalted, O God, aboue the heauens: and thy glory aboue all the earth:
6. That thy beloued may bee deliuered: saue with thy right hand, and answere me.
7. God hath spoken in his holinesse, I wil reioyce, I will diuide Shechem: and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8. Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim also is the strength of mine head: Iudah is my Lawgiuer.
9. Moab is my wash pot, ouer Edom wil I cast out my shooe: ouer Philistia will I triumph.
10. Who wil bring me into the strong citie? who will leade me into Edom?
11. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast vs off? and wilt not thou, O God, goe foorth with our hostes?
12. Giue vs helpe from trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.
13. Through God wee shall doe valiantly: for hee it is that shall tread downe our enemies.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise.
2. For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitfull are opened against mee: they haue spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3. They compassed mee about also with wordes of hatred: and fought against me without a cause.
4. For my loue, they are my aduersaries: but I giue my selfe vnto prayer.
5. And they haue rewarded me euill for good: and hatred for my loue.
6. Set thou a wicked man ouer him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7. When he shall be iudged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sinne.
8. Let his dayes be few: and let another take his office.
9. Let his children bee fatherlesse: and his wife a widow.
10. Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.
11. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoile his labour.
12. Let there be none to extend mercy vnto him: neither let there be any to fauour his fatherlesse children.
13. Let his posteritie be cut off: and in the generation folowing let their name be blotted out.
14. Let the iniquitie of his fathers be remembred with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be blotted out.
15. Let them be before the Lord continually: that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16. Because that he remembred not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poore and needy man: that he might euen slay the broken in heart.
17. As he loued cursing, so let it come vnto him: as hee delighted not in blessing, so let it be farre from him.
18. As he clothed himselfe with cursing like as with his garment: so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
19. Let it be vnto him as the garment which couereth him: and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20. Let this be the reward of mine aduersaries from the Lord: and of them that speake euill against my soule.
21. But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy Names sake: because thy mercie is good: deliuer thou me.
22. For I am poore and needie: and my heart is wounded within me.
23. I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
24. My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.
25. I became also a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they shaked their heads.
26. Helpe me, O Lord my God: O saue me according to thy mercie.
27. That they may know, that this is thy hand: that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28. Let them curse, but blesse thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy seruant reioyce.
29. Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: and let them couer them selues with their owne confusion, as with a mantle.
30. I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth: yea I will praise him among the multitude.
31. For he shal stand at the right hand of the poore: to saue him from those that condemne his soule.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> The Lord said vnto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand: vntil I make thine enemies thy footestoole.
2. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3. Thy people shalbe willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holinesse from the wombe of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4. The Lord hath sworne, and will not repent, thou art a Priest for euer: after the order of Melchizedek.
5. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6. He shal iudge among the heathen, he shal fil the places with the dead bodies: he shall wound the heads ouer many countries.
7. He shall drinke of the brooke in the way: therefore shall hee lift vp the head.
1. Praise yee the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart: in the assembly of the vpright, and in the Congregation.
2. The workes of the Lord are great: sought out of all them that haue pleasure therein.
3. His worke is honourable and glorious: and his righteousnesse endureth for euer.
4. Hee hath made his wonderfull works to be remembred: the Lord is gracious, and full of compassion.
5. He hath giuen meate vnto them that feare him: he will euer be mindfull of his couenant.
6. He hath shewed his people the power of his workes: that he may giue them the heritage of the heathen.
7. The works of his hands are veritie and iudgment: all his commandements are sure.
8. They stand fast for euer and euer: and are done in trueth and vprightnes.
9. He sent redemption vnto his people, hee hath commanded his couenant for euer: holy and reuerend is his Name.
10. The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome, a good vnderstanding haue all they that doe his commandements: his praise endureth for euer.
1. Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his Commaundements.
2. His seed shall bee mightie vpon earth: the generation of the vpright shalbe blessed.
3. Wealth and riches shalbe in his house: and his righteousnesse endureth for euer.
4. Unto the vpright there ariseth light in the darknesse: hee is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
5. A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.
6. Surely he shall not be moued for euer: the righteous shalbe in euerlasting remembrance.
7. He shall not be afraid of euill tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
8. His heart is established, hee shall not be afraid, vntill he see his desire vpon his enemies.
9. He hath dispersed, he hath giuen to the poore: his righteousnesse endureth for euer; his horne shalbe exalted with honour.
10. The wicked shall see it, and be grieued; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
1. Praise yee the Lord. Praise, O yee seruants of the Lord: praise the name of the Lord.
2. Blessed be the name of the Lord: from this time forth and for euermore.
3. From the rising of the sunne vnto the going downe of the same: the Lords name is to be praised.
4. The Lord is high aboue all nations: and his glory aboue the heauens.
5. Who is like vnto the Lord our God: who dwelleth on high:
6. Who humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heauen, and in the earth?
7. He raiseth vp the poore out of the dust: and lifteth the needie out of the dung-hill:
8. That he may set him with princes: euen with the princes of his people.
9. He maketh the barren woman to keepe house; to be a ioyfull mother of children: Praise yee the Lord.
1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Iacob from a people of strange language:
2. Iudah was his sanctuarie: and Israel his dominion.
3. The sea sawe it, and fled: Iordan was driuen backe.
4. The mountaines skipped like rammes: and the little hilles like lambes.
5. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Iordan, that thou wast driuen backe?
6. Yee mountaines, that yee skipped like rammes: and yee little hilles like lambes?
7. Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the God of Iacob:
8. Which turned the rocke into a standing water: the flint into a fountaine of waters.
1. Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name giue glory: for thy mercy, and for thy truthes sake.
2. Wherefore should the heathen say: Where is now their God?
3. But our God is in the heauens: he hath done whatsoeuer he pleased.
4. Their idoles are siluer and gold: the worke of mens hands.
5. They haue mouths, but they speake not; eies haue they, but they see not.
6. They haue eares, but they heare not: noses haue they, but they smell not.
7. They haue hands, but they handle not, feete haue they, but they walke not: neither speake they through their throat.
8. They that make them are like vnto them: so is euery one that trusteth in them.
9. O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their helpe and their shield.
10. O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their helpe & their shield.
11. Ye that feare the Lord trust in the Lord: he is their helpe and their shield.
12. The Lord hath bene mindfull of vs, he will blesse vs, he will blesse the house of Israel: he will blesse the house of Aaron.
13. Hee will blesse them that feare the Lord: both small and great.
14. The Lord shall increase you more and more: you and your children.
15. You are blessed of the Lord: which made heauen and earth.
16. The heauen, euen the heauens are the Lords: but the earth hath hee giuen to the children of men.
17. The dead praise not the Lord: neither any that go downe into silence.
18. But we will blesse the Lord, from this time foorth and for euermore. Praise the Lord.
1. I loue the Lord: because hee hath heard my voice, & my supplications.
2. Because hee hath inclined his eare vnto mee: therefore will I call vpon him as long as I liue.
3. The sorrowes of death compassed me, and the paines of hell gate hold vpon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4. Then called I vpon the Name of the Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee deliuer my soule.
5. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous: yea our God is mercifull.
6. The Lord preserueth the simple: I was brought low, and hee helped me.
7. Returne vnto thy rest, O my soule: for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
8. For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, mine eyes from teares, and my feete from falling.
9. I wil walke before the Lord: in the land of the liuing.
10. I beleeued, therfore haue I spoken: I was greatly afflicted.
11. I said in my haste: All men are lyers.
12. What shall I render vnto the Lord: for all his benefits towards mee?
13. I will take the cup of saluation: and call vpon the Name of the Lord.
14. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord: now in the presence of all his people.
15. Precious in ye sight of the Lord: is the death of his Saints.
16. Oh Lord, truely I am thy seruant, I am thy seruant, and the sonne of thy handmayde: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thankes-giuing: and will call vpon the Name of the Lord.
18. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord: now in the presence of all his people:
19. In the Courts of the Lords house, in the middes of thee, O Ierusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
1. O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him all ye people.
2. For his merciful kindnesse is great toward vs: and the trueth of the Lord endureth for euer. Praise ye the Lord.
1. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, for hee is good: because his mercie endureth for euer.
2. Let Israel now say: that his mercy endureth for euer.
3. Let the house of Aaron now say: that his mercy endureth for euer.
4. Let them now that feare the Lord, say: that his mercy endureth for euer.
5. I called vpon the Lord in distresse: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
6. The Lord is on my side, I will not feare: What can man doe vnto mee?
7. The Lord taketh my part with them that helpe me: therfore shall I see my desire vpon them that hate me.
8. It is better to trust in the Lord: then to put confidence in man.
9. It is better to trust in the Lord: then to put confidence in Princes.
10. All nations compassed me about: but in the Name of the Lord, will I destroy them.
11. They compassed mee about, yea they compassed mee about: but in the Name of the Lord, I will destroy them.
12. They compassed mee about like Bees, they are quenched as the fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I wil destroy them.
13. Thou hast thrust sore at mee that I might fall: but the Lord helped mee.
14. The Lord is my strength and song: and is become my saluation.
15. The voice of reioycing and saluation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the Right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
16. The Right hand of the Lord is exalted: the Right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
17. I shall not die, but liue: and declare the workes of the Lord.
18. The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not giuen me ouer vnto death.
19. Open to mee the gates of righteousnesse: I will goe into them, and I will praise the Lord:
20. This gate of the Lord: into which the righteous shall enter.
21. I will praise thee, for thou hast heard mee: and art become my saluation.
22. The stone which the builders refused: is become the head stone of the corner.
23. This is the Lords doing: it is marueilous in our eyes.
24. This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will reioyce, and be glad in it.
25. Saue now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperitie.
26. Blessed be he that commeth in the Name of the Lord: wee haue blessed you out of the house of the Lord.
27. God is the Lord, which hath shewed vs light, bind the sacrifice with cords: euen vnto the horns of the Altar.
28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
29. O giue thanks vnto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for euer.
1. <i>ALEPH.</i> Blessed are the vndefiled in the way: who walke in the Law of the Lord.
2. Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies: and that seeke him with the whole heart.
3. They also doe no iniquitie: they walke in his wayes.
4. Thou hast commaunded vs to keepe thy precepts diligently.
5. O that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes!
6. Then shall I not bee ashamed: when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements.
7. I will praise thee with vprightnesse of heart: when I shall haue learned thy righteous iudgements.
8. I will keepe thy statutes: O forsake me not vtterly.
9. <i>BETH.</i> Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.
10. With my whole heart haue I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy Commandements.
11. Thy word haue I hidde in mine heart: that I might not sinne against thee.
12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
13. With my lips haue I declared all the iudgements of thy mouth.
14. I haue reioyced in the way of thy testimonies: as much as in all riches.
15. I will meditate in thy precepts: and haue respect vnto thy wayes.
16. I will delight my selfe in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17. <i>GIMEL.</i> Deale bountifully with thy seruant; that I may liue, and keepe thy word.
18. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy Law.
19. I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
20. My soule breaketh for the longing: that it hath vnto thy iudgements at all times.
21. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed: which doe erre from thy Commandements.
22. Remooue from me reproch and contempt: for I haue kept thy testimonies.
23. Princes also did sit and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.
24. Thy testimonies also are my delight: and my counsellers.
25. <i>DALETH.</i> My soule cleaueth vnto the dust: quicken thou mee according to thy word.
26. I haue declared my wayes, and thou heardest me: teach me thy Statutes.
27. Make me to vnderstand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talke of thy wonderous workes.
28. My soule melteth for heauines: strengthen thou me according vnto thy word.
29. Remoue from mee the way of lying: and grant me thy Law graciously.
30. I haue chosen the way of trueth: thy iudgements haue I laid before me.
31. I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O Lord put me not to shame.
32. I will runne the way of thy Commandements: when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
33. <i>HE.</i> Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy Statutes: and I shall keepe it vnto the end.
34. Giue me vnderstanding, and I shall keepe thy Law: yea I shall obserue it with my whole heart.
35. Make me to goe in the path of thy commandements: for therein doe I delight.
36. Incline my heart vnto thy testimonies: and not to couetousnesse.
37. Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanitie: and quicken thou me in thy way.
38. Stablish thy word vnto thy seruant: who is deuoted to thy feare.
39. Turne away my reproch which I feare: for thy iudgements are good.
40. Behold, I haue longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousnesse.
41. <i>VAV.</i> Let thy mercies come also vnto me, O Lord: euen thy saluation, according to thy word.
42. So shall I haue wherewith to answere him that reprocheth me: for I trust in thy word.
43. And take not the word of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I haue hoped in thy iudgements.
44. So shall I keepe thy Law continually: for euer and euer.
45. And I wil walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts.
46. I will speake of thy testimonies also before kings, & wil not be ashamed.
47. And I will delight my selfe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.
48. My hands also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued: and I will meditate in thy statutes.
49. <i>ZAIN.</i> Remember the word vnto thy seruant: vpon which thou hast caused me to hope.
50. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
51. The proud haue had mee greatly in derision: yet haue I not declined from thy Law.
52. I remembred thy iudgements of old, O Lord: and haue comforted my selfe.
53. Horrour hath taken holde vpon me, because of the wicked that forsake thy Law.
54. Thy statutes haue bin my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55. I haue remembred thy name, O Lord, in the night, and haue kept thy Law.
56. This I had: because I kept thy precepts.
57. <i>CHETH.</i> Thou art my portion, O Lord, I haue said, that I would keepe thy words.
58. I intreated thy fauour with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto mee according to thy word.
59. I thought on my wayes: and turned my feete vnto thy Testimonies.
60. I made haste; and delayed not to keepe thy commandements.
61. The bands of the wicked haue robbed me: but I haue not forgotten thy lawe.
62. At mid-night I will rise to giue thankes vnto thee: because of thy righteous iudgements.
63. I am a companion of all them that feare thee: and of them that keepe thy precepts.
64. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
65. <i>TETH.</i> Thou hast dealt well with thy seruant, Oh Lord, according vnto thy word.
66. Teach me good iudgement and knowledge: for I haue beleeued thy commandements.
67. Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now haue I kept thy word.
68. Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69. The proud haue forged a lie against me: but I will keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
70. Their heart is as fat as grease: but I delight in thy law.
71. It is good for me that I haue bene afflicted: that I might learne thy statutes.
72. The law of thy mouth is better vnto me: then thousands of gold and siluer.
73. <i>IOD.</i> Thy hands haue made me and fashioned me: giue me vnderstanding, that I may learne thy commandements.
74. They that feare thee will bee glad when they see mee: because I haue hoped in thy word.
75. I knowe, O Lord, that thy iudgements are right: and that thou in faithfulnesse hast afflicted me.
76. Let, I pray thee, thy mercifull kindnesse be for my comfort; according to thy word vnto thy seruant.
77. Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy lawe is my delight.
78. Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt peruersly with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
79. Let those that feare thee turne vnto me: and those that haue knowen thy testimonies.
80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
81. <i>CAPH.</i> My soule fainteth for thy saluation: but I hope in thy word.
82. Mine eyes faile for thy word: saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83. For I am become like a bottle in the smoke: yet doe I not forget thy statutes.
84. How many are the dayes of thy seruant? when wilt thou execute iudgement on them that persecute me?
85. The proud haue digged pittes for me: which are not after thy law.
86. All thy commaundements are faithfull: they persecute me wrongfully; helpe thou me.
87. They had almost consumed mee vpon earth: but I forsooke not thy precepts.
88. Quicken mee after thy louing kindnesse: so shall I keepe the testimonie of thy mouth.
89. <i>LAMED.</i> Foreuer, O Lord, thy word is setled, in heauen.
90. Thy faithfulnesse is vnto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy seruants.
92. Unlesse thy lawe had bene my delights: I should then haue perished in mine affliction.
93. I will neuer forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
94. I am thine, saue me: for I haue sought thy precepts.
95. The wicked haue waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
96. I haue seene an end of all perfection: but thy commandement is exceeding broad.
97. <i>MEM.</i> O How loue I thy Law! it is my meditation all the day.
98. Thou through thy Commandements hast made me wiser then mine enemies: for they are euer with mee.
99. I haue more vnderstanding then all my teachers: for thy Testimonies are my meditation.
100. I vnderstand more then the ancients: because I keepe thy precepts.
101. I haue refrained my feete from euery euill way: that I may keepe thy word.
102. I haue not departed from thy Iudgements: for thou hast taught me.
103. How sweet are thy words vnto my taste! yea, sweeter then hony to my mouth.
104. Through thy precepts I get vnderstanding: therefore I hate euery false way.
105. <i>NVN.</i> Thy word is a lampe vnto my feete: and a light vnto my path.
106. I haue sworne, and I will performe it: that I will keepe thy righteous iudgements.
107. I am afflicted very much: quicken mee, O Lord, according vnto thy word.
108. Accept, I beseech thee, the freewil offrings of my mouth, O Lord: and teach me thy iudgements.
109. My soule is continually in my hand: yet doe I not forget thy Law.
110. The wicked haue layde a snare for mee: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
111. Thy Testimonies haue I taken as an heritage for euer: for they are the reioycing of my heart.
112. I haue inclined mine heart to performe thy Statutes, alway, euen vnto the end.
113. <i>SAMECH.</i> I hate vaine thoughts: but thy Law doe I loue.
114. Thou art my hiding place, and my shield: I hope in thy word.
115. Depart from me, ye euil doers: for I will keepe the Commandements of my God.
116. Uphold mee according vnto thy word, that I may liue: and let mee not be ashamed of my hope.
117. Hold thou me vp, and I shall be safe: and I will haue respect vnto thy Statutes continually.
118. Thou hast troden downe all them that erre from thy Statutes: for their deceit is falshood.
119. Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like drosse: therefore I loue thy Testimonies.
120. My flesh trembleth for feare of thee: and I am afraide of thy Iudgements.
121. <i>AIN.</i> I Haue done Iudgement and iustice: leaue mee not to mine oppressours.
122. Bee suretie for thy seruant for good: let not the proud oppresse me.
123. Mine eyes faile for thy saluation: and for the word of thy righteousnesse.
124. Deale with thy seruant according vnto thy mercie: and teach me thy Statutes.
125. I am thy seruant, giue me vnderstanding: that I may know thy Testimonies.
126. It is time for thee, Lord, to worke: for they haue made voyde thy Law.
127. Therefore I loue thy Commandements: aboue gold, yea aboue fine gold.
128. Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts concerning all things to be right: and I hate euery false way.
129. <i>PE.</i> Thy Testimonies are wonderfull: therefore doeth my soule keepe them.
130. The entrance of thy wordes giueth light: it giueth vnderstanding vnto the simple.
131. I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy Commandements.
132. Looke thou vpon mee, and be mercifull vnto me: as thou vsest to do vnto those that loue thy Name.
133. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquitie haue dominion ouer me.
134. Deliuer me from the oppression of man: so will I keepe thy precepts.
135. Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant: and teach me thy Statutes.
136. Riuers of waters runne downe mine eyes: because they keepe not thy Law.
137. <i>TSADDI.</i> Righteous art thou, O Lord: and vpright are thy iudgements.
138. Thy testimonies that thou hast commaunded, are righteous: and very faithfull.
139. My zeale hath consumed me: because mine enemies haue forgotten thy words.
140. Thy word is very pure: therefore thy seruant loueth it.
141. I am small and despised: yet doe not I forget thy precepts.
142. Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnesse: and thy law is the trueth.
143. Trouble and anguish haue taken hold on me: yet thy commaundements are my delights.
144. The righteousnesse of thy Testimonies is euerlasting: giue me vnderstanding, and I shall liue.
145. <i>KOPH.</i> I Cried with my whole heart: heare me, O Lord, I will keepe thy statutes.
146. I cried vnto thee, saue me: and I shall keepe thy testimonies.
147. I preuented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148. Mine eyes preuent the night watches: that I might meditate in thy word.
149. Heare my voice according vnto thy louing kindnesse: O Lord quicken me according to thy iudgement.
150. They draw nigh that follow after mischiefe: they are farre from thy Law.
151. Thou art neere, O Lord: and all thy commandements are trueth.
152. Concerning thy testimonies, I haue knowen of old: that thou hast founded them for euer.
153. <i>RESH.</i> Consider mine affliction, and deliuer me: for I doe not forget thy Law.
154. Plead my cause, and deliuer me: quicken me according to thy word.
155. Saluation is farre from the wicked: for they seeke not thy statutes.
156. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy iudgements.
157. Many are my persecutors, and mine enemies: yet doe I not decline from thy testimonies.
158. I beheld the transgressours, and was grieued: because they kept not thy word.
159. Consider how I loue thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy louing kindnesse.
160. Thy word is true from the beginning: and euery one of thy righteous iudgements endureth for euer.
161. <i>SCHIN.</i> Princes haue persecuted mee without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
162. I reioyce at thy word: as one that findeth great spoile.
163. I hate and abhorre lying: but thy Law doe I loue.
164. Seuen times a day doe I praise thee: because of thy righteous iudgements.
165. Great peace haue they which loue thy law: & nothing shall offend them.
166. Lord, I haue hoped for thy saluation: and done thy commandements.
167. My soule hath kept thy testimonies: and I loue them exceedingly.
168. I haue kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my wayes are before thee.
169. <i>TAV.</i> Let my crie come neere before thee, O Lord: giue mee vnderstanding according to thy worde.
170. Let my supplication come before thee: deliuer me according to thy word.
171. My lips shall vtter praise: when thou hast taught me thy Statutes.
172. My tongue shall speake of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteousnesse.
173. Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
174. I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lord: and thy Lawe is my delight.
175. Let my soule liue, and it shall praise thee: and let thy iudgments helpe me.
176. I haue gone astray like a lost sheepe, seeke thy seruant: for I doe not forget thy commandements.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> In my distresse I cried vnto the Lord: and hee heard me.
2. Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lips: and from a deceitfull tongue.
3. What shall be giuen vnto thee? or what shalbe done vnto thee, thou false tongue?
4. Sharpe arrowes of the mightie: with coales of iuniper.
5. Woe is me, that I soiourne in Mesech: that I dwell in the tents of Kedar.
6. My soule hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for warre.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> I will lift vp mine eyes vnto the hilles: from whence commeth my helpe.
2. My helpe commeth from the Lord: which made heauen and earth.
3. He will not suffer thy foote to bee moued: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel; shall neither slumber nor sleepe.
5. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade, vpon thy right hand.
6. The sunne shall not smite thee by day; nor the moone by night.
7. The Lord shall preserue thee from all euill: hee shall preserue thy soule.
8. The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in: from this time foorth and euen for euermore.
1. <i>A song of degrees of Dauid.</i> I was glad when they sayd vnto me: Let vs goe into the house of the Lord.
2. Our feete shall stand within thy gates, O Ierusalem.
3. Ierusalem is builded as a citie, that is compact together:
4. Whither the tribes goe vp, the tribes of the Lord, vnto the testimonie of Israel: to giue thankes vnto the name of the Lord.
5. For there are set thrones of iudgment: the thrones of the house of Dauid.
6. Pray for the peace of Ierusalem: they shall prosper that loue thee.
7. Peace be within thy walles: and prosperitie within thy palaces.
8. For my brethren and companions sakes: I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9. Because of the house of the Lord our God: I will seeke thy good.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> Vnto thee lift I vp mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the heauens.
2. Beholde, as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their Masters, and as the eyes of a maiden, vnto the hand of her mistresse: so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God, vntill that he haue mercy vpon vs.
3. Haue mercy vpon vs, O Lord, haue mercy vpon vs: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4. Our soule is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease: and with the contempt of the proud.
1. <i>A song of degrees of Dauid.</i> If it had not bene the Lord who was on our side: nowe may Israel say:
2. If it had not bene the Lord, who was on our side, when men rose vp against vs:
3. Then they had swallowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was kindled against vs.
4. Then the waters had ouerwhelmed vs; the streame had gone ouer our soule.
5. Then the proud waters had gone ouer our soule.
6. Blessed be the Lord: who hath not giuen vs as a pray to their teeth.
7. Our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the foulers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8. Our helpe is in the name of the Lord: who made heauen and earth.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> They that trust in the Lord, shalbe as mount Zion, which cannot be remooued, but abideth for euer.
2. As the mountaines are round about Ierusalem, so the Lord is round about his people: from hencefoorth euen for euer.
3. For the rod of the wicked shall not rest vpon the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put forth their hands vnto iniquitie.
4. Doe good, O Lord, vnto those that be good: and to them that are vpright in their hearts.
5. As for such as turne aside vnto their crooked wayes, the Lord shall lead them foorth with the workers of iniquitie: but peace shalbe vpon Israel.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> When the Lord turned againe the captiuitie of Zion: wee were like them that dreame.
2. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing, then said they among the heathen: The Lord hath done great things for them.
3. The Lord hath done great things for vs: whereof we are glad.
4. Turne againe our captiuitie, O Lord: as the streames in the South.
5. They that sow in teares: shall reape in ioy.
6. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtlesse come againe with reioycing: bringing his sheaues with him.
1. <i>A song of degrees for Solomon.</i> Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the Lord keepe the citie, the watchman waketh but in vaine.
2. It is vaine for you to rise vp early, to sit vp late, to eate the bread of sorrowes: for so hee giueth his beloued sleepe.
3. Loe, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the wombe is his reward.
4. As arrowes are in the hand of a mightie man: so are children of the youth.
5. Happie is the man that hath his quiuer full of them, they shall not be ashamed: but they shall speake with the enemies in the gate.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> Blessed is euery one that feareth the Lord: that walketh in his wayes.
2. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine handes: happie shalt thou bee, and it shall be well with thee.
3. Thy wife shalbe as a fruitful Uine by the sides of thine house, thy children like Oliue plants: round about thy table.
4. Beholde that thus shall the man be blessed; that feareth the Lord.
5. The Lord shall blesse thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Ierusalem, all the dayes of thy life.
6. Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children: and peace vpon Israel.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: may Israel now say.
2. Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: yet they haue not preuailed against mee.
3. The plowers plowed vpon my backe: they made long their furrowes.
4. The Lord is righteous: hee hath cut asunder the cordes of the wicked.
5. Let them all be confounded and turned backe, that hate Zion.
6. Let them bee as the grasse vpon the house tops: which withereth afore it groweth vp:
7. Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand: nor hee that bindeth sheaues, his bosome.
8. Neither doe they which goe by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you: wee blesse you in the Name of the Lord.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> Out of the depths haue I cryed vnto thee, O Lord.
2. Lorde, heare my voice: let thine eares be attentiue to the voice of my supplications.
3. If thou, Lord, shouldest marke iniquities: O Lord, who shal stand?
4. But there is forgiuenesse with thee: that thou mayest be feared.
5. I wait for the Lord, my soule doeth waite: and in his worde doe I hope.
6. My soule waiteth for the Lord, more then they that watch for the morning: I say, more then they that watch for the morning.
7. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption.
8. And hee shall redeeme Israel, from all his iniquities.
1. <i>A song of degrees of Dauid.</i> Lord, my heart is not haughtie, nor mine eyes loftie: neither doe I exercise my selfe in great matters, or in things too high for mee.
2. Surely I haue behaued and quieted my selfe as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soule is euen as a weaned childe.
3. Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for euer.
1. <i>A Song of degrees.</i> Lord remember Dauid, and all his afflictions:
2. How he sware vnto the Lord, and vowed vnto the mightie God of Iacob.
3. Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house: nor goe vp into my bed.
4. I will not giue sleepe to mine eyes: or slumber to mine eyelids,
5. Untill I finde out a place for the Lord: an habitation for the mightie God of Iacob.
6. Loe, wee heard of it at Ephrata: we found it in the fields of the wood.
7. We will goe into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstoole.
8. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest: thou, and the Arke of thy strength.
9. Let thy Priestes be clothed with righteousnesse: and let thy saints shout for ioy.
10. For thy seruant Dauids sake: turne not away the face of thine Anointed.
11. The Lord hath sworne in trueth vnto Dauid, hee will not turne from it; of the fruit of thy body will I set vpon thy throne.
12. If thy children will keepe my couenant and my testimonie, that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore.
13. For the Lord hath chosen Zion: he hath desired it for his habitation.
14. This is my rest for euer: here will I dwell, for I haue desired it.
15. I will abundantly blesse her prouision: I will satisfie her poore with bread.
16. I will also clothe her priests with saluation: and her Saints shall shout aloud for ioy.
17. There will I make the horne of Dauid to budde: I haue ordained a lampe for mine Anointed.
18. His enemies will I clothe with shame: but vpon himselfe shall his crowne flourish.
1. <i>A song of degrees of Dauid.</i> Behold how good and how pleasant it is: for brethren to dwell together in vnitie.
2. It is like the precious oyntment vpon the head, that ranne downe vpon the beard, euen Aarons beard: that went downe to the skirts of his garments.
3. As the dew of Hermon, and as the dewe that descended vpon the mountaines of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing: euen life for euermore.
1. <i>A song of degrees.</i> Beholde, blesse yee the Lord, all yee seruants of the Lord: which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
2. Lift vp your hands in the Sanctuary: & blesse the Lord.
3. The Lord that made heauen and earth: blesse thee out of Zion.
1. Praise ye the Lord, Praise ye the Name of the Lord: prayse him, O ye seruants of the Lord.
2. Yee that stand in the House of the Lord: in the courts of the house of our God.
3. Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing praises vnto his Name, for it is pleasant.
4. For the Lord hath chosen Iacob vnto himselfe: and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
5. For I know that the Lord is great: and that our Lord is aboue all gods.
6. Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased, that did he in heauen and in earth: in the Seas, and all deepe places.
7. Hee causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth, he maketh lightnings for the raine: he bringeth the winde out of his treasuries.
8. Who smote the first borne of Egypt: both of man and beast.
9. Who sent tokens and woonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt: vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.
10. Who smote great nations: and slew mightie kings:
11. Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan: and all the kingdomes of Canaan,
12. And gaue their land for an heritage: an heritage vnto Israel his people.
13. Thy Name, O Lord, endureth for euer: and thy memoriall, O Lord, throughout all generations.
14. For the Lord will iudge his people: and he will repent himselfe concerning his seruants.
15. The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde: the worke of mens hands.
16. They haue mouthes, but they speake not: eyes haue they, but they see not:
17. They haue eares, but they heare not: neither is there any breath in their mouthes.
18. They that make them are like vnto them: so is euery one that trusteth in them.
19. Blesse the Lord, O house of Israel: blesse the Lord, O house of Aaron.
20. Blesse the Lord, O house of Leui: ye that feare the Lord, blesse the Lord.
21. Blessed be the Lord out of Zion; which dwelleth at Ierusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
1. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, for hee is good: for his mercy endureth for euer.
2. O giue thankes vnto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for euer.
3. O giue thankes to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for euer.
4. To him who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for euer.
5. To him that by wisedome made the heauens: for his mercy endureth for euer.
6. To him that stretched out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer.
7. To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for euer.
8. The sunne to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for euer.
9. The moone and starres to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for euer.
10. To him that smote Egypt in their first borne: for his mercy endureth for euer.
11. And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for euer.
12. With a strong hand and with a stretched out arme: for his mercy endureth for euer.
13. To him which diuided the red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for euer.
14. And made Israel to passe through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for euer.
15. But ouerthrewe Pharaoh and his hoste in the red sea: for his mercy endureth for euer.
16. To him which led his people through the wildernesse: for his mercy endureth for euer.
17. To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for euer.
18. And slue famous kings: for his mercy endureth for euer.
19. Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for euer.
20. And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for euer.
21. And gaue their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for euer.
22. Euen an heritage vnto Israel his seruant: for his mercy endureth for euer.
23. Who remembred vs in our lowe estate: for his mercy endureth for euer.
24. And hath redeemed vs from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for euer.
25. Who giueth foode to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for euer.
26. O giue thankes vnto the God of heauen: for his mercy endureth for euer.
1. By the riuers of Babylon, there wee sate downe, yea we wept: when we remembred Zion.
2. Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes, in the midst thereof.
3. For there they that carried vs away captiue, required of vs a song, and they that wasted vs, required of vs mirth: saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.
4. How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land?
5. If I forget thee, O Ierusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning.
6. If I doe not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth; if I preferre not Ierusalem aboue my chiefe ioy.
7. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Ierusalem; who sayd, rase it, rase it: euen to the foundation thereof.
8. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.
9. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise vnto thee.
2. I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name, for thy louing kindnesse and for thy trueth: for thou hast magnified thy word aboue all thy name.
3. In the day when I cried, thou answeredst me: and strengthenedst me with strength in my soule.
4. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord: when they heare the words of thy mouth.
5. Yea they shall sing in the wayes of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
6. Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect vnto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afarre off.
7. Though I walke in the mids of trouble, thou wilt reuiue me, thou shalt stretch foorth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies: and thy right hand shall saue me.
8. The Lord wil perfit that which concerneth me: thy mercie, O Lord, endureth for euer: forsake not the works of thine owne hands.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> O Lord, thou hast searched mee, and knowen me.
2. Thou knowest my downe sitting, and mine vprising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.
3. Thou compassest my path, and my lying downe, and art acquainted with all my wayes.
4. For there is not a worde in my tongue: but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
5. Thou hast beset me behind, and before: and laid thine hand vpon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderfull for me: it is high, I cannot attaine vnto it.
7. Whither shall I goe from thy spirit? or whither shall I flie from thy presence?
8. If I ascend vp into heauen, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9. If I take the wings of the morning: and dwell in the vttermost parts of the Sea:
10. Euen there shall thy hand leade me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
11. If I say, Surely the darkenes shall couer me: euen the night shall bee light about me.
12. Yea the darkenesse hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darknes and the light are both alike to thee.
13. For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.
14. I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderfully made, marueilous are thy works: and that my soule knoweth right well.
15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret: and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16. Thine eyes did see my substance yet being vnperfect, and in thy booke all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them.
17. Howe precious also are thy thoughts vnto me, O God: how great is the summe of them?
18. If I should count them, they are moe in number then the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
19. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20. For they speake against thee wickedly: and thine enemies take thy name in vaine.
21. Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieued with those that rise vp against thee?
22. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23. Search me, O God, and knowe my heart: trie mee, and knowe my thoughts:
24. And see if there bee any wicked way in me: and leade me in the way euerlasting.
1. <i>To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Deliuer me, O Lord, from the euill man: preserue me from the violent man.
2. Which imagine mischiefes in their heart: continually are they gathered together for warre.
3. They haue sharpned their tongues like a serpent: adders poison is vnder their lips. Selah.
4. Keepe me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked, preserue me from the violent man: who haue purposed to ouerthrow my goings.
5. The proude haue hid a snare for me and cords, they haue spread a net by the way side: they haue set grinnes for me. Selah.
6. I said vnto the Lord, Thou art my God: heare the voyce of my supplications, O Lord.
7. O God the Lord, the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battell.
8. Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked deuice, lest they exalt themselues. Selah.
9. As for the head of those that compasse me about: let the mischiefe of their owne lips couer them.
10. Let burning coales fall vpon them, let them be cast into the fire: into deepe pits, that they rise not vp againe.
11. Let not an euill speaker bee established in the earth: euill shall hunt the violent man to ouerthrow him.
12. I know that the Lord will maintaine the cause of the afflicted: and the right of the poore.
13. Surely the righteous shall giue thankes vnto thy Name: the vpright shall dwell in thy presence.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Lord, I crie vnto thee, make haste vnto mee: giue eare vnto my voice, when I crie vnto thee.
2. Let my prayer bee set foorth before thee as incense: and the lifting vp of my hands as the Euening sacrifice.
3. Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
4. Incline not my heart to any euill thing, to practise wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let mee not eate of their dainties.
5. Let the righteous smite mee, it shalbe a kindnesse: and let him reprooue me, it shalbe an excellent oile, which shall not breake my head: for yet my prayer also shalbe in their calamities.
6. When their Iudges are ouerthrowen in stonie places, they shall heare my words, for they are sweet.
7. Our bones are scattered at the graues mouth: as when one cutteth and cleaueth wood vpon the earth.
8. But mine eyes are vnto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust, leaue not my soule destitute.
9. Keepe mee from the snare which they haue laide for me, and the grinnes of the workers of iniquitie.
10. Let the wicked fall into their owne nets: whilest that I withal escape.
1. <i>Maschil of Dauid; A prayer when he was in the caue.</i> I cried vnto the Lord with my voice: with my voice vnto the Lord did I make my supplication.
2. I powred out my complaint before him: I shewed before him my trouble.
3. When my spirit was ouerwhelmed within mee, then thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily laid a snare for me.
4. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me, refuge failed me: no man cared for my soule.
5. I cried vnto thee, O Lord, I said, Thou art my refuge, and my portion in the land of the liuing.
6. Attend vnto my crie, for I am brought very low, deliuer mee from my persecuters: for they are stronger then I.
7. Bring my soule out of prison, that I may praise thy Name: the righteous shall compasse me about: for thou shalt deale bountifully with me.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Heare my prayer, O Lord, giue eare to my supplications: in thy faithfulnesse answere me, and in thy righteousnes.
2. And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall no man liuing be iustified.
3. For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my life downe to the ground: hee hath made mee to dwell in darkenesse, as those that haue bene long dead.
4. Therefore is my spirit ouerwhelmed within me: my heart within me is desolate.
5. I remember the dayes of old, I meditate on all thy workes: I muse on the worke of thy hands.
6. I stretch forth my hands vnto thee: my soule thirsteth after thee, as a thirstie land, Selah.
7. Heare me speedily, O Lord, my spirit faileth, hide not thy face from mee: lest I be like vnto them that goe downe into the pit.
8. Cause mee to heare thy louing kindnesse in the morning, for in thee doe I trust, cause mee to knowe the way wherein I should walke: for I lift vp my soule vnto thee.
9. Deliuer mee, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flie vnto thee to hide me.
10. Teach me to doe thy will, for thou art my God, thy spirit is good: leade me into the land of vprightnesse.
11. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy names sake: for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soule out of trouble.
12. And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soule: for I am thy seruant.
1. <i>A Psalme of Dauid.</i> Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to warre, and my fingers to fight.
2. My goodnes and my fortresse, my high tower and my deliuerer, my shield, and he in whome I trust: who subdueth my people vnder me.
3. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the sonne of man, that thou makest account of him?
4. Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.
5. Bow thy heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines, and they shall smoke.
6. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and destroy them.
7. Send thine hand from aboue, rid me, and deliuer me out of great waters: from the hand of strange children,
8. Whose mouth speaketh vanitie: and their right hand is a right hand of falshood.
9. I will sing a new song vnto thee, O God: vpon a psalterie, and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises vnto thee.
10. It is he that giueth saluation vnto kings: who deliuereth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sword.
11. Rid me, and deliuer me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanitie: and their right hand is a right hand of falshood.
12. That our sonnes may be as plants growen vp in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
13. That our garners may bee full, affoording all maner of store; that our sheepe may bring forth thousands, and tenne thousands in our streetes.
14. That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streetes.
15. Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
1. <i>Dauids Psalme of praise.</i> I will extoll thee, my God, O King: and I will blesse thy name for euer and euer.
2. Euery day wil I blesse thee: and I will praise thy Name for euer and euer.
3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and his greatnes is vnsearchable.
4. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shal declare thy mightie actes.
5. I will speake of the glorious honour of thy maiestie: and of thy wonderous workes.
6. And men shall speake of the might of thy terrible acts: and I wil declare thy greatnesse.
7. They shall abundantly vtter the memory of thy great goodnesse: and shall sing of thy righteousnesse.
8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion: slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are ouer all his workes.
10. All thy workes shall praise thee, O Lord: and thy Saints shal blesse thee.
11. They shall speake of the glory of thy kingdome: and talke of thy power.
12. To make knowen to the sonnes of men his mightie actes: and the glorious Maiestie of his kingdome.
13. Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
14. The Lord vpholdeth all that fall: and raiseth vp all those that bee bowed downe.
15. The eyes of all waite vpon thee: and thou giuest them their meat in due season.
16. Thou openest thine hand: and satisfiest the desire of euery liuing thing.
17. The Lord is righteous in all his wayes: and holy in all his works.
18. The Lord is nigh vnto all them that call vpon him: to all that call vpon him in trueth.
19. Hee will fulfill the desire of them that feare him: he also will heare their cry, and will saue them.
20. The Lord preserueth all them that loue him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
21. My mouth shall speake the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh blesse his holy Name for euer and euer.
1. Praise yee the Lord: prayse the Lord, O my soule.
2. While I liue, will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises vnto my God, while I haue any being.
3. Put not your trust in Princes: nor in the sonne of man, in whom there is no helpe.
4. His breath goeth foorth, he returneth to his earth: in that very day his thoughts perish.
5. Happy is he that hath the God of Iacob for his helpe: whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6. Which made heauen and earth, the Sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth trueth for euer:
7. Which executeth iudgement for the oppressed, which giueth food to the hungry: the Lord looseth the prisoners.
8. The Lord openeth the eyes of the blinde, the Lord raiseth them that are bowed downe: the Lord loueth the righteous.
9. The Lord preserueth the strangers, he relieueth the fatherlesse and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth vpside downe.
10. The Lord shall reigne for euer, euen thy God, O Zion, vnto all generations: Praise ye the Lord.
1. Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises vnto our God: for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
2. The Lord doeth build vp Ierusalem: he gathereth together the out-casts of Israel.
3. Hee healeth the broken in heart: and bindeth vp their wounds.
4. He telleth the number of the stars: he calleth them all by their names.
5. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his vnderstanding is infinite.
6. The Lord lifteth vp the meeke: hee casteth the wicked downe to the ground.
7. Sing vnto the Lord with thankesgiuing: sing prayse vpon the harpe vnto our God:
8. Who couereth the heauen with cloudes, who prepareth raine for the earth: who maketh grasse to growe vpon the mountaines.
9. He giueth to the beast his foode: and to the yong rauens which crie.
10. Hee delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that feare him: in those that hope in his mercie.
12. Praise the Lord, O Ierusalem: praise thy God, O Zion.
13. For hee hath strengthened the barres of thy gates: hee hath blessed thy children within thee.
14. He maketh peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the finest of the wheate.
15. He sendeth forth his commandement vpon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
16. He giueth snow like wooll: he scattereth the hoare frost like ashes.
17. He casteth forth his yce like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
18. He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19. He sheweth his word vnto Iacob: his statutes and his iudgements vnto Israel.
20. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his iudgements, they haue not knowen them. Praise yee the Lord.
1. Praise yee the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heauens: praise him in the heights.
2. Praise yee him all his Angels: praise ye him all his hosts.
3. Praise ye him Sunne and Moone: praise him all ye starres of light.
4. Praise him ye heauens of heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.
5. Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
6. Hee hath also stablished them for euer and euer: he hath made a decree which shall not passe.
7. Praise the Lord from the earth: ye dragons and all deepes.
8. Fire and haile, snow and vapour: stormie wind fulfilling his word.
9. Mountaines and all hilles: fruitfull trees, and all cedars.
10. Beastes and all cattell: creeping things, and flying foule.
11. Kings of the earth, and all people: Princes, and all Iudges of the earth.
12. Both young men and maidens: olde men and children.
13. Let them praise the Name of the Lord, for his Name alone is excellent: his glory is aboue the earth and heauen.
14. Hee also exalteth the horne of his people, the praise of all his Saints; euen of the children of Israel, a people neere vnto him. Praise ye the Lord.
1. Praise yee the Lord: Sing vnto the Lord a new song: and his prayse in the Congregation of Saints.
2. Let Israel reioyce in him that made him: let the children of Zion bee ioyfull in their King.
3. Let them praise his Name in the dance: let them sing praises vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.
4. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: hee will beautifie the meeke with saluation.
5. Let the Saints be ioyfull in glory: let them sing aloude vpon their beddes.
6. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth: and a two edged sword in their hand:
7. To execute vengeance vpon the heathen: and punishments vpon the people.
8. To binde their Kings with chaines: and their Nobles with fetters of yron.
9. To execute vpon them the iudgement written: This honour haue all his Saints. Praise ye the Lord.
1. Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his Sanctuarie: Praise him in the firmament of his power.
2. Praise him for his mightie actes: Praise him according to his excellent greatnesse.
3. Praise him with the sound of the Trumpet: Prayse him with the Psalterie and Harpe.
4. Praise him with the timbrell and dance: praise him with stringed instruments, and Organes.
5. Praise him vpon the loud cymbals: praise him vpon the high sounding cymbals.
6. Let euery thing that hath breath, praise the Lord. Praise yee the Lord.







1. The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,
2. To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,
3. To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie,
4. To giue subtiltie to the simple, to the yong man knowledge and discretion.
5. A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
6. To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation; the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings.
7. The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
8. My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
9. For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.
10. My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not.
11. If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:
12. Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
13. Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile:
14. Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse:
15. My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path:
16. For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.
17. Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18. And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.
19. So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20. Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets:
21. Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,
22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
23. Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you.
24. Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded:
25. But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe:
26. I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.
27. When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you:
28. Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.
30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproofe.
31. Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices.
32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fooles shall destroy them.
33. But who so hearkneth vnto mee, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from feare of euill.
1. My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my words, and hide my commaundements with thee;
2. So that thou incline thine eare vnto wisedome, and apply thine heart to vnderstanding:
3. Yea if thou cryest after knowledge, and liftest vp thy voyce for vnderstanding:
4. If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures:
5. Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6. For the Lord giueth wisedome: out of his mouth commeth knowledge, and vnderstanding.
7. He layeth vp sound wisedome for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walke vprightly.
8. He keepeth the pathes of iudgement, and preserueth the way of his Saints.
9. Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equity; yea euery good path.
10. When wisedome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant vnto thy soule;
11. Discretion shall preserue thee, vnderstanding shall keepe thee:
12. To deliuer thee from the way of the euill man, from the man that speaketh froward things.
13. Who leaue the pathes of vprightnesse, to walke in the wayes of darkenesse:
14. Who reioyce to doe euill, and delight in the frowardnesse of the wicked.
15. Whose wayes are crooked, and they froward in their pathes.
16. To deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her words:
17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.
18. For her house inclineth vnto death, and her pathes vnto the dead:
19. None that goe vnto her, returne againe, neither take they hold of the pathes of life.
20. That thou mayest walke in the way of good men, and keepe the pathes of the righteous.
21. For the vpright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remaine in it.
22. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
1. My sonne, forget not my lawe; but let thine heart keepe my commaundements:
2. For length of dayes, and long life, and peace shall they adde to thee.
3. Let not mercy and trueth forsake thee: bind them about thy necke, write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4. So shalt thou find fauour, and good vnderstanding in the sight of God, and man.
5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and leaue not vnto thine owne vnderstanding.
6. In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy pathes.
7. Be not wise in thine owne eyes: feare the Lord, and depart from euill.
8. It shalbe health to thy nauill, and marrow to thy bones.
9. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase.
10. So shall thy barnes be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
11. My sonne, despise not the chastening of the Lord: neither be weary of his correction.
12. For whom the Lord loueth, he correcteth, euen as a father the sonne, in whom he delighteth.
13. Happy is the man that findeth wisedome, and the man that getteth vnderstanding.
14. For the merchandise of it is better then the merchandise of siluer, and the gaine thereof, then fine gold.
15. She is more precious then Rubies: and all the things thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.
16. Length of dayes is in her right hand: and in her left hand, riches and honour.
17. Her wayes are wayes of plesantnesse: and all her pathes are peace.
18. She is a tree of life, to them that lay hold vpon her: and happy is euery one that retaineth her.
19. The Lord by wisedome hath founded the earth; by vnderstanding hath he established the heauens.
20. By his knowledge the depthes are broken vp; and the cloudes droppe downe the dew.
21. My sonne, let not them depart from thine eyes: keepe sound wisedome and discretion.
22. So shall they bee life vnto thy soule, and grace to thy necke.
23. Then shalt thou walke in thy way safely, & thy foot shall not stumble.
24. When thou lyest downe, thou shalt not be afraide: yea, thou shalt lye downe, and thy sleepe shalbe sweet.
25. Be not afraid of sudden feare, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it commeth.
26. For the Lord shalbe thy confidence, and shall keepe thy foote from being taken.
27. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to doe it.
28. Say not vnto thy neighbour, Goe, and come againe, and to morrow I will giue, when thou hast it by thee.
29. Deuise not euil against thy neighbour, seeing hee dwelleth securely by thee.
30. Striue not with a man without cause, if hee haue done thee no harme.
31. Enuie thou not the oppressour, and choose none of his wayes.
32. For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
33. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the iust.
34. Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giueth grace vnto the lowly.
35. The wise shall inherite glory, but shame shalbe the promotion of fooles.
1. Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding.
2. For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law.
3. For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother.
4. He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue.
5. Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth.
6. Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee.
7. Wisedome is the principall thing, therefore get wisedome: and with all thy getting, get vnderstanding.
8. Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her.
9. She shall giue to thine head an ornament of grace, a crowne of glory shall she deliuer to thee.
10. Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
11. I haue taught thee in the way of wisedome: I haue lead thee in right pathes.
12. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitned, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13. Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life.
14. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and goe not in the way of euill men.
15. Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away.
16. For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall.
17. For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
18. But the path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day.
19. The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble.
20. My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
21. Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.
22. For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23. Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life.
24. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee.
25. Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee.
26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established.
27. Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot fro euil.


1. My sonne, attend vnto my wisedome, and bowe thine eare to my vnderstanding.
2. That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.
3. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an hony combe, and her mouth is smoother then oyle.
4. But her end is bitter as wormewood, sharpe as a two edged sword.
5. Her feete goe downe to death: her steps take hold on hell.
6. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her wayes are moueable, that thou canst not know them.
7. Heare me now therefore, O yee children: & depart not from the words of my mouth.
8. Remoue thy way farre from her, and come not nie the doore of her house:
9. Lest thou giue thine honour vnto others, and thy yeeres vnto the cruell:
10. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger,
11. And thou mourne at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12. And say, How haue I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproofe?
13. And haue not obeyed the voyce of my teachers, nor inclined mine eare to them that instructed me?
14. I was almost in all euill, in the midst of the congregation & assembly.
15. Drinke waters out of thine owne cisterne, and running waters out of thine owne well.
16. Let thy fountaines bee dispersed abroad, and riuers of waters in the streets.
17. Let them be onely thine owne, and not strangers with thee.
18. Let thy fountaine be blessed: and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19. Let her bee as the louing Hinde and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfie thee at all times, and be thou rauisht alwayes with her loue.
20. And why wilt thou, my sonne, be rauisht with a strange woman, and imbrace the bosome of a stranger?
21. For the wayes of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
22. His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the coards of his sinnes.
23. He shall die without instruction, and in the greatnesse of his folly he shal goe astray.
1. My sonne, if thou bee surety for thy friend, it thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2. Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the wordes of thy mouth.
3. Doe this now, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend: goe, humble thy selfe, and make sure thy friend.
4. Giue not sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5. Deliuer thy selfe as a Roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6. Goe to the Ant, thou sluggard, consider her wayes, and be wise.
7. Which hauing no guide, ouerseer, or ruler,
8. Prouideth her meat in the Summer, and gathereth her food in the haruest.
9. How long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
10. Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleepe.
11. So shall thy pouertie come as one that trauaileth, and thy want as an armed man.
12. A naughtie person, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
13. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feete, hee teacheth with his fingers.
14. Frowardnesse is in his heart, he deuiseth mischiefe continually, he soweth discord.
15. Therefore shall his calamitie come suddenly; suddenly shall hee be broken without remedie.
16. These sixe things doeth the Lord hate; yea seuen are an abomination vnto him:
17. A proude looke, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood:
18. An heart that deuiseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischiefe:
19. A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren.
20. My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
21. Binde them continually vpon thine heart, and tie them about thy necke.
22. When thou goest, it shall leade thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keepe thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talke with thee.
23. For the Commandement is a lampe, and the Lawe is light: and reproofes of instruction are the way of life:
24. To keepe thee from the euill woman, from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange woman.
25. Lust not after her beautie in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26. For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.
27. Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?
28. Can one goe vpon hote coales, and his feete not be burnt?
29. So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife; whosoeuer toucheth her, shall not be innocent.
30. Men doe not despise a thiefe, if he steale to satisfie his soule, when hee is hungry:
31. But if he be found, he shall restore seuenfold, he shall giue all the substance of his house.
32. But who so committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: hee that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
33. A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproch shall not be wiped away.
34. For iealousie is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35. He will not regard any ransome; neither will hee rest content, though thou giuest many giftes.
1. My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.
2. Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3. Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4. Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,
5. That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6. For at the windowe of my house I looked through my casement,
7. And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding,
8. Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house,
9. In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night:
10. And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart.
11. (She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house:
12. Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)
13. So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him,
14. I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes.
15. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.
16. I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.
17. I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18. Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.
19. For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.
20. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21. With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22. He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks,
23. Til a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24. Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25. Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths.
26. For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her.
27. Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death.
1. Doeth not Wisedome crie? & Understanding put foorth her voice?
2. Shee standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the pathes.
3. She cryeth at the gates, at the entrie of the citie, at the comming in at the doores.
4. Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sonnes of man.
5. O yee simple, vnderstand wisedome: and yee fooles, be yee of an vnderstanding heart.
6. Heare, for I will speake of excellent things: and the opening of my lippes shalbe right things.
7. For my mouth shall speake truth, and wickednesse is an abomination to my lippes.
8. All the words of my mouth are in righteousnes, there is nothing froward or peruerse in them.
9. They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth: and right to them that find knowledge.
10. Receiue my instruction, and not siluer: and knowledge rather then choise gold.
11. For wisedome is better then rubies: and all the things that may be desired, are not to be compared to it.
12. I wisedome dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inuentions.
13. The feare of the Lord is to hate euill: pride and arrogancie, and the euill way, and the froward mouth doe I hate.
14. Counsell is mine, and sound wisedome: I am vnderstanding, I haue strength.
15. By me kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.
16. By me Princes rule, and Nobles, euen all the Iudges of the earth.
17. I loue them that loue me, and those that seeke me early, shall find me.
18. Riches and honour are with me, yea durable riches and righteousnesse.
19. My fruite is better then gold, yea then fine gold, and my reuenue then choise siluer.
20. I leade in the way of righteousnesse, in the midst of the pathes of iudgment.
21. That I may cause those that loue me, to inherite substance: and I will fill their treasures.
22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23. I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning, or euer the earth was.
24. When there were no depthes, I was brought forth: when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
25. Before the mountaines were setled: before the hilles, was I brought foorth:
26. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27. When hee prepared the heauens, I was there: when he set a compasse vpon the face of the depth.
28. When he established the cloudes aboue: when he strengthned the fountaines of the deepe.
29. When he gaue to the sea his decree, that the waters should not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30. Then I was by him, as one brought vp with him: and I was daily his delight, reioycing alwayes before him:
31. Reioycing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sonnes of men.
32. Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
33. Heare instruction, and bee wise, and refuse it not.
34. Blessed is the man that heareth me: watching daily at my gates, waiting at the postes of my doores.
35. For whoso findeth mee, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lord.
36. But hee that sinneth against me, wrongeth his owne soule; all they that hate me, loue death.
1. Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars.
2. She hath killed her beastes; she hath mingled her wine: she hath also furnished her table.
3. She hath sent forth her maidens; she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.
4. Who so is simple, let him turne in hither: as for him that wanteth vnderstanding, she sayth to him:
5. Come, eate of my bread, and drinke of the wine, which I haue mingled.
6. Forsake the foolish, and liue; and goe in the way of vnderstanding.
7. He that reproueth a scorner, getteth to himselfe shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himselfe a blot.
8. Reproue not a scorner, lest hee hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and hee will loue thee.
9. Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.
10. The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome: and the knowledge of the holy is vnderstanding.
11. For by me thy dayes shall be multiplied: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe increased.
12. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt beare it.
13. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, & knoweth nothing.
14. For she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate, in the high places of the Citie:
15. To call passengers who go right on their wayes:
16. Who so is simple, let him turne in hither: and as for him that wanteth vnderstanding, she saith to him;
17. Stollen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18. But hee knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
1. The Prouerbes of Solomon: A wise sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolish sonne is the heauinesse of his mother.
2. Treasures of wickednesse profit nothing: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
3. The Lord will not suffer the soule of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
4. Hee becommeth poore that dealeth with a slacke hand: but the hand of the diligent, maketh rich.
5. Hee that gathereth in Summer, is a wise sonne: but hee that sleepeth in haruest, is a sonne that causeth shame.
6. Blessings are vpon the head of the iust: but violence couereth the mouth of the wicked.
7. The memorie of the iust is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
8. The wise in heart will receiue commaundements: but a prating foole shall fall.
9. He that walketh vprightly, walketh surely: but he that peruerteth his wayes, shalbe knowen.
10. Hee that winketh with the eye, causeth sorrow: but a prating foole shall fall.
11. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence couereth the mouth of the wicked.
12. Hatred stirreth vp strifes: but loue couereth all sinnes.
13. In the lips of him that hath vnderstanding, wisedome is found: but a rod is for the backe of him that is voyd of vnderstanding.
14. Wise men lay vp knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is neere destruction.
15. The rich mans wealth is his strong citie: the destruction of the poore is their pouertie.
16. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruite of the wicked to sinne.
17. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but hee that refuseth reproofe, erreth.
18. Hee that hideth hatred with lying lippes, and he that vttereth a slander, is a foole.
19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sinne: but he that refraineth his lippes, is wise.
20. The tongue of the iust is as choise siluer: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
21. The lippes of the righteous feed many: but fooles die for want of wisedome.
22. The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and hee addeth no sorrow with it.
23. It is as a sport to a foole to doe mischiefe: but a man of vnderstanding hath wisedome.
24. The feare of the wicked, it shall come vpon him: but the desire of the righteous shalbe granted.
25. As the whirlewinde passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an euerlasting foundation.
26. As vineger to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
27. The feare of the Lord prolongeth dayes: but the yeeres of the wicked shalbe shortened.
28. The hope of the righteous shall bee gladnesse: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
29. The way of the Lord is strength to the vpright: but destruction shall bee to the workers of iniquitie.
30. The righteous shall neuer bee remooued: but the wicked shall not inhabite the earth.
31. The mouth of the iust bringeth foorth wisedome: but the froward tongue shalbe cut out.
32. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardnesse.
1. A false ballance is abomination to the Lord: but a iust weight is his delight.
2. When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowly is wisedome.
3. The integritie of the vpright shall guide them: but the peruersenesse of transgressours shall destroy them.
4. Riches profite not in the day of wrath: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
5. The righteousnesse of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his owne wickednesse.
6. The righteousnesse of the vpright shall deliuer them: but transgressours shall be taken in their owne naughtinesse.
7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of vniust men perisheth.
8. The righteous is deliuered out of trouble, and the wicked commeth in his stead.
9. An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the iust be deliuered.
10. When it goeth well with the righteous, the citie reioyceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
11. By the blessing of the vpright the citie is exalted; but it is ouerthrowen by the mouth of the wicked.
12. He that is void of wisedome, despiseth his neighbour: but a man of vnderstanding holdeth his peace.
13. A tale-bearer reuealeth secrets: but hee that is of a faithfull spirit, concealeth the matter.
14. Where no counsell is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safetie.
15. Hee that is suretie for a stranger, shall smart for it: and hee that hateth suretiship, is sure.
16. A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retaine riches.
17. The mercifull man doeth good to his owne soule: but he that is cruell, troubleth his owne flesh.
18. The wicked worketh a deceitfull worke: but to him that soweth righteousnesse, shall be a sure reward.
19. As righteousnesse tendeth to life: so he that pursueth euill, pursueth it to his owne death.
20. They that are of a froward heart, are abomination to the Lord: but such as are vpright in their way, are his delight.
21. Though hand ioyne in hand, the wicked shall not be vnpunished: but the seede of the righteous shall be deliuered.
22. As a iewell of golde in a swines snowt; so is a faire woman which is without discretion.
23. The desire of the righteous is onely good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
24. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more then is meete, but it tendeth to pouertie.
25. The liberall soule shalbe made fat: and he that watereth, shall be watered also himselfe.
26. Hee that withholdeth corne, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be vpon the head of him that selleth it.
27. He that diligently seeketh good, procureth fauour: but hee that seeketh mischiefe, it shall come vnto him.
28. He that trusteth in his riches, shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
29. He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the winde: and the foole shall be seruant to the wise of heart.
30. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life: and hee that winneth soules, is wise.
31. Behold, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
1. Whoso loueth instruction, loueth knowledge: but he that hateth reproofe, is brutish.
2. A good man obtaineth fauour of the Lord: but a man of wicked deuices will he condemne.
3. A man shall not bee established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
4. A vertuous woman is a crowne to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed, is as rottennesse in his bones.
5. The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
6. The words of the wicked are to lie in waite for blood: but the mouth of the vpright shall deliuer them.
7. The wicked are ouerthrowen, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8. A man shall be commended according to his wisedome: but hee that is of a peruerse heart, shall be despised.
9. Hee that is despised and hath a seruant, is better then he that honoureth himselfe, and lacketh bread.
10. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruell.
11. Hee that tilleth his land, shall bee satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vaine persons, is void of vnderstanding.
12. The wicked desireth the net of euill men: but the roote of the righteous yeeldeth fruit.
13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lippes: but the iust shall come out of trouble.
14. A man shall bee satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall bee rendred vnto him.
15. The way of a foole is right in his owne eyes: but he that hearkeneth vnto counsell, is wise.
16. A fooles wrath is presently knowen: but a prudent man couereth shame.
17. He that speaketh trueth, sheweth foorth righteousnesse: but a false witnesse, deceit.
18. There is that speaketh like the pearcings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
19. The lippe of trueth shall bee established for euer: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
20. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellours of peace, is ioy.
21. There shall no euill happen to the iust: but the wicked shall bee filled with mischiefe.
22. Lying lippes are abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely, are his delight.
23. A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fooles proclaimeth foolishnesse.
24. The hand of the diligent shall beare rule: but the slouthfull shall bee vnder tribute.
25. Heauinesse in the heart of man maketh it stoope: but a good word maketh it glad.
26. The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
27. The slouthfull man rosteth not that which he tooke in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
28. In the way of righteousnesse is life, and in the path-way thereof there is no death.
1. A wise sonne heareth his fathers instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
2. A man shall eate good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soule of the transgressours, shall eate violence.
3. He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but hee that openeth wide his lips, shall haue destruction.
4. The soule of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soule of the diligent shall be made fat.
5. A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and commeth to shame.
6. Righteousnesse keepeth him that is vpright in the way: but wickednesse ouerthroweth the sinner.
7. There is that maketh himselfe rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himselfe poore, yet hath great riches.
8. The ransome of a mans life are his riches: but the poore heareth not rebuke.
9. The light of the righteous reioyceth: but the lampe of the wicked shall be put out.
10. Onely by pride commeth contention: but with the well aduised is wisedome.
11. Wealth gotten by vanitie shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour, shall increase.
12. Hope deferred maketh the heart sicke: but when the desire commeth, it is a tree of life.
13. Whoso despiseth the word, shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commaundement, shall be rewarded.

14. The lawe of the wise is a fountaine of life, to depart from the snares of death.
15. Good vnderstanding giueth fauour: but the way of transgressours is hard.
16. Euery prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a foole layeth open his folly.
17. A wicked messenger falleth into mischiefe: but a faithfull ambassadour is health.
18. Pouerty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproofe, shall be honoured.
19. The desire accomplished is sweet to the soule: but it is abomination to fooles to depart from euill.
20. He that walketh with wise men, shall be wise: but a companion of fooles shall be destroyed.
21. Euill pursueth sinners: but to the righteous, good shall be repayd.
22. A good man leaueth an inheritance to his childrens children: and the wealth of the sinner is layd vp for the iust.
23. Much food is in the tillage of the poore: but there is that is destroyed for want of iudgement.
24. He that spareth his rod, hateth his sonne: but he that loueth him, chasteneth him betimes.
25. The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soule: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
1. Euery wise woman buildeth her house; but the foolish plucketh it downe with her hands.
2. He that walketh in his vprightnesse, feareth the Lord: but he that is peruerse in his wayes, despiseth him.
3. In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise shall preserue them.
4. Where no Oxen are, the crib is cleane: but much increase is by the strength of the Oxe.
5. A faithfull witnesse will not lye: but a false witnesse will vtter lyes.
6. A scorner seeketh wisedome, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easie vnto him that vnderstandeth.
7. Goe from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceiuest not in him the lippes of knowledge.
8. The wisedome of the prudent is to vnderstand his way: but the folly of fooles is deceit.
9. Fooles make a mocke at sinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.
10. The heart knoweth his owne bitternesse; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his ioy.
11. The house of the wicked shall bee ouerthrowen: but the tabernacle of the vpright shall flourish.
12. There is a way which seemeth right vnto a man: but the end thereof are the wayes of death.
13. Euen in laughter the heart is sorrowfull; and the end of that mirth is heauinesse.
14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his owne wayes: and a good man shall be satisfied from himselfe.
15. The simple beleeueth euery word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
16. A wise man feareth, and departeth from euill: but the foole rageth, and is confident.
17. Hee that is soone angry, dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked deuices is hated.
18. The simple inherite folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
19. The euill bowe before the good: and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
20. The poore is hated euen of his owne neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
21. He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poore, happy is he.
22. Doe they not erre that deuise euil? But mercy and trueth shall be to them that deuise good.
23. In all labour there is profit: but the talke of the lippes tendeth onely to penury.
24. The crowne of the wise is their riches: but the foolishnesse of fooles is folly.
25. A true witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceitfull witnesse speaketh lyes.
26. In the feare of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall haue a place of refuge.
27. The feare of the Lord, is a fountaine of life, to depart from the snares of death.
28. In the multitude of people is the kings honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
29. Hee that is slow to wrath, is of great vnderstanding: but hee that is hasty of spirit, exalteth folly.
30. A sound heart, is the life of the flesh: but enuie, the rottennesse of the bones.
31. Hee that oppresseth the poore, reprocheth his Maker: but hee that honoureth him, hath mercy on the poore.
32. The wicked is driuen away in his wickednes: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
33. Wisedome resteth in the heart of him that hath vnderstanding: but that which is in the midst of fooles, is made knowen.
34. Righteousnes exalteth a nation: but sinne is a reproch to any people.
35. The Kings fauour is toward a wise seruant: but his wrath, is against him that causeth shame.
1. A soft answere turneth away wrath: but grieuous words stirre vp anger.
2. The tongue of the wise, vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles, powreth out foolishnes.
3. The eyes of the Lord are in euery place, beholding the euill & the good.
4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but peruersnesse therein is a breach in the spirit.
5. A foole despiseth his fathers instruction: but hee that regardeth reproofe, is prudent.
6. In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the reuenues of the wicked is trouble.
7. The lippes of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish, doeth not so.
8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the vpright is his delight.
9. The way of the wicked is an abomination vnto the Lord: but he loueth him that followeth after righteousnes.
10. Correction is grieuous vnto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproofe, shall die.
11. Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then, the hearts of the children of men?
12. A scorner loueth not one that reproueth him: neither will he goe vnto the wise.
13. A merry heart maketh a cheerefull countenance: but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken.
14. The heart of him that hath vnderstanding, seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fooles feedeth on foolishnesse.
15. All the dayes of the afflicted are euill: but he that is of a merry heart, hath a continuall feast.
16. Better is little with the feare of the Lord, then great treasure, and trouble therewith.
17. Better is a dinner of herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe, and hatred therewith.
18. A wrathfull man stirreth vp strife: but he that is slow to anger, appeaseth strife.
19. The way of the slouthfull man is as an hedge of thornes: but the way of the righteous is made plaine.
20. A wise sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
21. Folly is ioy to him that is destitute of wisedome: but a man of vnderstanding walketh vprightly.
22. Without counsell, purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellours they are established.
23. A man hath ioy by the answere of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it?
24. The way of life is aboue to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
25. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
26. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the wordes of the pure, are pleasant words.
27. Hee that is greedy of gaine, troubleth his owne house: but he that hateth gifts, shall liue.
28. The heart of the righteous studieth to answere: but the mouth of the wicked, powreth out euil things.
29. The Lord is farre from the wicked: but hee heareth the prayer of the righteous.
30. The light of the eyes reioyceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
31. The eare that heareth the reproofe of life, abideth among the wise.
32. He that refuseth instruction, despiseth his owne soule: but he that heareth reproofe, getteth vnderstanding.
33. The feare of the Lord is the instruction of wisedome; and before honour is humilitie.
1. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answere of the tongue, is from the Lord.
2. All the wayes of a man are cleane in his owne eyes: but the Lord weigheth the spirits.
3. Commit thy workes vnto the Lord, and thy thoughts shalbe established.
4. The Lord hath made all things for himselfe: yea, euen the wicked for the day of euill.
5. Euery one that is proud in heart, is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he shall not be vnpunished.
6. By mercy and trueth iniquitie is purged: and by the feare of the Lord, men depart from euill.
7. When a mans wayes please the Lord, he maketh euen his enemies to be at peace with him.
8. Better is a little with righteousnesse, then great reuenewes without right.
9. A mans heart deuiseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
10. A diuine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in iudgement.
11. A iust weight and ballance are the Lords: all the weights of the bagge are his worke.
12. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickednesse: for the throne is established by righteousnesse.
13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings: and they loue him that speaketh right.
14. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacifie it.
15. In the light of the kings countenance is life, and his fauour is as a cloude of the latter raine.
16. How much better is it to get wisedome, then gold? and to get vnderstanding, rather to be chosen then siluer?
17. The high way of the vpright is to depart from euill: hee that keepeth his way, preserueth his soule.
18. Pride goeth before destruction: and an hautie spirit before a fall.
19. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, then to diuide the spoile with the proud.
20. He that handleth a matter wisely, shall finde good: and who so trusteth in the Lord, happy is hee.
21. The wise in heart shall be called prudent; and the sweetnesse of the lips increaseth learning.
22. Understanding is a well-spring of life vnto him that hath it: but the instruction of fooles is folly.
23. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lippes.
24. Pleasant words are as an honycombe, sweete to the soule, and health to the bones.
25. There is a way that seemeth right vnto a man; but the end thereof are the wayes of death.
26. Hee that laboureth, laboureth for himselfe; for his mouth craueth it of him.
27. An vngodly man diggeth vp euill: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
28. A froward man soweth strife; & a whisperer separateth chiefe friends.
29. A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
30. He shutteth his eyes to deuise froward things: moouing his lips he bringeth euill to passe.
31. The hoary head is a crowne of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousnesse.
32. He that is slow to anger, is better then the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit, then he that taketh a citie.
33. The lot is cast into the lap: but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
1. Better is a drie morsell, and quietnesse therewith; then an house full of sacrifices with strife.
2. A wise seruant shall haue rule ouer a son that causeth shame: and shall haue part of the inheritance among the brethren.
3. The fining pot is for siluer, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
4. A wicked doer giueth heed to false lips: and a liar giueth eare to a naughtie tongue.
5. Whoso mocketh the poore, reproacheth his maker: and he that is glad at calamities, shall not be vnpunished.
6. Childrens children are the crowne of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.
7. Excellent speech becommeth not a foole: much lesse doe lying lippes a prince.
8. A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoeuer it turneth, it prospereth.
9. He that couereth a transgression, seeketh loue; but he that repeateth a matter, separateth very friends.
10. A reproofe entreth more into a wise man, then an hundred stripes into a foole.
11. An euill man seeketh onely rebellion; therefore a cruell messenger shall be sent against him.
12. Let a beare robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather then a foole in his folly.
13. Whoso rewardeth euill for good, euill shall not depart from his house.
14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therfore leaue off contention, before it be medled with.
15. He that iustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the iust: euen they both are abomination to the Lord.
16. Wherfore is there a price in the hand of a foole to get wisedome, seeing he hath no heart to it?
17. A friend loueth at all times, and a brother is borne for aduersitie.
18. A man void of vnderstanding striketh hands, and becommeth suretie in the presence of his friend.
19. He loueth transgression, that loueth strife: and he that exalteth his gate, seeketh destruction.
20. He that hath a froward heart, findeth no good, and he that hath a peruerse tongue, falleth into mischiefe.
21. He that begetteth a foole, doth it to his sorrow: and the father of a foole hath no ioy.
22. A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
23. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome, to peruert the wayes of iudgement.
24. Wisedome is before him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the ends of the earth.
25. A foolish sonne is a griefe to his father, & bitternes to her that bare him.
26. Also to punish the iust is not good, nor to strike princes for equitie.
27. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of vnderstanding is of an excellent spirit.
28. Euen a foole, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips, is esteemed a man of vnderstanding.
1. Through desire a man hauing separated himselfe, seeketh and intermedleth with all wisedome.
2. A foole hath no delight in vnderstanding, but that his heart may discouer it selfe.
3. When the wicked commeth, then commeth also contempt, and with ignominie, reproch.
4. The words of a mans mouth, are as deepe waters, and the well-spring of wisedome as a flowing brooke.
5. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.
6. A fooles lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
7. A fooles mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soule.

8. The words of a tale bearer are as wounds, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly.
9. Hee also that is slouthful in his worke, is brother to him that is a great waster.
10. The name of the Lord is a a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
11. The rich mans wealth is his strong citie: and as an high wall in his owne conceit.
12. Before destruction the heart of man is haughtie, and before honour is humilitie.
13. He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame vnto him.
14. The spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmitie: but a wounded spirit who can beare?
15. The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the eare of the wise seeketh knowledge.
16. A mans gift maketh roome for him, & bringeth him before great men.
17. He that is first in his owne cause, seemeth iust; but his neighbour commeth and searcheth him.
18. The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth betweene the mighty.
19. A brother offended is harder to be wonne then a strong citie: and their contentions are like the barres of a castle.
20. A mans belly shall be satisfied with the fruite of his mouth; and with the increase of his lippes shall he be filled.
21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that loue it shall eate the fruite thereof.
22. Who so findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaineth fauour of the Lord.
23. The poore vseth intreaties, but the rich answereth roughly.
24. A man that hath friends must shewe himselfe friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer then a brother.
1. Better is the poore that walketh in his integrity, then he that is peruerse in his lippes, and is a foole.
2. Also, that the soule be without knowledge, it is not good, and hee that hasteth with his feete, sinneth.
3. The foolishnesse of man peruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
4. Wealth maketh many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
5. A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shal not escape.
6. Many will entreate the fauour of the Prince: and euery man is a friend to him that giueth gifts.
7. All the brethren of the poore doe hate him: howe much more doe his friends goe farre from him? Hee pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
8. He that getteth wisedome loueth his owne soule: he that keepeth vnderstanding shall find good.
9. A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished, and hee that speaketh lyes, shall perish.
10. Delight is not seemely for a foole: much lesse for a seruant to haue rule ouer princes.
11. The discretion of a man deferreth his anger: and it is his glory to passe ouer a transgression.
12. The kings wrath is as the roaring of a lyon: but his fauour is as dewe vpon the grasse.
13. A foolish sonne is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continuall dropping.
14. House and riches, are the inheritance of fathers; and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
15. Slouthfulnesse casteth into a deep sleepe: and an idle soule shall suffer hunger.
16. He that keepeth the commandement, keepeth his owne soule: but hee that despiseth his wayes, shall die.
17. Hee that hath pity vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lord; and that which he hath giuen, will he pay him againe.
18. Chasten thy sonne while there is hope; and let not thy soule spare for his crying.
19. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliuer him, yet thou must doe it againe.
20. Heare counsell, and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
21. There are many deuices in a mans heart: neuerthelesse the counsell of the Lord, that shall stand.
22. The desire of a man is his kindnesse: and a poore man is better then a lyar.
23. The feare of the Lord tendeth to life, and he that hath it shall abide satisfied: he shall not be visited with euill.
24. A slouthfull man hideth his hand in his bosome, and wil not so much as bring it to his mouth againe.
25. Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; and reprooue one that hath vnderstanding, and he will vnderstand knowledge.
26. He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a sonne that causeth shame, and bringeth reproch.
27. Cease, my sonne, to heare the instruction, that causeth to erre from the words of knowledge.
28. An vngodly witnesse scorneth iudgement: and the mouth of the wicked deuoureth iniquitie.
29. Iudgements are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backe of fooles.
1. Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.
2. The feare of a king, is as the roaring of a Lion: who so prouoketh him to anger, sinneth against his owne soule.
3. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but euery foole will be medling.
4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he begge in haruest, and haue nothing.
5. Counsell in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding will draw it out.
6. Most men will proclaime euery one his owne goodnes: but a faithfull man who can finde?
7. The iust man walketh in his integritie: his children are blessed after him.
8. A king that sitteth in the throne of iudgement, scattereth away all euill with his eyes.
9. Who can say, I haue made my heart cleane, I am pure from my sinne?
10. Diuers weights, and diuers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
11. Euen a childe is knowen by his doings, whether his worke be pure, and whether it be right.
12. The hearing eare, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made euen both of them.
13. Loue not sleepe, lest thou come to pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14. It is nought, it is nought (saith the buyer:) but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15. There is gold, and a multitude of Rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewell.
16. Take his garment that is suerty for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
17. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with grauell.
18. Euery purpose is established by counsell: and with good aduice make warre.
19. He that goeth about as a tale-bearer, reueileth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lippes.
20. Who so curseth his father or his mother, his lampe shall be put out in obscure darkenesse.
21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning: but the ende thereof shall not be blessed.
22. Say not thou, I will recompence euil: but wait on the Lord, and he shall saue thee.
23. Diuers waights are an abomination vnto the Lord: and a false ballance is not good.
24. Mans goings are of the Lord; how can a man then vnderstand his owne way?
25. It is a snare to the man who deuoureth that which is holy: and after vowes, to make inquirie.
26. A wise king scattereth the wicked, & bringeth the wheele ouer them.
27. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
28. Mercy and trueth preserue the king: and his throne is vpholden by mercy.
29. The glory of yong men is their strength: and the beautie of old men is the gray head.
30. The blewnes of a wound cleanseth away euill: so doe stripes the inward parts of the belly.
1. The kings heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the riuers of water: hee turneth it whithersoeuer he will.
2. Euery way of a man is right in his owne eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
3. To doe iustice and iudgement, is more acceptable to the Lord, then sacrifice.
4. An high looke, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sinne.
5. The thoughts of the diligent tend onely to plenteousnes: but of euery one that is hastie, onely to want.
6. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue, is a vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.
7. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to doe iudgement.
8. The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure; his worke is right.
9. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top; then with a brawling woman in a wide house.
10. The soule of the wicked desireth euill: his neighbour findeth no fauour in his eyes.
11. When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiueth knowledge.
12. The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God ouerthroweth the wicked for their wickednesse.
13. Whoso stoppeth his eares at the cry of the poore, hee also shall cry himselfe, but shall not be heard.
14. A gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a reward in the bosome, strong wrath.
15. It is ioy to the iust to doe iudgement: but destruction shalbe to the workers of iniquitie.
16. The man that wandreth out of the way of vnderstanding, shall remaine in the congregation of the dead.
17. He that loueth pleasure, shall be a poore man: hee that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be rich.
18. The wicked shalbe a ransome for the righteous; and the transgressour for the vpright.
19. It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and an angry woman.
20. There is treasure to be desired, and oyle in the dwelling of the wise: but a foolish man spendeth it vp.
21. Hee that followeth after righteousnesse and mercy, findeth life, righteousnesse and honour.
22. A wise man scaleth the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.
23. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from troubles.
24. Proud and haughtie scorner, is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
25. The desire of the slouthfull killeth him: for his hands refuse to labour.
26. Hee coueteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giueth and spareth not.
27. The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked minde?
28. A false witnesse shall perish: but the man that heareth, speaketh constantly.
29. A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the vpright, he directeth his way.
30. There is no wisedome, nor vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.
31. The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but safetie is of the Lord.
1. A Good name is rather to be chosen then great riches, and louing fauour rather then siluer & golde.
2. The rich and poore meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
3. A prudent man foreseeth the euill, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.
4. By humilitie and the feare of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life.
5. Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.
6. Traine vp a childe in the way he should goe: and when he is olde, hee will not depart from it.
7. The rich ruleth ouer the poore, and the borrower is seruant to the lender.
8. Hee that soweth iniquitie, shall reape vanitie: and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
9. Hee that hath a bountifull eye, shall bee blessed: for hee giueth of his bread to the poore.
10. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall goe out; yea strife, and reproch shall cease.
11. He that loueth purenesse of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
12. The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge, and he ouerthroweth the words of the transgressour.
13. The slothfull man sayth, There is a lyon without, I shall be slaine in the streetes.
14. The mouth of strange women is a deepe pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
15. Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child: but the rod of correction shal driue it farre from him.
16. Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase his riches, and he that giueth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
17. Bow downe thine eare, and heare the words of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.
18. For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
19. That thy trust may bee in the Lord, I haue made knowen to thee this day, euen to thee.
20. Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge:
21. That I might make thee knowe the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answere the words of trueth to them that send vnto thee?
22. Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate.
23. For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoile the soule of those that spoiled them.
24. Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe;
25. Lest thou learne his wayes, and get a snare to thy soule.
26. Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from vnder thee?
28. Remoue not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set.
29. Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse? hee shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before meane men.
1. When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee.
2. And put a knife to thy throate, if thou be a man giuen to appetite.
3. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitfull meate.
4. Labour not to bee rich: cease from thine owne wisedome.
5. Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen.
6. Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euill eye, neither desire thou his dainty meates.
7. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eate, and drinke, sayth he to thee, but his heart is not with thee.
8. The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words.
9. Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisedome of thy words.
10. Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.
11. For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12. Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares to the words of knowledge.
13. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14. Thou shalt beate him with the rod, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
15. My sonne, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall reioyce, euen mine.
16. Yea my reines shall reioyce, when thy lippes speake right things.
17. Let not thine heart enuy sinners, but be thou in the feare of the Lord all the day long.
18. For surely there is an end, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19. Heare thou, my sonne, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20. Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh.
21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges.
22. Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23. Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding.
24. The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him.
25. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
26. My sonne, giue me thine heart, and let thine eyes obserue my wayes.
27. For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28. She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours among men.
29. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath rednesse of eyes?
30. They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine.
31. Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright.
32. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things.
34. Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast.
35. They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe.
1. Be not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.
2. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lippes talke of mischiefe.
3. Through wisedome is an house builded, and by vnderstanding it is established.
4. And by knowledge shall the chambers bee filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
5. A wise man is strong, yea a man of knowledge encreaseth strength.
6. For by wise counsell thou shalt make thy warre: and in multitude of counsellers there is safetie.
7. Wisedome is too high for a foole: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
8. He that deuiseth to doe euill, shall be called a mischieuous person.
9. The thought of foolishnesse is sinne: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
10. If thou faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small:
11. If thou forbeare to deliuer them that are drawen vnto death, and those that are ready to be slaine:
12. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not: doth not he that pondereth the heart, consider it? and he that keepeth thy soule, doth not he know it? and shall not hee render to euery man according to his workes?
13. My sonne, eate thou honie, because it is good, and the honie combe, which is sweete to thy taste.
14. So shall the knowledge of wisedome be vnto thy soule: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
15. Lay not waite, (O wicked man) against the dwelling of the righteous: spoile not his resting place.
16. For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth vp againe: but the wicked shall fall into mischiefe.
17. Reioyce not when thine enemie falleth: and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
18. Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and hee turne away his wrath from him.
19. Fret not thy selfe because of euill men; neither be thou enuious at the wicked.
20. For there shall be no reward to the euill man: the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
21. My sonne, feare thou the Lord, and the king: and medle not with them that are giuen to change.
22. For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?
23. These things also belong to the wise: It is not good to haue respect of persons in iudgement.
24. He that sayth vnto the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse; nations shall abhorre him:
25. But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come vpon them.
26. Euery man shall kisse his lippes that giueth a right answere.
27. Prepare thy worke without, and make it fit for thy selfe in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
28. Be not a witnesse against thy neighbour without cause: and deceiue not with thy lippes.
29. Say not, I will doe so to him as he hath done to mee: I will render to the man according to his worke.
30. I went by the field of the slouthfull, and by the vineyard of the man voyd of vnderstanding:
31. And loe, it was all growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall therof was broken downe:
32. Then I saw, and considered it well, I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.
33. Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the handes to sleepe:
34. So shall thy pouertie come, as one that traueileth, and thy want, as an armed man.
1. These are also Prouerbes of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Iudah copied out.
2. It is the glory of God to conceale a thing: but the honour of Kings is to search out a matter.
3. The heauen for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of Kings is vnsearchable.
4. Take away the drosse from the siluer, and there shall come foorth a vessell for the finer.
5. Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shalbe established in righteousnes.
6. Put not forth thy selfe in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men.
7. For better it is that it be said vnto thee, Come vp hither; then that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the Prince whom thine eies haue seene.
8. Goe not forth hastily to striue, lest thou know not what to doe in the ende thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
9. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himselfe; and discouer not a secret to another:
10. Lest he that heareth it, put thee to shame, and thine infamie turne not away.
11. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of siluer.
12. As an eare-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprouer vpon an obedient eare.
13. As the cold of snow in the time of haruest, so is a faithfull messenger to them that send him: for hee refresheth the soule of his masters.
14. Who so boasteth himselfe of a false gift, is like cloudes and winde without raine.
15. By long forbearing is a Prince perswaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
16. Hast thou found hony? eate so much as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
17. Withdraw thy foote from thy neighbours house: lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
18. A man that beareth false witnes against his neighbour, is a maule, and a sword, and a sharpe arrow.
19. Confidence in an vnfaithfull man in time of trouble, is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of ioynt.
20. As hee that taketh away a garment in cold weather; and as vineger vpon nitre; so is he that singeth songs to an heauy heart.
21. If thine enemie be hungry, giue him bread to eate: and if hee be thirstie, giue him water to drinke.
22. For thou shalt heape coales of fire vpon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
23. The North winde driueth away raine: so doeth an angrie countenance a backbiting tongue.
24. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a brawling woman, and in a wide house.
25. As cold waters to a thirstie soule: so is good newes from a farre countrey.
26. A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is as a troubled fountaine, aud a corrupt spring.
27. It is not good to eat much hony: so for men to search their owne glory, is not glory.
28. Hee that hath no rule ouer his owne spirit, is like a citie that is broken downe, and without walles.
1. As snow in summer, and as raine in haruest: so honour is not seemely for a foole.
2. As the bird by wandring, as the swallow by flying: so the curse causelesse shall not come.
3. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the asse; and a rod for the fooles backe.
4. Answere not a foole according to his folly, lest thou also be like vnto him.
5. Answere a foole according to his folly, lest hee be wise in his owne conceit.
6. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a foole, cutteth off the feete, and drinketh dammage.
7. The legges of the lame are not equall: so is a parable in the mouth of fooles.
8. As hee that bindeth a stone in a sling; so is hee that giueth honour to a foole.
9. As a thorne goeth vp into the hand of a drunkard; so is a parable in the mouth of fooles.
10. The great God that formed all things, both rewardeth the foole, and rewardeth transgressours.
11. As a dogge returneth to his vomite: so a foole returneth to his folly.
12. Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceit? There is more hope of a foole then of him.
13. The slothfull man sayth, There is a lion in the way, a lion is in the streets.
14. As the doore turneth vpon his hinges: so doeth the slothfull vpon his bedde.
15. The slothfull hideth his hand in his bosome, it grieueth him to bring it againe to his mouth.
16. The sluggard is wiser in his owne conceit, then seuen men that can render a reason.
17. He that passeth by, and medleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the eares.
18. As a mad man, who casteth firebrands, arrowes, and death:
19. So is the man that deceiueth his neighbour, & sayth, Am not I in sport?
20. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.
21. As coales are to burning coales, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
22. The words of a tale-bearer are as woundes, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly.
23. Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.
24. Hee that hateth, dissembleth with his lips, and layeth vp deceit within him.
25. When he speaketh faire, beleeue him not: for there are seuen abominations in his heart.
26. Whose hatred is couered by deceit, his wickednesse shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
27. Whoso diggeth a pit, shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will returne vpon him.
28. A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruine.
1. Boast not thy selfe of to morrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth.
2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine owne mouth; a stranger, and not thine owne lips.
3. A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
4. Wrath is cruell, and anger is outragious: but who is able to stand before enuie?
5. Open rebuke is better then secret loue.
6. Faithfull are the woundes of a friend: but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull.
7. The full soule loatheth an honie combe: but to the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.
8. As a bird that wandreth from her nest: so is a man that wandreth from his place.
9. Oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart: so doeth the sweetnesse of a mans friend by heartie counsell.
10. Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake not; neither goe in to thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.
11. My sonne, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.
12. A prudent man foreseeth the euil, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.
13. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
14. He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising earely in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
15. A continuall dropping in a very rainie day, and a contentious woman, are alike.
16. Whosoeuer hideth her, hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which be wrayeth it selfe.
17. Iron sharpeneth iron: so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
18. Whoso keepeth the figtree, shall eate the fruit therof: so he that waiteth on his master, shall be honoured.
19. As in water face answereth to face: so the heart of man to man.
20. Hell and destruction are neuer full: so the eyes of man are neuer satisfied.
21. As the fining pot for siluer, and the furnace for gold: so is a man to his praise.
22. Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him.
23. Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy flocks, and looke well to thy herds.
24. For riches are not for euer: and doth the crowne endure to euery generation?
25. The hay appeareth, and the tender grasse sheweth it selfe, and herbes of the mountaines are gathered.
26. The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of thy field.
27. And thou shalt haue goats milke enough for thy food, for the food of thy houshold, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
2. For the transgression of a land, many are the princes thereof: but by a man of vnderstanding and knowledge the state thereof shall bee prolonged.
3. A poore man that oppresseth the poore, is like a sweeping raine which leaueth no food.
4. They that forsake the law, praise the wicked: but such as keepe the Law, contend with them.
5. Euill men vnderstand not iudgement: but they that seeke the Lord, vnderstand all things.
6. Better is the poore that walketh in his vprightnesse, then he that is peruerse in his wayes, though he be rich.
7. Whoso keepeth the law, is a wise sonne: but he that is a companion of riotous men, shameth his father.
8. He that by vsurie and vniust gaine increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that wil pity the poore.
9. He that turneth away his eare from hearing the law, euen his prayer shalbe abomination.
10. Who so causeth the righteous to goe astray in an euill way, he shall fall himselfe into his owne pit: but the vpright shall haue good things in possession.
11. The rich man is wise in his owne conceit: but the poore that hath vnderstanding searcheth him out.
12. When righteous men do reioyce, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
13. He that couereth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but who so confesseth and forsaketh them, shall haue mercie.
14. Happy is the man that feareth always: but he that hardeneth his heart, shall fall into mischiefe.
15. As a roaring lyon and a ranging beare: so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
16. The prince that wanteth vnderstanding, is also a great oppressour: but he that hateth couetousnesse, shall prolong his dayes.
17. A man that doth violence to the blood of any person, shall flie to the pit, let no man stay him.
18. Whoso walketh vprightly, shall be saued: but he that is peruerse in his wayes, shall fall at once.
19. He that tilleth his land, shal haue plentie of bread: but he that followeth after vaine persons, shall haue pouerty enough.
20. A faithfull man shall abound with blessings: but hee that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
21. To haue respect of persons, is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgresse.
22. He that hasteth to bee rich, hath an euill eye, and considereth not that pouerty shall come vpon him.
23. He that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find more fauour, then he that flattereth with the tongue.
24. Who so robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, it is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
25. He that is of a proud heart, stirreth vp strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord, shalbe made fat.
26. Hee that trusteth in his owne heart, is a foole: but who so walketh wisely, he shall be deliuered.
27. He that giueth vnto the poore, shall not lacke: but he that hideth his eyes, shall haue many a curse.
28. When the wicked rise, men hide themselues: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
1. He that being often reproued, hardeneth his necke, shal suddenly be destroied, and that without remedy.
2. When the righteous are in authoritie, the people reioyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourne.
3. Whoso loueth wisedome, reioyceth his father: but hee that keepeth company with harlots, spendeth his substance.
4. The king by iudgement stablisheth the land: but he that receiueth gifts, ouerthroweth it.
5. A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his feet.
6. In the transgression of an euill man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and reioyce.
7. The righteous considereth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
8. Scornefull men bring a citie into a snare: but wise men turne away wrath.
9. If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether hee rage or laugh, there is no rest.
10. The bloodthirstie hate the vpright: but the iust seeke his soule.
11. A foole vttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
12. If a ruler hearken to lies, all his seruants are wicked.
13. The poore and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lightneth both their eyes.
14. The King that faithfully iudgeth the poore, his throne shall be established for euer.
15. The rod and reproofe giue wisedome: but a child left to himselfe bringeth his mother to shame.
16. When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
17. Correct thy sonne, and hee shall giue thee rest: yea he shall giue delight vnto thy soule.
18. Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the Law, happy is he.
19. A seruant will not be corrected by words: for though hee vnderstand, hee will not answere.
20. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a foole then of him.
21. He that delicately bringeth vp his seruant from a child, shall haue him become his sonne at the length.
22. An angry man stirreth vp strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
23. A mans pride shall bring him lowe: but honour shall vpholde the humble in spirit.
24. Who so is partner with a thiefe, hateth his owne soule: hee heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
25. The feare of man bringeth a snare: but who so putteth his trust in the Lord, shall be safe.
26. Many seeke the rulers fauour, but euery mans iudgement commeth from the Lord.
27. An vniust man is an abomination to the iust: and he that is vpright in the way, is abomination to the wicked.
1. The words of Agur the sonne of Iakeh, euen the prophecy: The man spake vnto Ithiel, euen vnto Ithiel and Ucal.
2. Surely I am more brutish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man.
3. I neither learned wisedome, nor haue the knowledge of the holy.
4. Who hath ascended vp into heauen, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?
5. Euery word of God is pure: he is a shield vnto them that put their trust in him.
6. Adde thou not vnto his words, lest he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.
7. Two things haue I required of thee, deny me them not before I die.
8. Remoue farre from mee vanity, and lyes; giue me neither pouerty, nor riches, feede me with food conuenient for me.
9. Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poore, and steale, and take the name of my God in vaine.
10. Accuse not a seruant vnto his master; lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not blesse their mother.
12. There is a generation that are pure in their owne eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthinesse.
13. There is a generation, O howe lofty are their eyes! and their eye-lids are lifted vp.
14. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their iaw-teeth as kniues, to deuoure the poore from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15. The horse-leach hath two daughters, crying, Giue, giue. There are three things that are neuer satisfied, yea foure things say not, It is enough:
16. The graue; and the barren wombe; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
17. The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother; the rauens of the valley shall picke it out, and the young Eagles shall eate it.
18. There be three things which are too wonderfull for me; yea foure, which I know not:
19. The way of an Eagle in the ayre; the way of a serpent vpon a rocke; the the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I haue done no wickednesse.
21. For three things the earth is disquieted, and for foure which it cannot beare:
22. For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate:
23. For an odious woman when shee is married, and an handmayd that is heire to her mistresse.
24. There be foure things which are little vpon the earth; but they are exceeding wise:
25. The Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meate in the summer.
26. The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make they their houses in the rocks
27. The locustes haue no king, yet goe they forth all of them by bands.
28. The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings palaces.
29. There be three things which goe well, yea foure are comely in going:
30. A lyon which is strongest among beastes, and turneth not away for any:
31. A gray-hound; an hee-goate also; and a king, against whom there is no rising vp.
32. If thou hast done foolishly in lifting vp thy selfe, or if thou hast thought euill, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.
33. Surely the churning of milke bringeth forth butter; and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
1. The wordes of King Lemuel, the prophecie that his mother taught him.
2. What, my sonne! and what, the sonne of my wombe! and what, the sonne of my vowes!
3. Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes to that which destroyeth kings.
4. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drinke wine, nor for Princes, strong drinke:
5. Lest they drinke, and forget the Law, and peruert the iudgement of any of the afflicted.
6. Giue strong drinke vnto him that is ready to perish, and wine vnto those that be of heauie hearts.
7. Let him drinke, and forget his pouertie, and remember his misery no more.
8. Open thy mouth for the dumbe in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9. Open thy mouth, iudge righteously, and plead the cause of the poore and needy.
10. Who can finde a vertuous woman? for her price is farre aboue Rubies.
11. The heart of her husband doeth safely trust in her, so that he shall haue no need of spoile.
12. She will doe him good, and not euill, all the dayes of her life.
13. She seeketh wooll and flaxe, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14. She is like the merchants ships, she bringeth her food from afarre.
15. Shee riseth also while it is yet night, and giueth meate to her household, and a portion to her maydens.
16. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her handes she planteth a Uineyard.
17. She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.
18. She perceiueth that her merchandise is good; her candle goeth not out by night.
19. She layeth her handes to the spindle, and her handes hold the distaffe.
20. She stretcheth out her hand to the poore, yea she reacheth foorth her handes to the needy.
21. She is not afraid of the snow for her houshold: for all her houshold are cloathed with scarlet.
22. She maketh herselfe couerings of tapestrie; her cloathing is silke and purple.
23. Her husband is knowen in the gates, when he sitteth among the Elders of the land.
24. She maketh fine linnen, and selleth it, and deliuereth girdles vnto the merchant.
25. Strength and honour are her cloathing; and she shall reioyce in time to come.
26. She openeth her mouth with wisedome; and in her tongue is the law of kindnesse.
27. She looketh well to the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of idlenesse.
28. Her children arise vp, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29. Many daughters haue done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.
30. Fauour is deceitfull, and beautie is vaine: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shalbe praised.
31. Giue her of the fruit of her hands, and let her owne workes praise her in the gates.
1. The wordes of the Preacher, the son of Dauid, King in Ierusalem.
2. Uanitie of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
3. What profite hath a man of all his labour which hee taketh vnder the Sunne?
4. One generation passeth away, and another generation commeth: but the earth abideth for euer.
5. The Sunne also ariseth, and the Sunne goeth downe, and hasteth to the place where he arose.
6. The winde goeth toward the South, and turneth about vnto the North; it whirleth about continually, and the winde returneth againe according to his circuits.
7. All the riuers runne into the sea, yet the Sea is not full: vnto the place from whence the riuers come, thither they returne againe.
8. All things are full of labour, man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
9. The thing that hath beene, it is that which shall be: and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing vnder the sunne.
10. Is there any thing, whereof it may be sayd, See, this is new? it hath beene already of olde time, which was before vs.
11. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there bee any remembrance of things that are to come, with those that shall come after.
12. I the Preacher was king ouer Israel in Ierusalem.
13. And I gaue my heart to seeke and search out by wisedome, concerning all things that are done vnder heauen: this sore trauell hath God giuen to the sonnes of man, to be exercised therewith.
14. I haue seene all the workes that are done vnder the Sunne, and behold, all is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
15. That which is crooked, cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbred.
16. I communed with mine owne heart, saying, Loe, I am come to great estate, and haue gotten more wisedome then all they that haue beene before me in Ierusalem: yea my heart had great experience of wisedome & knowledge.
17. And I gaue my heart to know wisedome, and to know madnesse and folly: I perceiued that this also is vexation of spirit.
18. For in much wisedome is much griefe: and hee that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
1. I said in mine heart, Goe to now, I wil prooue thee with mirth, therfore enioy pleasure: and behold, this also is vanitie.
2. I saide of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
3. I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe vnto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisedome) and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sonnes of men, which they should doe vnder the heauen all the dayes of their life. 
4. I made me great workes, I builded mee houses, I planted mee Uineyards.
5. I made mee gardens & orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinde of fruits.
6. I made mee pooles of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth foorth trees:
7. I got me seruants and maydens, and had seruants borne in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattell, aboue all that were in Ierusalem before me.
8. I gathered mee also siluer and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the prouinces: I gate mee men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sonnes of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
9. So I was great, and increased more then all that were before mee in Ierusalem; also my wisedome remained with me.
10. And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any ioy: for my heart reioyced in all my labour; and this was my portion of all my labour.
11. Then I looked on all the workes that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to doe: and behold, all was vanitie, and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit vnder the Sunne.
12. And I turned my selfe to behold wisedome, and madnesse and folly: for what can the man doe, that commeth after the king? euen that which hath bene already done.
13. Then I saw that wisedome excelleth folly, as farre as light excelleth darkenesse.
14. The wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: and I my selfe perceiued also that one euent happeneth to them all.
15. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the foole, so it happeneth euen to me, and why was I then more wise? then I said in my heart, That this also is vanitie.
16. For there is no remembrance of the wise, more then of the foole for euer; seeing that which now is, in the dayes to come shall be forgotten; and how dieth the wise man? as the foole.
17. Therefore I hated life, because the worke that is wrought vnder the Sunne is grieuous vnto mee: for all is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
18. Yea I hated all my labour which I had taken vnder the Sunne: because I should leaue it vnto the man that shalbe after mee.
19. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a foole? yet shall he haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue laboured, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the Sunne. This is also vanitie.
20. Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despaire of all the labour which I tooke vnder the Sunne.
21. For there is a man whose labour is in wisedome and in knowledge, and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not laboured therein, shall hee leaue it for his portion; This also is vanitie, and a great euill.
22. For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart wherein hee hath laboured vnder the Sunne?
23. For all his dayes are sorrowes, and his traueile, griefe; yea his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanitie.
24. There is nothing better for a man, then that he should eat and drinke, and that he should make his soule enioy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
25. For who can eate? or who else can hasten hereunto more then I?
26. For God giueth to a man that is good in his sight, wisedome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner hee giueth traueile, to gather and to heape vp that he may giue to him that is good before God: This also is vanitie and vexation of spirit.
1. To euery thing there is a season, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.
2. A time to be borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to pluck vp that which is planted.
3. A time to kill, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to build vp.
4. A time to weepe, and a time to laugh: a time to mourne, and a time to dance.
5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together: a time to imbrace, and a time to refraine from imbracing.
6. A time to get, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.
7. A time to rent, and a time to sow: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.
8. A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.
9. What profite hath hee that worketh, in that wherein he laboureth?
10. I haue seene the trauaile which God hath giuen to the sonnes of men, to be exercised in it.
11. He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also hee hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can finde out the worke that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.
13. And also that euery man should eate and drinke, and enioy the good of all his labour: it is the gift of God.
14. I know that whatsoeuer God doeth, it shalbe for euer: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doth it, that men should feare before him.
15. That which hath beene, is now: and that which is to be, hath alreadie beene, and God requireth that which is past.
16. And moreouer, I sawe vnder the Sunne the place of iudgement, that wickednesse was there; and the place of righteousnesse, that iniquitie was there.
17. I said in mine heart, God shall iudge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there, for euery purpose and for euery worke.
18. I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sonnes of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselues are beasts.
19. For that which befalleth the sonnes of men, befalleth beastes, euen one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they haue all one breath, so that a man hath no preheminence aboue a beast; for all is vanitie.
20. All goe vnto one place, all are of the dust, and all turne to dust againe.
21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth vpward; and the spirit of the beast that goeth downeward to the earth?
22. Wherefore I perceiue that there is nothing better, then that a man should reioyce in his owne workes: for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shalbe after him?
1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done vnder the sunne; & behold the teares of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of their oppressours there was power, but they had no comforter.
2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more then the liuing which are yet aliue.
3. Yea better is he then both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seene the euill worke that is done vnder the Sunne.
4. Againe I considered all trauaile, and euery right worke, that for this a man is enuied of his neighbour: this is also vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
5. The foole foldeth his hands together, and eateth his owne flesh.
6. Better is an handfull with quietnesse, then both the hands full with trauell and vexation of spirit.
7. Then I returned, and I saw vanitie vnder the Sunne.
8. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither childe nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither sayth hee, For whom doe I labour, and bereaue my soule of good? this is also vanitie, yea it is a sore trauell.
9. Two are better then one; because they haue a good reward for their labour.
10. For if they fall, the one will lift vp his fellow; but woe to him that is alone, when he falleth: for he hath not another to helpe him vp.
11. Againe, if two lye together, then they haue heate; but howe can one be warme alone?
12. And if one preuaile against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold coard is not quickly broken.
13. Better is a poore and a wise child, then an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished.
14. For out of prison hee commeth to raigne, whereas also he that is borne in his kingdome, becommeth poore.
15. I considered all the liuing which walke vnder the sunne, with the second child that shall stand vp in his stead.
16. There is no end of all the people, euen of all that haue beene before them: they also that come after, shall not reioyce in him: surely this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

1. Kepe thy foote when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to heare, then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they consider not that they doe euill.
2. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to vtter any thing before God: for God is in heauen, and thou vpon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
3. For a dreame commeth through the multitude of businesse, and a fooles voyce is knowen by multitude of words.
4. When thou vowest a vow vnto God, deferre not to pay it: for he hath no pleasure in fooles; pay that which thou hast vowed.
5. Better is it that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vowe and not pay.
6. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne, neither say thou before the Angel, that it was an errour: wherefore should God be angrie at thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
7. For in the multitude of dreames and many words, there are also diuers vanities: but feare thou God.
8. If thou seest the oppression of the poore, and violent peruerting of iudgement, and iustice in a prouince, maruell not at the matter: for he that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
9. Moreouer the profit of the earth is for all: the king himselfe is serued by the field.
10. Hee that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer; nor he that loueth abundance, with increase: this is also vanitie.
11. When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes?
12. The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe.
13. There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.
14. But those riches perish by euill trauell; and he begetteth a sonne, and there is nothing in his hand.
15. As he came forth of his mothers wombe, naked shall he returne to goe as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16. And this also is a sore euill, that in all points as he came, so shall hee goe: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the winde?
17. All his dayes also hee eateth in darkenesse, and he hath much sorrowe, and wrath with his sicknesse.
18. Behold that which I haue seene: It is good and comely for one to eate and to drinke, and to enioy the good of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for it is his portion.
19. Euery man also to whom God hath giuen riches and wealth, and hath giuen him power to eate thereof, and to take his portion, and to reioyce in his labour; this is the gift of God.
20. For he shall not much remember the dayes of his life: because God answereth him in the ioy of his heart.
1. There is an euill which I haue seen vnder the Sun, and it is common among men:
2. A man to whom God hath giuen riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth, yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a stranger eateth it: This is vanitie, and it is an euill disease.
3. If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he.
4. For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
5. Moreouer hee hath not seene the Sunne, nor knowen any thing: this hath more rest then the other.
6. Yea though he liue a thousand yeeres twice told, yet hath he seene no good: Doe not all goe to one place?
7. All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8. For what hath the wise more then the foole? what hath the poore, that knoweth to walke before the liuing?
9. Better is the sight of the eyes, then the wandering of the desire: this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.
10. That which hath bene, is named already, and it is knowen that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier then he.
11. Seeing there be many things that increase vanitie, what is man the better?
12. For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the dayes of his vaine life, which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shal be after him vnder the sunne?
1. A Good name is better then precious ointment: and the day of death, then the day of ones birth.
2. It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the liuing will lay it to his heart.
3. Sorrow is better then laughter: for by the sadnesse of the countenance the heart is made better.
4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.
5. It is better to heare the rebuke of the wise, then for a man to heare the song of fooles.
6. For as the crackling of thornes vnder a pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.
7. Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad: and a gift destroyeth the heart.
8. Better is the ende of a thing then the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit.
9. Be not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.
10. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former dayes were better then these? For thou doest not enquire wisely concerning this.
11. Wisedome is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profite to them that see the sunne.
12. For wisedome is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellencie of knowledge is, that wisedome giueth life to them that haue it.
13. Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked?
14. In the day of prosperitie be ioyfull, but in the day of aduersitie consider: God also hath set the one ouer against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15. All things haue I seene in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his righteousnes, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickednes.
16. Be not righteous ouer much, neither make thy selfe ouer wise: why shouldest thou destroy thy selfe?
17. Be not ouermuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
18. It is good that thou shouldest take holde of this, yea also from this withdraw not thine hand: for hee that feareth God, shall come foorth of them all.
19. Wisedome strengtheneth the wise, more then ten mightie men which are in the citie.
20. For there is not a iust man vpon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
21. Also take no heede vnto all words that are spoken; lest thou heare thy seruant curse thee.
22. For often times also thine owne heart knoweth, that thou thy selfe likewise hast cursed others.
23. All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I said, I will be wise, but it was farre from me.
24. That which is farre off, and exceeding deepe, who can finde it out?
25. I applyed mine heart to know, and to search, and to seeke out wisdome, and the reason of things, aud to know the wickednes of folly, euen of foolishnesse and madnesse.
26. And I finde more bitter then death, the woman whose heart is snares & nets, and her handes as bands: who so pleaseth God, shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27. Behold, this haue I found (saith the Preacher) counting one by one to finde out the account:
28. Which yet my soule seeketh, but I finde not: one man among a thousand haue I found, but a woman among all those haue I not found.
29. Loe, this onely haue I found, that God hath made man vpright: but they haue sought out many inuentions.
1. Who is as the Wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a mans wisedome maketh his face to shine, and the boldnes of his face shalbe changed.
2. I counsell thee, to keepe the kings commandement, and that in regard of the oath of God.
3. Bee not hastie to goe out of his sight: stand not in an euill thing, for he doeth whatsoeuer pleaseth him.
4. Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say vnto him, What doest thou?
5. Whoso keepeth the commandement, shall feele no euill thing: and a wise mans heart discerneth both time and iudgement.
6. Because to euery purpose there is time, and iudgement; therefore the misery of man is great vpon him.
7. For hee knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him, when it shall be?
8. There is no man that hath power ouer the spirit to retaine the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that warre, neither shall wickednesse deliuer those that are giuen to it.
9. All this haue I seene, and applied my heart vnto euery worke that is done vnder the Sunne: there is a time wherein one man ruleth ouer another to his owne hurt.
10. And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come, and gone from the place of the Holy, and they were forgotten in the city, where they had so done: this is also vanitie.
11. Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to doe euill.
12. Though a sinner doe euill an hundred times, and his dayes be prolonged; yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that feare God, which feare before him.
13. But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall hee prolong his dayes which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
14. There is a vanitie which is done vpon the earth, that there be iust men vnto whom it happeneth according to the worke of the wicked: againe, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the worke of the righteous: I said, that this also is vanitie.
15. Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing vnder the Sunne, then to eate and to drinke, and to be merrie: for that shall abide with him of his labour, the dayes of his life, which God giueth him vnder the Sunne.
16. When I applied mine heart to know wisedome, and to see the busines that is done vpon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleepe with his eyes.)
17. Then I behelde all the worke of God, that a man cannot finde out the worke that is done vnder the Sunne: because though a man labour to seeke it out, yea further though a wise man thinke to know it, yet shall hee not be able to finde it.
1. For all this I considered in my heart, euen to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their workes, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either loue, or hatred, by all that is before them.
2. All things come alike to all: there is one euent to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the cleane, and to the vncleane; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, and hee that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3. This is an euill among all things that are done vnder the Sunne, that there is one euent vnto all: yea also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnesse is in their heart while they liue, and after that they goe to the dead.
4. For to him that is ioyned to all the liuing, there is hope: for a liuing dogge is better then a dead Lion.
5. For the liuing know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither haue they any more a reward, for the memorie of them is forgotten.
6. Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuy is now perished; neither haue they any more a portion for euer in any thing that is done vnder the Sunne.
7. Goe thy way, eate thy bread with ioy, and drinke thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy workes.
8. Let thy garments bee alwayes white; and let thy head lacke no oyntment.
9. Liue ioyfully with the wife, whom thou louest, all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which he hath giuen thee vnder the Sunne, all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest vnder the Sunne.
10. Whatsoeuer thy hand findeth to doe, doe it with thy might: for there is no worke, nor deuice, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue, whither thou goest.
11. I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12. For man also knoweth not his time, as the fishes that are taken in an euil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sonnes of men snared in an euill time, when it falleth suddenly vpon them.
13. This wisedome haue I seene also vnder the Sunne, and it seemed great vnto me:
14. There was a little citie, and few men within it; and there came a great King against it, and besieged it, & built great bulwarks against it:
15. Now there was found in it a poore wise man, and hee by his wisedome deliuered the citie; yet no man remembred that same poore man.
16. Then said I, Wisedome is better then strength: neuerthelesse, the poore mans wisedome is despised, and his words are not heard.
17. The words of wise men are heard in quiet, more then the cry of him that ruleth among fooles.
18. Wisedome is better then weapons of warre: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
1. Dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecarie to send foorth a stinking sauour: so doeth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisedome and honour.
2. A wise mans heart is at his right hand: but a fooles heart at his left.
3. Yea also when hee that is a foole walketh by the way, his wisedome faileth him, and hee saith to euery one that he is a foole.
4. If the spirit of the ruler rise vp against thee, leaue not thy place; for yeelding pacifieth great offences.
5. There is an euill which I haue seene vnder the Sunne, as an errour, which proceedeth from the ruler.
6. Folly is set in great dignitie; and the rich sit in lowe place.
7. I haue seene seruants vpon horses, and princes walking as seruants vpon the earth.
8. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it; and who so breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
9. Who so remoueth stones, shall be hurt therewith: and hee that cleaueth wood, shalbe endangered thereby.
10. If the yron be blunt, and he doe not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisedome is profitable to direct.
11. Surely the serpent will bite without inchauntment, and a babbler is no better.
12. The words of a wise mans mouth are gratious: but the lips of a foole will swallow vp himselfe.
13. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishnesse: and the end of his talke is mischieuous madnesse.
14. A foole also is full of words; a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall bee after him who can tell him?
15. The labour of the foolish wearyeth euery one of them; because hee knoweth not how to goe to the citie.
16. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eate in the morning.
17. Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the sonne of nobles, and thy princes eate in due season, for strength, and not for drunkennesse.
18. By much slouthfulnesse the building decayeth; and through idlenesse of the hands the house droppeth through.
19. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
20. Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the aire shall carry the voyce, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
1. Cast thy bread vpon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many dayes.
2. Giue a portion to seuen and also to eight; for thou knowest noc what euill shall be vpon the earth.
3. If the clouds be full of raine, they emptie themselues vpon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the South, or toward the North, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
4. He that obserueth the wind, shall not sow: and hee that regardeth the clouds, shall not reape.
5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones doe growe in the wombe of her that is with child: euen so thou knowest not the workes of God who maketh all.
6. In the morning sowe thy seede, and in the euening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing is it for the eyes to behold the sunne.
8. But if a man liue many yeeres, and reioyce in them all; yet let him remember the dayes of darkenesse, for they shall be many. All that commeth is vanitie.
9. Reioyce, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth, and walke in the wayes of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things, God will bring thee into iudgement.
10. Therefore remoue sorrow from thy heart, and put away euill from thy flesh; for child-hood & youth are vanitie.
1. Remember now thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth, while the euil daies come not, nor the yeeres drawe nigh, when thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:
2. While the Sunne, or the light, or the moone, or the starres be not darkened, nor the cloudes returne after the raine:
3. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bowe themselues, and the grinders cease, because they are fewe, and those that looke out of the windowes be darkened:
4. And the doores shal be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise vp at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musicke shall be brought low.
5. Also when they shalbe afraid of that which is high, and feares shall bee in the way, and the Almond tree shall flourish, and the grashopper shall be a burden, and desire shall faile: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners goe about the streets:
6. Or euer the siluer corde be loosed, or the golden bowle be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountaine, or the wheele broken at the cisterne.
7. Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall returne vnto God who gaue it.
8. Uanitie of vanities (saith the preacher) all is vanitie.
9. And moreouer because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, yea he gaue good heed, and sought out, and set in order many prouerbes.
10. The preacher sought to finde out acceptable words, and that which was written was vpright, euen wordes of trueth.
11. The wordes of the wise are as goads, and as nailes fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are giuen from one shepheard.
12. And further, by these, my sonne, be admonished: of making many bookes there is no end, and much studie is a wearinesse of the flesh.
13. Let vs heare the conclusion of the whole matter: Feare God, and keepe his commandements, for this is the whole duetie of man.
14. For God shal bring euery worke into iudgement, with euer secret thing, whether it bee good, or whether it bee euill.
1. The song of songs, which is Solomons.
2. Let him kisse mee with the kisses of his mouth: for thy Loue is better then wine.
3. Because of the sauour of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment powred forth, therefore doe the virgins loue thee.
4. Draw me, we will runne after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and reioyce in thee, we wil remember thy loue more then wine: the vpright loue thee.
5. I am blacke, but comely, (O ye daughters of Ierusalem) as the tents of Kedar, as the curtaines of Solomon.
6. Looke not vpon me because I am blacke, because the Sunne hath looked vpon me: my mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine owne vineyard haue I not kept.
7. Tell me, (O thou whom my soule loueth) where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flocke to rest at noone: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flockes of thy companions?
8. If thou know not (O thou fairest among women) goe thy way forth by the footsteps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes beside the shepheards tents.
9. I haue compared thee, O my loue, to a company of horses in Pharaohs chariots.
10. Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of iewels, thy necke with chaines of golde.
11. Wee will make thee borders of golde, with studdes of siluer.
12. While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth foorth the smell thereof.
13. A bundle of myrrhe is my welbeloued vnto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
14. My beloued is vnto me, as a cluster of Camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
15. Behold, thou art faire, my loue: behold, thou art faire, thou hast doues eyes.
16. Behold, thou art faire, my beloued; yea pleasant: also our bedde is greene.
17. The beames of our house are Cedar, and our rafters of firre.
1. I Am the rose of Sharon, and the lillie of the valleys.
2. As the lillie among thornes, so is my loue among the daughters.
3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloued among the sonnes. I sate downe vnder his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweete to my taste.
4. Hee brought me to the banketting house, and his banner ouer mee, was loue.
5. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sicke of loue.
6. His left hand is vnder my head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.
7. I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.
8. The voice of my beloued! behold! hee commeth leaping vpon the mountaines, skipping vpon the hils.
9. My beloued is like a Roe, or a yong Hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh foorth at the windowe, shewing himselfe through the lattesse.
10. My beloued spake, and said vnto me, Rise vp, my Loue, my faire one, and come away.
11. For loe, the winter is past, the raine is ouer, and gone.
12. The flowers appeare on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
13. The fig tree putteth foorth her greene figs, and the vines with the tender grape giue a good smell. Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come away.
14. O my doue! that art in the clefts of the rocke, in the secret places of the staires: let me see thy countenance, let me heare thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
15. Take vs the foxes, the litle foxes, that spoile the vines: for our vines haue tender grapes.
16. My beloued is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lillies.
17. Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: turne my beloued and be thou like a Roe, or a yong Hart, vpon the mountaines of Bether.
1. By night on my bed I sought him whome my soule loueth. I sought him, but I found him not.
2. I will rise now, and goe about the citie in the streets, and in the broad wayes I will seeke him whom my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.
3. The watchmen that goe about the citie, found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soule loueth?
4. It was but a litle that I passed from them, but I found him whome my soule loueth: I helde him, and would not let him goe, vntill I had brought him into my mothers house, and into the chamber of her that conceiued me.
5. I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes and by the Hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till he please.
6. Who is this that commeth out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrhe and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
7. Behold his bed, which is Solomons: threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel:
8. They all hold swords, being expert in warre: Euery man hath his sword vpon his thigh, because of feare in the night.
9. King Solomon made himselfe a charet of the wood of Lebanon.
10. He made the pillars thereof of siluer, the bottome thereof of gold, the couering of it, of purple; the midst thereof being paued with loue, for the daughters of Ierusalem.
11. Goe foorth, O yee daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the Crowne wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladnesse of his heart.
1. Behold, thou art faire, my loue, behold thou art faire, thou hast doues eyes within thy lockes: thy haire is as a flocke of goats, that appeare from mount Gilead.
2. Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe that are euen shorne, which came vp from the washing: whereof euery one beare twinnes, and none is barren among them.
3. Thy lips are like a threed of scarlet, and thy speach is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy lockes.
4. Thy necke is like the tower of Dauid builded for an armorie, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mightie men.
5. Thy two breasts, are like two yong Roes, that are twinnes, which feed among the lillies.
6. Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away, I will get mee to the mountaines of myrrhe, and to the hill of frankincense.
7. Thou art all faire, my loue, there is no spot in thee.
8. Come with me from Lebanon (my spouse,) with me from Lebanon: looke from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the Lions dennes, from the mountaines of the Leopards.
9. Thou hast rauished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast rauished my heart, with one of thine eyes, with one chaine of thy necke.
10. How faire is thy loue, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy loue then wine! and the smell of thine oyntments then all spices!
11. Thy lips, O my spouse! drop as the hony combe: hony and milke are vnder thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12. A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut vp, a fountaine sealed.
13. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, Camphire, with Spikenaed,
14. Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus and Cynamom, with all trees of Frankincense, Mirrhe and Aloes, with all the chiefe spices.
15. A fountaine of gardens, a well of liuing waters, and streames from Lebanon.
16. Awake, O Northwinde, and come thou South, blow vpon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out: let my beloued come into his garden, and eate his pleasant fruits.
1. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I haue gathered my Myrrhe with my spice, I haue eaten my honie combe with my hony, I haue drunke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, yea drinke abundantly, O beloued!
2. I sleepe, but my heart waketh: it is the voyce of my beloued that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for my head is filled with dewe, and my lockes with the drops of the night.
3. I haue put off my coate, how shall I put it on? I haue washed my feete, how shall I defile them?
4. My beloued put in his hand by the hole of the dore, and my bowels were moued for him.
5. I rose vp to open to my beloued, and my hands dropped with myrrhe, and my fingers with sweete smelling myrrhe, vpon the handles of the locke.
6. I opened to my beloued, but my beloued had with drawen himselfe, and was gone: my soule failed when hee spake: I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gaue me no answere.
7. The watchmen that went about the citie, found me, they smote me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.
8. I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if ye find my beloued, that yee tell him, that I am sicke of loue.
9. What is thy beloued more then another beloued, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloued more then another beloued, that thou doest so charge vs?
10. My beloued is white and ruddy, the chiefest among tenne thousand.
11. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and blacke as a Rauen.
12. His eyes are as the eyes of doues by the riuers of water, washed with milk, and fitly set.
13. His cheekes are as a bed of spices, as sweete flowers: his lippes like lillies, dropping sweete smelling myrrhe.
14. His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright iuorie, ouerlayd with Saphires.
15. His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars.
16. His mouth is most sweete, yea he is altogether louely. This is my beloued, and this is my friend, O daughters of Ierusalem.
1. Whither is thy beloued gone? O thou fairest among women, whither is thy beloued turned aside? that we may seeke him with thee.
2. My beloued is gone downe into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lillies.
3. I am my beloueds, & my beloued is mine: he feedeth among the lillies.
4. Thou art beautifull, O my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusalem, terrible as an armie with banners.
5. Turne away thine eyes from me, for they haue ouercome me: thy haire is a flocke of goates, that appeare from Gilead.
6. Thy teeth are as a flocke of sheepe which goe vp from the washing, wherof euery one beareth twinnes, and there is not one barren among them.
7. As a piece of a pomegranat are thy temples within thy lockes.
8. There are threescore Queenes, and fourescore concubines, and virgins without number.
9. My doue, my vndefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her: The daughters sawe her, and blessed her; yea the Queenes and the concubins, and they praysed her.
10. Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, faire as the moone, cleare as the sunne, and terrible as an armie with banners?
11. I went downe into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranats budded.
12. Or euer I was aware, my soule made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
13. Returne, returne, O Shulamite; returne, returne, that we may looke vpon thee: what will yee see in the Shulamite? as it were the company of two armies.

1. Howe beautifull are thy feete with shooes, O princes daughter! the ioynts of thy thighs are like iewels, the worke of the hands of a cunning workman.
2. Thy nauell is like a round goblet, which wanteth not licour: thy belly is like an heape of wheate, set about with lillies.
3. Thy two breasts are like two yong Roes that are twinnes.
4. Thy necke is as a towre of yuory: thine eyes like the fish pooles in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.
5. Thine head vpon thee is like Carmel, and the haire of thine head like purple, the king is held in the galleries.
6. How faire, and how pleasant art thou, O Loue, for delights!
7. This thy stature is like to a palme tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8. I said, I will goe vp to the palme tree, I will take hold of the boughes thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose, like apples.
9. And the roofe of thy mouth like the best wine, for my beloued, that goeth downe sweetely, causing the lippes of those that are asleepe, to speake.
10. I am my beloueds, and his desire is towards me.
11. Come, my beloued, let vs goe forth into the field: let vs lodge in the villages.
12. Let vs get vp earely to the vineyards, let vs see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appeare, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I giue thee my loues.
13. The mandrakes giue a smell, and at our gates are all maner of pleasant fruits, new and olde, which I haue laid vp for thee, O my beloued.
1. O that thou wert as my brother that sucked the brests of my mother, when I should find thee without, I would kisse thee, yet I should not be despised.
2. I would leade thee, and bring thee into my mothers house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drinke of spiced wine, of the iuice of my pomegranate.
3. His left hand should be vnder my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4. I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue vntill he please.
5. (Who is this that commeth vp from the wildernesse, leaning vpon her beloued?) I raised thee vp vnder the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth, there she brought thee forth, that bare thee.
6. Set mee as a seale vpon thine heart, as a seale vpon thine arme: for loue is strong as death, iealousie is cruel as the graue: the coales thereof are coales of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7. Many waters cannot quench loue, neither can the floods drowne it: if a man would giue all the substance of his house for loue, it would vtterly be contemned.
8. We haue a litle sister, and shee hath no breasts: what shall we doe for our sister, in the day when she shall bee spoken for?
9. If she be a wall, we will build vpon her a palace of siluer: and if she bee a dore, we will inclose her with boards of Cedar.
10. I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found fauour.
11. Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon, hee let out the vineyard vnto keepers: euery one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of siluer.
12. My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou (O Solomon) must haue a thousand, and those that keepe the fruit thereof, two hundred.
13. Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to heare it.
14. Make haste, my beloued, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a yong Hart vpon the mountaines of spices.











































