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wherein the birds make their nests; and the fir trees are a dwelling for the stork.
Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known.
And the king stood at his standing and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep his commandments, his witnesses and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul and to fulfill the words of the covenant written in the said book.
Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah.
The voice of the LORD is mighty in operation; the voice of the LORD is a glorious voice.
In God's word will I rejoice, in the LORD's word will I comfort me.
the shooters shot against the king Josiah. And the king said to his servants, "Carry me away for I am sore hurt."
And the hanging of the gate of the court was needlework: of jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined bysse twenty cubits long and five in the breadth, according to the hangings of the court.
And unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the kindred of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with her suburbs and Ashtaroth with her suburbs.
and Hilen with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs;
And anoint the altar of the burnt offerings and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar that it may be most holy.
the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought.
And of the cities which ye shall give out of the possessions of the children of Israel, ye shall give many out of their possessions that have much and few out of their possessions that have little: so that every tribe shall give of his cities unto the Levites, according to the inheritance which he inheriteth."
and seven other ears, withered, thin and blasted with wind, spring up after them.
And the officers of thousands of the host, the captains over the thousands and the captains over the hundreds came forth and said unto Moses,
his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons daughters and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
And the two sticks whereupon thou writest, shalt thou have in thine hand, that they may see,
For he heard the sound of the trumpet, and would not take heed, therefore his blood be upon him. But if he will receive warning, he shall save his life.
Thus will I bring the melody of thy songs, and the voice of thy minstrelsy to an end, so that they shall no more be heard.
Again I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and give him my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arm, so that he shall hold it before him piteously, like a wounded man.
Among those that be slain with the sword, shall they lie. The sword is given already: he shall be drawn forth and all his people.
"'Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and root out of thee both man and beast.
They shall cast thee down to the pit, so that thou shalt die in the midst of the sea,
I will scatter thee among the heathen, and straw thee about in the lands, and will cause thy filthiness to cease out of thee.
Now upon the rope were brazen knops, and every knop was five cubits high: and upon the knops were hoops, and pomegranates round about of clean brass.
"Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers, when I brought them out of Egypt, that they should no more be bondmen: saying,
At the going up unto Luhith there shall arise a lamentation: and down toward Horonaim, there shall be heard a cruel and deadly cry.
The prophets that were before us in times past, which prophesied of war, or trouble, or pestilence -
So that whoso seeketh after them, shall not find them. Thy destroyers shall perish, and so shall they that undertake to make battle against thee.
Again, thou increasest the people, O LORD, thou increasest the people. Thou shalt be praised and magnified in all the ends of the world.
The LORD shall so bless thee out of Zion, that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long.
Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.
Thy arrows are sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the king's enemies.
O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery.
And he made altars unto all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
They also that reward evil for good are against me, because I follow the thing that is good.
And of gold, silver, brass and iron there is no number. Up, therefore, and set upon it, and the LORD shall be with thee."
And these my words which I have prayed before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he defend the cause of his servant and of his people Israel evermore,
Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
It is God that avengeth me, and bringeth down the people under me.
Then David and the people that was with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they could weep no more.
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, was a year and four months.
And they said, "There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel:
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again for his deliverance, of the money that he was sold for.
if the disease be pale or somewhat reddish in the cloth or skin: whether it be in the warp or the woof or any thing that is made of skin, then it is a very leprosy, and must be showed unto the priest.
and in the tribe of the children of Naphtali, the lord Pedahel the son of Ammihud."
Our children, our wives, substance, and all our cattle, shall remain here in the cities of Gilead.
And the broidering of the girdle that was upon it, was of the same stuff and after the same work of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse, as the LORD commanded Moses.
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
and bring in the table and apparel it, and bring in the candlestick and put on his lamps,
And all that hove up gold or brass, brought a heave offering unto the LORD. And all men with whom was found sethim-wood meet for any manner work or service, brought it.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, "For to sojourn in the land are we come, for thy servants have no pasture for their sheep, so sore is the famishment in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
for Benjamin, Joseph's brother, would not Jacob send with his other brethren: for he said, "Some misfortune might happen him."
Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, if the lad be not with me - seeing that his life hangeth by the lad's life -
When they took hold of thee with their hand thou breakest and prickest them on every side: and if they leaned upon thee, thou brakest and hurtest the reins of their backs.
And thus shalt thou do also the seventh day of the month, for such as have sinned of ignorance, or being deceived, to reconcile the house withal.
Then brought he me into the fore court, whereas were chambers and paved works, made in the fore court round about: Thirty chambers upon one paved work.
Yea, I will make many people with their kings so afraid through thee, that their hair shall stand up, when I shake my sword at their faces. Suddenly shall they be astonished, every man in himself, at the day of thy fall.
Now at the time of thy fall the inhabiters of the Isles, Yea, and the Isles themselves, shall stand in fear at thine end.
Through thee I have scattered the shepherd and his flock, the husbandman and his cattle, the princes and the rulers.
For all they, that of set purpose undertake to go into Egypt, there to ease themselves of their misery, shall perish with the sword, with hunger and pestilence. Not one of them shall remain; there shall none escape the plague, that I will bring upon them.
But in process of time, I will bring Elam out of captivity again, sayeth the LORD."
He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies;
Now while Jeremiah lay yet bound in the fore entry of the prison, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
Remember the marvelous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall go out to the king of Babylon's princes. For they think, that thou art deceived: and that the men in whom thou didst put thy trust, have gotten thee under, and set thy feet fast in the mire, and gone their way from thee.
There is no man to meddle with thy cause, or to bind up thy wounds: there may no man help thee.
At midnight stand I up, to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.
They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
"Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength, but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and was mighty in his wickedness!"
He shall live, and unto him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer shall be made ever unto him, and daily shall he be praised.
Reprove the beasts among the reeds, the heap of bulls with the calves, those that drive for money. O scatter thou the people that delight in war.
He ruleth with his power forever. His eyes behold the people; the renegades shall not be able to exalt themselves. Selah.
And they slew Passover the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and Levites sanctified themselves for shame, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
that he may dwell before God for ever. O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
and stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
And see, how they reward us, to come for to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast possessed us with all.
Among the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel. Among the Aaronites, Zadok.
and pots, shovels and basins. And all these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD were of bright brass.
and brought them before Saul and before his servants. And when they had eaten, they stood up, and went away the same night.
But he refused it and said, "I will not eat." But his servants and the woman together compelled him, that he heard their voice. And so he arose from the earth and sat him on a bed.
to them of Racal; to them of the cities of the Jerahmeelites; to them of the cities of the Kenites;
And anoint him and sanctify him that he may minister unto me,
Ekron with their towns and villages.
and there let them keep it: that there may be food in store in the land, against the seven years of hunger which shall come in the land of Egypt, and that the land perish not through hunger."
And he gave that redemption money unto Aaron and his sons at the word of the LORD, even as the LORD commanded Moses.
Then did it grow, and was a great vine stock, but low by the ground: thus there came of it a vine, and it brought forth blossoms, and spread out branches.
Then came he unto the east door, and went up the stairs, and measured the posts of the door, whereof every one was one measuring rod. Every chamber was one measuring rod long and broad:
Then said he unto me, "The chambers toward the north and the south which stand before the back building: those be holy habitations, wherein the priests that do service before the LORD must eat the most holy offerings. And there must they lay the most holy offerings: meat offerings, sin offerings and the trespass offerings, for it is a holy place.
between the chambers were five cubits. The post of the door within the porch, was one measuring rod.
Yea, this same place shall be the priests, that are of the children of Zadok and have kept my holy ordinance: which went not astray in the error of the children of Israel, like as the Levites are gone astray.
With that, said the LORD God on this manner: Woe be unto the bloody city of the pot, where upon the rustiness hangeth, and is not yet scoured away. Take out the pieces that are in it, one after another: there need no lots be cast therefore,
As for the wheat, he grindeth it to make bread thereof; Inasmuch as he cannot bring it to pass with treading out. For neither the bruising that the cart wheels make, nor his beasts, can grind it.