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































1. The Uision of Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, which hee sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem, in the dayes of Uzziah, Iotham, Ahaz, & Hezekiah kings of Iudah.
2. Heare, O heauens, and giue eare, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken; I haue nourished and brought vp children, and they haue rebelled against me.
3. The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters cribbe: but Israel doeth not know, my people doeth not consider.
4. Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of euill doers, children that are corrupters: they haue forsaken the Lord, they haue prouoked the Holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone away backward.
5. Why should yee be stricken any more? yee will reuolt more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart faint.
6. From the sole of the foote, euen vnto the head, there is no soundnesse in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they haue not beene closed, neither bound vp, neither mollified with oyntment.
7. Your countrey is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your land, strangers deuoure it in your presence, and it is desolate as ouerthrowen by strangers.
8. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged citie.
9. Except the Lord of hostes had left vnto vs a very small remnant, we should haue beene as Sodom, and we should haue bene like vnto Gomorrah.
10. Heare the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, giue eare vnto the Law of our God, yee people of Gomorrah.
11. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices vnto me, sayth the Lord? I am full of the burnt offerings of rammes, and the fat of fedde beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullockes, or of lambes, or of hee goates.
12. When ye come to appeare before mee, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13. Bring no more vaine oblations, incense is an abomination vnto me: the new Moones, and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies I cannot away with; it is iniquitie, euen the solemne meeting.
14. Your new Moones, and your appointed Feasts my soule hateth: they are a trouble vnto me, I am weary to beare them.
15. And when ye spread foorth your handes, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when yee make many prayers I will not heare: your hands are full of blood.
16. Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to doe euill,
17. Learne to doe well, seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed, iudge the fatherlesse, plead for the widow.
18. Come now and let vs reason together, saith the Lord: though your sinnes be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimsin, they shall be as wooll.
19. If yee be willing and obedient, yee shall eate the good of the land.
20. But if yee refuse and rebell, yee shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21. Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement, righteousnesse lodged in it; but now murtherers.
22. Thy siluer is become drosse, thy wine mixt with water.
23. Thy princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doth the cause of the widowe come vnto them.
24. Therefore, saith the Lord, the Lord of hostes, the mighty one of Israel; Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine enemies.
25. And I will turne my hand vpon thee, and purely purge away thy drosse, and take away all thy tinne.
26. And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the citie of righteousnesse, the faithfull citie.
27. Zion shall be redeemed with iudgement, and her conuerts with righteousnesse.
28. And the destruction of the transgressours and of the sinners shall be together: and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29. For they shall be ashamed of the okes which yee haue desired, and yee shalbe confounded for the gardens that yee haue chosen.
30. For yee shall be as an oke whose leafe fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31. And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.
1. The word that Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem.
2. And it shall come to passe in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the hilles; and all nations shall flow vnto it.
3. And many people shall goe & say; Come yee and let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the house of the God of Iacob, and he will teach vs of his wayes, and we will walke in his pathes: for out of Zion shall goe forth the lawe, and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem.
4. And hee shall iudge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beate their swords into plow-shares, and their speares into pruning hookes: nation shall not lift vp sword against nation, neither shall they learne warre any more.
5. O house of Iacob, come yee, and let vs walke in the light of the Lord.
6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselues in the children of strangers.
7. Their land also is full of siluer and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures: their land is also full of horses; neither is there any end of their charets.
8. Their land also is full of idoles: they worship the worke of their owne hands, that which their owne fingers haue made.
9. And the meane man boweth downe, and the great man humbleth himselfe; therefore forgiue them not.
10. Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust, for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maiestie.
11. The loftie lookes of man shalbe humbled, and the hautines of men shalbe bowed downe: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.
12. For the day of the Lord of hostes shall bee vpon euery one that is proud and loftie, and vpon euery one that is lifted vp, and he shalbe brought low;
13. And vpon all the Cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted vp; and vpon all the okes of Bashan,
14. And vpon all the high mountaines, and vpon all the hilles that are lifted vp,
15. And vpon euery high tower, and vpon euery fenced wall,
16. And vpon all the ships of Tarshish, and vpon all pleasant pictures.
17. And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe, and the hautinesse of men shalbe made low: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.
18. And the idoles hee shall vtterly abolish.
19. And they shall goe into the holes of the rocks, and into the caues of the earth for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20. In that day a man shall cast his idoles of siluer, and his idoles of golde which they made each one for himselfe to worship, to the moules and to the battes:
21. To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rockes, for feare of the Lord, and for the glorie of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is hee to be accounted of?
1. For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hostes doeth take away from Ierusalem, and from Iudah, the stay and the staffe, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2. The mighty man, and the man of warre; the Iudge and the Prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3. The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent oratour.
4. And I will giue children to bee their Princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.
5. And the people shall be oppressed, euery one by another, and euery one by his neighbour: the childe shall behaue himselfe proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6. When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruine bee vnder thy hand:
7. In that day shall he sweare, saying, I will not be an healer: for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8. For Ierusalem is ruined, & Iudah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glorie.
9. The shew of their countenance doeth witnesse against them, and they declare their sinne as Sodom, they hide it not: woe vnto their soule, for they haue rewarded euill vnto themselues.
10. Say yee to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eate the fruit of their doings.
11. Woe vnto the wicked, it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.
12. As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule ouer them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13. The Lord standeth vp to plead, and standeth to iudge the people.
14. The Lord will enter into iudgement with the ancients of his people, and the Princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the Uineyard; the spoile of the poore is in your houses.
15. What meane yee that yee beat my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord God of hosts?
16. Moreouer the Lord saith; Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feet:
17. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crowne of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discouer their secret parts.
18. In that day the Lord will take away the brauery of their tinckling ornaments about their feete, and their caules, and their round tyres like the Moone.
19. The chaines, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20. The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legges, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earerings,
21. The rings, and nose-iewels,
22. The changeable sutes of apparell, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes,
23. The glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods, and the vailes.
24. And it shall come to passe, that in steade of sweete smell, there shall bee stinke; and in stead of a girdle, a rent; and in stead of well set haire, baldnesse; and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth; and burning, in stead of beautie.
25. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mightie in the warre.
26. And her gates shall lament and mourne; and she being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
1. And in that day seuen women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eate our owne bread, & weare our owne apparell: onely let vs be called by thy name, to take away our reproch.
2. In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautifull and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shalbe excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3. And it shall come to passe, that hee that is left in Zion, and hee that remaineth in Ierusalem, shall be called Holy, euen euery one that is written among the liuing in Ierusalem,
4. When the Lord shall haue washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall haue purged the blood of Ierusalem from the middest thereof, by the spirit of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning.
5. And the Lord will create vpon euery dwelling place of mount Zion, and vpon her assemblies a cloude, and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for vpon all the glory shall be a defence.
6. And there shalbe a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a couert from storme and from raine.
1. Now will I sing to my welbeloued, a song of my beloued touching his vineyard: my wellbeloued hath a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill.
2. And hee fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a towre in the middest of it, and also made a winepresse therein: and he looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it brought foorth wilde grapes.
3. And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my Uineyard.
4. What could haue beene done more to my Uineyard, that I haue not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, brought it foorth wilde grapes?
5. And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Uineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp; and breake downe the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe.
6. And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine vpon it.
7. For the Uineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression; for righteousnesse, but behold a crie.
8. Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.
9. In mine eares said the Lord of hostes, Of a trueth many houses shall be desolate, euen great and faire without inhabitant.
10. Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yeeld one Bath, and the seed of an Homer shall yeeld an Ephah.
11. Woe vnto them that rise vp earely in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue vntill night, till wine enflame them.
12. And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13. Therefore my people are gone into captiuitie, because they haue no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, aud their multitude dried vp with thirst.
14. Therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth, shall descend into it.
15. And the meane man shall bee brought downe, and the mightie man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the loftie shall be humbled.
16. But the Lord of hosts shalbe exalted in iudgement, and God that is holy, shall bee sanctified in righteousnesse.
17. Then shall the lambes feed after their maner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eate.
18. Woe vnto them that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, and sinne, as it were with a cart rope:
19. That say, Let him make speede, and hasten his worke, that we may see it: and let the counsell of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come, that wee may know it.
20. Woe vnto them that call euill good, and good euill, that put darkenes for light, and light for darkenesse, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for bitter.
21. Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne sight.
22. Woe vnto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drinke.
23. Which iustifie the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousnes of the righteous from him.
24. Therfore as the fire deuoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaffe, so their root shall be rottennes, and their blossome shall goe vp as dust: because they haue cast away the Lawe of the Lord of hosts, and despised the worde of the Holy One of Israel.
25. Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched foorth his hande against them, and hath smitten them: and the hilles did tremble, and their carkeises were torne in the midst of the streets: for all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26. And he will lift vp an ensigne to the nations from farre, and wil hisse vnto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.
27. None shalbe weary, nor stumble amongst them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of their shooes be broken.
28. Whose arrowes are sharpe, and all their bowes bent, their horses hoofs shall bee counted like flint, and their wheeles like a whirlewind.
29. Their roaring shalbe like a lyon, they shall roare like yong lions: yea they shal roare and lay hold of the pray, and shall carie it away safe, and none shall deliuer it.
30. And in that day they shall roare against them, like the roaring of the sea: and if one looke vnto the land, behold darkenesse and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.
1. In the yeere that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting vpon a throne, high and lifted vp, and his traine filled the Temple.
2. Aboue it stood the Seraphims: each one had sixe wings, with twaine he couered his face, and with twaine hee couered his feete, and with twaine hee did flie.
3. And one cryed vnto another, and sayd; Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hostes, the whole earth is full of his glory.
4. And the posts of the doore moued at the voyce of him that cryed, and the house was filled with smoke.
5. Then sayd I; woe is me; for I am vndone, because I am a man of vncleane lippes, and I dwell in the midst of a people of vncleane lippes: for mine eyes haue seene the king, the Lord of hostes.
6. Then flew one of the Seraphims vnto mee, hauing a liue-cole in his hand, which hee had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
7. And he laide it vpon my mouth, and sayd, Loe, this hath touched thy lippes, and thine iniquitie is taken away, and thy sinne purged.
8. Also I heard the voyce of the Lord, saying; Whom shall I send, and who will goe for vs? Then I saide; Heere am I, send me.
9. And he sayd, Goe and tell this people; Heare yee indeede, but vnderstand not: and see yee indeed, but perceiue not.
10. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their eares heauy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their heart, and conuert and be healed.
11. Then sayd I; Lord, how long? And hee answered, Untill the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be vtterly desolate,
12. And the Lord haue remoued men farre away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13. But yet in it shalbe a tenth, and it shall returne, and shall be eaten: as a Teyle tree, and as an Oke whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaues: so the holy seede shall be the substance thereof.
1. And it came to passe in the dayes of Ahaz the sonne of Iotham, the sonne of Uzziah king of Iudah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah, the sonne of Remaliah king of Israel, went vp towards Ierusalem to warre against it, but could not preuaile against it.
2. And it was told the house of Dauid, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim: and his heart was moued, and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood are mooued with the wind.
3. Then sayd the Lord vnto Isaiah; Goe forth now to meete Ahaz, thou, & Shear-iashub thy sonne, at the end of the conduit of the vpper poole in the high way of the fullers field.
4. And say vnto him; Take heede and be quiet: feare not, neither be faint hearted for the two tailes of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the sonne of Remaliah.
5. Because Syria, Ephraim, and the sonne of Remaliah haue taken euill counsell against thee, saying;
6. Let vs goe vp against Iudah and vexe it, and let vs make a breach therein for vs, and set a king in the midst of it, euen the sonne of Tabeal.
7. Thus saith the Lord God; It shall not stand, neither shall it come to passe.
8. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within threescore and fiue yeeres shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliahs sonne: if yee will not beleeue, surely yee shall not be established.
10. Moreouer the Lord spake againe vnto Ahaz, saying;
11. Aske thee a signe of the Lord thy God; aske it either in the depth, or in the height aboue.
12. But Ahaz sayd, I will not aske, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13. And he sayd; Heare yee now, O house of Dauid; Is it a small thing for you to wearie men, but will yee wearie my God also?
14. Therefore the Lord himselfe shal giue you a signe: Behold, a Uirgine shall conceiue and beare a Sonne, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15. Butter and hony shall he eat, that hee may know to refuse the euill, and choose the good.
16. For before the childe shall know to refuse the euill and choose the good; the land that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her kings.
17. The Lord shall bring vpon thee and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers house, dayes that haue not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Iudah; euen the King of Assyria.
18. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall hisse for the flie, that is in the vttermost part of the riuers of Egypt, and for the Bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19. And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thornes, and vpon all bushes.
20. In the same day shall the Lord shaue with a rasor that is hired, namely by them beyond the riuer, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the haire of the feet: and it shal also consume the beard.
21. And it shall come to passe in that day, that a man shal nourish a yong cow and two sheepe.
22. And it shall come to passe, for the abundance of milke that they shall giue, he shal eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, that is left in the land.
23. And it shall come to passe in that day, that euery place shalbe, where there were a thousand Uines at a thousand siluerlings, it shall euen be for briers and thornes.
24. With arrowes and with bowes shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briars and thornes.
25. And on all hilles that shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come thither the feare of briars and thornes: but it shall bee for the sending foorth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattell.
1. Moreouer the Lord said vnto mee, Take thee a great roule, and write in it with a mans penne, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2. And I tooke vnto mee faithfull witnesses to record, Uriah the Priest, and Zechariah the sonne of Ieberechiah.
3. And I went vnto the Prophetesse, and shee conceiued and bare a sonne, then said the Lord to mee, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4. For before the childe shall haue knowledge to cry, My father and my mother, the riches of Damascus, and the spoile of Samaria shalbe taken away before the king of Assyria.
5. The Lord spake also vnto me againe, saying,
6. For so much as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that goe softly, and reioyce in Rezin, and Remaliahs sonne:
7. Now therefore behold, the Lord bringeth vp vpon them the waters of the riuer strong and many, euen the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come vp ouer all his channels, and goe ouer all his bankes.
8. And hee shall passe through Iudah, he shall ouerflow and goe ouer, he shall reach euen to the necke; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9. Associate your selues, O ye people, and yee shalbe broken in pieces; and giue eare all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces; gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces.
10. Take counsell together, and it shall come to nought: speake the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with vs.
11. For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying,
12. Say ye not, A confederacie to all them, to whom this people shall say, A confederacie; neither feare yee their feare, nor be afraid.
13. Sanctifie the Lord of hostes himselfe, and let him bee your feare, and let him be your dread.
14. And he shalbe for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rocke of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a ginne, and for a snare to the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
15. And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16. Binde vp the Testimonie, seale the Law among my disciples.
17. And I wil wait vpon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I will looke for him.
18. Behold, I, and the children whom the Lord hath giuen me, are for signes, and for wonders in Israel: from the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19. And when they shall say vnto you; Seeke vnto them that haue familiar spirits, and vnto wizards that peepe and that mutter: should not a people seeke vnto their God? for the liuing, to the dead?
20. To the Law and to the Testimonie: if they speake not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21. And they shall passe through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to passe, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselues, and curse their King, and their God, and looke vpward.
22. And they shall looke vnto the earth: and behold trouble and darkenesse, dimnesse of anguish; and they shall be driuen to darkenesse.
1. Neuerthelesse the dimnesse shall not be such as was in her vexation; when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grieuously afflict her by the way of the Sea, beyond Iordan in Galile of the nations.
2. The people that walked in darknesse, haue seene a great light: they that dwel in the land of the shadow of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
3. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the ioy: they ioy before thee, according to the ioy in haruest, and as men reioyce when they diuide the spoile.
4. For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staffe of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressour, as in the day of Midian.
5. For euery battell of the warriour is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fewell of fire.
6. For vnto vs a child is borne, vnto vs a Sonne is giuen, and the gouernment shalbe vpon his shoulder: and his name shalbe called, Wonderfull, Counseller, The mightie God, The euerlasting Father, The Prince of peace.
7. Of the increase of his gouernment and peace there shall be no end, vpon the throne of Dauid & vpon his kingdome, to order it, and to stablish it with iudgement and with iustice, from henceforth euen for euer: the zeale of the Lord of hostes will performe this.
8. The Lord sent a word into Iacob, and it hath lighted vpon Israel.
9. And all the people shal know, euen Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutnesse of heart;
10. The brickes are fallen downe, but we will build with hewen stones: the Sycomores are cut downe, but we will change them into Cedars.
11. Therefore the Lord shall set vp the aduersaries of Rezin against him, and ioyne his enemies together.
12. The Syrians before, and the Philistines behinde, and they shall deuoure Israel with open mouth: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13. For the people turneth not vnto him that smiteth them, neither doe they seeke the Lord of hostes.
14. Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and taile, branch and rush in one day.
15. The ancient and honourable, hee is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the taile.
16. For the leaders of this people cause them to erre, and they that are ledde of them, are destroyed.
17. Therfore the Lord shall haue no ioy in their yong men, neither shall haue mercy on their fatherlesse & widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite, and an euil doer, and euery mouth speaketh folly: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18. For wickednes burneth as the fire: it shall deuoure the briers and thornes, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forrest, and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.
19. Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuell of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20. And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry, and he shall eate on the left hand, and they shall not bee satisfied: they shall eate euery man the flesh of his owne arme.
21. Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shalbe against Iudah: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
1. Woe vnto them that decree vnrighteous decrees, and that write grieuousnesse which they haue prescribed:
2. To turne aside the needy from iudgement, and to take away the right from the poore of my people, that widdowes may be their pray, and that they may robbe the fatherles.
3. And what wil ye doe in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from farre? To whom wil ye flee for helpe? And where will yee leaue your glory?
4. Without mee they shall bowe downe vnder the prisoners, and they shall fall vnder the slaine: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5. O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staffe in their hand is mine indignation.
6. I will send him against an hypocriticall nation, and against the people of my wrath will I giue him a charge to take the spoile, and to take the praye, and to tread them downe like the mire of the streets.
7. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart thinke so, but it is in his heart to destroy, and cut off nations not a few.
8. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9. Is not Calno, as Carchemish? Is not Hamath, as Arpad? Is not Samaria, as Damascus?
10. As my hand hath found the kingdomes of the idoles, and whose grauen images did excell them of Ierusalem and of Samaria:
11. Shall I not, as I haue done vnto Samaria and her idoles, so doe to Ierusalem and her idoles?
12. Wherefore it shall come to passe, that when the Lord hath performed his whole worke vpon mount Zion, and on Ierusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high lookes.
13. For hee saith, By the strength of my hand I haue done it, and by my wisedome, for I am prudent: and I haue remooued the bounds of the people, and haue robbed their treasures, and I haue put downe the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth egges that are left, haue I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moued the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15. Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? Or shal the sawe magnifie it selfe against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake it selfe against them that lift it vp, or as if the staffe should lift vp it selfe, as if it were no wood.
16. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leannesse, and vnder his glory hee shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire.
17. And the light of Israel shall bee for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burne and deuoure his thornes and his briers in one day:
18. And shall consume the glory of his forrest, and of his fruitfull field both soule and body: and they shall bee as when a standerd bearer fainteth.
19. And the rest of the trees of his forrest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20. And it shal come to passe in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iacob, shall no more againe stay vpon him that smote them: but shall stay vpon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in trueth.
21. The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iacob, vnto the mightie God.
22. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall returne: the consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.
23. For the Lord God of hostes shall make a consumption, euen determined in the middest of all the land.
24. Therfore thus saith the Lord God of hostes, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraide of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift vp his staffe against thee, after the maner of Egypt.
25. For yet a very litle while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26. And the Lord of hostes shall stirre vp a scourge for him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rocke Oreb: and as his rod was vpon the Sea, so shall he lift it vp after the manner of Egypt.
27. And it shall come to passe in that day, that his burden shalbe taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy necke, and the yoke shalbe destroyed because of the anointing.
28. He is come to Aiath, hee is passed to Migron: at Michmash he hath laid vp his cariages.
29. They are gone ouer the passage: they haue taken vp their lodging at Geba, Ramah is afraid, Gebeah of Saul is fled.
30. Lift vp thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to bee heard vnto Laish, O poore Anathoth.
31. Madmenah is remooued, the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselues to flee.
32. As yet shall hee remaine at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Ierusalem.
33. Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hostes shall lop the bough with terrour: and the high ones of stature shal be hewen downe, and the haughtie shalbe humbled.
34. And he shall cut downe the thickets of the forrests with yron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mightie one.
1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stemme of Iesse, and a branch shal grow out of his rootes.
2. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest vpon him, the spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding, the spirit of counsell and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lord:
3. And shal make him of quicke vnderstanding in the feare of the Lord, and he shall not iudge after the sight of his eyes, neither reproue after the hearing of his eares.
4. But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and reprooue with equitie, for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rodde of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5. And righteousnesse shalbe the girdle of his loines, and faithfulnesse the girdle of his reines.
6. The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie downe with the kid: and the calfe and the yong lion, and the fatling together, and a litle child shall lead them.
7. And the cow and the beare shall feed, their yong ones shall lie downe together: and the lyon shall eate straw like the oxe.
8. And the sucking childe shall play on the hole of the aspe, and the weaned childe shall put his hand on the cockatrice denne.
9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine: for the earth shall bee full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters couer the sea.
10. And in that day there shall bee a roote of Iesse, which shall stand for an ensigne of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seeke, and his rest shall bee glorious.
11. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall set his hande againe the second time, to recouer the remnant of his people which shalbe left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, & from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the ylands of the Sea.
12. And he shall set vp an ensigne for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Iudah, from the foure corners of the earth.
13. The enuie also of Ephraim shal depart, and the aduersaries of Iudah shalbe cut off: Ephraim shall not enuie Iudah, and Iudah shall not vexe Ephraim.
14. But they shall fly vpon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West, they shall spoile them of the East together: they shall lay their hand vpon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15. And the Lord shall vtterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind shall hee shake his hand ouer the riuer, and shall smite it in the seuen streames, and make men goe ouer dry-shod.
16. And there shalbe an high way for the remnant of his people, which shalbe left from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that hee came vp out of the land of Egypt.
1. And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angrie with mee, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2. Behold, God is my saluation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord IEHOVAH is my strength and my song, he also is become my saluation.
3. Therefore with ioy shall yee draw water out of the wels of saluation.
4. And in that day shall yee say; Praise the Lord, call vpon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5. Sing vnto the Lord; for hee hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all the earth.
6. Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee.
1. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the sonne of Amoz did see.
2. Lift yee vp a banner vpon the high mountaine, exalt the voice vnto them, shake the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.
3. I haue commanded my sanctified ones: I haue also called my mightie ones for mine anger, euen them that reioyce in my highnesse.
4. The noise of a multitude in the mountaines, like as of a great people: a tumultuous noise of the kingdomes of nations gathered together: the Lord of hostes mustereth the hoste of the battell.
5. They come from a farre countrey from the end of heauen, euen the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6. Howle yee; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7. Therefore shall all hands bee faint, and euery mans heart shall melt.
8. And they shalbe afraid: pangs and sorrowes shall take hold of them, they shalbe in paine as a woman that trauelleth: they shalbe amazed one at another, their faces shalbe as flames.
9. Behold, the day of the Lord commeth, cruell both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10. For the starres of heauen, and the constellations thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going forth, and the moone shall not cause her light to shine.
11. And I will punish the world for their euill, and the wicked for their iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible.
12. I will make a man more pretious then fine gold; euen a man then the golden wedge of Ophir.
13. Therefore I will shake the heauens, and the earth shall remoue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14. And it shalbe as the chased Roe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp: they shall euery man turne to his owne people, and flee euery one into his owne land.
15. Euery one that is found shall be thrust through: and euery one that is ioyned vnto them, shall fall by the sword.
16. Their children also shalbe dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses shalbe spoiled, & their wiues rauished.
17. Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regard siluer, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18. Their bowes also shall dash the yong men to pieces, and they shall haue no pitie on the fruit of the wombe; their eye shall not spare children.
19. And Babylon the glory of kingdomes, the beautie of the Chaldees excellencie, shall be as when God ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20. It shall neuer be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shal the shepheards make their fold there.
21. But wilde beastes of the desert shall lye there, and their houses shalbe full of dolefull creatures, and owles shall dwell there, and Satyres shall daunce there.
22. And the wilde beastes of the Ilands shal cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is neere to come, and her dayes shall not be prolonged.
1. For the Lord wil haue mercie on Iacob, and wil yet choose Israel, and set them in their owne land: and the strangers shalbe ioyned with them, and they shal cleaue to the house of Iacob.
2. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possesse them in the land of the Lord, for seruants and handmaides: and they shall take them captiues, whose captiues they were, and they shall rule ouer their oppressours.
3. And it shall come to passe in the day that the Lord shal giue thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy feare, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serue,
4. That thou shalt take vp this prouerbe against the king of Babylon, and say; How hath the oppressour ceased? the golden citie ceased?
5. The Lord hath broken the staffe of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6. He who smote the people in wrath with a continuall stroke; hee that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted and none hindereth.
7. The whole earth is at rest and is quiet: they breake foorth into singing.
8. Yea the firre trees reioyce at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art layd downe, no feller is come vp against vs.
9. Hell from beneath is mooued for thee to meet thee at thy comming: it stirreth vp the dead for thee, euen all the chiefe ones of the earth; it hath raised vp from their thrones, all the kings of the nations.
10. All they shall speake and say vnto thee; Art thou also become weake as we? art thou become like vnto vs?
11. Thy pompe is brought downe to the graue, and the noyse of thy violes: the worme is spread vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee.
12. How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? how art thou cut downe to the ground, which didst weaken the nations?
13. For thou hast said in thine heart; I wil ascend into heauen, I wil exalt my throne aboue the starres of God: I wil sit also vpon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the North.
14. I wil ascend aboue the heights of the cloudes, I wil bee like the most High.
15. Yet thou shalt be brought downe to hel, to the sides of the pit.
16. They that see thee shal narrowly looke vpon thee, and consider thee, saying; Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdomes?
17. That made the world as a wildernesse, and destroyed the cities thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18. All the kings of the nations, euen all of them lie in glory, euery one in his owne house.
19. But thou art cast out of thy graue, like an abominable branch: and as the raiment of those that are slaine, thrust through with a sword, that goe downe to the stones of the pit, as a carkeis troden vnder feete.
20. Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in buriall, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slaine thy people: the seede of euill doers shall neuer be renowmed.
21. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquitie of their fathers, that they doe not rise nor possesse the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22. For I will rise vp against them, sayth the Lord of hostes, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and sonne and nephew, sayth the Lord.
23. I will also make it a possession for the Bitterne, and pooles of water: and I will sweepe it with the besome of destruction, sayth the Lord of hostes.
24. The Lord of hostes hath sworne, saying; Surely as I haue thought, so shall it come to passe; and as I haue purposed, so shall it stand:
25. That I will breake the Assyrian in my land, and vpon my mountaines tread him vnder foote: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26. This is the purpose, that is purposed vpon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out vpon all the nations.
27. For the Lord of hostes hath purposed, and who shall disanull it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turne it backe?
28. In the yeere that king Ahaz died, was this burden.
29. Reioyce not thou whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpents roote shall come foorth a cockatrice, and his fruite shall be a fierie flying serpent.
30. And the first borne of the poore shall feed, and the needy shall lie downe in safetie: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31. Howle, O gate, crie, O citie, thou whole Palestina art dissolued, for there shal come from the North a smoke, and none shall bee alone in his appointed times.
32. What shall one then answere the messengers of the nation? that the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poore of his people shall trust in it.
1. The burden of Moab: because in the night Ar of Moab is laide waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laide waste, and brought to silence:
2. Hee is gone vp to Baijth, and to Dibon, the high places, to weepe: Moab shall howle ouer Nebo, and ouer Medeba, on all their heads shalbe baldnesse, and euery beard cut off.
3. In their streetes they shall girde themselues with sackecloth: on the toppes of their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall howle, weeping abundantly.
4. And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shalbe heard euen vnto Iahaz: therefore the armed souldiers of Moab shall crie out, his life shall be grieuous vnto him.
5. My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitiues shall flee vnto Zoar, an heifer of three yeeres olde: for by the mounting vp of Luhith with weeping shall they goe it vp: for in the way of Horonaim, they shall raise vp a crie of destruction.
6. For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grasse faileth, there is no greene thing.
7. Therefore the abundance they haue gotten, and that which they haue laide vp, shall they cary away to the brooke of the willowes.
8. For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab: the howling thereof vnto Eglaim, and the howling thereof vnto Beer-Elim.
9. For the waters of Dimon shalbe full of blood: for I will bring more vpon Dimon, lyons vpon him that escapeth of Moab, and vpon the remnant of the land.
1. Send ye the lambe to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wildernesse, vnto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2. For it shalbe that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest: so the daughters of Moab shalbe at the fordes of Arnon.
3. Take counsell, execute Iudgement, make thy shadow as the night in the middest of the nooneday, hide the outcastes, bewray not him that wandereth.
4. Let mine outcasts dwel with thee, Moab, be thou a couert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressours are consumed out of the land.
5. And in mercy shall the throne be established, and hee shal sit vpon it in trueth, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging and seeking iudgement, and hasting righteousnesse.
6. We haue heard of the pride of Moab (hee is very proud) euen of his hautines, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
7. Therefore shall Moab howle for Moab, euery one shal howle: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall yee mourne, surely they are stricken.
8. For the fieldes of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, the lords of the heathen haue broken downe the principall plants thereof, they are come euen vnto Iazer, they wandred through the wildernesse, her branches are stretched out, they are gone ouer the sea.
9. Therefore I wil bewaile with the weeping of Iazer, the Uine of Sibmah I wil water thee with my teares, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy Summer fruits, and for thy haruest, is fallen.
10. And gladnesse is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull field, and in the Uineyards there shalbe no singing, neither shal there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I haue made their vintage shouting to cease.
11. Wherefore my bowels shal sound like an harpe for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
12. And it shal come to passe, when it is seene that Moab is weary on the high place, that hee shall come to his Sanctuary to pray: but hee shall not preuaile.
13. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14. But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three yeeres, as the yeeres of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shalbe contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
1. The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a citie, and it shalbe a ruinous heape.
2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall bee for flockes, which shall lye downe, and none shall make them afraid.
3. The fortresse also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdome from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall bee as the glorie of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hostes.
4. And in that day it shall come to passe, that the glory of Iacob shall bee made thinne, and the fatnesse of his flesh shall waxe leane.
5. And it shall be as when the haruest-man gathereth the corne, and reapeth the eares with his arme; and it shalbe as he that gathereth eares in the valley of Rephaim.
6. (Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an Oliue tree, two or three berries in the toppe of the vppermost bough: foure or fiue in the out-most fruitfull branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7. At that day shall a man looke to his Maker, and his eyes shall haue respect to the Holy one of Israel.
8. And hee shall not looke to the altars, the worke of his handes, neither shall respect that which his fingers haue made, either the groues or the images.)
9. In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an vppermost branch, which they left, because of the children of Israel: and there shalbe desolation.
10. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation, and hast not beene mindfull of the rocke of thy strength: therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips.
11. In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seede to flourish: but the haruest shall be a heape in the day of griefe, and of desperate sorrow.
12. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise, like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing, like the rushing of mighty waters.
13. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlewind.
14. And behold at euening tide trouble, and before the morning he is not: this is the portion of them that spoile vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.
1. Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia:
2. That sendeth ambassadours by the sea, euen in vessels of bulrushes vpon the waters, saying; Goe yee swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and troden downe; whose land the riuers haue spoiled.
3. All yee inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see yee, when hee lifteth vp an ensigne on the mountaines; and when he bloweth a trumpet, heare yee.
4. For so the Lord sayd vnto me: I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a cleare heate vpon herbes, and like a cloud of dew in the heate of haruest.
5. For afore the haruest when the bud is perfect, and the sowre grape is ripening in the flowre; hee shall both cut off the sprigges with pruning hookes, and take away and cut downe the branches.
6. They shalbe left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beasts of the earth: and the foules shall summer vpon them, and all the beastes of the earth shall winter vpon them.
7. In that time shall the present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and troden vnder foote, whose land the riuers haue spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hostes, the mount Zion.
1. The burden of Egypt: Behold, the Lord rideth vpon a swift cloude, and shall come into Egypt, and the idoles of Egypt shalbe moued at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight euery one against his brother, and euery one against his neighbour; citie against citie, and kingdome against kingdome.
3. And the spirit of Egypt shall faile in the midst thereof, and I will destroy the counsell thereof: and they shall seeke to the idoles, and to the charmers, and to them that haue familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4. And the Egyptians will I giue ouer into the hand of a cruell Lord; and a fierce king shall rule ouer them, saith the Lorde, the Lord of hostes.
5. And the waters shall faile from the sea, and the riuer shalbe wasted, and dried vp.
6. And they shall turne the riuers farre away, and the brookes of defence shall be emptied and dried vp: the reeds and flagges shall wither.
7. The paper reeds by the brookes, by the mouth of the brookes, and euery thing sowen by the brooks shal wither, be driuen away, and be no more.
8. The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the brookes shall lament, and they that spread nets vpon the waters shall languish.
9. Moreouer they that worke in fine flaxe, and they that weaue net-works shall be confounded.
10. And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluces and ponds for fish.
11. Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles, the counsell of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: How say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am the sonne of the wise, the sonne of ancient kings?
12. Where are they? Where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know, what the Lord of hosts hath purposed vpon Egypt.
13. The princes of Zoan are become fooles, the princes of Noph are deceiued, they haue also seduced Egypt, euen they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14. The Lord hath mingled a peruerse spirit in the midst thereof: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15. Neither shall there be any worke for Egypt, which the head or taile, branch or rush may doe.
16. In that day shall Egypt bee like vnto women: and it shall be afraid and feare, because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh ouer it.
17. And the land of Iudah shall bee a terrour vnto Egypt, euery one that maketh mention thereof, shal be afraid in himselfe, because of the counsell of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18. In that day shall fiue cities in the land of Egypt speake the language of Canaan, and sweare to the Lord of hostes: one shalbe called the citie of destruction.
19. In that day shall there be an Altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
20. And it shall be for a signe, and for a witnesse vnto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall crie vnto the Lord, because of the oppressours, and he shal send them a Sauiour and a great One, and he shall deliuer them.
21. And the Lord shalbe knowen to Egypt, and the Egyptians shal know the Lord in that day, and shal do sacrifice and oblation, yea they shall vow a vowe vnto the Lord, and performe it.
22. And the Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heale it, and they shall returne euen to the Lord, and he shalbe intreated of them, and shall heale them.
23. In that day shall there be a hie way out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serue with the Assyrians.
24. In that day shall Israel bee the third with Egypt, and with Assyria, euen a blessing in the midst of the land:
25. Whom the Lord of hosts shal blesse, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
1. In the yeere that Tartan came vnto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him) and fought against Ashdod and tooke it:
2. At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loynes, and put off thy shooe from thy foot: and he did so, walking naked and bare foot.
3. And the Lord said, Like as my seruant Isaiah hath walked naked and bare foote three yeeres for a signe and wonder vpon Egypt and vpon Ethiopia:
4. So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captiues, yong and old, naked and bare foote, euen with their buttocks vncouered, to the shame of Egypt.
5. And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6. And the inhabitant of this yle shall say in that day; Behold, such is our expectation whither we flee for helpe to be deliuered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlewinds in the South passe thorough; so it commeth from the desert, from a terrible land.
2. A grieuous vision is declared vnto me; The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth: Goe, vp O Elam: besiege, O Media: all the sighing thereof haue I made to cease.
3. Therefore are my loynes filled with paine, pangs haue taken hold vpon me, as the pangs of a woman that trauelleth: I was bowed downe at the hearing of it, I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4. My heart panted, fearefulnesse affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into feare vnto me.
5. Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eate, drinke: arise yee princes, and anoint the shield.
6. For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me; Goe, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7. And he saw a charet with a couple of horsemen, a charet of asses, and a charet of camels; and hee hearkened diligently with much heede.
8. And he cryed; A lyon: my Lord, I stand continually vpon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.
9. And behold, heere commeth a charet of men with a couple of horsemen: and he answered and sayd; Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the grauen images of her Gods he hath broken vnto the ground.
10. O my threshing and the corne of my floore: that which I haue heard of the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, haue I declared vnto you.
11. The burden of Dumah. Hee calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12. The watchman sayd; The morning commeth, and also the night: if yee will enquire, enquire yee: returne, come.
13. The burden vpon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall yee lodge, O yee trauelling companies of Dedanim.
14. The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they preuented with their bread him that fled.
15. For they fled from the swords, from the drawen sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
16. For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me: Within a yeere, according to the yeeres of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall faile.
17. And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar shalbe diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.
1. The burden of the valley of vision. What ayleth thee now, that thou art wholly gone vp to the house toppes?
2. Thou that art full of stirres, a tumultuous citie, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men are not slaine with the sword, nor dead in battell.
3. All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which haue fled from farre.
4. Therefore sayd I; Looke away from me, I will weepe bitterly, labour not to comfort me; because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5. For it is a day of trouble, and of treading downe, and of perplexitie by the Lord God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the walles, and of crying to the mountaines.
6. And Elam bare the quiuer with charets of men and horsemen, and Kir vncouered the shield.
7. And it shall come to passe that thy choicest valleys shall be full of charets, and the horsemen shall set themselues in aray at the gate.
8. And he discouered the couering of Iudah, and thou diddest looke in that day to the armour of the house of the forrest.
9. Ye haue seene also the breaches of the citie of Dauid, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower poole.
10. And ye haue numbred the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses haue yee broken downe to fortifie the wall.
11. Ye made also a ditch betweene the two walles, for the water of the olde poole: but ye haue not looked vnto the maker thereof, neither had respect vnto him that fashioned it long agoe.
12. And in that day did the Lord God of hostes call to weeping and to mourning, and to baldnesse, and to girding with sackecloth.
13. And behold ioy and gladnesse, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine; let vs eate and drinke, for to morrow we shall die.
14. And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of hostes; surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, till yee die, sayth the Lord God of hostes.
15. Thus sayth the Lord God of hostes, Goe, get thee vnto this treasurer, euen vnto Shebna, which is ouer the house, and say;
16. What hast thou here? And whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as hee that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graueth an habitation for himselfe in a rocke?
17. Behold; the Lord will cary thee away with a mightie captiuitie, and will surely couer thee.
18. He will surely violently turne and tosse thee, like a ball into a large countrey: there shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shall be the shame of thy Lords house.
19. And I will driue thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee downe.
20. And it shall come to passe in that day, that I will call my seruant Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah:
21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I wil commit thy gouernment into his hand, and he shalbe a father to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and to the house of Iudah.
22. And the key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so he shall open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open.
23. And I will fasten him as a naile in asure place, and he shalbe for a glorious throne to his fathers house.
24. And they shall hang vpon him all the glory of his fathers house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantitie: from the vessels of cups, euen to all the vessels of flagons.
25. In that day, sayth the Lord of hostes, shall the naile that is fastened in the sure place, be remooued, and be cut downe and fall: and the burden that was vpon it shall bee cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
1. The burden of Tyre. Howle yee ships of Tarshish, for it is laide waste, so that there is no house, no entring in: from the land of Chittim it is reuealed to them.
2. Be still, yee inhabitants of the yle, thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that passe ouer the sea, haue replenished.
3. And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.
4. Be thou ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea hath spoken, euen the strength of the sea, saying; I trauell not, nor bring foorth children, neither doe I nourish vp yong men, nor bring vp virgines.
5. As at the report concerning Egypt, so shal they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6. Passe ye ouer to Tarshish, howle ye inhabitants of the yle.
7. Is this your ioyous citie, whose antiquitie is of ancient dayes? her owne feete shall cary her afarre off to soiourne.
8. Who hath taken this counsell against Tyre the crowning citie, whose merchants are princes, whose traffiquers are the honourable of the earth?
9. The Lord of hostes hath purposed it, to staine the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10. Passe through thy land as a riuer O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11. He stretched out his hand ouer the sea, hee shooke the kingdomes: the Lord hath giuen a commandement against the merchant citie, to destroy the strong holdes thereof.
12. And he said, Thou shalt no more reioice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, passe ouer to Chittim, there also shalt thou haue no rest.
13. Behold, the land of the Caldeans, this people was not till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwel in the wildernesse: they set vp the towers thereof, they raised vp the palaces thereof, and he brought it to ruine.
14. Howle ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15. And it shall come to passe in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seuentie yeeres according to the dayes of one king: after the end of seuentie yeeres shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16. Take an harpe, goe about the city thou harlot, that hast beene forgotten, make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembred.
17. And it shall come to passe after the ende of seuentie yeeres, that the Lord will visite Tyre, and shee shall turne to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdomes of the world vpon the face of the earth.
18. And her merchandize and her hire shall be holinesse to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid vp: for her merchandize shalbe for them that dwell before the Lord, to eate sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
1. Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and maketh it waste, and turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2. And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest, as with the seruant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistresse, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borower, as with the taker of vsurie, so with the giuer of vsurie to him.
3. The land shall be vtterly emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughtie people of the earth doe languish.
5. The earth also is defiled vnder the inhabitants thereof: because they haue transgressed the lawes, changed the ordinance, broken the euerlasting couenant.
6. Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and they that dwell therin are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7. The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merrie hearted doe sigh.
8. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that reioyce, endeth, the ioy of the harpe ceaseth.
9. They shall not drinke wine with a song, strong drinke shall bee bitter to them that drinke it.
10. The city of confusion is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
11. There is a crying for wine in the streets, all ioy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12. In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13. When thus it shalbe in the midst of the land among the people: there shall be as the shaking of an oliue tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14. They shal lift vp their voice, they shal sing, for the maiesty of the Lord, they shall crie aloud from the sea.
15. Wherefore, glorifie ye the Lord in the fires, euen the Name of the Lord God of Israel in the yles of the Sea.
16. From the vttermost part of the earth haue we heard songs, euen glory to the righteous: but I said, My leannesse, my leannesse, woe vnto me: the treacherous dealers haue dealt treacherously, yea the treacherous dealers haue dealt very treacherously.
17. Feare, and the pit, & the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18. And it shall come to passe, that he who fleeth from the noise of the feare, shall fall into the pit; and he that commeth vp out of the midst of the pit, shalbe taken in the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth doe shake.
19. The earth is vtterly broken downe, the earth is cleane dissolued, the earth is moued exceedingly.
20. The earth shall reele to and fro, like a drunkard, and shall be remooued like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heauie vpon it, and it shall fall, and not rise againe.
21. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall punish the hoste of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth vpon the earth.
22. And they shalbe gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut vp in the prison, and after many dayes shall they bee visited.
23. Then the Moone shall be confounded, and the Sunne ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
1. O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name; for thou hast done wonderfull things; thy counsels of old are faithfulnesse and trueth.
2. For thou hast made of a citie, an heape; of a defenced city, a ruine: a palace of strangers, to be no citie, it shall neuer be built.
3. Therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee, the city of the terrible nations shall feare thee.
4. For thou hast bene a strength to the poore, a strength to the needy in his distresse, a refuge from the storme, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storme against the wall.
5. Thou shalt bring downe the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; euen the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shalbe brought low.
6. And in this mountaine shall the Lord of hostes make vnto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7. And he wil destroy in this mountaine the face of the couering cast ouer all people, and the vaile that is spread ouer all nations.
8. He will swallow vp death in victorie, and the Lord God wil wipe away teares from off al faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9. And it shalbe said in that day, Loe, this is our God, we haue waited for him, and he will saue vs: this is the Lord, we haue waited for him, we wil be glad, and reioyce in his saluation.
10. For in this mountaine shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shalbe troden downe vnder him, euen as straw is troden downe for the dounghill.
11. And hee shall spread foorth his hands in the midst of them, as hee that swimmeth spreadeth foorth his hands to swimme: and hee shall bring downe their pride together with the spoiles of their hands.
12. And the fortresse of the high fort of thy walles shall hee bring downe, lay low, and bring to the ground, euen to the dust.
1. In that day shall this song bee sung in the land of Iudah; Wee haue a strong citie, saluation will God appoint for walles and bulwarkes.
2. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the trueth may enter in.
3. Thou wilt keepe him in perfect peace, whose minde is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.
4. Trust ye in the Lord for euer: for in the Lord Iehouah is euerlasting strength.
5. For hee bringeth downe them that dwell on high, the loftie citie he layeth it low; he layeth it low, euen to the ground, he bringeth it euen to the dust.
6. The foote shall treade it downe, euen the feete of the poore, and the steps of the needie.
7. The way of the iust is vprightnesse: thou most vpright, doest weigh the path of the iust.
8. Yea in the way of thy Iudgements, O Lord, haue we waited for thee; the desire of our soule is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9. With my soule haue I desired thee in the night, yea with my spirit within me will I seeke thee early: for when thy iudgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learne righteousnesse.
10. Let fauour be shewed to the wicked, yet will hee not learne righteousnesse: in the land of vprightnesse will he deale vniustly, and will not behold the maiestie of the Lord.
11. Lord, when thy hand is lifted vp, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their enuie at the people, yea the fire of thine enemies shall deuoure them.
12. Lord, thou wilt ordaine peace for vs: for thou also hast wrought all our workes in vs.
13. O Lord our God, other lordes besides thee haue had dominion ouer vs: but by thee only will we make mention of thy Name.
14. They are dead, they shall not liue; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15. Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation, thou art glorified; thou hadst remooued it farre vnto all the ends of the earth.
16. Lord, in trouble haue they visited thee: they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them.
17. Like as a woman with childe that draweth neere the time of her deliuerie, is in paine and cryeth out in her pangs; so haue wee beene in thy sight, O Lord.
18. Wee haue beene with childe, wee haue beene in paine, we haue as it were brought foorth winde, wee haue not wrought any deliuerance in the earth, neither haue the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19. Thy dead men shall liue, together with my dead body shall they arise: awake and sing yee that dwell in dust: for thy dewe is as the dewe of herbes, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doores about thee; hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment, vntill the indignation be ouerpast.
21. For behold, the Lord commeth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquitie: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more couer her slaine.
1. In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sworde shall punish Leuiathan the piercing serpent, euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent, and hee shall slay the dragon that is in the Sea.
2. In that day, sing yee vnto her; A vineyard of red wine.
3. I the Lord doe keepe it; I will water it euery moment: lest any hurt it, I will keepe it night and day.
4. Furie is not in mee: who would set the briars and thornes against me in battell? I would goe through them, I would burne them together.
5. Or let him take holde of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.
6. Hee shall cause them that come of Iacob to take roote: Israel shall blossome and budde, and fill the face of the world with fruite.
7. Hath hee smitten him, as hee smote those that smote him? or is hee slaine according to the slaughter of them that are slaine by him?
8. In measure when it shooteth foorth, thou wilt debate with it: hee stayeth his rough winde in the day of the East winde.
9. By this therefore shall the iniquitie of Iacob be purged, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sinne: when he maketh all the stones of the Altar as chalke stones, that are beaten in sunder, the groues and images shall not stand vp.
10. Yet the defenced citie shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wildernesse: there shall the calfe feede, and there shall he lie downe, and consume the branches thereof.
11. When the boughes thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no vnderstanding: therefore hee that made them will not haue mercie on them, and hee that formed them, will shewe them no fauour.
12. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall beate off from the chanell of the riuer vnto the streame of Egypt, and ye shall bee gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the great trumpet shall bee blowen, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Ierusalem.
1. Woe to the crowne of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flowre, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are ouercome with wine.
2. Behold, the Lord hath a mightie and strong one, which as a tempest of haile and a destroying storme, as a flood of mightie waters ouerflowing, shall cast downe to the earth with the hand.
3. The crowne of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be troden vnder feete.
4. And the glorious beautie which is on the head of the fat valley, shall bee a fading flowre, and as the hastie fruite before the summer: which when he that looketh vpon it, seeth it, while it is yet in his hand, he eateth it vp.
5. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crowne of glory, and for a diademe of beautie vnto the residue of his people:
6. And for a spirit of iudgement to him that sitteth in iudgement, and for strength to them that turne the battell to the gate.
7. But they also haue erred through wine, and through strong drinke are out of the way: the priest and the prophet haue erred through strong drinke, they are swallowed vp of wine: they are out of the way through strong drinke, they erre in vision, they stumble in iudgement.
8. For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.
9. Whome shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to vnderstand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milke, and drawen from the breasts.
10. For precept must be vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vpon line, line vpon line, here a litle, and there a litle.
11. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speake to this people.
12. To whom he said, This is the rest wherwith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing, yet they would not heare.
13. But the word of the Lord was vnto them, precept vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vpon line, line vpon line, here a litle and there a litle: that they might goe and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14. Wherefore heare the worde of the Lord, yee scornefull men, that rule this people which is in Ierusalem.
15. Because ye haue said, Wee haue made a couenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement, when the ouerflowing scourge shall passe thorow, it shall not come vnto vs: for wee haue made lies our refuge, and vnder falsehood haue we hid our selues:
16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Beholde, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tryed stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: hee that beleeueth, shall not make haste.
17. Iudgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousnesse to the plummet: and the haile shall sweepe away the refuge of lyes, and the waters shall ouerflow the hiding place.
18. And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the ouerflowing scourge shall passe thorough, then yee shalbe troden downe by it.
19. From the time that it goeth forth, it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it passe ouer, by day and by night, and it shalbe a vexation, onely to vnderstand the report.
20. For the bed is shorter, then that a man can stretch himselfe on it: and the couering narrower, then that he can wrap himselfe in it.
21. For the Lord shall rise vp as in mount Perazim, he shalbe wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may doe his worke, his strange worke; and bring to passe his act, his strange act.
22. Now therefore be yee not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I haue heard from the Lord God of hostes a consumption euen determined vpon the whole earth.
23. Giue yee eare, and heare my voyce, hearken and heare my speach.
24. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and breake the clods of his ground?
25. When hee hath made plaine the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principall wheate, and the appointed barly and the rye in their place?
26. For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27. For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheele turned about vpon the cummin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and the cummin with a rodde.
28. Bread corne is bruised; because he will not euer be threshing it, nor breake it with the wheele of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29. This also commeth forth from the Lord of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell, and excellent in working.
1. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the citie where Dauid dwelt: adde yee yeere to yeere; let them kill sacrifices.
2. Yet I will distresse Ariel, and there shalbe heauinesse and sorrow; and it shall be vnto mee as Ariel.
3. And I will campe against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4. And thou shalt bee brought downe, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach shall be low out of the dust, and thy voyce shalbe as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speach shall whisper out of the dust.
5. Moreouer the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shalbe as chaffe, that passeth away; yea it shalbe at an instant suddenly.
6. Thou shalt bee visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storme and tempest, and the flame of deuouring fire.
7. And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, euen all that fight against her and her munition, and that distresse her, shalbe as a dreame of a night vision.
8. It shall euen be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soule is emptie: or as when a thirstie man dreameth, and behold he drinketh; but hee awaketh, and behold he is faint, and his soule hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations bee, that fight against mount Zion.
9. Stay your selues and wonder, cry yee out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine, they stagger, but not with strong drinke.
10. For the Lord hath powred out vpon you the spirit of deepe sleepe, and hath closed your eyes: the Prophets and your rulers, the Seers hath hee couered.
11. And the vsion of all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed, which men deliuer to one that is learned, saying, Reade this, I pray thee: and hee saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.
12. And the booke is deliuered to him that is not learned, saying, Reade this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13. Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw neere mee with their mouth, and with their lips doe honour me, but haue remoued their heart farre from me, and their feare towards mee is taught by the precept of men:
14. Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marueilous worke amongst this people, euen a marueilous worke and a wonder: for the wisedome of their wise men shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15. Woe vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord, and their workes are in the darke, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?
16. Surely your turning of things vpside downe shall be esteemed as the potters clay: for shall the worke say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed, say of him that framed it, He had no vnderstanding?
17. Is it not yet a very litle while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitfull field shall be esteemed as a forrest?
18. And in that day shall the deafe heare the words of the booke, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.
19. The meeke also shall increase their ioy in the Lord, and the poore among men shall reioice in the holy One of Israel.
20. For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquitie are cut off:
21. That make a man an offendour for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproueth in the gate, and turne aside the iust for a thing of nought.
22. Therefore thus saith the Lord who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Iacob: Iacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now waxe pale.
23. But when hee seeth his children the worke of mine hands in the midst of him, they shall sanctifie my Name, and sanctifie the Holy One of Iacob, and shall feare the God of Israel.
24. They also that erred in spirit shall come to vnderstanding, and they that murmured, shall learne doctrine.
1. Woe to the rebellious children, sayth the Lord, that take counsell, but not of mee; and that couer with a couering, but not of my Spirit, that they may adde sinne to sinne:
2. That walke to goe downe into Egypt, (and haue not asked at my mouth) to strengthen themselues in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
3. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt, your confusion.
4. For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5. They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an helpe nor profite, but a shame and also a reproch.
6. The burden of the beastes of the South: into the lande of trouble and anguish, from whence come the yong and old lyon, the viper, and fierie flying serpent, they will carie their riches vpon the shoulders of yong asses, and their treasures vpon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profite them.
7. For the Egyptians shall helpe in vaine, and to no purpose: Therefore haue I cried concerning this: Their strength is to sit still.
8. Now goe, write it before them in a table, and note it in a booke, that it may bee for the time to come for euer and euer:
9. That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not heare the Law of the Lord:
10. Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs right things: speake vnto vs smooth things, prophecie deceits.
11. Get ye out of the way: turne aside out of the path: cause the Holy one of Israel to cease from before vs.
12. Wherefore, thus saith the Holy one of Israel: Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and peruersnesse, and stay thereon:
13. Therefore this iniquitie shalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly at an instant.
14. And he shall breake it as the breaking of the potters vessell, that is broken in pieces, he shall not spare; so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, a sheard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withall out of the pit. 
15. For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saued, in quietnesse and in confidence shalbe your strength, and ye would not:
16. But ye said; No, for we will flee vpon horses; therefore shall ye flee. And we will ride vpon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you, be swift.
17. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of fiue, shall ye flee, till ye be left as a beacon vpon the top of a mountaine, and as an ensigne on a hill.
18. And therefore wil the Lord wait that he may be gracious vnto you, and therefore wil he be exalted that he may haue mercy vpon you: for the Lord is a God of Iudgment. Blessed are all they that wait for him.
19. For the people shall dwel in Zion at Ierusalem: thou shalt weepe no more: hee will be very gracious vnto thee, at the voice of thy cry; when he shall heare it, he will answere thee.
20. And though the Lord giue you the bread of aduersitie, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be remooued into a corner any more: but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.
21. And thine eares shall heare a word behinde thee, saying; This is the way, walke ye in it, when ye turne to the right hand, and when ye turne to the left.
22. Ye shall defile also the couering of thy grauen images of siluer, and the ornament of thy moulten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say vnto it; Get thee hence.
23. Then shall he giue the raine of thy seed that thou shalt sow the ground withall; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattell feed in large pastures.
24. The oxen likewise and the yong asses that eare the ground, shall eate cleane prouender which hath bene winnowed with the shouell and with the fanne.
25. And there shall be vpon euery high mountaine, and vpon euery high hill, riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.
26. Moreouer the light of the Moone shalbe as the light of the Sunne, and the light of the Sunne shall be seuenfold, as the light of seuen dayes, in the day that the Lord bindeth vp the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27. Beholde, the Name of the Lord commeth from farre, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heauy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a deuouring fire.
28. And his breath as an ouerflowing streame, shall reach to the midst of the necke, to sift the nations with the sieue of vanitie: and there shalbe a bridle in the iawes of the people causing them to erre.
29. Yee shall haue a song as in the night, when a holy solemnitie is kept, and gladnesse of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountaine of the Lord, to the mighty one of Israel.
30. And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting downe of his arme, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a deuouring fire, with scattering and tempest and hailestones.
31. For through the voyce of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten downe, which smote with a rod.
32. And in euery place where the grounded staffe shall passe, which the Lord shall lay vpon him, it shall be with tabrets and harpes: and in battels of shaking will he fight with it.
33. For Tophet is ordained of olde; yea, for the king it is prepared, he hath made it deepe and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood, the breath of the Lord, like a streame of brimstone, doeth kindle it.
1. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for helpe, and stay on horses, and trust in charets, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong: but they looke not vnto the Holy one of Israel, neither seeke the Lord.
2. Yet he also is wise, and will bring euill, and wil not call backe his words: but will arise against the house of the euill doers, and against the helpe of them that worke iniquitie.
3. Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit: when the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and hee that is holpen shall fall downe, and they all shall faile together.
4. For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me; Like as the lyon and the yong lyon roaring on his pray, when a multitude of shepheards is called foorth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himselfe for the noyse of them: so shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5. As birds flying, so wil the Lord of hostes defend Ierusalem, defending also hee will deliuer it, and passing ouer, he will preserue it.
6. Turne yee vnto him from whom the children of Israel haue deeply reuolted.
7. For in that day euery man shall cast away his idoles of siluer, and his idoles of gold, which your owne hands haue made vnto you for a sinne.
8. Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mightie man; and the sword, not of a meane man, shal deuoure him: but hee shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9. And hee shall passe ouer to his strong holde for feare, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensigne, sayth the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his fornace in Ierusalem.
1. Behold, a King shal reigne in righteousnes, and princes shal rule in iudgement.
2. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the winde, and a couert from the tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, as the shadow of a great rocke in a wearie land.
3. And the eyes of them that see, shall not be dimme; and the eares of them that heare, shall hearken.
4. The heart also of the rash shall vnderstand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall bee readie to speake plainely.
5. The vile person shall be no more called liberall, nor the churle sayd to be bountifull.
6. For the vile person wil speake villenie, and his heart will worke iniquitie, to practise hypocrisie, and to vtter errour against the Lord, to make emptie the soule of the hungry, and hee will cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.
7. The instruments also of the churle are euill: he deuiseth wicked deuices, to destroy the poore with lying wordes, euen when the needie speaketh right.
8. But the liberall deuiseth liberall things, and by liberall things shall hee stand.
9. Rise vp ye women that are at ease: heare my voice, ye carelesse daughters, giue eare vnto my speech.
10. Many dayes and yeeres shall ye be troubled, yee carelesse women: for the vintage shall faile, the gathering shall not come.
11. Tremble yee women that are at ease: be troubled, ye carelesse ones, strip ye and make ye bare, and gird sackecloth vpon your loynes.
12. They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fieldes, for the fruitfull vine.
13. Upon the land of my people shall come vp thornes, and briars, yea vpon all the houses of ioy in the ioyous citie.
14. Because the palaces shall be forsaken, the multitude of the citie shall be left, the forts and towres shall be for dennes for euer, a ioy of wild asses, a pasture of flockes;
15. Untill the spirit be powred vpon vs from on high, and the wildernesse be a fruitfull field, and the fruitfull field be counted for a forrest.
16. Then iudgement shall dwell in the wildernesse, and righteousnesse remaine in the fruitfull field.
17. And the worke of righteousnesse shalbe peace, and the effect of righteousnesse, quietnesse and assurance for euer.
18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places:
19. When it shall haile, comming downe on the forrest; and the citie shall be low in a low place.
20. Blessed are yee that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feete of the oxe and the asse.
1. Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee: when thou shalt cease to spoile, thou shalt bee spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deale treacherously, they shall deale treacherously with thee.
2. O Lord, be gratious vnto vs, we haue waited for thee: be thou their arme euery morning, our saluation also in the time of trouble.
3. At the noise of the tumult the people fled: at the lifting vp of thy selfe the nations were scattered.
4. And your spoile shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of Locusts shall he runne vpon them.
5. The Lord is exalted: for hee dwelleth on high, he hath filled Zion with iudgement and righteousnesse.
6. And wisedome and knowledge shall be the stabilitie of thy times, and strength of saluation: the feare of the Lord is his treasure.
7. Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadours of peace shall weepe bitterly.
8. The high wayes lye waste; the way faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the couenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9. The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewen downe: Sharon is like a wildernes, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10. Now will I rise, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now will I lift vp my selfe.
11. Yee shall conceiue chaffe, yee shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall deuoure you.
12. And the people shalbe as the burnings of lyme: as thornes cut vp shall they be burnt in the fire.
13. Heare yee that are farre off, what I haue done; and yee that are neere, acknowledge my might.
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearefulnesse hath surprised the hypocrites: who among vs shall dwell with the deuouring fire? who amongst vs shall dwell with euerlasting burnings?
15. He that walketh righteously, and speaketh vprightly, hee that despiseth the gaine of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his eares from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing euill:
16. He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shalbe the munitions of rocks, bread shalbe giuen him, his waters shall be sure.
17. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very farre off.
18. Thine heart shall meditate terrour; Where is the scribe? where is the receiuer? where is he that counted the towres?
19. Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech then thou canst perceiue; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not vnderstand.
20. Looke vpon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken downe, not one of the stakes thereof shall euer be remoued, neither shall any of the coardes thereof be broken.
21. But there the glorious Lord will be vnto vs a place of broad riuers and streames; wherein shall goe no galley with oares, neither shall gallant ship passe thereby.
22. For the Lord is our Iudge, the Lord is our Lawgiuer, the Lord is our King, he wil saue vs.
23. Thy tacklings are loosed: they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the saile: then is the praye of a great spoile diuided, the lame take the praye.
24. And the inhabitant shall not say; I am sicke: the people that dwel therein shalbe forgiuen their iniquitie.
1. Come neere ye nations to heare, and hearken ye people: let the earth heare, and all that is therein, the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2. For the indignation of the Lord is vpon all nations, and his furie vpon all their armies: hee hath vtterly destroyed them, he hath deliuered them to the slaughter.
3. Their slaine also shalbe cast out, and their stinke shall come vp out of their carkeises, and the mountaines shalbe melted with their blood.
4. And all the hoste of heauen shalbe dissolued, and the heauens shalbe rouled together as a scrole: and all their hoste shall fall downe as the leafe falleth off from the Uine, and as a falling figge from the figge tree.
5. For my sword shall bee bathed in heauen: beholde, it shall come downe vpon Idumea, and vpon the people of my curse to iudgement.
6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatnesse, and with the blood of lambes and goates, with the fat of the kidneys of rammes: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7. And the Unicornes shall come downe with them, and the bullockes with the bulles, and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatnesse.
8. For it is the day of the Lords vengeance, and the yeere of recompences for the controuersie of Zion.
9. And the streames thereof shalbe turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10. It shal not be quenched night nor day, the smoke thereof shall goe vp for euer: from generation to generation it shall lye waste, none shal passe through it for euer and euer.
11. The cormorant and the bitterne shall possesse it, the owle also and the rauen shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out vpon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptinesse.
12. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdome, but none shall bee there, and all her Princes shall bee nothing.
13. And thornes shall come vp in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shalbe an habitation of dragons, and a court for owles.
14. The wilde beasts of the desert shall also meete with the wilde beasts of the Iland and the satyre shall cry to his felow, the shrichowle also shall rest there, & finde for her selfe a place of rest.
15. There shall the great owle make her nest, and lay and hatch, and gather vnder her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, euery one with her mate.
16. Seeke ye out of the booke of the Lord, and reade: no one of these shall faile, none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commaunded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them.
17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath diuided it vnto them by line: they shall possesse it for euer, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
1. The wildernesse and the solitarie place shall be glad for them: and the desert shall reioyce and blossome as the rose.
2. It shall blossome abundantly, and reioyce euen with ioy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shal be giuen vnto it, the excellencie of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellencie of our God.
3. Strengthen yee the weake hands, and confirme the feeble knees.
4. Say to them that are of a fearefull heart; Be strong, feare not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, euen God with a recompence, he will come and saue you.
5. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the eares of the deafe shalbe vnstopped.
6. Then shall the lame man leape as an Hart, and the tongue of the dumbe sing: for in the wildernesse shall waters breake out, and streames in the desert.
7. And the parched ground shall become a poole, and the thirstie land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shalbe grasse with reeds and rushes.
8. And an high way shalbe there, and away, and it shall be called the way of holinesse, the vncleane shall not passe ouer it, but it shall be for those: the wayfaringmen, though fooles, shall not erre therein.
9. No lyon shalbe there; nor any rauenous beast shall goe vp thereon, it shall not be found there: but the redeemed shall walke there.
10. And the ransomed of the Lord shall returne and come to Zion with songs, and euerlasting ioy vpon their heads: they shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
1. Nowe it came to passe in the fourteenth yeere of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came vp against all the defenced cities of Iudah, and tooke them.
2. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh, from Lachish to Ierusalem, vnto king Hezekiah, with a great armie: and he stood by the conduit of the vpper poole in the high way of the fullers field.
3. Then came forth vnto him Eliakim Hilkiahs sonne, which was ouer the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Ioah Asaphs sonne the Recorder.
4. And Rabshakeh sayd vnto them; Say yee now to Hezekiah; Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria; What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5. I say, (sayest thou) (but they are but vaine words) I haue counsell and strength for warre: Now on whom doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6. Loe, thou trustest in the staffe of this broken reede, on Egypt; whereon if a man leane, it will goe into his hand and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
7. But if thou say to me; We trust in the Lord our God: Is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and sayd to Iudah and to Ierusalem; Yee shall worship before this altar?
8. Now therefore giue pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will giue thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders vpon them.
9. How then wilt thou turne away the face of one captaine of the least of my masters seruants: and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and for horsemen?
10. And am I now come vp without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord sayd vnto me; Goe vp against this land and destroy it.
11. Then sayd Eliakim and Shebna & Ioah vnto Rabshakeh; Speake, I pray thee, vnto thy seruants in the Syrian language; for we vnderstand it: and speake not to vs in the Iewes language, in the eares of the people that are on the wall.
12. But Rabshakeh sayd; Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speake these words? Hath he not sent me to the men that sit vpon the wall, that they may eate their owne dongue, and drinke their owne pisse with you?
13. Then Rabshakeh stood, and cryed with a loud voice in the Iewes language, and sayd; Heare ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14. Thus saith the king; Let not Hezekiah deceiue you, for he shall not be able to deliuer you.
15. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying; The Lord will surely deliuer vs: this citie shall not be deliuered into the hand of the King of Assyria.
16. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus sayth the King of Assyria, Make an agreement with mee by a present, and come out to mee: and eate yee euery one of his vine, and euery one of his figgetree, and drinke yee euery one the waters of his owne cisterne:
17. Until I come and take you away to a land like your owne land, a land of corne and wine, a land of bread and vineyards:
18. Beware lest Hezekiah perswade you, saying; The Lord will deliuer vs. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19. Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharuaim? and haue they deliuered Samaria out of my hand?
20. Who are they amongst all the gods of these landes, that haue deliuered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliuer Ierusalem out of my hand?
21. But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the Kings commandement was, saying; Answere him not.
22. Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, that was ouer the houshold, and Shebna the Scribe, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the Recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.
1. And it came to passe when King Hezekiah heard it, that hee rent his clothes, and couered himselfe with sackecloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2. And hee sent Eliakim, who was ouer the houshold, and Shebna the Scribe, and the Elders of the Priestes couered with sackecloth, vnto Isaiah the Prophet the sonne of Amoz.
3. And they sayd vnto him; Thus sayth Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring foorth.
4. It may be the Lord thy God will heare the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproch the liuing God, and will reprooue the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift vp thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5. So the seruants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6. And Isaiah sayd vnto them; Thus shall yee say vnto your master, Thus sayth the Lord, Be not afraid of the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the king of Assyria haue blasphemed me.
7. Behold, I will send a blast vpon him, and hee shall heare a rumour, and returne to his owne land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his owne land.
8. So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for hee had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9. And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Hee is come foorth to make warre with thee: and when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying;
10. Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah King of Iudah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceiue thee, saying, Ierusalem shall not bee giuen into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria haue done to all lands by destroying them vtterly, and shalt thou be deliuered?
12. Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13. Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the citie of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah?
14. And Hezekiah receiued the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it, and Hezekiah went vp vnto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
15. And Hezekiah prayed vnto the Lord, saying,
16. O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, that dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou art the God, euen thou alone, of all the kingdomes of the earth, thou hast made heauen and earth.
17. Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare, Open thine eyes, O Lord, and see, and heare all the wordes of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproch the liuing God.
18. Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue laid waste all the nations and their countreys,
19. And haue cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of mens hands, wood and stone: therfore they haue destroyed them.
20. Now therefore, O Lord our God, saue vs from his hand, that all the kingdomes of the earth may knowe, that thou art the Lord, euen thou onely.
21. Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Wheras thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22. This is the worde which the Lord hath spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorne, the daughter of Ierusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23. Whom hast thou reproched and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted vp thine eyes on high? euen against the Holy One of Israel.
24. By thy seruants hast thou reproched the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my charets am I come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of Lebanon, and I wil cut downe the tall cedars thereof, and the choise firre trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forrest of his Carmel.
25. I haue digged and drunke water, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of the besieged places.
26. Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times, that I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heapes.
27. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.
28. But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy rage against me.
29. Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come vp into mine eares: therefore will I put my hooke in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turne thee backe by the way by which thou camest.
30. And this shall be a signe vnto thee, Ye shall eate this yeere such as groweth of it felfe: and the second yeere that which springeth of the same: and in the third yeere sow ye and reape, and plant vineyards, and eate the fruit thereof.
31. And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shal againe take roote downeward, and beare fruite vpward.
32. For out of Ierusalem shall goe forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeale of the Lord of hostes shall doe this.
33. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this citie, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a banke against it.
34. By the way that he came, by the same shall he returne, and shall not come into this citie, saith the Lord.
35. For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.
36. Then the Angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the campe of the Assyrians a hundred and fourescore and fiue thousand: and when they arose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.
38. And it came to passe as hee was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adramelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his stead.
1. In those daies was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and Isaiah the Prophet the sonne of Amoz came vnto him, and said vnto him; Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.
2. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed vnto the Lord,
3. And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I haue walked before thee in trueth, and with a perfect heart, and haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.
4. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5. Goe and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Dauid thy father; I haue heard thy prayer, I haue seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.
6. And I will deliuer thee and this citie, out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this citie.
7. And this shall be a signe vnto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will doe this thing that he hath spoken.
8. Behold, I will bring againe the shadow of the degrees which is gone downe in the Sunne-diall of Ahaz ten degrees backward: so the Sunne returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone downe.
9. The writing of Hezekiah king of Iudah, when he had bene sicke, and was recouered of his sicknesse:
10. I saide in the cutting off of my dayes; I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
11. I said, I shal not see the Lord, euen the Lord in the land of the liuing: I shal behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12. Mine age is departed, and is remoued from me as a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut mee off with pining sicknesse: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13. I reckoned till morning, that as a Lyon so will hee breake all my bones: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourne as a doue: mine eyes faile with looking vpward: O Lord, I am oppressed, vndertake for me.
15. What shall I say? hee hath both spoken vnto mee, and himselfe hath done it: I shall goe softly, all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.
16. O Lord, by these things men liue: and in all these things is the life of my spirit, so wilt thou recouer me, and make me to liue.
17. Behold, for peace I had great bitternesse, but thou hast in loue to my soule deliuered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.
18. For the graue cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that goe downe into the pit cannot hope for thy trueth.
19. The liuing, the liuing, hee shall praise thee, as I doe this day: the father to the children shall make knowen thy trueth.
20. The Lord was ready to saue me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the dayes of our life, in the house of the Lord.
21. For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lumpe of figges, and lay it for a plaister vpon the boile, and he shall recouer.
22. Hezekiah also had said, what is the signe, that I shall goe vp to the house of the Lord ?
1. At that time Merodach Baladan the sonne of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for hee had heard that he had bene sicke, and was recouered.
2. And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the siluer, and the golde, and the spices, and the precious oyntment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3. Then came Isaiah the Prophet vnto King Hezekiah, and sayde vnto him, What sayd these men? and from whence came they vnto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a farre countrey vnto me, euen from Babylon.
4. Then said hee, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that I haue not shewed them.
5. Then sayde Isaiah to Hezekiah, Heare the word of the Lord of hostes.
6. Behold, the dayes come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers haue laide vp in store, vntill this day, shalbe caried to Babylon: nothing shalbe left, saith the Lord.
7. And of thy sonnes that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall bee Eunuches in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8. Then sayde Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken: hee sayd moreouer, For there shalbe peace and trueth in my dayes.
1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, sayth your God.
2. Speake ye comfortably to Ierusalem, and cry vnto her, that her warrefare is accomplished, that her iniquitie is pardoned: for shee hath receiued of the Lords hand double for all her sinnes.
3. The voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Prepare yee the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a high way for our God.
4. Euery valley shalbe exalted, and euery mountaine and hill shalbe made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plaine.
5. And the glory of the Lord shall be reuealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6. The voyce sayd; Cry. And hee sayd; What shall I cry? All flesh is grasse, and all the goodlinesse thereof is as the flowre of the field.
7. The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.
8. The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for euer.
9. O Zion, that bringest good tydings, get thee vp into the high mountaine: O Ierusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift vp thy voyce with strength, lift it vp, be not afraid: say vnto the cities of Iudah; Behold your God.
10. Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arme shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his worke before him.
11. He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his arme; and carie them in his bosome, and shall gently lead those that are with yoong.
12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? and meted out heauen with the spanne, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountaines in scales, and the hilles in a balance?
13. Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or, being his counseller, hath taught him?
14. With whom tooke he counsell, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of iudgement? and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of vnderstanding?
15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, hee taketh vp the yles as a very litle thing.
16. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burne, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offring.
17. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likenesse will ye compare vnto him?
19. The workeman melteth a grauen image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it ouer with golde, and casteth siluer chaines.
20. He that is so impouerished that he hath no oblation, chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh vnto him a cunning workeman, to prepare a grauen image that shall not be mooued.
21. Haue yee not knowen? haue yee not heard? hath it not beene tolde you from the beginning? haue yee not vnderstood from the foundations of the earth?
22. It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers; that stretcheth out the heauens as a curtaine, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwel in:
23. That bringeth the princes to nothing; hee maketh the Iudges of the earth as vanitie.
24. Yea they shal not be planted, yea they shall not be sowen, yea their stocke shall not take roote in the earth: and he shall also blow vpon them, & they shall wither, and the whirlewinde shall take them away as stubble.
25. To whom then will ye liken me, or shal I be equall, saith the Holy One?
26. Lift vp your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatnesse of his might, for that hee is strong in power, not one faileth.
27. Why sayest thou, O Iacob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my iudgement is passed ouer from my God?
28. Hast thou not knowen? hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the Lord, the Creatour of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is wearie? there is no searching of his vnderstanding.
29. He giueth power to the faint, and to them that haue no might, he increaseth strength.
30. Euen the youths shall faint, and be weary, and the yong men shall vtterly fall.
31. But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renew their strength: they shall mount vp with wings as Eagles, they shal runne and not be weary, and they shall walke, and not faint.
1. Keepe silence before me, O ylands, and let the people renew their strength: let them come neere, then let them speake: let vs come neere together to iudgement.
2. Who raised vp the righteous man from the East, called him to his foote, gaue the nations before him, and made him rule ouer kings? Hee gaue them as the dust to his sword, and as driuen stuble to his bow.
3. He pursued them, and passed safely; euen by the way, that hee had not gone with his feete.
4. Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord the first, and with the last, I am he.
5. The yles saw it and feared, the ends of the earth were afraid, drew neere, and came.
6. They helped euery one his neighbour, and euery one sayd to his brother, Be of good courage.
7. So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anuill, saying; It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nayles that it should not be moued.
8. But thou Israel, art my seruant, Iacob whom I haue chosen, the seede of Abraham my friend.
9. Thou whom I haue taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chiefe men thereof, and sayd vnto thee; Thou art my seruant, I haue chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10. Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismaied, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea I will helpe thee, yea I will vphold thee with the right hand of my righteousnesse.
11. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee, shalbe ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall perish.
12. Thou shalt seeke them, and shalt not find them, euen them that contended with thee: they that warre against thee shalbe as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13. For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not, I will helpe thee.
14. Feare not, thou worme Iacob, and ye men of Israel: I will helpe thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15. Behold, I will make thee a new sharpe threshing instrument hauing teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountaines, and beate them small, and shalt make the hilles as chaffe.
16. Thou shalt fanne them, and the winde shall carie them away, and the whirlewinde shall scatter them: and thou shalt reioyce in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17. When the poore and needie seeke water and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will heare them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18. I will open riuers in hie places, and fountaines in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wildernesse a poole of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19. I will plant in the wildernes the Cedar, the Shittah tree, and the Myrtle, and the Oyle tree: I will set in the desert the Firre tree, and the Pine and the Boxe tree together:
20. That they may see, and knowe, and consider, and vnderstand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21. Produce your cause, saith the Lord, bring foorth your strong reasons, saith the King of Iacob.
22. Let them bring them foorth, and shew vs what shall happen: let them shew the former things what they bee, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them, or declare vs things for to come.
23. Shewe the things that are to come hereafter, that wee may knowe that ye are gods: yea doe good or doe euill, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your worke of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25. I haue raised vp one from the North, and he shall come: from the rising of the Sunne shall he call vpon my name, and he shall come vpon princes as vpon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and before time, that we may say, He is righteous? yea there is none that sheweth, yea there is none that declareth, yea there is none that heareth your words.
27. The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them, and I will giue to Ierusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28. For I behelde, and there was no man, euen amongst them, and there was no counseller, that when I asked of them, could answere a word.
29. Behold, they are all vanitie, their works are nothing: their moulten images are winde and confusion.
1. Behold my seruant whome I vphold, mine elect in whom my soule delighteth: I haue put my Spirit vpon him, he shall bring forth iudgement to the Gentiles.
2. Hee shall not crie, nor lift vp, nor cause his voyce to bee heard in the streete.
3. A bruised reed shall he not breake, and the smoking flaxe shall hee not quench: he shall bring forth iudgment vnto trueth.
4. He shall not faile nor be discouraged, till he haue set iudgement in the earth: and the yles shall waite for his lawe.
5. Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heauens, and stretched them out, he that spread foorth the earth and that which commeth out of it, he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein:
6. I the Lord haue called thee in righteousnes, and wil hold thine hand, and will keepe thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles:
7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkenesse out of the prison house.
8. I am the Lord; that is my name, and my glory will I not giue to another, neither my praise to grauen images.
9. Behold, the former things are come to passe, and new things doe I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10. Sing vnto the Lord a newe song, and his praise from the end of the earth: yee that goe downe to the sea, and all that is therein; the yles, and the inhabitants thereof.
11. Let the wildernes and the cities thereof lift vp their voyce, the villages that Kedar doeth inhabite: let the inhabitants of the rocke sing, let them shoute from the top of the mountaines.
12. Let them giue glory vnto the Lord, and declare his praise in the Ilands.
13. The Lord shall goe foorth as a mighty man, he shall stirre vp iealousie like a man of warre: he shall cry, yea roare; hee shall preuaile against his enemies.
14. I haue long time holden my peace, I haue bene still and refrained my selfe: now wil I cry like a trauailing woman, I will destroy and deuoure at once.
15. I will make waste mountaines and hilles, and dry vp all their herbes, and I will make the riuers Ilands, and I will dry vp the pooles.
16. And I will bring the blinde by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in pathes that they haue not knowen: I wil make darkenesse light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
17. They shall be turned backe, they shalbe greatly ashamed, that trust in grauen images, that say to the moulten images; Ye are our gods.
18. Heare ye deafe, and looke ye blinde that ye may see.
19. Who is blinde, but my seruant? or deafe, as my messenger that I sent? who is blinde as he that is perfit, and blinde as the Lords seruant?
20. Seeing many things, but thou obseruest not: opening the eares, but he heareth not.
21. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousnes sake, he will magnifie the Law, and make it honourable.
22. But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a praye, & none deliuereth; for a spoile, and none saith, Restore.
23. Who among you will giue eare to this? who will hearken, and heare for the time to come?
24. Who gaue Iacob for a spoile, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the Lord, hee, against whom wee haue sinned? For they would not walke in his wayes, neither were they obedient vnto his Law.
25. Therefore he hath powred vpon him the furie of his anger, and the strength of battell: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet hee knew not; and it burned him, yet hee layed it not to heart.
1. But now thus sayeth the Lord that created thee, O Iacob, and hee that formed thee, O Israel; Feare not: for I haue redeemed thee, I haue called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
2. When thou passest through the waters, I wil be with thee; and through the riuers, they shal not ouerflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt; neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee.
3. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy one of Israel, thy Sauiour: I gaue Egypt for thy ransome, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
4. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast bene honourable, and I haue loued thee: therefore will I giue men for thee, and people for thy life.
5. Feare not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee from the West.
6. I wil say to the North, Giue vp; and to the South, Keepe not backe: bring my sonnes from farre, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7. Euen euery one that is called by my Name: for I haue created him for my glory, I haue formed him, yea I haue made him.
8. Bring foorth the blinde people, that haue eyes; and the deafe that haue eares.
9. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew vs former things? Let them bring foorth their witnesses, that they may be iustified: or let them heare, and say, It is trueth.
10. Yee are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my seruant whom I haue chosen: that ye may know and beleeue me, and vnderstand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11. I, euen I am the Lord, and beside me there is no Sauiour.
12. I haue declared, and haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no strange God among you: therefore yee are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
13. Yea before the day was, I am hee; and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand: I will worke, and who shall let it?
14. Thus sayth the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy one of Israel; For your sake I haue sent to Babylon, and haue brought downe all their nobles, and the Caldeans, whose crie is in the shippes.
15. I am the Lord, your Holy one, the Creatour of Israel, your King.
16. Thus sayth the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mightie waters:
17. Which bringeth foorth the charet and horse, the armie and the power: they shall lie downe together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as towe.
18. Remember yee not the former things, neither consider the things of olde.
19. Behold, I will doe a new thing: now it shall spring foorth, shall yee not know it? I will euen make a way in the wildernesse, and riuers in the desert.
20. The beast of the field shall honor mee, the dragons and the owles, because I giue waters in the wildernesse, and riuers in the desert, to giue drinke to my people, my chosen.
21. This people haue I formed for my selfe, they shall shewe foorth my praise.
22. But thou hast not called vpon me, O Iacob, but thou hast beene wearie of me, O Israel.
23. Thou hast not brought mee the small cattell of thy burnt offrings, neither hast thou honoured mee with thy sacrifices. I haue not caused thee to serue with an offring, nor wearied thee with incense.
24. Thou hast bought mee no sweete cane with money, neither hast thou filled mee with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made mee to serue with thy sins, thou hast wearied mee with thine iniquities.
25. I, euen I am hee that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.
26. Put mee in remembrance: let vs plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest bee iustified.
27. Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers haue transgressed against mee.
28. Therefore I haue profaned the princes of the Sanctuarie, and haue giuen Iacob to the curse, and Israel to reproches.
1. Yet now heare, O Iacob my seruant, and Israel whom I haue chosen.
2. Thus sayeth the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the wombe, which wil helpe thee: Feare not, O Iacob, my seruant, and thou Iesurun, whom I haue chosen.
3. For I will powre water vpon him that is thirstie, and floods vpon the dry ground: I will powre my spirit vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thine offspring:
4. And they shall spring vp as among the grasse, as willowes by the water courses.
5. One shall say, I am the Lords: and another shall call himselfe by the name of Iacob: and another shall subscribe with his hand vnto the Lord, and surname himselfe by the name of Israel.
6. Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of hostes, I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
7. And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are comming, and shall come? let them shew vnto them.
8. Feare yee not, neither be afraid: haue not I told thee from that time, and haue declared it? yee are euen my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea there is no God, I know not any.
9. They that make a grauen image are all of them vanitie, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their owne witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10. Who hath formed a God, or moulten a grauen image that is profitable for nothing?
11. Behold, all his fellowes shall be ashamed: and the workemen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand vp; yet they shal feare, and they shalbe ashamed together.
12. The smith with the tonges both worketh in the coales, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea he is hungrie, and his strength faileth; hee drinketh no water, and is faint.
13. The carpenter stretcheth out his rule: he maketh it out with the line: he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasse, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beautie of a man; that it may remaine in the house.
14. He heweth him downe cedars, and taketh the Cypresse and the Oke, which he strengthneth for himselfe among the trees of the forrest: he planteth an Ashe, and the raine doth nourish it.
15. Then shall it bee for a man to burne: for hee will take thereof and warme himselfe; yea he kindleth it and baketh bread; yea he maketh a God, and worshippeth it: he maketh it a grauen image, and falleth downe thereto.
16. He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth flesh: he rosteth rost, and is satisfied: yea hee warmeth himselfe, and saith; Aha, I am warme, I haue seene the fire.
17. And the residue thereof he maketh a God, euen his grauen image: hee falleth downe vnto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth vnto it, and saith; deliuer me, for thou art my God.
18. They haue not knowen, nor vnderstood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot vnderstand.
19. And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor vnderstanding to say; I haue burnt part of it in the fire, yea also I haue baked bread vpon the coales thereof: I haue rosted flesh and eaten it; and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall downe to the stocke of a tree?
20. He feedeth of ashes: a deceiued heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliuer his soule, nor say; Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21. Remember these (O Iacob and Israel) for thou art my seruant: I haue formed thee: thou art my seruant, O Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
22. I haue blotted out, as a thicke cloude, thy transgressions, and as a a cloud, thy sinnes: returne vnto me, for I haue redeemed thee.
23. Sing, O yee heauens; for the Lord hath done it: shout yee lower parts of the earth: breake forth into singing yee mountaines, O forrest and euery tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Iacob, and glorified himselfe in Israel.
24. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the wombe; I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heauens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by my selfe:
25. That frustrateth the tokens of the lyers, and maketh diuiners mad, that turneth wisemen backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:
26. That confirmeth the word of his seruant, and performeth the counsell of his messengers, that saith to Ierusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Iudah, Yee shall be built, and I will raise vp the decayed places thereof.
27. That saith to the deepe; Be dry, and I will drie vp thy riuers.
28. That saith of Cyrus, Hee is my shepheard, and shall performe all my pleasure, euen saying to Ierusalem, Thou shalt be built, and to the Temple, Thy foundation shalbe laid.
1. Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed, to Cyrus whose right hande I haue holden, to subdue nations before him: and I will loose the loines of kings to open before him the two leaued gates, and the gates shall not be shut.
2. I will goe before thee, and make the crooked places straight, I wil break in pieces the gates of brasse, and cut in sunder the barres of yron.
3. And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, & hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know, that I the Lord which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
4. For Iacob my seruants sake, and Israel mine elect, I haue euen called thee by thy name: I haue surnamed thee, though thou hast not knowen me.
5. I am the Lord, and there is none els, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not knowen me:
6. That they may knowe from the rising of the Sun, and from the West, that there is none besides me, I am the Lord, and there is none else.
7. I forme the light, and create darkenesse: I make peace, and create euill: I the Lord do all these things.
8. Drop downe, ye heauens, from aboue, and let the skies powre downe righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let them bring forth saluation, and let righteousnesse spring vp together: I the Lord haue created it.
9. Woe vnto him that striueth with his maker: Let the potsheard striue with the potsheards of the earth: shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, he hath no hands?
10. Woe vnto him that saith vnto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11. Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his maker, Aske me of things to come concerning my sonnes, and concerning the worke of my hands command ye me.
12. I haue made the earth, and created man vpon it: I, euen my handes haue stretched out the heauens, and all their hoste haue I commanded.
13. I haue raised him vp in righteousnesse, and I will direct all his wayes: he shall build my citie, and hee shall let goe my captiues, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.
14. Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature shall come ouer vnto thee, and they shall be thine, they shall come after thee, in chaines they shall come ouer: and they shal fall downe vnto thee, they shal make supplication vnto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, there is no god.
15. Uerely thou art a God that hidest thy selfe, O God of Israel the Sauiour.
16. They shall be ashamed, and also confounded all of them: they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of idoles.
17. But Israel shall bee saued in the Lord with an euerlasting saluation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heauens, God himselfe that formed the earth and made it, hee hath established it, he created it not in vaine, he formed it to be inhabited, I am the Lord, and there is none else.
19. I haue not spoken in secret, in a darke place of the earth: I said not vnto the seed of Iacob, Seeke ye mee in vaine: I the Lord speake righteousnesse, I declare things that are right.
20. Assemble your selues and come: draw neere together ye that are escaped of the nations: they haue no knowledge that set vp the wood of their grauen image, and pray vnto a god that cannot saue.
21. Tell ye and bring them neere, yea let them take counsell together, who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? Haue not I the Lord ? and there is no God else beside me, a iust God and a Sauiour, there is none beside me.
22. Looke vnto mee, and be ye saued all the endes of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23. I haue sworne by my selfe: the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousnes, and shall not returne, that vnto me euery knee shall bowe, euery tongue shall sweare.
24. Surely, shall one say, In the Lord haue I righteousnesse and strength: euen to him shall men come, and all that are incensed against him, shalbe ashamed.
25. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be iustified, and shall glory.
1. Bel boweth downe, Nebo stoupeth, their idoles were vpon the beasts, and vpon the cattell: your carriages were heauie loaden, they are a burden to the wearie beast.
2. They stoupe, they bow downe together, they could not deliuer the burden, but themselues are gone into captiuitie.
3. Hearken vnto me, O house of Iacob, and al the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me, from the belly, which are caried from the wombe.
4. And euen to your old age I am he, and euen to hoare haires will I cary you: I haue made, and I will beare, euen I wil cary and wil deliuer you.
5. To whom wil ye liken me, and make me equall, and compare me, that we may be like?
6. They lauish gold out of the bagge, and weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith, and hee maketh it a god: they fall downe, yea they worship.
7. They beare him vpon the shoulder, they cary him and set him in his place, and hee standeth; from his place shall he not remooue: yea one shall cry vnto him, yet can he not answere, nor saue him out of his trouble.
8. Remember this, and shew your selues men: bring it againe to minde, O ye transgressours.
9. Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else, I am God, and there is none like me,
10. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I wil doe all my pleasure:
11. Calling a rauenous bird from the East, the man that executeth my counsell from a farre countrey; yea I haue spoken it, I will also bring it to passe, I haue purposed it, I will also doe it.
12. Hearken vnto me, ye stout hearted, that are farre from righteousnesse.
13. I bring neere my righteousnesse: it shall not bee farre off, and my saluation shall not tarie; and I wil place saluation in Zion for Israel my glorie.
1. Come downe and sit in the dust: O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Caldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
2. Take the milstones and grinde meale, vncouer thy lockes: make bare the legge: vncouer the thigh, passe ouer the riuers.
3. Thy nakednes shalbe vncouered, yea thy shame shalbe seene: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
4. As for our redeemer, the Lord of hostes is his Name, the Holy one of Israel.
5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darknes, O daughter of the Caldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the Ladie of kingdomes.
6. I was wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; vpon the ancient hast thou very heauily layed the yoke.
7. And thou saydst, I shall bee a Ladie for euer: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the later end of it.
8. Therefore heare now this, thou that art giuen to pleasures, that dwellest carelesly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else besides mee, I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the losse of children.
9. But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day; the losse of children, and widowhood; they shall come vpon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine inchantments.
10. For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisedome and thy knowledge, it hath peruerted thee, and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me.
11. Therefore shall euill come vpon thee, thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischiefe shall fall vpon thee, thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come vpon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12. Stand now with thine inchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profite, if so be thou mayest preuaile.
13. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee.
14. Behold, they shall be as stubble: the fire shall burne them, they shall not deliuer themselues from the power of the flame: there shall not bee a coale to warme at, nor fire to sit before it.
15. Thus shal they be vnto thee with whom thou hast laboured, euen thy merchants from thy youth, they shall wander euery one to his quarter: none shall saue thee.
1. Heare yee this, O house of Iacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come foorth out of the waters of Iudah; which sweare by the Name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in trueth nor in righteousnes.
2. For they call themselues of the holy city, and stay themselues vpon the God of Israel, the Lord of hostes is his Name.
3. I haue declared the former things from the beginning: and they went foorth out of my mouth, and I shewed them, I did them suddenly, and they came to passe.
4. Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy necke is an yron sinew, and thy brow brasse:
5. I haue euen from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to passe I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idole hath done them, and my grauen image, and my molten image hath commanded them.
6. Thou hast heard, see all this, and will not yee declare it? I haue shewed thee new things from this time, euen hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
7. They are created now, and not from the beginning, euen before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8. Yea thou heardest not, yea thou knewest not, yea from that time that thine eare was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deale very treacherously, and wast called a transgressour from the wombe.
9. For my names sake will I deferre mine anger, and for my praise will I refraine for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10. Behold, I haue refined thee, but not with siluer; I haue chosen thee in the fornace of affliction.
11. For mine owne sake, euen for mine owne sake will I doe it; for how should my Name bee polluted? And I will not giue my glory vnto another.
12. Hearken vnto me, O Iacob, and Israel my called; I am hee, I am the first, I also am the last.
13. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heauens: when I call vnto them, they stand vp together.
14. All yee assemble your selues and heare: which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loued him: hee will doe his pleasure on Babylon, and his arme shall be on the Caldeans.
15. I, euen I haue spoken, yea I haue called him: I haue brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16. Come ye neere vnto me; heare ye this; I haue not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God and his Spirit hath sent me.
17. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest goe.
18. O that thou haddest hearkened to my commandements! Then had thy peace beene as a riuer, and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea.
19. Thy seede also had beene as the sand, and the ofspring of thy bowels like the grauell thereof: his name should not haue beene cut off, nor destroyed from before me.
20. Goe yee forth of Babylon: flee yee from the Caldeans, with a voyce of singing, declare yee, tell this, vtter it euen to the end of the earth: say yee; The Lord hath redeemed his seruant Iacob.
21. And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rocke for them: he claue the rocke also, and the waters gushed out.
22. There is no peace, saith the Lord, vnto the wicked.
1. Listen, O yles, vnto me, and hearken yee people from farre. The Lord hath called mee from the wombe, from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
2. And he hath made my mouth like a sharpe sword, in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made mee a polished shaft; in his quiuer hath hee hid me,
3. And sayd vnto me; Thou art my seruant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4. Then I said; I haue laboured in vaine, I haue spent my strength for nought, and in vaine, yet surely my iudgement is with the Lord, and my worke with my God.
5. And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the wombe to be his seruant, to bring Iacob againe to him; Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall bee my strength.
6. And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob, and to restore the preserued of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my saluation, vnto the end of the earth.
7. Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, and his holy one, to him whom man dispiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a seruant of rulers; Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord, that is faithfull, and the holy one of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8. Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time haue I heard thee, and in a day of saluation haue I helped thee: and I will preserue thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherite the desolate heritages:
9. That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Goe forth; to them that are in darkenesse, Shewe your selues: they shall feede in the wayes, and their pastures shalbe in all high places.
10. They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heate nor sunne smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, euen by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11. And I will make all my mountaines a way, and my high wayes shall be exalted.
12. Behold, these shall come from far: and loe, these from the North and from the West, and these from the land of Sinim.
13. Sing, O heauen, and be ioyfull, O earth, and breake forth into singing, O mountaines: for God hath comforted his people, and will haue mercy vpon his afflicted.
14. But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe? yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16. Behold, I haue grauen thee vpon the palmes of my hands: thy walles are continually before mee.
17. Thy children shal make haste, thy destroyers, and they that made thee waste, shall goe forth of thee.
18. Lift vp thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselues together and come to thee: as I liue, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee as a bride doeth.
19. For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall euen now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee vp, shall bee farre away.
20. The children which thou shalt haue, after thou hast lost the other, shall say againe in thine eares, The place is too straight for me: giue place to mee that I may dwell.
21. Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I haue lost my children and am desolate, a captiue and remouing to and fro? and who hath brought vp these? Beholde, I was left alone, these where had they beene?
22. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift vp mine hand to the Gentiles, and set vp my standerd to the people: and they shall bring thy sonnes in their armes: and thy daughters shal be caried vpon their shoulders.
23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queenes thy nursing mothers: they shall bow downe to thee with their face toward the earth, and licke vp the dust of thy feete, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that waite for me.
24. Shall the pray be taken from the mightie, or the lawfull captiue deliuered?
25. But thus saith the Lord, Euen the captiues of the mightie shall be taken away, and the pray of the terrible shall be deliuered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will saue thy children.
26. And I will feede them that oppresse thee, with their owne flesh, and they shall be drunken with their owne blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Sauiour and thy Redeemer, the mightie One of Iacob.
1. Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mothers diuorcement, whom I haue put away? or which of my creditours is it to whom I haue sold you? Behold, for your iniquities haue you solde your selues, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 
2. Wherefore when I came was there no man? when I called, was there none to answere? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the riuers a wildernes: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
3. I clothe the heauens with blackenesse, and I make sackcloth their couering.
4. The Lord God hath giuen me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speake a worde in season to him that is wearie: hee wakeneth morning by morning, hee wakeneth mine eare to heare as the learned.
5. The Lord God hath opened mine eare, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backe.
6. I gaue my backe to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the haire: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.
7. For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not bee ashamed.
8. He is neere that iustifieth me, who will contend with me? let vs stand together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
9. Behold, the Lord God wil helpe me, who is he that shall condemne mee? Loe, they all shall waxe olde as a garment: the moth shall eate them vp.
10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voyce of his seruant, that walketh in darkenesse and hath no light? let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and stay vpon his God.
11. Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compasse your selues about with sparks: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand, yee shall lie downe in sorrow.
1. Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousnesse, ye that seeke the Lord: looke vnto the rocke whence yee are hewen, and to the hole of the pitte whence ye are digged.
2. Looke vnto Abraham your father, and vnto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3. For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he wil comfort all her waste places, and he wil make her wildernes like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: ioy and gladnesse shalbe found therein, thankesgiuing, and the voice of melody.
4. Hearken vnto me, my people, and giue eare vnto me, O my nation: for a Law shall proceed from mee, and I will make my iudgement to rest for a light of the people.
5. My righteousnes is neere: my saluation is gone foorth, and mine armes shall iudge the people: the Iles shall wait vpon me, and on mine arme shall they trust.
6. Lift vp your eyes to the heauens, and looke vpon the earth beneath: for the heauens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall waxe old like a garment, and they that dwel therein shall die in like maner: but my saluation shal be for euer, and my righteousnes shall not be abolished.
7. Hearken vnto me ye that know righteousnesse, the people in whose heart is my Law: Feare ye not the reproch of men, neither be yee afraid of their reuilings.
8. For the moth shall eate them vp like a garment, and the worme shal eate them like wooll: but my righteousnes shalbe for euer; and my saluation from generation to generation.
9. Awake, awake, put on strength, O arme of the Lord, awake as in the ancient dayes, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10. Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deepe, that hath made the depthes of the sea a way for the ransomed to passe ouer?
11. Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come with singing vnto Zion, and euerlasting ioy shalbe vpon their head: they shall obtaine gladnesse and ioy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12. I, euen I am hee that comforteth you, who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the sonne of man which shall bee made as grasse?
13. And forgettest the Lord thy maker that hath stretched foorth the heauens, and layed the foundations of the earth? and hast feared continually euery day, because of the furie of the oppressour, as if hee were ready to destroy? and where is the furie of the oppressour?
14. The captiue exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that hee should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should faile.
15. But I am the Lord thy God, that diuided the sea, whose waues roared: the Lord of hosts is his Name.
16. And I haue put my wordes in thy mouth, and haue couered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heauens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say vnto Zion, Thou art my people.
17. Awake, awake, stand vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the hand of the Lord the cup of his furie; thou hast drunken the dregges of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18. There is none to guide her among all the sonnes whom shee hath brought foorth: neither is there any that taketh her by the hand, of all the sonnes that she hath brought vp.
19. These two things are come vnto thee; who shall be sorie for thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20. Thy sonnes haue fainted, they lie at the head of all the streetes as a wilde bull in a net; they are full of the furie of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
21. Therefore heare now this thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine.
22. Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I haue taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, euen the dregges of the cup of my furie: thou shalt no more drinke it againe.
23. But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee: which haue said to thy soule, Bow downe that wee may goe ouer: and thou hast laide thy body as the ground, and as the streete to them that went ouer.
1. Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, put on thy beautifull garments, O Ierusalem the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no more come into thee the vncircumcised, and the vncleane.
2. Shake thy selfe from the dust: arise, and sit downe, O Ierusalem: loose thy selfe from the bandes of thy necke, O captiue daughter of Zion.
3. For thus sayth the Lord, Yee haue solde your selues for nought: and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4. For thus saith the Lord God, My people went downe aforetime into Egypt to soiourne there, and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5. Now therefore, what haue I here, sayth the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule ouer them, make them to howle, sayth the Lord, and my Name continually euery day is blasphemed.
6. Therefore my people shall know my Name: therefore they shall know in that day, that I am he that doth speake. Behold, it is I.
7. How beautifull vpon the mountaines are the feete of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth saluation, that sayth vnto Zion, Thy God reigneth?
8. Thy watchmen shall lift vp the voice, with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring againe Zion.
9. Breake foorth into ioy, sing together, yee waste places of Ierusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Ierusalem.
10. The Lord hath made bare his holy arme in the eyes of all the nations, and all the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
11. Depart ye, depart ye, goe ye out from thence, touch no vncleane thing; goe ye out of the middest of her; be yee cleane, that beare the vessels of the Lord.
12. For ye shall not go out with haste, nor goe by flight: for the Lord will goe before you: and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
13. Behold, my seruant shal deale prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14. As many were astonied at thee (his visage was so marred more then any man, and his forme more then the sonnes of men:)
15. So shall hee sprinckle many nations, the kings shall shut their mouthes at him: for that which had not beene told them, shall they see, and that which they had not heard, shall they consider.
1. Who hath beleeued our report? and to whom is the arme of the Lord reuealed?
2. For he shall grow vp before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a drie ground: hee hath no forme nor comelinesse: and when wee shall see him, there is no beautie that we should desire him.
3. He is despised and reiected of men, a man ofsorrows, and acquainted with griefe: and we hid as it were our faces from him; hee was despised, and wee esteemed him not.
4. Surely he hath borne our griefes, and caried our sorrowes: yet we did esteeme him striken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
6. All we like sheepe haue gone astray: we haue turned euery one to his owne way, and the Lord hath layd on him the iniquitie of vs all.
7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lambe to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her shearers is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.
8. He was taken from prison, and from iudgement: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the liuing, for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9. And he made his graue with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to griefe: when thou shalt make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede, hee shall prolong his daies, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11. He shall see of the trauell of his soule, and shalbe satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities.
12. Therefore will I diuide him a portion with the great, and he shall diuide the spoile with the strong: because hee hath powred out his soule vnto death: and he was numbred with the transgressours, and he bare the sinne of many, and made intercession for the transgressours.
1. Sing O barren thou that didst not beare; breake forth into singing, and crie aloud thou that didst not trauell with child: for more are the children of the desolate then the children of the maried wife, saith the Lord.
2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtaines of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
3. For thou shalt breake forth on the right hand, and on the left; and thy seed shall inherite the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4. Feare not: for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5. For thy maker is thine husband, (the Lord of hostes is his name;) and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken, and grieued in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7. For a small moment haue I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8. In a litle wrath I hid my face from thee, for a moment; but with euerlasting kindnesse will I haue mercie on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer.
9. For this is as the waters of Noah vnto me: for as I haue sworne that the waters of Noah should no more goe ouer the earth; so haue I sworne that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10. For the mountaines shall depart, and the hilles be remoued, but my kindnesse shall not depart from thee, neither shall the couenant of my peace be remoued, saith the Lord, that hath mercie on thee.
11. Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with faire colours, and lay thy foundations with Saphires.
12. And I will make thy windowes of Agates, and thy gates of Carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13. And all thy children shalbe taught of the Lord, and great shalbe the peace of thy children.
14. In righteousnesse shalt thou be established: thou shalt be farre from oppression, for thou shalt not feare; & from terrour, for it shall not come neere thee.
15. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoeuer shal gather together against thee, shall fall for thy sake.
16. Behold, I haue created the smith that bloweth the coales in the fire, and that bringeth foorth an instrument for his worke, and I haue created the waster to destroy.
17. No weapon that is formed against thee, shall prosper, and euery tongue that shall rise against thee in iudgement, thou shalt condemne. This is the heritage of the seruants of the Lord, and their righteousnesse is of me, saith the Lord.
1. Ho, euery one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money: come ye, buy and eate, yea come, buy wine and milke without money, and without price.
2. Wherefore doe yee spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate ye that which is good, and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse.
3. Incline your eare, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shall liue, and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
4. Behold, I haue giuen him for a witnesse to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
5. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee, shall runne vnto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
6. Seeke ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye vpon him while he is neere.
7. Let the wicked forsake his way, & the vnrighteous man his thoughts: and let him returne vnto the Lord, and he will haue mercie vpon him, and to our God, for hee will abundantly pardon.
8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, saith the Lord.
9. For as the heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughts then your thouhts.
10. For as the raine commeth down, and the snow from heauen, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring foorth and bud, that it may giue seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11. So shall my word bee that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not returne vnto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12. For ye shall goe out with ioy, and bee led foorth with peace: the mountaines and the hilles shall breake forth before you into singing, and al the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13. In stead of the thorne shall come vp the Firre tree, and in stead of the brier shall come vp the Myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an euerlasting signe that shall not bee cut off.
1. Thus saith the Lord, Keepe yee iudgement, and doe iustice: for my saluation is neere to come, and my righteousnesse to bee reuealed.
2. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the sonne of man that layeth holde on it: that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any euill.
3. Neither let the sonne of the stranger, that hath ioyned himselfe to the Lord, speake, saying, The Lord hath vtterly separated mee from his people: neither let the Eunuch say, Behold, I am a drie tree.
4. For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please mee, and take hold of my couenant:
5. Euen vnto them will I giue in mine house, and within my walles, a place and a name better then of sonnes and of daughters: I wil giue them an euerlasting name, that shal not be cut off.
6. Also the sonnes of the stranger that ioyne themselues to the Lord, to serue him, and to loue the Name of the Lord, to be his seruants, euery one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my Couenant:
7. Euen them will I bring to my holy mountaine, and make them ioyfull in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted vpon mine Altar: for mine house shalbe called an house of prayer for all people.
8. The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered vnto him.
9. All ye beasts of the field, come to deuoure, yea all ye beasts in the forest.
10. His watchmen are blinde: they are all ignorant, they are all dumbe dogs, they cannot barke; sleeping, lying downe, louing to slumber.
11. Yea they are greedy dogges which can neuer haue ynough, and they are shepheards that cannot vnderstand: they all looke to their owne way, euery one for his gaine, from his quarter.
12. Come ye, say they, I wil fetch wine, and we will fill our selues with strong drinke, and to morrow shal be as this day, and much more abundant.
1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come.
2. Hee shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his vprightnesse.
3. But draw neere hither, yee sonnes of the sorceresse, the seed of the adulterer, and the whore.
4. Against whom doe ye sport your selues? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seede of falsehood?
5. Inflaming your selues with idoles vnder euery greene tree, slaying the children in the valleys vnder the cliftes of the rockes?
6. Among the smooth stones of the streame is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: euen to them hast thou powred a drinke offering, thou hast offered a meate offering. Should I receiue comfort in these?
7. Upon a loftie and high mountaine hast thou set thy bed: euen thither wentest thou vp to offer sacrifice.
8. Behinde the doores also and the posts hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for thou hast discouered thy selfe to an other then mee, and art gone vp: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a couenant with them: thou louedst their bed where thou sawest it.
9. And thou wentest to the king with oyntment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers farre off, and didst debase thy selfe euen vnto hell.
10. Thou art wearied in the greatnesse of thy way; yet saydst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieued.
11. And of whom hast thou bene afraid or feared, that thou hast lyed, and hast not remembred me, nor layed it to thy heart? haue not I held my peace euen of old, and thou fearest me not?
12. I will declare thy righteousnes; and thy workes, for they shall not profit thee.
13. When thou criest, let thy companies deliuer thee: but the winde shall cary them all away; Uanitie shall take them: but hee that putteth his trust in me, shall possesse the land, and shall inherit my holy mountaine.
14. And shall say, Cast yee vp, cast yee vp; prepare the way, take vp the stumbling blocke out of the way of my people.
15. For thus saith the High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to reuiue the spirit of the humble, and to reuiue the heart of the contrite ones.
16. For I will not contend for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth: for the spirit should faile before me, and the soules which I haue made.
17. For the iniquitie of his couetousnesse was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and hee went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
18. I haue seene his wayes, and will heale him: I will leade him also, and restore comforts vnto him, and to his mourners.
19. I create the fruite of the lippes; peace, peace to him that is farre off, and to him that is neere, sayth the Lord, and I will heale him.
20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt.
21. There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.
1. Crie aloude, spare not, lift vp thy voice like a trumpet, and shewe my people their transgression, & the house of Iacob their sins.
2. Yet they seeke mee daily, and delight to know my wayes, as a nation that did righteousnesse, and forsooke not the ordinance of their God: they aske of me the ordinances of iustice: they take delight in approching to God.
3. Wherefore haue wee fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore haue wee afflicted our soule, & thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4. Behold, yee fast for strife and debate; and to smite with the fist of wickednesse, yee shall not fast as yee doe this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5. Is it such a fast that I haue chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soule? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackecloth and ashes vnder him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ?
6. Is not this the fast that I haue chosen? to loose the bandes of wickednesse, to vndoe the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake euery yoke?
7. Is it not, to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that are cast out, to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and that thou hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?
8. Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thine health shall spring foorth speedily: and thy righteousnesse shall goe before thee, the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
9. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answere; thou shalt cry, and he shal say, Here I am: if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanitie:
10. And if thou draw out thy soule to the hungry, and satisfie the afflicted soule: then shall thy light rise in obscuritie, and thy darkenesse be as the noone day.
11. And the Lord shal guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters faile not.
12. And they that shall be of thee, shall builde the olde waste places: thou shalt raise vp the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
13. If thou turne away thy foote 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 owne wayes, nor finding thine owne pleasure, nor speaking thine owne wordes:
14. Then shalt thou delight thy selfe in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride vpon the high places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
1. Beholde, the Lords hand is not shortened, that it cannot saue: neither his eare heauie, that it cannot heare.
2. But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes haue hid his face from you, that he will not heare.
3. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie, your lippes haue spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered peruersnesse.
4. None calleth for iustice, nor any pleadeth for trueth: they trust in vanity and speake lies; they conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth iniquitie.
5. They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders web: he that eateth of their egges dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6. Their webbes shall not become garments, neither shall they couer themselues with their workes: their workes are workes of iniquitie, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7. Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting & destruction are in their paths.
8. The way of peace they know not, and there is no iudgement in their goings: they haue made them crooked pathes; whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not know peace.
9. Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doth iustice ouertake vs: we waite for light, but behold obscuritie, for brightnesse, but we walke in darknesse.
10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eies: we stumble at noone day as in the night, we are in desolate places as dead men.
11. We roare all like beares, and mourne sore like doues: we looke for iudgement, but there is none; for saluation, but it is farre off from vs.
12. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs: for our transgressions are with vs, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
13. In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and reuolt, conceiuing and vttering from the heart words of falshood.
14. And iudgement is turned away backward, and iustice standeth a farre off: for truth is fallen in the streete, and equitie cannot enter.
15. Yea truth faileth, and he that departeth from euill maketh himselfe a pray: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him, that there was no iudgement.
16. And hee saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessour. Therefore his arme brought saluation vnto him, and his righteousnesse, it sustained him.
17. For he put on righteousnesse as a brestplate, and an helmet of saluation vpon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeale as a cloake.
18. According to their deedes accordingly he will repay, furie to his aduersaries, recompence to his enemies, to the ylands he will repay recompence.
19. So shall they feare the name of the Lord from the West, and his glory from the rising of the sunne: when the enemie shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift vp a standard against him.
20. And the redeemer shall come to Zion, and vnto them that turne from transgression in Iacob, saith the Lord.
21. As for me, this is my couenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is vpon thee, and my words which I haue put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of the seede, nor out of the mouth of thy seedes seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth, and for euer.
1. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen vpon thee.
2. For behold, the darknesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darknesse the people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon thee.
3. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightnesse of thy rising.
4. Lift vp thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselues together, they come to thee: thy sonnes shall come from farre, and thy daughters shalbe nourced at thy side.
5. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall feare and be inlarged, because the abundance of the Sea shalbe conuerted vnto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come vnto thee.
6. The multitude of camels shall couer thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah: all they from Sheba shall come: they shal bring gold and incense, and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.
7. All the flockes of Kedar shall be gathered together vnto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister vnto thee: they shall come vp with acceptance on mine altar, and I wil glorifie the house of my glory.
8. Who are these that flie as a cloude, and as the doues to their windowes?
9. Surely the yles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sonnes from farre, their siluer and their gold with them, vnto the Name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10. And the sonnes of strangers shall build vp thy walles, and their kings shal minister vnto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my fauour haue I had mercie on thee.
11. Therefore thy gates shal be open continually, they shall not bee shut day nor night, that men may bring vnto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12. For the nation and kingdome that will not serue thee, shall perish, yea those nations shall be vtterly wasted.
13. The glory of Lebanon shal come vnto thee, the Firre tree, the Pine tree, and the Boxe together, to beautifie the place of my Sanctuarie, and I will make the place of my feete glorious.
14. The sonnes also of them that afflicted thee, shall come bending vnto thee: and all they that despised thee shal bow themselues downe at the soles of thy feet, and they shall call thee the citie of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15. Whereas thou hast bene forsaken and hated, so that no man went thorow thee, I will make thee an eternall excellencie, a ioy of many generations.
16. Thou shalt also sucke the milke of the Gentiles, and shalt sucke the brest of kings, and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Sauiour and thy Redeemer, the mightie One of Iacob.
17. For brasse I will bring gold, and for yron I will bring siluer, and for wood brasse, and for stones yron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactours righteousnesse.
18. Uiolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders, but thou shalt call thy walles saluation, and thy gates praise.
19. The Sunne shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightnesse shall the moone giue light vnto thee: but the Lord shall be vnto thee an euerlasting light, & thy God thy glory.
20. Thy Sunne shall no more goe downe, neither shall thy moone withdraw it selfe: for the Lord shall bee thine euerlasting light, and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended.
21. Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shal inherit the land for euer, the branch of my planting, the worke of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22. A litle one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
1. The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, because the Lord hath anointed me, to preach good tidings vnto the meeke, hee hath sent me to binde vp the broken hearted, to proclaime libertie to the captiues, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound:
2. To proclaime the acceptable yere of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourne:
3. To appoint vnto them that mourne in Zion, to giue vnto them beautie for ashes, the oyle of ioy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heauinesse, that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4. And they shall build the olde wastes, they shall raise vp the former desolations, and they shall repaire the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5. And strangers shall stand and feed your flockes, and the sonnes of the alient shalbe your plowmen, and your Uine-dressers.
6. But ye shalbe 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 you boast your selues.
7. For your shame you shall haue double; and for confusion they shall reioyce in their portion: therefore in their land they shal possesse the double: euerlasting ioy shalbe vnto them.
8. For I the Lord loue Iudgement, I hate robbery for burnt offering, and I will direct their worke in trueth, and I will make an euerlasting Couenant with them.
9. And their seed shalbe knowen among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: All that see them, shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
10. I will greatly reioyce in the Lord, my soule shalbe ioyfull in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of saluation, he hath couered me with the robe of righteousnes, as a bridegrome decketh himselfe with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herselfe with her iewels.
11. For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sowen in it, to spring foorth: so the Lord God will cause righteousnes and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
1. For Zions sake, wil I not hold my peace, and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest, vntill the righteousnesse thereof goe forth as brightnesse, and the saluation thereof as a lampe that burneth;
2. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnes, and all Kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
3. Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royall diademe in the hand of thy God.
4. Thou shalt no more bee termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land, Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shalbe maried.
5. For as a yong man marrieth a virgine, so shall thy sonnes marry thee: and as the bridegrome reioyceth ouer the bride, so shall thy God reioyce ouer thee.
6. I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles, O Ierusalem, which shall neuer hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keepe not silence:
7. And giue him no rest till he establish, and till hee make Ierusalem a praise in the earth.
8. The Lord hath sworne by his Right hand, and by the arme of his strength, Surely, I will no more giue thy corne to be meat for thine enemies, and the sonnes of the stranger shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9. But they that haue gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord, and they that haue brought it together, shal drinke it in the Courts of my Holinesse.
10. Goe through, goe through the gates: prepare you the way of the people: cast vp, cast vp the high way, gather out the stones, lift vp a standard for the people.
11. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed vnto the end of the world, say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy saluation commeth; behold, his reward is with him, and his worke before him.
12. And they shall call them, The holy people: the redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, a citie not forsaken.
1. Who is this that commeth from Edom, with died garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, trauelling in the greatnesse of his strength? I that speake in righteousnesse, mightie to saue.
2. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparell, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3. I haue troden the winepresse alone, and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my furie, and their blood shall be sprinkled vpon my garments, and I will staine all my raiment.
4. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the yeere of my redeemed is come.
5. And I looked, and there was none to helpe; and I wondered that there was none to vphold: therefore mine owne arme brought saluation vnto me, and my furie, it vpheld me.
6. And I will tread downe the people in mine anger, & make them drunke in my furie, and I will bring downe their strength to the earth.
7. I will mention the louing kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on vs; and the great goodnes towards the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them, according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his louing kindnesses.
8. For hee said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so hee was their sauiour.
9. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saued them: in his loue and in his pitie hee redeemed them, and he bare them, and caried them all the dayes of olde.
10. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy spirit: therefore hee was turned to be their enemie, and he fought against them.
11. Then he remembred the dayes of old, Moses and his people, saying; Where is hee that brought them vp out of the Sea, with the shepheard of his flocke? where is hee that put his holy Spirit within him?
12. That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arme, diuiding the water before them, to make himselfe an euerlasting name?
13. That led them through the deepe as an horse in the wildernesse, that they should not stumble?
14. As a beast goeth downe into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so diddest thou leade thy people, to make thy selfe a glorious Name.
15. Looke downe from heauen, and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse, and of thy glory: where is thy zeale and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels, and of thy mercies towards me? are they restrained?
16. Doubtlesse thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of vs, and Israel acknowledge vs not: thou, O Lord art our Father, our Redeemer, thy Name is from euerlasting.
17. O Lord, why hast thou made vs to erre from thy wayes? and hardened our heart from thy feare? Returne for thy seruants sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18. The people of thy holinesse haue possessed it but a little while: our aduersaries haue troden downe thy Sanctuarie.
19. Wee are thine, thou neuer barest rule ouer them, they were not called by thy Name.
1. Oh that thou wouldest rent the heauens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountaines might flowe downe at thy presence,
2. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boyle: to make thy Name knowen to thine aduersaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence.
3. When thou diddest terrible things which wee looked not for, thou camest downe, the mountaines flowed downe at thy presence.
4. For since the beginning of the world men haue not heard, nor perceiued by the eare, neither hath the eye seene, O God, besides thee, what hee hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5. Thou meetest him that reioyceth, and worketh righteousnesse, those that remember thee in thy wayes: behold, thou art wroth, for we haue sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saued.
6. But we are al as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragges, and we all doe fade as a leafe, and our iniquities like the wind haue taken vs away.
7. And there is none that calleth vpon thy name, that stirreth vp himselfe to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities.
8. But now, O Lord, thou art our father: we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hand.
9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquitie for euer: behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10. Thy holy cities are a wildernesse, Zion is a wildernesse, Ierusalem a desolation.
11. Our holy and our beautifull house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt vp with fire, and all our pleasant things are layed waste:
12. Wilt thou refraine thy selfe for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict vs very sore?
1. I am sought of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, vnto a nation that was not called by my name.
2. I haue spread out my hands all the day vnto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their owne thoughts:
3. A people that prouoketh mee to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense vpon altars of bricke:
4. Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the monuments, which eate swines flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels:
5. Which say; Stand by thy selfe, come not neere to me; for I am holier then thou: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6. Behold, it is written before me: I will not keepe silence, but will recompence, euen recompence into their bosome,
7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, (saith the Lord) which haue burnt incense vpon the mountaines, & blasphemed mee vpon the hils: therfore will I measure their former worke into their bosome.
8. Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so wil I doe for my seruants sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9. And I will bring forth a seede out of Iacob, and out of Iudah an inheritour of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my seruants shall dwell there.
10. And Sharon shall be a fold of flockes, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie downe in, for my people that haue sought me.
11. But yee are they that for sake the Lord, that forget my holy mountaine, that prepare a table for that troope, and that furnish the drinke offring vnto that number.
12. Therefore will I number you to the sword, and yee shall all bow downe to the slaughter: because when I called, yee did not answere; when I spake, yee did not heare, but did euill before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not:
13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, my seruants shall eate, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my seruants shall drinke, but yee shall be thirstie: behold, my seruants shall reioyce, but yee shall be ashamed.
14. Behold, my seruants shall sing for ioy of heart, but yee shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howle for vexation of spirit.
15. And yee shall leaue your name for a curse vnto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his seruants by another name:
16. That he who blesseth himselfe in the earth, shall blesse himselfe in the God of trueth; and he that sweareth in the earth, shall sweare by the God of trueth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
17. For behold, I create new heauens, and a new earth: & the former shal not be remembred, nor come into mind.
18. But bee you glad and reioyce for euer in that which I create: for beholde, I create Ierusalem a reioycing, and her people a ioy.
19. And I wil reioyce in Ierusalem, and ioy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20. There shalbe no more thence an infant of dayes, nor an olde man, that hath not filled his dayes: for the childe shall die an hundreth yeeres olde: but the sinner being an hundreth yeres old, shalbe accursed.
21. And they shall builde houses, and inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, and eate the fruit of them.
22. They shal not build, and another inhabit: they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the daies of a tree, are the dayes of my people, and mine elect shal long enioy the worke of their hands.
23. They shall not labour in vaine, nor bring forth for trouble: for they are the seede of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
24. And it shal come to passe, that before they call, I will answere, & whiles they are yet speaking, I will heare.
25. The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate straw like the bullocke: and dust shalbe the serpents meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine, sayth the Lord.
1. Thus sayth the Lord, The heauen is my throne, and the earth is my footestoole: where is the house that yee builde vnto mee? and where is the place of my rest?
2. For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things haue beene, saith the Lord: but to this man wil I looke, euen to him that is poore and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3. He that killeth an oxe is as if he slue a man: he that sacrificeth a lambe, as if he cut off a dogs necke: he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood: he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idole: yea, they haue chosen their owne wayes, and their soule delighteth in their abominations.
4. I also will chuse their delusions, and will bring their feares vpon them; because when I called, none did answere, when I spake they did not heare: but they did euill before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5. Heare the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my Names sake, sayd, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shal appeare to your ioy, and they shalbe ashamed.
6. A voice of noyse from the city, a voice from the Temple, a voice of the Lord, that rendreth recompense to his enemies.
7. Before she trauailed, she brought foorth: before her paine came, shee was deliuered of a man childe.
8. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seene such things? shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day, or shall a nation be borne at once? for as soone as Zion traueiled, shee brought foorth her children.
9. Shall I bring to the birth, & not cause to bring forth, saith the Lord ? shall I cause to bring foorth, and shut the wombe, sayth thy God?
10. Reioyce ye with Ierusalem, and be glad with her, all yee that loue her: reioyce for ioy with her, all yee that mourne for her:
11. That ye may sucke and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations: that ye may milke out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12. For thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a riuer, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing streame: then shall ye sucke, ye shalbe borne vpon her sides, and be dandled vpon her knees.
13. As one whom his mother comforteth, so wil I comfort you: and ye shall be comforted in Ierusalem.
14. And when yee see this, your heart shall reioyce, and your bones shall flourish like an herbe: and the hand of the Lord shall be knowen towards his seruants, and his indignation towards his enemies.
15. For behold, the Lord wil come with fire, and with his charets like a whirlewinde, to render his anger with furie, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16. For by fire and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slaine of the Lord shalbe many.
17. They that sanctifie themselues, and purifie themselues in the gardens, behinde one tree in the midst, eating swines flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
18. For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glorie.
19. And I will set a signe among them, and I will send those that escape of them vnto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Iauan, to the Iles afarre off, that haue not heard my fame, neither haue seene my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20. And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering vnto the Lord, out of all nations, vpon horses and in charets, and in litters, and vpon mules, and vpon swift beasts to my holie mountaine Ierusalem, saith the Lord; as the children of Israel bring an offering in a cleane vessell, into the house of the Lord.
21. And I will also take of them for Priestes and for Leuites, saith the Lord.
22. For as the new heauens, and the new earth which I wil make, shall remaine before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remaine.
23. And it shall come to passe, that from one new Moone to an other, and from one Sabbath to an other, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
24. And they shall goe foorth, and looke vpon the carkeises of the men that haue transgressed against me: for their worme shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring vnto all flesh.
1. The wordes of Ieremiah the sonne of Hilkiah, of the Priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Beniamin:
2. To whom the word of the Lord came in the dayes of Iosiah the sonne of Amon king of Iudah, in the thirteenth yeere of his reigne.
3. It came also in the dayes of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, vnto the ende of the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, vnto the carrying away of Ierusalem captiue in the fift moneth.
4. Then the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
5. Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the wombe, I sanctified thee, and I ordeined thee a Prophet vnto the nations.
6. Then said I, Ah Lord God, behold, I cannot speake, for I am a childe.
7. But the Lord sayd vnto me, Say not, I am a childe: for thou shalt goe to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoeuer I command thee, thou shalt speake.
8. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliuer thee, sayth the Lord.
9. Then the Lord put foorth his hand, and touched my mouth, and the Lord said vnto me, Behold, I haue put my words in thy mouth.
10. See, I haue this day set thee ouer the nations, and ouer the kingdomes, to roote out, and to pull downe, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant.
11. Moreouer, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying; Ieremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rodde of an almond tree.
12. Then said the Lord vnto me, Thou hast well seene: for I will hasten my word to performe it.
13. And the worde of the Lord came vnto mee the second time, saying; What seest thou? And I said; I see a seething pot, and the face thereof was towards the North.
14. Then the Lord said vnto me; Out of the North an euill shal breake foorth vpon all the inhabitants of the land.
15. For loe, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the North, saith the Lord, and they shall come, and they shall set euery one his throne at the entring of the gates of Ierusalem, and against all the walles thereof round about, & against all the cities of Iudah.
16. And I will vtter my iudgements against them touching all their wickednesse, who haue forsaken me, and haue burnt incense vnto other gods, and worshipped the workes of their owne hands.
17. Thou therefore gird vp thy loynes, and arise and speake vnto them all that I commaund thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
18. For behold, I haue made thee this day a defenced citie, and an yron pillar, and brasen walles against the whole land, against the kings of Iudah, against the princes thereof, against the Priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
19. And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not preuaile against thee: for I am with thee, sayth the Lord, to deliuer thee.
1. Moreouer, the word of the Lord came to me, saying;
2. Goe, and crie in the eares of Ierusalem, saying; Thus sayth the Lord, I remember thee, the kindnesse of thy youth, the loue of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wildernesse, in a land that was not sowen.
3. Israel was holinesse vnto the Lord, and the first fruites of his increase: all that deuoure him, shall offend, euill shall come vpon them, sayth the Lord.
4. Heare ye the word of the Lord, O house of Iacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
5. Thus sayth the Lord, What iniquitie haue your fathers found in me, that they are gone farre from mee, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?
6. Neither sayd they, Where is the Lord that brought vs vp out of the land of Egypt? that led vs through the wildernesse, through a land of deserts and of pittes, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed thorow, and where no man dwelt.
7. And I brought you into a plentifull countrey, to eate the fruit thereof, and the goodnesse thereof; but when ye entred yee defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
8. The Priests said not, Where is the Lord ? and they that handle the Law knew me not: the pastours also transgressed against mee, and the Prophets prophecied by Baal, and walked after things that doe not profit.
9. Wherefore, I will yet pleade with you, sayth the Lord, and with your childrens children will I pleade.
10. For passe ouer the yles of Chittim, and see; and send vnto Kedar and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
11. Hath a nation changed their Gods, which are yet no Gods? but my people haue changed their glory, for that which doth not profit.
12. Be astonished, O yee heauens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be yee very desolate, saith the Lord.
13. For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken me, the fountaine of liuing waters, and hewed them out cisternes, broken cisternes that can hold no water.
14. Is Israel a seruant? is he a home-borne slaue? why is he spoiled?
15. The young lyons roared vpon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burnt without inhabitant.
16. Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes haue broken the crowne of thy head.
17. Hast thou not procured this vnto thy selfe, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18. And now what hast thou to doe in the way of Egypt, to drinke the waters of Sihor? Or what hast thou to doe in the way of Assyria, to drinke the waters of the riuer?
19. Thine owne wickednesse shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reproue thee: know therefore and see, that it is an euill thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my feare is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of Hostes.
20. For of old time I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and thou saidst; I will not transgresse: when vpon euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree thou wandrest, playing the harlot.
21. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholy a right seede: How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine vnto me?
22. For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquitie is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
23. How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I haue not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedarie trauersing her wayes.
24. A wild asse vsed to the wildernesse, that snuffeth vp the wind at her pleasure, in her occasion who can turne her away? all they that seeke her will not wearie themselues, in her moneth they shall find her.
25. Withhold thy foote from being vnshod, and thy throte from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope. No, for I haue loued strangers, and after them will I goe.
26. As the thiefe is ashamed, when he is found: so is the house of Israel ashamed, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, & their prophets,
27. Saying to a stocke; Thou art my father, and to a stone; Thou hast brought me forth: for they haue turned their backe vnto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble, they will say; Arise and saue vs.
28. But where are thy Gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise if they can saue thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities, are thy Gods, O Iudah.
29. Wherefore will yee plead with me? yee all haue transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
30. In vaine haue I smitten your children, they receiued no correction: your owne sword hath deuoured your prophets, like a destroying lyon.
31. O generation, see yee the word of the Lord: haue I beene a wildernesse vnto Israel? a land of darkenesse? wherefore say my people; We are Lords, we will come no more vnto thee?
32. Can a maide forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people haue forgotten me dayes without number.
33. Why trimmest thou thy way to seeke loue? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy wayes.
34. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the soules of the poore innocents: I haue not found it by secret search, but vpon all these.
35. Yet thou sayest; Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turne from me: behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I haue not sinned.
36. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt bee ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
37. Yea thou shalt goe forth from him, and thine hands vpon thine head: for the Lord hath reiected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
1. They say; If a man put away his wife, and she goe from him, and become another mans, shall hee returne vnto her againe? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many louers; yet returne againe to me, saith the Lord.
2. Lift vp thine eyes vnto the high places, and see where thou hast not bene lien with: in the wayes hast thou sate for them, as the Arabian in the wildernesse, and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredomes, and with thy wickednes.
3. Therefore the showres haue bin withholden, and there hath bene no latter raine, and thou haddest a whores forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4. Wilt thou not from this time cry vnto me; My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
5. Will he reserue his anger for euer? wil he keepe it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done euill things as thou couldest.
6. The Lord said also vnto me, in the daies of Iosiah the king, Hast thou seene that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone vp vpon euery high mountaine, and vnder euery greene tree, and there hath plaied the harlot.
7. And I said after she had done all these things; Turne thou vnto me: but shee returned not, and her treacherous sister Iudah saw it.
8. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adulterie, I had put her away and giuen her a bill of diuorce: yet her treacherous sister Iudah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9. And it came to passe thorow the lightnes of her whoredome, that shee defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stockes.
10. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Iudah hath not turned vnto mee with her whole heart, but fainedly, saith the Lord.
11. And the Lord said vnto mee, The backesliding Israel hath iustified her selfe more then treacherous Iudah.
12. Go and proclaime these words toward the North, and say, Returne thou backesliding Israel, sayeth the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall vpon you: for I am mercifull, saith the Lord, and I will not keepe anger for euer.
13. Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy wayes to the strangers vnder euery greene tree, and ye haue not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.
14. Turne, O backesliding children, saith the Lord, for I am maried vnto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I wil bring you to Zion.
15. And I will giue you Pastours according to mine heart, which shall feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.
16. And it shall come to passe when yee bee multiplied and increased in the land; in those dayes, saith the Lord, they shal say no more; The Arke of the Couenant of the Lord: neither shal it come to minde, neither shall they remember it, neither shall they visit it, neither shall that be done any more.
17. At that time they shall call Ierusalem the Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shalbe gathered vnto it, to the Name of the Lord, to Ierusalem: neither shall they walke any more after the imagination of their euill heart.
18. In those dayes the house of Iudah shall walke with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the North to the land that I haue giuen for an inheritance vnto your fathers.
19. But I said; How shall I put thee among the children, and giue thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hostes of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me; My father, and shalt not turne away from me.
20. Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband: so haue you dealt treacherously with mee, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.
21. A voice was heard vpon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they haue peruerted their way, and they haue forgotten the Lord their God.
22. Returne ye backsliding children, and I wil heale your backslidings: Beholde, wee come vnto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.
23. Truely in vaine is saluation hoped for from the hilles, and from the multitude of mountaines: truely in the Lord our God is the saluation of Israel.
24. For shame hath deuoured the labour of our fathers from our youth: their flockes and their heards, their sonnes and their daughters.
25. We lie downe in our shame, and our confusion couereth vs: for we haue sinned against the Lord our God, wee and our fathers from our youth euen vnto this day, and haue not obeied the voice of the Lord our God.
1. If thou wilt returne, O Israel, saith the Lord, returne vnto mee: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remoue.
2. And thou shalt sweare, The Lord liueth, in Trueth, in Iudgement, and in Righteousnes, and the nations shall blesse themselues in him, and in him shall they glorie.
3. For thus saith the Lord to the men of Iudah and Ierusalem, Breake vp your fallow ground, and sow not among thornes.
4. Circumcise your selues to the Lord, and take away the foreskinnes of your heart, ye men of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem, lest my furie come forth like fire, and burne that none can quench it, because of the euill of your doings.
5. Declare ye in Iudah, and publish in Ierusalem, and say, Blow yee the Trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble your selues, and let vs goe into the defenced cities.
6. Set vp the standards toward Zion: retyre, stay not; for I will bring euil from the North, and a great destruction.
7. The Lion is come vp from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; hee is gone foorth from his place to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be layed waste, without an inhabitant.
8. For this gird you with sackcloth; lament and howle: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned backe from vs.
9. And it shall come to passe at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the King shall perish, and the heart of the Princes: and the Priests shalbe astonished, & the prophets shall wonder.
10. Then said I, Ah Lord God, surely thou hast greatly deceiued this people, and Ierusalem, saying, Ye shall haue peace, whereas the sword reacheth vnto the soule.
11. At that time shall it bee said to this people, and to Ierusalem; A dry winde of the high places in the wildernes toward the daughter of my people, not to fanne, nor to cleanse.
12. Euen a full winde from those places shall come vnto mee: now also will I giue sentence against them.
13. Behold, hee shall come vp as cloudes, and his charets shall bee as a whirlewinde: his horses are swifter then Eagles: woe vnto vs, for wee are spoiled.
14. O Ierusalem, wash thine heart from wickednesse, that thou mayest bee saued: how long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee?
15. For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
16. Make ye mention to the nations, behold, publish against Ierusalem, that watchers come from a farre countrey, and giue out their voice against the cities of Iudah.
17. As keepers of a fielde are they against her round about; because shee hath bene rebellious against mee, saith the Lord.
18. Thy way and thy doings haue procured these things vnto thee, this is thy wickednes because it is bitter, because it reacheth vnto thine heart.
19. My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noise in mee, I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soule, the sound of the Trumpet, the alarme of warre.
20. Destruction vpon destruction is cried, for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtaines in a moment.
21. How long shal I see the standard and heare the sound of the Trumpet?
22. For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me, they are sottish children, and they haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe good they haue no knowledge.
23. I beheld the earth, and loe, it was without forme and void: and the heauens, and they had no light.
24. I beheld the mountaines, and loe they trembled, and all the hilles mooued lightly.
25. I behelde, and loe, there was no man, and all the birdes of the heauens were fled.
26. I beheld, and loe, the fruitfull place was a wildernesse, and all the cities thereof were broken downe at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.
27. For thus hath the Lord said; The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full ende.
28. For this shall the earth mourne, and the heauens aboue be blacke: because I haue spoken it, I haue purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turne backe from it.
29. The whole citie shall flee, for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, they shall goe into thickets, and climbe vp vpon the rockes: euery city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30. And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou doe? though thou clothest thy selfe with crimsin, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of golde, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vaine shalt thou make thy selfe faire, thy louers will despise thee, they will seeke thy life.
31. For I haue heard a voice as of a woman in trauel, and the anguish as of her that bringeth foorth her first childe, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth her selfe, that spreadeth her hands, saying; Woe is me now, for my soule is wearied because of murderers.
1. Runne yee to and fro thorow the streetes of Ierusalem, and see now and knowe, and seeke in the broad places thereof, if ye can finde a man, if there be any that executeth iudgement, that seeketh the trueth, and I will pardon it.
2. And though they say, The Lord liueth, surely they sweare falsely.
3. O Lord, are not thine eyes vpon the trueth? Thou hast stricken them, but they haue not grieued; thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a rocke, they haue refused to returne.
4. Therefore I said, Surely these are poore, they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.
5. I wil get me vnto the great men, and will speake vnto them, for they haue knowen the way of the Lord, and the iudgement of their God: but these haue altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bondes.
6. Wherfore a lyon out of the forrest shall slay them, and a wolfe of the euenings shall spoile them, a leopard shall watch ouer their cities: euery one that goeth out thence shalbe torne in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backeslidings are increased.
7. How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children haue forsaken mee, and sworne by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adulterie, and assembled themselues by troupes in the harlots houses.
8. They were as fed horses in the morning: euery one neighed after his neighbours wife:
9. Shall I not visit for these things, sayth the Lord, and shall not my soule bee auenged on such a nation as this?
10. Goe yee vp vpon her walles, and destroy, but make not a full ende: take away her battlements, for they are not the Lords.
11. For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.
12. They haue belyed the Lord, and said; It is not he, neither shall euill come vpon vs, neither shal we see sword nor famine.
13. And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done vnto them.
14. Wherfore thus saith the Lord God of Hostes; Because yee speake this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth, fire, and this people wood, and it shall deuoure them.
15. Loe, I will bring a nation vpon you from farre, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither vnderstandest what they say.
16. Their quiuer is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
17. And they shall eate vp thine haruest and thy bread, which thy sonnes and thy daughters should eate: they shall eate vp thy flockes and thine heards: they shall eate vp thy vines and thy figtrees: they shall impouerish thy fenced cities wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18. Neuerthelesse in those daies, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.
19. And it shall come to passe when yee shall say; Wherefore doth the Lord our God all these things vnto vs? then shalt thou answere them; Like as ye haue forsaken me, & serued strange Gods in your land; so shall yee serue strangers in a land that is not yours.
20. Declare this in the house of Iacob, and publish it in Iudah saying;
21. Heare now this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not.
22. Feare yee not mee, saith the Lord ? Will yee not tremble at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof tosse themselues, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it?
23. But this people hath a reuolting and a rebellious heart: they are reuolted and gone.
24. Neither say they in their heart; Let vs now feare the Lord our God, that giueth raine, both the former and the later in his season: he reserueth vnto vs the appointed weekes of the haruest.
25. Your iniquities haue turned away these things, & your sinnes haue withholden good things from you.
26. For among my people are found wicked men: they lay waite as hee that setteth snares, they set a trap, they catch men.
27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea they ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they iudge not the cause, the cause of the fatherlesse, yet they prosper: and the right of the needy doe they not iudge.
29. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord ? shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
30. A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the land.
31. The prophets prophecie falsely, and the priests beare rule by their meanes, and my people loue to haue it so: and what will yee doe in the end therof?
1. O yee children of Beniamin, gather your selues to flee out of the middest of Ierusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa: and set vp a signe of fire in Beth-haccerem: for euill appeareth out of the North, and great destruction.
2. I haue likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3. The shepheards with their flocks shall come vnto her: they shall pitch their tents against her round about: they shall feede, euery one in his place.
4. Prepare yee warre against her: arise, and let vs goe vp at noone: woe vnto vs, for the day goeth away, for the shadowes of the euening are stretched out.
5. Arise, and let vs goe by night, and let vs destroy her palaces.
6. For thus hath the Lord of hostes said; Hew yee downe trees and cast a mount against Ierusalem: this is the citie to be visited, she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7. As a fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickednesse: violence and spoile is heard in her, before me continually is griefe and wounds.
8. Be thou instructed, O Ierusalem, lest my soule depart from thee: lest I make thee desolate, a lande not inhabited.
9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly gleane the remnant of Israel as a vine: turne backe thine hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.
10. To whome shall I speake and giue warning, that they may heare? Behold, their eare is vncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: beholde, the word of the Lord is vnto them a reproch: they haue no delight in it.
11. Therefore I am full of the furie of the Lord: I am weary with holding in: I will powre it out vpon the children abroad, and vpon the assembly of yong men together: for euen the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of dayes. 
12. And their houses shall be turned vnto others, with their fields and wiues together: for I wil stretch out my hand vpon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
13. For from the least of them euen vnto the greatest of them, euery one is giuen to couetousnesse, and from the prophet euen vnto the priest, euery one dealeth falsly.
14. They haue healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people sleightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
15. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them, they shall bee cast downe, saith the Lord.
16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the wayes and see, and aske for the old paths, where is the good way, and walke therein, and ye shall finde rest for your soules: but they said, We will not walke therein.
17. Also I set watchmen ouer you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet: but they said, We wil not hearken.
18. Therefore heare ye nations, and know, O Congregation what is among them.
19. Heare, O earth, behold, I will bring euill vpon this people, euen the fruit of their thoughts, because they haue not hearkened vnto my wordes, nor to my law, but reiected it.
20. To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba? and the sweet cane from a farre countrey? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet vnto me.
21. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumbling blockes before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall vpon them: the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
22. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people commeth from the North countrey, and a great nation shall bee raised from the sides of the earth.
23. They shall lay hold on bowe and speare: they are cruell, and haue no mercie: their voice roareth like the Sea, and they ride vpon horses, set in aray as men for warre against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24. We haue heard the fame thereof, our hands waxe feeble, anguish hath taken hold of vs, and paine as of a woman in trauaile.
25. Goe not forth into the field, nor walke by the way: for the sword of the enemie and feare is on euery side.
26. O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallowe thy selfe in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an onely sonne, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come vpon vs.
27. I haue set thee for a towre, and a fortresse among my people: that thou mayest know and trie their way.
28. They are all grieuous reuolters, walking with slanders: they are brasse and yron, they are all corrupters.
29. The bellowes are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire: the founder melteth in vaine: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30. Reprobate siluer shall men call them, because the Lord hath reiected them.
1. The word that came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Stand in the gate of the Lords house, and proclaime there this word, and say, Heare the word of the Lord, all ye of Iudah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.
3. Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel; Amend your wayes, and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord are these.
5. For if ye throughly amend your waies and your doings, if you throughly execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour:
6. If ye oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your hurt:
7. Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gaue to your fathers, for euer and euer.
8. Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9. Will ye steale, murther, and commit adulterie, and sweare falsly, and burne incense vnto Baal, and walke after other gods, whom ye know not;
10. And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my Name, and say, We are deliuered, to do all these abominations?
11. Is this house, which is called by my Name, become a denne of robbers in your eies? Behold, euen I haue seen it, saith the Lord.
12. But goe yee now vnto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my Name at the first, and see what I did to it, for the wickednesse of my people Israel.
13. And now because ye haue done all these workes, saith the Lord, and I spake vnto you, rising vp earely, and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:
14. Therefore will I doe vnto this house, which is called by my Name, wherein yee trust, and vnto the place which I gaue to you, and to your fathers, as I haue done to Shiloh.
15. And I will cast you out of my sight, as I haue cast out all your brethren, euen the whole seed of Ephraim.
16. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift vp cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me, for I will not heare thee.
17. Seest thou not what they doe in the cities of Iudah, and in the streets of Ierusalem?
18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, & the women knead their dough to make cakes to the Queene of heauen, and to powre out drinke offerings vnto other gods, that they may prouoke me to anger.
19. Doe they prouoke mee to anger, saith the Lord ? Doe they not prouoke themselues to the confusion of their owne faces?
20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, mine anger and my furie shalbe powred out vpon this place, vpon man & vpon beast, and vpon the trees of the field, and vpon the fruit of the ground, and it shall burne, and shall not be quenched.
21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Put your burnt offrings vnto your sacrifices, & eate flesh.
22. For I spake not vnto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
23. But this thing commaunded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I wil be your God, and ye shalbe my people: and walke ye in all the wayes that I haue commanded you, that it may be well vnto you.
24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their eare, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their euill heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt vnto this day, I haue euen sent vnto you all my seruants the Prophets, daily rising vp early, and sending them.
26. Yet they hearkned not vnto me, nor inclined their eare, but hardened their neck, they did worse then their fathers.
27. Therefore thou shalt speake all these wordes vnto them, but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call vnto them, but they will not answere thee.
28. But thou shalt say vnto them; This is a nation, that obeyeth not the voyce of the Lord their God, nor receiueth correction: trueth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29. Cut off thine haire, O Ierusalem, and cast it away, and take vp a lamentation on high places, for the Lord hath reiected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30. For the children of Iudah haue done euill in my sight, saith the Lord: they haue set their abominations in the house which is called by my Name, to pollute it.
31. And they haue built the high places of Tophet which is in the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, to burne their sonnes and their daughters in the fire, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32. Therefore behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33. And the carkeises of this people shall be meate for the fowles of the heauen, and for the beasts of the earth, and none shall fray them away.
34. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Iudah, and from the streets of Ierusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladnesse, the voice of the bridegroome, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
1. At that time, sayeth the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Iudah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the Priests, and the bones of the Prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Ierusalem out of their graues.
2. And they shall spread them before the Sunne, and the Moone, and all the hoste of heauen whom they haue loued, and whom they haue serued, and after whom they haue walked, and whom they haue sought, and whom they haue worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for doung, vpon the face of the earth.
3. And death shall bee chosen rather then life, by all the residue of them that remaine of this euill family, which remaine in all the places whither I haue driuen them, saith the Lord of hosts.
4. Moreouer thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, Shall they fall, and not arise? Shall hee turne away, and not returne?
5. Why then is this people of Ierusalem slidden backe, by a perpetual backesliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to returne.
6. I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, What haue I done? Euery one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battell.
7. Yea the Storke in the heauen knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow obserue the time of their coming; but my people know not the iudgement of the Lord.
8. How doe ye say, We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with vs? Loe, certainly, in vaine made he it, the pen of the scribes is in vaine.
9. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lord, and what wisedome is in them?
10. Therfore will I giue their wiues vnto others, & their fields to them that shall inherite them: for euery one from the least euen vnto the greatest is giuen to couetousnes, from the Prophet euen vnto the priest, euery one dealeth falsly.
11. For they haue healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
12. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fal, in the time of their visitation they shall be cast downe, saith the Lord.
13. I will surely consume them, saith the Lord; there shalbe no grapes on the vine, nor figges on the figtree, and the leafe shall fade, and the things that I haue giuen them, shall passe away from them.
14. Why doe wee sit still? Assemble your selues, and let vs enter into the defenced cities, and let vs be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put vs to silence, and giuen vs waters of gall to drink, because we haue sinned against the Lord.
15. We looked for peace, but no good came: and for a time of health, and behold trouble.
16. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones, for they are come and haue deuoured the land, and all that is in it, the citie, and those that dwell therein.
17. For behold, I wil send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you; saith the Lord.
18. When I would comfort my selfe against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19. Behold the voice of the crie of the daughter of my people because of them that dwel in a farre countrey: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? why haue they prouoked me to anger with their grauen images, and with strange vanities?
20. The haruest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saued.
21. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, I am blacke: astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22. Is there no balme in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?
1. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountaine of teares, that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people.
2. Oh that I had in the wildernesse a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and goe from them: for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3. And they bend their tongue like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceed from euil to euill, and they know not me, saith the Lord.
4. Take yee heede euery one of his neighbour, and trust yee not in any brother: for euery brother will vtterly supplant, and euery neighbour will walke with slanders.
5. And they will deceiue euery one his neighbour, and will not speake the trueth, they haue taught their tongue to speake lies, and weary themselues to commit iniquity.
6. Thine habitation is in the middest of deceit, through deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.
7. Therfore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Behold, I will melt them, and trie them: for how shall I doe for the daughter of my people?
8. Their tongue is as an arrowe shot out, it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his waite.
9. Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord ? shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
10. For the mountaines will I take vp a weeping and wayling, and for the habitations of the wildernesse a lamentation, because they are burnt vp, so that none can passe through them, neither can men heare the voyce of the cattell, both the foule of the heauens, and the beast are fled, they are gone.
11. And I will make Ierusalem heapes, and a denne of dragons, and I wil make the cities of Iudah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12. Who is the wise man that may vnderstand this, and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that hee may declare it; for what the land perisheth, and is burnt vp like a wildernesse that none passeth through?
13. And the Lord saith; Because they haue forsaken my law, which I set before them, and haue not obeyed my voyce, neither walked therein;
14. But haue walked after the imagination of their owne heart, & after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, euen this people with wormewood, and giue them water of gall to drinke.
16. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whome neither they nor their fathers haue knowen: and I wil send a sword after them, til I haue consumed them.
17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider yee, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for cunning women, that they may come.
18. And let them make haste, and take vp a wailing for vs, that our eyes may run down with teares, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19. For a voyce of wayling is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled? wee are greatly confounded, because wee haue forsaken the land, because our dwellings haue cast vs out.
20. Yet heare the word of the Lord, O ye women, & let your eare receiue the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and euery one her neighbour lamentation.
21. For death is come vp into our windowes, and is entred into our palaces, to cut off the children from without and the yong men from the streetes.
22. Speake, Thus saith the Lord, Euen the carkeises of men shall fall as dung vpon the open field, and as the handfull after the haruest man, and none shall gather them.
23. Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches.
24. But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that hee vnderstandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise louing kindnesse, iudgement and righteousnesse in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
25. Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised, with the vncircumcised,
26. Egypt, and Iudah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the vtmost corners, that dwell in the wildernesse: for all these nations are vncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are vncircumcised in the heart.
1. Heare ye the word which the Lord speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel.
2. Thus sayeth the Lord, Learne not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signes of heauen, for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3. For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forrest (the worke of the handes of the workeman) with the axe.
4. They decke it with siluer and with golde, they fasten it with nayles, and with hammers that it mooue not.
5. They are vpright as the palme tree, but speake not: they must needes bee borne, because they cannot goe: be not afraid of them, for they cannot doe euil, neither also is it in them to doe good.
6. Forasmuch as there is none like vnto thee, O Lord, thou art great, and thy Name is great in might.
7. Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? for to thee doeth it appertaine: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdomes, there is none like vnto thee.
8. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stocke is a doctrine of vanities.
9. Siluer spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the worke of the workeman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the worke of cunning men.
10. But the Lord is the true God, he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his wrath the earth shal tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11. Thus shal ye say vnto them, The Gods that haue not made the heauens, & the earth, euen they shall perish from the earth, & from vnder these heauens.
12. Hee hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauens by his discretion.
13. When he vttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heauens, and hee causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: hee maketh lightnings with raine, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14. Euery man is brutish in his knowledge, euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his moulten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15. They are vanity, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16. The portion of Iacob is not like them: for he is the fourmer of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
17. Gather vp thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortresse.
18. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distresse them, that they may find it so.
19. Woe is mee for my hurt, my wound is grieuous: but I sayd, Truely this is a griefe, and I must beare it.
20. My Tabernacle is spoyled, and all my cordes are broken: my children are gone foorth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch foorth my tent any more, and to set vp my curtaines.
21. For the Pastours are become brutish, and haue not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flockes shall be scattered.
22. Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the North countrey, to make the cities of Iudah desolate, and a denne of dragons.
23. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himselfe: it is not in man that walketh, to direct his steps.
24. O Lord, correct mee, but with iudgement, not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25. Powre out thy fury vpon the heathen that know thee not, and vpon the families that call not on thy Name: for they haue eaten vp Iacob, and deuoured him, and consumed him, and haue made his habitation desolate.
1. The word that came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Heare yee the words of this Couenant, and speake vnto the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
3. And say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Cursed bee the man that obeyeth not the words of this Couenant,
4. Which I commaunded your fathers in the day that I brought them foorth out of the land of Egypt, from the yron furnace, saying, Obey my voyce, and doe them, according to all which I command you: so shall yee be my people, and I will be your God.
5. That I may performe the othe which I haue sworne vnto your fathers, to giue them a land flowing with milke and honie, as it is this day: then answered I, and said, So bee it, O Lord.
6. Then the Lord said vnto me, Proclaime all these wordes in the cities of Iudah, and in the streets of Ierusalem, saying, Heare ye the words of this Couenant, and doe them.
7. For I earnestly protested vnto your fathers, in the day that I brought them vp out of the land of Egypt, euen vnto this day, rising earely and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their eare: but walked euery one in the imagination of their euill heart: therefore I will bring vpon them all the words of this Couenant, which I commaunded them to doe; but they did them not.
9. And the Lord said vnto me, A conspiracie is found among the men of Iudah, and among the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
10. They are turned backe to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to heare my wordes: and they went after other gods to serue them: the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue broken my Couenant, which I made with their fathers.
11. Therefore thus sayeth the Lord, Behold, I will bring euill vpon them which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall crie vnto mee, I will not hearken vnto them.
12. Then shall the cities of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem goe, and crie vnto the gods vnto whom they offer incense; but they shall not saue them at all in the time of their trouble.
13. For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Iudah, and according to the number of the streetes of Ierusalem haue ye set vp altars to that shamefull thing, euen altars to burne incense vnto Baal.
14. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift vp a cry or prayer for them: for I will not heare them in the time that they crie vnto mee for their trouble.
15. What hath my beloued to doe in mine house, seeing shee hath wrought lewdnesse with many? and the holy flesh is passed from thee: when thou doest euill, then thou reioycest.
16. The Lord called thy name, A greene oliue tree, faire and of goodly fruite: with the noise of a great tumult hee hath kindled fire vpon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17. For the Lord of hostes that planted thee, hath pronounced euill against thee, for the euill of the house of Israel, and of the house of Iudah, which they haue done against themselues to prouoke mee to anger in offering incense vnto Baal.
18. And the Lord hath giuen mee knowledge of it, and I knowe it, then thou shewedst me their doings.
19. But I was like a lambe or an oxe that is brought to the slaughter, and I knew not that they had deuised deuices against me, saying; Let vs destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let vs cut him off from the land of the liuing, that his name may be no more remembred.
20. But, O Lord of hostes, that iudgest righteously, that tryest the reines, and the heart; let me see thy vengeance on them, for vnto thee haue I reuealed my cause.
21. Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seeke thy life, saying; Prophecie not in the Name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:
22. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I wil punish them: the young men shall die by the sword, their sonnes and their daughters shall die by famine.
23. And there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring euill vpon the men of Anathoth, euen the yere of their visitation.
1. Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I pleade with thee: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: Wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happie that deale very treacherously?
2. Thou hast planted them, yea they haue taken root: they grow, yea they bring foorth fruit, thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines.
3. But thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou hast seene me, and tried mine heart towards thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4. How long shall the land mourne, and the herbes of euery field wither, for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein? The beasts are consumed, and the birds, because they said; He shall not see our last end.
5. If thou hast runne with the footmen, and they haue wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou doe in the swelling of Iordan?
6. For euen thy brethren and the house of thy father, euen they haue dealt treacherously with thee, yea they haue called a multitude after thee; beleeue them not, though they speake faire words vnto thee.
7. I haue forsaken mine house: I haue left mine heritage: I haue giuen the dearely beloued of my soule into the hand of her enemies.
8. Mine heritage is vnto me as a lyon in the forrest: it cryeth out against me, therefore haue I hated it.
9. Mine heritage is vnto mee as a speckled bird, the birdes round about are against her; come yee, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to deuoure.
10. Many pastors haue destroyed my vineyard; they haue troden my portion vnder foote: they haue made my pleasant portion a desolate wildernesse.
11. They haue made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth vnto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
12. The spoilers are come vpon all high places through the wildernesse: for the sword of the Lord shall deuoure from the one end of the land euen to the other end of the land: no flesh shall haue peace.
13. They haue sowen wheate, but shall reape thornes: they haue put themselues to paine, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your reuenues, because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
14. Thus saith the Lord against all mine euill neighbours, that touch the inheritance, which I haue caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will plucke them out of their land, and plucke out the house of Iudah from among them.
15. And it shall come to passe after that I haue plucked them out, I will returne, and haue compassion on them, and will bring againe euery man to his heritage, and euery man to his land.
16. And it shall come to passe, if they will diligently learne the wayes of my people to sweare by my name (The Lord liueth, as they taught my people to sweare by Baal:) then shall they be built in the middest of my people.
17. But if they will not obey, I will vtterly plucke vp, and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.
1. Thus saith the Lord vnto me; Goe and get thee a linen girdle, and put it vpon thy loynes, and put it not in water.
2. So I got a girdle, according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loines.
3. And the word of the Lord came vnto me the second time, saying;
4. Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is vpon thy loines, and arise, goe to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rocke.
5. So I went and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord commaunded mee.
6. And it came to passe after many daies, that the Lord saide vnto me; Arise, goe to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commaunded thee to hide there.
7. Then I went to Euphrates and digged, and tooke the girdle from the place where I had hid it, and behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
8. Then the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
9. Thus saith the Lord; After this maner will I marre the pride of Iudah, and the great pride of Ierusalem.
10. This euill people which refuse to heare my words, which walke in the imagination of their heart, and walke after other Gods to serue them and to worship them, shall euen be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
11. For as the girdle cleaueth to the loines of a man: so haue I caused to cleaue vnto me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Iudah, saith the Lord; that they might bee vnto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not heare.
12. Therefore thou shalt speake vnto them this word; Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Euerie botle shalbe filled with wine: and they shall say vnto thee; Doe we not certainly know, that euery botle shall be filled with wine?
13. Then shalt thou say vnto them; Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, euen the kings that sit vpon Dauids throne, and the priests and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Ierusalem with drunkennesse.
14. And I will dash them one against another, euen the fathers and the sonnes together, saith the Lord: I wil not pitie nor spare, nor haue mercie, but destroy them.
15. Heare ye and giue eare, bee not proud: for the Lord hath spoken.
16. Giue glory to the Lord your God before he cause darknesse, and before your feet stumble vpon the darke mountaines, and while yee looke for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death, and make it grosse darkenesse.
17. But if ye will not heare it, my soule shall weepe in secret places for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe sore, and run downe with teares, because the Lords flocke is caried away captiue.
18. Say vnto the king, and to the queene, Humble your selues, sit downe, for your principalities shall come downe, euen the crowne of your glory.
19. The cities of the South shall bee shut vp, and none shall open them, Iudah shall be caried away captiue all of it, it shall bee wholly caried away captiue.
20. Lift vp your eyes, and beholde them that come from the North, where is the flocke that was giuen thee, thy beautifull flocke?
21. What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee (for thou hast taught them to be captaines and as chiefe ouer thee) shall not sorrowes take thee as a woman in trauaile?
22. And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things vpon me? for the greatnesse of thine iniquitie are thy skirts discouered, and thy heeles made bare.
23. Can the Ethiopian change his skinne? or the leopard his spots? then may ye also doe good, that are accustomed to doe euill.
24. Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the winde of the wildernesse.
25. This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten mee, and trusted in falshood.
26. Therefore will I discouer thy skirts vpon thy face, that thy shame may appeare.
27. I haue seene thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdnesse of thy whordome, and thine abominations on the hils in the fields: woe vnto thee, O Ierusalem, wilt thou not bee made cleane? when shall it once be?
1. The word of the Lord that came to Ieremiah concerning the dearth.
2. Iudah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are blacke vnto the ground, and the crie of Ierusalem is gone vp.
3. And their nobles haue sent their litle ones to the waters, they came to the pits and found no water, they returned with the vessels emptie: they were ashamed and confounded, and couered their heads.
4. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no raine in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they couered their heads.
5. Yea the hinde also calued in the field, and forsooke it, because there was no grasse.
6. And the wilde asses did stand in the hie places, they snuffed vp the winde like dragons: their eyes did faile because there was no grasse.
7. O Lord, though our iniquities testifie against vs, doe thou it for thy Names sake: for our back-slidings are many, we haue sinned against thee.
8. O the hope of Israel, the Sauiour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man, that turneth aside to tarie for a night?
9. Why shouldest thou bee as a man astonied, as a mightie man that cannot saue? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of vs, and we are called by thy Name, leaue vs not.
10. Thus saith the Lord vnto this people, Thus haue they loued to wander, they haue not refrained their feete, therefore the Lord doeth not accept them, hee will now remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.
11. Then said the Lord vnto mee, Pray not for this people, for their good.
12. When they fast I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
13. Then said I Ah Lord God, behold, the prophets say vnto them; Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye haue famine, but I will giue you assured peace in this place.
14. Then the Lord said vnto me, The prophets prophecie lies in my Name, I sent them not, neither haue I commanded them, neither spake vnto them: they prophecie vnto you a false vision and diuination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
15. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophecie in my Name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land, By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
16. And the people to whom they prophecie, shall be cast out in the streets of Ierusalem, because of the famine and the sword, and they shall haue none to burie them, them, their wiues, nor their sonnes, nor their daughters: for I will powre their wickednesse vpon them.
17. Therefore thou shalt say this word vnto them, Let mine eies runne downe with teares night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grieuous blow.
18. If I goe forth into the field, then behold the slaine with the sword, and if I enter into the citie, then behold them that are sicke with famine, yea both the prophet and the priest goe about into a land that they know not.
19. Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah? hath thy soule loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, and there is no healing for vs? we looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.
20. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednes, and the iniquitie of our fathers: for wee haue sinned against thee.
21. Do not abhorre vs, for thy Names sake, doe not disgrace the Throne of thy glorie: remember, breake not thy Couenant with vs.
22. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause raine? or can the heauens giue showres, Art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will waite vpon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
1. Then said the Lord vnto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my minde could not be toward this people, cast them out of my sight, and let them goe foorth.
2. And it shall come to passe if they say vnto thee, Whither shall wee goe foorth? then thou shalt tell them; Thus saith the Lord, Such as are for death to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captiuitie, to the captiuitie.
3. And I will appoint ouer them foure kindes, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to teare, and the foules of the heauen, and the beasts of the earth to deuoure and destroy.
4. And I will cause them to be remoued into all kingdomes of the earth, because of Manasseh the sonne of Hezekiah king of Iudah, for that which hee did in Ierusalem.
5. For who shall haue pitie vpon thee, O Ierusalem? or who shall bemoane thee? or who shall goe aside to aske how thou doest?
6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee, I am wearie with repenting.
7. And I will fanne them with a fanne in the gates of the land: I will bereaue them of children, I wil destroy my people, sith they returne not from their waies.
8. Their widowes are increased to me aboue the sand of the seas: I haue brought vpon them against the mother of the yongmen, a spoiler at noone day: I haue caused him to fall vpon it suddenly, and terrors vpon the citie.
9. She that hath borne seuen, languisheth: she hath giuen vp the ghost: her sunne is gone down while it was yet day: shee hath bene ashamed and confounded, and the residue of them will I deliuer to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.
10. Woe is mee, my mother, that that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth: I haue neither lent on vsurie, nor men haue lent to me on vsurie, yet euery one of them doeth curse me.
11. The Lord said, Uerely it shall be well with thy remnant, verely I will cause the enemie to intreat thee well in the time of euill, and in the time of affliction.
12. Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?
13. Thy substance and thy treasures will I giue to the spoile without price, and that for all thy sinnes, euen in all thy borders.
14. And I will make thee to passe with thine enemies, into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burne vpon you.
15. O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and reuenge me of my persecutors, take mee not away in thy long suffering: know that for thy sake I haue suffered rebuke.
16. Thy wordes were found, and I did eate them, and thy word was vnto mee, the ioy and reioycing of mine heart: for I am called by thy Name, O Lord God of hostes.
17. I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, nor reioyced: I sate alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
18. Why is my paine perpetuall? and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether vnto me as a lyar, and as waters that faile?
19. Therfore thus saith the Lord; If thou returne, then will I bring thee againe, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them returne vnto thee, but returne not thou vnto them.
20. And I will make thee vnto this people a fenced brasen wall, and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not preuaile against thee: for I am with thee to saue thee, and to deliuer thee, sayth the Lord.
21. And I will deliuer thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeeme thee out of the hand of the terrible.
1. The word of the Lord came also vnto me, saying;
2. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou haue sonnes nor daughters in this place.
3. For thus sayth the Lord concerning the sonnes and concerning the daughters that are borne in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begate them in this land:
4. They shal die of grieuous deaths, they shall not bee lamented, neither shall they be buried: but they shall be as doung vpon the face of the earth, and they shalbe consumed by the sword, and by famine, and their carkeises shall be meate for the foules of heauen, and for the beasts of the earth.
5. For thus sayth the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither goe to lament nor bemoane them: for I haue taken away my peace from this people, sayth the Lord, euen louing kindnesse and mercies.
6. Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselues, nor make themselues balde for them.
7. Neither shall men teare themselues for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead, neither shall men giue them the cuppe of consolation to drinke for their father, or for their mother.
8. Thou shalt not also goe into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drinke.
9. For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your dayes, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladnesse, the voice of the bridegroome, and the voice of the bride.
10. And it shal come to passe when thou shalt shewe this people all these wordes, and they shall say vnto thee; Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great euill against vs? or what is our iniquitie? or what is our sinne, that we haue committed against the Lord our God?
11. Then shalt thou say vnto them; Because your fathers haue forsaken me, saith the Lord, and haue walked after other Gods, and haue serued them, and haue worshipped them, and haue forsaken mee, and haue not kept my law:
12. And yee haue done worse then your fathers, (for behold, yee walke euerie one after the imagination of his euill heart, that they may not hearken vnto me.)
13. Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that yee knowe not, neither yee, nor your fathers, and there shall yee serue other Gods day and night, where I will not shewe you fauour.
14. Therefore behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said; The Lord liueth that brought vp the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15. But, The Lord liueth, that brought vp the children of Israel from the land of the North, and from all the lands whither hee had driuen them: and I will bring them againe into their land, that I gaue vnto their fathers.
16. Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shal fish them, and after will I send for manie hunters, and they shall hunt them from euery mountaine, and from euery hill, and out of the holes of the rockes.
17. For mine eyes are vpon all their waies: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquitie hid from mine eies.
18. And first I will recompense their iniquitie, and their sinne double, because they haue defiled my land, they haue filled mine inheritance with the carkeises of their detestable and abominable things.
19. O Lord, my strength and my fortresse, and my refuge in the day of affliction; the Gentiles shall come vnto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say; Surely our fathers haue inherited lyes, vanitie, and things wherein there is no profit.
20. Shall a man make Gods vnto himselfe, and they are no Gods?
21. Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know: I will cause them to knowe mine hand and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.
1. The sinne of Iudah is written with a pen of yron, and with the point of a diamond; it is grauen vpon the table of their heart, and vpon the hornes of your altars:
2. Whilest their children remember their altars and their groues by the greene trees vpon the high hilles.
3. O my mountaine, in the field I will giue thy substance, and all thy treasures to the spoile, and thy high places for sinne, throughout all thy borders.
4. And thou, euen thy selfe shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gaue thee, and I will cause thee to serue thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for yee haue kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burne for euer.
5. Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arme, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6. For hee shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
8. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer, and shall not see when heate commeth, but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not be carefull in the yeere of drought, neither shall cease from yeelding fruit.
9. The heart is deceitfull aboue all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?
10. I the Lord search the heart, I try the reines, euen to giue euery man according to his waies, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11. As the partrich sitteth on egges, and hatcheth them not: so he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leaue them in the midst of his dayes, and at his end shall be a foole.
12. A glorious high throne from the beginning, is the place of our Sanctuarie.
13. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall bee written in the earth, because they haue forsaken the Lord the fountaine of liuing waters.
14. Heale me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: saue me, and I shalbe saued: for thou art my praise.
15. Behold, they say vnto mee, Where is the word of the Lord ? let it come now.
16. As for me, I haue not hastened from being a pastour to follow thee, neither haue I desired the wofull day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.
17. Be not a terrour vnto me, thou art my hope in the day of euill.
18. Let them bee confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring vpon them the day of euill, and destroy them with double destruction.
19. Thus sayd the Lord vnto me, Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Iudah come in, and by the which they goe out, and in all the gates of Ierusalem.
20. And say vnto them, Heare ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Iudah, and all Iudah, and all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, that enter in by these gates.
21. Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to your selues, and beare no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Ierusalem.
22. Neither carie forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, neither doe ye any worke, but hallowe ye the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23. But they obeyed not, neither inclined their eare, but made their necke stiffe, that they might not heare nor receiue instruction.
24. And it shall come to passe, if yee diligently hearken vnto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this citie on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to doe no worke therein:
25. Then shall there enter into the gates of this citie kings and princes sitting vpon the throne of Dauid, riding in charets and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem: and this citie shall remaine for euer.
26. And they shall come from the cities of Iudah, and from the places about Ierusalem, and from the lande of Beniamin, and from the plaine and from the mountaines, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meate offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise vnto the house of the Lord.
27. But if you will not hearken vnto me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to beare a burden, euen entring in at the gates of Ierusalem on the Sabbath day: then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
1. The word which came to Ieremiah from ye Lord saying,
2. Arise and go downe to the potters house, & there I will cause thee to heare my words.
3. Then I went downe to the potters house, and behold, hee wrought a worke on the wheeles.
4. And the vessell that he made of clay, was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it againe another vessell as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
6. O house of Israel, cannot I doe with you as this potter, saith the Lord ? Behold, as the clay is in the potters hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7. At what instant I shall speake concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdome, to plucke vp and to pull downe, and to destroy it.
8. If that nation against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their euill, I will repent of the euill that I thought to doe vnto them.
9. And at what instant I shall speake concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdome to build and to plant it;
10. If it doe euill in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good; wherewith I saide I would benefite them.
11. Now therefore goe to, speake to the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame euill against you, and deuise a deuice against you: returne ye now euery one from his euill way, and make your waies and your doings good.
12. And they said, There is no hope, but wee will walke after our owne deuices, and wee will euery one doe the imagination of his euil heart.
13. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Aske ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things? the Uirgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14. Will a man leaue the snow of Lebanon which commeth from the rocke of the fielde? or shall the colde flowing waters that come from another place, be forsaken?
15. Because my people hath forgotten mee, they haue burnt incense to vanitie, and they haue caused them to stumble in their waies from the ancient paths, to walke in paths, in a way not cast vp,
16. To make their land desolate and a perpetuall hissing: euery one that passeth thereby shall bee astonished, and wagge his head.
17. I will scatter them as with an East winde before the enemie: I will shew them the backe, and not the face, in the day of their calamitie.
18. Then said they, Come, and let vs deuise deuices against Ieremiah: for the Law shall not perish from the Priest, nor counsell from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: Come and let vs smite him with the tongue, and let vs not giue heede to any of his wordes.
19. Giue heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20. Shall euill bee recompensed for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I stood before thee to speake good for them, and to turne away thy wrath from them.
21. Therefore deliuer vp their children to the famine, and powre out their blood by the force of the sword, and let their wiues be bereaued of their children and be widowes, and let their men be put to death, let their yong men be slaine by the sword in battell.
22. Let a crie bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troupe suddenly vpon them, for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23. Yet Lord thou knowest all their counsell against me to slay mee: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither blot out their sinne from thy sight, but let them bee ouerthrowen before thee, deale thus with them in the time of thine anger.
1. Thus saith the Lord, Goe and get a potters earthen bottell, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the Priestes.
2. And goe forth vnto the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, which is by the entrie of the Eastgate, and proclaime there the words that I shall tell thee:
3. And say, Heare ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring euill vpon this place, the which whosoeuer heareth, his eares shall tingle.
4. Because they haue forsaken mee, and haue estranged this place, and haue burnt incense in it vnto other gods, whom neither they, nor their fathers haue knowen, nor the kings of Iudah, and haue filled this place with the blood of innocents.
5. They haue built also the high places of Baal, to burne their sonnes with fire for burnt offerings vnto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my minde.
6. Therefore behold, the daies come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more bee called Tophet, nor the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.
7. And I will make void the counsell of Iudah and Ierusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their liues: and their carkeises will I giue to be meat for the foules of the heauen, and for the beasts of the earth.
8. And I will make this citie desolate and an hissing: euery one that passeth thereby shalbe astonished and hisse, because of all the plagues thereof.
9. And I will cause them to eate the flesh of their sonnes and the flesh of their daughters, and they shal eate euery one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitnesse, wherewith their enemies, and they that seeke their liues, shall straiten them.
10. Then shalt thou breake ye bottle in the sight of the men that goe with thee,
11. And shalt say vnto them; Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Euen so will I breake this people and this citie as one breaketh a potters vessell that cannot bee made whole againe, and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place else to bury.
12. Thus will I doe vnto this place, sayth the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and euen make their citie as Tophet.
13. And the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses of the kings of Iudah shall bee defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses vpon whose roofes they haue burnt incense vnto all the hoste of heauen, & haue powred out drinke offrings vnto other gods.
14. Then came Ieremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophecie, and hee stood in the court of the Lords house, and said to all the people,
15. Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Behold, I wil bring vpon this city, and vpon all her townes all the euill that I haue pronounced against it, because they haue hardened their neckes, that they might not heare my wordes.
1. Now Pashur the sonne of Immer the Priest, who was also chiefe gouernor in the house of the Lord, heard that Ieremiah prophecied these things.
2. Then Pashur smote Ieremiah the Prophet, and put him in the stockes that were in the high gate of Beniamin, which was by the house of the Lord.
3. And it came to passe on the morrow, that Pashur brought foorth Ieremiah out of the stockes. Then sayd Ieremiah vnto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
4. For thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terrour to thy selfe, and to all thy friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it, and I will giue all Iudah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and hee shall cary them captiue into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
5. Moreouer, I will deliuer all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Iudah will I giue into the hand of their enemies which shal spoile them, and take them and cary them to Babylon.
6. And thou Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house, shall goe into captiuitie, and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou and all thy friends to whom thou hast prophecied lies.
7. O Lord, thou hast deceiued me, and I was deceiued, thou art stronger then I, and hast preuailed: I am in derision daily, euery one mocketh me.
8. For since I spake I cryed out, I cried violence and spoyle; because the word of the Lord was made a reproch vnto me, and a derision daily?
9. Then I said; I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart, as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
10. For I heard the defaming of many, feare on euery side. Report, say they, and wee will report it: all my familiars watched for my halting, saying; Peraduenture he will be enticed: and we shall preuaile against him, and we shall take our reuenge on him.
11. But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutours shall stumble, and they shall not preuaile, they shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not prosper, their euerlasting confusion shall neuer be forgotten.
12. But O Lord of hostes, that tryest the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.
13. Sing vnto the Lord, praise yee the Lord: for hee hath deliuered the soule of the poore from the hand of euill doers.
14. Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day wherein my mother bare mee, be blessed.
15. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: A man child is borne vnto thee, making him very glad.
16. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord ouerthrew and repented not: and let him heare the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noonetide,
17. Because he slew me not from the wombe: or that my mother might haue beene my graue, and her wombe to be alwaies great with me.
18. Wherefore came I forth out of the wombe to see labour and sorrow, that my daies should be consumed with shame?
1. The word which came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent vnto him Pashur the sonne of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the sonne of Maaseiah the priest, saying;
2. Enquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for vs (for Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon maketh warre against vs) if so be that the Lord will deale with vs, according to all his wondrous workes, that he may goe vp from vs.
3. Then saide Ieremiah vnto them. Thus shall yee say to Zedekiah,
4. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turne backe the weapons of warre that are in your hands, wherewith yee fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Caldeans, which besiege you without the walles, and I will assemble them into the middest of this citie.
5. And I myselfe will fight against you with an out stretched hand, and with a strong arme, euen in anger, and in furie, and in great wrath.
6. And I will smite the inhabitants of this citie both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
7. And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliuer Zedekiah king of Iudah, and his seruants, and the people, and such as are left in this citie from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seeke their life, and and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: hee shall not spare them, neither haue pitie, nor haue mercy.
8. And vnto this people thou shalt say; Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9. He that abideth in this citie, shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Caldeans, that besiege you, he shall liue, and his life shall be vnto him, for a pray.
10. For I haue set my face against this citie for euill and not for good, saith the Lord; it shall be giuen into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burne it with fire.
11. And touching the house of the king of Iudah, say; Heare yee the word of the Lord.
12. Oh house of Dauid, thus saith the Lord, Execute iudgement in the morning, and deliuer him that is spoiled, out of the hand of the oppressour, lest my furie goe out like fire, and burne, that none can quench it, because of the euill of your doings.
13. Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rocke of the plaine, saith the Lord, which say, Who shall come downe against vs? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14. But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forrest thereof, and it shall deuoure all things round about it.
1. Thus saith the Lord, Goe downe to the house of the king of Iudah, and speake there this word,
2. And say, Heare the word of the Lord, O king of Iudah, that sittest vpon the throne of Dauid, thou, and thy seruants, and thy people that enter in by these gates.
3. Thus saith the Lord, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnesse, and deliuer the spoiler out of the hand of the oppressour: and doe no wrong, doe no violence to the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
4. For if ye doe this thing indeede, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house, Kings sitting vpon the throne of Dauid, riding in charets and on horses, he, and his seruants, and his people.
5. But if yee will not heare these words, I sweare by my selfe, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
6. For thus saith the Lord vnto the kings house of Iudah, Thou art Gilead vnto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wildernesse, and cities which are not inhabited.
7. And I will prepare destroyers against thee, euery one with his weapons, and they shall cut downe thy choise cedars, and cast them into the fire.
8. And many nations shall passe by this citie, and they shall say euery man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto this great citie?
9. Then they shall answere, Because they haue forsaken the couenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and serued them.
10. Weepe ye not for the dead, neither bemoane him, but weepe sore for him that goeth away: for he shall returne no more, nor see his natiue countrey.
11. For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum, the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah which reigned in stead of Iosiah his father, which went forth out of this place, He shall not returne thither any more.
12. But he shall die in the place whither they haue led him captiue, and shal see this land no more.
13. Woe vnto him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnesse, and his chambers by wrong: that vseth his neighbours seruice without wages, and giueth him not for his worke:
14. That saith, I will build mee a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windowes, and it is sieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15. Shalt thou reigne because thou closest thy selfe in cedar? did not thy father eate and drinke, and doe iudgment and iustice, and then it was wel with him?
16. He iudged the cause of the poore and needy, then it was well with him: was not this to know me, saith the Lord ?
17. But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy couetousnesse, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence to doe it.
18. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother, or ah sister: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah Lord, or ah his glory.
19. He shall be buried with the buriall of an asse, drawen and cast forth beyond the gates of Ierusalem.
20. Goe vp to Lebanon, and crie, and lift vp thy voice in Bashan, and crie from the passages: for all thy louers are destroyed.
21. I spake vnto thee in thy prosperitie, but thou saidest, I will not heare: this hath bin thy maner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
22. The winde shall eate vp all thy pastors, and thy louers shall goe into captiuitie, surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickednesse.
23. O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the Cedars, how gracious shalt thou bee when pangs come vpon thee, the paine as of a woman in trauell?
24. As I liue, saith the Lord, though Coniah the sonne of Iehoiakim king of Iudah were the signet vpon my right hand, yet would I plucke thee thence.
25. And I will giue thee into the hand of them that seeke thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, euen into the hand of Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Caldeans.
26. And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another countrey where ye were not borne, and there shall ye die.
27. But to the land whereunto they desire to returne, thither shall they not returne.
28. Is this man Coniah a despised broken idole? is hee a vessell wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29. O earth, earth, earth, heare the word of the Lord:
30. Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childlesse, a man that shall not prosper in his dayes: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting vpon the throne of Dauid, and ruling any more in Iudah.
1. Woe bee vnto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheepe of my pasture, saith the Lord.
2. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Yee haue scattered my flocke and driuen them away, and haue not visited them; behold I will visite vpon you the euill of your doings, saith the Lord.
3. And I wil gather the remnant of my flocke, out of all countreis whither I haue driuen them, and will bring them againe to their foldes, and they shalbe fruitfull and increase.
4. And I will set vp shepheards ouer them which shall feed them, and they shal feare no more nor be dismaied, neither shall they bee lacking, saith the Lord.
5. Behold, the daies come, saith the Lord, that I wil raise vnto Dauid a righteous branch, and a King shall reigne and prosper, and shall execute iudgement and iustice in the earth.
6. In his dayes Iudah shalbe saued, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his Name whereby hee shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousnes.
7. Therefore behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say; The Lord liueth, which brought vp the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt:
8. But, The Lord liueth, which brought vp, and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the North countrey, and from all countreis whither I had driuen them, and they shall dwell in their owne land.
9. 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 ouercome) because of the Lord, and because of the words of his Holinesse.
10. For the land is full of adulterers, for because of swearing the land mourneth: the pleasant places of the wildernes are dried vp, and their course is euil, and their force is not right.
11. For both prophet and priest are prophane, yea in my house haue I found their wickednesse, saith the Lord.
12. Wherefore their way shalbe vnto them as slippery wayes in the darkenes: they shalbe driuen on and fall therein: for I will bring euill vpon them, euen the yeere of their visitation, saith the Lord.
13. And I haue seene folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophecied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to erre.
14. I haue seene also in the prophets of Ierusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walke in lies: they strengthen also the hands of euill doers, that none doeth returne from his wickednesse: they are all of them vnto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the Prophets; Behold, I will feede them with wormewood, and make them drinke the water of gall: for from the Prophets of Ierusalem is profanenesse gone forth into all the land.
16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not vnto the wordes of the prophets that prophecie vnto you; they make you vaine: they speake a vision of their owne heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
17. They say still vnto them that despise me; The Lord hath sayde, Yee shall haue peace; and they say vnto euery one that walketh after the imagination of his owne heart, No euill shall come vpon you.
18. For who hath stood in the counsell of the Lord, and hath perceiued, and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
19. Behold, a whirlewinde of the Lord is gone foorth in furie, euen a grieuous whirlewinde, it shall fall grieuously vpon the head of the wicked.
20. The anger of the Lord shall not returne, vntill hee haue executed, and til he haue performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter dayes ye shall consider it perfectly.
21. I haue not sent these prophets, yet they ranne: I haue not spoken to them, yet they prophecied.
22. But if they had stood in my counsell, and had caused my people to heare my wordes, then they should haue turned them from their euil way, and from the euill of their doings.
23. Am I a God at hand, sayth the Lord, and not a God afarre off?
24. Can any hide himselfe in secret places that I shall not see him, saith the Lord ? doe not I fill heauen and earth, sayth the Lord ?
25. I haue heard what the prophets said, that prophecie lyes in my Name, saying; I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed.
26. How long shall this bee in the heart of the prophets that prophecie lies? yea they are prophets of the deceit of their owne heart;
27. Which thinke to cause my people to forget my Name by their dreames which they tell euery man to his neighbour, as their fathers haue forgotten my Name, for Baal.
28. The prophet that hath a dreame, let him tell a dreame; and hee that hath my word, let him speake my word faithfully: what is the chaffe to the wheat, sayth the Lord ?
29. Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord ? and like a hammer that breaketh the rocke in pieces?
30. Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, sayth the Lord, that steale my worde euery one from his neighbour.
31. Beholde, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that vse their tongues, and say; He sayth.
32. Behold, I am against them that prophecie false dreames, sayeth the Lord, and doe tell them, and cause my people to erre by their lyes and by their lightnesse, yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profite this people at all, sayth the Lord.
33. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest shall aske thee, saying; What is the burden of the Lord ? thou shalt then say vnto them; What burden? I will euen forsake you, saith the Lord.
34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shal say, The burden of the Lord, I will euen punish that man and his house.
35. Thus shall yee say euery one to his neighbour, and euery one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?
36. And the burden of the Lord shall yee mention no more: for euery mans word shall be his burden: for yee haue peruerted the words of the liuing God, of the Lord of hostes our God.
37. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?
38. But sith ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus sayeth the Lord, Because you say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I haue sent vnto you, saying; Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord:
39. Therefore beholde, I, euen I will vtterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the citie that I gaue you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence.
40. And I will bring an euerlasting reproch vpon you, and a perpetuall shame, which shall not be forgotten.
1. The Lord shewed mee, and behold, two baskets of figges were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon had caried away captiue Ieconiah the sonne of Iehoiakim king of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah, with the carpenters and smiths from Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2. One basket had very good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figges, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3. Then said the Lord vnto me; What seest thou Ieremiah? and I said: Figges: the good figges, very good and the euill, very euill, that cannot be eaten, they are so euill.
4. Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
5. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figges, so will I acknowledge them that are caried away captiue of Iudah, whom I haue sent out of this place into the land of the Caldeans for their good.
6. For I will set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this land, and I will build them, and not pull them downe, and I will plant them, and not plucke them vp.
7. And I will giue them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall returne vnto me with their whole heart.
8. And as the euill figges which cannot be eaten, they are so euill; (Surely thus saith the Lord) so will I giue Zedekiah the king of Iudah, and his princes, and the residue of Ierusalem, that remaine in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.
9. And I will deliuer them to be remoued into all the kingdomes of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproch and a prouerbe, a taunt and a curse in all places whither I shall driue them.
10. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they be consumed from off the land, that I gaue vnto them, and to their fathers.
1. The word that came to Ieremiah concerning all the people of Iudah, in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, that was the first yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon:
2. The which Ieremiah the prophet spake vnto all the people of Iudah, and to all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying;
3. From the thirteenth yere of Iosiah the sonne of Amon king of Iudah, euen vnto this day (that is the three and twentith yeere) the word of the Lord hath come vnto me, and I haue spoken vnto you, rising early and speaking, but yee haue not hearkened.
4. And the Lord hath sent vnto you all his seruants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but yee haue not hearkened, nor inclined your eare to heare.
5. They sayd, Turne yee againe now euery one from his euill way, and from the euil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath giuen vnto you, and to your fathers for euer and euer.
6. And goe not after other Gods to serue them, and to worship them, and prouoke mee not to anger with the workes of your hands, and I will doe you no hurt.
7. Yet yee haue not hearkened vnto me, saith the Lord, that yee might prouoke me to anger with the workes of your hands, to your owne hurt.
8. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Because yee haue not heard my words:
9. Behold, I will send and take all the families of the North, saith the Lord, and Nebuchad-rezzar the king of Babylon my seruant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will vtterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetuall desolations.
10. Moreouer, I will take from them the voyce of myrth, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegrome, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the milstones, & the light of the candle.
11. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon seuentie yeeres.
12. And it shall come to passe when seuentie yeeres are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquitie, and the land of the Caldeans, and will make it perpetuall desolations.
13. And I will bring vpon that land all my words which I haue pronounced against it, euen all that is written in this booke, which Ieremiah hath prophecied against all the nations.
14. For many nations and great kings shall serue themselues of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the workes of their owne hands.
15. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel vnto me, Take the wine cup of this furie at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drinke it.
16. And they shall drinke, and be moued, and be mad, because of the sworde that I will send among them.
17. Then tooke I the cuppe at the Lords hand, and made all the nations to drinke, vnto whom the Lord had sent me:
18. To wit Ierusalem, and the cities of Iudah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse (as it is this day:)
19. Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his seruants, and his princes, and all his people:
20. And all the mingled people, & all the kings of the land of Uz: and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod:
21. Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon:
22. And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the yles which are beyond the sea:
23. Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the vtmost corners:
24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert:
25. And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:
26. And all the kings of the North, farre and neere, one with another, and all the kingdomes of the world, which are vpon the face of the earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drinke after them.
27. Therefore thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Drinke ye and bee drunken, and spue and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I wil send among you.
28. And it shall bee, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drinke, then shalt thou say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yee shall certainely drinke.
29. For loe, I begin to bring euill on the citie, which is called by my name, and should yee be vtterly vnpunished? ye shall not be vnpunished: for I will cal for a sword vpon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.
30. Therefore prophecie thou against them all these wordes, and say vnto them, The Lord shall roare from an high, and vtter his voice from his holy habitation, he shall mightily roare vpon his habitation, hee shall giue a shout, as they that treade the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31. A noise shall come euen to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controuersie with the nations: hee will pleade with all flesh, he will giue them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.
32. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, euill shall goe forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlewinde shall be raised vp from the coasts of the earth.
33. And the slaine of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth euen vnto the other ende of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered nor buried, they shall be doung vpon the ground.
34. Howle yee shepheards and cry, and wallow your selues in the ashes ye principall of the flocke: for the dayes of your slaughter, and of your dispersions are accomplished, and yee shall fall like a pleasant vessell.
35. And the shepheards shall haue no way to flee, nor the principall of the flocke to escape.
36. A voyce of the cry of the shepheards, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.
37. And the peaceable habitations are cut downe because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
38. He hath forsaken his couert, as the Lyon: for their land is desolate, because of the fiercenesse of the oppressour, and because of his fierce anger.
1. In the beginning of the reigne of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, came this word from the Lord, saying;
2. Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the Court of the Lords house, and speake vnto all the cities of Iudah, which come to worship in the Lords house, all the wordes that I command thee to speake vnto them: diminish not a word;
3. If so bee they will hearken, and turne euery man from his euill way, that I may repent me of the euil which I purpose to doe vnto them, because of the euil of their doings.
4. And thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord; If yee will not hearken to mee to walke in my Law, which I haue set before you,
5. To hearken to the wordes of my seruants the Prophets, whom I sent vnto you, both rising vp early and sending them, (but ye haue not hearkned:)
6. Then wil I make this house like Shiloh, and wil make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
7. So the priests and the prophets, and all the people heard Ieremiah speaking these wordes in the house of the Lord.
8. Now it came to passe when Ieremiah had made an ende of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speake vnto all the people, that the priests and the prophets, and all the people tooke him, saying; Thou shalt surely die.
9. Why hast thou prophecied in the Name of the Lord, saying, This house shalbe like Shiloh, and this city shalbe desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Ieremiah in the house of the Lord.
10. When the Princes of Iudah heard these things, then they came vp from the kings house vnto the house of the Lord, and sate downe in the entrie of the new gate of the Lords house.
11. Then spake the priests and the prophets vnto the Princes, and to all the people, saying; This man is worthy to die, for he hath prophecied against this citie, as yee haue heard with your eares.
12. Then spake Ieremiah vnto all the Princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophecie against this house, and against this citie, all the wordes that yee haue heard.
13. Therefore nowe amend your wayes, and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent him of the euill that he hath pronounced against you.
14. As for mee, behold, I am in your hand: doe with mee as seemeth good and meet vnto you.
15. But know ye for certaine, That if ye put mee to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood vpon your selues, and vpon this citie, and vpon the inhabitants thereof: for of a trueth the Lord hath sent mee vnto you, to speake all these words in your eares.
16. Then said the Princes, and all the people, vnto the priests, and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for hee hath spoken to vs in the Name of the Lord our God.
17. Then rose vp certaine of the Elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying;
18. Micah the Morashite prophecied in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah, and spake to all the people of Iudah, saying; Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Ierusalem shall become heapes, and the mountaine of the house, the hie places of a forrest.
19. Did Hezekiah King of Iudah and all Iudah put him at all to death? did hee not feare the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the euill which he had pronounced against them? thus might wee procure great euill against our soules.
20. And there was also a man that prophecied in the Name of the Lord, Urijah the sonne of Shemaiah of Kiriath-iearim, who prophecied against this citie and against this land, according to all the words of Ieremiah.
21. And when Iehoiakim the king with all his mightie men, and all the princes heard his wordes, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went into Egypt.
22. And Iehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely Elnathan the sonne of Achbor, and certeine men with him, into Egypt.
23. And they fet foorth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him vnto Iehoiakim the king, who slewe him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graues of the common people.
24. Neuerthelesse, the hand of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, was with Ieremiah, that they should not giue him into the hand of the people, to put him to death.
1. In the beginning of the reigne of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah, came this worde vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Thus sayth the Lord to me, Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them vpon thy necke.
3. And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Ierusalem vnto Zedekiah king of Iudah.
4. And command them to say vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say vnto your masters:
5. I haue made the earth, the man and the beast that are vpon the ground, by my great power, and by my outstretched arme, and haue giuen it vnto whom it seemed meet vnto me.
6. And now haue I giuen all these landes into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my seruant, and the beasts of the field haue I giuen him also to serue him.
7. And all nations shall serue him and his sonne, and his sonnes sonne, vntill the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serue themselues of him.
8. And it shall come to passe, that the nation and kingdome which will not serue the same Nebuchad-nezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their necke vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, sayth the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, vntill I haue consumed them by his hand.
9. Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diuiners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your inchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak vnto you, saying; Ye shall not serue the king of Babylon:
10. For they prophecie a lie vnto you, to remooue you farre from your land, and that I should driue you out, and ye should perish.
11. But the nations that bring their necke vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serue him, those will I let remaine still in their owne land, sayth the Lord, and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
12. I spake also to Zedekiah king of Iudah according to all these wordes, saying, Bring your neckes vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serue him and his people, and liue.
13. Why will yee die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serue the king of Babylon?
14. Therefore hearken not vnto the words of the prophets, that speake vnto you, saying; Yee shall not serue the king of Babylon: for they prophecie a lie vnto you.
15. For I haue not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophecie a lye in my name, that I might driue you out, & that yee might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophecie vnto you.
16. 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 prophecie vnto you, saying; Behold, the vessels of the Lords house shall now shortly be brought againe from Babylon; for they prophecie a lie vnto you.
17. Hearken not vnto them: serue the king of Babylon, and liue: wherefore should this citie be laid waste?
18. But if they be prophets, and if the word of the Lord be with them, let them nowe make intercession to the Lord of hostes, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Iudah, and at Ierusalem, goe not to Babylon.
19. For thus saith the Lord of hostes concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remaine in this citie,
20. Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon tooke not, when he caried away captiue Ieconiah the sonne of Iehoiakim king of Iudah, from Ierusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Iudah and Ierusalem:
21. Yea thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remaine in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Iudah and of Ierusalem;
22. They shall be caried to Babylon, and there shall they be vntill the day that I visit them, saith the Lord: then will I bring them vp, and restore them to this place.
1. And it came to passe the same yeere, in the beginning of the reigne of Zedekiah king of Iudah, in the fourth yeere, and in the fift moneth, that Hananiah the sonne of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake vnto mee in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying;
2. Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, saying; I haue broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3. Within two full yeeres will I bring againe into this place all the vessels of the Lords house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon tooke away from this place, and caried them to Babylon.
4. And I will bring againe to this place Ieconiah the sonne of Iehoiakim king of Iudah, with all the captiues of Iudah, that went into Babylon, saith the Lord, for I will breake the yoke of the king of Babylon.
5. Then the prophet Ieremiah said vnto 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,
6. Euen the prophet Ieremiah said; Amen: the Lord doe so, the Lord performe the words which thou hast prophecied, to bring againe the vessels of the Lords house, and all that is caried away captiue from Babylon into this place.
7. Neuerthelesse, heare thou now this word that I speake in thine eares, and in the eares of all the people.
8. The prophets that haue beene before mee, and before thee of old, prophecied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of warre, and of euill, and of pestilence.
9. The prophet which prophecieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to passe, then shall the prophet be knowen, that the Lord hath truely sent him.
10. Then Hananiah the prophet tooke the yoke from off the prophet Ieremiahs necke, and brake it.
11. And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying; Thus saith the Lord, Euen so will I breake the yoke of Nebuchadnezzer king of Babylon from the necke of all nations within the space of two full yeeres: and the Prophet Ieremiah went his way.
12. Then the word of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah the Prophet (after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the necke of the Prophet Ieremiah) saying,
13. Goe, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, but thou shalt make for them yokes of yron.
14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I haue put a yoke of yron vpon the neck of all these nations, that they may serue Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serue him, and I haue giuen him the beasts of the field also. 
15. Then said the Prophet Ieremiah vnto Hananiah the prophet, Heare nowe Hananiah: the Lord hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lye.
16. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this yeere thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord.
17. So Hananiah the prophet died the same yeere, in the seuenth moneth.
1. Now these are the words of the letter, that Ieremiah the prophet sent from Ierusalem vnto the residue of the elders which were caried away captiues, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchad-nezzar had caried away captiue from Ierusalem to Babylon,
2. (After that Ieconiah the king, and the queene, and the eunuches, the princes of Iudah and Ierusalem, and the carpenters and the smithes were departed from Ierusalem)
3. By the hand of Elasah the sonne of Shaphan, and Gemariah the sonne of Hilkiah, whome Zedekiah king of Iudah sent vnto Babylon to Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon, saying,
4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel vnto all that are caried away captiues, whom I haue caused to be caried away from Ierusalem vnto Babylon:
5. Build ye houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eate the fruit of them.
6. Take ye wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.
7. And seeke the peace of the citie, whither I haue caused you to be caried away captiues, & pray vnto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall yee haue peace.
8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Let not your prophets and your diuiners, that bee in the midst of you, deceiue you, neither hearken to your dreames which yee cause to be dreamed.
9. For they prophecie falsly vnto you in my name: I haue not sent them, saith the Lord.
10. For thus saith the Lord, That after seuentie yeeres be accomplished at Babylon, I will visite you, and performe my good word towards you, in causing you to returne to this place.
11. For I knowe the thoughts that I thinke towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of euill, to giue you an expected end.
12. Then shall ye call vpon me, and ye shall goe and pray vnto mee, and I will hearken vnto you.
13. And ye shall seeke me, and finde me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turne away your captiuitie, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I haue driuen you, saith the Lord, and I will bring you againe into the place whence I caused you to be caried away captiue.
15. Because yee haue said, The Lord hath raised vs vp prophets in Babylon:
16. Know that thus saith the Lord, of the king that sitteth vpon the throne of Dauid, and of all the people that dwelleth in this citie, and of your brethren that are not gone foorth with you into captiuitie.
17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Beholde, I will send vpon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figges, that cannot be eaten, they are so euill.
18. And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliuer them to be remooued to all the kingdomes of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproch among all the nations, whither I haue driuen them.
19. Because they haue not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent vnto them by my seruants the Prophets, rising vp early, and sending them, but ye would not heare, saith the Lord.
20. Heare yee therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captiuitie, whom I haue sent from Ierusalem to Babylon.
21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, of Ahab the sonne of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the sonne of Maaseiah, which prophecie a lye vnto you in my Name, Behold, I will deliuer them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and hee shall slay them before your eyes.
22. And of them shall bee taken vp a eurse by all the captiuitie of Iudah which are in Babylon, saying, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon rosted in the fire.
23. Because they haue committed villanie in Israel, and haue committed adulterie with their neighbors wiues, and haue spoken lying wordes in my Name, which I haue not commanded them, euen I know, and am a witnesse, saith the Lord.
24. Thus shalt thou also speake to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying:
25. Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name vnto all the people that are at Ierusalem, and to Zephaniah the sonne of Maaseiah the Priest, and to all the priests, saying;
26. The Lord hath made thee Priest in the stead of Iehoiada the Priest, that ye should be Officers in the house of the Lord, for euery man that is madde, and maketh himselfe a Prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stockes:
27. Now therefore why hast thou not reproued Ieremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himselfe a Prophet to you?
28. For therefore he sent vnto vs in Babylon, saying, This captiuitie is long, build ye houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eate the fruit of them.
29. And Zephaniah the Priest read this letter in the eares of Ieremiah the Prophet.
30. Then came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah, saying;
31. Send to all them of the captiuitie, saying, Thus saith the Lord, concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah hath prophecied vnto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lye.
32. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed: he shall not haue a man to dwell among this people, neither shall hee behold the good that I will doe for my people, saith the Lord, because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.
1. The word that came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying; Write thee all the wordes that I haue spoken vnto thee, in a booke.
3. For loe, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will bring againe the captiuitie of my people Israel and Iudah, saith the Lord, and I wil cause them to returne to the land, that I gaue to their fathers, and they shall possesse it.
4. And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel, and concerning Iudah.
5. For thus sayth the Lord, Wee haue heard a voice of trembling, of feare, and not of peace.
6. Aske yee now and see whether a man doeth trauaile with child? Wherefore doe I see euery man with his handes on his loynes, as a woman in trauaile, and all faces are turned into palenesse?
7. Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is euen the time of Iacobs trouble, but he shall be saued out of it.
8. For it shall come to passe in that day, saith the Lord of hostes, that I will breake his yoke from off thy necke, and will burst thy bondes, and strangers shall no more serue themselues of him.
9. But they shall serue the Lord their God, and Dauid their King whom I will raise vp vnto them.
10. Therefore feare thou not, O my seruant Iacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel; for loe, I will saue thee from afarre, and thy seede from the land of their captiuitie, and Iacob shall returne, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11. For I am with thee, sayeth the Lord, to saue thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I haue scattered thee, yet will I not make a full ende of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
12. For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grieuous.
13. There is none to pleade thy cause, that thou mayest bee bonnd vp: thou hast no healing medicines.
14. All thy louers haue forgotten thee: they seeke thee not, for I haue wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruell one, for the multitude of thine iniquitie: because thy sinnes were increased.
15. Why cryest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable, for the multitude of thine iniquitie: because thy sinnes were increased, I haue done these things vnto thee.
16. Therefore all they that deuoure thee shalbe deuoured, and all thine aduersaries euery one of them shall goe into captiuitie: and they that spoile thee shall be a spoile, and all that pray vpon thee, will I giue for a pray.
17. For I will restore health vnto thee, and I will heale thee of thy wounds, sayth the Lord, because they called thee an outcast, saying; This is Zion whom no man seeketh after.
18. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring againe the captiuitie of Iacobs tents, and haue mercie on his dwelling places: and the citie shall be builded vpon her owne heape, and the palace shall remaine after the manner thereof.
19. And out of them shall proceede thankesgiuing, and the voice of them that make merry; and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few: I will also glorifie them, and they shall not be small.
20. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shalbe established before me, and I will punish all that oppresse them.
21. And their nobles shall be of themselues, and their gouernour shall proceede from the middest of them, and I will cause him to draw neere, and hee shall approch vnto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approch vnto me, sayth the Lord ? 
22. And yee shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23. Behold, the whirlewinde of the Lord goeth foorth with furie, a continuing whirlewinde, it shall fall with paine vpon the head of the wicked.
24. The fierce anger of the Lord shall not returne, vntill hee haue done it, and vntill he haue performed the intents of his heart: in the latter dayes ye shall consider it.
1. At the same time, saith the Lord, wil I be the God of all the families of Israel, & they shalbe my people.
2. Thus saith the Lord; The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wildernesse, euen Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3. The Lord hath appeared of old vnto mee, saying; Yea I haue loued thee with an euerlasting loue: therefore with louing kindnesse haue I drawen thee.
4. Againe I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgine of Israel, thou shalt againe be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt goe forth in the daunces of them that make merry.
5. Thou shalt yet plant vines vpon the mountaines of Samaria, the planters shall plant, and shall eate them as common things.
6. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen vpon the mount Ephraim shall cry; Arise yee, and let vs goe vp to Zion vnto the Lord our God.
7. For thus saith the Lord, Sing with gladnesse for Iacob, and shout among the chiefe of the nations: publish yee, praise yee, and say; O Lord saue thy people the remnant of Israel.
8. Behold, I will bring them from the North countrey, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child, and her that trauelleth with child together, a great company shall returne thither.
9. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I leade them: I will cause them to walke by the riuers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first borne.
10. Heare the word of the Lord, O yee nations, and declare it in the iles afarre off, and say; Hee that scattered Israel will gather him, and keepe him as a shepheard doth his flocke.
11. For the Lord hath redeemed Iacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger then hee.
12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodnesse of the Lord, for wheate, and for wine, and for oyle, and for the young of the flocke and of the herd: and their soule shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13. Then shall the virgine reioyce in the daunce, both yoong men and old together: for I will turne their mourning into ioy, and will comfort them, and make them reioyce from their sorrow.
14. And I will satiate the soule of the priests with fatnesse, and my people shall be satisfied with goodnesse, saith the Lord.
15. Thus saith the Lord; A voyce was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping: Rahel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
16. Thus saith the Lord; Refraine thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from teares: for thy worke shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come againe from the land of the enemie.
17. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come againe to their owne border.
18. I haue surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himselfe thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullocke vnaccustomed to the yoke: turne thou me, and I shall be turned; thou art the Lord my God.
19. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote vpon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea euen confounded, because I did beare the reproch of my youth.
20. Is Ephraim my deare sonne? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I doe earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely haue mercy vpon him, saith the Lord.
21. Set thee vp way-markes; make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the high way, euen the way which thou wentest: turne againe, O virgine of Israel, turne againe to these thy cities.
22. How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall compasse a man.
23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, As yet they shall vse this speech in the land of Iudah, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring againe their captiuitie, The Lord blesse thee, O habitation of iustice, and mountaine of holinesse.
24. And there shall dwell in Iudah it selfe, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that goe forth with flocks.
25. For I haue satiated the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.
26. Upon this I awaked and beheld, and my sleepe was sweete vnto me.
27. Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28. And it shall come to passe, that like as I haue watched ouer them, to plucke vp and to breake downe, and to throw downe, and to destroy, and to afflict: so will I watch ouer them, to build and to plant, saith the Lord.
29. In those dayes they shall say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.
30. But euery one shall die for his owne iniquitie, euery man that eateth the sowre grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31. Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will make a newe couenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Iudah.
32. Not according to the couenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I tooke them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my couenant they brake, although I was an husband vnto them, saith the Lord.
33. But this shall be the couenant, that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and wil be their God, and they shall be my people.
34. And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour, and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know mee, from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgiue their iniquitie, and I will remember their sinne no more.
35. Thus saith the Lord which giueth the Sunne for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moone and of the starres for a light by night, which diuideth the sea when the waues thereof roare, the Lord of hosts is his name.
36. If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for euer.
37. Thus saith the Lord, If heauen aboue can bee measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they haue done, saith the Lord.
38. Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that the citie shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel vnto the gate of the corner.
39. And the measuring line shall yet goe forth ouer against it, vpon the hill Gareb, and shall compasse about to Goath.
40. And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields vnto the brooke of Kidron, vnto the corner of the horse gate towards the East, shalbe holy vnto the Lord, it shall not be plucked vp, nor throwen downe any more for euer.
1. The worde that came to Ieremiah from the Lord in the tenth yeere of Zedekiah king of Iudah, which was the eighteenth yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar.
2. For then the king of Babylons armie besieged Ierusalem: and Ieremiah the prophet was shut vp in the court of the prison which was in the king of Iudahs house.
3. For Zedekiah king of Iudah had shut him vp, saying, Wherefore doest thou prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will giue this citie into the hand of the king of Babylon, and hee shall take it?
4. And Zedekiah king of Iudah, shal not escape out of the hand of the Caldeans, but shall surely be deliuered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shal speake with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes.
5. And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be vntill I visit him, saith the Lord: though ye fight with the Caldeans, yee shall not prosper.
6. And Ieremiah said; The word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
7. Behold, Hanameel the sonne of Shallum thine vncle, shall come vnto thee, saying; Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
8. So Hanameel mine vncles sonne came to me in the court of the prison, according to the word of the Lord, and said vnto me; Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the countrey of Beniamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine, buy it for thy selfe. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
9. And I bought the field of Hanameel my vncles sonne, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, euen seuenteene shekels of siluer.
10. And I subscribed the euidence, and sealed it, and tooke witnesses, and weighed him the money in the ballances.
11. So I tooke the euidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custome, and that which was open.
12. And I gaue the euidence of the purchase vnto Baruch the sonne of Neriah, the sonne of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine vncles sonne, and in the presence of the witnesses, that subscribed the booke of the purchase, before all the Iewes that sate in the court of the prison.
13. And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel; Take these euidences, this euidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this euidence which is open, and put them in an earthen vessell, that they may continue many daies.
15. For thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel; Houses and fields, and Uineyards shalbe possessed againe in this land.
16. Now when I had deliuered the euidence of the purchase vnto Baruch the sonne of Neriah, I prayed vnto the Lord, saying,
17. Ah Lord God, beholde, thou hast made the heauen and the earth by thy great power & stretched out arme, and there is nothing too hard for thee.
18. Thou shewest louing kindnesse vnto thousands, and recompensest the iniquitie of the fathers into the bosome of their children after them: the great, the mightie God, the Lord of hosts is his Name,
19. Great in counsell, and mightie in worke, (for thine eyes are open vpon all the wayes of the sonnes of men, to giue euery one according to his wayes, and according to the fruit of his doings)
20. Which hast set signes and wonders in the land of Egypt, euen vnto this day, and in Israel, and amongst other men, and hast made thee a Name, as at this day,
21. And hast brought foorth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt, with signes and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arme, and with great terrour,
22. And hast giuen them this land which thou didst sweare to their fathers to giue them a land flowing with milke and honie.
23. And they came in and possessed it, but they obeied not thy voice, neither walked in thy Law, they haue done nothing of all that thou commaundedst them to doe: therefore thou hast caused all this euill to come vpon them.
24. Beholde the mounts, they are come vnto the citie to take it, and the citie is giuen into the hand of the Caldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence, and what thou hast spoken is come to passe, and behold, thou seest it.
25. And thou hast said vnto mee, O Lord God, buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses: for the citie is giuen into the hand of the Caldeans.
26. Then came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah, saying,
27. Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: Is there any thing too hard for me?
28. Therfore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will giue this citie into the hand of the Caldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
29. And the Caldeans that fight against this citie, shall come and set fire on this citie, and burne it with the houses vpon whose roofes they haue offered incense vnto Baal, and powred out drinke offerings vnto other Gods to prouoke me to anger.
30. For the children of Israel, and the children of Iudah, haue onely done euill before me from their youth: for the children of Israel haue onely prouoked mee to anger with the worke of their hands, sayth the Lord.
31. For this citie hath beene to me, as a prouocation of mine anger, and of my furie, from the day that they built it, euen vnto this day; that I should remooue it from before my face:
32. Because of all the euill of the children of Israel, and of the children of Iudah, which they haue done to prouoke mee to anger, they, their kings, their Princes, their Priestes, and their Prophets, and the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
33. And they haue turned vnto mee the backe, and not the face, though I taught them rising vp early, and teaching them, yet they haue not hearkened to receiue instruction,
34. But they set their abominations in the house (which is called by my Name) to defile it.
35. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, to cause their sonnes and their daughters to passe through the fire vnto Molech, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my minde, that they should doe this abomination, to cause Iudah to sinne.
36. And now therefore, thus sayth the Lord the God of Israel concerning this citie, whereof ye say, It shall be deliuered into the hand of the king of Babylon, by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:
37. Behold, I wil gather them out of all countreys, whither I haue driuen them in mine anger, and in my furie, and in great wrath, and I will bring them againe vnto this place; and I will cause them to dwell safely.
38. And they shalbe my people, and I will be their God.
39. And I will giue them one heart, and one way, that they may feare mee for euer, for the good of them, and of their children after them.
40. And I will make an euerlasting couenant with them, that I will not turne away from them, to doe them good, but I will put my feare in their hearts, that they shall not depart from mee.
41. Yea, I will reioyce oner them to doe them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly, with my whole heart, and with my whole soule.
42. For thus sayth the Lord, Like as I haue brought all this great euill vpon this people, so will I bring vpon them all the good that I haue promised them.
43. And fields shalbe bought in this land whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast, it is giuen into the hand of the Caldeans.
44. Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe euidences, and seale them, and take witnesses in the land of Beniamin, and in the places about Ierusalem, and in the cities of Iudah, and in the cities of the mountaines, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captiuitie to returne, saith the Lord.
1. Moreouer, the word of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah the second time (while hee was yet shut vp in the court of the prison) saying;
2. Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it, the Lord is his Name.
3. Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shew thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.
4. For thus sayth the Lord the God of Israel concerning the houses of this citie, and concerning the houses of the kings of Iudah, which are throwen downe by the mounts, and by the sword.
5. They come to fight with the Caldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whome I haue slaine in mine anger, and in my fury, and for all whose wickednesse I haue hid my face from this citie.
6. Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and wil reueale vnto them the abundance of peace, and trueth.
7. And I will cause the captiuitie of Iudah, and the captiuitie of Israel to returne, and will build them as at the first.
8. And I will clense them from all their iniquitie, whereby they haue sinned against mee: and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they haue sinned, and whereby they haue transgressed against me.
9. And it shall be to me a name of ioy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall heare all the good that I doe vnto them: and they shall feare and tremble for all the goodnesse, and for all the prosperitie that I procure vnto it.
10. Thus saith the Lord; Againe there shall be heard in this place (which yee say shalbe desolate without man and without beast, euen in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem that are desolate without man and without inhabitant, & without beast.)
11. The voyce of ioy and the voyce of gladnesse, the voyce of the bridegroome, and the voyce of the bride, the voyce of them that shall say; Praise the Lord of hostes, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for euer, and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord; for I will cause to returne the captiuitie of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord.
12. Thus saith the Lord of hostes; Againe in this place which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof shalbe a habitation of shepheards causing their flockes to lie downe.
13. In the cities of the mountaines, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Beniamin, and in the places about Ierusalem, and in the cities of Iudah, shall the flockes passe againe vnder the hands of him that telleth them, saith the Lord.
14. Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will performe that good thing which I haue promised vnto the house of Israel, and to the house of Iudah.
15. In those dayes, and at that time will I cause the branch of righteousnesse to grow vp vnto Dauid, and he shall execute iudgement and righteousnesse in the land.
16. In those dayes shall Iudah be saued, and Ierusalem shall dwell safely, and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousnesse.
17. For thus saith the Lord; Dauid shall neuer want a man to sit vpon the throne of the house of Israel.
18. Neither shall the priests the Leuites want a man before me to offer burnt offrings, and to kindle meate offrings, and to doe sacrifice continually.
19. And the word of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah, saying,
20. Thus saith the Lord; If you can breake my couenant of the day, and my couenant of the night, and that there should not be day, and night in their season:
21. Then may also my couenant bee broken with Dauid my seruant, that he should not haue a sonne to reigne vpon his throne; and with the Leuites the priests my ministers.
22. As the hoste of heauen cannot be numbred, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seede of Dauid my seruant, and the Leuites that minister vnto me.
23. Moreouer, the word of the Lord came to Ieremiah, saying;
24. Considerest thou not what this people haue spoken, saying; The two families, which the Lord hath chosen, he hath euen cast them off? thus they haue dispised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25. Thus saith the Lord; If my couenant be not with day and night, and if I haue not appointed the ordinances of heauen and earth:
26. Then will I cast away the seede of Iacob and Dauid my seruant, so that I will not take any of his seede to be rulers ouer the seede of Abraham, Isaac and Iacob: for I will cause their captiuitie to returne, and haue mercie on them.
1. The word which came vnto Ieremiah fro the Lord (when Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon and all his armie, and all the kingdomes of the earth of his dominion, and all the people fought against Ierusalem and against all the cities thereof) saying,
2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Go, and speake to Zedekiah king of Iudah, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will giue this citie into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shal burne it with fire.
3. And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and deliuered into his hand, and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speake with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt goe to Babylon.
4. Yet heare the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Iudah: Thus saith the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
5. But thou shalt die in peace, and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burne odours for thee, and they will lament thee, saying, Ah Lord; for I haue pronounced the word, saith the Lord.
6. Then Ieremiah the Prophet spake all these words vnto Zedekiah king of Iudah in Ierusalem;
7. When the king of Babylons armie fought against Ierusalem, and against all the cities of Iudah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Iudah.
8. This is the word that came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, after that the king Zedekiah had made a couenant with all the people which were at Ierusalem to proclaime liberty vnto them,
9. That euery man should let his man seruant, and euery man his maide seruant, being an Hebrewe, or an Hebrewesse, goe free, that none should serue himselfe of them, to wit, of a Iew his brother.
10. Now when all the princes and all the people which had entred into the couenant, heard that euery one should let his man seruant, and euery one his maid seruant goe free, that none should serue themselues of them any more, then they obeyed and let them goe.
11. But afterwards they turned, and caused the seruants and the handmaids whom they had let goe free, to returne, and brought them into subiection for seruants and for handmaids.
12. Therefore the worde of the Lord came to Ieremiah, from the Lord, saying,
13. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I made a couenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
14. At the end of seuen yeeres, let ye go euery man his brother an Hebrew which hath bene sold vnto thee: and when he hath serued thee sixe yeeres, thou shalt let him goe free from thee, but your fathers hearkened not vnto me, neither inclined their eare.
15. And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming libertie euery man to his neighbour, and ye had made a couenant before me in the house, which is called by my Name.
16. But yee turned and polluted my Name, and caused euery man his seruant, and euery man his handmaide, whome yee had set at libertie at their pleasure, to returne; and brought them into subiection, to bee vnto you for seruants and for handmaids.
17. Therfore thus saith the Lord, Ye haue not hearkened vnto me, in proclaiming libertie euery one to his brother, and euery man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaime a libertie for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I wil make you to be remoued into all the kingdomes of the earth.
18. And I wil giue the men that haue transgressed my couenant, which haue not performed the wordes of the couenant which they had made before mee, when they cut the calfe in twaine, and passed betweene the parts thereof,
19. The princes of Iudah and the princes of Ierusalem, the eunuches, and the priests, and all the people of the land which passed betweene the parts of the calfe,
20. I will euen giue them into the hande of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seeke their life, and their dead bodies shall bee for meate vnto the foules of the heauen, and to the beasts of the earth.
21. And Zedekiah king of Iudah, and his Princes will I giue into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seeke their life and into the hand of the king of Babylons armie, which are gone vp from you.
22. Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to returne to this citie, and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burne it with fire, and I will make the cities of Iudah a desolation without an inhabitant.
1. The word which came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, in the daies of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah, saying,
2. Goe vnto the house of the Rechabites, and speake vnto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and giue them wine to drinke.
3. Then I tooke Iaazaniah the sonne of Ieremiah the sonne of Habazimah and his brethren, and all his sonnes, and the whole house of the Rechabites.
4. And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sonnes of Hanan, the sonne of Igdaliah a man of God, which was by the chamber of the Princes, which was aboue the chamber of Maaseiah, the sonne of Shallum, the keeper of the doore.
5. And I set before the sonnes of the house of the Rechabites, pottes, full of wine, and cups, and I said vnto them, Drinke ye wine.
6. But they said, We will drinke no wine: for Ionadab the sonne of Rechab our father, commanded vs, saying; Ye shall drinke no wine, neither ye, nor your sonnes for euer.
7. Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant Uineyard, nor haue any: but all your dayes ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may liue many dayes in the land where ye be strangers.
8. Thus haue we obeyed the voice of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab our father, in all that he hath charged vs, to drinke no wine all our dayes, we, our wiues, our sonnes, nor our daughters:
9. Nor to build houses for vs to dwel in, neither haue we Uineyard, nor field, nor seed.
10. But wee haue dwelt in tents, and haue obeyed, and done according to all that Ionadab our father commanded vs.
11. But it came to passe when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came vp into the land, that we said, Come, and let vs goe to Ierusalem for feare of the armie of the Caldeans, and for feare of the armie of the Syrians: so we dwell at Ierusalem.
12. Then came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah, saying,
13. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Goe and tel the men of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem, Will yee not receiue instruction to hearken to my words, saith the Lord ?
14. The wordes of Ionadab the sonne of Rechab, that hee commanded his sonnes, not to drinke wine, are performed; for vnto this day they drinke none, but obey their fathers commandement: notwithstanding I haue spoken vnto you, rising early, and speaking, but ye hearkened not vnto me.
15. I haue sent also vnto you all my seruants the Prophets, rising vp early and sending them, saying, Returne ye now euery man from his euil way, and amend your doings, and goe not after other gods to serue them, and ye shall dwell in the land, which I haue giuen to you, and to your fathers: but yee haue not enclined your eare, nor hearkned vnto me.
16. Because the sonnes of Ionadab, the sonne of Rechab, haue performed the commaundement of their father, which he commaunded them, but this people hath not hearkened vnto me;
17. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hostes, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring vpon Iudah, and vpon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, all the euill that I haue pronounced against them: because I haue spoken vnto them, but they haue not heard, and I haue called vnto them, but they haue not answered.
18. And Ieremiah sayd vnto the house of the Rechabites, Thus sayth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Because ye haue obeyed the commandement of Ionadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according vnto all that he hath commanded you:
19. Therefore thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Ionadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for euer.
1. And it came to passe in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, that this word came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, saying;
2. Take thee a roule of a booke, and write therein all the words that I haue spoken vnto thee against Israel, and against Iudah, & against all the nations, from the day I spake vnto thee, fro the dayes of Iosiah, euen vnto this day.
3. It may be that the house of Iudah will heare all the euil which I purpose to doe vnto them; that they may returne euery man from his euill way, that I may forgiue their iniquitie, and their sinne.
4. Then Ieremiah called Baruch the sonne of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Ieremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken vnto him, vpon a roule of a booke.
5. And Ieremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut vp, I cannot goe into the house of the Lord.
6. Therefore goe thou and reade in the roule, which thou hast written from my mouth, the wordes of the Lord in the eares of the people in the Lords house vpon the fasting day: and also thou shalt reade them in the eares of all Iudah, that come out of their cities.
7. It may bee they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will returne euery one from his euill way; for great is the anger and the furie that the Lord hath pronounced against this people.
8. And Baruch the sonne of Neriah did according to all that Ieremiah the Prophet commanded him, reading in the booke the wordes of the Lord, in the Lords house.
9. And it came to passe in the fifth yeere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, in the ninth moneth, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Ierusalem, & to all the people that came from the cities of Iudah vnto Ierusalem. 
10. Then read Baruch in the booke, the wordes of Ieremiah in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah the sonne of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court at the entry of the newe gate of the Lords house, in the eares of all the people.
11. When Michaiah the sonne of Gemariah the sonne of Shaphan had heard out of the booke, all the words of the Lord;
12. Then hee went downe into the kings house into the scribes chamber, and loe, all the princes sate there, euen Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the sonne of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the sonne of Achbor, and Gemariah the sonne of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the sonne of Hananiah, and all the princes.
13. Then Michaiah declared vnto them all the words that hee had heard when Baruch read the booke in the eares of the people.
14. Therefore all the princes sent Iehudi the sonne of Nethaniah, the sonne of Shelemiah, the sonne of Cushi, vnto Baruch, saying; Take in thine hand the roule wherein thou hast read in the eares of the people, and come. So Baruch the sonne of Neriah took the roule in his hand, and came vnto them.
15. And they sayde vnto him, Sit downe now and read it in our eares. So Baruch read it in their eares.
16. Now it came to passe when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and sayd vnto Baruch, Wee will surely tell the King of all these words.
17. And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell vs now, How diddest thou write all these words at his mouth?
18. Then Baruch answered them, Hee pronounced all these words vnto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with inke in the Booke.
19. Then said the Princes vnto Baruch, Go hide thee, thou and Ieremiah, and let no man know where yee bee.
20. And they went in to the King into the Court, bnt they layed vp the roule in the chamber of Elishama the Scribe, and told all the words in the eares of the king.
21. So the king sent Iehudi to fet the roule, and hee tooke it out of Elishama the scribes chamber, and Iehudi read it in the eares of the king, and in the eares of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22. Now the king sate in the winter house, in the ninth moneth, & there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23. And it came to passe that when Iehudi had read three or foure leaues, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, vntill all the roule was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24. Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his seruants that heard all these words.
25. Neuerthelesse Elnathan, and Delaiah & Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burne the roule, but he would not heare them.
26. But the king commaunded Ierahmeel the sonne of Hammelech, and Seraiah the sonne of Azriel, & Shelennah the sonne of Abdiel, to take Baruch the scribe, and Ieremiah the Prophet: but the Lord hid them.
27. Then the word of the Lord came to Ieremiah (after that the king had burnt the roule and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Ieremiah) saying;
28. Take thee againe another roule, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roule, which Iehoiakim the king of Iudah hath burnt.
29. And thou shalt say to Iehoiakim king of Iudah, Thus sayth the Lord, Thou hast burnt this roule, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainely come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
30. Therefore thus saith the Lord of Iehoiakim king of Iudah; He shall haue none to sit vpon the throne of Dauid, and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heate, and in the night to the frost.
31. And I will punish him and his seede, and his seruants for their iniquitie, and I will bring vpon them, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and vpon the men of Iudah all the euill that I haue pronounced against them: but they hearkened not.
32. Then tooke Ieremiah another roule, and gaue it to Baruch the scribe the sonne of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Ieremiah, all the words of the booke which Iehoiakim king of Iudah had burnt in the fire, and there were added besides vnto them, many like words.
1. And king Zedekiah the sonne of Iosiah reigned in stead of Coniah the son of Iehoiakim, who Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Iudah.
2. But neither he, nor his seruants, nor the people of the land, did hearken vnto the words of the Lord, which he spake by the prophet Ieremiah.
3. And Zedekiah the king sent Iehucal the sonne of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Ieremiah, saying, Pray now vnto the Lord our God for vs.
4. Nowe Ieremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
5. Then Pharaohs armie was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Caldeans that besieged Ierusalem, heard tidings of them, they departed from Ierusalem.
6. Then came the word of the Lord vnto the Prophet Ieremiah, saying,
7. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Iudah, that sent you vnto me to enquire of me, Behold, Pharaohs armie which is come forth to helpe you, shall returne to Egypt into their owne land.
8. And the Caldeans shall come againe, and fight against this citie and take it, and burne it with fire.
9. Thus saith the Lord, Deceiue not your selues, saying, The Caldeans shall surely depart from vs: for they shall not depart.
10. For though yee had smitten the whole armie of the Caldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise vp euery man in his tent, and burne this citie with fire.
11. And it came to passe that when the armie of the Caldeans was broken vp from Ierusalem for feare of Pharaohs armie,
12. Then Ieremiah went forth out of Ierusalem to goe into the lande of Beniamin, to separate himselfe thence in the mids of the people.
13. And when he was in the gate of Beniamin, a captaine of the warde was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the sonne of Hananiah, & he tooke Ieremiah the Prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Caldeans
14. Then said Ieremiah, It is false, I fall not away to the Caldeans: but he hearkened not to him: so Irijah tooke Ieremiah, and brought him to the princes.
15. Wherfore the princes were wroth with Ieremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison, in the house of Ionathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison.
16. When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the cabbins, and Ieremiah had remained there many dayes:
17. Then Zedekiah the king sent and tooke him out, and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the Lord ? and Ieremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be deliuered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
18. Moreouer Ieremiah sayd vnto king Zedekiah, What haue I offended against thee, or against thy seruants, or against this people, that yee haue put me in prison?
19. Where are now your prophets, which prophecied vnto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
20. Therefore heare now, I pray thee, O my Lord the king; let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee, that thou cause me not to returne to the house of Ionathan the scribe, lest I die there.
21. Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Ieremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should giue him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers streete, vntill all the bread in the citie were spent. Thus Ieremiah remained in the court of the prison.
1. Then Shephatiah the sonne of Mattan, and Gedaliah the sonne of Pashur and Iucal the sonne of Shelemiah, & Pashur the sonne of Malchiah heard the words that Ieremiah had spoken vnto all the people, saying,
2. Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this citie, shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he that goeth forth to the Caldeans, shall liue: for he shall haue his life for a pray, and shall liue.
3. Thus saith the Lord, This citie shall surely be giuen into the hand of the king of Babylons armie, which shall take it.
4. Therefore the princes sayd vnto the king, We beseech thee let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of warre that remaine in this citie, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words vnto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
5. Then Zedekiah the king sayd, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
6. Then tooke they Ieremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the sonne of Hammelech that was in the court of the prison: and they let downe Ieremiah with cords: and in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Ieremiah sunke in the mire.
7. Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of ye eunuches which was in the kings house, heard that they had put Ieremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Beniamin)
8. Ebed-melech went foorth out of the kings house, and spake to the king, saying,
9. My lord the king, these men haue done euill in all that they haue done to Ieremiah the Prophet, whom they haue cast into the dungeon, and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.
10. Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirtie men with thee, and take vp Ieremiah the Prophet out of the dungeon before he die.
11. So Ebed-melech tooke the men with him, and went into the house of the king vnder the treasurie, and tooke thence old cast cloutes, and old rotten ragges, and let them downe by cordes into the dungeon to Ieremiah.
12. And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said vnto Ieremiah, Put now these old cast cloutes and rotten ragges vnder thine arme-holes, vnder the cordes. And Ieremiah did so.
13. So they drew vp Ieremiah with cordes, and tooke him vp out of the dungeon, and Ieremiah remained in the court of the prison.
14. Then Zedekiah the king sent, and tooke Ieremiah the Prophet vnto him into the third entrie that is in the house of the Lord, and the king said vnto Ieremiah, I will aske thee a thing: hide nothing from me.
15. Then Ieremiah said vnto Zedekiah, If I declare it vnto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I giue thee counsell, wilt thou not hearken vnto me?
16. So the king sware secretly vnto Ieremiah, saying, As the Lord liueth that made vs this soule, I wil not put thee to death, neither will I giue thee into the hand of these men that seeke thy life.
17. Then said Ieremiah vnto Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord the God of hostes, the God of Israel, If thou wilt assuredly goe foorth vnto the king of Babylons Princes, then thy soule shall liue, and this Citie shall not be burnt with fire, and thou shalt liue, and thine house.
18. But if thou wilt not goe foorth to the king of Babylons Princes, then shall this City be giuen into the hand of the Caldeans, and they shall burne it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
19. And Zedekiah the king said vnto Ieremiah, I am afraid of the Iewes that are fallen to the Caldeans, lest they deliuer mee into their hand, and they mocke me.
20. But Ieremiah said, They shall not deliuer thee: obey, I beseech thee, the voyce of the Lord, which I speake vnto thee: so it shall be well vnto thee, and thy soule shall liue.
21. But if thou refuse to goe foorth, this is the word that the Lord hath shewed me.
22. And behold, all the women that are left in the king of Iudahs house, shalbe brought forth to the king of Babylons Princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends haue set thee on, and haue preuailed against thee: thy feet are sunke in the mire, and they are turned away backe.
23. So they shall bring out all thy wiues, and thy children to the Caldeans, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the King of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this citie to be burnt with fire.
24. Then said Zedekiah vnto Ieremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
25. But if the Princes heare that I haue talked with thee, and they come vnto thee, and say vnto thee, Declare vnto vs now what thou hast said vnto the king; hide it not from vs, and wee wil not put thee to death; also what the king said vnto thee: 
26. Then thou shalt say vnto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to returne to Ionathans house to die there.
27. Then came all the Princes vnto Ieremiah, and asked him, and he told them according to all these words, that the king had commanded: so they left off speaking with him, for the matter was not perceiued.
28. So Ieremiah abode in the court of the prison, vntill the day that Ierusalem was taken, and hee was there when Ierusalem was taken.
1. In the ninth yeere of Zedekiah king of Iudah, in the tenth moneth, came Nebuchad rezzar king of Babylon, and all his armie against Ierusalem, and they besieged it.
2. And in the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the citie was broken vp.
3. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sate in the middle gate, euen Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4. And it came to passe, that when Zedekiah the king of Iudah saw them and all the men of warre, then they fled and went forth out of the citie by night, by the way of the kings garden, by the gate betwixt the two walles, and hee went out the way of the plaine.
5. But the Caldeans armie pursued after them, and ouertooke Zedekiah in the plaines of Iericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him vp to Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gaue iudgement vpon him.
6. Then the king of Babylon slewe the sonnes of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Iudah.
7. Moreouer he put out Zedekiahs eyes, and bound him with chaines, to cary him to Babylon.
8. And the Caldeans burnt the kings house, and the houses of the people with fire, and brake downe the wals of Ierusalem.
9. Then Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard caried away captiue into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the citie, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
10. But Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard left of the poore of the people which had nothing, in the land of Iudah, and gaue them vineyards and fieldes at the same time.
11. Now Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon gaue charge coucerning Ieremiah to Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard, saying;
12. Take him, and looke well to him, and doe him no harme, but doe vnto him euen as he shall say vnto thee.
13. So Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergal-Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the King of Babylons Princes:
14. Euen they sent, and tooke Ieremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him vnto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, that hee should carie him home: so hee dwelt among the people.
15. Now the word of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah, while hee was shut vp in the court of the prison, saying;
16. Goe and speake to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus sayth the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring my words vpon this citie for euill, and not for good, and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
17. But I will deliuer thee in that day, sayth the Lord, and thou shalt not be giuen into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
18. For I wil surely deliuer thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a pray vnto thee, because thou hast put thy trust in me, sayth the Lord.
1. The word which came to Ieremiah fro the Lord after that Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard had let him goe from Ramath, when hee had taken him being bound in chaines among all that were caried away captiue of Ierusalem and Iudah, which were caried away captiue vnto Babylon.
2. And the captaine of the gard took Ieremiah, and sayd vnto him, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this euill vpon this place.
3. Now the Lord hath brought it, and done according as he hath sayd: because yee haue sinned against the Lord, and haue not obeyed his voyce, therefore this thing is come vpon you.
4. And now behold, I loose thee this day from the chaines which were vpon thine hand: if it seeme good vnto thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will looke well vnto thee: but if it seeme ill vnto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbeare: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and conuenient for thee to goe, thither goe.
5. Now while he was not yet gone backe, he sayd, Goe backe also to Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made gouernour ouer all the cities of Iudah, and dwell with him among the people: or goe wheresoeuer it seemeth conuenient vnto thee to goe. So the captaine of the gard gaue him vitailes and a reward, and let him goe.
6. Then went Ieremiah vnto Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people, that were left in the land.
7. Now when all the captaines of the forces which were in the fields, euen they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam gouernour in the land, and had committed vnto him men, and women and children, and of the poore of the land, of them that were not caried away captiue to Babylon;
8. Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, euen Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, and Iohanan, and Ionathan the sonnes of Kareah, and Seraiah the sonne of Tanhumeth, and the sonnes of Ephai the Netophathite, and Iezaniah the sonne of a Maachathite, they and their men.
9. And Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, sware vnto them and to their men, saying, Feare not to serue the Caldeans: dwell in the land and serue the king of Babylon, and it shalbe well with you.
10. As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serue the Caldeans, which will come vnto vs: but yee, gather yee wine, and summer fruits, and oyle, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities, that yee haue taken.
11. Likewise when all the Iewes that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Iudah, and that he had set ouer them Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan;
12. Euen all the Iewes returned out of all places whither they were driuen, and came to the land of Iudah, to Gedaliah vnto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits, very much.
13. Moreouer Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
14. And sayd vnto him, Doest thou certainly know, that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam beleeued them not.
15. Then Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me goe, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it. Wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Iewes which are gathered vnto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Iudah perish?
16. But Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam sayd vnto Iohanan the sonne of Kareah; Thou shalt not do this thing, for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
1. Now it came to passe in the seuenth moneth, that Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah the sonne of Elishamah of the seede royall, and the princes of the king, euen tenne men with him, came vnto Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam to Mizpah, and there they did eate bread together in Mizpah.
2. Then arose Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whome the king of Babylon had made gouernour ouer the land.
3. Ishmael also slew all the Iewes that were with him, euen with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Caldeans that were found there, and the men of warre.
4. And it came to passe the second day after he had slaine Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
5. That there came certaine from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, euen fourescore men, hauing their beards shauen, and their clothes rent, and hauing cut themselues, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.
6. And Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah went foorth from Mizpah to meete them, weeping all along as hee went: and it came to passe as hee met them, he said vnto them, Come to Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam.
7. And it was so when they came into the midst of the citie, that Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
8. But ten men were found among them, that said vnto Ishmael, Slay vs not: for we haue treasures in the field, of wheate, and of barley, and of oyle, and of hony: so he forbare, and slewe them not among their brethren.
9. Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men (whom he had slaine because of Gedaliah) was it, which Asa the king had made, for feare of Baasha king of Israel, and Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slaine.
10. Then Ishmael caried away captiue all the residue of the people, that were in Mizpah, euen the kings daughters, and al the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, and Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah caried them away captiue, and departed to goe ouer to the Ammonites.
11. But when Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces that were with him, heard of all the euill that Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah had done,
12. Then they tooke all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
13. Now it came to passe that when al the people which were with Ishmael, sawe Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces, that were with him, then they were glad.
14. So all the people that Ishmael had caried away captiue from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went vnto Iohanan the sonne of Kareah.
15. But Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah escaped from Iohanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
16. Then tooke Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recouered from Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, from Mizpah (after that he had slaine Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam,) euen mighty men of warre, and the women, and the children, and the eunuches whom he had brought againe from Gibeon.
17. And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to goe to enter into Egypt,
18. Because of the Caldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah had slaine Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made gouernour in the land.
1. Then all the captaines of the forces, and Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and Iezaniah the sonne of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least euen vnto the greatest, came neere,
2. And said vnto Ieremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for vs vnto the Lord thy God, euen for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eies do behold vs)
3. That the Lord thy God may shew vs the way wherein we may walke, and the thing that we may doe.
4. Then Ieremiah the prophet sayd vnto them, I haue heard you; behold, I will pray vnto the Lord your God, according to your words, and it shall come to passe that whatsoeuer thing the Lord shall answere you, I will declare it vnto you: I will keepe nothing backe from you.
5. Then they sayd to Ieremiah, The Lord be a true and faithfull witnesse betweene vs, if we doe not, euen according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to vs.
6. Whether it be good, or whether it be euill, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee, that it may be well with vs, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.
7. And it came to passe after tenne dayes, that the word of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah.
8. Then called hee Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces which were with him, and all the people, from the least, euen to the greatest,
9. And said vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, vnto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him:
10. If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you downe, and I will plant you, and not plucke you vp: for I repent mee of the euill, that I haue done vnto you.
11. Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom yee are afraid: be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you to saue you, and to deliuer you from his hand.
12. And I will shew mercies vnto you, that he may haue mercy vpon you; and cause you to returne to your owne land.
13. But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God,
14. Saying, No, but we will goe into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no warre, nor heare the sound of the Trumpet, nor haue hunger of bread, and there will we dwell:
15. (And now therefore heare the word of the Lord, yee remnant of Iudah, Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and goe to soiourne there:)
16. Then it shall come to passe, that the sword which yee feared, shall ouertake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine whereof yee were afraid, shall follow close after you in Egypt, and there ye shall die.
17. So shall it bee with all the men that set their faces to goe into Egypt to soiourne there, they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remaine or escape from the euil that I will bring vpon them.
18. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, As mine anger and my furie hath bene powred foorth vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem: so shall my furie bee powred foorth vpon you, when yee shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproch, and ye shall see this place no more.
19. The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Iudah, Goe ye not into Egypt: know certainly, that I haue admonished you this day.
20. For ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me vnto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for vs vnto the Lord our God, and according vnto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare vnto vs, and we wil doe it.
21. And now I haue this day declared it to you, but ye haue not obeied the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me vnto you.
22. Now therefore know certainly, that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to soiourne.
1. And it came to passe that whe Ieremiah had made an end of speaking vnto all the people, al the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, euen all these words;
2. Then spake Azariah the sonne of Hoshaiah, and Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying vnto Ieremiah, Thou speakest falsly: the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say, Goe not into Egypt, to soiourne there.
3. But Baruch the sonne of Neriah setteth thee on against vs, for to deliuer vs into the hand of the Caldeans, that they might put vs to death, and carie vs away captiues into Babylon.
4. So Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces, and all the people, obeied not the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Iudah.
5. But Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the forces, tooke all the remnant of Iudah, that were returned from all nations whither they had bene driuen, to dwell in the land of Iudah,
6. Euen men, and women, and children, and the kings daughters, and euery person that Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard had left with Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, and Ieremiah the Prophet, and Baruch the sonne of Neriah.
7. So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voyce of the Lord, thus came they euen to Tahpanhes.
8. Then came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah in Tahpanhes, saying;
9. Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the bricke kill, which is at the entry of Pharaohs house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Iudah:
10. And say vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel; Beholde, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon my seruant, and will set his throne vpon these stones that I haue hidde, and hee shall spread his royall pauilion ouer them.
11. And when he commeth, hee shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliuer such as are for death, to death; and such as are for captiuitie to captiuitie; and such as are for the sword, to the sword.
12. And I wil kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and hee shall burne them, and carry them away captiues, and hee shall aray himselfe with the land of Egypt, as a shepheard putteth on his garment, and hee shall goe forth from thence in peace.
13. He shall breake also the images of Beth-shemesh that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burne with fire.
1. The word that came to Ieremiah concerning all the Iewes which dwel in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the countrey of Pathros, saying,
2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye haue seene all the euill that I haue brought vpon Ierusalem, and vpon all the cities of Iudah: and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
3. Because of their wickednes which they haue committed, to prouoke me to anger, in that they went to burne incense, and to serue other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers.
4. Howbeit I sent vnto you all my seruants the Prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate.
5. But they hearkened not, nor enclined their eare to turne from their wickednes, to burne no incense vnto other gods.
6. Wherefore my furie and mine anger was powred forth, and was kindled in the cities of Iudah, and in the streets of Ierusalem, and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
7. Therefore now thus saith the Lord the God of hostes, the God of Israel, Wherefore commit ye this great euill against your soules, to cut off from you man and woman, childe and suckling out of Iudah, to leaue you none to remaine.
8. In that yee prouoke mee vnto wrath with the workes of your hands, burning incense vnto other gods in the land of Egypt whither ye bee gone to dwell, that yee might cut your selues off, and that ye might be a curse, and a reproch among all the nations of the earth?
9. Haue ye forgotten the wickednes of your fathers, and the wickednesse of the kings of Iudah, and the wickednes of their wiues, and your owne wickednesse, and the wickednesse of your wiues, which they haue committed in the land of Iudah, and in the streets of Ierusalem?
10. They are not humbled euen vnto this day, neither haue they feared, nor walked in my Law, nor in my Statutes that I set before you, and before your fathers.
11. Therefore thus sayeth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Behold, I will set my face against you for euill, and to cut off all Iudah.
12. And I will take the remnant of Iudah, that haue set their faces to goe into the land of Egypt to soiourne there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt: they shall euen bee consumed by the sword, and by the famine: they shall die, from the least euen vnto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shalbe an execration and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproch.
13. For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I haue punished Ierusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
14. So that none of the remnant of Iudah which are gone into the land of Egypt to soiourne there, shall escape or remaine, that they should returne into the land of Iudah to the which they haue a desire to returne to dwell there: for none shall returne but such as shall escape.
15. Then all the men which knew that their wiues had burnt incense vnto other Gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, euen all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Ieremiah, saying,
16. As for the word that thou hast spoken vnto vs in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken vnto thee.
17. But we will certainly doe whatsoeuer thing goeth forth out of our owne mouth, to burne incense vnto the queene of heauen, and to powre out drinke offrings vnto her, as we haue done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem: for then had we plentie of vitailes, and were well, and saw no euill.
18. But since we left off to burne incense to the queene of heauen, and to powre out drinke offrings vnto her, we haue wanted all things, and haue beene consumed by the sword, and by the famine.
19. And when we burnt incense to the queene of heauen, and powred out drinke offrings vnto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and powre out drinke offrings vnto her without our men?
20. Then Ieremiah sayd vnto all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people which had giuen him that answere, saying;
21. The incense that yee burnt in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, yee and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his minde?
22. So that the Lord could no longer beare, because of the euill of your doings, and because of the abominations, which yee haue committed: therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse without an inhabitant, as at this day. 
23. Because you haue burnt incense, and because yee haue sinned against the Lord, and haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lord, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies: therefore this euill is happened vnto you, as at this day.
24. Moreouer Ieremiah sayd vnto all the people, and to all the women; Heare the word of the Lord, all Iudah, that are in the land of Egypt.
25. Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, saying: Yee and your wiues haue both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying; We will surely performe our vowes that we haue vowed, to burne incense to the queene of heauen, and to powre out drinke offrings vnto her: yee will surely accomplish your vowes, and surely performe your vowes.
26. Therefore heare yee the word of the Lord, all Iudah that dwell in the land of Egypt, Behold, I haue sworne by my great Name, saith the Lord, that my Name shal no more be named in the mouth of any man of Iudah, in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liueth.
27. Behold, I will watch ouer them for euill, and not for good, and all the men of Iudah that are in the land of Egypt shalbe consumed by the sword, & by the famin, vntil there be an end of them.
28. Yet a small number that escape the sword, shall returne out of the land of Egypt into the land of Iudah: and all the remnant of Iudah that are gone into the land of Egypt to soiourne there, shall know whose wordes shall stand, mine or theirs.
29. And this shalbe a signe vnto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may knowe that my words shal surely stand against you for euill.
30. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will giue Pharaoh-Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hande of them that seeke his life, as I gaue Zedekiah king of Iudah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.
1. The word that Ieremiah the Prophet spake vnto Baruch the sonne of Neriah, when he had written these words in a booke at the mouth of Ieremiah, in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, saying,
2. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel vnto thee, O Baruch,
3. Thou didst say, Woe is me now, for the Lord hath added griefe to my sorow, I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
4. Thus shalt thou say vnto him, The Lord saith thus, Behold, that which I haue built will I breake downe, and that which I haue planted I will plucke vp, euen this whole land:
5. And seekest thou great things for thy selfe? seeke them not: for behold, I wil bring euill vpon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I giue vnto thee for a pray in all places whither thou goest.
1. The word of the Lord which came to Ieremiah the Prophet, against the Gentiles,
2. Against Egypt, against the armie of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was by the riuer Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim the son of Iosiah king of Iudah.
3. Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw neere to battell.
4. Harnesse the horses, and get vp ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets, furbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.
5. Wherefore haue I seene them dismaid, and turned away backe? and their mightie ones are beaten downe, & are fled apace, and looke not back: for feare was round about, saith the Lord.
6. Let not the swift flee away, nor the mightie man escape: they shal stumble and fall toward the North by the riuer Euphrates.
7. Who is this that cometh vp as a flood, whose waters are moued as ye riuers?
8. Egypt riseth vp like a flood, and his waters are moued like the riuers, and he saith, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth, I will destroy the citie and the inhabitants thereof.
9. Come vp ye horses, and rage yee charets, and let the mightie men come forth, the Ethiopians and the Libyans that handle the shield, and the Lydians that handle and bend the bow.
10. For this is the day of the Lord God of hostes, a day of vengeance, that he may auenge him of his aduersaries: and the sword shal deuoure, and it shall be satiate, and made drunke with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the North countrey by the riuer Euphrates.
11. Goe vp into Gilead, and take balme, O virgine, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine shalt thou vse many medicines: for thou shalt not be cured.
12. The nations haue heard of thy shame, and thy crie hath filled the land: for the mightie man hath stumbled against the mightie, and they are fallen both together.
13. The word that the Lord spake to Ieremiah the Prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon should come & smite the land of Egypt.
14. Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph, and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shal deuoure round about thee.
15. Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did driue them.
16. He made many to fall, yea one fell vpon another, and they said, Arise, and let vs goe againe to our owne people, and to the land of our natiuitie, from the oppressing sword.
17. They did crie there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise, he hath passed the time appointed.
18. As I liue, saith the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes, Surely as Tabor is among the mountaines, and as Carmel by the Sea, so shall hee come.
19. Oh thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thy selfe to goe into captiuitie: for Noph shalbe waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20. Egypt is like a very faire heifer, but destruction commeth: it commeth out of the North.
21. Also her hired men are in the midst of her, like fatted bullocks, for they also are turned backe, and are fled away together; they did not stand, because the day of their calamitie was come vpon them, and the time of their visitation.
22. The voice thereof shall goe like a serpent, for they shall march with an armie, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23. They shall cut downe her forrest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched, because they are more then the grashoppers, and are innumerable.
24. The daughter of Egypt shalbe confounded, she shalbe deliuered into the hand of the people of the North.
25. The Lord of hostes the God of Israel saith, Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings, euen Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him.
26. And I will deliuer them into the hand of those that seeke their liues, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his seruants, and afterwards it shalbe inhabited, as in the dayes of old, saith the Lord.
27. But feare not thou, O my seruant Iacob, and be not dismaied, O Israel: for behold, I will saue thee from afarre off, and thy seed from the land of their captiuitie, and Iacob shall returne and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28. Feare thou not, O Iacob my seruant, saith the Lord, for I am with thee, for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I haue driuen thee, but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure, yet will I not leaue thee wholly vnpunished.
1. The word of the Lord that came to Ieremiah the Prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, waters rise vp out of the North, and shall be an ouerflowing flood, and shall ouerflow the land, and all that is therein, the citie, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall crie, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howle.
3. At the noise of the stamping of the hoofes of his strong horses, at the rushing of his charets, and at the rumbling of his wheeles, the fathers shall not looke backe to their children for feeblenesse of handes.
4. Because of the day that commeth to spoile all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon euery helper that remaineth: for the Lord will spoile the Philistines, the remnant of the countrey of Caphtor.
5. Baldnesse is come vpon Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thy selfe?
6. O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put vp thy selfe into thy scabberd, rest and be still.
7. How can it bee quiet, seeing the Lord hath giuen it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shoare? there hath he appointed it.
1. Against Moab thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Woe vnto Nebo, for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken. Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
2. There shall bee no more prayse of Moab: in Heshbon they haue deuised euill against it; come and let vs cut it off from being a nation; also thou shalt bee cut downe, O Madmen, the sword shall pursue thee.
3. A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim; Spoiling & great destruction.
4. Moab is destroyed, her little ones haue caused a crie to be heard.
5. For in the going vp of Luhith continuall weeping shall go vp; for in the going downe of Horonaim the enemies haue heard a crie of destruction.
6. Flee, saue your liues, and be like the heath in the wildernesse.
7. For because thou hast trusted in thy workes, and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken, and Chemosh shall goe foorth into captiuitie with his priests and his princes together.
8. And the spoyler shall come vpon euery citie, and no citie shall escape: the valley also shal perish, & the plaine shall be destroyed, as ye Lord hath spoken.
9. Giue wings vnto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shalbe desolate, without any to dwell therein.
10. Cursed be he that doeth the worke of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth backe his sword from blood.
11. Moab hath bene at ease from his youth, and hee hath setled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessell to vessell, neither hath he gone into captiuitie: therefore his taste remained in him, and his sent is not changed.
12. Therfore behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that I will send vnto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander, and shall emptie his vessels, and breake their bottles.
13. And Moab shall bee ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
14. How say yee, We are mightie and strong men for the warre?
15. Moab is spoiled and gone vp out of her cities, and his chosen yong men are gone downe to the slaughter, sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
16. The calamitie of Moab is neere to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
17. All yee that are about him bemoane him, and all yee that know his Name, say, How is the strong staffe broken, and the beautifull rod!
18. Thou daughter that doest inhabit Dibon, come downe from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come vpon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holdes.
19. O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and espie, aske him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
20. Moab is confounded, for it is broken downe: howle and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
21. And iudgement is come vpon the plaine countrey, vpon Holon, and vpon Iahazah, and vpon Mephaath,
22. And vpon Dibon, and vpon Nebo, and vpon Beth-diblathaim,
23. And vpon Kiriathaim, and vpon Beth-Gamul, and vpon Beth-meon,
24. And vpon Kerioth, and vpon Bozrah, and vpon all the cities of the land of Moab farre or neere.
25. The horne of Moab is cut off, & his arme is broken, saith the Lord.
26. Make ye him drunken: for hee magnified himselfe against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shalbe in derision.
27. For was not Israel a derision vnto thee? was hee found among theeues? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for ioy.
28. O yee that dwell in Moab, leaue the cities and dwell in the rocke, and be like the doue that maketh her nest in the sides of the holes mouth.
29. We haue heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftinesse and his arrogancie, and his pride, and the hautinesse of his heart.
30. I knowe his wrath, sayeth the Lord, but it shall not be so, his lyes shall not so effect it.
31. Therefore will I howle for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, mine heart shall mourne for the men of Kir-heres.
32. O vine of Sibmah, I wil weepe for thee, with the weeping of Iazer; thy plants are gone ouer the sea, they reach euen to the sea of Iazer, the spoiler is fallen vpon thy summer fruits, and vpon thy vintage.
33. And ioy and gladnesse is taken from the plentifull field, and from the land of Moab, and I haue caused wine to faile from the winepresses, none shall tread with shouting, their showting shall be no showting.
34. From the cry of Heshbon euen vnto Elealeh, and euen vnto Iahaz haue they vttered their voyce, from Zoar euen vnto Horonaim as an heifer of three yeeres old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
35. Moreouer, I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his Gods.
36. Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that hee hath gotten is perished.
37. For euery head shall be bald, and euery beard clipt: vpon all the hands shall be cuttings, and vpon the loines sackcloth.
38. There shall be lamentation generally vpon all the house toppes of Moab, and in the streetes thereof: for I haue broken Moab like a vessell, wherin is no pleasure, saith the Lord.
39. They shall howle, saying; How is it broken downe? how hath Moab turned the backe with shame? so shall Moab be a derision, and a dismaying to all them about him.
40. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, hee shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings ouer Maob.
41. Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, & the mighty mens hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42. And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himselfe against the Lord.
43. Feare, and the pit, and the snare shall be vpon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
44. Hee that fleeth from the feare shall fall into the pit, and he that getteth vp out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring vpon it, euen vpon Moab, the yeere of their visitation, saith the Lord.
45. They that fled, stood vnder the shadow of Heshbon, because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middest of Sihon, and shall deuoure the corner of Moab, and the crowne of the head of the tumultuous ones. 
46. Woe be vnto thee, O Moab, the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sonnes are taken captiues, and thy daughters captiues.
47. Yet will I bring againe the captiuitie of Moab in the later dayes, saith the Lord. Thus farre is the iudgement of Moab.
1. Concerning the Ammonites, thus sayth the Lord; hath Israel no sonnes? Hath he no heire? Why then doth their king inherit God, and his people dwell in his cities?
2. Therfore behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will cause an alarme of warre to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites, and it shall be a desolate heape, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel be heire vnto them that were his heires, saith the Lord.
3. Howle, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry yee daughters of Rabbah, gird yee with sackcloth: lament and runne to and fro by the hedges: for their king shall goe into captiuitie: and his priests and his princes together.
4. Wherfore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? That trusted in her treasures, saying; Who shall come vnto mee?
5. Behold, I will bring a feare vpon thee, saith the Lord God of hostes, from all those that be about thee, and yee shall be driuen out euery man right forth, and none shal gather vp him that wandereth.
6. And afterward I will bring againe the captiuitie of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.
7. Concerning Edom thus saith the Lord of hosts, Is wisedome no more in Teman? Is counsell perished from the prudent? Is their wisedom vanished?
8. Flee ye, turne backe, dwell deepe, O inhabitants of Dedan: for I will bring the calamitie of Esau vpon him, the time that I will visite him.
9. If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leaue some gleaning grapes? If theeues by night, they will destroy till they haue enough.
10. But I haue made Esau bare, I haue vncouered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himselfe: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren and his neighbours, and he is not.
11. Leaue thy fatherlesse children, I will preserue them aliue: and let thy widowes trust in me.
12. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, they whose iudgement was not to drinke of the cup, haue assuredly drunken, and art thou he that shall altogether go vnpunished? Thou shalt not go vnpunished, but thou shalt surely drinke of it.
13. For I haue sworne by my selfe, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproch, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetuall wastes.
14. I haue heard a rumor from the Lord, & an ambassadour is sent vnto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together & come against her, & rise vp to the battell.
15. For lo, I wil make thee smal among the heathen, and despised among men.
16. Thy terriblenesse hath deceiued thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocke, that holdest the height of the hill: thogh thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee downe from thence, saith the Lord.
17. Also Edom shalbe a desolation: euery one that goeth by it shalbe astonished, and shall hisse at all the plagues thereof,
18. As in the ouerthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord: no man shall abide there, neither shall a sonne of man dwell in it.
19. Behold, he shal come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iordane against the habitation of the strong: but I wil suddenly make him runne away from her, and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt ouer her? For who is like mee? And who will appoint me the time? Who is that shepheard that will stand before mee?
20. Therfore heare the counsell of the Lord, that he hath taken against Edom, & his purposes that hee hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the flocke shall draw them out: surely hee shall make their habitations desolate with them.
21. The earth is moued at the noise of their fall: at the crie, the noise thereof was heard in the red Sea.
22. Behold, he shall come vp and flie as the eagle, and spread his wings ouer Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mightie men of Edom, be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
23. Concerning Damascus, Hamath is confounded, & Arpad, for they haue heard euil tidings, they are faint hearted, there is sorrow on the sea, it can not be quiet.
24. Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth her selfe to flee, and feare hath seised on her: anguish and sorrowes haue taken her as a woman in trauell.
25. How is the citie of praise not left, the citie of my ioy?
26. Therefore her yong men shal fall in her streets, and all the men of warre shall bee cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.
27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shal consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
28. Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon shall smite, Thus saith the Lord: Arise ye, goe vp to Kedar, and spoile the men of the East.
29. Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shal take to themselues their curtaines and all their vessels, and their camels, and they shal crie vnto them, Feare is on euery side.
30. Flee, get you farre off, dwell deepe, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord: for Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceiued a purpose against you.
31. Arise, get you vp vnto the wealthy nation that dwelleth without care, saith the Lord, which haue neither gates nor barres, which dwell alone.
32. And their camels shall be a bootie, and the multitude of their cattell a spoile, and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the vtmost corners, and I will bring their calamitie from all sides thereof, saith the Lord.
33. And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for euer; there shall no man abide there, nor any sonne of man dwell in it.
34. The word of the Lord that came to Ieremiah the Prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reigne of Zedekiah king of Iudah, saying,
35. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will breake the bow of Elam, the chiefe of their might.
36. And vpon Elam will I bring the foure windes from the foure quarters of heauen, and will scatter them towards all those windes, and there shall be no nation, whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37. For I will cause Elam to bee dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seeke their life: and I will bring euill vpon them, euen my fierce anger, saith the Lord, and I will send the sword after them, till I haue consumed them.
38. And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord.
39. But it shall come to passe in the later daies, that I wil bring againe the captiuitie of Elam, saith the Lord.
1. The word that the Lord spake against Babylon, and against the land of the Caldeans by Ieremiah the Prophet.
2. Declare yee among the nations, and publish, and set vp a standart, publish and conceale not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces, her idols are confounded, her Images are broken in pieces.
3. For out of the North there commeth vp a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remoue, they shall depart both man and beast.
4. In those daies, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they, and the children of Iudah together, going and weeping: they shall goe, and seeke the Lord their God.
5. They shall aske the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let vs ioyne our selues to the Lord, in a perpetuall Couenant that shall not be forgotten.
6. My people hath bene lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, they haue turned them away on the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hill, they haue forgotten their resting place.
7. All that found them haue deuoured them, and their aduersaries said, We offend not, because they haue sinned against the Lord, the habitation of iustice, euen the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
8. Remoue out of the midst of Babylon, and goe foorth out of the land of the Caldeans, and be as the hee goats before the flocks.
9. For loe, I will raise and cause to come vp against Babylon, an assembly of great nations from the North countrey, and they shall set themselues in aray against her, from thence shee shalbe taken: their arrowes shalbe as of a mightie expert man: none shall returne in vaine.
10. And Caldea shall bee a spoile: all that spoile her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
11. Because ye were glad, because yee reioyced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are growen fat, as the heifer at grasse, and bellow as bulles:
12. Your mother shalbe sore confounded, she that bare you shalbe ashamed: beholde, the hindermost of the nations shalbe a wildernes, a dry land, & a desert.
13. Because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited, but it shalbe wholly desolate: euery one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hisse at all her plagues.
14. Put your selues in aray against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her; spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord,
15. Shout against her round about: shee hath giuen her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are throwen downe: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance vpon her; as she hath done, doe vnto her.
16. Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of haruest: for feare of the oppressing sword, they shall turne euery one to his people, and they shall flee euery one to his owne lande.
17. Israel is a scattered sheepe, the lyons haue driuen him away: first the king of Assyria hath deuoured him, and last this Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I haue punished the king of Assyria.
19. And I will bring Israel againe to his habitation, and he shal feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soule shall be satisfied vpon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20. In those dayes, and in that time, sayth the Lord, the iniquitie of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sinnes of Iudah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserue.
21. Goe vp against the land of Merathaim, euen against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and vtterly destroy after them, sayeth the Lord, and doe according to all that I haue commanded thee.
22. A sound of battell is in the land, and of great destruction.
23. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken? how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations?
24. I haue laide a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lord.
25. The Lord hath opened his armorie, and hath brought foorth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the worke of the Lord God of hosts, in the land of the Caldeans.
26. Come against her from the vtmost border, open her store-houses: cast her vp as heapes, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.
27. Slay all her bullocks: let them goe downe to the slaughter: woe vnto them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28. The voice of them that flee & escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his Temple.
29. Call together the archers against Babylon: all yee that bend the bow, campe against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her worke; according to all that shee hath done vnto her: for shee hath bene proud against the Lord, against the Holy one of Israel.
30. Therefore shall her yong men fall in the streets, & all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.
31. Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, sayth the Lord God of hostes: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
32. And the most proude shall stumble and fall, and none shal raise him vp: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall deuoure all round about him.
33. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Iudah were oppressed together, and all that tooke them captiues, held them fast, they refused to let them goe.
34. Their Redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his Name, he shall throughly pleade their cause, that hee may giue rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35. A sword is vpon the Caldeans, saith the Lord, and vpon the inhabitants of Babylon, and vpon her princes, and vpon her wise men.
36. A sword is vpon the lyers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her mighty men, and they shalbe dismayed.
37. A sword is vpon their horses, and vpon their charets, and vpon all the mingled people that are in the middest of her, and they shall become as women: a sword is vpon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
38. A drought is vpon her waters, and they shalbe dried vp: for it is the land of grauen images, and they are madde vpon their idoles.
39. Therefore the wilde beasts of the desert with the wilde beastes of the Ilands shall dwel there, and the owles shall dwell therein: & it shalbe no more inhabited for euer: neither shall it bee dwelt in fro generation to generation.
40. As God ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, sayth the Lord: so shall no man abide there, neither shal any sonne of man dwell therein.
41. Behold, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation, and many kings shall bee raised vp from the coasts of the earth.
42. They shall holde the bow and the lance: they are cruell and will not shewe mercy: their voice shall roare like the sea, and they shall ride vpon horses, euery one put in aray like a man to the battell, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble; anguish tooke hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in trauell.
44. Behold, he shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iordan, vnto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly runne away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoint ouer her? for who is like me, and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepheard that will stand before me?
45. Therefore heare yee the counsell of the Lord that hee hath taken against Babylon, and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Caldeans: surely the least of the flocke shall drawe them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moued, and the cry is heard among the nations.
1. Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise vp against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the middest of them that rise vp against me, a destroying wind;
2. And will send vnto Babylon fanners, that shall fanne her, and shall emptie her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
3. Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himselfe vp in his brigandine; and spare yee not her young men, destroy yee vtterly all her hoste.
4. Thus the slaine shall fall in the land of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
5. For Israel hath not beene forsaken, nor Iudah of his God, of the Lord of hostes; though their land was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.
6. Flee out of the middest of Babylon, and deliuer euery man his soule: bee not cut off in her iniquitie: for this is the time of the Lords vengeance: he will render vnto her a recompence.
7. Babylon hath beene a golden cup in the Lords hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations haue drunken of her wine, therefore the nations are mad.
8. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howle for her, take balme for her paine, if so be she may be healed.
9. We would haue healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let vs goe euery one into his owne countrey: for her iudgement reacheth vnto heauen, and is lifted vp euen to the skies.
10. The Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse: come and let vs declare in Zion the worke of the Lord our God.
11. Make bright the arrowes: gather the shields: the Lord hath raised vp the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his deuice is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
12. Set vp the standart vpon the walles of Babylon, make the watch strong: set vp the watchman: prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both deuised and done that, which hee spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13. O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures; thine end is come, and the measure of thy couetousnesse.
14. The Lord of hostes hath sworne by himselfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift vp a shoute against thee.
15. Hee hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his vnderstanding.
16. When he vttereth his voyce, there is a multitude of waters in the heauens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth, he maketh lightnings with raine, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
17. Euery man is brutish by his knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his moulten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18. They are vanitie, the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19. The portion of Iacob is not like them, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
20. Thou art my battel-axe and weapons of warre: for with thee will I breake in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdomes;
21. And with thee will I breake in pieces the horse and his rider, and with thee will I breake in pieces the charet, and his rider;
22. With thee also will I breake in pieces man and woman, and with thee will I breake in pieces old and yong, and with thee will I breake in pieces the yong man and the maide.
23. I will also breake in pieces with thee, the shepheard and his flocke, and with thee will I breake in pieces the husbandman, and his yoke of oxen, and with thee will I breake in pieces Captaines and rulers.
24. And I will render vnto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Caldea, all their euil that they haue done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.
25. Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountaine, saith the Lord, which destroiest all the earth, and I wil stretch out mine hand vpon thee, and roule thee downe from the rockes, and will make thee a burnt mountaine.
26. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be desolate for euer, saith the Lord.
27. Set ye vp a standart in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, & Ashchenaz: appoint a captaine against her: cause her horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.
28. Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captaines thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29. And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for euery purpose of the Lord shalbe performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30. The mightie men of Babylon haue forborne to fight: they haue remained in their holdes: their might hath failed, they became as women: they haue burnt their dwelling places: her barres are broken.
31. One poste shall runne to meet another, and one messenger to meete another, to shew the king of Babylon that his citie is taken at one end,
32. And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes they haue burnt with fire, and the men of warre are afrighted.
33. For thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floore; it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her haruest shall come.
34. Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath deuoured me, he hath crushed me; he hath made me an emptie vessell: hee hath swallowed mee vp like a dragon; he hath filled his bellie with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
35. The violence done to me and to my flesh, be vpon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood vpon the inhabitants of Caldea, shall Ierusalem say.
36. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I wil plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp her sea, and make her springs drie.
37. And Babylon shal become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant.
38. They shall roare together like lions; they shall yell as lions whelps.
39. In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the Lord.
40. I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates.
41. How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
42. The sea is come vp vpon Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
43. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doeth any sonne of man passe thereby.
44. And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed vp, and the nations shall not flow together any more vnto him, yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45. My people, goe ye out of the midst of her, and deliuer ye euery man his soule fro the fierce anger of the Lord,
46. And lest your heart faint, and ye feare for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: a rumour shall both come one yeere, and after that in another yeere shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47. Therefore behold, the dayes come, that I will doe iudgment vpon the grauen images of Babylon, and her whole land shall bee confounded, and all her slaine shall fall in the midst of her.
48. Then the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come vnto her from the North, saith the Lord.
49. As Babylon hath caused the slaine of Israel to fall: so at Babylon shall fall the slaine of all the earth.
50. Ye that haue escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afarre off: and let Ierusalem come into your mind.
51. We are confounded, because wee haue heard reproch, shame hath couered our faces: for strangers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lords house.
52. Wherfore behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will do iudgment vpon her grauen images, and through all her land the wounded shall grone.
53. Though Babylon should mount vp to heauen, and though shee should fortifie the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come vnto her, saith the Lord.
54. A sound of a crie commeth from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans.
55. Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voyce when her waues doe roare like great waters, a noise of their voice is vttered.
56. Because the spoiler is come vpon her, euen vpon Babylon, and her mightie men are taken, euery one of their bowes is broken, for the Lord God of recompenses shall surely requite.
57. And I will make drunke her princes and her wise men, her captaines and her rulers, and her mightie men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the king, whose Name is the Lord of hosts.
58. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The broad walles of Babylon shalbe vtterly broken, and her high gates shal be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in the fire, and they shall be weary.
59. The word which Ieremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the sonne of Neriah, the sonne of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Iudah into Babylon, in the fourth yeere of his reigne, and this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
60. So Ieremiah wrote in a booke all the euill that should come vpon Babylon: euen all these wordes that are written against Babylon.
61. And Ieremiah said to Seraiah, When thou commest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,
62. Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shalbe desolate for euer.
63. And it shall bee when thou hast made an end of reading this booke, that thou shalt binde a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates.
64. And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sinke, and shall not rise from the euill that I will bring vpon her: and they shall be wearie. Thus farre are the words of Ieremiah.
1. Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Hamutal the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.
2. And hee did that which was euill in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Iehoiakim had done.
3. For through the anger of the Lord it came to passe in Ierusalem and Iudah, till hee had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4. And it came to passe in the ninth yere of his reigne, in the tenth moneth, in the tenth day of the moneth, that Nebuchad rezzar king of Babylon came, hee, and all his armie against Ierusalem, and pitched against it, and built fortes against it round about.
5. So the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of king Zedekiah.
6. And in the fourth moneth, in the ninth day of the moneth, the famine was sore in the citie, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7. Then the city was broken vp, and all the men of warre fled, and went foorth out of the citie by night, by the way of the gate between the two wals, which was by the kings garden (now the Caldeans were by the city round about) and they went by the way of the plaine.
8. But the armie of the Caldeans pursued after the king, and ouertooke Zedekiah in the plaines of Iericho, & all his armie was scattered from him.
9. Then they tooke the king, and caried him vp vnto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath: where he gaue iudgement vpon him.
10. And the king of Babylon slew the sonnes of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slewe also all the princes of Iudah in Riblah.
11. Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chaines, and caried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12. Now in the fifth moneth, in the tenth day of the moneth (which was the nineteenth yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon) came Nebuzaradan captaine of the guard, which serued the king of Babylon, into Ierusalem;
13. And burnt the house of the Lord, and the kings house, and all the houses of Ierusalem, and all the houses of the great men burnt he with fire.
14. And all the armie of the Caldeans that were with the captaine of the guard, brake downe all the walles of Ierusalem round about.
15. Then Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard, caried away captiue certaine of the poore of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the citie, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16. But Nebuzaradan the captaine of the guard, left certaine of the poore of the land for Uine-dressers and for husbandmen.
17. Also the pillars of brasse that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Caldeans brake, and caried all the brasse of them to Babylon.
18. The cauldrons also, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the bolles, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away.
19. And the basons, and the firepans, and the bolles, and the cauldrons, and the candlestickes, and the spoones, and the cuppes; that which was of golde, in golde, and that which was of siluer, in siluer, tooke the captaine of the guard away:
20. The two pillars, one Sea, and twelue brasen bulles, that were vnder the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brasse of all these vessels was without weight.
21. And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteene cubites, and a fillet of twelue cubites did compasse it, and the thickenesse thereof was foure fingers: it was hollow.
22. And a chapiter of brasse was vpon it, and the height of one chapiter was fiue cubites, with networke and pomegranates vpon the chapiters round about, all of brasse: the second pillar also and the pomegranates were like vnto these.
23. And there were ninetie and sixe pomegranates on a side, and all the pomegranates vpon the networke were an hundreth round about.
24. And the captaine of the guard tooke Seraiah the chiefe Priest, and Zephaniah the second Priest, and the three keepers of the doore.
25. Hee tooke also out of the citie an Eunuch, which had the charge of the men of warre, and seuen men of them that were neere the kings person which were found in the citie, and the principall Scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the middest of the citie.
26. So Nebuzar-adan the captaine of the guard tooke them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27. And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath: thus Iudah was caried away captiue out of his owne land.
28. This is the people whom Nebuchad-rezzar caried away captiue in the seuenth yeere, three thousand Iewes and three and twentie.
29. In the eighteenth yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar hee caried away captiue from Ierusalem eight hundredth, thirtie and two persons.
30. In the three and twentith yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captaine of the guard, caried away captiue of the Iewes seuen hundreth fortie and fiue persons: all the persons were foure thousand and sixe hundreth.
31. And it came to passe in the seuen and thirtieth yeere of the captiuitie of Iehoiakin king of Iudah, in the twelfth moneth, in the fiue and twentieth day of the moneth, that Euil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first yeere of his reigne, lifted vp the head of Iehoiakin king of Iudah, and brought him forth out of prison,
32. And spake kindly vnto him, and set his throne aboue the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
33. And changed his prison garments: and hee did continually eate bread before him all the dayes of his life.
34. And for his diet, there was a continuall diet giuen him of the king of Babylon, euery day a portion vntill the day of his death, all the dayes of his life.
1. How doeth the citie sit solitarie that was full of people? How is she become as a widow? She that was great among the nations, and princesse among the prouinces, how is she become tributarie?
2. Shee weepeth sore in the night, and her teares are on her cheekes: among all her louers she hath none to comfort her, all her friends haue dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3. Iudah is gone into captiuitie, because of affliction, and because of great seruitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors ouertook her betweene the straits.
4. The wayes of Zion do mourne, because none come to the solemne feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitternesse.
5. Her aduersaries are the chiefe, her enemies prosper: for the Lord hath afflicted her; for the multitude of her transgressions, her children are gone into captiuitie before the enemie.
6. And from the daughter of Zion all her beautie is departed: her princes are become like Harts that find no pasture, & they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7. Ierusalem remembred in the dayes of her affliction, and of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in the dayes of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemie, and none did helpe her, the aduersaries saw her, and did mocke at her Sabbaths.
8. Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned, therefore she is remoued: all that honoured her, despise her, because they haue seene her nakednesse: yea, shee sigheth and turneth backward.
9. Her filthines is in her skirts, she remembreth not her last end, therfore she came downe wonderfully: shee had no comforter: O Lord, behold my affliction: for ye enemie hath magnified himselfe.
10. The aduersarie hath spread out his hand vpon all her pleasant things: for she hath seene that the heathen entred into her Sanctuarie, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
11. All her people sigh, they seek bread, they haue giuen their pleasant things for meate to relieue the soule: see, O Lord, & consider: for I am become vile.
12. Is it nothing to you, all ye that passe by? Behold and see, if there be any sorow like vnto my sorowe, which is done vnto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger.
13. From aboue hath he sent fire into my bones, and it preuaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feete, he hath turned me backe: he hath made me desolate, and faint all the day.
14. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come vp vpon my necke: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath deliuered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise vp.
15. The Lord hath troden vnder foot all my mightie men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against mee, to crush my yong men. The Lord hath troden the virgine, the daughter of Iudah, as in a wine presse.
16. For these things I weepe, mine eye, mine eye runneth downe with water, because the comforter that should relieue my soule is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy preuailed.
17. Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded concerning Iacob, that his aduersaries should bee round about him: Ierusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
18. The Lord is righteous, for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorow: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.
19. I called for my louers, but they deceiued me: my priests and mine elders gaue vp the ghost in the citie, while they sought their meat to relieue their soules
20. Behold, O Lord: for I am in distresse: my bowels are troubled: mine heart is turned within mee, for I haue grieuously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaueth, at home there is as death.
21. They haue heard that I sigh, there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like vnto me.
22. Let all their wickednes come before thee: and doe vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, and my heart is faint.
1. How hath the Lord couered the daughter of Zion with a cloud, in his anger, and cast downe from heauen vnto the earth the beautie of Israel, and remembred not his footstoole in the day of his anger?
2. The Lord hath swallowed vp all the habitations of Iacob, and hath not pitied: he hath throwen downe in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Iudah: he hath brought them down to the ground: hee hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof.
3. He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horne of Israel: he hath drawen backe his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Iacob like a flaming fire which deuoureth round about.
4. He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an aduersary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye, in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred out his furie like fire.
5. The Lord was an enemie: he hath swallowed vp Israel, hee hath swallowed vp all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah mourning and lamentation.
6. And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden, hee hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemne feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the King and the Priest.
7. The Lord hath cast off his Altar: hee hath abhorred his Sanctuarie: he hath giuen vp into the hand of the enemie the walles of her palaces: they haue made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemne Feast.
8. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawen his hand from destroying: therefore hee made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languished together.
9. Her gates are sunke into the ground: he hath destroyed and broken her barres: her King and her Princes are among the Gentiles: the Law is no more, her prophets also finde no vision from the Lord.
10. The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the ground and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heads: they haue girded themselues with sackcloth: the virgins of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.
11. Mine eyes doe faile with teares: my bowels are troubled: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and the sucklings swoone in the streets of the citie.
12. They say to their mothers, Where is corne and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the citie, when their soule was powred out into their mothers bosome.
13. What thing shall I take to witnesse for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Ierusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O Uirgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heale thee?
14. Thy Prophets haue seene vaine and foolish things for thee, and they haue not discouered thine iniquitie, to turne away thy captiuitie: but haue seene for thee false burdens, and causes of banishment.
15. All that passe by, clap their hands at thee: they hisse and wagge their head at the daughter of Ierusalem, saying, Is this the citie that men call the perfection of beauty, the ioy of the whole earth?
16. All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnash the teeth: they say, We haue swallowed her vp: certainly this is the day that we looked for: we haue found, we haue seene it.
17. The Lord hath done that which he had deuised: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the dayes of old: hee hath throwen downe and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemie to reioyce ouer thee, hee hath set vp the horne of thine aduersaries.
18. Their heart cried vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: giue thy selfe no rest, let not the apple of thine eyes cease.
19. Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift vp thy handes toward him, for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the top of euery streete.
20. Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this: shal the women eat their fruit, and children of a spanne long? shall the priest and the prophet be slaine in the Sanctuary of the Lord?
21. The yong and the old lye on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slaine them in the day of thy anger: thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22. Thou hast called as in a solemne day my terrours round about, so that in the day of the Lords anger, none escaped nor remained: those that I haue swadled and brought vp, hath mine enemy consumed.
1. I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2. He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.
3. Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4. My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.
5. He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.
6. He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old.
7. He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie.
8. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9. Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
10. He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
11. Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate.
12. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
13. Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
14. I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15. Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.
16. He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
17. And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.
18. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
19. Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.
20. My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21. This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope.
22. It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
23. They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
24. The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him.
25. The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him.
26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord.
27. It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.
28. Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him.
29. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
30. Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch.
31. For the Lord will not cast off for euer.
32. But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men.
34. To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
35. To turne aside the right of a man before the face of the most high,
36. To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not.
37. Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38. Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good?
39. Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes?
40. Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord.
41. Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens.
42. We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.
43. Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.
44. Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through.
45. Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people.
46. All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs.
47. Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.
48. Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49. Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission:
50. Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen.
51. Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
52. Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.
53. They haue cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
54. Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off.
55. I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
56. Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie.
57. Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not.
58. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life.
59. O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
60. Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.
61. Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
62. The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.
63. Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.
64. Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands.
65. Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them.
66. Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord.
1. How is the gold become dimme! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuarie are powred out in the top of euery streete.
2. The precious sonnes of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the worke of the hands of the potter!
3. Euen the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they giue sucke to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruell, like the ostriches in the wildernesse.
4. The tongue of the sucking child cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the young children aske bread, and no man breaketh it vnto them.
5. They that did feede delicatly, are desolate in the streetes: they that were brought vp in scarlet, embrace dounghilles.
6. For the punishment of the iniquitie of the daughter of my people, is greater then the punishment of the sinne of Sodom, that was ouerthrowen as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7. Her Nazarites were purer then snow, they were whiter then milke, they were more ruddie in body then rubies, their polishing was of Saphir.
8. Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not knowen in the streets: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke.
9. They that bee slaine with the sword, are better then they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10. The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11. The Lord hath accomplished his furie, he hath powred out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath deuoured the foundations thereof.
12. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not haue beleeued, that the aduersarie and the enemie should haue entred into the gates of Ierusalem.
13. For the sinnes of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that haue shed the blood of the iust in the middest of her:
14. They haue wandred as blind men in the streetes, they haue polluted themselues with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15. They cryed vnto them; Depart yee, it is vncleane, depart, depart, touch not, when they fled away and wandred: they said among the heathen, They shall no more soiourne there.
16. The anger of the Lord hath diuided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they fauoured not the elders.
17. As for vs, our eyes as yet failed for our vaine helpe: in our watching we haue watched for a nation that could not saue vs.
18. They hunt our steps that we cannot goe in our streets: our end is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.
19. Our persecutours are swifter then the eagles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, they laide waite for vs in the wildernesse.
20. The breath of our nostrels, the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadowe we shall liue among the heathen.
21. Reioyce and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the lande of Uz, the cup also shall passe through vnto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thy selfe naked.
22. The punishment of thine iniquitie is accomplished, O daughter of Zion, he will no more carie thee away into captiuitie: hee will visit thine iniquitie, O daughter of Edom, hee will discouer thy sinnes.
1. Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch.
2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants.
3. We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.
4. We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs.
5. Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
6. We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities.
8. Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.
9. We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10. Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
11. They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.
12. Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured.
13. They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14. The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.
15. The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16. The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned.
17. For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dimme.
18. Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it.
19. Thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne from generation to generation.
20. Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21. Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our dayes as of old.
22. But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art very wroth against vs.





















































































































































































































1. Now it came to passe in the thirtieth yeere, in the fourth moneth, in the fifth day of the moneth, (as I was among the captiues by the riuer of Chebar) that the heauens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2. In the fifth day of the moneth, (which was the fifth yeere of king Iehoiakins captiuitie,)
3. The word of the Lord came expresly vnto Ezekiel the Priest, the sonne of Buzi, in the land of the Caldeans, by the riuer Chebar, and the hand of the Lord was there vpon him.
4. And I looked, and behold, a whirlewinde came out of the North, a great cloude, and a fire infoulding it selfe, and a brightnesse was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5. Also out of the midst thereof came the likenesse of foure liuing creatures, and this was their appearance: they had the likenesse of a man.
6. And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure wings.
7. And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calues foot, and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brasse.
8. And they had the handes of a man vnder their wings on their foure sides, and they foure had their faces and their wings.
9. Their wings were ioyned one to another, they turned not when they went: they went euery one straight forward.
10. As for the likenesse of their faces, they foure had the face of a man, and the face of a lyon on the right side, and they foure had the face of an oxe on the left side: they foure also had the face of an eagle.
11. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched vpward, two wings of euery one were ioyned one to an other, and two couered their bodies.
12. And they went euery one straight forward: whither the spirit was to goe, they went: and they turned not when they went.
13. As for the likenesse of the liuing creatures, their appearance was like burning coles of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went vp and downe among the liuing creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went foorth lightning.
14. And the liuing creatures ranne, and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15. Now as I behelde the liuing creatures: behold one wheele vpon the earth by the liuing creatures, with his foure faces.
16. The appearance of the wheeles, and their worke was like vnto the colour of a Berill: and they foure had one likenesse, and their appearance and their worke was as it were a wheele in the middle of a wheele.
17. When they went, they went vpon their foure sides: and they returned not when they went.
18. As for their rings, they were so high, that they were dreadful, and their rings were full of eyes round about them foure.
19. And when the liuing creatures went, the wheeles went by them: and when the liuing creatures were lift vp from the earth, the wheels were lift vp.
20. Whithersoeuer the spirit was to goe, they went, thither was their spirit to goe, and the wheeles were lifted vp ouer against them: for the spirit of the liuing creature was in the wheeles.
21. When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted vp from the earth, the wheeles were lifted vp ouer against them: for the spirit of the liuing creature was in the wheeles.
22. And the likenesse of the firmament vpon the heads of the liuing creature was as the colour of the terrible chrystall, stretched foorth ouer their heads aboue.
23. And vnder the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other, euery one had two which couered on this side, & euery one had two, which couered on that side their bodies.
24. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almightie, the voice of speech, as the noise of an hoste: when they stood, they let downe their wings.
25. And there was a voice from the firmament, that was ouer their heads, when they stood, and had let downe their wings.
26. And aboue the firmament that was ouer their heads, was the likenesse of a Throne, as the appearance of a Saphyre stone, and vpon the likenesse of the Throne was the likenesse as the appearance of a man aboue vpon it.
27. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it: from the appearance of his loynes euen vpward, and from the appearance of his loynes euen downeward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, & it had brightnesse round about.
28. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloude in the day of raine, so was the appearance of the brightnesse round about. This was the appearance of the likenesse of the glory of the Lord: and when I saw it, I fell vpon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
1. And he said vnto me, Son of man, stand vpon thy feete, and I will speake vnto thee.
2. And the spirit entred into me, when hee spake vnto me, and set me vpon my feete, that I heard him that spake vnto me:
3. And hee said vnto me, Sonne of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against mee: they and their fathers haue transgressed against mee, euen vnto this very day.
4. For they are impudent children and stiffe hearted: I doe send thee vnto them, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus sayth the Lord God.
5. And they, whether they wil heare or whether they will forbeare, (for they are a rebellious house) yet shall know that there hath bene a Prophet among them.
6. And thou sonne of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their wordes, though bryars and thornes be with thee, and thou doest dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their lookes, though they be a rebellious house.
7. And thou shalt speake my words vnto them, whether they will heare or whether they will forbeare, for they are most rebellious.
8. But thou, sonne of man, heare what I say vnto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth and eate that I giue thee.
9. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent vnto mee, and loe, a roule of a booke was therein.
10. And he spread it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
1. Moreouer he said vnto me, Sonne of man, eate that thou findest: eate this roule, and goe, speake vnto the house of Israel.
2. So I opened my mouth, and hee caused me to eate that roule.
3. And he said vuto mee; Sonne of man, cause thy belly to eate, and fill thy bowels with this roule that I giue thee. Then did I eate it, and it was in my mouth as honie for sweetnesse.
4. And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, goe, get thee vnto the house of Israel, and speake with my words vnto them.
5. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.
6. Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not vnderstand: surely had I sent thee to them, they would haue hearkened vnto thee:
7. But the house of Israel will not hearken vnto thee; for they will not hearken vnto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard hearted.
8. Behold, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
9. As an adamant harder then flint haue I made thy forehead: feare them not, neither be dismayed at their lookes, though they be a rebellious house.
10. Moreouer he said vnto me, Sonne of man, all my words that I shall speake vnto thee, receiue in thine heart, and heare with thine eares.
11. And goe, get thee to them of the captiuity, vnto thy people, and speake vnto them and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God, whether they will heare, or whether they will forbeare.
12. Then the spirit tooke me vp, and I heard behind me a voyce of a great rushing, saying Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.
13. I heard also the noise of the wings of the liuing creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheeles ouer against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
14. So the spirit lifted me vp, and tooke me away, and I went in bitternesse, in the heate of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was strong vpon mee.
15. Then I came to them of the captiuity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the riuer of Chebar, and I sate where they sate, and remained there astonished among them seuen daies.
16. And it came to passe at the end of seuen dayes, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
17. Sonne of man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore heare the word at my mouth, & giue them warning from me.
18. When I say vnto the wicked; Thou shalt surely die, and thou giuest him not warning, nor speakest to warne the wicked from his wicked way to saue his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at thine hand. 
19. Yet if thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
20. Againe, when a righteous man doth turne from his righteousnesse and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling blocke before him, he shall die: because thou hast not giuen him warning, he shall die in his sinne, and his righteousnesse which he hath done shal not be remembred: but his blood will I require at thine hand.
21. Neuerthelesse if thou warne the righteous man, that the righteous sinne not, and he doth not sinne; he shall surely liue, because he is warned: also thou hast deliuered thy soule.
22. And the hand of the Lord was there vpon me, and he said vnto me; Arise, goe forth into the plaine, and I will there talke with thee.
23. Then I arose and went forth into the plaine, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there as the glory which I saw by the riuer of Chebar, and I fell on my face.
24. Then the spirit entred into me, and set me vpon my feet, and spake with me, and said vnto me, Goe shut thy selfe within thine house.
25. But thou, O sonne of man, behold, they shall put bands vpon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not goe out among them.
26. And I will make thy tongue cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumme and shalt not be to them a reprouer: for they are a rebellious house.
27. But when I speake with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say vnto them; Thus saith the Lord God, He that heareth, let him heare, and he that forbeareth, let him forbeare: for they are a rebellious house.
1. Thou also sonne of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray vpon it the citie, euen Ierusalem,
2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and set battering rammes against it round about.
3. Moreouer take thou vnto thee an yron panne, and set it for a wall of yron betweene thee and the city, and set thy face against it, and it shalbe besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: this shalbe a signe to the house of Israel.
4. Lie thou also vpon thy left side, and lay the iniquitie of the house of Israel vpon it: according to the number of the dayes that thou shalt lie vpon it, thou shalt beare their iniquitie.
5. For I haue layed vpon thee the yeeres of their iniquitie, according to the number of the dayes, three hundreth and ninetie daies. So shalt thou beare the iniquitie of the house of Israel.
6. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie againe on thy right side, and thou shalt beare the iniquitie of the house of Iudah fourtie dayes: I haue appointed thee each day for a yeere.
7. Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Ierusalem, and thine arme shalbe vncouered, and thou shalt prophecie against it.
8. And behold, I wil lay bands vpon thee, and thou shalt not turne thee from one side to an other, till thou hast ended the dayes of thy siege.
9. Take thou also vnto thee wheat, and barley, and beanes, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessell, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the dayes that thou shalt lie vpon thy side; three hundreth and ninetie dayes shalt thou eate thereof.
10. And thy meate which thou shalt eat, shalbe by weight twentie shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11. Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, the sixt part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.
12. And thou shalt eate it as barley cakes, & thou shalt bake it with doung that commeth out of man in their sight.
13. And the Lord said, Euen thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will driue them.
14. Then said I, Ah Lord God, behold, my soule hath not bene polluted: for from my youth vp euen til now, haue I not eaten of that which dieth of it selfe, or is torne in pieces, neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15. Then he said vnto me, Loe, I haue giuen thee cowes doung for mans doung and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16. Moreouer he said vnto me, Sonne of man, behold, I wil breake the staffe of bread in Ierusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care, and they shal drinke water by measure, and with astonishment:
17. That they may want bread and water, & be astonied one with an other, and consume away for their iniquitie.
1. And thou sonne of man, take thee a sharpe knife, take thee a barbours rasor, and cause it to passe vpon thine head and vpon thy beard: then take the ballances to weigh, and diuide the haire.
2. Thou shalt burne with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the dayes of the siege are fulfilled, and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife, and a third part thou shalt scatter in the winde, and I will draw out a sword after them.
3. Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4. Then take of them againe, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burne them in the fire: for thereof shall a fire come foorth into all the house of Israel.
5. Thus saith the Lord God; This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the midst of the nations and countreys that are round about her.
6. And she hath changed my iudgements into wickednesse more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreyes that are round about her: for they haue refused my iudgements and my statutes, they haue not walked in them.
7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because yee multiplied more then the nations that are round about you, and haue not walked in my Statutes, neither haue kept my iudgments, neither haue done according to the iudgements of the nations that are round about you:
8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, euen I am against thee, and will execute iudgements in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
9. And I will doe in thee that which I haue not done, and whereunto I will not doe any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
10. Therefore the fathers shall eate the sonnes in the midst of thee, and the sonnes shall eate their fathers, and I will execute iudgements in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the windes.
11. Wherefore, as I liue, saith the Lord God, Surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee, neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I haue any pitie.
12. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the middest of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee: and I will scatter a third part into all the windes, and I wil draw out a sword after them.
13. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest vpon them, and I will be comforted: and they shal know that I the Lord haue spoken it in my zeale, when I haue accomplished my fury in them.
14. Moreouer I will make thee waste, and a reproch among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that passe by.
15. So it shall bee a reproch and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment vnto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute iudgments in thee in anger and in furie, and in furious rebukes: I the Lord haue spoken it.
16. When I shall send vpon them the euill arrowes of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I wil increase the famine vpon you, and will breake your staffe of bread.
17. So will I send vpon you famine, and euill beasts, and they shall bereaue thee, and pestilence and blood shal passe through thee, and I will bring the sword vpon thee: I the Lord haue spoken it.
1. And the worde of the Lord came vnto mee, saying,
2. Sonne of man, set thy face towardes the mountaines of Israel, and prophecie against them,
3. And say, Ye mountaines of Israel, Heare the word of the Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God to the mountaines and to the hilles, to the riuers and to the valleys, Behold, I, euen I will bring a sword vpon you, and I will destroy your high places.
4. And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.
5. And I will lay the dead carkeises of the children of Israel before their idoles, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6. In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shalbe desolate, that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may bee cut downe, and your workes may be abolished.
7. And the slaine shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.
8. Yet will I leaue a remnant, that he may haue some, that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shalbe scattered through the countreys.
9. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations, whither they shalbe caried captiues, because I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: and they shall loathe themselues for the euils which they haue committed in all their abominations.
10. And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I haue not said in vaine, that I would doe this euill vnto them.
11. Thus sayth the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stampe with thy foot, and say, Alas, for all the euill abominations of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
12. He that is farre off shall die of the pestilence, and he that is neere shall fall by the sword, and hee that remaineth and is besieged, shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my furie vpon them.
13. Then shal ye know that I am the Lord, when their slaine men shalbe among their idoles round about their altars, vpon euery high hill in all the tops of the mountaines, and vnder euery greene tree, and vnder euery thicke oke, the place where they did offer sweet sauour to all their idoles.
14. So will I stretch out my hand vpon them, and make the land desolate, yea more desolate then the wildernesse towards Diblath, in all their habitations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto mee, saying;
2. Also thou sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God vnto the land of Israel, An end, the ende is come vpon the foure corners of the land.
3. Now is the ende come vpon thee, and I will send mine anger vpon thee, and will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will recompense vpon thee all thine abominations.
4. And mine eye shal not spare thee, neither will I haue pitie: but I will recompense thy wayes vpon thee, and thine abominations shalbe in the midst of thee, and yee shall know that I am the Lord.
5. Thus sayth the Lord God, An euill, an onely euill, behold, is come.
6. An end is come, the end is come, it watcheth for thee, behold, it is come.
7. The morning is come vnto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is neere, and not the sounding againe of the mountaines.
8. Now will I shortly powre out my furie vpon thee, and accomplish mine anger vpon thee: and I wil iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
9. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I haue pitie: I will recompense thee according to thy wayes, and thine abominations that are in the middest of thee, and yee shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.
10. Behold the day, behold, it is come, the morning is gone foorth, the rodde hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11. Uiolence is risen vp into a rod of wickednesse: none of them shall remaine, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs, neither shall there be wailing for them.
12. The time is come, the day draweth neere, let not the buyer reioyce, nor the seller mourne: for wrath is vpon all the multitude thereof.
13. For the seller shall not returne to that which is solde, although they were yet aliue: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof which shal not returne: neither shall any strengthen himselfe in the iniquity of his life.
14. They haue blowen the trumpet, euen to make all ready, but none goeth to the battell: for my wrath is vpon all the multitude thereof.
15. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword, and hee that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall deuoure him.
16. But they that escape of them, shall escape, and shall be on the mountaines like doues of the valleys, all of them mourning, euery one for his iniquitie.
17. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shalbe weake as water.
18. They shall also girde themselues with sackcloth, and horrour shall couer them, and shame shall be vpon all faces, and baldnesse vpon all their heads.
19. They shall cast their siluer in the streets, and their golde shalbe remooued: their siluer and their golde shall not be able to deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling blocke of their iniquitie.
20. As for the beautie of his ornament, he set it in maiestie: but they made the images of their abominations, and of their detestable things therein: therefore haue I set it farre from them.
21. And I will giue it into the hands of the strangers for a pray, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoile, and they shall pollute it.
22. My face will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it.
23. Make a chaine: for the land is full of bloody crimes, the citie is full of violence.
24. Wherfore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possesse their houses: I will also make the pompe of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.
25. Destruction commeth, and they shall seeke peace, and there shall be none.
26. Mischiefe shall come vpon mischiefe, and rumour shall be vpon rumour, then shall they seeke a vision of the prophet: but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsell from the ancients.
27. The king shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will doe vnto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I iudge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. And it came to passe in the sixt yeere, in the sixt moneth, in the fift day of the month, as I sate in mine house, and the elders of Iudah sate before me; that the hand of the Lord God fell there vpon me.
2. Then I beheld, and loe, a likenesse as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loines euen downeward, fire: and from his loines euen vpward, as the appearance of brightnesse, as the colour of amber.
3. And he put forth the forme of an hand, and tooke me by a locke of mine head, and the spirit lift me vp betweene the earth and the heauen, and brought me in the visions of God to Ierusalem, to the doore of the inner gate, that looketh toward the North, where was the seate of the image of ielousie, which prouoketh to ielousie.
4. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there according to the vision that I saw in the plaine.
5. Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, lift vp thine eyes now the way towards the North: so I lift vp mine eyes the way toward the North, and behold, Northward at the gate of the altar, this image of ielousie in the entry.
6. He said furthermore vnto me, Sonne of man, seest thou what they doe? euen the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth heere, that I should goe farre off from my sanctuarie? but turne thee yet againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 
7. And hee brought me to the doore of the court, and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
8. Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, digge now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a doore.
9. And he said vnto me, Goe in, and behold the wicked abominations that they doe heere.
10. So I went in and saw, and behold euery forme of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel purtrayed vpon the wall round about.
11. And there stood before them seuentie men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the middest of them stood Iaazaniah the sonne of Shaphan, with euery man his censer in his hand, and a thicke cloud of incense went vp.
12. Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, hast thou seene what the ancients of the house of Israel doe in the darke, euery man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth vs not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
13. Hee said also vnto me, Turne thee yet againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they doe.
14. Then he brought me to the doore of the gate of the Lords house which was towards the North, and behold, there sate women weeping for Tammuz.
15. Then said hee vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Turne thee yet againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations then these.
16. And he brought me into the inner court of the Lords house, and behold at the doore of the Temple of the Lord, betweene the porch and the altar, were about fiue and twentie men, with their backes toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the East, and they worshipped the sunne towards the East.
17. Then he said vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Iudah, that they commit the abominations, which they commit heere? for they haue filled the land with violence, and haue returned to prouoke me to anger: and loe, they put the branch to their nose.
18. Therefore will I also deale in furie: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I haue pitie: and though they crie in mine eares with a loud voyce, yet will I not heare them.
1. Hee cryed also in mine eares, with a loude voyce, saying; Cause them that hauecharge ouer the citie, to draw neere, euen euery man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
2. And behold, sixe men came from the way of the higher gate, which lyeth toward the North, and euery man a slaughter weapon in his hand: and one man among them was clothed with linnen, with a writers inkehorne by his side, and they went in and stood beside the brasen altar.
3. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone vp from the Cherub whereupon hee was, to the threshold of the house, and he called to the man clothed with linnen, which had the writers inkehorne by his side.
4. And the Lord sayd vnto him, Goe through the middest of the citie, through the middest of Ierusalem, and set a marke vpon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and that cry for all the abominations, that bee done in the middest thereof.
5. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Goe ye after him through the citie, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither haue ye pitie.
6. Slay vtterly olde and yong; both maides, and litle children, and women: but come not neere any man vpon whom is the marke, and begin at my sanctuary: then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
7. And hee sayd vnto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slaine, goe ye forth: and they went forth and slew in the citie.
8. And it came to passe while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell vpon my face, and cryed and said, Ah, Lord God, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel, in thy powring out of thy fury vpon Ierusalem?
9. Then sayd he vnto me; The iniquity of the house of Israel and Iudah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the citie full of peruersenesse: for they say; The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
10. And as for me also, mine eye shal not spare, neither will I haue pitie, but I will recompence their way vpon their head.
11. And behold, the man clothed with linnen, which had the inkehorne by his side, reported the matter, saying; I haue done as thou hast commanded me.
1. Then I looked, and beholde, in the firmament that was aboue the head of the Cherubims, there appeared ouer them as it were a Saphir stone, as the appearance of the likenesse of a throne.
2. And hee spake vnto the man clothed with linnen, and sayd, Goe in between the wheeles, euen vnder the Cherub, and fill thine hand with coales of fire from betweene the Cherubims, and scatter them ouer the city. And he went in my sight.
3. Now the Cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.
4. Then the glory of the Lord went vp from the Cherub, and stood ouer the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightnesse of the Lords glory.
5. And the sound of the Cherubims wings was heard euen to the vtter court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
6. And it came to passe that when he had commanded the man clothed with linnen, saying; Take fire from betweene the wheeles, from betweene the Cherubims; then he went in and stood beside the wheeles.
7. And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from betweene the Cherubims vnto the fire that was betweene the Cherubims: and tooke thereof, and put it into the handes of him that was clothed with linnen, who tooke it, and went out.
8. And there appeared in the Cherubims, the forme of a mans hand vnder their wings.
9. And when I looked, behold the foure wheeles by the Cherubims, one wheele by one Cherub, and an other wheele by an other Cherub: and the appearance of the wheeles was as the colour of a Berill stone.
10. And as for their appearances, they foure had one likenes as if a wheele had bene in the midst of a wheele.
11. When they went, they went vpon their foure sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked, they followed it; they turned not as they went.
12. And their whole body, and their backes, and their handes, and their wings, and the wheeles, were ful of eyes round about, euen the wheeles that they foure had.
13. As for the wheeles, it was cried vnto them in my hearing, O wheele.
14. And euery one had foure faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15. And the Cherubims were lifted vp, this is the liuing creature that I saw by the riuer of Chebar.
16. And when the Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lift vp their wings, to mount vp from the earth, the same wheels also turned not fro beside them.
17. When they stood, these stood, and when they were lifted vp, these lift vp themselues also: for the spirit of the liuing creature was in them.
18. Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood ouer the Cherubims.
19. And the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and mounted vp from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheeles also were besides them, and euery one stood at the doore of the East gate of the Lords house, and the glorie of the God of Israel was ouer them aboue.
20. This is the liuing creature that I saw vnder the God of Israel, by the riuer of Chebar, and I knew that they were the Cherubims.
21. Euery one had foure faces a piece, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of the handes of a man was vnder their wings.
22. And the likenesse of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the riuer of Chebar, their appearances and themselues: they went euery one straight forward.
1. Moreouer the Spirit lift me vp, and brought me vnto the East gate of the Lords house, which looketh Eastward: and behold at the doore of the gate fiue and twenty men; among whom I saw Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur, and Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah, Princes of the people.
2. Then said he vnto me; Sonne of man, these are the men that deuise mischiefe, & giue wicked counsel in this city.
3. Which say, It is not neere, let vs build houses: this citie is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
4. Therefore prophecie against them, prophecie, O sonne of man.
5. And the Spirit of the Lord fell vpon me, and said vnto me, Speake, thus saith the Lord; Thus haue ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your minde, euery one of them.
6. Ye haue multiplyed your slaine in this citie, and yee haue filled the streetes thereof with the slaine.
7. Therefore thus sayth the Lord God; Your slaine whom ye haue laid in the middest of it, they are the flesh, and this citie is the cauldron: but I wil bring you foorth out of the middest of it.
8. Ye haue feared the sword, and I will bring a sword vpon you, saith the Lord God.
9. And I will bring you out of the middest thereof, and deliuer you into the hands of strangers, and will execute iudgements among you.
10. Yee shall fall by the sword, I will iudge you in the border of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
11. This citie shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the middest thereof, but I will iudge you in the border of Israel.
12. And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for yee haue not walked in my statutes, neither executed my iudgements, but haue done after the maners of the heathen that are round about you.
13. And it came to passe, when I prophecied, that Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah died: then fell I downe vpon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said; Ah Lord God, wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14. Againe the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
15. Sonne of man, thy brethren, euen thy brethren, the men of thy kinred, and all the house of Israel wholly are they, vnto whom the inhabitants of Ierusalem haue sayd; Get yee farre from the Lord: vnto vs is this land giuen in possession.
16. Therefore say, Thus sayth the Lord God; Although I haue cast them farre off among the heathen, and although I haue scattered them among the countreys, yet will I be to them as a little Sanctuarie in the countreys where they shall come.
17. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will euen gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countreys where ye haue beene scattered, and I will giue you the land of Israel.
18. And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19. And I wil giue them one heart, and I wil put a new spirit within you: and I will take the stonie heart out of their flesh, and will giue them an heart of flesh,
20. That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe mine ordinances, and doe them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
21. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things, and their abominations, I wil recompense their way vpon their owne heads, saith the Lord God.
22. Then did the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and the wheeles besides them, and the glory of the God of Israel was ouer them aboue.
23. And the glory of the Lord went vp from the middest of the citie, and stood vpon the mountaine, which is on the East side of the citie.
24. Afterwards the spirit tooke me vp, and brought me in vision by the spirit of God into Caldea to them of the captiuity: so the vision that I had seene, went vp from me.
25. Then I spake vnto them of the captiuity, all the things that the Lord had shewed me.
1. The word of the Lord also came vnto me, saying;
2. Sonne of man, thou dwellest in the middest of a rebellious house, which haue eyes to see, and see not: they haue eares to heare, and heare not: for they are a rebellious house.
3. Therefore thou sonne of man, prepare thee stuffe for remoouing, and remooue by day in their sight, and thou shalt remoue from thy place to another place in their sight; it may be they will consider, though they bee a rebellious house.
4. Then shalt thou bring foorth thy stuffe by day in their sight, as stuffe for remoouing: and thou shalt goe foorth at euen in their sight, as they that goe foorth into captiuitie.
5. Digge thou through the wall in their sight, and cary out thereby.
6. In their sight shalt thou beare it vpon thy shoulders, and cary it foorth in the twy light: thou shalt couer thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I haue set thee for a signe vnto the house of Israel.
7. And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuffe by day, as stuffe for captiuity, and in the euen I digged through the wall with mine hand, I brought it foorth in the twy light, and I bare it vpon my shoulder in their sight.
8. And in the morning came the word of the Lord vnto me, saying,
9. Sonne of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, sayd vnto thee, What doest thou?
10. Say thou vnto them; Thus saith the Lord God; This burden concerneth the Prince in Ierusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
11. Say, I am your signe: like as I haue done, so shall it be done vnto them: they shall remooue and goe into captiuitie.
12. And the Prince that is among them, shall beare vpon his shoulder in the twylight, and shall goe forth: they shall digge through the wall to cary out thereby: he shall couer his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
13. My net also will I spread vpon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I wil bring him to Babylon to the land of the Caldeans, yet shall hee not see it, though he shall die there.
14. And I will scatter toward euery winde all that are about him to helpe him, and all his bands, and I wil draw out the sword after them.
15. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shal scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countreys.
16. But I will leaue a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
17. Moreouer, the worde of the Lord came to me, saying;
18. Sonne of man, eate thy bread with quaking, and drinke thy water with trembling and with carefulnesse,
19. And say vnto the people of the land; Thus sayth the Lord God, of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulnes, and drinke their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of them that dwell therein.
20. And the cities that are inhabited, shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate, and yee shall know that I am the Lord.
21. And the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
22. Sonne of man, what is that prouerbe, that ye haue in the land of Israel, saying; The dayes are prolonged, and euery vision faileth?
23. Tell them therefore, Thus sayth the Lord God; I will make this prouerbe to cease, and they shall no more vse it as a prouerbe in Israel: but say vnto them, The dayes are at hand, and the effect of euery vision.
24. For there shall bee no more any vaine vision, nor flattering diuination, within the house of Israel.
25. For I am the Lord: I will speake, & the word that I shall speake, shall come to passe: it shall be no more prolonged: for in your dayes, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will performe it, sayth the Lord God.
26. Againe the word of the Lord came to me, saying;
27. Sonne of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say; The vision that he seeth is for many dayes to come, and he prophecieth of the times that are far off.
28. Therefore say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, There shal none of my words be prolonged any more, but the worde which I haue spoken, shall be done, sayth the Lord God.
1. And the worde of the Lord came vnto mee, saying;
2. Sonne of man, prophecie against the Prophets of Israel that prophecie, and say thou vnto them that prophecie out of their owne hearts, Heare ye the word of the Lord.
3. Thus saith the Lord God; Woe vnto the foolish prophets, that follow their owne spirit, and haue seene nothing.
4. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5. Yee haue not gone vp into the gaps, neither made vp the hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in the battell in the day of the Lord.
6. They haue seene vanity, and lying diuination, saying; The Lord saith, and the Lord hath not sent them: and they haue made others to hope, that they would confirme the word.
7. Haue ye not seene a vaine vision, and haue ye not spoken a lying diuination, whereas yee say, The Lord sayth it, albeit I haue not spoken?
8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye haue spoken vanity and seene lyes, therefore behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.
9. And mine hand shall be vpon the Prophets that see vanitie, and that diuine lyes: they shall not bee in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
10. Because, euen because they haue seduced my people, saying; Peace, and there was no peace: and one built vp a wall, and loe, others dawbed it with vntempered morter,
11. Say vnto them which dawbe it with vntempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall bee an ouerflowing showre, and yee, O great haile stones, shal fall, and a stormie wind shal rent it.
12. Loe, when the wall is fallen, shall it not bee sayde vnto you; Where is the dawbing wherwith ye haue dawbed it?
13. Therefore thus sayth the Lord God; I will euen rent it with a stormie wind in my fury: and there shall be an ouerflowing showre in mine anger, and great hailestones in my fury, to consume it.
14. So wil I breake downe the wall that ye haue dawbed with vntempered morter, & bring it downe to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discouered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the middest thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
15. Thus will I accomplish my wrath vpon the wall, and vpon them that haue dawbed it with vntempered morter, and will say vnto you; The wall is no more, neither they that dawbed it:
16. To wit, the Prophets of Israel which prophecie concerning Ierusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, sayth the Lord God.
17. Likewise thou sonne of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people; which prophecie out of their owne heart, and prophecie thou against them,
18. And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sow pillowes to all arme holes, and make kerchiefes vpon the head of euery stature to hunt soules: Will ye hunt the soules of my people, and will yee saue the soules aliue that come vnto you?
19. And will yee pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the soules that should not die, and to saue the soules aliue that should not liue, by your lying to my people that heare your lyes?
20. Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillowes, wherewith yee there hunt the soules to make them flie, and I will teare them from your armes, and will let the soules goe, euen the soules that ye hunt to make them flie.
21. Your kerchiefes also will I teare, and deliuer my people out of your hand, and they shalbe no more in your hand to be hunted, and yee shall know that I am the Lord.
22. Because with lyes yee haue made the heart of the righteous sad whom I haue not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that hee should not returne from his wicked way by promising him life:
23. Therefore yee shall see no more vanitie, nor diuine diuinations, for I will deliuer my people out of your hand, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord. par
1. Then came certaine of the Elders of Israel vnto me, and sate before me.
2. And the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
3. Sonne of man, these men haue set vp their idoles in their heart, and put the stumbling blocke of their iniquitie before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
4. Therefore speake vnto them, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Euery man of the house of Israel that setteth vp his idoles in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to the Prophet, I the Lord will answere him that commeth, according to the multitude of his idoles,
5. That I may take the house of Israel in their owne heart, because they are all estranged from mee through their idoles.
6. Therefore say vnto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Repent, and turne your selues from your idoles, and turne away your faces from all your abominations.
7. For euery one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that soiourneth in Israel, which separateth himselfe from me, and setteth vp his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me, I the Lord will answere him by my selfe.
8. And I wil set my face against that man, and will make him a signe and a prouerbe, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and yee shall know that I am the Lord.
9. And if the prophet bee deceiued when hee hath spoken a thing, I the Lord haue deceiued that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand vpon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10. And they shall beare the punishment of their iniquitie: the punishment of the prophet shall bee euen as the punishment of him that seeketh vnto him:
11. That the house of Israel may goe no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may bee their God, sayeth the Lord God.
12. The word of the Lord came againe to me, saying,
13. Sonne of man, when the land sinneth against mee by trespassing grieuously, then will I stretch out mine hand vpon it, and will breake the staffe of the bread thereof, and will send famine vpon it, and will cut off man and beast from it.
14. Though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Iob were in it, they should deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnes, saith the Lord God.
15. If I cause noisome beastes to passe through the land, and they spoile it, so that it bee desolate, that no man may passe through because of the beasts:
16. Though these three men were in it, as I liue, saith the Lord God, they shall deliuer neither sonnes nor daughters: they onely shalbe deliuered, but the land shalbe desolate.
17. Or if I bring a sword vpon that land, and say, Sword, goe through the lande, so that I cut off man and beast from it:
18. Though these three men were in it, as I liue, saith the Lord God, they shall deliuer neither sonnes nor daughter, but they onely shall bee deliuered themselues.
19. Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and powre out my fury vpon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20. Though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in it, as I liue, saith the Lord God, they shal deliuer neither son nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes.
21. For thus saith the Lord God, How much more when I send my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem; the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
22. Yet behold, therein shalbe left a remnant that shalbe brought foorth, both sonnes and daughters: behold, they shall come foorth vnto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shalbe comforted concerning the euill that I haue brought vpon Ierusalem, euen concerning all that I haue brought vpon it.
23. And they shall comfort you when yee see their wayes and their doings: and ye shal know that I haue not done without cause, all that I haue done in it, saith the Lord God.
1. And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying.
2. Sonne of man, What is the Uine tree more then any tree, or then a branch which is among the trees of the forrest?
3. Shall wood bee taken thereof to doe any worke? or, will men take a pin of it, to hang any vessell thereon?
4. Behold, it is cast into the fire for fewell: the fire deuoureth both the ends of it, and the middest of it is burnt. Is it meete for any worke?
5. Behold, when it was whole it was meete for no worke: how much lesse shall it be meete yet for any worke, when the fire hath deuoured it, and it is burned?
6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As the Uine tree among the trees of the forrest, which I haue giuen to the fire for fewell, so will I giue the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
7. And I will set my face against them, they shall goe out from one fire, and another fire shall deuoure them, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.
8. And I will make the land desolate, because they haue committed a trespasse, saith the Lord God.
1. Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
2. Son of man, cause Ierusalem to know her abominations,
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God vnto Ierusalem; Thy birth and thy natiuitie is of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
4. And as for thy natiuity in the day thou wast borne, thy nauell was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee: thou wast not salted at all, nor swadled at all.
5. None eye pitied thee to doe any of these vnto thee, to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast borne.
6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine owne blood, I said vnto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Liue: yea I said vnto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Liue.
7. I haue 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 haire is growen, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
8. Now when I passed by thee, and looked vpon thee, behold, thy time was the time of loue, and I spread my skirt ouer thee, and couered thy nakednesse: yea, I sware vnto thee, and entred into a couenant with thee, sayth the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
9. Then washed I thee with water: yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oyle.
10. I clothed thee also with broidred worke, & shod thee with badgers skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I couered thee with silke.
11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets vpon thine hands, and a chaine on thy necke.
12. And I put a iewell on thy forehead, and eare-rings in thine eares, and a beautifull crowne vpon thine head.
13. Thus wast thou decked with gold and siluer, and thy raiment was of fine linen & silke, and broidered worke, thou didst eate fine floure and honie and oyle, and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdome.
14. And thy renowme went foorth among the heathen for thy beautie: for it was perfect through my comelinesse which I had put vpon thee, sayth the Lord God.
15. But thou diddest trust in thine owne beauty, and playedst the harlot, because of thy renowne, and powredst out thy fornications on euery one that passed by; his it was.
16. And of thy garments thou diddest take, and deckedst thy high places with diuers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17. Thou hast also taken thy faire iewels of my gold and of my siluer, which I had giuen thee, and madest to thy selfe images of men, and diddest commit whoredome with them,
18. And tookest thy broidered garments and coueredst them: and thou hast set mine oyle and mine incense before them.
19. My meate also which I gaue thee, fine flowre, and oyle, and honie wherewith I fed thee, thou hast euen set it before them for a sweete sauour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.
20. Moreouer thou hast taken thy sonnes and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne vnto me, and these hast thou sacrificed vnto them to be deuoured: is this of thy whoredomes a small matter,
21. That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through the fire for them?
22. And in all thine abominations and thy whooredomes, thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
23. And it came to passe after all thy wickednesse (woe, woe vnto thee, saith the Lord God.)
24. That thou hast also built vnto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in euery streete.
25. Thou hast built thy high place at euery head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feete to euery one that passed by, and multiplied thy whooredomes.
26. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours great of flesh, & hast increased thy whooredomes, to prouoke me to anger.
27. Behold therefore, I haue stretched out my hand ouer thee, and haue diminished thine ordinarie foode, and deliuered thee vnto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28. Thou hast played the whoore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast vnsatiable: yea thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
29. Thou hast moreouer multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan vnto Caldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied heerewith.
30. How weake is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman?
31. In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of euery way, and makest thine high place in euery streete, and hast not beene as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire:
32. But as a wife that committeth adulterie, which taketh strangers in steede of her husband.
33. They giue gifts to all whores, but thou giuest thy gifts to all thy louers, and hyrest them, that they may come vnto thee on euery side for thy whoredome.
34. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredomes, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredomes: and in that thou giuest a reward, and no reward is giuen vnto thee: therefore thou art contrary.
35. Wherefore, O harlot, heare the word of the Lord.
36. Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy filthinesse was powred out, and thy nakednesse discouered through thy whoredomes with thy louers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou diddest giue vnto them,
37. Behold therefore, I will gather all thy louers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loued, with all them that thou hast hated: I will euen gather them round about against thee, and will discouer thy nakednesse vnto them, that they may see all thy nakednesse.
38. And I will iudge thee, as women that breake wedlocke and shead blood are iudged, and I will giue thee blood in fury and iealousie.
39. And I will also giue thee into their hand, and they shal throw downe thine eminent place, and shall breake downe thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy faire iewels, and leaue thee naked and bare.
40. They shall also bring vp a companie against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee thorough with their swords.
41. And they shall burne thine houses with fire, and execute iudgements vpon thee in the sight of many women: and I wil cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt giue no hire any more.
42. So will I make my fury towards thee to rest, and my iealousie shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43. Because thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, but hast fretted mee in all these things; behold therefore, I also will recompence thy way vpon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdnesse, aboue all thine abominations. 
44. Behold, euery one that vseth prouerbs, shall vse this prouerbe against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
45. Thou art thy mothers daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children, and thou art the sister of thy sisters which lothed their husbands, and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
47. Yet hast thou not walked after their wayes, nor done after their abominations: but as if that were a very litle thing, thou wast corrupted more then they in all thy wayes.
48. As I liue, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
49. Behold, this was the iniquitie of thy sister Sodom; Pride, fulnesse of bread, and aboundance of idlenesse was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poore and needy.
50. And they were hautie, and committed abomination before me: therefore I tooke them away, as I saw good.
51. Neither hath Samaria committed halfe of thy sinnes, but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more then they, and hast iustified thy sisters in all thine abominations, which thou hast done.
52. Thou also which hast iudged thy sisters, beare thine owne shame for thy sinnes, that thou hast committed more abominable then they: they are more righteous then thou: yea be thou confounded also, and beare thy shame, in that thou hast iustified thy sisters.
53. When I shall bring againe their captiuitie, the captiuitie of Sodom and her daughters, and the captiuitie of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring againe the captiuity of thy captiues in the midst of them;
54. That thou mayest beare thine owne shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort vnto them.
55. When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters shal returne to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall returne to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall returne to your former estate.
56. For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride;
57. Before thy wickednesse was discouered, as at the time of thy reproch of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines which despise thee round about.
58. Thou hast borne thy lewdnesse, and thine abominations, saith the Lord.
59. For thus saith the Lord God; I will euen deale with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the couenant.
60. Neuerthelesse I will remember my couenant with thee in the dayes of thy youth, and I will establish vnto thee an euerlasting couenant.
61. Then thou shalt remember thy wayes and be ashamed, when thou shalt receiue thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger, and I will giue them vnto thee for daughters, but not by thy couenant.
62. And I will establish my couenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:
63. That thou mayest remember, and bee confounded, and neuer open thy mouth any more: because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee, for all that thou hast done, sayeth the Lord God.
1. And the word of the Lord came vnto mee, saying,
2. Sonne of man, put foorth a riddle, and speake a parable vnto the house of Israel,
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God, A great eagle with great wings, long wing'd, full of feathers, which had diuers colours, came vnto Lebanon, and tooke the highest branch of the Cedar.
4. Hee cropt off the top of his yong twigs, and caried it into a land of traffique; he set it in a city of merchants.
5. Hee tooke also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitfull field, he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
6. And it grew, and became a spreading Uine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were vnder him: so it became a Uine, and brought forth branches, and shot foorth sprigges.
7. There was also an other great eagle, with great wings and many feathers, and behold, this Uine did bend her rootes towards him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that hee might water it by the furrowes of her plantation.
8. It was planted in a good soile by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might beare fruit, that it might be a goodly Uine.
9. Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaues of her spring, euen without great power, or many people to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.
10. Yea behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not vtterly wither, when the East wind toucheth it? it shal wither in the furrowes where it grew.
11. Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
12. Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things meane? tell them, behold, the king of Babylon is come to Ierusalem, and hath taken the King thereof, and the Princes thereof, and ledde them with him to Babylon,
13. And hath taken of the kings seed, and made a couenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land,
14. That the kingdome might bee base, that it might not lift it selfe vp, but that by keeping of his Couenant it might stand.
15. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadours into Egypt, that they might giue him horses and much people: shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall hee breake the Couenant, and bee deliuered?
16. As I liue, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose couenant he brake, euen with him, in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17. Neither shall Pharaoh with his mightie armie and great companie make for him in the warre by casting vp mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons.
18. Seeing hee despised the oath by breaking the couenant (when loe, he had giuen his hand) and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, As I liue, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my Couenant that he hath broken, euen it will I recompense vpon his owne head.
20. And I will spread my net vpon him, & he shalbe taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespasse, that he hath trespassed against me.
21. And all his fugitiues, with all his bands, shall fall by the sword, and they that remaine shalbe scattered towards all windes: and ye shall know that I the Lord haue spoken it.
22. Thus saith the Lord God, I wil also take of the highest branch of the high Cedar, and will set it, I will croppe off from the top of his yong twigges a tender one, and will plant it vpon an high mountaine and eminent.
23. In the mountaine of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring foorth boughes, and beare fruite, and be a goodly Cedar, and vnder it shall dwell all foule of euery wing: in the shadow of the branches thereof shal they dwell.
24. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord haue brought downe the high tree, haue exalted the low tree, haue dried vp the greene tree, and haue made the drie tree to flourish: I the Lord haue spoken, and haue done it.
1. And the word of ye Lord came vnto me againe, saying;
2. What meane ye that yee vse this prouerbe concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?
3. As I liue, saith the Lord God, yee shall not haue occasion any more to vse this prouerbe in Israel.
4. Behold, all soules are mine, as the soule of the father, so also the soule of the sonne is mine: the soule that sinneth, it shall die.
5. But if a man be iust, and do that which is lawfull and right:
6. And hath not eaten vpon the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbours wife, neither hath come neere to a menstruous woman,
7. And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtourhis pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath giuen his bread to the hungrie, and hath couered the naked with a garment,
8. He that hath not giuen foorth vpon vsurie, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawen his hand from iniquitie, hath executed true iudgement betweene man and man,
9. Hath walked in my Statutes, and hath kept my Iudgements to deale truely; hee is iust, hee shall surely liue, saith the Lord God.
10. If hee beget a sonne that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doth the like to any one of these things,
11. And that doeth not any of those duties, bnt euen hath eaten vpon the mountains, and defiled his neighbours wife,
12. Hath oppressed the poore and needie, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles, hath committed abomination,
13. Hath giuen foorth vpon vsurie, and hath taken encrease: shall he then liue? hee shall not liue: hee hath done all these abominations, hee shall surely die, his blood shalbe vpon him.
14. Now loe, if hee beget a sonne that seeth all his fathers sinnes which he hath done, and considereth, and doth not such like,
15. That hath not eaten vpon the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbours wife,
16. Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,
17. That hath taken off his hand from the poore, that hath not receiued vsurie nor increase, hath executed my Iudgements, hath walked in my Statutes, he shall not die for the iniquitie of his father, he shall surely liue.
18. As for his father, because hee cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, loe, euen he shall die in his iniquitie.
19. Yet say yee, Why? doeth not the sonne beare the iniquitie of the father? when the sonne hath done that which is lawfull and right, and hath kept all my Statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely liue.
20. The soule that sinneth, it shal die: the sonne shall not beare the iniquitie of the father, neither shal the father beare the iniquitie of the sonne; the righteousnesse of the righteous shall bee vpon him, and the wickednesse of the wicked shalbe vpon him.
21. But if the wicked will turne from all his sinnes that he hath committed and keepe all my statutes, and doe that which is lawful and right, he shall surely liue, he shall not die.
22. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned vnto him: in his righteousnesse, that he hath done, he shall liue.
23. Haue I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God ? And not that he should returne from his wayes, and liue?
24. But when the righteous turneth away fro his righteousnes, & committeth iniquitie, and doth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doth, shall he liue? all his righteousnesse that he hath done, shall not be mentioned: in his trespasse that he hath trespassed, and in his sinne that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25. Yet yee say; The way of the Lord is not equall. Heare now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equall? are not your wayes vnequall?
26. When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousnesse, & committeth iniquitie, and dieth in them; for his iniquitie that he hath done, shall he die.
27. Againe, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickednesse that he hath committed, and doth that which is lawfull and right, he shall saue his soule aliue.
28. Because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely liue, he shall not die.
29. Yet saith the house of Israel; The way of the Lord is not equall. O house of Israel, are not my wayes equall? are not your wayes vnequall?
30. Therefore I will iudge you, O house of Israel, euery one according to his wayes, saith the Lord God; repent, and turne your selues from all your transgressions: so iniquitie shall not be your ruine.
31. Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherby yee haue transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will yee die, O house of Israel?
32. For I haue no pleasure in ye death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turne your selues, & liue ye.
1. Moreouer, take thou vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2. And say, What is thy mother? a lyonesse: shee lay downe among lions, she nourished her whelpes among yong lions.
3. And shee brought vp one of her whelps: it became a yong lion, & it learned to catch the pray, it deuoured men.
4. The nations also heard of him, hee was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chaines vnto the land of Egypt.
5. Now when she saw that shee had waited, and her hope was lost, then she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a yong lion.
6. And he went vp and downe among the lions, he became a yong lion, and learned to catch the pray, and deuoured men.
7. And he knew there desolate palaces, and he laied waste their cities, and the land was desolate, and the fulnesse thereof by the noise of his roaring.
8. Then the nations set against him on euery side from the prouinces, and spread their net ouer him: he was taken in their pit.
9. And they put him in ward in chaines, and brought him to the king of Babylon, they brought him into holds, that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel.
10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters, she was fruitfull and full of branches by reason of many waters,
11. And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thicke branches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
12. But she was plucked vp in fury: she was cast downe to the ground, and the East wind dryed vp her fruite: her strong rods were broken and withered, the fire consumed them.
13. And now she is planted in the wildernesse, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14. And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
1. And it came to passe in the seuenth yeere, in the fift moneth, the tenth day of the moneth, that certaine of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sate before me.
2. Then came the word of the Lord vnto me, saying,
3. Sonne of man, speake vnto the elders of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Are yee come to enquire of me? As I liue, saith the Lord God, I will not be enquired of by you.
4. Wilt thou iudge them, sonne of man, wilt thou iudge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
5. And say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted vp mine hand vnto the seed of the house of Iacob, and made my selfe knowen vnto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted vp mine hand vnto them, saying, I am the Lord your God,
6. In the day that I lifted vp mine hand vnto them to bring them foorth of the land of Egypt, into a lande that I had espied for them, flowing with milke and hony, which is the glory of all lands:
7. Then said I vnto them, Cast ye away euery man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not your selues with the idoles of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
8. But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken vnto mee: they did not euery man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idoles of Egypt: then I said, I will powre out my furie vpon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middest of the land of Egypt.
9. But I wrought for my names sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made my selfe knowen vnto them, in bringing them foorth out of the land of Egypt.
10. Wherefore I caused them to goe foorth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernesse.
11. And I gaue them my statutes, and shewed them my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall euen liue in them.
12. Moreouer also, I gaue them my Sabbaths, to be a signe betweene mee and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctifie them.
13. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernesse: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my iudgements, which if a man doe, hee shall euen liue in them, and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said I would powre out my furie vpon them in the wildernesse, to consume them:
14. But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not bee polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15. Yet also I lifted vp my hand vnto them in the wildernesse, that I would not bring them into the land which I had giuen them, flowing with milke and hony, which is the glory of all lands,
16. Because they despised my iudgements, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.
17. Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of the in the wildernes.
18. But I said vnto their children in the wildernesse; Walke ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither obserue their iudgements, nor defile your selues with their idoles.
19. I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them:
20. And hallow my Sabbaths, and they shall be a signe betweene mee and you, that yee may know that I am the Lord your God.
21. Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my iudgements to doe them, which if a man doe, hee shall euen liue in them; they polluted my Sabbaths: then I said I would powre out my furie vpon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wildernesse.
22. Neuerthelesse I withdrew mine hand and wrought for my names sake, that it should not be polluted in the fight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them foorth.
23. I lifted vp mine hand vnto them also in the wildernesse, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countreys;
24. Because they had not executed my iudgements, but had despised my Statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers idoles.
25. Wherefore I gaue them also statutes that were not good, and iudgements whereby they should not liue.
26. And I polluted them in their owne gifts, in that they caused to passe through the fire all that openeth the wombe, that I might make them desolate, to the end, that they might know that I am the Lord.
27. Therefore sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Yet in this your fathers haue blasphemed me, in that they haue committed a trespasse against me.
28. For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hand to giue it to them, then they saw euery high hill, and all the thicke trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the prouocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet sauour, and powred out there their drinke offerings.
29. Then I said vnto them, What is the high place whereunto ye goe? and the name thereof is called Bamah vnto this day.
30. Wherefore say vnto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye polluted after the maner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredome after their abominations?
31. For when yee offer your gifts, when yee make your sonnes to passe through the fire, ye pollute your selues with all your idoles euen vnto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I liue, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
32. And that which cometh into your minde, shall not be at all, that ye say, We wil be as the heathen, as the families of the countreys, to serue wood and stone.
33. As I liue, sayeth the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arme, and with furie powred out, will I rule ouer you.
34. And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countreys wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, & with a stretched out arme, and with fury powred out.
35. And I wil bring you into the wildernes of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernes of the land of Egypt, so wil I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
37. And I will cause you to passe vnder the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the Couenant.
38. And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgresse against mee: I will bring them foorth out of the countrey where they soiourne, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel, and yee shall know that I am the Lord.
39. As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, Goe yee, serue ye euery one his idoles, and hereafter also, if ye wil not hearken vnto me: but pollute ye my holy Name no more with your gifts, and with your idoles.
40. For in mine holy mountaine, in the mountaine of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land serue me: there will I accept them, and there wil I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
41. I will accept you with your sweet sauour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countreys wherein yee haue bene scattered, and I wil be sanctified in you before the heathen.
42. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the countrey for the which I lifted vp mine hand, to giue it to your fathers.
43. And there shall yee remember your wayes, & all your doings, wherein ye haue bene defiled, and ye shal lothe your selues in your owne sight, for all your euils that ye haue committed.
44. And ye shal know that I am the Lord, when I haue wrought with you for my Names sake, not according to your wicked wayes, nor according to your corrupt doings, O yee house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
45. Moreouer, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
46. Sonne of man, set thy face toward the South, and drop thy word toward the South, and prophesie against the forrest of the South field.
47. And say to the forest of ye South, Heare the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall deuoure euery greene tree in thee, and euery dry tree: the flaming flame shal not be quenched, and all faces from the South to the North shalbe burnt therein.
48. And all flesh shall see that I the Lord haue kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
49. Then said I, Ah Lord God, they say of me, Doeth he not speake parables?
1. And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,
2. Sonne of man, set thy face toward Ierusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophecie against the land of Israel,
3. And say to ye land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
4. Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword goe forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the South to the North:
5. That all flesh may know, that I the Lord haue drawen foorth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not returne any more.
6. Sigh therefore thou sonne of man with the breaking of thy loynes, and with bitternesse sigh before their eyes.
7. And it shall be, when they say vnto thee; Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answere, For the tidings, because it commeth: and euery heart shall melt, and all hands shalbe feeble, and euery spirit shal faint, and all knees shal be weake as water: behold, it commeth, and shalbe brought to passe, sayth the Lord God.
8. Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
9. Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus sayth the Lord, Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also fourbished.
10. It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is fourbished, that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? It contemneth the rod of my sonne, as euery tree.
11. And he hath giuen it to be fourbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is fourbished to giue it into the hand of the slayer.
12. Cry and howle, sonne of man, for it shalbe vpon my people, it shalbe vpon all the princes of Israel: terrours, by reason of the sword, shall be vpon my people: smite therefore vpon thy thigh.
13. Because it is a tryall, and what if the sword contemne euen the rodde? it shall be no more, sayth the Lord God.
14. Thou therefore sonne of man, prophecie and smite thine hands together, and let the sword bee doubled the third time, the sword of the slaine, it is the sword of the great men, that are slaine, which entreth into their priuie chambers.
15. I haue set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruines be multiplied. Ah, it is made bright, it is wrapt vp for the slaughter.
16. Goe thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoeuer thy face is set.
17. I will also smite mine hands together, and I wil cause my furie to rest: I the Lord haue sayd it.
18. The word of the Lord came vnto me againe, saying,
19. Also thou sonne of man, appoint thee two wayes, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twaine shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the citie.
20. Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Iudah in Ierusalem the defenced.
21. For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination: he made his arrowes bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liuer.
22. At his right hand was the diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift vp the voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rammes against the gates, to cast a mount and to build a fort.
23. And it shall be vnto them as a false diuination in their sight, to them that haue sworne oathes: but he will call to remembrance the iniquitie, that they may be taken.
24. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because yee haue made your iniquitie to be remembred, in that your transgressions are discouered, so that in all your doings your sinnes doe appeare: because, I say, that yee are come to remembrance, yee shall be taken with the hand.
25. And thou prophane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquitie shall haue an end,
26. Thus saith the Lord God, Remoue the diademe, and take off the crowne: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27. I will ouerturne, ouerturne, ouerturne it, and it shall be no more, vntill he come, whose right it is, and I wil giue it him.
28. And thou sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproch: Euen say thou; The sword, the sword is drawen, for the slaughter it is fourbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29. Whiles they see vanitie vnto thee, whiles they diuine a lie vnto thee, to bring thee vpon the necks of them that are slaine, of the wicked whose day is come, when their iniquitie shall haue an end.
30. Shall I cause it to returne into his sheath? I will iudge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy natiuitie.
31. And I will powre out mine indignation vpon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliuer thee into the hand of brthish men and skilfull to destroy.
32. Thou shalt be for fuell to the fire: thy blood shall be in the middest of the land, thou shalt be no more remembred: for I the Lord haue spoken it.
1. Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
2. Now thou sonne of man, wilt thou iudge, wilt thou iudge the bloodie citie? Yea thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
3. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; The citie sheadeth blood in the middest of it, that her time may come, and maketh idoles against herselfe to defile herselfe.
4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and hast defiled thy selfe in thine idoles, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy daies to draw neere, and art come euen vnto thy yeeres; therfore haue I made thee a reproch vnto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5. Those that be neere, and those that be farre from thee, shall mocke thee which art infamous, and much vexed.
6. Behold the princes of Israel, euerie one were in thee to their power to shead blood.
7. In thee haue they set light by father and mother: in the middest of thee haue they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widow:
8. Thou hast despised mine holy things, & hast prophaned my sabbaths:
9. In thee are men that carie tales to shead blood: and in thee they eate vpon the mountaines: in the middest of thee they commit lewdnesse.
10. In thee haue they discouered their fathers nakednesse: in thee haue they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
11. And one hath committed abomination with his neighbours wife, and an other hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law, and an other in thee hath humbled his sister, his fathers daughter.
12. In thee haue they taken gifts to shead blood: thou hast taken vsury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
13. Behold therefore, I haue smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gaine which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath bene in the midst of thee.
14. Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be strong in the dayes that I shall deale with thee? I the Lord haue spoken it, and will doe it.
15. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countreys, and will consume thy filthinesse out of thee.
16. And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thy selfe in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
17. And the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
18. Sonne of man, the house of Israel is to me become drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: they are euen the drosse of siluer.
19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because ye are all become drosse, behold therefore I will gather you into the midst of Ierusalem.
20. As they gather siluer, and brasse, and yron, and lead, and tinne into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire vpon it, to melt it: so will I gather you in mine anger, and in my fury, and I will leaue you there, and melt you.
21. Yea, I will gather you, and blow vpon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shalbe melted in the midst thereof.
22. As siluer is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the middest thereof, and ye shall know that I the Lord haue powred out my furie vpon you.
23. And the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
24. Son of man, say vnto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained vpon in the day of indignation.
25. There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the middest thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the treasure and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the midst thereof.
26. Her priests haue violated my law, and haue prophaned mine holy things: they haue put no difference betweene the holy and prophane, neither haue they shewed difference between the vncleane and the cleane, and haue hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am prophaned among them.
27. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolues rauening the praye, to shed blood, and to destroy soules, to get dishonest gaine.
28. And her prophets haue dawbed them with vntempered morter, seeing vanity, and diuining lies vnto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.
29. The people of the land haue vsed oppression, and exercised robbery, and haue vexed the poore and needie: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30. And I sought for a man among them, that should make vp the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31. Therefore haue I powred out mine indignation vpon them, I haue consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their owne way haue I recompensed vpon their heads, saith the Lord God.
1. The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,
2. Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
3. And they committed whordomes in Egypt, they committed whordomes in their youth: there were their brests pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginitie.
4. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, & they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names: Samaria is Aholah, and Ierusalem Aholibah.
5. And Aholah played the harlot, when she was mine, & she doted on her louers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
6. Which were clothed with blew, captaines and rulers, all of them desireable yong men, horsemen riding vpon horses.
7. Thus she committed her whordomes with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, with all their idoles she defiled her selfe.
8. Neither left she her whoredomes brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and powred their whoredome vpon her.
9. Wherefore I haue deliuered her into the hand of her louers, into the hand of the Assyrians, vpon whom she doted.
10. These discouered her nakednes, they tooke her sonnes and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women, for they had executed iudgement vpon her.
11. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate loue then she, and in her whoredoms more then her sister in her whoredomes.
12. She doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, captaines and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding vpon horses, all of them desireable young men.
13. Then I saw that she was defiled, that they tooke both one way;
14. And that she increased her whoredomes: for when shee saw men pourtrayed vpon the wall, the images of the Caldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
15. Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:
16. And assoone as shee saw them with her eyes, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.
17. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, and they defiled her with their whoredome, and shee was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
18. So shee discouered her whoredomes, and discouered her nakednesse; then my mind was alienated from her, like as my minde was alienated from her sister.
19. Yet shee multiplied her whoredomes, in calling to remembrance the dayes of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20. For she doted vpon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21. Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdnesse of thy youth, in bruising thy teates by the Egyptians, for the paps of thy youth.
22. Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will raise vp thy louers against thee, from whom thy minde is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on euery side;
23. The Babylonians, and all the Caldeans, Pekod, and Shoah, and Koa, all the the Assyrians with them, all of them desireable young men, captaines and rulers, great lords and renowmed, all of them riding vpon horses.
24. And they shall come against thee with charets, wagons and wheeles, and with an assemblie of people which shall set against thee buckler, and shield, and helmet round about: and I will set iudgement before them, and they shal iudge thee according to their iudgements.
25. And I will set my ielousie against thee, and they shall deale furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine eares, and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sonnes and thy daughters, and thy residue shal be deuoured by the fire.
26. They shall also strippe thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy faire iewels.
27. Thus will I make thy lewdnesse to cease from thee, and thy whoredome brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28. For thus saith the Lord God; Beholde, I will deliuer thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest; into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated.
29. And they shall deale with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leaue thee naked and bare, and the nakednesse of thy whoredomes shall bee discouered, both thy lewdnesse and thy whoredomes.
30. I wil doe these things vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idoles.
31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, therefore will I giue her cup into thine hand.
32. Thus sayth the Lord God, Thou shalt drinke of thy sisters cuppe deepe and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorne and had in derision; it containeth much.
33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkennesse and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34. Thou shalt euen drinke it and sucke it out, and thou shalt breake the sheards thereof, and plucke off thine owne breasts: for I haue spoken it, saith the Lord God.
35. Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe, therfore beare thou also thy lewdnesse, and thy whoredomes.
36. The Lord said moreouer vnto mee, Sonne of man, wilt thou iudge Aholah and Aholibah? yea declare vnto them their abominations;
37. That they haue committed adulterie, and blood is in their handes, and with their idoles haue they committed adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes, whom they bare vnto me, to passe for them through the fire to deuoure them.
38. Moreouer this they haue done vnto me: they haue defiled my Sanctuarie in the same day, and haue profaned my Sabbaths.
39. For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, then they came the same day into my Sanctuarie to profane it, and loe, thus haue they done in the middest of mine house.
40. And furthermore that yee haue sent for men to come from farre, vnto whom a messenger was sent, and loe they came; for whom thou didst wash thy selfe, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thy selfe with ornaments,
41. And satest vpon a stately bedde, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oile.
42. 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 wildernesse, which put bracelets vpon their hands, and beautifull crownes vpon their heads.
43. Then said I vnto her that was olde in adulteries; Will they now commit whoredomes with her, and shee with them?
44. Yet they went in vnto her, as they goe in vnto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in vnto Aholah & vnto Aholibah the lewd women.
45. And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.
46. For thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring vp a company vpon them, and will giue them to be remoued and spoiled.
47. And the companie shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords: they shall slay their sonnes and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.
48. Thus will I cause lewdnesse to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to doe after your lewdnesse.
49. And they shall recompense your lewdnesse vpon you, and ye shall beare the sinnes of your idoles, and yee shall know that I am the Lord God.
1. Againe in the ninth yeere, in the tenth moneth, in the tenth day of the moneth, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
2. Sonne of man, Write thee the name of the day, euen of this same day: the king of Babylon set himselfe against Ierusalem this same day.
3. And vtter a parable vnto the rebellious house, and say vnto them, Thus sayth the Lord God, Set on a pot, set it on, and also powre water into it.
4. Gather the pieces thereof into it, euen euery good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
5. Take the choice of the flocke, and burne also the bones vnder it, and make it boyle well, and let him seethe the bones of it therein.
6. Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, Woe to the bloodie citie, to the pot whose scumme is therein, and whose scumme is not gone out of it; bring it out piece by piece, let no lot fall vpon it.
7. For her blood is in the middest of her: she set it vpon the toppe of a rocke, she powred it vpon the ground to couer it with dust:
8. That it might cause furie to come vp to take vengeance: I haue set her blood vpon the top of a rocke, that it should not be couered.
9. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody citie, I will euen make the pile for fire, great.
10. Heape on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burnt.
11. Then set it empty vpon the coales thereof, that the brasse of it may be hot and may burne, and that the filthinesse of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
12. She hath wearied herselfe with lies, and her great scumme went not forth out of her: her scumme shall be in the fire.
13. In thy filthinesse is lewdnesse, because I haue purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse any more, till I haue caused my fury to rest vpon thee.
14. I the Lord haue spoken it, it shall come to passe, and I will doe it, I will not goe backe, neither will I spare, neither will I repent, according to thy wayes and according to thy doings, shall they iudge thee, saith the Lord God.
15. Also the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
16. Sonne of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourne, nor weepe, neither shall thy teares runne downe.
17. Forbeare to crie, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head vpon thee, and put on thy shooes vpon thy feete, and couer not thy lips, and eate not the bread of men.
18. So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19. And the people said vnto me; Wilt thou not tell vs what these things are to vs, that thou doest so?
20. Then I answered them, The word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
21. Speake vnto the house of Israel; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will prophane my sanctuarie, the excellencie of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soule pitieth; and your sonnes and your daughters, whom yee haue left, shall fall by the sword.
22. And yee shall doe as I haue done: yee shall not couer your lips, nor eate the bread of men.
23. And your tires shall be vpon your heads, and your shooes vpon your feet: yee shall not mourne nor weepe, but yee shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourne one towards an other.
24. Thus Ezekiel is vnto you a signe: according to all that he hath done, shall yee doe: and when this commeth, yee shall know that I am the Lord God.
25. Also thou sonne of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the ioy of their glorie, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sonnes and their daughters;
26. That he that escapeth in that day, shall come vnto thee, to cause thee to heare it with thine eares?
27. In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speake & be no more dumbe, and thou shalt be a signe vnto them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying;
2. Sonne of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophecie against them,
3. And say vnto the Ammonites; Heare the word of the Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuarie, when it was prophaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate, & against the house of Iudah, when they went into captiuitie;
4. Behold therefore, I will deliuer thee to the men of the East for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eate thy fruit, and they shall drinke thy milke.
5. And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shal know that I am the Lord.
6. For thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast clapped thine hands and stamped with the feete, and reioyced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel:
7. Behold therefore, I will stretch out mine hand vpon thee, and will deliuer thee for a spoile to the heathen, and I will cut thee off from the people, and I wil cause thee to perish out of the countreys: I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
8. Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Moab and Seir doe say, Behold, the house of Iudah is like vnto all the heathen:
9. Therefore beholde, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the countrey Beth-ieshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim,
10. Unto the men of the East with the Ammonites, and will giue them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembred among the nations.
11. And I will execute iudgments vpon Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
12. Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Iudah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and reuenged himselfe vpon them:
13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14. And I will lay my vengeance vpon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall doe in Edom according to mine anger, and according to my furie, and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
15. Thus saith the Lord God, Because the Philistines haue dealt by reuenge, and haue taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred:
16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will stretch out mine hand vpon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the Seacoast.
17. And I wil execute great vengeance vpon them with furious rebukes, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance vpon them.
1. And it came to passe in the eleuenth yeere, in the first day of the moneth, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
2. Sonne of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Ierusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people, she is turned vnto me, I shalbe replenished now she is laid waste:
3. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come vp against thee, as the sea causeth his waues to come vp.
4. And they shall destroy the walles of Tyrus, and breake downe her towres: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rocke.
5. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the middest of the sea: for I haue spoken it, saith the Lord God, and it shall become a spoile to the nations.
6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slaine by the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7. For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring vpon Tyrus, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the North, with horses, and with charets, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
8. Hee shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field, and he shal make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift vp the buckler against thee.
9. Hee shall set engines of warre against thy walles, and with his axes he shall breake downe thy towres.
10. By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall couer thee: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a citie wherein is made a breach.
11. With the hoofes of his horses shall he tread downe all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garisons shall goe downe to the ground.
12. And they shall make a spoile of thy riches, and make a pray of thy merchandise, and they shall breake downe thy walles, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the water.
13. And I wil cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harpes shalbe no more heard.
14. And I will make thee like the top of a rocke: they shall bee a place to spread nets vpon: thou shalt bee built no more: for I the Lord haue spoken it, saith the Lord God.
15. Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the Iles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded crie, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
16. Then all the Princes of the sea shall come downe from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidred garments: they shall cloth themselues with trembling, they shall sit vpon the ground, and shall tremble at euery moment, and be astonished at thee.
17. And they shall take vp a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed that wast inhabited of Sea-faring men, the renowned citie, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terrour to be on all that haunt it?
18. Now shall the Iles tremble in the day of thy fall, yea the Iles that are in the sea, shall bee troubled at thy departure.
19. For thus saith the Lord God; When I shal make thee a desolate citie, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring vp the deepe vpon thee, and great waters shall couer thee;
20. When I shall bring thee downe, with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of olde, with them that goe downe to the pit, that thou bee not inhabited, and I shall set glorie in the land of the liuing:
21. I will make thee a terrour, and thou shalt bee no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou neuer bee found againe, saith the Lord God.
1. The word of the Lord came againe vnto mee, saying,
2. Now thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentation for Tyrus;
3. And say vnto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entrie of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many Iles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfit beautie.
4. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders haue perfected thy beautie.
5. They haue made all thy shippe bords of firre trees of Senir: they haue taken Cedars from Lebanon, to make mastes for thee.
6. Of the okes of Bashan haue they made thine oares: the companie of the Ashurites haue made thy benches of Yuorie, brought out of the Iles of Chittim.
7. Fine linnen with broidred worke from Egypt, was that which thou spreddest forth to be thy saile, blew and purple from the Iles of Elishah was that which couered thee.
8. The inhabitants of Zidon and Aruad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
9. The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers, all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee, to occupie thy merchandise.
10. They of Persia, and of Lud, and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of warre: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee: they set forth thy comelines.
11. The men of Aruad with thine armie were vpon thy wals round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towres: they hanged their shields vpon thy wals round about: they haue made thy beautie perfect.
12. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinde of riches: with siluer, yron, tinne, and lead they traded in thy faires.
13. Iauan, Tubal and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men, and vessels of brasse in thy market.
14. They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy faires with horses, and horsemen, and mules.
15. The men of Dedan were thy merchants, many Iles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present, hornes of Iuorie, and Ebenie.
16. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy faires with Emeraulds, purple, and broidered worke, and fine linen, and Corall, and Agate.
17. Iudah and the land of Israel they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheate of Minnith, and Pannag, and honie, and oyle, & balme.
18. Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches: in the wine of Helbon, and white wooll.
19. Dan also and Iauan going to and fro, occupyed in thy faires: bright yron, Cassia and Calamus were in thy market.
20. Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for charets.
21. Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambes and rammes and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
22. The merchants of Shebah and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy faires with chiefe of all spices, and with all precious stones and golde.
23. Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Shebah, Asshur and Chilmad were thy merchants.
24. These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blewe clothes and broidered worke, and in chests of rich apparell, bound with cordes and made of Cedar among thy merchandise.
25. The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market, and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the middest of the seas.
26. Thy rowers haue brought thee into great waters: the East winde hath broken thee in the middest of the Seas.
27. Thy riches and thy faires, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of warre that are in thee, and in all thy company, which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the middest of the seas, in the day of thy ruine.
28. The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the crie of thy pilots.
29. And all that handle the oare; the mariners, and all the pilots of the Sea, shal come downe from their ships, they shall stand vpon the land;
30. And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall crie bitterly, and shall cast vp dust vpon their heads, they shall wallow themselues in the ashes.
31. And they shall make themselues vtterly balde for thee, and girde them with sackecloth, and they shall weepe for thee with bitternesse of heart and bitter wailing.
32. And in their wailing, they shall take vp a lamentation for thee, and lament ouer thee, saying; What citie is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the middest of the sea?
33. When thy wares went foorth out of the seas, thou filledst many people, thou didst enrich the kings of the earth, with the multitude of thy riches, and of thy merchandise.
34. In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy companie in the middest of thee shal fall.
35. All the inhabitants of the Iles shall bee astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
36. The merchants among the people shall hisse at thee, thou shalt bee a terrour, and neuer shalt be any more.
1. The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,
2. Sonne of man, say vnto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted vp, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seate of God in the middest of the seas; yet thou art a man and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.
3. Behold, thou art wiser then Daniel: there is no secret that they can hide from thee.
4. With thy wisedome and with thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and siluer into thy treasures.
5. By thy great wisedome, and by thy traffique hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.
6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
7. Behold therefore, I will bring strangers vpon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beautie of thy wisedome, & they shall defile thy brightnesse.
8. They shall bring thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them, that are slaine in the middest of the seas.
9. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10. Thou shalt die the deaths of the vncircumcised, by the hand of strangers: for I haue spoken it, saith the Lord God.
11. Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
12. Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the king of Tyrus, and say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest vp the summe, full of wisedome and perfect in beautie.
13. Thou hast beene in Eden the garden of God; euery precious stone was thy couering, the Sardius, Topaze, and the Diamond, the Beril, the Onyx, and the Iasper, the Saphir, the Emeraude, 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.
14. Thou art the annointed Cherub that couereth: and I haue set thee so; thou wast vpon the holy mountaine of God; thou hast walked vp and downe in the middest of the stones of fire.
15. Thou wast perfect in thy wayes from the day that thou wast created, till iniquitie was found in thee.
16. By the multitude of thy merchandise they haue filled the middest of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as prophane out of the mountaine of God: and I wil destroy thee, O couering Cherub, from the middest of the stones of fire.
17. Thine heart was lifted vp because of thy beautie, thou hast corrupted thy wisedome by reason of thy brightnesse: I will cast thee to the ground: I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquitie of thy traffique: therefore will I bring forth a fire from the middest of thee, it shall deuoure thee: and I will bring thee to ashes vpon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19. All they that know thee among the people, shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terrour, and neuer shalt thou be any more.
20. Againe the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
21. Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophecie against it,
22. And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the middest of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall haue executed iudgements in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23. For I will send into her, pestilence, and blood into her streetes, and the wounded shall be iudged in the middest of her by the sword vpon her on euery side, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24. And there shall be no more a pricking briar vnto the house of Israel, nor any grieuing thorne of all that are round about them that despised them, and they shal know that I am the Lord God.
25. Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall haue gathered the house of Israel fro the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land, that I haue giuen to my seruant Iacob.
26. And they shal dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell with confidence when I haue executed iudgments vpon all those that despise them round about them, and they shal know that I am the Lord their God.
1. In the tenth yeere, in the tenth moneth, in the twelft day of the moneth, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
2. Sonne of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophecie against him, and against all Egypt.
3. Speake and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the middest of his riuers, which hath saide, My riuer is mine owne, and I haue made it for my selfe.
4. But I will put hookes in thy chawes, and I will cause the fish of thy riuers to sticke vnto thy scales, and I will bring thee vp out of the middest of thy riuers, and all the fish of thy riuers shall sticke vnto thy scales.
5. And I will leaue thee throwen into the wildernes, thee and all the fish of thy riuers: thou shalt fall vpon the open fields, thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I haue giuen thee for meat to the beastes of the field, and to the foules of the heauen.
6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they haue bene a staffe of reede to the house of Israel.
7. When they tooke hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst breake, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned vpon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loynes to be at a stand.
8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will bring a sword vpon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9. And the land of Egypt shalbe desolate and waste, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord: because he hath saide, The riuer is mine, and I haue made it.
10. Beholde therefore, I am against thee, and against thy riuers, and I wil make the land of Egypt vtterly waste and desolate, from the towre of Syene euen vnto the border of Ethiopia.
11. No foot of man shal passe through it, nor foote of beast shall passe through it, neither shall it bee inhabited fourtie yeeres.
12. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countreys that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are layed waste, shall be desolate fourtie yeeres: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and wil disperse them through the countreys.
13. Yet thus saith the Lord God, At the end of fourtie yeeres will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered.
14. And I will bring againe the captiuitie of Egypt, and will cause them to returne into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation, and they shall be there a base kingdome.
15. It shall be the basest of the kingdomes, neither shall it exalt it selfe any more aboue the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule ouer the nations.
16. And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall looke after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.
17. And it came to passe in the seuen and twentieth yeere, in the first moneth, in the first day of the moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
18. Sonne of man, Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon caused his armie to serue a great seruice against Tyrus: euery head was made balde, and euery shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his armie for Tyrus, for the seruice that he had serued against it.
19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will giue the land of Egypt vnto Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoile, and take her praye, and it shall be the wages for his armie.
20. I haue giuen him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he serued against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.
21. In that day will I cause the horne of the house of Israel to budde forth, and I will giue thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them, and they shal know that I am the Lord.
1. The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,
2. Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
3. For the day is neere, euen the day of the Lord is neere, a cloudie day; it shalbe the time of the heathen.
4. And the sword shall come vpon Egypt, and great paine shalbe in Ethiopia, when the slaine shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shalbe broken downe.
5. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shal fal with them by the sword.
6. Thus saith the Lord, They also that vphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come downe: from the towre of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God.
7. And they shall bee desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shalbe in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
8. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroied.
9. In that day shall messengers goe foorth from me in shippes, to make the carelesse Ethiopians afraid, and great paine shall come vpon them, as in the day of Egypt: for loe, it commeth.
10. Thus saith the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchad-rezzar, king of Babylon.
11. He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slaine.
12. And I will make the riuers drie, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked, and I wil make the land wast, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord haue spoken it.
13. Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idoles, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph: and there shalbe no more a Prince of the land of Egypt, and I will put a feare in the land of Egypt.
14. And I wil make Pathros desolate, and wil set fire in Zoan, and will execute iudgements in No.
15. And I wil powre my furie vpon Sin, the strength of Egypt, and I wil cut off the multitude of No.
16. And I will set fire in Egypt, Sin shall haue great paine, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall haue distresses daily.
17. The yong men of Auen and of Phibeseth, shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall goe into captiuitie.
18. At Tehaphnehes also the day shalbe darkened when I shall breake there the yokes of Egypt: & the pompe of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall couer her, and her daughters shall goe into captiuitie.
19. Thus will I execute iudgements in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
20. And it came to passe in the eleuenth yeere, in the first moneth, in the seuenth day of the moneth, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
21. Sonne of man, I haue broken the arme of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and loe, it shall not be bound vp to be healed, to put a rouler to binde it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
22. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will breake his armes, the strong, and that which was broken; and I wil cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23. And I wil scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and wil disperse them through the countries.
24. And I wil strengthen the armes of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will breake Pharaohs armes, and he shall grone before him, with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
25. But I wil strengthen the armes of the king of Babylon, and the armes of Pharaoh shall fall downe, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, & he shall stretch it out vpon the land of Egypt.
26. And I wil scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countreys, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. And it came to passe in the eleuenth yeere, in the third moneth, in the first day of the moneth, that the word of the Lord came vnto mee, saying;
2. Sonne of man, speake vnto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou like in thy greatnesse?
3. Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
4. The waters made him great, the deepe set him vp on high with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her little riuers vnto all the trees of the field.
5. Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the field, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot foorth.
6. All the foules of heauen made their nests in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the field bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7. Thus was hee faire in his greatnesse, in the length of his branches: for his roote was by great waters.
8. The Cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the Firre trees were not like his boughes, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches: not any tree in the garden of God, was like vnto him in his beautie.
9. I haue made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.
10. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast lifted vp thy selfe in height, and hee hath shot vp his top among the thicke boughes, and his heart is lifted vp in his height;
11. I haue therefore deliuered him into the hand of the mightie one of the heathen: hee shall surely deale with him, I haue driuen him out for his wickednesse.
12. And strangers, the terrible of the nations haue cut him off, and haue left him: vpon the mountaines and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughes are broken by all the riuers of the land, and all the people of the earth are gone downe from his shadow, and haue left him.
13. Upon his ruine shal all the foules of the heauen remaine, & all the beasts of the field shalbe vpon his branches,
14. To the ende that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselues for their height, neither shoot vp their top among the thicke boughes, neither their trees stand vp in their height, all that drinke water: for they are all deliuered vnto death, to the nether parts of the earth in the middest of the children of men, with them that go downe to the pit.
15. Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when hee went downe to the graue, I caused a mourning, I couered the deepe for him, and I restrained the floods therof, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourne for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drinke water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 
17. They also went downe into hell with him vnto them that be slaine with the sword, and they that were his arme, that dwelt vnder his shadow in the middest of the heathen.
18. To whom art thou thus like in glory & in greatnesse among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought downe with the trees of Eden vnto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the middest of the vncircumcised, with them that be slaine by the sword: this is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
1. And it came to passe in the twelfth yeere, in the twelft moneth, in the first day of the moneth, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
2. Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say vnto him; Thou art like a young lyon of the nations, & thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy riuers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their riuers.
3. Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net ouer thee, with a company of many people, and they shall bring thee vp in my net.
4. Then will I leaue thee vpon the land, I will cast thee forth vpon the open field, and will cause all the foules of the heauen to remaine vpon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5. And I will lay thy flesh vpon the mountaines, and fill the valleis with thy height.
6. I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, euen to the mountaines, and the riuers shall be full of thee.
7. And when I shall put thee out, I wil couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: I will couer the sunne with a cloud, and the moone shall not giue her light.
8. All the bright lights of heauen will I make darke ouer thee, and set darkenesse vpon thy land, saith the Lord God.
9. I wil also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not knowen.
10. Yea I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraide for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them, and they shall tremble at euery moment; euerie man for his owne life, in the day of thy fall.
11. For thus saith the Lord God, The sword of the king of Babylon shal come vpon thee.
12. By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations all of them: and they shall spoile the pompe of Egypt, and all the multitude therof shall be destroyed.
13. I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from besides the great waters, neither shall the foote of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofes of beasts trouble them.
14. Then will I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne like oyle, saith the Lord God.
15. When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the countrey shall be destitute of that wherof it was full; when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shal they know that I am the Lord.
16. This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, euen for Egypt and for al her multitude, saith the Lord God.
17. It came to passe also in the twelfth yeere, in the fifteenth day of the moneth, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
18. Sonne of man, waile for the multitude of Egypt, & cast them downe, euen her, and the daughters of the famous nations, vnto the nether parts of the earth, with them that goe downe into the pit.
19. Whom doest thou passe in beautie? goe downe, and be thou layed with the vncircumcised.
20. They shall fall in the middest of them that are slaine by the sword: she is deliuered to the sword; draw her and all her multitudes.
21. The strong among the mighty shall speake to him out of the middest of hell with them that helpe him: they are gone downe, they lie vncircumcised, slaine by the sword.
22. Ashur is there, and all her companie: his graues are about him: al of them slaine, fallen by the sword.
23. Whose graues are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her graue: all of them slaine, fallen by the sword, which caused terrour in the land of the liuing.
24. There is Elam and all her multitude round about her graue, all of them slaine, fallen by the sword, which are gone downe vncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terrour in the lande of the liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that goe downe to the pit.
25. They haue set her a bed in the midst of the slaine with all her multitudes: her graues are round about him, all of them vncircumcised, slaine by the sword: though their terrour was caused in the land of the liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that goe downe to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slaine.
26. There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graues are round about him: all of them vncircumcised, slaine by the sword, though they caused their terrour in the land of the liuing.
27. And they shall not lie with the mightie, that are fallen of the vncircumcised, which are gone downe to hell with their weapons of warre: and they haue laid their swords vnder their heads, but their iniquities shalbe vpon their bones, though they were the terrour of the mightie in the land of the liuing.
28. Yea thou shalt be broken in the midst of the vncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slaine with ye sword.
29. There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slaine by the sword: they shall lie with the vncircumcised, and with them that go downe to the pit.
30. There be the princes of the North all of them, and all the Zidomans: which are gone downe with the slaine, with their terrour they are ashamed of their might, and they lie vncircumcised with them that be slaine by the sword, and beare their shame with them that goe downe to the pit.
31. Pharaoh shall see them, and shall bee comforted ouer all his multitude, euen Pharaoh and all his armie slaine by the sword, saith the Lord God.
32. For I haue caused my terrour in the land of the liuing: and he shall bee laid in the midst of the vncircumcised with them that are slaine with the sword, euen Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
1. Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto mee, saying,
2. Sonne of man, speake to the children of thy people, and say vnto them, When I bring the sword vpon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman,
3. If when he seeth the sword come vpon the land, hee blow the trumpet, and warne the people,
4. Then whosoeuer heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be vpon his owne head.
5. Hee heard the sound of the trumpet, and tooke not warning, his blood shall be vpon him: but he that taketh warning, shall deliuer his soule.
6. 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 iniquitie: but his blood will I require at the watchmans hand.
7. So thou, O sonne of man, I haue set thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt heare the worde at my mouth, and warne them from me.
8. When I say vnto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, if thou doest not speake to warne the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at thine hand.
9. Neuerthelesse if thou warne the wicked of his way to turne from it: if he do not turne from his way, he shal die in his iniquitie: but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
10. Therefore, O thou sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus ye speake, saying, If our transgressions and our sinnes be vpon vs, & we pine away in them, how should we then liue?
11. Say vnto them, As I liue, saith the Lord God, I haue no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turne from his way & liue: turne ye, turne ye from your euill wayes, for why wil ye die, O house of Israel?
12. Therefore thou sonne of man, say vnto the children of thy people, The righteousnes of the righteous shal not deliuer him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickednes of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that hee turneth from his wickednes, neither shall the righteous bee able to liue for his righteousnes in the day that he sinneth.
13. When I shal say to the righteous, that he shall surely liue if he trust to his owne righteousnes and commit iniquitie, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembred; but for his iniquitie that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
14. Againe, when I say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, if hee turne from his sinne, and do that which is lawfull and right;
15. If the wicked restore the pledge, giue againe that he had robbed, walke in the Statutes of life without committing iniquitie, hee shall surely liue, hee shall not die.
16. None of his sinnes that hee hath committed, shall be mentioned vnto him: he hath done that which is lawfull and right; he shall surely liue.
17. Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equall: but as for them, their way is not equall.
18. When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
19. But if the wicked turne from his wickednes, and doe that which is lawfull and right, he shall liue thereby.
20. Yet yee say, The way of the Lord is not equall, O yee house of Israel; I will iudge you euery one after his wayes.
21. And it came to passe in the twelfth yeere of our captiuitie, in the tenth moneth, in the fifth day of the moneth, that one that had escaped out of Ierusalem, came vnto mee, saying, The city is smitten.
22. Now the hand of the Lord was vpon mee in the euening, afore hee that was escaped came, and had opened my mouth vntill hee came to mee in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumbe.
23. Then the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
24. Sonne of man, they that inhabite those wastes of the land of Israel, speake, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many, the land is giuen vs for inheritance.
25. Wherefore say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Ye eate with the blood, and lift vp your eyes toward your idoles, and shed blood; and shal ye possesse the land?
26. Yee stand vpon your sword; yee worke abomination, and ye defile euery one his neighbours wife, and shall ye possesse the land?
27. Say thou thus vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, As I liue, surely they that are in the wastes, shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I giue to the beasts to be deuoured: and they that be in the forts and in the caues, shall die of the pestilence.
28. For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pompe of her strength shall cease: and the mountaines of Israel shall bee desolate, that none shall passe through.
29. Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I haue layed the land most desolate, because of all their abominations which they haue committed.
30. Also thou sonne of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walles, and in the doores of the houses, and speake one to another, euery one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and heare what is the word that commeth foorth from the Lord.
31. And they come vnto thee as the people commeth, and they sit before thee as my people, and they heare thy words, but they will not doe them: for with their mouth they shew much loue, but their heart goeth after their couetousnesse.
32. And loe, thou art vnto them as a very louely song of one that hath a pleasant voyce, and can play well on an instrument: for they heare thy wordes, but they doe them not.
33. And when this commeth to passe, (loe it will come) then shall they know that a Prophet hath bene among them.
1. And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying;
2. Sonne of man, prophecie against the shepheards of Israel, prophecie and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God vnto the shepheards, Woe be to the shepheards of Israel that doe feede themselues: should not the shepheards feede the flockes?
3. Yee eate the fat, and ye clothe you with the wooll, yee kill them that are fed: but ye feede not the flocke.
4. The diseased haue ye not strengthened, neither haue yee healed that which was sicke, neither haue ye bound vp that which was broken, neither haue yee brought againe that which was driuen away, neither haue yee sought that which was lost; but with force and with crueltie haue yee ruled them.
5. And they were scattered because there is no shepheard: and they became meate to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6. My sheepe wandered through all the mountaines, and vpon euery high hill: yea my flocke was scattered vpon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seeke after them.
7. Therefore, yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.
8. As I liue, saith the Lord God, surely because my flocke became a pray, and my flocke became meate to euery beast of the field, because there was no shepheard, neither did my shepheards search for my flocke, but the shepheards fed themselues, and fed not my flocke:
9. Therefore, O yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.
10. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepheards, and I will require my flocke at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flocke, neither shall the shepheards feede themselues any more: for I will deliuer my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
11. For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, euen I will both search my sheepe, and seeke them out.
12. As a shepheard seeketh out his flocke in the day that hee is among his sheepe that are scattered: so wil I seeke out my sheep, and will deliuer them out of all places, where they haue bene scattered in the cloudie and darke day.
13. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countreys, and will bring them to their owne land, and feede them vpon the mountaines of Israel by the riuers, and in all the inhabited places of the countrey,
14. I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the high mountaines of Israel shall their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde, and in a fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines of Israel.
15. I will feed my flocke, and I will cause them to lie downe, saith the Lord God.
16. I will seeke that which was lost, and bring againe that which was driuen away, and will bind vp that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sicke: but I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with iudgement.
17. And as for you, O my flocke, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I iudge betweene cattell and cattell, betweene the rammes and the hee goates.
18. Seemeth it a small thing vnto you, to haue eaten vp the good pasture, but ye must tread downe with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to haue drunke of the deepe waters, but yee must fonle the residue with your feete?
19. And as for my flocke, they eate that which yee haue troden with your feete: and they drinke that which yee haue fouled with your feete.
20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God vnto them, Behold, I, euen I will iudge betweene the fat cattell, and betweene the leane cattell.
21. Because yee haue thrust with side and with shoulder, and pusht all the diseased with your hornes, till yee haue scattered them abroad:
22. Therefore will I saue my flocke, and they shall no more be a pray, and I will iudge betweene cattell and cattell.
23. And I will set vp one shepheard ouer them, and hee shall feede them, euen my seruant Dauid; he shall feede them, and hee shall be their shepheard.
24. And I the Lord will be their God, and my seruant Dauid a prince among them, I the Lord haue spoken it.
25. And I will make with them a couenant of peace, and will cause the euill beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wildernesse, and sleepe in the woods.
26. And I will make them and the places round about my hill, a blessing; and I will cause the showre to come downe in his season: there shall bee showres of blessing.
27. And the tree of the field shal yeeld her fruite, and the earth shall yeeld her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue broken the bands of their yoke, and deliuered them out of the hand of those that serued themselues of them.
28. And they shall no more be a pray to the heathen, neither shall the beasts of the land deuoure them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraide.
29. And I will raise vp for them a plant of renowne, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither beare the shame of the heathen any more.
30. Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, euen the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.
31. And yee my flocke of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.
1. Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto mee, saying;
2. Sonne of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophecie against it,
3. And say vnto 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.
4. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
5. Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie, in the time that their iniquitie had an end;
6. Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee vnto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, euen blood shall pursue thee.
7. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out, & him that returneth.
8. And I will fill his mountaines with his slaine men: in thy hilles, and in thy valleis, and in all thy riuers shall they fall that are slaine with the sword.
9. I will make thee perpetuall desolations, & thy cities shall not returne, and ye shal know that I am the Lord
10. Because thou hast said; These two nations, and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possesse it, whereas the Lord was there:
11. Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord God, I will euen doe according to thine anger, and according to thine enuie, which thou hast vsed out of thy hatred against them: and I will make my selfe knowen amongst them, when I haue iudged thee.
12. And thou shalt know, that I am the Lord, and that I haue heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountaines of Israel, saying; They are layed desolate, they are giuen vs to consume.
13. Thus with your mouth yee haue boasted against me, & haue multiplied your words against me: I haue heard them.
14. Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth reioyceth, I will make thee desolate.
15. As thou didst reioyce at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I doe vnto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, euen all of it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. Also thou sonne of man, prophecie vnto the mountaines of Israel, and say; Ye mountaines of Israel, Heare the word of the Lord.
2. Thus saith the Lord God, Because the enemy had said against you, Aha, euen the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3. Therfore prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Because they haue made you desolate, and swallowed you vp on euery side, that ye might be a possession vnto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken vp in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4. Therefore ye mountaines of Israel, heare the word of the Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God to the mountaines and to the hilles, to the riuers and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a pray and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about:
5. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Surely in the fire of my ielousie haue I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against al Idumea, which haue appointed my land into their possession, with the ioy of all their heart, with despitefull minds to cast it out for a praye.
6. Prophecie therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say vnto the mountaines and to the hilles, to the riuers and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I haue spoken in my iealousie and in my furie, because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,
7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I haue lifted vp mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall beare their shame.
8. But ye, O mountaines of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yeeld your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come.
9. For behold, I am for you, and I will turne vnto you, and ye shall be tilled and sowen.
10. And I will multiplie men vpon you, all the house of Israel, euen all of it, and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded.
11. And I will multiply vpon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring fruite, and I will settle you after your olde estates: and will doe better vnto you, then at your beginnings, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
12. Yea I will cause men to walke vpon you, euen my people Israel, and they shall possesse thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereaue them of men.
13. Thus saith the Lord God, Because they say vnto you, Thou land deuourest vp men, and hast bereaued thy nations,
14. Therefore thou shalt deuoure men no more, neither bereaue thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.
15. Neither will I cause men to heare in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou beare the reproch of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause the nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.
16. Moreouer the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
17. Sonne of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their owne way, and by their doings: their way was before me as the vncleannesse of a remooued woman.
18. Wherefore I powred my furie vpon them for the blood that they had shed vpon the land, and for their idoles wherewith they had polluted it.
19. And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countreys: according to their way and according to their doings I iudged them.
20. And when they entred vnto the heathen whither they went, they prophaned my holy Name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.
21. But I had pitie for mine holy Name, which the house of Israel had prophaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22. Therefore say vnto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I doe not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy Names sake, which ye haue prophaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23. And I will sanctifie my great Name which was prophaned among the heathen, which ye haue prophaned in the midst of them, and the heathen shall know, that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countreys, and will bring you into your owne land.
25. Then will I sprinckle cleane water vpon you, and ye shalbe cleane: from all your filthinesse, and from all your idoles wil I cleanse you.
26. A new heart also will I giue you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stonie heart out of your flesh, and I will giue you an heart of flesh.
27. And I wil put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walke in my Statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements, and doe them.
28. And ye shall dwel in the land that I gaue to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I wil be your God.
29. I wil also saue you from all your vncleannesses, and I will call for the corne, and will increase it, and lay no famine vpon you.
30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that yee shall receiue no more reproch of famine among the heathen.
31. Then shall yee remember your owne euil waies, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe your selues in your owne sight for your iniquities, and for your abominations.
32. Not for your sakes doe I this, saith the Lord God, be it knowen vnto you: be ashamed and confounded for your owne wayes, O house of Israel.
33. Thus saith the Lord God, In the day that I shall haue cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shalbe builded.
34. And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate, is become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities, are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36. Then the heathen that are left round about you, shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord haue spoken it, and I wil doe it.
37. Thus saith the Lord God, I wil yet for this bee enquired of by the house of Israel, to doe it for them: I will increase them with men like a flocke.
38. As the holy flocke, as the flocke of Ierusalem in her solemne feastes, so shal the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. The hand of the Lord was vpon mee, and caried mee out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set mee downe in the middest of the valley which was full of bones,
2. And caused mee to passe by them round about, and beholde, there were very many in the open valley, and loe, they were very drie.
3. And hee said vnto mee, Sonne of man, can these bones liue? and I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4. Againe he said vnto me, Prophecie vpon these bones, and say vnto them; O yee drie bones, heare the word of the Lord.
5. Thus saith the Lord God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall liue.
6. And I wil lay sinewes vpon you, and wil bring vp flesh vpon you, and couer you with skinne, and put breath in you, and ye shall liue, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7. So I prophecied as I was commanded: and as I prophecied, there was a noise, and beholde a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8. And when I beheld, loe, the sinews and the flesh came vp vpon them, and the skin couered them aboue; but there was no breath in them.
9. Then said he vnto mee, Prophecie vnto the winde, prophecie sonne of man, and say to the winde, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the foure windes, O breath, and breathe vpon these slaine, that they may liue.
10. So I prophecied as he commanded mee, and the breath came into them, and they liued, and stood vp vpon their feet, an exceeding great armie.
11. Then he said vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say; Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, wee are cut off for our parts.
12. Therefore prophecie and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, O my people, I wil open your graues, and cause you to come vp out of your graues, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue opened your graues, O my people, and brought you vp out of your graues,
14. And shall put my spirit in you, and yee shall liue, and I shall place you in your owne land: then shall ye know that I the Lord haue spoken it, and perfourmed it, saith the Lord.
15. The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying;
16. Moreouer thou sonne of man, take thee one sticke, and write vpon it, For Iudah and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another sticke, and write vpon it; For Ioseph the sticke of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.
17. And ioyne them one to another into one sticke, and they shall become one in thine hand.
18. And when the children of thy people shall speake vnto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew vs what thou meanest by these?
19. Say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the sticke of Ioseph which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellowes, and will put them with him, euen with the sticke of Iudah, and make them one sticke, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20. And the stickes whereon thou writest, shalbe in thine hand before their eyes.
21. And say vnto 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 euery side, and bring them into their owne land.
22. And I will make them one nation in the land vpon the mountaines of Israel, and one King shall be king to them all: and they shalbe no more two nations, neither shall they bee diuided into two kingdomes any more at all.
23. Neither shall they defile themselues any more with their idoles, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will saue them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they haue sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24. And Dauid my seruant shall be King ouer them, and they all shall haue one shepheard: they shall also walke in my iudgements, and obserue my statutes, and doe them.
25. And they shall dwell in the land that I haue giuen vnto Iacob my seruant, wherin your fathers haue dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, euen they and their children, and their childrens children for euer, and my seruant Dauid shalbe their prince for euer. 
26. Moreouer I will make a couenant of peace with them, it shall be an euerlasting couenant wich them, and I will place them and multiply them, and will set my Sanctuary in the middest of them for euermore.
27. My Tabernacle also shalbe with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.
28. And the heathen shal know that I the Lord doe sanctifie Israel, when my Sanctuarie shalbe in the middest of them for euermore.
1. And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying;
2. Sonne of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog the chiefe prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophecie against him,
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chiefe prince of Meshech and Tubal.
4. And I will turne thee backe, and put hookes into thy chawes, and I will bring thee foorth, and all thine armie, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, euen a great company with bucklers & shields, all of them handling swordes.
5. Persia, Ethiopia and Libya with them; all of them with shield & helmet:
6. Gomer and all his bandes, the house of Togarmah of the North quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee.
7. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thy selfe, thou and all thy company, that are assembled vnto thee, and be thou a guard vnto them.
8. After many daies thou shalt be visited: in the latter yeeres thou shalt come into the land, that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people against the mountaines of Israel, which haue beene alwayes waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storme, thou shalt be like a cloud to couer the land, thou and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10. Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to passe, that at the same time shall things come into thy minde, and thou shalt thinke an euill thought.
11. And thou shalt say: I will goe vp to the land of vnwalled villages; I will goe to them that are at rest, that dwell safely all of them dwelling without walles, and hauing neither barres nor gates;
12. To take a spoile, and to take a praye, to turne thine hand vpon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and vpon the people that are gathered out of the nations which haue gotten cattel and goods, that dwell in the middest of the land.
13. Sheba, and Dedan, and the marchants of Tarshish, with all the young lyons thereof, shall say vnto thee, Art thou come to take a spoile? hast thou gathered thy company to take a praye? to carie away siluer and gold, to take away cattell and goods, to take a great spoile?
14. Therefore, sonne of man, prophecie and say vnto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the North parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding vpon horses, a great company, and a mighty armie.
16. And thou shalt come vp against my people of Israel, as a cloud to couer the land; it shall be in the latter dayes, 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. 
17. Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou hee, of whom I haue spoken in old time by my seruants the prophets of Israel, which prophecied in those dayes many yeeres, that I would bring thee against them?
18. And it shall come to passe at the same time, when Gog shal come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my furie shall come vp in my face.
19. For in my iealousie, and in the fire of my wrath haue I spoken: surely in that day, there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel.
20. So that the fishes of the sea, and the foules of the heauen, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creepe vpon the earth, and all the men that are vpon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountaines shall be throwen downe, and the steepe places shall fall, and euery wall shall fall to the ground.
21. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountaines, saith the Lord God: euery mans sword shalbe against his brother.
22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood, and I will raine vpon him and vpon his bands, and vpon the many people that are with him, an ouerflowing raine, and great hailestones, fire, and brimstone.
23. Thus will I magnifie my selfe, and sanctifie my selfe, and I will be knowen in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1. Therefore thou sonne of man, prophecie against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee O Gog, the chiefe prince of Meshech & Tubal.
2. And I will turne thee backe, and leaue but the sixt part of thee, and will cause thee to come vp from the North parts, and will bring thee vpon the mountaines of Israel:
3. And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.
4. Thou shalt fall vpon the mountaines of Israel, thou & all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will giue thee vnto the rauenous birds of euery sort, and to the beasts of the field to be deuoured.
5. Thou shalt fall vpon the open field, for I haue spoken it, saith the Lord God.
6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelesly in the yles, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7. So will I make my holy Name knowen in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let them pollute my holy Name any more, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the holy One in Israel.
8. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God, this is the day whereof I haue spoken.
9. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel, shall goe forth, and shall set on fire, and burne the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bowes and the arrowes, and the handstaues and the speares, and they shall burne them with fire seuen yeeres. 
10. So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut downe any out of the forrests: for they shall burne the weapons with fire, and they shall spoile those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.
11. And it shal come to passe at that day, that I will giue vnto Gog a place there of graues in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the East of the Sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers, and there shall they burie Gog, and all his multitude, and they shal call it, the valley of Hamon-gog.
12. And seuen moneths shall the house of Israel bee burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13. Yea all the people of the land shall burie them, and it shall be to them a renowne the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.
14. And they shall seuer out men of continual emploiment, passing through the land, to burie with the passengers those that remaine vpon the face of the earth to clense it: after the end of seuen moneths shall they search.
15. And the passengers that passe through the lande, when any seeth a mans bone, then shall he set vp a signe by it, till the buriers haue buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
16. And also the name of the citie shall be Hamonah: thus shal they clense the land.
17. And thou sonne of man, Thus saith the Lord God, Speake vnto euery feathered foule, and to euery beast of the field, Assemble your selues, and come, gather your selues on euery side to my sacrifice that I doe sacrifice for you, euen a great sacrifice vpon the mountaines of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drinke blood.
18. Ye shall eate the flesh of the mightie, and drinke the blood of the princes of the earth, of rammes, of lambes and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19. And yee shall eate fat till yee be full, and drinke blood till yee be drunken, of my sacrifice which I haue sacrificed for you.
20. Thus yee shall be filled at my table with horses and charets, with mightie men, and with all men of warre, saith the Lord God.
21. And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shal see my iudgement that I haue executed, and my hande that I haue laid vpon them.
22. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward.
23. And the heathen shall knowe that the house of Israel went into captiuitie for their iniquitie: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gaue them into the hand of their enemies; so fell they all by the sword.
24. According to their vncleannesse, and according to their transgressions haue I done vnto them, and hid my face from them.
25. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I bring againe the captiuitie of Iacob, and haue mercie vpon the whole house of Israel, and will be ielous for my holy Name:
26. After that they haue borne their shame, and all their trespasses, wherby they haue trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their lande, and none made them afraid.
27. When I haue brought them againe from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28. Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captiuitie among the heathen: but I haue gathered them vnto their owne land, and haue left none of them any more there.
29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I haue powred out my Spirit vpon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
1. In the fiue and twentieth yeere of our captiuitie, in the beginning of the yere, in the tenth day of the moneth, in the fourteenth yeere after that the citie was smitten, in the selfe same day, the hand of the Lord was vpon mee, and brought me thither.
2. In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set mee vpon a very high mountaine, by which was as the frame of a citie on the South.
3. And he brought mee thither, and behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brasse, with a line of flaxe in his hand, & a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
4. And the man saide vnto mee; Sonne of man, behold with thine eyes, and heare with thine eares, & set thine heart vpon all that I shall shew thee: for to the intent that I might shew them vnto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest, to the house of Israel.
5. And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about: and in the mans hand a measuring reed of sixe cubites long, by the cubite, and an hand breadth: so hee measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and the height one reed.
6. Then came hee vnto the gate which looketh toward the East, and went vp the staires thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad, and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
7. And euery little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad, and betweene the litle chambers were fiue cubites, & the threshold of the gate, by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8. He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
9. Then measured hee the porch of the gate, eight cubites, and the postes thereof two cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward.
10. And the litle chambers of the gate Eastward, were three on this side, and three on that side, they three were of one measure, and the postes had one measure on this side, and on that side.
11. And hee measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteene cubites.
12. The space also before the litle chambers was one cubite on this side, and the space was one cubite on that side, and the litle chambers were sixe cubites on this side, and sixe cubits on that side.
13. Hee measured then the gate from the roofe of the one litle chamber to the roofe of another: the breadth was fiue and twentie cubits, doore against doore.
14. He made also postes of threescore cubites, euen vnto the poste of the court round about the gate.
15. And from the face of the gate of the entrance, vnto the face of the porch of the inner gate, were fiftie cubites.
16. And there were narrow windows to the litle chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windowes were round about inward: and vpon ech post were palme-trees.
17. Then brought he me into the outward court, and loe there were chambers, and a pauement, made for the court round about: thirtie chambers were vpon the pauement.
18. And the pauement by the side of the gates ouer against the length of the gates, was the lower pauement.
19. Then hee measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate, vnto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits Eastward and Northward.
20. And the gate of the outward court, that looked toward the North, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
21. And the little chambers thereof were three on this side, and three on that side, and the postes thereof, and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fiftie cubites, and the breadth fiue and twentie cubites.
22. And their windowes, and their arches, and their palme trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh towards the East, and they went vp vnto it by seuen steps, and the arches thereof were before them.
23. And the gate of the inner court was ouer against the gate toward the North and toward the East, and hee measured from gate to gate an hundreth cubites.
24. After that hee brought me toward the South, and behold a gate toward the South, and he measured the postes thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures.
25. And there were windowes in it, and in the arches thereof round about, like those windowes, the length was fiftie cubites, and the breadth fiue and twentie cubites.
26. And there were seuen steps to goe vp to it, and the arches thereof were before them, and it had palme trees, one on this side, and another on that side vpon the postes thereof.
27. And there was a gate in the inner court toward the South, and he measured from gate to gate toward the South an hundred cubites.
28. And hee brought me to the inner court by the South gate, and he measured the South gate according to these measures,
29. And the little chambers thereof, and the postes thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures, and there were windowes in it, and in the arches thereof round about: it was fiftie cubites long, and fiue and twentie cubites broad.
30. And the arches round about were fiue and twenty cubits long, and fiue cubites broad.
31. And the arches thereof were toward the vtter court, and palme trees were vpon the postes thereof, and the going vp to it had eight steps.
32. And hee brought me into the inner court toward the East, and hee measured the gate according to these measures.
33. And the little chambers thereof, and the postes thereof, and the arches thereof were according to these measures, and there were windowes therein, and in the arches thereof round about, it was fiftie cubites long, and fiue and twentie cubits broad.
34. And the arches thereof were toward the outward court, and palme trees were vpon the postes thereof on this side, and on that side, and the going vp to it had eight steps.
35. And hee brought me to the North gate, and measured it according to these measures.
36. The little chambers thereof, the postes thereof, and the arches thereof and the windowes to it round about: the length was fiftie cubites, and the breadth fiue and twentie cubites.
37. And the postes thereof were toward the vtter court, and palme trees were vpon the posts thereof on this side, and on that side, and the going vp to it had eight steps.
38. And the chambers, and the entries thereof were by the postes of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
39. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering, and the sinne offering, and the trespasse offering.
40. And at the side without, as one goeth vp to the entry of the North gate, were two tables, and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
41. Foure tables were on this side, and foure tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
42. And the foure tables were of hewen stone for the burnt offering, of a cubite and an halfe long, and a cubite & a halfe broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laide the instruments wherewith they slewe the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43. And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about, and vpon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
44. And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the North gate: and their prospect was toward the South, one at the side of the East gate, hauing the prospect toward the North.
45. And hee said vnto me; This chamber whose prospect is toward the South, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
46. And the chamber whose prospect is toward the North, is for the priests the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sonnes of Zadok among the sonnes of Leui, which come neere to the Lord to minister vnto him.
47. So he measured the court, an hundreth cubites long, and an hundreth cubites broad foure square, and the altar that was before the house.
48. And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, fiue cubites on this side, and fiue cubites on that side: and the bredth of the gate was three cubites on this side, and three cubites on that side.
49. The length of the porch was twentie cubites, and the bredth eleuen cubites, and he brought me by the steps, whereby they went vp to it, and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
1. Afterward he brought me to the Temple, and measured the posts, six cubites broad on the one side, and sixe cubites broad on the other side, which was the bredth of the Tabernacle.
2. And the bredth of the doore was tenne cubites, and the sides of the doore were fiue cubites on the one side, and fiue cubites on the other side, and he measured the length thereof fortie cubites, and the bredth twentie cubites.
3. Then went he inward, and measured the post of the doore two cubites, and the doore sixe cubites, and the bredth of the doore seuen cubites.
4. So he measured the length therof twentie cubites, and the bredth twentie cubites before the temple, and he said vnto me; This is the most holy place.
5. After he measured the wall of the house sixe cubites, and the bredth of euerie side-chamber foure cubites round about the house on euery side.
6. And the side-chambers were three, one ouer an other, and thirtie in order, and they entred into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might haue hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
7. And there was an enlarging and a winding about still vpward to the side-chambers, for the winding about of the house went still vpward round about the house: therefore the bredth of the house was still vpward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middest.
8. I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reede of sixe great cubites.
9. The thicknesse of the wall which was for the side chamber without, was fiue cubites, and that which was left, was the place of the side-chambers that were within.
10. And betweene the chambers was the widenesse of twentie cubites round about the house on euery side.
11. And the doores of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one doore toward the North, and an other doore toward the South, and the bredth of the place that was left, was fiue cubites round about.
12. Now the building that was before the seperate place, at the end toward the West, was seuenty cubites broad, and the wall of the building was fiue cubites thicke round about, and the length thereof ninety cubites.
13. So he measured the house, an hundreth cubites long, and the separate place and the building with the walles thereof, an hundreth cubites long.
14. Also the bredth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the East, an hundreth cubites.
15. And he measured the length of the building ouer against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side, and on the other side an hundreth cubites with the inner temple, and the porches of the court.
16. The doore-posts and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, ouer against the doore sieled with wood round about, and from the ground vp to the windows, & the windows were couered.
17. To that aboue the doore, euen vnto the inner house and without, and by all the wall round about within and without by measure.
18. And it was made with Cherubims and Palme trees, so that a Palme tree was betweene a Cherub and a Cherub, and euery Cherub had two faces.
19. So that the face of a man was toward the Palme-tree on the one side, and the face of a yong lyon toward the Palme-tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
20. From the ground vnto aboue the doore were Cherubims and Palme-trees made, & on the wall of the temple.
21. The postes of the Temple were squared, and the face of the Sanctuary, the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
22. The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof and the length thereof and the walles thereof were of wood: and hee said vnto mee; This is the Table that is before the Lord.
23. And the Temple and the Sanctuarie had two doores.
24. And the doores had two leaues a piece, two turning leaues, two leaues for the one doore, and two leaues for the other doore.
25. And there were made on them, on the doores of the Temple, Cherubims and Palme-trees, like as were made vpon the walles, and there were thicke planckes vpon the face of the porch without.
26. And there were narrow windowes and Palme-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and vpon the side chambers of the house, and thicke plankes.
1. Then he brought me foorth into the vtter court, the way toward the North, and hee brought mee into the chamber, that was ouer against the separate place, & which was before the building toward the North.
2. Before the length of an hundreth cubites was the North doore, and the breadth was fiftie cubits.
3. Ouer against the twentie cubites which were for the inner court, and ouer against the pauement which was for the vtter court, was gallerie against gallery in three stories.
4. And before the chambers was a walke of ten cubites breadth inward, a way of one cubite, and their doores toward the North.
5. Now the vpper-chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher then these, then the lower, and then the middlemost of the building.
6. For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitned more then the lowest, and the middlemost from the ground.
7. And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers towards the vtter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fiftie cubites.
8. For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.
9. And from vnder these chambers was the entrie on the East side, as one goeth into them from the vtter court.
10. The chambers were in the thickenes of the wall of the court toward the East, ouer against the separate place, and ouer against the building.
11. And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers, which were toward the North, as long as they and as broad as they, and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doores.
12. And according to the doores of the chambers that were toward the South, was a doore in the head of the way, euen the way directly before ye wall toward the East, as one entreth into them.
13. Then sayd hee vnto mee, The North chambers, and the South chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where ye Priests that approach vnto the Lord shall eate the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, & the sinne offering, and the trespasse offring, for the place is holy.
14. When the Priests enter therein, then shall they not goe out of the holy place into the vtter court, but there they shall lay their garments, wherein they minister: for they are holy, and shall put on other garments, and shall approch to those things which are for the people.
15. Now when hee had made an end of measuring the inner house, hee brought mee foorth toward the gate, whose prospect is toward the East, and measured it round about.
16. He measured the East side with the measuring reede, fiue hundreth reedes, with the measuring reed round about.
17. Hee measured the North side fiue hundreth reedes, with a measuring reed round about.
18. Hee measured the South side fiue hundreth reedes, with the measuring reede.
19. Hee turned about to the West side, and measured fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reed.
20. He measured it by the foure sides: it had a wall round about fiue hundreth reedes long, and fiue hundreth broad, to make a separation betweene the Sanctuary and the prophane place.
1. Afterward he brought me to the gate, euen the gate that looketh toward the East.
2. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East: and his voice was like a noise of many waters, and the earth shined with his glory.
3. And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, euen according to the vision that I saw, when I came to destroy the citie: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the riuer Chebar: and I fell vpon my face.
4. And the glorie of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate, whose prospect is toward the East.
5. So the Spirit tooke me vp, and brought mee into the inner court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6. And I heard him speaking vnto me out of the house, & the man stood by me.
7. And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feete, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for euer, and my holy Name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredome, nor by the carkeises of their kings in their high places.
8. In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my postes, and the wall betweene me and them, they haue euen defiled my holy Name by their abominations that they haue committed: wherefore I haue consumed them in mine anger.
9. Now let them put away their whoredome, and the carkeises of their kings farre from me, and I wil dwell in the middest of them for euer.
10. Thou sonne of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the patterne.
11. And if they be ashamed of all that they haue done; shew them the forme of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the commings in thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the lawes thereof: & write it in their sight, that they may keepe the whole forme thereof, and all the Ordinances therof, and doe them.
12. This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountaine, the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy: behold, this is the law of the house.
13. And these are the measures of the Altar after the cubites; the cubite is a cubite and an hand breadth, euen the bottom shalbe a cubite, and the breadth a cubite, and the border thereof by the edge therof round about shalbe a spanne, and this shalbe the higher place of the Altar.
14. And from the bottom vpon the ground, euen to the lower settle, shalbe two cubits, and the breadth one cubite, and from the lesser settle euen to the greater settle shalbe foure cubites, and the breadth one cubite.
15. So the Altar shalbe foure cubites, and from the altar and vpward shalbe foure hornes.
16. And the altar shalbe twelue cubites long, twelue broad, square in the foure squares thereof.
17. And the settle shall bee fourteene cubites long, and fourteene broad in the foure squares thereof, and the border about it shalbe halfe a cubite, and the bottome thereof shall be a cubite about, and his staires shall looke toward the East.
18. And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, These are the ordinances of the Altar in the day when they shall make it to offer burnt offrings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19. And thou shalt giue to the Priests the Leuites that be of the seede of Zadok, which approch vnto me, to minister vnto me, saith the Lord God, a yong bullocke for a sinne offering.
20. And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the foure hornes of it, and on the foure corners of the settle, and vpon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
21. Thou shalt take the bullocke also of the sinne offering, and he shall burne it in the appointed place of the house without the Sanctuary.
22. And on the second day thou shalt offer a kidde of the goats without blemish for a sinne offering, and they shall cleanse the Altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullocke.
23. When thou hast made an ende of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a yong bullocke without blemish, and a ramme out of the flocke, without blemish.
24. And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the Priests shall cast salt vpon them, and they shall offer them vp for a burnt offering vnto the Lord.
25. Seuen dayes shalt thou prepare euery day a goate for a sinne offering: they shall also prepare a yong bullocke, and a ramme out of the flocke, without blemish.
26. Seuen dayes shal they purge the Altar and purifie it, and they shall consecrate themselues.
27. And when these dayes are expired, it shall be that vpon the eight day and so forward, the Priests shall make your burnt offerings vpon the Altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord God.
1. Then he brought me backe the way of the gate of the outward Sanctuarie which looketh toward the East, and it was shut.
2. Then said the Lord vnto me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord the God of Israel hath entred in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3. It is for the Prince; the Prince, hee shall sit in it to eate bread before the Lord: hee shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall goe out by the way of the same.
4. 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 vpon my face.
5. And the Lord said vnto me; Sonne of man, marke well, and behold with thine eyes, and heare with thine eares, all that I say vnto thee, concerning all the ordinances of the house of ehe Lord, and all the lawes thereof, and marke well the entring in of the house, with euery going foorth of the Sanctuary.
6. And thou shalt say to the rebellious, euen to the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God; O yee house of Israel, let it suffice you, of all your abominations;
7. In that ye haue brought into my Sanctuarie strangers vncircumcised in heart, and vncircumcised in flesh, to be in my Sanctuarie to pollute it, euen my House, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they haue broken my Couenant, because of all your abominations.
8. And yee haue not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye haue set keepers of my charge in my Sanctuarie for your selues.
9. Thus sayth the Lord God, No stranger vncircumcised in heart, nor vncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my Sanctuarie, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
10. And the Leuites that are gone away farre from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idoles, they shall euen beare their iniquitie.
11. Yet they shall be ministers in my Sanctuary, hauing charge at the gates of the house, and ministring to the house: they shall slay the burnt offring, and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister vnto them:
12. Because they ministred vnto them before their idoles, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquitie; therefore haue I lift vp mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall beare their iniquitie.
13. And they shall not come neere vnto me to doe the office of a priest vnto me, nor to come neere to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall beare their shame, and their abominations which they haue committed.
14. But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all the seruice thereof, and for all that shalbe done therein.
15. But the priests the Leuites, the sonnes of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuarie, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come neere to me to minister vnto me, and they shall stand before me to offer vnto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God.
16. They shall enter into my sanctuarie, and they shall come neere to my table to minister vnto mee, and they shall keepe my charge.
17. And it shall come to passe that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linnen garments, and no wooll shall come vpon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.
18. They shall haue linnen bonets vpon their heads, and shall haue linnen breeches vpon their loynes: they shall not girde themselues with any thing that causeth sweat.
19. And when they goe forth into the vtter court, euen into the vtter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministred, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctifie the people with their garments.
20. Neither shall they shaue their heads, nor suffer their lockes to grow long, they shall only polle their heads.
21. Neither shall any priest drinke wine, when they enter into the inner court.
22. Neither shall they take for their wiues a widow, or her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23. And they shall teach my people the difference betweene the holy and prophane, and cause men to discerne betweene the vncleane and the cleane.
24. And in controuersie they shall stand in iudgement, and they shall iudge it according to my iudgements: and they shall keepe my lawes and my statutes in all mine assemblies, and they shall halow my Sabbaths.
25. And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselues: but for father or for mother, or for sonne or for daughter, for brother or for sister, that hath had no husband, they may defile themselues.
26. And after he is cleansed, they shal reckon vnto him seuen dayes.
27. And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuarie, vnto the inner court to minister in the sanctuarie, he shall offer his sinne offring, saith the Lord God.
28. And it shall be vnto them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and yee shall giue them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
29. They shal eate the meate offring, and the sinne offring, and the trespasse offring, and euery dedicate thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30. And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and euery oblation of all of euery sort of your oblations shall be the priests: yee shall also giue vnto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31. The priests shall not eate of any thing that is dead of it selfe or torne, whether it be foule or beast.
1. Moreouer, when yee shall diuide by lot the land for inheritance, yee shall offer an oblation vnto the Lord, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of fiue and twentie thousand reedes, and the bredth shalbe ten thousand: this shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
2. Of this there shal be for the Sanctuarie fiue hundreth in length, with fiue hundreth in bredth, square round about, and fiftie cubites round about, for the suburbs thereof.
3. And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of fiue and twentie thousand, and the bredth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the Sanctuarie and the most holy place.
4. The holy portion of the land shal bee for the priests the ministers of the Sanctuarie, which shall come neere to minister vnto the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the Sanctuarie.
5. And the fiue and twenty thousand of length, and the tenne thousand of breadth, shall also the Leuites the ministers of the house haue for themselues, for a possession for twentie chambers.
6. And ye shall appoint the possession of the citie fiue thousand broad, and fiue and twentie thousand long ouer against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7. And a portion shalbe for the prince on the one side, and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the citie, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the citie from the West side Westward, and from the East side Eastward, and the length shalbe ouer against one of the portions from the West border vnto the East border.
8. In the land shall be his possession in Israel, and my princes shall no more oppresse my people, and the rest of the land shall they giue to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9. Thus saith the Lord God, Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remoue violence and spoile, and execute iudgement and iustice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.
10. Ye shall haue iust ballances, and a iust Ephah, and a iust Bath.
11. The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.
12. And the shekell shall be twentie Gerahs: twenty shekels, fiue and twentie shekels, fifteene shekels shall be your Maneh.
13. This is the oblation that ye shal offer, the sixt part of an Ephah of an Homer of wheat, & ye shal giue the sixt part of an Ephah of an Homer of barley.
14. Concerning the ordinance of oile, the Bath of oyle, ye shall offer the tenth part of a Bath out of the Cor, which is an Homer of ten Baths, for ten Baths are an Homer.
15. And one lambe out of the flocke, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel for a meate offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God.
16. All the people of the land shall giue this oblation for the prince in Israel.
17. And it shall be the princes part to giue burnt offerings, and meat offrings, and drinke offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moones, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sinne offering, and the meate offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offrings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
18. Thus saith the Lord God, In the first moneth, in the first day of the moneth, thou shalt take a yong bullock without blemish, and clense the Sanctuarie.
19. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sinne offering, and put it vpon the postes of the house, and vpon the foure corners of the settle of the Altar, and vpon the postes of the gate of the inner court.
20. And so thou shalt doe the seuenth day of the moneth, for euery one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
21. In the first moneth, in the fourteenth day of the moneth, ye shall haue the passeouer a feast of seuen dayes, vnleauened bread shall be eaten.
22. And vpon that day shall the prince prepare for himselfe, and for all the people of the land, a bullocke for a sinne offering.
23. And seuen dayes of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes without blemish dayly the seuen dayes, and a kidde of the goats daily for a sinne offering.
24. And hee shall prepare a meat offering of an Ephah for a bullocke, and an Ephah for a ramme, and an Hin of oyle for an Ephah.
25. In the seuenth moneth, in the fifteenth day of the moneth shall he doe the like in the feast of the seuen dayes, according to the sinne offring, according to the burnt offering, & according to the meat offering, and according to the oile.
1. Thus saith the Lord God, The gate of the inner court, that looketh toward the East, shalbe shut the sixe working dayes: but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the New moone it shalbe opened.
2. And the Prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the Priests shall prepare his burnt offering, and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall goe foorth, but the gate shall not be shut vntil the euening.
3. Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the doore of this gate before the Lord, in the Sabbaths, and in the New moones.
4. And the burnt offering that the Prince shall offer vnto the Lord in the Sabbath day, shall be sixe lambes without blemish, and a ramme without blemish.
5. And the meat offring shalbe an Ephah for a ramme, and the meate offering for the lambes as he shalbe able to giue, and an Hin of oile to an Ephah.
6. And in the day of the New moone it shall be a yong bullocke without blemish, and sixe lambes, and a ramme: they shalbe without blemish.
7. And hee shall prepare a meat offering, an Ephah for a bullocke, and an Ephah for a ramme, and for the lambs, according as his hand shall attaine vnto, and an Hin of oile to an Ephah.
8. And when the Prince shall enter, he shall goe in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall goe foorth by the way thereof.
9. But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord, in the solemne feasts, he that entreth in by the way of the North gate to worship, shall goe out by the way of the South gate: and he that entreth by the way of the South gate, shall goe forth by the way of the North gate: he shall not returne by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall goe foorth ouer against it.
10. And the Prince in the midst of them when they goe in, shal goe in, and when they goe foorth, shall goe forth.
11. And in the feasts, and in the solemnities, the meat offering shalbe an Ephah to a bullocke, and an Ephah to a ramme, and to the lambes, as he is able to giue, and an Hin of oile to an Ephah.
12. Now when the Prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings, voluntarily vnto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the East, and he shall prepare his burnt offering, and his peace offerings, as hee did on the Sabbath day, then he shall goe foorth, and after his going foorth, one shall shut the gate.
13. Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering vnto the Lord, of a lambe of the first yeere, without blemish thou shalt prepare it euery morning.
14. And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it euery morning; the sixt part of an Ephah, and the third part of an Hin of oyle, to temper with the fine flowre; a meat offering continually, by a perpetual ordinance vnto the Lord.
15. Thus shall they prepare the lambe, and the meat offering, and the oyle, euery morning, for a continuall burnt offering.
16. Thus saith the Lord God, If the prince giue a gift vnto any of his sonnes, the inheritance thereof shall be his sonnes, it shall be their possession by inheritance:
17. But if hee giue a gift of his inheritance to one of his seruants, then it shalbe his to the yeere of libertie: after, it shall returne to the Prince, but his inheritance shalbe his sonnes for them.
18. Moreouer, the Prince shall not take of the peoples inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession: but hee shall giue his sonnes inheritance out of his owne possession, that my people be not scattered euery man from his possession.
19. After, he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the Priests which looked toward ye North: and behold, there was a place on the two sides Westward.
20. Then said hee vnto me, This is the place where the Priests shall boyle the trespasse offring, and the sinne offering, where they shall bake the meate offering: that they beare them not out into the vtter court, to sanctifie the people.
21. Then hee brought me foorth into the vtter court, and caused me to passe by the foure corners of the court, and behold, in euery corner of the court there was a court.
22. In the foure corners of the court there were courts ioyned of fourtie cubits long, and thirtie broad: these foure corners were of one measure.
23. And there was a new building round about in them, round about them foure and it was made with boyling places vnder the rowes round about.
24. Then said he vnto me, These are the places of them that boyle, where the ministers of the house shall boyle the sacrifice of the people.
1. Afterward hee brought me againe vnto the doore of the house, and behold, waters issued out from vnder the threshold of the house Eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the East, and the waters came downe from vnder from the right side of the house, at the South side of the Altar.
2. Then brought hee me out of the way of the gate Northward, and ledde me about the way without vnto the vtter gate by the way that looketh Eastward, and behold, there ranne out waters on the right side.
3. And when the man that had the line in his hand, went forth Eastward, he measured a thousand cubites, and he brought me through the waters: the waters were to the ancles.
4. Againe he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees: againe he measured a thousand, and brought mee through; the waters were to the loynes.
5. Afterward hee measured a thousand, and it was a riuer, that I could not passe ouer: for the waters were risen, waters to swimme in, a riuer that could not be passed ouer.
6. And hee said vnto me, Sonne of man, hast thou seene this? Then hee brought me, and caused me to returne to the brinke of the riuer.
7. Now when I had returned, behold, at the banke of the riuer were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
8. Then said he vnto me, These waters issue out toward the East country, and go downe into the desert, and goe into the sea: which being brought foorth into the sea, the waters shalbe healed.
9. And it shall come to passe, that euery thing that liueth, which mooueth, whithersoeuer the riuers shall come, shall liue, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed, and euery thing shall liue whither the riuer commeth.
10. And it shall come to passe that the fishers shall stand vpon it, from Engedi euen vnto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread foorth nets, their fish shall bee according to their kindes, as the fish of the great Sea, exceeding many.
11. But the myrie places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed, they shall be giuen to salt.
12. And by the riuer vpon the banke thereof on this side, and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leafe shal not fade, neither shal the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit, according to his moneths, because their waters they issued out of the Sanctuarie, and the fruite thereof shall be for meate, and the leafe thereof for medicine.
13. Thus sayth the Lord God, This shall be the border, whereby yee shall inherite the land, according to the twelue tribes of Israel: Ioseph shall haue two portions.
14. And yee shall inherite it, one as well as an other: concerning the which I lifted vp mine hand to giue it vnto your fathers, and this land shal fall vnto you for inheritance.
15. And this shall be the border of the land toward the North side from the great Sea, the way of Hethlon, as men goe to Zedad:
16. Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is betweene the border of Damascus, and the border of Hamath: Hazar Hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17. And the border from the Sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the North northward, and the border of Hamath: and this is the North side.
18. And the East side yee shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Iordan, from the border vnto the East sea: & this is the East side.
19. And the South side Southward from Tamar, euen to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the riuer, to the great Sea; and this is the South side Southward.
20. The West side also shall be the great Sea from the border, till a man come ouer against Hamath: this is the West side.
21. So shall yee diuide this land vnto you according to the Tribes of Israel.
22. And it shall come to passe, that yee shall diuide it by lot for an inheritance vnto you, and to the strangers that soiourne among you, which shall beget children among you, and they shall be vnto you as borne in the countrey among the children of Israel; they shall haue inheritance with you among the Tribes of Israel.
23. And it shall come to passe that in what Tribe the stranger soiourneth, there shall yee giue him his inheritance, saith the Lord God.
1. Now these are the names of the Tribes, from the North end to the coast of the way of Hathlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus Northward, to ye coast of Hamath (for these are his sides East & West) a portion for Dan.
2. And by the border of Dan, from the East side vnto the West, a portion for Asher.
3. And by the border of Asher, from the East side euen vnto the West side, a portion for Naphtali.
4. And by the border of Naphtali, from the East side vnto the West side, a portion for Manasseh.
5. And by the border of Manasseh, from the East side vnto the West side, a portion for Ephraim.
6. And by the border of Ephraim, from the East side euen vnto the West side, a portion for Reuben.
7. And by the border of Reuben, from the East side vnto the West side, a portion for Iudah.
8. And by the border of Iudah, from the East side vnto the West side, shall be the offring which they shall offer of fiue and twentie thousand reedes in bredth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the East side vnto the West side, and the Sanctuarie shall be in the midst of it.
9. The oblation that yee shall offer vnto the Lord, shall be of fiue and twentie thousand in length, and of ten thousand in bredth.
10. And for them, euen for the priests shall be this holy oblation, toward the North, fiue and twentie thousand in length, and toward the West ten thousand in bredth, and toward the East ten thousand in bredth, and toward the South fiue and twentie thousand in length, & the sanctuarie of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.
11. It shall be for the Priests that are sanctified, of the sonnes of Zadok, which haue kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Leuites went astray.
12. And this oblation of the land that is offred, shalbe vnto them a thing most holy by the border of the Leuites.
13. And ouer against the border of the Priests, the Leuites shall haue fiue and twentie thousand in length, and tenne thousand in bredth: all the length shalbe fiue and twentie thousand, and the bredth tenne thousand.
14. And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the first fruits of the land: for it is holy vnto the Lord.
15. And the fiue thousand that are left in the breadth ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand, shall bee a prophane place for the citie, for dwelling, and for suburbs, and the citie shall be in the midst thereof.
16. And these shall bee the measures thereof, the North side foure thousand and fiue hundred, and the South side foure thousand and fiue hundred, and on the East side foure thousand, and fiue hundred, and the West side foure thousand and fiue hundred.
17. And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the North two hundred and fiftie, and toward the South two hundred and fifty, and toward the East two hundred and fiftie, and toward the West two hundred and fiftie.
18. And the residue in length ouer against the oblation of the holy portion, shalbe ten thousand Eastward, and ten thousand Westward: and it shall be ouer against the oblation of the holy portion, and the increase thereof shall bee for food vnto them that serue the citie.
19. And they that serue the citie, shall serue it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20. All the oblation shall bee fiue and twentie thousand, by fiue and twentie thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foure square, with the possession of the citie.
21. And the residue shall bee for the prince on the one side, and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the citie ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand, of the oblation toward the East border, and Westward ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand toward the West border, ouer against the portions for the prince, and it shall be the holy oblation, and the Sanctuarie of the house shall be in the middest thereof.
22. Moreouer, from the possession of the Leuites, and from the possession of the citie, being in the midst of that which is the princes, betweene the border of Iudah, and the border of Beniamin, shall bee for the prince.
23. As for the rest of the tribes, from the East side vnto the West side, Beniamin shall haue a portion:
24. And by the border of Beniamin, from the East side vnto the West side, Simeon shall haue a portion:
25. And by the border of Simeon, from the East side vnto the West side, Issachar a portion:
26. And by the border of Issachar, from the East side vnto the West side, Zebulun a portion:
27. And by the border of Zebulun from the East side vnto the West side, Gad a portion:
28. And by the border of Gad, at the South side Southward, the border shall be euen from Tamar, vnto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the riuer toward the great Sea.
29. This is the land which ye shal diuide by lot vnto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.
30. And these are the goings out of the citie, on the North side foure thousand and fiue hundred measures.
31. And the gates of the citie shall bee after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates Northward, one gate of Reuben, one gate of Iudah, one gate of Leui.
32. And at the East side foure thousand and fiue hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Ioseph, one gate of Beniamin, one gate of Dan.
33. And at the South side foure thousand and fiue hundred measures, and three gates: one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34. At the West side foure thousand and fiue hundred, with their three gates: one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35. It was round about eighteene thousand measures, and the name of the citie from that day shall be, The Lord is there.
1. In the thirde yere of the reigne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, came Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babylon, vnto Ierusalem, and besieged it.
2. And the Lord gaue Iehoiakim king of Iudah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he caried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
3. And the king spake vnto Ashpenaz the master of his Eunuches, that he should bring certaine of the children of Israel, and of the kings seed, and of the Princes:
4. Children in whom was no blemish, but well fauoured, and skilfull in all wisedome, and cunning in knowledge, and vnderstanding science, and such as had abilitie in them to stand in the Kings palace, and whom they might teach the learning, and the tongue of the Caldeans.
5. And the King appointed them a daily prouision of the kings meat, and of the wine which he dranke: so nourishing them three yeeres, that at the ende thereof they might stand before the king.
6. Now among these were of the children of Iudah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
7. Unto whom the Prince of the Eunuches gaue names: for he gaue vnto daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah of Abednego.
8. But Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himselfe with the portion of the kings meat, nor with the wine which he dranke: therefore hee requested of the Prince of the Eunuches, that hee might not defile himselfe.
9. Now God had brought Daniel into fauour and tender loue with the Prince of the Eunuches.
10. And the Prince of the Eunuches said vnto Daniel, I feare my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat, and your drinke: for why should he see your faces worse liking then the children which are of your sort? then shall yee make mee indanger my head to the King.
11. Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the Prince of the Eunuches had set ouer Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12. Proue thy seruants, I beseech thee, ten dayes, and let them giue pulse to eat, and water to drinke.
13. Then let our countenances be looked vpon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruants.
14. So hee consented to them in this matter, and proued them ten dayes.
15. And at the end often dayes, their countenances appeared fairer, and fatter in flesh, then all the children, which did eate the portion of the kings meat.
16. Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink: and gaue them pulse.
17. As for these foure children, God gaue them knowledge, and skil in all learning and wisedome, and Daniel had vnderstanding in all visions and dreames.
18. Now at the end of the dayes that the King had said he should bring them in, then the Prince of the Eunuches brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
19. And the King communed with them: and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the King.
20. And in all matters of wisedome and vnderstanding that the king enquired of them, hee found them ten times better then all the Magicians and Astrologers that were in all his Realme.
21. And Daniel continued euen vnto the first yeere of king Cyrus.
1. And in the second yeere of the reigne of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchad-nezzar dreamed dreames, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleepe brake from him.
2. Then the King commanded to call the Magicians, and the Astrologers, and the Sorcerers, and the Caldeans, for to shew the King his dreames: so they came and stood before the king.
3. And the King said vnto them, I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirit was troubled to know the dreame.
4. Then spake the Caldeans to the King in Syriacke; O king, liue for euer: tell thy seruants the dreame, and we will shew the interpretation.
5. The King answered, and said to the Caldeans, The thing is gone from mee: if ye will not make knowen vnto me the dreame, with the interpretation thereof, yee shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shalbe made a dunghill.
6. But if yee shewe the dreame, and the interpretation thereof, yee shall receiue of me giftes and rewards, and great honour: therefore shewe me the dreame, and the interpretation thereof.
7. They answered againe, and said, Let the King tell his seruants the dreame, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
8. The King answered, and said, I know of certeinty that ye would gaine the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
9. But if yee will not make knowen vnto me the dreame, there is but one decree for you: for ye haue prepared lying, and corrupt words to speake before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dreame, and I shall know that yee can shewe mee the interpretation thereof.
10. The Caldeans answered before the King, and said, There is not a man vpon the earth that can shew the kings matter: therefore there is no King, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any Magician, or Astrologer, or Caldean.
11. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the King, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
12. For this cause the King was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
13. And the decree went foorth that the wise men should be slaine, and they sought Daniel and his fellowes to be slaine.
14. Then Daniel answered with counsell and wisedome to Arioch the captaine of the Kings guard, which was gone foorth to slay the wise men of Babylon.
15. Hee answered and said to Arioch the Kings captaine, Why is the decree so hastie from the King? Then Arioch made the thing knowen to Daniel.
16. Then Daniel went in and desired of the King, that hee would giue him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.
17. Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing knowen to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah his companions:
18. That they would desire mercies of the God of heauen concerning this secret, that Daniel and his fellowes should not perish with the rest of the Wise men of Babylon.
19. Then was the secret reuealed vnto Daniel in a night vision: then Daniel blessed the God of heauen.
20. Daniel answered and said; Blessed be the name of God for euer and euer: for wisedome and might are his:
21. And he changeth the times and the seasons: he remoueth Kings, and setteth vp Kings: he giueth wisedome vnto the wise, and knowledge to them that know vnderstanding.
22. He reuealeth the deepe and secret things: hee knoweth what is in the darknes, & the light dwelleth with him.
23. I thanke thee and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast giuen me wisedome and might, and hast made knowen vnto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made knowen vnto vs the kings matter.
24. Therefore Daniel went in vnto Arioch whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus vnto him, Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew vnto the king the interpretation.
25. Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, & said thus vnto him, I haue found a man of the captiues of Iudah, that will make knowen vnto the king the interpretation.
26. The King answered and said to Daniel whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make knowen vnto me the dreame which I haue seene, and the interpretation thereof?
27. Daniel answered in the presence of the King, and said, The secret which the King hath demanded, cannot the wise men, the astrologians, the magicians, ye southsaiers shew vnto the king:
28. But there is a God in heauen that reuealeth secrets, and maketh knowen to the king Nebuchad-nezzar, what shalbe in the latter dayes. Thy dreame, and the visions of thy head vpon thy bed, are these.
29. As for thee, O King, thy thoughts came into thy minde vpon thy bed, what should come to passe hereafter: and he that reuealeth secrets, maketh knowen to thee, what shall come to passe.
30. But as for me, this secret is not reuealed to me, for any wisdome that I haue more then any liuing, but for their sakes that shall make knowen the interpretation to the King, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
31. Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image: this great image whose brightnesse was excelleut, stood before thee, and the forme thereof was terrible.
32. This images head was of fine gold, his breast and his armes of siluer, his belly and his thighes of brasse:
33. His legs of yron, his feete part of yron, and part of clay.
34. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image vpon his feete that were of yron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35. Then was the yron, the clay, the brasse, the siluer, and the golde broken to pieces together, and became like the chaffe of the summer threshing floores, and the wind caried them away, that no place was found for them: & the stone that smote the image became a great mountaine, and filled the whole earth.
36. This is the dreame, and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the King.
37. Thou, O King, art a king of Kings: for the God of heauen hath giuen thee a kingdome, power, and strength, and glory.
38. And wheresoeuer the children of men dwel, the beasts of the field, and the foules of the heauen hath he giuen into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler ouer them all: thou art this head of gold.
39. And after thee shall arise an other kingdome inferiour to thee, and another third kingdome of brasse, which shall beare rule ouer all the earth.
40. And the fourth kingdome shall be strong as yron: forasmuch as yron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as yron that breaketh all these, shall it breake in pieces and bruise.
41. And whereas thou sawest the feete and toes, part of potters clay, and part of yron: the kingdome shalbe diuided, but there shalbe in it of the strength of the yron, forasmuch as thou sawest the yron mixt with myrie clay.
42. And as the toes of the feete were part of yron, and part of clay; so the kingdome shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43. And whereas thou sawest yron mixt with myrie clay, they shall mingle themselues with the seede of men: but they shall not cleaue one to an other, euen as yron is not mixed with clay.
44. And in the daies of these Kings shall the God of heauen set vp a kingdome, which shall neuer be destroyed: and the Kingdome shall not be left to other people, but it shall breake in pieces, and consume all these kingdomes, and it shall stand for euer.
45. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountaine without hands, and that it brake in pieces the yron, the brasse, the clay, the siluer, and the gold: the great God hath made knowen to the King what shall come to passe hereafter, & the dreame is certaine, and the interpretation thereof sure.
46. Then the King Nebuchadnezzar fell vpon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation, and sweet odours vnto him.
47. The King answered vnto Daniel and said, Of a trueth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of Kings, and a reuealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reueale this secret.
48. Then the King made Daniel a great man, and gaue him many great gifts, & made him ruler ouer the whole prouince of Babylon, and chiefe of the gouernours ouer all the wise men of Babylon.
49. Then Daniel requested of the King, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ouer the affaires of the prouince of Babylon: but Daniel sate in the gate of the King.
1. Nebuchad-nezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and ye breadth thereof sixe cubites: he set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babylon.
2. Then Nebuchad-nezzar the king sent to gather together the Princes, the Gouernours, and the Captaines, the Iudges, the Treasurers, the Counsellers, the Sherifes, and all the rulers of the Prouinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchad-nezzar the King had set vp.
3. Then the Princes, the Gouernours and Captaines, the Iudges, the Treasurers, the Counsellers, the Sherifes, and all the rulers of the Prouinces were gathered together vnto the dedicatio of the image, that Nebuchadnezzar the King had set vp, and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set vp.
4. Then an herauld cryed aloud, To you it is commaunded, O people, nations, and languages,
5. That at what time yee heare the sound of the cornet, flute, harpe, sackbut, psalterie, dulcimer, and all kinds of musicke, yee fall downe, and worship the golden image that Nebuchad-nezzar the King hath set vp:
6. And who so falleth not down and worshippeth, shall the same houre bee cast into the middest of a burning fierie furnace.
7. Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harpe, sackbut, psalterie, and all kindes of musicke, all the people, the nations, and the languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image, that Nebuchad-nezzar the King had set vp.
8. Wherefore at that time certaine Caldeans came neere, and accused the Iewes.
9. They spake and sayd to the King Nebuchad-nezzar, O King, liue for euer.
10. Thou, O King, hast made a decree, that euery man that shal heare the sound of the cornet, flute, harpe, sackbut, psalterie, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musicke, shall fall downe and worship the golden image:
11. And who so falleth not downe & worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fierie furnace.
12. There are certain Iewes whom thou hast set ouer the affaires of the prouince of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: these men, O King, haue not regarded thee, they serue not thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou hast set vp.
13. Then Nebuchad-nezzar in his rage and furie commaunded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: then they brought these men before the King.
14. Nebuchad-nezzar spake and said vnto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? Doe not yee serue my gods, nor worship the golden image which I haue set vp?
15. Now if ye be ready that at what time yee heare the sound of the cornet, flute, harpe, sackbut, psalterie, and dulcimer, and all kindes of musicke, ye fall downe, and worship the image which I haue made, well: but if yee worship not, ye shall be cast the same houre into the midst of a fierie furnace, and who is that God that shall deliuer you out of my handes?
16. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king; O Nebuchad-nezzar, we are not carefull to answere thee in this matter.
17. If it be so, our God whom wee serue, is able to deliuer vs from the burning fierie furnace, and he will deliuer vs out of thine hand, O king.
18. But if not, bee it knowen vnto thee, O king, that we will not serue thy gods, nor worship thy golden image, which thou hast set vp.
19. Then was Nebuchad-nezzar full of furie, and the forme of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego: therefore he spake and commanded, that they should heat the furnace one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat.
20. And hee commaunded the most mighty men that were in his armie, to binde Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fierie furnace.
21. Then these men were bound in their coates, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fierie furnace.
22. Therefore because the Kings commandement was vrgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that tooke vp Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
23. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell downe bound into the midst of the burning fierie furnace.



































