And that ye may know, that I am the LORD, which have brought you into the land of Israel. Yea, into the same land that I swore to give unto your forefathers.
with the basins, coal pans, sprinklers, pots, candlesticks, spoons and cups; whereof some were of gold, and some of silver.
Therefore tell him, O Jeremiah, that the LORD sayeth thus: Behold; The thing that I have builded, will I break down again, and root out the thing, that I have planted, yea this whole land.
One pursuant shall meet another; yea, one post shall come by another; to bring the king of Babylon tidings that his city is taken in on every side:
Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble; incline thine ear unto me when I call. O hear me, and that right soon.
But afterward they repented, and took again the servants and the hand maidens, whom they had let go free, and so made them bond again.
For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he?
all the kings of Arabia, and, generally, all the kings that dwell in the desert;
Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.
Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city.
O LORD. O LORD God, thou strength of my health; thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
O God, how long shall the adversary do this dishonour? How long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name? Forever?
The tabernacles of the Edomites, and Ishmaelites, the Moabites, and the Hagrites.
Thy congregation shall dwell therein; for thou, O God, hast of thy goodness prepared for the poor.
And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.
Even the God that seeth that I be avenged, and subdueth the people unto me. {TYNDALE: It is God that avengeth me, and bringeth down the people under me.}
and with the craft to grave stones, to set and to carve in timber, and to work in all manner workmanship.
And his servants had him out of the chariot and put him in another, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
and meekened not himself before the LORD as Manasseh his father had meekened himself: But Amon trespassed greatly.
And he did that displeased the LORD like unto Manasseh his father, for Amon sacrificed to all the carved Images which Manasseh his father made, and served them,
Hezekiah deceiveth you, to deliver you to death, hunger and thirst, saying, 'The LORD our God shall rid us out of the hand of the king of Assyria!'
And David commanded all the lords of Israel, to help Solomon his son, saying,
Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.
Obed begat Jehu. Jehu begat Azariah.
to them of Aroer; to them of Siphmoth; to them of Eshtemoa;
and the covering of rams' skins red, and the covering of taxus' skins, and the hanging veil,
And these cities had each their suburbs round about her throughout all the said cities.
And the seventh day shall be a holy feast unto you, so that ye shall do no laborious work therein.
Of this manner was the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed: unto the which was brought of the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, and twelve spoons of gold:
And they brought the habitation unto Moses: the tent and all his apparel thereof; the buttons, boards, bars, pillars and sockets,
and they strained the breastlap by his rings unto the rings of the ephod, with laces of jacinth, that it might lie fast upon the broidering of the ephod, and should not be loosed from of the ephod: as the LORD commanded Moses.
For I thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father and said, 'If I bring him not unto thee again. I will bear the blame all my life long.'
Joseph said unto them, "That is it that I said unto you, that ye are surely spies.
And in the uppermost basket, of all manner bakemeats for Pharaoh. And the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head."
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go: for the man said unto us, 'Look that ye see not my face, except your brother be with you.'"
"These men are peaceable with us, and will dwell in the land and do their occupation therein; And in the land is room enough for them, let us take their daughters to wives and give them ours;
Upon the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he shall keep the seven days holy one after another, even as the other seven days: with the sin offering, burnt offering, meat offering, and with the oil."
Offer them before the LORD, and let the priest cast salt thereupon, and give them so unto the LORD for a burnt offering.
In the door porch, there stood on either side two tables for the slaughtering; to slay the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and trespass offerings thereupon.
for I will cast thee upon the land. I let thee lie upon the field, that all the fowls of the air may sit upon thee; I will give all the beasts of the field enough of thee.
Speak thou therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots.
"'Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as he hath lift up himself so high, and stretched his top into the clouds, and seeing his heart is proud in his highness:
Thy daughters that are in the land shall he slay with the sword: but against thee, he shall make bulwarks and grave up ditches about thee, and lift up his shield against thee.
I will bring you together, and kindle the fire of my cruel displeasure under you, that ye may be melted therein.
And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Like as I cast the vine into the fire for to be burnt, as other trees of the wood: Even so will I do with them that dwell in Jerusalem,
Methink I hear already a cry of them that be fled and escaped out of the land of Babylon, which show in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God; the vengeance of his temple. Yea, a voice of them that cry against Babylon:
Nevertheless, those that fled away for the sword shall come again into the land of Judah, but there shall be very few of them. And all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into Egypt, there to dwell, shall know whose words shall be found true: theirs or mine.
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone to dwell in Egypt shall be left to come again into the land of Judah although they think to come thither again, and to dwell there. For none shall come again, but such as are fled away."
All the Jews, I say, returned out of all places where they were fled unto: and came in to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah unto Mizphah, and gathered wine and other fruits, and that very much.
They that fear the LORD, let them put their trust in the LORD, for he is their aid and their shield.
For though ye had slain the whole host of the Chaldeans that besiege you, and every one of the slain lay in his tent, yet should they stand up, and set fire upon this city.'"
Therefore give no ear unto those Prophets that tell you, 'Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon.' 'For they preach you lies,
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal.
Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in:
When the ungodly are come up, men are fain to hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.
For they have cast their heads together with one consent, and are confederate against thee.
Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my truth to fail.
Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise.
Thou hast made the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Bring forth the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me; say unto my soul, "I am thy salvation."
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver;
And so Saul died and his three sons and his harness bearer, and thereto all his men, that same day together.
God showeth me his goodness plenteously; and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
And when his harness bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword and died with him.
Divide it into seven parts. For Judah shall abide by their coasts in the south, and the house of Joseph shall stand to their coasts in the north.
I pronounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to go and possess it.
of the kindred of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and so they had their inheritance in the tribe of the kindred of their father.
and three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil unto one bullock, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil unto one ram.
And they made beneath upon the hem of the tunicle: pomegranates of jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined bysse.
And she poured out her pitcher into the trough hastily, and ran again unto the well, to fetch water: and drew for all his camels.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, and which the LORD commanded to give unto nine tribes and a half:
And the five score hundred weight of silver went to the casting of the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: a hundred sockets of the five score hundred weight, a hundred weight to every socket.
They shall come at no dead person, to defile themselves; except it be father or mother, son or daughter, brother or sister that hath had yet no husband: in such they may be defiled.
Thy borders are in the midst of the sea, and thy builders have made thee marvelous goodly.
Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons.
And he answered, "God forbid that I should do so, the man with whom the cup is found, he shall be my servant: but go ye in peace unto your father."
For their riches was so much that they could not dwell together; and that the land wherein they were strangers could not receive them, because of their cattle.
This is the mourning that the daughters of the Heathen shall make: Yea and sorrow and lamentation shall they take up, upon Egypt and all her people, sayeth the LORD God.'"
But thus sayeth the king of Assyria, 'Obtain my favour, incline to me: so may every man enjoy his vineyards and fig trees, and drink the water of his cistern:
Therefore thou which didst condemn thy sister: bear thine own shame, for thine own offences that thou hast committed - more abominable than they did, which indeed are more righteous than thou art. Be thou, I say, ashamed; and bear thy shameful rebuke, seeing that thou has proven thy sisters in comparison of the righteous.
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went to the house of Amalek, and there under an almery he gat old rags and worn clothes, and let them down by a cord, into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
They shall roar together like lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bend themselves.
And why? Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; yea, their hangings and their vessel. Their Camels also shall they carry away with them. They shall come about them on every side with a fearful cry.
O establish me according unto thy word, that I may live; and let me not be disappointed of my hope.
Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem toward the land of Benjamin, to do certain business there among the people.
Thus hath the LORD spoken concerning the king that sitteth in the stool of David, and all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone with you into captivity.
Show some token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed; because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.
Yea, they say in their hearts, "Let us make havoc of them all together." Thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land.
And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
And thereto the hand of God was in Judah, to make them of one accord to do the commandment of the king and the captains, which was according to the word of the LORD.
The tenth captain in the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite of the Zerahites. And in his host twenty four thousand.
and kill Passover; sanctify and prepare your brethren that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses."
And as she rode on her ass and was coming down in a slade of the hill, David and his men came down against her, and she met them.
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, even on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, Jahzah with her suburbs,
When the men of Israel that were of the other side of the valley, and they of the other side Jordan, heard that the men of Israel were put to flight, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left the cities, and ran away, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
Shallum begat Jekamiah. Jekamiah begat Elishamah.
And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains." And Zebul said unto him, "The shadow of the hills seem men unto thee."
and shall be with him year by year as a hired servant, and the other shall not reign cruelly over him in thy sight.
And unto Aaron were born, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
They did therefore a commandment unto Joseph saying, "Thy father charged before his death saying,
And they made it four square and double, a hand breadth long and a hand breadth broad.
And all the firstborn males, in the sum of names, from a month old and above, were numbered twenty two thousand two hundred and seventy three.
There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet five years of dearth, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.'
and bring your youngest brother unto me; And thereby shall I know that ye are no spies, but mean truly: So will I deliver you your brother again, and ye shall occupy in the land.'"
and took their sheep, oxen, asses and whatsoever was in the city and also in the fields.
Then said Judah unto Israel his father, "Send the lad with me, and we will rise and go, that we may live and not die: both we, thou and also our children.
"The ports of the city, shall have the names of the tribes of Israel. Three ports of the north side: one Reuben, another Judah, the third Levi.
Now if the children of thy people say unto thee, 'Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?'
Then said he unto me, "This is the place, where the priests shall seethe the trespass and sin offerings, and bake the meat offerings: that they need not bear them in to the outward court, and so to unhallow the people."
Now the building that was separated toward the west, was seventy cubits wide: the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length four score cubits and ten.
I scattered them also among the Heathen, so that they were strawed about in the lands. According to their ways and after their own inventions, so did I punish them.
Better it is that it be said unto thee, "Come up hither," than thou to be set down in the presence of the prince whom thou seest with thine eyes.
They shall mourn for thee, and say unto thee, 'O thou noble city, that hast been so greatly occupied of old, thou that hast been the strongest upon the sea with thine inhabiters of whom all men stood in fear: How art thou now so utterly destroyed?'
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as ye all are turned into dross, behold: I will bring you together unto Jerusalem,
As for the Egyptians, I will scatter them among the Heathen, and straw them in the lands about.
Damascus shall be sore afraid, and shall flee; trembling shall come upon her. Sorrow and pain shall overtake her as a woman travailing of child.
When my spirit is in heaviness, thou knowest my path: in the way wherein I walk have they privily laid a snare for me.
and thus have I trodden down the people in my wrath, and bathed them in my displeasure: Insomuch that I have shed their blood upon the earth."
because ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your own hands: when ye offer unto strange gods in the land of Egypt whereas ye be gone to dwell: That ye might utterly perish, and that ye might be reviled and shamefully intreated of all nations.
Peradventure they will pray meekly before the face of LORD, and turn, every one from his wicked way. For great is the wrath and displeasure, that the LORD hath taken against this people."
Thou makest darkness, that it may be night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do move.
Now therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: How happeneth it, that ye do so great evil unto your own souls, thus to destroy the men and women, children and babes of Judah? So that none of you is left,
For thou knowest well how the kings of Assyria have handled all the lands that they have subverted; and hopest thou to escape?
Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.
O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort, according to the promise that thou hast made unto thy servant.
and made store houses for the fruits of corn, wine and oil; and stables for all manner of beasts, and folds for sheep.
It is he that delivereth my soul in peace from them that lay wait for me; for they are many against me.
So will I give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people.
"Go and enquire of the LORD for me and for them that are left in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the book that is found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is fallen upon us, because our fathers kept not the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book."
the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah,
And David said, "In vain have I kept all that this fellow had in the wilderness: so that nought was missed that pertained unto him, for he hath quite me with evil for good.
Ramoth with her suburbs and Anem with her suburbs.
And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kadesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
And concerning the sons of Kohath, the cities of their coasts were of the tribe of Ephraim.
And Nebuzaradan the chief Marshal took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man unto his own house.
Jezreel, Jokdeam, and Zanoah;
These are they which the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithkah.
which committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison house. And whatsoever was done there, that did he.
and the golden altar, and the anointing oil and the sweet cense, and the hanging of the tabernacle door,
And divide it into two parts, between them that took the war upon them and went out to battle and all the congregation.
And upon the candlestick self, were four cups after the fashion of almonds with knops and flowers:
The twelfth day, Ahira, the son of Enan, chief lord among the children of Naphtali offered.
And the lords brought onyx stones and setstones for the ephod, and for the breastlap,
And one lamb from two hundred sheep out of the pasture of Israel, for a meat offering, burnt offering and health offering, to reconcile them, sayeth the LORD God.
And he said unto me, "Thou son of man, thus sayeth the LORD God: These are the ordinances and laws of the altar, in the day when it is made to offer burnt offerings, and to sprinkle blood there upon.
Then went he in, and measured the door posts, which were two cubits thick: but the door itself was six cubits, and the breadth of the door was seven cubits.
They bear bows and bucklers, cruel are they and unmerciful. Their voice roareth like the raging sea, they ride upon horses, and come weaponed to fight against thee, O Babylon.
as they that be slain. Let see, if thou wilt say then, before them that slay thee, 'I am God' - whereas thou art but a man and not God, in the hands of them that slayeth thee.
Her waged soldiers that be with her, are like fat calves. They also shall flee away together, and not abide: for the day of their slaughter and the time of their visitation shall come upon them.
for I will watch, to plague them, and not for their wealth. And all the men of Judah that be in the land of Egypt, shall perish with the sword and with hunger, until they be utterly destroyed.
Then said Johanan the son of Kareah unto Gedaliah in Mizphah these words, secretly, "Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, so that nobody shall know it. Wherefore will he kill thee? That all the Jews which resort unto thee, might be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?"
Thus was Jeremiah put into the dungeon and prison, and so lay there a long time.
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people in the land would obey the words of the LORD, which he spake by the Prophet Jeremiah.
And tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Thou hast burnt the book, and thou thoughtest within thyself: Why hast thou written therein, that the king of Babylon shall come, and make this land waste, so that he shall make both people and cattle to be out of it?
The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.
The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him; he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, and the desire of the ungodly shall perish.
Thus, I say, spake the LORD God of Israel, "Concerning the houses of this city, and the houses of the kings of Judah: they shall be broken through the ordinance and weapons,
Even so shall they be unto thee whom thou hast used and occupied from thy youth. Every one shall show thee his erroneous way, yet shall none of them defend thee.
In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the hills is his also.
Then came Isaiah the Prophet to king Hezekiah, and said unto him, "What have the men said, and from whence came they unto thee?" Hezekiah answered, "They came out of a far country unto me, out of Babylon."
Princes also sit and speak against me; but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes.
Look what ye promise unto the LORD your God: see that ye keep it, all ye that be round about him; bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
and to masons and carpenters to buy hewed stone and timber for to make couples and beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed:
who stilleth the raging of the sea, the roaring of his waves, and the madness of the people.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; smite the jawbones of the lions, O LORD.
For thou, O LORD, hast heard my desires, and hast given a heritage unto those that fear thy name.
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice, and divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
And he took away the strange gods and the Idol out of the house of God, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of God and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep seven days more: and they held those seven days with gladness.
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
And he set it before them, and they ate and left, according to the word of the LORD.
and of the companies of the priests and Levites that waited by course, and of all workmanship, that should serve for the house of the LORD, and for all vessels that should serve in the house of the LORD.
and four hundred pomegranates upon two wreaths, two rows on either wreath, to cover the two scalps of the heads that were on the tops of the two pillars.
Jediael the son of Shimri and Joha his brother, Tizites;
And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt fear both day and night and shalt have no trust in thy life.
But it was told Solomon how that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and was come again.
And Shimei said unto the king, "It is well said: as my lord the king hath said, so will his servant do." And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many a day.
And the woman came unto Saul and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, "See, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice and have put my soul in thy hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou saidst unto me.
And so from that day forward was that made a law and a custom in Israel, and endureth to this day.
And they said unto him, "We are come to bind thee and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said unto them, "Sware unto me, that ye shall not hurt me yourselves."
And the fourth day, ten bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs, yearlings and pure:
so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. And ye shall offer a burnt offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old apiece,
Humtah, and Kiriatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior: nine cities with their villages.
and with evil sicknesses and of long durance. Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou wast afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee.