24. Then Nebuchad-nezzar the king was astonied, and rose vp in haste, and spake and said vnto his counsellers, Did not wee cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said vnto the king; True, O king.
25. He answered and said, Loe, I see foure men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they haue no hurt, and the forme of the fourth is like the sonne of God.
26. Then Nebuchad-nezzar came neere to the mouth of the burning fierie furnace, and spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, ye seruants of the most High God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth of the midst of the fire.
27. And the princes, gouernours, and captaines, and the kings counsellers, being gathered together, saw these men, vpon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an haire of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
28. Then Nebuchad-nezzar spake and said; Blessed bee the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his Angel, and deliuered his seruants that trusted in him, and haue changed the Kings word, and yeelded their bodies, that they might not serue nor worship any God, except their owne God.
29. Therefore I make a decree, That euery people, nation, and language, which speake any thing amisse against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is no other God, that can deliuer after this sort.
30. Then the King promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the prouince of Babylon.



1. Nebuchad-nezzar the king, vnto all people, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth, Peace be multiplied vnto you.
2. I thought it good to shew the signes, and wonders, that the high God hath wrought toward me.
3. How great are his signes? and how mighty are his wonders? his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and his dominion is fro generation to generation.
4. I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace.
5. I saw a dreame which made me afraid, and the thoughts vpon my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.
6. Therefore made I a decree, to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before mee, that they might make knowen vnto me the interpretation of the dreame.
7. Then came in the Magicians, the Astrologers, the Caldeans, and the Southsayers: and I tolde the dreame before them; but they did not make knowen vnto mee the interpretation thereof.
8. But at the last Daniel came in before me, (whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy Gods) & before him I told the dreame, saying,
9. O Belteshazzar, master of the Magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy Gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dreame that I haue seene, and the interpretation thereof.
10. Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middest of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
11. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
12. The leaues thereof were faire, and the fruite thereof much, and in it was meate for all: the beasts of the field had shadow vnder it, and the foules of the heauen dwelt in the boughes thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
13. I sawe in the visions of my head vpon my bed, & behold, a watcher and an holy one came downe from heauen.
14. He cryed aloude, and said thus; Hew downe the tree, and cut off his branches; shake off his leaues, and scatter his fruite; let the beasts get away from vnder it, and the foules from his branches.
15. Neuerthelesse leaue the stumpe of his rootes in the earth, euen with a band of yron and brasse, in the tender grasse of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes in the grasse of the earth.
16. Let his heart bee changed from mans, and let a beasts heart be giuen vnto him, and let seuen times passe ouer him.
17. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demaund by the word of the Holy ones: to the intent that the liuing may know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whomsoeuer hee will, and setteth vp ouer it the basest of men.
18. This dreame, I king Nebuchadnezzar haue seene: Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the Wise men of my kingdome are not able to make knowen vnto mee the interpretation: but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy Gods is in thee.
19. Then Daniel (whose name was Belteshazzar) was astonied for one houre, and his thoughts troubled him: The King spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dreame, or the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered; and said; My lord, the dreame be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
20. The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof to all the earth:
21. Whose leaues were faire, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meate for all, vnder which the beasts of the field dwelt, and vpon whose branches the foules of the heauen had their habitation:
22. It is thou, O King, that art growen and become strong: for thy greatnesse is growen and reacheth vnto heauen, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
23. And whereas the King saw a watcher, and an holy one comming downe from heauen, and saying, Hew the tree downe, and destroy it, yet leaue the stumpe of the rootes thereof in the earth, euen with a band of yron and brasse in the tender grasse of the field, and let it be wet with the dewe of heauen, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seuen times passe ouer him:
24. This is the interpretation, O king, & this is the decree of the most Hie, which is come vpon my lord the king:
25. That they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eate grasse as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heauen, and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, till thou know that the most high ruleth in the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whomsoeuer he will.
26. And whereas they commanded to leaue the stumpe of the tree rootes; thy kingdome shall be sure vnto thee, after that thou shalt haue knowen that the heauens doe rule.
27. Wherefore, O King, let my counsell be acceptable vnto thee, and breake off thy sinnes by righteousnesse, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poore; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillitie.
28. All this came vpon the King Nebuchad-nezzar.
29. At the end of twelue moneths he walked in the palace of the kingdome of Babylon.
30. The King spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I haue built for the house of the kingdome, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?
31. While the word was in the Kings mouth, there fell a voice from heauen, saying, O King Nebuchad-nezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdome is departed from thee.
32. And they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eate grasse as oxen, and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, vntill thou know that the most high ruleth in the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whomsoeuer he will.
33. The same houre was the thing fulfilled vpon Nebuchad-nezzar, and he was driuen from men, and did eate grasse as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heauen, till his haires were growen like Egles feathers, and his nailes like birds clawes.
34. And at the end of the dayes, I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding returned vnto me, and I blessed the most high, and I praised, and honoured him that liueth for euer, whose dominion is an euerlasting dominion, and his kingdome is from generation to generation.
35. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and hee doth according to his will in the armie of heauen, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say vnto him, What doest thou?
36. At the same time my reason returned vnto me, and for the glory of my kingdome, mine honour, and brightnes returned vnto me, and my counsellers, and my Lords sought vnto me, and I was established in my kingdome, and excellent Maiestie was added vnto me.
37. Now I Nebuchad-nezzar praise, and extoll and honour the King of heauen, all whose workes are trthh, and his waies iudgement, and those that walke in pride he is able to abase.
1. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his Lords, and dranke wine before the thousand.
2. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commaunded to bring the golden and siluer vessels, which his father Nebuchad-nezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Ierusalem, that the king and his princes, his wiues, and his concubines might drinke therein.
3. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God, which was at Ierusalem, and the king and his princes, his wiues, and his concubines dranke in them.
4. They drunke wine, and praised the gods of gold and of siluer, of brasse, of yron, of wood, and of stone.
5. In the same houre came forth fingers of a mans hand, and wrote ouer against the candlesticke vpon the plaister of the wall of the Kings palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6. Then the kings countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the ioints of his loines were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
7. The king cried aloud to bring in the Astrologers, the Caldeans, and the soothsayers: and the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoeuer shall reade this writing, and shewe me the interpretation thereof, shall bee clothed with scarlet, and haue a chaine of gold about his necke, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdome.
8. Then came in all the kings wise men, but they could not reade the writing, nor make knowen to the king the interpretation thereof.
9. Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lordes were astonied.
10. Now the queene, by reason of the wordes of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house, and the queene spake and said, O king, liue for euer: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed.
11. There is a man in thy kingdom, in whome is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the dayes of thy father light and vnderstanding and wisedome like the wisedome of the gods, was found in him: whom the king Nebuchad-nezzar thy father, the king, Isay, thy father made master of the magicians, astrologers, Caldeans, and soothsayers,
12. Forasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and vnderstanding, interpreting of dreames, and shewing of hard sentences, & dissoluing of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shewe the interpretation.
13. Then was Daniel brought in before the king, and the king spake and said vnto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captiuity of Iudah, whom the king my father brought out of Iewrie?
14. I haue euen heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light, and vnderstanding, and excellent wisedome is found in thee.
15. And now the wise men, the astrologers haue bene brought in before me, that they should reade this writing, and make knowen vnto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shewe the interpretation of the thing.
16. And I haue heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolue doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make knowen to mee the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, & haue a chaine of gold about thy necke, and shalt bee the third ruler in the kingdome.
17. Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thy selfe, and giue thy rewards to an other, yet I will reade the writing vnto the king, and make knowen to him the interpretation.
18. O thou king, the most high God gaue Nebuchad-nezzar thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and glory, and honour.
19. And for the maiestie that hee gaue him, all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would, he slew, & whom he would, he kept aliue, and whom he would hee set vp, and whom he would hee put downe.
20. But when his heart was lifted vp, and his minde hardened in pride: hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his glory from him.
21. And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heauen, till hee knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdome of men, and that hee appointeth ouer it whomsoeuer he will.
22. And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this:
23. But hast lifted vp thy selfe against the Lord of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praised the gods of siluer, and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which see not, nor heare, nor knowe: and the God in whose hande thy breath is, and whose are all thy wayes, hast thou not glorified.
24. Then was the part of the hand sent from him, and this writing was written.
25. And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL VPHARSIN.
26. This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath numbred thy kingdome, and finished it.
27. TEKEL, thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28. PERES, thy kingdome is diuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.
29. Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chaine of gold about his necke, and made a Proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdome.
30. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Caldeans slaine.
31. And Darius the Median tooke the kingdome, being about threescore and two yeere old.
1. It pleased Darius to set ouer the kingdome an hundred and twenty Princes, which should be ouer the whole kingdome.
2. And ouer these, three Presidents, (of whom Daniel was first) that the Princes might giue accompts vnto them, and the King should haue no damage.
3. Then this Daniel was preferred aboue the Presidents, and Princes, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him ouer the whole realme.
4. Then the Presidents and Princes sought to finde occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdome, but they could finde none occasion, nor fault: forasmuch as he was faithfull, neither was there any errour or fault found in him.
5. Then said these men, We shall not finde any occasion against this Daniel, except wee finde it against him concerning the Law of his God.
6. Then these Presidents and Princes assembled together to the king, and said thus vnto him, King Darius, liue foreuer.
7. All the Presidents of the kingdome, the gouernours, and the Princes, the counsellers and the captaines haue consulted together to establish a royall statute, and to make a firme decree, that whosoeuer shall aske a petition of any God or man for thirty dayes, saue of thee, O King, hee shall be cast into the denne of Lions.
8. Now, O king, establish the decree, and signe the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes & Persians, which altereth not.
9. Wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree.
10. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, hee went into his house, and his windowes being open in his chamber toward Ierusalem, hee kneeled vpon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gaue thankes before his God, as hee did afore time.
11. Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying, and making supplication before his God.
12. Then they came neere, and spake before the king concerning the kings decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that euery man that shall aske a petition of any God or man, within thirty dayes, saue of thee, O king, shalbe cast into the denne of Lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
13. Then answered they and said before the king; That Daniel which is of the captiuity of the children of Iudah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
14. Then the king, when hee heard these wordes, was sore displeased with himselfe, and set his heart on Daniel to deliuer him: and he laboured till the going downe of the sunne, to deliuer him.
15. Then these men assembled vnto the king, and said vnto the king, Know O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth, may bee changed.
16. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the denne of Lions: now the king spake and saide vnto Daniel; Thy God, whom thou seruest continually, he will deliuer thee.
17. And a stone was brought and laid vpon the mouth of the denne, and the King sealed it with his owne signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
18. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musicke brought before him, and his sleepe went from him.
19. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste vnto the den of Lyons.
20. And when he came to the den, he cryed with a lamentable voice vnto Daniel, and the king spake and said to Daniel: O Daniel, seruant of the liuing God, Is thy God whom thou seruest continually, able to deliuer thee from the Lyons?
21. Then said Daniel vnto the king, O king, liue for euer.
22. My God hath sent his Angel, and hath shut the lyons mouthes that they haue not hurt me: forasmuch as before him, innocencie was found in me; and also before thee, O king, haue I done no hurt.
23. Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel vp out of the denne: so Daniel was taken vp out of the den, and no maner of hurt was found vpon him, because he beleeued in his God.
24. And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of Lyons, them, their children, and their wiues: and the Lyons had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or euer they came at the bottome of the den.
25. Then king Darius wrote vnto all people, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied vnto you.
26. I make a decree, That in euery dominion of my kingdome, men tremble and feare before the God of Daniel: for he is the liuing God, and stedfast for euer, and his kingdome that, which shal not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be euen vnto the end.
27. He deliuereth and rescueth, and he worketh signes and wonders in heauen and in earth: who hath deliuered Daniel from the power of the lyons.
28. So this Daniel prospered in the reigne of Darius, and in the reigne of Cyrus the Persian.
1. In the first yeere of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dreame, and visions of his head vpon his bed: then he wrote the dreame, and tolde the summe of the matters.
2. Daniel spake, and said, I saw in my vision by night, & behold, the foure windes of the heauen stroue vpon the great Sea.
3. And foure great beastes came vp from the sea, diuers one from another.
4. The first was like a Lyon, and had Eagles wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were pluckt, and it was lifted vp from the earth, and made stand vpon the feete as a man, and a mans heart was giuen to it.
5. And behold, another beast, a second, like to a Beare, and it raised vp it selfe on one side, and it had three ribbes in the mouth of it betweene the teeth of it, and they said thus vnto it, Arise, deuoure much flesh.
6. After this I beheld, and loe, another like a Leopard, which had vpon the backe of it foure wings of a foule, the beast had also foure heads, and dominion was giuen to it.
7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadfull and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great yron teeth: it deuoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feete of it, and it was diuers from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten hornes.
8. I considered the hornes, and behold, there came vp among them another little horne, before whom there were three of the first hornes pluckt vp by the roots: and behold, in this horne were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9. I beheld till the thrones were cast downe, and the Ancient of dayes did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the haire of his head like the pure wooll: his throne was like the fierie flame, and his wheeles as burning fire.
10. A fierie streame issued, and came foorth from before him: thousand thousands ministred vnto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the iudgement was set, and the bookes were opened.
11. I beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the horne spake: I beheld euen till the beast was slaine, and his body destroyed, and giuen to the burning flame.
12. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their liues were prolonged for a season and time.
13. I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the sonne of man, came with the clouds of heauen, and came to the Ancient of daies, and they brought him neere before him.
14. And there was giuen him dominion and glory, and a kingdome, that all people, nations, and languages should serue him: his dominion is an euerlasting dominion, which shall not passe away; and his kingdome that, which shall not be destroyed.
15. I Daniel was grieued in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
16. I came neere vnto one of them that stood by, and asked him the trthh of all this: so he told mee, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
17. These great beasts, which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18. But the Saints of the most high shall take the kingdome, & possesse the kingdome for euer, euen for euer & euer.
19. Then I would know the trthh of the fourth beast, which was diuerse from al the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of yron, and his nailes of brasse, which deuoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feete,
20. And of the ten hornes that were in his head, and of the other, which came vp, and before whom three fell, euen of that horne that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose looke was more stout then his fellowes.
21. I beheld, and the same horne made warre with the Saints, and preuailed against them;
22. Untill the Ancient of daies came, and iudgment was giuen to the Saints of the most high: and the time came that the Saints possessed the kingdome.
23. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdome vpon earth, which shall be diuerse from all kingdomes, & shall deuoure the whole earth, and shall tread it downe, and breake it in pieces.
24. And the tenne hornes out of this kingdome are tenne Kings that shall arise: and an other shall rise after them, and he shall be diuerse from the first, and he shall subdue three Kings.
25. And he shall speake great words against the most high, and shall weare out the Saints of the most high, and thinke to change times, and lawes: and they shall be giuen into his hand, vntill a time and times, & the diuiding of time.
26. But the iudgement shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume, and to destroy it vnto the end.
27. And the kingdome and dominion, and the greatnesse of the kingdome vnder the whole heauen, shall be giuen to the people of the Saints of the most high, whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and all dominions shall serue and obey him.
28. Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
1. In the third yeere of the reigne of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared vnto mee, euen vnto me Daniel, after that which appeared vnto me at the first.
2. And I saw in a vision (and it came to passe when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the prouince of Elam) and I saw in a vision, and I was by the riuer of Ulai.
3. Then I lifted vp mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the riuer, a ramme which had two hornes, and the two hornes were high: but one was higher then the other, and the higher came vp last.
4. I saw the ramme pushing Westward, & Northward, and Southward: so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliuer out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and became great.
5. And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came fro the west on the face of the whole earth, & touched not the ground: and the goate had a notable horne betweene his eyes.
6. And he came to the ramme that had two hornes, which I had seene standing before the riuer, and ranne vnto him in the furie of his power.
7. And I saw him come close vnto the ramme, and he was mooued with choler against him, and smote the ramme, and brake his two hornes, and there was no power in the ramme to stand before him, but he cast him downe to the ground, and stamped vpon him, and there was none that could deliuer the ramme out of his hand.
8. Therefore the hee goate waxed very great, and when he was strong, the great horne was broken: and for it came vp foure notable ones, toward the foure windes of heauen.
9. And out of one of them came forth a litle horne, which waxed exceeding great, toward the South, and toward the East, and toward the pleasant land.
10. And it waxed great euen to the hoste of heauen, and it cast downe some of the hoste, and of the starres to the ground, and stamped vpon them.
11. Yea he magnified himselfe euen to the prince of the hoste, and by him the dayly sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his Sanctuary was cast down.
12. And an hoste was giuen him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast downe the trueth to the ground, and it practised, and prospered.
13. Then I heard one Saint speaking, and another Saint saide vnto that certaine Saint which spake, How long shall bee the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to giue both the Sanctuary, and the hoste to be troden vnder foot?
14. And he said vnto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred dayes: then shall the Sanctuary be clensed.
15. And it came to passe, when I, euen I Daniel had seene the vision, and sought for the meaning, then beholde, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
16. And I heard a mans voyce betweene the bankes of Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, make this man to vnderstand the vision.
17. So he came neere where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell vpon my face: but he said vnto mee, Understand, O sonne of man: for at the time of the end shalbe the vision.
18. Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deepe sleepe on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me vpright.
19. And he said, Behold, I wil make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shalbe.
20. The ramme which thou sawest hauing two hornes, are the kings of Media, and Persia.
21. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horne that is betweene his eyes, is the first king.
22. Now that being broken, whereas foure stood vp for it, foure kingdomes shall stand vp out of the nation, but not in his power.
23. And in the latter time of their kingdome, when the transgressours are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and vnderstanding darke sentences, shall stand vp.
24. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his owne power: and hee shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mightie, and the holy people.
25. And through his policie also hee shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and hee shall magnifie himselfe in his heart, and by peace shal destroy many: he shall also stand vp against the prince of princes, but he shalbe broken without hand.
26. And the vision of the euening, and the morning, which was tolde, is true: wherfore shut thou vp the vision, for it shalbe for many dayes.
27. And I Daniel fainted and was sicke certaine dayes: afterward I rose vp and did the kings businesse, and I was astonished at the vision, but none vnderstood it.
1. In the first yeere of Darius the sonne of Ahasuerus, of the seede of the Medes, which was made King ouer the realme of the Caldeans,
2. In the first yeere of his reigne, I Daniel vnderstood by bookes the number of the yeeres, whereof the word of the Lord came to Ieremiah the Prophet, that he would accomplish seuentie yeeres in the desolations of Ierusalem.
3. And I set my face vnto the Lord God to seeke by prayer, and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
4. And I prayed vnto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said; O Lord, the great and dreadfull God, keeping the couenant, and mercy to them that loue him, and to them that keepe his Commandements:
5. We haue sinned, and haue committed iniquitie, and haue done wickedly, and haue rebelled, euen by departing from thy precepts, and from thy iudgements.
6. Neither haue we hearkened vnto thy seruants the Prophets, which spake in thy Name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7. O Lord, righteousnes belongeth vnto thee, but vnto vs confusion of faces, as at this day: to the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and vnto all Israel that are neere, and that are farre off, through all the countreys whither thou hast driuen them, because of their trespasse, that they haue trespassed against thee.
8. O Lord, to vs belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we haue sinned against thee.
9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiuenesses, though we haue rebelled against him.
10. Neither haue we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walke in his Lawes which he set before vs, by his seruants the Prophets.
11. Yea, all Israel haue transgressed thy Law, euen by departing, that they might not obey thy voice, therefore the curse is powred vpon vs, and the othe that is written in the Law of Moses the seruant of God, because we haue sinned against him.
12. And he hath confirmed his words which he spake against vs, and against our Iudges that iudged vs, by bringing vpon vs a great euill: for vnder the whole heauen hath not bene done, as hath bene done vpon Ierusalem.
13. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this euill is come vpon vs: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turne from our iniquities, and vnderstand thy trueth.
14. Therefore hath the Lord watched vpon the euil, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his workes, which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15. And now O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renowne, as at this day, wee haue sinned, wee haue done wickedly.
16. O Lord, according to all thy righteousnes, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy furie bee turned away from thy citie Ierusalem, thy holy Mountaine: because for our sinnes, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Ierusalem and thy people are become a reproch to all that are about vs.
17. Now therefore, O our God, heare the prayer of thy seruant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine vpon thy Sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lords sake.
18. O my God, encline thine eare and heare: open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, & the city, which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
19. O Lord heare, O Lord forgiue, O Lord hearken and doe: deferre not for thine owne sake, O my God: for thy citie, & thy people are called by thy Name.
20. And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sinne, and the sinne of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God, for the holy Mountaine of my God:
21. Yea whiles I was speaking in praier, euen the man Gabriel, whom I had seene in the vision at the beginning, being caused to flie swiftly, touched me about the time of the euening oblation.
22. And he informed mee, and talked with mee, and said; O Daniel, I am now come foorth to giue thee skill and vnderstanding.
23. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandement came forth, and I am come to shew thee: for thou art greatly beloued: therefore vnderstand the matter, & consider the vision.
24. Seuentie weekes are determined vpon thy people, and vpon thy holy citie, to finish the transgression, and to make an ende of sinnes, and to make reconciliation for iniquitie, and to bring in euerlasting righteousnes, and to seale vp the vision and prophecie, and to anoynt the most Holy.
25. Know therefore and vnderstand, that from the going foorth of the commandement to restore and to build Ierusalem, vnto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seuen weekes; and threescore and two weekes, the street shall be built againe, and the wall, euen in troublous times.
26. And after threescore and two weekes, shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himselfe, and the people of the Prince that shall come, shall destroy the citie, and the Sanctuarie, and the ende thereof shall be with a flood, and vnto the ende of the warre desolations are determined.
27. And hee shall confirme the couenant with many for one weeke: and in the midst of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the ouerspreading of abominations hee shall make it desolate, euen vntill the consummation, & that determined, shalbe powred vpon the desolate.
1. In the third yere of Cyrus King of Persia, a thing was reuealed vnto Daniel (whose name was called Belteshazzar) and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long, and he vnderstood the thing, and had vnderstanding of the vision.
2. In those dayes, I Daniel was mourning three full weekes.
3. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh, nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoynt my selfe at all, till three whole weekes were fulfilled.
4. And in the foure and twentieth day of the first moneth, as I was by the side of the great riuer, which is Hiddekel:
5. Then I lift vp mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certaine man clothed in linen, whose loynes were girded with fine gold of Uphaz.
6. His body also was like the Berill, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lampes of fire, and his armes, and his feete like in colour to polished brasse, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
7. And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with mee saw not the vision: but a great quaking fell vpon them, so that they fled to hide themselues.
8. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comelinesse was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
9. Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his wordes, then was I in a deepe sleepe on my face, and my face toward the ground.
10. And behold, an hand touched me, which set me vpon my knees, and vpon the palmes of my hands.
11. And hee said vnto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloued, vnderstand the wordes that I speake vnto thee, and stand vpright: for vnto thee am I now sent; and when he had spoken this word vnto me, I stood trembling.
12. Then sayd hee vnto me; Feare not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou diddest set thine heart to vnderstand, and to chasten thy selfe before thy God, thy wordes were heard, and I am come for thy words.
13. But the prince of the kingdome of Persia withstood mee one and twentie dayes: but loe, Michael one of the chiefe Princes came to helpe mee, and I remained there with the Kings of Persia.
14. Now I am come to make thee vnderstand what shall befall thy people, in the latter dayes: for yet the vision is for many dayes.
15. And when hee had spoken such words vnto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumbe.
16. And behold, one like the similitude of the sonnes of men touched my lippes: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and sayd vnto him that stoode before me; O my Lord, by the vision my sorrowes are turned vpon me, and I haue retained no strength.
17. For how can the seruant of this my Lord, talke with this my Lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in mee, neither is there breath left in me.
18. Then there came againe and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthned me,
19. And said; O man greatly beloued, feare not: peace be vnto thee, be strong, yea be strong; and when he had spoken vnto me, I was strengthened, and said; Let my Lord speake; for thou hast strengthened me.
20. Then said hee, Knowest thou wherefore I come vnto thee? and now will I returne to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, loe, the prince of Grecia shall come.
21. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the Scripture of trueth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
1. Also I, in the first yeere of Darius the Mede, euen I stood to confirme and to strengthen him.
2. And now will I shew thee the trueth. Behold, there shall stand vp yet three Kings in Persia, & the fourth shalbe farre richer then they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stirre vp all against the realme of Grecia.
3. And a mighty King shal stand vp, that shall rule with great dominion, and doe according to his will.
4. And when he shall stand vp, his kingdome shall be broken, and shall be diuided toward the foure winds of heauen; and not to his posteritie, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdome shall be pluckt vp, euen for others besides those.
5. And the King of the South shall be strong, and one of his princes, and he shall be strong aboue him, and haue dominion: his dominion shall be a great dominion.
6. And in the end of yeeres they shall ioyne themselues together: for the Kings daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement, but she shall not retaine the power of the arme, neither shall he stand, nor his arme: but she shall be giuen vp, and they that brought her, and he that begate her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
7. But out of a branch of her rootes shall one stand vp in his estate, which shall come with an armie, and shall enter into the fortresse of the King of the North, and shall deale against them, and shall preuaile:
8. And shall also carie captiues into Egypt their gods with their princes, and with their precious vessels of siluer and of gold, and he shall continue moe yeeres then the King of the North.
9. So the King of the South shall come into his kingdome, and shall returne into his owne land.
10. But his sonnes shall be stirred vp, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come and ouerflow and passe through: then shall he returne, and be stirred vp euen to his fortresse.
11. And the King of the South shall be moued with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, euen with the King of the North: and hee shall set forth a great multitude, but the multitude shall be giuen into his hand.
12. And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted vp: and he shall cast downe many tenne thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.
13. For the King of the North shall returne, and shall set forth a multitude greater then the former, and shall certainly come (after certaine yeeres) with a great armie & with much riches.
14. And in those times there shall many stand vp against the King of the South: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselues to establish the vision, but they shall fall.
15. So the King of the North shall come, and cast vp a mount, and take the most fenced cities, and the armes of the South shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
16. But he that commeth against him, shall doe according to his owne will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
17. He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdome and vpright ones with him: thus shall he doe, and he shall giue him the daughter of women corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
18. After this shall he turne his face vnto the yles, and shall take many, but a prince for his own behalfe shall cause the reproch offred by him to cease without his owne reproch: he shall cause it to turne vpon him.
19. Then he shall turne his face towards the fort of his owne lande: but he shall stumble and fall, and not bee found.
20. Then shall stand vp in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdome, but within few dayes he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battell.
21. And in his estate shall stand vp a vile person, to whom they shal not giue the honour of the kingdome: but hee shall come in peaceably, and obtaine the kingdome by flatteries.
22. And with the armes of a flood shall they bee ouerflowen from before him, and shall be broken: yea also the prince of the couenant.
23. And after the league made with him he shall worke deceitfully, for hee shall come vp, and shall become strong with a small people.
24. He shall enter peaceably euen vpon the fattest places of the prouince, and he shall doe that which his fathers haue not done, nor his fathers fathers, he shall scatter among them the praye and spoile, and riches: yea and he shall forecast his deuices against the strong holdes, euen for a time.
25. And he shall stirre vp his power, and his courage against the king of the South with a great army, and the king of the South shall bee stirred vp to battell with a very great and mightie armie: but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast deuices against him.
26. Yea they that feede of the portion of his meate, shall destroy him, and his armie shall ouerflow: and many shall fall downe slaine.
27. And both these kings hearts shall be to doe mischiefe, and they shall speake lies at one table: but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall bee at the time appointed.
28. Then shall hee returne into his land with great riches, and his heart shall be against the holy couenant: and he shall doe exploits, and returne to his owne land.
29. At the time appointed he shall returne, and come toward the South: but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
30. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieued and returne, and haue indignation against the holy Couenant: so shal he doe, he shall euen returne, and haue intelligence with them that forsake the holy Couenant.
31. And armes shal stand on his part, and they shall pollute the Sanctuarie of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shal place the abomination that maketh desolate.
32. And such as doe wickedly against the couenant, shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God, shall be strong and doe exploits.
33. And they that vnderstand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captiuitie, and by spoile many dayes.
34. Now when they shall fall, they shalbe holpen with a litle help: but many shall cleaue to them with flatteries.
35. And some of them of vnderstanding shall fall, to trie them, and to purge, and to make them white, euen to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
36. And the king shall doe according to his will, and he shall exalt himselfe, and magnifie himselfe aboue euery god, and shall speake marueilous things against the God of gods, & shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined, shall be done.
37. Neither shall hee regard the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnifie himselfe aboue all.
38. But in his estate shall he honour the god of forces: and a God whome his fathers knew not, shall hee honour with gold, and siluer, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39. Thus shall hee doe in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule ouer many, and shall diuide the land for gaine.
40. And at the time of the end shall the king of the South push at him, and the king of the North shal come against him like a whirlewind with charets, and with horsemen, and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countreys, and shall ouerflow and passe ouer.
41. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countreys shall be ouerthrowen: but these shall escape out of his hand, euen Edom, and Moab, and the chiefe of the children of Ammon.
42. He shall stretch foorth his hand also vpon the countreys, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43. But he shall haue power ouer the treasures of gold and of siluer, and ouer all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shalbe at his steps.
44. But tidings out of the East, and out of the North shall trouble him: therefore he shall goe foorth with great fury to destroy, and vtterly to make away many.
45. And hee shall plant the tabernacles of his palace betweene the seas in the glorious holy mountaine, yet he shall come to his end, and none shall helpe him.
1. And at that time shall Michael stand vp, the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shalbe a time of trouble, such as neuer was since there was a nation, euen to that same time: and at that time thy people shalbe deliuered, euery one that shalbe found written in the booke.
2. And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to euerlasting life, and some to shame and euerlasting contempt.
3. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament, and they that turne many to righteousnesse, as the starres for euer and euer.
4. But thou, O Daniel, shut vp the wordes, and seale the booke euen to the time of the ende: many shall runne to and fro, and knowledge shall bee increased.
5. Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the banke of the riuer, and the other on that side of the banke of the riuer.
6. And one said to the man clothed in linnen, which was vpon the waters of the riuer; How long shall it bee to the end of these wonders?
7. And I heard the man clothed in linnen, which was vpon the waters of the riuer, when he held vp his right hand, and his left hand vnto heauen, and sware by him that liueth for euer, that it shalbe for a time, times, and an halfe: and when hee shall haue accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall bee finished.
8. And I heard, but I vnderstood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shalbe the end of these things?
9. And he said, Goe thy way, Daniel: for the wordes are closed vp and sealed till the time of the end.
10. Many shalbe purified, and made white and tried: but the wicked shall doe wickedly: and none of the wicked shall vnderstand, but the wise shall vnderstand.
11. And from the time that the dayly sacrifice shalbe taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set vp, there shalbe a thousand two hundred and ninetie dayes.
12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and commeth to the thousand, three hundred and fiue and thirtie dayes.
13. But goe thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in the lot at the end of the dayes.










































































































1. The word of the Lord that came vnto Hosea, the sonne of Beeri, in the dayes of Uzziah, Iotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kings of Iudah, and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash king of Israel.
2. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea: and the Lord sayd to Hosea, Goe, take vnto thee a wife of whoredomes, and children of whoredomes: for the land hath committed great whoredome, departing from the Lord.
3. So he went and tooke Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, which conceiued and bare him a sonne.
4. And the Lord said vnto him, Call his name Iezreel; for yet a little while, and I will auenge the blood of Iezreel vpon the house of Iehu, and will cause to cease the kingdome of the house of Israel.
5. And it shall come to passe at that day, that I will breake the bow of Israel in the valley of Iezreel.
6. And shee conceiued againe and bare a daughter, and God sayd vnto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more haue mercy vpon the house of Israel: but I will vtterly take them away.
7. But I will haue mercy vpon the house of Iudah, and will saue them by the Lord their God, and will not saue them by vow, nor by sword, nor by battell, by horses nor by horsemen.
8. Now when shee had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she couceiued and bare a sonne.
9. Then sayde God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for yee are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot bee measured nor numbred, and it shall come to passe, that in the place where it was said vnto them, Yee are not my people, there it shall be said vnto them, Ye are the sonnes of the liuing God.
11. Then shall the children of Iudah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselues one head, and they shall come vp out of the land: for great shalbe the day of Iezreel.
1. Say ye vnto your brethren, Ammi, & to your sisters, Ruhamah:
2. Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordomes out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts;
3. Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernesse, and set her like a drie land, and slay her with thirst.
4. And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.
5. For their mother hath played the harlot: shee that conceiued them hath done shamefully: for shee sayd, I will goe after my louers, that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle, and my drinke.
6. Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.
7. And she shall follow after her louers, but she shall not ouertake them, and she shall seeke them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband, for then was it better with me then now.
8. For she did not know that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
9. Therefore will I returne, and take away my Corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and wil recouer my wooll and my flaxe giuen to couer her nakednesse.
10. And now will I discouer her lewdnesse in the sight of her louers, and none shall deliuer her out of mine hand.
11. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her new moones, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemne feasts.
12. And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath said; These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen me: and I will make them a forrest, and the beasts of the field shall eate them.
13. And I will visite vpon her the daies of Baalim, wherein she burnt incense to them, and she decked her selfe with her eare-rings, and her Iewels, and she went after her louers, and forgate me, saith the Lord.
14. Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake comfortably vnto her.
15. And I wil giue her, her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a doore of hope, and she shall sing there, as in the dayes of her youth, and as in the day when she came vp out of the land of Egypt.
16. And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call mee Ishi; and shalt call mee no more Baali.
17. For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, & they shal no more be remembred by their name.
18. And in that day will I make a couenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the foules of heauen, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will breake the bow and the sword, and the battell out of the earth, and will make them to lie downe safely.
19. And I will betroth thee vnto me for euer; yea, I will betroth thee vnto me in righteousnesse, and in iudgement, and in louing kindnesse, and in mercies.
20. I will euen betroth thee vnto me in faithfulnesse, and thou shalt know the Lord.
21. And it shall come to passe in that day, I will heare, saith the Lord, I will heare the heauens, and they shall heare the earth,
22. And the earth shall heare the corne, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Iezreel.
23. And I will sow her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercy vpon her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people; Thou art my people, and they shallsay, Thou art my God.
1. Then said the Lord vnto me, Goe yet, loue a woman (beloued of her friend, yet an adulteresse) according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who looke to other gods, and loue flagons of wine.
2. So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barley and an halfe homer of barley.
3. And I said vnto her, Thou shalt abide for me many dayes, thou shalt not play the harlot, & thou shalt not be for an other man, so will I also be for thee.
4. For the children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a King, and without a Prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an Ephod, and without Teraphim.
5. Afterward shall the children of Israel returne, and seeke the Lord their God, and Dauid their King, and shall feare the Lord, and his goodnesse in the latter dayes.
1. Heare the worde of the Lord, yee children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no trueth, nor mercie, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adulterie, they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.
3. Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beastes of the field, and with the foules of heauen, yea the fishes of the Sea also shall be taken away.
4. Yet let no man striue, nor reproue another: for this people are as they that striue with the priest.
5. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast reiected knowledge, I will also reiect thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God, I wil also forget thy children.
7. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therfore wil I change their glory into shame.
8. They eate vp the sinne of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquitie.
9. And there shall be like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their wayes, and reward them their doings.
10. For they shall eate, and not haue enough: they shall commit whordome, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heed to the Lord.
11. Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away the heart.
12. My people aske counsel at their stocks, and their staffe declareth vnto them: for the spirit of whordomes hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder their God.
13. They sacrifice vpon the tops of the mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder okes and poplars, and elmes, because the shadowe thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredome, and your spouses shall commit adulterie.
14. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whordome, nor your spouses when they commit adulterie: for themselues are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therfore the people that doth not vnderstand, shall fall.
15. Though thou Israel play the harlot, yet let not Iudah offend, and come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither goe ye vp to Beth-auen, nor sweare, The Lord liueth:
16. For Israel slideth backe, as a backe sliding heifer: now the Lord will feede them as a lambe in a large place.
17. Ephraim is ioyned to idoles: let him alone.
18. Their drinke is sowre: they haue committed whordome continually: her rulers with shame doe loue, Giue ye.
19. The wind hath bound her vp in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
1. Heare yee this, O priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and giue yee eare, O house of the king: for iudgement is toward you, because yee haue beene a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread vpon Tabor.
2. And the reuolters are profound to make slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whordome, and Israel is defiled.
4. They will not frame their doings to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of whoredomes is in the midst of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.
5. And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Iudah also shall fall with them.
6. They shall goe with their flocks, and with their heards to seeke the Lord: but they shall not finde him, he hath withdrawen himselfe from them.
7. They haue dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they haue begotten strange children, now shall a moneth deuoure them with their portions.
8. Blow yee the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry alowd at Beth-auen: after thee, O Beniamin.
9. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I made knowen that which shall surely be.
10. The Princes of Iudah were like them that remooue the bound: therefore I will powre out my wrath vpon them like water.
11. Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in iudgement: because he willingly walked after the commandement.
12. Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth: and to the house of Iudah as rottennesse.
13. When Ephraim saw his sicknesse, and Iudah saw his wound: then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Iareb; yet could he not heale you, nor cure you of your wound.
14. For I will bee vnto Ephraim as a Lion, and as a yong Lion to the house of Iudah: I, euen I wil teare and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
15. I will goe and returne to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seeke my face: in their affliction they will seeke me early.
1. Come, and let vs returne vnto the Lord: for hee hath torne, and hee will heale vs: he hath smitten, and he will binde vs vp.
2. After two daies will he reuiue vs, in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight.
3. Then shal we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared, as the morning; & he shall come vnto vs, as the raine; as the latter and former raine vnto the earth.
4. O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, what shall I do vnto thee? For your goodnesse is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5. Therefore haue I shewed them by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements are as the light that goeth foorth.
6. For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more then burnt offerings.
7. But they like men haue transgressed the Couenant: there haue they dealt treacherously against me.
8. Gilead is a city of them that worke iniquitie; and is polluted with blood.
9. And as troupes of robbers waite for a man, so the company of priestes murther in the way by consent: for they commit lewdnesse.
10. I haue seene an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredome of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11. Also O Iudah, hee hath set an haruest for thee, when I returned the captiuitie of my people.
1. When I would haue healed Israel, then the iniquitie of Ephraim was discouered, and the wickednesse of Samaria: for they commit falsehood: and the thiefe commeth in, and the troupe of robbers spoileth without.
2. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember al their wickednesse: now their owne doings haue beset them about, they are before my face.
3. They make the king glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.
4. They are al adulterers, as an ouen heated by the baker: who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, vntill it be leauened.
5. In the day of our King, the princes haue made him sicke with bottels of wine, he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6. For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7. They are all hot as an ouen, and haue deuoured their Iudges; all their Kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth vnto me.
8. Ephraim, he hath mixed himselfe among the people, Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9. Strangers haue deuoured his strength, and hee knoweth it not: yea, gray haires are here and there vpon him, yet he knoweth not.
10. And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they doe not returne to the Lord their God, nor seeke him for all this.
11. Ephraim also is like a silly doue, without heart: they call to Egypt; they goe to Assyria.
12. When they shall goe, I wil spread my net vpon them, I will bring them downe as the foules of the heauen: I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard.
13. Woe vnto them, for they haue fled from me: destruction vnto them, because they haue transgressed against me, though I haue redeemed them, yet they haue spoken lies against me.
14. And they haue not cryed vnto me with their heart, when they howled vpon their beds: they assemble themselues for corne and wine, and they rebell against me.
15. Though I haue bound, and strengthened their armes, yet doe they imagine mischiefe against me.
16. They returne, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitfull bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
1. Set the Trumpet to thy mouth: hee shall come as an Eagle against the house of the Lord, because they haue transgressed my Couenant, and trespassed against my Lawe.
2. Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.
3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.
4. They haue set vp Kings, but not by me: they haue made Princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their golde haue they made them idoles, that they may be cut off.
5. Thy calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it bee ere they attaine to innocencie?
6. For from Israel was it also, the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7. For they haue sowen the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewinde: it hath no stalke: the budde shall yeeld no meale: if so be it yeeld, the strangers shall swallow it vp.
8. Israel is swallowed vp, now shal they be among the Gentiles, as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.
9. For they are gone vp to Assyria, a wilde Asse alone by himselfe; Ephraim hath hired louers.
10. Yea, though they haue hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the King of princes.
11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, altars shall be vnto him to sinne.
12. I haue written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13. They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it; but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shal returne to Egypt.
14. For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth temples; and Iudah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
1. Reioyce not, O Israel, for ioy as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loued a reward vpon euery corne floore.
2. The floore and the winepresse shall not feede them, and the new wine shall faile in her.
3. They shal not dwel in ye Lords land: but Ephraim shall returne to Egypt, and they shall eat vncleane things in Assyria.
4. They shall not offer wine offrings to the Lord: neither shall they be pleasing vnto him: their sacrifices shalbe vnto them as the bread of mourners: all that eate thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soule shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5. What will yee doe in the solemne day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord ?
6. For loe they are gone, because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them vp, Memphis shall burie them: the pleasant places for their siluer, netles shal possesse them: thornes shall be in their Tabernacles.
7. The dayes of visitation are come, the dayes of recompence are come, Israel shall know it; the Prophet is a foole, the spirituall man is madde, for the multitude of thine iniquitie and the great hatred.
8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the Prophet is a snare of a fouler in all his wayes, and hatred in the house of his God.
9. They haue deeply corrupted themselues as in the dayes of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquitie, he will visite their sinnes.
10. I found Israel like grapes in the wildernesse: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselues vnto that shame, and their abominations were according as they loued.
11. As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth and from the wombe, and from the conception.
12. Though they bring vp their children, yet wil I bereaue them that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them.
13. Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring foorth his children to the murderer.
14. Giue them, O Lord: what wilt thou giue? giue them a miscarying wombe, and drie breasts.
15. All their wickednesse is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickednesse of their doings I will driue them out of mine house, I will loue them no more: all their princes are reuolters.
16. Ephraim is smitten, their roote is dried vp, they shall beare no fruite: yea though they bring foorth, yet wil I slay euen the beloued fruite of their wombe.
17. My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken vnto him: and they shalbe wanderers among the nations.
1. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruite vnto himselfe: according to the multitude of his fruite, he hath increased the altars, according to the goodnesse of his land, they haue made goodly images.
2. Their heart is diuided: now shall they be found faultie: hee shall breake downe their altars: he shall spoile their images.
3. For now they shall say, We haue no King, because we feared not the Lord, What then should a King doe to vs?
4. They haue spoken words, swearing falsely in making a couenant: thus iudgement springeth vp as hemlocke in the furrowes of the field.
5. The inhabitants of Samaria shall feare, because of the calues of Bethauen: for the people thereof shall mourne ouer it, and the priests thereof that reioyced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
6. It shall be also caried vnto Assyria for a present to King Iareb: Ephraim shall receiue shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his owne counsell.
7. As for Samaria, her King is cut off as the fome vpon the water.
8. The high places also of Auen, the sinne of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorne and the thistle shall come vp on their altars; and they shall say to the mountaines, Couer vs; and to the hilles, Fall on vs.
9. O Israel, thou hast sinned from the dayes of Gibeah: there they stood: the battell in Gibeah against the children of iniquitie did not ouertake them.
10. It is in my desire that I should chastise them, and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselues in their two furrowes.
11. And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught and loueth to tread out the corne, but I passed ouer vpon her faire necke: I will make Ephraim to ride: Iudah shall plow, and Iacob shall breake his clods.
12. Sow to your selues in righteousnesse, reape in mercie: breake vp your fallow ground: for it is time to seeke the Lord, till he come and raine righteousnesse vpon you.
13. Ye haue plowed wickednesse, yee haue reaped iniquitie, ye haue eaten the fruite of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mightie men.
14. Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall bee spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battell: the mother was dashed in pieces vpon her children.
15. So shall Bethel doe vnto you, because of your great wickednesse: in a morning shall the king of Israel be vtterly cut off.
1. When Israel was a childe, then I loued him, and called my sonne out of Egypt.
2. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed vnto Baalim, and burnt incense to grauen images.
3. I taught Ephraim also to goe, taking them by their armes: but they knew not that I healed them.
4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of loue, and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their iawes, and I laid meat vnto them.
5. He shall not returne into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to returne
6. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and deuoure them, because of their own counsels.
7. And my people are bent to backesliding from mee: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
8. How shall I giue thee vp, Ephraim? how shall I deliuer thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within mee, my repentings are kindled together.
9. I will not execute the fiercenes of mine anger, I will not returne to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the citie.
10. They shal walke after the Lord: he shall roare like a lyon: when he shall roare, then the children shall tremble from the West.
11. They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a doue out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord.
12. Ephraim compasseth mee about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Iudah yet ruleth with God, and is faithfull with the Saints.
1. Ephraim feedeth on winde, and followeth after the East winde: hee daily increaseth lies and desolation, and they doe make a couenant with the Assyrians, and oyle is caried into Egypt.
2. The Lord hath also a controuersie with Iudah, and will punish Iacob according to his wayes, according to his doings will he recompense him.
3. Hee tooke his brother by the heele in the wombe, and by his strength he had power with God.
4. Yea, he had power ouer the Angel and preuailed: hee wept and made supplication vnto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with vs.
5. Euen the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memoriall.
6. Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and wait on thy God continually.
7. He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: hee loueth to oppresse.
8. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I haue found mee out substance: in all my labours they shall finde none iniquitie in mee, that were sinne.
9. And I that am the Lord thy God from the lande of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the dayes of the solemne feast.
10. I haue also spoken by the prophets, and I haue multiplied visions, and vsed similitudes, by the ministerie of the prophets.
11. Is there iniquitie in Gilead? surely they are vanitie, they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal, yea their altars are as heapes in the furrowes of the fields.
12. And Iacob fled into the countrey of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheepe.
13. And by a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he preserued.
14. Ephraim prouoked him to anger, most bitterly: therefore shall he leaue his blood vpon him, and his reproch shall his Lord returne vnto him.
1. When Ephraim spake, trembling, he exalted himselfe in Israel, but, when he offended in Baal, he died.
2. And now they sinne more and more, and haue made them molten images of their siluer, and idoles according to their owne vnderstanding, all of it the worke of the craftesmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice, kisse the calues.
3. Therefore they shalbe as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it passeth away, as the chaffe that is driuen with a whirlewinde out of the floore, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
4. Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God, but me: for there is no sauiour beside me.
5. I did know thee in the wildernesse, in the land of great drought.
6. According to their pasture, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore haue they forgotten me.
7. Therefore I will bee vnto them as a Lion, as a Leopard by the way will I obserue them.
8. I will meet them as a beare that is bereaued of her whelpes, and will rent the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a Lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.
9. O Israel, thou hast destroied thy selfe, but in me is thine helpe.
10. I will be thy King: where is any other that may saue thee in all thy cities? and thy Iudges of whom thou saidst, Giue me a King and Princes?
11. I gaue thee a king in mine anger, and tooke him away in my wrath.
12. The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound vp: his sinne is hid.
13. The sorrowes of a traueiling woman shall come vpon him, he is an vnwise sonne, for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking foorth of children.
14. I will ransome them from the power of the graue: I will redeeme them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O graue, I will be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
15. Though he be fruitfull among his brethren, an East winde shall come, the winde of the Lord shall come vp from the wildernesse, and his spring shall become drie, and his fountaine shalbe dried vp: he shall spoile the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
16. Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, and their women with childe shalbe ript vp.

1. O Israel, returne vnto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie.
2. Take with you words, and turne to the Lord, say vnto him, Take away all iniquitie, and receiue vs graciously: so will wee render the calues of our lips.
3. Asshur shall not saue vs, we will not ride vpon horses, neither will wee say any more to the work of our hands, Yee are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.
4. I will heale their backsliding, I will loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5. I wil be as the dew vnto Israel: hee shall grow as the lillie, and cast foorth his rootes as Lebanon.
6. His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7. They that dwell vnder his shadow shall returne: they shall reuiue as the corne, & grow as the vine, the sent thereof shalbe as the wine of Lebanon.
8. Ephraim shall say, What haue I to doe any more with idoles? I haue heard him, and obserued him: I am like a greene firre tree, from me is thy fruite found.
9. Who is wise, and hee shall vnderstand these things? prudent, and hee shall know them? for the wayes of the Lord are right, and the iust shall walke in them: but the transgressours shall fall therein.
1. The word of the Lord that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.
2. Heare this, yee olde men, and giue eare, all yee inhabitants of the lande: Hath this been in your dayes, or euen in the dayes of your fathers?
3. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4. That which the palmer worme hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worme eaten; and that which the canker-worme hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten.
5. Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all yee drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
6. For a nation is come vp vpon my lande, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the cheeke-teeth of a great lyon.
7. He hath laide my vine waste: and barked my figge-tree: hee hath made it cleane bare, and cast it away, the branches thereof are made white.
8. Lament like a virgine girded with sackecloth for the husband of her youth.
9. The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the Lord, the Priestes the Lords ministers mourne.
10. The field is wasted, the lande mourneth; for the corne is wasted: the new wine is dried vp, the oyle languisheth.
11. Be yee ashamed, O yee husbandmen: howle, O yee vine-dressers, for the wheate and for the barley; because the haruest of the field is perished.
12. The vine is dried vp, and the figgetree languisheth, the pomegranate tree, the palme tree also and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the field are withered: because ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.
13. Gird your selues, and lament, yee Priests: howle, ye ministers of the Altar: come, lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drinke offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14. Sanctifie yee a fast: call a solemne assembly: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry vnto the Lord:
15. Alas for the day: for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almightie shall it come.
16. Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God?
17. The seede is rotten vnder their clods: the garners are laide desolate: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
18. How doe the beastes grone? the heards of cattell are perplexed, because they haue no pasture, yea the flockes of sheepe are made desolate.
19. O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field.
20. The beasts of the field crie also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse.
1. Blow yee the trumpet in Zion, & sound an alarme in my holy mountaine: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nie at hand;
2. A day of darkenesse and of gloominesse, a day of clouds and of thicke darkenesse, as the morning spread vpon the mountaines: a great people and a strong, there hath not beene euer the like, neither shall be any more after it, euen to the yeres of many generations.
3. A fire deuoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wildernes, yea and nothing shall escape them.
4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horse men, so shall they runne.
5. Like the noise of charets on the tops of mountaines shall they leape, like the noise of a flame of fire that deuoureth the stubble, as a strong people, set in battell aray.
6. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blacknesse.
7. They shall runne like mighty men, they shall clime the wall like men of warre, and they shall march euery one on his wayes, and they shall not breake their rankes.
8. Neither shall one thrust another, they shall walke euery one in his path: and when they fall vpon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9. They shall runne to and fro in the citie: they shall runne vpon the wall: they shall clime vp vpon the houses: they shall enter in at the windowes, like a theefe.
10. The earth shall quake before them, the heauens shall tremble, the Sun & the Moone shall be darke, & the starres shall withdrawe their shining.
11. And the Lord shall vtter his voyce before his armie, for his campe 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?
12. Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turne yee euen to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
13. And rent your heart and not your garments; and turne vnto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnesse, and repenteth him of the euill.
14. Who knoweth if he will returne and repent, and leaue a blessing behind him, euen a meate offring and a drinke offring vnto the Lord your God?
15. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly.
16. Gather the people: sanctifie the congregation: assemble the elders: gather the children, and those that sucke the breasts: let the bridegroome goe forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weepe betweene the porch and the altar, & let them say; Spare thy people O Lord, and giue not thine heritage to reproch; that the heathen should rule ouer them: Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18. Then will the Lord be iealous for his land, and pitie his people.
19. Yea the Lord will answere and say vnto his people; Behold, I will send you corne and wine, and oyle, and yee shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproch among the heathen.
20. But I will remoue farre off from you the northren armie, & will driue him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the East sea, and his hinder part towards the vtmost Sea, and his stinke shall come vp, and his ill sauour shall come vp, because he hath done great things.
21. Feare not, O land, be glad and reioyce: for the Lord will doe great things.
22. Be not afraid, yee beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wildernesse doe spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine doe yeeld their strength.
23. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and reioyce in the Lord your God: for he hath giuen you the former raine moderately, and he will cause to come downe for you the raine, the former raine, & the latter raine in the first month.
24. And the floores shall bee full of wheate, and the fats shall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.
25. And I will restore to you the yeeres that the locust hath eaten, the canker worme, and the caterpiller, and the palmer worme, my great armie which I sent among you.
26. And ye shall eate in plentie, and be satisfied, and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wonderously with you: and my people shall neuer be ashamed.
27. And ye shal know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall neuer be ashamed.
28. And it shall come to passe afterward, that I will powre out my Spirit vpon all flesh, and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie, your old men shall dreame dreames, your yong men shall see visions.
29. And also vpon the seruants, and vpon the handmaids in those dayes will I powre out my Spirit.
30. And I will shew wonders in the heauens, and in the earth, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31. The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.
32. And it shall come to passe that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shall bee deliuered: for in mount Zion and in Ierusalem shalbe deliuerance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant, whom the Lord shall call.
1. For behold, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
2. I wil also gather all nations, and will bring them downe into the valley of Iehoshaphat, and wil plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they haue scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3. And they haue cast lots for my people, and haue giuen a boy for a harlot, and solde a girle for wine, that they might drinke.
4. Yea and what haue ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render mee a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I returne your recompense vpon your owne head.
5. Because yee haue taken my siluer and my gold, and haue caried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
6. The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue ye sold vnto the Grecians, that yee might remoue them farre from their border.
7. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither yee haue sold them, and wil returne your recompence vpon your owne head.
8. And I will sell your sonnes and your daughters into the hande of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people farre off, for the Lord hath spoken it.
9. Proclaime ye this among the gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men, let all the men of warre draw neere, let them come vp.
10. Beate your plowe shares into swords, and your pruning hookes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong.
11. Assemble your selues, and come all ye heathen, and gather your selues together round about: thither cause thy mightie ones to come downe, O Lord.
12. Let the heathen be wakened, and come vp to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen round about.
13. Put ye in the sickle, for the haruest is ripe, come, get you downe, for the presse is full, the fats ouerflowe, for the wickednesse is great.
14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for ye day of the Lord is neere in the valley of decision.
15. The Sunne and the Moone shall be darkened, and the starres shall withdraw their shining.
16. The Lord also shal roare out of Zion, and vtter his voice from Ierusalem, and the heauens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy Mountaine: then shall Ierusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers passe through her any more.
18. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the mountaines shal drop downe new wine, and the hils shall flow with milke, and all the riuers of Iudah shall flow with waters, and a fountaine shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wildernes, for the violence against the children of Iudah, because they haue shed innocent blood in their land.
20. But Iudah shall dwell for euer, and Ierusalem from generation to generation.
21. For I wil cleanse their blood, that I haue not cleansed, for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
1. The wordes of Amos, who was among the heardmen of Tekoa, which hee sawe concerning Israel, in the daies of Uzziah King of Iudah, and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash king of Israel, two yere before the earthquake.
2. And he said, The Lord will roare from Zion, and vtter his voice from Ierusalem: and the habitations of the shepheards shall mourne, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
3. Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they haue threshed Gilead, with threshing instruments of yron.
4. But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall deuoure the palaces of Benhadad.
5. I wil breake also the barre of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plaine of Auen: and him that holdeth the scepter from the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall goe into captiuitie, vnto Kir, saith the Lord.
6. Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Gaza, and for foure I will not turne away the punishment thereof: because they caried away captiue the whole captiuitie, to deliuer them vp to Edom.
7. But I wil send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
8. And I wil cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and I wil turne mine hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
9. Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they deliuered vp the whole captiuitie to Edom, and remembred not the brotherly couenant.
10. But I wil send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
11. Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Edom, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof, because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pitie, and his anger did teare perpetually, and kept his wrath for euer.
12. But I will send a fire vpon Teman, which shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.
13. Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue ript vp the women with childe of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
14. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with showting in the day of battell, with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde.
15. And their king shall goe into captiuitie, hee, and his princes together, sayth the Lord.
1. Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because hee burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime.
2. But I will send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
3. And I will cut off the iudge from the middest thereof, and wil slay all the princes thereof with him, sayeth the Lord.
4. Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Iudah, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue despised the Law of the Lord, and haue not kept his Commandements, and their lies caused them to erre, after the which their fathers haue walked.
5. But I will send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.
6. Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they solde the righteous for siluer, and the poore for a paire of shooes:
7. That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poore, and turne aside the way of the meeke; and a man and his father will goe in vnto the same maid, to profane my holy Name.
8. And they lay themselues downe vpon clothes laide to pledge, by euery Altar, and they drinke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.
9. Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the Cedars, and hee was strong as the okes, yet I destroyed his fruite from aboue, and his rootes from beneath.
10. Also I brought you vp from the land of Egypt, and ledde you fourtie yeeres through the wildernesse, to possesse the land of the Amorite.
11. And I raised vp of your sonnes for Prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not euen thus, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord ?
12. But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commaunded the Prophets, saying, Prophecie not.
13. Behold, I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is ful of sheaues.
14. Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie deliuer himselfe:
15. Neither shall hee stand that handleth the bow, and hee that is swift of foote, shall not deliuer himselfe, neither shall hee that rideth the horse, deliuer himselfe.
16. And hee that is couragious among the mighty, shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
1. Heare this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family, which I brought vp from the land of Egypt, saying;
2. You onely haue I knowen of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3. Can two walke together, except they be agreed?
4. Will a lyon roare in the forrest, when he hath no pray? will a young lyon cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?
5. Can a bird fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no ginne is for him? shall one take vp a snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?
6. Shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people not be afraid? shall there be euill in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?
7. Surely the Lord God will doe nothing, but he reuealeth his secret vnto his seruants the Prophets.
8. The lyon hath roared, Who will not feare? the Lord God hath spoken, Who can but prophecie?
9. Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say; Assemble your selues vpon the mountaines of Samaria: and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
10. For they know not to doe right, saith the Lord; who store vp violence, and robberie in their palaces.
11. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersarie there shall be euen round about the land: and he shal bring downe thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
12. Thus saith the Lord, As the shepheard taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges or a piece of an eare; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
13. Heare yee and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes;
14. That in the day that I shall visite the transgressions of Israel vpon him, I will also visite the altars of Bethel, and the hornes of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
15. And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of yuorie shall perish, and the great houses shall haue an end, saith the Lord.
1. Heare this word yea kine of Bashan, that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, which crush the needy, which say to their masters; Bring, and let vs drinke.
2. The Lord God hath sworne by his holinesse, that loe, the dayes shall come vpon you, that he will take you away with hookes, and your posteritie with fish-hookes.
3. And yee shall goe out at the breaches, euery Cow at that which is before her, and yee shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.
4. Come to Bethel and transgresse, at Gilgal multiplie transgression; and bring your sacrifices euery morning, and your tithes after three yeeres.
5. And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiuing with leauen, and proclaime and publish the free offrings; for this liketh you, O yee children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6. And I also haue giuen you cleannesse of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.
7. And also I haue withholden the raine from you, when there were yet three moneths to the haruest, and I caused it to raine vpon one citie, and caused it not to raine vpon an other city: one piece was rained vpon, & the piece wherupon it rained not, withered.
8. So two or three cities wandered vnto one citie, to drinke water; but they were not satisfied: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.
9. I haue smitten you with blasting and mildew; when your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your oliue trees increased, the palmer worme deuoured them: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.
10. I haue sent among you the pestilence, after the maner of Egypt: your yongmen haue I slain with the sword, and haue taken away your horses, & I haue made the stinke of your campes to come vp vnto your nostrils, yet haue ye not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.
11. I haue ouerthrowen some of you, as God ouerthrew Sodome & Gomorrah, and yee were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.
12. Therefore thus will I doe vnto thee, O Israel: and because I will doe this vnto thee, prepare to meete thy God, O Israel.
13. For loe, he that formeth the mountaines, and createth the wind, and declareth vnto man, what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkenesse, and treadeth vpon the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of hostes is his Name.
1. Heare ye this word which I take vp against you, euen a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2. The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise: she is forsaken vpon her land, there is none to raise her vp.
3. For thus saith the Lord God, The citie that went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundred, and that which went foorth by an hundred, shall leaue ten to the house of Israel.
4. For thus saith the Lord vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye mee, and ye shall liue.
5. But seeke not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal and passe not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely goe into captiuitie, and Bethel shal come to nought.
6. Seeke the Lord, and ye shall liue, lest hee breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph and deuoure it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel,
7. Ye who turne iudgment to wormwood, and leaue off righteousnesse in the earth:
8. Seeke him that maketh the seuen starres and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day darke with night: that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth: the Lord is his Name.
9. That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong: so that the spoiled shall come against the fortresse.
10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate: and they abhorre him that speaketh vprightly.
11. Forasmuch therfore as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: yee haue planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.
12. For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take a bribe, and they turne aside the poore in the gate from their right.
13. Therefore the prudent shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.
14. Seeke good and not euill, that ye may liue: and so the Lord, the God of hosts shall be with you, as yee haue spoken.
15. Hate the euill, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hostes will bee gracious vnto the remnant of Ioseph.
16. Therefore the Lord, the God of hostes, the Lord saith thus: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the high wayes, Alas, Alas: and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation, to wailing. 
17. And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will passe through thee, saith the Lord.
18. Woe vnto you that desire the day of the Lord: to what ende is it for you? the day of the Lord is darknes and not light.
19. As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a beare met him, or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen very darke, and no brightnesse in it?
21. I hate, I despise your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies.
22. Though ye offer me burnt offerings, and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23. Take thou away from mee the noise of thy songs: for I will not heare the melodie of thy violes.
24. But let iudgement run downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie streame.
25. Haue yee offered vnto mee sacrifices and offerings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, O house of Israel?
26. But yee haue borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the starre of your god, which ye made to your selues.
27. Therefore wil I cause you to go into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose Name is the God of hostes.
1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountaine of Samaria, which are named chiefe of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came.
2. Passe ye vnto Calneh, and see, and from thence go ye to Hemath the great: then goe downe to Gath of the Philistines: bee they better then these kingdomes? Or their border greater then your border?
3. Ye that put farre away the euil day, and cause the seat of violence to come neere:
4. That lie vpon beds of Yuorie, and stretch themselues vpon their couches, and eate the lambes out of the flocke, and the calues out of the midst of the stall:
5. That chaunt to the sound of the Uiole, and inuent to themselues instruments of musicke, like Dauid:
6. That drinke wine in bowles, and anoint themselues with the chiefe ointments: but they are not grieued for the affliction of Ioseph.
7. Therefore now shall they goe captiue, with the first that goe captiue, and the banquet of them that stretched themselues, shalbe remoued.
8. The Lord God hath sworne by himselfe, saith the Lord the God of hostes, I abhorre the excellencie of Iacob, and hate his palaces: therefore wil I deliuer vp the citie, with all that is therein.
9. And it shall come to passe, if there remaine tenne men in one house, that they shall die.
10. And a mans vncle shall take him vp, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say vnto him that is by the sides of the house; Is there yet any with thee? and hee shall say, No. Then shall he say, Holde thy tongue: for wee may not make mention of the Name of the Lord.
11. For beholde, the Lord commandeth, and hee will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12. Shall horses runne vpon the rocke? wil one plow there with oxen? for ye haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnesse into hemlocke.
13. Yee which reioyce in a thing of nought, which say, Haue we not taken to vs hornes by our owne strength?
14. But beholde, I wil raise vp against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, the God of hostes, and they shall afflict you from the entring in of Hemath, vnto the riuer of the wildernesse.
1. Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, he formed grassehoppers in the beginning of the shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was the latter grouth after the kings mowings.
2. And it came to passe, that when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I said; O Lord God, forgiue, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.
3. The Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.
4. Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me; and behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.
5. Then said I, O Lord God , cease, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.
6. The Lord repented for this. This also shall not bee, saith the Lord God.
7. Thus hee shewed mee, and behold, the Lord stood vpon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
8. And the Lord said vnto mee, Amos, what seest thou? And I sayd, A plumb-line. Then sayd the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel, I will not againe passe by them any more.
9. And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the Sanctuaries of Israel shalbe laide waste: and I will rise against the house of Ieroboam with the sword.
10. Then Amaziah the Priest of Beth-el sent to Ieroboam king of Israel, saying; Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to beare all his words.
11. For thus Amos saith, Ieroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captiue, out of their owne land.
12. Also Amaziah said vnto Amos, O thou Seer, goe, flee thee away into the land of Iudah, and there eate bread, and prophecie there.
13. But prophecie not againe any more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings Chappell, and it is the Kings Court.
14. Then answered Amos, and sayde to Amaziah; I was no Prophet, neither was I a Prophets sonne, but I was an heardman, and a gatherer of Sycomore fruit.
15. And the Lord tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the Lord said vnto me, Goe, prophecie vnto my people Israel.
16. Now therefore heare thou the worde of the Lord; Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17. Therfore thus sayth the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be diuided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely goe into captiuitie foorth of his land.
1. Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and beholde, a basket of Summer fruit.
2. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I sayde, A basket of Summer fruite. Then said the Lord vnto mee, The ende is come vpon my people of Israel; I will not againe passe by them anymore.
3. And the songs of the Temples shalbe howlings in that day, sayth the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in euery place, they shall cast them foorth with silence.
4. Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the needy, euen to make the poore of the land to faile,
5. Saying, When will the newe Moone be gone, that we may sell corne? and the Sabbath, that wee may set forth wheat, making the Ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
6. That wee may buy the poore for siluer, & the needie for a paire of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate?
7. The Lord hath sworne by the excellencie of Iacob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
8. Shall not the land tremble for this, and euery one mourne that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise vp wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9. And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the Sunne to go downe at noone, and I will darken the earth in the cleare day.
10. And I will turne your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring vp sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11. Behold, the daies come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12. And they shall wander from Sea to Sea, and from the North euen to the East they shall runne to and fro, to seeke the worde of the Lord, and shall not finde it.
13. In that day shall the faire virgines and young men faint for thirst.
14. They that sweare by the sinne of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liueth, and the manner of Beer-sheba liueth, euen they shall fall, and neuer rise vp againe.
1. I saw the Lord standing vpon the altar, and he said, Smite the lintell of the doore, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head all of them, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: hee that fleeth of them, shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them, shall not be deliuered.
2. Though they digge into hell, thence shall mine hand take them: though they clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring them downe.
3. And though they hide themselues in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence, and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the Sea, thence will I commaund the serpent, and he shall bite them.
4. And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence will I commaund the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.
5. And the Lord God of hostes is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwelleth therein shall mourne, and it shall rise vp wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
6. It is he that buildeth his stories in the heauen, and hath founded his troupe in the earth, he that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth: the Lord is his name.
7. Are yee not as children of the Ethiopians vnto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord ? haue not I brought vp Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8. Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are vpon the sinfull kingdome, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; sauing that I will not vtterly destroy the house of Iacob, saith the Lord.
9. For loe, I will commaund, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corne is sifted in a sieue, yet shall not the least graine fall vpon the earth.
10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say: The euill shall not ouertake nor preuent vs.
11. In that day will I raise vp the tabernacle of Dauid, that is fallen, and close vp the breaches thereof, and I will raise vp his ruines, and I will build it as in the dayes of old;
12. That they may possesse the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen; which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doth this.
13. Behold, the daies come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall ouertake the reaper, & the treader of grapes him that soweth seede, and the mountaines shall drop sweete wine, and all the hils shall melt.
14. And I will bring againe the captiuitie of my people of Israel: and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drinke the wine thereof: they shall also make gardens, and eate the fruite of them.
15. And I will plant them vpon their land, and they shall no more be pulled vp out of their land, which I haue giuen them, saith the Lord thy God.
1. The vision of Obadiah: Thus saith the Lord God, concerning Edom; Wee haue heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen: Arise yee, and let vs rise vp against her in battell.
2. Behold, I haue made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
3. The pride of thine heart hath deceiued thee: thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocke, Whose habitation is high, that saith in his heart: Who shall bring me downe to the ground?
4. Though thou exalt thy selfe as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, saith the Lord.
5. If theeues came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off?) would they not haue stollen til they had enough? if the grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leaue some grapes?
6. How are the things of Esau searched out? how are his hid things sought vp?
7. All the men of thy confederacie haue brought thee euen to the border: the men that were at peace with thee, haue deceiued thee, and preuailed against thee: they that eate thy bread haue laide a wound vnder thee: there is none vnderstanding in him. 
8. Shal I not in that day, saith the Lord, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding out of the mount of Esau?
9. And thy mightie men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that euery one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
10. For thy violence against thy brother Iacob shame shall couer thee, and thou shalt be cut off for euer.
11. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers caried away captiue his forces, and forreiners entred into his gates, and cast lots vpon Ierusalem, euen thou wast as one of them.
12. But thou shouldest not haue looked on the day of thy brother in the day that hee became a stranger, neither shouldest thou haue reioyced ouer the children of Iudah in the day of their destruction: neither shouldest thou haue spoken proudly in the day of distresse.
13. Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people in the day of their calamitie: yea, thou shouldest not haue looked on their affliction in the day of their calamitie, nor haue laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamitie.
14. Neither shouldest thou haue stood in the crosse way to cut off those of his that did escape, neither shouldest thou haue deliuered vp those of his that did remaine in the day of distresse.
15. For the day of the Lord is neere vpon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall bee done vnto thee, thy reward shall returne vpon thine owne head.
16. For as ye haue drunke vpon my holy mountaine, so shall all the heathen drinke continually: yea, they shall drinke, and they shall swallow downe, and they shall bee as though they had not bene.
17. But vpon mount Zion shall be deliuerance, and there shall be holinesse, and the house of Iacob shall possesse their possessions.
18. And the house of Iacob shall bee a fire, and the house of Ioseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them and deuoure them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.
19. And they of the South shall possesse the mount of Esau, and they of the plaine, the Philistines: and they shall possesse the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria, and Beniamin shall possesse Gilead.
20. And the captiuitie of this hoste of the children of Israel shall possesse that of the Canaanites euen vnto Zarephath, and the captiuitie of Ierusalem which is in Sepharad, shall possesse the cities of the South.
21. And Sauiours shall come vp on mount Zion to iudge the mount of Esau, and the kingdome shall be the Lords.
1. Now the word of the Lord came vnto Ionah the sonne of Amittai, saying,
2. Arise, goe to Nineueh that great citie, and cry against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.
3. But Ionah rose vp to flee vnto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord, and went downe to Ioppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he payed the fare thereof, and went downe into it, to goe with them vnto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
4. But the Lord sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
5. Then the Mariners were afraid, and cried euery man vnto his god, and cast foorth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: but Ionah was gone downe into the sides of the ship, and hee lay, and was fast asleepe.
6. So the shipmaster came to him, and said vnto him; What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.
7. And they said euery one to his fellow; Come, and let vs cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this euil is vpon vs. So they cast lots, and the lot fell vpon Ionah.
8. Then said they vnto him, Tel vs, we pray thee, for whose cause this euill is vpon vs: What is thine occupation? and whence commest thou? What is thy countrey? and of what people art thou?
9. And hee said vnto them, I am an Hebrew, and I feare the Lord the God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry land.
10. Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and saide vnto him; Why hast thou done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.)
11. Then said they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was tempestuous.)
12. And he said vnto them, Take me vp, and cast mee foorth into the sea; so shall the sea be calme vnto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.
13. Neuerthelesse the men rowed hard to bring it to the land, but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
14. Wherefore they cried vnto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, We beseech thee, let vs not perish for this mans life, and lay not vpon vs, innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.
15. So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him foorth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.
16. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice vnto the Lord, and made vowes.
17. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow vp Ionah, and Ionah was in the belly of the fish three dayes, and three nights.

1. Then Ionah prayed vnto the Lord his God, out of the fishes belly,
2. And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction vnto the Lord, and hee heard mee; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voyce.
3. For thou hadst cast mee into the deepe, in the middest of the Seas, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes & thy waues passed ouer me.
4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will looke againe toward thy holy Temple.
5. The waters compassed mee about euen to the soule; the depth closed mee round about; the weedes were wrapt about my head.
6. I went downe to the bottomes of the mountaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7. When my soule fainted within mee, I remembred the Lord, and my prayer came in vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.
8. They that obserue lying vanities, forsake their owne mercy.
9. But I wil sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thanksgiuing, I will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lord.
10. And the Lord spake vnto the fish, and it vomited out Ionah vpon the drie land.
1. And the word of ye Lord came vnto Ionah the second time, saying;
2. Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3. So Ionah arose and went vnto Nineueh, according to the word of the Lord: now Nineueh was an exceeding great citie of three dayes iourney.
4. And Ionah began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and hee cryed, and said; Yet fourtie dayes, and Niniueh shalbe ouerthrowen.
5. So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them euen to the least of them.
6. For word came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and couered him with sackcloth, & sate in ashes.
7. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineueh (by the decree of the King and his nobles) saying; Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flocke taste any thing; let them not feede, nor drinke water.
8. But let man and beast be couered with sackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9. Who can tell if God will turne and repent, and turne away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10. And God saw their workes, that they turned from their euill way, and God repented of the euill that hee had sayd, that he would doe vnto them, and he did it not.
1. But it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2. And he prayed vnto the Lord, and sayd, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? Therefore I fledde before vnto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of the euill.
3. Therefore now, O Lord, Take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die then to liue.
4. Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
5. So Ionah went out of the citie, and sate on the East side of the city, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadow, till hee might see what would become of the citie.
6. And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadow ouer his head, to deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7. But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8. And it came to passe when the Sunne did arise, that God prepared a vehement East wind; and the Sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that hee fainted, and wished in himselfe to die, and said, It is better for me to die, then to liue.
9. And God said to Ionah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? and he said, I doe well to be angry, euen vnto death.
10. Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night:
11. And should not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattell?
1. The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the dayes of Iotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah Kings of Iudah, which hee saw concerning Samaria and Ierusalem.
2. Heare all ye people, hearken O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witnesse against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3. For behold, the Lord commeth forth out of his place, and will come downe and tread vpon the high places of the earth.
4. And the mountaines shall be molten vnder him, and the valleis shall be cleft: as waxe before the fire, and as the waters that are powred downe a steepe place.
5. For the transgression of Iacob is all this, and for the sinnes of the house of Israel: What is the transgression of Iacob? Is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Iudah? are they not Ierusalem?
6. Therfore I will make Samaria as an heape of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard; and I will powre downe the stones therof into the valley, and I will discouer the foundations thereof.
7. And all the grauen images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idoles therof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall returne to the hire of an harlot.
8. Therfore I wil waile and houle, I will goe stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owles.
9. For her wound is incurable, for it is come vnto Iudah: he is come vnto the gate of my people, euen to Ierusalem.
10. Declare yee it not at Gath, weepe yee not at all: In the house of Aphrah rowle thy selfe in the dust.
11. Passe yee away thou inhabitant of Saphir, hauing thy shame naked; the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel, he shall receiue of you his standing.
12. For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good, but euill came downe from the Lord vnto the gate of Ierusalem.
13. O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the charet to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sinne to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
14. Therfore shalt thou giue presents to Moresheth-Gath: the houses of Achzib shalbe a lie to ye kings of Israel.
15. Yet wil I bring an heire vnto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come vnto Adullam, the glory of Israel
16. Make thee bald, and polle thee for thy delicate children, enlarge thy baldnesse as the Eagle, for they are gone into captiuitie from thee.
1. Woe to them that deuise iniquitie, and worke euill vpon their beds: when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2. And they couet fields and take them by violence: and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen a man and his heritage.
3. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this familie doe I deuise an euill, from which ye shall not remoue your necks, neither shall ye goe haughtily: for this time is euill.
4. In that day shall one take vp a parable against you, and lament with a dolefull lamentation, and say, We be vtterly spoiled: hee hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he remoued it from me? turning away hee hath diuided our fields.
5. Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a cord by lot in the Congregation of the Lord.
6. Prophecie ye not, say they, to them that prophecie: they shall not prophecie to them, that they shall not take shame.
7. O thou that art named the house of Iacob, is the Spirit of the Lord straitned? are these his dongs? doe not my words do good to him that walketh vprightly?
8. Euen of late, my people is risen vp as an enemie: ye pull off the robe with the garment, fro them that passe by securely, as men auerse from warre.
9. The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, from their children haue ye taken away my glory for euer.
10. Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you euen with a sore destruction.
11. If a man walking in the spirit and falshood, doe lie, saying, I will prophecie vnto thee of wine and of strong drinke, he shall euen bee the prophet of this people.
12. I will surely assemble, O Iacob, all of thee: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as the sheepe of Bozrah, as the flocke in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
13. The breaker is come vp before them: they haue broken vp and haue passed through the gate, and are gone out by it, and their king shal passe before them, & the Lord on the head of them.
1. And I said, Heare, I pray you, O heads of Iacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know iudgement?
2. Who hate the good and loue the euill, who plucke off their skinne from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.
3. Who also eate the flesh of my people, and flay their skinne from off them, and they breake their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
4. Then shall they cry vnto the Lord, but he will not heare them: he will euen hide his face from them at that time, as they haue behaued themselues ill in their doings.
5. Thus saith the Lord concerning the Prophets that make my people erre, that bite with their teeth and crie; Peace: and he that putteth not into their mouths, they euen prepare warre against him:
6. Therefore night shall be vnto you, that yee shall not haue a vision, and it shall be darke vnto you, that yee shall not diuine, and the Sunne shall goe downe ouer the Prophets, and the day shall be darke ouer them.
7. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diuiners confounded: yea, they shall all couer their lips; for there is no answere of God.
8. But truely I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of iudgment and of might, to declare vnto Iacob his transgression, and to Israel his sinne.
9. Heare this, I pray you, yee heads of the house of Iacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhorre iudgement and peruert all equitie.
10. They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.
11. The heads thereof iudge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hyre, and the Prophets thereof diuine for money: yet will they leane vpon the Lord, and say; Is not the Lord among vs? none euill can come vpon vs.
12. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Ierusalem shal become heapes, and the mountaine of the house, as the high places of the forrest.
1. But in the last dayes it shal come to passe, that the mountaine of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines, and it shalbe exalted aboue the hilles, and people shall flow vnto it.
2. And many nations shall come, and say; Come, and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Iacob, and he will teach vs of his wayes, and wee will walke in his pathes: for the Law shall goe foorth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem.
3. And he shall iudge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afarre off, and they shall beate their swords into plowshares, and their speares into pruning hookes: nation shall not lift vp a sword against nation, neither shall they learne warre any more.
4. But they shall sit euery man vnder his Uine, and vnder his figgetree, and none shal make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hostes hath spoken it.
5. For all people will walke euery one in the name of his god, and we will walke in the Name of the Lord our God for euer and euer.
6. In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driuen out, and her that I haue afflicted.
7. And I will make her that halted, a remnant; and her that was cast farre off, a strong nation; and the Lord shall reigne ouer them, in Mount Zion from hencefoorth, euen for euer.
8. And thou, O towre of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, vnto thee shall it come, euen the first dominion, the kingdome shall come to the daughter of Ierusalem.
9. Now why doest thou cry out alowd? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs haue taken thee, as a woman in trauell.
10. Bee in paine and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in trauell: for now shalt thou goe foorth out of the citie, and thou shalt dwel in the field, and thou shalt go euen to Babylon: there shalt thou be deliuered: there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11. Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, & let our eye look vpon Zion.
12. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither vnderstand they his counsell: for hee shall gather them as the sheaues into the floore.
13. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horne yron, & I will make thy hooues brasse, and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gaine vnto the Lord, and their substance vnto the Lord of the whole earth.
1. Now gather thy selfe in troupes, O daughter of troupes: he hath laid siege against vs: they shal smite the Iudge of Israel with a rod vpon the cheeke.
2. But thou Beth-leem Ephratah, though thou bee little among the thousands of Iudah, yet out of thee shall he come foorth vnto mee, that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings foorth haue bene from of old, from euerlasting.
3. Therefore will hee giue them vp, vntill the time that shee which trauaileth, hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall returne vnto the children of Israel.
4. And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the Maiestie of the Name of the Lord his God, and they shall abide: for now shall he be great vnto the ends of the earth.
5. And this man shall bee the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when hee shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seuen Shepheards, and eight principall men.
6. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall hee deliuer vs from the Assyrian, when he commeth into our land, and when hee treadeth within our borders.
7. And the remnant of Iacob shall be in the midst of many people, as a dew from the Lord, as the showres vpon the grasse that tarieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sonnes of men.
8. And the remnant of Iacob shal be among the Gentiles in the middest of many people, as a Lyon among the beasts of the forrest, as a yong Lyon among the flockes of sheepe: who if he goe through, both treadeth downe, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.
9. Thine hand shall be lift vp vpon thine aduersaries, and all thine enemies shalbe cut off.
10. And it shall come to passe in that day, sayth the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy charets.
11. And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw downe all thy strong holdes.
12. And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand, and thou shalt haue no more Southsayers.
13. Thy grauen images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee: & thou shalt no more worship the worke of thine hands.
14. And I will plucke vp thy groues out of the middest of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
15. And I will execute vengeance in anger, and furie vpon the heathen, such as they haue not heard.
1. Heare yee now what the Lord saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voice.
2. Heare yee, O mountaines, the Lords controuersie, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controuersie with his people, and he will pleade with Israel.
3. O my people, what haue I done vnto thee, and wherein haue I wearied thee? Testifie against me.
4. For I brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of seruants, and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron and Miriam.
5. O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him from Shittim vnto Gilgal, that yee may know the righteousnesse of the Lord.
6. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow my selfe before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calues of a yeere olde?
7. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rammes, or with tenne thousands of riuers of oyle? Shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sinne of my soule?
8. Hee hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doeth the Lord require of thee, but to do iustly, and to loue mercy, and to walke humbly with thy God?
9. The Lords voice cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy Name: heare ye the rodde, and who hath appointed it.
10. Are there yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable.
11. Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitfull weights?
12. For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
13. Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
14. Thou shalt eate, but not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the midst of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: & that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sword.
15. Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reape: thou shalt tread the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oile; & sweet wine, but shalt not drinke wine.
16. For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the workes of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore yee shall beare the reproch of my people.
1. Woe is mee, for I am as when they haue gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eate: my soule desired the first ripe fruit.
2. The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none vpright among men: they all lie in waite for blood: they hunt euery man his brother with a net.
3. That they may doe euill with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the iudge asketh for a reward: and the great man, he vttereth his mischieuous desire: so they wrap it vp.
4. The best of them is as a brier: the most vpright is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and thy visitation commeth; now shall be their perplexitie.
5. Trust yee not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.
6. For the sonne dishonoureth the father: the daughter riseth vp against her mother: the daughter in law against her mother in law; a mans enemies are the men of his owne house.
7. Therefore I will looke vnto you the Lord: I will waite for the God of my saluation: my God will heare me.
8. Reioyce not against mee, O mine enemie: When I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darknes, the Lord shall be a light vnto me.
9. I will beare the indignation of the Lord, because I haue sinned against him, vntill he plead my cause, and execute iudgement for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousnesse.
10. Then she that is mine enemie shall see it, and shame shall couer her which said vnto mee; Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she bee troden downe, as the myre of the streets.
11. In the day that thy walles are to be built, in that day shall the decree bee farre remoued.
12. In that day also he shal come euen to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortresse euen to the riuer, and from Sea to Sea, and from mountaine to mountaine;
13. Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruite of their doings.
14. Feede thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feede in Bashan and Gilead, as in the dayes of old.
15. According to the dayes of thy comming out of the land of Egypt will I shew vnto him meruailous things.
16. The nations shall see, and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand vpon their mouth: their eares shall be deafe.
17. They shall licke the dust like a serpent, they shall moue out of their holes like wormes of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall feare because of thee.
18. Who is a God like vnto thee, that pardoneth iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? hee retaineth not his anger for euer, because he delighteth in mercy.
19. He wil turne againe, he will haue compassion vpon vs: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depths of the Sea.
20. Thou wilt performe the trueth to Iacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworne vnto our fathers from the dayes of old.
1. The burden of Nineueh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2. God is ielous, and the Lord reuengeth: the Lord reuengeth, and is furious, the Lord wil take vengeance on his aduersaries, and he reserueth wrath for his enemies.
3. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlewind, and in the storme, and the clouds are the dust of his feete.
4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it drie, and drieth vp all the riuers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon languisheth.
5. The mountaines quake at him, and the hilles melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea the world and all that dwell therein.
6. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? his furie is powred out like fire, and the rocks are throwen downe by him.
7. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, & he knoweth them that trust in him.
8. But with an ouer-running flood he will make an vtter ende of the place thereof, and darkenesse shall pursue his enemies.
9. What doe ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an vtter ende: affliction shall not rise vp the second time.
10. For while they be folden together as thornes, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be deuoured as stubble fully drie.
11. There is one come out of thee, that imagineth euill against the Lord: a wicked counseller.
12. Thus saith the Lord, Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut downe, when he shall passe through: though I haue afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13. For now will I breake his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14. And the Lord hath giuen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the grauen image, and the molten image, I wil make thy graue, for thou art vile.
15. Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. O Iudah keepe thy solemne feasts, performe thy vowes: for the wicked shall no more passe through thee, he is vtterly cut off.
1. He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way: make thy loines strong: fortifie thy power mightily.
2. For the Lord hath turned away the excellencie of Iacob, as the excellencie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
3. The shield of his mightie men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the charets shall bee with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall bee terribly shaken.
4. The charets shall rage in the streets, they shall iustle one against another in the broad wayes: they shall seeme like torches, they shall runne like the lightnings.
5. Hee shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walke: they shall make haste to the wal thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.
6. The gates of the riuers shall bee opened, and the palace shall bee dissolued.
7. And Huzzab shall be led away captiue, she shall be brought vp, and her maids shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, tabring vpon their breasts.
8. But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand shall they cry: but none shal looke backe.
9. Take ye the spoyle of siluer, take the spoile of golde: for there is none end of the store, and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10. Shee is emptie, and voide, and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much paine is in all loynes, and the faces of them all gather blacknesse.
11. Where is the dwelling of the Lions, and the feeding place of the yong Lions? where the Lion, euen the olde Lion walked, and the Lions whelpe, and none made them afraid.
12. The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses, and filled his holes with pray, and his dens with rauine.
13. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burne her charets in the smoke, and the sword shall deuoure thy yong Lions, and I wil cut off thy pray from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
1. Woe to the bloody City, it is all full of lyes and robberie, the pray departeth not.
2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheeles, and of the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets.
3. The horseman lifteth vp both the bright sword, & the glittering speare, and there is a multitude of slaine, and a great number of carkeises: and there is none ende of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses,
4. Because of the multitude of the whoredomes of the wel-fauoured harlot, the mistresse of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredomes, and families through her witchcrafts.
5. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will discouer thy skirtes vpon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakednesse, and the kingdomes thy shame.
6. And I will cast abominable filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stocke.
7. And it shall come to passe, that all they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say; Nineueh is layde waste, who will bemoane her? whence shall I seeke comforters for thee?
8. Art thou better then populous No, that was scituate among the riuers that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
9. Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinit, Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10. Yet was she caried away, she went into captiuitie: her yong children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streetes: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chaines.
11. Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt bee hid, thou also shalt seeke strength because of the enemie.
12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they bee shaken, they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater.
13. Beholde, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open vnto thine enemies, the fire shall deuoure thy barres.
14. Draw thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes, goe into clay, and tread the morter: make strong the bricke-kill.
15. There shall the fire deuoure thee: the sword shall cut thee off: it shall eate thee vp like the cankerworme: make thy selfe many as the cankerworme, make thy selfe many as the locusts.
16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants aboue the starres of heauen; the cankerworme spoileth & flieth away.
17. The crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day: but when the Sunne ariseth, they flee away, and their place is not knowen where they are.
18. Thy shepheards slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered vpon the mountaines, & no man gathereth them.
19. There is no healing of thy bruise: thy wound is grieuous: all that heare the bruit of thee, shall clap the hands ouer thee; for vpon whom hath not thy wickednesse passed continually?
1. The burden which Habakkuk ye Prophet did see.
2. O Lord, howe long shall I crie, and thou wilt not heare! euen cry out vnto thee of violence, and thou wilt not saue?
3. Why doest thou shew me iniquity, & cause me to behold grieuance? for spoiling and violence are before me: & there are that raise vp strife and contention.
4. Therefore the Lawe is slacked, and iudgement doeth neuer goe foorth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therfore wrong iudgement proceedeth.
5. Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marueilously: for I wil worke a worke in your daies, which yee will not beleeue, though it be tolde you.
6. For loe, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter and hastie nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs.
7. They are terrible and dreadfull: their iudgement and their dignity shal proceed of themselues.
8. Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the euening wolues: & their horsemen shall spread themselues, and their horsemen shall come from farre, they shall flie as the Eagle that hasteth to eate.
9. They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup vp as the East winde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sand.
10. And they shal scoffe at the Kings, and the Princes shall bee a scorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde, for they shall heape dust & take it.
11. Then shall his minde change, and he shall passe ouer, and offend, imputing this his power vnto his God.
12. Art thou not from euerlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy one? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordained them for iudgement, and O mightie God, thou hast established them for correction.
13. Thou art of purer eyes then to beholde euill, and canst not looke on ininquitie: wherefore lookest thou vpon them that deale treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then hee?
14. And makest men as the fishes of the Sea, as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them.
15. They take vp all of them with the angle: they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragge; therefore they reioyce and are glad.
16. Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their drag: because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
17. Shall they therefore emptie their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
1. I will stand vpon my watch, & set mee vpon the towre, and will watch to see what he will say vnto me, and what I shall answere when I am reproued.
2. And the Lord answered me and said, write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.
3. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tary, wait for it, because it will surely come, it wil not tary.
4. Behold, his soule which is lifted vp, is not vpright in him; but the iust shall liue by his faith.
5. Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, & heapeth vnto him all people:
6. Shal not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say; Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his: how long? And to him that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay.
7. Shall they not rise vp suddenly that shall bite thee? And awake, that shall vexe thee? And thou shalt be for booties vnto them?
8. Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoile thee: because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the citie, and of all that dwell therein.
9. Woe to him that coueteth an euill couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that hee may be deliuered from the power of euill.
10. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soule.
11. For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shall answere it.
12. Woe to him that buildeth a towne with blood, and stablisheth a citie by iniquitie.
13. Behold, is it not of the Lord of hostes, that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shal wearie themselues for very vanitie?
14. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters couer the Sea.
15. Woe vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke: that puttest thy bottell to him, and makest him drunken also; that thou mayest looke on their nakednesse.
16. Thou art filled with shame for glory: drinke thou also, and let thy foreskin bee vncouered: the cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned vnto thee, and shamefull spewing shalbe on thy glory.
17. For the violence of Lebanon shall couer thee: and the spoile of beasts, which made them afraide, because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, & of al that dwel therin.
18. What profiteth the grauen image, that the maker thereof hath grauen it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his worke, trusteth therin, to make dumbe idoles.
19. Woe vnto him that saith to the wood, Awake: to the dumbe stone, Arise, it shall teach: behold, it is layed ouer with gold and siluer, and there is no breath at all in the middest of it.
20. But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
1. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet vpon Sigionoth.
2. O Lord, I haue heard thy speach, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the midst of the yeeres, in the midst of the yeeres make knowen; in wrath remember mercy.
3. God came from Teman, and the holy on from mount Paran Selah. His glory couered the heauens and the earth was full of his praise.
4. And his brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes comming out of his hand, and there was the hiding of his power:
5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went forth at his feete.
6. He stood and measured the earth: hee beheld and droue asunder the nations, and the euerlasting mountaines were scattered, the perpetuall hilles did bowe: his wayes are euerlasting.
7. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble.
8. Was the Lord displeased against the riuers? was thine anger against the riuers? was thy wrath against the Sea, that thou didst ride vpon thine horses, and thy charets of saluation?
9. Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oathes of the tribes, euen thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleaue the earth with riuers.
10. The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled: the ouerflowing of the water passed by: the deepe vttered his voyce, and lift vp his hands on high.
11. The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the shining of thy glittering speare.
12. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
13. Thou wentest forth for the saluation of thy people, euen for saluation with thine Anointed, thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discouering the foundation vnto the necke. Selah.
14. Thou didst strike through with his staues the head of his villages: they came out as a whirle-winde to scatter me: their reioycing was as to deuoure the poore secretly.
15. Thou didst walke through the Sea with thine horses, through the heape of great waters.
16. When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quiuered at the voice: rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when hee commeth vp vnto the people, he wil inuade them with his troupes.
17. Although the fig tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruite bee in the vines: the labour of the Oliue shall faile, and the fields shal yeeld no meat, the flocke shall be cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no heard in the stalles:
18. Yet I will reioyce in the Lord: I will ioy in the God of my saluation.
19. The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hindes feet, and he will make me to walke vpon mine high places. To the chiefe singer on my stringed instruments.
1. The worde of the Lord which came vnto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Hizkiah, in the dayes of Iosiah, the sonne of Amon king of Iudah.
2. I will vtterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
3. I will consume man and beast: I will consume the foules of the heauen and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.
4. I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Iudah, and vpon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests:
5. And them that worship the hoste of heauen vpon the house tops, & them that worship, and that sweare by the Lord, and that sweare by Malcham:
6. And them that are turned backe from the Lord, & those that haue not sought ye Lord, nor enquired for him.
7. 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 ghests.
8. And it shall come to passe in the day of the Lords Sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the kings children, and al such as are clothed with strange apparell.
9. In the same day also wil I punish all those that leape on the threshold, which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit.
10. And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hils.
11. Howle yee inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut downe: all they that beare siluer are cut off.
12. And it shall come to passe at that time, that I wil search Ierusalem with candles, and punish the men that are setled on their lees, that say in their heart, The Lord will not doe good, neither will he doe euill.
13. Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant Uineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.
14. The great day of the Lord is neere, it is neere, and hasteth greatly, euen the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distresse, a day of wastenesse and desolation, a day of darknesse and gloominesse, a day of cloudes and thicke darkenesse;
16. A day of the trumpet and alarme against the fenced cities, and against the high towres.
17. And I will bring distresse vpon men, that they shall walke like blinde men, because they haue sinned against the Lord, and their blood shall bee powred out as dust, and their flesh as the doung.
18. Neither their siluer nor their golde shall be able to deliuer them in the day of the Lords wrath; but the whole land shall bee deuoured by the fire of his iealousie: for hee shall make euen a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
1. Gather your selues together, yea gather together, O nation not desired.
2. Before the decree bring foorth, before the day passe as the chaffe, before the fierce anger of the Lord come vpon you, before the day of the Lords anger come vpon you.
3. Seeke ye the Lord all ye meeke of the earth, which haue wrought his iudgement, seeke righteousnesse, seeke meeknesse: it may be, ye shall be hid in the day of the Lords anger.
4. For Gaza shall bee forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall driue out Ashdod at the noone day, and Ekron shall be rooted vp.
5. Woe vnto 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 euen destroy thee, that there shal be no inhabitant.
6. And the sea coast shall bee dwellings and cottages for shepheards, and foldes for flockes.
7. And the coast shall bee for the remnant of the house of Iudah, they shall feede thereupon, in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie downe in the euening: for the Lord their God shall visite them, and turne away their captiuitie.
8. I haue heard the reproach of Moab, and the reuilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they haue reproched my people, and magnified themselues against their border.
9. Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, surely Moab shalbe as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, euen the breeding of netles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation, the residue of my people shall spoile them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.
10. This shall they haue for their pride, because they haue reproched and magnified themselues against the people of the Lord of hostes.
11. The Lord will be terrible vnto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, euery one from his place, euen all the Iles of the heathen.
12. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shalbe slaine by my sword.
13. And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, and wil make Nineueh a desolation, and dry like a wildernes.
14. And flocks shall lie downe in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the Cormorant, and the Bitterne, shall lodge in the vpper lintels of it: their voice shal sing in the windowes, desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall vncouer the Cedar worke.
15. This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelessely, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is shee become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie downe in! euery one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand.
1. Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing citie.
2. She obeyed not the voice: she receiued not correction: she trusted not in the Lord: she drew not neere to her God.
3. Her princes within her are roaring lyons; her Iudges are euening wolues, they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
4. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie, they haue done violence to the Law.
5. The iust Lord is in the middest thereof: he will not doe iniquitie: euery morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the vniust knoweth no shame.
6. I haue cut off the nations: their towres are desolate, I made their streetes waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroied, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7. I said, Surely thou wilt feare mee: thou wilt receiue instruction: so their dwelling should not bee cut off, howsoeuer I punished them: but they rose early, & corrupted all their doings.
8. Therefore waite ye vpon mee, sayth the Lord, vntill the day that I rise vp to the pray: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation, euen all my fierce anger: for all the earth shalbe deuoured with the fire of my iealousie.
9. For then will I turne to the people a pure language, that they may all call vpon the Name of the Lord, to serue him with one consent.
10. From beyond the riuers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, euen the daughter of my dispersed shal bring mine offring.
11. In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that reioyce in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of mine holy mountaine.
12. I will also leaue in the middest of thee an afflicted and poore people: and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord.
13. The remnant of Israel shall not doe iniquitie, nor speake lies: neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feede, and lie downe, and none shall make them afraid.
14. Sing, O daughter of Zion: shout, O Israel: be glad and reioyce with all the heart, O daughter of Ierusalem.
15. The Lord hath taken away thy iudgements, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, euen the Lord is in the middest of thee: thou shalt not see euill any more.
16. In that day it shall be said to Ierusalem, Feare thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slacke.
17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mightie: hee will saue, he will reioyce ouer thee with ioy: hee will rest in his loue, hee will ioy ouer thee with singing.
18. I will gather them that are sorrowfull for the solemne assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproch of it was a burden.
19. Behold, at that time I will vndoe all that afflict thee, and I will saue her that halteth, and gather her that was driuen out, and I will get them praise and fame in euery land, where they haue beene put to shame.
20. At that time will I bring you againe euen in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turne backe your captiuitie before your eyes, saith the Lord.
1. In the second yeere of Darius the king, in the sixt moneth, in the first day of the moneth came the worde of the Lord by Haggai the Prophet vnto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, gouernour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, saying;
2. Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying; This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lords house should be built.
3. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying;
4. Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your sieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5. Nowe therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Consider your wayes.
6. Yee haue sowen much and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not inough: yee drinke, but yee are not filled with drinke: yee cloth you, but there is none warme: and hee that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7. Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Consider your wayes.
8. Goe vp to the mountaine, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.
9. Ye looked for much, and loe it came to litle: and when yee brought it home, I did blow vpon it: Why, saith the Lord of hostes? because of mine house that is waste, and yee runne euery man vnto his owne house.
10. Therefore the heauen ouer you is stayed from dew, and the earth is staied from her fruite.
11. And I called for a drought vpon the land and vpon the mountaines, and vpon the corne, and vpon the new wine, and vpon the oyle, and vpon that which the ground bringeth forth, & vpon men, and vpon cattell, and vpon all the labour of the hands.
12. Then Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, with all the remnant of the people obeyed the voyce of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the Prophet (as the Lord their God had sent him) and the people did feare before the Lord.
13. Then spake Haggai the Lords messenger in the Lords message vnto the people, saying; I am with you, saith the Lord.
14. And the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel gouernour of Iudah, and the spirit of Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came and did worke in the house of the Lord of hostes their God:
15. In the foure and twentieth day of the sixt moneth, in the second yeere of Darius the King.
1. In the seuenth moneth, in the one and twentith day of the moneth, came the word of the Lord by the Prophet Haggai, saying;
2. Speake now to Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, gouernour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
3. Who is left among you that sawe this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it, as nothing?
4. Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord, and bee strong, O Ioshua, sonne of Iosedech the high Priest, and be strong all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and worke: (for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts,)
5. According to the word that I couenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you, Feare ye not.
6. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet once, it is a litle while, and I will shake the heauens, and the earth, and the sea, and the drie land.
7. And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
8. The siluer is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
9. The glory of this latter house shal be greater then of the former, saith the Lord of hostes: and in this place will I giue peace, saith the Lord of hostes.
10. In the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, in the second yeere of Darius, came ye word of the Lord by Haggai the Prophet, saying,
11. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Aske now the priests concerning the law, saying,
12. If one beare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt doe touch bread or pottage, or wine, or oile, or any meate, shall it be holy? and the priests answered and said, No.
13. Then said Haggai, If one that is vncleane by a dead body, touch any of these, shal it be vncleane? and the priests answered and said, It shalbe vncleane.
14. Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord, and so is euery worke of their hands, and that which they offer there, is vncleane.
15. And now I pray you consider from this day and vpward, from before a stone was laid vpon a stone in the Temple of the Lord.
16. Since those dayes were, when one came to an heape of twentie measures, there were but ten: when one came to the presse-fatte for to draw out fiftie vessels out of the presse, there were but twentie.
17. I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with haile in all the labours of your hands: yet yee turned not to me, saith the Lord.
18. Consider now from this day, and vpward from the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, euen from the day that the foundatio of the Lords Temple was laid, consider it.
19. Is the seed yet in the barne? yea, as yet the vine and the fig tree, & the pomegranate, and the Oliue tree hath not brought foorth: from this day will I blesse you.
20. And againe the worde of the Lord came vnto Haggai in the foure and twentieth day of the moneth, saying,
21. Speake to Zerubbabel gouernor of Iudah, saying, I wil shake the heauens and the earth.
22. And I will ouerthrow the throne of kingdomes, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdomes of the heathen, and I will ouerthrow the charets, and those that ride in them, and the horses and their riders shall come downe, euery one by the sword of his brother.
23. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my seruant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I haue chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.
1. In the eight moneth, in the seconde yeere of Darius, came the word of the Lord vnto Zechariah, the sonne of Barachiah, the sonne of Iddo the Prophet, saying,
2. The Lord hath bene sore displeased with your fathers.
3. Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes; Turne ye vnto me, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will turne vnto you, saith the Lord of hostes.
4. Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whom the former Prophets haue cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Turne ye now from your euill wayes, and from your euil doings: but they did not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the Lord.
5. Your fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, doe they liue for euer?
6. But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my seruants the Prophets, did they not take holde of your fathers? and they returned and saide; Like as the Lord of hostes thought to doe vnto vs, according to our wayes, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with vs.
7. Upon the foure and twentieth day of the eleuenth moneth, which is the moneth Sebat, in the second yere of Darius, came the word of the Lord vnto Zechariah, the sonne of Barachiah, the sonne of Iddo the Prophet, saying:
8. I saw by night, and behold a man riding vpon a red horse, and he stood among the mirtle trees that were in the bottome, and behinde him were there red horses, speckled and white.
9. Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the Angel that talked with me, said vnto me, I wil shew thee what these be.
10. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said, These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walke to and fro through the earth.
11. And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood among the mirtle trees, and said, Wee haue walked to and fro through the earth: and behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
12. Then the Angel of the Lord answered, and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not haue mercie on Ierusalem, and on the cities of Iudah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten yeeres?
13. And the Lord answered the Angel that talked with me, with good words, and comfortable words.
14. So the Angel that communed with me, said vnto me; Cry thou, saying; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am iealous for Ierusalem, and for Zion, with a great iealousie.
15. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
16. Therefore thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Ierusalem with mercies: my house shall bee built in it, saith the Lord of hostes, and a line shalbe stretched forth vpon Ierusalem.
17. Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, My cities through prosperitie shall yet be spread abroad, and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Ierusalem.
18. Then lift I vp mine eyes, and saw, and behold foure hornes.
19. And I said vnto the Angel that talked with me; What be these? and he answered mee, These are the hornes which haue scattered Iudah, Israel, and Ierusalem.
20. And the Lord shewed mee foure carpenters.
21. Then said I, What come these to doe? And hee spake, saying, These are the hornes which haue scattered Iudah, so that no man did lift vp his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the hornes of the Gentiles, which lift vp their horne ouer the land of Iudah to scatter it.
1. I lift vp mine eyes againe, and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And hee said vnto me, To measure Ierusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
3. And behold, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth, and another Angel went out to meete him:
4. And said vnto him, Run, speake to this young man, saying; Ierusalem shall be inhabited as townes without walles, for the multitude of men and cattell therein.
5. For I, saith the Lord, will be vnto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
6. Ho, ho, come foorth, and flee from the land of the North, saith the Lord: for I haue spread you abroad as the foure windes of the heauen, sayth the Lord.
7. Deliuer thy selfe, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
8. For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, After the glory hath he sent me vnto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.
9. For behold, I will shake mine hand vpon them, and they shall bee a spoile to their seruants: and yee shall know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me.
10. Sing and reioyce, O daughter of Zion: for loe, I come, and I will dwell in the middest of thee, sayth the Lord.
11. And many nations shalbe ioyned to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwel in the middest of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me vnto thee.
12. And the Lord shall inherite Iudah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Ierusalem againe.
13. Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy habitation.
1. And he shewed me Ioshua the high Priest, standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2. And the Lord said vnto Satan; The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, euen the Lord that hath chosen Ierusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire?
3. Now Ioshua was clothed with filthie garments, and stood before the Angel.
4. And he answered, and spake vnto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthie garments from him. And vnto him he said, Behold, I haue caused thine iniquity to passe from thee, and I wil clothe thee with change of raiment.
5. And I said, Let them set a faire mitre vpon his head. So they set a faire mitre vpon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord stood by.
6. And the Angel of the Lord protested vnto Ioshua, saying;
7. Thus sayth the Lord of hosts, If thou wilt walke in my wayes, and if thou wilt keepe my charge, then thou shalt also iudge my House, and shalt also keepe my Courts, and I will giue thee places to walke among these that stand by.
8. Heare now, O Ioshua the high Priest, thou and thy fellowes that sit before thee: for they are men wondred at: for behold, I will bring foorth my seruant the Branch.
9. For behold the stone that I haue layd before Ioshua: vpon one stone shall be seuen eyes, behold, I will engraue the grauing thereof, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will remoue the iniquitie of that land in one day.
10. In that day, saith the Lord of hostes, shal ye call euery man his neighbour vnder the vine and vnder the figge tree.
1. And the Angell that talked with me, came againe and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleepe:
2. And said vnto mee, What seest thou? and I said, I haue looked, and behold a candlesticke all of gold, with a bowle vpon the top of it, and his seuen lampes thereon, and seuen pipes to the seuen lampes, which were vpon the top thereof.
3. And two Oliue trees by it, one vpon the right side of the bowle, and the other vpon the left side thereof.
4. So I answered and spake to the Angell that talked with mee, saying: What are these, my Lord?
5. Then the Angel that talked with me, answered and said vnto me; Knowest thou not what these be? and I said; No, my Lord.
6. Then hee answered and spake vnto mee, saying; This is the word of the Lord vnto Zerubbabel, saying; Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hostes.
7. Who art thou, O great mountaine? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plaine, and he shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shoutings, crying; Grace, grace vnto it.
8. Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
9. The hands of Zerubbabel haue layed the foundation of this house: his hands shall also finish it, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me vnto you.
10. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall reioyce and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seuen: they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
11. Then answered I, and said vnto him; What are these two oliue trees vpon the right side of the candlesticke, and vpon the left side thereof?
12. And I answered againe and said vnto him, What be these two oliue branches, which through the two golden pipes emptie the golden oyle out of themselues?
13. And hee answered mee and said; Knowest thou not what these be? and I said, No, my Lord.
14. Then said he; These are the two annointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
1. Then I turned, and lift vp mine eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying roule.
2. And hee said vnto mee, What seest thou? and I answered, I see a flying roule, the length thereof is twentie cubites, and the breadth thereof tenne cubites.
3. Then said hee vnto mee; This is the curse, that goeth forth ouer the face of the whole earth: for euery one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side, according to it; and euery one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side, according to it.
4. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hostes, and it shall enter into the house of the theefe, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remaine in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
5. Then the Angell that talked with me, went forth and said vnto me, Lift vp now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
6. And I said, What is it? and hee said, This is an Ephah that goeth forth. Hee said moreouer, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
7. And behold, there was lift vp a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the Ephah.
8. And he said, This is wickednesse, and he cast it into the midst of the Ephah, and he cast the weight of lead vpon the mouth thereof.
9. Then lift I vp mine eyes, and looked, & behold, there came out two women, and the winde was in their wings (for they had wings like the wings of a storke) and they lift vp the Ephah betweene the earth and the heauen.
10. Then saide I to the Angel that talked with me, Whither do these beare the Ephah?
11. And he said vnto mee, To build it an house in the land of Shinar, and it shall be established, and set there vpon her owne base.
1. And I turned, and lift vp mine eyes, and looked, and beholde, there came foure charets out from betweene two mountaines, and the mountaines were mountaines of brasse.
2. In the first charet were red horses, and in the second charet, blacke horses.
3. And in the third charet white horses, and in the fourth charet grisled and bay horses.
4. Then I answered, and said vnto the Angel that talked with mee, What are these, my Lord ?
5. And the Angel answered and said vnto me, These are the foure spirits of the heauens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
6. The blacke horses which are therin, goe forth into the North countrey, and the white goe forth after them, and the grisled goe forth toward the South countrey.
7. And the baye went foorth, and sought to goe, that they might walke to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get ye hence, walke to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
8. Then cried he vpon me, and spake vnto me, saying, Behold, these that goe toward the North countrey, haue quieted my spirit, in the North countrey.
9. And the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
10. Take of them of the captiuitie, euen of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Iedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Iosiah the son of Zephaniah.
11. Then take siluer, and golde, and make crownes, and set them vpon the head of Ioshua the sonne of Iosedech, the high priest.
12. And speake vnto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch, and he shall growe vp out of his place, and he shall build the Temple of the Lord:
13. Euen he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shal beare the glory, and shall sit and rule vpon his throne, and he shall be a priest vpon his throne, and the counsell of peace shall bee betweene them both.
14. And the crownes shall bee to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Iedaiah, and to Hen the sonne of Zephaniah for a memoriall, in the Temple of the Lord.
15. And they that are farre off, shall come and build in the Temple of the Lord, and ye shall knowe that the Lord of hosts hath sent me vnto you. And this shall come to passe, if ye will diligently obey the voyce of the Lord your God.
1. And it came to passe in the fourth yeere of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came vnto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth moneth, euen in Chisleu.
2. When they had sent vnto the house of God, Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men to pray before the Lord,
3. And to speake vnto the priestes, which were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weepe in the fift moneth, separating my selfe, as I haue done these so many yeeres?
4. Then came the word of the Lord of hosts vnto me, saying,
5. Speake vnto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fift and seuenth moneth, euen those seuenty yeeres; did ye at all fast vnto me, euen to me?
6. And when ye did eat, and when ye did drinke, did not ye eat for your selues, and drinke for your selues?
7. Should yee not heare the wordes, which the Lord hath cried by the former Prophets, when Ierusalem was inhabited, and in prosperitie, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the South of the plaine?
8. And the word of the Lord came vnto Zechariah, saying;
9. Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying, Execute true iudgement, and shew mercie and compassions euery man to his brother.
10. And oppresse not the widow, nor the fatherlesse, the stranger, nor the poore, and let none of you imagine euill against his brother in your heart.
11. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their eares, that they should not heare.
12. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should heare the Law, and the wordes which the Lord of hostes hath sent in his spirit by the former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.
13. Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, saith the Lord of hostes.
14. But I scattered them with a whirlewinde among all the nations, whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through, nor returned: for they layed the pleasant land desolate.
1. Againe the word of the Lord of hostes came to me, saying;
2. Thus sayeth the Lord of hostes, I was iealous for Zion, with great iealousie; and I was iealous for her with great furie.
3. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned vnto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Ierusalem, and Ierusalem shall be called a Citie of trueth, and the Mountaine of the Lord of hostes, the holy Mountaine.
4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men, and old women, dwell in the streets of Ierusalem, and euery man with his staffe in his hand for very age.
5. And the streets of the citie shall be full of boyes and girles playing in the streets thereof.
6. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, If it bee marueilous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these dayes, should it also bee marueilous in my eyes, saith the Lord of hostes?
7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Beholde, I will saue my people from the East countrey, and from the West countrey.
8. And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Ierusalem, and they shalbe my people, and I will bee their God, in Trueth and in Righteousnesse.
9. Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Let your handes be strong, ye that heare in these dayes, these wordes by the mouth of the Prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laied, that the Temple might be built.
10. For before these daies there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast, neither was there any peace to him that went out, or came in, because of the affliction: for I set all men, euery one against his neighbour.
11. But now I will not bee vnto the residue of this people, as in the former daies, saith the Lord of hostes.
12. For the seed shalbe prosperous: the Uine shall giue her fruit, and the ground shall giue her increase, and the heauens shall giue their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possesse all these things.
13. And it shall come to passe, that as yee were a curse among the heathen, O house of Iudah, and house of Israel; so will I saue you, and ye shalbe a blessing: feare not, but let your handes bee strong.
14. For thus saith the Lord of hostes, As I thought to punish you, when your fathers prouoked mee to wrath, saith the Lord of hostes, and I repented not:
15. So againe haue I thought in these dayes to doe well vnto Ierusalem, and to the house of Iudah: feare ye not.
16. These are the things that yee shall doe; Speake yee euery man the trthh to his neighbor: execute the iudgment of trueth and peace in your gates.
17. And let none of you imagine euill in your hearts against his neighbour, and loue no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.
18. And the word of the Lord of hostes came vnto me, saying,
19. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth moneth, and the fast of the fift, and the fast of the seuenth, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Iudah ioy and gladnesse, and cheerefull feasts: therefore loue the trueth and peace.
20. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, It shall yet come to passe, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities.
21. And the inhabitants of one citie shall goe to another, saying, Let vs goe speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seeke the Lord of hostes: I will goe also.
22. Yea many people and strong nations shall come to seeke the Lord of hostes in Ierusalem, and to pray before the Lord.
23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, In those daies it shall come to passe, that ten men shall take holde out of all languages of the nations, euen shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Iew, saying, Wee will goe with you: for we haue heard that God is with you.
1. The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall bee the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel shalbe toward the Lord.
2. And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus and Zidon, though it be very wise.
3. And Tyrus did builde her selfe a strong hold, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and fine golde as the myre of the streets.
4. Behold, the Lord wil cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shalbe deuoured with fire.
5. Ashkelon shall see it, and feare, Gaza also shall see it and be very sorrowfull, and Ekron: for her expectation shalbe ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shal not be inhabited.
6. And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
7. And I wil take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from betweene his teeth: but he that remaineth, euen hee shalbe for our God, and he shall be as a gouernour in Iudah, and Ekron as a Iebusite.
8. And I will encampe about mine house because of the armie, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressour shall passe through them any more: for now haue I seene with mine eyes.
9. Reioyce greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout O daughter of Ierusalem: beholde, thy King commeth vnto thee: hee is iust, and hauing saluation, lowly, and riding vpon an asse, and vpon a colt, the foale of an asse.
10. And I wil cut off the charet from Ephraim, and the horse from Ierusalem: and the battell bow shalbe cut off, and he shall speake peace vnto the heathen, and his dominion shalbe from sea euen to sea, and from the Riuer, euen to the ends of the earth.
11. As for thee also, by the blood of thy Couenant, I haue sent foorth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.
12. Turne ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, euen to day doe I declare that I will render double vnto thee:
13. When I haue bent Iudah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised vp thy sonnes O Zion, against thy sonnes, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mightie man.
14. And the Lord shalbe seene ouer them, and his arrow shall goe forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall goe with whirlewinds of the South.
15. The Lord of hostes shall defend them, and they shall deuoure, and subdue with sling stones, and they shal drinke and make a noise, as through wine, and they shall bee filled like bowles, and as the corners of the Altar.
16. And the Lord their God shall saue them in that day as the flock of his people, for they shall be as the stones of a crowne lifted vp as an ensigne vpon his land.
17. For how great is his goodnesse, and how great is his beautie? corne shal make the yong men cheerefull, and new wine the maides.
1. Aske yee of the Lord raine in the time of the latter raine, so the Lord shal make bright clouds, and giue them showres of raine, to euery one grasse in the field.
2. For the idoles haue spoken vanitie, and the diuiners haue seene a lye, and haue told false dreames; they comfort in vaine: therefore they went their way as a flocke, they were troubled because there was no shepheard.
3. Mine anger was kindled against the shepheards, and I punished the goats: for the Lord of hostes hath visited his flocke the house of Iudah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battell.
4. Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the naile, out of him the battell bow, out of him euery oppressour together.
5. And they shall bee as mightie men which tread downe their enemies in the myre of the streets in the battell, and they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
6. And I will strengthen the house of Iudah, and I will saue the house of Ioseph, and I will bring them againe to place them, for I haue mercie vpon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, & will heare them.
7. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mightie man, and their heart shall reioyce as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad, their heart shall reioyce in the Lord.
8. I will hisse for them and gather them, for I haue redeemed them: and they shall increase as they haue increased.
9. And I will sow them among the people, and they shall remember me in farre countries, and they shall liue with their children, and turne againe.
10. I will bring them againe also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria, and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and place shall not be found for them.
11. And he shall passe through the sea with affliction, & shall smite the waues in the Sea, and all the deepes of the riuer shall dry vp: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought downe, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.
12. And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walke vp and downe in his name, saith the Lord.
1. Open thy doores, O Lebanon, that the fire may deuoure thy cedars.
2. Howle firre tree, for the cedar is fallen; because all the mighty are spoiled; howle O yee okes of Bashan, for the forrest of the vintage is come downe.
3. There is a voyce of the howling of the shepheards; for their glory is spoiled: a voyce of the roaring of young lyons; for the pride of Iordan is spoiled.
4. Thus saith the Lord my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;
5. Whose possessours slay them, and hold themselues not guiltie: and they that sell the say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their owne shepheards pitie them not.
6. For I will no more pitie the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but loe, I will deliuer the men euery one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliuer them. 
7. And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, euen you, O poore of the flock: and I tooke vnto me two staues; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the flocke.
8. Three shepheards also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule loathed them, and their soule also abhorred mee.
9. Then said I, I will not feede you: that that dieth, let it die: and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest eate, euery one the flesh of another.
10. And I tooke my staffe, euen Beautie, and cut it asunder, that I might breake my couenant which I had made with all the people.
11. And it was broken in that day: and so the poore of the flocke that waited vpon me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.
12. And I said vnto them, If yee thinke good, giue me my price: and if not, forbeare: so they weighed for my price thirtie pieces of siluer.
13. And the Lord said vnto mee, Cast it vnto the potter: a goodly price, that I was prised at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
14. Then I cut asunder mine other staffe, euen Bands, that I might break the brotherhood betweene Iudah and Israel.
15. And the Lord said vnto me, Take vnto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepheard.
16. For loe, I wil raise vp a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that bee cut off, neither shall seeke the yong one, nor heale that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shal eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces.
17. Woe to the idoll shepheard that leaueth the flocke: the sword shall be vpon his arme, and vpon his right eye: his arme shall be cleane dryed vp, and his right eye shall be vtterly darkened.
1. The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth foorth the Heauens, and laith the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2. Behold, I will make Ierusalem a cup of trembling vnto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Iudah and against Ierusalem.
3. And in that day will I make Ierusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselues with it, shall be cut in pieces; though all the people of the earth bee gathered together against it.
4. In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite euery horse with astonishment, and his rider with madnesse, and I will open mine eyes vpon the house of Iudah, and will smite euery horse of the people with blindnesse.
5. And the gouernours of Iudah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Ierusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hostes their God.
6. In that day will I make the gouernours of Iudah like a harth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheafe; and they shall deuoure all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Ierusalem shall bee inhabited againe in her owne place, euen in Ierusalem.
7. The Lord also shall saue the tents of Iudah first, that the glory of the house of Dauid, and the glory of the inhabitants of Ierusalem do not magnifie themselues against Iudah.
8. In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as Dauid; and the house of Dauid shall be as God, as the Angel of the Lord before them.
9. And it shall come to passe in that day, that I will seeke to destroy all the nations that come against Ierusalem.
10. And I wil powre vpon the house of Dauid, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall looke vpon me whom they haue pearced, and they shal mourne for him, as one mourneth for his onely sonne, and shall be in bitternesse for him, as one that is in bitternesse for his first borne.
11. In that day shall there bee a great mourning in Ierusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12. And the land shal mourne, euery familie apart, the familie of the house of Dauid apart, and their wiues apart, the familie of the house of Nathan apart, and their wiues apart:
13. The familie of the house of Leui apart, and their wiues apart: the familie of Shimei apart, and their wiues apart:
14. All the families that remaine, euery family apart, & their wiues apart.
1. In that day there shalbe a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, for sinne, and for vncleannesse.
2. And it shal come to passe in that day, saith the Lord of hostes, that I will cut off the names of the idoles out of the land: and they shal no more be remembred: and also I wil cause the prophets, and the vncleane spirit to passe out of the land. 
3. And it shal come to passe that when any shall yet prophecie, then his father and his mother that begate him, shall say vnto him, Thou shalt not liue: for thou speakest lies in the Name of the Lord: and his father and his mother, that begate him, shall thrust him through when he prophecieth.
4. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the prophets shalbe ashamed euery one of his vision, when hee hath prophecied: neither shall they weare a rough garment to deceiue.
5. But he shal say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman: for man taught me to keepe cattell from my youth.
6. And one shal say vnto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then hee shall answere: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7. Awake, O sword, against my shepheard, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hostes: smite the Shepheard, and the sheepe shalbe scattered: and I wil turne mine hand vpon the litle ones.
8. And it shall come to passe, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off, and die, but the third shall be left therein.
9. And I will bring the thirde part through the fire, and wil refine them as siluer is refined, & will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my Name, and I wil heare them: I wil say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
1. Beholde, the day of the Lord commeth, and thy spoile shall be diuided in the midst of thee.
2. For I wil gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, & the houses rifeled, and the women rauished, and halfe of the citie shall goe forth into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shal not be cut off from the citie.
3. Then shall the Lord goe forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battel.
4. And his feet shall stand in that day vpon the mount of Oliues, which is before Ierusalem on the East, and the mount of Oliues shall cleaue in the midst thereof toward the East, and toward the West, and there shall bee a very great valley, and halfe of the Mountaine shall remoue toward the North, and halfe of it toward the South.
5. And ye shal flee to the valley of the mountaines: for the valley of the mountaines shal reach vnto Azal: yea, ye shall flee like as yee fled from before the earthquake in the dayes of Uzziah king of Iudah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee.
6. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the light shall not be cleare, nor darke.
7. But it shall be one day, which shalbe knowen to the Lord, not day nor night: but it shal come to passe that at euening time it shalbe light.
8. And it shal be in that day, that liuing waters shall goe out from Ierusalem: halfe of them toward the former Sea, and halfe of them toward the hinder Sea: in Summer and in winter shall it be.
9. And the Lord shall be King ouer all the earth: in that day shal there be one Lord, and his Name one.
10. All the land shall be turned as a plaine from Geba to Rimmon, South of Ierusalem: and it shall be lifted vp and inhabited in her place: from Beniamins gate vnto the place of the first gate, vnto the corner gate, and from the towre of Hananiel vnto the Kings winepresses.
11. And men shall dwell in it, and there shalbe no more vtter destruction: but Ierusalem shalbe safely inhabited.
12. And this shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite all the people, that haue fought against Ierusalem: their flesh shall consume away, while they stand vpon their feete, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13. And it shall come to passe in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shalbe among them, and they shall lay holde euery one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise vp against the hand of his neighbour.
14. And Iudah also shall fight at Ierusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, golde and siluer, and apparell in great abundance.
15. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camell, and of the asse, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
16. And it shall come to passe that euery one that is left of all the nations which came against Ierusalem, shall euen goe vp from yeere to yeere to worship the King the Lord of hostes, and to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.
17. And it shall be, that who so will not come vp of all the families of the earth vnto Ierusalem, to worship the King the Lord of hostes, euen vpon them shall be no raine.
18. And if the family of Egypt goe not vp, and come not, that haue no raine: there shall bee the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.
19. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.
20. In that day shall there be vpon the bels of the horses, Holines Unto The Lord, and the pots in the Lords house shall bee like the bowles before the Altar.
21. Yea, euery pot in Ierusalem and in Iudah shall bee Holinesse vnto the Lord of hostes, 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 hostes.
1. The burden of the word of ye Lord to Israel by Malachi.
2. I haue loued you, sayth the Lord: yet yee say, Wherein hast thou loued vs? was not Esau Iacobs brother, sayth the Lord ? yet I loued Iacob,
3. And I hated Esau, and layde his mountaines, and his heritage waste, for the dragons of the wildernesse.
4. Whereas Edom sayth, Wee are impouerished, but we will returne and build the desolate places; Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, They shal build, but I will throw downe; and they shal call them, The border of wickednesse, & the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for euer.
5. And your eyes shall see, and yee shall say; The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.
6. A sonne honoureth his father, and a seruant his Master. If then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a Master, where is my feare, saith the Lord of hostes, vnto you O priests, that despise my name? and yee say, Wherein haue we despised thy name?
7. Yee offer polluted bread vpon mine altar; and yee say, Wherein haue we polluted thee? In that yee say, The table of the Lord is contemptible.
8. And if hee offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not euill? and if yee offer the lame and sicke, is it not euill? offer it now vnto thy gouernour: will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person, saith the Lord of hostes?
9. And now I pray you, beseech God, that hee will be gracious vnto vs: this hath beene by your meanes: will he regard your persons, saith the Lord of hostes?
10. Who is there euen among you that would shut the doores for nought? neither doe yee kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I haue no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hostes, neither will I accept an offring at your hand.
11. For from the rising of the Sunne, euen vnto the going downe of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in euery place incense shall be offered vnto my name, and a pure offring: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hostes.
12. But yee haue prophaned it, in that yee say; The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruite thereof, euen his meate, is contemptible.
13. Yee said also; Behold what a wearinesse is it, and yee haue snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hostes, and yee brought that which was torne, and the lame, and the sicke: thus yee brought an offring: should I accept this of your hand, saith the Lord ?
14. But cursed be the deceiuer, which hath in his flocke a male, and voweth and sacrificeth vnto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hostes, and my name is dreadfull among the heathen.
1. And now, O yee Priests, this commaundement is for you.
2. If ye will not heare, and if yee will not lay it to heart, to giue glory vnto my name, saith the Lord of hostes; I will euen send a curse vpon you, and will curse your blessings: yea, I haue cursed them already, because yee doe not lay it to heart.
3. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread doung vpon your faces, euen the doung of your solemne feasts, and one shall take you away with it.
4. And yee shall know that I haue sent this commaundement vnto you, that my couenant might be with Leui, saith the Lord of hostes.
5. My couenant was with him of life and peace, and I gaue them to him, for the feare, wherewith he feared mee, and was afraid before my name.
6. The law of trthh was in his mouth, and iniquitie was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equitie, and did turne many away from iniquitie.
7. For the priests lips should keepe knowledge, and they should seeke the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hostes.
8. But yee are departed out of the way: ye haue caused many to stumble at the law: ye haue corrupted the couenant of Leui, saith the Lord of hostes.
9. Therefore haue I also made you contemptible and base before al the people, according as yee haue not kept my wayes, but haue bin partiall in ye law.
10. Haue we not all one father? hath not one God created vs? Why doe we deale treacherously euery man against his brother, by prophaning the couenant of our fathers?
11. Iudah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Ierusalem: for Iudah hath prophaned the holinesse of the Lord which he loued, and hath maried the daughter of a strange God.
12. The Lord will cut off the man that doth this: the Master and the scholler out of the tabernacles of Iacob, and him that offereth an offring vnto the Lord of hostes.
13. And this haue yee done againe, couering the Altar of the Lord with teares, with weeping and with crying out, in so much that hee regardeth not the offering any more, or receiueth it with good will at your hand.
14. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath bene witnes betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.
15. And did not he make one? yet had he the residue of the spirit: and wherefore one? that hee might seeke a godly seed: therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deale treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16. For the Lord the God of Israel saith, that he hateth putting away: for one couereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, therfore take heed to your spirit, that ye deale not treacherously.
17. Ye haue wearied the Lord with your words: yet ye say, Wherein haue we wearied him? when ye say, Euery one that doeth euill, is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them, or where is the God of iudgement?
1. Beholde, I will send my messenger, and he shal prepare the way before mee: and the Lord whom ye seeke, shall suddenly come to his Temple: euen ye messenger of the Couenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
2. But who may abide the day of his comming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiners fire, and like fullers sope.
3. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of siluer: and he shall purifie the sonnes of Leui, and purge them as gold & siluer, that they may offer vnto the Lord an offring in righteousnes.
4. Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem bee pleasant vnto the Lord, as in the dayes of old, and as in former yeeres.
5. And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will bee a swift witnesse against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppresse the hireling in his wages, the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and that turne aside the stranger from his right, and feare not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
6. For I am the Lord, I change not: therefore ye sonnes of Iacob are not consumed.
7. Euen from the dayes of your fathers yee are gone away from mine ordinances, and haue not kept them: returne vnto me, and I will returne vnto you, saith the Lord of hosts: But ye said, Wherein shall we returne?
8. Wil a man rob God? yet ye haue robbed me. But ye say, Wherein haue we robbed thee? In tithes & offerings.
9. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye haue robbed me, euen this whole nation.
10. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be meate in mine house, & proue me now herewith, saith the Lord of hostes, if I will not open you the windowes of heauen, and powre you out a blessing, that there shall not be roome enough to receiue it.
11. And I wil rebuke the deuourer for your sakes: and he shal not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shal your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
12. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
13. Your words haue bin stout against me, saith the Lord, yet ye say, What haue we spoken so much against thee?
14. Ye haue said, It is vaine to serue God: and what profit is it, that we haue kept his ordinance, and that wee haue walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
15. And now we call the proud happy: yea, they that worke wickednes are set vp, yea they that tempt God, are euen deliuered.
16. Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, & a booke of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, & that thought vpon his name.
17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make vp my iewels, and I wil spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne that serueth him.
18. Then shall yee returne and discerne betweene the righteous and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.
1. For beholde, the day commeth, that shall burne as an ouen, and all the proud, yea and all that doe wickedly shalbe stubble: and the day that commeth, shal burne them vp, saith the Lord of hostes, that it shall leaue them neither roote nor branch.
2. But vnto you that feare my Name, shall the Sunne of righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings, and shall goe foorth and grow vp as calues of the staule.
3. And yee shall treade downe the wicked: for they shall bee ashes vnder the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall doe this, saith the Lord of hosts.
4. Remember yee the Law of Moses my seruant, which I commanded vnto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the Statutes and iudgements.
5. Beholde, I will send you Eliiah the Prophet, before the comming of the great and dreadfull day of the Lord.
6. And hee shall turne the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.







