If he hallow his field immediately from the trumpet year, it shall be worth according as it is esteemed.
beside the burnt offering of the month and his meat offering and beside the daily burnt offering and his meat offering, and the drink offerings of the same: according unto the manner of them for a savour of sweetness in the sacrifice of the LORD.
If there be in the bald head or bald forehead a reddish white scab, then there is leprosy sprung up in his bald head or bald forehead.
And she gat her up and went and put her mantle from her, and put on her widow's raiment again.
And the same that offereth the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right shoulder unto his part,
"And thou shalt make bars of sethim-wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
And for a meat offering he shall give the sixth part of an Ephah, and the third part of an Hin of oil to mingle with the cakes every morning. Yea this shall be a daily meat offering unto the LORD, for an everlasting ordinance.
And they said, "We may not, until all the flocks be brought together, and the stone be rolled from the well's mouth, and so we water our sheep."
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, "Say unto thy brethren, 'This do ye: lade your beasts and get you hence. And when ye be come unto the land of Canaan,
So he brought me into the innermore court, through the door of the south side: which he measured, and it had the measure afore said.
Yea, they shall be the smallest among the other kingdoms, lest they exalt themselves above the Heathen, for I will so diminish them,
And therefore have I letten her pour her blood upon a plain dry stony rock, because it should not be hid, and that I might bring my wrathful indignation and vengeance upon her.
In the eighteenth year Nebuchadnezzar carried away from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty two persons.
Her cities are laid waste, the land lieth unbuilded and void: it is a land where no man dwelleth, and where no man traveleth through.
The noise at the winning of Babylon shall move the earth, and the cry shall be heard among the Gentiles."
And they said to Jeremiah, "The LORD of truth and faithfulness be our record, that we will do all that the LORD thy God commandeth us;
The children of Jonadab Rechab's son have steadfastly kept their father's commandment that he gave them, but this people is not obedient unto me.
"Take another book, and write in it all the foresaid sermons that were written in the first book, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burnt.
For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory.
Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground.
I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.
What shall I say? The Lord hath made a promise to me. Yea, and he himself hath performed it. I shall therefore, as long as I live, remember bitterness of my life.
Consider my complaint, for I am brought very low. O deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.
"Tush," say they, "How should God perceive it? Is there knowledge in the most high?"
Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.
My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth, daily saying unto me, "Where is now thy God?"
At the last, I came to this point, that I thought, "O why art thou so foolish? the righthand of the most highest can change all!"
Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
I know all the fowls upon the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are in my sight.
For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou put me from thee? And why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?
God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness.
The princes of the people are gathered together unto the God of Abraham; for God is far higher exalted, than the mighty lords of the earth.
And when the avenger of blood followeth after him they shall not deliver the slayer unto his hand: because he smote his friend ignorantly, and hated him not before time.
O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be confounded, for I have put my trust in thee.
For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.
And they turned before the men of Israel into the way that leadeth to the wilderness, the other following them at the hard heels. And beside that they of the city destroyed them in the middle of them.
And the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams and fourteen lambs of one year old apiece without spot.
and Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs.
And all the people and all Israel thereto understood that day how that it was not the king's mind to slay Abner the son of Ner.
And Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, ran and stood in the entering of the gate of the city. And the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields and slew them.
And we will not return unto our houses until the children of Israel have inherited: every man his inheritance.
fifty loops they made in the one curtain, and fifty in the edge of the coupling curtain on the other side: so that the loops were one over against another.
so that the plenteousness shall not be once a seen in the land, by reason of that hunger that shall come after, for it shall be exceeding great.
Then Joseph said unto the folk, "Behold, I have bought you this day and your lands for Pharaoh. Take there seed and go sow the land.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the next year and said unto him, "We will not hide it from my lord, how that we have neither money nor cattle for my lord: there is no more left for my lord, but even our bodies and our lands.
Behold, the money which we found in our sack's mouths, we brought again unto thee, out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of my lord's house, either silver or gold?
For how can I go unto my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father?"
Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land,
And he said unto them, "Hinder me not: for the LORD hath prospered my journey. Send me away that I may go unto my master."
But when the people of the land come before the LORD in the high solemn feast, as many as come in by the North door to do worship, shall go out again at the South door. And they that come in at the South door shall go forth again at the North door. There shall none go out at the door where he came in, but shall go forth right over on the other side,
Yea, people will I send unto you, O my folk of Israel, which shall have thee in possession - and thou shalt be their inheritance, so that thou shalt no more be without them.
with the swords of the worthies will I smite down thy people. All they that be mighty among the Gentiles, shall waste the proud pomp of Egypt, and bring down all her people.
But I swore unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land, which I gave them: a land that floweth with milk and honey, and is a pleasure of all lands.
And so I will renew my covenant with thee, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD:
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, and said,
The cry of their enemies shall make a noise, as the blast of a trumpet. For they shall enter in with their host, and come with axes, as it were hewers-down of wood.
Even thus will I punish Moab also, that they may know how that I am the LORD.
I will kindle a fire in the walls of Damascus, which shall consume the palace of Benhadad."
The LORD forbiddeth you, O ye remnant of Judah, that ye shall not go in to Egypt. And forget not that I have warned you earnestly this day else shall ye beguile yourselves.
Which letter Zephaniah the priest did read, and let Jeremiah the prophet hear it.
And some done now not of old time, whereof thou never heardest before they were brought to pass: that thou cannot say "I knew of them."
Neither shall the head or tail, the branch or reed be able to do any work in Egypt.
so that men shall speak of the might of thy marvelous acts, and tell of thy greatness.
When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham.
But mine eyes look unto thee, O LORD God; in thee is my trust. O cast not out my soul.
If thou seest a thief, thou runnest with him, and art partaker with the adulterers.
And they dressed the Passover with fire as the manner was. But the other hallowed, dedicated beasts they sod in pots, cauldrons and pans and divided them quickly among all the common people.
And Josiah put away all manner of abominations out of all lands that pertained to the children of Israel, and brought all that were found in Israel, to serve the LORD their God. And they turned not aside from after the LORD God of their fathers as long as he lived.
Therefore will I speak, that I may have vent: I will open my lips, and make answer.
The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
"The good LORD be merciful to all that set their hearts to seek the God that is the LORD God of their fathers, though they do it not according to the cleanness of the holy place."
or smite him with his hand of envy that he die; he that smote him shall die, for he is a murderer. The justice of blood shall slay him as soon as he findeth him.
Moreover, have ye not heard what I and my fathers have done unto the people of all lands? Were the gods of the people of other lands able to save their lands out of my hand?
And to the males also that were reckoned from three years and above, among all that went into the house of the LORD day by day, to do service and to wait by course.
that they may fear thee as long as they live upon the earth which thou gavest unto their fathers.
and thou shalt make forty sockets of silver and put them under the twenty boards: two sockets under every board, for their two feet.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
And Aaron went again unto Moses, unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.
and put it beneath under the compass of the altar, and let the net reach unto the one half of the altar.
and the head of the tunicle was in the midst of it as the collar of a partlet, with a band round about the collar, that it should not rend.
and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth: and the grapes thereof waxed ripe.
from thirty years up unto fifty, all that were able to go forth in the host for to do service in the tabernacle of witness.
When Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them: behold, they were sad.
The children of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
this heap be witness and also this mark, that I will not come over this heap to thee, and thou shalt not come over this heap and this mark, to do any harm.
And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure it was some oversight.
And as they emptied their sacks, behold: every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
But if he will give one of his servants some of his heritage, it shall be his to the free year, and then to return again unto the prince: for his heritage shall be his sons' only.
And in the feast of the seven days he shall offer every day a bullock and a ram, that are without blemish, for a burnt offering unto the LORD: and a he goat daily for a sin offering.
from the ground to the lower steps the length is two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lower steps to the higher are four cubits, and the breadth but one cubit.
Thus with your mouths ye have made your boast against me; yea, and multiplied your proud words against me, which I have heard altogether.
Thus shall they understand, that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, sayeth the LORD God.
The lips of mine enemies, and their devices that they take against me, all the day long.
Thou hast heard my voice, and hast not turned away thine ears from my sighing and crying.
but we dwell in tents, we obey, and do according unto all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
but will say thus, 'We will not dwell here, but go into Egypt; where we shall neither see war, hear the noise of battle, nor suffer hunger, there will we dwell.'
Yet must he be taken on men's shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stand and not move. Alas that men should cry unto him, which giveth no answer; and delivereth not the man that calleth upon him, from his trouble.
And I will visit the wickedness of him, of his seed, and of his servants. Moreover all the evil that I have promised them, though they heard me not, will I bring upon them, upon the inhabiters of Jerusalem, and upon all Judah."
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am in prison, so that I may not come into the house of the LORD:
We will go into his tabernacle, and fall low on our knees before his footstool.
They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.
And the priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah preach these words in the house of the LORD.
And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.
All them that have an evil will to Zion shall be confounded, and made to turn back from it.
And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure.
He shall choose out a heritage for us, even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah.
And he hasted and took the ashes away from his eyes: and the king of Israel knew him, that he was of the Prophets.
Then let the elders of his city call unto him and commune with him. If he stand and say, 'I will not take her,'
Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
And Maacah, another concubine of Caleb's, bare Sheber and Tirhanah.
And they removed from Harada, and pitched in Makheloth.
And they removed from mount Shepher, and lay in Harada.
And Laban said moreover to Jacob, "Behold, this heap and this mark which I have set here, betwixt me and thee:
Thus through her whoredom, she cleaved unto all the young men of Assyria: Yea she was mad upon them, and defiled herself with all their Idols.
"Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war, which were under our hand, and there lacked not one man of them.
and set the bread in order before the LORD, even as the LORD had commanded Moses.
And unto his father he sent, after the same manner, ten he asses laden with goods out of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn, bread and meat: to serve his father by the way.
Thus have we obeyed the commandment of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father, in all that he hath charged us, and so we drink no wine all our life long: we, nor our wives, our sons, and our daughters.
They shall have a heritage; yea, I myself will be their heritage: else shall ye give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
"My lord the king, whereas these men meddle with Jeremiah the prophet, they do him wrong: Namely, in that they have put him in prison, there to die of hunger for there is no more bread in the city."
At the noise of their fall, the earth shall quake, the cry of their voice shall be heard to the reed sea.
Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts, from all those that be about thee: so that ye shall be scattered every man from another, and no man shall gather them together again that be fled.
The voice of thy thunder was heard round about; the lightnings shone upon the ground. The earth was moved, and shook withal.
All her neighbours shall mourn for her, and all they that know her name, shall say, 'O how happeneth it, that the strong staff and the goodly rod is thus broken?'
Insomuch that the LORD might no longer suffer the wickedness of your inventions, and the abominable things which ye did? Is not your land desolate and void; yea, and abhorred, so that no man dwelleth therein any more, as it is come to pass this day?
they took their companions, and went out for to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the waters of Rabim in Gibeon.
He rebuked the reed sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness.
O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people?
As for Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes, I will deliver them into the power of their enemies, and of them that desire to slay them, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's host, which now is departed from you.
"I eased his shoulder from the burden, and his hands were delivered from making the pots.
I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.
And the other people gave twenty thousand drams, and two thousand pound of silver, and seven and three score priests' garments.
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave for heave offerings to the congregation a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep. And the lords gave to the congregation for heave offerings a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves, that they were enough.
Why hop ye so, ye high hills? This is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth him to dwell. Yea, the LORD will abide in it forever.
then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the executer of blood in such cases.
O that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Zion! O that the LORD would deliver his people out of captivity! Then should Jacob rejoice, and Israel should be right glad.
And thou shalt offer peace offerings and shalt eat there and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
The twelfth to Hashabiah with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
and said unto them, "Ye shall not bring in the captives hither. For where we have offended the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and trespass. For our trespass is great already, and there is fierce wrath upon Israel."
In which tribe they gave unto them the cities of Refuge: Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs, and Gezer with her suburbs,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
"But and if the priest come and see that the plague hath spread no further in the house after that it is new plastered, then let him make it clean for the plague is healed.
And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and said to them, "Fear not ye the servants of the Chaldeans. But dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon and ye shall be in good condition."
And as the LORD commanded Moses, even so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole. For why? It shall be occupied for salt.
And the cherubims spread out their wings above on high, and covered the mercy seat therewith. And their faces were one to another: even to the mercy seat ward, were the faces of the cherubims.
And Judah said, "Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: for I sent the kid and thou couldest not find her."
Their goods and their substance and all their cattle are ours, only let us consent unto them, that they may dwell with us."
Yea, and that thou also mayest be sure, that I the LORD have heard all thy despiteful words, which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'Lo, they are made waste, and given us to devour.'
The dust of his horses shall cover thee, they shall be so many: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, chariots and wheels when he cometh to thy ports, as men do into an open city.
I will trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring thy destruction among the Heathen and countries, whom thou knowest not.
for they shall go down to hell with him, unto them that be slain with the sword, which dwelt afore under the shadow of his arm among the Heathen.
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I kindle a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers are destroyed.
and before thy wickedness came to light: thou wouldest not hear speak of thy sister Sodom, until the time that the Syrians with all their towns, and the Philistines, with all that lie round about them, brought thee to shame and confusion:
"Nevertheless, the portion of Jacob is none such: but he that made all things, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, he is the rod of his inheritance.
that all flesh may know how that I the LORD have drawn my sword out of the sheath, and it shall not be put in again.
O Moab is confounded and overcome. Mourn and cry, tell it out at Arnon, that Moab is destroyed.
"Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: I am steadfastly advised and determined to punish you, and to root out all Judah.
Their children shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall continue in my sight. And all those that vex them, will I visit.
Why wilt thou and thy people perish with the sword, with hunger, with pestilence: like as the LORD hath devised for all people that will not serve the king of Babylon?
For doubtless I will save thee, so that thou shalt not perish with the sword: but thy life shall be saved, and that because thou hast put thy trust in me, sayeth the LORD.'"
Then came the word of the LORD unto me, after this manner,
Upon whomsoever the lot falleth, or to whom he dealeth it with the line: those shall possess the inheritance from generation to generation, and dwell therein.
Remember me, O LORD, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation,
free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.
I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.
Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.
That thy beloved might be delivered, help them with thy righthand, and hear me.
The eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite of the children of Ephraim: and in his host twenty four thousand.
the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
And on this manner he made the ten bottoms cast work: all of one measure and one size.
And to them that were reckoned throughout all their babes, wives, sons and daughters throughout all the congregation.
And David said to him, "Canst thou bring me to this company?" And he said, "Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee unto them."
And he said thereto, "Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in mine hand?
Then David went over to the other side and stood on the top of a hill afar off - a great space being between them -
Then said Zebul unto him, "Where is now thy mouth that said, 'What fellow is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' These are the people that thou so despisest. Go out now a fellowship and fight with them."
Moreover it will come to pass, that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them.'"
and their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto a bullock, and two tenth deals unto a ram,
And they answered, "Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and let us be Pharaoh's servants."
"And thou shalt say unto them, 'When ye have taken away the fat of it from it, it shall be counted unto the Levites, as the increase of corn and wine.
both when they went into the tabernacle of witness, or when they went to the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Also, regard not your stuff, for the goods of all the land of Egypt shall be yours."
And they said, "The man asked us of our kindred saying, 'Is your father yet alive? Have ye not another brother?' And we told him according to these words. How could we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with us?"
Let this be the measure: toward the north part, five hundred and four thousand; toward the south part five hundred and four thousand; toward the east part five hundred and four thousand; toward the west part five hundred and four thousand.
and an Ephah for a meat offering, with the ram. As for the lambs, he may give as many meat offerings to them, as he will, and a Hin of oil to an Ephah.
There stood a chamber also, whose entrance was at the door pillars, and there the burnt offerings were washed.
And the door in the uttermost court toward the north, measured he after the length and breadth:
Seeing then that I will root out of thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sword go out of his sheath against all flesh from the north to the south:
Unto the time that I come myself, and bring you into a land that is like your own: wherein is wheat and wine, which is both sown with seed, and planted with vineyards.'