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































1. The booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.
2. Abraham begate Isaac, and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob begate Iudas and his brethren.
3. And Iudas begate Phares and Zara of Thamar, and Phares begate Esrom, and Esrom begate Aram.
4. And Aram begate Aminadab, and Aminadab begate Naasson, and Naasson begate Salmon.
5. And Salmon begat Boos of Rachab, and Boos begate Obed of rthh, and Obed begate Iesse.
6. And Iesse begate Dauid the King, & Dauid the King begat Solomon of her that had bin the wife of Urias.
7. And Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam begate Abia, and Abia begate Asa.
8. And Asa begate Iosaphat, and Iosaphat begate Ioram, and Ioram begate Ozias.
9. And Ozias begat Ioatham, and Ioatham begate Achas, and Achas begate Ezekias.
10. And Ezekias begate Manasses, and Manasses begate Amon, and Amon begate Iosias.
11. And Iosias begate Iechonias and his brethren, about the time they were caried away to Babylon.
12. And after they were brought to Babylon, Iechonias begat Salathiel, and Salathiel begate Zorobabel.
13. And Zorobabel begat Abiud, and Abiud begat Eliakim, and Eliakim begate Azor.
14. And Azor begat Sadoc, & Sadoc begat Achim, and Achim begat Eliud.
15. And Eliud begate Eleazar, and Eleazar begate Matthan, and Matthan begate Iacob.
16. And Iacob begate Ioseph the husband of Mary, of whom was borne Iesus, who is called Christ.
17. So all the generations from Abraham to Dauid, are fourteene generations: and from Dauid vntill the carying away into Babylon, are foureteene generations: and from the carying away into Babylon vnto Christ, are fourteene generations.
18. Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
19. Then Ioseph her husband being a iust man, and not willing to make her a publique example, was minded to put her away priuily.
20. But while hee thought on these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him in a dreame, saying, Ioseph thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take vnto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceiued in her, is of the holy Ghost.
21. And she shall bring forth a sonne, and thou shalt call his Name Iesus: for hee shall saue his people from their sinnes.
22. (Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying,
23. Behold, a Uirgin shall be with childe, and shall bring foorth a sonne, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with vs.)
24. Then Ioseph, being raised from sleepe, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him, & tooke vnto him his wife:
25. And knewe her not, till shee had brought forth her first borne sonne, and he called his name Iesus.
1. Now when Iesus was borne in Bethlehem of Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the king, behold, there came Wise men from the East to Hierusalem,
2. Saying, Where is he that is borne King of the Iewes? for we haue seene his Starre in the East, and are come to worship him.
3. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Hierusalem with him.
4. And when he had gathered all the chiefe Priests and Scribes of the people together, hee demanded of them where Christ should be borne.
5. And they said vnto him, In Bethlehem of Iudea: For thus it is written by the Prophet;
6. And thou Bethlehem in the land of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: for out of thee shall come a Gouernour, that shall rule my people Israel.
7. Then Herod, when he had priuily called the Wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the Starre appeared:
8. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Goe, and search diligently for the yong child, and when ye haue found him, bring me word againe, that I may come and worship him also.
9. When they had heard the King, they departed, and loe, the Starre which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood ouer where the young childe was.
10. When they saw the Starre, they reioyced with exceeding great ioy.
11. And when they were come into the house, they saw the yong child with Mary his mother, and fell downe, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented vnto him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrhe.
12. And being warned of God in a dreame, that they should not returne to Herode, they departed into their owne countrey another way.
13. And when they were departed, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Ioseph in a dreame, saying, Arise and take the young childe, and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and bee thou there vntill I bring thee word: for Herode will seeke the young childe, to destroy him.
14. When he arose, he tooke the yong childe and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
15. And was there vntill the death of Herode, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Out of Egypt haue I called my sonne.
16. Then Herode, when hee saw that hee was mocked of the Wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slewe all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeeres olde and vnder, according to the time, which he had diligently enquired of the Wise men.
17. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremie the Prophet, saying,
18. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
19. But when Herode was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeareth in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypt,
20. Saying, Arise, and take the yong childe and his mother, and goe into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the yong childes life.
21. And he arose, and tooke the yong childe and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
22. But when he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in the roome of his father Herod, hee was afraid to goe thither: notwithstanding, beeing warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
23. And hee came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets, He shalbe called a Nazarene.
1. In those daies came Iohn the Baptist, preaching in the wildernesse of Iudea,
2. And saying, Repent yee: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.
3. For this is he that was spoken of by the Prophet Esaias, saying, The voyce of one crying in the wildernes, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4. And the same Iohn had his raiment of camels haire, and a leatherne girdle about his loynes, and his meate was locusts and wilde hony.
5. Then went out to him Hierusalem, and all Iudea, and all the region round about Iordane,
6. And were baptized of him in Iordane, confessing their sinnes.
7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his Baptisme, he said vnto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8. Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.
9. And thinke not to say within your selues, Wee haue Abraham to our father: For I say vnto you, that God is able of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.
10. And now also the axe is layd vnto the root of the trees: Therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.
11. I indeed baptize you with water vnto repentance: but he that commeth after mee, is mightier then I, whose shooes I am not worthy to beare, hee shall baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.
12. Whose fanne is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floore, and gather his wheat into the garner: but wil burne vp the chaffe with vnquenchable fire.
13. Then commeth Iesus from Galilee to Iordane, vnto Iohn, to be baptized of him:
14. But Iohn forbade him, saying, I haue need to bee baptized of thee, and commest thou to me?
15. And Iesus answering, said vnto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becommeth vs to fulfill all righteousnesse. Then he suffered him.
16. And Iesus, when hee was baptized, went vp straightway out of the water: and loe, the heauens were opened vnto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a doue, and lighting vpon him.
17. And loe, a voice from heauen, saying, This is my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased.
1. Then was Iesus led vp of the Spirit into the wildernesse, to bee tempted of the deuill.
2. And when hee had fasted forty dayes and forty nights, hee was afterward an hungred.
3. And when the tempter came to him, hee said, If thou be the sonne of God, command that these stones bee made bread.
4. But he answered, and said, It is written, Man shall not liue by bread alone, but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5. Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy Citie, and setteth him on a pinacle of the Temple,
6. And saith vnto him, If thou bee the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe: For it is written, He shall giue his Angels charge concerning thee, & in their handes they shall beare thee vp, lest at any time thou dash thy foote against a stone.
7. Iesus said vnto him, It is written againe, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8. Againe the Deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountaine, and sheweth him all the kingdomes of the world, and the glory of them:
9. And saith vnto him, All these things will I giue thee, if thou wilt fall downe and worship me.
10. Then saith Iesus vnto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him onely shalt thou serue.
11. Then the deuill leaueth him, and behold, Angels came and ministred vnto him.
12. Now when Iesus had heard that Iohn was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee.
13. And leauing Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is vpon the Sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthali:
14. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying,
15. The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthali, by the way of the Sea beyond Iordane, Galilee of the Gentiles:
16. The people which sate in darkenesse, saw great light: and to them which sate in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung vp.
17. From that time Iesus began to preach, and to say, Repent, for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.
18. And Iesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the Sea (for they were fishers)
19. And he saith vnto them, Follow mee: and I will make you fishers of men.
20. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
21. And going on from thence, hee sawe other two brethren, Iames the sonne of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.
22. And they immediatly left the shippe and their father, and followed him.
23. And Iesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome, and healing all maner of sickenesse, and all maner of disease among the people.
24. And his fame went thorowout all Syria: and they brought vnto him all sicke people that were taken with diuerse diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with deuils, and those which were lunaticke, and those that had the palsie, and he healed them.
25. And there followed him great great multitudes of people, from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Hierusalem, and from Iudea, and from beyond Iordane.
1. And seeing the multitudes, he went vp into a mountaine: and when he was set, his disciples came vnto him.
2. And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3. Blessed are the poore in spirit: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.
4. Blessed are they that mourne: for they shall be comforted.
5. Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
6. Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.
7. Blessed are the mercifull: for they shall obtaine mercie.
8. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall bee called the children of God.
10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.
11. Blessed are ye, when men shall reuile you, and persecute you, and shal say all manner of euill against you falsly for my sake.
12. Reioyce, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heauen: For so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.
13. Yee are the salt of the earth: But if the salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it bee salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be troden vnder foote of men.
14. Yee are the light of the world. A citie that is set on an hill, cannot be hid.
15. Neither doe men light a candle, and put it vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.
16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your father which is in heauen.
17. Thinke not that I am come to destroy the lawe or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18. For verily I say vnto you, Till heauen and earth passe, one iote or one title, shall in no wise passe from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19. Whosoeuer therfore shall breake one of these least commaundements, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen: but whosoeuer shall doe, and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdome of heauen.
20. For I say vnto you, That except your righteousnesse shall exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees, yee shall in no case enter into the kingdome of heauen.
21. Yee haue heard, that it was saide by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill: and, Whosoeuer shall kill, shalbe in danger of the iudgement.
22. But I say vnto you, that whosoeuer is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the Iudgement: and whosoeuer shall say to his brother, Racha, shal be in danger of the counsell: but whosoeuer shall say, Thou foole, shalbe in danger of hell fire.
23. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee:
24. Leaue there thy gift before the altar, and goe thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
25. Agree with thine aduersarie quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him: least at any time the aduersarie deliuer thee to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
26. Uerily I say vnto thee, thou shalt by no meanes come out thence, till thou hast payd the vttermost farthing.
27. Yee haue heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adulterie.
28. But I say vnto you, That whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart.
29. And if thy right eie offend thee, plucke it out, and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
31. It hath beene said, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, let him giue her a writing of diuorcement.
32. But I say vnto you, that whosoeuer shall put away his wife, sauing for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoeuer shall marie her that is diuorced, committeth adulterie.
33. Againe, yee haue heard that it hath beene said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe, but shalt performe vnto the Lord thine othes.
34. But I say vnto you, Sweare not at all, neither by heauen, for it is Gods throne:
35. Nor by the earth, for it is his footstoole: neither by Hierusalem, for it is the citie of the great king.
36. Neither shalt thou sweare by thy head, because thou canst not make one haire white or blacke.
37. But let your communication bee Yea, yea: Nay, nay: For whatsoeuer is more then these, commeth of euill.
38. Yee haue heard that it hath beene said, An eie for an eie, and a tooth for a tooth.
39. But I say vnto you, that yee resist not euill: but whosoeuer shall smite thee on thy right cheeke, turne to him the other also.
40. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coate, let him haue thy cloake also.
41. And whosoeuer shall compell thee to goe a mile, goe with him twaine.
42. Giue to him that asketh thee: and from him that would borrow of thee, turne not thou away.
43. Yee haue heard, that it hath beene said, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour, and hate thine enemie:
44. But I say vnto you, Loue your enemies, blesse them that curse you, doe good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully vse you, and persecute you:
45. That yee may be the children of your father which is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to rise on the euill and on the good, and sendeth raine on the iust, and on the vniust.
46. For if yee loue them which loue you, what reward haue yee? Doe not euen the Publicanes the same?
47. And if yee salute your brethren only, what do you more then others? Doe not euen the Publicanes so?
48. Be yee therefore perfect, euen as your father, which is in heauen, is perfect.
1. Take heed that yee doe not your almes before men, to bee seene of them: otherwise yee haue no reward of your father which is in heauen.
2. Therefore, when thou doest thine almes, doe not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites doe, in the Synagogues, and in the streetes, that they may haue glory of men. Uerily, I say vnto you, they haue their reward.
3. But when thou doest almes, let not thy left hand know, what thy right doeth:
4. That thine almes may be in secret: And thy father which seeth in secret, himselfe shall reward thee openly.
5. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they loue to pray standing in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seene of men. Uerily I say vnto you, they haue their reward.
6. But thou when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy doore, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
7. But when yee pray, vse not vaine repetitions, as the heathen doe. For they thinke that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8. Be not yee therefore like vnto them: For your father knoweth what things yee haue neede of, before yee aske him.
9. After this maner therefore pray yee: Our father which art in heauen, hallowed be thy name.
10. Thy kingdome come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heauen.
11. Giue vs this day our daily bread.
12. And forgiue vs our debts, as we forgiue our debters.
13. And lead vs not into temptation, but deliuer vs from euill: For thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glory, for euer, Amen.
14. For, if yee forgiue men their trespasses, your heauenly father will also forgiue you.
15. But, if yee forgiue not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgiue your trespasses.
16. Moreouer, when yee fast, be not as the Hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appeare vnto men to fast: Uerily I say vnto you, they haue their reward.
17. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face:
18. That thou appeare not vnto men to fast, but vnto thy father which is in secret: and thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
19. Lay not vp for your selues treasures vpon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where theeues breake thorow, and steale.
20. But lay vp for your selues treasures in heauen, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, & where theeues doe not breake thorow, nor steale.
21. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22. The light of the body is the eye: If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shalbe full of light.
23. But if thine eye be euill, thy whole body shall be full of darknesse. If therfore the light that is in thee be darkenesse, how great is that darkenesse?
24. No man can serue two masters: for either he will hate the one and loue the other, or else hee will holde to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serue God and Mammon.
25. Therfore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate, or what ye shall drinke, nor yet for your body, what yee shall put on: Is not the life more then meate? and the body then raiment?
26. Behold the foules of the aire: for they sow not, neither do they reape, nor gather into barnes, yet your heauenly father feedeth them. Are yee not much better then they?
27. Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his stature?
28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow: they toile not, neither doe they spinne.
29. And yet I say vnto you, that euen Solomon in all his glory, was not arayed like one of these.
30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grasse of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the ouen: shall he not much more clothe you, O yee of little faith?
31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eate? or, what shall we drinke? or wherewithall shall wee be clothed?
32. (For after all these things doe the Gentiles seeke:) for your heauenly father knoweth that ye haue neede of all these things.
33. But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all these things shalbe added vnto you.
34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of it selfe: sufficient vnto the day is the euill thereof.
1. Iudge not, that ye be not iudged.
2. For with what iudgment ye iudge, yee shall be iudged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you againe.
3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beame that is in thine owne eye?
4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let mee pull out the mote out of thine eye, and beholde, a beame is in thine owne eye?
5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beame out of thine owne eye: and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.
6. Giue not that which is holy vnto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearles before swine: lest they trample them vnder their feete, and turne againe and rent you.
7. Aske, and it shalbe giuen you: seeke, and ye shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.
8. For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.
9. Or what man is there of you, whom if his sonne aske bread, will hee giue him a stone?
10. Or if he aske a fish, will hee giue him a serpent?
11. If ye then being euill, know how to giue good giftes vnto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good things to them that aske him?
12. Therefore all things whatsoeuer ye would that men should doe to you, doe ye euen so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets.
13. Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which goe in thereat:
14. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth vnto life, and few there be that finde it.
15. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheepes clothing, but inwardly they are rauening wolues.
16. Yee shall knowe them by their fruits: Doe men gather grapes of thornes, or figges of thistles?
17. Euen so, euery good tree bringeth forth good fruit: but a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruit.
18. A good tree cannot bring forth euil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19. Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.
20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21. Not euery one that saith vnto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdome of heauen: but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen.
22. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, haue we not prophecied in thy name? and in thy name haue cast out deuils? and in thy name done many wonderfull works?
23. And then wil I professe vnto them, I neuer knew you: Depart from me, ye that worke iniquity.
24. Therefore, whosoeuer heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I wil liken him vnto a wise man, which built his house vpon a rocke:
25. And the raine descended, and the floods came, and the windes blew, and beat vpon that house: and it fell not, for it was founded vpon a rocke.
26. And euery one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall bee likened vnto a foolish man, which built his house vpon the sand:
27. And the raine descended, and the floods came, and the windes blew, and beat vpon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
28. And it came to passe, when Iesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine.
29. For he taught them as one hauing authoritie, and not as the Scribes.
1. When he was come downe from the Mountaine, great multitudes folowed him.
2. And behold, there came a leper, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, If thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane.
3. And Iesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will, bee thou cleane. And immediately his leprosie was cleansed.
4. And Iesus saith vnto him, See thou tell no man, but go thy way, shew thy selfe to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimonie vnto them.
5. And when Iesus was entred into Capernaum, there came vnto him a Centurion, beseeching him,
6. And saying, Lord, my seruant lieth at home sicke of the palsie, grieuously tormented.
7. And Iesus saith vnto him, I will come, and heale him.
8. The Centurion answered, and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe: but speake the word onely, and my seruant shalbe healed.
9. For I am a man vnder authority, hauing souldiers vnder me: and I say to this man, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doth it.
10. When Iesus heard it, he marueiled, and said to them that followed, Uerely, I say vnto you, I haue not found so great faith, no not in Israel.
11. And I say vnto you, that many shall come from the East and West, and shal sit downe with Abraham, and Isaac, & Iacob, in the kingdome of heauen:
12. But the children of the kingdome shall be cast out into outer darkenesse: there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth.
13. And Iesus said vnto the Centurion, Go thy way, and as thou hast beleeued, so be it done vnto thee. And his seruant was healed in the self same houre.
14. And when Iesus was come into Peters house, hee saw his wiues mother laid, and sicke of a feuer:
15. And he touched her hand, and the feuer left her: and she arose, and ministred vnto them.
16. When the Euen was come, they brought vnto him many that were possessed with deuils: and hee cast out the spirits with his worde, and healed all that were sicke,
17. That it might be fulfilled which which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying, Himselfe tooke our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
18. Now when Iesus saw great multitudes about him, hee gaue commaundement to depart vnto the other side.
19. And a certaine Scribe came, and said vnto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoeuer thou goest.
20. And Iesus saith vnto him, The Foxes haue holes, and the birds of the ayre haue nests: but the sonne of man hath not where to lay his head.
21. And another of his Disciples said vnto him, Lord, suffer me first to goe, and bury my father.
22. But Iesus said vnto him, Follow me, & let the dead, bury their dead.
23. And when he was entred into a ship, his Disciples followed him.
24. And behold, there arose a great tempest in the Sea, insomuch that the ship was couered with the waues: but he was asleepe.
25. And his Disciples came to him, and awoke, saying, Lord, saue vs: we perish.
26. And he saith vnto them, Why are yee fearefull, O yee of litle faith? Then hee arose, and rebuked the winds and the Sea, and there was a great calme.
27. But the men marueiled, saying, What maner of man is this, that euen the winds and the Sea obey him?
28. And when hee was come to the other side, into the countrey of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with deuils, comming out of the tombes, exceeding fierce, so that no man might passe by that way.
29. And behold, they cryed out, saying, What haue we to doe with thee, Iesus thou sonne of God? Art thou come hither to torment vs befor ye time?
30. And there was a good way off from them, an heard of many swine, feeding.
31. So the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe away into the herd of swine.
32. And he said vnto them, Goe. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and behold, the whole herd of swine ranne violently downe a steepe place into the Sea, and perished in the waters.
33. And they that kept them, fled, and went their waies into the citie, and told euery thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the deuils.
34. And behold, the whole citie came out to meete Iesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that hee would depart out of their coasts.
1. And hee entred into a ship, and passed ouer, and came into his owne citie.
2. And behold, they brought to him a man sicke of the palsie, lying on a bed: and Iesus seeing their faith, said vnto the sicke of the palsie, Sonne, be of good cheere, thy sinnes be forgiuen thee.
3. And behold, certaine of the Scribes said within themselues, This man blasphemeth.
4. And Iesus knowing their thoughts, said, Wherefore thinke yee euill in your hearts?
5. For whether is easier to say, Thy sinnes be forgiuen thee: or to say, Arise, and walke?
6. But that yee may know that the sonne of man hath power on earth to forgiue sinnes, (Then saith hee to the sicke of the palsie) Arise, take vp thy bed, and goe vnto thine house.
7. And he arose, and departed to his house.
8. But when the multitudes saw it, they marueiled, & glorified God, which had giuen such power vnto men.
9. And as Iesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man named Matthew, sitting at the receite of custome: and he saith vnto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
10. And it came to passe, as Iesus sate at meate in the house, behold, many publicanes and sinners, came and sate downe with him and his Disciples.
11. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said vnto his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicanes & sinners.
12. But when Iesus heard that, hee said vnto them, They that be whole neede not a Physicion, but they that are sicke.
13. But goe ye and learne what that meaneth, I will haue mercy and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
14. Then came to him the disciples of Iohn, saying, Why doe we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
15. And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourne, as long as the bridegrome is with them? But the dayes will come when the bridegrome shall bee taken from them, and then shall they fast.
16. No man putteth a piece of new cloth vnto an olde garment: for that which is put in to fill it vp, taketh from the garment, & the rent is made worse.
17. Neither doe men put new wine into old bottels: else the bottels breake, and the wine runneth out, and the bottels perish: but they put new wine into new bottels, and both are preserued.
18. While hee spake these things vnto them, beholde, there came a certaine ruler and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is euen now dead: but come, and lay thy hand vpon her, and she shall liue.
19. And Iesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
20. (And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres, came behinde him, and touched the hemme of his garment.
21. For she said within her selfe, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22. But Iesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, bee of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that houre.)
23. And when Iesus came into the rulers house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
24. He said vnto them, Giue place, for the mayd is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorne.
25. But when the people were put foorth, he went in, and tooke her by the hand: and the mayd arose.
26. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
27. And when Iesus departed thence, two blinde men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on vs.
28. And when he was come into the house, the blinde men came to him: and Iesus saith vnto them, Beleeue ye that I am able to doe this? They said vnto him, Yea, Lord.
29. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith, bee it vnto you.
30. And their eyes were opened: and Iesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
31. But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that countrey.
32. As they went out, beholde, they brought to him a dumbe man possessed with a deuill.
33. And when the deuil was cast out, the dumbe spake, and the multitudes marueiled, saying, It was neuer so seene in Israel.
34. But the Pharisees said, He casteth out the deuils through the prince of the deuils.
35. And Iesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome, and healing euery sickenesse, and euery disease among the people.
36. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moued with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheepe hauing no shepheard.
37. Then saith he vnto his disciples, The haruest truely is plenteous, but the labourers are few.
38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the haruest, that hee will send foorth labourers into his haruest.
1. And when hee had called vnto him his twelue disciples, he gaue them power against vncleane spirits, to cast them out, and to heale all maner of sickenesse, and all maner of disease.
2. Now the names of the twelue Apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, Iames the sonne of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother:
3. Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the Publicane, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus:
4. Simon the Canaanite, and Iudas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5. These twelue Iesus sent foorth, and commanded them, saying, Goe not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6. But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.
7. And as yee goe, preach, saying, The kingdome of heauen is at hand:
8. Heale the sicke, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out deuils: freely ye haue receiued, freely giue.
9. Prouide neither gold, nor siluer, nor brasse in your purses:
10. Nor scrippe for your iourney, neither two coats, neither shooes, nor yet staues: (for the workeman is worthy of his meat.)
11. And into whatsoeuer city or towne ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till yee goe thence.
12. And when ye come into an house, salute it.
13. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come vpon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace returne to you.
14. And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare your words: when yee depart out of that house, or city, shake off the dust of your feete.
15. Uerely I say vnto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of iudgment, then for that citie.
16. Behold, I send you foorth as sheepe in the middest of wolues: be yee therefore wise as serpents, and harmelesse as doues.
17. But beware of men: for they will deliuer you vp to the Councils, and they will scourge you in their Synagogues,
18. And yee shall be brought before Gouernours and Kings for my sake, for a testimonie against them, and the Gentiles.
19. But when they deliuer you vp, take no thought, how or what ye shall speake, for it shall bee giuen you in that same houre what ye shall speake.
20. For it is not yee that speake, but the Spirit of your Father, which speaketh in you.
21. And the brother shall deliuer vp the brother to death, and the father the childe: and the children shall rise vp against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22. And yee shall be hated of all men for my Names sake: but he that endureth to the end, shalbe saued.
23. But when they persecute you in this citie, flee ye into another: for verely I say vnto you, ye shall not haue gone ouer the cities of Israel, till the Sonne of man be come.
24. The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his lord.
25. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the seruant as his Lord: If they haue called the Master of the house of Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26. Feare them not therefore: for there is nothing couered, that shall not be reueiled; and hidde, that shall not be knowen.
27. What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee vpon the house tops.
28. And feare not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soule: but rather feare him which is able to destroy both soule and body in hell.
29. Are not two Sparrowes solde for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30. But the very haires of your head are all numbred.
31. Feare yee not therefore, ye are of more value then many Sparrowes.
32. Whosoeuer therefore shall confesse mee before men, him will I confesse also before my Father which is in heauen.
33. But whosoeuer shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heauen.
34. Thinke not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, & the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36. And a mans foes shalbe they of his owne houshold.
37. He that loueth father or mother more then me, is not worthy of me: and he that loueth sonne or daughter more then me, is not worthy of me.
38. And he that taketh not his crosse, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.
40. He that receiueth you, receiueth me: and he that receiueth mee, receiueth him that sent me.
41. He that receiueth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet, shall receiue a Prophets reward: and he that receiueth a righteous man, in the name of a righteous man, shal receiue a righteous mans reward.
42. And whosoeuer shall giue to drinke vnto one of these litle ones, a cup of cold water onely, in the name of a disciple, verily I say vnto you, hee shall in no wise lose his reward.
1. And it came to passe, when Iesus had made an end of commaunding his twelue Disciples, hee departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
2. Now when Iohn had heard in the prison the workes of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
3. And said vnto him, Art thou hee that should come? Or doe wee looke for another?
4. Iesus answered and saide vnto them, Go and shew Iohn againe those things which we doe heare and see:
5. The blind receiue their sight, and the lame walke, the lepers are cleansed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore haue the Gospel preached to them.
6. And blessed is he, whoseouer shal not be offended in me.
7. And as they departed, Iesus began to say vnto the multitudes concerning Iohn, what went ye out into the wildernesse to see? a reede shaken with the winde?
8. But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that weare soft cloathing, are in kings houses.
9. But what went ye out for to see? A Prophet? yea, I say vnto you, and more then a Prophet.
10. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
11. Uerely I say vnto you, Among them that are borne of women, there hath not risen a greater then Iohn the Baptist: notwithstanding, hee that is least in the kingdome of heauen, is greater then he.
12. And from the dayes of Iohn the Baptist, vntill now, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13. For all the Prophets, and the Law prophecied vntill Iohn.
14. And if ye wil receiue it, this is Elias which was for to come.
15. Hee that hath eares to heare, let him heare.
16. But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like vnto children, sitting in the markets, and calling vnto their fellowes,
17. And saying, we haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not danced: wee haue mourned vnto you, and ye haue not lamented.
18. For Iohn came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he hath a deuill.
19. The sonne of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicanes and sinners: but wisedom is iustified of her children.
20. Then began he to vpbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.
21. Woe vnto thee Chorazin, woe vnto thee Bethsaida: for if the mightie workes which were done in you, had bene done in Tyre and Sidon, they would haue repented long agoe in sackcloth and ashes.
22. But I say vnto you, It shall bee more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of iudgement, then for you.
23. And thou Capernaum, which art exalted vnto heauen, shalt be brought downe to hell: For if the mighty works which haue beene done in thee, had bin done in Sodome, it would haue remained vntil this day.
24. But I say vnto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in ye day of iudgment, then for thee.
25. At that time Iesus answered, and said, I thanke thee, O Father, Lord of heauen and earth, because thou hast hid these things fro the wise & prudent, & hast reueiled them vnto babes.
26. Euen so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.
27. All things are deliuered vnto me of my father: and no man knoweth the sonne but the father: neither knoweth any man the father, saue the sonne, and hee to whomsoeuer the sonne will reueile him.
28. Come vnto me all yee that labour, and are heauy laden, and I will giue you rest.
29. Take my yoke vpon you, and learne of me, for I am meeke and lowly in heart: and yee shall find rest vnto your soules.
30. For my yoke is easie, and my burden is light.
1. At that time, Iesus went on the Sabbath day thorow the corne, & his Disciples were an hungred, and beganne to pluck the eares of corne, and to eate.
2. But when the Pharises saw it, they said vnto him, Behold, thy Disciples doe that which is not lawfull to doe vpon the Sabbath day.
3. But he said vnto them, Haue yee not read what Dauid did when hee was an hungred, and they that were with him,
4. How he entred into the house of God, and did eate the shew bread, which was not lawfull for him to eate, neither for them which were with him, but, only for the Priests?
5. Or haue yee not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath dayes the Priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are blamelesse?
6. But I saye vnto you, that in this place is one greater then the Temple.
7. But if yee had knowen what this meaneth, I will haue mercy, and not sacrifice, yee would not haue condemned the guiltlesse.
8. For the sonne of man is Lord euen of the Sabbath day.
9. And when hee was departed thence, he went into their Synagogue.
10. And behold, there was a man which had his hand withered, and they asked him, saying, Is it lawfull to heale on the Sabbath dayes? That they might accuse him.
11. And hee said vnto them, What man shal there be among you, that shall haue one sheepe: and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will hee not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12. How much then is a man better then a shepe? Wherfore it is lawfull to doe well on the Sabbath dayes.
13. Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand: and hee stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other.
14. Then the Pharises went out, and held a counsell against him, how they might destroy him.
15. But when Iesus knew it, hee withdrew himselfe from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all,
16. And charged them that they should not make him knowen:
17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying,
18. Behold, my seruant whom I haue chosen, my beloued in whom my soule is well pleased: I will put my spirit vpon him, and he shall shew iudgement to the Gentiles.
19. He shall not striue, nor cry, neither shall any man heare his voice in the streets.
20. A bruised reed shal he not breake, and smoking flaxe shall he not quench, till he send forth iudgment vnto victory.
21. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
22. Then was brought vnto him one possessed with a deuill, blinde, and dumbe: and hee healed him, insomuch that the blinde and dumbe both spake and saw.
23. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is this the sonne of Dauid?
24. But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doeth not cast out deuils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils.
25. And Iesus knew their thoughts, and said vnto them, Euery kingdome diuided against it selfe, is brought to desolation: and euery citie or house diuided against it selfe, shall not stand.
26. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is diuided against himselfe; how shall then his kingdome stand?
27. And if I by Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whom doe your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your Iudges.
28. But if I cast out deuils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdome of God is come vnto you.
29. Or else, how can one enter into a strong mans house, & spoile his goods, except hee first binde the strong man, and then he will spoile his house.
30. He that is not with me, is against me: and hee that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad.
31. Wherefore I say vnto you, All maner of sinne and blasphemie shall be forgiuen vnto men: but the blasphemie against the holy Ghost, shall not bee forgiuen vnto men.
32. And whosoeuer speaketh a word against the sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but whosoeuer speaketh against the holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
33. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good: Or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: For the tree is knowen by his fruit.
34. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being euil, speake good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
35. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth foorth good things: and an euill man out of the euill treasure, bringeth foorth euill things.
36. But I say vnto you, That euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue accompt thereof in the day of Iudgement.
37. For by thy wordes thou shalt bee iustified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
38. Then certaine of the Scribes, and of the Pharisees, answered, saying, Master, we would see a signe from thee.
39. But hee answered, and said to them, An euill and adulterous generation seeketh after a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen to it, but the signe of the Prophet Ionas.
40. For as Ionas was three dayes and three nights in the whales belly: so shal the sonne of man be three daies and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41. The men of Nineue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it, because they repented at the preaching of Ionas, and behold, a greater then Ionas is here.
42. The Queene of the South shall rise vp in the iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vttermost parts of the earth to heare the wisedome of Solomon, and behold, a greater then Solomon is here.
43. When the vncleane spirit is gone out of a man, hee walketh thorow dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44. Then he saith, I will returne into my house from whence I came out; And when he is come, he findeth it emptie, swept, and garnished.
45. Then goeth he, and taketh with himselfe seuen other spirits more wicked then himselfe, and they enter in and dwell there: And the last state of that man is worse then the first. Euen so shal it be also vnto this wicked generation.
46. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speake with him.
47. Then one saide vnto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speake with thee.
48. But he answered, and said vnto him that told him, Who is my mother? And who are my brethren?
49. And hee stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren.
50. For whosoeuer shall doe the will of my Father which is in heauen, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
1. The same day went Iesus out of the house, and sate by the sea side.
2. And great multitudes were gathered together vnto him, so that hee went into a ship, and sate, and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3. And hee spake many things vnto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went foorth to sow.
4. And when he sowed, some seedes fell by the wayes side, and the foules came, and deuoured them vp.
5. Some fell vpon stony places, where they had not much earth: and foorth with they sprung vp, because they had no deepenesse of earth.
6. And when the Sunne was vp, they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.
7. And some fell among thorns: and the thornes sprung vp, & choked them.
8. But other fell into good ground, and brought foorth fruit, some an hundred folde, some sixtie folde, some thirty folde.
9. Who hath eares to heare, let him heare.
10. And the disciples came, and sayd vnto him, Why speakest thou vnto them in parables?
11. He answered, and said vnto them, Because it is giuen vnto you to know the mysteries of the kingdome of heauen, but to them it is not giuen.
12. For whosoeuer hath, to him shall be giuen, and he shall haue more abundance: but whosoeuer hath not, from him shall be taken away, euen that hee hath.
13. Therefore speake I to then in parables: because they seeing, see not: and hearing, they heare not, neither doe they vnderstand.
14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand: and seeing yee shall see, and shall not perceiue.
15. For this peoples heart is waxed grosse, and their eares are dull of hearing, and their eyes they haue closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and should vnderstand with their heart, and should be conuerted, and I should heale them.
16. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your eares, for they heare.
17. For verely I say vnto you, that many Prophets, and righteous men haue desired to see those things which yee see, and haue not seene them: and to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.
18. Heare ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdome, and vnderstandeth it not, then commeth the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart: this is hee which receiued seede by the way side.
20. But he that receiued the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, & anon with ioy receiueth it:
21. Yet hath hee not root in himselfe, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22. He also that receiued seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulnesse of riches choke the word, and he becommeth vnfruitfull.
23. But he that receiued seed into the good ground, is hee that heareth the word, and vnderstandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth foorth, some an hundred fold, some sixtie, some thirty.
24. Another parable put he forth vnto them, saying; The kingdome of heauen is likened vnto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25. But while men slept, his enemy came & sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26. But when the blade was sprung vp, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27. So the seruants of the housholder came, and said vnto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seede in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?
28. He said vnto them, An enemy hath done this. The seruants said vnto him, Wilt thou then that we goe and gather them vp?
29. But he said, Nay: lest while yee gather vp the tares, ye root vp also the wheat with them.
30. Let both grow together vntil the haruest: and in the time of haruest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and binde them in bundels to burne them: but gather the wheat into my barne.
31. Another parable put he foorth vnto them, saying, The kingdome of heauen is like to a graine of mustard seed, which a man tooke, and sowed in his field.
32. Which indeed is the least of al seeds: but when it is growen, it is the greatest among herbes, and becommeth a tree: so that the birds of the aire come and lodge in the branches thereof.
33. Another parable spake he vnto them, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three measures of meale, till the whole was leauened.
34. All these things spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake hee not vnto them:
35. That it might bee fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I wil vtter things which haue bin kept secret from the foundation of the world.
36. Then Iesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came vnto him, saying, Declare vnto vs the parable of the tares of the field.
37. He answered, and said vnto them, Hee that soweth the good seed, is the sonne of man.
38. The field is the world. The good seed, are the children of the kingdome: but the tares are the children of the wicked one.
39. The enemie that sowed them, is the deuill. The haruest, is the ende of the world. And the reapers are the Angels.
40. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire: so shall it be in the end of this world.
41. The Sonne of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdome all things that offend, and them which doe iniquitie:
42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wayling and gnashing of teeth.
43. Then shall the righteous shine foorth as the Sunne, in the kingdome of their father. Who hath eares to heare, let him heare.
44. Againe, the kingdome of heauen is like vnto treasure hid in a field: the which when a man hath found, hee hideth, and for ioy thereof goeth and selleth all that hee hath, and buyeth that field.
45. Againe, the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a marchant man, seeking goodly pearles:
46. Who when hee had found one pearle of great price, he went and solde all that he had, and bought it.
47. Againe, the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of euery kind,
48. Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sate downe, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
49. So shall it be at the ende of the world: the Angels shal come forth, and seuer the wicked from among the iust,
50. And shal cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
51. Iesus saith vnto them, Haue ye vnderstood all these things? They say vnto him, Yea, Lord.
52. Then said he vnto them, Therefore euery Scribe which is instructed vnto the kingdom of heauen, is like vnto a man that is an housholder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things new and old.
53. And it came to passe, that when Iesus had finished these parables, hee departed thence.
54. And when hee was come into his owne countrey, he taught them in their Synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisedome, and these mighty works?
55. Is not this the Carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie? and his brethren, Iames, and Ioses, and Simon, and Iudas?
56. And his sisters, are they not all with vs? whence then hath this man all these things?
57. And they were offended in him. But Iesus said vnto them, A Prophet is not without honour, saue in his owne countrey, and in his owne house.
58. And hee did not many mighty workes there, because of their vnbeliefe.
1. At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Iesus,
2. And said vnto his seruants, This is Iohn the Baptist, hee is risen from the dead, and therfore mighty workes doe shew foorth themselues in him.
3. For Herode had layd hold on Iohn, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.
4. For Iohn said vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.
5. And when he would haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.
6. But when Herods birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunced before them, and pleased Herode.
7. Whereupon he promised with an oath, to giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.
8. And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Giue me heere Iohn Baptists head in a charger.
9. And the king was sorie: neuerthelesse for the othes sake, and them which sate with him at meate, he commanded it to be giuen her:
10. And he sent, and beheaded Iohn in the prison.
11. And his head was brought in a charger, and giuen to the Damsell: and she brought it to her mother.
12. And his Disciples came, and took vp the body, and buried it, and went and told Iesus.
13. When Iesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship, into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foote, out of the cities.
14. And Iesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was mooued with compassion toward them, and he healed their sicke.
15. And when it was euening, his Disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may goe into the villages, and buy themselues victuals.
16. But Iesus said vnto them, They neede not depart; giue yee them to eate.
17. And they say vnto him, We haue heere but fiue loaues, and two fishes.
18. He said, Bring them hither to me.
19. And hee commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grasse, & tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looking vp to heauen, hee blessed, and brake, and gaue the loaues to his Disciples, and the Disciples to the multitude.
20. And they did all eat, & were filled: and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained twelue baskets full.
21. And they that had eaten, were about fiue thousand men, beside women and children.
22. And straightway Iesus constrained his Disciples to get into a ship, and to goe before him vnto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
23. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went vp into a mountaine apart to pray: and when the euening was come, he was there alone:
24. But the ship was now in the midst of the Sea, tossed with waues: for the wind was contrary.
25. And in the fourth watch of the night, Iesus went vnto them, walking on the Sea.
26. And when the Disciples saw him walking on the Sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit: and they cried out for feare.
27. But straightway Iesus spake vnto them, saying, Be of good cheere: it is I, be not afraid.
28. And Peter answered him, and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come vnto thee on the water.
29. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come downe out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Iesus.
30. But when he saw the wind boysterous, he was afraid: and beginning to sinke, he cried, saying, Lord saue me.
31. And immediately Iesus stretched foorth his hand, and caught him, and said vnto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
32. And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
33. Then they that were in the ship, came and worshipped him, saying, Of a trueth thou art the sonne of God.
34. And when they were gone ouer, they came into ye land of Genesaret.
35. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that countrey round about, and brought vnto him al that were diseased,
36. And besought him, that they might onely touch the hemme of his garment; and as many as touched, were made perfectly whole.
1. Then came to Iesus Scribes and Pharisees, which were of Hierusalem, saying,
2. Why do thy disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders? for they wash not their handes when they eat bread.
3. But hee answered, and said vnto them, Why doe you also transgresse the Commandement of God by your tradition?
4. For God commaunded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: And hee that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5. But yee say, Whosoeuer shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift by whatsoeuer thou mightest bee profited by me,
6. And honour not his father or his mother, hee shall be free. Thus haue yee made the Commaundement of God of none effect by your tradition.
7. Yee hypocrites, well did Esaias prophecie of you, saying,
8. This people draweth nigh vnto mee with their mouth, and honoureth mee with their lips: but their heart is farre from me.
9. But in vaine they do worship me, teaching for doctrines, the commandements of men.
10. And he called the multitude, and said vnto them, Heare and vnderstand.
11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but that which commeth out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
12. Then came his disciples, and said vnto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?
13. But he answered and said, Euery plant which my heauenly father hath not planted, shalbe rooted vp.
14. Let them alone: they be blinde leaders of the blinde. And if the blinde lead the blinde, both shall fall into the ditch.
15. Then answered Peter, and said vnto him, Declare vnto vs this parable.
16. And Iesus said, Are yee also yet without vnderstanding?
17. Doe not yee yet vnderstand, that whatsoeuer entreth in at the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18. But those things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and they defile the man.
19. For out of the heart proceed euill thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnes, blasphemies.
20. These are the things which defile a man: But to eate with vnwashen hands, defileth not a man.
21. Then Iesus went thence, and departed into the coastes of Tyre and Sidon.
22. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, & cried vnto him, saying, Haue mercy on me, O Lord, thou sonne of Dauid, my daughter is grieuously vexed with a deuill.
23. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came, and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she cryeth after vs.
24. But he answered, and said, I am not sent, but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.
25. Then came she, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, helpe me.
26. But he answered, and said, It is not meete to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27. And she said, Trueth Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crummes which fall from their masters table.
28. Then Iesus answered, and said vnto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it vnto thee euen as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very houre.
29. And Iesus departed fro thence, and came nigh vnto the sea of Galile, and went vp into a mountaine, and sate downe there.
30. And great multitudes came vnto him, hauing with them those that were lame, blinde, dumbe, maimed, and many others, and cast them downe at Iesus feet, and he healed them:
31. Insomuch that the multitude wondred, when they saw the dumbe to speake, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walke, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
32. Then Iesus called his disciples vnto him, and said, I haue compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three dayes, and haue nothing to eate: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
33. And his disciples say vnto him, Whence should we haue so much bread in the wildernesse, as to fill so great a multitude?
34. And Iesus saith vnto them, How many loaues haue yee? And they said, Seuen, and a few little fishes.
35. And hee commaunded the multitude to sit downe on the ground.
36. And he tooke the seuen loaues and the fishes, and gaue thankes, and brake them, and gaue to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
37. And they did all eate, and were filled: and they tooke vp of the broken meate that was left, seuen baskets full.
38. And they that did eat, were foure thousand men, beside women and children.
39. And he sent away the multitude, and tooke ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
1. The Pharises also, with the Sadduces, came, and tempting, desired him that hee would shew them a signe from heauen.
2. He answered, and said vnto them, When it is euening, yee say, It will bee faire weather: for the skie is red.
3. And in the morning, It will be foule weather to day: for the skie is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, yee can discerne the face of the skie, but can ye not discerne the signes of the times?
4. A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen vnto it, but the signe of the Prophet Ionas. And hee left them, and departed.
5. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
6. Then Iesus said vnto them, Take heed and beware of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the Sadduces.
7. And they reasoned among themselues, saying, It is because we haue taken no bread.
8. Which when Iesus perceiued, he said vnto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among your selues, because ye haue brought no bread?
9. Doe ye not yet vnderstand, neither remember the fiue loaues of the fiue thousand, and how many baskets ye tooke vp?
10. Neither the seuen loaues of the foure thousand, and how many baskets ye tooke vp?
11. How is it that ye doe not vnderstand, that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the Sadduces?
12. Then vnderstood they how that he bade them not beware of the leauen of bread: but of the doctrine of the Pharisees, and of the Sadduces.
13. When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am?
14. And they said, Some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist, some Elias, and others Ieremias, or one of ye Prophets.
15. He saith vnto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16. And Simon Peter answered, and said, Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.
17. And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Blessed art thou Simon Bar Iona: for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee, but my Father which is in heauen.
18. And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke I will build my Church: and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it.
19. And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen: and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen: whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.
20. Then charged hee his disciples that they should tel no man that he was Iesus the Christ.
21. From that time foorth began Iesus to shew vnto his disciples, how that he must goe vnto Hierusalem, and suffer many things of the Elders and chiefe Priests & Scribes, and be killed, and be raised againe the third day.
22. Then Peter tooke him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it farre from thee Lord: This shal not be vnto thee.
23. But he turned, and said vnto Peter, Get thee behind mee, Satan, thou art an offence vnto me: for thou sauourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
24. Then said Iesus vnto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him denie himselfe, and take vp his crosse, and follow me.
25. For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: and whosoeuer will lose his his life for my sake, shall finde it.
26. For what is a man profited, if hee shal gaine the whole world, and lose his owne soule? Or what shall a man giue in exchange for his soule?
27. For the sonne of man shall come in the glory of his father, with his Angels: and then he shall reward euery man according to his works.
28. Uerely I say vnto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Sonne of man comming in his Kingdome.
1. And after sixe dayes, Iesus taketh Peter, Iames, and Iohn his brother, and bringeth them vp into an high mountaine apart,
2. And was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the Sunne, and his raiment was white as the light.
3. And behold, there appeared vnto them Moses, and Elias, talking with him.
4. Then answered Peter, and saide vnto Iesus, Lord, it is good for vs to be here: If thou wilt, let vs make here three tabernacles: one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
5. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud ouershadowed them: and behold a voyce out of the cloude, which saide, This is my beloued sonne, in whom I am well pleased: heare ye him.
6. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
7. And Iesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
8. And when they had lift vp their eyes, they saw no man, saue Iesus only.
9. And as they came downe from the mountaine, Iesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, vntil the sonne of man bee risen againe from the dead.
10. And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come?
11. And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Elias truely shall first come, and restore all things:
12. But I say vnto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they listed: Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
13. Then the Disciples vnderstood that he spake vnto them of Iohn the Baptist.
14. And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certaine man, kneeling downe to him, and saying,
15. Lord, haue mercie on my sonne, for he is lunatike, and sore vexed: for oft times he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17. Then Iesus answered, and said, O faithlesse and peruerse generation, how long shall I bee with you? howe long shal I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18. And Iesus rebuked the deuill, and hee departed out of him: and the childe was cured from that very houre.
19. Then came the Disciples to Iesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20. And Iesus said vnto them, Because of your vnbeliefe: for verily I say vnto you, If yee haue faith as a graine of mustard seed, yee shall say vnto this mountaine; Remoue hence to yonder place: and it shall remoue, and nothing shall be vnpossible vnto you.
21. Howbeit, this kind goeth not out, but by prayer and fasting.
22. And while they abode in Galilee, Iesus said vnto them, The sonne of man shall be betraied into the hands of men:
23. And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised againe: And they were exceeding sorie.
24. And when they were come to Capernaum, they that receiued tribute money, came to Peter, and said, Doeth not your master pay tribute?
25. Hee saith, Yes. And when hee was come into the house, Iesus preuented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom doe the kings of the earth take custome or tribute? of their owne children, or of strangers?
26. Peter saith vnto him, Of strangers. Iesus saith vnto him, Then are the children free.
27. Notwithstanding, least we should offend them, goe thou to the Sea, and cast an hooke, and take vp the fish that first commeth vp: and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and giue vnto them for me, and thee.
1. At the same time came the Disciples vnto Iesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the Kingdome of heauen?
2. And Iesus called a little child vnto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3. And said, Uerily I say vnto you, Except yee be conuerted, and become as little children, yee shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.
4. Whosoeuer therefore shall humble himselfe as this little childe, the same is greatest in the Kingdome of heauen.
5. And who so shall receiue one such little child in my name, receiueth me.
6. But who so shall offend one of these little ones which beleeue in me, it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and that hee were drowned in the depth of the Sea.
7. Woe vnto the world because of offences: for it must needs be that offences come: but wo to that man by whom the offence commeth.
8. Wherefore if thy hand or thy foote offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather then hauing two hands or two feete, to be cast into euerlasting fire.
9. And if thine eie offend thee, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eie, rather then hauing two eies, to be cast into hell fire.
10. Take heed that yee despise not one of these little ones: for I say vnto you, that in heauen their Angels do alwaies behold the face of my father which is in heauen.
11. For the sonne of man is come to saue that which was lost.
12. How thinke yee? If a man haue an hundred sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leaue the ninetie and nine, and goeth into the mountaines, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
13. And if so be that he find it, Uerily I say vnto you, hee reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray.
14. Euen so, it is not the will of your father which is in heauen, that one of these little ones should perish.
15. Moreouer, if thy brother shall trespasse against thee, goe and tell him his fault betweene thee and him alone: if he shall heare thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16. But if he will not heare thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, euery word may be established.
17. And if hee shall neglect to heare them, tell it vnto the Church: But if he neglect to heare the Church, let him be vnto thee as an heathen man, and a Publicane.
18. Uerily I say vnto you, Whatsoeuer ye shall binde on earth, shall bee bound in heauen: and whatsoeuer yee shall loose on earth, shall bee loosed in heauen.
19. Againe I say vnto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall aske, it shall bee done for them of my father which is in heauen.
20. For where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the midst of them.
21. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sinne against mee, and I forgiue him? till seuen times?
22. Iesus saith vnto him, I say not vnto thee, Untill seuen times: but, Untill seuentie times seuen.
23. Therefore is the kingdome of heauen likened vnto a certaine king, which would take accompt of his seruants.
24. And when hee had begun to reckon, one was brought vnto him which ought him ten thousand talents.
25. But forasmuch as hee had not to pay, his lord commanded him to bee sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26. The seruant therfore fell downe, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, haue patience with mee, and I will pay thee all.
27. Then the Lord of that seruant was moued with compassion, and loosed him, and forgaue him the debt.
28. But the same seruant went out, and found one of his fellow-seruants, which ought him an hundred pence: and hee layd handes on him, and tooke him by the throte, saying, Pay mee that thou owest.
29. And his fellow seruant fell downe at his feete, and besought him, saying, Haue patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
30. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till hee should pay the debt.
31. So when his fellow-seruants saw what was done, they were very sorie, and came, and told vnto their lord all that was done.
32. Then his lord, after that hee had called him, said vnto him, O thou wicked seruant, I forgaue thee all that debt because thou desiredst me:
33. Shouldest not thou also haue had compassion on thy fellow-seruant, euen as I had pitie on thee?
34. And his lord was wroth, and deliuered him to the tormentors, till hee should pay all that was due vnto him.
35. So likewise shall my heauenly Father doe also vnto you, if yee from your hearts forgiue not euery one his brother their trespasses.
1. And it came to passe, that when Iesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coastes of Iudea, beyond Iordane:
2. And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3. The Pharisees also came vnto him, tempting him, and saying vnto him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife for euery cause?
4. And hee answered, and said vnto them, Haue ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female?
5. And said, For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife: and they twaine shalbe one flesh.
6. Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.
7. They say vnto him, Why did Moses then command to giue a writing of diuorcement, and to put her away?
8. Hee saith vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnesse of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.
9. And I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away, doth commit adultery.
10. His disciples say vnto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marrie.
11. But hee said vnto them, All men cannot receiue this saying, saue they to whom it is giuen.
12. For there are some Eunuches, which were so borne from their mothers wombe: and there are some Eunuches, which were made Eunuches of men: and there be Eunuches, which haue made themselues Eunuches for the kingdome of heauens sake. He that is able to receiue it, let him receiue it.
13. Then were there brought vnto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14. But Iesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come vnto me: for of such is ye kingdome of heauen.
15. And he laide his hands on them, and departed thence.
16. And behold, one came and said vnto him, Good master, what good thing shall I do, that I may haue eternall life?
17. And he said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandements.
18. He saith vnto him, Which? Iesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steale, Thou shalt not beare false witnesse,
19. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
20. The young man saith vnto him, All these things haue I kept from my youth vp: what lacke I yet?
21. Iesus said vnto him, If thou wilt be perfect, goe and sell that thou hast, and giue to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen: and come and follow me.
22. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowfull: for he had great possessions.
23. Then said Iesus vnto his disciples, Uerely I say vnto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdome of heauen.
24. And againe I say vnto you, It is easier for a camel to goe thorow the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of God.
25. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saued?
26. But Iesus beheld them, and said vnto them, With men this is vnpossible, but with God al things are possible.
27. Then answered Peter, and said vnto him, Behold, we haue forsaken all, and followed thee, what shall we haue therefore?
28. And Iesus said vnto them, Uerily I say vnto you, that ye which haue followed me, in the regeneration when the Sonne of man shal sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shal sit vpon twelue thrones, iudging the twelue tribes of Israel.
29. And euery one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Names sake, shall receiue an hundred fold, and shall inherite euerlasting life.
30. But many that are first, shall be last, and the last shall be first.
1. For the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man that is an housholder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
2. And when hee had agreed with the labourers for a peny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3. And he went out about the third houre, and saw others standing idle in the market place,
4. And said vnto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, & whatsoeuer is right, I wil giue you. And they went their way.
5. Againe he went out about the sixth and ninth houre, and did likewise.
6. And about the eleuenth houre, he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith vnto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
7. They say vnto him, Because no man hath hired vs. He saith vnto them, Go ye also into the vineyard: and whatsoeuer is right, that shall ye receiue.
8. So when euen was come, the lord of the vineyard saith vnto his Steward, Call the labourers, and giue them their hire, beginning from the last, vnto the first.
9. And when they came that were hired about the eleuenth houre, they receiued euery man a penie.
10. But when the first came, they supposed that they should haue receiued more, and they likewise receiued euery man a penie.
11. And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the good man of the house,
12. Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden, and heat of the day.
13. But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penie?
14. Take that thine is, and goe thy way, I will giue vnto this last, euen as vnto thee.
15. Is it not lawfull for mee to doe what I wil with mine owne? Is thine eye euill, because I am good?
16. So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many bee called, but fewe chosen.
17. And Iesus going vp to Hierusalem, tooke the twelue disciples apart in the way, and said vnto them,
18. Behold, we goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall be betraied vnto the chiefe Priests, and vnto the Scribes, and they shall condemne him to death,
19. And shal deliuer him to the Gentiles to mocke, and to scourge, and to crucifie him: and the third day he shall rise againe.
20. Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children, with her sonnes, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
21. And he said vnto her, What wilt thou? She saith vnto him, Grant, that these my two sonnes may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left in thy kingdome.
22. But Iesus answered, and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with? They say vnto him, We are able.
23. And he saith vnto them, Yee shall drinke indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to giue, but it shall be giuen to them for whom it is prepared of my father.
24. And when the ten heard it, they were moued with indignation against the two brethren.
25. But Iesus called them vnto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion ouer them, and they that are great, exercise authoritie vpon them.
26. But it shall not be so among you: But whosoeuer will bee great among you, let him be your minister.
27. And whosoeuer will be chiefe among you, let him be your seruant.
28. Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto, but minister, and to giue his life a ransome for many.
29. And as they departed from Hiericho, a great multitude followed him.
30. And behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Iesus passed by, cried out, saying, Haue mercie on vs, O Lord, thou sonne of Dauid.
31. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should holde their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Haue mercie on vs, O Lord, thou sonne of Dauid.
32. And Iesus stood still, and called them, and saide, What will yee that I shall doe vnto you?
33. They say vnto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
34. So Iesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediatly their eyes receiued sight, and they followed him.
1. And when they drewe nigh vnto Hierusalem, and were come to Bethphage, vnto the mount of Oliues, then sent Iesus two Disciples,
2. Saying vnto them, Goe into the village ouer against you, and straightway yee shall find an Asse tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them vnto me.
3. And if any man say ought vnto you, yee shall say, The Lord hath need of them, and straightway hee will send them.
4. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying,
5. Tell yee the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy king commeth vnto thee, meeke, and sitting vpon an Asse, and a colt, the foale of an Asse.
6. And the Disciples went, and did as Iesus commanded them,
7. And brought the Asse, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
8. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way, others cut downe branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
9. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid: Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.
10. And when hee was come into Hierusalem, all the citie was mooued, saying, Who is this?
11. And the multitude said, This is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
12. And Iesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that solde doues,
13. And said vnto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but yee haue made it a denne of theeues.
14. And the blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, & he healed them.
15. And when the chiefe Priests and Scribes saw the wonderfull things that he did, & the children crying in the temple, & saying, Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid, they were sore displeased,
16. And said vnto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Iesus saith vnto them, Yea, haue yee neuer read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
17. And he left them, and went out of the citie into Bethany, and he lodged there.
18. Now in the morning, as hee returned into the citie, he hungred.
19. And when he saw a figge tree in the way, hee came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaues only, and said vnto it, Let no fruite growe on thee hence forward for euer. And presently the figge tree withered away.
20. And when the Disciples saw it, they marueiled, saying, How soone is the figge tree withered away?
21. Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Uerily I say vnto you, if yee haue faith, and doubt not, yee shall not onely doe this which is done to the figge tree, but also, if ye shall say vnto this mountaine, Be thou remoued, and be thou cast into the Sea, it shall be done.
22. And all things whatsoeuer yee shall aske in prayer, beleeuing, ye shall receiue.
23. And when he was come into the temple, the chiefe Priests and the Elders of the people came vnto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authoritie doest thou these things? and who gaue thee this authoritie?
24. And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, I also will aske you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.
25. The baptisme of Iohn, whence was it? from heauen, or of men? and they reasoned with themselues saying, If we shall say, From heauen, hee will say vnto vs, Why did ye not then beleeue him?
26. But if we shall say, Of men, we feare the people, for all hold Iohn as a Prophet.
27. And they answered Iesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said vnto them, Neither tell I you by what authoritie I doe these things.
28. But what thinke you? A certaine man had two sonnes, and he came to the first, and said, Sonne, goe worke to day in my vineyard.
29. He answered, & said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
30. And hee came to the second, and said likewise: and hee answered, and said, I goe sir, and went not.
31. Whether of them twaine did the will of his father? They say vnto him, The first. Iesus saith vnto them, Uerely I say vnto you, that the Publicanes and the harlots go into the kingdome of God before you.
32. For Iohn came vnto you in the way of righteousnesse, and ye beleeued him not: but the Publicanes and the harlots beleeued him. And ye when ye had seene it, repented not afterward, that ye might beleeue him.
33. Heare another parable. There was a certaine house-holder, which planted a Uineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-presse in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a farre countrey.
34. And when the time of the fruite drew neere, he sent his seruants to the husbandmen, that they might receiue the fruits of it.
35. And the husbandmen tooke his seruants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36. Againe hee sent other seruants, moe then the first, and they did vnto them likewise.
37. But last of all, he sent vnto them his sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.
38. But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they said among themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and let vs sease on his inheritance.
39. And they caught him, and cast him out of the Uineyard, and slew him.
40. When the Lord therefore of the Uineyard commeth, what will he doe vnto those husbandmen?
41. They say vnto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his Uineyard vnto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
42. Iesus saith vnto them, Did ye neuer reade in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders reiected, the same is become the head of the corner? This is the Lords doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.
43. Therefore say I vnto you, the kingdome of God shall be taken from you, and giuen to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44. And whosoeuer shall fall on this stone, shalbe broken: but on whom soeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to powder.
45. And when the chiefe Priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceiued that he spake of them.
46. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they tooke him for a Prophet.
1. And Iesus answered, and spake vnto them againe by parables, and said,
2. The Kingdome of heauen is like vnto a certaine King, which made a marriage for his sonne,
3. And sent forth his seruants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come.
4. Againe, hee sent foorth other seruants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Beholde, I haue prepared my dinner; my oxen, and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come vnto the marriage.
5. But they made light of it, and went their wayes, one to his farme, another to his merchandize:
6. And the remnant tooke his seruants, and intreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and hee sent foorth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burnt vp their citie.
8. Then saith hee to his seruants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden, were not worthy.
9. Goe yee therefore into the high wayes, and as many as yee shall finde, bid to the marriage.
10. So those seruants went out into the high wayes, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with ghests.
11. And when the King came in to see the guests, hee sawe there a man, which had not on a wedding garment,
12. And hee sayth vnto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not hauing a wedding garment? And hee was speechlesse.
13. Then said the king to the seruants, Binde him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkenesse, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14. For many are called, but few are chosen.
15. Then went the Pharises, and tooke counsell, how they might intangle him in his talke.
16. And they sent out vnto him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, wee know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in trueth, neither carest thou for any man; for thou regardest not the person of men.
17. Tell vs therefore, what thinkest thou? Is it lawfull to giue tribute vnto Cesar, or not?
18. But Iesus perceiued their wickednesse, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19. Shew me the tribute money. And they brought vnto him a peny.
20. And he sayth vnto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21. They say vnto him, Cesars. Then sayth he vnto them, Render therefore vnto Cesar, the things which are Cesars: and vnto God, the things that are Gods.
22. When they had heard these wordes, they marueiled, and left him, and went their way.
23. The same day came to him the Sadduces, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
24. Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, hauing no children, his brother shall marrie his wife, and raise vp seed vnto his brother.
25. Now there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first when he had maried a wife, deceased, and hauing no issue, left his wife vnto his brother.
26. Likewise the second also, and the third, vnto the seuenth.
27. And last of al the woman died also.
28. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seuen? for they all had her.
29. Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Yee doe erre, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
30. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are giuen in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heauen.
31. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, haue ye not read that which was spoken vnto you by God, saying,
32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the liuing.
33. And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
34. But when the Pharises had heard that he had put the Sadduces to silence, they were gathered together.
35. Then one of them, which was a Lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36. Master, which is the great Commandement in the Law?
37. Iesus sayd vnto him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde.
38. This is the first and great Commandement.
39. And the second is like vnto it, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
40. On these two Commandements hang all the Law and the Prophets.
41. While the Pharises were gathered together, Iesus asked them,
42. Saying, What thinke yee of Christ? whose sonne is hee? They say vnto him, The sonne of Dauid.
43. He saith vnto them, How then doth Dauid in spirit call him Lord, saying,
44. The Lord said vnto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstoole?
45. If Dauid then call him Lord, how is he his sonne?
46. And no man was able to answere him a word, neither durst any man (from that day foorth) aske him any moe questions.
1. Then spake Iesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2. Saying, The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate:
3. All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and doe, but doe not ye after their workes: for they say, and doe not.
4. For they binde heauie burdens, and grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not mooue them with one of their fingers.
5. But all their workes they doe, for to be seene of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6. And loue the vppermost roomes at feasts, and the chiefe seats in the Synagogues,
7. And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, euen Christ, and all ye are brethren.
9. And call no man your father vpon the earth: for one is your father which is in heauen.
10. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, euen Christ.
11. But hee that is greatest among you, shall be your seruant.
12. And whosoeuer shall exalt himselfe, shall be abased: and he that shall humble himselfe, shall be exalted.
13. But woe vnto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for yee shut vp the kingdom of heauen against men: For yee neither goe in your selues, neither suffer ye them that are entring, to goe in.
14. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for yee deuoure widowes houses, and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.
15. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites; for yee compasse Sea and land to make one Proselyte, and when hee is made, yee make him two fold more the childe of hell then your selues.
16. Woe vnto you, yee blind guides, which say, Whosoeuer shall sweare by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer shal sweare by the gold of the Temple, he is a debter.
17. Ye fooles and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18. And whosoeuer shall sweare by the Altar, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the gift that is vpon it, he is guiltie.
19. Ye fooles and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the Altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20. Who so therefore shall sweare by the Altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21. And who so shall sweare by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22. And he that shall sweare by heauen, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for yee pay tithe of mint, and annise, and cummine, and haue omitted the weightier matters of the Law, iudgement, mercie and faith: these ought ye to haue done, and not to leaue the other vndone.
24. Ye blind guides, which straine at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for yee make cleane the outside of the cup, and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excesse.
26. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may bee cleane also.
27. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for yee are like vnto whited sepulchres, which indeed appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all vncleannesse.
28. Euen so, yee also outwardly appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
29. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30. And say, If wee had beene in the dayes of our fathers, wee would not haue bene partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets.
31. Wherefore ye bee witnesses vnto your selues, that yee are the children of them which killed the Prophets.
32. Fil ye vp then the measure of your fathers.
33. Yee serpents, yee generation of vipers, How can yee escape the damnation of hell?
34. Wherefore behold, I send vnto you Prophets, and wisemen, and Scribes, and some of them yee shall kill and crucifie, and some of them shall yee scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from citie to citie:
35. That vpon you may come all the righteous blood shed vpon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom yee slew betweene the temple and the altar.
36. Uerily I say vnto you, All these things shal come vpon this generation.
37. O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, thou that killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent vnto thee, how often would I haue gathered thy children together, euen as a hen gathereth her chickens vnder her wings, and yee would not?
38. Behold, your house is left vnto you desolate.
39. For I say vnto you, yee shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord.
1. And Iesus went out, and departed from the temple, and his Disciples came to him, for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2. And Iesus said vnto them, See yee not all these things? Uerily I say vnto you, there shall not be left heere one stone vpon another, that shall not be throwen downe.
3. And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, the Disciples came vnto him priuately, saying, Tell vs, when shall these things be? And what shall be the signe of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4. And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Take heed that no man deceiue you.
5. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ: and shall deceiue many.
6. And yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres: See that yee be not troubled: for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.
7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in diuers places.
8. All these are the beginning of sorrowes.
9. Then shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and yee shall bee hated of all nations for my names sake.
10. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11. And many false Prophets shall rise, and shall deceiue many.
12. And because iniquitie shal abound, the loue of many shall waxe cold.
13. But he that shall endure vnto the end, the same shall be saued.
14. And this Gospell of the kingdome shall be preached in all the world, for a witnesse vnto al nations, and then shall the end come.
15. When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so readeth, let him vnderstand.)
16. Then let them which be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines.
17. Let him which is on the house top, not come downe, to take any thing out of his house:
18. Neither let him which is in the field, returne backe to take his clothes.
19. And wтe vnto them that are with child, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.
20. But pray yee that your flight bee not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:
21. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor euer shall be.
22. And except those dayes should be shortned, there should no flesh be saued: but for the elects sake, those dayes shall be shortned.
23. Then if any man shall say vnto you, Loe, heere is Christ, or there: beleeue it not.
24. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shal shew great signes and wonders: insomuch that (if it were possible,) they shall deceiue the very elect.
25. Behold, I haue told you before.
26. Wherefore, if they shall say vnto you, Behold, he is in the desert, goe not foorth: Behold, he is in the secret chambers, beleeue it not.
27. For as the lightening commeth out of the East, and shineth euen vnto the West: so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.
28. For wheresoeuer the carkeise is, there will the Eagles bee gathered together.
29. Immediately after the tribulation of those dayes, shall the Sunne be darkned, and the Moone shall not giue her light, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of the heauens shall be shaken.
30. And then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen: and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourne, and they shall see the Sonne of man coming in the clouds of heauen, with power and great glory.
31. And hee shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his Elect from the foure windes, from one end of heauen to the other.
32. Now learne a parable of the figtree: when his branch is yet tender, and putteth foorth leaues, yee know that Summer is nigh:
33. So likewise yee, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is neere, euen at the doores.
34. Uerely I say vnto you, this generation shall not passe, till all these things be fulfilled.
35. Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my wordes shall not passe away.
36. But of that day and houre knoweth no man, no, not the Angels of heauen, but my Father onely.
37. But as the dayes of Noe were, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.
38. For as in the dayes that were before the Flood, they were eating, and drinking, marrying, and giuing in mariage, vntill the day that Noe entred into the Arke,
39. And knew not vntill the Flood came, and tooke them all away: so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.
40. Then shall two be in the field, the one shalbe taken, and the other left.
41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill: the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42. Watch therfore, for ye know not what houre your Lord doth come.
43. But know this, that if the good man of the house had knowen in what watch the thiefe would come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be broken vp.
44. Therefore be yee also ready: for in such an houre as you thinke not, the sonne of man commeth.
45. Who then is a faithfull and wise seruant, whom his Lord hath made ruler ouer his houshold, to giue them meat in due season?
46. Blessed is that seruant, whome his Lord when he commeth, shall finde so doing.
47. Uerely I say vnto you, that hee shal make him ruler ouer all his goods.
48. But and if that euill seruant shal say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his comming,
49. And shall begin to smite his fellow seruants, and to eate and drinke with the drunken:
50. The Lord of that seruant shall come in a day when hee looketh not for him, and in an houre that hee is not ware of:
51. And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
1. Then shall the kingdome of heauen be likened vnto ten Uirgins, which tooke their lamps, & went forth to meet the bridegrome.
2. And fiue of them were wise, and fiue were foolish.
3. They that were foolish tooke their lampes, and tooke no oyle with them:
4. But the wise tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes.
5. While the bridegrome taried, they all slumbred and slept.
6. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegrome commeth, goe ye out to meet him.
7. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lampes.
8. And the foolish said vnto the wise, Giue vs of your oyle, for our lampes are gone out.
9. But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there be not ynough for vs and you, but goe ye rather to them that sell, and buy for your selues.
10. And while they went to buy, the bridegrome came, and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the doore was shut.
11. Afterward came also the other virgines, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs.
12. But he answered, and said, Uerely I say vnto you, I know you not.
13. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, wherein the Sonne of man commeth.
14. For the kingdome of heauen is as a man trauailing into a farre countrey, who called his owne seruants, and deliuered vnto them his goods:
15. And vnto one he gaue fiue talents, to another two, and to another one, to euery man according to his seuerall ability, & straightway tooke his iourney.
16. Then hee that had receiued the fiue talents, went and traded with the same, and made them other fiue talents.
17. And likewise he that had receiued two, he also gained other two.
18. But hee that had receiued one, went and digged in the earth, and hid his lordes money.
19. After a long time, the lord of those seruants commeth, and reckoneth with them.
20. And so hee that had receiued fiue talents, came and brought other fiue talents, saying, Lord, thou deliueredst vnto me fiue talents, behold, I haue gained besides them, fiue talents moe.
21. His lord said vnto him, Well done, thou good and faithfull seruant, thou hast been faithfull ouer a few things, I wil make thee ruler ouer many things: enter thou into the ioy of thy lord.
22. He also that had receiued two talents, came and said, Lord, thou deliueredst vnto me two talents: behold, I haue gained two other talents besides them.
23. His lord said vnto him, Well done, good and faithfull seruant, thou hast beene faithfull ouer a few things, I wil make thee ruler ouer many things: enter thou into the ioy of thy lord.
24. Then he which had receiued the one talent, came & said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sowen, & gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25. And I was afraid, and went and hidde thy talent in the earth: loe, there thou hast that is thine.
26. His lord answered, and said vnto him, Thou wicked and slouthfull seruant, thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I haue not strawed:
27. Thou oughtest therefore to haue put my money to the exchangers, and then at my comming I should haue receiued mine owne with vsurie.
28. Take therefore the talent from him, and giue it vnto him which hath ten talents.
29. For vnto euery one that hath shall be giuen, and he shall haue abundance: but from him that hath not, shal be taken away, euen that which he hath.
30. And cast yee the vnprofitable seruant into outer darkenesse, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
31. When the Sonne of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy Angels with him, then shall hee sit vpon the throne of his glory:
32. And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepheard diuideth his sheepe from the goats.
33. And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34. Then shall the King say vnto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35. For I was an hungred, and yee gaue me meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in:
36. Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sicke, and yee visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.
37. Then shal the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fedde thee? or thirstie, and gaue thee drinke?
38. When saw wee thee a stranger, and tooke thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39. Or when saw we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee?
40. And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Uerely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethren, ye haue done it vnto me.
41. Then shall he say also vnto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, prepared for the deuill and his angels.
42. For I was an hungred, and yee gaue me no meat: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drinke:
43. I was a stranger, and yee tooke me not in: naked, and ye clothed mee not: sicke, and in prison, and yee visited me not.
44. Then shall they also answere him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sicke, or in prison, and did not minister vnto thee?
45. Then shall he answere them, saying, Uerely, I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46. And these shall goe away into euerlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternall.
1. And it came to passe, when Iesus had finished al these sayings, hee said vnto his disciples,
2. Ye know that after two dayes is the feast of the Passeouer, and the Sonne of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3. Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of the people, vnto the palace of the high Priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4. And consulted that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kill him.
5. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there bee an vproare among the people.
6. Now when Iesus was in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper,
7. There came vnto him a woman, hauing an alabaster boxe of very precious ointment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at meat.
8. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9. For this ointment might haue bin sold for much, and giuen to the poore.
10. When Iesus vnderstood it, he said vnto them, Why trouble ye the woman? For she hath wrought a good worke vpon me.
11. For ye haue the poore alwayes with you, but me ye haue not alwayes.
12. For in that she hath powred this ointment on my body, shee did it for my buriall.
13. Uerely I say vnto you, Wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memoriall of her.
14. Then one of the twelue, called Iudas Iscariot, went vnto the chiefe Priests,
15. And said vnto them, What will ye giue me, and I will deliuer him vnto you? And they couenanted with him for thirtie pieces of siluer.
16. And from that time he sought opportunitie to betray him.
17. Now the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, the disciples came to Iesus, saying vnto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passeouer?
18. And he said, Goe into the citie to such a man, and say vnto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand, I will keepe the Passeouer at thy house with my disciples.
19. And the disciples did, as Iesus had appointed them, and they made ready the Passeouer.
20. Now when the euen was come, he sate downe with the twelue.
21. And as they did eate, he said, Uerely I say vnto you, that one of you shal betray me.
22. And they were exceeding sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vnto him, Lord, Is it I?
23. And he answered and said, Hee that dippeth his hand with mee in the dish, the same shall betray me.
24. The sonne of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe vnto that man by whom the sonne of man is betrayed: It had bin good for that man, if hee had not bene borne.
25. Then Iudas, which betrayed him, answered, and said, Master, Is it I? He said vnto him, Thou hast said.
26. And as they were eating, Iesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gaue it to the Disciples, and said, Take, eate, this is my body.
27. And he tooke the cup, and gaue thankes, and gaue it to them, saying, Drinke ye all of it:
28. For this is my blood of the new Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sinnes.
29. But I say vnto you, I will not drinke henceforth of this fruite of the vine, vntill that day when I drinke it new with you in my fathers kingdom.
30. And when they had sung an hymne, they went out into the mount of Oliues.
31. Then saith Iesus vnto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night, For it is written, I will smite the Shepheard, and the sheepe of the flocke shall be scattered abroad.
32. But after I am risen againe, I will goe before you into Galilee.
33. Peter answered, and said vnto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I neuer be offended.
34. Iesus said vnto him, Uerily I say vnto thee, that this might before the cocke crow, thou shalt denie me thrise.
35. Peter said vnto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not denie thee. Likewise also said all the Disciples.
36. Then commeth Iesus with them vnto a place called Gethsemane, and saith vnto the Disciples, Sit yee heere, while I goe and pray yonder.
37. And hee tooke with him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedee, and beganne to be sorrowful, and very heauie.
38. Then saith he vnto them, My soule is exceeding sorrowfull, euen vnto death: tary ye heere, & watch with me.
39. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my father, if it be possible, let this cup passe from me: neuerthelesse, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
40. And he commeth vnto the Disciples, and findeth them asleepe, and saith vnto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one houre?
41. Watch and pray, that yee enter not into temptation: The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weake.
42. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my father, if this cup may not passe away from me, except I drinke it, thy will be done.
43. And he came and found them asleep againe: For their eies were heauie.
44. And he left them, and went away againe, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45. Then commeth he to his Disciples, and saith vnto them, Sleepe on now, and take your rest, behold, the houre is at hand, and the sonne of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46. Rise, let vs be going: behold, he is at hand that doeth betray me.
47. And while yet spake, loe, Iudas one of the twelue came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staues from the chiefe Priests and Elders of the people.
48. Now he that betrayed him, gaue them a signe, saying, Whomsoeuer I shall kisse, that same is he, hold him fast.
49. And forthwith hee came to Iesus, and said, Haile master, and kissed him.
50. And Iesus said vnto him, Friend, Wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid handes on Iesus, and tooke him.
51. And behold, one of them which were with Iesus, stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and stroke a seruant of the high Priests, and smote off his eare.
52. Then said Iesus vnto him, Put vp againe thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.
53. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall presently giue me more then twelue legions of Angels?
54. But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55. In that same houre said Iesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thiefe with swords and staues for to take mee? I sate daily with you teaching in the Temple, and ye laide no hold on me.
56. But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the Disciples forsooke him, and fled:
57. And they that had laid hold on Iesus, led him away to Caiaphas the high Priest, where the Scribes and the Elders were assembled.
58. But Peter followed him afarre off, vnto the high Priests palace, and went in, and sate with the seruants to see the end.
59. Now the chiefe Priests and Elders, and all the councell, sought false witnesse against Iesus to put him to death,
60. But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61. And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the Temple of God, and to build it in three dayes.
62. And the high Priest arose, and said vnto him, Answerest thou nothing? What is it, which these witnesse against thee?
63. But Iesus held his peace. And the high Priest answered, and said vnto him, I adiure thee by the liuing God, that thou tell vs, whether thou bee the Christ the Sonne of God.
64. Iesus saith vnto him, Thou hast saide: Neuerthelesse I say vnto you, Hereafter shall yee see the Sonne of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heauen.
65. Then the high Priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemie: what further need haue wee of witnesses? Behold, now ye haue heard his blasphemie.
66. What thinke ye? They answered and said, He is guiltie of death.
67. Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and others smote him with the palmes of their hands,
68. Saying, Prophecie vnto vs, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee?
69. Now Peter sate without in the palace: and a damosell came vnto him, saying, Thou also wast with Iesus of Galilee.
70. But hee denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou saiest.
71. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maide saw him, and saide vnto them that were there, This fellow was also with Iesus of Nazareth.
72. And againe hee denied with an oath, I doe not know the man.
73. And after a while came vnto him they that stood by, and saide to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
74. Then beganne hee to curse and to sweare, saying, I know not the man. And immediatly the cocke crew.
75. And Peter remembred the words of Iesus, which said vnto him, Before the cocke crow, thou shalt denie mee thrice. And hee went out, and wept bitterly.
1. When the morning was come, all the chiefe Priests and Elders of the people, tooke counsell against Iesus to put him to death.
2. And when they had bound him, they led him away, and deliuered him to Pontius Pilate the gouernour.
3. Then Iudas, which had betraied him, when he saw that hee was condemned, repented himselfe, and brought againe the thirtie pieces of siluer to the chiefe Priests and Elders,
4. Saying, I haue sinned, in that I haue betraied the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to vs? see thou to that.
5. And hee cast downe the pieces of siluer in the Temple, and departed, and went and hanged himselfe.
6. And the chiefe Priests tooke the siluer pieces, and said, It is not lawfull for to put them into the treasurie, because it is the price of blood.
7. And they tooke counsell, and bought with them the potters field, to burie strangers in.
8. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood vnto this day.
9. (Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremie the Prophet, saying, And they tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value:
10. And gaue them for the potters field, as the Lord appointed me.)
11. And Iesus stood before the gouernour, and the gouernour asked him, saying; Art thou the King of the Iewes? And Iesus sayd vnto him, Thou sayest.
12. And when hee was accused of the chiefe Priests and Elders, he answered nothing.
13. Then saith Pilate vnto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witnesse against thee?
14. And he answered him to neuer a word: insomuch that the Gouernour marueiled greatly.
15. Now at that feast the Gouernor was woont to release vnto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
16. And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
17. Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said vnto them, Whom will ye that I release vnto you? Barabbas, or Iesus, which is called Christ?
18. For hee knew that for enuie they had deliuered him.
19. When he was set downe on the Iudgement seate, his wife sent vnto him, saying, Haue thou nothing to doe with that iust man: for I haue suffered many things this day in a dreame, because of him.
20. But the chiefe Priestes and Elders perswaded the multitude that they should aske Barabbas, & destroy Iesus.
21. The Gouernour answered, and said vnto them, Whether of the twaine will ye that I release vnto you? They said, Barabbas.
22. Pilate said vnto them, What shall I doe then with Iesus, which is called Christ? They all sayde vnto him, Let him be crucified.
23. And the Gouernour said, Why, what euil hath he done? But they cried out ye more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24. When Pilate saw that he could preuaile nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, hee tooke water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this iust person: see yee to it.
25. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on vs, and on our children.
26. Then released hee Barabbas vnto them, and when he had scourged Iesus, he deliuered him to be crucified.
27. Then the souldiers of the Gouernour tooke Iesus into the common hall, and gathered vnto him the whole band of souldiers.
28. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
29. And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it vpon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Haile king of the Iewes.
30. And they spit vpon him, and tooke the reed, and smote him on the head.
31. And after that they had mocked him, they tooke the robe off from him, and put his owne raiment on him, and led him away to crucifie him.
32. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to beare his Crosse.
33. And when they were come vnto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34. They gaue him vineger to drinke, mingled with gall: and when hee had tasted thereof, hee would not drinke.
35. And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, They parted my garments among them, and vpon my vesture did they cast lots.
36. And sitting downe, they watched him there:
37. And set vp ouer his head, his accusation written, THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES.
38. Then were there two theeues crucified with him: one on the right hand, and another on the left.
39. And they that passed by, reuiled him, wagging their heads,
40. And saying, Thou that destroyest the Temple, & buildest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe: If thou be the Sonne of God, come downe from the Crosse.
41. Likewise also the chiefe Priests mocking him, with the Scribes and Elders, said,
42. He saued others, himselfe he cannot saue: If he be the King of Israel, let him now come downe from the Crosse, and we will beleeue him.
43. He trusted in God, let him deliuer him now if hee will haue him: for he said, I am the Sonne of God.
44. The thieues also which were crucified with him, cast ye same in his teeth.
45. Now from the sixth houre there was darkenesse ouer all the land vnto the ninth houre.
46. And about the ninth houre, Iesus cried with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, Lamasabachthani, that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee?
47. Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
48. And straightway one of them ran, and tooke a spunge, and filled it with vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke.
49. The rest said, Let bee, let vs see whether Elias will come to saue him.
50. Iesus, when hee had cried againe with a loud voice, yeelded vp the ghost.
51. And behold, the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.
52. And the graues were opened, and many bodies of Saints which slept, arose,
53. And came out of the graues after his resurrection, and went into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many.
54. Now when the Centurion, and they that were with him, watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, & those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Son of God.
55. And many women were there (beholding afarre off) which followed Iesus from Galilee, ministring vnto him.
56. Among which was Mary Magdalene, & Mary the mother of Iames and Ioses, and the mother of Zebedees children.
57. When the Euen was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Ioseph, who also himselfe was Iesus disciple:
58. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus: then Pilate commanded the body to be deliuered.
59. And when Ioseph had taken the body, hee wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth,
60. And laide it in his owne newe tombe, which he had hewen out in the rocke: and he rolled a great stone to the doore of the sepulchre, and departed.
61. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting ouer against the sepulchre.
62. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chiefe Priests and Pharisees came together vnto Pilate,
63. Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiuer said, while he was yet aliue, After three daies I wil rise againe.
64. Command therfore that the sepulchre be made sure, vntill the third day, lest his disciples come by night, & steale him away, and say vnto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last errour shalbe worse then the first.
65. Pilate said vnto them, Yee haue a watch, goe your way, make it as sure as you can.
66. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
1. In the ende of the Sabbath, as it began to dawne towards the first day of the weeke, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre.
2. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the Angel of the Lord descended from heauen, and came and rolled backe the stone from the doore, and sate vpon it.
3. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snowe.
4. And for feare of him, the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5. And the Angel answered, and said vnto the women, Feare not ye: for I know that ye seeke Iesus, which was crucified.
6. He is not here: for he is risen, as hee said: Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7. And goe quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. And behold, hee goeth before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him: loe, I haue told you.
8. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre, with feare and great ioy, and did run to bring his disciples word.
9. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Iesus met them, saying, All haile. And they came, and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
10. Then said Iesus vnto them, Be not afraid: Goe tell my brethren that they goe into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
11. Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the citie, and shewed vnto the chiefe Priests all the things that were done.
12. And when they were assembled with the Elders, and had taken counsell, they gaue large money vnto the souldiers,
13. Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
14. And if this come to the gouernours eares, wee will perswade him, and secure you.
15. So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught. And this saying is commonly reported among the Iewes vntill this day.
16. Then the eleuen disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountaine where Iesus had appointed them.
17. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
18. And Iesus came, and spake vnto them, saying, All power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth.
19. Goe ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the holy Ghost:
20. Teaching them to obserue all things, whatsoeuer I haue commanded you: and loe, I am with you alway, euen vnto the end of the world. Amen.
1. The beginning of the Gospel of Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God,
2. As it is written in the Prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
3. The voice of one crying in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4. Iohn did baptize in the wildernesse, and preach the baptisme of repentance, for the remission of sinnes.
5. And there went out vnto him all the land of Iudea, and they of Ierusalem, and were all baptized of him in the riuer of Iordane, cofessing their sinnes.
6. And Iohn was clothed with camels haire, and with a girdle of a skin about his loines: and he did eat locusts and wilde honie,
7. And preached, saying, There commeth one mightier then I after me, the latchet of whose shooes I am not worthy to stoupe downe, and vnloose.
8. I indeed haue baptized you with water: but hee shall baptize you with the holy Ghost.
9. And it came to passe in those daies, that Iesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of Iohn in Iordane.
10. And straightway comming vp out of the water, hee saw the heauens opened, and the Spirit like a doue descending vpon him.
11. And there came a voice from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased.
12. And immediately the Spirit driueth him into the wildernesse.
13. And he was there in the wildernesse fourtie daies tempted of Satan, and was with the wildbeasts, and the Angels ministred vnto him.
14. Now after that Iohn was put in prison, Iesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospell of the kingdome of God,
15. And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdome of God is at hand: repent ye, and beleeue the Gospell.
16. Now as he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the Sea (for they were fishers.)
17. And Iesus said vnto them, Come ye after me; and I will make you to become fishers of men.
18. And straightway they forsooke their nets, and followed him.
19. And when hee had gone a little further thence, hee saw Iames the sonne of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
20. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired seruants, and went after him.
21. And they went into Capernaum, and straightway on the Sabbath day he entred into the Synagogue, and taught.
22. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for hee taught them as one that had authority, and not as the Scribes.
23. And there was in their Synagogue a man with an vncleane spirit, and he cried out,
24. Saying, Let vs alone, what haue we to doe with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I know thee who thou art, the holy One of God.
25. And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
26. And when the vncleane spirit had torne him, and cried with a lowd voice, he came out of him.
27. And they were all amased, insomuch that they questioned among themselues, saying, What thing is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authoritie commandeth he euen the vncleane spirits, and they doe obey him.
28. And immediatly his fame spread abroad throughout al the region round about Galilee.
29. And forth with, when they were come out of the Synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon, and Andrew, with Iames and Iohn.
30. But Simons wiues mother lay sicke of a feuer: and anone they tell him of her.
31. And he came and tooke her by the hand, and lift her vp, and immediately the feuer left her, and she ministred vnto them.
32. And at euen, when the Sunne did set, they brought vnto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with diuels:
33. And all the citie was gathered together at the doore.
34. And he healed many that were sicke of diuers diseases, and cast out many deuils, and suffered not the deuils to speake, because they knew him.
35. And in the morning, rising vp a great while before day, hee went out, and departed into a solitarie place, and there prayed.
36. And Simon, and they that were with him, followed after him:
37. And when they had found him, they said vnto him, All men seek for thee.
38. And he said vnto them, Let vs goe into ye next townes, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I foorth.
39. And he preached in their Synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out deuils.
40. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling downe to him, and saying vnto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane.
41. And Iesus mooued with compassion, put foorth his hand, and touched him, and saith vnto him, I will, be thou cleane.
42. And assoone as he had spoken, immediately the leprosie departed from him, and he was cleansed.
43. And he straitly charged him, and forth with sent him away,
44. And saith vnto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but goe thy way, shew thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony vnto them.
45. But he went out, and beganne to publish it much, and to blase abroad the matter: insomuch that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter.
1. And againe hee entred into Capernaum after some dayes, and it was noysed that he was in the house.
2. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no roome to receiue them, no not so much as about the doore: and he preached the word vnto them.
3. And they come vnto him, bringing one sicke of the palsie, which was borne of foure.
4. And when they could not come nigh vnto him for preasse, they vncouered the roofe where he was: and when they had broken it vp, they let downe the bed wherin the sick of the palsie lay.
5. When Iesus saw their faith, hee said vnto the sicke of the palsie, Sonne, thy sinnes be forgiuen thee.
6. But there were certaine of the Scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
7. Why doeth this man thus speake blasphemies? Who can forgiue sinnes but God onely?
8. And immediatly, when Iesus perceiued in his Spirit, that they so reasoned within themselues, he said vnto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
9. Whether is it easier to say to the sicke of the palsie, Thy sinnes be forgiuen thee: or to say, Arise, and take vp thy bed and walke?
10. But that yee may know that the Sonne of man hath power on earth to forgiue sinnes, (Hee saith to the sicke of the palsie,)
11. I say vnto thee, Arise, & take vp thy bed, & goe thy way into thine house.
12. And immediatly he arose, tooke vp the bed, and went foorth before them all, insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, Wee neuer saw it on this fashion.
13. And he went foorth againe by the sea side, and all the multitude resorted vnto him, and he taught them.
14. And as he passed by, he saw Leui the son of Alpheus sitting at the receit of Custome, and said vnto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
15. And it came to passe, that as Iesus sate at meate in his house, many Publicanes and sinners sate also together with Iesus and his disciples: for there were many, & they followed him.
16. And when the Scribes and Pharisees saw him eate with Publicanes and sinners, they said vnto his disciples, How is it that hee eateth and drinketh with Publicanes and sinners?
17. When Iesus heard it, he saith vnto them, They that are whole, haue no need of the Physition, but they that are sicke: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
18. And the disciples of Iohn, and of the Pharisees vsed to fast; and they come, and say vnto him, Why doe the disciples of Iohn, and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
19. And Iesus said vnto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber fast, while the Bridegrome is with them? As long as they haue the Bridegrome with them, they cannot fast.
20. But the dayes will come, when the Bridegrome shall bee taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those dayes.
21. No man also soweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it vp, taketh away from the old, & the rent is made worse.
22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine doeth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will bee marred: But new wine must bee put into new bottles.
23. And it came to passe, that he went thorow the corne fields on the Sabbath day, & his disciples began as they went, to plucke the eares of corne.
24. And the Pharisees saide vnto him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawfull?
25. And he said vnto them, Haue ye neuer read what Dauid did, when hee had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
26. How hee went into the house of God in the dayes of Abiathar the high Priest, and did eate the Shew-bread, which is not lawfull to eate, but for the Priests, and gaue also to them which were with him?
27. And hee said vnto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:
28. Therefore the Sonne of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
1. And he entred againe into the Synagogue, and there was a man there which had a withered hand:
2. And they watched him, whether hee would heale him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
3. And he saith vnto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4. And hee saith vnto them, Is it lawfull to doe good on the Sabbath dayes, or to doe euill? to saue life, or to kill? but they held their peace.
5. And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieued for the hardnesse of their hearts, He saith vnto the man, Stretch foorth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
6. And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway tooke counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
7. But Iesus withdrew himselfe with his disciples to the Sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Iudea,
8. And from Hierusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Iordane, and they about Tyre & Sydon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came vnto him.
9. And he spake to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10. For he had healed many, insomuch that they preassed vpon him, for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11. And vncleane spirits, when they saw him, fell downe before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.
12. And he straitly charged them, that they should not make him knowen.
13. And he goeth vp into a mountaine, and calleth vnto him whom he would: and they came vnto him.
14. And he ordeined twelue, that they should be with him, and that hee might send them foorth to preach:
15. And to haue power to heale sickenesses, and to cast out deuils.
16. And Simon he surnamed Peter.
17. And Iames the sonne of Zebedee, and Iohn the brother of Iames (and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sonnes of thunder.)
18. And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
19. And Iudas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.
20. And the multitude commeth together againe, so that they could not so much as eate bread.
21. And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is beside himselfe.
22. And the Scribes which came downe from Hierusalem, said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the deuils, casteth he out deuils.
23. And he called them vnto him, and said vnto them in parables, Howe can Satan cast out Satan?
24. And if a kingdome be diuided against it selfe, that kingdome cannot stand.
25. And if a house be diuided against it selfe, that house cannot stand.
26. And if Satan rise vp against himselfe, and be diuided, hee cannot stand, but hath an end.
27. No man can enter into a strong mans house, and spoile his goods, except he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoile his house.
28. Uerely I say vnto you, All sinnes shalbe forgiuen vnto the sonnes of men, and blasphemies, wherewith soeuer they shall blaspheme:
29. But he that shal blaspheme against the holy Ghost, hath neuer forgiuenesse, but is in danger of eternall damnation.
30. Because they said, He hath an vncleane spirit.
31. There came then his brethren, and his mother, and standing without, sent vnto him, calling him.
32. And the multitude sate about him and they said vnto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seeke for thee.
33. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
34. And he looked round about on them which sate about him, and saide, Behold my mother and my brethren.
35. For whosoeuer shall doe the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
1. And he beganne againe to teach by the Sea side: and there was gathered vnto him a great multitude, so that he entred into a ship, and sate in the Sea: and the whole multitude was by the Sea on the land.
2. And he taught them many things by parables, and said vnto them in his doctrine,
3. Hearken, Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4. And it came to passe as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the foules of the aire came, & deuoured it vp.
5. And some fell on stonie ground, where it had not much earth: and immediately it sprang vp, because it had no depth of earth.
6. But when the Sunne was vp, it was scorched, and because it had no roote, it withered away.
7. And some fell among thornes, and the thornes grew vp, and choked it, and it yeelded no fruite.
8. And other fell on good ground, and did yeeld fruite that sprang vp, and increased, and brought foorth some thirtie, & some sixtie, & some an hundred.
9. And he said vnto them, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.
10. And when hee was alone, they that were about him, with the twelue, asked of him the parable.
11. And he said vnto them, Unto you it is giuen to know the mystery of the kingdome of God: but vnto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
12. That seeing they may see, and not perceiue, and hearing they may heare, and not vnderstand, lest at any time they should be conuerted, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.
13. And he said vnto them, Know ye not this parable? And how then will you know all parables?
14. The Sower soweth the word.
15. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sowen, but when they haue heard, Satan commeth immediately, and taketh away the word that was sowen in their hearts.
16. And these are they likewise which are sowen on stonie ground, who when they haue heard the word, immediately receiue it with gladnesse:
17. And haue no roote in themselues, and so endure but for a time: afterward when affliction or persecution ariseth for the words sake, immediately they are offended.
18. And these are they which are sowen among thorns: such as heare the word,
19. And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulnesse of riches, and the lusts of other things entring in, choke the word, and it becommeth vnfruitfull.
20. And these are they which are sowen on good ground, such as heare the word, and receiue it, & bring foorth fruit, some thirty fold, some sixtie, and some an hundred.
21. And he said vnto them, Is a candle brought to be put vnder a bushell, or vnder a bed? & not to be set on a candlesticke?
22. For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested: neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
23. If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
24. And he said vnto them, Take heed what you heare: With what measure ye mete, it shalbe measured to you: And vnto you that heare, shal more be giuen.
25. For he that hath, to him shall be giuen: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken, euen that which he hath.
26. And he said, So is the kingdome of God, as if a man should cast seede into the ground,
27. And should sleepe, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow vp, he knoweth not how.
28. For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of herselfe, first the blade, then the eare, after that the full corne in the eare.
29. But when the fruite is brought foorth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the haruest is come.
30. And he said, Wherunto shal we liken the kingdome of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31. It is like a graine of mustard seed: which when it is sowen in the earth, is lesse then all the seedes that be in the earth.
32. But when it is sowen, it groweth vp, and becommeth greater then all herbes, & shooteth out great branches, so that the fowles of the aire may lodge vnder the shadow of it.
33. And with many such parables spake hee the word vnto them, as they were able to heare it.
34. But without a parable spake he not vnto them, and when they were alone, hee expounded all things to his disciples.
35. And the same day, when the Euen was come, he saith vnto them, Let vs passe ouer vnto the other side.
36. And when they had sent away the multitude, they tooke him, euen as he was in the ship, and there were also with him other litle ships.
37. And there arose a great storme of wind, and the waues beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
38. And he was in the hinder part of the ship asleepe on a pillow: and they awake him, and say vnto him, Master, carest thou not, that we perish?
39. And hee arose, and rebuked the winde, and said vnto the sea, Peace, be still: and the winde ceased, and there was a great calme.
40. And he said vnto them, Why are ye so fearefull? How is it that you haue no faith?
41. And they feared exceedingly, and saide one to another, What maner of man is this, that euen the winde and the sea obey him?
1. And they came ouer vnto the other side of the sea, into the countrey of the Gadarenes.
2. And when hee was come out of the ship, immediatly there met him out of the tombes, a man with an vncleane spirit,
3. Who had his dwelling among the tombs, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:
4. Because that hee had bene often bound with fetters and chaines, and the chaines had bene plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5. And alwayes night and day, hee was in the mountaines, and in the tombes, crying, and cutting himselfe with stones.
6. But when hee saw Iesus afarre off, he came and worshipped him,
7. And cried with a lowd voice, and said, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus, thou Sonne of the most high God? I adiure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8. (For he said vnto him, Come out of the man, thou vncleane spirit.)
9. And he asked him, What is thy name? And hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10. And hee besought him much, that he would not send them away out of the countrey.
11. Now there was there nigh vnto the mountaines a great herd of swine, feeding.
12. And all the deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13. And forthwith Iesus gaue them leaue. And the vncleane spirits went out, and entred into the swine, and the herd ranne violently downe a steepe place into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
14. And they that fed the swine fled, and tolde it in the citie, and in the countrey. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15. And they come to Iesus, and see him that was possessed with the deuill, and had the Legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraid.
16. And they that saw it, tolde them how it befell to him that was possessed with the deuill, and also concerning the swine.
17. And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
18. And when hee was come into the ship, he that had bene possessed with the deuill prayed him that hee might bee with him.
19. Howbeit Iesus suffered him not, but saith vnto him, Goe home to thy friends, and tel them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
20. And hee departed, and began to publish in Decapolis, how great things Iesus had done for him: and all men did marueile.
21. And when Iesus was passed ouer againe by ship vnto the other side, much people gathered vnto him, and he was nigh vnto the Sea.
22. And behold, there commeth one of the Rulers of the Synagogue, Iairus by name, and when he saw him, he fell at his feete,
23. And besought him greatly, saying, My litle daughter lieth at the point of death, I pray thee come and lay thy hands on her, that shee may be healed, and she shall liue.
24. And Iesus went with him, and much people followed him, and thronged him.
25. And a certaine woman which had an issue of blood twelue yeeres,
26. And had suffered many things of many Physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
27. When shee had heard of Iesus, came in the prease behinde, and touched his garment.
28. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shalbe whole.
29. And straightway the fountaine of her blood was dried vp: and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
30. And Iesus immediatly knowing in himselfe that vertue had gone out of him, turned him about in the preasse, and said, Who touched my clothes?
31. And his disciples said vnto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
32. And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
33. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell downe before him, and tolde him all the trueth.
34. And he said vnto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole, goe in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
35. While hee yet spake, there came from the Ruler of the Synagogues house, certaine which said, Thy daughter is dead, why troublest thou the Master any further?
36. Assoone as Iesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith vnto the Ruler of the Synagogue, Be not afraid, onely beleeue.
37. And he suffered no man to follow him, saue Peter, & Iames, and Iohn the brother of Iames.
38. And hee commeth to the house of the Ruler of the Synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
39. And when he was come in, hee saith vnto them, Why make yee this adoe, and weepe? the damosell is not dead, but sleepeth.
40. And they laughed him to scorne: but when he had put them all out, hee taketh the father and the mother of the damosell, and them that were with him, and entreth in where the damosell was lying.
41. And he tooke the damosell by the hand, and said vnto her, Talitha cumi, which is, being interpreted, Damosell (I say vnto thee) Arise.
42. And straightway the damosell arose, and walked, for shee was of the age of twelue yeeres: and they were astonished with a great astonishment.
43. And hee charged them straitly, that no man should know it: and commanded that some thing should be giuen her to eate.
1. And hee went out from thence, and came into his owne countrey, and his disciples follow him.
2. And when the Sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the Synagogue: and many hearing him, were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? And what wisedome is this which is giuen vnto him, that euen such mightie workes are wrought by his hands?
3. Is not this the carpenter, the sonne of Mary, the brother of Iames and Ioses, and of Iuda, and Simon? And are not his sisters heere with vs? And they were offended at him.
4. But Iesus sayde vnto them, A Prophet is not without honour, but in his owne countrey, and among his owne kinne, and in his owne house.
5. And he could there doe no mightie worke, saue that he laid his hands vpon a few sicke folke, and healed them.
6. And he marueiled because of their vnbeliefe. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
7. And he calleth vnto him the twelue, and began to send them foorth, by two and two, and gaue them power ouer vncleane spirits,
8. And commanded them that they should take nothing for their iourney, saue a staffe onely: no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
9. But be shod with sandales: and not put on two coats.
10. And he said vnto them, In what place soeuer yee enter into an house, there abide til ye depart from that place.
11. And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare you, when yee depart thence, shake off the dust vnder your feet, for a testimonie against them: Uerely I say vnto you, it shalbe more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of iudgement, then for that citie.
12. And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
13. And they cast out many deuils, and anointed with oyle many, that were sicke, and healed them.
14. And king Herod heard of him (for his name was spread abroad:) and hee said that Iohn the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mightie workes doe shew foorth themselues in him.
15. Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a Prophet, or as one of the Prophets.
16. But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is Iohn, whome I beheaded, he is risen from the dead.
17. For Herod himselfe had sent forth and laid hold vpon Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife, for hee had maried her.
18. For Iohn had said vnto Herod, It is not lawfull for thee to haue thy brothers wife.
19. Therfore Herodias had a quarrel against him, & would haue killed him, but she could not.
20. For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that he was a iust man, and an holy, and obserued him: and when he heard him, hee did many things, and heard him gladly.
21. And when a conuenient day was come, that Herod on his birth day made a supper to his lords, high captaines, and chiefe estates of Galilee:
22. And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate with him, the king said vnto the damosell, Aske of me whatsoeuer thou wilt, and I will giue it thee.
23. And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, vnto the halfe of my kingdome.
24. And she went forth, and said vnto her mother, What shall I aske? And she said, The head of Iohn ye Baptist.
25. And she came in straightway with haste, vnto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou giue me by and by in a charger, the head of Iohn the Baptist.
26. And the king was exceeding sory, yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate with him, hee would not reiect her.
27. And immediatly the king sent an executioner, and commaunded his head to be brought, and he went, and beheaded him in the prison,
28. And brought his head in a charger, and gaue it to the damosell, and the damosell gaue it to her mother.
29. And when his disciples heard of it, they came and tooke vp his corpse, and laid it in a tombe.
30. And the Apostles gathered themselues together vnto Iesus, and tolde him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
31. And he said vnto them, Come yee your selues apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many comming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eate.
32. And they departed into a desert place by ship priuately.
33. And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ranne afoote thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together vnto him.
34. And Iesus when he came out, saw much people, and was moued with compassion toward them, because they were as sheepe not hauing a shepherd: and hee beganne to teach them many things.
35. And when the day was now far spent, his Disciples came vnto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is farre passed.
36. Send them away, that they may goe into the countrey round about, and into the villages, and buy themselues bread: for they haue nothing to eate.
37. He answered and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they say vnto him, Shall we goe and buy two hundred penniworth of bread, and giue them to eate?
38. He saith vnto them, How many loaues haue yee? goe, and see. And when they knew, they say, Fiue, and two fishes.
39. And he commanded them to make all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
40. And they sate downe in rankes by hundreds, and by fifties.
41. And when he had taken the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, he looked vp to heauen, and blessed, and brake the loaues, and gaue them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes diuided he among them all.
42. And they did all eate, and were filled.
43. And they tooke vp twelue baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
44. And they that did eate of the loaues, were about fiue thousand men.
45. And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to goe to the other side before vnto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.
46. And when hee had sent them away, he departed into a mountaine to pray.
47. And when Euen was come, the ship was in the midst of the Sea, and he alone on the land.
48. And he saw them toiling in rowing (for the wind was contrary vnto them:) and about the fourth watch of the night, he commeth vnto them, walking vpon the Sea, and would haue passed by them.
49. But when they saw him walking vpon the Sea, they supposed it had bene a spirit, and cried out.
50. (For they all saw him, and were troubled) and immediately hee talked with them, and saith vnto them, Be of good cheere, It is I, be not afraid.
51. And hee went vp vnto them into the ship, and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselues beyond measure, and wondered.
52. For they considered not the miracle of the loaues, for their heart was hardened.
53. And when they had passed ouer, they came into the land of Genesareth, and drew to the shore.
54. And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew him,
55. And ran through that whole region round about, and beganne to carrie about in beds, those that were sicke, where they heard he was.
56. And whithersouer he entred, into villages, or cities, or countrie, they laide the sicke in the streetes, & besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him, were made whole.
1. Then came together vnto him the Pharises, and certain of the Scribes, which came from Hierusalem.
2. And when they saw some of his disciples eate bread with defiled (that is to say, with vnwashen) hands, they found fault.
3. For the Pharises and all the Iewes, except they wash their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they haue receiued to hold, as the washing of cups and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5. Then the Pharises and Scribes asked him, Why walke not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eate bread with vnwashen hands?
6. He answered and said vnto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you Hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth mee with their lips, but their heart is farre from me.
7. Howbeit in vaine doe they worship me, teaching for doctrines, the commandements of men.
8. For laying aside the Commandement of God, yee hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots, and cups: and many other such like things ye doe.
9. And he said vnto them, Full well ye reiect the Commandement of God, that ye may keepe your owne tradition.
10. For Moses said, Honour thy father & thy mother: and who so curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
11. But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoeuer thou mightest be profited by me: he shalbe free.
12. And ye suffer him no more to doe ought for his father, or his mother:
13. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye haue deliuered: And many such like things doe ye.
14. And when he had called all the people vnto him, hee said vnto them, Hearken vnto me euery one of you, and vnderstand.
15. There is nothing from without a man that entring into him, can defile him: but the things which come out of of him, those are they that defile the man.
16. If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
17. And when hee was entred into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18. And he saith vnto them, Are ye so without vnderstanding also? Doe yee not perceiue that whatsoeuer thing from without entreth into the man, it cannot defile him,
19. Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20. And he said, That which commeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22. Thefts, couetousnesse, wickednesse, deceit, lasciuiousnesse, an euill eye, blasphemie, pride, foolishnesse:
23. All these euill things come from within, and defile the man.
24. And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entred into an house, and would haue no man know it, but hee could not be hid.
25. For a certaine woman, whose yong daughter had an vncleane spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feete.
26. (The woman was a Greek: a Syrophenician by nation:) and she besought him that he would cast forth the deuill out of her daughter.
27. But Iesus said vnto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the childrens bread, and to cast it vnto the dogges.
28. And she answered and said vnto him, Yes Lord, yet the dogges vnder the table eat of the childrens crummes.
29. And hee said vnto her, For this saying, goe thy way, the deuill is gone out of thy daughter.
30. And when shee was come to her house, she found the deuill gone out, and her daughter laied vpon the bed.
31. And againe departing from the coastes of Tyre and Sidon, he came vnto the sea of Galilee, thorow the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
32. And they bring vnto him one that was deafe, and had an impediment in his speech: and they beseech him to put his hand vpon him.
33. And he tooke him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his eares, and he spit, and touched his tongue,
34. And looking vp to heauen, hee sighed, and saith vnto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35. And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plaine.
36. And hee charged them that they should tell no man: but the more hee charged them, so much the more a great deale they published it,
37. And were beyond measure astonished, saying, Hee hath done all things well: hee maketh both the deafe to heare, and the dumbe to speake.
1. In those dayes the multitude being very great, and hauing nothing to eat. Iesus called his disciples vnto him, & saith vnto them,
2. I haue compassion on the multitude, because they haue now bene with me three daies, and haue nothing to eat:
3. And if I send them away fasting to their owne houses, they will faint by the way: for diuers of them came from farre.
4. And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfie these men with bread here in the wildernes?
5. And hee asked them, How many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen.
6. And he commanded the people to sit downe on the ground: and he tooke the seuen loaues, and gaue thanks, and brake, and gaue to his disciples to set before them: and they did set them before the people.
7. And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commaunded to set them also before them.
8. So they did eate, and were filled: and they tooke vp, of the broken meate that was left, seuen baskets.
9. And they that had eaten were about foure thousand, and he sent them away.
10. And straightway he entred into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
11. And the Pharisees came foorth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a signe from heauen, tempting him.
12. And he sighed deepely in his spirit, and saith, Why doeth this generation seeke after a signe? Uerely I say vnto you, There shall no signe be giuen vnto this generation.
13. And he left them, & entring into the ship againe, departed to the other side.
14. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more then one loafe.
15. And hee charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leauen of the Pharisees, and of the leauen of Herode.
16. And they reasoned among themselues, saying, It is, because we haue no bread.
17. And when Iesus knew it, he saith vnto them, Why reason ye, because yee haue no bread? Perceiue ye not yet, neither vnderstand? Haue yee your heart yet hardened?
18. Hauing eyes, see ye not? and hauing eares heare ye not? And doe ye not remember?
19. When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of fragments tooke yee vp? They say vnto him, Twelue.
20. And when the seuen among foure thousand: how many baskets full of fragments tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.
21. And he said vnto them, How is it that ye doe not vnderstand?
22. And he commeth to Bethsaida, and they bring a blind man vnto him, and besought him to touch him:
23. And he tooke the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the towne, and when he had spit on his eyes, & put his hands vpon him, he asked him, if hee saw ought.
24. And he looked vp, and saide, I see men as trees, walking.
25. After that hee put his handes againe vpon his eies, and made him look vp: and he was restored, and saw euery man clearely.
26. And hee sent him away to his house, saying, Neither goe into the towne, nor tell it to any in the towne.
27. And Iesus went out, and his disciples, into the townes of Cesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying vnto them, Whom doe men say that I am?
28. And they answered, Iohn the Baptist: but some say, Elias: & others, one of the Prophets.
29. And hee saith vnto them, But whom say yee that I am? And Peter answereth and saith vnto him, Thou art the Christ.
30. And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
31. And hee beganne to teach them, that the Sonne of man must suffer many things, and be reiected of the Elders, and of the chiefe Priests, & Scribes, and be killed, & after three dayes rise againe.
32. And he spake that saying openly. And Peter tooke him, and beganne to rebuke him.
33. But when he had turned about, and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou sauourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
34. And when he had called the people vnto him, with his disciples also, he said vnto them, Whosoeuer will come after me, let him denie himselfe, and take vp his crosse and follow mee.
35. For whosoeuer will saue his life shall lose it, but whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels, the same shall saue it.
36. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gaine the whole world, and lose his owne soule?
37. Or what shall a man giue in exchange for his soule?
38. Whosoeuer therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him also shall the Sonne of man bee ashamed, when he commeth in the glory of his Father, with the holy Angels.
1. And hee said vnto them, Uerely I say vnto you, that there be some of them that stand here, which shal not taste of death, till they haue seene the kingdome of God come with power.
2. And after sixe dayes, Iesus taketh with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and leadeth them vp into an high mountaine apart by themselues: and he was transfigured before them.
3. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow: so as no Fuller on earth can white them.
4. And there appeared vnto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Iesus.
5. And Peter answered, and saide to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to bee here, and let vs make three Tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
6. For he wist not what to say, for they were sore afraid.
7. And there was a cloud that ouershadowed them: and a voyce came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.
8. And suddenly when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, saue Iesus only with themselues.
9. And as they came downe from the mountaine, he charged them that they should tell no man, what things they had seene, till the Sonne of man were risen from the dead.
10. And they kept that saying with themselues, questioning one with another, what the rising from the dead should meane.
11. And they asked him, saying, Why say the Scribes that Elias must first come?
12. And he answered, and told them, Elias verely commeth first, and restoreth al things, and how it is written of the Sonne of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
13. But I say vnto you, that Elias is indeed come, and they haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they listed, as it is written of him.
14. And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the Scribes questioning with them.
15. And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, & running to him, saluted him.
16. And he asked the Scribes, What question ye with them?
17. And one of the multitude answered, and said, Master, I haue broughe vnto thee my son, which hath a dumbe spirit:
18. And wheresoeuer he taketh him, he teareth him, & he fometh, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples, that they should cast him out, and they could not.
19. He answereth him, and saith, O faithlesse generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I suffer you? Bring him vnto me.
20. And they brought him vnto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him, and he fel on the ground, and wallowed, foming.
21. And he asked his father, Howe long is it agoe since this came vnto him? And he said, Of a child.
22. And oft times it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters to destroy him: but if thou canst doe any thing, haue compassion on vs, and helpe vs.
23. Iesus said vnto him, If thou canst beleeue, all things are possible to him that beleeueth.
24. And straightway the father of the child cried out and said with teares, Lord, I beleeue, helpe thou mine vnbeliefe.
25. When Iesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foule spirit, saying vnto him, Thou dumbe and deafe spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him, and he was as one dead, insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27. But Iesus tooke him by the hand, and lifted him vp, and he arose.
28. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him priuately, Why could not we cast him out?
29. And hee said vnto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer, and fasting.
30. And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee, and he would not that any man should know it.
31. For he taught his disciples, and said vnto them, The sonne of man is deliuered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
32. But they vnderstood not that saying, and were afraid to aske him.
33. And he came to Capernaum; and being in the house, he asked them, What was it that yee disputed among your selues by the way?
34. But they held their peace: For by the way they had disputed among themselues, who should be the greatest.
35. And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and saith vnto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and seruant of all.
36. And he tooke a child, and set him in the midst of them: & when he had taken him in his arms, he said vnto them,
37. Whosoeuer shall receiue one of such children in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer shall receiue me, receiueth not me, but him that sent me.
38. And Iohn answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out deuils in thy Name, and he followeth not vs, and we forbade him, because he followeth not vs.
39. But Iesus said, Forbid him not, for there is no man, which shall doe a miracle in my Name, that can lightly speake euill of me.
40. For he that is not against vs, is on our part.
41. For whosoeuer shall giue you a cup of water to drinke in my Name, because yee belong to Christ: Uerily I say vnto you, he shall not lose his reward.
42. And whosoeuer shall offend one of these litle ones that beleeue in me, it is better for him, that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and he were cast into the Sea.
43. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, then hauing two hands, to goe into hell, into the fire that neuer shall be quenched:
44. Where their worme dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45. And if thy foote offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, then hauing two feete, to be cast into hell, into the fire that neuer shall be quenched:
46. Where their worme dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, then hauing two eyes, to be cast into helfire:
48. Where their worme dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
49. For euery one shall be salted with fire, and euery sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
50. Salt is good: but if the salt haue lost his saltnesse, wherewith will you season it? Haue salt in your selues, and haue peace one with another.
1. And he rose from thence, & commeth into the coasts of Iudea by the farther side of Iordan: and the people resort vnto him againe, and as he was wont, he taught them againe.
2. And the Pharises came to him, and asked him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
3. And he answered, and saide vnto them, What did Moses command you?
4. And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away.
5. And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, For the hardnesse of your heart, he wrote you this precept.
6. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male, and female.
7. For this cause shall a man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue to his wife,
8. And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so then they are no more twaine, but one flesh.
9. What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.
10. And in the house his disciples asked him againe of the same matter.
11. And he saith vnto them, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and bee married to another, she committeth adulterie.
13. And they brought yong children to him, that he should touch them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
14. But when Iesus saw it, hee was much displeased, and said vnto them, Suffer the little children to come vnto mee, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.
15. Uerily I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall not receiue the kingdome of God as a little childe, he shall not enter therein.
16. And hee tooke them vp in his armes, put his handes vpon them, and blessed them.
17. And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good master, what shall I doe that I may inherit eternall life?
18. And Iesus said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? There is no man good, but one, that is God.
19. Thou knowest the Commandements, Doe not commit adulterie, Doe not kill, Doe not steale, Doe not beare false witnesse, Defraud not, Honour thy father, and mother.
20. And hee answered, and saide vnto him, Master, all these haue I obserued from my youth.
21. Then Iesus beholding him, loued him, and said vnto him, One thing thou lackest; Goe thy way, sell whatsoeuer thou hast, and giue to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, take vp the crosse & folow me.
22. And hee was sad at that saying, and went away grieued: for hee had great possessions.
23. And Iesus looked round about, and saith vnto his disciples, How hardly shall they that haue riches enter into the kingdome of God?
24. And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Iesus answereth againe, and saith vnto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God?
25. It is easier for a camel to goe thorow the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
26. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselues, Who then can be saued?
27. And Iesus looking vpon them, saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
28. Then Peter began to say vnto him, Loe, we haue left all, and haue followed thee.
29. And Iesus answered, and said, Uerily I say vnto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the Gospels,
30. But hee shall receiue an hundred fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternall life:
31. But many that are first, shall be last: and the last, first.
32. And they were in the way going vp to Hierusalem: and Iesus went before them, and they were amazed, and as they followed, they were afraid: and he tooke againe the twelue, and began to tell them what things should happen vnto him,
33. Saying, Behold, we go vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall be deliuered vnto the chiefe Priests, and vnto the Scribes: and they shall condemne him to death, and shall deliuer him to the Gentiles.
34. And they shall mocke him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit vpon him, and shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise againe.
35. And Iames, and Iohn the sonnes of Zebedee come vnto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for vs whatsoeuer we shall desire.
36. And hee saide vnto them, What would ye that I should doe for you?
37. They said vnto him, Grant vnto vs that wee may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
38. But Iesus said vnto them, Yee know not what ye aske: Can ye drinke of the cup that I drinke of? and be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with?
39. And they said vnto him, Wee can. And Iesus said vnto them, Ye shall indeed drinke of the cup that I drinke of: and with the baptisme that I am baptized withall, shall ye be baptized:
40. But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand, is not mine to giue, but it shall be giuen to them for whom it is prepared.
41. And when the ten heard it, they beganne to bee much displeased with Iames and Iohn.
42. But Iesus called them to him, and saith vnto them, Yee know that they which are accompted to rule ouer the Gentiles, exercise Lordship ouer them: and their great ones exercise authoritie vpon them.
43. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoeuer will bee great among you, shall be your minister:
44. And whosoeuer of you will bee the chiefest, shalbe seruant of all.
45. For euen the Sonne of man came not to bee ministred vnto, but to minister, and to giue his life a ransome for many.
46. And they came to Iericho: and as he went out of Iericho with his disciples, and a great number of people; blinde Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sate by the high wayes side, begging.
47. And when he heard that it was Iesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Iesus thou Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on me.
48. And many charged him, that he should hold his peace: But he cried the more a great deale, Thou Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.
49. And Iesus stood still, and commanded him to bee called: and they call the blinde man, saying vnto him, Be of good comfort, rise, he calleth thee.
50. And hee casting away his garment, rose, and came to Iesus.
51. And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, What wilt thou that I should doe vnto thee? The blinde man said vnto him, Lord, that I might receiue my sight.
52. And Iesus saide vnto him, Goe thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole: And immediatly hee receiued his sight, & followed Iesus in the way.
1. And when they came nigh to Hierusalem, vnto Bethphage, and Bethanie, at the mount of Oliues, hee sendeth foorth two of his disciples,
2. And saith vnto them, Goe your way into the village ouer against you, and assoone as ye bee entred into it, yee shall finde a colt tied, whereon neuer man sate, loose him, and bring him.
3. And if any man say vnto you, Why doe yee this? Say yee, that the Lord hath need of him: and straightway he will send him hither.
4. And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the doore without, in a place where two wayes met: and they loose him.
5. And certaine of them that stood there, said vnto them, What doe ye loosing the colt?
6. And they said vnto them euen as Iesus had commanded: and they let them goe.
7. And they brought the colt to Iesus, and cast their garments on him, and he sate vpon him.
8. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut downe branches of the trees, and strawed them in the way.
9. And they that went before, and they that followed, cryed, saying, Hosanna, blessed is hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord.
10. Blessed be the kingdome of our father Dauid, that commeth in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.
11. And Iesus entred into Hierusalem, and into the Temple, and when hee had looked round about vpon all things, & now the euentide was come, he went out vnto Bethanie with the twelue.
12. And on the morow when they were come from Bethanie, hee was hungry.
13. And seeing a figtree a farre off, hauing leaues, hee came, if haply hee might find any thing thereon, & when he came to it, hee found nothing but leaues: for the time of figs was not yet.
14. And Iesus answered, and said vnto it, No man eate fruite of thee hereafter for euer. And his disciples heard it.
15. And they come to Hierusalem, and Iesus went into the Temple, and beganne to cast out them that sold and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doues,
16. And would not suffer that any man should carie any vessell thorow the Temple.
17. And he taught, saying vnto them, Is it not written, My house shalbe called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye haue made it a den of theeues.
18. And the Scribes and chiefe Priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
19. And when Euen was come, Hee went out of the citie.
20. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried vp from the roots.
21. And Peter calling to remembrance saith vnto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst, is withered away.
22. And Iesus answering, saith vnto them, Haue faith in God.
23. For verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer shall say vnto this mountaine, Bee thou remoued, and bee thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall beleeue that those things which hee saith, shall come to passe: he shal haue whatsoeuer he saith.
24. Therfore I say vnto you, What things soeuer ye desire when ye pray, beleeue that ye receiue them, and ye shall haue them.
25. And when ye stand, praying, forgiue, if ye haue ought against any: that your Father also which is in heauen, may forgiue you your trespasses.
26. But if you doe not forgiue, neither will your Father which is in heauen, forgiue your trespasses.
27. And they come againe to Hierusalem, and as he was walking in the Temple, there come to him the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, & the Elders,
28. And say vnto him, By what authoritie doest thou these things? and who gaue thee this authority to doe these things?
29. And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I will also aske of you one question, and answere me, and I will tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.
30. The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men? Answere me.
31. And they reasoned with themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then did ye not beleeue him?
32. But if we shall say, Of men, they feared the people: for all men counted Iohn, that he was a Prophet indeed.
33. And they answered and said vnto Iesus, We cannot tell. And Iesus answering, saith vnto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I doe these things.
1. And hee began to speake vnto them by parables. A certaine man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat, and built a towre, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a farre countrey.
2. And at the season, he sent to the husbandmen a seruant, that he might receiue from the husbandmen of the fruite of the vineyard.
3. And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away emptie.
4. And againe, hee sent vnto them another seruant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5. And againe, he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, beating some, and killing some.
6. Hauing yet therefore one sonne his welbeloued, he sent him also last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.
7. But those husbandmen said amongst themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
8. And they tooke him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9. What shall therefore the Lord of the vineyard doe? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will giue the vineyard vnto others.
10. And haue ye not read this Scripture? The stone which the builders reiected, is become the head of the corner:
11. This was the Lords doing, and it is maruellous in our eies.
12. And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people, for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
13. And they send vnto him certaine of the Pharises, and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
14. And when they were come, they say vnto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in trthh. Is it lawfull to giue tribute to Cesar, or not?
15. Shall we giue, or shall we not giue? But he knowing their hypocrisie, said vnto them, Why tempt yee mee? Bring me a penny that I may see it.
16. And they brought it: and he saith vnto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said vnto him, Cesars.
17. And Iesus answering, said vnto them, Render to Cesar the things that are Cesars: and to God the things that are Gods. And they maruailed at him.
18. Then come vnto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection, and they asked him, saying,
19. Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If a mans brother die, and leaue his wife behind him, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seed vnto his brother.
20. Now there were seuen brethren: and the first tooke a wife, and dying left no seede.
21. And the second tooke her, and died, neither left he any seed, and the third likewise.
22. And the seuen had her, and left no seede: last of all the woman died also.
23. In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seuen had her to wife.
24. And Iesus answering, said vnto them, Doe ye not therefore erre, because yee know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25. For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are giuen in marriage: but are as the Angels which are in heauen.
26. And as touching the dead, that they rise: haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, how in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob?
27. Hee is not the God of the dead, but the God of the liuing: yee therefore doe greatly erre.
28. And one of the Scribes came, and hauing heard them reasoning together, and perceiuing that he had answered them well, asked him which is the first commandement of all.
29. And Iesus answered him, The first of al the commandements is, Heare, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord:
30. And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde, and with all thy strength: This is the first commandement.
31. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe: there is none other commandement greater then these.
32. And the Scribe said vnto him, Well master, thou hast said the trthh: for there is one God, and there is none other but he.
33. And to loue him with all the heart, and with all the vnderstanding, and with all the soule, and with all the strength, and to loue his neighbour as himselfe, is more then all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34. And when Iesus saw that he answered discreetly, hee saide vnto him, Thou art not far from the kingdome of God. And no man after that durst aske him any question.
35. And Iesus answered, and said, while hee taught in the Temple, How say the Scribes that Christ is the sonne of Dauid?
36. For Dauid himselfe said by the holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, til I make thine enemies thy footstoole.
37. Dauid therefore himselfe calleth him Lord, and whence is hee then his sonne? And the common people heard him gladly.
38. And he said vnto them in his doctrine, Beware of the Scribes, which loue to goe in long clothing, and loue salutations in the market places,
39. And the chiefe seates in the Synagogues, and the vppermost roomes at feasts:
40. Which deuoure widowes houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.
41. And Iesus sate ouer against the treasurie, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasurie: and many that were rich, cast in much.
42. And there came a certaine poore widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
43. And he called vnto him his disciples, and saith vnto them, Uerily I say vnto you, that this poore widow hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.
44. For all they did cast in of their aboundance: but she of her want, did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.
1. And as he went out of the Temple, one of his disciples saith vnto him, Master, see what maner of stones, and what buildings are here.
2. And Iesus answering, said vnto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone vpon an other, that shal not be throwen downe.
3. And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, ouer against the Temple, Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew asked him priuately,
4. Tell vs, when shall these things be? And what shalbe the signe when all these things shalbe fulfilled?
5. And Iesus answering them, began to say, Take heed lest any man deceiue you.
6. For many shal come in my Name, saying, I am Christ: and shall deceiue many.
7. And when yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres, be yee not troubled: For such things must needs be, but the end shall not be yet.
8. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome: and there shalbe earthquakes in diuers places, and there shall be famines, and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrowes.
9. But take heed to your selues: for they shall deliuer you vp to councels, and in the Synagogues ye shall be beaten, and ye shalbe brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
10. And the Gospel must first be published among all nations.
11. But when they shall lead you, and deliuer you vp, take no thought before hand what ye shall speake, neither doe yee premeditate: but whatsoeuer shall bee giuen you in that houre, that speake yee: for it is not yee that speake, but the holy Ghost.
12. Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the sonne: and children shall rise vp against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
13. And ye shall bee hated of all men for my Names sake: but hee that shall endure vnto the ende, the same shall be saued.
14. But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, standing where it ought not (let him that readeth vnderstand) then let them that be in Iudea, flee to the mountaines:
15. And let him that is on the house top, not goe downe into the house, neither enter therin, to take any thing out of his house.
16. And let him that is in the field, not turne backe againe for to take vp his garment.
17. But woe to them that are with child, and to them that giue suck in those dayes.
18. And pray ye that your flight bee not in the winter.
19. For in those dayes shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created, vnto this time, neither shall be.
20. And except that the Lord had shortened those dayes, no flesh should be saued: but for the elects sake whome he hath chosen, he hath shortned the daies.
21. And then, if any man shall say to you, Loe, here is Christ, or loe, hee is there: beleeue him not.
22. For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shewe signes and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, euen the elect.
23. But take ye heed: behold, I haue foretold you all things.
24. But in those dayes, after that tribulation, the Sunne shalbe darkned, and the Moone shall not giue her light.
25. And the Starres of heauen shall fall, and the powers that are in heauen shall be shaken.
26. And then shal they see the Sonne of man comming in the cloudes, with great power and glory.
27. And then shal he send his Angels, and shall gather together his elect from the foure winds, from the vttermost part of the earth, to the vttermost part of heauen.
28. Now learne a parable of the fig tree. When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaues, ye know that summer is neere:
29. So ye in like maner, when ye shal see these things come to passe, knowe that it is nigh, euen at the doores.
30. Uerely I say vnto you, that this generation shall not passe, till all these things be done.
31. Heauen and earth shal passe away: but my words shall not passe away.
32. But of that day and that houre knoweth no man, no not the Angels which are in heauen, neither the Son, but the Father.
33. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
34. For the Sonne of man is as a man taking a farre iourney, who left his house, and gaue authority to his seruants, and to euery man his worke, and commanded the porter to watch:
35. Watch ye therefore (for ye knowe not when the master of the house commeth, at Euen, or at midnight, or at the cocke crowing, or in the morning.)
36. Lest comming suddenly, he finde you sleeping.
37. And what I say vnto you, I say vnto all, Watch.
1. After two dayes was the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an vprore of the people.
3. And being in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at meat, there came a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of oyntment of spikenard very precious, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.
4. And there were some that had indignation within themselues, and said, Why was this waste of the oyntment made?
5. For it might haue bene solde for more then three hundred pence, and haue bene giuen to the poore: and they murmured against her.
6. And Iesus said, Let her alone, why trouble you her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.
7. For ye haue the poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye will yee may doe them good: but me ye haue not alwayes.
8. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9. Uerely I say vnto you, Wheresoeuer this Gospel shalbe preached thorowout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shall be spoken of for a memoriall of her.
10. And Iudas Iscariot, one of the twelue, went vnto the chiefe Priests, to betray him vnto them.
11. And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to giue him money. And he sought how he might conueniently betray him.
12. And the first day of vnleauened bread, when they killed the Passeouer, his disciples said vnto him, Where wilt thou that we goe, and prepare, that thou mayest eate the Passeouer?
13. And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith vnto them, Goe yee into the citie, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
14. And wheresoeuer he shall goe in, say yee to the good man of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eate the Passeouer with my disciples?
15. And he will shew you a large vpper roome furnished, and prepared: there make ready for vs.
16. And his disciples went forth, and came into the citie, and found as hee had said vnto them: and they made readie the Passeouer.
17. And in the euening hee commeth with the twelue.
18. And as they sate, and did eat, Iesus said, Uerily I say vnto you, one of you which eateth with me, shall betray mee.
19. And they began to be sorowfull, and to say vnto him, one by one, Is it I? And another said, Is it I?
20. And he answered, and saide vnto them, It is one of the twelue, that dippeth with me in the dish.
21. The sonne of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed: Good were it for that man, if he had neuer bene borne.
22. And as they did eate, Iesus tooke bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue to them, and said, Take, eate: this is my body.
23. And he tooke the cup, and when he had giuen thanks, he gaue it to them: and they all dranke of it.
24. And he said vnto them, This is my blood of the new Testament, which is shed for many.
25. Uerely I say vnto you, I will drinke no more of the fruit of the Uine, vntill that day that I drinke it new in the kingdome of God.
26. And when they had sung an hymne, they went out into the mount of Oliues.
27. And Iesus saith vnto them, All ye shall be offended because of mee this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepheard, and the sheepe shall be scattered.
28. But after that I am risen, I will goe before you into Galilee.
29. But Peter said vnto him, Although al shalbe offended, yet wil not I.
30. And Iesus saith vnto him, Uerily I say vnto thee, that this day, euen in this night before the cocke crow twise, thou shalt denie me thrise.
31. But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not denie thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
32. And they came to a place which was named Gethsemani, and hee saith to his disciples, Sit yee here, while I shall pray.
33. And hee taketh with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heauy,
34. And saith vnto them, My soule is exceeding sorowful vnto death: tarie ye here, and watch.
35. And he went forward a litle, and fell on the ground, and prayed, that if it were possible, the houre might passe from him.
36. And he said, Abba, father, all things are possible vnto thee, take away this cup from me: Neuerthelesse, not that I will, but what thou wilt.
37. And hee commeth, and findeth them sleeping, and saith vnto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one houre?
38. Watch ye and pray, lest yee enter into temptation: The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weake.
39. And againe he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
40. And when he returned, he found them asleepe againe, (for their eies were heauie) neither wist they what to answere him.
41. And he commeth the third time, and saith vnto them, Sleepe on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the houre is come, behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42. Rise vp, let vs goe, Loe, he that betrayeth me, is at hand.
43. And immediately, while hee yet spake, commeth Iudas, one of the twelue, and with him a great multitude with swords, and staues, from the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, & the Elders.
44. And he that betrayed him, had giuen them a token, saying, Whomsoeuer I shall kisse, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
45. And assoone as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and sayeth, Master, Master, and kissed him.
46. And they layed their hands on him, and tooke him.
47. And one of them that stood by, drew a sword, and smote a seruant of the high Priest, and cut off his eare.
48. And Iesus answered, & said vnto the, Are ye come out as against a theefe, with swords, & with staues to take me?
49. I was daily with you in the Temple, teaching, and yee tooke me not; but the Scriptures must be fulfilled.
50. And they all forsooke him, & fled.
51. And there followed him a certaine yong man, hauing a linnen cloth cast about his naked body, and the yong men laid hold on him.
52. And he left the linnen cloth, and fled from them naked.
53. And they led Iesus away to the high Priest, and with him were assembled all the chiefe Priests, and the Elders, and the Scribes.
54. And Peter followed him a farre off, euen into the pallace of the high Priest: and he sate with the seruants, and warmed himselfe at the fire.
55. And the chiefe Priests, and all the counsell sought for witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death, & found none.
56. For many bare false witnesse against him, but their witnesse agreed not together.
57. And there arose certaine, and bare false witnesse against him, saying,
58. We heard him say, I will destroy this Temple that is made with hands, and within three dayes I will build another made without hands.
59. But neither so did their witnesse agree together.
60. And the high Priest stood vp in the mids, and asked Iesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witnesse against thee?
61. But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Againe, the high Priest asked him, and said vnto him, Art thou the Christ, the sonne of the Blessed?
62. And Iesus said, I am: and yee shall see the sonne of man sitting on the right hand of power, and comming in the clouds of heauen.
63. Then the high Priest rent his clothes, and saith, What neede we any further witnesses?
64. Yee haue heard the blasphemy: what thinke yee? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
65. And some beganne to spit on him, and to couer his face, and to buffet him, and to say vnto him, Prophecie: And the seruants did stricke him with the palmes of their hands.
66. And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there commeth one of the maides of the high Priest.
67. And when she saw Peter warning himselfe, she looked vpon him, and said, And thou also wast with Iesus of Nazareth.
68. But hee denied, saying, I know not, neither vnderstand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch, and the cocke crew.
69. And a maide saw him againe, and beganne to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.
70. And he denied it againe. And a little after, they that stood by said againe to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speach agreeth thereto.
71. But he beganne to curse and to sweare, saying, I know not this man of whom yee speake.
72. And the second time the cocke crew: and Peter called to minde the word that Iesus said vnto him, Before the cocke crow twise, thou shalt denie me thrise. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
1. And straightway in the morning the chiefe Priests helde a consultation with the Elders and Scribes, and the whole Councell, and bound Iesus, and caried him away, and deliuered him to Pilate.
2. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answering, said vnto him, Thou sayest it.
3. And the chiefe Priests accused him of many things: but hee answered nothing.
4. And Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witnesse against thee.
5. But Iesus yet answered nothing, so that Pilate marueiled.
6. Now at that Feast he released vnto them one prisoner, whomsoeuer they desired.
7. And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
8. And the multitude crying alowd, began to desire him to doe as he had euer done vnto them.
9. But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release vnto you the King of the Iewes?
10. (For hee knew that the chiefe Priests had deliuered him for enuie.)
11. But the chiefe Priests mooued the people, that hee should rather release Barabbas vnto them.
12. And Pilate answered, and said againe vnto them, What will yee then that I shall do vnto him whom ye call the King of the Iewes?
13. And they cried out againe, Crucifie him.
14. Then Pilate saide vnto them, Why, what euill hath hee done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucifie him.
15. And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas vnto them, and deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
16. And the souldiers led him away into the hall, called Pretorium, and they call together the whole band.
17. And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it about his head,
18. And beganne to salute him, Haile King of the Iewes.
19. And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit vpon him, and bowing their knees, worshipped him.
20. And when they had mocked him, they tooke off the purple from him, and put his owne clothes on him, and led him out to crucifie him.
21. And they compell one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, comming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to beare his Crosse.
22. And they bring him vnto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, the place of a skull.
23. And they gaue him to drinke, wine mingled with myrrhe: but he receiued it not.
24. And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots vpon them, what euery man should take.
25. And it was the third houre, and they crucified him.
26. And the superscription of his accusation was written ouer, THE KING OF THE IEWES.
27. And with him they crucifie two theeues, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
28. And the Scripture was fulfilled, which sayeth, And hee was numbred with the transgressours.
29. And they that passed by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah thou that destroyest the Temple, and buildest it in three dayes,
30. Saue thy selfe, and come downe from the Crosse.
31. Likewise also the chiefe Priests mocking, said among themselues with the Scribes, He saued others, himselfe he cannot saue.
32. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the Crosse, that we may see and beleeue: And they that were crucified with him, reuiled him.
33. And when the sixth houre was come, there was darkenesse ouer the whole land, vntill the ninth houre.
34. And at the ninth houre, Iesus cryed with a loude voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lamasabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
35. And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.
36. And one ranne, and filled a spunge full of vineger, and put it on a reed, and gaue him to drinke, saying, Let alone, let vs see whether Elias will come to take him downe.
37. And Iesus cryed with a loude voice, and gaue vp the ghost.
38. And the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome.
39. And when the Centurion which stood ouer against him, saw that hee so cryed out, and gaue vp the ghost, hee said, Truely this man was the Sonne of God.
40. There were also women looking on afarre off, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Iames the lesse, and of Ioses, and Salome:
41. Who also when hee was in Galile, followed him, and ministred vnto him, and many other women which came vp with him vnto Hierusalem.
42. And now when the euen was come, (because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath)
43. Ioseph of Arimathea, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and craued the body of Iesus.
44. And Pilate marueiled if he were already dead, and calling vnto him the Centurion, hee asked him whether hee had beene any while dead.
45. And when he knew it of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph.
46. And hee bought fine linnen, and tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen, and laide him in a sepulchre, which was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre.
47. And Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Ioses behelde where he was laide.
1. And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Iames, and Salome, had bought sweete spices, that they might come and anoint him.
2. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week they came vnto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sunne:
3. And they said among themselues, who shall roll vs away the stone from the doore of the sepulchre?
4. (And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away) for it was very great.
5. And entring into the sepulchre, they sawe a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment, and they were affrighted.
6. And hee sayth vnto them, Be not affrighted; ye seeke Iesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen, hee is not here: behold the place where they laide him.
7. But goe your way, tell his disciples, and Peter, that hee goeth before you into Galile, there shall ye see him, as he said vnto you.
8. And they went out quickely, and fledde from the sepulchre, for they trembled, and were amazed, neither sayd they any thing to any man, for they were afraid.
9. Now when Iesus was risen early, the first day of the weeke, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seuen deuils.
10. And she went and told them that had beene with him, as they mourned and wept.
11. And they, when they had heard that he was aliue, and had beene seene of her, beleeued not.
12. After that, he appeared in another forme vnto two of them, as they walked, and went into the countrey.
13. And they went and tolde it vnto the residue, neither beleeued they them.
14. Afterward he appeared vnto the eleuen, as they sate at meat, and vpbraided them with their vnbeliefe, and hardnesse of heart, because they beleeued not them, which had seene him after he was risen.
15. And he said vnto them, Goe yee into all the world, and preach the Gospel to euery creature.
16. He that beleeueth and is baptized, shalbe saued, but he that beleeueth not, shall be damned.
17. And these signes shal follow them that beleeue, In my Name shall they cast out deuils, they shall speake with new tongues,
18. They shall take vp serpents, and if they drinke any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sicke, and they shall recouer.
19. So then after the Lord had spoken vnto them, he was receiued vp into heauen, and sate on the right hand of God.
20. And they went foorth, and preached euery where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the worde with signes following. Amen.
1. Forasmuch as many haue taken in hande to set foorth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely beleeued among vs,
2. Euen as they deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses, & ministers of the word:
3. It seemed good to me also, hauing had perfect vnderstanding of things from the very first, to write vnto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
4. That thou mightest know the certainetie of those things wherein thou hast bene instructed.
5. There was in the dayes of Herode the king of Iudea, a certaine Priest, named Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
6. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the Commandements and ordinances of the Lord, blamelesse.
7. And they had no childe, because that Elizabeth was barren, and they both were now well striken in yeeres.
8. And it came to passe, that while he executed the Priests office before God in the order of his course,
9. According to the custome of the Priests office, his lot was to burne incense when he went into the Temple of the Lord.
10. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense.
11. And there appeared vnto him an Angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the Altar of incense.
12. And when Zacharias sawe him, hee was troubled, and feare fell vpon him.
13. But the Angel said vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.
14. And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnesse, and many shall reioyce at his birth:
15. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shal drinke neither wine, nor strong drinke, and he shall bee filled with the holy Ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.
16. And many of the children of Israel shall hee turne to the Lord their God.
17. And hee shall goe before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisedome of the iust, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
18. And Zacharias said vnto the Angel, Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife well striken in yeeres.
19. And the Angel answering, said vnto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God, and am sent to speake vnto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
20. And behold, thou shalt be dumbe, and not able to speake, vntill the day that these things shall bee performed, because thou beleeuest not my words, which shall bee fulfilled in their season.
21. And the people waited for Zacharias, and maruelled that hee taried so long in the temple.
22. And when he came out, he could not speake vnto them: and they perceiued that he had seene a vision in the temple: for he beckened vnto them, and remained speechlesse.
23. And it came to passe, that as soone as the dayes of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his owne house.
24. And after those dayes his wife Elizabeth conceiued, and hid her selfe fiue moneths, saying,
25. Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the dayes wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproch among men.
26. And in the sixt moneth, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God, vnto a citie of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27. To a virgine espoused to a man whose name was Ioseph, of the house of Dauid, and the virgins name was Marie.
28. And the Angel came in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art highly fauoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.
29. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her minde what maner of salutation this should be.
30. And the Angel said vnto her, Feare not, Marie, for thou hast found fauour with God.
31. And behold, thou shalt conceiue in thy wombe, and bring forth a sonne, and shalt call his name Iesus.
32. He shall be great, and shall be called the sonne of the Highest, and the Lord God shall giue vnto him the throne of his father Dauid.
33. And hee shall reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer, and of his kingdome there shall be no end.
34. Then said Marie vnto the Angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35. And the Angel answered and said vnto her, The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee, and the power of the Highest shall ouershadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall bee borne of thee, shall bee called the sonne of God.
36. And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her old age, and this is the sixt moneth with her, who was called barren.
37. For with God no thing shall be vnpossible.
38. And Marie said, Behold the handmaide of the Lord, be it vnto me according to thy word: and the Angel departed from her.
39. And Marie arose in those dayes, and went into the hill countrey with haste, into a citie of Iuda,
40. And entred into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elizabeth.
41. And it came to passe that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Marie, the babe leaped in her wombe, and Elizabeth was filled with the holy Ghost.
42. And she spake out with a loud voyce, and saide, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe.
43. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to mee?
44. For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe leaped in my wombe for ioy.
45. And blessed is she that beleeued, for there shalbe a performance of those things, which were told her from the Lord.
46. And Marie said, My soule doth magnifie the Lord.
47. And my spirit hath reioyced in God my sauiour.
48. For hee hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for behold, from hencefoorth all generations shall call me blessed.
49. For he that is mighty hath done to mee great things, and holy is his Name.
50. And his mercy is on them that feare him, from generation to generation.
51. Hee hath shewed strength with his arme, he hath scattered the proud, in the imagination of their hearts.
52. He hath put downe the mighty from their seates, and exalted them of low degree.
53. Hee hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich hee hath sent emptie away.
54. Hee hath holpen his seruant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,
55. As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for euer.
56. And Mary abode with her about three moneths, and returned to her owne house.
57. Now Elizabeths full time came, that shee should be deliuered, and shee brought foorth a sonne.
58. And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy vpon her, and they reioyced with her.
59. And it came to passe that on the eight day they came to circumcise the childe, and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
60. And his mother answered, and said, Not so, but he shalbe called Iohn.
61. And they said vnto her, There is none of thy kinred that is called by this name.
62. And they made signes to his father, how he would haue him called.
63. And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn: and they marueiled all.
64. And his mouth was opened immediatly, and his tongue loosed, and hee spake, and praised God.
65. And feare came on all that dwelt round about them, and all these sayings were noised abroad thorowout all the hill countrey of Iudea.
66. And all they that had heard them, layde them vp in their hearts, saying, What maner of childe shal this be? And the hand of the Lord was with him.
67. And his father Zacharias was filled with the holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
68. Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel, for hee hath visited and redeemed his people,
69. And hath raised vp an horne of saluation for vs, in the house of his seruant Dauid,
70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets, which haue bene since the world began:
71. That wee should be saued from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate vs,
72. To performe the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy Couenant,
73. The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
74. That hee would grant vnto vs, that wee beeing deliuered out of the hands of our enemies, might serue him without feare,
75. In holinesse and righteousnesse before him, all the dayes of our life.
76. And thou childe shalt bee called the Prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord to prepare his wayes.
77. To giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,
78. Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited vs,
79. To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
80. And the childe grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts, till the day of his shewing vnto Israel.
1. And it came to passe in those dayes, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2. (And this taxing was first made whe Cyrenius was gouernor of Syria)
3. And all went to bee taxed, euery one into his owne citie.
4. And Ioseph also wet vp fro Galilee, out of the citie of Nazareth, into Iudea, vnto the citie of Dauid, which is called Bethlehem, (because he was of the house and linage of Dauid,)
5. To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6. And so it was, that while they were there, the dayes were accomplished that she should be deliuered.
7. And she brought foorth her first borne sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no roome for them in the Inne.
8. And there were in the same countrey shepheards abiding in ye field, keeping watch ouer their flocke by night.
9. And loe, the Angel of the Lord came vpon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.
10. And the Angel said vnto them, Feare not: For behold, I bring you good tidings of great ioy, which shall be to all people.
11. For vnto you is borne this day, in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lord.
12. And this shall be a signe vnto you; yee shall find the babe wrapped in swadling clothes lying in a manger.
13. And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heauenly hoste praising God, and saying,
14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good wil towards men.
15. And it came to passe, as the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, the shepheards said one to another, Let vs now goe euen vnto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to passe, which the Lord hath made knowen vnto vs.
16. And they came with haste, and found Mary and Ioseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
17. And when they had seene it, they made knowen abroad the saying, which was told them, concerning this child.
18. And all they that heard it, wondered at those things, which were tolde them by the shepheards.
19. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
20. And the shepheards returned, glorifying & praising God for all the things that they had heard and seene, as it was told vnto them.
21. And when eight dayes were accomplished for the circumcising of the childe, his name was called Iesus, which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiued in the wombe.
22. And when the dayes of her purification according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Hierusalem, to present him to the Lord,
23. (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Euery male that openeth the wombe, shalbe called holy to the Lord)
24. And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the Law of the Lord, a paire of turtle doues, or two yong pigeons.
25. And behold, there was a man in Hierusalem, whose name was Simeon, and the same man was iust and deuout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the holy Ghost was vpon him.
26. And it was reuealed vnto him by the holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seene the Lords Christ.
27. And hee came by the spirit into the Temple: and when the parents brought in the child Iesus, to doe for him after the custome of the Lawe,
28. Then tooke hee him vp in his armes, and blessed God, and said,
29. Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace, according to thy word.
30. For mine eyes haue seene thy saluation.
31. Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.
32. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
33. And Ioseph and his mother marueiled at those things which were spoken of him.
34. And Simeon blessed them, and said vnto Marie his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising againe of many in Israel: and for a signe which shall be spoken against,
35. (Yea a sword shall pearce thorow thy owne soule also) that the thoughts of many hearts may be reuealed.
36. And there was one Anna a Prophetesse, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was of a great age, and had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie.
37. And she was a widow of about fourescore and foure yeeres, which departed not from the Temple, but serued God with fastings and prayers night and day.
38. And she comming in that instant, gaue thankes likewise vnto the Lord, and spake of him to al them that looked for redemption in Hierusalem.
39. And when they had performed all things according to the Lawe of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their owne citie Nazareth.
40. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit filled with wisedome, and the grace of God was vpon him.
41. Now his parents went to Hierusalem euery yeere, at the feast of the Passeouer.
42. And when he was twelue yeeres old, they went vp to Hierusalem, after the custome of the feast.
43. And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned, the childe Iesus taried behind in Hierusalem, and Ioseph and his mother knew not of it.
44. But they supposing him to haue bene in the company, went a daies iourney, and they sought him among their kinsefolke and acquaintance.
45. And when they found him not, they turned backe againe to Hierusalem, seeking him.
46. And it came to passe, that after three daies they found him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of the Doctours, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
47. And all that heard him were astonished at his vnderstanding, and answeres.
48. And when they sawe him, they were amazed: and his mother said vnto him, Sonne, why hast thou thus dealt with vs? Behold, thy father and I haue sought thee sorrowing.
49. And he said vnto them, How is it that ye sought me? Wist yee not that I must bee about my fathers businesse?
50. And they vnderstood not the saying which he spake vnto them.
51. And he went downe with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subiect vnto them: But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
52. And Iesus increased in wisedom and stature, and in fauour with God and man.
1. Now in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being Gouernour of Iudea, & Herode being Tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene,
2. Annas and Caiaphas being the high Priests, the word of God came vnto Iohn the sonne of Zacharias, in the wildernesse.
3. And he came into all the countrey about Iordane, preaching the baptisme of repentance, for the remissio of sinnes,
4. As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the Prophet, saying, The voyce of one crying in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5. Euery valley shall be filled, and euery mountaine and hill shalbe brought low, and the crooked shall bee made straight, and the rough wayes shall be made smooth.
6. And all flesh shal see the saluation of God.
7. Then said hee to the multitude that came forth to bee baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8. Bring forth therfore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within your selues, We haue Abraham to our father: For I say vnto you, that God is able of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.
9. And now also the axe is laid vnto the root of the trees: Euery tree therefore which bringeth not foorth good fruit, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.
10. And the people asked him, saying, What shall we doe then?
11. He answereth, and saith vnto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none, and he that hath meat, let him doe likewise.
12. Then came also Publicanes to be baptized, and said vnto him, Master, what shall we doe?
13. And he said vnto them, Exact no more then that which is appointed you.
14. And the souldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we doe? And he said vnto them, Doe violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, & be content with your wages.
15. And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of Iohn, whether he were the Christ or not:
16. Iohn answered, saying vnto them all, I indeede baptize you with water, but one mightier then I commeth, the latchet of whose shooes I am not worthy to vnloose, he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.
17. Whose fanne is in his hand, and he will thorowly purge his floore, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaffe he will burne with fire vnquencheable.
18. And many other things in his exhortation preached he vnto the people.
19. But Herode the Tetrarch being reprooued by him for Herodias his brother Philips wife, and for all the euils which Herode had done,
20. Added yet this aboue all, that he shut vp Iohn in prison.
21. Now when all the people were baptized, and it came to passe that Iesus also being baptized, and praying, the heauen was opened:
22. And the holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a Doue vpon him, and a voice came from heauen, which said, Thou art my beloued sonne, in thee I am well pleased.
23. And Iesus himselfe began to be about thirty yeeres of age, being (as was supposed) the sonne of Ioseph, which was the sonne of Heli,
24. Which was the sonne of Matthat, which was the sonne of Leui, which was the sonne of Melchi, which was the sonne of Ianna, which was the sonne of Ioseph,
25. Which was the sonne of Matthathias, which was the sonne of Amos, which was the sonne of Naum, which was the sonne of Eli, which was the sonne of Nagge,
26. Which was the sonne of Maath, which was the sonne of Matthathias, which was the sonne of Semei, which was the sonne of Ioseph, which was the sonne of Iuda,
27. Which was the sonne of Ioanna, which was the sonne of Rhesa, which was the sonne of Zorobabel, which was the sonne of Salathiel, which was the sonne of Neri,
28. Which was the sonne of Melchi, which was the sonne of Addi, which was the sonne of Cosam, which was the sonne of Elmodam, which was the sonne of Er,
29. Which was the sonne of Iose, which was the sonne of Eliezer, which was the sonne of Iorim, which was the sonne of Matthat, which was the sonne of Leui,
30. Which was the sonne of Simeon, which was the sonne of Iuda, which was the sonne of Ioseph, which was the sonne of Ionan, which was the sonne of Eliakim,
31. Which was the sonne of Melea, which was the sonne of Menam, which was the sonne of Mattatha, which was the sonne of Nathan, which was the sonne of Dauid,
32. Which was the sonne of Iesse, which was the sonne of Obed, which was the sonne of Booz, which was the sonne of Salmon, which was the sonne of Nasson,
33. Which was the sonne of Aminadab, which was the sonne of Aram, which was the sonne of Esrom, which was the sonne of Phares, which was the sonne of Iuda,
34. Which was the sonne of Iacob, which was the sonne of Isaac, which was the sonne of Abraham, which was the sonne of Thara, which was the sonne of Nachor,
35. Which was the sonne of Saruch, which was the sonne of Ragau, which was the sonne of Phaleg, which was the sonne of Heber, which was the sonne of Sala,
36. Which was the sonne of Cainan, which was the sonne of Arphaxad, which was the sonne of Sem, which was the sonne of Noe, which was the sonne of Lamech,
37. Which was the sonne of Mathusala, which was the sonne of Enoch, which was the sonne of Iared, which was the sonne of Maleleel, which was the sonne of Cainan,
38. Which was the sonne of Enos, which was the sonne of Seth, which was the sonne of Adam, which was the sonne of God.
1. And Iesus being full of the holy Ghost, returned from Iordane, and was led by the spirit into the wildernesse,
2. Being fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, and in those dayes he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungred.
3. And the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4. And Iesus answered him, saying, It is written, that man shall not liue by bread alone, but by euery word of God.
5. And the deuil taking him vp into an high mountaine, shewed vnto him all the kingdomes of the world in a moment of time.
6. And the deuil said vnto him, All this power will I giue thee, and the glory of them; for that is deliuered vnto me, & to whomsoeuer I will, I giue it.
7. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shalbe thine.
8. And Iesus answered and said vnto him, Get thee behinde me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him onely shalt thou serue.
9. And hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence.
10. For it is written, He shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee, to keepe thee.
11. And in their handes they shall beare thee vp, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12. And Iesus answering, said vnto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
13. And when the deuil had ended all the temptation, hee departed from him for a season.
14. And Iesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
15. And hee taught in their Synagogues, being glorified of all.
16. And hee came to Nazareth, where he had bene brought vp, and as his custome was, he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood vp for to reade.
17. And there was deliuered vnto him the booke of the Prophet Esaias, and when he had opened the Booke, he found the place where it was written,
18. The Spirit of the Lord is vpon mee, because hee hath anointed mee, to preach the Gospel to the poore, he hath sent mee to heale the broken hearted, to preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, to set at libertie them that are bruised,
19. To preach the acceptable yeere of the Lord.
20. And he closed the booke, and hee gaue it againe to the minister, and sate downe: and the eyes of all them that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.
21. And hee began to say vnto them, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares.
22. And all bare him witnesse, and wondered at the gracious wordes, which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Iosephs sonne?
23. And hee said vnto them, Yee will surely say vnto me this prouerbe, Physition, heale thy selfe: Whatsoeuer wee haue heard done in Capernaum, doe also here in thy countrey.
24. And hee said, Verely I say vnto you, no Prophet is accepted in his owne countrey.
25. But I tell you of a trueth, many widowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias, when the heauen was shut vp three yeres and sixe moneths: when great famine was throughout all the land:
26. But vnto none of them was Elias sent, saue vnto Sarepta a citie of Sidon, vnto a woman that was a widow.
27. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elizeus the Prophet: and none of them was cleansed, sauing Naaman the Syrian.
28. And all they in the Synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29. And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, & led him vnto the brow of the hill (whereon their city was built) that they might cast him downe headlong.
30. But he passing thorow the mids of them, went his way:
31. And came downe to Capernaum, a citie of Galile, and taught them on the Sabbath dayes.
32. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his worde was with power.
33. And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, and cryed out with a loud voice,
34. Saying, Let vs alone, what haue wee to doe with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
35. And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him. And when the deuill had throwen him in the middes, hee came out of him, and hurt him not.
36. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselues, saying, What a word is this? for with authoritie and power hee commaundeth the vncleane spirits, and they come out.
37. And the fame of him went out into euery place of the countrey round about.
38. And he arose out of the Synagogue, and entred into Simons house: and Simons wiues mother was taken with a great feuer, and they besought him for her.
39. And he stood ouer her, and rebuked the feuer, & it left her. And immediatly she arose, & ministred vnto them.
40. Now when the Sunne was setting, all they that had any sicke with diuers diseases, brought them vnto him: and hee laid his handes on euery one of them, and healed them.
41. And deuils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Sonne of God. And hee rebuking them, suffered them not to speake: for they knewe that hee was Christ.
42. And when it was day, he departed, and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came vnto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
43. And hee said vnto them, I must preach the kingdome of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
44. And hee preached in the Synagogues of Galile.
1. And it came to passe, that as the people preassed vpon him to heare the word of God, hee stood by the lake of Genesareth,
2. And sawe two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
3. And he entred into one of the ships, which was Simons, and prayed him, that he would thrust out a little from the land: and he sate downe, and taught the people out of the ship.
4. Now when he had left speaking, he said vnto Simon, Lanch out into the deepe, and let downe your nets for a draught.
5. And Simon answering, said vnto him, Master, wee haue toiled all the night, and haue taken nothing: neuerthelesse at thy word I will let downe the net.
6. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net brake:
7. And they beckened vnto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and helpe them. And they came, & filled both the ships, so that they began to sinke.
8. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell downe at Iesus knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinfull man, O Lord.
9. For he was astonished, and al that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken.
10. And so was also Iames, and Iohn the sonnes of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Iesus said vnto Simon, Feare not, from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
11. And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsooke all, and followed him.
12. And it came to passe, when he was in a certaine citie, behold a man full of leprosie: who seeing Iesus, fell on his face, & besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane.
13. And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I wil: be thou cleane. And immediatly the leprosie departed from him.
14. And hee charged him to tell no man: but, Goe, and shewe thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimonie vnto them.
15. But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him, and great multitudes came together to heare, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
16. And he withdrew himselfe into the wildernesse, and prayed.
17. And it came to passe on a certaine day, as hee was teaching, that there were Pharisees and Doctours of the Law sitting by, which were come out of euery towne of Galilee, and Iudea, and Hierusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heale them.
18. And behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsie: and they sought meanes to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went vpon the house top, & let him downe through the tiling with his couch, into the midst before Iesus.
20. And when he saw their faith, hee said vnto him, Man, thy sinnes are forgiuen thee.
21. And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgiue sinnes, but God alone?
22. But when Iesus perceiued their thoughts, he answering, saide vnto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
23. Whether is easier to say, Thy sinnes be forgiuen thee: or to say, Rise vp and walke?
24. But that ye may know that the Sonne of man hath power vpon earth to forgiue sinnes (he said vnto the sicke of the palsie,) I say vnto thee, Arise, and take vp thy couch, and go into thine house.
25. And immediatly he rose vp before them, and tooke vp that whereon hee lay, and departed to his owne house, glorifying God.
26. And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with feare, saying, Wee haue seene strange things to day.
27. And after these things hee went foorth, and sawe a Publicane, named Leui, sitting at the receit of custome: and hee said vnto him, Follow me.
28. And he left all, rose vp, and followed him.
29. And Leui made him a great feast in his owne house: and there was a great company of Publicanes, and of others that sate downe with them.
30. But their Scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why doe ye eate and drinke with Publicanes and sinners?
31. And Iesus answering, said vnto them, They that are whole need not a physician: but they that are sicke.
32. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
33. And they said vnto him, Why doe the disciples of Iohn fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees: but thine eat and drinke?
34. And he said vnto them, Can yee make the children of the Bride-chamber fast, while the Bridegrome is with them?
35. But the dayes will come, when the Bridegrome shall bee taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those dayes.
36. And he spake also a parable vnto them, No man putteth a piece of a newe garment vpon an olde: if otherwise, then both the newe maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new, agreeth not with the olde.
37. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38. But newe wine must be put into newe bottles, and both are preserued.
39. No man also hauing drunke olde wine, straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
1. And it came to passe on the second Sabbath after the first, that he went thorow the corne fields: and his disciples plucked the eares of corne, and did eate, rubbing them in their hands.
2. And certaine of the Pharisees said vnto them, Why doe yee that which is not lawfull to doe on the Sabbath dayes?
3. And Iesus answering them, said, Haue yee not read so much as this what Dauid did, when himselfe was an hungred, and they which were with him:
4. How he went into the house of God, and did take and eate the Shew bread, and gaue also to them that were with him, which it is not lawful to eate but for the Priests alone?
5. And he said vnto them, That the sonne of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
6. And it came to passe also on another Sabbath, that he entred into the Synagogue, and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
7. And the Scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heale on the Sabbath day: that they might find an accusation against him.
8. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise vp, and stand foorth in the mids. And he arose, and stood foorth.
9. Then said Iesus vnto them, I will aske you one thing, Is it lawfull on the Sabbath dayes to doe good, or to doe euill? To saue life, or to destroy it?
10. And looking round about vpon them all, he said vnto the man, Stretch foorth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
11. And they were filled with madnesse, and communed one with another what they might doe to Iesus.
12. And it came to passe in those dayes, that hee went out into a mountaine to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
13. And when it was day, he called vnto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelue; whom also hee named Apostles:
14. Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother: Iames and Iohn, Philip and Bartholomew,
15. Matthew and Thomas, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon, called Zelotes,
16. And Iudas the brother of Iames, and Iudas Iscariot, which also was the traitour.
17. And hee came downe with them, and stood in the plaine, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people, out of all Iudea and Hierusalem, and from the Sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to heare him, and to be healed of their diseases,
18. And they that were vexed with vncleane spirits: and they were healed.
19. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went vertue out of him, and healed them all.
20. And hee lifted vp his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be yee poore: for yours is the kingdome of God.
21. Blessed are yee that hunger now: for yee shall be filled. Blessed are yee that weepe now, for yee shall laugh.
22. Blessed are yee when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shal reproach you, and cast out your name as euill, for the Sonne of mans sake.
23. Reioice yee in that day, and leape for ioy: for behold, your reward is great in heauen for in the like maner did their fathers vnto the Prophets.
24. But woe vnto you that are rich: for yee haue receiued your consolation.
25. Woe vnto you that are full: for yee shall hunger. Woe vnto you that laugh now: for yee shall mourne and weepe.
26. Woe vnto you when all men shall speake well of you: for so did their fathers to the false Prophets.
27. But I say vnto you which heare, Loue your enemies, doe good to them which hate you,
28. Blesse them that curse you, & pray for them which despitefully vse you.
29. And vnto him that smiteth thee on the one cheeke, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloake, forbid not to take thy coat also.
30. Giue to euery man that asketh of thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods, aske them not againe.
31. And as yee would that men should doe to you, doe yee also to them likewise.
32. For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke haue ye? for sinners also loue those that loue them.
33. And if ye doe good to them which doe good to you, What thanke haue ye? for sinners also doe euen the same.
34. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receiue, What thanke haue ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receiue as much againe.
35. But loue yee your enemies, and doe good, and lend, hoping for nothing againe: and your reward shall bee great, and ye shalbe the children of the Highest: for hee is kinde vnto the vnthankfull, and to the euill.
36. Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.
37. Iudge not, and ye shall not bee iudged: condemne not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgiue, and ye shall be forgiuen.
38. Giue, and it shall bee giuen vnto you, good measure, preassed downe, and shaken together, and running ouer, shall men giue into your bosome: for with the same measure that ye mete withall, it shall bee measured to you againe.
39. And hee spake a parable vnto them, Can the blinde leade the blinde? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?
40. The disciple is not aboue his master: but euery one that is perfect shalbe as his master.
41. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but perceiuest not the beame that is in thine owne eye?
42. Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let mee pull out the mote that is in thine eye: when thou thy selfe beholdest not the beame that is in thine owne eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beame out of thine owne eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pul out the mote that is in thy brothers eye.
43. For a good tree bringeth not foorth corrupt fruit: neither doeth a corrupt tree bring foorth good fruit.
44. For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruit: for of thornes men doe not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth foorth that which is good: and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart, bringeth foorth that which is euill: For of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaketh.
46. And why call ye mee Lord, Lord, and doe not the things which I say?
47. Whosoeuer commeth to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like.
48. He is like a man which built an house, and digged deepe, and layd the foundation on a rocke. And when the flood arose, the streame beat vehemently vpon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded vpon a rocke.
49. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house vpon the earth: against which the streame did beate vehemently, and immediatly it fell, and the ruine of that house was great.
1. Now when hee had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, hee entred into Capernaum.
2. And a certaine Centurions seruant, who was deare vnto him, was sicke and ready to die.
3. And when he heard of Iesus, he sent vnto him the Elders of the Iewes, beseeching him that he would come and heale his seruant.
4. And when they came to Iesus, they besought him instantly, saying, that hee was worthy for whome hee should doe this.
5. For he loueth our nation, and hee hath built vs a Synagogue.
6. Then Iesus went with them. And when he was now not farre from the house, the Centurion sent friends to him, saying vnto him, Lord, trouble not thy selfe: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe.
7. Wherefore neither thought I my selfe worthy to come vnto thee: but say in a worde, and my seruant shall bee healed.
8. For I also am a man set vnder authoritie, hauing vnder mee souldiers: and I say vnto one, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and hee commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doeth it.
9. When Iesus heard these things, hee marueiled at him, and turned him about, and saide vnto the people that followed him, I say vnto you, I haue not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
10. And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the seruant whole that had bene sicke.
11. And it came to passe the day after, that he went into a citie called Naim: and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
12. Now when he came nigh to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, the onely sonne of his mother, and shee was a widow: and much people of the citie was with her.
13. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and saide vnto her, Weepe not.
14. And hee came and touched the beere (and they that bare him, stood still.) And he said, Yong man, I say vnto thee, Arise.
15. And he that was dead, sate vp, and began to speake: and he deliuered him to his mother.
16. And there came a feare on all, and they glorified God, saying, that a great Prophet is risen vp among vs, and that God hath visited his people.
17. And this rumour of him went foorth throughout all Iudea, and throughout all the region round about.
18. And the disciples of Iohn shewed him of all these things.
19. And Iohn calling vnto him two of his disciples, sent them to Iesus, saying, Art thou hee that should come, or looke we for another?
20. When the men were come vnto him, they said, Iohn Baptist hath sent vs vnto thee, saying, Art thou hee that should come, or looke we for another?
21. And in that same houre hee cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of euill spirits, and vnto many that were blind, he gaue sight.
22. Then Iesus answering, said vnto them, Go your way, and tell Iohn what things ye haue seene and heard, how that the blind see, the lame walke, the lepers are clensed, the deafe heare, the dead are raised, to the poore the Gospel is preached.
23. And blessed is he whosoeuer shall not be offended in me.
24. And when the messengers of Iohn were departed, hee beganne to speake vnto ye people concerning Iohn: What went ye out into the wildernesse for to see? A reede shaken with the winde?
25. But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and liue delicately, are in kings courts.
26. But what went ye out for to see? A Prophet? Yea, I say vnto you, and much more then a Prophet.
27. This is he of whome it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
28. For I say vnto you, among those that are borne of women, there is not a greater Prophet then Iohn the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdome of God, is greater then he.
29. And all the people that heard him, and the Publicanes, iustified God, being baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.
30. But the Pharisees and Lawyers reiected the counsell of God against themselues, being not baptized of him.
31. And the Lord said, whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
32. They are like vnto children sitting in the market place, & calling one to another, and saying, We haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not danced: wee haue mourned to you, and yee haue not wept.
33. For Iohn the Baptist came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a deuill.
34. The sonne of man is come, eating, and drinking, and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine bibber, a friend of Publicanes and sinners.
35. But wisedome is iustified of all her children.
36. And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisees house, and sate downe to meat.
37. And behold, a woman in the citie which was a sinner, when shee knew that Iesus sate at meat in the Pharisees house, brought an Alabaster boxe of ointment,
38. And stood at his feet behind him, weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the haires of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the oyntment.
39. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him, saw it, he spake within himselfe, saying, This man, if he were a Prophet, would haue knowen who, and what maner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
40. And Iesus answering, said vnto him, Simon, I haue somewhat to say vnto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
41. There was a certaine creditour, which had two debtors: the one ought fiue hundred pence, and the other fiftie.
42. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgaue them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will loue him most?
43. Simon answered, and saide, I suppose, that hee to whome he forgaue most. And he said vnto him, Thou hast rightly iudged.
44. And hee turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, thou gauest me no water for my feete: but shee hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the haires of her head.
45. Thou gauest me no kisse: but this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kisse my feet.
46. Mine head with oile thou didst not anoint: but this woman anointed my feet with oyntment.
47. Wherefore, I say vnto thee, her sinnes, which are many, are forgiuen, for she loued much: but to whom litle is forgiuen, the same loueth litle.
48. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgiuen.
49. And they that sate at meat with him, began to say within themselues, Who is this that forgiueth sinnes also?
50. And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saued thee, goe in peace.
1. And it came to passe afterward, that he went throughout euery citie and village preaching, and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdome of God: and the twelue were with him,
2. And certaine women which had bene healed of euill spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene out of whom went seuen deuils,
3. And Ioanna the wife of Chuza, Herods steward, and Susanna, and many others which ministred vnto him of their substance.
4. And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of euery citie, he spake by a parable:
5. A Sower went out to sowe his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side, and it was troden downe, and the foules of the aire deuoured it.
6. And some fell vpon a rocke, and assoone as it was sprung vp, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7. And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprang vp with it, and choked it.
8. And other fell on good ground, and sprang vp, and bare fruite an hundred fold. And when hee saide these things, he cryed, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.
9. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10. And he said, Unto you it is giuen to know the mysteries of the kingdome of God: but to others in parables, that seeing, they might not see, and hearing, they might not vnderstand.
11. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12. Those by the way side, are they that heare: then commeth the deuil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, least they should beleeue, and be saued.
13. They on the rocke, are they which when they heare, receiue the word with ioy; and these haue no roote, which for a while beleeue, and in time of temptation fall away.
14. And that which fell among thornes, are they, which when they haue heard, goe forth, and are choked with cares and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruite to perfection.
15. But that on the good ground, are they, which in an honest and good heart hauing heard the word, keepe it, and bring foorth fruite with patience.
16. No man when he hath lighted a candle, couereth it with a vessell, or putteth it vnder a bed: but setteth it on a candlesticke, that they which enter in, may see the light.
17. For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest: neither any thing hid, that shall not be knowen, and come abroad.
18. Take heede therefore how yee heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shall bee giuen; and whosoeuer hath not, from him shall be taken, euen that which he seemeth to haue.
19. Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the prease.
20. And it was told him by certaine which saide, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
21. And hee answered and said vnto them, My mother and my brethren are these which heare the word of God, and doe it.
22. Now it came to passe on a certaine day, that he went into a ship, with his disciples: and hee said vnto them, Let vs goe ouer vnto the other side of the lake, and they lanched foorth.
23. But as they sailed, he fell asleepe, and there came downe a storme of wind on the lake, and they were filled with water, and were in ieopardie.
24. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he rose, and rebuked the wind, and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calme.
25. And he saide vnto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraide wondred, saying one to another, What maner of man is this? For he commandeth euen the winds and water, and they obey him.
26. And they arriued at the countrey of the Gadarenes, which is ouer against Galilee.
27. And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the citie a certaine man which had deuils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombes.
28. When he saw Iesus, he cried out, and fell downe before him, and with a loud voyce said, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus, thou sonne of God most high? I beseech thee torment me not.
29. (For he had commanded the vncleane spirit to come out of the man: For oftentimes it had caught him, and he was kept bound with chaines, and in fetters: and he brake the bands, and was driuen of the deuil into the wildernesse.)
30. And Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many deuils were entred into him.
31. And they besought him, that he would not command them to goe out into the deepe.
32. And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountaine: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them: and he suffered them.
33. Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the herd ran violently downe a steepe place into the lake, and were choked.
34. When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went, and tolde it in the citie, and in the countrey.
35. Then they went out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraid.
36. They also which saw it, told them by what meanes he that was possessed of the deuils, was healed.
37. Then the whole multitude of the countrey of the Gadarenes round about, besought him to depart from them, for they were taken with great feare: and he went vp into the ship, and returned back againe.
38. Now the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, besought him that he might be with him: but Iesus sent him away, saying,
39. Returne to thine owne house, and shew how great things God hath done vnto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole citie how great things Iesus had done vnto him.
40. And it came to passe, that when Iesus was returned, the people gladly receiued him: for they were all waiting for him.
41. And behold, there came a man named Iairus, and hee was a ruler of the Synagogue, and hee fell downe at Iesus feete, and besought him that hee would come into his house:
42. For hee had one onely daughter about twelue yeeres of age, and she lay a dying. (But as hee went the people thronged him.
43. And a woman hauing an issue of blood twelue yeres, which had spent all her liuing vpon Phisitions, neither could be healed of any,
44. Came behinde him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediatly her issue of blood stanched.
45. And Iesus saide, Who touched mee? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him, said, Master, the multitude throng thee, and preasse thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46. And Iesus saide, Some body hath touched mee: for I perceiue that vertue is gone out of me.
47. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, shee came trembling, and falling downe before him, shee declared vnto him before all the people, for what cause shee had touched him, and how she was healed immediatly.
48. And he said vnto her, Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole, goe in peace.)
49. While hee yet spake, there commeth one from the ruler of the Synagogues house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead, trouble not the Master.
50. But when Iesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Feare not, beleeue onely, and she shalbe made whole.
51. And when hee came into the house, hee suffered no man to goe in, saue Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and the father and the mother of the mayden.
52. And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weepe not, she is not dead, but sleepeth.
53. And they laughed him to scorne, knowing that she was dead.
54. And hee put them all out, and tooke her by the hand, and called, saying, Mayd, arise.
55. And her spirit came againe, and shee arose straightway: and hee commanded to giue her meat.
56. And her parents were astonished: but hee charged them that they should tell no man what was done.
1. Then he called his twelue disciples together, and gaue them power and authority ouer all deuils, and to cure diseases.
2. And hee sent them to preach the Kingdome of God, and to heale the sicke.
3. And he said vnto them, Take nothing for your iourney, neither staues, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money, neither haue two coates apeece.
4. And whatsoeuer house yee enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
5. And whosoeuer will not receiue you, when ye goe out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feete, for a testimonie against them.
6. And they departed, and went through the townes, preaching the Gospel, and healing euery where.
7. Now Herode the Tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and hee was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that Iohn was risen from the dead:
8. And of some, that Elias had appeared: and of others, that one of the olde Prophets was risen againe.
9. And Herode said, Iohn haue I beheaded: but who is this of whom I heare such things? And hee desired to see him.
10. And the Apostles when they were returned, tolde him all that they had done. And hee tooke them, and went aside priuately into a desert place, belonging to the citie called Bethsaida.
11. And the people when they knew it, followed him, and he receiued them, and spake vnto them of the kingdome of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
12. And when the day beganne to weare away, then came the twelue, and said vnto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the townes and countrey round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
13. But he said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said, Wee haue no more but fiue loaues and two fishes, except we should goe and buy meate for all this people.
14. For they were about fiue thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit downe by fifties in a company.
15. And they did so, and made them all sit downe.
16. Then he tooke the fiue loaues and the two fishes, and looking vp to heauen, hee blessed them, and brake, and gaue to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17. And they did eate, and were all filled. And there was taken vp of fragments that remained to them, twelue baskets.
18. And it came to passe, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
19. They answering, said, Iohn the Baptist: but some say, Elias: and others say, that one of the old Prophets is risen againe.
20. He said vnto them, But whom say yee that I am? Peter answering, said, The Christ of God.
21. And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing,
22. Saying, The Sonne of man must suffer many things, and be reiected of the Elders, and chiefe Priests, and Scribes, and be slaine, and be raised the third day.
23. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him denie himselfe, and take vp his crosse daily, and follow me.
24. For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: but whosoeuer will lose his life for my sake, the same shall saue it.
25. For what is a man aduantaged, if hee gaine the whole world, and lose himselfe, or be cast away?
26. For whosoeuer shall bee ashamed of me, and of my wordes, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his owne glory, and in his Fathers, and of the holy Angels.
27. But I tell you of a trueth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdome of God.
28. And it came to passe, about an eight dayes after these sayings, hee tooke Peter, and Iohn, and Iames, and went vp into a mountaine to pray:
29. And as hee prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
30. And behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias,
31. Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Hierusalem.
32. But Peter, and they that were with him, were heauie with sleepe: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
33. And it came to passe, as they departed from him, Peter said vnto Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here, and let vs make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
34. While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and ouershadowed them, & they feared, as they entred into the cloude.
35. And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloued Son, heare him.
36. And when the voyce was past, Iesus was found alone, and they kept it close, & told no man in those dayes any of those things which they had seene.
37. And it came to passe, that on the next day, when they were come downe from the hill, much people met him.
38. And behold, a man of the companie cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee looke vpon my sonne, for he is mine onely child.
39. And loe, a spirit taketh him, and hee suddenly crieth out, and it teareth him that he fometh againe, and bruising him, hardly departeth from him.
40. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.
41. And Iesus answering, said, O faithlesse, and peruerse generation, how long shal I be with you, and suffer you? bring thy sonne hither.
42. And as he was yet a comming, the deuill threw him downe, and tare him: and Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirit, and healed the child, and deliuered him againe to his father.
43. And they were al amazed at the mightie power of God: But while they wondred euery one at all things which Iesus did, he said vnto his disciples,
44. Let these sayings sinke downe into your eares: for the Sonne of man shall bee deliuered into the handes of men.
45. But they vnderstood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceiued it not: and they feared to aske him of that saying.
46. Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
47. And Iesus perceiuing ye thought of their heart, tooke a child, and set him by him,
48. And said vnto them, Whosoeuer shall receiue this child in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer shal receiue me, receiueth him that sent me: For hee that is least among you all, the same shalbe great.
49. And Iohn answered, and said, Master, we saw one casting out deuils in thy Name, and we forbade him, because he followeth not with vs.
50. And Iesus said vnto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against vs, is for vs.
51. And it came to passe, when the time was come that he should bee receiued vp, he stedfastly set his face to goe to Hierusalem,
52. And sent messengers before his face, and they went and entred into a village of the Samaritanes to make ready for him.
53. And they did not receiue him, because his face was as though he would goe to Hierusalem.
54. And when his disciples, Iames and Iohn sawe this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that wee command fire to come downe from heauen, and consume them, euen as Elias did?
55. But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what maner spirit ye are of.
56. For the Sonne of man is not come to destroy mens liues, but to saue them. And they went to another village.
57. And it came to passe that as they went in the way, a certaine man said vnto him, Lord, I wil follow thee whithersoeuer thou goest.
58. And Iesus said vnto him, Foxes haue holes, and birds of the aire haue nests, but the Sonne of man hath not where to lay his head.
59. And he said vnto another, Follow me: But he said, Lord, suffer mee first to goe and bury my father.
60. Iesus said vnto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdome of God.
61. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee: but let me first goe bid them farewel, which are at home at my house.
62. And Iesus said vnto him, No man hauing put his hand to the plough, and looking backe, is fit for the kingdome of God.
1. After these things, the Lord appointed other seuenty also, and sent them two and two before his face, into euery citie and place, whither hee himselfe would come.
2. Therefore said hee vnto them, The haruest truly is great, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the haruest, that he would send foorth labourers into his haruest.
3. Go your wayes: Behold, I send you forth as lambes among wolues.
4. Cary neither purse nor scrip, nor shoes, and salute no man by the way.
5. And into whatsoeuer house yee enter, first say, Peace bee to this house.
6. And if the sonne of peace be there, your peace shall rest vpon it: if not, it shall turne to you againe.
7. And in the same house remaine, eating and drinking such things as they giue: For the labourer is worthy of his hire. Goe not from house to house.
8. And into whatsoeuer citie yee enter, and they receiue you, eate such things as are set before you:
9. And heale the sicke that are therein, and say vnto them, The kingdome of God is come nigh vnto you.
10. But into whatsoeuer citie yee enter, and they receiue you not, goe your waies out into the streetes of the same, and say,
11. Euen the very dust of your citie which cleaueth on vs, we doe wipe off against you: notwithstanding, be yee sure of this, that the kingdome of God is come nigh vnto you.
12. But I say vnto you, That it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodome, then for that citie.
13. Woe vnto thee Chorazin, wo vnto thee Bethsaida: For if the mighty workes had beene done in Tyre and Sidon, which haue beene done in you, they had a great while agoe repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the iudgment, then for you.
15. And thou Capernaum, which art exalted to heauen, shalt be thrust downe to hell.
16. Hee that heareth you, heareth me: and he that despiseth you, despiseth me: and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
17. And the seuenty returned againe with ioy, saying, Lord, euen the deuils are subiect vnto vs through thy name.
18. And he said vnto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heauen.
19. Behold, I giue vnto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and ouer all the power of the enemie: and nothing shall by any meanes hurt you.
20. Notwithstanding in this reioyce not, that the spirits are subiect vnto you: but rather reioyce, because your names are written in heauen.
21. In that houre Iesus reioyced in spirit, and said, I thanke thee, O father, Lord of heauen and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast reuealed them vnto babes: euen so father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.
22. All things are deliuered to me of my father: and no man knoweth who the sonne is, but the father: and who the father is, but the sonne, and he to whom the sonne will reueale him.
23. And he turned him vnto his disciples, and said priuately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that yee see.
24. For I tell you, that many Prophets, and kings haue desired to see those things which yee see, and haue not seene them: & to heare those things which yee heare, and haue not heard them.
25. And behold, a certaine Lawyer stood vp, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I doe to inherite eternall life? He said vnto him,
26. What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27. And he answering, said, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and with all thy minde, and thy neighbour as thy selfe.
28. And he said vnto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt liue.
29. But he willing to iustifie himselfe, said vnto Iesus, And who is my neighbour?
30. And Iesus answering, said, A certaine man went downe from Hierusalem to Iericho, and fel among theeues, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leauing him halfe dead.
31. And by chaunce there came downe a certaine Priest that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32. And likewise a Leuite, when hee was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33. But a certaine Samaritane as he iourneyed, came where he was; and when hee saw him, hee had compassion on him,
34. And went to him, and bound vp his wounds, powring in oile and wine, and set him on his owne beast, and brought him to an Inne, and tooke care of him.
35. And on the morrow when he departed, hee tooke out two pence, and gaue them to the hoste, and saide vnto him, Take care of him, and whatsoeuer thou spendest more, when I come againe I will repay thee.
36. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour vnto him that fell among the theeues?
37. And he said, He that shewed mercie on him. Then said Iesus vnto him, Goe, and doe thou likewise.
38. Now it came to passe, as they went, that he entred into a certaine village: and a certaine woman named Martha, receiued him into her house.
39. And shee had a sister called Mary, which also sate at Iesus feet, and heard his word:
40. But Martha was cumbred about much seruing, and came to him, and said, Lord, doest thou not care that my sister hath left mee to serue alone? Bid her therefore that she helpe me.
41. And Iesus answered, and saide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things:
42. But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not bee taken away from her.
1. And it came to passe, that as he was praying in a certaine place, when hee ceased, one of his disciples said vnto him, Lord, teach vs to pray, as Iohn also taught his disciples.
2. And hee said vnto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heauen, Halowed be thy Name, Thy kingdome come, Thy will be done as in heauen, so in earth.
3. Giue vs day by day our dayly bread.
4. And forgiue vs our sinnes: for we also forgiue euery one that is indebted to vs. And lead vs not into temptation, but deliuer vs from euill.
5. And he said vnto them, Which of you shall haue a friend, and shall goe vnto him at midnight, and say vnto him, Friend, lend me three loaues.
6. For a friend of mine in his iourney is come to me, and I haue nothing to set before him,
7. And he from within shal answere and say, Trouble mee not, the doore is now shut, and my children are with me in bed: I cannot rise and giue thee.
8. I say vnto you, Though he will not rise, and giue him, because he is his friend: yet because of his importunitie, hee will rise and giue him as many as he needeth.
9. And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shalbe giuen you: seeke, and ye shal find: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.
10. For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.
11. If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will hee giue him a stone? Or if he aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?
12. Or if he shall aske an egge, will he offer him a scorpion?
13. If ye then, being euill, know how to giue good gifts vnto your children: how much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Spirit to them that aske him?
14. And he was casting out a deuil, and it was dumbe. And it came to passe, when the deuill was gone out, the dumbe spake: and the people wondred.
15. But some of them said, Hee casteth out deuils through Beelzebub the chiefe of the deuils.
16. And other tempting him, sought of him a signe from heauen.
17. But he knowing their thoughts, said vnto them, Euery kingdome diuided against it selfe, is brought to desolation: and a house diuided against a house, falleth.
18. If Satan also be diuided against himselfe, how shall his kingdom stand? Because yee say that I cast out deuils through Beelzebub.
19. And if I by Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whom doe your sonnes cast them out? therefore shall they be your iudges.
20. But if I with the finger of God cast out deuils, no doubt the kingdome of God is come vpon you.
21. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
22. But when a stronger then he shal come vpon him, and ouercome him, hee taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and diuideth his spoiles.
23. He that is not with me, is against me: and hee that gathereth not with me, scattereth.
24. When the vncleane spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through drie places, seeking rest: and finding none, he sayth, I will returne vnto my house whence I came out.
25. And when hee commeth, hee findeth it swept and garnished.
26. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seuen other spirits more wicked then himselfe, and they enter in, and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse then the first.
27. And it came to passe as hee spake these things, a certaine woman of the company lift vp her voice, and said vnto him, Blessed is the wombe that bare thee, and the pappes which thou hast sucked.
28. But hee said, Yea, rather blessed are they that heare the word of God, and keepe it.
29. And when the people were gathered thicke together, hee began to say, This is an euill generation, they seeke a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen it, but the signe of Ionas the Prophet:
30. For as Ionas was a signe vnto the Nineuites, so shall also the Sonne of man be to this generation.
31. The Queene of the South shall rise vp in the iudgement with the men of this generation, & condemne them: for shee came from the vtmost parts of the earth, to heare the wisedome of Solomon: and behold, a greater then Solomon is here.
32. The men of Nineue shall rise vp in the iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas, and behold, a greater then Ionas is here.
33. No man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither vnder a bushell, but on a candlesticke, that they which come in may see the light.
34. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light: but when thine eye is euill, thy body also is full of darkenesse.
35. Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darknesse.
36. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, hauing no part darke, the whole shalbe full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doeth giue thee light.
37. And as he spake, a certaine Pharise besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sate downe to meate.
38. And when the Pharise saw it, he marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner.
39. And the Lord said vnto him, Now doe ye Pharises make cleane the outside of the cup and the platter: but your inward part is full of rauening and wickednesse.
40. Yee fooles, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?
41. But rather giue almes of such things as you haue: and behold, all things are cleane vnto you.
42. But woe vnto you Pharises: for ye tythe Mint and Rue, and all maner of herbes, and passe ouer iudgement, and the loue of God: these ought yee to haue done, and not to leaue the other vndone.
43. Woe vnto you Pharisees: for ye loue the vppermost seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walk ouer them, are not aware of them.
45. Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said vnto him, Master, thus saying, thou reprochest vs also.
46. And he said, Woe vnto you also ye lawyers: for ye lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and ye your selues touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47. Woe vnto you: for ye build the sepulchres of the Prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48. Truely ye beare witnesse that ye allowe the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.
49. Therefore also said the wisedome of God, I wil send them Prophets and Apostles, and some of them they shal slay and persecute:
50. That the blood of all the Prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
51. From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which perished betweene the Altar and the Temple: Uerely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.
52. Woe vnto you Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that were entring in, ye hindred.
53. And as he said these things vnto them, the Scribes and the Pharisees began to vrge him vehemently, and to prouoke him to speake of many things:
54. Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
1. In the meane time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one vpon another, he began to say vnto his disciples first of all, Beware yee of the leauen of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisie.
2. For there is nothing couered, that shall not be reuealed, neither hid, that shall not be knowen.
3. Therefore, whatsoeuer yee haue spoken in darkenesse, shall bee heard in the light: and that which yee haue spoken in the eare, in closets, shal be proclaimed vpon the house tops.
4. And I say vnto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, haue no more that they can doe.
5. But I will forewarne you whom you shall feare: Feare him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell, yea, I say vnto you, Feare him.
6. Are not fiue sparrowes solde for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
7. But euen the very haires of your head are all numbred: Feare not therefore, ye are of more value then many sparrowes.
8. Also I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall confesse me before men, him shall the Sonne of man also confesse before the Angels of God.
9. But he that denieth me before men, shalbe denied before the Angels of God.
10. And whosoeuer shall speake a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but vnto him that blasphemeth against the holy Ghost, it shal not be forgiuen.
11. And when they bring you vnto the Synagogues, and vnto Magistrates, & powers, take yee no thought how or what thing ye shall answere, or what ye shall say:
12. For the holy Ghost shal teach you in the same houre, what ye ought to say.
13. And one of the company saide vnto him, Master, speake to my brother, that he diuide the inheritance with me.
14. And he said vnto him, Man, who made mee a iudge, or a diuider ouer you?
15. And he said vnto them, Take heed and beware of couetousnes: for a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
16. And he spake a parable vnto them, saying, The ground of a certaine rich man brought foorth plentifully.
17. And he thought within himselfe, saying, What shall I doe, because I haue no roome where to bestow my fruits?
18. And he said, This will I doe, I will pull downe my barnes, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits, and my goods.
19. And I will say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods layd vp for many yeeres, take thine ease, eate, drinke, and be merry.
20. But God said vnto him, Thou foole, this night thy soule shal be required of thee: then whose shal those things be which thou hast prouided?
21. So is he that laieth vp treasure for himselfe, and is not rich towards God.
22. And he said vnto his disciples, Therefore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life what yee shall eate, neither for the body what yee shall put on.
23. The life is more then meate, and the body is more then raiment.
24. Consider the rauens, for they neither sow nor reape, which neither haue storehouse nor barne, and God feedeth them: How much more are yee better then the foules?
25. And which of you with taking thought can adde to his stature one cubite?
26. If yee then bee not able to doe that thing which is least, why take yee thought for the rest?
27. Consider the Lillies how they growe, they toile not; they spinne not: and yet I say vnto you, that Solomon in all his glory, was not arayed like one of these.
28. If then God so clothe the grasse, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the ouen: how much more will he clothe you, O ye of litle faith?
29. And seeke not yee what yee shall eate, or what ye shall drinke, neither be ye of doubtfull minde.
30. For all these things doe the nations of the world seeke after: and your father knoweth that yee haue neede of these things.
31. But rather seeke yee the kingdome of God, and all these things shall be added vnto you.
32. Feare not, litle flocke, for it is your fathers good pleasure to giue you the kingdome.
33. Sell that yee haue, and giue almes: prouide your selues bagges which waxe not old, a treasure in the heauens that faileth not, where no theefe approcheth, neither moth corrupteth.
34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35. Let your loines be girded about, and your lights burning,
36. And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their Lord, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediately.
37. Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth, shall find watching: Uerily, I say vnto you, That he shall girde himselfe, and make them to sit downe to meate, and will come foorth and serue them.
38. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those seruants.
39. And this know, that if the good man of the house had knowen what houre the theefe would come, he would haue watched, and not haue suffred his house to be broken thorow.
40. Be yee therefore ready also: for the sonne of man commeth at an houre when yee thinke not.
41. Then Peter said vnto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?
42. And the Lord said, Who then is that faithfull and wise steward, whom his Lord shall make ruler ouer his houshold, to giue them their portion of meate in due season?
43. Blessed is that seruant, whom his Lord when he commeth, shall find so doing.
44. Of a trueth, I say vnto you, that hee will make him ruler ouer all that he hath.
45. But and if that seruant say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his comming and shall beginne to beat the men seruants, and maidens, and to eate and drinke, and to be drunken:
46. The Lord of that seruant will come in a day when hee looketh not for him, and at an houre when hee is not ware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.
47. And that seruant which knew his Lords will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.
48. But hee that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall bee beaten with few stripes. For vnto whomsoeuer much is giuen, of him shal bee much required: and to whom men haue committed much, of him they will aske the more.
49. I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled?
50. But I haue a baptisme to be baptized with, and how am I straitned till it be accomplished?
51. Suppose yee that I am come to giue peace on earth? I tell you, Nay, but rather diuision.
52. For from henceforth there shalbe fiue in one house diuided, three against two, and two against three.
53. The father shall bee diuided against the sonne, and the sonne against the father: the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother: the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe, and the daughter in law against her mother in lawe.
54. And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the West, straightway yee say, There commeth a showre, and so it is.
55. And when ye see the Southwind blow, ye say, There will be heat, and it commeth to passe.
56. Ye hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the skie, and of the earth: but how is it that yee doe not discerne this time?
57. Yea, and why euen of your selues iudge ye not what is right?
58. When thou goest with thine aduersary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, giue diligence that thou mayest be deliuered from him, lest hee hale thee to the Iudge, and the Iudge deliuer thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
59. I tell thee, Thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast payd the very last mite.
1. There were present at that season, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2. And Iesus answering, said vnto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners aboue all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?
3. I tell you, Nay: but except yee repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
4. Or those eighteene, vpon whom the towre in Siloe fell, and slew them, thinke ye that they were sinners aboue all men that dwelt in Hierusalem?
5. I tell you, Nay; but except yee repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
6. Hee spake also this parable, A certaine man had a figtree planted in his Uineyard, and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
7. Then said hee vnto the dresser of his Uineyard, Beholde, these three yeeres I come seeking fruit on this figtree, and finde none: cut it downe, why cumbreth it the ground?
8. And he answering, said vnto him, Lord, let it alone this yeere also, till I shall digge about it, and doung it:
9. And if it beare fruit, Well: and if not, then after that, thou shalt cut it downe.
10. And he was teaching in one of the Synagogues on the Sabbath.
11. And beholde, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmitie eighteene yeeres, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift vp her selfe.
12. And when Iesus saw her, he called her to him, and said vnto her, Woman, thou art loosed fro thy infirmitie.
13. And hee layd his handes on her, and immediatly she was made straight, and glorified God.
14. And the ruler of the Synagogue answered with indignation, because that Iesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said vnto the people, There are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.
15. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doeth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his oxe or his asse from the stall, and leade him away to watering?
16. And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, loe these eighteene yeeres, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
17. And when hee had said these things, all his aduersaries were ashamed: & all the people reioyced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
18. Then said he, Unto what is the kingdome of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
19. It is like a graine of mustard seed, which a man tooke, and cast into his garden, and it grew, and waxed a great tree: and the foules of the aire lodged in the branches of it.
20. And againe hee said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdome of God?
21. It is like leauen, which a woman tooke and hidde in three measures of meale, till the whole was leauened.
22. And he went thorow the cities and villages, teaching and iourneying towards Hierusalem.
23. Then said one vnto him, Lord, are there few that be saued? And he said vnto them,
24. Striue to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say vnto you, will seeke to enter in, and shall not be able.
25. When once the master of the house is risen vp, & hath shut to the doore, and ye begin to stand without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lord, Lord, open vnto vs, and he shal answere, & say vnto you, I know you not whence you are:
26. Then shall ye begin to say, Wee haue eaten and drunke in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence you are; depart from me all ye workers of iniquitie.
28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when yee shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the Prophets in the kingdome of God, and you your selues thrust out.
29. And they shall come from the East, and from the West, and from the North, and from the South, and shall sit downe in the kingdome of God.
30. And behold, there are last, which shall be first; and there are first, which shall be last.
31. The same day there came certaine of the Pharises, saying vnto him, Get thee out, and depart hence; for Herode will kill thee.
32. And he said vnto them, Go ye and tell that Foxe, behold, I cast out deuils, and I doe cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
33. Neuerthelesse, I must walke to day and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Hierusalem.
34. O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent vnto thee; how often would I haue gathered thy children together, as a henne doeth gather her brood vnder her wings, & ye would not?
35. Behold, your house is left vnto you desolate. And verely I say vnto you, ye shall not see me, vntill the time come when yee shall say, Blessed is hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord.
1. And it came to passe, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharises to eat bread on ye Sabbath day, that they watched him.
2. And behold, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
3. And Iesus answering, spake vnto the Lawyers and Pharises, saying, Is it lawfull to heale on the Sabbath day?
4. And they held their peace. And he tooke him, and healed him, & let him go,
5. And answered them, saying, Which of you shall haue an asse or an oxe fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?
6. And they could not answere him againe to these things.
7. And he put foorth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked howe they chose out the chiefe roumes, saying vnto them,
8. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not downe in the highest roume: lest a more honourable man then thou be bidden of him,
9. And hee that bade thee and him, come, and say to thee, Giue this man place: and thou begin with shame to take the lowest roume.
10. But when thou art bidden, goe and sit downe in the lowest roume, that when he that bade thee commeth, hee may say vnto thee, Friend, goe vp higher: then shalt thou haue worship in the presence of them that sit at meate with thee.
11. For whosoeuer exalteth himselfe, shalbe abased: and hee that humbleth himselfe, shalbe exalted.
12. Then said hee also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsemen, nor thy rich neighbours, lest they also bid thee againe, and a recompence be made thee.
13. But when thou makest a feast, call the poore, the maimed, the lame, the blinde,
14. And thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the iust.
15. And when one of them that sate at meate with him, heard these things, he said vnto him, Blessed is hee that shall eate bread in the kingdom of God.
16. Then said hee vnto him, A certaine man made a great supper, and bade many:
17. And sent his seruant at supper time, to say to them that were bidden, Come, for all things are now ready.
18. And they all with one consent began to make excuse: The first said vnto him, I haue bought a piece of ground, and I must needs goe and see it: I pray thee haue me excused.
19. And another said, I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen, and I goe to prooue them: I pray thee haue me excused.
20. And another said, I haue maried a wife: and therefore I cannot come.
21. So that seruant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry, sayde to his seruant, Goe out quickely into the streetes and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poore, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blinde.
22. And the seruant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is roume.
23. And the Lord said vnto the seruant, Goe out into the high wayes and hedges, and compell them to come in, that my house may be filled.
24. For I say vnto you, that none of those men which were bidden, shall taste of my supper.
25. And there went great multitudes with him: and hee turned, and said vnto them,
26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his owne life also, hee cannot be my disciple.
27. And whosoeuer doeth not beare his crosse, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
28. For which of you intending to build a towre, sitteth not downe first, and counteth the cost, whether he haue sufficient to finish it?
29. Lest haply after hee hath laide the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it, begin to mock him,
30. Saying, This man beganne to build, and was not able to finish.
31. Or what king going to make war against another king, sitteth not downe first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand, to meete him that commeth against him with twentie thousand?
32. Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, hee sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
33. So likewise, whosoeuer he be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
34. Salt is good: but if the salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
35. It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill: but men cast it out. He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.
1. Then drew neere vnto him all the Publicanes and sinners, for to heare him.
2. And the Pharises and Scribes murmured, murmured, saying, This man receiueth sinners, and eateth with them.
3. And he spake this parable vnto them, saying,
4. What man of you hauing an hundred sheepe, if he loose one of them, doth not leaue the ninety and nine in the wildernesse, and goe after that which is lost, vntill he find it?
5. And when he hath found it, hee layeth it on his shoulders, reioycing.
6. And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friends, and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with me, for I haue found my sheepe which was lost.
7. I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen ouer one sinner that repenteth, more then ouer ninety and nine iust persons, which need no repentance.
8. Either what woman hauing ten pieces of siluer, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweepe the house, and seeke diligently till shee find it?
9. And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Reioyce with me, for I haue found ye piece which I had lost.
10. Likewise I say vnto you, there is ioy in the presence of the Angels of God, ouer one sinner that repenteth.
11. And hee said, A certaine man had two sonnes:
12. And the yonger of them said to his father, Father, giue me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he diuided vnto them his liuing.
13. And not many dayes after, the yonger sonne gathered al together, and tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there wasted his substance with riotous liuing.
14. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land, and he beganne to be in want.
15. And he went and ioyned himselfe to a citizen of that countrey, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16. And he would faine haue filled his belly with the huskes that the swine did eate: & no man gaue vnto him.
17. And when he came to himselfe, he said, How many hired seruants of my fathers haue bread inough and to spare, and I perish with hunger?
18. I will arise and goe to my father, and will say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen and before thee.
19. And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.
20. And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ranne, and fell on his necke, and kissed him.
21. And the sonne said vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne.
22. But the father saide to his seruants, Bring foorth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shooes on his feete.
23. And bring hither the fatted calfe, and kill it, and let vs eate and be merrie.
24. For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe; hee was lost, & is found. And they began to be merie.
25. Now his elder sonne was in the field, and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musicke & dauncing,
26. And he called one of the seruants, and asked what these things meant.
27. And he said vnto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calfe, because he hath receiued him safe and sound.
28. And he was angry, and would not goe in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29. And he answering said to his father, Loe, these many yeeres doe I serue thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandement, and yet thou neuer gauest mee a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30. But as soone as this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy liuing with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calfe.
31. And he said vnto him, Sonne, thou art euer with me, and all that I haue is thine.
32. It was meete that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and was lost, and is found.
1. And hee said also vnto his disciples, There was a certaine rich man which had a Steward, and the same was accused vnto him that he had wasted his goods.
2. And hee called him, and said vnto him, How is it that I heare this of thee? Giue an accompt of thy stewardship: for thou mayest bee no longer Steward.
3. Then the Steward said within himselfe, What shall I doe, for my lord taketh away from mee the Stewardship? I cannot digge, to begge I am ashamed.
4. I am resolued what to doe, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receiue me into their houses.
5. So hee called euery one of his lords detters vnto him, and said vnto the first, How much owest thou vnto my lord?
6. And hee said, An hundred measures of oyle. And hee saide vnto him, Take thy bill, and sit downe quickly, and write fiftie.
7. Then said hee to another, And how much owest thou? And hee said, An hundred measures of wheat. And hee saide vnto him, Take thy bill and write fourescore.
8. And the lord commended the vniust Steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser then the children of light.
9. And I say vnto you, Make to your selues friends of the Mammon of vnrighteousnesse, that when ye faile, they may receiue you into euerlasting habitations.
10. Hee that is faithfull in that which is least, is faithfull also in much: and he that is vniust in the least, is vniust also in much.
11. If therefore yee haue not bene faithfull in the vnrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12. And if ye haue not bene faithful in that which is another mans, who shall giue you that which is your owne?
13. No seruant can serue two masters, for either he will hate the one, and loue the other: or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other: yee cannot serue God and Mammon.
14. And the Pharisees also who were couetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
15. And he said vnto them, Ye are they which iustifie your selues before men, but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed amongst men, is abomination in the sight of God.
16. The law and the Prophets were vntill Iohn: since that time the kingdome of God is preached, and euery man preasseth into it.
17. And it is easier for heauen and earth to passe, then one title of the law to faile.
18. Whosoeuer putteth away his wife, & marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoeuer marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery.
19. There was a certaine rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linnen, and fared sumptuously euery day.
20. And there was a certaine begger named Lazarus, which was layde at his gate full of sores,
21. And desiring to bee fed with the crummes which fel from the rich mans table: moreouer the dogges came and licked his sores.
22. And it came to passe that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome: the rich man also died, and was buried.
23. And in hell he lift vp his eyes being in torments, and seeth Abraham afarre off, and Lazarus in his bosome:
24. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, haue mercy on mee, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and coole my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
25. But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life-time receiuedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus euill things, but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26. And besides all this, betweene vs and you there is a great gulfe fixed, so that they which would passe from hence to you, cannot, neither can they passe to vs, that would come from thence.
27. Then he said, I pray thee therefore father, that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house:
28. For I haue fiue brethren, that he may testifie vnto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29. Abraham saith vnto him, They haue Moses and the Prophets, let them heare them.
30. And hee said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went vnto them from the dead, they will repent.
31. And hee said vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be perswaded, though one rose from the dead.
1. Then said he vnto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come, but wo vnto him through whom they come.
2. It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and he cast into the Sea, then that he should offend one of these little ones.
3. Take heed to your selues: If thy brother trespasse against thee, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgiue him.
4. And if hee trespasse against thee seuen times in a day, and seuen times in a day turne againe to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgiue him.
5. And the Apostles said vnto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6. And the Lord said, If yee had faith as a graine of mustard seede, yee might say vnto this Sycamine tree, Be thou plucked vp by the root, and be thou planted in the sea, & it should obey you.
7. But which of you hauing a seruant plowing, or feeding cattell, will say vnto him by & by when he is come from the field, Goe and sit downe to meate?
8. And will not rather say vnto him, Make ready wherewith I may suppe, and gird thy selfe, and serue me, till I haue eaten and drunken: and afterward thou shalt eate and drinke.
9. Doeth he thanke that seruant, because hee did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
10. So likewise ye, when ye shal haue done all those things which are commanded you, say, Wee are vnprofitable seruants: Wee haue done that which was our duety to doe.
11. And it came to passe, as he went to Hierusalem, that hee passed thorow the mids of Samaria and Galile.
12. And as he entred into a certaine village, there met him tenne men that were lepers, which stood afarre off.
13. And they lifted vp their voices, and said, Iesus master haue mercy on vs.
14. And when he saw them, hee said vnto them, Goe shew your selues vnto the Priests. And it came to passe, that as they went, they were cleansed.
15. And one of them when hee sawe that he was healed, turned backe, and with a loud voice glorified God,
16. And fell downe on his face at his feet, giuing him thanks: and he was a Samaritane.
17. And Iesus answering, said, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine?
18. There are not found that returned to giue glory to God, saue this stranger.
19. And he said vnto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.
20. And when hee was demanded of the Pharises, when the kingdome of God should come, hee answered them, and said, The kingdome of God commeth not with obseruation.
21. Neither shall they say, Loe here, or loe there: for behold, the kingdome of God is within you.
22. And hee said vnto the disciples, The dayes will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Sonne of man, and ye shall not see it.
23. And they shall say to you, See here, or see there: Goe not after them, nor follow them.
24. For as the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen: so shall also the Sonne of man be in his day.
25. But first must hee suffer many things, & be reiected of this generation.
26. And as it was in the dayes of Noe: so shal it be also in the dayes of the Sonne of man.
27. They did eate, they dranke, they married wiues, they were giuen in mariage, vntill the day that Noe entred into the arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28. Likewise also as it was in the dayes of Lot, they did eat, they dranke, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded:
29. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodome, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, & destroyed them all:
30. Euen thus shall it bee in the day when the Sonne of man is reuealed.
31. In that day he which shall be vpon the house top, and his stuffe in the house, let him not come downe to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not returne backe.
32. Remember Lots wife.
33. Whosoeuer shall seeke to saue his life, shall lose it, and whosoeuer shall lose his life, shall preserue it.
34. I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shal be taken, the other shall be left.
35. Two women shall bee grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37. And they answered, and said vnto him, Where, Lord? And he said vnto them, Wheresoeuer the body is, thither will the Eagles be gathered together.
1. And he spake a parable vnto them, to this ende, that men ought alwayes to pray, and not to faint,
2. Saying, There was in a city a Iudge, which feared not God neither regarded man.
3. And there was a widowe in that citie, and she came vnto him, saying, Auenge me of mine aduersarie:
4. And hee would not for a while. But afterward he said within himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor regard man,
5. Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will auenge her, lest by her continuall comming, she wearie me.
6. And the Lord said, Heare what the vniust iudge saith.
7. And shall not God auenge his owne elect, which crie day and night vnto him, thogh he beare long with them?
8. I tell you that he wil auenge them speedily. Neuerthelesse, when the Son of man commeth, shall hee find faith on the earth?
9. And he spake this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were righteous, & despised other:
10. Two men went vp into the Temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publicane.
11. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himselfe, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publicane.
12. I fast twise in the weeke, I giue tithes of all that I possesse.
13. And the Publicane standing afarre off, would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauen: but smote vpon his breast, saying, God me mercifull to mee a sinner.
14. I tell you, this man went downe to his house iustified rather then the other: For euery one that exalteth himselfe, shall be abased: and hee that humbleth himselfe, shall be exalted.
15. And they brought vnto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16. But Iesus called them vnto him, and said, Suffer litle children to come vnto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.
17. Uerely I say vnto you, whosoeuer shall not receiue the kingdome of God as a litle child, shal in no wise enter therein.
18. And a certaine ruler asked him, saying, Good master, what shall I doe to inherit eternall life?
19. And Iesus said vnto him, Why callest thou mee good? None is good saue one, that is God.
20. Thou knowest the commaundements, Doe not commit adulterie, Doe not kill, Doe not steale, Doe not beare false witnesse, Honour thy father and thy mother.
21. And he said, All these haue I kept from my youth vp.
22. Now when Iesus heard these things, hee said vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: Sell all that thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, follow me.
23. And when he heard this, he was very sorowfull, for he was very rich.
24. And when Iesus saw that hee was very sorrowfull, he said, How hardly shal they that haue riches, enter into the kingdome of God?
25. For it is easier for a camel to goe thorow a needles eye, then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
26. And they that heard it, said, Who then can be saued?
27. And he said, The things which are vnpossible with men, are possible with God.
28. Then Peter said, Loe, we haue left all, and followed thee.
29. And he said vnto them, Uerily, I say vnto you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdome of Gods sake,
30. Who shall not receiue manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life euerlasting.
31. Then hee tooke vnto him the twelue, and said vnto them, Behold, we goe vp to Hierusalem, and al things that are written by the Prophets concerning the sonne of man, shall be accomplished.
32. For he shall be deliuered vnto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully intreated, and spitted on:
33. And they shall scourge him, and put him to death, and the third day he shall rise againe.
34. And they vnderstood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
35. And it came to passe, that as he was come nigh vnto Iericho, a certaine blinde man sate by the way side, begging,
36. And hearing the multitude passe by, he asked what it meant.
37. And they tolde him that Iesus of Nazareth passeth by.
38. And he cried, saying, Iesus thou sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on me.
39. And they which went before, rebuked him, that hee should holde his peace: but hee cried so much the more, Thou Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on mee.
40. And Iesus stood and commanded him to be brought vnto him: and when he was come neere, he asked him,
41. Saying, What wilt thou that I shall doe vnto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receiue my sight.
42. And Iesus said vnto him, Receiue thy sight, thy faith hath saued thee.
43. And immediately he receiued his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people when they saw it, gaue praise vnto God.
1. And Iesus entred, and passed thorow Iericho.
2. And behold, there was a man named Zacheus, which was the cheefe among the Publicanes, and he was rich.
3. And he sought to see Iesus who he was, and could not for the prease, because he was litle of stature.
4. And he ranne before, and climed vp into a sycomore tree to see him, for he was to passe that way.
5. And when Iesus came to the place, he looked vp and saw him, and said vnto him, Zacheus, make haste, & come downe, for to day I must abide at thy house.
6. And he made haste, and came downe, and receiued him ioyfully.
7. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
8. And Zacheus stood, and said vnto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore, & if I haue taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him foure fold.
9. And Iesus said vnto him, This day is saluation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is the sonne of Abraham.
10. For the sonne of man is come to seeke, and to saue that which was lost.
11. And as they heard these things, he added, and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Hierusalem, and because they thought that the kingdome of God should immediately appeare.
12. He said therefore, A certaine noble man went into a farre countrey, to receiue for himselfe a kingdome, and to returne.
13. And hee called his ten seruants, and deliuered them ten pounds, and said vnto them, Occupy till I come.
14. But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We wil not haue this man to reigne ouer vs.
15. And it came to passe, that when he was returned, hauing receiued the kingdome, then hee commaunded these seruants to be called vnto him, to whom he had giuen the money, that hee might know how much euery man had gained by trading.
16. Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
17. And he said vnto him, Well, thou good seruant: because thou hast bene faithfull in a very little, haue thou authoritie ouer ten cities.
18. And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained fiue pounds.
19. And hee said likewise to him, Bee thou also ouer fiue cities.
20. And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound which I haue kept layd vp in a napkin:
21. For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest vp that thou layedst not downe, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
22. And hee saith vnto him, Out of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee, thou wicked seruant: Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking vp that I layde not downe, and reaping that I did not sow.
23. Wherefore then gauest not thou my money into the bancke, that at my comming I might haue required mine owne with vsury?
24. And he said vnto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and giue it to him that hath ten pounds.
25. And they said vnto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.
26. For I say vnto you, That vnto euery one which hath, shalbe giuen, and from him that hath not, euen that hee hath shalbe taken away from him.
27. But those mine enemies which would not that I should reigne ouer them, bring hither, and slay them before mee.
28. And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending vp to Hierusalem.
29. And it came to passe when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethanie, at the mount called the mount of Oliues, he sent two of his disciples,
30. Saying, Goe ye into the village ouer against you, in the which at your entring ye shall find a Colt tied, whereon yet neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him hither.
31. And if any man aske you, Why do ye loose him? Thus shall ye say vnto him, Because the Lord hath neede of him.
32. And they that were sent, went their way, and found euen as hee had said vnto them.
33. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said vnto them, Why loose ye the Colt?
34. And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
35. And they brought him to Iesus: and they cast their garments vpon the Colt, and they set Iesus thereon.
36. And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
37. And when he was come nigh euen now at the descent of the mount of Oliues, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty workes that they had seene,
38. Saying, Blessed bee the King that commeth in the Name of the Lord, peace in heauen, and glory in the Highest.
39. And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude saide vnto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40. And he answered, and said vnto them, I tell you, that if these should holde their peace, the stones would immediatly cry out.
41. And when he was come neere, he beheld the city and wept ouer it,
42. Saying, If thou hadst knowen, euen thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong vnto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
43. For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compasse thee round, and keepe thee in on euery side,
44. And shall lay thee euen with the ground, and thy children within thee: and they shall not leaue in thee one stone vpon another, because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
45. And he went into the Temple, and began to cast out them that solde therein, and them that bought,
46. Saying vnto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.
47. And he taught daily in the Temple. But the chiefe Priestes and the Scribes, and the chiefe of the people sought to destroy him,
48. And could not finde what they might doe: for all the people were very attentiue to heare him.
1. And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught the people in the Temple, and preached the Gospel, the chiefe Priests and the Scribes came vpon him, with the Elders,
2. And spake vnto him, saying, Tell vs, by what authoritie doest thou these things? or who is hee that gaue thee this authoritie?
3. And hee answered, and said vnto them, I will also aske you one thing, and answere me.
4. The Baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?
5. And they reasoned with themselues, saying, If wee shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then beleeued yee him not?
6. But and if we say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.
7. And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
8. And Iesus said vnto them, Neither tell I you by what authoritie I doe these things.
9. Then began hee to speake to the people this parable: A certaine man planted a vineyard, and let it foorth to husbandmen, and went into a farre countrey for a long time.
10. And at the season, hee sent a seruant to the husbandmen, that they should giue him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away emptie.
11. And againe hee sent another seruant, and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away emptie.
12. And againe he sent the third, and they wounded him also, & cast him out.
13. Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I doe? I will send my beloued sonne: it may be they will reuerence him when they see him.
14. But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselues, saying, This is ye heire, come, let vs kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
15. So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard doe vnto them?
16. Hee shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall giue the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
17. And hee beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders reiected, the same is become the head of the corner?
18. Whosoeuer shall fall vpon that stone, shalbe broken: but on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to powder.
19. And the chiefe Priests and the Scribes the same houre sought to lay hands on him, and they feared the people: for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.
20. And they watched him, and sent foorth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, that they might take holde of his words, that so they might deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour.
21. And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truely.
22. Is it lawfull for vs to giue tribute vnto Cesar, or no?
23. But he perceiued their craftines, and said vnto them, Why tempt ye me?
24. Shew me a peny: whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and said, Cesars.
25. And he said vnto them, Render therefore vnto Cesar the things which be Cesars, and vnto God the things which be Gods.
26. And they could not take holde of his wordes before the people, and they marueiled at his answere, and helde their peace.
27. Then came to him certaine of the Sadduces (which denie that there is any resurrection) and they asked him,
28. Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die, hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.
29. There were therefore seuen brethren, and the first tooke a wife, and died without children.
30. And the second tooke her to wife, and he died childlesse.
31. And the third tooke her, and in like maner the seuen also. And they left no children, and died.
32. Last of all the woman died also.
33. Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of them is she? for seuen had her to wife.
34. And Iesus answering, said vnto them, The children of this world, marrie, and are giuen in marriage:
35. But they which shall be accompted worthy to obtaine that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marrie, nor are giuen in marriage.
36. Neither can they die any more; for they are equall vnto the Angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
37. Now that the dead are raised, euen Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob.
38. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the liuing for all liue vnto him.
39. Then certaine of the Scribes answering, said, Master, Thou hast well said.
40. And after that, they durst not aske him any question at all.
41. And he said vnto them, How say they that Christ is Dauids sonne?
42. And Dauid himselfe saith in the booke of Psalmes, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
43. Till I make thine enemies thy footestoole.
44. Dauid therefore calleth him, Lord, how is he then his sonne?
45. Then in the audience of all the people, he said vnto his disciples,
46. Beware of the Scribes, which desire to walke in long robes, and loue greetings in the markets, and the highest seates in the Synagogues, and the chiefe roumes at feasts:
47. Which deuoure widowes houses and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receiue greater damnation.
1. And he looked vp, and saw the rich men casting their giftes into the treasurie.
2. And hee saw also a certaine poore widow, casting in thither two mites.
3. And he said, Of a trthh, I say vnto you, that this poore widow hath cast in more then they all.
4. For all these haue of their abundance cast in vnto the offerings of God, but shee of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.
5. And as some spake of the Temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones, and gifts, he said,
6. As for these things which yee behold, the dayes will come, in the which there shal not be left one stone vpon another, that shal not be throwen downe.
7. And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what signe wil there be, when these things shall come to passe?
8. And he said, Take heede that yee be not deceiued: for many shall come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draweth neere: goe yee not therefore after them.
9. But when ye shall heare of wars, and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to passe, but the end is not by and by.
10. Then said he vnto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome:
11. And great earthquakes shall be in diuers places, and famines, and pestilences: and fearefull sights and great signes shall there be from heauen.
12. But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the Synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.
13. And it shall turne to you for a testimony.
14. Settle it therfore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answere.
15. For I will giue you a mouth and wisedome, which all your aduersaries shall not be able to gainsay, nor resist.
16. And yee shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren, and kinsefolkes and friends, and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17. And ye shalbe hated of all men for my Names sake.
18. But there shall not a haire of your head perish.
19. In your patience possesse ye your soules.
20. And when yee shall see Hierusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21. Then let them which are in Iudea, flee to the mountaines, and let them which are in the midst of it, depart out, and let not them that are in the countreys, enter thereinto.
22. For these be the dayes of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23. But woe vnto them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes, for there shalbe great distresse in the land, and wrath vpon this people.
24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall bee led away captiue into all nations, and Hierusalem shall be troden downe of the Gentiles, vntill the times of the Gentiles bee fulfilled.
25. And there shalbe signes in the Sunne, and in the Moone, and in the Starres, and vpon the earth distresse of nations, with perplexity, the Sea and the waues roaring,
26. Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; For the powers of heauen shall be shaken.
27. And then shall they see the sonne of man comming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28. And when these things begin to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heads, for your redemptiou draweth nigh.
29. And he spake to them a parable, Behold the figge tree, and all the trees,
30. When they now shoot foorth, yee see and know of your owne selues, that summer is now nigh at hand.
31. So likewise yee, when yee see these things come to passe, know ye that the kingdome of God is nigh at hand.
32. Uerily I say vnto you, this generation shall not passe away, till all be fulfilled.
33. Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my words shall not passe away.
34. And take heed to your selues, least at any time your hearts be ouercharged with surfetting, and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and so that day come vpon you vnawares.
35. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36. Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.
37. And in the day time he was teaching in the Temple, and at night hee went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Oliues.
38. And all the people came earely in the morning to him in the Temple, for to heare him.
1. Now ye feast of vnleuened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passeouer.
2. And the chiefe Priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
3. Then entred Satan into Iudas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelue.
4. And he went his way, and communed with the chiefe Priests and captaines, how he might betray him vnto them.
5. And they were glad, and couenanted to giue him money.
6. And he promised, and sought opportunitie to betray him vnto them in the absence of the multitude.
7. Then came the day of vnleauened bread, when the Passeouer must be killed.
8. And he sent Peter and Iohn, saying, Goe and prepare vs the Passeouer, that we may eate.
9. And they said vnto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
10. And he said vnto them, Behold, when ye are entred into the citie, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him into the house where he entreth in.
11. And yee shall say vnto the goodman of the house, The Master saith vnto thee, Where is the ghest-chamber where I shall eate the Passeouer with my disciples?
12. And he shall shew you a large vpper roume furnished, there make ready.
13. And they went, and found as hee had said vnto them, and they made readie the Passeouer.
14. And when the houre was come, he sate downe, and the twelue Apostles with him.
15. And he said vnto them, With desire I haue desired to eate this Passeouer with you before I suffer.
16. For I say vnto you, I will not any more eate thereof, vntill it be fulfilled in the kingdome of God.
17. And hee tooke the cup, and gaue thanks, and said, Take this, and diuide it among your selues.
18. For I say vnto you, I will not drinke of the fruit of the Uine, vntill the kingdome of God shall come.
19. And hee tooke bread, and gaue thankes, and brake it, and gaue vnto them, saying, This is my body which is giuen for you, this doe in remembrance of me.
20. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
21. But beholde, the hand of him that betrayeth mee, is with mee on the table.
22. And truly the Sonne of man goeth as it was determined, but woe vnto that man by whom he is betraied.
23. And they began to enquire among themselues, which of them it was that should doe this thing.
24. And there was also a strife among them, which of them should bee accompted the greatest.
25. And hee saide vnto them, The Kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship ouer them, & they that exercise authoritie vpon them, are called benefactors.
26. But ye shall not be so; but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the yonger, and he that is chiefe, as he that doeth serue.
27. For whether is greater, hee that sitteth at meat, or hee that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at meat? But I am among you as he that serueth.
28. Ye are they which haue continued with me in my temptations.
29. And I appoint vnto you a kingdome, as my Father hath appointed vnto me,
30. That yee may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdome, and sit on thrones iudging the twelue Tribes of Israel.
31. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, beholde, Satan hath desired to haue you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32. But I haue prayed for thee, that thy faith faile not; and when thou art conuerted, strengthen thy brethren.
33. And hee said vnto him, Lord, I am ready to goe with thee both into prison, and to death.
34. And hee said, I tell thee Peter, the cocke shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrise denie that thou knowest me.
35. And he said vnto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shooes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
36. Then saide hee vnto them, But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and hee that hath no sword, let him sel his garment, and buy one.
37. For I say vnto you, that this that is written, must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: For the things concerning me haue an end.
38. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And hee saide vnto them, It is ynough.
39. And he came out, and went, as hee was wont, to the mount of Oliues, and his disciples also followed him.
40. And when he was at the place, he said vnto them, Pray, that yee enter not into temptation.
41. And he was withdrawen from them about a stones cast, and kneeled downe, and prayed,
42. Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remooue this cup from me: neuerthelesse, not my will, but thine be done.
43. And there appeared an Angel vnto him from heauen, strengthening him.
44. And being in an agonie, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling downe to the ground.
45. And when he rose vp from prayer, and was come to his disciples, hee found them sleeping for sorrow,
46. And said vnto them, Why sleepe yee? Rise, and pray, lest yee enter into temptation.
47. And while he yet spake, behold, a multitude, and hee that was called Iudas, one of the twelue, went before them, and drewe neere vnto Iesus, to kisse him.
48. But Iesus said vnto him, Iudas, betrayest thou the sonne of man with a kisse?
49. When they which were about him, saw what would follow, they said vnto him, Lord, shall wee smite with the sword?
50. And one of them smote the seruant of the high Priest, and cut off his right eare.
51. And Iesus answered, and said, Suffer ye thus farre. And he touched his eare, and healed him.
52. Then Iesus said vnto the chiefe Priests, and captaines of the Temple, and the Elders which were come to him, Be ye come out as against a thiefe, with swords and staues?
53. When I was daily with you in the Temple, yee stretched foorth no hands against mee: but this is your houre, and the power of darkenesse.
54. Then tooke they him, and led him, and brought him into the high Priests house, and Peter followed afarre off.
55. And when they had kindled a fire in the middes of the hall, and were set downe together, Peter sate downe among them.
56. But a certaine maide beheld him as he sate by the fire, and earnestly looked vpon him, and said, This man was also with him.
57. And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
58. And after a little while another saw him, & said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
59. And about the space of one houre after, another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a trueth this fellow also was with him; for he is a Galilean.
60. And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately while he yet spake, the cocke crew.
61. And the Lord turned, and looked vpon Peter; and Peter remembred the word of the Lord, how he had said vnto him, Before the cocke crow, thou shalt deny me thrise.
62. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
63. And the men that helde Iesus, mocked him, and smote him.
64. And when they had blindfolded him, they stroke him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesie, who is it that smote thee?
65. And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
66. And assoone as it was day, the Elders of the people, & the chiefe Priests and the Scribes came together, and led him into their Councell, saying,
67. Art thou the Christ? Tell vs. And hee said vnto them, If I tell you, you will not beleeue.
68. And if I also aske you, you will not answere me, nor let me goe.
69. Hereafter shal the sonne of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
70. Then said they all, Art thou then the Sonne of God? And hee said vnto them, Ye say that I am.
71. And they said, What need we any further witnesse? For wee our selues haue heard of his owne mouth.
1. And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him vnto Pilate.
2. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow peruerting the nation, and forbidding to giue tribute to Cesar, saying, that he himselfe is Christ a king.
3. And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Iewes? And he answered him, & said, Thou sayest it.
4. Then saide Pilate to the chiefe Priests, and to the people, I finde no fault in this man.
5. And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth vp the people, teaching thorowout all Iurie, beginning from Galilee to this place.
6. When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean.
7. And assoone as he knew that hee belonged vnto Herods iurisdiction, hee sent him to Herode, who himselfe also was at Hierusalem at that time.
8. And when Herode saw Iesus, he was exceeding glad, for hee was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and hee hoped to haue seene some miracle done by him.
9. Then he questioned with him in many words, but he answered him nothing.
10. And the chiefe Priests and Scribes stood, and vehemently accused him.
11. And Herod with his men of warre set him at naught, and mocked him, and arayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him againe to Pilate.
12. And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together; for before, they were at enmitie betweene themselues.
13. And Pilate, when hee had called together the chiefe Priests, and the rulers, and the people,
14. Said vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerteth the people, and behold, I hauing examined him before you, haue found no fault in this man, touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
15. No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him, and loe, nothing worthy of death is done vnto him.
16. I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17. For of necessitie hee must release one vnto them at the Feast.
18. And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release vnto vs Barabbas,
19. Who for a certaine sedition made in the citie, and for murder, was cast in prison.
20. Pilate therefore willing to release Iesus, spake againe to them:
21. But they cried, saying, Crucifie him, crucifie him.
22. And hee said vnto them the third time, Why, what euill hath he done? I haue found no cause of death in him, I will therefore chastise him, & let him goe.
23. And they were instant with loud voyces, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them, and of the chiefe Priests preuailed.
24. And Pilate gaue sentence that it should be as they required.
25. And he released vnto them, him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired, but he deliuered Iesus to their will.
26. And as they led him away, they laid hold vpon one Simon a Cyrenian, comming out of the countrey, and on him they laid the crosse, that hee might beare it after Iesus.
27. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed & lamented him.
28. But Iesus turning vnto them, said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children.
29. For beholde, the dayes are comming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that neuer bare, and the paps which neuer gaue sucke.
30. Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs, and to the hils, Couer vs.
31. For if they doe these things in a green tree, what shalbe done in the drie?
32. And there were also two other malefactors led with him, to bee put to death.
33. And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34. Then said Iesus, Father, forgiue them, for they know not what they doe: And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35. And the people stood beholding, & the rulers also with them derided him, saying, Hee saued others, let him saue himselfe, if he be Christ, ye chosen of God.
36. And the souldiers also mocked him, comming to him, and offering him vineger,
37. And saying, If thou be the king of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.
38. And a superscription also was written ouer him in letters of Greeke, and Latin, & Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES.
39. And one of ye malefactors, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, saue thy selfe and vs.
40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Doest not thou feare God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41. And we indeed iustly; for we receiue the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amisse.
42. And he said vnto Iesus, Lord, remember me when thou commest into thy kingdome.
43. And Iesus said vnto him, Uerily, I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
44. And it was about the sixt houre, and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre.
45. And the Sunne was darkened, and the vaile of the temple was rent in the mids.
46. And when Iesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: And hauing said thus, he gaue vp the ghost.
47. Now when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
48. And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
49. And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood a farre off, beholding these things.
50. And behold, there was a man named Ioseph, a counseller, and hee was a good man, and a iust.
51. (The same had not consented to the counsell and deede of them) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Iewes (who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.)
52. This man went vnto Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus.
53. And he tooke it downe, and wrapped it in linnen, and layd it in a Sepulchre that was hewen in stone, wherein neuer man before was layd.
54. And that day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.
55. And the women also which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the Sepulchre, and how his body was layd.
56. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandement.
1. Now vpon the first day of the weeke, very earely in the morning, they came vnto the Sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certaine others with them.
2. And they found the stone rolled away from the Sepulchre.
3. And they entred in, and found not the body of the Lord Iesus.
4. And it came to passe, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.
5. And as they were afraid, and bowed downe their faces to the earth, they said vnto them, Why seek ye the liuing among the dead?
6. He is not heere, but is risen: Remember how he spake vnto you when he was yet in Galilee,
7. Saying, The Sonne of man must be deliuered into the hands of sinfull men, and be crucified, and the third day rise againe.
8. And they remembred his words,
9. And returned from the Sepulchre, and told all these things vnto the eleuen, and to all the rest.
10. It was Marie Magdalene, & Ioanna, & Mary the mother of Iames, and other women that were with them, which tolde these things vnto the Apostles.
11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they beleeued them not.
12. Then arose Peter, and ranne vnto the Sepulchre, and stowping downe, hee behelde the linnen clothes layd by themselues, and departed, wondering in himselfe at that which was come to passe.
13. And behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emaus, which was from Hierusalem about threescore furlongs.
14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15. And it came to passe, that while they communed together, and reasoned, Iesus himselfe drew neere, and went with them.
16. But their eyes were holden, that they should not know him.
17. And he said vnto them, What maner of communications are these that yee haue one to another as yee walke, and are sad?
18. And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, saide vnto him, Art thou onely a stranger in Hierusalem, and hast not knowen the things which are come to passe there in these dayes?
19. And hee saide vnto them, What things? And they said vnto him, Concerning Iesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet, mighty in deede and word before God, and all the people.
20. And how the chiefe Priests and our rulers deliuered him to be condemned to death, and haue crucified him.
21. But wee trusted that it had bene hee, which should haue redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
22. Yea, and certaine women also of our company made vs astonished, which were early at the Sepulchre:
23. And when they found not his bodie, they came, saying, that they had also seene a vision of Angels, which saide that he was aliue.
24. And certaine of them which were with vs, went to the Sepulchre, and found it euen so as the women had said, but him they saw not.
25. Then hee saide vnto them, O fooles, and slow of heart to beleeue all that the Prophets haue spoken:
26. Ought not Christ to haue suffered these things, and to enter into his glorie?
27. And beginning at Moses, and all the Prophets, hee expounded vnto them in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himselfe.
28. And they drew nigh vnto the village, whither they went, and hee made as though hee would haue gone further.
29. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with vs, for it is towards euening, and the day is farre spent: And he went in, to tarrie with them.
30. And it came to passe, as hee sate at meate with them, hee tooke bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gaue to them.
31. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight.
32. And they said one vnto another, Did not our heart burne within vs, while hee talked with vs by the way, and while hee opened to vs the Scriptures?
33. And they rose vp the same houre, and returned to Hierusalem, and found the eleuen gathered together, and them that were with them,
34. Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
35. And they told what things were done in the way, & how he was knowen of them in breaking of bread.
36. And as they thus spake, Iesus himselfe stood in the midst of them, and sayeth vnto them, Peace bee vnto you.
37. But they were terrified, and afrighted, and supposed that they had seene a spirit.
38. And he said vnto them, Why are yee troubled, and why doe thoughts arise in your hearts?
39. Beholde my hands and my feete, that it is I my selfe: handle me, and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me haue.
40. And when hee had thus spoken, hee shewed them his handes and his feete.
41. And while they yet beleeued not for ioy, and wondered, hee saide vnto them, Haue ye here any meat?
42. And they gaue him a piece of a broyled fish, and of an hony combe.
43. And he tooke it, and did eate before them.
44. And hee said vnto them, These are the words which I spake vnto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, & in the Prophets, and in the Psalmes concerning me.
45. Then opened he their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the Scriptures,
46. And said vnto them, Thus it is written, & thus it behoued Christ to suffer, & to rise from the dead the third day:
47. And that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name, among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.
48. And yee are witnesses of these things.
49. And behold, I send the promise of my Father vpon you: but tarie ye in the citie of Hierusalem, vntill ye be indued with power from on high.
50. And he led them out as farre as to Bethanie, and hee lift vp his hands, and blessed them.
51. And it came to passe, while hee blessed them, hee was parted from them, and caried vp into heauen.
52. And they worshipped him, and returned to Hierusalem, with great ioy:
53. And were continually in the Temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
1. In the beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light shineth in darknesse, and the darknesse comprehended it not.
6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn.
7. The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the light, that all men through him might beleeue.
8. Hee was not that light, but was sent to beare witnesse of that light.
9. That was the true light, which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world.
10. Hee was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11. Hee came vnto his owne, and his owne receiued him not.
12. But as many as receiued him, to them gaue hee power to become the sonnes of God, euen to them that beleeue on his Name:
13. Which were borne, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs (& we beheld his glory, the glory as of the onely begotten of the Father) full of grace and trueth.
15. Iohn bare witnesse of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me.
16. And of his fulnesse haue all wee receiued, and grace for grace.
17. For the Law was giuen by Moses, but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christ.
18. No man hath seene God at any time: the onely begotten Sonne, which is in the bosome of the Father, he hath declared him.
19. And this is the record of Iohn, when the Iewes sent Priests and Leuites from Hierusalem, to aske him, Who art thou?
20. And he confessed, and denied not: but confessed, I am not the Christ.
21. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And hee answered, No.
22. Then said they vnto him, Who art thou, that we may giue an answere to them that sent vs? What sayest thou of thy selfe?
23. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wildernesse: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.
24. And they which were sent, were of the Pharises.
25. And they asked him, and said vnto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that Prophet?
26. Iohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not,
27. He it is, who comming after me, is preferred before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose.
28. These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordane, where Iohn was baptizing.
29. The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto him, and saith, Behold the Lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the world.
30. This is he of whom I said, After me commeth a man, which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
31. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therfore am I come baptizing with water.
32. And Iohn bare record saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heauen, like a Doue, and it abode vpon him.
33. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said vnto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, & remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the holy Ghost.
34. And I saw, and bare record, that this is the sonne of God.
35. Againe the next day after, Iohn stood, and two of his disciples.
36. And looking vpon Iesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lambe of God.
37. And the two disciples heard him speake, and they followed Iesus.
38. Then Iesus turned, and saw them following, and saith vnto them, What seeke ye? They said vnto him, Rabbi, (which is to say being interpreted, Master) where dwellest thou?
39. He saith vnto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth houre.
40. One of the two which heard Iohn speake, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peters brother.
41. He first findeth his owne brother Simon, and saith vnto him, We haue found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
42. And he brought him to Iesus. And when Iesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.
43. The day following, Iesus would goe foorth into Galilee, & findeth Philip, & saith vnto him, Follow me.
44. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrew and Peter.
45. Philip findeth Nathaneel, and saith vnto him, We haue found him of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets did write, Iesus of Nazareth the sonne of Ioseph.
46. And Nathaneel said vnto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith vnto him, Come and see.
47. Iesus saw Nathaneel comming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile.
48. Nathaneel sayeth vnto him, Whence knowest thou me? Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast vnder the figge tree, I saw thee.
49. Nathaneel answered, and saith vnto him, Rabbi, thou art the Sonne of God, thou art the king of Israel.
50. Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Because I said vnto thee, I saw thee vnder the figge tree, beleeuest thou? thou shalt see greater things then these.
51. And hee saith vnto him, Uerily, verily I say vnto you, heereafter yee shall see heauen open, and the Angels of God ascending, and descending vpon the sonne of man.
1. And the third day there was a mariage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Iesus was there.
2. And both Iesus was called, and his disciples, to the mariage.
3. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Iesus saith vnto him, They haue no wine.
4. Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, what haue I to doe with thee? mine houre is not yet come.
5. His mother saith vnto ye seruants, Whatsoeuer he saith vnto you, doe it.
6. And there were set there sixe water pots of stone, after the maner of the purifying of the Iewes, conteining two or three firkins apeece.
7. Iesus saith vnto them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them vp to the brimme.
8. And hee saith vnto them, Drawe out now, and beare vnto the gouernor of the feast. And they bare it.
9. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the seruants which drew the water knew) the gouernor of the feast called the bridegrome,
10. And saith vnto him, Euery man at the beginning doth set foorth good wine, and when men haue well drunke, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine vntill now.
11. This beginning of miracles did Iesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory, and his disciples beleeued on him.
12. After this hee went downe to Capernaum, hee and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples, and they continued there not many dayes.
13. And the Iewes Passeouer was at hand, & Iesus went vp to Hierusalem
14. And found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and the changers of money, sitting.
15. And when he had made a scourge of small cordes, he droue them all out of the Temple, and the sheepe & the oxen, and powred out the changers money, and ouerthrew the tables,
16. And said vnto them that sold doues Take these things hence, make not my fathers house an house of merchandize.
17. And his disciples remembred that it was written, The zeale of thine house hath eaten me vp.
18. Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, What signe shewest thou vnto vs, seeing that thou doest these things?
19. Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this temple, and in three dayes I will raise it vp.
20. Then said the Iewes, Fourty and six yeres was this Temple in building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes?
21. But he spake of the temple of his body.
22. When therefore hee was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that hee had said this vnto them: and they beleeued the Scripture, and the word which Iesus had said.
23. Now when hee was in Hierusalem at the Passeouer, in the feast day, many beleeued in his Name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
24. But Iesus did not commit himselfe vnto them, because he knew al men,
25. And needed not that any should testifie of man: for hee knew what was in man.
1. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of ye Iewes:
2. The same came to Iesus by night, and said vnto him, Rabbi, wee know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can doe these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3. Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Uerily, verily I say vnto thee, except a man be borne againe, he cannot see the kingdome of God.
4. Nicodemus saith vnto him, How can a man be borne when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mothers wombe, and be borne?
5. Iesus answered, Uerily, verily I say vnto thee, except a man be borne of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdome of God.
6. That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh, and that which is borne of the spirit, is spirit.
7. Marueile not that I saide vnto thee, Ye must be borne againe.
8. The winde bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tel whence it commeth, and whither it goeth: So is euery one that is borne of the Spirit.
9. Nicodemus answered, and said vnto him, How can these things be?
10. Iesus answered, and saide vnto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11. Uerely, verely I say vnto thee, We speake that we doe know, and testifie that wee haue seene; and yee receiue not our witnesse.
12. If I haue tolde you earthly things, and ye beleeue not: how shall ye beleeue if I tell you of heauenly things?
13. And no man hath ascended vp to heauen, but hee that came downe from heauen, euen the Sonne of man which is in heauen.
14. And as Moses lifted vp the serpent in the wildernesse: euen so must the Sonne of man be lifted vp:
15. That whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue eternall life.
16. For God so loued ye world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
17. For God sent not his Sonne into the world to condemne the world: but that the world through him might be saued.
18. He that beleeueth on him, is not condemned: but hee that beleeueth not, is condemned already, because hee hath not beleeued in the Name of the onely begotten Sonne of God.
19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loued darknesse rather then light, because their deedes were euill.
20. For euery one that doeth euill, hateth the light, neither commeth to the light, lest his deeds should be reproued.
21. But hee that doeth trueth, commeth to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22. After these things, came Iesus and his disciples into the land of Iudea, and there hee taried with them, and baptized.
23. And Iohn also was baptizing in Aenon, neere to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24. For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.
25. Then there arose a question between some of Iohns disciples and the Iewes, about purifying.
26. And they came vnto Iohn, and said vnto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Iordane, to whom thou barest witnesse, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27. Iohn answered, and said, A man can receiue nothing, except it be giuen him from heauen.
28. Ye your selues beare me witnesse, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29. He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome, which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly because of the bridegromes voice: This my ioy therefore is fulfilled.
30. Hee must increase, but I must decrease.
31. Hee that commeth from aboue, is aboue all: hee that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: hee that cometh from heauen is aboue all:
32. And what hee hath seene and heard, that he testifieth, and no man receiueth his testimony:
33. He that hath receiued his testimonie, hath set to his seale, that God is true.
34. For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: For God giueth not the Spirit by measure vnto him.
35. The Father loueth the Sonne, and hath giuen al things into his hand.
36. He that beleeueth on the Sonne, hath euerlasting life: and he that beleeueth not the Sonne, shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth on him.
1. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Iesus made and baptized moe disciples then Iohn,
2. (Though Iesus himselfe baptized not, but his disciples:)
3. He left Iudea, and departed againe into Galile.
4. And hee must needs goe thorow Samaria.
5. Then commeth he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, neere to the parcell of ground that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.
6. Now Iacobs Well was there. Iesus therefore being wearied with his iourney, sate thus on the Well: and it was about the sixth houre.
7. There commeth a woman of Samaria to draw water: Iesus sayth vnto her, Giue me to drinke.
8. For his disciples were gone away vnto the city to buy meate.
9. Then saith the woman of Samaria vnto him, How is it that thou, being a Iewe, askest drinke of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Iewes haue no dealings with the Samaritanes.
10. Iesus answered, and said vnto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that sayth to thee, Giue me to drinke; thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee would haue giuen thee liuing water.
11. The woman saith vnto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to drawe with, and the Well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that liuing water?
12. Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the Well, and dranke thereof himselfe, and his children, and his cattell?
13. Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Whosoeuer drinketh of this water, shall thirst againe:
14. But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shal giue him, shall neuer thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water springing vp into euerlasting life.
15. The woman saith vnto him, Sir, giue me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16. Iesus saith vnto her, Goe, call thy husband, and come hither.
17. The woman answered, and said, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband:
18. For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: In that saidest thou truely.
19. The woman saith vnto him, Sir, I perceiue that thou art a Prophet.
20. Our fathers worshipped in this mountaine, and ye say, that in Hierusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21. Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, beleeue me, the houre commeth when ye shall neither in this mountaine, nor yet at Hierusalem, worship the Father.
22. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for saluation is of the Iewes.
23. But the houre commeth, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit, and in trueth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit, and in trueth.
25. The woman saith vnto him, I know that Messias commeth, which is called Christ: when he is come, hee will tell vs all things.
26. Iesus sayth vnto her, I that speake vnto thee, am hee.
27. And vpon this came his disciples, and marueiled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou, or, Why talkest thou with her?
28. The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and sayth to the men,
29. Come, see a man, which tolde me all things that euer I did: Is not this the Christ?
30. Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto him.
31. In the meane while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eate.
32. But hee said vnto them, I haue meate to eate that ye know not of.
33. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eate?
34. Iesus saith vnto them, My meat is, to doe the will of him that sent mee, and to finish his worke.
35. Say not ye, There are yet foure moneths, and then commeth haruest? Behold, I say vnto you, Lift vp your eyes, and looke on the fields: for they are white already to haruest.
36. And hee that reapeth receiueth wages, and gathereth fruite vnto life eternall: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may reioyce together.
37. And herein is that saying true: One soweth, and another reapeth.
38. I sent you to reape that, whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and yee are entred into their labours.
39. And many of the Samaritanes of that citie beleeued on him, for the saying of the woman, which testified, Hee told me all that euer I did.
40. So when the Samaritanes were come vnto him, they besought him that he would tarie with them, and he abode there two dayes.
41. And many moe beleeued, because of his owne word:
42. And said vnto the woman, Now we beleeue, not because of thy saying, for we haue heard him our selues, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Sauiour of the world.
43. Now after two dayes he departed thence, and went into Galilee:
44. For Iesus himselfe testified, that a Prophet hath no honour in his owne countrey.
45. Then when hee was come into Galilee, the Galileans receiued him, hauing seene all the things that hee did at Hierusalem at the Feast: for they also went vnto the Feast.
46. So Iesus came againe into Cana of Galilee, where hee made the water wine. And there was a certaine noble man, whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum.
47. When he heard that Iesus was come out of Iudea into Galilee, hee went vnto him, and besought him that he would come downe, and heale his sonne: for he was at the point of death.
48. Then said Iesus vnto him, Except ye see signes and wonders, yee will not beleeue.
49. The noble man saith vnto him, Syr, come downe ere my child die.
50. Iesus saith vnto him, Go thy way, thy sonne liueth. And the man beleeued the word that Iesus had spoken vnto him, and he went his way.
51. And as he was now going down, his seruants met him, and told him, saying, Thy sonne liueth.
52. Then inquired hee of them the houre when he began to amend: and they said vnto him, Yesterday at the seuenth houre the feuer left him.
53. So the father knewe that it was at the same houre, in the which Iesus said vnto him, Thy sonne liueth, and himselfe beleeued, and his whole house.
54. This is againe the second miracle that Iesus did, when hee was come out of Iudea into Galilee.
1. After this there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.
2. Now there is at Hierusalem by the sheepe market, a poole, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, hauing fiue porches.
3. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folke, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water.
4. For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.
5. And a certaine man was there, which had an infirmitie thirtie and eight yeeres.
6. When Iesus saw him lie, & knew that hee had beene now a long time in that case, he sayth vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7. The impotent man answered him, Sir, I haue no man when the water is troubled, to put mee into the poole: but while I am comming, another steppeth downe before me.
8. Iesus sayth vnto him, Rise, take vp thy bed, and walke.
9. And immediatly the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: And on the same day was the Sabbath.
10. The Iewes therefore said vnto him that was cured, It is the Sabbath day, it is not lawfull for thee to cary thy bed.
11. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.
12. Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed, and walke?
13. And he that was healed, wist not who it was: for Iesus had conueyed himselfe away, a multitude being in that place.
14. Afterward Iesus findeth him in the Temple, & said vnto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.
15. The man departed, and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus which had made him whole.
16. And therefore did the Iewes persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
17. But Iesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, & I worke.
18. Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him, not onely because hee had broken the Sabbath, but said also, that God was his father, making himselfe equall with God.
19. Then answered Iesus, and saide vnto them, Uerily, verily I say vnto you, The sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, but what he seeth the Father doe: for what things soeuer he doeth, these also doth the sonne likewise.
20. For the father loueth the sonne, and sheweth him all things that himselfe doth: & he will shew him greater works then these, that ye may marueile.
21. For as the Father raiseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them: euen so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.
22. For the Father iudgeth no man: but hath committed all iudgement vnto the Sonne:
23. That all men should honour the Son, euen as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not ye Sonne, honoreth not ye Father which hath sent him.
24. Uerily, verily I say vnto you, Hee that heareth my word, & beleeueth on him that sent mee, hath euerlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation: but is passed from death vnto life.
25. Uerily, verily I say vnto you, The houre is comming, & now is, when the dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of God: and they that heare, shall liue.
26. For as the Father hath life in himselfe: so hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe:
27. And hath giuen him authority to execute iudgement also, because he is the Sonne of man.
28. Marueile not at this: for the houre is comming, in the which all that are in the graues shall heare his voice,
29. And shall come foorth, they that haue done good, vnto the resurrection of life, and they that haue done euill, vnto the resurrection of damnation.
30. I can of mine owne selfe doe nothing: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father, which hath sent me.
31. If I beare witnesse of my selfe, my witnesse is not true.
32. There is another that beareth witnesse of me, & I know that the witnesse which he witnesseth of me, is true.
33. Ye sent vnto Iohn, and he bare witnesse vnto the trueth.
34. But I receiue not testimonie from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saued.
35. He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to reioyce in his light.
36. But I haue greater witnesse then that of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of mee, that the Father hath sent me.
37. And the Father himselfe which hath sent me, hath borne witnesse of me. Ye haue neither heard his voyce at any time, nor seene his shape.
38. And ye haue not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye beleeue not.
39. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye thinke ye haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.
40. And ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.
41. I receiue not honour from men.
42. But I know you, that ye haue not the loue of God in you.
43. I am come in my Fathers name, and ye receiue me not: if another shall come in his owne Name, him ye will receiue.
44. How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, & seeke not the honour that commeth from God onely?
45. Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, euen Moses, in whom ye trust?
46. For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.
47. But if ye beleeue not his writings, how shall ye beleeue my words?
1. After these things Iesus went ouer the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias:
2. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which hee did on them that were diseased.
3. And Iesus went vp into a mountaine, and there hee sate with his disciples.
4. And the Passeouer, a feast of the Iewes, was nigh.
5. When Iesus then lift vp his eyes, and saw a great company come vnto him, he saith vnto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eate?
6. (And this he said to proue him: for he himselfe knew what he would doe)
7. Philip answered him, Two hundred peny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that euery one of them may take a litle.
8. One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peters brother, saith vnto him,
9. There is a lad here, which hath fiue barley loaues, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
10. And Iesus said, Make the men sit downe. Now there was much grasse in the place. So the men sate downe, in number about fiue thousand.
11. And Iesus tooke the loaues, and when he had giuen thankes, hee distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set downe, and likewise of the fishes, as much as they would.
12. When they were filled, he said vnto his disciples, Gather vp the fragments that remaine, that nothing be lost.
13. Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelue baskets with the fragments of the fiue barley loaues, which remained ouer and aboue, vnto them that had eaten.
14. Then those men, when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did, said, This is of a trueth that Prophet that should come into the world.
15. When Iesus therefore perceiued that they would come and take him by force, to make him a King, hee departed againe into a mountaine, himselfe alone.
16. And when euen was now come, his disciples went downe vnto the sea,
17. And entred into a ship, and went ouer the sea towards Capernaum: and it was now darke, and Iesus was not come to them.
18. And the sea arose, by reason of a great winde that blew.
19. So when they had rowed about fiue and twentie, or thirtie furlongs, they see Iesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh vnto the ship: and they were afraid.
20. But he saith vnto them, It is I, be not afraid.
21. Then they willingly receiued him into the ship, and immediatly the ship was at the land whither they went.
22. The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea, saw that there was none other boat there, saue that one whereinto his disciples were entred, and that Iesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone:
23. Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias, nigh vnto the place where they did eate bread, after that the Lord had giuen thankes:
24. When the people therefore saw that Iesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also tooke shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Iesus.
25. And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they saide vnto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
26. Iesus answered them, and said, Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Ye seeke me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because yee did eate of the loaues, and were filled.
27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth vnto euerlasting life, which the Sonne of man shall giue vnto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
28. Then said they vnto him, What shall we doe, that we might worke the workes of God?
29. Iesus answered, and said vnto them, This is the worke of God, that ye beleeue on him whom he hath sent.
30. They said therefore vnto him, What signe shewest thou then, that we may see, and beleeue thee? What doest thou worke?
31. Our fathers did eate Manna in the desert, as it is written, He gaue them bread from heauen to eate.
32. Then Iesus said vnto them, Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Moses gaue you not that bread from heauen, but my Father giueth you the true bread from heauen.
33. For the bread of God is hee which commeth downe from heauen, and giueth life vnto the world.
34. Then said they vnto him, Lord, euermore giue vs this bread.
35. And Iesus said vnto them, I am the bread of life: hee that commeth to me, shall neuer hunger: and he that beleeueth on me, shall neuer thirst.
36. But I said vnto you, that ye also haue seene me, and beleeue not.
37. All that the Father giueth mee, shall come to mee; and him that commeth to me, I will in no wise cast out.
38. For I came downe from heauen, not to doe mine owne will, but the will of him that sent me.
39. And this is the Fathers wil which hath sent me, that of all which he hath giuen mee, I should lose nothing, but should raise it vp againe at the last day.
40. And this is the will of him that sent me, that euery one which seeth the Sonne, and beleeueth on him, may haue euerlasting life: and I will raise him vp at the last day.
41. The Iewes then murmured at him, because hee said, I am the bread which came downe from heauen.
42. And they said, Is not this Iesus the sonne of Ioseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that hee sayth, I came downe from heauen?
43. Iesus therefore answered, and said vnto them, Murmure not among your selues.
44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him: and I will raise him vp at the last day.
45. It is written in the Prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Euery man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, commeth vnto me,
46. Not that any man hath seene the Father; saue hee which is of God, hee hath seene the Father.
47. Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Hee that beleeueth on me, hath euerlasting life.
48. I am that bread of life.
49. Your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse, and are dead.
50. This is the bread which commeth downe from heauen, that a man may eate thereof, and not die.
51. I am the liuing bread, which came downe from heauen. If any man eate of this bread, he shall liue for euer: and the bread that I will giue, is my flesh, which I will giue for the life of the world.
52. The Iewes therefore stroue amongst themselues, saying, How can this man giue vs his flesh to eate?
53. Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Except yee eate the flesh of the sonne of man, and drinke his blood, yee haue no life in you.
54. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternall life, and I will raise him vp at the last day.
55. For my flesh is meate indeed, and my blood is drinke indeed.
56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57. As the liuing Father hath sent me, and I liue by the Father: so, he that eateth me, euen he shall liue by me.
58. This is that bread which came downe from heauen: not as your fathers did eate Manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread, shall liue for euer.
59. These things said hee in the Synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
60. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying, who can heare it?
61. When Iesus knew in himselfe, that his disciples murmured at it, hee said vnto them, Doeth this offend you?
62. What and if yee shall see the sonne of man ascend vp where hee was before?
63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the wordes that I speake vnto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.
64. But there are some of you that beleeue not. For Iesus knew from the beginning, who they were that beleeued not, and who should betray him.
65. And he said, Therefore said I vnto you, that no man can come vnto me, except it were giuen vnto him of my Father.
66. From that time many of his disciples went backe, and walked no more with him.
67. Then said Iesus vnto the twelue, Will ye also goe away?
68. Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we goe? Thou hast the words of eternall life.
69. And we beleeue and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Sonne of the liuing God.
70. Iesus answered them, Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuill?
71. He spake of Iudas Iscariot the sonne of Simon: for hee it was that should betray him, being one of the twelue.
1. After these things, Iesus walked in Galilee: for hee would not walk in Iurie, because the Iewes sought to kill him.
2. Now the Iewes feast of Tabernacles was at hand.
3. His brethren therefore saide vnto him, Depart hence, and go into Iudea, that thy Disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4. For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and hee himselfe seeketh to be knowen openly: If thou doe these things, shew thy selfe to ye world.
5. For neither did his brethren beleeue in him.
6. Then Iesus said vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
7. The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.
8. Goe ye vp vnto this feast: I goe not vp yet vnto this feast, for my time is not yet full come.
9. When he had said these words vnto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10. But when his brethren were gone vp, then went he also vp vnto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11. Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12. And there was much murmuring among the people, concerning him: For some said, Hee is a good man: Others said, Nay, but he deceiueth the people.
13. Howbeit, no man spake openly of him, for feare of the Iewes.
14. Now about the middest of the feast, Iesus went vp into the Temple, and taught.
15. And the Iewes marueiled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, hauing neuer learned?
16. Iesus answered them, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17. If any man will doe his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe.
18. He that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnesse is in him.
19. Did not Moses giue you the Law, and yet none of you keepeth the Law? Why goe ye about to kill me?
20. The people answered, and sayd, Thou hast a deuill: Who goeth about to kill thee?
21. Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I haue done one worke, and yee all marueile.
22. Moses therefore gaue vnto you Circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and yee on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.
23. If a man on the Sabbath day receiue circumcision, that the Lawe of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I haue made a man euery whit whole on the Sabbath day?
24. Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.
25. Then said some of them of Hierusalem, Is not this hee, whome they seeke to kill?
26. But loe, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing vnto him: Doe the rulers know indeede that this is the very Christ?
27. Howbeit wee know this man whence he is: but when Christ commeth, no man knoweth whence he is.
28. Then cried Iesus in the Temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am, and I am not come of my selfe, but he that sent me, is true, whom ye know not.
29. But I know him, for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
30. Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his houre was not yet come.
31. And many of the people beleeued on him, & said, When Christ commeth, will hee doe moe miracles then these which this man hath done?
32. The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him: And the Pharisees and the chiefe Priests sent officers to take him.
33. Then said Iesus vnto them, Yet a litle while am I with you, and then I goe vnto him that sent me.
34. Ye shall seeke me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither yee cannot come.
35. Then saide the Iewes among themselues, Whither will hee goe, that we shall not find him? will he goe vnto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
36. What maner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seeke me, and shall not find me? and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Iesus stood, and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come vnto me, and drinke.
38. He that beleeueth on me, as the Scripture hath saide, out of his belly shall flow riuers of liuing water.
39. (But this spake he of the Spirit which they that beleeue on him, should receiue. For the holy Ghost was not yet giuen, because that Iesus was not yet glorified.)
40. Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, saide, Of a trueth this is the Prophet.
41. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
42. Hath not the Scripture saide, that Christ commeth of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Bethlehem, where Dauid was?
43. So there was diuision among the people because of him.
44. And some of them would haue taken him, but no man layed hands on him.
45. Then came the officers to the chiefe Priests and Pharises, and they said vnto them, Why haue ye not brought him?
46. The officers answered, Neuer man spake like this man.
47. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceiued?
48. Haue any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeued on him?
49. But this people who knoweth not the Law, are cursed.
50. Nicodemus saith vnto them, (He that came to Iesus by night, being one of them,)
51. Doth our Law iudge any man before it heare him, & know what he doth?
52. They answered, and said vnto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and looke: for out of Galilee ariseth no Prophet.
53. And euery man went vnto his owne house.
1. Iesus went vnto ye Mount of Oliues:
2. And earely in the morning hee came againe into the Temple, and all the people came vnto him, and he sate downe, and taught them.
3. And the Scribes and Pharisees brought vnto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the mids,
4. They say vnto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5. Now Moses in the Law commanded vs, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6. This they said, tempting him, that they might haue to accuse him. But Iesus stouped downe, and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not.
7. So when they continued asking him, hee lift vp himselfe, and saide vnto them, Hee that is without sinne among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8. And againe, hee stouped downe, and wrote on the ground.
9. And they which heard it, being conuicted by their owne conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, euen vnto the last: and Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10. When Iesus had lift vp himselfe, and saw none but the woman, hee said vnto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?
11. She saide, No man, Lord. And Iesus saide vnto her, Neither doe I condemne thee: Goe, and sinne no more.
12. Then spake Iesus againe vnto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth mee, shall not walke in darkenesse, but shall haue the light of life.
13. The Pharisees therefore said vnto him, Thou bearest record of thy selfe, thy record is not true.
14. Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Though I beare record of my selfe, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I goe: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I goe.
15. Yee iudge after the flesh, I iudge no man.
16. And yet if I iudge, my iudgement is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
17. It is also written in your Law, that the testimonie of two men is true.
18. I am one that beare witnesse of my selfe, and the Father that sent mee, beareth witnesse of me.
19. Then said they vnto him, Where is thy Father? Iesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had knowen mee, yee should haue knowen my Father also.
20. These words spake Iesus in the treasury, as hee taught in the Temple: and no man layd hands on him, for his houre was not yet come.
21. Then saide Iesus againe vnto them, I goe my way, and ye shall seeke me, & shall die in your sinnes: Whither I goe, ye cannot come.
22. Then said the Iewes, Will hee kill himselfe? because he saith, Whither I goe, ye cannot come.
23. And hee said vnto them, Yee are from beneath, I am from aboue: Yee are of this world, I am not of this world.
24. I said therefore vnto you, that ye shall die in your sinnes. For if yee beleeue not that I am hee, yee shall die in your sinnes.
25. Then said they vnto him, Who art thou? And Iesus saith vnto them, Euen the same that I saide vnto you from the beginning.
26. I haue many things to say, and to iudge of you: But hee that sent mee is true, and I speake to the world, those things which I haue heard of him.
27. They vnderstood not that hee spake to them of the Father.
28. Then saide Iesus vnto them, When yee haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe: but as my Father hath taught mee, I speake these things.
29. And he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left mee alone: for I doe alwayes those things that please him.
30. As hee spake those words, many beleeued on him.
31. Then said Iesus to those Iewes which beleeued on him, If ye continue in my word, then are yee my disciples indeed.
32. And ye shall know the Trueth, and the Trueth shall make you free.
33. They answered him, We be Abraham seed, and were neuer in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Yee shall be made free?
34. Iesus answered them, Uerily, verily I say vnto you, Whosoeuer committeth sinne, is the seruant of sinne.
35. And the seruant abideth not in the house for euer: but the Sonne abideth euer.
36. If the Sonne therfore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
37. I know that yee are Abrahams seed, but ye seeke to kill mee, because my word hath no place in you.
38. I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye do that which ye haue seene with your father.
39. They answered, and said vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus sayth vnto them, If yee were Abrahams children, ye would doe the works of Abraham.
40. But now yee seeke to kill me, a man that hath tolde you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41. Ye doe the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not borne of fornication, wee haue one Father, euen God.
42. Iesus said vnto them, If God were your Father, yee would loue me, for I proceeded foorth, and came from God: neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.
43. Why doe yee not vnderstand my speech? euen because yee cannot heare my word.
44. Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lusts of your father ye will doe: hee was a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no trthh in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45. And because I tell you the trthh, ye beleeue me not.
46. Which of you conuinceth mee of sinne? And if I say the trueth, why doe ye not beleeue me?
47. He that is of God, heareth Gods words: ye therefore heare them not, because ye are not of God.
48. Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say wee not well that thou art a Samaritane, & hast a deuill?
49. Iesus answered, I haue not a deuill: but I honour my Father, and ye doe dishonour me.
50. And I seeke not mine owne glory, there is one that seeketh & iudgeth.
51. Uerely, verely I say vnto you, If a man keepe my saying, hee shall neuer see death.
52. Then said the Iewes vnto him, Now we know that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my saying, he shall neuer taste of death.
53. Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whom makest thou thy selfe?
54. Iesus answered, If I honour myselfe, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me, of whom ye say, that he is your God:
55. Yet ye haue not knowen him, but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shalbe a lyar like vnto you: but I know him, and keepe his saying.
56. Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day: and he saw it, & was glad.
57. Then said the Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeeres olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?
58. Iesus said vnto them, Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
59. Then tooke they vp stones to cast at him: but Iesus hidde himselfe, and went out of the Temple, going thorow the midst of them, and so passed by.
1. And as Iesus passed by, he saw a man which was blinde from his birth.
2. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?
3. Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the workes of God should be made manifest in him.
4. I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.
5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and he anointed the eyes of the blinde man with the clay,
7. And said vnto him, Goe wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therfore, and washed, and came seeing.
8. The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seene him, that he was blinde, said, Is not this he that sate and begged?
9. Some said, This is hee: others said, Hee is like him: but hee sayd, I am hee.
10. Therefore said they vnto him, How were thine eyes opened?
11. He answered and said, A man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I receiued sight.
12. Then said they vnto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
13. They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
14. And it was the Sabbath day when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15. Then againe the Pharisees also asked him how he had receiued his sight. He said vnto them, Hee put clay vpon mine eyes, and I washed, and doe see.
16. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because hee keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a diuision among them.
17. They say vnto the blind man againe, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, Hee is a Prophet.
18. But the Iewes did not beleeue concerning him, that hee had bin blind, and receiued his sight, vntill they called the parents of him that had receiued his sight.
19. And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, who ye say was borne blind? how then doth he now see?
20. His parents answered them, and said, We know that this is our sonne, and that he was borne blind:
21. But by what meanes he now seeth, we know not, or who hath opened his eyes we know not: hee is of age, aske him, he shall speake for himselfe.
22. These words spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had agreed already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be put out of the Synagogue.
23. Therefore said his parents, He is of age, aske him.
24. Then againe called they the man that was blind, and said vnto him, Giue God the praise, we know that this man is a sinner.
25. He answered, and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.
26. Then saide they to him againe, What did he to thee? How opened hee thine eyes?
27. He answered them, I haue told you already, and ye did not heare: wherfore would you heare it againe? Will ye also be his disciples?
28. Then they reuiled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are Moses disciples.
29. Wee know that God spake vnto Moses: as for this fellow, we knowe not from whence he is.
30. The man answered, and said vnto them, Why herein is a marueilous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
31. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man bee a worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.
32. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde:
33. If this man were not of God, he could doe nothing.
34. They answered, and saide vnto him, Thou wast altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? And they cast him out.
35. Iesus heard that they had cast him out; and when hee had found him, he said vnto him, Doest thou beleeue on the Sonne of God?
36. He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might beleeue on him?
37. And Iesus said vnto him, Thou hast both seene him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
38. And he said, Lord, I beleeue: and he worshipped him.
39. And Iesus said, For iudgment I am come into this world, that they which see not, might see, and that they which see, might be made blind.
40. And some of the Pharisees which were with him, heard these words, and saide vnto him, Are wee blinde also?
41. Iesus saide vnto them, If yee were blind, ye should haue no sinne: but now ye say, We see, therfore your sinne remaineth.
1. Uerily, verily I say vnto you, He that entreth not by ye doore into the sheepefold, but climeth vp some other way, the same is a theefe, and a robber.
2. But hee that entreth in by the doore, is the shepherd of the sheepe.
3. To him the porter openeth, and the sheepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his owne sheepe by name, and leadeth them out.
4. And when he putteth foorth his owne sheepe, he goeth before them, and the sheepe follow him: for they know his voyce.
5. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voyce of strangers.
6. This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstood not what things they were which he spake vnto them.
7. Then said Iesus vnto them againe, Uerily, verily I say vnto you, I am the doore of the sheepe.
8. All that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.
9. I am the doore by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall goe in and out, and find pasture.
10. The theefe commeth not, but for to steale and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and that they might haue it more abundantly.
11. I am the good shepheard: the good shepheard giueth his life for the sheepe.
12. But hee that is an hireling and not the shepheard, whose owne the sheepe are not, seeth the woolfe coming, and leaueth the sheep, and fleeth: and the woolfe catcheth them, and scattereth the sheepe.
13. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, & careth not for the sheepe.
14. I am the good shepheard, and know my sheepe, and am knowen of mine.
15. As the father knoweth me, euen so know I the father: & I lay downe my life for the sheepe.
16. And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold, and one shepheard.
17. Therefore doth my father loue me, because I lay downe my life that I might take it againe.
18. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and I haue power to take it againe. This commandement haue I receiued of my father.
19. There was a diuision therefore againe among the Iewes for these sayings.
20. And many of them said, He hath a deuill, and is mad, why heare ye him?
21. Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a deuill. Can a deuill open the eyes of the blind?
22. And it was at Hierusalem the feast of the dedication, & it was winter.
23. And Iesus walked in the temple in Solomons porch.
24. Then came the Iewes round about him, and said vnto him, How long doest thou make vs to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell vs plainely.
25. Iesus answered them, I told you, and ye beleeued not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers name, they beare witnesse of me.
26. But ye beleeue not, because ye are not of my sheepe, as I said vnto you.
27. My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know them, and they follow me.
28. And I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand.
29. My father which gaue them me, is greater then all: and no man is able to plucke them out of my fathers hand.
30. I and my father are one.
31. Then the Iewes tooke vp stones againe to stone him.
32. Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father; for which of those workes doe ye stone me?
33. The Iewes answered him, saying, For a good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thy selfe God.
34. Iesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?
35. If hee called them gods, vnto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken:
36. Say ye of him, whom the father hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Sonne of God?
37. If I doe not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not.
38. But if I doe, though yee beleeue not me, beleeue the works: that ye may know and beleeue that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39. Therefore they sought againe to take him: but hee escaped out of their hand,
40. And went away againe beyond Iordane, into the place where Iohn at first baptized: and there he abode.
41. And many resorted vnto him, and said, Iohn did no miracle: but all things that Iohn spake of this man, were true.
42. And many beleeued on him there.
1. Now a certaine man was sicke, named Lazarus of Bethanie, the towne of Mary, and her sister Martha.
2. (It was that Mary which anoynted the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her haire, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)
3. Therefore his sister sent vnto him, saying, Lord, behold, hee whom thou louest, is sicke.
4. When Iesus heard that, hee said, This sicknesse is not vnto death, but for the glory of God, that the Sonne of God might be glorified thereby.
5. Now Iesus loued Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6. When he had heard therefore that he was sicke, he abode two dayes still in the same place where he was.
7. Then after that, saith hee to his disciples, Let vs go into Iudea againe.
8. His disciples say vnto him, Master, the Iewes of late sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither againe?
9. Iesus answered, Are there not twelue houres in the day? If any man walke in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10. But if a man walke in the night, hee stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
11. These things said hee, and after that, hee saith vnto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I goe, that I may awake him out of sleepe.
12. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleepe, he shall doe well.
13. Howbeit Iesus spake of his death: but they thought that hee had spoken of taking of rest in sleepe.
14. Then saide Iesus vnto them plainly, Lazarus is dead:
15. And I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there (to the intent yee may beleeue:) Neuerthelesse, let vs goe vnto him.
16. Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, vnto his fellow disciples, Let vs also goe, that we may die with him.
17. Then when Iesus came, hee found that hee had lien in the graue foure dayes already.
18. (Now Bethanie was nigh vnto Hierusalem, about fifteene furlongs off:)
19. And many of the Iewes came to Martha, and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20. Then Martha, as soone as shee heard that Iesus was comming, went and met him: but Mary sate still in the house.
21. Then saide Martha vnto Iesus, Lord, if thou hadst bene here, my brother had not died.
22. But I know, that euen now, whatsoeuer thou wilt aske of God, God will giue it thee.
23. Iesus saith vnto her, Thy brother shall rise againe.
24. Martha sayeth vnto him, I know that he shall rise againe in the resurrection at the last day.
25. Iesus said vnto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: hee that beleeueth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he liue.
26. And whosoeuer liueth, and beleeueth in mee, shall neuer die. Beleeuest thou this?
27. She saith vnto him, Yea Lord, I beleeue that thou art the Christ the Sonne of God, which should come into the world.
28. And when shee had so said, shee went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
29. Assoone as she heard that, she arose quickely, and came vnto him.
30. Now Iesus was not yet come into the towne, but was in that place where Martha met him.
31. The Iewes then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose vp hastily, and went out, followed her, saying, Shee goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there.
32. Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and saw him, shee fell downe at his feete, saying vnto him, Lord, if thou hadst beene here, my brother had not dyed.
33. When Iesus therefore sawe her weeping, and the Iewes also weeping which came with her, hee groned in the Spirit, and was troubled,
34. And said, Where haue ye laid him? They say vnto him, Lord, come, & see.
35. Iesus wept.
36. Then said the Iewes, Behold, how he loued him.
37. And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blinde, haue caused that euen this man should not haue died?
38. Iesus therefore againe groning in himselfe, commeth to the graue. It was a caue, and a stone lay vpon it.
39. Iesus said, Take yee away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, sayth vnto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath beene dead foure dayes.
40. Iesus saith vnto her, Said I not vnto thee, that if thou wouldst beleeue, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41. Then they tooke away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Iesus lift vp his eyes, and said, Father, I thanke thee, that thou hast heard me.
42. And I knewe that thou hearest me alwayes: but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue that thou hast sent me.
43. And when hee thus had spoken, he cryed with a loude voice, Lazarus, come foorth.
44. And he that was dead, came forth, bound hand & foot with graue-clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Iesus saith vnto them, Loose him, and let him goe.
45. Then many of the Iewes which came to Mary, and had seene the things which Iesus did, beleeued on him.
46. But some of them went their wayes to the Pharises, and tolde them what things Iesus had done.
47. Then gathered ye chiefe Priests and the Pharises a councell, and said, What doe wee? for this man doeth many miracles.
48. If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue on him, and the Romanes shall come, and take away both our place and nation.
49. And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high Priest that same yeere, said vnto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50. Nor consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51. And this spake he not of himselfe: but being high Priest that yeere, he prophecied that Iesus should die for that nation:
52. And not for that nation only, but that also hee should gather together in one, the children of God that were scattered abroad.
53. Then from that day foorth, they tooke counsell together for to put him to death.
54. Iesus therefore walked no more openly among the Iewes: but went thence vnto a countrey neere to the wildernesse, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55. And the Iewes Passeouer was nigh at hand, and many went out of the countrey vp to Hierusalem before the Passeouer to purifie themselues.
56. Then sought they for Iesus, and spake among themselues, as they stood in the Temple, What thinke ye, that he will not come to the feast?
57. Now both the chiefe Priests and the Pharises had giuen a commandement, that if any man knew where hee were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
1. Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passouer, came to Bethanie, where Lazarus was, which had bene dead, whom hee raised from the dead.
2. There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.
3. Then tooke Mary a pound of ointment, of Spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Iesus, & wiped his feet with her haire: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4. Then saith one of his disciples, Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne, which should betray him,
5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and giuen to the poore?
6. This he said, not that he cared for the poore: but because hee was a thiefe, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7. Then said Iesus, Let her alone, against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8. For the poore alwayes yee haue with you: but me ye haue not alwayes.
9. Much people of the Iewes therefore knew that he was there: and they came, not for Iesus sake onely, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10. But the chiefe Priests consulted, that they might put Lazarus also to death,
11. Because that by reason of him many of the Iewes went away and beleeued on Iesus.
12. On the next day, much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Iesus was comming to Hierusalem,
13. Tooke branches of Palme trees, and went foorth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the Name of the Lord.
14. And Iesus, when he had found a yong asse, sate thereon, as it is written,
15. Feare not, daughter of Sion, behold, thy King commeth, sitting on an asses colt.
16. These things vnderstood not his disciples at the first: but when Iesus was glorified, then remebred they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things vnto him.
17. The people therefore that was with him, when he called Lazarus out of his graue, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18. For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that hee had done this miracle.
19. The Pharisees therefore saide among themselues, Perceiue ye how yee preuaile nothing? Behold, the world is gone after him.
20. And there were certaine Greeks among them, that came vp to worship at the feast:
21. The same came therefore to Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Iesus.
22. Philip commeth and telleth Andrew: and againe Andrew and Philip told Iesus.
23. And Iesus answered them, saying, The houre is come, that the Sonne of man should be glorified.
24. Uerely, verely, I say vnto you, Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25. He that loueth his life, shall lose it: and hee that hateth his life in this world, shall keepe it vnto life eternall.
26. If any man serue me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall also my seruant be: If any man serue me, him will my father honour.
27. Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.
28. Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voice from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and wil glorifie it againe.
29. The people therefore that stood by, and heard it, said, that it thundered: others said, An Angel spake to him.
30. Iesus answered, and said, This voice came not because of mee, but for your sakes.
31. Now is the iudgement of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
32. And I, if I be lifted vp from the earth, will draw all men vnto me.
33. (This hee said, signifying what death he should die)
34. The people answered him, We haue heard out of the Law, that Christ abideth for euer: and how sayest thou, The Sonne of man must bee lift vp? Who is this Sonne of man?
35. Then Iesus said vnto them, Yet a little while is the light with you: walke while ye haue the light, lest darkdesse come vpon you: For he that walketh in darkenesse, knoweth not whither he goeth.
36. While ye haue light, beleeue in the light, that ye may bee the children of light. These things spake Iesus, and departed, and did hide himselfe from them.
37. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they beleeued not on him:
38. That the saying of Esaias the Prophet might be fulfilled, which hee spake, Lord, who hath beleeued our report? and to whom hath the arme of the Lord beene reuealed?
39. Therefore they could not beleeue, because that Esaias said againe,
40. He hath blinded their eyes, and hardned their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor vnderstand with their heart, and be conuerted, and I should heale them.
41. These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
42. Neuerthelesse, among the chiefe rulers also, many beleeued on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confesse him, lest they should be put out of the Synagogue.
43. For they loued the praise of men, more then the praise of God.
44. Iesus cried, and said, He that beleeueth on me, beleeueth not on me, but on him that sent me.
45. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.
46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoeuer beleeueth on me, should not abide in darkenesse.
47. And if any man heare my words, and beleeue not, I iudge him not; For I came not to iudge the world, but to saue the world.
48. He that reiecteth me, and receiueth not my words, hath one that iudgeth him: ye word that I haue spoken, the same shall iudge him in the last day.
49. For I haue not spoken of my selfe; but the Father which sent me, he gaue me a commaundement what I should say, and what I should speake.
50. And I know that his commandement is life euerlasting: whatsoeuer I speake therefore, euen as the Father said vnto me, so I speake.
1. Now before the feast of the Passeouer, when Iesus knew that his houre was come, that he should depart out of this world vnto the Father, hauing loued his owne which were in the world, he loued them vnto the end.
2. And supper being ended (the deuill hauing now put into the heart of Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne to betray him.)
3. Iesus knowing that the Father had giuen all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God:
4. He riseth from supper, and layed aside his garments, and tooke a towell, and girded himselfe.
5. After that, he powreth water into a bason, and beganne to wash the disciples feete, and to wipe them with the towell wherewith he was girded.
6. Then commeth he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith vnto him, Lord, doest thou wash my feete?
7. Iesus answered, and said vnto him, What I doe, thou knowest not now: but thou shalt know heereafter.
8. Peter saith vnto him, Thou shalt neuer wash my feete. Iesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
9. Simon Peter saith vnto him, Lord, not my feete only, but also my hands, and my head.
10. Iesus saith to him, He that is washed, needeth not, saue to wash his feet, but is cleane euery whit: and ye are cleane, but not all.
11. For he knew who should betray him, therefore said he, Ye are not all cleane.
12. So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set downe againe, he said vnto them, Know ye what I haue done to you?
13. Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well: for so I am.
14. If I then your Lord and Master haue washed your feete, yee also ought to wash one anothers feete.
15. For I haue giuen you an example, that yee should doe, as I haue done to you.
16. Uerily, verily I say vnto you, the seruant is not greater then his lord, neither he that is sent, greater then hee that sent him.
17. If yee know these things, happy are ye if ye doe them.
18. I speake not of you all, I know whom I haue chosen: but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with mee, hath lift vp his heele against me.
19. Now I tell you before it come, that when it is come to passe, yee may beleeue that I am he.
20. Uerily, verily I say vnto you, he that receiueth whomsoeuer I send, receiueth me: and he that receiueth me, receiueth him that sent me.
21. When Iesus had thus sayd, hee was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Uerily, verily I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22. Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom hee spake.
23. Now there was leaning on Iesus bosome one of his disciples, whom Iesus loued.
24. Simon Peter therefore beckened to him, that he should aske who it should be of whom he spake.
25. Hee then lying on Iesus breast, saith vnto him, Lord, who is it?
26. Iesus answered, Hee it is to whom I shall giue a soppe, when I haue dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gaue it to Iudas Iscariot the sonne of Simon.
27. And after the soppe, Satan entred into him, Then said Iesus vnto him, That thou doest, doe quickly.
28. Now no man at the table knew, for what intent he spake this vnto him.
29. For some of them thought, because Iudas had the bagge, that Iesus had sayd vnto him, Buy those things that wee haue need of against the feast: or that he should giue some thing to the poore.
30. He then hauing receiued the sop, went immediatly out: and it was night.
31. Therefore when hee was gone out, Iesus sayd, Now is the Sonne of man glorified: and God is glorified in him.
32. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorifie him in himselfe, and shall straightway glorifie him.
33. Litle children, yet a litle while I am with you. Ye shall seeke mee, and as I said vnto the Iewes, whither I go, ye cannot come: so now I say to you.
34. A new commandement I giue vnto you, That yee loue one another, as I haue loued you, that yee also loue one another.
35. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if yee haue loue one to another.
36. Simon Peter sayd vnto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Iesus answered him, Whither I goe, thou canst not follow me now: but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
37. Peter said vnto him, Lord, why can not I follow thee now? I will lay downe my life for thy sake.
38. Iesus answered him, Wilt thou lay downe thy life for my sake? Uerily, verily I say vnto thee, the Cocke shall not crow, til thou hast denied me thrise.
1. Let not your heart be troubled: yee beleeue in God, beleeue also in me.
2. In my Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would haue told you: I goe to prepare a place for you.
3. And if I goe and prepare a place for you, I will come againe, and receiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there ye may be also.
4. And whither I goe yee know, and the way ye know.
5. Thomas saith vnto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest: and how can we know the way?
6. Iesus saith vnto him, I am the Way, the Trueth, and the Life: no man commeth vnto the Father but by mee.
7. If ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and haue seene him.
8. Philip sayth vnto him, Lord, shew vs the Father, and it sufficeth vs.
9. Iesus saith vnto him, Haue I bin so long time with you, and yet hast thou not knowen me, Philip? he that hath seene me, hath seene the father, and how sayest thou then, Shew vs the father?
10. Beleeuest thou not that I am in the father, and the father in mee? The words that I speake vnto you, I speak not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doth the works.
11. Beleeue me that I am in the Father, and the Father in mee: or else beleeue me for the very workes sake.
12. Uerely, verely I say vnto you, he that beleeueth on me, the works that I doe, shall hee doe also, and greater workes then these shall he doe, because I goe vnto my Father.
13. And whatsoeuer ye shall aske in my Name, that will I doe, that the Father may be glorified in the Sonne.
14. If ye shall aske any thing in my Name, I will doe it.
15. If ye loue me, keepe my commandements.
16. And I will pray the Father, and hee shall giue you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for euer,
17. Euen the Spirit of trueth, whom the world cannot receiue, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him, for hee dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18. I wil not leaue you comfortlesse, I will come to you.
19. Yet a litle while, and the world seeth me no more: but ye see me, because I liue, ye shall liue also.
20. At that day ye shall know, that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21. He that hath my commandements, and keepeth them, hee it is that loueth me: and he that loueth me shall be loued of my Father, and I will loue him, and will manifest my selfe to him.
22. Iudas saith vnto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thy selfe vnto vs, and not vnto the world?
23. Iesus answered, and saide vnto him, If a man loue mee, he will keepe my wordes: and my Father will loue him, and wee will come vnto him, and make our abode with him.
24. He that loueth mee not, keepeth not my sayings, and the word which you heare, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent mee.
25. These things haue I spoken vnto you, being yet present with you.
26. But the Comforter, which is the holy Ghost, whom the Father wil send in my name, he shal teach you al things, & bring al things to your remembrance, whatsoeuer I haue said vnto you.
27. Peace I leaue with you, my peace I giue vnto you, not as the world giueth, giue I vnto you: let not your heart bee troubled, neither let it bee afraid.
28. Ye haue heard how I saide vnto you, I goe away, and come againe vnto you. If ye loued mee, yee would reioyce, because I said, I go vnto the Father: for my Father is greater then I.
29. And now I haue told you before it come to passe, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue.
30. Heereafter I will not talke much with you: for the prince of this world commeth, and hath nothing in me.
31. But that the world may know that I loue the Father: and as the Father gaue me commandement, euen so I doe: Arise, let vs goe hence.
1. I am the true vine, and my Father is ye husbandman.
2. Euery branch in me that beareth not fruit, hee taketh away: and euery branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring foorth more fruit.
3. Now ye are cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you.
4. Abide in me, and in you: As the branch cannot beare fruit of itselfe, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can doe nothing.
6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall aske what ye will, and it shall be done vnto you.
8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye beare much fruit, so shall ye bee my Disciples.
9. As the Father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue ye in my loue.
10. If ye keepe my Commandements, ye shal abide in my loue, euen as I haue kept my Fathers Commandements, and abide in his loue.
11. These things haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full.
12. This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.
13. Greater loue hath no man then this, that a man lay downe his life for his friends.
14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you.
15. Henceforth I call you not seruants, for the seruant knoweth not what his lord doth, but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, I haue made knowen vnto you.
16. Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that you should goe and bring foorth fruit, and that your fruite should remaine: that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you.
17. These things I commaund you, that ye loue one another.
18. If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you.
19. If ye were of the world, the world would loue his owne: But because yee are not of the world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therfore the world hateth you.
20. Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then the Lord: if they haue persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they haue kept my saying, they will keepe yours also.
21. But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22. If I had not come, and spoken vnto them, they had not had sinne: but now they haue no cloke for their sinne.
23. He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
24. If I had not done among the the works which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but now haue they both seene, & hated both me & my father.
25. But this commeth to passe, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I wil send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth from the Father, hee shall testifie of me.
27. And ye also shall beare witnesse, because ye haue bene with me from the beginning.
1. These things haue I spoken vnto you, that yee should not be offended.
2. They shall put you out of the Synagogues: yea, the time commeth, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that hee doeth God seruice.
3. And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen the Father, nor me.
4. But these things haue I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not vnto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
5. But now I goe my way to him that sent mee, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
6. But because I haue saide these things vnto you, sorow hath filled your heart.
7. Neuerthelesse; I tell you the trueth, it is expedient for you that I goe away: for if I goe not away, the Comforter will not come vnto you: but if I depart, I will send him vnto you.
8. And when he is come, he will reproue the world of sinne, and of righteousnesse, and of iudgement.
9. Of sinne, because they beleeue not on me.
10. Of righteousnesse, because I goe to my Father, and ye see me no more.
11. Of iudgement, because the prince of this world is iudged.
12. I haue yet many things to say vnto you, but ye cannot beare them now:
13. Howbeit, when hee the spirit of trueth is come, he wil guide you into all trueth: For he shall not speake of himselfe: but whatsoeuer he shall heare, that shall he speake, and he will shew you things to come.
14. He shall glorifie me, for he shall receiue of mine, and shall shew it vnto you.
15. All things that the Father hath, are mine: therefore said I that he shall take of mine, and shal shew it vnto you.
16. A litle while, and ye shall not see me: and againe a litle while, & ye shall see me: because I goe to the Father.
17. Then saide some of his disciples among themselues, What is this that he saith vnto vs, A litle while, and ye shal not see me: and againe, a litle while, and ye shall see me: and, because I goe to the Father?
18. They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A litle while? we cannot tell what he saith.
19. Now Iesus knew that they were desirous to aske him, & said vnto them, Doe ye enquire among your selues of that I saide, A litle while, and ye shall not see mee: and againe; A little while and ye shall see me?
20. Uerily, verily I say vnto you, that ye shall weepe and lament, but the world shall reioyce: And ye shall be sorrowfull, but your sorrow shall be turned into ioy.
21. A woman, when she is in trauaile, hath sorrow, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the child, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.
22. And ye now therefore haue sorrow: but I will see you againe, and your heart shall reioyce, and your ioy no man taketh from you.
23. And in that day ye shall aske me nothing: Uerily, verily I say vnto you, Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the Father in my Name, he will giue it you.
24. Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioy may be full.
25. These things haue I spoken vnto you in prouerbs: the time commeth when I shall no more speake vnto you in prouerbes, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
26. At that day ye shall aske in my Name: and I say not vnto you that I will pray the Father for you:
27. For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me and haue beleeued that I came out from God.
28. I came foorth from the Father, and am come into the world: againe, I leaue the world, and goe to the Father.
29. His disciples said vnto him, Loe, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no prouerbe.
30. Now are we sure that thou knowest al things, and needest not that any man should aske thee: By this we beleeue that thou camest foorth from God.
31. Iesus answered them, Doe yee now beleeue?
32. Behold, the houre commeth, yea is now come, that ye shall be scattered, euery man to his owne, and shall leaue me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33. These things I haue spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace, in the world ye shall haue tribulation: but be of good cheare, I haue ouercome the world.
1. These words spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and said, Father, the houre is come, glorifie thy Sonne, that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee.
2. As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he should giue eternall life to as many as thou hast giuen him.
3. And this is life eternall, that they might know thee the onely true God, and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
4. I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe.
5. And now O Father, glorifie thou me, with thine owne selfe, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6. I haue manifested thy Name vnto the men which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were; and thou gauest them me; and they haue kept thy word.
7. Now they haue knowen that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.
8. For I haue giuen vnto them the words which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, and they haue beleeued that thou didst send me.
9. I pray for them, I pray not for the world: but for them which thou hast giuen me, for they are thine.
10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.
11. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine owne Name, those whom thou hast giuen mee, that they may bee one, as we are.
12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, I haue kept, and none of them is lost, but the sonne of perdition: that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13. And now come I to thee, and these things I speake in the world, that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues.
14. I haue giuen them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, euen as I am not of the world.
15. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keepe them from the euill.
16. They are not of the world, euen as I am not of the world.
17. Sanctifie them through thy trueth: thy word is trueth.
18. As thou hast sent mee into the world: euen so haue I also sent them into the world.
19. And for their sakes I sanctifie my selfe, that they also might be sanctified through the trueth.
20. Neither pray I for these alone; but for them also which shall beleeue on me through their word:
21. That they all may be one, as thou Father art in mee, and I in thee, that they also may bee one in vs: that the world may beleeue that thou hast sent mee.
22. And the glory which thou gauest me, I haue giuen them: that they may be one, euen as we are one:
23. I in them, and thou in mee, that they may bee made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.
24. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast giuen me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst mee before the foundation of the world.
25. O righteous Father, the world hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen that thou hast sent me.
26. And I haue declared vnto them thy Name, and will declare it: that the loue wherewith thou hast loued mee, may be in them, and I in them.
1. When Iesus had spoken these wordes, hee went foorth with his disciples ouer the Brooke Cedron, where was a garden, into the which hee entred and his disciples.
2. And Iudas also which betrayed him, knew the place: for Iesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples.
3. Iudas then hauing receiued a band of men, and officers from the chiefe Priests and Pharisees, commeth thither with lanternes and torches, and weapons.
4. Iesus therefore knowing all things that should come vpon him, went foorth, and sayde vnto them, Whom seeke ye?
5. They answered him, Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus saith vnto them, I am hee. And Iudas also which betraied him, stood with them.
6. Assoone then as he had said vnto them, I am he, they went backeward, and fell to the ground.
7. Then asked hee them againe, Whom seeke ye? And they said, Iesus of Nazareth.
8. Iesus answered, I haue tolde you that I am he: If therefore ye seeke me, let these goe their way:
9. That the saying might be fulfilled which he spake, Of them which thou gauest me, haue I lost none.
10. Then Simon Peter hauing a sword, drewe it, and smote the high Priests seruant, & cut off his right eare: The seruants name was Malchus.
11. Then said Iesus vnto Peter, Put vp thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my father hath giuen me, shall I not drinke it?
12. Then the band and the captaine, and officers of the Iewes, tooke Iesus, and bound him,
13. And led him away to Annas first, (for he was father in law to Caiaphas) which was the high Priest that same yeere.
14. Now Caiaphas was he which gaue counsell to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
15. And Simon Peter followed Iesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was knowen vnto the high Priest, and went in with Iesus into the palace of the high Priest.
16. But Peter stood at the doore without. Then went out that other disciple, which was knowen vnto the high Priest, and spake vnto her that kept the doore, and brought in Peter.
17. Then saith the damosell that kept the doore vnto Peter, Art not thou also one of this mans disciples? He sayth, I am not.
18. And the seruants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coales, (for it was colde) and they warmed themselues: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himselfe.
19. The high Priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
20. Iesus answered him, I spake openly to the world, I euer taught in the Synagogue, and in the Temple, whither the Iewes alwayes resort, and in secret haue I said nothing:
21. Why askest thou me? Aske them which heard me, what I haue said vnto them: behold, they know what I said.
22. And when hee had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by, stroke Iesus with the palme of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the hie priest so?
23. Iesus answered him, If I haue spoken euill, beare witnesse of the euill: but if well, why smitest thou me?
24. Now Annas had sent him bound vnto Caiaphas the high Priest.
25. And Simon Peter stood and warmed himselfe: They said therefore vnto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? Hee denied it, and said, I am not.
26. One of the seruants of the high Priests (being his kinsman whose eare Peter cut off) saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
27. Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crew.
28. Then led they Iesus from Caiaphas vnto the hall of Iudgement: And it was earely, and they themselues went not into the Iudgement hall, lest they should be defiled: but that they might eat the Passeouer.
29. Pilate then went out vnto them, and said, What accusation bring you against this man?
30. They answered, & said vnto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not haue deliuered him vp vnto thee.
31. Then saide Pilate vnto them, Take ye him, and iudge him according to your law. The Iewes therefore said vnto him, It is not lawfull for vs to put any man to death:
32. That the saying of Iesus might be fulfilled, which hee spake, signifying what death he should die.
33. Then Pilate entred into the Iudgement hall againe, and called Iesus, and saide vnto him, Art thou the King of the Iewes?
34. Iesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thy selfe? or did others tell it thee of me?
35. Pilate answered, Am I a Iew? Thine owne nation, and the chiefe Priests haue deliuered thee vnto mee: What hast thou done?
36. Iesus answered, My kingdome is not of this world: if my kingdome were of this world, then would my seruants fight, that I should not be deliuered to the Iewes: but now is my kingdome not from hence.
37. Pilate therefore saide vnto him, Art thou a King then? Iesus answered, Thou saiest that I am a King. To this end was I borne, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should beare witnesse vnto the trueth: euery one that is of the trueth heareth my voice.
38. Pilate saith vnto him, What is trueth? And when hee had said this, he went out againe vnto the Iewes, and saith vnto them, I find in him no fault at all.
39. But yee haue a custome that I should release vnto you one at the Passeouer: will ye therefore that I release vnto you the king of the Iewes?
40. Then cried they all againe, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
1. Then Pilate therfore tooke Iesus, and scourged him.
2. And the souldiers platted a crowne of thornes, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
3. And said, Haile king of the Iewes: and they smote him with their hands.
4. Pilate therefore went foorth againe, and saith vnto them, Behold, I bring him foorth to you, that yee may know that I find no fault in him.
5. Then came Iesus forth, wearing the crowne of thornes, and the purple robe: and Pilate saith vnto them, Behold the man.
6. When the chiefe Priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucifie him, crucifie him. Pilate saith vnto them, Take ye him, and crucifie him: for I find no fault in him.
7. The Iewes answered him, We haue a law, and by our law he ought to die, because hee made himselfe the Son of God.
8. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
9. And went againe into the iudgement hall, & saith vnto Iesus, Whence art thou? But Iesus gaue him no answere.
10. Then saith Pilate vnto him, Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not, that I haue power to crucifie thee, and haue power to release thee?
11. Iesus answered, Thou couldest haue no power at all against me, except it were giuen thee from aboue: therfore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath the greater sinne.
12. And from thencefore Pilate sought to release him: but the Iewes cried out, saying, If thou let this man goe, thou art not Cesars friend: whosoeuer maketh himselfe a king, speaketh against Cesar.
13. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Iesus foorth, and sate downe in the iudgement seate, in a place that is called the pauement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14. And it was the preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and he saith vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.
15. But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucifie him. Pilate saith vnto them, Shall I crucifie your King? The chiefe Priests answered, Wee haue no king but Cesar.
16. Then deliuered he him therfore vnto them to be crucified: and they took Iesus, and led him away.
17. And he bearing his crosse, went foorth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrewe, Golgotha:
18. Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Iesus in the middest.
19. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the crosse. And the writing was, IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES.
20. This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was nigh to the citie, and it was written in Hebrewe, and Greeke, and Latine.
21. Then said the chiefe Priests of the Iewes to Pilate, Write not, The king of the Iewes: but that he said, I am King of the Iewes.
22. Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.
23. Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, tooke his garments, (and made foure parts, to euery souldier a part) and also his coat: Now the coate was without seame, wouen from the top thorowout.
24. They said therefore among themselues, Let not vs rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall bee: that the Scripture might bee fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the souldiers did.
25. Now there stood by the crosse of Iesus, his mother, and his mothers sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26. When Iesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loued, he saith vnto his mother, Woman, behold thy sonne.
27. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that houre that disciple tooke her vnto his owne home.
28. After this, Iesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29. Now there was set a vessell, full of vineger: And they filled a spunge with vineger, and put it vpon hyssope, and put it to his mouth.
30. When Iesus therefore had receiued the vineger, he said, It is finished, and he bowed his head, and gaue vp the ghost.
31. The Iewes therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remaine vpon the Crosse on the Sabbath day (for that Sabbath day was an high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 
32. Then came the souldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with him.
33. But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs.
34. But one of the souldiers with a speare pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35. And he that saw it, bare record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that hee saith true, that yee might beleeue.
36. For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37. And againe another Scripture saith, They shall looke on him whom they piersed.
38. And after this, Ioseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Iesus, and Pilate gaue him leaue: he came therefore, and tooke the body of Iesus.
39. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Iesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrhe and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40. Then tooke they the body of Iesus, & wound it in linnen clothes, with the spices, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie:
41. Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new Sepulchre, wherein was neuer man yet layd.
42. There laid they Iesus therefore, because of the Iewes preparation day, for the Sepulchre was nigh at hand.
1. The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.
2. Then she runneth and commeth to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued, and saith vnto them, They haue taken away the Lord out of the Sepulchre, and we know not where they haue laid him.
3. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the Sepulchre.
4. So they ranne both together, and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the Sepulchre.
5. And he stouping downe and looking in, saw the linnen clothes lying, yet went he not in.
6. Then commeth Simon Peter following him, and went into the Sepulchre, and seeth the linnen clothes lie,
7. And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it selfe.
8. Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the Sepulchre, and he saw, and beleeued.
9. For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that hee must rise againe from the dead.
10. Then the disciples went away againe vnto their owne home.
11. But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping: & as shee wept, she stouped downe, and looked into the Sepulchre,
12. And seeth two Angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feete, where the body of Iesus had layen:
13. And they say vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Shee saith vnto them, Because they haue taken away my Lord, and I know not where they haue laied him.
14. And when she had thus said, she turned herselfe backe, and saw Iesus standing, and knew not that it was Iesus.
15. Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She supposing him to be the gardiner, saith vnto him, Sir, if thou haue borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laied him, and I will take him away.
16. Iesus saith vnto her, Mary. She turned herselfe, and saith vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.
17. Iesus saith vnto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but goe to my brethren, and say vnto them, I ascend vnto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God.
18. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that shee had seene the Lord, and that hee had spoken these things vnto her.
19. Then the same day at euening, being the first day of the weeke, when the doores were shut, where the disciples were assembled for feare of the Iewes, came Iesus, and stood in the midst, and saith vnto them, Peace bee vnto you.
20. And when hee had so saide, hee shewed vnto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
21. Then said Iesus to them againe, Peace be vnto you: As my Father hath sent me, euen so send I you.
22. And when he had said this, hee breathed on them, and saith vnto them, Receiue ye the holy Ghost.
23. Whose soeuer sinnes yee remit, they are remitted vnto them, and whose soeuer sinnes yee retaine, they are retained.
24. But Thomas one of the twelue, called Didymus, was not with them when Iesus came.
25. The other disciples therefore said vnto him, We haue seene the Lord. But he said vnto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nailes, and put my finger into the print of the nailes, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not beleeue.
26. And after eight dayes, againe his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: Then came Iesus, the doores being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be vnto you.
27. Then saith he to Thomas Reach hither thy finger, and beholde my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and bee not faithlesse, but beleeuing.
28. And Thomas answered, and said vnto him, My Lord, and my God.
29. Iesus saith vnto him, Thomas, because thou hast seene mee, thou hast beleeued: blessed are they that haue not seene, and yet haue beleeued.
30. And many other signes truely did Iesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this booke:
31. But these are written, that yee might beleeue that Iesus is the Christ the Sonne of God, and that beleeuing ye might haue life through his Name.
1. After these things Iesus shewed himselfe againe to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias, and on this wise shewed he himselfe.
2. There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathaneel of Cana in Galilee, and the sonnes of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
3. Simon Peter saith vnto them, I goe a fishing. They say vnto him, Wee also goe with thee. They went foorth and entred into a ship immediatly, and that night they caught nothing.
4. But when the morning was now come, Iesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knewe not that it was Iesus.
5. Then Iesus saith vnto them, Children, haue ye any meat? They answered him, No.
6. And he said vnto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and yee shall finde. They cast therfore, and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.
7. Therefore that Disciple whome Iesus loued, saith vnto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fishers coate vnto him, (for hee was naked) & did cast himselfe into the sea.
8. And the other disciples came in a litle ship (for they were not farre from land, but as it were two hundred cubites) dragging the net with fishes.
9. Assoone then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coales there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
10. Iesus saith vnto them, Bring of the fish, which ye haue now caught.
11. Simon Peter went vp, & drewe the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fiftie and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
12. Iesus saith vnto them, Come, and dine. And none of the disciples durst aske him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
13. Iesus then commeth, and taketh bread, and giueth them, and fish likewise.
14. This is nowe the third time that Iesus shewed himselfe to his disciples, after that hee was risen from the dead.
15. So when they had dined, Iesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, sonne of Ionas, louest thou mee more then these? He saith vnto him, Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He saith vnto him, Feed my lambes.
16. He saith to him againe the second time, Simon sonne of Ionas, louest thou me? He saith vnto him, Yea Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He saith vnto him, Feed my sheepe.
17. He said vnto him the third time, Simon sonne of Ionas, louest thou mee? Peter was grieued, because hee saide vnto him the third time, Louest thou me? And he said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus sayth vnto him, Feed my sheepe.
18. Uerily, verily I say vnto thee, whe thou wast yong, thou girdedst thy selfe, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carie thee whither thou wouldest not.
19. This spake hee, signifying by what death he should glorifie God. And when he had spoken this, he sayth vnto him, Follow me.
20. Then Peter turning about, seeth the Disciple whom Iesus loued, following, which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is hee that betraieth thee?
21. Peter seeing him, saith to Iesus, Lord, and what shall this man doe?
22. Iesus saith vnto him, If I will that he tary till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me.
23. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that Disciple should not die: yet Iesus sayd not vnto him, He shall not die: but, If I will that he tary till I come, what is that to thee?
24. This is the Disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things, and we know that his testimonie is true.
25. And there are also many other things which Iesus did, the which if they should be written euery one, I suppose that euen the world it selfe could not conteine the bookes that should be written, Amen.
1. The former treatise haue I made, O Theophilus, of al that Iesus began both to doe and teach,
2. Untill the day in which hee was taken vp, after that he through the holy Ghost had giuen commaundements vnto the Apostles, whom he had chosen.
3. To whom also he shewed himselfe aliue after his passion, by many infallible proofes, being seene of them fourty dayes, and speaking of the things perteining to the kingdome of God:
4. And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Hierusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye haue heard of me.
5. For Iohn truely baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost, not many dayes hence.
6. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore againe the kingdome to Israel?
7. And he said vnto them, It is not for you to knowe the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his owne power.
8. But ye shall receiue power after that the holy Ghost is come vpon you, and ye shall be witnesses vnto me, both in Hierusalem, and in all Iudea, and in Samaria, and vnto the vttermost part of the earth.
9. And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
10. And while they looked stedfastly toward heauen, as he went vp, behold, two men stood by them in white apparell,
11. Which also said, Yee men of Galililee, why stand yee gazing vp into heauen? This same Iesus, which is taken vp from you into heauen, shall so come, in like maner as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.
12. Then returned they vnto Hierusalem, from the mount called Oliuet, which is from Hierusalem a Sabbath dayes iourney.
13. And when they were come in, they went vp into an vpper roome, where abode both Peter & Iames, & Iohn, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Iudas the brother of Iames.
14. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen.
15. And in those dayes Peter stood vp in the mids of the disciples, and said, (The number of names together were about an hundred and twentie)
16. Men and brethren, This Scripture must needs haue beene fulfilled, which the holy Ghost by the mouth of Dauid spake before concerning Iudas, which was guide to them that took Iesus.
17. For hee was numbred with vs, and had obtained part of this ministerie.
18. Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the mids, and all his bowels gushed out.
19. And it was knowen vnto all the dwellers at Hierusalem, insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
20. For it is written in the booke of Psalmes, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: And his Bishopricke let another take.
21. Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs all the time that the Lord Iesus went in and out among vs,
22. Beginning from the baptisme of Iohn, vnto that same day that he was taken vp from vs, must one be ordained to be a witnesse with vs of his resurrection.
23. And they appointed two, Ioseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Iustus, and Matthias.
24. And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25. That hee may take part of this ministerie and Apostleship, from which Iudas by transgression fell, that hee might goe to his owne place.
26. And they gaue foorth their lots, and the lot fell vpon Matthias, and hee was numbred with the eleuen Apostles.
1. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2. And suddenly there came a sound from heauen as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3. And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like as of fire, and it sate vpon each of them.
4. And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the spirit gaue them vtterance.
5. And there were dwelling at Hierusalem Iewes, deuout men, out of euery nation vnder heauen.
6. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that euery man heard them speake in his owne language.
7. And they were all amazed, and marueiled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speake, Galileans?
8. And how heare we euery man in our owne tongue, wherein we were borne?
9. Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Iudea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10. Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya, about Cyrene, & strangers of Rome, Iewes and Proselites,
11. Cretes, and Arabians, we doe heare them speake in our tongues the wonderfull workes of God.
12. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
13. Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
14. But Peter standing vp with the eleuen, lift vp his voyce, and said vnto them, Ye men of Iudea, & all ye that dwell at Hierusalem, be this knowen vnto you, and hearken to my words:
15. For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third houre of the day.
16. But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,
17. And it shall come to passe in the last dayes (saith God) I will powre out of my Spirit vpon all flesh: and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophesie, and your yong men shall see visions, and your old men shall dreame dreames:
18. And on my seruants, and on my handmaidens, I will powre out in those daies of my Spirit, and they shall prophesie:
19. And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue, and signes in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.
20. The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
21. And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.
22. Yee men of Israel, heare these words, Iesus of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you, by miracles, wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the midst of you, as yee your selues also know:
23. Him, being deliuered by the determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God, yee haue taken, and by wicked hands, haue crucified, and slaine:
24. Whom God hath raised vp, hauing loosed the paines of death: because it was not possible that hee should be holden of it.
25. For Dauid speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord alwayes before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moued.
26. Therefore did my heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad: Moreouer also, my flesh shall rest in hope,
27. Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.
28. Thou hast made knowen to mee the wayes of life, thou shalt make mee full of ioy with thy countenance.
29. Men and brethren, let me freely speake vnto you of the Patriarch Dauid, that he is both dead & buried, and his sepulchre is with vs vnto this day:
30. Therefore being a Prophet, and knowing that God had sworne with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loines, according to the flesh, hee would raise vp Christ, to sit on his throne:
31. He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soule was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32. This Iesus hath God raised vp, whereof we all are witnesses.
33. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and hauing receiued of the Father the promise of the holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and heare.
34. For Dauid is not ascended into the heauens, but he saith himselfe, The Lord said vnto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35. Untill I make thy foes thy footstoole.
36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Iesus, whom ye haue crucified, both Lord and Christ.
37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said vnto Peter, and to the rest of the Apostles, Men and brethren, What shall we doe?
38. Then Peter said vnto them, Repent, and be baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ, for the remission of sinnes, and ye shal receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.
39. For the promise is vnto you, and to your children, and to all that are afarre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40. And with many other words did hee testifie and exhort, saying, Saue your selues from this vntoward generation.
41. Then they that gladly receiued his word, were baptized: and the same day there were added vnto them about three thousand soules.
42. And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in praiers.
43. And feare came vpon euery soule: and many wonders and signes were done by the Apostles.
44. And all that beleeued were together, and had all things common,
45. And solde their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as euery man had need.
46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the Temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart,
47. Praising God, and hauing fauour with all the people. And the Lord added to the Church dayly such as should be saued.
1. Nowe Peter and Iohn went vp together into the Temple at the houre of prayer, beeing the ninth houre.
2. And a certaine man lame from his mothers womb was caried, whom they laide daily at the gate of the Temple which is called Beautifull, to aske almes of them that entred into the Temple.
3. Who seeing Peter & Iohn about to go into the Temple, asked an almes.
4. And Peter fastening his eyes vpon him, with Iohn, said, Looke on vs.
5. And he gaue heede vnto them, expecting to receiue something of them.
6. Then Peter said, Siluer and gold haue I none, but such as I haue, giue I thee: In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, rise vp and walke.
7. And hee tooke him by the right hand, & lift him vp: aud immediatly his feete and ancle bones receiued strength.
8. And hee leaping vp, stood, and walked, and entred with them into the Temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9. And all the people saw him walking, and praising God.
10. And they knew that it was hee which sate for almes at the beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened vnto him.
11. And as the lame man which was healed, helde Peter and Iohn, all the people ranne together vnto them in the porch, that is called Solomons, greatly wondring.
12. And when Peter sawe it, hee answered vnto the people, Yee men of Israel, why marueile ye at this? or why looke yee so earnestly on vs, as though by our owne power or holinesse we had made this man to walke?
13. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Iacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus, whom ye deliuered vp, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when hee was determined to let him goe.
14. But ye denied the Holy one, and the Iust, and desired a murderer to be granted vnto you,
15. And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.
16. And his Name through faith in his Name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him, hath giuen him this perfect soundnesse in the presence of you all.
17. And now brethren, I wote that through ignorance yee did it, as did also your rulers.
18. But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, hee hath so fulfilled.
19. Repent yee therefore, and bee conuerted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shal come from the presence of the Lord.
20. And hee shall send Iesus Christ, which before was preached vnto you.
21. Whom the heauen must receiue, vntill the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.
22. For Moses truely said vnto the fathers, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise vp vnto you of your brethren, like vnto me; him shall yee heare in all things whatsoeuer he shal say vnto you.
23. And it shall come to passe, that euery soule which will not heare that Prophet, shalbe destroyed from among the people.
24. Yea and all the Prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretold of these dayes.
25. Yee are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant which God made with our fathers, saying vnto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kinreds of the earth be blessed.
26. Unto you first, God hauing raised vp his Sonne Iesus, sent him to blesse you, in turning away euery one of you from his iniquities.
1. And as they spake vnto the people, the Priests and the captaine of the Temple, and the Sadduces came vpon them,
2. Being grieued that they taught the people, and preached through Iesus the resurrection from the dead.
3. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold vnto the next day: for it was now euentide.
4. Howbeit, many of them which heard the word, beleeued, and the number of the men was about fiue thousand.
5. And it came to passe on the morow, that their rulers, and Elders, and Scribes,
6. And Annas the high Priest, and Caiphas, and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kinred of the high Priest, were gathered together at Hierusalem.
7. And when they had set them in the middest, they asked, By what power, or by what name haue ye done this?
8. Then Peter filled with the holy Ghost, said vnto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,
9. If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what meanes he is made whole,
10. Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whome God raised from the dead, euen by him, doeth this man stand here before you, whole.
11. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12. Neither is there saluation in any other: for there is none other name vnder heauen giuen among men whereby we must be saued.
13. Now when they sawe the boldnesse of Peter and Iohn, and perceiued that they were vnlearned and ignorant men, they marueiled, and they tooke knowledge of them, that they had bene with Iesus.
14. And beholding the man which was healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15. But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the Council, they conferred among themselues,
16. Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath bene done by them, is manifest to all them that dwell in Hierusalem, and we cannot denie it.
17. But that it spread no farther among the people, let vs straitly threaten them, that they speake henceforth to no man in this Name.
18. And they called them, and commanded them, not to speake at all, nor teach in the Name of Iesus.
19. But Peter and Iohn answered, and said vnto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to hearken vnto you more then vnto God, iudge ye.
20. For wee cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.
21. So when they had further threatned them, they let them goe, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
22. For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.
23. And being let goe, they went to their owne company, and reported all that the chiefe Priests and Elders had said vnto them.
24. And when they heard that, they lift vp their voyce to God with one accord, & said, Lord, thou art God which hast made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is,
25. Who by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid hast saide, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vaine things?
26. The Kings of the earth stood vp, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, & against his Christ.
27. For of a trueth against thy holy child Iesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were gathered together,
28. For to doe whatsoeuer thy hand and thy counsell determined before to be done.
29. And now Lord, behold their threatnings, and graunt vnto thy seruants, that with all boldnesse they may speake thy word,
30. By stretching foorth thine hand to heale: and that signes and wonders may be done by the Name of thy holy child Iesus.
31. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldnesse.
32. And the multitude of them that beleeued, were of one heart, and of one soule: Neither said any of them, that ought of the things which he possessed, was his owne, but they had all things common.
33. And with great power gaue the Apostles witnesse of the resurrection of the Lord Iesus, and great grace was vpon them all.
34. Neither was there any among them that lacked: For as many as were possessors of lands, or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were solde,
35. And laide them downe at the Apostles feete: And distribution was made vnto euery man according as hee had neede.
36. And Ioses, who by the Apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, The sonne of consolation) a Leuite, and of the Countrey of Cyprus,
37. Hauing land, sold it, and brought the money, & laid it at the Apostles feet.
1. But a certaine man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, solde a possession,
2. And kept backe part of the price, his wife also being priuy to it, and brought a certaine part, and layd it at the Apostles feete.
3. But Peter said, Ananias, Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the holy Ghost, and to keepe backe part of the price of the land?
4. Whiles it remained, was it not thine owne? and after it was sold, was it not in thine owne power? why hast thou conceiued this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied vnto men, but vnto God.
5. And Ananias hearing these words, fell downe, and gaue vp the ghost: and great feare came on all them that heard these things.
6. And the yong men arose, wound him vp, and caried him out, and buried him.
7. And it was about the space of three houres after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
8. And Peter answered vnto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she saide, Yea, for so much.
9. Then Peter saide vnto her, How is it that ye haue agreed together, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feete of them which haue buried thy husband, are at the doore, and shall cary thee out.
10. Then fell she downe straightway at his feete, and yeelded vp the ghost: And the yong men came in, and found her dead, and carying her forth, buried her by her husband.
11. And great feare came vpon all the Church, and vpon as many as heard these things.
12. And by the hands of the Apostles, were many signes and wonders wrought among the people. (And they were all with one accord in Solomons porch.
13. And of the rest durst no man ioyne himselfe to them: But the people magnified them.
14. And beleeuers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
15. Insomuch that they brought foorth the sicke into the streetes, and layed them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by, might ouershadow some of them.
16. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about vnto Hierusalem, bringing sicke folkes, and them which were vexed with vncleane spirits: and they were healed euery one.
17. Then the high Priest rose vp, and al they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadduces) and were filled with indignation,
18. And laid their hands on the Apostles, & put them in the common prison.
19. But the Angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doores, and brought them foorth, and said,
20. Goe, stand and speake in the Temple to the people all the words of this life.
21. And when they heard that, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, & taught: but the high Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to haue them brought.
22. But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
23. Saying, The prison truely found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doores, but when we had opened, we found no man within.
24. Now when the high Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the chiefe Priests heard these things, they doubted of them wherunto this would grow.
25. Then came one, and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teaching the people.
26. Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned.)
27. And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the high Priest asked them,
28. Saying, Did not wee straitly command you, that you should not teach in this Name? And behold, yee haue filled Hierusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this mans blood vpon vs.
29. Then Peter, and the other Apostles answered, and saide, Wee ought to obey God rather then men.
30. The God of our fathers raised vp Iesus, whom yee slew and hanged on a tree.
31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to bee a Prince and a Sauiour, for to giue repentance to Israel, and forgiuenesse of sinnes.
32. And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the holy Ghost, whom God hath giuen to them that obey him.
33. When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and tooke counsell to slay them.
34. Then stood there vp one in the Councill, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctour of Law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the Apostles forth a litle space,
35. And said vnto them, Yee men of Israel, take heed to your selues, what ye intend to doe as touching these men.
36. For before these dayes rose vp Theudas, boasting himselfe to be some body, to whom a number of men, about foure hundred, ioyned themselues: who was slaine, and all, as many as obeied him, were scattered, & brought to nought.
37. After this man rose vp Iudas of Galilee, in the dayes of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: hee also perished, and all, euen as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
38. And now I say vnto you, refraine from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsell or this worke be of men, it will come to nought.
39. But if it be of God, ye cannot ouerthrow it, lest haply yee be found euen to fight against God.
40. And to him they agreed: and when they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speake in the Name of Iesus, and let them goe.
41. And they departed from the presence of the Councill, reioycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his Name.
42. And dayly in the Temple, and in euery house, they ceased not to teach and preach Iesus Christ.
1. And in those dayes when the number of the Disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrewes, because their widowes were neglected in the daily ministration.
2. Then the twelue called the multitude of the disciples vnto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leaue the word of God, and serue tables.
3. Wherefore brethren, looke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, full of the holy Ghost, and wisedome, whom we may appoint ouer this businesse.
4. But we will giue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministerie of the word.
5. And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Steuen, a man full of faith and of the holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Permenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch.
6. Whom they set before the Apostles: and when they had praied, they layd their hands on them.
7. And the word of God encreased, and the number of the Disciples multiplied in Hierusalem greatly, and a great company of the Priests were obedient to the faith.
8. And Steuen full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
9. Then there arose certaine of the Synagogue, which is called the Synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia, and of Asia, disputing with Steuen.
10. And they were not able to resist the wisedome and the spirit by which he spake.
11. Then they suborned men which said, We haue heard him speake blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12. And they stirred vp the people, and the Elders, and the Scribes, and came vpon him, and caught him, and brought him to the Councell,
13. And set vp false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speake blasphemous words against this holy place, and the Law.
14. For we haue heard him say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, & shall change the Customes which Moses deliuered vs.
15. And all that sate in the Councell, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had bene the face of an Angel.
1. Then said the high Priest, Are these things so?
2. And hee said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3. And said vnto him, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he remoued him into this lande wherein ye now dwell.
5. And he gaue him none inheritance in it, no not so much as to set his foote on: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6. And God spake on this wise, that his seede should soiourne in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and intreate them euill foure hundreth yeeres.
7. And the nation to whom they shal bee in bondage, will I iudge, saide God: And after that shall they come forth, and serue me in this place.
8. And he gaue him the couenant of Circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob begate the twelue Patriarchs.
9. And the Patriarchs moued with enuie, sold Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10. And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisedome in the sight of Pharao king of Egypt: and he made him gouernour ouer Egypt and all his house.
11. Now there came a dearth ouer all the land of Egypt, and Chanaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.
12. But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13. And at the second time Ioseph was made knowen to his brethren, and Iosephs kinred was made knowen vnto Pharao.
14. Then sent Ioseph, and called his father Iacob to him, and all his kinred, threescore and fifteeene soules.
15. So Iacob went downe into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers,
16. And were caried ouer into Sichem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a summe of money of the sonnes of Emor the father of Sichem.
17. But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworne to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18. Till another king arose, which knew not Ioseph.
19. The same dealt subtilly with our kinred, and euill intreated our fathers, so that they cast out their yong children, to the end they might not liue.
20. In which time Moses was borne, and was exceeding faire, and nourished vp in his fathers house three moneths:
21. And when he was cast out, Pharaohs daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.
22. And Moses was learned in all the wisedome of the Egyptians, and was mightie in words and in deeds.
23. And when he was full forty yeres old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and auenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25. For he supposed his brethren would haue vnderstood, how that God by his hand would deliuer them, but they vnderstood not.
26. And the next day he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and would haue set them at one againe, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren, Why doe yee wrong one to another?
27. But hee that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a Iudge ouer vs?
28. Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
29. Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.
30. And when fourtie yeeres were expired, there appeared to him in the wildernes of mount Sina, an Angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31. When Moses saw it, he wondred at the sight: and as he drew neere to behold it, the voyce of the Lord came vnto him,
32. Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33. Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shooes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest, is holy ground.
34. I haue seene, I haue seene the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I haue heard their groning, & am come downe to deliuer them: And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35. This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a Iudge? the same did God send to bee a ruler and a deliuerer, by the handes of the Angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36. He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signes in the land of Egypt, and in the red Sea, and in the wildernesse fortie yeeres.
37. This is that Moses which said vnto the children of Israel, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise vp vnto you of your brethren, like vnto mee: him shall ye heare.
38. This is he that was in ye Church in the wildernesse with the Angel, which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who receiued the liuely oracles, to giue vnto vs.
39. To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned backe againe into Egypt,
40. Saying vnto Aaron, Make vs gods to goe before vs. For as for this Moses, which brought vs out of the land of Egypt, we wote not what is become of him.
41. And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice vnto the idole, and reioyced in the workes of their owne hands.
42. Then God turned, and gaue them vp to worship the hoste of heauen, as it is written in the booke of the Prophets, O ye house of Israel, haue ye offered to me slaine beasts, and sacrifices, by the space of fourty yeeres in the wildernesse?
43. Yea, ye tooke vp the Tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your God Remphan, figures which ye made, to worship them: and I will carie you away beyond Babylon.
44. Our fathers had the Tabernacle of witnesse in the wildernesse, as hee had appointed, speaking vnto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seene.
45. Which also our fathers that came after, brought in with Iesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God draue out before the face of our fathers, vnto the dayes of Dauid,
46. Who found fauour before God, and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Iacob.
47. But Solomon built him an house.
48. Howbeit the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the Prophet,
49. Heauen is my throne, and earth is my footestoole: What house will ye build me, saith the Lord? Or what is the place of my rest?
50. Hath not my hand made all these things?
51. Ye stifnecked and vncircumcised in heart, and eares, ye doe alwayes resist the holy Ghost? as your fathers did, so doe ye.
52. Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? And they haue slaine them which shewed before of the comming of the Iust one, of whom ye haue bene now the betrayers and murderers:
53. Who haue receiued the Lawe by the disposition of Angels, and haue not kept it.
54. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55. But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God,
56. And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man standing on the right hand of God.
57. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord,
58. And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, whose name was Saul.
59. And they stoned Steuen, calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit.
60. And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe.
1. And Saul was consenting vnto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the Church which was at Hierusalem, and they were all scattered abroad through out the regions of Iudea, and Samaria, except the Apostles.
2. And deuout men carried Steuen to his buriall, and made great lamentation ouer him.
3. As for Saul, he made hauocke of the Church, entring into euery house, and hailing men and women, committed them to prison.
4. Therefore they that were scattered abroad, went euery where preaching the word.
5. Then Philip went downe to the citie of Samaria, and preached Christ vnto them.
6. And the people with one accord gaue heed vnto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7. For vncleane spirits, crying with lowd voyce, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
8. And there was great ioy in that citie.
9. But there was a certaine man called Simon, which before time in the same citie vsed sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giuing out that himselfe was some great one.
10. To whom they all gaue heed from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
11. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
12. But when they beleeued Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdome of God, and the Name of Iesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
13. Then Simon himselfe beleeued also: and when hee was baptized, hee continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signes which were done.
14. Now when the Apostles which were at Hierusalem, heard that Samaria had receiued the word of God, they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn.
15. Who when they were come downe, praied for them that they might receiue the holy Ghost.
16. (For as yet hee was fallen vpon none of them: onely they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Iesus.)
17. Then layde they their hands on them, and they receiued the holy Ghost.
18. And when Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles hands, the holy Ghost was giuen, hee offered them money,
19. Saying, Giue me also this power, that on whomsoeuer I lay handes, hee may receiue the holy Ghost.
20. But Peter said vnto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
21. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
22. Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiuen thee.
23. For I perceiue that thou art in the gall of bitternesse, and in the bond of iniquitie.
24. Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for mee, that none of these things which ye haue spoken, come vpon me.
25. And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Hierusalem, and preached the Gospel in many villages of the Samaritanes.
26. And the Angel of the Lord spake vnto Philip, saying, Arise, and goe toward the South, vnto the way that goeth downe from Hierusalem vnto Gaza, which is desert.
27. And hee arose, and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, an Eunuch of great authority vnder Candace queene of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Hierusalem for to worship,
28. Was returning, and sitting in his charet, read Esaias the Prophet.
29. Then the Spirit saide vnto Philip, Goe neere, and ioyne thy selfe to this charet.
30. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him reade the Prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31. And hee said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip, that hee would come vp, and sit with him.
32. The place of the Scripture, which hee read, was this, Hee was led as a sheepe to the slaughter, & like a Lambe dumbe before the shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
33. In his humiliation, his Iudgement was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth.
34. And the Eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the Prophet this? of himselfe, or of some other man?
35. Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached vnto him Iesus.
36. And as they went on their way, they came vnto a certaine water: and the Eunuch said, See, here is water, what doeth hinder me to be baptized?
37. And Philip said, If thou beleeuest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered, and said, I beleeue that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of God.
38. And he commanded the charet to stand still: and they went downe both into the water, both Philip, and the Eunuch, and he baptized him.
39. And when they were come vp out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the Eunuch saw him no more: and hee went on his way reioycing.
40. But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing thorow he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea.
1. And Saul yet breathing out threatnings & slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went vnto the high Priest,
2. And desired of him letters to Damascus, to the Synagogues, that if hee found any of this way, whether they were men or women, hee might bring them bound vnto Hierusalem.
3. And as he iourneyed he came neere Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heauen.
4. And he fel to the earth, and heard a voice saying vnto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5. And he said, Who art thou Lord? And the Lord said, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest: It is hard for thee to kicke against the prickes.
6. And he trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou haue mee to doe? And the Lord said vnto him, Arise, and goe into the citie, and it shall be told thee what thou must doe.
7. And the men which iourneyed with him, stood speechlesse, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
8. And Saul arose from the earth, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
9. And he was three dayes without sight, and neither did eate, nor drinke.
10. And there was a certaine disciple at Damascus, named Ananias, and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
11. And the Lord said vnto him, Arise, and goe into the street, which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Iudas, for one called Saul of Tarsus: for behold, he prayeth,
12. And hath seene in a vision a man named Ananias, comming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receiue his sight.
13. Then Ananias answered, Lord, I haue heard by many of this man, how much euill hee hath done to thy Saints at Hierusalem:
14. And here he hath authoritic from the chiefe Priests, to binde all that call on thy Name.
15. But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.
16. For I will shew him how great things hee must suffer for my Names sake.
17. And Ananias went his way, and entred into the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord (euen Iesus that appeared vnto thee in the way as thou camest) hath sent me, that thou mightest receiue thy sight, and be filled with the holy Ghost.
18. And immediatly there fell from his eyes as it had bene scales, and he receiued sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
19. And when hee had receiued meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certaine dayes with the disciples which were at Damascus.
20. And straightway hee preached Christ in the Synagogues, that hee is the Sonne of God.
21. But all that heard him, were amazed, and said, Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this Name in Hierusalem, and came hither for that intent that he might bring them bound vnto the chiefe Priests?
22. But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Damascus, proouing that this is very Christ.
23. And after that many dayes were fulfilled, the Iewes tooke counsel to kill him.
24. But their laying awaite was knowen of Saul: and they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
25. Then the disciples tooke him by night, and let him downe by the wall in a basket.
26. And when Saul was come to Hierusalem, he assayed to ioyne himselfe to the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, and beleeued not that he was a disciple.
27. But Barnabas tooke him, and brought him to the Apostles, and declared vnto them how hee had seene the Lord in the way, and that hee had spoken to him, and how hee had preached boldly at Damascus in the Name of Iesus.
28. And he was with them comming in, and going out at Hierusalem.
29. And he spake boldly in the Name of the Lord Iesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
30. Which when the brethren knewe, they brought him downe to Cesarea, and sent him foorth to Tarsus.
31. Then had the Churches rest thorowout all Iudea, and Galilee, and Samaria, and were edified, and walking in the feare of the Lord, and in the comfort of the holy Ghost, were multiplied.
32. And it came to passe, as Peter passed thorowout all quarters, he came downe also to the Saints, which dwelt at Lydda.
33. And there he found a certaine man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight yeeres, and was sicke of the palsie.
34. And Peter said vnto him, Aeneas, Iesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
35. And all that dwelt at Lydda, and Saron, saw him, and turned to the Lord.
36. Now there was at Ioppa a certain disciple, named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: This woman was full of good works, and almes deeds, which she did.
37. And it came to passe in those dayes that she was sicke, and died: whome when they had washed, they laid her in an vpper chamber.
38. And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Ioppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent vnto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
39. Then Peter arose and went with them: when he was come, they brought him into the vpper chamber: And all the widowes stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while shee was with them.
40. But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled downe, and prayed, and turning him to the body, said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sate vp.
41. And he gaue her his hand, and lift her vp: and when hee had called the Saints & widowes, presented her aliue.
42. And it was knowen thorowout all Ioppa, and many beleeued in the Lord.
43. And it came to passe, that he taried many dayes in Ioppa, with one Simon a Tanner.
1. There was a certaine man in Cesarea, called Cornelius, a Centurion of ye band called the Italian band,
2. A deuout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gaue much almes to the people, and prayed to God alway.
3. He saw in a vision euidently, about the ninth houre of the day, an Angel of God comming in to him, and saying vnto him Cornelius.
4. And when he looked on him, hee was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said vnto him, Thy praiers and thine almes are come vp for a memorial before God.
5. And now send men to Ioppa, and call for one Simon, whose sirname is Peter.
6. Hee lodgeth with one Simon a Tanner, whose house is by the Sea side; he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to doe.
7. And when the Angel which spake vnto Cornelius, was departed, he called two of his houshold seruants, and a deuout souldier of them that waited on him continually.
8. And when he had declared all these things vnto them, he sent them to Ioppa.
9. On the morrow as they went on their iourney, and drew nigh vnto the citie, Peter went vp vpon the house to pray, about the sixth houre.
10. And he became very hungry, and would haue eaten: But while they made ready, he fell into a traunce,
11. And saw heauen opened, and a certaine vessell descending vnto him, as it had beene a great sheete, knit at the foure corners, and let downe to the earth:
12. Wherein were all maner of foure footed beasts of the earth, and wilde beasts, and creeping things, and foules of the ayre.
13. And there came a voyce to him, Rise, Peter: kill, and eate.
14. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I haue neuer eaten any thing that is common or vncleane.
15. And the voice spake vnto him againe the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
16. This was done thrise: & the vessel was receiued vp againe into heauen.
17. Now while Peter doubted in himselfe what this vision which he had seene, should meane: behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius, had made inquirie for Simons house, and stood before the gate,
18. And called, and asked whether Simon, which was sirnamed Peter, were lodged there.
19. While Peter thought on the vision, the spirit said vnto him, Behold, three men seeke thee.
20. Arise therefore, and get thee downe, and goe with them, doubting nothing: for I haue sent them.
21. Then Peter went downe to the men, which were sent vnto him from Cornelius, and said, Behold, I am hee, whom ye seeke: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
22. And they saide, Cornelius the Centurion, a iust man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Iewes, was warned from God by an holy Angel, to send for thee into his house, and to heare words of thee.
23. Then called he them in, and lodged them: And on the morrowe Peter went away with them, and certaine brethren from Ioppa accopanied him.
24. And the morrow after they entred into Cesarea: and Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and neere friends.
25. And as Peter was comming in, Cornelius met him, and fell downe at his feete, and worshipped him.
26. But Peter tooke him vp, saying, Stand vp, I my selfe also am a man.
27. And as he talked with him, hee went in, and found many that were come together.
28. And he said vnto them, Ye know how that it is an vnlawfull thing for a man that is a Iewe, to keepe company or come vnto one of another nation: but God hath shewed me, that I should not call any man common or vncleane.
29. Therfore came I vnto you without gainesaying, as soone as I was sent for. I aske therefore, for what intent ye haue sent for me.
30. And Cornelius said, Foure daies agoe I was fasting vntill this houre, and at the ninth houre I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
31. And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine almes are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
32. Send therfore to Ioppa, and call hither Simon, whose sirname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a Tanner, by the Sea side, who when he cometh, shall speake vnto thee.
33. Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast well done, that thou art come. Now therefore are we all heere present before God, to heare all things that are comanded thee of God.
34. Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a trueth I perceiue that God is no respecter of persons:
35. But in euery nation, he that feareth him, and worketh righteousnesse, is accepted with him.
36. The word which God sent vnto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Iesus Christ (he is Lord of all.)
37. That word (I say) you knowe which was published thorowout all Iudea, and began from Galilee, after the baptisme which Iohn preached:
38. How God anointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the deuill: for God was with him.
39. And we are witnesses of all things which hee did both in the land of the Iewes, and in Hierusalem, whom they slew and hanged on a tree,
40. Him God raised vp the third day, and shewed him openly,
41. Not to all the people, but vnto witnesses, chosen before of God, euen to vs who did eate and drinke with him after he rose from the dead.
42. And he commanded vs to preach vnto the people, and to testifie that it is he which was ordeined of God to be the Iudge of quicke and dead.
43. To him giue all the Prophets witnesse, that through his Name whosoeuer beleeueth in him, shall receiue remission of sinnes.
44. While Peter yet spake these words, the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
45. And they of the circumcision which beleeued, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was powred out the gift of the holy Ghost.
46. For they heard them speake with tongues, and magnifie God. Then answered Peter,
47. Can any man forbid water, that these should not bee baptized, which haue receiued the holy Ghost, as well as wee?
48. And hee commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarie certaine dayes.
1. And the Apostles, and brethren that were in Iudea, heard that the Gentiles had also receiued the word of God.
2. And when Peter was come vp to Hierusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
3. Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, & didst eate with them.
4. But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order vnto them, saying,
5. I was in the citie of Ioppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a certaine vessell descend, as it had beene a great sheete, let downe from heauen by foure corners, and it came euen to me.
6. Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw foure footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and foules of the aire.
7. And I heard a voyce, saying vnto me, Arise Peter, slay, and eate.
8. But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or vncleane hath at any time entred into my mouth.
9. But the voyce answered me againe from heauen, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
10. And this was done three times: and all were drawen vp againe into heauen.
11. And behold, immediately there were three men already come vnto the house where I was, sent from Cesarea vnto me.
12. And the spirit bad me goe with them, nothing doubting: Moreouer, these sixe brethren accompanied me, and we entred into the mans house:
13. And he shewed vs how hee had seene an Angell in his house, which stood and said vnto him, Send men to Ioppa, and call for Simon, whose sirname is Peter:
14. Who shall tell thee words, wherby thou, and all thy house shal be saued.
15. And as I began to speake, the holy Ghost fell on them, as on vs at the beginning.
16. Then remembred I the word of the Lord, how that he said, Iohn indeede baptized with water: but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost.
17. Forasmuch then as God gaue them the like gift as hee did vnto vs, who beleeued on the Lord Iesus Christ: what was I that I could withstand God?
18. When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance vnto life.
19. Now they which were scattered abroad vpon the persecution that arose about Steuen, trauailed as farre as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none, but vnto the Iewes onely.
20. And some of them were men of Cyprus, and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch, spake vnto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Iesus.
21. And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number beleeued, and turned vnto the Lord.
22. Then tidings of these things came vnto the eares of the Church, which was in Hierusalem: and they sent foorth Barnabas, that hee should goe as farre as Antioch.
23. Who when hee came, and had seene the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleaue vnto the Lord.
24. For he was a good man, and full of the holy Ghost, and of faith: and much people was added vnto the Lord.
25. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seeke Saul.
26. And when he had found him, he brought him vnto Antioch. And it came to passe, that a whole yeere they assembled themselues with the Church, and taught much people, and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
27. And in these dayes, came Prophets from Hierusalem vnto Antioch.
28. And there stood vp one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the spirit, that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to passe in the dayes of Claudius Cesar.
29. Then the disciples, euery man according to his abilitie, determined to send reliefe vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iudea.
30. Which also they did, and sent it to the Elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
1. Now about that time, Herode the King stretched foorth his hands, to vexe certaine of the Church.
2. And he killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword.
3. And because he saw it pleased the Iewes, hee proceeded further, to take Peter also. (Then were the dayes of vnleauened bread.)
4. And when hee had apprehended him, hee put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to keepe him, intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
5. Peter therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church vnto God for him.
6. And when Herode would haue brought him foorth, the same night Peter was sleeping betweene two Souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the Keepers before the doore kept the prison.
7. And beholde, the Angel of the Lord came vpon him, and a light shined in the prison: and hee smote Peter on the side, and raised him vp, saying, Arise vp quickely. And his chaines fell off from his hands.
8. And the Angel said vnto him, Girde thy selfe, and binde on thy sandales: And so he did. And he sayth vnto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
9. And hee went out, and followed him, and wist not that it was true which was done by the Angel: but thought he saw a vision.
10. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came vnto the yron gate that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them of his owne accord: and they went out and passed on thorow one streete, and foorthwith the Angel departed from him. 
11. And when Peter was come to himselfe, hee said, Now I know of a suretie, that the Lord hath sent his Angel, and hath deliuered mee out of the hand of Herode, and from all the expectation of the people of the Iewes.
12. And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of Iohn whose sirname was Marke, where many were gathered together praying.
13. And as Peter knocked at the doore of the gate, a damosell came to hearken, named Rhoda.
14. And when she knew Peters voice, she opened not the gate for gladnes, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
15. And they said vnto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was euen so. Then said they, It it his Angel.
16. But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the doore, and saw him, they were astonished.
17. But he beckening vnto them with the hand, to hold their peace, declared vnto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison: And he said, Goe shew these things vnto Iames, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
18. Now assoone as it was day, there was no smal stirre among the souldiers, what was become of Peter.
19. And when Herode had sought for him, and found him not, hee examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And hee went downe from Iudea to Cesarea, & there abode.
20. And Herode was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and hauing made Blastus the kings chamberlaine their friend, desired peace, because their countrey was nourished by the kings countrey.
21. And vpon a set day Herod arayed in royall apparell, sate vpon his throne, and made an Oration vnto them.
22. And the people gaue a shout, saying, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man.
23. And immediatly the Angel of the Lord smote him, because hee gaue not God the glory, and hee was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.
24. But the word of God grewe, and multiplied.
25. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Hierusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministerie, and tooke with them Iohn, whose syrname was Marke.
1. Nowe there were in the Church that was at Antioch, certaine Prophets and teachers: as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had bene brought vp with Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.
2. As they ministred to the Lord, and fasted, the holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the worke whereunto I haue called them.
3. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their handes on them, they sent them away.
4. So they being sent forth by the holy Ghost, departed vnto Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
5. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the Synagogues of the Iewes: and they had also Iohn to their Minister.
6. And when they had gone thorow the Ile vnto Paphos, they found a certaine sorcerer, a false prophet, a Iewe, whose name was Bariesus:
7. Which was with the deputie of the countrey Sergius Paulus, a prudent man: who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the word of God.
8. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turne away the deputy from the faith.
9. Then Saul (who also is called Paul) filled with the holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
10. And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischiefe, thou child of the deuil, thou enemie of all righteousnesse, wilt thou not cease to peruert the right wayes of the Lord?
11. And now behold, the hand of the Lord is vpon thee, & thou shalt be blind, not seeing the Sunne for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkenes, and he went about, seeking some to lead him by the hand.
12. Then the Deputie when he sawe what was done, beleeued, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
13. Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and Iohn departing from them, returned to Hierusalem.
14. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sate downe.
15. And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent vnto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye haue any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16. Then Paul stood vp, and beckning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that feare God, giue audience.
17. The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arme brought he them out of it.
18. And about the time of fourtie yeeres illeg.illeg.suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.
19. And when he had destroyed seuen nations in the land of Chanaan, he diuided their land to them by lot:
20. And after that he gaue vnto them iudges, about the space of foure hundred and fifty yeeres vntill Samuel the Prophet.
21. And afterward they desired a King, and God gaue vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis, a man of the tribe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres.
22. And when he had remoued him, hee raised vp vnto them Dauid to be their king, to whom also he gaue testimonie, and said, I haue found Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after mine own heart, which shal fulfill all my wil.
23. Of this mans seed hath God, according to his promise, raised vnto Israel a Sauiour, Iesus:
24. When Iohn had first preached before his coming, the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25. And as Iohn fulfilled his course, he said, Whom thinke ye that I am? I am not he. But behold, there commeth one after me, whose shooes of his feete I am not worthy to loose.
26. Men and brethren, children of the stocke of Abraham, and whosoeuer among you feareth God, to you is the word of this saluation sent.
27. For they that dwell at Hierusalem, & their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the Prophets which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him.
28. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slaine.
29. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they tooke him downe from the tree, and layd him in a Sepulchre.
30. But God raised him fro the dead:
31. And he was seene many dayes of them which came vp with him from Galilee to Hierusalem, who are his witnesses vnto the people.
32. And we declare vnto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made vnto the fathers,
33. God hath fulfilled the same vnto vs their children, in that he hath raised vp Iesus againe, as it is also written in the second Psalme: Thou art my Sonne, this day haue I begotten thee.
34. And as concerning that he raised him vp from the dead, now no more to returne to corruption, he said on this wise, I will giue you the sure illeg.mercies of Dauid.
35. Wherfore he saith also in another Psalme, Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
36. For Dauid after he had serued his owne generation by the will of God, fell on sleepe, and was laide vnto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37. But hee whom God raised againe, saw no corruption.
38. Be it knowen vnto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenesse of sinnes.
39. And by him all that beleeue, are iustified from all things, from which ye could not be iustified by the Law of Moses.
40. Beware therefore, least that come vpon you which is spoken of in the Prophets,
41. Behold, yee despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I worke a worke in your dayes, a worke which you shall in no wise beleeue, though a man declare it vnto you.
42. And when the Iewes were gone out of the Synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
43. Now when the Congregation was broken vp, many of the Iewes, and religious Proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, perswaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44. And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole citie together to heare the word of God.
45. But when the Iewes saw the multitudes, they were filled with enuie, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting, and blaspheming.
46. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first haue bene spoken to you: but seeing yee put it from you, and iudge your selues vnworthy of euerlasting life, loe, we turne to the Gentiles.
47. For so hath the Lord comanded vs, saying, I haue set thee to bee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for saluation vnto the ends of the earth.
48. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordeined to eternall life, beleeued.
49. And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
50. But the Iewes stirred vp the deuout and honourable women, and the chiefe men of the citie, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
51. But they shooke off the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.
52. And the disciples were filled with ioy, and with the holy Ghost.
1. And it came to passe in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Iewes, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Iewes, and also of the Greekes, beleeued.
2. But the vnbeleeuing Iewes stirred vp the Gentiles, and made their mindes euill affected against the brethren.
3. Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gaue testimonie vnto the word of his grace, and granted signes and wonders to be done by their hands.
4. But the multitude of the city was diuided: and part held with the Iewes, and part with the Apostles.
5. And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Iewes, with their rulers, to vse them despitefully, and to stone them,
6. They were ware of it, and fled vnto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and vnto the region that lyeth round about.
7. And there they preached the Gospell.
8. And there sate a certaine man at Lystra, impotent in his feete, being a creeple from his mothers wombe, who neuer had walked.
9. The same heard Paul speake: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiuing that he had faith to be healed,
10. Said with a lowd voice, Stand vpright on thy feete; And he leaped and walked.
11. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lift vp their voyces, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men.
12. And they called Barnabas Iupiter, and Paul Mercurius, because hee was the chiefe speaker.
13. Then the priest of Iupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen, and garlands vnto the gates, and would haue done sacrifice with the people.
14. Which when the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul heard of, they rent their clothes, and ranne in among the people, crying out,
15. And saying, Sirs, Why doe yee these things? Wee also are men of like passions with you, and preach vnto you, that ye should turne from these vanities, vnto the liuing God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein.
16. Who in times past, suffred all nations to walke in their owne wayes.
17. Neuerthelesse, he left not himselfe without witnesse, in that he did good, and gaue vs raine from heauen, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladnesse.
18. And with these sayings scarse restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice vnto them.
19. And there came thither certaine Iewes from Antioch and Iconium, who perswaded the people, and hauing stoned Paul, drew him out of the citie, supposing he had beene dead.
20. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose vp, and came into the citie, and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
21. And when they had preached the Gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned againe to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
22. Confirming the soules of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, aud that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdome of God.
23. And when they had ordeined them Elders in euery Church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they beleeued.
24. And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
25. And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went downe into Attalia,
26. And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God, for the worke which they fulfilled.
27. And when they were come, and had gathered the Church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the doore of faith vnto the Gentiles.
28. And there they abode long time with the disciples.
1. And certaine men which came downe from Iudea, taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saued.
2. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissention and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certeine other of them, should goe vp to Hierusalem vnto the Apostles and Elders about this question.
3. And being brought on their way by the Church, they passed thorow Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conuersion of the Gentiles: and they caused great ioy vnto all the brethren.
4. And when they were come to Hierusalem, they were receiued of the Church, and of the Apostles, and Elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
5. But there rose vp certaine of the sect of the Pharisees which beleeued, saying, that it was needfull to circumcise them, and to comand them to keepe the Law of Moses.
6. And the Apostles & Elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7. And when there had bene much disputing, Peter rose vp, and said vnto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while agoe, God made choise among vs, that the Gentiles by my mouth should heare the worde of the Gospel, and beleeue.
8. And God which knoweth the hearts, bare them witnes, giuing them the holy Ghost, euen as he did vnto vs,
9. And put no difference between vs & them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10. Now therfore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke vpon the necke of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to beare?
11. But we beleeue that through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ, we shal be saued euen as they.
12. Then all the multitude kept silence, and gaue audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13. And after they had helde their peace, Iames answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken vnto me.
14. Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visite the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his Name.
15. And to this agree the words of the Prophets, as it is written,
16. After this I will returne, and wil build againe the Tabernacle of Dauid, which is fallen downe: and I will build againe the ruines thereof, and I will set it vp:
17. That the residue of men might seeke after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, vpon whom my Name is called, sayth the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18. Knowen vnto God are all his workes fro the beginning of the world.
19. Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20. But that wee write vnto them, that they abstaine from pollutions of Idoles, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21. For Moses of olde time hath in euery citie them that preach him, being read in the Synagogues euery Sabbath day.
22. Then pleased it the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church, to send chosen men of their owne company to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas: namely, Iudas surnamed Barsabas, & Silas, chiefe men among the brethren,
23. And wrote letters by them after this maner, The Apostles and Elders, and brethren, send greeting vnto the brethren, which are of the Gentiles in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia.
24. Forasmuch as we haue heard, that certaine which went out from vs, haue troubled you with words, subuerting your soules, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keepe the Law, to whom we gaue no such commandement:
25. It seemed good vnto vs, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,
26. Men that haue hazarded their liues for the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ.
27. Wee haue sent therefore Iudas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
28. For it seemed good to the holy Ghost, and to vs, to lay vpon you no greater burden then these necessarie things;
29. That ye abstaine from meates offered to idoles, and from blood, & from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, yee shall doe well. Fare ye well.
30. So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they deliuered the Epistle.
31. Which when they had read, they reioyced for the consolation.
32. And Iudas and Silas, being Prophets also themselues, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them:
33. And after they had taried there a space, they were let goe in peace from the breehren vnto the Apostles.
34. Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
35. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
36. And some dayes after, Paul said vnto Barnabas, Let vs go againe and visit our brethren, in euery city where we haue preached the word of the Lord, and see how they doe.
37. And Barnabas determined to take with them Iohn, whose surname was Marke.
38. But Paul thought not good to take him with them; who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the worke.
39. And the contention was so sharpe betweene them, that they departed asunder one from the other: & so Barnabas tooke Marke, & sailed vnto Cyprus.
40. And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren vnto the grace of God.
41. And he went thorow Syria and Cilicia, confirming the Churches.
1. Then came he to Derbe, and Lystra: and behold, a certaine disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certaine woman which was a Iewesse, and beleeued: but his father was a Greeke:
2. Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
3. Him would Paul haue to go forth with him, and tooke, and circumcised him, because of the Iewes which were in those quarters: for they knew all, that his father was a Greeke.
4. And as they went through the cities, they deliuered them the decrees for to keepe, that were ordeined of the Apostles and Elders, which were at Hierusalem.
5. And so were the Churches established in the faith, and increased in number dayly.
6. Now when they had gone thorowout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
7. After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to goe into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
8. And they passing by Mysia, came downe to Troas.
9. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come ouer into Macedonia, and helpe vs.
10. And after he had seene the vision, immediatly we endeuoured to goe into Macedonia, assuredly gathering, that the Lord had called vs for to preach the Gospel vnto them.
11. Therfore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis:
12. And from thence to Philippi, which is the chiefe citie of that part of Macedonia, and a Colonie: and we were in that citie abiding certaine dayes.
13. And on the Sabboth we went out of the citie by a riuer side, where prayer was wont to be made, & we sate downe, and spake vnto the women which resorted thither.
14. And a certaine woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the citie of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard vs: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended vnto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15. And when she was baptized, and her houshold, she besought vs, saying, If ye haue iudged me to bee faithfull to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained vs.
16. And it came to passe, as we went to prayer, a certaine Damosell possessed with a spirit of diuination, met vs: which brought her masters much gaine by soothsaying.
17. The same followed Paul and vs, and cried, saying, These men are the seruants of the most hie God, which shew vnto vs the way of saluation.
18. And this did she many dayes: but Paul being grieued, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the Name of Iesus Christ, to come out of her. And he came out the same houre.
19. And when her Masters saw that the hope of their gaines was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the market place, vnto the rulers,
20. And brought them to the Magistrates, saying, These men being Iewes, do exceedingly trouble our city,
21. And teach customes which are not lawfull for vs to receiue, neither to obserue, being Romanes.
22. And the multitude rose vp together against them, and the Magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beate them.
23. And when they had layed many stripes vpon them, they cast them into prison, charging the Iaylour to keepe them safely.
24. Who hauing receiued such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, & made their feet fast in the stockes.
25. And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises vnto God: and the prisoners heard them.
26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doores were opened, and euery ones bands were loosed.
27. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleepe, and seeing the prison doores open, he drew out his sword, and would haue killed himselfe, supposing that the prisoners had beene fled.
28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Doe thy selfe no harme, for we are all heere.
29. Then hee called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell downe before Paul and Silas,
30. And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I doe to be saued?
31. And they saide, Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ, and thou shalt be saued, and thy house.
32. And they spake vnto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
33. And hee tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized, hee and all his, straightway.
34. And when he had brought them into his house, hee set meat before them, and reioyced, beleeuing in God with all his house.
35. And when it was day, the Magistrates sent the Sergeants, saying, Let those men goe.
36. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The Magistrates haue sent to let you goe: Now therefore depart, and goe in peace.
37. But Paul said vnto them, They haue beaten vs openly vncondemned, being Romanes, and haue cast vs into prison, and now doe they thrust vs out priuily? Nay verily, but let them come themselues, and fetch vs out.
38. And the Sergeants tolde these words vnto the Magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romanes.
39. And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.
40. And they went out of the prison, and entred into the house of Lydia, and when they had seene the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
1. Now when they had passed thorow Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Iewes.
2. And Paul, as his maner was, went in vnto them, and three Sabbath dayes reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,
3. Opening and alleadging, that Christ must needs haue suffered and risen againe from the dead: and that this Iesus whom I preach vnto you, is Christ.
4. And some of them beleeued, and consorted with Paul and Silas: and of the deuout Greekes a great multitude, and of the chiefe women not a few.
5. But the Iewes which beleeued not, mooued with enuie, tooke vnto them certaine lewd fellowes of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the citie on an vprore, and assaulted the house of Iason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
6. And when they found them not, they drew Iason, and certaine brethren vnto the rulers of the citie, crying, These that haue turned the world vpside downe, are come hither also,
7. Whom Iason hath receiued: and these all doe contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, that there is another King, one Iesus.
8. And they troubled the people, and the rulers of the citie, when they heard these things.
9. And when they had taken securitie of Iason, and of the other, they let them goe.
10. And the brethren immediatly sent away Paul and Silas by night vnto Berea: who comming thither, went into the Synagogue of the Iewes.
11. These were more noble then those in Thessalonica, in that they receiued the word with all readinesse of minde, and searched the Scriptures dayly, whether those things were so.
12. Therefore many of them beleeued: also of honourable women which were Greekes, and of men not a few.
13. But when the Iewes of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred vp the people.
14. And then immediatly the brethren sent away Paul, to goe as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
15. And they that conducted Paul, brought him vnto Athens, and receiuing a commaundement vnto Silas and Timotheus, for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when hee saw the city wholy giuen to idolatrie.
17. Therefore disputed he in the Synagogue with the Iewes, and with the deuout persons, and in the market dayly with them that met with him.
18. Then certaine Philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoikes, encountred him: and some said, What will this babbler say? Othersome, He seemeth to be a setter foorth of strange gods: because hee preached vnto them Iesus, and the resurrection. 
19. And they tooke him, and brought him vnto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
20. For thou bringest certaine strange things to our eares: we would know therefore what these things meane.
21. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to heare some new thing.)
22. Then Paul stood in the mids of Mars-hill, and said, Yee men of Athens, I perceiue that in all things yee are too superstitious.
23. For as I passed by, and beheld your deuotions, I found an Altar with this inscription, TO THE VNKNOWEN GOD. Whom therefore yee ignorantly worship, him declare I vnto you.
24. God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that hee is Lord of heauen and earth, dwelleth not in Temples made with hands:
25. Neither is worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing, seeing hee giueth to all, life and breath, and all things,
26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation:
27. That they should seeke the Lord, if haply they might feele after him and finde him, though he be not farre from euery one of vs.
28. For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as certaine also of your owne Poets haue said, For we are also his offspring.
29. Forasmuch then as wee are the offspring of God, wee ought not to thinke that the Godhead is like vnto golde, or siluer, or stone grauen by arte, and mans deuice.
30. And the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men euery where to repent:
31. Because hee hath appointed a day in the which he will iudge the world in righteousnesse, by that man whom hee hath ordeined, whereof he hath giuen assurance vnto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, Wee will heare thee againe of this matter.
33. So Paul departed from among them.
34. Howbeit, certaine men claue vnto him, and beleeued: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
1. After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth,
2. And found a certaine Iewe named Aquila, borne in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, (because that Claudius had commanded all Iewes to depart from Rome) and came vnto them.
3. And because hee was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought (for by their occupation they were tentmakers.)
4. And hee reasoned in the Synagogue euery Sabbath, and perswaded the Iewes, and the Greekes.
5. And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in spirit, and testified to the Iewes, that Iesus was Christ.
6. And when they opposed themselues, and blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, and said vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne heads, I am cleane: from henceforth I will goe vnto the Gentiles.
7. And hee departed thence, and entred into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, one that worshipped God, whose house ioyned hard to the Synagogue.
8. And Crispus, the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, beleeued on the Lord, with all his house: and many of the Corinthians, hearing, beleeued, and were baptized.
9. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speake, and holde not thy peace:
10. For I am with thee, and no man shal set on thee, to hurt thee: for I haue much people in this city.
11. And hee continued there a yeere and sixe monethes, teaching the word of God among them.
12. And when Gallio was the Deputie of Achaia, the Iewes made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the iudgement seat,
13. Saying, This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the Law.
14. And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said vnto the Iewes, If it were a matter of wrong, or wicked lewdnesse, O yee Iewes, reason would that I should beare with you.
15. But if it be a question of words, and names, and of your law, looke ye to it: for I wil be no iudge of such matters.
16. And he draue them from the iudgment seate.
17. Then all the Greekes tooke Sosthenes the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, and beat him before the Iudgement seat: and Gallio cared for none of those things.
18. And Paul after this taried there yet a good while, and then tooke his leaue of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: hauing shorne his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
19. And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himselfe entred into the Synagogue, and reasoned with the Iewes.
20. When they desired him to tary longer time with them, hee consented not:
21. But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all meanes keepe this feast that commeth, in Hierusalem; but I will returne againe vnto you, if God will: and he sailed from Ephesus.
22. And when he had landed at Cesarea, and gone vp, and saluted the Church, he went downe to Antioch.
23. And after he had spent some time there, hee departed, and went ouer all the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
24. And a certaine Iew, named Apollos, borne at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mightie in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being feruent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing onely the baptisme of Iohn.
26. And he began to speake boldly in the Synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they tooke him vnto them, and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly.
27. And when hee was disposed to passe into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receiue him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had beleeued throgh grace.
28. For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ.
1. And it came to passe, that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul hauing passed thorow the vpper coasts, came to Ephesus, and finding certaine disciples,
2. He said vnto them, Haue ye receiued the holy Ghost since yee beleeued? And they saide vnto him, Wee haue not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost.
3. And he said vnto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they saide, Unto Iohns Baptisme.
4. Then saide Paul, Iohn verely baptized with the baptisme of repentance, saying vnto the people, that they should beleeue on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Iesus.
5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Iesus.
6. And when Paul had laide his hands vpon them, the holy Ghost came on them, and they spake with tongues, and prophecied.
7. And all ye men were about twelue.
8. And hee went into the Synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three moneths, disputing and perswading the things concerning the Kingdome of God.
9. But when diuers were hardened, and beleeued not, but spake euill of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the schoole of one Tyrannus.
10. And this continued by the space of two yeeres, so that all they which dwelt in Asia, heard the word of the Lord Iesus, both Iewes and Greeks.
11. And God wrought speciall miracles by the hands of Paul:
12. So that from his body were brought vnto the sicke handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the euill spirits went out of them.
13. Then certaine of the vagabond Iewes, exorcistes, tooke vpon them to call ouer them which had euill spirits, the Name of the Lord Iesus, saying, We adiure you by Iesus whom Paul preacheth.
14. And there were seuen sonnes of one Sceua a Iewe, and chiefe of the Priests, which did so.
15. And the euill spirit answered, and said, Iesus I knowe, and Paul I know, but who are ye?
16. And the man in whom the euill spirit was, leapt on them, and ouercame them, and preuailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17. And this was knowen to all the Iewes and Greekes also dwelling at Ephesus, and feare fell on them all, and the Name of the Lord Iesus was magnified.
18. And many that beleeued came, and confessed, and shewed their deedes.
19. Many also of them which vsed curious arts, brought their bookes together and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of siluer.
20. So mightily grew the word of God, and preuailed.
21. After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when hee had passed thorow Macedonia and Athaia, to go to Hierusalem, saying, After I haue bin there, I must also see Rome.
22. So hee sent into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto him, Timotheus and Erastus, but he himselfe stayed in Asia for a season.
23. And the same time there arose no small stirre about that way.
24. For a certaine man named Demetrius, a siluer smith, which made siluer shrines for Diana, brought no small gaine vnto the craftsmen:
25. Whom he called together, with the workemen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we haue our wealth.
26. Moreouer, ye see & heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying, that they bee no gods, which are made with hands.
27. So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought: but also that the Temple of the great goddesse Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia, and the world worshippeth.
28. And when they heard these sayings, they were ful of wrath, & cried out, saying, Great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
29. And the whole citie was filled with confusion, and hauing caught Gaius and Aristarchus men of Macedonia Pauls companions in trauaile, they rushed with one accord into the Theatre.
30. And when Paul would haue entred in vnto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
31. And certaine of the chiefe of Asia, which were his friends, sent vnto him, desiring him that he would not aduenture himselfe into the Theatre.
32. Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
33. And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Iewes putting him forward. And Alexander beckened with the hand, and would haue made his defence vnto the people.
34. But when they knew that he was a Iewe, all with one voyce about the space of two houres cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
35. And when the towne clarke had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the citie of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddesse Diana, and of the image which fell downe from Iupiter?
36. Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to doe nothing rashly.
37. For ye haue brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of Churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddesse:
38. Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftesmen which are with him, haue a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies, let them implead one another.
39. But if yee enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shalbe determined in a lawfull assembly.
40. For we are in danger to be called in question for this dayes vprore, there being no cause whereby we may giue an accompt of this concourse.
41. And when hee had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
1. And after the vprore was ceased, Paul called vnto him the disciples, and imbraced them, & departed, for to go into Macedonia.
2. And when he had gone ouer those parts, and had giuen them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
3. And there abode three moneths: and when the Iewes layed waite for him, as hee was about to saile into Syria, hee purposed to returne thorow Macedonia.
4. And there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Berea: and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus: and of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.
5. These going before, taried for vs at Troas:
6. And wee sailed away from Philippi, after the dayes of vnleauened bread, and came vnto them to Troas in fiue dayes, where we abode seuen daies.
7. And vpon the first day of the weeke, when the disciples came together to breake bread, Paul preached vnto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speach vntill midnight.
8. And there were many lights in the vpper chamber where they were gathered together.
9. And there sate in a window a certaine yong man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deepe sleepe, and as Paul was long preaching, hee sunke downe with sleepe, and fel downe from the third loft, and was taken vp dead.
10. And Paul went downe, and fell on him, and embracing him, saide, Trouble not your selues, for his life is in him.
11. When hee therefore was come vp againe, & had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, euen till breake of day, so he departed.
12. And they brought the yong man aliue, and were not a little comforted.
13. And wee went before to ship, and sailed vnto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had hee appointed, minding himselfe to goe afoote.
14. And when he met with vs at Assos, wee tooke him in, and came to Mitylene.
15. And wee sailed thence, and came the next day ouer against Chios, and the next day we arriued at Samos, and taried at Trogyllium: and the next day we came to Miletus.
16. For Paul had determined to saile by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Hierusalem the day of Pentecost.
17. And from Miletus hee sent to Ephesus, and called the Elders of the Church.
18. And when they were come to him, he said vnto them, Ye know from the first day that I came into Asia, after what maner I haue bene with you at all seasons,
19. Seruing the Lord with all humilitie of minde, and with many teares, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Iewes:
20. And how I kept backe nothing that was profitable vnto you, but haue shewed you, and haue taught you publikely, and from house to house,
21. Testifying both to the Iewes and also to the Greekes, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Iesus Christ.
22. And now behold, I goe bound in the spirit vnto Hierusalem, not knowing the things that shal befall me there:
23. Saue that the holy Ghost witnesseth in euery city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
24. But none of these things mooue me, neither count I my life deare vnto my self, so that I might finish my course with ioy, & the ministery which I haue receiued of the Lord Iesus, to testifie the Gospel of the grace of God.
25. And now behold, I know that ye all, among whom I haue gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
26. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
27. For I haue not shunned to declare vnto you all the counsell of God.
28. Take heed therefore vnto your selues, & to all the flocke, ouer the which the holy Ghost hath made you ouerseers, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29. For I know this, that after my departing shall grieuous wolues enter in among you, not sparing the flocke.
30. Also of your owne selues shal men arise, speaking peruerse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31. Therefore watch, and remember that by the space of three yeeres, I ceased not to warne euery one night and day with teares.
32. And now brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you vp, and to giue you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
33. I haue coueted no mans siluer, or golde, or apparell.
34. Yea, you your selues know, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35. I haue shewed you all things, how that so labouring, yee ought to support the weake, and to remember the words of the Lord Iesus, how he said, It is more blessed to giue, then to receiue.
36. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled downe, & prayed with them all.
37. And they all wept sore, and fell on Pauls necke, and kissed him,
38. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him vnto the ship.
1. And it came to passe, that after wee were gotten fro them, and had lanched, wee came with a straight course vnto Choos, and the day following vnto Rhodes, and from thence vnto Patara.
2. And finding a ship sailing ouer vnto Phenicea, wee went abroad, and set foorth.
3. Now when wee had discouered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the shippe was to vnlade her burden.
4. And finding disciples, wee taried there seuen dayes: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that hee should not goe vp to Hierusalem.
5. And when we had accomplished those dayes, we departed, and went our way, and they all brought vs on our way, with wiues and children, till wee were out of the citie: and wee kneeled downe on the shore, and prayed.
6. And when we had taken our leaue one of another, we tooke ship, and they returned home againe.
7. And when wee had finished our course from Tyre, wee came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.
8. And the next day we that were of Pauls company, departed, and came vnto Cesarea, and wee entred into the house of Philip the Euangelist (which was one of the seuen) & abode with him.
9. And ye same man had foure daughters, virgins, which did prophesie.
10. And as wee taried there many dayes, there came downe from Iudea a certaine Prophet, named Agabus.
11. And when he was come vnto vs, he tooke Pauls girdle, and bound his owne hands and feete, and said, Thus sayth the holy Ghost, So shall the Iewes at Hierusalem binde the man that oweth this girdle, and shall deliuer him into the hands of the Gentiles.
12. And when we heard these things, both we and they of that place, besought him not to goe vp to Hierusalem.
13. Then Paul answered, What meane ye to weepe and to breake mine heart? for I am ready, not to bee bound onely, but also to die at Hierusalem for the Name of the Lord Iesus.
14. And when he would not bee perswaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
15. And after those dayes we tooke vp our cariages, & went vp to Hierusalem.
16. There went with vs also certaine of the disciples of Cesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with who we should lodge.
17. And when we were come to Hierusalem, the brethren receiued vs gladly
18. And the day following Paul went in with vs vnto Iames, and all the Elders were present.
19. And when hee had saluted them, hee declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministerie.
20. And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, & said vnto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Iewes there are which beleeue, and they are all zealous of the Law.
21. And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Iewes which are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, saying, that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walke after the customes.
22. What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will heare that thou art come.
23. Doe therefore this that we say to thee: Wee haue foure men which haue a vow on them,
24. Then take, and purifie thy selfe with them, & bee at charges with them, that they may shaue their heads: and all may know that those things wherof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing, but that thou thy selfe also walkest orderly, and keepest the Law.
25. As touching the Gentiles which beleeue, wee haue written and concluded, that they obserue no such thing, saue onely that they keepe themselues from things offered to idoles, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
26. Then Paul tooke the men, and the next day purifying himselfe with them, entred into the Temple, to signifie the accomplishment of the dayes of purification, vntill that an offering should be offered for euery one of them:
27. And when the seuen dayes were almost ended, the Iewes which were of Asia, when they saw him in the Temple, stirred vp all the people, and laide hands on him,
28. Crying out, Men of Israel, helpe: this is ye man that teacheth al men euery where against the people, and the law, and this place: and farther brought Greeks also into the Temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
29. (For they had seene before with him in the citie, Trophimus an Ephesian, whome they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple.)
30. And all the citie was moued, and the people ran together: and they tooke Paul, and drew him out of the Temple: and forthwith the doores were shut.
31. And as they went about to kil him, tidings came vnto the chiefe captaine of the band, that all Hierusalem was in an vprore.
32. Who immediatly tooke souldiers, and Centurions, and ran downe vnto them: and when they saw the chiefe captaine and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul.
33. Then the chiefe captain came neere, and tooke him, & commanded him to be bound with two chains, and demanded who he was, and what hee had done.
34. And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certaintie for the tumult, he commanded him to be caried into the castle.
35. And when he came vpon ye staires, so it was that he was borne of the souldiers, for the violence of the people.
36. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
37. And as Paul was to bee led into the castle, hee saide vnto the chiefe captaine, May I speake vnto thee? Who saide, Canst thou speake Greeke?
38. Art not thou that Egyptian which before these daies madest an vprore, and leddest out into the wildernesse foure thousand men that were murtherers?
39. But Paul said, I am a man which am a Iew of Tarsus, a citie in Cilicia, a citizen of no meane citie: & I beseech thee suffer me to speake vnto the people.
40. And when he had giuen him licence, Paul stood on the staires, and beckened with the hand vnto the people: and when there was made a great silence, he spake vnto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying.
1. Men, brethren, and fathers, heare ye my defence which I make now vnto you.
2. (And when they heard that hee spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
3. I am verely a man which am a Iew, borne in Tarsus a citie in Cilicia, yet brought vp in this citie at the feete of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect maner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous towards God, as ye all are this day. 
4. And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prisons both men and women,
5. As also the high Priest doth beare me witnesse, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I receiued letters vnto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there, bound vnto Hierusalem, for to be punished.
6. And it came to passe, that as I made my iourney, & was come nigh vnto Damascus about noone, suddenly there shone from heauen a great light round about me.
7. And I fell vnto the ground, and heard a voice saying vnto mee, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
8. And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said vnto me, I am Iesus of Nazareth who thou persecutest.
9. And they that were with me saw indeede the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
10. And I saide, What shall I doe, Lord? And the Lord said vnto me, Arise, and goe into Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to doe.
11. And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
12. And one Ananias, a deuout man according to the law, hauing a good report of al the Iewes which dwelt there,
13. Came vnto me, and stood, & said vnto me, Brother Saul, receiue thy sight. And the same houre I looked vp vpon him.
14. And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, & see that Iust one, and shouldest heare the voice of his mouth.
15. For thou shalt be his witnes vnto al men, of what thou hast seene & heard.
16. And now, why tariest thou? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sinnes, calling on the name of the Lord.
17. And it came to passe, that when I was come againe to Hierusalem, euen while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance,
18. And saw him saying vnto mee, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Hierusalem: for they will not receiue thy testimony concerning me.
19. And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in euery synagogue them that beleeued on thee.
20. And when ye blood of thy martyr Steuen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting vnto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
21. And he said vnto me, Depart: for I will send thee farre hence, vnto the Gentiles.
22. And they gaue him audience vnto this word, and then lift vp their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should liue.
23. And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, & threw dust into the aire,
24. The chiefe captaine commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that hee should be examined by scourging: that he might know wherfore they cried so against him.
25. And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said vnto the Centurion that stood by, Is it lawfull for you to scourge a man that is a Romane, and vncondemned?
26. When the Centurion heard that, hee went and told the chiefe captaine, saying, Take heede what thou doest, for this man is a Romane.
27. Then the chiefe captaine came; and said vnto him, Tell me, art thou a Romane? He said, Yea.
28. And the chiefe captaine answered, With a great summe obteined I this freedome. And Paul said, But I was free borne.
29. Then straightway they departed from him which should haue examined him: and the chiefe captaine also was afraid after he knew that he was a Romane, & because he had bound him.
30. On the morrow, because he would haue knowen the certaintie wherefore he was accused of the Iewes, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chiefe Priests and all their Councill to appeare, and brought Paul downe, and set him before them.
1. And Paul earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I haue liued in all good conscience before God vntill this day.
2. And the high Priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him, to smite him on the mouth.
3. Then saith Paul vnto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to iudge mee after the Law, and commandest mee to be smitten contrary to the Law?
4. And they that stood by, said, Reuilest thou Gods high Priest?
5. Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that hee was the high Prist: For it is written, Thou shalt not speake euill of the ruler of thy people.
6. But when Paul perceiued that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, hee cryed out in the Councill, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the sonne of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead, I am called in question.
7. And when hee had so said, there arose a dissension betweene the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was diuided.
8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither Angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confesse both.
9. And there arose a great cry: and the Scribes that were of the Pharisees part arose, and stroue, saying, Wee finde no euill in this man: but if a spirit or an Angel hath spoken to him, let vs not fight against God.
10. And when there arose a great dissension, the chiefe captaine fearing lest Paul should haue bene pulled in pieces of them, commanded the souldiers to goe downe, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
11. And the night folowing, the Lord stood by him, and saide, Bee of good cheere, Paul: for as thou hast testified of mee in Hierusalem, so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome.
12. And when it was day, certaine of the Iewes banded together, and bound themselues vnder a curse, saying, that they would neither eate nor drinke till they had killed Paul.
13. And they were more then fourtie which had made this conspiracie.
14. And they came to the chiefe Priests and Elders, and said, Wee haue bound our selues vnder a great curse, that wee will eate nothing vntill wee haue slaine Paul.
15. Now therefore ye with the Councill, signifie to the chiefe captaine that he bring him downe vnto you to morrow, as though yee would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or euer he come neere, are ready to kill him.
16. And when Pauls sisters sonne heard of their laying in wait, hee went and entred into the castle, & told Paul.
17. Then Paul called one of the Centurions vnto him, and said, Bring this yong man vnto the chiefe captaine: for he hath a certaine thing to tell him.
18. So he took him, and brought him to the chiefe captaine, and said, Paul the prisoner called me vnto him, and praied mee to bring this yong man vnto thee, who hath something to say vnto thee.
19. Then the chiefe captaine tooke him by the hand, and went with him aside priuately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
20. And he said, The Iewes haue agreed to desire thee, that thou wouldest bring downe Paul to morrow into the Council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
21. But do not thou yeeld vnto them: for there lie in wait for him of them moe then fourtie men, which haue bound themselues with an othe, that they will neither eate nor drinke, till they haue killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
22. So the chiefe captaine then let the yong man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man, that thou hast shewed these things to me.
23. And he called vnto him two Centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred souldiers to goe to Cesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearemen two hundred, at the third houre of the night.
24. And prouide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe vnto Felix the gouernour.
25. And hee wrote a letter after this manner:
26. Claudius Lysias, vnto the most excellent Gouernour Felix, sendeth greeting.
27. This man was taken of the Iewes and should haue beene killed of them: Then came I with an armie, and rescued him, hauing vnderstood that he was a Romane.
28. And when I would haue knowen the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him foorth into their Council.
29. Whom I perceiued to be accused of questions of their lawe, but to haue nothing laide to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
30. And when it was tolde me, how that the Iewes laid waite for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gaue commandement to his accusers also, to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
31. Then the souldiers, as it was commaunded them, tooke Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
32. On the morow, they left the horsemen to goe with him, and returned to the castle.
33. Who when they came to Cesarea, and deliuered the Epistle to the gouernour, presented Paul also before him.
34. And when the gouernour had read the letter, he asked of what prouince he was. And when he vnderstood that he was of Cilicia:
35. I will heare thee, said hee, when thine accusers are also come. And hee commanded him to be kept in Herods iudgement hall.
1. And after fiue dayes, Ananias the hie Priest descended with the Elders, and with a certaine Oratour named Tertullus, who enformed the gouernour against Paul.
2. And when he was called foorth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enioy great quietnesse, and that very worthy deeds are done vnto this natio by thy prouidence:
3. Wee accept it alwayes, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulnesse.
4. Notwithstanding, that I be not farther tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy clemencie a few words.
5. For we haue found this man a pestilent fellow, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
6. Who also hath gone about to profane the Temple: whom we tooke, and would haue iudged according to our lawe.
7. But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him away out of our hands:
8. Commanding his accusers to come vnto thee, by examining of whom thy selfe mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
9. And the Iewes also assented, saying that these things were so.
10. Then Paul, after that the gouernour had beckened vnto him to speake, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many yeeres a Iudge vnto this nation, I do the more cheerefully answere for my selfe:
11. Because that thou mayest vnderstand, that there are yet but twelue dayes, since I went vp to Hierusalem for to worship.
12. And they neither found me in the Temple disputing with any man, neither raising vp the people, neither in the Synagogues, nor in the citie:
13. Neither can they proue the things whereof they now accuse me.
14. But this I confesse vnto thee, that after the way which they call heresie, so worship I the God of my fathers, beleeuing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets,
15. And haue hope towards God, which they themselues also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the iust and vniust.
16. And herein doe I exercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
17. Now after many yeeres, I came to bring almes to my nation, & offrings:
18. Wherupon certaine Iewes from Asia found me purified in the Temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult:
19. Who ought to haue beene here before thee, and obiect, if they had ought against me.
20. Or else let these same here say, if they haue found any euill doing in mee, while I stood before the Councill,
21. Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
22. And when Felix heard these things, hauing more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them and said, When Lysias the chiefe captaine shall come downe, I will know the vttermost of your matter.
23. And he commanded a Centurion to keepe Paul, and to let him haue libertie, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister, or come vnto him.
24. And after certaine dayes, when Felix came with his wife Orusilla, which was a Iew, he sent for Paul, and heard him cocerning the faith in Christ.
25. And as he reasoned of righteousnesse, temperance, and iudgement to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go thy way for this time, when I haue a conuenient season, I will call for thee.
26. He hoped also that money should haue bene giuen him of Paul, that hee might loose him: wherefore hee sent for him the oftner, and comuned with him.
27. But after two yeeres, Portius Festus came into Felix roome: and Felix willing to shew the Iewes a pleasure, left Paul bound.
1. Nowe when Festus was come into the prouince, after three dayes he ascended fro Cesarea to Hierusalem.
2. Then the high Priest, and the chiefe of the Iewes informed him against Paul, and besought him,
3. And desired fauour against him, that he would send for him to Hierusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
4. But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Cesarea, and that hee himselfe would depart shortly thither.
5. Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go downe with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickednesse in him.
6. And when hee had taried among them more then ten dayes, hee went downe vnto Cesarea, and the next day sitting in the iudgement seat, commanded Paul to be brought.
7. And when hee was come, the Iewes which came downe from Hierusalem, stood round about, and laide many and grieuous complaints against Paul, which they could not proue,
8. While hee answered for himselfe, Neither against the law of the Iewes, neither against the Temple, nor yet against Cesar, haue I offended any thing at all.
9. But Festus willing to doe the Iewes a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou goe vp to Hierusalem, and there be iudged of these things before me?
10. Then said Paul, I stand at Cesars iudgement seat, where I ought to bee iudged; to the Iewes haue I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
11. For if I be an offender, or haue committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliuer me vnto them. I appeale vnto Cesar.
12. Then Festus when he had conferred with the Councill, answered, Hast thou appealed vnto Cesar? vnto Cesar shalt thou goe.
13. And after certaine dayes, king Agrippa and Bernice, came vnto Cesarea, to salute Festus.
14. And when they had beene there many dayes, Festus declared Pauls cause vnto the king, saying, There is a certaine man left in bonds by Felix:
15. About whom when I was at Hierusalem, the chiefe Priests and the Elders of the Iewes enformed me, desiring to haue iudgement against him.
16. To whom I answered, It is not the maner of the Romanes to deliuer any man to die, before that he which is accused, haue the accusers face to face, and haue licence to answere for himselfe concerning the crime laid against him.
17. Therefore when they were come hither, without any delay, on the morrow I sate on the iudgement seate, and comanded the man to be brought forth.
18. Against whom when the accusers stood vp, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
19. But had certaine questions against him of their owne superstition, and of one Iesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be aliue.
20. And because I doubted of such maner of questions, I asked him whether he would goe to Hierusalem, and there be iudged of these matters.
21. But when Paul had appealed to bee reserued vnto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Cesar.
22. Then Agrippa said vnto Festus, I would also heare the man my selfe. To morrow, said he, thou shalt heare him.
23. And on the morrow when Agrippa was come and Bernice, with great pompe, and was entred into the place of hearing, with the chiefe captaines, and principall men of the citie; at Festus commaundement Paul was brought foorth.
24. And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are heere present with vs, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Iewes haue dealt with me, both at Hierusalem, and also heere, crying that he ought not to liue any longer.
25. But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himselfe hath appealed to Augustus, I haue determined to send him.
26. Of whom I haue no certaine thing to write vnto my Lord: Wherefore I haue brought him foorth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that after examination had, I might haue somewhat to write.
27. For it seemeth to me vnreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him.
1. Then Agrippa said vnto Paul, Thou art permitted to speake for thy selfe. Then Paul stretched foorth the hand, and answered for himselfe,
2. I thinke my selfe happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answere for my selfe this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Iewes:
3. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customes and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee to heare mee patiently.
4. My maner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine owne nation at Hierusalem, know all the Iewes,
5. Which knew me from the beginning, (if they would testifie) that after the most straitest sect of our religion, I liued a Pharisee.
6. And now I stand, and am iudged for the hope of the promise made of God vnto our fathers:
7. Vnto which promise our twelue tribes instantly seruing God day and night, hope to come: For which hopes sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Iewes.
8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9. I verily thought with my selfe, that I ought to doe many things contrary to the name of Iesus of Nazareth:
10. Which thing I also did in Hierusalem, and many of the Saints did I shut vp in prison, hauing receiued authoritie from the chiefe Priests, and when they were put to death, I gaue my voyce against them.
11. And I punished them oft in euery Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities.
12. Whereupon, as I went to Damascus, with authoritie and commission from the chiefe Priests:
13. At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heauen, aboue the brightnes of the Sunne, shining round about mee, and them which iourneyed with me.
14. And when wee were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against the prickes.
15. And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And hee said, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.
16. But rise, and stand vpon thy feete, for I haue appeared vnto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witnesse, both of these things which thou hast seene, & of those things in the which I will appeare vnto thee,
17. Deliuering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, vnto whom now I send thee,
18. To open their eyes, and to turne them from darknesse to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenesse of sinnes, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
19. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient vnto the heauenly vision:
20. But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Hierusalem, and thorowout all the coasts of Iudea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, and do works meete for repentance.
21. For these causes the Iewes caught mee in the Temple, and went about to kill me.
22. Hauing therefore obteined helpe of God, I continue vnto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come:
23. That Christ should suffer, and that hee should be the first that should rise from the dead, & should shew light vnto the people, and to the Gentiles.
24. And as hee thus spake for himselfe, Festus saide with a lowd voyce, Paul, thou art beside thy selfe, much learning doeth make thee mad.
25. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speake foorth the words of trueth and sobernesse.
26. For the King knoweth of these things, before whom also I speake freely: for I am perswaded, that none of these things are hidden from him, for this thing was not done in a corner.
27. King Agrippa, beleeuest thou the Prophets? I know that thou beleeuest.
28. Then Agrippa saide vnto Paul, Almost thou perswadest mee to bee a Christian.
29. And Paul said, I would to God, that not onely thou, but also all that heare mee this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
30. And when hee had thus spoken, the king rose vp, and the gouernour, and Bernice, & they that sate with them.
31. And when they were gone aside, they talked betweene themselues, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death, or of bonds.
32. Then said Agrippa vnto Festus, This man might haue bene set at libertie, if he had not appealed vnto Cesar.
1. And when it was determined, that wee should saile into Italy, they deliuered Paul, & certaine other prisoners, vnto one named Iulius, a centurion of Augustus band.
2. And entring into a ship of Adramyttium, wee lanched, meaning to saile by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarchus a Macedonian, of Thessalonica, beeing with vs.
3. And the next day wee touched at Sidon: And Iulius courteously entreated Paul, and gaue him libertie to goe vnto his friends to refresh himselfe.
4. And when we had lanched from thence, we sailed vnder Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
5. And when we had sailed ouer the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, wee came to Myra a citie of Lysia.
6. And there the Centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy, and he put vs therein.
7. And when wee had sailed slowly many dayes, and scarse were come ouer against Gnidus, the wind not suffering vs, wee sailed vnder Creete, ouer against Salmone,
8. And hardly passing it, came vnto a place which is called the Faire hauens, nigh whereunto was the citie of Lasea.
9. Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the Fast was now alreadie past, Paul admonished them,
10. And said vnto them, Sirs, I perceiue that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not onely of the lading & ship, but also of our liues.
11. Neuerthelesse, the Centurion beleeued the master and the owner of the shippe, more then those things which were spoken by Paul.
12. And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence also, if by any meanes they might attaine to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an hauen of Creete, and lieth toward the Southwest, and Northwest.
13. And when the South wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Creete.
14. But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous winde, called Euroclydon.
15. And when the ship was caught, and could not beare vp into the winde, we let her driue.
16. And running vnder a certaine yland, which is called Clauda, wee had much worke to come by the boate:
17. Which when they had taken vp, they vsed helps, vnder-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall into the quicke-sands, strake saile, and so were driuen.
18. And being exceedingly tossed with a tempest the next day, they lightened the ship:
19. And the third day we cast out with our owne handes the tackling of the shippe.
20. And when neither Sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay on vs; all hope that wee should be saued, was then taken away.
21. But after long abstinence, Paul stood foorth in the middes of them, and said, Sirs, yee should haue hearkened vnto mee, and not haue loosed from Creete, and to haue gained this harme and losse.
22. And now I exhort you to be of good cheere: for there shall be no losse of any mans life among you, but of the shippe.
23. For there stood by me this night the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue,
24. Saying, Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Cesar, and loe, God hath giuen thee all them that saile with thee.
25. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheere: for I beleeue God, that it shall be euen as it was tolde me.
26. Howbeit, we must be cast vpon a certaine Iland.
27. But when the fourteenth night was come, as wee were driuen vp and downe in Adria about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they drew neere to some countrey:
28. And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.
29. Then fearing lest we should haue fallen vpon rockes, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished for the day.
30. And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let downe the boat into the sea, vnder colour as though they would haue cast ancres out of the fore-ship,
31. Paul said to the Centurion, and to the souldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saued.
32. Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
33. And while the day was comming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye haue taried, and continued fasting, hauing taken nothing.
34. Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat, for this is for your health: for there shall not an haire fall from the head of any of you.
35. And when hee had thus spoken, hee tooke bread, and gaue thankes to God in presence of them all, and when he had broken it, he began to eate.
36. Then were they all of good cheere, and they also tooke some meat.
37. And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred, threescore and sixteene soules.
38. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
39. And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discouered a certaine creek, with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
40. And when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, & loosed the rudder bands, and hoised vp the maine saile to the winde, and made toward shore.
41. And falling into a place where two seas met, they ranne the shippe a ground, and the forepart stucke fast, and remained vnmoueable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waues.
42. And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape.
43. But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land:
44. And the rest, some on boords, and some on broken pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they escaped all safe to land.
1. And when they were escaped, then they knew that the Iland was called Melita.
2. And the barbarous people shewed vs no little kindnesse: for they kindled a fire, and receiued vs euery one because of the present raine, and because of the cold.
3. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of stickes, and layde them on the fire, there came a Uiper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4. And when the Barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they saide among themselues, No doubt this man is a murtherer, whom though hee hath escaped the Sea, yet Uengeance suffereth not to liue.
5. And hee shooke off the beast into the fire, and felt no harme.
6. Howbeit, they looked when hee should haue swollen, or fallen downe dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harme come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a God.
7. In the same quarters were possessions of the chiefe man of the Iland, whose name was Publius, who receiued vs, and lodged vs three dayes courteously.
8. And it came to passe that the father of Publius lay sicke of a feuer, and of a bloody-flixe, to whom Paul entred in, and prayed, and layed his hands on him, and healed him.
9. So when this was done, others also which had diseases in the Iland, came, and were healed:
10. Who also honoured vs with many honours, and when wee departed, they laded vs with such things as were necessary.
11. And after three moneths wee departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the Ile, whose signe was Castor and Pollux.
12. And landing at Syracuse wee taried there three dayes.
13. And from thence wee fet a compasse, and came to Rhegium, and after one day the South winde blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
14. Where wee found brethren, and were desired to tary with them seuen dayes: and so we went toward Rome.
15. And from thence, when the brethren heard of vs, they came to meet vs as farre as Appii forum, and the three Tauernes: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and tooke courage.
16. And when we came to Rome, the Centurion deliuered the prisoners to the Captaine of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himselfe, with a souldier that kept him.
17. And it came to passe, that after three dayes, Paul called the chiefe of the Iewes together. And when they were come together, he said vnto them, Men and brethren, though I haue committed nothing against the people, or customes of our fathers, yet was I deliuered prisoner from Hierusalem into the hands of the Romanes.
18. Who when they had examined me, would haue let me goe, because there was no cause of death in me.
19. But when the Iewes spake against it, I was constrained to appeale vnto Cesar, not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
20. For this cause therefore haue I called for you, to see you, and to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chaine.
21. And they saide vnto him, Wee neither receiued letters out of Iudea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came, shewed or spake any harme of thee.
22. But we desire to heare of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that euery where it is spoken against.
23. And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded and testified the kingdome of God, perswading them concerning Iesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the Prophets, from morning till euening.
24. And some beleeued the things which were spoken, and some beleeued not.
25. And when they agreed not among themselues, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the holy Ghost by Esaias the Prophet, vnto our fathers,
26. Saying, Goe vnto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceiue.
27. For the heart of this people is waxed grosse, and their eares are dull of hearing, and their eyes haue they closed, lest they should with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their heart, and should bee conuerted, and I should heale them.
28. Be it knowen therfore vnto you, that the saluation of God is sent vnto the Gentiles, and that they wil heare it.
29. And when hee had saide these words, the Iewes departed, and had great reasoning among themselues.
30. And Paul dwelt two whole yeeres in his owne hired house, and receiued all that came in vnto him,
31. Preaching the kingdome of God, and teaching those things which concerne the Lord Iesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
1. Iames a seruant of God, and of the Lord Iesus Christ, to the twelue Tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2. My brethren, count it all ioy when ye fall into diuers temptations,
3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
4. But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.
5. If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, that giueth to all men liberally, and vpbraideth not: and it shalbe giuen him.
6. But let him aske in faith, nothing wauering: for he that wauereth is like a waue of the sea, driuen with the wind, and tossed.
7. For let not that man thinke that he shall receiue any thing of the Lord.
8. A double minded man is vnstable in all his wayes.
9. Let the brother of low degree, reioyce in that he is exalted:
10. But the rich, in that hee is made low: because as the floure of the grasse he shall passe away.
11. For the Sunne is no sooner risen with a burning heate, but it withereth the grasse; and the flowre thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his wayes.
12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when hee is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him.
13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.
14. But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away of his owne lust, and entised.
15. Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth forth sinne: and sinne, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16. Doe not erre, my beloued brethren.
17. Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, & commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenesse, neither shadow of turning.
18. Of his owne will begate hee vs, with the word of Trueth, that wee should bee a kinde of first fruites of his creatures.
19. Wherefore my beloued brethren, let euery man bee swift to heare, slow to speake, slow to wrath.
20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousnesse of God.
21. Wherefore lay apart all filthinesse, and superfluitie of naughtinesse, & receiue with meeknesse the engrafted word, which is able to saue your soules.
22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers onely, receiuing your owne selues.
23. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like vnto a man beholding his naturall face in a glasse:
24. For hee beholdeth himselfe, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what maner of man he was.
25. But who so looketh into the perfect Law of libertie, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetfull hearer, but a doer of the worke, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26. If any man among you seeme to be religious, & bridleth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.
27. Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their affliction, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world.
1. My brethren, haue not the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ the Lord of glorie, with respect of persons.
2. For if there come vnto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poore man, in vile raiment:
3. And yee haue respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say vnto him, Sit thou here in a good place: and say to the poore, Stand thou there, or sit here vnder my footstoole:
4. Are yee not then partiall in your selues, and are become iudges of euill thoughts?
5. Hearken, my beloued brethren, Hath not God chosen the poore of this world, rich in faith, and heires of the kingdome, which hee hath promised to them that loue him?
6. But yee haue despised the poore. Doe not rich men oppresse you, and draw you before the Iudgement seats?
7. Doe not they blaspheme that worthy Name, by the which ye are called?
8. If ye fulfil the royall Law, according to the Scripture, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe, ye doe well.
9. But if ye haue respect to persons, ye commit sinne, and are conuinced of the Law, as transgressours.
10. For whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Law, & yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11. For he that said, Doe not commit adultery; sayd also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressour of the Law.
12. So speake ye, and so doe, as they that shall bee iudged by the Law of libertie.
13. For he shall haue iudgement without mercie, that hath shewed no mercy, & mercie reioyceth against iudgement.
14. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say hee hath faith, and haue not workes? can faith saue him?
15. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of dayly foode,
16. And one of you say vnto them, Depart in peace, be you warmed & filled: notwithstanding ye giue them not those things which are needfull to the body: what doth it profit?
17. Euen so faith, if it hath not works, is dead being alone.
18. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I haue workes: shew mee thy faith without thy workes, and I will shew thee my faith by my workes.
19. Thou beleeuest that there is one God, thou doest well: the deuils also beleeue, and tremble.
20. But wilt thou knowe, O vaine man, that faith without workes is dead?
21. Was not Abraham our father iustified by works, when hee had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the altar?
22. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23. And the Scripture was fullfiled which saith, Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes: and he was called the friend of God.
24. Ye see then, how that by workes a man is iustified, and not by faith only.
25. Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot iustified by works, when she had receiued the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without workes is dead also.
1. My brethren, bee not many masters, knowing that we shall receiue the greater condemnation.
2. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3. Behold, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about their whole body.
4. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whithersoeuer the gouernour listeth.
5. Euen so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold, how great a matter a litle fire kindleth.
6. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquitie: so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
7. For euery kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind.
8. But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euill, ful of deadly poyson.
9. Therewith blesse wee God, euen the Father: and therewith curse wee men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11. Doeth a fountaine send foorth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12. Can ye figtree, my brethren, beare oliue berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountaine both yeeld salt water & fresh.
13. Who is a wise man and indued with knowledge amongst you? let him shew out of a good conuersation his workes with meekenes of wisedome.
14. But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts glory not, and lie not against the trueth.
15. This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, deuilish.
16. For where enuying and strife is, there is confusion, and euery euill worke.
17. But the wisedome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easie to be intreated, full of mercy, and good fruits, without partialitie, and without hypocrisie.
18. And the fruit of righteousnesse is sowen in peace, of them that make peace.
1. From whence come warres and fightings among you? come they not hence, euen of your lusts, that warre in your members?
2. Ye lust, and haue not: yee kill, and desire to haue, and cannot obtaine: yee fight and warre, yet yee haue not, because ye aske not.
3. Ye aske and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that yee may consume it vpon your lusts.
4. Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.
5. Doe ye thinke that the Scripture saith in vaine, the spirit that dwelleth in vs lusteth to enuy?
6. But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble.
7. Submit your selues therefore to God: resist the deuill, and hee will flee from you.
8. Draw nigh to God, and hee will draw nigh to you: cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purifie your hearts yee double minded.
9. Bee afflicted, and mourne, and weepe: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your ioy to heauinesse.
10. Humble your selues in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you vp.
11. Speake not euill one of another (brethren:) he that speaketh euill of his brother, and iudgeth his brother, speaketh euill of the Law, and iudgeth the Law: but if thou iudge the Law, thou art not a doer of the Law, but a iudge.
12. There is one Lawgiuer, who is able to saue, and to destroy: who art thou that iudgest another?
13. Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morrow wee will goe into such a city and continue there a yere, and buy, and sell, and get gaine:
14. Whereas yee know not what shalbe on the morow: for what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and then vanisheth away.
15. For that yee ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall liue, and doe this, or that.
16. But now yee reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.
17. Therefore to him that knoweth to doe good, and doth it not, to him it is sinne.
1. Goe to now, yee rich men, weepe and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you.
2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments motheaten:
3. Your gold and siluer is cankered, and the rust of them shall bee a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh as it were fire: ye haue heaped treasure together for the last dayes.
4. Beholde, the hire of the labourers which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which is of you kept backe by fraud, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5. Yee haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and bene wanton: ye haue nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter:
6. Yee haue condemned, and killed the iust, and he doth not resist you.
7. Be patient therefore, brethren, vnto the comming of the Lord: behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, vntill hee receiue the early and latter raine.
8. Be yee also patient; stablish your hearts: for the comming of the Lorde draweth nigh.
9. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the Iudge standeth before the doore.
10. Take, my brethren, the Prophets, who haue spoken in the Name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11. Beholde, wee count them happie which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue seene the end of the Lord: that the Lord is very pitifull and of tender mercie.
12. But aboue all things, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, neither by the earth, neither by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay: lest yee fall into condemnation.
13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing Psalmes.
14. Is any sicke among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray ouer him, anointing him with oyle in the Name of the Lord:
15. And the prayer of Faith shall saue the sicke, and the Lord shall raise him vp: and if hee haue committed sinnes, they shall be forgiuen him.
16. Confesse your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that yee may bee healed: the effectuall feruent prayer of a righteous man auaileth much.
17. Elias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not raine: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeeres and sixe monethes.
18. And hee prayed againe, and the heauen gaue raine, and the earth brought foorth her fruit.
19. Brethren, if any of you doe erre from the trueth, and one conuert him,
20. Let him know, that hee which conuerteth the sinner from the errour of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shall hide a multitude of sinnes.
1. Peter an Apostle of Iesus Christ, to the strangers scattred thorowout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2. Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit vnto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace vnto you and peace be multiplied.
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope, by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead,
4. To an inheritance incorruptible, and vndefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserued in heauen for you,
5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation, ready to be reuealed in the last time.
6. Wherin ye greatly reioyce, though now for a season (if neede bee) yee are in heauinesse through manifolde temptations:
7. That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then of golde that perisheth, though it bee tryed with fire, might be found vnto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing of Iesus Christ:
8. Whom hauing not seene, yee loue, in whom though now ye see him not, yet beleeuing, ye reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable, and full of glory,
9. Receiuing the ende of your faith, euen the saluation of your soules:
10. Of which saluation the Prophets haue inquired, and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come vnto you,
11. Searching what, or what maner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie, when it testified beforehand the suffrings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12. Unto whome it was reuealed, that not vnto themselues, but vnto vs, they did minister the things which are now reported vnto you, by them that haue preached the Gospel vnto you, with the holy Ghost sent downe from heauen, which things the Angels desire to looke into.
13. Wherefore gird vp the loynes of your minde, bee sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to bee brought vnto you at the reuelation of Iesus Christ:
14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selues according to the former lusts, in your ignorance:
15. But as hee which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all maner of conuersation;
16. Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.
17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons iudgeth according to euery mans worke, passe the time of your soiourning here in feare:
18. For as much as ye know that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation receiued by tradition from your fathers;
19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe without blemish and without spot,
20. Who verily was foreordeined before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
21. Who by him do beleeue in God that raised him vp from the dead, and gaue him glorie, that your faith and hope might be in God.
22. Seeing yee haue purified your soules in obeying the trthh through the Spirit, vnto vnfained loue of the brethren: see that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruently,
23. Being borne againe, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liueth and abideth for euer.
24. For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.
25. But the word of the Lord endureth for euer: & this is the word which by the Gospel is preached vnto you.
1. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and enuies, and euill speakings,
2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the word, that ye may grow thereby,
3. If so bee yee haue tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4. To whom comming as vnto a liuing Stone, disallowed in deed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5. Ye also as liuely stones, are built vp a spirituall house, an holy Priesthood to offer vp spirituall sacrifice, acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.
6. Wherefore it is conteined in the Scripture, Beholde, I lay in Sion a chiefe corner stone, elect, precious, and he that beleeueth on him, shall not be confounded.
7. Unto you therfore which beleeue hee is precious; but vnto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8. And a Stone of stumbling, and a Rocke of offence, euen to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.
9. But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that yee should shewe forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darknes into his marueilous light:
10. Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obteined mercie, but now haue obteined mercy.
11. Dearely beloued, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which warre against the soule,
12. Hauing your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speake against you as euill doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorifie God in the day of visitation.
13. Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lordes sake, whether it be to the King, as supreme,
14. Or vnto gouernours, as vnto them that are sent by him, for the punishment of euil doers, and for the praise of them that doe well.
15. For so is the will of God, that with well doing yee may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
16. As free, and not vsing your libertie for a cloake of maliciousnesse, but as the seruants of God.
17. Honour all men. Loue the brotherhood. Feare God. Honour the King.
18. Seruants, be subiect to your masters with al feare, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19. For this is thanke-worthie, if a man for conscience toward God endure griefe, suffering wrongfully.
20. For what glory is it, if when yee be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently: but if when yee doe well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21. For euen hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for vs, leauing vs an example, that yee should follow his steps.
22. Who did no sinne, neither was guile found in his mouth.
23. Who when hee was reuiled, reuiled not againe; when hee suffered, hee threatned not, but committed himselfe to him that iudgeth righteously.
24. Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the tree, that wee being dead to sinnes, should liue vnto righteousnesse, by whose stripes ye were healed.
25. For yee were as sheepe going astray, but are now returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.
1. Likewise, ye wiues, be in subiection to your owne husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues:
2. While they beholde your chaste conuersation coupled with feare:
3. Whose adorning, let it not bee that outward adorning, of plaiting the haire, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparell.
4. But let it bee the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, euen the ornament of a meeke and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5. For after this manner in the olde time, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselues, beeing in subiection vnto their owne husbands.
6. Euen as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are as long as ye doe well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
7. Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them according to knowledge, giuing honour vnto the wife as vnto the weaker vessel, and as being heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
8. Finally be ye all of one minde, hauing compassion one of another, loue as brethren, be pitifull, be courteous,
9. Not rendring euill for euill, or railing for railing: but contrarywise blessing, knowing that yee are thereunto called, that ye should inherite a blessing.
10. For hee that will loue life, and see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euil, and his lips that they speake no guile:
11. Let him eschew euil and do good, let him seeke peace and ensue it.
12. For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that doe euill.
13. And who is hee that will harme you, if ye bee followers of that which is good?
14. But and if ye suffer for righteousnes sake, happy are ye, and be not afraid of their terrour, neither be troubled:
15. But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts, & be ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekenesse and feare:
16. Hauing a good conscience, that whereas they speake euill of you, as of euill doers, they may bee ashamed that falsly accuse your good conuersation in Christ.
17. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that yee suffer for well doing, then for euill doing.
18. For Christ also hath once suffered for sinnes, the iust for the vniust, that he might bring vs to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
19. By which also he went and preached vnto the spirits in prison,
20. Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the dayes of Noah, while the Arke was a preparing: wherein few, that is, eight soules were saued by water.
21. The like figure whereunto, euen Baptisme, doth also now saue vs, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answere of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Iesus Christ.
22. Who is gone into heauen, and is on the right hand of God, Angels, and authorities, and powers being made subiect vnto him.
1. For asmuch then as Christ hath suffered for vs in the flesh, arme your selues likewise with the same minde: for hee that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceassed from sinne:
2. That he no longer should liue the rest of his time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3. For the time past of our life may suffice vs to haue wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciuiousnes, lusts, excesse of wine, reuellings, banquetings, and abhominable idolatries.
4. Wherein they thinke it strange, that you runne not with them to the same excesse of riot, speaking euil of you:
5. Who shal giue accompt to him that is ready to iudge the quicke & the dead.
6. For, for this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might bee iudged according to men in the flesh, but liue according to God in the spirit.
7. But the ende of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober and watch vnto prayer.
8. And aboue all things haue feruent charitie among your selues: for charity shall couer the multitude of sinnes.
9. Use hospitalitie one to another without grudging.
10. As euery man hath receiued the gift, euen so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11. If any man speake, let him speake as the oracles of God: if any man minister, let him doe it as of the ability which God giueth, that God in all things may bee glorified through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for euer and euer. Amen.
12. Beloued, thinke it not strange concerning the fiery triall, which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened vnto you.
13. But reioyce in as much as yee are partakers of Christes sufferings; that when his glory shalbe reueiled, ye may be glad also with exceeding ioy.
14. If ye be reproched for the Name of Christ, happie are ye, for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: on their part hee is euill spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15. But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a theefe, or as an euill doer, or as a busibody in other mens matters.
16. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe.
17. For the time is come that iudgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at vs, what shall the ende bee of them that obey not the Gospel of God?
18. And if the righteous scarcely be saued, where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare?
19. Wherfore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their soules to him in well doing, as vnto a faithfull Creator.
1. The Elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an Elder, and a witnesse of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be reuealed.
2. Feede the flocke of God which is among you, taking the ouersight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde:
3. Neither as being lords ouer Gods heritage: but being ensamples to the flocke.
4. And when the chiefe shepheard shall appeare, ye shall receiue a crowne of glory that fadeth not away.
5. Likewise ye yonger, submit your selues vnto the elder: yea, all of you bee subiect one to another, and bee clothed with humilitie: for God resisteth the proud, and giueth grace to the humble.
6. Humble yourselues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God, that hee may exalt you in due time,
7. Casting all your care vpon him, for he careth for you.
8. Be sober, be vigilant: because your aduersary the deuill, as a roaring Lion walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure.
9. Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10. But the God of all grace who hath called vs into his eternall glory by Christ Iesus, after that ye haue suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
11. To him bee glory and dominion for euer and euer. Amen.
12. By Syluanus a faithfull brother vnto you, (as I suppose) I haue written briefly, exhorting, & testifying, that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
13. The Church that is at Babylon elected, together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus my sonne.
14. Greete yee one another with a kisse of charity: Peace bee with you all that are in Christ Iesus. Amen.
1. Simon Peter, a seruant & an Apostle of Iesus Christ, to them that haue obtained like precious Faith with vs, through the righteousnes of God, and our Sauiour Iesus Christ.
2. Grace and peace be multiplied vnto you through the knowledge of God, and of Iesus our Lord,
3. According as his diuine power hath giuen vnto vs all things that pertain vnto life and godlines, through the knowledge of him that hath called vs to glory and vertue.
4. Whereby are giuen vnto vs exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might bee partakers of the diuine nature, hauing escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5. And besides this, giuing all diligence, adde to your faith, vertue; and to vertue knowledge;
6. And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godlinesse;
7. And to godlinesse, brotherly kindnesse; and to brotherly kindnesse, charitie.
8. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that yee shall neither be barren, nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ.
9. But hee that lacketh these things, is blind, and cannot see farre off, and hath forgotten that hee was purged from his old sinnes.
10. Wherefore, the rather, brethren, giue diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye doe these things, ye shall neuer fall.
11. For so an entrance shall be ministred vnto you abundantly, into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ.
12. Wherefore I wil not be negligent to put you alwayes in remembrance of these things, though yee know them, and be stablished in the present trueth.
13. Yea, I thinke it meete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stirre you vp, by putting you in remembrance:
14. Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle, euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed mee.
15. Moreouer, I will endeuour, that you may bee able after my decease, to haue these things alwayes in remembrance.
16. For wee haue not followed cunningly deuised fables, when wee made knowen vnto you the power and comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his Maiestie.
17. For hee receiued from God the Father, honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased.
18. And this voice which came from heauen wee heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19. We haue also a more sure word of prophecie, whereunto yee doe well that ye take heede, as vnto a light that shineth in a darke place, vntill the day dawne, and the day starre arise in your hearts:
20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any priuate Interpretation:
21. For the prophecie came not in olde time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moued by the holy Ghost.
1. But there were false prophets also among the people, euen as there shall bee false teachers among you, who priuily shall bring in damnable heresies, euen denying the Lord that bought them, and bring vpon themselues swift destruction.
2. And many shall follow their pernicious wayes, by reason of whom the way of trueth shall be euill spoken of:
3. And through couetousnesse shall they with fained words, make marchandise of you, whose iudgement now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbreth not.
4. For if God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them downe to hell, and deliuered them into chaines of darkenesse, to be reserued vnto iudgment:
5. And spared not the old world, but saued Noah the eight person a preacher of righteousnesse, bringing in the flood vpon the world of the vngodly:
6. And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes, condemned them with an ouerthrowe, making them an ensample vnto those that after should liue vngodly:
7. And deliuered iust Lot, vexed with the filthy conuersation of the wicked:
8. (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing & hearing, vexed his righteous soule from day to day, with their vnlawfull deeds.)
9. The Lord knoweth how to deliuer the godly out of temptations, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement to be punished:
10. But chiefly them that walke after the flesh in the lust of vncleannesse, and despise gouernment. Presumptuous are they; selfe willed: they are not afraid to speake euill of dignities:
11. Whereas Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12. But these, as natural bruit beasts made to bee taken and destroyed speake euill of the things that they vnderstand not, and shall vtterly perish in their owne corruption,
13. And shall receiue the reward of vnrighteousnesse, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time: Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselues with their owne deceiuings, while they feast with you:
14. Hauing eyes ful of adulterie and that cannot cease from sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: an heart they haue exercised with couetous practises: cursed children:
15. Which haue forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, who loued the wages of vnrighteousnesse,
16. But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumbe asse speaking with mais voice, forbade the madnesse of the Prophet.
17. These are welles without water, cloudes that are caried with a tempest, to whom the mist of darkenesse is reserued for euer.
18. For when they speake great svelling words of vanitie, they alure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonnesse, those that were cleane escaped from them who liue in errour.
19. While they promise them libertie, they themselues are the seruants of corruption: for of whom a man is ouercome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20. For if after they haue escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, they are againe intangled therein, and ouercome, the latter end is worse with them then the beginning.
21. For it had bin better for them not to haue knowen the way of righteousnesse, then after they haue knowen it, to turne from the holy commandement deliuered vnto them.
22. But it is happened vnto them according to the true prouerbe: The dog is turned to his own vomit againe, and the sowe that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
1. This second Epistle (beloued) I now write vnto you, in both which I stir vp your pure mindes by way of remembrance:
2. That yee may be mindfull of the wordes which were spoken before by the holy Prophets, and of the Commandement of vs the Apostles of the Lord and Sauiour:
3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last dayes scoffers, walking after their owne lusts,
4. And saying, Where is the promise of his comming? For since the fathers fell asleepe, all things continue as they were fro the beginning of the creation.
5. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heauens were of olde, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water,
6. Whereby the world that then was, being ouerflowed with water, perished.
7. But the heauens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserued vnto fire against the day of Iudgement, and perdition of vngodly men.
8. But (beloued) bee not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand yeeres, and a thousand yeeres as one day.
9. The Lord is not slacke cocerning his promise (as some men count slacknesse) but is long-suffring to vs-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10. But the day of the Lord wil come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a great noise, and the Elements shall melt with feruent heate, the earth also and the works that are therin shalbe burnt vp.
11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolued, What maner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conuersation, and godlinesse,
12. Looking for and hasting vnto the comming of the day of God, wherein the heauens being on fire shalbe dissolued, and the Elements shall melt with feruent heat.
13. Neuerthelesse wee, according to his promise, looke for new heauens, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousnesse.
14. Wherefore (beloued) seeing that ye looke for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blamelesse.
15. And account that the long suffering of the Lord is saluation, euen as our beloued brother Paul also, according to the wisedome giuen vnto him, hath written vnto you.
16. As also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be vnderstood, which they that are vnlearned and vnstable wrest, as they doe also the other Scriptures, vnto their owne destruction.
17. Ye therefore, beloued, seeing yee know these things before, beware lest yee also being led away with the errour of the wicked, fall from your owne stedfastnesse.
18. But growe in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ: to him be glory both now and for euer. Amen.
1. That which was from ye beginning, which wee haue heard, which wee haue seene with our eyes, which wee haue looked vpon, and our hands haue handled of the word of life.
2. (For the life was manifested, and we haue seene it, and beare witnes, and shew vnto you that eternall life which was with the Father, and was manifested vnto vs.)
3. That which wee haue seene and heard, declare we vnto you, that ye also may haue felowship with vs; and truely our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Sonne Iesus Christ.
4. And these things write we vnto you, that your ioy may be full.
5. This then is the message which we haue heard of him, and declare vnto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkenesse at all.
6. If we say that we haue felowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not the trueth.
7. But if wee walke in the light, as he is in the light, wee haue fellowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his Sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.
8. If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and the trueth is not in vs.
9. If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse.
10. If we say that we haue not sinned, wee make him a liar, and his word is not in vs.
1. My little children, these things write I vnto you, that ye sinne not. And if any man sinne, we haue an Aduocate with the Father, Iesus Christ the righteous:
2. And he is the propitiation for our sinnes: and not for ours onely, but also for the sinnes of the whole world.
3. And hereby wee doe knowe that we know him, if we keepe his commandements.
4. He that saith, I knowe him, and keepeth not his commandements, is a lyer, and the trueth is not in him.
5. But who so keepeth his word, in him verely is the loue of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6. He that sayeth he abideth in him, ought himselfe also so to walke, euen as he walked.
7. Brethren, I write no new commandement vnto you, but an olde commandement which ye had from the beginning: the old commandement is the word which ye haue heard from the beginning.
8. Againe, a new commandement I write vnto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkenesse is past, and the true light now shineth.
9. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkenesse euen vntill now.
10. Hee that loueth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
11. But he that hateth his brother, is in darknesse, and walketh in darknesse, and knoweth not whither hee goeth, because that darknesse hath blinded his eyes.
12. I write vnto you, little children, because your sinnes are forgiuen you for his Names sake.
13. I write vnto you, fathers, because yee haue knowen him that is from the beginning. I write vnto you, young men, because you haue ouercome the wicked one. I write vnto you, little children, because yee haue knowen the Father.
14. I haue written vnto you, fathers, because ye haue knowen him that is from the beginning. I haue written vnto you, young men, because yee are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and yee haue ouercome the wicked one.
15. Loue not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loue the world, the loue of the Father is not in him.
16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but hee that doeth the will of God, abideth for euer.
18. Little children, it is the last time: and as yee haue heard that Antichrist shall come, euen now are there many Antichrists, whereby wee know that it is the last time.
19. They went out from vs, but they were not of vs: for if they had beene of vs, they would no doubt haue continued with vs: but they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of vs.
20. But ye haue an vnction from the holy One, and ye know all things.
21. I haue not written vnto you, because yee know not the trueth: but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the trueth.
22. Who is a lier, but hee that denieth that Iesus is the Christ? hee is Antichrist, that denyeth the Father, and the Sonne.
23. Whosoeuer denieth the Sonne, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Sonne, hath the Father also.
24. Let that therefore abide in you which yee haue heard from the beginning: if that which ye haue heard from the beginning shall remaine in you, yee also shall continue in the Sonne, and in the Father.
25. And this is the promise that hee hath promised vs, euen eternall life.
26. These things haue I written vnto you, concerning them that seduce you.
27. But the anointing which ye haue receiued of him, abideth in you: and yee need not that any man teach you: But, as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is trueth, and is no lye: and euen as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28. And now, little children, abide in him, that when hee shall appeare, wee may haue confidence, and not bee ashamed before him at his comming.
29. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that euery one which doeth righteousnesse, is borne of him.
1. Beholde, what manner of loue the Father hath bestowed vpon vs, that wee should be called the sonnes of God: therfore the world knoweth vs not, because it knewe him not.
2. Beloued, now are we the sonnes of God, and it doeth not yet appeare, what wee shall be: but wee know, that when he shall appeare, we shall bee like him: for we shall see him as he is.
3. And euery man that hath this hope in him, purifieth himselfe, euen as he is pure.
4. Whosoeuer committeth sinne, transgresseth also the lawe: for sinne is the transgression of the law.
5. And ye know that hee was manifested to take away our sinnes, and in him is no sinne.
6. Whosoeuer abideth in him, sinneth not: whosoeuer sinneth, hath not seene him, neither knowen him.
7. Little children, let no man deceiue you: he that doth righteousnes, is righteous, euen as he is righteous.
8. He that committeth sinne, is of the deuill, for the deuill sinneth from the beginning: for this purpose the Sonne of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the deuill.
9. Whosoeuer is borne of God, doth not commit sinne: for his seede remaineth in him, and he cannot sinne, because he is borne of God.
10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the deuill: whosoeuer doeth not righteousnesse, is not of God, neither hee that loueth not his brother.
11. For this is the message that yee heard from the beginning, that wee should loue one another.
12. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slewe his brother: and wherefore slewe hee him? because his owne workes were euill, and his brothers righteous.
13. Marueile not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14. Wee know that wee haue passed from death vnto life, because wee loue the brethren: he that loueth not his brother, abideth in death.
15. Whosoeuer hateth his brother, is a murtherer, and yee knowe that no murtherer hath eternall life abiding in him.
16. Hereby perceiue wee the loue of God, because he layd downe his life for vs, and wee ought to lay downe our liues for the brethren.
17. But who so hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother hath need, and shutteth vp his bowels of compassion from him; how dwelleth the loue of God in him?
18. My little children, let vs not loue in word, neither in tongue, but indeede and in trueth.
19. And hereby wee know that wee are of the trueth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20. For if our heart condemne vs, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all things.
21. Beloued, if our heart condemne vs not, then haue wee confidence towards God.
22. And whatsoeuer we aske, wee receiue of him, because we keepe his commandement, and doe those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23. And this is his commandement, that we should beleeue on the Name of his Sonne Iesus Christ, and loue one another, as hee gaue vs commandement.
24. And hee that keepeth his commandements dwelleth in him, and hee in him: and hereby wee know that hee abideth in vs, by the spirit which hee hath giuen vs.
1. Beloued, beleeue not euery spirit, but trie the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby know ye the spirit of God: euery spirit that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.
3. And euery Spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof you haue heard, that it should come, and euen now already is it in the world.
4. Ye are of God, little children, and haue ouercome them: because greater is he that is in you, then he that is in the world.
5. They are of the world: therefore speake they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6. We are of God: hee that knoweth God, heareth vs: he that is not of God heareth not vs, hereby know wee the spirit of trueth, and the spirit of errour.
7. Beloued, let vs loue one another; for loue is of God: and euery one that loueth, is borne of God and knoweth God.
8. Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.
9. In this was manifested the loue of God towards vs, because that God sent his only begotten Sonne into the world, that we might liue through him.
10. Herein is loue, not that wee loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his Sonne to be ye propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloued, if God so loued vs, wee ought also to loue one another.
12. No man hath seene God at any time. If wee loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, and his loue is perfected in vs.
13. Hereby know wee that we dwell in him and he in vs, because hee hath giuen vs of his Spirit.
14. And we haue seene, and doe testifie, that the Father sent the Sonne to be the Sauiour of the world.
15. Whosoeuer shall confesse that Iesus is the Sonne of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16. And we haue knowen and beleeued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17. Herein is our loue made perfect, that wee may haue boldnesse in the day of Iudgement, because as hee is, so are we in this world.
18. There is no feare in loue, but perfect loue casteth out feare: because feare hath torment: hee that feareth, is not made perfect in loue.
19. We loue him: because hee first loued vs.
20. If a man say, I loue God, and hateth his brother, he is a lyar. For hee that loueth not his brother whom hee hath seene, how can he loue God whom he hath not seene?
21. And this commandement haue we from him, that he who loueth God, loue his brother also.
1. Whosoeuer beleeueth that Iesus is the Christ, is borne of God: and euery one that loueth him that begate, loueth him also that is begotten of him.
2. By this wee know that wee loue the children of God, when we loue God and keepe his commandements.
3. For this is the loue of God, that we keepe his commandements, and his commandements are not grieuous.
4. For whatsoeuer is borne of God, ouercommeth the world, and this is the victorie that ouercommeth the world, euen our faith.
5. Who is he that ouercommeth the world, but he that beleeueth that Iesus is the Sonne of God?
6. This is hee that came by water and blood, euen Iesus Christ, not by water onely, but by water and blood: and it is the Spirit that beareth witnesse, because the Spirit is trueth.
7. For there are three that beare record in heauen, the Father, the Word, and the holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8. And there are three that beare witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.
9. If we receiue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: for this is the witnesse of God, which hee hath testified of his Sonne.
10. Hee that beleeueth on the Sonne of God, hath the witnesse in himselfe: he that beleeueth not God, hath made him a liar, because he beleeueth not the record that God gaue of his Sonne.
11. And this is the record, that God hath giuen to vs eternall life, and this life is in his Sonne.
12. Hee that hath the Sonne, hath life; and hee that hath not the Sonne, hath not life.
13. These things haue I written vnto you that beleeue on the Name of the Sonne of God, that ye may know, that ye haue eternall life, and that yee may beleeue on the Name of the Sonne of God.
14. And this is the confidence that we haue in him, that if wee aske any thing according to his will, hee heareth vs.
15. And if we know that he heare vs, whatsoeuer wee aske, wee know that we haue the petitions that wee desired of him.
16. If any man see his brother sinne a sinne which is not vnto death, hee shall aske, and he shall giue him life for them that sinne not vnto death. There is a sinne vnto death: I doe not say that he shall pray for it.
17. All vnrighteousnes is sinne, and there is a sinne not vnto death.
18. We know that whosoeuer is borne of God, sinneth not: but hee that is begotten of God, keepeth himselfe, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
19. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickednesse.
20. And we know that the Sonne of God is come, and hath giuen vs an vnderstanding that wee may know him that is true: and wee are in him that is true, euen in his Sonne Iesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternall life.
21. Little children, keepe your selues from Idoles. Amen.
1. The Elder vnto the elect Lady, and her children, whome I loue in the trueth: and not I onely, but also all they that haue knowen ye trueth:
2. For the trueths sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe with vs for euer:
3. Grace bee with you, mercie, and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ, the Sonne of the Father in trueth and loue.
4. I reioyced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in trueth, as wee haue receiued a commaundement from the Father.
5. And now, I beseech thee Lady, not as though I wrote a new commandement vnto thee: but that which wee had from the beginning, that wee loue one another.
6. And this is loue, that wee walke after his Commandements. This is the Commandement, that as yee haue heard from the beginning, yee should walke in it.
7. For many deceiuers are entred into the world, who confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiuer, and an Antichrist.
8. Looke to your selues, that wee lose not those things which wee haue wrought, but that we receiue a full reward.
9. Whosoeuer transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: hee that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Sonne.
10. If there come any vnto you, and bring not this doctrine, receiue him not into your house, neither bid him, God speed.
11. For hee that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his euill deeds.
12. Hauing many things to write vnto you, I would not write with paper and inke, but I trust to come vnto you, and speake face to face, that our ioy may be full.
13. The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
1. The Elder vnto the welbeloued Gaius, whom I loue in the trueth:
2. Beloued, I wish aboue all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, euen as thy soule prospereth.
3. For I reioyced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the trthh that is in thee, euen as thou walkest in the trueth.
4. I haue no greater ioy, then to heare that my children walke in trthh.
5. Beloued, thou doest faithfully whatsoeuer thou doest to the Brethren, and to strangers:
6. Which haue borne witnesse of thy charitie before the Church: whome if thou bring forward on their iourney after a godly sort, thou shalt doe well:
7. Because that for his Names sake they went foorth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
8. We therefore ought to receiue such, that we might be fellow helpers to the trueth.
9. I wrote vnto the Church, but Diotrephes, who loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not.
10. Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against vs with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth hee himselfe receiue the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Church. 
11. Beloued, follow not that which is euill, but that which is good. He that doth good, is of God: but hee that doth euill, hath not seene God.
12. Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the trueth it selfe: yea, and we also beare record, and ye know that our record is true.
13. I had many things to write, but I will not with inke and pen write vnto thee.
14. But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and wee shall speake face to face. Peace bee to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.