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with tokens, with wonders, with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm and with great terribleness;
Persecute them, O LORD, with thine indignation, and root them out from under the heaven.
But if thou wouldest say unto me: 'We trust in the LORD our God': is not he that God whose High places and altars Hezekiah took down, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem to worship only before this altar?
Then spake Jeremiah the prophet all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem:
A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.
Lest the LORD, when he seeth it, be angry and turn his wrath from him unto thee.
He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
The Heathen shall fear thy name, O LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy majesty,
He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel: so that all the ends of the world see the salvation of our God.
who in his strength setteth fast the mountains, and is girded about with power;
This way of theirs is very foolishness, and yet their posterity praise it with their mouth. Selah.
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedar trees; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproof of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and truth.
The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the simple and poor, and to slay such as are of a right conversation.
Then said David, "Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that the LORD hath given us, and hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us, into our hands.
But we thy servants will go all harnessed for the war unto battle before the LORD, as my lord hath said."
And he made horns in the four corners of it proceeding out of it, and overlaid it with brass.
And the Children of Gad and of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, "Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
And the twelve golden spoons which were full of cense, contained ten sicles apiece of the holy sicle: so that all the gold of the spoons, was a hundred and twenty sicles.
only the land of the Priests bought he not. For there was an ordinance made by Pharaoh for the priests, that they should eat that which was appointed unto them, which Pharaoh had given them; wherefore they sold not their lands.
And commanded also, "This do ye: take chariots with you out of the land of Egypt, for your children and for your wives: and bring your father and come.
And the children which thou gettest after them, shall be thine own: but shall be called with the names of their brethren in their inheritances.
And he answered, "I seek my brethren, tell me, I pray thee, where they keep sheep."
Take one of the best sheep, and a heap of bones withal: let it boil well, and let the bones seethe well therein.
The residue upon both the sides of the Sanctuary and possession of the city, shall belong to the prince, before the place of the twenty five thousand unto the east end, and before the place of the twenty five thousand westward, unto the borders of the city: this shall be the prince's portion. This shall be the holy place, and the house of the Sanctuary shall stand in the midst.
All that is separated of the twenty five thousand long and twenty five thousand broad on the four parts, that shall ye put aside for the separated portion of the Sanctuary, and for the possession of the city.
So that thou also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of them. Then shalt thou receive of me thy elder and younger sisters, whom I will make thy daughters: and that beside thy covenant.
This shall be his own land in Israel, that my princes be no more chargeable unto my people. And such as remaineth yet over in the land, shall be given unto the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Now when Pharaoh seeth this, he shall be comforted over all his people that is slain with the sword: both Pharaoh and all his host, sayeth the LORD God.
Their camels shall be stolen, and the droves of their cattle driven away. Moreover, these that be shaven will I scatter toward all the winds, and bring them to destruction: yea and that through their own familiars, sayeth the LORD.
Mourn therefore, O thou son of man, that thy loins crack withal; yea mourn bitterly for them.
Prepare against them the people of the Medes with their kings, princes and all their chief rulers; yea, and the whole land that is under them.
But alas, how happeneth it, that I see you so afraid? Why shrink ye back? Wherefore are your worthies slain? Yea, they run so fast away, that none of them looketh behind him. Fearfulness is fallen upon every one of them, sayeth the LORD.
Then Baruch answered them, "He spake all these words unto me with his mouth, and I alone was with him, and wrote them in the book."
Or have ye now forgotten the wickedness of your forefathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah and their wives, the wickedness that ye yourselves and your wives have done in the land of Judah, in the city and in the land of Jerusalem?
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah thou king of Judah. Thus sayeth the LORD unto thee: Thou shalt not be slain with the sword,
And beside all this, he hath sent us word unto Babylon, and told us plainly, that our captivity shall long endure: that we should build us houses to dwell therein, and to plant us gardens, that we might enjoy the fruit thereof.'
I myself alone have told you this before. Yea, I shall call him and bring him forth, and give him a prosperous journey.
They are sunk down, and fallen together; for they may not ease them of their burden, therefore must they go into captivity.
I know thy ways, thy going forth and thy coming home, yea and thy madness against me.
For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.
They that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens; thou makest both the morning and evening stars to praise thee.
Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.
and graved thereon Cherubs, Palm trees and flowers, and covered them with gold made plain by a ruler.
I reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me.
and with graving of stones to set, and with carving in wood, and to work in all manner of subtle works.
And in the wildernesses of them round about he plucked asunder the altars and the groves and did beat them and stamp them to powder, and beat down the idols throughout all the land of Israel: and then returned to Jerusalem again.
And appointed him what weight of gold should serve for things of gold throughout all vessels for whatsoever use it served: and what weight of silver should suffice for all manner of vessels of silver, for whatsoever purpose they served.
If he smite him with a throwing stone that he die therewith, then he shall die: For he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore.
If he smite him with a hand weapon of wood that he die therewith, then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore.
but both with him that stoodeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day.
I have heard say that thou hast shearers. Now the shepherds were with us, and we did them no spite, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel:
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, Mahanaim with her suburbs,
Hukok with her suburbs and Rehob with her suburbs.
And so David and his men rose early to depart in the morning, and to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
Joseph answered, and said, "This is the interpretation thereof. The three baskets are three days,
And she put the meat and bread which she had made in the hand of her son Jacob.
But and if they will not go over with you in harness, then they shall have their possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
and their meat offerings and drink offerings unto the bullocks, rams and lambs, according to the number of them and after the manner.
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
This is the number of the kindreds of the sons of Merari, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the bidding of the LORD, by the hand of Moses.
When the priests come therein, they shall not go out in to the fore court: but, seeing they be holy, they shall leave their clothes of their ministration, and put on other garments, when they have any thing to do with the people."
If ye mean no hurt, let one of your brethren be bound in the prison, and go ye and bring the necessary food unto your households,
They shall no more be spoiled of the Heathen, nor devoured with the beasts of the land: but safely shall they dwell, and no man shall fray them.
Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before this man, which was escaped, came unto me, and had opened my mouth, until the morning that he came to me: yea he opened my mouth, so that I was no more dumb.
And I will not suffer thee, for to hear thine own confusion among the Gentiles from henceforth. Thou shalt not bear the reproof of the nations, nor cast out thine own people any more, sayeth the LORD God.'"
Like as I have done, so shall ye do also: Ye shall not hide your faces, ye shall eat no mourner's bread;
I will water the land with the abundance of thy blood even to the mountains, and the valleys shall be full of thee.
Now when the dame saw, that all her hope and comfort was away, she took another of her whelps, and made a lion of him.
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, and take away their strength;
Therefore hear the counsel that the LORD hath given upon Babylon, and the device that he hath taken upon the land of the Chaldeans. The least among the people shall tear them in pieces, and look: what pleasant thing they have, they shall lay it waste.
And thou that dwellest in Aroer, get thee to the street, and look about thee: ask them that are fled and escaped, and say, 'What thing is happened?'
But if they be true Prophets in very deed, and if the word of the LORD be committed unto them, then let them pray the LORD of Hosts that the remnant of the ornaments, which are in the house of the LORD, and remain yet in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, be not carried to Babylon also.
But after that, I will bring the Ammonites also out of captivity again.
and thou shalt not escape his hands, but shalt be led away prisoner, and delivered into his power. Thou shalt look the king of Babylon in the face and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and then shalt thou go to Babylon.
how he led them in the deep, as a horse is led in the plain, that they should not stumble.
Grant that the people may flee at the anger of thy voice, and that at thine upstanding the Gentiles may be scattered abroad;
As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; thou hast made both summer and winter.
I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I will call upon the Name of the LORD, "O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul."
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.
He shall be judge among the heathen; he shall fill them with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries.
I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I am even as a man that hath no strength;
He shall deliver their souls from extortion and wrong, and dear shall their blood be in his sight.
When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.
But the king shall rejoice in God; all they that swear by him shall be commended, for the mouth of liars shall be stopped.
Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing; for thou, O God, art my refuge, and my merciful God.
Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.
no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death
I am become a very reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours. And they of mine own acquaintance are afraid of me; they that see me in the street, convey themselves from me.