1. Iude the seruant of Iesus Christ, and brother of Iames, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserued in Iesus Christ, & called:
2. Mercie vnto you, and peace, and loue be multiplied.
3. Beloued, when I gaue all diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation: it was needfull for mee to write vnto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once deliuered vnto the Saints.
4. For there are certaine men crept in vnawares, who were before of olde ordained to this condemnation, vngodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciuiousnesse, and denying the onely Lord God, & our Lord Iesus Christ.
5. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord hauing saued the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroied them that beleeued not.
6. And the Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse, vnto the iudgement of the great day.
7. Euen as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like maner giuing themselues ouer to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffring the vengeance of eternall fire.
8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speake euill of dignities.
9. Yet Michael the Archangel, when contending with the deuill, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10. But these speake euill of those things, which they know not: but what they knowe naturally, as brthe beastes, in those things they corrupt themselues.
11. Wo vnto them, for they haue gone in the way of Kain, and ranne greedily after the errour of Balaam, for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12. These are spottes in your feasts of charitie, when they feast with you, feeding themselues without feare: cloudes they are without water, caried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twise dead, plucked vp by the rootes.
13. Raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame, wandring stars, to whom is reserued the blacknesse of darkenesse for euer.
14. And Enoch also, the seuenth from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his Saints,
15. To execute iudgement vpon all, and to conuince all that are vngodly among them, of all their vngodly deeds which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their heard speaches, which vngodly sinners haue spoken against him.
16. These are murmurers complainers, walking after their owne lustes, and their mouth speaketh great swelling wordes, hauing mens persons in admiration because of aduantage.
17. But beloued, remember yee the words, which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ:
18. How that they tolde you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walke after their own vngodly lustes.
19. These be they who separate themselues, sensual, hauing not the spirit.
20. But yee beloued, building vp your selues on your most holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost,
21. Keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life.
22. And of some haue compassion, making a difference:
23. And others saue with feare, pulling them out of the fire: hating euen the garment spotted by the flesh.
24. Now vnto him that is able to keepe you from falling, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy,
25. To the onely wise God our Sauiour, be glory and maiestie, dominion and power, now and euer. Amen.
1. Paul a seruant of Iesus Christ, called to bee an Apostle, separated vnto the Gospel of God,
2. (Which he had promised afore by his Prophets in the holy Scriptures,)
3. Concerning his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of Dauid according to the flesh,
4. And declared to be the Sonne of God, with power, according to the Spirit of holinesse, by the resurrection from the dead.
5. By whom we haue receiued grace and Apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his Name,
6. Among whom are ye also the called of Iesus Christ.
7. To all that be in Rome, beloued of God, called to be Saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
8. First I thanke my God through Iesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
9. For God is my witnesse, whom I serue with my spirit in the Gospel of his Sonne, that without ceasing I make mention of you, alwayes in my prayers,
10. Making request, (if by any meanes now at length I might haue a prosperous iourney by the will of God) to come vnto you.
11. For I long to see you, that I may impart vnto you some spirituall gift, to the end you may be established,
12. That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13. Now I would not haue you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come vnto you, (but was let hitherto) that I might haue some fruit among you also, euen as among other Gentiles.
14. I am debter both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, both to the wise, and to the vnwise.
15. So, as much as in mee is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16. For I am not ashamed of the Gopel of Christ: for it is the power of God vnto saluation, to euery one that beleeueth, to the Iew first, and also to the Greeke.
17. For therein is the righteousnesse of God reueiled from faith to faith: as it is written, The iust shall liue by faith.
18. For the wrath of God is reueiled from heauen against all vngodlinesse, and vnrighteousnesse of men, who hold the trueth in vnrighteousnesse.
19. Because that which may bee knowen of God, is manifest in them, for God hath shewed it vnto them.
20. For the inuisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearely seene, being vnderstood by the things that are made, euen his eternall Power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse:
21. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankefull, but became vaine in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened:
22. Professing themselues to be wise, they became fooles:
23. And changed the glory of the vncorruptible God, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birdes, and foure footed beasts, and creeping things:
24. Wherefore God also gaue them vp to vncleannesse, through the lusts of their owne hearts, to dishonour their owne bodies betweene themselues:
25. Who changed the trueth of God into a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature more then the Creatour, who is blessed for euer. Amen.
26. For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature:
27. And likewise also the men, leauing the naturall vse of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another, men with men working that which is vnseemely, and receiuing in themselues that recompense of their errour which was meet.
28. And euen as they did not like to retaine God in their knowledge, God gaue them ouer to a reprobate minde, to doe those things which are not conuenient:
29. Being filled with all vnrighteousnes, fornication, wickednesse, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, murther, debate, deceit, malignitie, whisperers,
30. Backbiters, haters of God, despitefull, proude, boasters, inuenters of euill things, disobedient to parents;
31. Without vnderstanding, couenant breakers, without naturall affection, implacable, vnmercifull;
32. Who knowing the iudgement of God, (that they which commit such things, are worthy of death) not onely do the same, but haue pleasure in them that doe them.
1. Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoeuer thou art that iudgest: for wherein thou iudgest another, thou condemnest thy selfe, for thou that iudgest doest the same things.
2. But wee are sure that the iudgement of God is according to trueth, against them which commit such things.
3. And thinkest thou this, O man, that iudgest them which doe such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?
4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodnesse, and forbearance, and long suffering, not knowing that the goodnes of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5. But after thy hardnesse, and impenitent heart, treasurest vp vnto thy selfe wrath, against the day of wrath, and reuelation of the righteous iudgement of God:
6. Who will render to euery man according to his deedes:
7. To them, who by patient continuance in well doing, seeke for glorie, and honour, and immortalitie, eternall life:
8. But vnto them that are contentious, & doe not obey the trueth, but obey vnrighteousnes, indignation, & wrath,
9. Tribulation, and anguish vpon euery soule of man that doeth euill, of the Iew first, and also of the Gentile.
10. But glory, honour, and peace, to euery man that worketh good, to the Iew first, and also to the Gentile.
11. For there is no respect of persons with God.
12. For as many as haue sinned without Law, shall also perish without Law: and as many as haue sinned in the Law, shalbe iudged by the Law.
13. (For not the hearers of the Law are iust before God, but the doers of the Law shalbe iustified;
14. For when the Gentiles which haue not the Law, doe by nature the things contained in the Law: these hauing not the Law, are a Law vnto themselues,
15. Which shew the worke of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnesse, and their thoughts the meane while accusing, or else excusing one another:
16. In the day when God shall iudge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
17. Behold, thou art called a Iew, and restest in the Law, and makest thy boast of God:
18. And knowest his will, and approuest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the Law,
19. And art confident that thou thy selfe art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse:
20. An instructour of the foolish, a teacher of babes: which hast the forme of knowledge and of the trueth in the Law:
21. Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest a man should not steale, doest thou steale?
22. Thou that sayest a man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idols, doest thou commit sacriledge?
23. Thou that makest thy boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God?
24. For the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written:
25. For Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keepe the Law: but if thou be a breaker of the Law, thy Circumcision is made vncircumcision.
26. Therefore, if the vncircumcision keepe the righteousnesse of the Law, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for Circumcision?
27. And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the Law, iudge thee, who by the letter, and Circumcision, doest transgresse the Law?
28. For hee is not a Iew, which is one outwardly, neither is that Circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29. But he is a Iew which is one inwardly, and Circumcision is, that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
1. What aduantage then hath the Iew? or what profit is there of Circumcision?
2. Much euery way: chiefly, because that vnto them were committed the Oracles of God.
3. For what if some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?
4. God forbid: yea, let God be true, but euery man a lier, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy sayings, and mightest ouercome when thou art iudged.
5. But if our vnrighteousnesse commend the righteousnesse of God, what shall we say? is God vnrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speake as a man)
6. God forbid: for then how shall God iudge the world?
7. For if the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glory; why yet am I also iudged as a sinner?
8. And not rather as wee be slanderously reported, and as some affirme that we say, Let vs doe euill, that good may come: whose damnation is iust.
9. What then? are wee better then they? No in no wise: for we haue before proued both Iewes, and Gentiles, that they are all vnder sinne,
10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one:
11. There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become vnprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one.
13. Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue vsed deceit, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes:
14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse:
15. Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16. Destruction & misery are in their wayes:
17. And the way of peace haue they not knowen.
18. There is no feare of God before their eyes.
19. Now we know that what things soeuer the Law saith, it saith to them who are vnder the Law: that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20. Therefore by the deedes of the Law, there shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Law is the knowledge of sinne.
21. But nowe the righteousnesse of God without the Lawe is manifested, being witnessed by the Lawe and the Prophets.
22. Euen the righteousnesse of God, which is by faith of Iesus Christ vnto all, and vpon all them that beleeue: for there is no difference:
23. For all haue sinned, and come short of the glory of God,
24. Being iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Iesus Christ:
25. Whom God hath set forth to bee a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes, that are past, through the forbearance of God.
26. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousnesse: that hee might bee iust, and the iustifier of him which beleeueth in Iesus.
27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of works? Nay: but by the Law of faith.
28. Therefore wee conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the deeds of the Law.
29. Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30. Seeing it is one God which shal iustifie the circumcision by faith, and vncircumcision through faith.
31. Doe we then make void the lawe through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law.
1. What shall we say then, that Abraham our father, as perteining to the flesh, hath found?
2. For if Abraham were iustified by workes, hee hath whereof to glory, but not before God.
3. For what saith the Scripture? Abraham beleeued God, and it was counted vnto him for righteousnes.
4. Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5. But to him that worketh not, but beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vngodly; his faith is counted for righteousnesse.
6. Euen as Dauid also describeth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works:
7. Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered.
8. Blessed is the man to whome the Lord will not impute sinne.
9. Commeth this blessednes then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? for wee say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousnesse.
10. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in vncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in vncircumcision.
11. And hee receiued the signe of circumcision, a seale of the righteousnesse of the faith, which hee had yet being vncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that beleeue, though they be not circumcised; that righteousnesse might be imputed vnto them also:
12. And the father of circumcision, to them who are not of the circumcision onely, but also walke in the steppes of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet vncircumcised.
13. For the promise that he should be the heire of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.
14. For if they which are of the law be heires, faith is made voide, and the promise made of none effect.
15. Because the law worketh wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.
16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,
17. (As it is written, I haue made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he beleeued, euen God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which bee not, as though they were,
18. Who against hope, beleeued in hope, that hee might become the father of many nations: according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seede bee.
19. And being not weake in faith, hee considered not his owne body now dead, when hee was about an hundred yere old, neither yet the deadnes of Saraes wombe.
20. Hee staggered not at the promise of God through vnbeliefe: but was strong in faith, giuing glory to God:
21. And being fully perswaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to performe.
22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.
23. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him:
24. But for vs also, to whome it shall bee imputed, if wee beleeue on him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead,
25. Who was deliuered for our offences, and was raised againe for our iustification.
1. Therefore being iustified by faith, wee haue peace with God, through our Lord Iesus Christ.
2. By whom also wee haue accesse by faith, into this grace wherein wee stand, and reioyce in hope of the glory of God.
3. And not onely so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience:
4. And patience, experience: and experience, hope:
5. And hope maketh not ashamed, because the loue of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the holy Ghost, which is giuen vnto vs.
6. For when wee were yet without strength, in due time, Christ died for the vngodly.
7. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peraduenture for a good man, some would euen dare to dye.
8. But God commendeth his loue towards vs, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for vs.
9. Much more then being now iustified by his blood, we shalbe saued from wrath through him.
10. For if when wee were enemies, we were reconciled to God, by the death of his sonne: much more being reconciled, we shalbe saued by his life.
11. And not onely so, but wee also ioy in God, through our Lorde Iesus Christ, by whom we haue now receiued the atonement.
12. Wherefore, as by one man sinne entred into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed vpon all men, for that all haue sinned.
13. For vntill the Law sinne was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no Law.
14. Neuertheles, death reigned from Adam to Moses, euen ouer them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come:
15. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift: for if through the offence of one, many bee dead: much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Iesus Christ, hath abounded vnto many.
16. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the iudgement was by one to condemnation: but the free gift is of many offences vnto iustification.
17. For if by one mans offence, death raigned by one, much more they which receiue abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousnes, shall reigne in life by one, Iesus Christ.
18. Therfore as by the offence of one, iudgment came vpon all men to condemnation: euen so by the righteousnes of one, the free gift came vpon all men vnto iustification of life.
19. For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners: so by the obedience of one, shall many bee made righteous.
20. Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.
21. That as sinne hath reigned vnto death; euen so might grace reigne thorow righteousnes vnto eternall life, by Iesus Christ our Lord.
1. What shall we say then? shall wee continue in sinne: that grace may abound?
2. God forbid: how shall wee that are dead to sinne, liue any longer therein?
3. Know ye not, that so many of vs as were baptized into Iesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
4. Therefore wee are buryed with him by baptisme into death, that like as Christ was raised vp from the dead by the glorie of the Father: euen so wee also should walke in newnesse of life.
5. For if we haue bene planted together in the likenesse of his death: wee shalbe also in the likenesse of his resurrection:
6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the bodie of sinne might bee destroyed, that hencefoorth we should not serue sinne.
7. For he that is dead, is freed from sinne.
8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we beleeue that we shal also liue with him:
9. Knowing that Christ being raysed from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion ouer him.
10. For in that he dyed, he dyed vnto sinne once: but in that hee liueth, hee liueth vnto God.
11. Likewise reckon yee also your selues to be dead indeed vnto sinne: but aliue vnto God, through Iesus Christ our Lord.
12. Let not sinne reigne therfore in your mortall body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13. Neither yeeld yee your members as instruments of vnrighteousnes vnto sinne: but yeelde your selues vnto God, as those that are aliue from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousnesse vnto God.
14. For sinne shall not haue dominion ouer you, for yee are not vnder the Law, but vnder Grace.
15. What then? shal we sinne, because wee are not vnder the Law, but vnder Grace? God forbid.
16. Know ye not, that to whom yee yeeld your selues seruants to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey: whether of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse?
17. But God bee thanked, that yee were the seruants of sinne: but ye haue obeyed from the heart that fourme of doctrine, which was deliuered you.
18. Being then made free from sinne, yee became the seruants of righteousnesse.
19. I speake after the maner of men, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue yeelded your members seruants to vncleannesse and to iniquitie, vnto iniquitie: euen so now yeelde your members seruants to righteousnesse, vnto holinesse.
20. For when yee were the seruants of sinne ye were free from righteousnesse.
21. What fruit had yee then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22. But now being made free from sinne, and become seruants to God, yee haue your fruit vnto holinesse, and the end euerlasting life.
23. For the wages of sinne is death: but the gift of God is eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.
1. Know ye not, brethren (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) how that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man, as long as he liueth?
2. For the woman which hath an husbaud, is bound by the law to her husband, so long as he liueth: but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of the husband.
3. So then if while her husband liueth, shee be married to another man, shee shalbe called an adulteresse: but if her husband be dead, shee is free from that law, so that she is no adulteresse, though she be married to another man.
4. Wherefore my brethren, yee also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, euen to him who is raised from the dead, that wee should bring forth fruit vnto God,
5. For when wee were in the flesh, the motions of sinnes which were by the law, did worke in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.
6. But now wee are deliuered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serue in newnesse of spirit, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.
7. What shall wee say then? is the law sinne? God forbid. Nay, I had not knowen sinne, but by the lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not couet.
8. But sinne taking occasion by the commaundement, wrought in me all maner of concupiscence. For without the Law sinne was dead.
9. For I was aliue without the Law once, but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued, and I died.
10. And the commandement which was ordained to life, I found to be vnto death.
11. For sinne taking occasion by the commandement, deceiued me, and by it slew me.
12. Wherefore the Law is holy, and the Commandement holy, and iust, and good.
13. Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid. But sinne, that it might appeare sinne, working death in mee by that which is good: that sinne by the Commaundement might become exceeding sinfull.
14. For wee know that the Law is spirituall: but I am carnall, sold vnder sinne.
15. For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that doe I.
16. If then I doe that which I would not, I consent vnto the Law, that it is good.
17. Now then, it is no more I that doe it: but sinne that dwelleth in me.
18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me: but how to performe that which is good, I find not.
19. For the good that I would, I do not: but the euill which I would not, that I doe.
20. Now if I doe that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.
21. I find then a Law, that when I would do good, euil is present with me.
22. For I delight in the Lawe of God, after the inward man.
23. But I see another Lawe in my members, warring against the Lawe of my minde, and bringing me into captiuity to the Law of sinne, which is in my members.
24. O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from the body of this death?
25. I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I my self serue the Law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sinne.
1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Iesus, who walke not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
2. For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Iesus, hath made me free from the law of sinne and death.
3. For what the law could not doe, in that it was weake through the flesh, God sending his owne Sonne, in the likenesse of sinnefull flesh, and for sinne condemned sinne in the flesh:
4. That the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in vs, who walke not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
5. For they that are after the flesh, doe minde the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.
6. For to be carnally minded, is death: but to be spiritually minded, is life and peace:
7. Because the carnall minde is enmitie against God: for it is not subiect to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8. So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please God.
9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man haue not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10. And if Christ in you, the body is dead because of sinne: but the spirit is life, because of righteousnesse.
11. But if the spirit of him that raised vp Iesus from the dead, dwell in you: he that raised vp Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortall bodies, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.
12. Therfore brethren, we are detters, not to the flesh, to liue after the flesh.
13. For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the spirit doe mortifie the deeds of the body, ye shall liue.
14. For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sonnes of God.
15. For ye haue not receiued the spirit of bondage againe to feare: but ye haue receiued the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, father.
16. The spirit it selfe beareth witnes with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
17. And if children, then heires, heires of God, and ioynt heires with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that wee may be also glorified together.
18. For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be reuealed in vs.
19. For the earnest expectation of the creature, waiteth for the manifestation of the sonnes of God.
20. For the creature was made subiect to vanitie, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subiected the same in hope:
21. Because the creature it selfe also shall bee deliuered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious libertie of the children of God.
22. For wee know that the whole creation groaneth, and trauaileth in paine together vntill now.
23. And not only they, but our selues also which haue the first fruites of the spirit, euen we our selues groane within our selues, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24. For wee are saued by hope: but hope that is seene, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25. But if wee hope for that wee see not, then doe wee with patience waite for it.
26. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what wee should pray for as wee ought: but the spirit it selfe maketh intercession for vs with groanings, which cannot bee vttered.
27. And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the minde of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the Saints, according to the will of God.
28. And wee know that all things worke together for good, to them that loue God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his sonne, that hee might bee the first borne amongst many brethren.
30. Moreouer, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also iustified: and whom he iustified, them he also glorified.
31. What shall wee then say to these things? If God be for vs, who can bee against vs?
32. He that spared not his owne son, but deliuered him vp for vs all: how shall hee not with him also freely giue vs all things?
33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that iustifieth:
34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen againe, who is euen at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for vs.
35. Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ? shall tribulation, or distresse, or persecution, or famine, or nakednesse, or perill, or sword?
36. (As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, wee are accounted as sheepe for the slaughter.)
37. Nay in all these things wee are more then conquerours, through him that loued vs.
38. For I am perswaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.
1. I say the trueth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing mee witnesse in the holy Ghost,
2. That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorrow in my heart.
3. For I could wish that my selfe were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsemen according to the flesh:
4. Who are Israelites: to whom perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the couenants, and the giuing of the Law, and the seruice of God, and the promises:
5. Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is ouer all, God blessed for euer, Amen.
6. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel which are of Israel:
7. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9. For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.
10. And not onely this, but when Rebecca also had conceiued by one, euen by our father Isaac,
11. (For the children being not yet borne, neither hauing done any good or euil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of workes, but of him that calleth.)
12. It was said vnto her, The elder shall serue the yonger.
13. As it is written, Iacob haue I loued, but Esau haue I hated.
14. What shall we say then? Is there vnrighteousnes with God? God forbid.
15. For hee saith to Moses, I will haue mercy on whom I wil haue mercie, and I will haue compassion on whom I will haue compassion.
16. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17. For the Scripture saith vnto Pharaoh, Euen for this same purpose haue I raised thee vp, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my Name might bee declared throughout all the earth.
18. Therefore hath hee mercie on whom hee will haue mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth.
19. Thou wilt say then vnto mee; Why doeth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20. Nay but O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21. Hath not the potter power ouer the clay, of the same lumpe, to make one vessell vnto honour, and another vnto dishonour?
22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, & to make his power knowen, indured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23. And that he might make knowen the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which hee had afore prepared vnto glorie?
24. Euen vs whom hee hath called, not of the Iewes onely, but also of the Gentiles.
25. As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people: and her, beloued, which was not beloued.
26. And it shall come to passe, that in the place where it was saide vnto them, Ye are not my people, there shall they bee called the children of the liuing God.
27. Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shalbe saued.
28. For he will finish the worke, and cut it short in righteousnesse: because a short worke will the Lord make vpon the earth.
29. And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabboth had left vs a seed, we had bene as Sodoma, and bene made like vnto Gomorrha.
30. What shall wee say then? That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousnesse, haue attained to righteousnesse, euen the righteousnesse which is of faith:
31. But Israel which followed after the Law of righteousnesse, hath not attained to the Law of righteousnes.
32. Wherefore? because they sought it, not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law: for they stumbled at that stumbling stone,
33. As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and rocke of offence: and whosoeuer beleeueth on him, shall not be ashamed.
1. Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saued.
2. For I beare them record, that they haue a zeale of God, but not according to knowledge.
3. For they being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse, and going about to establish their owne righteousnesse, haue not submitted themselues vnto the righteousnesse of God.
4. For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnes to euery one that beleeueth.
5. For Moses describeth the righteousnesse which is of the Law, that the man which doeth those things shall liue by them.
6. But the righteousnesse which is of faith, speaketh on this wise: Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heauen? That is to bring Christ down from aboue.
7. Or, Who shall descend into the deepe? That is to bring vp Christ againe from the dead.
8. But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, euen in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that is the word of faith which we preach,
9. That if thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus, and shalt beleeue in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saued.
10. For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse, and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation.
11. For the Scripture saith, Whosoeuer beleeueth on him, shall not bee ashamed.
12. For there is no difference betweene the Iew and the Greeke: for the same Lord ouer all, is rich vnto all, that call vpon him.
13. For whosoeuer shall call vpon the Name of the Lord, shall be saued.
14. How then shall they call on him in whom they haue not beleeued? And how shal they beleeue in him, of whom they haue not heard? And how shall they heare without a Preacher?
15. And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written: How beautifull are the feete of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16. But they haue not all obeyed the Gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath beleeued our report?
17. So then, faith commeth by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18. But I say, haue they not heard? yes verely, their sound went into all the earth, and their words vnto the ends of the world.
19. But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will prouoke you to iealousie by them that are no people, & by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20. But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not: I was made manifest vnto them, that asked not after me.
21. But to Israel he sayth, All day long I haue stretched foorth my hands vnto a disobedient and gainesaying people.
1. I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbidde. For I also am an Israelite of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin.
2. God hath not cast away his people which hee foreknew. Wote yee not what the Scripture saieth of Elias? How hee maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3. Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine Altars, and I am left alone, and they seeke my life.
4. But what saieth the answere of God vnto him? I haue reserued to my selfe seuen thousand men, who haue not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5. Euen so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6. And if by grace, then is it no more of workes: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it bee of workes, then is it no more grace, otherwise worke is no more worke.
7. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded,
8. According as it is written, God hath giuen them the spirit of slumber: eyes that they should not see, and eares that they should not heare vnto this day.
9. And Dauid sayth, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling blocke, and a recompense vnto them.
10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow downe their backe alway.
11. I say then; Haue they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid. But rather through their fall, saluation is come vnto the Gentiles, for to prouoke them to ielousie.
12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them, the riches of the Gentiles: how much more their fulnesse?
13. For I speake to you Gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnifie mine office:
14. If by any means I may prouoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might saue some of them.
15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world: what shal the receiuing of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the first fruite bee holy, the lumpe is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches bee broken off, and thou being a wilde oliue tree wert graffed in amongst them, and with them partakest of the roote and fatnesse of the Oliue tree:
18. Boast not against the branches: but if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might bee graffed in.
20. Well: because of vnbeliefe they were broken off, and thou standest by fayth. Be not high minded, but feare.
21. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heede least hee also spare not thee.
22. Beholde therefore the goodnesse and seueritie of God: on them which fell, seueritie; but towards thee, goodnesse, if thou continue in his goodnesse: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23. And they also, if they bide not still in vnbeliefe, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graffe them in againe.
24. For if thou wert cut out of the Oliue tree which is wilde by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good Oliue tree: how much more shall these which be the naturall branches, bee graffed into their owne Oliue tree?
25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should bee ignorant of this mysterie (least yee should bee wise in your owne conceits) that blindnesse in part is happened to Israel, vntill the fulnes of the Gentiles be come in.
26. And so all Israel shall be saued, as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliuerer, and shall turne away vngodlinesse from Iacob.
27. For this is my couenant vnto them, when I shall take away their sinnes.
28. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloued for the fathers sakes.
29. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30. For as yee in times past haue not beleeued God, yet haue now obtained mercy through their vnbeliefe:
31. Euen so haue these also now not beleeued, that through your mercy they also may obtaine mercy.
32. For God hath concluded them all in vnbeliefe, that he might haue mercy vpon all.
33. O the depth of the riches both of the wisedome and knowledge of God! how vnsearchable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!
34. For who hath knowen the mind of the Lord, or who hath bene his counseller?
35. Or who hath first giuen to him, and it shall bee recompensed vnto him againe?
36. For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: to whom be glory for euer. Amen.
1. I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that yee present your bodies a liuing sacrifice, holy, acceptable vnto God, which is your reasonable seruice.
2. And bee not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renuing of your minde, that ye may proue what is that good, that acceptable and perfect will of God.
3. For I say, through the grace giuen vnto mee, to euery man that is among you, not to thinke of himselfe more highly then hee ought to thinke, but to thinke soberly, according as God hath dealt to euery man the measure of faith.
4. For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:
5. So we being many are one bodie in Christ, and euery one members one of another.
6. Hauing then gifts, differing according to the grace that is giuen to vs, whether prophecie, let vs prophecie according to the proportion of faith.
7. Or ministery, let vs wait, on our ministring: or hee that teacheth, on teaching:
8. Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.
9. Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.
10. Bee kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly loue, in honour preferring one another.
11. Not slouthfull in busines: feruent in spirit, seruing the Lord.
12. Reioycing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer.
13. Distributing to the necessitie of Saints; giuen to hospitalitie.
14. Blesse them which persecute you, blesse, and curse not.
15. Reioyce with them that doe reioice, and weepe with them that weepe.
16. Be of the same mind one towards another. Minde not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Bee not wise in your owne conceits.
17. Recompence to no man euill for euill. Prouide things honest in the sight of all men.
18. If it be possible, as much as lyeth in you, liue peaceably with all men.
19. Dearely beloued, auenge not your selues, but rather giue place vnto wrath: for it is written, Uengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
20. Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.
21. Be not ouercome of euill, but ouercome euill with good.
1. Let euery soule bee subiect vnto the higher powers: For there is no power but of God. The powers that be, are ordeined of God.
2. Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receiue to themselues damnation.
3. For rulers are not a terrour to good works, but to the euill. Wilt thou then not bee afraide of the power? doe that which is good, and thou shalt haue praise of the same.
4. For hee is the minister of God to thee for good: but if thou do that which is euill, be afraid: for he beareth not the sword in vaine: for he is the minister of God, a reuenger to execute wrath vpon him that doeth euill.
5. Wherfore ye must needs be subiect, not onely for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6. For, for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are Gods ministers, attending continually vpon this very thing.
7. Render therfore to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, custome to whome custome, feare to whome feare, honour to whom honour.
8. Owe no man any thing, but to loue one another: for hee that loueth another hath fulfilled the Law.
9. For this, Thou shalt not commit adulterie, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steale, Thou shalt not beare false witnesse, Thou shalt not couet: and if there be any other commandement, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
10. Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore loue is the fulfilling of the Law.
11. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer then when we beleeued.
12. The night is farre spent, the day is at hand: let vs therefore cast off the workes of darkenesse, and let vs put on the armour of light.
13. Let vs walke honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkennesse, not in chambring and wantonnes, not in strife and enuying.
14. But put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ, and make not prouision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
1. Him that is weake in the faith receiue you, but not to doubtfull disputations.
2. For one beleeueth that he may eat all things: another who is weake, eateth herbes.
3. Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him which eateth not, iudge him that eateth. For God hath receiued him.
4. Who art thou that iudgest an other mans seruant? To his owne master he standeth or falleth; Yea he shall bee holden vp: for God is able to make him stand.
5. One man esteemeth one day aboue another: another esteemeth euery day alike. Let euery man bee fully perswaded in his owne minde.
6. He that regardeth a day, regardeth it vnto the Lord; and hee that regardeth not the day, to the Lord hee doeth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for hee giueth God thankes: and hee that eateth not, to the Lord hee eateth not, and giueth God thankes.
7. For none of vs liueth to himselfe, and no man dieth to himselfe.
8. For whether we liue, we liue vnto the Lord: and whether wee die, we die vnto the Lord: whether wee liue therefore or die, we are the Lords.
9. For to this ende Christ both died, and rose, and reuiued, that hee might be Lord both of the dead and liuing.
10. But why doest thou iudge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? Wee shall all stand before the Iudgement seat of Christ.
11. For it is written, As I liue, saith the Lord, euery knee shall bow to mee, and euery tongue shall confesse to God.
12. So then euery one of vs shall giue accompt of himselfe to God.
13. Let vs not therefore iudge one another any more: but iudge this rather, that no man put a stumbling blocke, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.
14. I know, and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe: but to him that esteemeth any thing to bee vncleane, to him it is vncleane.
15. But if thy brother be grieued with thy meate: now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16. Let not then your good be euill spoken of.
17. For the kingdome of God is not meat and drinke; but righteousnes, and peace, and ioy in the holy Ghost.
18. For hee that in these things serueth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approued of men.
19. Let vs therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edifie an other.
20. For meat, destroy not the worke of God: all things indeed are pure; but it is euill for that man who eateth with offence.
21. It is good neither to eate flesh, nor to drinke wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weake.
22. Hast thou faith? haue it to thy selfe before God. Happie is he that condemneth not himselfe in that thing which hee alloweth.
23. And hee that doubteth, is damned if hee eate, because hee eateth not of faith: For whatsoeuer is not of faith, is sinne.



1. Wee then that are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, and not to please our selues.
2. Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.
3. For euen Christ pleased not himselfe, but as it is written, The reproches of them that reproched thee, fell on mee.
4. For whatsoeuer things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope.
5. Now the God of patience and consolation graunt you to be like minded one towards another, according to Christ Iesus:
6. That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ.
7. Wherfore receiue yee one another, as Christ also receiued vs, to the glory of God.
8. Now I say, that Iesus Christ was a Minister of the circumcision for the trueth of God, to confirme the promises made vnto the fathers:
9. And that the Gentiles might glorifie God for his mercie, as it is written, For this cause I will confesse to thee among the Gentiles, and sing vnto thy Name.
10. And againe he saith, Reioyce yee Gentiles with his people.
11. And againe, Praise the Lord all ye Gentiles, and laud him all ye people.
12. And againe Esaias saith, There shal be a roote of Iesse, and he that shal rise to raigne ouer the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.
13. Nowe the God of hope fill you with all ioy and peace in beleeuing, that yee may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost.
14. And I my selfe also am perswaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodnesse, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15. Neuerthelesse, brethren, I haue written the more boldly vnto you, in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is giuen to mee of God,
16. That I should be the minister of Iesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministring the Gospel of God, that the offering vp of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the holy Ghost.
17. I haue therfore whereof I may glory through Iesus Christ, in those things which pertaine to God.
18. For I will not dare to speake of any of those things, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deede,
19. Through mighty signes and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Hierusalem and round about vnto Illyricum, I haue fully preached the Gospel of Christ.
20. Yea, so haue I striued to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build vpon another mans foundation:
21. But as it is written, To whom hee was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that haue not heard, shall vnderstand.
22. For which cause also I haue been much hindered from coming to you.
23. But now hauing no more place in these parts, and hauing a great desire these many yeeres to come vnto you:
24. Whensoeuer I take my iourney into Spaine, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my iourney, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
25. But now I goe vnto Hierusalem, to minister vnto the Saints.
26. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certaine contribution for the poore Saints which are at Hierusalem.
27. It hath pleased them verely, and their detters they are. For if the Gentiles haue bene made partakers of their spirituall things, their duetie is also to minister vnto them in carnall things.
28. When therefore I haue performed this, and hane sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spaine.
29. And I am sure that when I come vnto you, I shall come in the fulnes of the blessing of ye Gospel of Christ.
30. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Iesus Christs sake, and for the loue of the Spirit, that ye striue together with me, in your praiers to God for me,
31. That I may bee deliuered from them that do not beleeue in Iudea, and that my seruice which I haue for Hierusalem, may bee accepted of the Saints:
32. That I may come vnto you with ioy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
33. Now the God of peace bee with you all. Amen.
1. I commend vnto you Phebe our sister, which is a seruant of the Church which is at Cenchrea:
2. That ye receiue her in the Lord as becommeth Saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoeuer businesse she hath need of you: for she hath beene a succourer of many, and of my selfe also.
3. Greete Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Iesus:
4. (Who haue for my life laid downe their owne neckes: vnto whome not onely I giue thankes, but also all the Churches of the Gentiles.)
5. Likewise greet the Church that is in their house. Salute my welbeloued Epenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia vnto Christ.
6. Greete Marie, who bestowed much labour on vs.
7. Salute Andronicus and Iunia my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the Apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8. Greet Amplias my beloued in the Lord.
9. Salute Urbane our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloued.
10. Salute Appelles approoued in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus houshold.
11. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the houshold of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
12. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloued Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
13. Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
15. Salute Philologus & Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them.
16. Salute one another with an holy kisse. The Churches of Christ salute you.
17. Now I beseech you, brethren, marke them which cause diuisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned, and auoide them.
18. For they that are such, serue not our Lord Iesus Christ, but their owne belly, and by good wordes and faire speeches deceiue the hearts of the simple.
19. For your obedience is come abroad vnto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalfe: but yet I would haue you wise vnto that which is good, and simple concerning euill.
20. And the God of peace shal bruise Satan vnder your feete shortly. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you. Amen.
21. Timotheus my worke-fellow, and Lucius, and Iason, and Sosipater my kinsemen salute you.
22. I Tertius who wrote this Epistle, salute you in the Lord.
23. Gaius mine hoste, and of the whole Church, saluteth you. Erastus the Chamberlaine of the citie saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
24. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25. Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my Gospel, and the preaching of Iesus Christ, according to the reuelation of the the mysterie, which was kept secret since the world began:
26. But now is made manifest, and by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the commandement of the euerlasting God, made knowen to all nations for the obedience of faith,
27. To God, onely wise, bee glorie through Iesus Christ, for euer. Amen.  <i>Written to the Romanes from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe seruant of the Church at Cenchrea.</i>
1. Paul called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2. Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, called to be Saints, with all that in euery place call vpon the Name of Iesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
3. Grace be vnto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
4. I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe, for the grace of God which is giuen you by Iesus Christ,
5. That in euery thing yee are enriched by him, in all vtterance, and in all knowledge:
6. Euen as the Testimony of Christ was confirmed in you.
7. So that yee come behinde in no gift; wayting for the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ,
8. Who shall also confirme you vnto the end, that yee may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.
9. God is faithful by whom ye were called vnto the felowship of his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord.
10. Now I beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that yee all speake the same thing, and that there be no diuisions among you: but that ye be perfectly ioyned together in the same minde, and in the same iudgement.
11. For it hath bene declared vnto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Cloe, that there are contentions among you.
12. Now this I say, that euery one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollo, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
13. Is Christ diuided? was Paul crucified for you? or were yee baptized in the name of Paul?
14. I thanke God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius:
15. Lest any should say, that I had baptized in mine owne name.
16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel: not with wisedome of words, lest the Crosse of Christ should be made of none effect.
18. For the preaching of the Crosse is to them that perish, foolishnesse: but vnto vs which are saued, it is the power of God.
19. For it is written, I will destroy the wisedome of the wise, and wil bring to nothing the vnderstanding of the prudent.
20. Where is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisedome of this world?
21. For after that, in the wisedom of God, the world by wisedome knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching, to saue them that beleeue.
22. For the Iewes require a signe, and the Greekes seeke after wisedome.
23. But wee preach Christ crucified, vnto the Iewes a stumbling block, and vnto the Greekes, foolishnesse:
24. But vnto them which are called, both Iewes and Greekes, Christ, the power of God, & the wisedome of God.
25. Because the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men: and the weakenesse of God is stronger then men.
26. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.
27. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weake things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty:
28. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are,
29. That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30. But of him are ye in Christ Iesus, who of God is made vnto vs wisedome, and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption:
31. That according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellencie of speech, or of wisedome, declaring vnto you the testimony of God.
2. For I determined not to know any thing amog you, saue Iesus Christ, and him crucified.
3. And I was with you in weakenesse, and in feare, and in much trembling.
4. And my speech, and my preaching was not with entising words of mans wisedome, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:
5. That your faith should not stand in the wisdome of men, but in the power of God.
6. Howbeit wee speake wisedome among them that are perfect: yet not the wisedome of this worlde, nor of the Princes of this worlde, that come to nought:
7. But wee speake the wisedome of God in a mysterie, euen the hidden wisedome which God ordeined before the world, vnto our glory.
8. Which none of the princes of this world knewe: for had they knowen it, they would not haue crucified the Lord of glory.
9. But as it is written, Eye hath not seene, nor eare heard, neither haue entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that loue him.
10. But God hath reueiled them vnto vs by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deepe things of God.
11. For what man knoweth the things of a man, saue the spirit of man which is in him? Euen so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12. Now wee haue receiued, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that wee might know the things that are freely giuen to vs of God.
13. Which things also we speake, not in the words which mans wisedome teacheth, but which the holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spirituall.
14. But the naturall man receiueth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishnesse vnto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15. But he that is spirituall, iudgeth all things, yet he himselfe is iudged of no man.
16. For who hath knowen the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we haue the mind of Christ.
1. And I, brethren, could not speake vnto you as vnto spirituall, but as vnto carnall, euen as vnto babes in Christ.
2. I haue fed you with milke, and not with meate: for hitherto yee were not able to beare it, neither yet now are ye able.
3. For ye are yet carnall: for whereas there is among you enuying, and strife, and diuisions, are ye not carnall, and walke as men?
4. For while one saieth, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo, are ye not carnall?
5. Who then is Paul? and who is Apollo? but ministers by whom ye beleeued, euen as the Lord gaue to euery man.
6. I haue planted, Apollo watered: but God gaue the encrease.
7. So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither hee that watereth: but God that giueth the increase.
8. Now hee that planteth, and hee that watereth, are one: and euery man shal receiue his own reward according to his owne labour.
9. For wee are labourers together with God, ye are Gods husbandry, yee are Gods building.
10. According to the grace of God which is giuen vnto mee, as a wise master builder I haue laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let euery man take heede how hee buildeth thereupon.
11. For other foundation can no man lay, then that is laide, which is Iesus Christ.
12. Now if any man build vpon this foundation, gold, siluer, preciousstones, wood, hay, stubble:
13. Euery mans worke shall be made manifest. For the day shall declare it, because it shall bee reuealed by fire, and the fire shall trie euery mans worke of what sort it is.
14. If any mans worke abide which he hath built thereupon, he shal receiue a reward.
15. If any mans worke shall bee burnt, he shall suffer losse: but he himselfe shall be saued: yet so, as by fire.
16. Knowe yee not that yee are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17. If any man defile the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are.
18. Let no man deceiue himselfe: If any man among you seemeth to bee wise in this world, let him become a foole, that he may be wise.
19. For the wisedome of this world is foolishnesse with God: for it is written, Hee taketh the wise in their owne craftinesse.
20. And againe, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vaine.
21. Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours.
22. Whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours.
23. And yee are Christs, and Christ is Gods.
1. Let a man so account of vs, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2. Moreouer, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithfull.
3. But with mee it is a very small thing that I should bee iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: yea, I iudge not mine owne selfe.
4. For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not hereby iustified: but hee that iudgeth me is the Lord.
5. Therefore iudge nothing before the time, vntill the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkenesse, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall euery man haue prayse of God.
6. And these things, brethren, I haue in a figure transferred to my selfe, and to Apollo, for your sakes: that ye might learne in vs not to thinke of men, aboue that which is written, that no one of you bee puffed vp for one against another.
7. For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receiue? Now if thou didst receiue it, why doest thou glory as if thou hadst not receiued it?
8. Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye haue reigned as kings without vs, and I would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you.
9. For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the Apostles last, as it were approued to death. For wee are made a spectacle vnto the world, and to Angels, and to men.
10. We are fooles for Christs sake, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weake, but ye are strong: yee are honourable, but we are despised.
11. Euen vnto this present houre we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place,
12. And labour, working with our owne hands: being reuiled, wee blesse: being persecuted, we suffer it:
13. Being defamed, we intreate: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all things vnto this day.
14. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.
15. For though you haue ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet haue yee not many fathers: For in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel.
16. Wherefore I beseech you, be yee followers of me.
17. For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, who is my beloued sonne, and faithfull in the Lord, who shal bring you into remembrance of my wayes which be in Christ, as I teach euery where in euery Church.
18. Nowe some are puffed vp as though I would not come to you.
19. But I wil come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will knowe, not the speach of them which are puffed vp, but the power.
20. For the kingdome of God is not in word, but in power.
21. What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, and in the spirit of meekenesse?
1. It is reported commonly, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not so much as named amongst the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife.
2. And yee are puffed vp, and haue not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed, might bee taken away from among you.
3. For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, haue iudged alreadie, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4. In the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, when yee are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Iesus Christ,
5. To deliuer such a one vnto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus.
6. Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe?
7. Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a new lumpe, as ye are vnleauened. For euen Christ our Passeouer is sacrificed for vs.
8. Therefore let vs keepe the Feast, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of malice and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of sinceritie and trueth.
9. I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, not to company with fornicators.
10. Yet not altogether with the fornicatours of this world, or with the couetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must yee needs goe out of the world.
11. But now I haue written vnto you, not to keepe company, if any man that is called a brother bee a fornicator, or couetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, no, not to eate.
12. For what haue I to doe to iudge them also that are without? doe not ye iudge them that are within?
13. But them that are without, God iudgeth. Therefore put away from among your selues that wicked person.
1. Dare any of you, hauing a matter against another, goe to law before the vniust, and not before the Saints?
2. Do ye not know that the Saints shall iudge the world? And if the world shalbe iudged by you, are ye vnworthy to iudge the smallest matters?
3. Know ye not that we shall iudge Angels? How much more things that perteine to this life?
4. If then yee haue iudgements of things perteining to this life, set them to iudge who are least esteemed in the Church.
5. I speake to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man amongst you? no not one that shall bee able to iudge betweene his brethren?
6. But brother goeth to law with brother, & that before the vnbeleeuers?
7. Now therefore, there is vtterly a fault among you, because yee goe to law one with another: Why doe ye not rather take wrong? Why doe yee not rather suffer your selues to be defrauded?
8. Nay, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.
9. Know yee not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselues with mankinde,
10. Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor reuilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are iustified in the Name of the Lord Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12. All things are lawfull vnto mee, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawfull for mee, but I will not bee brought vnder the power of any.
13. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.
14. And God hath both raised vp the Lord, and will also raise vp vs by his owne power.
15. Know yee not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16. What, know ye not that he which is ioyned to an harlot, is one body? for two (saith he) shalbe one flesh.
17. But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lord, is one spirit.
18. Flee fornication: Euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne body.
19. What, know ye not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you, which yee haue of God, and ye are not your owne?
20. For yee are bought with a price: therefore glorifie God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.
1. Now cocerning the things wherof ye wrote vnto me, It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2. Neuerthelesse, to auoid fornication, let euery man haue his owne wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
3. Let the husband render vnto the wife due beneuolence: and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.
4. The wife hath not power of her owne body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his owne body, but the wife.
5. Defraud you not one the other, except it bee with consent for a time, that yee may giue your selues to fasting and prayer, and come together againe, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinencie.
6. But I speake this by permission, and not of commandement.
7. For I would that all men were euen as I my selfe: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.
8. I say therefore to the vnmaried and widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I.
9. But if they cannot conteine, let them marry: for it is better to marrie then to burne.
10. And vnto the married, I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11. But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12. But to the rest speake I, not the Lord, If any brother hath a wife that beleeueth not, and shee bee pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13. And the woman which hath an husband that beleeueth not, and if hee be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leaue him.
14. For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified by the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified by the husband; else were your children vncleane, but now are they holy.
15. But if the vnbeleeuing depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not vnder bondage in such cases: but God hath called vs to peace.
16. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?
17. But as God hath distributed to euery man, as the Lord hath called euery one, so let him walke, and so ordeine I in all Churches.
18. Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become vncircumcised: Is any called in vncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19. Circumcision is nothing, and vncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the Commandements of God.
20. Let euery man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21. Art thou called being a seruant? care not for it: but if thou maist be made free, vse it rather.
22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a seruant, is the Lords free man: likewise also hee that is called being free, is Christs seruant.
23. Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the seruants of men.
24. Brethren, let euery man wherin he is called, therein abide with God.
25. Nowe concerning virgins, I haue no commaundement of the Lord: yet I giue my iudgement as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithfull.
26. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distresse, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27. Art thou bound vnto a wife? seeke not to bee loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seeke not a wife.
28. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned, and if a virgin marry, shee hath not sinned: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29. But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that haue wiues, be as though they had none:
30. And they that weepe, as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that buy, as though they possessed not:
31. And they that vse this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
32. But I would haue you without carefulnesse. He that is vnmarried, careth for the things that belogeth to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33. But hee that is maried, careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that shee may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the worlde, how shee may please her husband.
35. And this I speake for your owne profite, not that I may cast a snare vpon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend vpon the Lord without distraction.
36. But if any man thinke that he behaueth himselfe vncomely toward his virgin, if she passe the floure of her age, and neede so require, let him doe what hee will, hee sinneth not: let them marry.
37. Neuerthelesse, hee that standeth stedfast in his heart, hauing no necessitie, but hath power ouer his owne will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keepe his virgin, doeth well.
38. So then he that giueth her in mariage, doeth wel: but he that giueth her not in mariage, doeth better.
39. The wife is bound by the Lawe as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at liberty to bee maried to whom shee will, onely in the Lord.
40. But shee is happier if shee sobide, after my iudgment: and I thinke also that I haue the Spirit of God.
1. Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge. Knowledge puffeth vp: but Charitie edifieth.
2. And if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
3. But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
4. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice vnto idoles, wee know that an idole is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
5. For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen or in earth (as there be gods many, and lords many:)
6. But to vs there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Iesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7. Howbeit there is not in euerie man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idole vnto this houre, eate it as a thing offred vnto an idole, and their conscience being weake, is defiled.
8. But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the worse.
9. But take heed lest by any meanes, this libertie of yours become a stumbling blocke to them that are weake.
10. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idols temple: shall not the conscience of him which is weake, be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols?
11. And through thy knowledge shal the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died?
12. But when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.
13. Wherefore if meate make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
1. Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my worke in the Lord?
2. If I bee not an Apostle vnto others, yet doubtlesse I am to you: for the seale of mine Apostleship are yee in the Lord.
3. Mine answere to them that doe examine me, is this:
4. Haue wee not power to eate and to drinke?
5. Haue we not power to lead about a sister a wife aswel as other Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or I onely and Barnabas, haue not we power to forbeare working?
7. Who goeth a warfare any time at his owne charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruite thereof? or who feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke?
8. Say I these things as a man? or saith not the Law the same also?
9. For it is written in the Law of Moyses, Thou shalt not muzzell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne: doth God take care for oxen?
10. Or saith hee it altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that hee that ploweth, should plow in hope: and that hee that thresheth in hope, should bee partaker of his hope.
11. If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall things, is it a great thing if wee shall reape your carnall things?
12. If others bee partakers of this power ouer you, are not we rather? Neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, lest wee should hinder the Gospel of Christ.
13. Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things, liue of the things of the Temple? and they which wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar?
14. Euen so hath the Lord ordeined, that they which preach the Gospel, should liue of the Gospel.
15. But I haue vsed none of these things. Neither haue I written these things, that it should bee so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my glorying voyd.
16. For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to glorie of: for necessitie is laid vpon mee, yea, woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel.
17. For if I doe this thing willingly, I haue a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the Gospel is committed vnto me.
18. What is my reward then? verily that when I preach the Gospel, I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the Gospel.
19. For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all, that I might gaine the more.
20. And vnto the Iewes, I became as a Iew, that I might gaine the Iewes: to them that are vnder the Law, as vnder the Law, that I might gaine them that are vnder the Law:
21. To them that are without Law, as without Law (being not without Law to God, but vnder the Law to Christ,) that I might gaine them that are without Law.
22. To the weake became I as weake, that I might gaine the weake: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.
23. And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
24. Know yee not that they which runne in a race, runne all, but one receiueth the price? So runne, that yee may obtaine.
25. And euery man that striueth for the masterie, is temperate in all things: Now they doe it to obtaine a corruptible crowne, but we an incorruptible.
26. I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre:
27. But I keepe vnder my body, and bring it into subiection: lest that by any meanes when I haue preached to others, I my selfe should be a castaway.
1. Moreouer brethren, I would not that yee should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were vnder the cloud, and all passed thorow the Sea:
2. And were all baptized vnto Moyses in the cloud, and in the sea:
3. And did all eat the same spirituall meat:
4. And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke: (for they dranke of that spirituall Rocke that followed them: and that Rocke was Christ)
5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse.
6. Now these things were our examples, to the intent wee should not lust after euil things, as they also lusted.
7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.
8. Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.
9. Neither let vs tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10. Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11. Now all these things happened vnto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, vpon whom the ends of the world are come.
12. Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.
13. There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man: but God is faithfull, who wil not suffer you to bee tempted aboue that you are able: but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may bee able to beare it.
14. Wherefore my dearely beloued, flee from idolatrie.
15. I speake as to wise men: iudge ye what I say.
16. The cup of blessing which wee blesse, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we breake, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17. For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18. Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the Altar?
19. What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20. But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to deuils, and not to God: and I would not that yee should haue fellowship with deuils.
21. Yee cannot drinke the cup of the Lord, and the cup of deuils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table, and of the table of deuils.
22. Doe we prouoke the Lord to iealousie? are we stronger then he?
23. All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: All things are lawfull for mee, but all things edifie not.
24. Let no man seeke his owne: but euery man anothers wealth.
25. Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, that eate, asking no question for conscience sake.
26. For the earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof.
27. If any of them that beleeue not, bid you to a feast, and yee be disposed to goe, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.
28. But if any man say vnto you, This is offered in sacrifice vnto idoles, eate not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake. The earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof.
29. Conscience I say, not thine owne, but of the others: for why is my libertie iudged of another mans conscience?
30. For, if I by grace be a partaker, why am I euill spoken of, for that for which I giue thankes?
31. Whether therfore ye eat or drinke, or whatsoeuer ye doe, doe all to the glory of God.
32. Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God:
33. Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saued.
1. Be yee followers of mee, euen as I also am of Christ.
2. Now I prayse you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and keepe the ordinances, as I deliuered them to you.
3. But I would haue you knowe, that the head of euery man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
4. Euery man praying or prophecying, hauing his head couered, dishonoureth his head.
5. But euery woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head vncouered, dishonoureth her head: for that is euen all one as if she were shauen.
6. For if the woman be not couered, let her also bee shorne: but if it bee a shame for a woman to be shorne or shauen, let her be couered.
7. For a man in deede ought not to couer his head, forasmuch as hee is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
9. Neither was the man created for the woman: but the woman for the man.
10. For this cause ought the woman to haue power on her head, because of the Angels.
11. Neuerthelesse, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.
12. For as the woman is of the man: euen so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13. Iudge in your selues, is it comely that a woman pray vnto God vncouered?
14. Doeth not euen nature it selfe teach you, that if a man haue long haire, it is a shame vnto him?
15. But if a woman haue long haire, it is a glory to her: for her haire is giuen her for a couering.
16. But if any man seeme to be contentious, we haue no such custome, neither the Churches of God.
17. Now in this that I declare vnto you, I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18. For first of all when yee come together in the Church, I heare that there be diuisions among you, and I partly beleeue it.
19. For there must bee also heresies among you, that they which are approued may be made manifest among you.
20. When yee come together therefore into one place, this is not to eate the Lords Supper.
21. For in eating, euery one taketh before other, his owne supper: and one is hungry, and an other is drunken.
22. What, haue ye not houses to eate and to drinke in? Or despise yee the Church of God, and shame them that haue not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I prayse you not.
23. For I haue receiued of the Lord that which also I deliuered vnto you, that the Lord Iesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, tooke bread:
24. And when he had giuen thanks, he brake it, and sayd, Take, eate, this is my body, which is broken for you: this doe in remembrance of mee.
25. After the same manner also hee tooke the cup when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drinke it, in remembrance of me.
26. For as often as ye eate this bread, and drinke this cup, yee doe shew the Lords death till he come.
27. Wherefore, whosoeuer shall eate this bread, and drinke this cup of the Lord vnworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28. But let a man examine himselfe, and so let him eate of that bread, and drinke of that cup.
29. For hee that eateth and drinketh vnworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe, not discerning the Lords body.
30. For this cause many are weake and sickly among you, and many sleepe.
31. For if we would iudge our selues, we should not be iudged.
32. But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lord, that wee should not be condemned with the world.
33. Wherefore my brethren, when ye come together to eate, tary one for another.
34. And if any man hunger, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto condemnation. And the rest wil I set in order, when I come.
1. Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.
2. Yee know that yee were Gentiles, caryed away vnto these dumbe idoles, euen as ye were led.
3. Wherefore I giue you to vnderstand, that no man speaking by the spirit of God, calleth Iesus accursed: and that no man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.
4. Nowe there are diuersities of gifts, but the same spirit.
5. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6. And there are diuersities of operations, but it is the same God, which worketh all in all.
7. But the manifestation of the spirit, is giuen to euery man to profit withall.
8. For to one is giuen by the spirit, the word of wisedome, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirit.
9. To another faith, by the same spirit: to another the gifts of healing, by the same spirit:
10. To another the working of miracles, to another prophecie, to another discerning of spirits, to another diuers kindes of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11. But all these worketh that one and the selfe same spirit, diuiding to euery man seuerally as he will.
12. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the membrs of that one body, being many, are one bodie: so also is Christ.
13. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one bodie, whether wee bee Iewes or Gentiles, whether wee bee bond or free: and haue beene all made to drinke into one spirit.
14. For the body is not one member, but many.
15. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
16. And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18. But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19. And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20. But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21. And the eye cannot say vnto the hand, I haue no need of thee: nor againe, the head to the feete, I haue no neede of you.
22. Nay, much more those members of the bodie, which seeme to bee more feeble, are necessary.
23. And those members of the bodie, which wee thinke to bee lesse honourable, vpon these we bestow more abundant honour, and our vncomely parts haue more abundant comelinesse.
24. For our comely parts haue no need: but God hath tempered the bodie together, hauing giuen more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25. That there should be no schisme in the body: but that the members should haue the same care one for another.
26. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it: or one member be honoured, all the members reioyce with it.
27. Now yee are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28. And God hath set some in the Church, first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmets, diuersities of tongues.
29. Are all Apostles? are all Prophets? are all Teachers? are all workers of miracles?
30. Haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interpret?
31. But couet earnestly the best gifts: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.
1. Though I speake with the tongues of men & of Angels, and haue not charity, I am become as sounding brasse or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I haue the gift of prophesie, and vnderstand all mysteries and all knowledge: and though I haue all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines, and haue no charitie, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestowe all my goods to feede the poore, and though I giue my body to bee burned, and haue not charitie, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Charitie suffereth long, and is kinde: charitie enuieth not: charitie vaunteth not it selfe, is not puffed vp,
5. Doeth not behaue it selfe vnseemly, seeketh not her owne, is not easily prouoked, thinketh no euill,
6. Reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:
7. Beareth all things, beleeueth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charitie neuer faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall faile; whether there bee tongues, they shall cease; whether there bee knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesie in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part, shalbe done away.
11. When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstood as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glasse, darkely: but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know euen as also I am knowen.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charitie, these three, but the greatest of these is charitie.
1. Follow after charitie, and desire spirituall giftes, but rather that yee may prophesie.
2. For he that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, speaketh not vnto men, but vnto God: for no man vnderstandeth him: howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
3. But he that prophesieth, speaketh vnto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
4. He that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, edifieth himselfe: but hee that prophesieth, edifieth the Church.
5. I would that yee all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is hee that prophesieth, then hee that speaketh with tongues, except hee interprete, that the Church may receiue edifying.
6. Now brethren, if I come vnto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speake to you either by reuelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
7. And euen things without life giuing sound, whether pipe or harpe, except they giue a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be knowen what is piped or harped?
8. For if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare himselfe to the battell?
9. So likewise you, except ye vtter by the tongue words easie to be vnderstood, how shall it be knowen what is spoken? for ye shall speake into the aire.
10. There are, it may bee, so many kindes of voices in the world, and none of them are without signification.
11. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voyce, I shall bee vnto him that speaketh, a Barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a Barbarian vnto mee.
12. Euen so ye, forasmuch as yee are zealous of spirituall gifts, seeke that yee may excell to the edifying of the Church.
13. Wherefore let him that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, pray that he may interprete.
14. For if I pray in an vnknowen tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my vnderstanding is vnfruitfull.
15. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and wil pray with vnderstanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the vnderstanding also.
16. Else, when thou shalt blesse with the spirit, how shall hee that occupieth the roome of the vnlearned, say Amen at thy giuing of thankes, seeing he vnderstandeth not what thou sayest?
17. For thou verily giuest thankes well: but the other is not edified.
18. I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more then you all.
19. Yet in the Church I had rather speake fiue words with my vnderstanding, that by my voyce I might teach others also, then ten thousand words in an vnknowen tongue.
20. Brethren, bee not children in vnderstanding: how be it, in malice be yee children, but in vnderstanding be men.
21. In the Law it is written, With men of other tongues, and other lippes will I speake vnto this people: and yet for all that will they not heare me, saith the Lord.
22. Wherfore tongues are for a signe, not to them that beleeue, but to them that beleeue not: But prophesying serueth not for them that beleeue not, but for them which beleeue.
23. If therefore the whole Church be come together into some place, and all speake with tongues, & there come in those that are vnlearned, or vnbeleeuers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24. But if all prophesie, and there come in one that beleeueth not, or one vnlearned: he is conuinced of all, he is iudged of all.
25. And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest, and so falling downe on his face, hee will worship God, and report that God is in you of a trueth.
26. How is it then brethren? when ye come together, euery one of you hath a Psalme, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a reuelatio, hath an interpretatio: Let all things be done vnto edifying.
27. If any man speake in an vnknowen tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interprete.
28. But if there be no interpreter, let him keepe silence in the Church, and let him speake to himselfe, and to God.
29. Let the Prophets speake two or three, and let the other iudge.
30. If any thing be reueiled to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
31. For yee may all prophesie one by one, that all may learne, and all may be comforted.
32. And the spirits of the Prophets are subiect to the Prophets.
33. For God is not the authour of confusion, but of peace, as in all Churches of the Saints.
34. Let your women keepe silence in the Churches, for it is not permitted vnto them to speake; but they are commanded to bee vnder obedience: as also saith the Law.
35. And if they will learne any thing, let them aske their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speake in the Church.
36. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it vnto you onely?
37. If any man thinke himselfe to be a Prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge, that the things that I write vnto you, are the commandements of the Lord.
38. But if any man bee ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39. Wherefore brethren, couet to prophesie, and forbid not to speake with tongues.
40. Let all things be done decently, and in order.
1. Moreouer brethren, I declare vnto you the Gospel which I preached vnto you, which also you haue receiued, and wherein yee stand.
2. By which also yee are saued, if yee keepe in memorie what I preached vnto you, vnlesse yee haue beleeued in vaine.
3. For I deliuered vnto you first of all, that which I also receiued, how that Christ died for our sinnes according to the Scriptures:
4. And that he was buried, and that he rose againe the third day according to the Scriptures.
5. And that he was seene of Cephas, then of the twelue.
6. And that hee was seene of aboue fiue hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remaine vnto this present, but some are fallen asleepe.
7. After that, he was seen of Iames, then of all the Apostles.
8. And last of all he was seene of me also, as of one borne out of due time.
9. For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle because I persecuted ye Church of God.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed vpon me, was not in vaine: But I laboured more abundantly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me:
11. Therefore, whether it were I or they, so we preach, aud so ye beleeued.
12. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen.
14. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vaine, and your faith is also vaine:
15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we haue testified of God, that he raised vp Christ: whom hee raised not vp, if so bee that the dead rise not.
16. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised.
17. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine, ye are yet in your sinnes.
18. Then they also which are fallen asleepe in Christ, are perished.
19. If in this life only we haue hope in Christ, wee are of all men most miserable.
20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.
21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22. For as in Adam all die, euen so in Christ shall all be made aliue.
23. But euery man in his owne order. Christ the first fruits, afterward they that are Christs, at his comming.
24. Then commeth the end, when he shall haue deliuered vp the kingdome to God euen the Father, when he shall haue put downe all rule, and all authority and power.
25. For he must reigne, till hee hath put all enemies vnder his feete.
26. The last enemie that shall be destroyed, is death.
27. For he hath put all things vnder his feete; but when hee saith all things are put vnder him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things vnder him.
28. And when all things shall bee subdued vnto him, then shal the Sonne also himselfe bee subiect vnto him that put all things vnder him, that God may be all in all.
29. Else what shal they do, which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead?
30. And why stand we in ieopardy euery houre?
31. I protest by your reioycing which I haue in Christ Iesus our Lord, I die dayly.
32. If after the maner of men I haue fought with beasts at Ephesus, what aduantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let vs eate and drinke, for to morrowe wee die.
33. Bee not deceiued: euill communications corrupt good manners.
34. Awake to righteousnesse, and sinne not: for some haue not the knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.
35. But some man will say, How are the dead raysed vp? and with what body doe they come?
36. Thou foole, that which thou sowest, is not quickened except it die.
37. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare graine, it may chance of wheate, or of some other graine.
38. But God giueth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to euery seed his owne body.
39. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40. There are also celestiall bodies, and bodies terrestriall: But the glorie of the celestiall is one, and the glorie of the terrestriall is another.
41. There is one glory of the sunne, another of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: for one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.
42. So also is the resurrection of the dead, it is sowen in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
43. It is sowen in dishonour, it is raysed in glorie: it is sowen in weakenesse, it is raysed in power:
44. It is sowen a naturall body, it is raised a spirituall bodie. There is a naturall bodie, and there is a spirituall bodie.
45. And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a liuing soule, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46. Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall: but that which is naturall, and afterward that which is spirituall.
47. The first man is of the earth, earthy: The second man is the Lord from heauen.
48. As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy, and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.
49. And as we haue borne the image of the earthy, wee shall also beare the image of the heauenly.
50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh & blood cannot inherite the kingdome of God: neither doth corruption inherite incorruption.
51. Behold, I shew you a mysterie: we shall not all sleepe, but wee shall all be changed,
52. In a moment, in the twinckling of an eye, at the last trumpe, (for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.)
53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortalitie.
54. So when this corruptible shall haue put on incorruption, & this mortall shall haue put on immortality, then shall be brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp in victorie.
55. O death, where is thy sting? O graue, where is thy victorie?
56. The sting of death is sinne, and the strength of sinne is the law.
57. But thankes bee to God, which giueth vs the victorie, through our Lord Iesus Christ.
58. Therefore my beloued brethren, be yee stedfast, vnmoueable, alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord.
1. Now concerning the collection for the Saints, as I haue giuen order to the Churches of Galatia, euen so doe ye.
2. Upon the first day of the weeke, let euery one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
3. And when I come, whomsoeuer you shall approue by your letters, them wil I send to bring your liberality vnto Ierusalem.
4. And if it be meet that I goe also, they shall goe with me.
5. Now I wil come vnto you, when I shall passe through Macedonia: for I doe passe through Macedonia.
6. And it may bee that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that yee may bring me on my iourny, whithersoeuer I goe.
7. For I will not see you now by the way, but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
8. But I will tarry at Ephesus vntill Pentecost.
9. For a great doore and effectuall is opened vnto mee, and there are many aduersaries.
10. Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without feare: for hee worketh the worke of the Lord, as I also doe.
11. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that hee may come vnto me: for I looke for him with the brethren.
12. As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come vnto you with ye brethren, but his wil was not at all to come at this time: but he wil come when hee shall haue conuenient time.
13. Watch yee, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men: be strong.
14. Let all your things be done with charitie.
15. I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they haue addicted themselues to the ministery of the Saints,)
16. That ye submit your selues vnto such, and to euery one that helpeth with vs and laboureth.
17. I am glad of the comming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part, they haue supplied.
18. For they haue refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge yee them that are such.
19. The Churches of Asia salute you: Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the Church that is in their house.
20. All the brethren greet you: greet ye one another with an holy kisse.
21. The salutation of me Paul, with mine owne hand.
22. If any man loue not the Lord Iesus Christ, let him bee Anathema Maranatha.
23. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you.
24. My loue be with you all in Christ Iesus, Amen.  <i>The first Epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.</i>
1. Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothie our brother, vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinth, with all the Saints, which are in all Achaia:
2. Grace bee to you and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
3. Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,
4. Who comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort, wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.
5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in vs, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
6. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and saluation, which is effectuall in the enduring of the same sufferings, which wee also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation, and saluation.
7. And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall yee be also of the consolatiou.
8. For we would not, brethren, haue you ignorant of our trouble which came to vs in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, aboue strength, in so much that we dispaired euen of life.
9. But we had the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not trust in our selues, but in God which raiseth the dead.
10. Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer: in whom we trust that he will yet deliuer vs:
11. You also helping together by prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs by the meanes of many persons, thankes may bee giuen by many on our behalfe.
12. For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie, not with fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God, wee haue had our conuersation in the world, and more aboundantly to youwards.
13. For we write none other things vnto you, then what you reade or acknowledge, and I trust you shall acknowledge euen to the end.
14. As also you haue acknowledged vs in part, that we are your reioycing, euen as ye also are ours, in the day of the Lord Iesus.
15. And in this confidence I was minded to come vnto you before, that you might haue a second benefit:
16. And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and of you to bee brought on my way toward Iudea.
17. When I therefore was thus minded, did I vse lightnesse? or the things that I purpose, doe I purpose according to the flesh, that with mee there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
18. But as God is true, our word toward you, was not yea and nay.
19. For the Sonne of God Iesus Christ, who was preached among you by vs, euen by me, and Syluanus and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay, but in him, was yea.
20. For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and in him Amen, vnto the glory of God by vs.
21. Now hee which stablisheth vs with you, in Christ, and hath anoynted vs, is God,
22. Who hath also sealed vs, and giuen the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. Moreouer, I call God for a record vpon my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinth.
24. Not for that we haue dominion ouer your faith, but are helpers of your ioy: for by faith ye stand.
1. But I determined this with my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse.
2. For if I make you sorie, who is hee then that maketh mee glad, but the same which is made sorie by me.
3. And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.
4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you.
5. But if any haue caused griefe, hee hath not grieued mee, but in part: that I may not ouercharge you all.
6. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7. So that contrarywise, yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest perhaps, such a one should be swallowed vp with ouermuch sorrow.
8. Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirme your loue towards him.
9. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proofe of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
10. To whom yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the person of Christ,
11. Lest Satan should get an aduantage of vs: for wee are not ignorant of his deuices.
12. Furthermore when I came to Troas, to preach Christs Gospel, and a doore was opened vnto mee of the Lord,
13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
14. Now thankes bee vnto God, which alwayes causeth vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.
15. For wee are vnto God, a sweet sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them that perish.
16. To the one wee are the sauour of death vnto death; and to the other, the sauour of life vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things?
17. For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ.
1. Doe wee begin againe to commend our selues? or need wee, as some others, Epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2. Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts, knowen and read of all men.
3. Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs, written not with inke, but with the spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4. And such trust haue wee through Christ to Godward:
5. Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God:
6. Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.
7. But if the ministration of death written, and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly beholde the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glorie was to be done away:
8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit, be rather glorious?
9. For if the ministration of condemnation bee glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glorie.
10. For euen that which was made glorious, had no glorie in this respect by reason of the glorie that excelleth.
11. For if that which is done away, was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12. Seeing then that wee haue such hope, we vse great plainnesse of speech.
13. And not as Moses, which put a vaile ouer his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly looke to the end of that which is abolished;
14. But their mindes were blinded: for vntill this day remaineth the same vaile vntaken away, in the reading of the old testament: which vaile is done away in Christ.
15. But euen vnto this day, when Moses is read, the vaile is vpon their heart.
16. Neuerthelesse, when it shall turne to the Lord, the vaile shall be taken away.
17. Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is libertie.
18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, euen as by the spirit of the Lord.
1. Therefore, seeing we haue this ministery, as we haue receiued mercie wee faint not:
2. But haue renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftines, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the trueth, commending our selues to euery mans conscience, in the sight of God.
3. But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeue not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine vnto them.
5. For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruants for Iesus sake.
6. For God who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Iesus Christ.
7. But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power may be of God, and not of vs.
8. Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,
9. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast downe, but not destroyed.
10. Alwayes bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Iesus, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our body.
11. For we which liue, are always deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our mortall flesh.
12. So then death worketh in vs, but life in you.
13. We hauing the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I beleeued, and therefore haue I spoken: wee also beleeue, and therefore speake.
14. Knowing that hee which raised vp the Lord Iesus, shall raise vp vs also by Iesus, and shall present vs with you.
15. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundat grace might, through the thankesgiuing of many, redound to the glory of God.
16. For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17. For our light affliction, which is but for a momet, worketh for vs a farre more exceeding and eternall waight of glory,
18. While we looke not at the things which are seene, but at ye things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall, but the things which are not seene, are eternall.
1. For we know, that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolued, wee haue a building of God, an house not made with hand, eternall in the heauens.
2. For in this we grone earnestly, desiring to be clothed vpon with our house, which is from heauen.
3. If so be that being clothed we shal not be found naked.
4. For, we that are in this tabernacle, doe grone, being burdened, not for that wee would bee vnclothed, but clothed vpon, that mortalitie might bee swallowed vp of life.
5. Now he that hath wrought vs for the selfe same thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the spirit.
6. Therefore we are alwayes confident, knowing that whilest wee are at home in the body, wee are absent from the Lord.
7. (For we walke by faith, not by sight.)
8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9. Wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10. For we must all appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ, that euery one may receiue the things done in his body, according to that hee hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11. Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord, we perswade men; but we are made manifest vnto God, & I trust also, are made manifest in your consciences.
12. For we commend not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you occasion to glory on our behalfe, that you may haue somewhat to answere them, which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
13. For whether wee bee besides our selues, it is to God: or whether we bee sober, it is for your cause.
14. For the loue of Christ constreineth vs, because wee thus iudge: that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15. And that he died for all, that they which liue, should not hencefoorth liue vnto themselues, but vnto him which died for them, and rose againe.
16. Wherefore hencefoorth know we no man, after the flesh: yea, though we haue knowen Christ after the flesh, yet now hencefoorth knowe wee him no more.
17. Therfore if any man be in Christ, hee is a new creature: old things are past away, behold, al things are become new.
18. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled vs to himselfe by Iesus Christ, and hath giuen to vs the ministery of reconciliation,
19. To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world vnto himselfe, not imputing their trespasses vnto them, and hath committed vnto vs the word of reconciliation.
20. Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by vs; we pray you in Christs stead, that be ye reconciled to God.
21. For he hath made him to be sinne for vs, who knewe no sinne, that wee might bee made the righteousnesse of God in him.
1. Wee then, as workers together with him, beseech you also, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine.
2. (For he saith, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee: beholde, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of saluation)
3. Giuing no offence in any thing, that the ministery be not blamed:
4. But in all things approuing our selues, as the Ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
6. By purenesse, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindnesse, by the holy Ghost, by loue vnfained,
7. By the worde of trueth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousnesse, on the right hand, and on the left,
8. By honour and dishonour, by euil report and good report, as deceiuers and yet true:
9. As vnknowen, & yet wel knowen: as dying, and behold, we liue: as chastened, and not killed:
10. As sorrowfull, yet alway reioycing: as poore, yet making many rich: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11. O yee Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is enlarged.
12. Yee are not straitened in vs, but yee are straitned in your owne bowels.
13. Nowe for a recompense in the same, (I speake as vnto my children) be ye also inlarged.
14. Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers: for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darknesse?
15. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that beleeueth, with an infidel?
16. And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idoles? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God, as God hath saide, I will dwell in them, and walke in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17. Wherefore come out from among them, and bee yee separate, saieth the Lord, and touch not the vncleane thing, and I will receiue you,
18. And will bee a Father vnto you, and ye shall bee my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord Almightie.
1. Hauing therefore these promises (dearely beloued) let vs cleanse our selues from all filthines of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holinesse in the feare of God.
2. Receiue vs, we haue wronged no man, wee haue corrupted no man, wee haue defrauded no man.
3. I speake not this to condemne you: for I haue said before, that you are in our hearts to die and liue with you.
4. Great is my boldnesse of speach toward you, great is my glorying of you, I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding ioyfull in all our tribulation.
5. For when wee were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on euery side; without were fightings, within were feares.
6. Neuerthelesse, God that comforteth those that are cast downe, comforted vs by the comming of Titus.
7. And not by his comming onely, but by the consolation wherewith hee was comforted in you, when he told vs your earnest desire, your mourning, your feruent minde toward me, so that I reioyced the more.
8. For though I made you sory with a letter, I doe not repent, though I did repent: For I perceiue that the same Epistle hath made you sory, thogh it were but for a season.
9. Now I reioyce, not that ye were made sorie, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorie after a godly maner, that ye might receiue damage by vs in nothing.
10. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to saluation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
11. For behold this selfe same thing that yee sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulnesse it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of your selues, yea, what indignation, yea what feare, yea what vehement desire, yea what zeale, yea what reuenge; In all things yee haue approued your selues to be cleare in this matter.
12. Wherefore though I wrote vnto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appeare vnto you.
13. Therefore we were comforted in your comfort, yea and exceedingly the more ioyed wee for the ioy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
14. For if I haue boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in trueth, euen so our boasting which I made before Titus, is found a trueth.
15. And his inward affection is more aboundant toward you, whilest he remembreth the obedience of you all, how with feare and trembling you receiued him.
16. I reioyce therefore that I haue confidence in you in all things.
1. Moreouer, brethren, wee do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia,
2. How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their ioy, and their deepe pouertie, abounded vnto the riches of their liberalitie.
3. For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselues:
4. Praying vs with much entreatie, that we would receiue the gift, and take vpon vs the fellowship of the ministring to the Saints.
5. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gaue their owne selues to the Lord, and vnto vs, by the will of God.
6. In so much that wee desired Titus, that as he had begun, so hee would also finish in you, the same grace also.
7. Therefore (as ye abound in euery thing, in faith, and vtterance, & knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue to vs) see that yee abound in this grace also.
8. I speake not by commandement, but by occasion of the forwardnesse of others, and to prooue the sinceritie of your loue.
9. For yee know the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be rich.
10. And herein I giue my aduice, for this is expedient for you, who haue begun before, not onely to doe, but also to be forward a yeere agoe.
11. Now therefore performe the doing of it, that as there was a readinesse to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you haue.
12. For if there bee first a willing minde, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
13. For I meane not that other men bee eased, and you burthened:
14. But by an equalitie: that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want, that there may be equalitie,
15. As it is written, Hee that had gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that had gathered little, had no lacke.
16. But thankes bee to God which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation, but being more forward, of his owne accord he went vnto you.
18. And wee haue sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel, throughout all the Churches.
19. And not that onely, but who was also chosen of the Churches to trauaile with vs with this grace which is administred by vs to the glorie of the same Lord, and declaration of your readie minde.
20. Auoyding this, that no man should blame vs in this aboundance which is administred by vs.
21. Prouiding for honest things, not onely in the sight of the Lord, but in the sight of men.
22. And we haue sent with them our brother, whom wee haue often times proued diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, vpon the great confidence which I haue in you.
23. Whether any doe enquire of Titus; he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you: or our brethren bee enquired of, they are the messengers of the Churches, and the glorie of Christ.
24. Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the Churches, the proofe of your loue, & of our boasting on your behalfe.
1. For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for mee to write to you.
2. For I know the forwardnesse of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a yeere agoe, and your zeale hath prouoked very many.
3. Yet haue I sent the brethren, least our boasting of you should bee in vaine in this behalfe, that as I saide, yee may be readie.
4. Lest happily if they of Macedonia come with mee, & find you vnprepared, wee (that wee say not, you) should bee ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5. Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before vnto you, and make vp before hand your bountie, whereof yee had notice before, that the same might bee readie, as a matter of bountie, not of couetousnesse.
6. But this I say, Hee which soweth sparingly, shall reape sparingly: and he which soweth bountifully, shall reape bountifully.
7. Euerie man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him giue; not grudgingly, or of necessitie: for God loueth a cheerefull giuer.
8. And God is able to make all grace abound towards you, that ye alwayes hauing all sufficiencie in all things, may abound to euery good worke,
9. (As it is written: Hee hath dispersed abroad: Hee hath giuen to the poore: his righteousnesse remaineth for euer.
10. Now he that ministreth seede to the sower, both minister bread for your foode, and multiply your seede sowen, and encrease the fruites of your righteousnesse)
11. Being enriched in euery thing to al bountifulnes, which causeth through vs thankesgiuing to God.
12. For the administration of this seruice, not onely supplieth the want of the Saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgiuings vnto God,
13. Whiles by the experiment of this ministration, they glorifie God for your professed subiection vnto the Gospel of Christ, and for your liberall distribution vnto them, and vnto all men:
14. And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15. Thanks be vnto God for his vnspeakeable gift.
1. Now I Paul my selfe beseech you, by the meekenes and gentlenesse of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent, am bold toward you:
2. But I beseech you, that I may not bee bold when I am present, with that confidence wherewith I thinke to be bold against some, which thinke of vs as if wee walked according to the flesh.
3. For though we walke in the flesh, we doe not warre after the flesh:
4. (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling downe of strong holds.)
5. Casting down imaginations, and euery high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ:
6. And hauing in a readinesse to reuenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7. Doe ye looke on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himselfe, that he is Christs, let him of himselfe thinke this againe, that as he is Christs, euen so are we Christs.
8. For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority (which the Lord hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed:
9. That I may not seeme as if I would terrifie you by letters.
10. For his letters (say they) are waighty and powerfull, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speach contemptible.
11. Let such a one thinke this: that such as we are in word by letters, when we are absent, such will we be also in deede when we are present.
12. For we dare not make our selues of the number, or compare our selues with some that commend themselues: but they measuring themselues by themselues, and comparing themselues amongst themselues, are not wise.
13. But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule, which God hath distributed to vs, a measure to reach euen vnto you.
14. For we stretch not our selues beyond our measure as though wee reached not vnto you, for wee are come as farre as to you also, in preaching the Gospel of Christ.
15. Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other mens labours, but hauing hope, when your faith is increased, that wee shall bee enlarged by you, according to our rule abundantly.
16. To preach the Gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another mans line of things made ready to our hand.
17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
18. For, not he that commendeth himselfe is approued, but whom the Lord commendeth.
1. Would to God you could beare with mee a little in my folly, & in deede beare with me.
2. For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3. But I feare lest by any meanes, as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtilty, so your mindes should bee corrupted from the simplicitie that is in Christ.
4. For if he that commeth preacheth another Iesus whome wee haue not preached, or if yee receiue another spirit, which ye haue not receiued, or another Gospel, which ye haue not accepted, yee might well beare with him.
5. For, I suppose, I was not a whit behinde the very chiefest Apostles.
6. But though I be rude in speach, yet not in knowledge; but we haue bene throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7. Haue I committed an offence in abasing my selfe, that you might be exalted, because I haue preached to you the Gospel of God freely?
8. I robbed other Churches, taking wages of them to doe you seruice.
9. And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: For that which was lacking to mee, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all things I haue kept my selfe from being burthensome to you, and so will I keepe my selfe.
10. As the trueth of Christ is in mee, no man shall stop mee of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11. Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.
12. But what I doe, that I wil doe, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may bee found euen as we.
13. For such are false Apostles, deceitfull workers, transforming themselues into the Apostles of Christ.
14. And no marueile, for Sathan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also bee transformed as the ministers of righteousnesse, whose end shall be according to their workes.
16. I say againe, Let no man thinke mee a foole; if otherwise, yet as a foole receiue me, that I may boast my selfe a little.
17. That which I speake, I speake it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting.
18. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19. For ye suffer fooles gladly, seeing ye your selues are wise.
20. For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face.
21. I speake as concerning reproch, as though we had bene weake: howbeit, wherein soeuer any is bold, I speake foolishly, I am bold also.
22. Are they Hebrewes? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they the seed of Abraham? so am I:
23. Are they ministers of Christ? I speake as a foole, I am more: in labors more abundant: in stripes aboue measure: in prisons more frequent: in deaths oft.
24. Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I forty stripes saue one.
25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned: thrice I suffered shipwracke: a night and a day I haue bene in the deepe.
26. In iourneying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my owne countreymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the citie, in perils in the wildernesse, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,
27. In wearinesse and painfulnesse, in watchings often, in hunger & thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakednes.
28. Besides those things that are without, that which commeth vpon me dayly, the care of all the Churches.
29. Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?
30. If I must needes glory, I will glory of the things which concerne mine infirmities.
31. The God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32. In Damascus the gouernour vnder Aretas the King, kept the citie with a garison, desirous to apprehend mee.
33. And through a window in a basket was I let downe, by the wall, and escaped his hands.
1. It is not expedient for me, doubtlesse, to glory, I wil come to visions and reuelations of the Lord.
2. I knewe a man in Christ aboue foureteene yeeres agoe, whether in the body, I cannot tell, or whether out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth: such a one, caught vp to the third heauen.
3. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth.)
4. How that he was caught vp into Paradise, and heard vnspeakeable wordes, which it is not lawfull for a man to vtter.
5. Of such a one will I glory, yet of my selfe I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
6. For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a foole: for I will say the trueth. But now I forbeare, lest any man should thinke of me aboue that which hee seeth me to bee, or that hee heareth of me:
7. And least I should bee exalted aboue measure through the abundance of the reuelations, there was giuen to me a thorne in the flesh, the messenger of Sathan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted aboue measure.
8. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from mee.
9. And he said vnto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weaknes. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest vpon me.
10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.
11. I am become a foole in glorying, ye haue compelled me. For I ought to haue beene commended of you: for in nothing am I behinde the very chiefest Apostles, though I be nothing.
12. Truely the signes of an Apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signes and wonders, and mightie deeds.
13. For what is it wherein yee were inferior to other Churches, except it bee that I my selfe was not burthensome to you? forgiue me this wrong.
14. Behold, the third time I am readie to come to you, and I will not bee burthensome to you; for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay vp for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15. And I wil very gladly spend and bee spent for you, though the more abundantly I loue you, the lesse I bee loued.
16. But be it so: I did not burthen you: neuerthelesse beeing craftie, I caught you with guile.
17. Did I make a gaine of you by any of them, whom I sent vnto you?
18. I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gaine of you? Walked wee not in the same spirit? walked wee not in the same steps?
19. Againe, thinke you that we excuse our selues vnto you? wee speake before God in Christ: but wee doe all things, dearely beloued, for your edifying.
20. For I feare lest when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall bee found vnto you such as ye would not, lest there bee debates, enuyings, wraths, strifes, backebitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults,
21. And least when I come againe, my God will humble mee among you, and that I shall bewaile many which haue sinned alreadie, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and lasciuiousnesse which they haue committed.
1. This is the third time I am comming to you: in the mouth of two or three witnesses shal euery word be established.
2. I told you before, and foretell you as if I were present the second time, and being absent, now I write to them which heretofore haue sinned, and to all other, that if I come againe I will not spare:
3. Since ye seeke a proofe of Christ, speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weake, but is mightie in you.
4. For though hee was crucified through weaknesse, yet he liueth by the power of God: for wee also are weake in him, but wee shall liue with him by the power of God toward you.
5. Examine your selues, whether ye be in the faith: proue your owne selues. Know yee not your owne selues, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6. But I trust that yee shall knowe that we are not reprobates.
7. Now I pray to God, that ye doe no euill, not that we should appeare approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
8. For wee can doe nothing against the trueth, but for the trueth.
9. For wee are glad when wee are weake, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, euen your perfection.
10. Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should vse sharpnesse, according to the power which the Lord hath giuen me to edification, and not to destruction.
11. Finally, brethren, farewell: Bee perfect, bee of good comfort, bee of one minde, liue in peace, and the God of loue and peace shalbe with you.
12. Greet one another with an holy kisse.
13. All the Saints salute you.
14. The grace of the Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.  <i>The second Epistle to the Corinthians, was written from Philippos a citie of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.</i>
1. Paul an Apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him fro the dead,
2. And all the brethren which are with mee, vnto the Churches of Galatia:
3. Grace bee to you and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ,
4. Who gaue himselfe for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present euill world, according to the will of God, and our Father,
5. To whom bee glorie for euer and euer, Amen.
6. I marueile, that you are so soone remoued from him, that called you into the grace of Christ, vnto an other Gospel:
7. Which is not another; but there bee some that trouble you, and would peruert the Gospel of Christ.
8. But though we, or an Angel from heauen, preach any other Gospel vnto you, then that which wee haue preached vnto you, let him be accursed.
9. As we said before, so say I now againe, If any man preach any other Gospel vnto you, then that yee haue receiued, let him be accursed.
10. For doe I now perswade men, or God? or doe I seeke to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not bee the seruant of Christ.
11. But I certifie you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me, is not after man.
12. For I neither receiued it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ.
13. For yee haue heard of my couuersation in time past, in the Iewes Religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it:
14. And profited in the Iewes Religion, aboue many my equals in mine owne nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace,
16. To reueale his sonne in mee, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediatly I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17. Neither went I vp to Ierusalem, to them which were Apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and returned againe vnto Damascus.
18. Then after three yeeres, I went vp to Ierusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteene dayes.
19. But other of the Apostles saw I none, saue Iames the Lords brother.
20. Now the things which I write vnto you, behold, before God I lye not.
21. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
22. And was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ.
23. But they had heard onely, that he which persecuted vs in times past, now preacheth the faith, which once hee destroyed.
24. And they glorified God in me.
1. Then fourteene yeeres after, I went vp againe to Ierusalem with Barnabas, and tooke Titus with me also.
2. And I went vp by reuelation, and communicated vnto them that Gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles, but priuately to them which were of reputation, lest by any meanes I should runne, or had runne in vaine.
3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greeke, was compelled to be circumcised:
4. And that because of false brethren vnawares brought in, who came in priuily to spie out our libertie, which wee haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage.
5. To whom wee gaue place by subiection, no not for an houre, that the trueth of the Gospel might continue with you.
6. But of these, who seemed to bee somewhat, (whatsoeuer they were, it maketh no matter to mee, God accepteth no mans person,) for they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me.
7. But contrariwise, when they saw that the Gospel of the vncircumcision was committed vnto me, as the Gospel of the circumcision was vnto Peter:
8. (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the Apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mightie in me towards the Gentiles.)
9. And when Iames, Cephas and Iohn, who seemed to bee pillars, perceiued the grace that was giuen vnto me, they gaue to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that wee should goe vnto the heathen, and they vnto the circumcision.
10. Onely they would that wee should remember the poore, the same which I also was forward to doe.
11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12. For before that certaine came from Iames, he did eate with the Gentiles: but when they were come, hee withdrew, and separated himselfe, fearing them which were of the Circumcisio.
13. And the other Iewes dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was caried away with their dissimulation.
14. But when I saw that they walked not vprightly according to the trthh of the Gospel, I said vnto Peter before them al, If thou, being a Iew, liuest after the maner of Gentiles, and not as doe the Iewes, why compellest thou the Gentiles to liue as do the Iewes?
15. We who are Iewes by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16. Knowing that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Iesus Christ, euen we haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, and not by the workes of the Law: for by the workes of the Law shall no flesh be iustified.
17. But if while we seeke to be iustified by Christ, wee our selues also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sinne? God forbid.
18. For if I build againe the things which I destroyed, I make my selfe a transgressour.
19. For I through ye Law, am dead to the Law, that I might liue vnto God.
20. I am crucified with Christ. Neuertheles, I liue, yet not I, but Christ liueth in me, and the life which I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith of the sonne of God, who loued mee, and gaue himselfe for me.
21. I doe not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousnes come by the Lawe, then Christ is dead in vaine.
1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the trueth, before whose eyes Iesus Christ hath been euidently set forth, crucified among you?
2. This onely would I learne of you, receiued ye the spirit, by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?
3. Are ye so foolish? Hauing begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
4. Haue ye suffered so many things in vaine? If it be yet in vaine.
5. He therfore that ministreth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the workes of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?
6. Euen as Abraham beleeued God, and it was accounted to him for righteousnesse.
7. Knowe yee therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8. And the Scripture foreseeing that God would iustifie the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel vnto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9. So then, they which bee of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham.
10. For as many as are of the works of the lawe, are vnder the curse: for it is written, Cursed is euery one that continueth not in all things which are written in the booke of the Law to doe them.
11. But that no man is iustified by the Lawe in the sight of God, it is euident: for, The iust shall liue by faith.
12. And the Law is not of faith: but the man that doeth them, shall liue in them.
13. Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for vs: for it is written, Cursed is euery one that hangeth on tree:
14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles, through Iesus Christ: that wee might receiue the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15. Brethren, I speake after the maner of men: though it be but a mans couenant, yet if it bee confirmed, no man disanulleth, or addeth thereto.
16. Now to Abraham and his seede were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17. And this I say, that the Couenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundred and thirtie yeres after, cannot disanul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18. For if the inheritance bee of the Law, it is no more of promise: but God gaue it to Abraham by promise.
19. Wherefore then serueth the Law? it was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whome the promise was made, and it was ordeyned by Angels in the hand of a Mediatour.
20. Now a mediatour is not a Mediatour of one, but God is one.
21. Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had beene a Lawe giuen which could haue giuen life, verily righteousnesse should haue bene by the Law.
22. But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might be giuen to them that beleeue.
23. But before faith came, wee were kept vnder the Law, shut vp vnto the faith, which should afterwards bee reuealed.
24. Wherefore the Law was our Schoolemaster to bring vs vnto Christ, that we might be iustified by Faith.
25. But after that Faith is come, we are no longer vnder a Schoolemaster.
26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus.
27. For as many of you as haue bene baptized into Christ, haue put on Christ.
28. There is neither Iewe, nor Greeke, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus.
29. And if yee be Christs, then are ye Abrahams seed, and heires according to the promise.
1. Now I say, that the heire, as long as hee is a child, differeth nothing from a seruant, though hee bee Lord of all,
2. But is vnder tutors and gouernours vntill the time appointed of the father.
3. Euen so we, when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the Elements of the world:
4. But when the fulnes of the time was come, God sent foorth his Sonne made of a woman, made vnder the Law,
5. To redeeme them that were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of sonnes.
6. And because yee are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.
7. Wherefore thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne; and if a sonne, then an heire of God through Christ.
8. Howbeit, then when ye knew not God, yee did seruice vnto them which by nature are no Gods.
9. But now after that yee haue knowen God, or rather are knowen of God, how turne ye againe to the weak and beggerly Elements, whereunto ye desire againe to be in bondage?
10. Yee obserue dayes, and moneths, and times, and yeeres.
11. I am afraide of you, lest I haue bestowed vpon you labour in vaine.
12. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are, ye haue not iniured me at all.
13. Ye know how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached the Gospel vnto you at the first.
14. And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor reiected, but receiued mee as an Angel of God, euen as Christ Iesus.
15. Where is then the blessednes you spake of? for I beare you record, that if it had bin possible, ye would haue plucked out your own eyes, and haue giuen them to me.
16. Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?
17. They zelously affect you, but not well: yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.
18. But it is good to bee zealously affected alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you.
19. My litle children, of whom I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ bee formed in you:
20. I desire to bee present with you now, and to change my voyce, for I stand in doubt of you.
21. Tell me, ye that desire to be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Law?
22. For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the flesh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promise.
24. Which things are an Allegorie; for these are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Ierusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26. But Ierusalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
27. For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest not, breake foorth and cry thou that traueilest not; for the desolate hath many moe children then she which hath an husband.
28. Now wee, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29. But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is now.
30. Neuerthelesse, what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her sonne: for the son of the bondwoman shall not bee heire with the son of the freewoman.
31. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
1. Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and bee not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.
2. Beholde, I Paul say vnto you that if ye be circumcised, Christ shal profite you nothing.
3. For I testifie againe to euery man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to doe the whole Law.
4. Christ is become of no effect vnto you, whosoeuer of you are iustified by the Law: ye are fallen from grace.
5. For we through the spirit waite for the hope of righteousnesse by faith.
6. For in Iesus Christ, neither circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.
7. Ye did run well; who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the trueth?
8. This perswasion commeth not of him that calleth you.
9. A little leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe.
10. I haue confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded; but he that troubleth you, shall beare his iudgement, whosoeuer hee be.
11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the crosse ceased.
12. I would they were euen cut off which trouble you.
13. For brethren, ye haue beene called vnto liberty, onely vse not libertie for an occasion to the flesh, but by loue serue one another.
14. For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, euen in this: Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
15. But if yee bite and deuoure one another, take heed ye be not consumed one of another.
16. This I say then, Walke in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that yee cannot doe the things that yee would.
18. But if yee be lead of the spirit, yee are not vnder the Law.
19. Nowe the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adulterie, fornication, vncleannesse, lasciuiousnesse,
20. Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21. Enuyings, murthers, drunkennesse, reuellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I haue also tolde you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherite the kingdome of God.
22. But the fruit of the spirit is loue, ioy, peace, long suffering, gentlenesse, goodnesse, faith,
23. Meekenesse, temperance: against such there is no law.
24. And they that are Christs, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lustes.
25. If we liue in the Spirit, let vs also walke in the Spirit.
26. Let vs not be desirous of vaine glory, prouoking one another, enuying one another.
1. Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted.
2. Beare ye one anothers burthens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ.
3. For if a man thinke himselfe to be something, when he is nothing, hee deceiueth himselfe.
4. But let euery man prooue his owne worke, and then shall he haue reioycing in him selfe alone, and not in an other.
5. For euery man shall beare his owne burthen.
6. Let him that is taught in the word, communicate vnto him that teacheth, in all good things.
7. Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
8. For hee that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reape corruption: but he that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting.
9. And let vs not bee weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reape, if we faint not.
10. As we haue therefore opportunitie, let vs doe good vnto all men, especially vnto them who are of the household of faith.
11. Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with mine owne hand.
12. As many as desire to make a faire shew in the flesh, they constraine you to be Circumcised: onely least they should suffer persecution for the Crosse of Christ.
13. For neither they themselues who are circumcised, keepe the Law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
14. But God forbid that I should glory, saue in the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified vnto me, & I vnto the world.
15. For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing nor vncircumcision, but a new creature.
16. And as many as walke according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercie, and vpon the Israel of God.
17. From henceforth let no man trouble mee, for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus.
18. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.  <i>Unto the Galatians, written from Rome.</i>
1. Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, to the Saincts which are at Ephesus, and to the faithfull in Christ Iesus.
2. Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly places in Christ:
4. According as he hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the world, that wee should bee holy, and without blame before him in loue:
5. Hauing predestinated vs vnto the adoption of children by Iesus Christ to himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will:
6. To the praise of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued:
7. In whom wee haue redemption through his blood, the forgiuenesse of sinnes, according to the riches of his grace,
8. Wherein hee hath abounded toward vs in all wisedome and prudence:
9. Hauing made knowen vnto vs the mysterie of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himselfe,
10. That in the dispensation of the fulnesse of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heauen, and which are on earth, euen in him:
11. In whom also we haue obteined an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will:
12. That we should be to the praise of his glorie, who first trusted in Christ.
13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of trueth, the Gospel of your saluation: in whom also after that yee beleeued, yee were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance, vntill the redemption of the purchased possession, vnto the praise of his glorie.
15. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Iesus, and loue vnto all the Saints,
16. Cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17. That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glorie, may giue vnto you the Spirit of wisedome and reuelation in the knowledge of him:
18. The eyes of your vnderstanding being inlightned: that yee may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glorie of his inheritance in the Saints:
19. And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to vs-ward who beleeue, according to the working of his mightie power:
20. Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his owne right hand in the heauenly places,
21. Farre aboue all principalitie, and power, and might, and dominion, and euery name that is named, not onely in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22. And hath put all things vnder his feete, and gaue him to be the head ouer all things to the Church,
23. Which is his body, the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all.
1. And you hath hee quickned who were dead in trespasses, and sinnes,
2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the aire, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience,
3. Among whom also we all had our conuersation in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and of the minde, and were by nature the children of wrath, euen as others:
4. But God who is rich in mercie, for his great loue wherewith hee loued vs,
5. Euen when wee were dead in sinnes, hath quickned vs together with Christ, (by grace ye are saued)
6. And hath raised vs vp together, and made vs sit together in heauenly places in Christ Iesus:
7. That in the ages to come, hee might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindenesse towards vs, through Christ Iesus.
8. For by grace are ye saued, through faith, and that not of your selues: it is the gift of God:
9. Not of workes, lest any man should boast.
10. For wee are his workemanship, created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes, which God hath before ordeined, that we should walke in them.
11. Wherefore remember that ye being in time passed Gentiles in the flesh, who are called vncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
12. That at that time yee were without Christ, being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the couenants of promise, hauing no hope, & without God in the world.
13. But now in Christ Iesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14. For hee is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken downe the middle wall of partition betweene vs:
15. Hauing abolished in his flesh the enmitie, euen the Lawe of Commandements conteined in Ordinances, for to make in himselfe, of twaine, one newe man, so making peace.
16. And that he might reconcile both vnto God in one body by the crosse, hauing slaine the enmitie thereby,
17. And came, and preached peace to you, which were afarre off, and to them that were nigh.
18. For through him wee both haue an accesse by one Spirit vnto the Father.
19. Now therefore yee are no more strangers and forreiners; but fellow citizens with the Saints, and of the houshold of God,
20. And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone,
21. In whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord:
22. In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God thorow the Spirit.
1. For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Iesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2. If ye haue heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which is giuen me to youward:
3. How that by reuelation hee made knowen vnto me the mysterie, (as I wrote afore in few words,
4. Whereby when ye reade, ye may vnderstand my knowledge in the mysterie of Christ.)
5. Which in other ages was not made knowen vnto the sonnes of men, as it is now reueiled vnto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit,
6. That the Gentiles should be fellow heires, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ, by the Gospel:
7. Whereof I was made a Minister, according to the gift of the grace of God giuen vnto mee, by the effectuall working of his power.
8. Unto mee, who am lesse then the least of all Saints, is this grace giuen, that I should preach among the Gentiles the vnsearchable riches of Christ,
9. And to make all men see, what is the fellowship of the mysterie, which from the beginning of the world, hath bene hid in God, who created all things by Iesus Christ:
10. To the intent that now vnto the principalities and powers in heauenly places, might be knowen by the church, the manifold wisedome of God,
11. According to the eternall purpose which he purposed in Christ Iesus our Lord:
12. In whom we haue boldnesse and accesse, with confidence, by the faith of him.
13. Wherefore I desire that yee faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14. For this cause I bow my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ,
15. Of whom the whole family in heauen and earth is named,
16. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to bee strengthened with might, by his Spirit in the inner man,
17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that yee being rooted and grounded in loue,
18. May be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height:
19. And to know the loue of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that yee might bee filled with all the fulnesse of God.
20. Now vnto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly aboue all that wee aske or thinke, according to the power that worketh in vs,
21. Unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Iesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
1. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that yee walke worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2. With all lowlinesse and meekenesse, with long suffering, forbearing one another in loue.
3. Endeuouring to keepe the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body, and one spirit, euen as yee are called in one hope of your calling.
5. One Lord, one Faith, one Baptisme,
6. One God and Father of all, who is aboue all, & through all, & in you all.
7. But vnto euery one of vs is giuen grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8. Wherefore he saith: When he ascended vp on high, he led captiuitie captiue, and gaue gifts vnto men.
9. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that hee also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10. He that descended, is the same also that ascended vp far aboue all heauens, that he might fill all things.)
11. And he gaue some, Apostles: and some, Prophets: and some, Euangelists: and some, Pastors, and teachers:
12. For the perfecting of the Saints, for the worke of the ministerie, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13. Till we all come in the vnitie of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Sonne of God, vnto a perfect man, vnto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ:
14. That we hencefoorth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftinesse, whereby they lye in waite to deceiue:
15. But speaking the trueth in loue, may grow vp into him in all things which is the head, euen Christ:
16. From whom the whole body fitly ioyned together, and compacted by that which euery ioynt supplyeth, according to the effectuall working in the measure of euery part, maketh increase of the body, vnto the edifying of it selfe in loue.
17. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord, that yee henceforth walke not as other Gentiles walke in the vanitie of their minde,
18. Hauing the vnderstanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnesse of their heart:
19. Who being past feeling, haue giuen themselues ouer vnto lasciuiousnesse, to worke all vncleannesse with greedinesse.
20. But ye haue not so learned Christ:
21. If so be that ye haue heard him, and haue bene taught by him, as the trueth is in Iesus,
22. That yee put off concerning the former conuersation, the olde man, which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts:
23. And bee renewed in the spirit of your minde:
24. And that yee put on that new man, which after God is created in righteousnesse, and true holinesse.
25. Wherefore putting away lying, speake euery man trthh with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26. Be ye angry and sinne not, let not the Sunne go down vpon your wrath:
27. Neither giue place to the deuill.
28. Let him that stole, steale no more: but rather let him labour, working with his handes the thing which is good, that he may haue to giue to him that needeth.
29. Let no corrupt communication proceede out of your mouth, but that which is good to the vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers.
30. And grieue not the holy Sririt of God, whereby yee are sealed vnto the day of redemption.
31. Let all bitternes, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and euill speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,
32. And bee ye kinde one to another. tender hearted, forgiuing one another, euen as God for Christs sake hath forgiuen you.
1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as deare children.
2. And walke in loue, as Christ also hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling sauour;
3. But fornication and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named amongst you, as becommeth Saints:
4. Neither filthinesse, nor foolish talking, nor iesting, which are not conuenient: but rather giuing of thankes.
5. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor vncleane person, nor couetous man who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdome of Christ, and of God.
6. Let no man deceiue you with vaine words: for because of these things commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.
7. Bee not yee therefore partakers with them.
8. For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light,
9. (For the fruite of the spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse & trueth.)
10. Proouing what is acceptable vnto the Lord:
11. And haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse, but rather reproue them.
12. For it is a shame euen to speake of those things which are done of them in secret.
13. But all things that are reprooued, are made manifest by the light: for whatsoeuer doth make manifest, is light.
14. Wherfore hee saith: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall giue thee light.
15. See then that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise,
16. Redeming the time, because the dayes are euill.
17. Wherefore be ye not vnwise, but vnderstanding what the will of the Lord is.
18. And bee not drunke with wine, wherein is excesse: but bee filled with the Spirit:
19. Speaking to your selues, in Psalmes, and Hymnes, and Spirituall songs, singing and making melodie in your heart to the Lord,
20. Giuing thankes alwayes for all things vnto God, and the Father, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ,
21. Submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God.
22. Wiues, submit your selues vnto your own husbands, as vnto the Lord.
23. For the husband is the head of the wife, euen as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the sauiour of the body.
24. Therefore as the Church is subiect vnto Christ, so let the wiues bee to their owne husbands in euery thing.
25. Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ also loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it:
26. That he might sanctifie & cleanse it with the washing of water, by the word,
27. That hee might present it to himselfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinckle, or any such thing: but that it should bee holy and without blemish.
28. So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: hee that loueth his wife, loueth himselfe.
29. For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh: but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord the Church:
30. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31. For this cause shall a man leaue his father and mother, and shall be ioyned vnto his wife, and they two shalbe one flesh.
32. This is a great mysterie: but I speake concerning Christ and the Church.
33. Neuerthelesse, let euery one of you in particular, so loue his wife euen as himselfe, and the wife see that she reuerence her husband.
1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2. Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first commandement with promise,)
3. That it may bee well with thee, and thou maiest liue long on the earth.
4. And yee fathers, prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in the nourture and admonition of the Lord.
5. Seruants, bee obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with feare and trembling, in singlenesse of your heart, as vnto Christ:
6. Not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but as the seruants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart:
7. With good will doing seruice, as to the Lord, and not to men,
8. Knowing that whatsoeuer good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receiue of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
9. And ye masters, do the same things vnto them, forbearing threatning: knowing that your master also is in heauen, neither is there respect of persons with him.
10. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, & in the power of his might.
11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the deuill.
12. For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknes of this world, against spirituall wickednes in high places.
13. Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God, that yee may be able to withstand in the euill day, and hauing done all, to stand.
14. Stand therefore, hauing your loynes girt about with trueth, and hauing on the breast-plate of righteousnesse:
15. And your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
16. Aboue all, taking the shielde of Faith, wherewith yee shall bee able to quench all the fierie dartes of the wicked.
17. And take the helmet of saluation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18. Praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseuerance, and supplication for all Saints,
19. And for mee, that vtterance may be giuen vnto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make knowen the mysterie of the Gospel:
20. For which I am an ambassador in bonds, that therein I may speake boldly, as I ought to speake.
21. But that yee also may know my affaires, and how I doe, Tychicus a beloued brother, and faithfull minister in the Lord, shall make knowen to you all things.
22. Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same purpose, that yee might know our affaires, and that he might comfort your hearts.
23. Peace be to the brethren, and loue, with faith from God the Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
24. Grace be with all them that loue our Lord Iesus Christ in sinceritie.  <i>Written from Rome vnto the Ephesians by Tychicus.</i>
1. Paul and Timotheus the seruants of Iesus Christ, to all the Saints in Christ Iesus, which are at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons:
2. Grace be vnto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
3. I thanke my God vpon euery remembrance of you,
4. Alwayes in euery prayer of mine for you all making request, with ioy
5. For your felowship in the Gospel from the first day vntill now;
6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will performe it vntil the day of Iesus Christ:
7. Euen as it is meete for mee to thinke this of you all, because I haue you in my heart, in as much as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the Gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
8. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all, in the bowels of Iesus Christ.
9. And this I pray, that your loue may abound yet more & more in knowledge, and in all iudgment.
10. That ye may approue things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence till the day of Christ.
11. Being filled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and praise of God.
12. But I would yee should vnderstand brethren, that the things which happened vnto mee, haue fallen out rather vnto the furtherance of the Gospel.
13. So that my bonds in Christ, are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.
14. And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident, by my bonds, are much more bold to speake the word without feare.
15. Some in deed preach Christ, euen of enuie and strife, and some also of good will.
16. The one preach Christ of contention, not syncerely, supposing to adde affliction to my bonds:
17. But the other of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospel.
18. What then? Notwithstanding euery way, whether in pretence, or in trueth: Christ is preached, and I therein doe reioyce, yea, and will reioyce.
19. For I know that this shall turne to my saluation through your prayer, and the supplie of the spirit of Iesus Christ,
20. According to my earnest expectation, and my hope, that in nothing I shalbe ashamed: but that with all boldnes, as alwayes, so now also Christ shal be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.
21. For to me to liue is Christ, and to die is gaine.
22. But if I liue in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shal chuse, I wote not.
23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, hauing a desire to depart, & to bee with Christ, which is farre better.
24. Neuertheles, to abide in the flesh, is more needfull for you.
25. And hauing this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and ioy of faith,
26. That your reioycing may bee more abundant in Iesus Christ for me, by my comming to you againe.
27. Onely let your conuersation bee as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may heare of your affaires, that yee stand fast in one spirit, with one minde, striuing together for the faith of the Gospel,
28. And in nothing terrified by your aduersaries, which is to them an euident token of perdition: but to you of saluation, and that of God.
29. For vnto you it is giuen in the behalfe of Christ, not onely to beleeue on him, but also to suffer for his sake,
30. Hauing the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now heare to be in me.
1. If there bee therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of loue, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels, & mercies;
2. Fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, hauing the same loue, being of one accord, of one minde.
3. Let nothing bee done through strife, or vaine glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselues.
4. Looke not euery man on his owne things, but euery man also on the things of others.
5. Let this minde bee in you, which was also in Christ Iesus:
6. Who being in the forme of God, thought it not robbery to bee equall with God:
7. But made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant, and was made in the likenesse of men.
8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto death, euen the death of the Crosse.
9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name:
10. That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth:
11. And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12. Wherefore, my beloued, as yee haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence onely, but now much more in my absence; worke out your owne saluation with feare, and trembling.
13. For it is God which worketh in you, both to will, and to doe, of his good pleasure.
14. Doe all things without murmurings, and disputings:
15. That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world:
16. Holding foorth the word of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither laboured in vaine.
17. Yea, and if I bee offered vpon the sacrifice and seruice of your faith, I ioy, and reioyce with you all.
18. For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me.
19. But I trust in the Lord Iesus, to send Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also may bee of good comfort, when I know your state.
20. For I haue no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.
21. For all seeke their owne, not the things which are Iesus Christs.
22. But ye know the proofe of him, That as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me, in the Gospel.
23. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soone as I shall see how it wil goe with me.
24. But I trust in the Lord, that I also my selfe shall come shortly.
25. Yet I supposed it necessary, to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour, and fellow souldiour, but your messenger, and hee that ministred to my wants.
26. For hee longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that yee had heard that he had bene sicke.
27. For indeed he was sicke nigh vnto death, but God had mercy on him: and not on him onely, but on mee also, lest I should haue sorow vpon sorow.
28. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may bee the lesse sorrowfull.
29. Receiue him therfore in the Lord with all gladnesse, and hold such in reputation:
30. Because for the worke of Christ he was nigh vnto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lacke of seruice toward me.
1. Finally, my brethren, reioyce in the Lorde. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grieuous: but for you it is safe.
2. Beware of dogs, beware of euill workers: beware of the concision.
3. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh.
4. Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that hee hath whereof hee might trust in the flesh, I more:
5. Circumcised the eight day, of the stocke of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrewes, as touching the Law, a Pharise:
6. Concerning zeale, persecuting the Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, blamelesse.
7. But what things were gaine to me, those I counted losse for Christ.
8. Yea doubtlesse, and I count all things but losse, for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord: for whom I haue suffered the losse of all things, and doe count them but doung, that I may win Christ,
9. And be found in him, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousnesse which is of God by faith:
10. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable vnto his death,
11. If by any meanes I might attaine vnto the resurrection of the dead.
12. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Iesus.
13. Brethren, I count not my selfe to haue apprehended: but this one thing I doe, forgetting those things which are behinde, and reaching forth vnto those things which are before,
14. I presse toward the marke, for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus.
15. Let vs therefore, as many as bee perfect, bee thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shal reueale euen this vnto you.
16. Neuerthelesse, whereto wee haue alreadie attained, let vs walke by the same rule, let vs minde the same thing.
17. Brethren, be followers together of me, and marke them which walke so, as ye haue vs for an ensample.
18. (For many walke, of whome I haue told you often, and now tell you euen weeping, that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ:
19. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glorie is in their shame, who minde earthly things.)
20. For our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, the Lord Iesus Christ:
21. Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may bee fashioned like vnto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able euen to subdue all things vnto himselfe.
1. Therefore, my brethren, dearely beloued and longed for, my ioy and crowne, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearely beloued.
2. I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntiche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
3. And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, helpe those women which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the booke of life.
4. Reioyce in the Lord alway: and againe I say, Reioyce.
5. Let your moderation be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6. Bee carefull for nothing: but in euery thing by prayer and supplication with thankesgiuing, let your request be made knowen vnto God.
7. And the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding, shall keepe your hearts & minds through Christ Iesus.
8. Finally, brethren, whatsoeuer things are true, whatsoeuer things are honest, whatsoeuer things are iust, whatsoeuer things are pure, whatsoeuer things are louely, whatsoeuer things are of good report: if there bee any vertue, and if there bee any praise, thinke on these things:
9. Those things which ye haue both learned and receiued, and heard, and seene in mee, doe: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10. But I reioyced in the Lorde greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished againe, wherein yee were also carefull, but ye lacked opportunitie.
11. Not that I speake in respect of want: for I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to bee content.
12. I know both how to bee abased, and I knowe how to abound: euerie where, and in all things I am instructed, both to bee full, and to bee hungrie, both to abound, and to suffer need.
13. I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.
14. Notwithstanding, yee haue well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
15. Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no Church communicated with mee, as concerning giuing and receiuing, but ye onely.
16. For euen in Thessalonica, ye sent once, and againe vnto my necessitie.
17. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
18. But I haue all, and abound. I am full, hauing receiued of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.
19. But my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Iesus.
20. Now vnto God and our Father be glory for euer and euer. Amen.
21. Salute euery Saint in Christ Iesus: the brethren which are with me, greet you.
22. All the Saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cesars houshold.
23. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.  <i>It was written to the Philippians from Rome, by Epaphroditus.</i>
1. Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ, by ye will of God, and Timotheus our brother,
2. To the saints and faithfull brethren in Christ, which are at Colosse, grace be vnto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
3. We giue thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, praying alwayes for you,
4. Since we heard of your faith in Christ Iesus, and of the loue which yee haue to all the Saints,
5. For the hope which is layd vp for you in heauen, whereof ye heard before in the word of the trueth of the Gospel,
6. Which is come vnto you as it is in all the world, and bringeth foorth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day yee heard of it, and knew the grace of God in trueth,
7. As yee also learned of Epaphras our deare felow seruant, who is for you a faithfull Minister of Christ:
8. Who also declared vnto vs your loue in the spirit.
9. For this cause wee also, since the day we heard it, doe not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding:
10. That ye might walke worthy of the Lord vnto all pleasing, being fruitfull in euery good worke, & increasing in the knowledge of God:
11. Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, vnto all patience and long suffering with ioyfulnesse:
12. Giuing thanks vnto the Father, which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light:
13. Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,
14. In whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes:
15. Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of euery creature.
16. For by him were all things created that are in heauen, and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.
17. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18. And hee is the head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the first borne from the dead, that in all things he might haue the preeminence:
19. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell,
20. And (hauing made peace through the blood of his crosse) by him to reconcile all things vnto himself, by him, I say, whether they bee things in earth, or things in heauen.
21. And you that were sometimes alienated, and enemies in your minde by wicked workes, yet now hath hee reconciled,
22. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy & vnblameable, and vnreprooueable in his sight,
23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and setled, and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospel, which yee haue heard, and which was preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen, whereof I Paul am made a Minister.
24. Who now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,
25. Whereof I am made a Minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is giuen to mee for you, to fulfill the word of God:
26. Euen the mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints,
27. To whom God would make knowen what is the riches of the glory of this mysterie among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28. Whom we preach, warning euery man, and teaching euery man in all wisedome, that we may present euery man perfect in Christ Iesus.
29. Whereunto I also labour, striuing according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
1. For I would that ye knew what great conflict I haue for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as haue not seene my face in the flesh:
2. That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in loue, and vnto all riches of the full assurance of vnderstanding, to the acknowledgement of the mysterie of God, and of the Father, and of Christ,
3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome, and knowledge.
4. And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with entising words.
5. For though I bee absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, ioying and beholding your order, and the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ.
6. As yee haue therefore receiued Christ Iesus the Lord, so walke yee in him:
7. Rooted and built vp in him, and stablished in the faith, as yee haue bene taught, abounding therein with thankesgiuing.
8. Beware lest any man spoile you through Philosophie and vaine deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
9. For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily.
10. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principalitie, & power.
11. In whom also ye are circumcised with the Circumcision made without handes, in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ:
12. Buried with him in Baptisme, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13. And you being dead in your sinnes, and the vncircumcision of your flesh, hath hee quickened together with him, hauing forgiuen you all trespasses,
14. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances, that was against vs, which was contrary to vs, and tooke it out of the way, nayling it to his Crosse:
15. And hauing spoyled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing ouer them in it.
16. Let no man therefore iudge you in meat, or in drinke, or in respect of an Holy day, or of the New moone, or of the Sabbath dayes:
17. Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
18. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humilitie, and worshipping of Angels, intruding into those things which hee hath not seene, vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde:
19. And not holding the head, from which all the body by ioynts and bands hauing nourishment ministred, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20. Wherefore if yee bee dead with Christ fro the rudiments of the world: why, as though liuing in the world, are ye subiect to ordinances?
21. (Touch not, taste not, handle not:
22. Which all are to perish with the vsing) after the commandements and doctrines of men:
23. Which things haue in deed a shew of wisedome in will-worship and humilitie, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
1. If yee then bee risen with Christ, seeke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God:
2. Set your affection on things aboue, not on things on the earth.
3. For yee are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appeare, then shall yee also appeare with him in glorie.
5. Mortifie therefore your members which are vpon the earth: fornication, vncleannesse, inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnesse, which is idolatrie:
6. For which things sake, the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience,
7. In the which yee also walked sometime, when ye liued in them.
8. But now you also put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemie, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9. Lie not one to another, seeing that yee haue put off the old man with his deedes:
10. And haue put on the new man, which is renued in knowledge, after the image of him that created him,
11. Where there is neither Greeke, nor Iew, circumcision, nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
12. Put on therefore (as the elect of God, holy and beloued) bowels of mercies, kindnesse, humblenesse of minde, meekenesse, long suffering,
13. Forbearing one another, and forgiuing one another, if any man haue a quarrell against any: euen as Christ forgaue you, so also doe yee.
14. And aboue all these things put on charitie, which is the bond of perfectnesse.
15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also yee are called in one body: and be yee thankefull.
16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdome, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalmes, and Hymnes, and Spirituall songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17. And whatsoeuer yee doe in word or deed, doe all in the Name of the Lord Iesus, giuing thankes to God and the Father, by him.
18. Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19. Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter against them.
20. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
21. Fathers, prouoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
22. Seruants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but in singlenesse of heart, fearing God:
23. And whatsoeuer yee doe, doe it heartily, as to the Lord, and not vnto men:
24. Knowing, that of the Lord yee shall receiue the reward of the inheritance: for ye serue the Lord Christ.
25. But he that doeth wrong, shall receiue for the wrong which hee hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
1. Masters, giue vnto your seruants that which is iust and equall, knowing that yee also haue a Master in heauen.
2. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thankesgiuing:
3. Withall, praying also for vs, that God would open vnto vs a doore of vtterance, to speake the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
4. That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speake.
5. Walke in wisdome toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6. Let your speech bee alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how yee ought to answere euery man.
7. All my state shall Tychicus declare vnto you, who is a beloued brother, and a faithfull minister, and fellow seruant in the Lord:
8. Whom I haue sent vnto you for the same purpose, that hee might know your estate, and comfort your hearts.
9. With Onesimus a faithfull and beloued brother, who is one of you. They shall make knowen vnto you all things which are done here.
10. Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you, and Marcus sisters sonne to Barnabas, (touching whome yee receiued commandements; if he come vnto you, receiue him:)
11. And Iesus, which is called Iustus, who are of the circumcision. These onely are my fellow workers vnto the kingdome of God, which haue beene a comfort vnto me.
12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a seruant of Christ, saluteth you, alwaies labouring feruently for you in praiers, that ye may stand perfect, and complete in all the will of God.
13. For I beare him record, that hee hath a great zeale for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
14. Luke the beloued physician, and Demas greet you.
15. Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, & the church which is in his house.
16. And when this Epistle is read amongst you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that ye likewise reade the Epistle from Laodicea,
17. And say to Archippus, Take heede to the ministerie, which thou hast receiued in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.
18. The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.  <i>Written from Rome to the Colossians, by Tychicus and Onesimus.</i>
1. Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ: grace be vnto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
2. We giue thankes to God alwaies for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
3. Remembring without ceasing your worke of faith, and labour of loue, and patience of hope in our Lord Iesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father:
4. Knowing, brethren beloued, your election of God.
5. For our Gospel came not vnto you in word onely: but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much assurance, as yee know what maner of men we were among you for your sake.
6. And yee became followers of vs, and of the Lord, hauing receiued the word in much affliction, with ioy of the holy Ghost:
7. So that ye were ensamples to all that beleeue in Macedonia and Achaia.
8. For from you sounded out the Word of the Lord, not onely in Macedonia & Achaia, but also in euery place your faith to Godward is spred abroad, so that we need not to speak any thing.
9. For they themselues shew of vs, what maner of entring in we had vnto you, and how yee turned to God from idols, to serue the liuing, and true God,
10. And to waite for his sonne from heauen whom he raised from the dead, euen Iesus which deliuered vs from the wrath to come.
1. For your selues, brethren, knowe our entrance in vnto you, that it was not in vaine.
2. But euen after that wee had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, wee were bold in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospel of God with much contention.
3. For our exhortation was not of deceite, nor of vncleannesse, nor in guile:
4. But as we were allowed of God to bee put in trust with the Gospel, euen so wee speake, not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
5. For neither at any time vsed wee flattering wordes, as yee knowe, nor a cloke of couetousnesse, God is witnesse:
6. Nor of men sought we glorie, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might haue beene burdensome, as the Apostles of Christ.
7. But wee were gentle among you, euen as a nurse cherisheth her children:
8. So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to haue imparted vnto you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.
9. For yee remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for labourng night and day, because wee would not bee chargeable vnto any of you, wee preached vnto you the Gospel of God.
10. Yee are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably wee behaued our selues among you that beleeue.
11. As you know, how wee exhorted and comforted, and charged euery one of you, (as a father doeth his children,)
12. That ye would walke worthy of God, who hath called you vnto his kingdome and glory.
13. For this cause also thanke wee God without ceasing, because when yee receiued the word of God, which yee heard of vs, yee receiued it not as the word of men, but (as it is in trueth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that beleeue.
14. For yee, brethren, became followers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus: for ye also haue suffered like things of your owne countreymen, euen as they haue of the Iewes:
15. Who both killed the Lord Iesus, and their owne Prophets, and haue persecuted vs: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16. Forbidding vs to speake to the Gentiles, that they might bee saued, to fill vp their sinnes alway: for the wrath is come vpon them to the vttermost.
17. But wee, brethren, beeing taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, endeuored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
18. Wherefore we would haue come vnto you (euen I Paul) once & againe: but Satan hindered vs.
19. For what is our hope, or ioy, or crowne of reioycing? Are not euen ye in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming?
20. For, ye are our glory and ioy.
1. Wherefore when wee could no longer forbeare, wee thought it good to bee left at Athens alone:
2. And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our fellow labourer in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
3. That no man should be mooued by these afflictions: for your selues know that we are appointed therunto.
4. For verily when wee were with you, we told you before, that we should suffer tribulation, euen as it came to passe and ye know.
5. For this cause when I could no longer forbeare, I sent to know your faith, lest by some meanes the tempter haue tempted you, and our labor be in vaine.
6. But now when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and charitie, and that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring greatly to see vs, as we also to see you:
7. Therefore brethren, wee were comforted ouer you in all our affliction and distresse, by your faith:
8. For now we liue, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
9. For what thankes can we render to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith wee ioy for your sakes before our God,
10. Night & day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
11. Now God himselfe and our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ direct our way vnto you.
12. And the Lorde make you to increase, & abound in loue one towards another, and towards all men, euen as we doe towards you:
13. To the end hee may stablish your hearts vnblameable in holinesse before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints.
1. Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Iesus, that as yee haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God, so yee would abound more and more.
2. For yee know what commandements wee gaue you, by the Lord Iesus.
3. For this is the will of God, euen your sanctification, that yee should absteine from fornication:
4. That euery one of you should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification and honour:
5. Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:
6. That no man goe beyond and defraud his brother in any matter, because that the Lord is the auenger of all such; as we also haue forewarned you, and testified:
7. For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.
8. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also giuen vnto vs his holy Spirit.
9. But as touching brotherly loue, ye need not that I write vnto you: for yee your selues are taught of God to loue one an other.
10. And in deed ye doe it towards all the brethren, which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more:
11. And that ye studie to be quiet, and to doe your owne businesse, and to worke with your owne hands, (as wee commanded you:)
12. That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may haue lacke of nothing.
13. But I would not haue you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleepe, that ye sorrow not, euen as others which haue no hope.
14. For if we beleeue that Iesus died, and rose againe: euen so them also which sleepe in Iesus, will God bring with him.
15. For this we say vnto you by the word of the Lord, That we which are aliue and remaine vnto the comming of the Lord, shall not preuent them which are asleepe.
16. For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heauen with a shout, with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpe of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
17. Then we which are aliue, and remaine, shalbe caught vp together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the aire: and so shall wee euer bee with the Lord.
18. Wherefore, comfort one an other with these words.
1. But of the times and the seasons, brethren, yee haue no need that I write vnto you.
2. For your selues knowe perfectly that the day of the Lord so commeth as a thiefe in the night.
3. For when they shal say, Peace and safety: then sudden destructio commeth vpon them, as trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape.
4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkenesse, that that day should ouertake you as a thiefe.
5. Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkenesse.
6. Therefore let vs not sleepe, as doe others: but let vs watch and be sober.
7. For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that bee drunken, are drunken in the night.
8. But let vs who are of the day, bee sober, putting on the brestplate of faith and loue, and for an helmet, the hope of saluation.
9. For God hath not appointed vs to wrath: but to obtaine saluation by our Lord Iesus Christ,
10. Who died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.
11. Wherefore, comfort your selues together, and edifie one another, euen as also ye doe.
12. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are ouer you in the Lord, and admonish you:
13. And to esteeme them very highly in loue for their workes sake, and be at peace among your selues.
14. Now we exhort you, brethren, warne them that are vnruly, comfort the feeble minded, support the weake, be patient toward all men.
15. See that none render euill for euill vnto any man: but euer follow that which is good, both among your selues and to all men.
16. Reioyce euermore:
17. Pray without ceasing:
18. In euery thing giue thankes: for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus concerning you.
19. Quench not the spirit:
20. Despise not prophecyings:
21. Proue all things: hold fast that which is good.
22. Abstaine from all appearance of euill.
23. And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit, and soule, and body be preserued blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.
24. Faithfull is hee that calleth you, who also will doe it.
25. Brethren, pray for vs.
26. Greete all the brethren with an holy kisse.
27. I charge you by the Lord, that this Epistle bee read vnto all the holy brethren.
28. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you, Amen.  <i>The first Epistle vnto the Thessalonians, was written from Athens.</i>
1. Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus vnto the Church of the Thessalonias, in God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ:
2. Grace vnto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lorde Iesus Christ.
3. Wee are bound to thanke God alwayes for you, brethren, as it is meete, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charitie of euery one of you al towards each other aboundeth:
4. So that wee our selues glorie in you in the Churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that yee endure.
5. Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that yee may bee counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for which yee also suffer;
6. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you:
7. And to you who are troubled, rest with vs, when the Lord Iesus shalbe reuealed from heauen, with his mightie Angels,
8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lorde Iesus Christ,
9. Who shalbe punished with euerlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power:
10. When hee shall come to bee glorified in his Saints, and to bee admired in all them that beleeue (because our testimony among you was beleeued) in that day.
11. Wherefore also we pray alwayes for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodnesse, and the worke of faith with power:
12. That the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ may bee glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
1. Now wee beseech you, brethren, by the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, and by our gathering together vnto him,
2. That yee bee not soone shaken in minde, or bee troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from vs, as that the day of Christ is at hand,
3. Let no man deceiue you by any meanes, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sinne bee reuealed, the sonne of perdition,
4. Who opposeth and exalteth himselfe aboue all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he as God, sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himselfe that he is God.
5. Remember yee not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these things?
6. And now yee know what withholdeth, that hee might bee reuealed in his time.
7. For the mysterie of iniquitie doth alreadie worke: onely he who now letteth, will let, vntill he be taken out of the way.
8. And then shall that wicked bee reuealed, whome the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming:
9. Euen him whose comming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signes, and lying wonders,
10. And with all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse, in them that perish: because they receiued not the loue of the trueth, that they might be saued.
11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should beleeue a lye:
12. That they all might bee damned who beleeued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes.
13. But we are bound to giue thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloued of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to saluation, through sanctification of the spirit, and beleefe of the trueth,
14. Whereunto he called you by our Gospel, to the obteining of the glorie of the Lord Iesus Christ.
15. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which yee haue beene taught, whether by word or our Epistle.
16. Now our Lorde Iesus Christ himselfe, and God euen our Father, which hath loued vs, and hath giuen vs euerlasting consolation, and good hope through grace,
17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in euery good word and worke.
1. Finally, brethren, pray for vs, that the word of the Lord may haue free course, and be glorified, euen as it is with you:
2. And that we may bee deliuered from vnreasonable and wicked men: for all men haue not faith.
3. But the Lord is faithfull, who shall stablish you, and keepe you from euill.
4. And wee haue confidence in the Lord touching you, that yee both doe, and will doe the things which we command you.
5. And the Lord direct your hearts into the loue of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6. Now we command you, brethren, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that ye withdraw your selues from euery brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which hee receiued of vs.
7. For your selues know how yee ought to follow vs: for wee behaued not our selues disorderly among you,
8. Neither did wee eate any mans bread for nought: but wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, that wee might not bee chargeable to any of you.
9. Not because we haue not power, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.
10. For euen when wee were with you, this wee commanded you, that if any would not worke, neither should he eate.
11. For we heare that there are some which walke among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busi-bodies.
12. Now them that are such, we command, and exhort by our Lord Iesus Christ, that with quietnesse they worke, and eat their owne bread.
13. But ye, brethren, be not wearie in well doing.
14. And if any man obey not our word, by this Epistle note that man, and haue no company with him, that he may be ashamed,
15. Yet count him not as an enemie, but admonish him as a brother.
16. Now the Lord of peace himselfe, giue you peace alwayes, by all meanes. The Lord be with you all.
17. The salutation of Paul, with mine owne hand, which is the token in euery Epistle: so I write.
18. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all, Amen.  <i>The second Epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.</i>
1. Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the commaundement of God our Sauiour, & Lord Iesus Christ which is our hope,
2. Unto Timothie my own sonne in the Faith: Grace, mercie, and peace from God our Father, and Iesus Christ our Lord.
3. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
4. Neither giue heed to fables, and endlesse genealogies, which minister questions, rather then edifying which is in faith: so doe.
5. Now the end of the commandement is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.
6. From which some hauing swarued, haue turned aside vnto vaine iangling,
7. Desiring to bee teachers of the Law, vnderstading neither what they say, nor whereof they affirme.
8. But we know that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully.
9. Knowing this, that the Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawlesse and disobedient, for the vngodly, and for sinners, for vnholy, and profane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10. For whoremongers, for them that defile themselues with mankinde, for men-stealers, for liars, for periured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,
11. According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
12. And I thanke Christ Iesus our Lord, who hath enabled mee: for that he counted me faithfull, putting me into the Ministerie,
13. Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and iniurious. But I obtained mercie, because I did it ignorantly, in vnbeliefe.
14. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith, & loue, which is in Christ Iesus.
15. This is a faithfull saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners, of whom I am chiefe.
16. Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Iesus Christ might shew foorth all long suffering, for a paterne to them which should hereafter beleeue on him to life euerlasting.
17. Now vnto ye king eternal, immortall, inuisible, the onely wise God, be honour and glory for euer & euer. Amen.
18. This charge I commit vnto thee, sonne Timothie, according to the prophesies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest warre a good warfare,
19. Holding faith, and a good conscience, which some hauing put away, concerning faith, haue made shipwracke.
20. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whome I haue deliuered vnto Satan, that they may learne not to blaspheme.
1. I exhort therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giuing of thanks be made for all men:
2. For Kings, and for all that are in authoritie, that we may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie.
3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour,
4. Who will haue all men to bee saued, and to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth.
5. For there is one God, and one Mediatour betweene God and men, the man Christ Iesus,
6. Who gaue himselfe a ransome for all, to be testified in due time.
7. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an Apostle (I speake the trueth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and veritie.
8. I will therefore that men pray euery where, lifting vp holy handes without wrath, and doubting.
9. In like maner also, that women adorne themselues in modest apparell, with shamefastnesse and sobrietie, not with broided haire, or gold, or pearles, or costly aray,
10. But (which becommeth women professing godlines) with good works.
11. Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection:
12. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to vsurpe authoritie ouer the man, but to be in silence.
13. For Adam was first formed, then Eue:
14. And Adam was not deceiued, but the woman being deceiued was in the transgression:
15. Notwithstanding she shall be saued in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and charitie, and holinesse, with sobrietie.
1. This is a true saying: If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good worke.
2. A Bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behauiour, giuen to hospitalitie, apt to teach;
3. Not giuen to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous;
4. One that ruleth well his owne house, hauing his children in subiection with all grauitie.
5. (For if a man know not how to rule his owne house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?)
6. Not a nouice, lest being lifted vp with pride, hee fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
7. Moreouer, hee must haue a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproch, and the snare of the deuill.
8. Likewise must the Deacons bee graue, not double tongued, not giuen to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre,
9. Holding the mysterie of the faith in a pure conscience.
10. And let these also first be proued; then let them vse the office of a Deacon, being found blamelesse.
11. Euen so must their wiues be graue; not slanderers, sober, faithfull in all things.
12. Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their owne houses well.
13. For they that haue vsed the office of a Deacon well, purchase to themselues a good degree, and great boldnesse in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
14. These things write I vnto thee, hoping to come vnto thee shortly.
15. But if I tary long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the House of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of the trueth.
16. And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse: God was manifest in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, receiued vp into glory.
1. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giuing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of deuils:
2. Speaking lies in hypocrisie, hauing their conscience seared with a hote iron,
3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth.
4. For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing:
5. For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
6. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
7. But refuse prophane and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlinesse.
8. For bodily exercise profiteth litle, but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, hauing promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation:
10. For therfore we both labour, and suffer reproch, because we trust in the liuing God, who is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.
11. These things command & teach.
12. Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the beleeuers, in word, in conuersation, in charitie, in spirit, in faith, in puritie.
13. Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14. Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophesie, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie.
15. Meditate vpon these things, giue thy selfe wholly to them, that thy profiting may appeare to all.
16. Take heed vnto thy selfe, and vnto the doctrine: continue in them: for in doing this, thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee.
1. Rebuke not an Elder, but intreate him as a father, and the yonger men as brethren:
2. The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters with all puritie.
3. Honour widowes that are widowes indeed.
4. But if any widow haue children or nephewes, let them learne first to shew pietie at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
5. Now she that is a widow in deed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
6. But she that liueth in pleasure, is dead while she liueth.
7. And these things giue in charge, that they may be blamelesse.
8. But if any prouide not for his owne, & specially for those of his owne house, hee hath denied the faith, and is worse then an infidel.
9. Let not a widow bee taken into the number, vnder threescore yeeres old, hauing bene the wife of one man,
10. Well reported of for good works, if shee haue brought vp children, if shee haue lodged strangers, if she haue washed the Saints feet, if shee haue releeued the afflicted, if shee haue diligently followed euery good worke.
11. But the yonger widowes refuse: for when they haue begunne to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marry,
12. Hauing damnation, because they haue cast off their first faith.
13. And withall they learne to bee idle, wandering about from house to house; and not onely idle, but tatlers also, and busibodies, speaking things which they ought not.
14. I will therefore that the yonger women marry, beare children, guid the house, giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake reprochfully.
15. For some are already turned aside after Satan.
16. If any man or woman that beleeueth haue widowes, let them relieue them, and let not the Church be charged, that it may relieue them that are widowes indeed.
17. Let the Elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
18. For the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not mousell the oxe that treadeth out the corne: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
19. Against an Elder receiue not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
20. Them that sinne rebuke before all, that others also may feare.
21. I charge thee before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, and the elect Angels, that thou obserue these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partialitie.
22. Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither bee partaker of other mens sinnes. Keepe thy selfe pure.
23. Drinke no longer water, but vse a little wine for thy stomackes sake, and thine often infirmities.
24. Some mens sinnes are open before hand, going before to iudgement: and some men they follow after.
25. Likewise also the good works of some are manifest before hand, and they that are otherwise, cannot be hid.
1. Let as many seruants as are vnder the yoke, count their owne masters worthy of all honour, that the Name of God, and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
2. And they that haue beleeuing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren: but rather doe them seruice, because they are faithfull and beloued, partakers of the benefite: These things teach and exhort.
3. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, euen the wordes of our Lord Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godlinesse:
4. Hee is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions, and strifes of wordes, whereof commeth enuie, strife, railings, euill surmisings,
5. Peruerse disputings of men of corrupt mindes, and destitute of the trueth, supposing that gaine is godlinesse: From such withdraw thy selfe.
6. But godlinesse with contentment is great gaine.
7. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certaine we can cary nothing out.
8. And hauing food and raiment let vs be therewith content.
9. But they that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish & hurtfull lusts, which drowne men in destruction and perdition.
10. For the loue of money is the root of all euill, which while some coueted after, they haue erred from the faith, and pierced themselues through with many sorrowes.
11. But thou, O man of God, flie these things; and follow after righteousnesse, godlinesse, faith, loue, patience, meekenesse.
12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternall life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
13. I giue thee charge in the sight of God, who quickneth all things, and before Christ Iesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good Confession,
14. That thou keepe this commandement without spot, vnrebukeable, vntill the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ.
15. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed, and onely Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords:
16. Who onely hath immortalitie, dwelling in the light, which no man can approch vnto, whom no man hath seene, nor can see: to whom be honour and power euerlasting. Amen.
17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they bee not high minded, nor trust in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, who giueth vs richly all things to enioy,
18. That they doe good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate,
19. Laying vp in store for themselues a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay holde on eternall life.
20. O Timothie, keepe that which is committed to thy trust, auoyding prophane and vaine bablings, and oppositions of science, fasly so called:
21. Which some professing, haue erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.  <i>The first to Timothie was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest citie of Phrygia Pacaciana.</i>
1. Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Iesus,
2. To Timothie my dearely beloued sonne: grace, mercie, and peace from God the Father, and Christ Iesus our Lord.
3. I thanke God, whom I serue from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I haue remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,
4. Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindfull of thy teares, that I may bee filled with ioy,
5. When I call to remembrance the vnfained faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice: and I am perswaded that in thee also.
6. Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stirre vp the gift of God which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
7. For God hath not giuen vs the spirit of feare, but of power, of loue, and of a sound minde.
8. Bee not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but bee thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God,
9. Who hath saued vs, and called vs with an holy calling, not according to our workes, but according to his owne purpose and grace, which was giuen vs in Christ Iesus, before the world began,
10. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortalitie to light, through the Gospel:
11. Whereunto I am appointed a Preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12. For the which cause I also suffer these things; neuerthelesse, I am not ashamed: for I know whom I haue beleeued, and I am perswaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed vnto him against that day.
13. Holde fast the fourme of sound words, which thou hast heard of mee, in faith and loue, which is in Christ Iesus.
14. That good thing which was committed vnto thee, keepe, by the holy Ghost which dwelleth in vs.
15. This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
16. The Lord giue mercie vnto the house of Onesiphorus, for hee oft refreshed mee, and was not ashamed of my chaine.
17. But when he was in Rome, hee sought mee out very diligently, and found me.
18. The Lord grant vnto him, that he may finde mercie of the Lord in that day: And in how many things hee ministred vnto mee at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
1. Thou therefore, my sonne, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Iesus.
2. And the things that thou hast heard of mee among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithfull men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3. Thou therefore indure hardnesse, as a good souldier of Iesus Christ.
4. No man that warreth, intangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life, that hee may please him who hath chosen him to be a souldJeremiah
5. And if a man also striue for masteries, yet is hee not crowned except hee striue lawfully.
6. The husbandman that laboureth, must bee first partaker of the fruites.
7. Consider what I say, and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things.
8. Remember that Iesus Christ of the seede of Dauid, was raised from the dead, according to my Gospel:
9. Wherein I suffer trouble as an euill doer, euen vnto bonds: but the word of God is not bound.
10. Therefore I indure all things for the elects sakes, that they may also obtaine the saluation which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glory.
11. It is a faithfull saying: for if we bee dead with him, wee shall also liue with him.
12. If we suffer, we shall also reigne with him: if wee denie him, hee also will denie vs.
13. If we beleeue not, yet he abideth faithfull, he cannot denie himselfe.
14. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord, that they striue not about words to no profite, but to the subuerting of the hearers.
15. Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly diuiding the word of trueth.
16. But shun profane and vaine bablings, for they will increase vnto more vngodlinesse.
17. And their word will eate as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus.
18. Who concerning the trueth haue erred, saying that the resurrection is past alreadie, and ouerthrow the faith of some.
19. Neuerthelesse the foundation of God standeth sure, hauing the seale, the Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let euery one that nameth the Name of Christ, depart from iniquitie.
20. But in a great house, there are not onely vessels of gold, and of siluer, but also a wood, & of earth: and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21. If a man therefore purge himselfe from these, he shal be a vessell vnto honour, sanctified, and meete for the Masters vse, and prepared vnto euery good worke.
22. Flie also youthfull lusts: but follow righteousnesse, faith, charitie, peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23. But foolish and vnlearned questions auoid, knowing that they doe gender strifes.
24. And the seruant of the Lord must not striue: but bee gentle vnto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25. In meekenesse instructing those that oppose themselues, if God peraduenture will giue them repentance to the acknowledging of the trueth.
26. And that they may recouer themselues out of the snare of the deuill, who are taken captiue by him at his will.
1. This know also, that in the last dayes perillous times shall come.
2. For men shall bee louers of their owne selues, couetous, boasters, proude, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, vnthankfull, vnholy,
3. Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4. Traitours, heady, high minded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God,
5. Hauing a forme of godlinesse, but denying the power thereof: from such turne away.
6. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and leade captiue silly women laden with sinnes, led away with diuers lusts,
7. Euer learning, and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the trueth.
8. Now as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the trueth: men of corrupt mindes, reprobate concerning the faith.
9. But they shal proceede no further: for their folly shall be manifest vnto all men, as theirs also was.
10. But thou hast fully knowen my doctrine, maner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, charitie, patience,
11. Persecutions, afflictions which came vnto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions I indured: but out of them all the Lord deliuered me.
12. Yea, and all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus, shall suffer persecution.
13. But euill men and seducers shall waxe worse and worse, deceiuing, and being deceiued.
14. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whome thou hast learned them.
15. And that from a childe thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise vnto saluation through faith which is in Christ Iesus.
16. All Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God, & is profitable for doctrine, for reproofe, for correction, for instrthion in righteousnesse,
17. That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished vnto all good workes.
1. I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, who shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:
2. Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprooue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering & doctrine.
3. For the time wil come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their owne lusts shall they heape to themselues teachers, hauing itching eares:
4. And they shall turne away their eares from the trueth, and shall be turned vnto fables.
5. But watch thou in all things, indure afflictions, doe the worke of an Euangelist, make full proofe of thy ministery.
6. For I am now readie to bee offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7. I haue fought a good fight, I haue finished my course, I haue kept the faith.
8. Hencefoorth there is layde vp for me a crowne of righteousnesse, which the Lord the righteous iudge shall giue me at that day: and not to me only, but vnto them also that loue his appearing.
9. Doe thy diligence to come shortly vnto me:
10. For Demas hath forsaken me, hauing loued this present world, and is departed vnto Thessalonica: Crescens to Galatia, Titus vnto Dalmatia.
11. Onely Luke is with me. Take Marke and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministerie.
12. And Tychicus haue I sent to Ephesus.
13. The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou commest, bring with thee, but especially the parchments.
14. Alexander the Coppersmith did mee much euill, the Lord reward him according to his works.
15. Of whom bee thou ware also, for he hath greatly withstood our words.
16. At my first answere no man stood with mee, but all men forsooke mee: I pray God that it may not bee laid to their charge.
17. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully knowen, and that all the Gentiles might heare: and I was deliuered out of the mouth of the Lyon.
18. And the Lord shall deliuer mee from euery euill worke, and will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome to whom bee glory for euer, and euer. Amen.
19. Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the houshold of Onesiphorus.
20. Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus haue I left at Miletum sicke.
21. Doe thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
22. The Lord Iesus Christ bee with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.  <i>The second Epistle vnto Timotheus, ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.</i>
1. Paul a seruant of God, and an Apostle of Iesus Christ, according to the Faith of Gods Elect, and the acknowledging of the trueth which is after godlinesse,
2. In hope of eternall life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began:
3. But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed vnto mee according to the commandement of God our Sauiour:
4. To Titus mine owne Sonne after the common faith, Grace, mercie, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ our Sauiour.
5. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordaine Elders in euery citie, as I had appointed thee.
6. If any be blamelesse, the husband of one wife, hauing faithfull children, not accused of riot, or vnruly.
7. For a Bishop must be blameles, as the steward of God: not selfewilled, not soone angry, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,
8. But a louer of hospitality, a louer of good men, sober, iust, holy, temperate,
9. Holding fast the faithfull word, as hee hath beene taught, that he may bee able by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to conuince the gainsayers.
10. For there are many vnruly and vaine talkers and deceiuers, specially they of the circumcision:
11. Whose mouthes must be stopped, who subuert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.
12. One of themselues, euen a Prophet of their owne, said: The Cretians are alway lyers, euill beasts, slow bellies.
13. This witnesse is true: wherefore rebuke them sharpely that they may be sound in the faith;
14. Not giuing heede to Iewish fables, and commandements of men that turne from the trueth.
15. Unto the pure all things are pure, but vnto them that are defiled, and vnbeleeuing, is nothing pure: but euen their mind and conscience is defiled.
16. They professe that they know God; but in workes they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and vnto euery good worke reprobate.
1. But speake thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2. That the aged men be sober, graue, temperate, sound in faith, in charitie, in patience.
3. The aged women likewise that they be in behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not giuen to much wine, teachers of good things,
4. That they may teach the young women to bee sober, to loue their husbands, to loue their children,
5. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God bee not blasphemed.
6. Yong men likewise exhort, to bee sober minded.
7. In all things shewing thy selfe a patterne of good workes: in doctrine shewing vncorruptnesse, grauity, sinceritie,
8. Sound speech that cannot be condemned, that hee that is of the contrarie part, may bee ashamed, hauing no euill thing to say of you.
9. Exhort seruants to be obedient vnto their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering againe:
10. Not purloyning, but shewing all good fidelitie, that they may adorne the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all things.
11. For the grace of God that bringeth saluatio, hath appeared to all men,
12. Teaching vs that denying vngodlinesse and worldly lusts we should liue soberly, righteously and godly in this present world,
13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Sauiour Iesus Christ,
14. Who gaue himselfe for vs, that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purifie vnto himselfe a peculiar people, zealous of good workes.
15. These things speake and exhort, and rebuke with all authoritie. Let no man despise thee.
1. Put them in minde to bee subiect to Principalities & Powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to euery good worke,
2. To speake euill of no man, to bee no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekenesse vnto all men.
3. For we our selues also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceiued, seruing diuers lusts and pleasures, liuing in malice and enuy, hatefull, and hating one another.
4. But after that the kindnesse and loue of God our Sauiour toward man appeared,
5. Not by workes of righteousnesse which wee haue done, but according to his mercy he saued vs, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Ghost,
6. Which hee shed on vs abundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour:
7. That being iustified by his grace, we should bee made heires according to the hope of eternall life.
8. This is a faithfull saying, and these things I will that thou affirme constantly, that they which haue beleeued in God, might be carefull to maintaine good works: these things are good and profitable vnto men.
9. But auoyd foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and striuings about the lawe; for they are vnprofitable and vaine.
10. A man that is an heretike, after the first and second admonition, reiect:
11. Knowing that hee that is such, is subuerted, and sinneth, being condemned of himselfe.
12. When I shall send Artemas vnto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come vnto mee to Nicopolis: for I haue determined there to winter.
13. Bring Zenas the Lawyer, and Apollos, on their iourney diligently, that nothing be wanting vnto them.
14. And let ours also learne to maintaine good workes for necessarie vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.
15. All that are with mee salute thee. Greete them that loue vs in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.  <i>It was written to Titus ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.</i>
1. Paul a prisoner of Iesus Christ, & Timothie our brother vnto Philemon our dearely beloued, and fellow labourer,
2. And to our beloued Apphia, and Archippus our fellow Souldier, and to the Church in thy house.
3. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
4. I thanke my God, making mention of thee alwayes in my prayers,
5. Hearing of thy loue, and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Iesus, and toward all Saints:
6. That the communication of thy faith may become effectuall by the acknowledging of euery good thing, which is in you in Christ Iesus.
7. For wee haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
8. Wherefore, though I might bee much bolde in Christ to enioyne thee that which is conuenient;
9. Yet for loues sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Iesus Christ.
10. I beseech thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bonds,
11. Which in time past was to thee vnprofitable: but now profitable to thee and to me:
12. Whom I haue sent againe: thou therfore receiue him, that is mine owne bowels.
13. Whome I would haue reteined with mee, that in thy stead hee might haue ministred vnto me in the bonds of the Gospel.
14. But without thy minde would I doe nothing, that thy benefite should not bee as it were of necessitie, but willingly.
15. For perhaps hee therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receiue him for euer:
16. Not now as a seruant, but aboue a seruant, a brother beloued, specially to mee, but how much more vnto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17. If thou count mee therefore a partner, receiue him as my selfe.
18. If hee hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account.
19. I Paul haue written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I doe not say to thee how thou owest vnto me, euen thine owne selfe besides:
20. Yea, brother, let mee haue ioy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowles in the Lord.
21. Hauing confidence in thy obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowing that thou wilt also doe more then I say.
22. But withall prepare mee also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be giuen vnto you.
23. There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Iesus:
24. Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow labourers.
25. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.  <i>Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a seruant.</i>
1. God who at sundry times, and in diuers manners, spake in time past vnto the Fathers by the Prophets,
2. Hath in these last dayes spoken vnto vs by his Sonne, whom he hath appointed heire of all things, by whom also he made the worlds,
3. Who being the brightnesse of his glory, and the expresse image of his person, and vpholding all things by the word of his power, when hee had by himselfe purged our sinnes, sate down on ye right hand of the Maiestie on high,
4. Being made so much better then the Angels, as hee hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent Name then they.
5. For vnto which of the Angels said he at any time, Thou art my sonne, this day haue I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Sonne.
6. And againe, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, hee saith, And let all the Angels of God worship him.
7. And of the Angels he saith: Who maketh his Angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8. But vnto the Sonne, he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for euer and euer: a scepter of righteousnesse is the scepter of thy kingdome.
9. Thou hast loued righteousnesse, and hated iniquitie, therefore God, euen thy God hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes.
10. And, thou Lord in the beginning hast layed the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the works of thine hands.
11. They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shal waxe old as doth a garment.
12. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them vp, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not faile?
13. But to which of the Angels said hee at any time, Sit on my right hand, vntill I make thine enemies thy footstoole?
14. Are they not all ministring spirits, sent foorth to minister for them, who shall be heires of saluation?
1. Therefore we ought to giue the more earnest heede to the things which we haue heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2. For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast, and euery transgression and disobedience receiued a iust recompense of reward:
3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great saluation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed vnto vs by them that heard him,
4. God also bearing them witnesse, both with signes & wonders, and with diuers miracles, and gifts of the holy Ghost, according to his owne will?
5. For vnto the Angels hath he not put in subiection the world to come, whereof we speake.
6. But one in a certaine place testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindfull of him: or the Sonne of man that thou visitest him?
7. Thou madest him a little lower then the Angels, thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him ouer the workes of thy hands.
8. Thou hast put all things in subiection vnder his feete. For in that he put all in subiection vnder him, hee left nothing that is not put vnder him. But now wee see not yet all things put vnder him.
9. But wee see Iesus, who was made a little lower then the Angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that hee by the grace of God should taste death for euery man.
10. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sonnes vnto glory, to make the Captaine of their saluation perfect through sufferings.
11. For both hee that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to cal them brethren,
12. Saying, I will declare thy Name vnto my brethren, in the midst of the Church will I sing praise vnto thee.
13. And againe, I will put my trust in him: and againe, Behold, I, and the children which God hath giuen me.
14. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himselfe likewise took part of the same, that through death hee might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the deuill:
15. And deliuer them, who through feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.
16. For verely he tooke not on him the nature of Angels: but he tooke on him the seed of Abraham.
17. Wherfore in all things it behooued him to bee made like vnto his brethren, that he might be a mercifull and faithfull high Priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sinnes of the people.
18. For in that he himselfe hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
1. Wherfore holy brethre, partakers of the heauenly calling, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Iesus,
2. Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithfull in all his house.
3. For this man was counted worthy of more glory then Moses, in as much as he who hath builded the house, hath more honour then the house.
4. For euery house is builded by some man, but hee that built all things is God.
5. And Moses verely was faithfull in all his house as a seruant, for a testimonie of those things which were to be spoken after.
6. But Christ as a Sonne ouer his owne house, whose house are wee, if we hold fast the confidence, and the reioycing of the hope firme vnto the end.
7. Wherfore as the holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will heare his voyce,
8. Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, in the day of temptation in the wildernesse:
9. When your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and saw my works fourty yeeres.
10. Wherefore I was grieued with that generation, and sayd, They doe alway erre in their hearts, and they haue not knowen my wayes.
11. So I sware in my wrath: they shall not enter into my rest.
12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an euill heart of vnbeleefe, in departing from the liuing God.
13. But exhort one another dayly, while it is called To day, least any of you be hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne.
14. For wee are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast vnto the end.
15. Whilest it is sayd, To day if yee will heare his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation.
16. For some when they had heard, did prouoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17. But with whom was he grieued fourty yeeres? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wildernesse?
18. And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that beleeued not?
19. So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeleefe.
1. Let vs therefore feare, lest a promise being left vs, of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to come short of it.
2. For vnto vs was the Gospel preached, as well as vnto the: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3. For we which haue beleeued do enter into rest, as hee said, As I haue sworne in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4. For he spake in a certaine place of the seuenth day on this wise: And God did rest the seuenth day from all his works.
5. And in this place againe: If they shall enter into my rest.
6. Seeing therfore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entred not in because of vnbeleefe:
7. Againe, hee limiteth a certaine day, saying in Dauid, To day, after so long a time; as it is saide, To day if ye will heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.
8. For if Iesus had giuen them rest, then would he not afterward haue spoken of another day.
9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10. For he that is entred into his rest, hee also hath ceased from his owne works, as God did from his.
11. Let vs labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of vnbeleefe.
12. For the word of God is quicke and powerfull, and sharper then any two edged sword, pearcing euen to the diuiding asunder of soule and spirit, and of the ioynts and marrowe, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked, and opened vnto the eyes of him with whome wee haue to doe.
14. Seeing then that wee haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens, Iesus the Sonne of God, let vs hold fast our profession.
15. For wee haue not an high Priest which cannot bee touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sinne.
16. Let vs therefore come boldly vnto the throne of grace, that wee may obtaine mercy, and finde grace to helpe in time of need.
1. For euery high Priest taken from among men, is ordeined for men in things pertaining to God, that hee may offer both giftes & sacrifices for sins.
2. Who can haue compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way, for that he himselfe also is compassed with infirmitie.
3. And by reason heereof hee ought as for the people, so also for himselfe, to offer for sinnes.
4. And no man taketh this honour vnto himselfe, but hee that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5. So also, Christ glorified not himselfe, to bee made an High Priest: but hee that saide vnto him, Thou art my Sonne, to day haue I begotten thee.
6. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec.
7. Who in the dayes of his flesh, when hee had offered vp prayers and supplications, with strong crying and teares, vnto him that was able to saue him from death, and was heard, in that he feared.
8. Though hee were a Sonne, yet learned hee obedience, by the things which he suffered:
9. And being made perfect, he became the authour of eternall saluation vnto all them that obey him,
10. Called of God an high Priest after the order of Melchisedec:
11. Of whom we haue many things to say, and hard to be vttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12. For when for the time yee ought to bee teachers, yee haue neede that one teach you againe which be the first principles of the Oracles of God, and are become such as haue need of milke, and not of strong meat.
13. For euery one that vseth milke, is vnskilful in the word of righteousnes: for he is a babe.
14. But strong meate belongeth to them that are of full age, euen those who by reason of vse haue their senses exercised to discerne both good and euil.
1. Therefore leauing the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let vs goe on vnto perfection, not laying againe the foundation of repentance from dead workes, and of faith towards God,
2. Of the doctrine of Baptismes, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternall iudgement.
3. And this will we doe, if God permit.
4. For it is impossible for those who were once inlightned, and haue tasted of the heauenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy Ghost,
5. And haue tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come;
6. If they shall fall away, to renue them againe vnto repentance: seeing they crucifie to themselues the Sonne of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7. For the earth which drinketh in the raine that commeth oft vpon it, and bringeth forth herbes meet for them by whome it is dressed, receiueth blessing from God.
8. But that which beareth thornes and briers, is reiected, and is nigh vnto cursing, whose end is to be burned.
9. But beloued, wee are perswaded better things of you, and things that accompany saluation, though we thus speake.
10. For God is not vnrighteous, to forget your worke and labour of loue, which yee haue shewed toward his Name, in that yee haue ministred to the Saints, and doe minister.
11. And wee desire, that euery one of you doe shewe the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope vnto the ende:
12. That yee be not slothfull, but followers of them, who through faith and patience inherite the promises.
13. For when God made promise to Abraham, because hee could sweare by no greater, he sware by himselfe,
14. Saying, Surely, blessing I will blesse thee, and multiplying I wil multiply thee.
15. And so after he had patiently indured, he obtained the promise.
16. For men verily sweare by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17. Wherein God willing more abundantly to shewe vnto the heyres of promise the immutabilitie of his counsell, confirmed it by an oath:
18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lye, wee might haue a strong consolation, who haue fled for refuge to lay hold vpon the hope set before vs.
19. Which hope we haue as an anker of the soule both sure and stedfast, and which entreth into that within the vaile,
20. Whither the forerunner is for vs entrrd; euen Iesus, made an high Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec.
1. For this Melchisedec king of Salem, Priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings, and blessed him:
2. To whom also Abraham gaue a tenth part of all: first being by interpretation king of righteousnesse, and after that also king of Salem, which is, king of peace.
3. Without father, without mother, without descent, hauing neither beginning of dayes nor end of life: but made like vnto the Sonne of God, abideth a Priest continually.
4. Now consider how great this man was, vnto who euen the patriarch Abraham gaue the tenth of the spoiles.
5. And verily they that are of the sonnes of Leui, who receiue the office of the Priesthood, haue a commandement to take Tithes of the people according to the Law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loines of Abraham:
6. But he whose descent is not counted from them, receiued tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7. And without all contradiction, the lesse is blessed of the better.
8. And here men that die receiue tithes: but there hee receiueth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liueth.
9. And as I may so say, Leui also who receiueth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
10. For hee was yet in the loynes of his Father when Melchisedec met him.
11. If therefore perfection were by the Leuiticall Priesthood (for vnder it the people receiued the Law) what further neede was there, that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not bee called after the order of Aaron?
12. For the Priesthood being chaunged, there is made of necessitie a change also of the Law.
13. For hee of whom these things are spoken, pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gaue attendance at the Altar.
14. For it is euident that our Lorde sprang out of Iuda, of which tribe Moses spake nothing cocerning Priesthood.
15. And it is yet farre more euident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another Priest,
16. Who is made not after the Law of a carnall commandement, but after the power of an endles life.
17. For hee testifieth; Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchisedec.
18. For there is verily a disanulling of the commandement going before, for the weakenesse and vnprofitablenesse thereof.
19. For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did: by the which wee draw nigh vnto God.
20. And in as much as not without an othe he was made Priest,
21. (For those Priests were made without an oath: but this with an oath, by him that said vnto him, The Lord sware and wil not repent, thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec)
22. By so much was Iesus made a suertie of a better Testament.
23. And they truely were many Priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
24. But this man because hee continueth euer, hath an vnchangeable Priesthood.
25. Wherefore he is able also to saue them to the vttermost, that come vnto God by him, seeing hee euer liueth to make intercession for them.
26. For such an high Priest became vs, who is holy, harmelesse, vndefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher then the heauens.
27. Who needeth not daily, as those high Priests, to offer vp sacrifice, first for his owne sins and then for the peoples: for this he did once, when he offered vp himselfe.
28. For the Law maketh men high Priests which haue infirmitie, but the word of the othe which was since the Law, maketh the Sonne, who is consecrated for euermore.
1. Now of the things which we haue spoken, this is the summe: wee haue such an high Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Maiestie in the heauens:
2. A minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true Tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3. For euery high Priest is ordeined to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessitie that this man haue somewhat also to offer.
4. For if he were on earth, he should not bee a Priest, seeing that there are Priests that offer gifts according to the Law:
5. Who serue vnto the example and shadow of heauenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the Tabernacle. For see (saith he) that thou make all things according to the paterne shewed to thee in the mount.
6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministerie, by how much also he is the Mediatour of a better Couenant, which was established vpon better promises.
7. For if that first Couenant had bene faultles, then should no place haue bene sought for the second.
8. For finding fault with them, hee saith, Behold, the dayes come (saith the Lord) when I will make a new couenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah.
9. Not according to the Couenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I tooke them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my Couenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10. For this is the Couenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord: I wil put my Lawes into their minde, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shalbe to me a people.
11. And they shall not teach euery man his neighbour, and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12. For I will be mercifull to their vnrighteousnes, and their sins & their iniquities will I remember no more.
13. In that he saith, A new Couenant, he hath made the first olde. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old, is readie to vanish away.
1. Then verily the first Couenant had also ordinances of diuine Seruice, and a worldly Sanctuary.
2. For there was a Tabernacle made, the first, wherein was the Candlesticke, and the Table, and the Shewbread, which is called the Sanctuarie.
3. And after the second vaile, the Tabernacle which is called ye Holiest of all:
4. Which had the golden Censor, and the Arke of the Couenant ouerlayed round about with gold, wherein was the Golden pot that had Manna, and Aarons rod that budded, and the Tables of the Couenant.
5. And ouer it the Cherubims of glory shadowing the Mercyseat; of which we cannot now speake particularly.
6. Now when these things were thus ordained, the Priestes went alwayes into the first Tabernacle, accomplishing the seruice of God.
7. But into the second went the high Priest alone once euery yeere, not without blood, which he offered for himselfe, and for the errors of the people.
8. The holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the Holiest of all, was not yet made manifest, while as the first Tabernacle was yet standing:
9. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offred both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the seruice perfect, as pertayning to the conscience,
10. Which stood onely in meates and drinkes, and diuers washings, and carnall ordinances imposed on them vntill the time of reformation.
11. But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building:
12. Neither by the blood of Goats and Calues: but by his owne blood hee entred in once into the Holy place, hauing obtained eternall redemption for vs.
13. For if the blood of Bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the vncleane, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himselfe without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead workes, to serue the liuing God?
15. And for this cause hee is the Mediatour of the New Testament, that by meanes of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first Testament, they which are called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.
16. For where a Testament is, there must also of necessitie bee the death of the Testatour.
17. For a Testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all whilest the Testatour liueth.
18. Whereupon, neither the first Testament was dedicated without blood.
19. For when Moses had spoken euery precept to all the people according to the Law, he tooke the blood of Calues and of Goates, with water and scarlet wooll, and hysope, and sprinckled both the booke and all the people,
20. Saying, This is the blood of the Testament which God hath enioyned vnto you.
21. Moreouer, hee sprinkled with blood both the Tabernacle, and all the vessels of the Ministery.
22. And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood: and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heauens should bee purified with these, but the heauenly things themselues with better sacrifices then these.
24. For Christ is not entred into the Holy places made with handes, which are the figures of the true, but into heauen it selfe, now to appeare in the presence of God for vs.
25. Nor yet that he should offer himselfe often, as the high Priest entreth into the Holy place, euery yeere with blood of others:
26. For then must hee often haue suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world, hath he appeared to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe.
27. And as it is appointed vnto men once to die, but after this the Iudgement:
28. So Christ was once offered to beare the sinnes of many, & vnto them that looke for him shall hee appeare the second time without sinne, vnto saluation.
1. For the Law hauing a shadow of good things to come, and not the very Image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices which they offered yeere by yeere continually, make the commers thereunto perfect:
2. For then would they not haue ceased to be offered, because that the worshippers once purged, should haue had no more conscience of sinnes?
3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance againe made of sinnes euery yeere.
4. For it is not possible that the blood of Bulles and of Goats, should take away sinnes.
5. Wherefore when hee commeth into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared mee:
6. In burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sinne thou hast had no pleasure:
7. Then said I, Loe, I come. (In the volume of the booke it is written of me) to doe thy will, O God.
8. Aboue when hee said, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sinne thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the Law:
9. Then said he, Loe, I come to doe thy will (O God:) He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10. By the which will wee are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Iesus Christ once for all.
11. And euery Priest standeth dayly ministring and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can neuer take away sinnes.
12. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sinnes for euer, sate downe on the right hand of God,
13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstoole.
14. For by one offering hee hath perfected for euer them that are sanctified.
15. Whereof the holy Ghost also is a witnesse to vs: for after that he had said before,
16. This is the Couenant that I wil make with them after those dayes, saith the Lord: I will put my Lawes into their hearts, and in their mindes will I write them:
17. And their sinnes and iniquities will I remember no more.
18. Now, where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sinne.
19. Hauing therefore, brethren, boldnesse to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Iesus,
20. By a new and liuing way which hee hath consecrated for vs, through the vaile, that is to say, His flesh:
21. And hauing an high Priest ouer the house of God:
22. Let vs drawe neere with a true heart in full assurance of faith, hauing our hearts sprinkled from an euill conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23. Let vs hold fast the profession of our faith without wauering (for he is faithfull that promised)
24. And let vs consider one another to prouoke vnto loue, and to good workes:
25. Not forsaking the assembling of our selues together, as the manner of some is: but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approching.
26. For if we sinne wilfully after that we haue receiued the knowledge of the trueth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sinnes,
27. But a certaine fearefull looking for of iudgement, and fiery indignation, which shall deuoure the aduersaries.
28. Hee that despised Moses Lawe, died without mercy, vnder two or three witnesses.
29. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall hee be thought worthy, who hath troden vnder foote ye Sonne of God, and hath counted the blood of the couenant wherwith he was sanctified, an vnholy thing, and hath done despite vnto the spirit of grace?
30. For we know him that hath said, Uengeance belongeth vnto me, I wil recompence, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall iudge his people.
31. It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God.
32. But call to remembrance the former dayes, in which after yee were illuminated, ye indured a great fight of afflictions:
33. Partly whilest ye were made a gazing stocke both by reproches & afflictions, and partly whilest ye became companions of them that were so vsed.
34. For yee had compassion of me in my bonds, and tooke ioyfully the spoyling of your goods, knowing in your selues that yee haue in heauen a better and an induring substance.
35. Cast not away therfore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.
36. For ye haue need of patience, that shall after ye haue done the will of God ye might receiue the promise.
37. For yet a litle while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tary.
38. Now the iust shall liue by faith: but if any man drawe backe, my soule shall haue no pleasure in him.
39. But wee are not of them who draw backe vnto perdition: but of them that beleeue, to the sauing of the soule.
1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the euidence of things not seen.
2. For by it the Elders obtained a good report.
3. Through faith we vnderstand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seene were not made of things which doe appeare.
4. By faith Abel offered vnto God a more excellent sacrifice then Kain, by which he obtained witnes that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead, yet speaketh.
5. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: For before his translation he had this testimonie, that he pleased God.
6. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for hee that commeth to God, must beleeue that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seeke him.
7. By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seene as yet, moued with feare, prepared an Arke to the sauing of his house, by the which he condemned the world, and became heire of the righteousnesse which is by faith.
8. By faith Abraham when he was called to goe out into a place which hee should after receiue for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9. By faith hee soiourned in the land of promise, as in a strange countrey, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Iacob, the heires with him of the same promise.
10. For hee looked for a citie which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11. Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.
12. Therfore sprang there euen of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the starres of the skie in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13. These all died in faith, not hauing receiued the promises, but hauing seene them a farre off, and were perswaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seeke a countrey.
15. And truly if they had been mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they might haue had opportunitie to haue returned:
16. But now they desire a better countrey, that is, an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to bee called their God: for he hath prepared for the a city.
17. By faith Abraham when he was tried, offered vp Isaac: and he that had receiued the promises, offered vp his onely begotten sonne,
18. Of whom it was said, That, in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19. Accounting that God was able to raise him vp, euen from the dead: from whence also he receiued him in a figure.
20. By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21. By faith Iacob when hee was a dying, blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph, and worshipped leaning vpon the top of his staffe.
22. By faith, Ioseph when hee died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel: and gaue commandement concerning his bones.
23. By faith; Moses when hee was borne was hid three moneths of his parents, because they saw he was a proper childe, and they not afraid of the Kings commandement.
24. By faith Moses when hee was come to yeeres, refused to bee called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter,
25. Chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season:
26. Esteeming the reproch of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect vnto the recompense of the reward.
27. By faith hee forsooke Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he indured, as seeing him who is inuisible.
28. Through faith he kept the Passeouer, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first borne, should touch them.
29. By faith they passed through the red sea, as by drie land: which the Egyptians assaying to do, were drowned.
30. By faith the walles of Iericho fell downe, after they were compassed about seuen dayes.
31. By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that beleeued not, when shee had receiued the spies with peace.
32. And what shall I more say? For the time would faile mee to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Sampson, and of Iephthah, of Dauid also and Samuel, and of the Prophets:
33. Who through faith subdued kingdomes, wrought righteousnesse, obteined promises, stopped the mouthes of Lions,
34. Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakenesse were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35. Women receiued their dead raised to life againe: and others were tortured, not accepting deliuerance, that they might obtaine a better resurrection.
36. And others had triall of cruell mockings and scourgings, yea moreouer, of bonds and imprisonment.
37. They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
38. Of whome the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dennes and caues of the earth.
39. And these all hauing obtained a good report through faith, receiued not the promise:
40. God hauing prouided some better thing for vs, that they without vs, should not be made perfect.
1. Wherefore, seeing wee also are compassed about with so great a cloude of witnesses, let vs lay aside euery weight, & the sinne which doth so easily beset vs, and let vs runne with patience vnto the race that is set before vs,
2. Looking vnto Iesus the Authour and finisher of our faith, who for the ioy that was set before him, endured the crosse, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3. For consider him that indured such contradiction of sinners against himselfe, lest ye be wearied and faint in your mindes.
4. Yee haue not yet resisted vnto blood, striuing against sinne.
5. And ye haue forgotten the exhortation which speaketh vnto you as vnto children, My sonne, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
6. For whome the Lord loueth hee chasteneth, and scourgeth euery sonne whom he receiueth.
7. If yee endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sonnes: for what sonne is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8. But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sonnes.
9. Furthermore, wee haue had fathers of our flesh, which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: shall we not much rather bee in subiection vnto the Father of Spirits, and liue?
10. For they verily for a fewe dayes chastened vs after their owne pleasure, but hee for our profit, that we might bee partakers of his holinesse.
11. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but grieuous: neuerthelesse, afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are exercised thereby.
12. Wherefore lift vp the handes which hang downe, and the feeble knees.
13. And make straight paths for your feete, lest that which is lame bee turned out of the way, but let it rather bee healed.
14. Followe peace with all men, and holinesse, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15. Looking diligently, lest any man faile of the grace of God, lest any roote of bitternesse springing vp, trouble you, and thereby many be defiled:
16. Lest there bee any fornicatour, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsell of meat sold his birthright.
17. For yee know how that afterward when hee would haue inherited the blessing, hee was reiected: for hee found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with teares.
18. For yee are not come vnto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor vnto blacknesse, and darknes, and tempest,
19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voyce of wordes, which voyce they that heard, entreated that the word should not bee spoken to them any more.
20. For they could not indure that which was commaunded: And if so much as a beast touch the Mountaine, it shall be stoned, or thrust thorow with a dart.
21. And so terrible was the sight, that Moses sayde, I exceedingly feare, and quake.
22. But ye are come vnto mount Sion, and vnto the citie of the liuing God the heauenly Ierusalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels:
23. To the generall assembly, and Church of the first borne which are written in heauen, and to God the Iudge of all, and to the spirits of iust men made perfect:
24. And to Iesus the mediatour of the new Couenant, and to the blood of sprinckling, that speaketh better things then that of Abel.
25. See that yee refuse not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape if wee turne away from him that speaketh from heauen.
26. Whose voice then shooke the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth onely, but also heauen.
27. And this word Yet once more, signifieth the remouing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remaine.
28. Wherefore wee receiuing a kingdome which cannot bee moued, let vs haue grace, whereby wee may serue God acceptably, with reuerence and godly feare.
29. For our God is a consuming fire.
1. Let brotherly loue continue.
2. Bee not forgetfull to entertaine strangers, for thereby some haue entertayned Angels vnawares.
3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer aduersitie, as being your selues also in the body.
4. Mariage is honorable in all, and the bed vndefiled: but whoremongers, and adulterers God will iudge.
5. Let your conuersation bee without couetousnesse: and be content with such things as yee haue. For hee hath said, I will neuer leaue thee, nor forsake thee.
6. So that wee may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not feare what man shall doe vnto me.
7. Remember them which haue the rule ouer you, who haue spoken vnto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conuersation.
8. Iesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for euer.
9. Be not caried about with diuers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meates, which haue not profited them that haue beene occupied therein.
10. Wee haue an altar whereof they haue no right to eate, which serue the Tabernacle.
11. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the Sanctuary by the high Priest for sinne, are burnt without the campe.
12. Wherefore Iesus also, that hee might sanctifie the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13. Let vs goe foorth therefore vnto him without the campe, bearing his reproch.
14. For here haue we no continuing citie, but we seeke one to come.
15. By him therefore let vs offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lippes, giuing thankes to his Name.
16. But to doe good, and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17. Obey them that haue the rule ouer you, and submit your selues: for they watch for your soules, as they that must giue account, that they may doe it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.
18. Pray for vs: for we trust wee haue a good conscience in all things, willing to liue honestly.
19. But I beseech you the rather to doe this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20. Now the God of peace, that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus, that great shepheard of the sheepe, through the blood of the euerlasting Couenant,
21. Make you perfect in euery good worke to doe his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Iesus Christ, to whom be glorie for euer and euer. Amen.
22. And I beseech you brethren, suffer the word of exhortation, for I haue written a letter vnto you in few words.
23. Know yee, that our brother Timothie is set at libertie, with whom if he come shortly, I will see you.
24. Salute all them that haue the rule ouer you, and al the Saints. They of Italy salute you.
25. Grace be with you all. Amen.  <i>Written to the Hebrewes, from Italy, by Timothie.</i>
1. The Reuelation of Iesus Christ, which God gaue vnto him, to shewe vnto his seruants things which must shortly come to passe; and he sent and signified it by his Angel vnto his seruant Iohn,
2. Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimonie of Iesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
3. Blessed is hee that readeth, and they that heare the words of this prophesie, and keepe those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
4. Iohn to the seuen Churches in Asia, Grace be vnto you, & peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seuen spirits which are before his throne:
5. And from Iesus Christ, who is the faithful witnesse, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth: vnto him that loued vs, and washed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood,
6. And hath made vs Kings and Priests vnto God and his Father: to him be glory and dominion for euer and euer, Amen.
7. Behold he commeth with clouds, and euery eye shal see him, and they also which pearced him: and all kinreds of the earth shall waile because of him: euen so. Amen.
8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
9. I Iohn, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ, was in the Isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimonie of Iesus Christ.
10. I was in the spirit on the Lords day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11. Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and what thou seest, write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamos, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.
12. And I turned to see the voice that spake with mee. And being turned, I saw seuen golden Candlesticks,
13. And in the midst of the seuen candlestickes, one like vnto the Sonne of man, clothed with a garment downe to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14. His head, and his haires were white like wooll as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire,
15. And his feet like vnto fine brasse, as if they burned in a furnace: and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16. And hee had in his right hand seuen starres: and out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sword: and his countenance was as the Sunne shineth in his strength.
17. And when I sawe him, I fell at his feete as dead: and hee laid his right hand vpon me, saying vnto mee, Feare not, I am the first, and the last.
18. I am hee that liueth, and was dead: and behold, I am aliue for euermore, Amen, and haue the keyes of hell and of death.
19. Write the things which thou hast seene, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter,
20. The mysterie of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seuen golden Candlestickes. The seuen Starres are the Angels of the seuen Churches: and the seuen candlestickes which thou sawest, are the seuen Churches.
1. Vnto the Angel of the church of Ephesus, write, These things saith he that holdeth the seuen starres in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seuen golden Candlesticks:
2. I know thy workes, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not beare them which are euil, and thou hast tried them which say they are Apostles, and are not, and hast found them lyers:
3. And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my Names sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
4. Neuerthelesse, I haue somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first loue.
5. Remember therfore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and doe the first workes, or else I will come vnto thee quickly, and will remoue thy Candlesticke out of his place, except thou repent.
6. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7. Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches: To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the tree of life, which is in the middest of the Paradise of God.
8. And vnto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna, write, These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is aliue,
9. I know thy works, and tribulation, and pouertie, but thou art rich, and I know the blasphemie of them which say they are Iewes and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.
10. Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the deuill shal cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and yee shall haue tribulation tenne dayes: bee thou faithfull vnto death, and I will giue thee a crowne of life.
11. He that hath an eare, let him heare what the spirit saith vnto the churches. He that ouercommeth, shall not be hurt of the second death.
12. And to the Angel of the Church in Pergamos, write, These things saith hee, which hath the sharpe sword with two edges:
13. I know thy workes, and where thou dwellest, euen where Satans seat is, and thou holdest fast my Name, and hast not denied my faith, euen in those daies, wherein Antipas was my faithful Martyr, who was slaine among you, where Satan dwelleth.
14. But I haue a fewe things against thee, because thou hast there them that holde the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling blocke before the children of Israel, to eate things sacrificed vnto idoles, and to commit fornication.
15. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
16. Repent, or else I will come vnto thee quickly, and wil fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17. Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches. To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the hidden Manna, and will giue him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, sauing hee that receiueth it.
18. And vnto the Angel of the church in Thyatira, write, These things saith the Sonne of God, who hath his eyes like vnto a flame of fire, and his feete are like fine brasse:
19. I know thy works, and charitie, and seruice, and faith, and thy patience, and thy workes, and the last to bee more then the first.
20. Notwithstanding, I haue a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Iezebel, which calleth herselfe a Prophetesse, to teach and to seduce my seruants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed vnto idoles.
21. And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.
22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her, into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23. And I will kill her children with death, and all the Churches shall know that I am hee which searcheth the reines and hearts: and I will giue vnto euery one of you according to your workes.
24. But vnto you I say, and vnto the rest in Thyatira, as many as haue not this doctrine, and which haue not knowen the depthes of Satan, as they speake, I will put vpon you none other burden:
25. But that which ye haue already, hold fast till I come.
26. And hee that ouercommeth, and keepeth my workes vnto the ende, to him will I giue power ouer the nations:
27. (And he shall rule them with a rod of yron: as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shiuers:) euen as I receiued of my Father.
28. And I will giue him the morning starre.
29. He that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
1. And vnto the Angel of the Church in Sardis write, These things saith he that hath the seuen Spirits of God, & the seuen starres; I know thy workes, that thou hast a name that thou liuest, and art dead.
2. Be watchfull, and strengthen the things which remaine, that are ready to die: for I haue not found thy works perfect before God.
3. Remember therefore, how thou hast receiued and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thiefe, and thou shalt not know what houre I will come vpon thee.
4. Thou hast a few names euen in Sardis, which haue not defiled their garments, and they shall walke with me in white: for they are worthy.
5. Hee that ouercommeth, the same shalbe clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the booke of life, but I will confesse his name before my Father, and before his Angels.
6. Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
7. And to the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write, These things saith he that is Holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of Dauid, he that openeth, and no man shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8. I know thy workes: behold, I haue set before thee an open doore, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my Name.
9. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Iewes, and are not, but doe lie: behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feete, and to know that I haue loued thee.
10. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keepe thee from the houre of temptation, which shall come vpon all the world, to try them that dwell vpon the earth.
11. Beholde, I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crowne.
12. Him that ouercommeth, will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he shall goe no more out: and I wil write vpon him the Name of my God, and the name of the Citie of my God, which is new Hierusalem, which commeth downe out of heauen from my God: And I will write vpon him my New name.
13. Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
14. And vnto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans, write, These things saith the Amen, the faithfull and true witnesse, the beginning of the creation of God:
15. I know thy workes, that thou art neither cold nor hot, I would thou wert cold or hot.
16. So then because thou art lukewarme, and neither cold nor hot, I wil spew thee out of my mouth:
17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and haue need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.
18. I counsell thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest bee rich, and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakednesse doe not appeare, and anoint thine eyes with eye salue, that thou mayest see.
19. As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore, and repent.
20. Behold, I stand at the doore, and knocke: if any man heare my voyce, and open the doore, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21. To him that ouercommeth, will I graunt to sit with mee in my throne, euen as I also ouercame, and am set downe with my Father in his throne.
22. Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
1. After this I looked, and beholde, a doore was opened in heauen: and the first voice which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet, talking with me, which said, Come vp hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
2. And immediatly I was in the spirit: and beholde, a Throne was set in heauen, and one sate on the Throne.
3. And he that sate was to looke vpon like a Iasper, and a Sardine stone: and there was a rainebow round about the Throne, in sight like vnto an Emeralde.
4. And round about the Throne were foure and twentie seates, and vpon the seates I saw foure and twentie Elders sitting, clothed in white rayment, and they had on their heades crownes of golde.
5. And out of the Throne proceeded lightnings, and thundrings, and voyces: and there were seuen lampes of fire burning before the Throne, which are the seuen Spirits of God.
6. And before the Throne there was a sea of glasse like vnto Chrystall: and in the middest of the throne, and round about the Throne, were foure beastes full of eyes before and behinde.
7. And the first beast was like a Lion, and the second beast like a Calfe, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying Egle.
8. And the foure beasts had each of them sixe wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9. And when those beasts giue glory, and honour, and thankes to him that sate on the Throne, who liueth for euer and euer,
10. The foure and twentie Elders fall downe before him that sate on the Throne, and worship him that liueth for euer and euer, and cast their crownes before the Throne, saying,
11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receiue glorie, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created.
1. And I saw in ye right hand of him that sate on the Throne, a booke written within, & on the backeside, sealed with seuen seales.
2. And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loude voice; Who is worthy to open the booke, and to loose the seales thereof?
3. And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open the booke, neither to looke thereon.
4. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to reade the booke, neither to looke thereon.
5. And one of the Elders saith vnto me, Weepe not: beholde, the Lion of the tribe of Iuda, the roote of Dauid, hath preuailed to open the booke, and to loose the seuen seales thereof.
6. And I beheld, and loe, in the middest of the Throne, and of the foure beastes, and in the midst of the Elders stood a Lambe as it had beene slaine, hauing seuen hornes and seuen eyes, which are the seuen Spirits of God, sent foorth into all the earth.
7. And he came, and tooke the booke out of the right hand of him that sate vpon the Throne.
8. And when he had taken the booke, the foure Beasts, and foure and twenty Elders fel down before the Lambe, hauing euery one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of Saints.
9. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the Booke, and to open the seales thereof: for thou wast slaine, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood, out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation:
10. And hast made vs vnto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reigne on the earth.
11. And I beheld, and I heard the voyce of many Angels, round about the Throne, and the beasts and the Elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times tenne thousand, and thousands of thousands,
12. Saying with a lowd voice, Worthy is the Lambe that was slaine, to receiue power, and riches, and wisedome, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
13. And euery creature which is in heauen, and on the earth, and vnder the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I, saying, Blessing, honour, glory, and power bee vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne, and vnto the Lambe for euer and euer.
14. And the foure beasts said, Amen. And the foure and twenty Elders fell downe and worshipped him that liueth for euer and euer.
1. And I sawe when the Lambe opened one of the seales, and I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the foure beastes, saying, Come and see.
2. And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and hee that sate on him had a bowe, and a crowne was giuen vnto him, and hee went foorth conquering, and to conquere.
3. And when hee had opened the second seale, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was giuen to him that sate thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was giuen vnto him a great sword.
5. And when hee had opened the third seale, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and loe, a blacke horse: and hee that sate on him had a paire of balances in his hand.
6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the foure beastes say, A measure of wheate for a penie, and three measures of barley for a penie, and see thou hurt not the oyle and the wine.
7. And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8. And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.
9. And when hee had opened the fift seale, I saw vnder the altar, the soules of them that were slaine for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.
10. And they cried with a lowd voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, doest thou not iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11. And white robes were giuen vnto euery one of them, and it was sayd vnto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, vntill their fellow seruants also, and their brethren that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12. And I beheld when he had opened the sixt seale, and loe, there was a great earthquake, and the Sunne became blacke as sackecloth of haire, and the Moone became as blood.
13. And the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth, euen as a figge tree casteth her vntimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty winde.
14. And the heauen departed as a scrowle when it is rolled together, and euery mountaine and Island were moued out of their places.
15. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chiefe captaines, and the mighty men, and euery bondman, and euery free man, hid themselues in the dennes, and in the rockes of the mountaines,
16. And said to the mountaines and rockes, Fall on vs, and hide vs from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lambe:
17. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
1. And after these things, I saw foure Angels standing on the foure corners of the Earth, holding the foure windes of the earth, that the winde should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2. And I saw another Angel ascending from the East, hauing the seale of the liuing God: and he cried with a loud voice to the foure Angels to whom it was giuen to hurt the earth and the Sea,
3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till wee haue sealed the seruants of our God in their foreheads.
4. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundreth and fourty and foure thousand, of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5. Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Ruben were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelue thousand.
6. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthali were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelue thousand.
7. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Leui were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Isachar were sealed twelue thousand.
8. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed twelue thousand.
9. After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could nuber, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, & tongues, stood before the throne, & before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands:
10. And cryed with a loude voice, saying, Saluation to our God, which sitteth vpon the Throne, and vnto the Lambe.
11. And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12. Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glorie, and wisedome, and thankesgiuing, and honour, & power, and might be vnto our God for euer & euer, Amen.
13. And one of the Elders answered, saying vnto mee, What are these which are arayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14. And I said vnto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and haue washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lambe.
15. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serue him day and night in his Temple: and hee that sitteth on the Throne shal dwell among them.
16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the Sunne light on them, nor any heate.
17. For the Lambe, which is in the middest of the throne, shall feede them, and shall leade them vnto liuing fountaines of waters: and God shal wipe away all teares from their eyes.
1. And when hee had opened the seuenth seale, there was silence in heauen about the space of halfe an houre.
2. And I sawe the seuen Angels which stood before God, and to them were giuen seuen trumpets.
3. And another Angel came & stood at the altar, hauing a golden censer, and there was giuen vnto him much incense, that hee should offer it with the prayers of all Saints vpon the golden altar which was before the throne.
4. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended vp before God, out of the Angels hand.
5. And the Angel tooke the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voyces, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake:
6. And the seuen Angels which had the seuen trumpets, prepared themselues to sound.
7. The first Angel sounded, and there followed haile, and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast vpon the earth, and the third part of trees was burnt vp, and all greene grasse was burnt vp.
8. And the second Angel sounded, and as it were a great mountaine burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood.
9. And the thirde part of the creatures which were in the Sea, and had life, died, and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10. And the third Angel sounded, and there fell a great starre from heauen, burning as it were a lampe, and it fell vpon the third part of the riuers, and vpon the fountaines of waters:
11. And the name of the starre is called Wormewood, and the third part of the waters became wormewood, and many men dyed of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12. And the fourth Angel sounded, and the thirde part of the Sunne was smitten, & the third part of the Moone, and the third part of the starres, so as the third part of them was darkened: and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13. And I beheld, and heard an Angel flying through the midst of heauen, saying with a loude voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth, by reason of the other voyces of the trumpet of the three Angels which are yet to sound.
1. And the fift Angel sounded, and I saw a starre fall from heauen vnto the earth: and to him was giuen the key of the bottomlesse pitte.
2. And hee opened the bottomelesse pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great fornace, and the sunne and the ayre were darkened, by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3. And there came out of the smoke locusts vpon the earth, and vnto them was giuen power, as the Scorpions of the earth haue power.
4. And it was commaunded them that they should not hurt the grasse of the earth, neither any greene thing, neither any tree: but only those men which haue not the seale of God in their foreheads.
5. And to them it was giuen that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented fiue moneths, and their torment was as the torment of a Scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6. And in those daies shal men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7. And the shapes of the Locusts were like vnto horses prepared vnto battell, and on their heades were as it were crownes like golde, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8. And they had haire as the haire of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of Lions.
9. And they had brestplates, as it were brestplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of charets of many horses running to battell.
10. And they had tayles like vnto Scorpions, and there were stings in their tayles: and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.
11. And they had a king ouer them, which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greeke tongue hath his name Apollyon.
12. One woe is past, and behold there come two woes more hereafter.
13. And the sixt Angel sounded, and I heard a voyce from the foure hornes of ye golden altar, which is before God,
14. Saying to the sixt Angel which had the trumpet, Loose the foure Angels which are bound in the great riuer Euphrates.
15. And the foure Angels were loosed, which were prepared for an houre, and a day, and a moneth, and a yeere, for to slay the third part of men.
16. And the number of the armie of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17. And thus I sawe the horses in the vision, and them that sate on them, hauing brest-plates of fire and of Iacinct, and brimstone, & the heades of the horses were as the heads of Lions, and out of their mouthes issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.
18. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouthes.
19. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tailes: for their tailes were like vnto serpents, and had heads, and with them they doe hurt.
20. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship deuils, and idoles of golde, and siluer, and brasse, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor heare, nor walke:
21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
1. And I saw another mighty Angel come down from heauen, clothed with a cloud, and a rainebow was vpon his head, and his face was as it were the Sunne, and his feet as pillars of fire.
2. And hee had in his hand a little booke open: and hee set his right foote vpon the sea, and his left foote on the earth,
3. And cryed with a loude voice, as when a Lion roareth: and when hee had cried, seuen thunders vttered their voices.
4. And when the seuen thunders had vttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heauen, saying vnto mee, Seale vp those things which the seuen thunders vttered, and write them not.
5. And the Angel which I saw stand vpon the sea, and vpon the earth, lifted vp his hand to heauen,
6. And sware by him that liueth for euer and euer, who created heauen, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should bee time no longer.
7. But in the dayes of the voice of the seuenth Angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mysterie of God should be finished, as hee hath declared to his seruants the Prophets.
8. And the voice which I heard from heauen spake vnto me againe, and said, Go, and take the litle booke which is open in the hand of the Angel which standeth vpon the sea, and vpon the earth.
9. And I went vnto the Angel, and said vnto him, Giue me the little booke. And he sayd vnto me, Take it, and eat it vp, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall bee in thy mouth sweete as hony.
10. And I tooke the little booke out of the Angels hand, and ate it vp, and it was in my mouth sweet as honie: and as soone as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11. And he sayd vnto me, Thou must prophesie againe before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
1. And there was giuen me a reede like vnto a rod, and the Angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the Temple of God, and the Altar, and them that worship therein.
2. But the Court which is without the Temple leaue out, and measure it not: for it is giuen vnto the Gentiles, and the holy citie shall they tread vnder foote fourty and two moneths.
3. And I will giue power vnto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth.
4. These are the two oliue trees, and the two candlestickes, standing before the God of the earth.
5. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and deuoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, hee must in this maner be killed.
6. These haue power to shut heauen, that it raine not in the dayes of their prophesie: and haue power ouer waters to turne them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7. And when they shall haue finished their testimonie, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit, shall make warre against them, and shall ouercome them, and kill them.
8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great citie, which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9. And they of the people, and kinreds, and tongues, and nations, shal see their dead bodies three dayes and an halfe, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graues.
10. And they that dwell vpon the earth shall reioyce ouer them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11. And after three dayes and an halfe the Spirit of life from God, entred into them: and they stood vpon their feete, and great feare fell vpon them which saw them.
12. And they heard a great voyce from heauen, saying vnto them, Come vp hither. And they ascended vp to heauen in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them.
13. And the same houre was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slaine of men seuen thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gaue glory to the God of heauen.
14. The second woe is past, and behold, the third woe commeth quickly.
15. And the seuenth Angel sounded, and there were great voyces in heauen, saying, The kingdomes of this world are become the kingdomes of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reigne for euer and euer.
16. And the foure and twentie Elders which sate before God on their seates, fell vpon their faces, and worshipped God,
17. Saying, Wee giue thee thankes, O Lord God Almightie, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that they should bee iudged, and that thou shouldest giue reward vnto thy seruants the Prophets, and to the Saints, & them that feare thy Name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19. And the Temple of God was opened in heauen, and there was seene in his Temple the Arke of his Testament, and there were lightnings, and voyces, and thundrings, and an earthquake, and great haile.
1. And there appeared a great wonder in heauen, a woman clothed with the Sunne, & the Moone vnder her feete, and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres:
2. And shee being with childe, cried, trauailing in birth, and pained to be deliuered.
3. And there appeared another wonder in heauen, and behold a great red dragon, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes, and seuen crownes vpon his heads.
4. And his taile drew the third part of the starres of heauen, and did cast them to the earth: And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be deliuered, for to deuoure her childe as soone as it was borne.
5. And shee brought foorth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of yron: and her child was caught vp vnto God, and to his Throne.
6. And the woman fled into the wildernesse, where shee hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand, two hundred, and threescore dayes.
7. And there was warre in heauen, Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon, & the dragon fought and his angels,
8. And preuailed not, neither was their place found any more in heauen.
9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the deuill and Satan, which deceiueth the whole world: hee was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10. And I heard a lowd voyce saying in heauen, Now is come saluation, and strength, and the kingdome of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11. And they ouercame him by the blood of the Lambe, and by the word of their Testimony, and they loued not their liues vnto the death.
12. Therefore reioyce, yee heauens, and yee that dwell in them; Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: for the deuill is come downe vnto you, hauing great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast vnto the earth, hee persecuted the woman which brought foorth the man childe.
14. And to the woman were giuen two wings of a great Eagle, that shee might flee into the wildernesse into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and halfe a time, from the face of the serpent.
15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood, after the woman: that he might cause her to bee caried away of the flood.
16. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed vp the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make warre with the remnant of her seed, which keepe the Commaundements of God, and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ.
1. And I stoode vpon the sand of the sea: and saw a beast rise vp out of the sea, hauing seuen heads, and tenne hornes, and vpon his hornes tenne crownes, and vpon his heads, the name of blasphemie.
2. And the beast which I saw, was like vnto a Leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a Beare, and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion: and the dragon gaue him his power, and his seat, and great authoritie.
3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed: and al the world wondered after the beast.
4. And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like vnto the beast? Who is able to make warre with him?
5. And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, speaking great things, and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him to continue fortie and two moneths.
6. And he opened his mouth in blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his Tabernacle, and them that dwelt in heauen.
7. And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them: And power was giuen him ouer all kinreds, and tongues, and nations.
8. And all that dwel vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of life of the Lambe, slaine from the foundation of the world.
9. If any man haue an eare, let him heare:
10. Hee that leadeth into captiuitie, shall goe into captiuitie: Hee that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the Saints.
11. And I beheld another beast comming vp out of the earth, and hee had two hornes like a lambe, and hee spake as a dragon.
12. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13. And hee doeth great wonders, so that hee maketh fire come downe from heauen on the earth in the sight of men,
14. And deceiueth them that dwel on the earth, by the meanes of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an Image to the beast which had the wound by a sword, and did liue.
15. And he had power to giue life vnto the Image of the beast, that the Image of the beast should both speake, and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the beast, should be killed.
16. And he causeth all, both smal and great rich and poore, free and bond, to receiue a marke in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17. And that no man might buy or sell, saue he that had the marke, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18. Here is wisedome. Let him that hath vnderstanding, count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is, sixe hundred threescore and sixe.
1. And I looked, and loe, a Lambe stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundreth fourty and foure thousand, hauing his Fathers Name written in their foreheads.
2. And I heard a voice from heauen, as the voice of many waters, and as the voyce of a great thunder: and I heard the voyce of harpers, harping with their harpes.
3. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the foure beasts, and the Elders, and no man could learne that song, but the hundreth and fourtie and foure thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
4. These are they which were not defiled with women: for they are virgines: These are they which follow the Lambe whithersoeuer hee goeth: These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits vnto God, and to the Lambe.
5. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
6. And I saw another Angel flie in the midst of heauen, hauing the euerlasting Gospel, to preach vnto them that dwel on the earth, and to euery nation, and kinred, and tongue, and people,
7. Saying with a loud voice, Feare God, and giue glory to him, for the houre of his iudgement is come: and worshippe him that made heauen and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8. And there followed another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great citie, because she made all nations drinke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9. And the third Angel followed them, saying with a lowd voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receiue his marke in his forehead, or in his hand,
10. The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and hee shall be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy Angels, and in the presence of the Lambe: 
11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp for euer and euer. And they haue no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoeuer receyueth the marke of his name.
12. Here is the patience of the Saints: Here are they that keepe the Commandements of God, and the faith of Iesus.
13. And I heard a voyce from heauen, saying vnto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from hencefoorth, yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their workes doe follow them.
14. And I looked, and beholde, a white cloud, and vpon the cloude one sate like vnto the sonne of man, hauing on his head a golden crowne, and in his hand a sharpe sickle.
15. And another Angel came out of the Temple crying with a loude voice to him that sate on the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle and reape, for the time is come for thee to reape, for the haruest of the earth is ripe.
16. And hee that sate on the cloude thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17. And another Angel came out of the Temple which is in heauen, he also hauing a sharpe sickle.
18. And another Angel came out from the Altar, which had power ouer fire, and cryed with a loud cry to him, that had the sharpe sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharpe sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.
19. And the Angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, & cast it into the great winepresse of the wrath of God.
20. And the winepresse was troden without the citie, and blood came out of the winepresse, euen vnto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and sixe hundred furlongs.
1. And I saw another signe in heauen great and marueilous, seuen Angels hauing the seuen last plagues, for in them is filled vp the wrath of God.
2. And I saw as it were a Sea of glasse, mingled with fire, and them that had gotten the victorie ouer the beast, and ouer his image, and ouer his marke, and ouer the number of his name, stand on the sea of glasse, hauing the harpes of God.
3. And they sing the song of Moses the seruant of God, and the song of the Lambe, saying, Great and marueilous are thy workes, Lord God Almightie, iust and true are thy wayes, thou king of saints.
4. Who shall not feare thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy Name? for thou onely art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy iudgements are made manifest.
5. And after that I looked, and behold, the Temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heauen was opened:
6. And the seuen Angels came out of the Temple, hauing the seuen plagues, clothed in pure and white linnen, and hauing their breasts girded with golden girdles.
7. And one of the foure beasts gaue vnto the seuen Angels, seuen golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liueth for euer and euer.
8. And the Temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power, and no man was able to enter into the Temple, till the seuen plagues of the seuen Angels were fulfilled.
1. And I heard a great voyce out of the Temple, saying to the seuen Angels, Goe your wayes, and powre out the vials of the wrath of God vpon the earth.
2. And the first went, and powred out his viall vpon the earth, and there fell a noysome and grieuous sore vpon the men which had the marke of the beast, and vpon them which worshipped his image.
3. And the second Angel powred out his viall vpon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man: and euery liuing soule died in the sea.
4. And the third Angel powred out his viall vpon the riuers and fountaines of waters, & they became blood.
5. And I heard the Angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast iudged thus:
6. For they haue shedde the blood of Saints and Prophets, and thou hast giuen them blood to drinke: for they are worthy.
7. And I heard another out of the altar say, Euen so, Lord God Almightie, true and righteous are thy iudgements.
8. And the fourth Angel powred out his viall vpon the Sunne, and power was giuen vnto him to scorch men with fire.
9. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the Name of God, which hath power ouer these plagues: and they repented not, to giue him glory.
10. And the fift Angel powred out his viall vpon the seat of the beast, and his kingdome was full of darkenesse, and they gnawed their tongues for paine,
11. And blasphemed the God of heauen, because of their paines, and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
12. And the sixt Angel powred out his viall vpon the great riuer Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried vp, that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared.
13. And I saw three vncleane spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, & out of the mouth of the beast, & out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14. For they are the spirits of deuils working miracles, which goe forth vnto the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battell of that great day of God Almighty.
15. Behold, I come as a thiefe. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, least hee walke naked, and they see his shame.
16. And hee gathered them together into a place, called in the Hebrewe tongue, Armageddon.
17. And the seuenth Angel powred out his viall into the ayre, and there came a great voyce out of the Temple of heauen, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18. And there were voices and thunders, and lightnings: and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were vpon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19. And the great Citie was diuided into three parts, and the Cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to giue vnto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath.
20. And euery yland fled away, and the mountaines were not found.
21. And there fell vpon men a great haile out of heauen, euery stone about the weight of a talent, and men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hayle: for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
1. And there came one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials, and talked with me, saying vnto mee, Come hither, I will shew vnto thee the iudgement of the great Whore, that sitteth vpon many waters:
2. With whom the kings of the earth haue committed fornication, and the inhabiters of the earth haue beene made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3. So he caried me away in the Spirit into the wildernesse: and I saw a woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes.
4. And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stone & pearles, hauing a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornication.
5. And vpon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots, And Abominations Of The Earth.
6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus: and when I saw her, I wondred with great admiration.
7. And the Angel saide vnto mee, Wherefore didst thou marueile? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carieth her, which hath the seuen heads, and ten hornes.
8. The beast that thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit, and goe into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose names were not written in the booke of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9. And here is the mind which hath wisedome. The seuen heads are seuen mountaines, on which the woman sitteth.
10. And there are seuen Kings, fiue are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he commeth, he must continue a short space.
11. And the beast that was, and is not, euen he is the eighth, & is of the seuen, and goeth into perdition.
12. And the tenne hornes which thou sawest, are ten kings, which haue receiued no kingdom as yet: but receiue power as kings one houre with the beast.
13. These haue one minde, and shall giue their power and strength vnto the beast.
14. These shal make warre with the Lambe, and the Lambe shal ouercome them: For he is Lord of Lords, and King of kings, and they that are with him, are called, & chosen, and faithfull.
15. And he saith vnto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16. And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall eate her flesh, and burne her with fire.
17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and giue their kingdome vnto the beast, vntil the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18. And the woman which thou sawest, is that great Citie which reigneth ouer the kings of the earth.
1. And after these things, I saw another Angel come downe from heauen, hauing great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2. And he cryed mightily with a strog voyce, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of deuils, and the hold of euery foule spirit, and a cage of euery vncleane and hatefull bird:
3. For all nations haue drunke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication with her, & the Merchants of the earth are waxed rich thorow the abundance of her delicacies.
4. And I heard another voice from heauen, saying, Come out of her, my people, that yee be not partakers of her sinnes, and that yee receiue not of her plagues:
5. For her sinnes haue reached vnto heauen, and God hath remembred her iniquities.
6. Reward her euen as she rewarded you, and double vnto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified her selfe, and liued deliciously, so much torment and sorrow giue her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a Queene, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall bee vtterly burnt with fire, for strong is the Lord God, who iudgeth her.
9. And the Kings of the earth, who haue committed fornication, and liued deliciously with her, shall bewaile her and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning:
10. Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.
11. And the Merchants of the earth shall weepe and mourne ouer her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more.
12. The merchandise of gold, and siluer, and pretious stones, and of pearles, and fine linnen, and purple, and silke, and scarlet, and all Thine wood, and all maner vessels of Yuorie, and all maner vessels of most precious wood, and of brasse, and iron, and marble,
13. And Cynamome, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, & wine, and oile, and fine floure, and wheat, and beasts, and sheepe, and horses, and chariots, and slaues, and soules of men.
14. And the fruits that thy soule lusted after, are departed from thee, and all things which were daintie, and goodly, are departed from thee, and thou shalt finde them no more at all.
15. The Merchants of these things which were made riche by her, shall stand afarre off for the feare of her torment, weeping and wailing.
16. And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linnen, and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, and pretious stones, and pearles:
17. For in one houre so great riches is come to nought. And euery shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailers, and as many as trade by sea, stood a farre off,
18. And cryed when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like vnto this great citie?
19. And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping, and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea, by reason of her costlinesse, for in one houre is she made desolate.
20. Reioyce ouer her thou heauen, and ye holy Apostles and Prophets, for God hath auenged you on her.
21. And a mightie Angel tooke vp a stone like a great milstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great citie Babylon bee throwen downe, and shall bee found no more at all.
22. And the voyce of harpers and musitions, and of pipers, and trumpetters, shall bee heard no more at all in thee: and no craftsman, of whatsoeuer craft hee be, shall be found any more in thee: and the sound of a milstone shalbe heard no more at all in thee: 
23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegrome and of the bride shalbe heard no more at all in thee: for thy Merchants were the great men of the earth: for by thy sorceries were all nations deceiued.
24. And in her was found the blood of Prophets, and of Saints, and of all that were slaine vpon the earth.
1. And after these things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen, saying, Alleluia: saluation, and glorie, and honour, and power vnto the Lord our God:
2. For true and righteous are his iudgements, for hee hath iudged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath auenged the blood of his seruants at her hand.
3. And againe they sayd, Alleluia: and her smoke rose vp for euer & euer.
4. And the foure and twentie Elders, and the foure beasts fell downe, and worshipped God that sate on the throne, saying, Amen, Alleluia.
5. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God all yee his seruants, and ye that feare him, both small and great.
6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mightie thundrings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
7. Let vs bee glad and reioyce, and giue honour to him: for the mariage of the Lambe is come, and his wife hath made herselfe readie.
8. And to her was granted, that she should bee arayed in fine linnen, cleane and white: for the fine linnen is the righteousnesse of Saints.
9. And hee saith vnto mee, Write, Blessed are they which are called vnto the marriage supper of the Lambe. And he saith vnto mee, These are the true sayings of God.
10. And I fell at his feete to worship him: And he said vnto me, See thou doe it not: I am thy fellow seruant, and of thy brethren, that haue the testimonie of Iesus, Worship God: for the testimony of Iesus, is the spirit of prophecie.
11. And I sawe heauen opened, and behold a white horse, and hee that sate vpon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousnes hee doth iudge and make warre.
12. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crownes, and hee had a name written, that no man knew but he himselfe.
13. And hee was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood, and his name is called, The word of God.
14. And the armies which were in heauen followed him vpon white horses, clothed in fine linnen, white and cleane.
15. And out of his mouth goeth a sharpe sword, that with it hee should smite the nations: and he shal rule them with a rod of yron: and he treadeth the winepresse of the fiercenesse and wrath of Almighty God.
16. And he hath on his vesture, and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.
17. And I saw an Angel standing in the Sunne, and hee cried with a lowd voyce, saying to all the foules that flie in the midst of heauen, Come and gather your selues together vnto the supper of the great God:
18. That yee may eate the flesh of Kings, and the flesh of Captaines, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great.
19. And I saw the beast, & the Kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make warre against him that sate on the horse, and against his armie.
20. And the beast was taken, & with him the false prophet, that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceiued them that had receiued the marke of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast aliue into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sate vpon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the foules were filled with their flesh.
1. And I saw an Angel come down from heauen, hauing the key of the bottomles pit, & a great chaine in his hand.
2. And hee laid hold on the dragon that old serpent, which is the deuill and Satan, and bound him a thousand yeres,
3. And cast him into the bottomlesse pit, and shut him vp, and set a seale vpon him, that he should deceiue the nations no more, till the thousand yeeres should bee fulfilled: and after that hee must be loosed a little season.
4. And I saw thrones, and they sate vpon them, and iudgement was giuen vnto them: & I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had receiued his marke vpon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they liued and reigned with Christ a thousand yeeres.
5. But the rest of the dead liued not againe vntill the thousand yeeres were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6. Blessed & holy is he that hath part in ye first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be Priests of God, and of Christ, and shall reigne with him a thousand yeeres.
7. And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8. And shall goe out to deceiue the nations which are in the foure quarters of the earth, Gog & Magog, to gather them together to battell: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9. And they went vp on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the campe of the Saints about, and the beloued citie: and fire came downe from God out of heauen, and deuoured them.
10. And the deuil that deceiued them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night, for euer and euer.
11. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sate on it, from whose face the earth and the heauen fled away, and there was found no place for them.
12. And I sawe the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened: & another booke was opened, which is the booke of life: and the dead were iudged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13. And the sea gaue vp the dead which were in it: and death and hell deliuered vp the dead which were in them: and they were iudged euery man according to their works.
14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
15. And whosoeuer was not found written in the booke of life, was cast into the lake of fire.
1. And I saw a new heauen, and a new earth: for the first heauen, and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.
2. And I Iohn saw the holy City, new Hierusalem comming down from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3. And I heard a great voice out of heauen, saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he wil dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himselfe shalbe with them, and be their God.
4. And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes: and there shall bee no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there bee any more paine: for the former things are passed away.
5. And he that sate vpon the throne, said, Behold, I make all things new. And hee said vnto me, Write: for these words are true and faithfull.
6. And he said vnto mee, It is done: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will giue vnto him that is athirst, of the fountaine of the water of life, freely.
7. He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all things, and I will bee his God, and he shall be my sonne.
8. But the fearefull, and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murderers, and whore mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9. And there came vnto me one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials full of the seuen last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the Bride, the Lambes wife.
10. And he caried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountaine, and shewed me that great citie, the holy Hierusalem, descending out of heauen from God,
11. Hauing the glory of God: and her light was like vnto a stone most precious; euen like a iasper stone, cleare as christal,
12. And had a wall great and high, and had twelue gates, and at the gates twelue Angels, & names written thereon, which are the names of the twelue tribes of the children of Israel.
13. On the East three gates, on the North three gates, on the South three gates, and on the West three gates.
14. And the wall of the citie had twelue foundations, and in them the names of the twelue Apostles of the Lambe.
15. And hee that talked with mee, had a golden reede to measure the citie, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16. And the city lieth foure square, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelue thousand furlongs: the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equall.
17. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred, and fourtie, and foure cubites, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the Angel.
18. And the building of the wall of it was of Iasper, and the city was pure gold, like vnto cleare glasse.
19. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all maner of precious stones. The first foundation was Iasper, the second Saphir, the third a Chalcedony, the fourth an Emerald,
20. The fift Sardonix, the sixt Sardius, the seuenth Chrysolite, the eight Beryl, the ninth a Topas, the tenth a Chrysoprasus, the eleuenth a Iacinct, the twelfth an Amethyst.
21. And the twelue gates were twelue pearles, euery seuerall gate was of one pearle, and the streete of the city was pure golde, as it were transparent glasse.
22. And I saw no Temple therein: For the Lord God Almightie, and the Lambe, are the Temple of it.
23. And the citie had no need of the Sunne, neither of the Moone to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lambe is the light thereof.
24. And the nations of them which are saued, shall walke in the light of it: and the kings of the earth doe bring their glory and honour into it.
25. And the gates of it shall not bee shut at all by day: for there shall bee no night there.
26. And they shall bring the glorie and honour of the nations into it.
27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoeuer worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lambes booke of life.
1. And he shewed mee a pure riuer of water of life, cleere as Chrystall, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lambe.
2. In the middest of the street of it, and of either side of the riuer, was there the tree of life, which bare twelue manner of fruits, and yeelded her fruit euery moneth: and the leaues of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God, & of the Lambe shall bee in it, and his seruants shall serue him.
4. And they shall see his face, and his Name shall be in their foreheads.
5. And there shalbe no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the Sunne, for the Lord God giueth them light, and they shall reigne for euer and euer.
6. And hee said vnto mee, These sayings are faithfull and true. And the Lord God of the holy Prophets sent his Angel to shew vnto his seruants the things which must shortly be done.
7. Beholde, I come quickly: Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecie of this booke.
8. And I Iohn saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seene, I fell downe, to worship before the feete of the Angel, which shewed me these things.
9. Then saith he vnto me, See thou doe it not: for I am thy fellow seruant, and of thy brethren the Prophets, and of them which keepe the sayings of this booke: worship God.
10. And hee saith vnto mee, Seale not the sayings of the prophesie of this booke: for the time is at hand.
11. He that is vniust, let him be vniust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and hee that is righteous, let him bee righteous still: and hee that is holy, let him be holy still.
12. And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with mee, to giue euery man according as his worke shall be.
13. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first & the last.
14. Blessed are they that do his commandements, that they may haue right to the tree of life, and may enter in thorow the gates into the citie.
15. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoeuer loueth and maketh a lie.
16. I Iesus haue sent mine Angel, to testifie vnto you these things in the Churches. I am the roote and the offspring of Dauid, and the bright and morning starre.
17. And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth, say, Come. And let him that is a thirst, come. And whosoeuer will, let him take the water of life freely.
18. For I testifie vnto euery man that heareth the wordes of the prophesie of this booke, If any man shal adde vnto these things, God shall adde vnto him the plagues, that are written in this booke.
19. And if any man shall take away from the wordes of the booke of this prophesie, God shal take away his part out of the booke of life, and out of the holy citie, and from the things which are written in this booke.
20. Hee which testifieth these things, saith, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Euen so, Come Lord Iesus.
21. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.