And they stood in their standing after their manner according to the law of Moses, the man of God. And the priests sprinkled the blood, receiving it of the hands of the Levites.
There are they fallen, all that work wickedness; they are cast down, and shall not be able to stand.
For they could not keep it at that time: for there were not priests enough sanctified, neither was the people gathered together to Jerusalem.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD of a sweet savour: one bullock, and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old apiece, without fault,
'bring me venison and make me meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the LORD yer I die.'
And the evil favored and lean fleshed cows ate up the seven well favored and fat cows: and he awoke therewith.
The son of Shammai was Maon. And Maon was the father of Bethzur.
And he came to Judah again, saying, "I cannot find her, and also the men of the place said that there was no whore there."
And Joseph took a part of his brethren: even five of them, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
And Joseph said unto them, "What deed is this which ye have done? Wist ye not that such a man as I can prophesy?"
Of this part there shall belong unto the Sanctuary, five hundred measuring rods in all the four corners, and fifty cubits wide round about to the suburbs.
forsomuch as ye have shot the weak sheep upon the sides and shoulders, and run upon them with your horns, so long till ye have utterly scattered them abroad.
The prince himself shall come through it, that he may eat bread before the LORD. At the porch shall he come in, and there shall he go out again."
prophesy therefore, and speak: thus sayeth the LORD God: Seeing ye be wasted and trod down on every side, and become a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, which have brought you into men's mouths and unto an evil name among the people:
Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins. Yea, thou hast exceeded them in wickedness: Insomuch that in comparison of all the abominations which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women.
Yea, the Cherubims and date trees were made from the ground up above the door, and so stood they also upon the wall of the temple.
through thee have I scattered horse and horseman; yea, the chariots, and such as sat upon them;
Behold, all the fellowship of them must be brought to confusion. Let all the workmasters of them come and stand together from among men: they must be abashed and confounded one with another.
and that because of the great blasphemies, which they committed, to provoke me unto anger. In that they went back to do sacrifice, and worship unto strange gods: whom neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers have known.
So the king swore an oath secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, "As truly as the LORD liveth, that made us these souls, I will not slay thee, nor give thee in to the hands of them that seek after thy life."
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Go and tell whole Judah and all the inhabiters of Jerusalem: Will ye not be reformed, to obey my words, sayeth the LORD?
Then said Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Johanan the son of Kareah, "Thou shalt not do it, for they are but lies, that men say of Ishmael."
But Jeremiah answered, "No, they shall not betray thee: O hearken unto the voice of the LORD, I beseech thee, which I speak unto thee; so shalt thou be well, and save thy life.
Yea, and Pharaoh the king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and his people altogether one with another;
Now after that Hananiah the prophet had taken the chain from the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broken it, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Jeremiah saying,
For my loins are filled with a sore disease, and there is no whole part in my body.
How he beat down their vineyards with hail stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost;
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.
Let Israel now confess, that his mercy endureth forever.
yet helpeth he the poor out of misery, and maketh him a household like a flock of sheep.
Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.
But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock.
LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?
And the aliens that shrink away shall tremble for fear in their defended places.
with oil, three tenth deals unto every one of the thirteen bullocks: two tenth deals to either of the rams,
and said unto her, "Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there room in thy father's house, for us to lodge in?"
Hereby ye shall be proved. For by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go hence, until your youngest brother be come hither.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee.
Now of the other tribes. From the east part unto the west, shall Benjamin have his portion.
The enemies shall destroy him, and the mighty men of the Heathen shall so scatter him, that his branches shall lie upon all mountains and in all valleys: his boughs shall be broken down to the ground throughout the land. Then all the people of the land shall go from his shadow, and forsake him.
Again, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as they say unto you, 'Thou art an eater-up of men, and a waster of thy people,'
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, I will handle thee according to thy wrath and jealousy, like as thou hast dealt cruelly with them - that I may be known among them, how I have punished thee.
And lo, the time cometh that I will visit the images of Babylon, and the whole land shall be confounded; yea, and her slain shall lie in the midst of her.
And so they shall lay your filthiness upon your own selves, and ye shall be punished for the sins that ye have committed with your Idols: and ye shall know that I am the LORD."
Moreover, I will make Moab cease, sayeth the LORD, from the offerings and censing that she hath made unto her gods in high places.
His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour, and his righteousness endureth forever.
Yea, I will deliver them into the hands of those that seek after their lives: Namely, into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the power of his servants. And after all these things, it shall be inhabited as afore time, sayeth the LORD.
And therefore hear now, O my lord the king: let my prayer be accepted before thee, and send me no more into the house of Jonathan the Scribe, that I die not there."
And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah after this manner,
Then said Hezekiah, "O what a great thing is this, that I shall go up in to the house of the LORD."
Lo, we heard of the same at Ephrata, and found it in the wood.
My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver.
Thine indignation lieth hard upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy floods. Selah.
Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness.
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre.
who sitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning. Lo, he doth send out his voice, yea and that a mighty voice.
It is well seen, O God, how thou goest; how thou, my God and King, goest in the sanctuary.
"'Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
The rest of his acts and all his ways, both first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
And of these six free cities which ye shall give,
And Eleazar died and had no sons, but daughters only, which their brethren, the sons of Kish, took.
And out of Asher, Mashal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I commanded thee?"
and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight.
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side, Jordan forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side, Jordan eastward."
The seven good cows are seven years: and the seven good ears are seven years also, and is but one dream.
And all the oxen of the peace offerings were twenty four, the rams sixty, the goats sixty, and lambs of a year old apiece sixty and this was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
And we dreamed both of us in one night and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation.
He shall daily bring unto the LORD a lamb of a year old without blemish for a burnt offering: this shall he do every morning.
Therefore, tell my father of all my honour which I have in Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and make haste and bring in father hither."
This is now the burnt offering, that the prince shall bring unto the LORD upon the Sabbath: six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish,
Upon the south side, five hundred and four thousand measures, with three ports: the one Simeon, another Issachar, the third Zebulon.
Ye shall give also unto the city a possession of five thousand measuring rods broad, and twenty five thousand long, beside the part of the Sanctuary: that shall be for the whole house of Israel.
Upon both the sides of the Sanctuary's part, and by the city, there shall be given unto the prince, whatsoever lieth over against the city, as far as reacheth westward and eastward: which shall be as long as one part, from the west unto the east.
and thus was it above the door, unto the inmost house, and without also. Yea, the whole wall on every side both within and without was sealed over with great boards.
Yea, as the drying place, where the fishers hang up their nets by the seaside. Even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God. The Gentiles shall spoil her:
There is the land of Edom with her kings and princes also, which with their strength are laid by them that were slain with the sword. Yea, among the uncircumcised, and them which are gone down in to the pit.
Upon all the housetops and streets of Moab, there shall be mourning: For I will break Moab like an unprofitable vessel sayeth the LORD.
The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calf, but one shall come out of the north to prick her forward.
They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand.
O Israel, shalt thou not laugh him to scorn, when he is taken among thieves? Yea, because of thy words that thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be driven away.
Did not all this happen unto you, because ye made such sacrifice, and sinned against the LORD? Ye have not followed his voice, to walk in his law, in his ordinances and statutes. Yea, this is the cause that all misfortune happened unto you, as it is come to pass this day."
Wherefore hear now the word of the LORD, O ye remnant of Judah. Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: If ye be wholly purposed to go into Egypt, and to be there as strangers:
Now Jeremiah walked free among the people at that time, and was not put in prison as yet.
Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.
Keep me, O LORD, from the hand of the ungodly; preserve me from the wicked men, who are purposed to overthrow my goings.
Let them be even as the hay upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be grown up;
The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy name, and the just shall continue in thy sight.
Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.
upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the lute and with a song upon the harp.
All nations compassed me round about; but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength.
They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.
The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah.
It is he that delivereth me from my cruel enemies, and setteth me up against mine adversaries: thou shalt rid me from the wicked man. {TYNDALE: And delivereth me from mine enemies: thou liftest me up on high from them that rise against me, and deliverest me from the wicked men.}
Make their princes like Oreb and Zeeb. Yea, make all their princes like as Zebah and Zalmunna,
And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, "As surely as the LORD liveth, there shall no harm chance thee for this thing."
And so the children of Israel that could be found, offered Passover the same time and kept the feast of sweet bread seven days.
"Is not the LORD your God with you? And hath he not given you rest on every side? For he hath given the inhabiters of the land into mine hand and the land is subdued before the LORD and before his people.
And upon that, the men of arms left the captives and the spoil before the lords and all the congregation.
and that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel may abide, every man, in his own inheritance.'"
And the man that is sixty and above, shall be valued at fifteen sicles, and the woman at ten.
The rest of the deeds of Jotham and all he did, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
in all the miracles and wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, unto Pharaoh and all his servants and unto all his land:
And in the breadth of the court eastward toward the rising of the sun, shall be hangings of fifty cubits.
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. And he gave them bread for horses and sheep, and oxen and asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.
Build your cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and see ye do that ye have spoken."
And Israel said unto Joseph, "Now I am content to die, insomuch I have seen thee, that thou art yet alive."
Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put in ward in the chief marshal's house both me and the chief baker.
and how they are shepherds," - for they were men of cattle - "and they have brought their sheep and their oxen and all that they have with them.
When he said, 'the spotted shall be thy wages,' then all the sheep bare spotted. If he said, 'the streaked shall be thy reward,' then bare all the sheep streaked.
They answered, "Thy servant our father is in good health, and is yet alive. And they bowed themselves and fell to the ground."
The folds shall be full of sheep; the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.
Now the door of the innermore court stood straight over against the door, that was toward the north east. From one door to another, he measured a hundred cubits.
They stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven, and their tongue goeth through the world.
The oil shall be measured with the Bath: even the tenth part of one Bath out of a Cor. Ten baths make one Homer: for one Homer filleth ten Baths.
'Nevertheless, ye would not hear me,' sayeth the LORD, 'but have defiled me with the works of your hands, to your own great harm.'
He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, yea and slanderest thine own mother's son.
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall prosper in thy sight.
Let them be as the dust before the wind, and the angel of the LORD scattering them.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.
And sprinkle all your raiments and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood."
His honour is great in thy salvation; glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him.
Thanks be to the LORD; for he hath showed me marvelous great kindness in a strong city.
And they slew Passover: and the priests sprinkled the blood, receiving it of the Levites, and the Levites stripped the beasts.
And unto the sons of Gershom among their kindreds were given 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, thirteen cities.
And on the morrow the people went out into the field. And it was told Abimelech.
and the sockets of the pillars were brass: but the knops and the hoops of the pillars were silver, and the heads were overlaid with silver, and all the pillars of the court were hooped about with silver.
a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hems of the tunicle to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.
But he called them to him, and then Aaron and all the chief of the company came unto him, and Moses talked with them.
And Moses reared up the tabernacle and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards and put in their bars, and reared up the pillars,
And then seven other cows came up after them, poor and very evil favored and lean fleshed: so that I never saw their like, in all the land of Egypt, in evil favoredness.
the cense altar and his staves, the anointing oil and the sweet cense and the hanging before the tabernacle door;
The covering of the altar was fourteen cubits long and broad upon the four corners, and the ledge that went round about, had half a cubit: and the bottom thereof round about one cubit: his steps stood toward the East.
This is the land with his portions, which ye shall distribute unto the tribes of Israel, sayeth the LORD God.
For the meat offerings, he shall give ever an Ephah to a bullock, an Ephah to a ram, and a Hin of oil to an Ephah.
And they shall cut down her wood, sayeth the LORD, without any discretion. For they shall be more in number than the grasshoppers, so that no man shall be able to tell them.
Moreover, let not Hezekiah comfort you in the LORD, when he sayeth, 'The LORD with out doubt shall defend us, and shall not give over this city into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.' Believe him not!
Now when all the people, whom Ishmael led captive, saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the other Captains of the Host, they were glad.
I am small and of no reputation; yet do not I forget thy commandments.
- That they would exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders,
The earth trembleth at the look of him; he doth but touch the hills and they smoke.
Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine,
O look thou upon me, and be merciful, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem and the Priests and Levites and all the people great and small: and read all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
The hill of Bashan is God's hill; the hill of Bashan is a plenteous hill.
Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them.
For lo, the kings of the earth were gathered, and gone by together.
And he made him towns because he had cattle of sheep and oxen great abundance. For God had given him substance exceeding much.
And so all the service of the LORD went forward the said day, in offering Passover of burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
"Thus sayeth Sennacherib king of Assyria: Wherein do ye trust, O ye that are besieged in Jerusalem?
And wash your clothes the seventh day, and then ye are clean. And afterward come into the host."
These are the kindreds of Issachar, in number sixty four thousand and three hundred.
For to the fidelity of them did men commit their sanctified gifts. And thereto among the children of Aaron the priests were men named by name in the fields of the suburbs of all their cities, city by city, for to give portions to all the males of the priests and to all that were reckoned among the Levites.
and that by Lot, out of the tribe of children of Judah out of the tribe of Simeon and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin: even the said cities that are rehearsed by name.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and shall pour all the blood thereof unto the bottom of the altar.
whose gift was: a silver charger of a hundred and thirty sicles weight; and a silver bowl of seventy sicles of the holy sicle - and both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering -
and overlaid it with fine gold both within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about,
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
and burnt sweet cense thereon as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the chief marshal gave Joseph a charge with them, and he served them. And they continued a season in ward.
The meat offering, sin offering, and trespass offering shall they eat, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
And when they go forth to the people in to the outward court, they shall put off their clothes, wherein they have ministered, and lay them in the habitation of the Sanctuary, and put on other apparel, lest they unhallow the people with their clothes.
I saw also that the house was very high round about. The foundation of the side chambers was one measuring rod, that is, six cubits broad.
So the LORD spake unto me, "O thou son of man, fasten this to thine heart, behold, and take diligent heed to all that I will say unto thee, concerning all the ordinances of the LORD and all his laws: ponder well with thine heart the coming in of the house and the going forth of the Sanctuary:
and the king of Babylon caused them to be put to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And thus Judah was led away captive, out of his own land.
The side chambers were the higher the wider, and had steps through them round about the house. Thus was it wider above, that from the lowest men might go to the highest and mid chambers.
And yet the children of thy people say, 'Tush, the way of the LORD is not right,' whereas their own way is rather unright.
I answered them, "The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him out of the dungeon, and he remained in the fore entry of the prison.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will visit the king of Babylon and his kingdom, as I have visited the king of the Assyrians.
The lightest of foot shall not flee away, and the worthies shall not escape. Toward the north by the water of Euphrates, they shall stumble and fall.
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans which shall set fire upon it, and thou shalt not be able to escape them."
The princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the gelded men, the Priests and all the people of the land, which went through the two sides of the calf.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD on this manner,
Thy seed shall be like as the sand in the sea, and the fruit of thy body, like the gravel stones thereof: Thy name shall not be rooted out, nor destroyed before me.
If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.
But my saying is unto the LORD, "Thou art my God; hear the voice of my prayer, O LORD!"
The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
And they fetched away the burnt offerings, to give them unto the common people as they were divided by ancient houses, for to offer unto the LORD; like as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen too.
And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the ancient households of your brethren the children of the people, and after the division of the ancient households of the Levites,
And the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs without spot:
and the table with all his apparel, and the candlestick with all his ordinance, and the altar of cense,
And as thy life was much set by this time in mine eyes: so be my life set by in the eyes of the LORD, that he deliver me out of all tribulation."
and Zadoc his son, and Ahimaaz his son.
so they were in all eight boards and sixteen sockets, under every board two sockets.
every charger containing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and every bowl seventy so that all the silver of all the vessels, was two thousand and four hundred sicles of the holy sicle.
and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets, with their pins and cords.
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Ahira, the son of Enan.
And they made fifty rings of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the rings: and so was it made a dwelling place.
The length of one curtain was twenty eight cubits, and the breadth four, and were all of one size.
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass and went again unto the city.
and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of Goshen.
As for thy bow, I will smite it out of thy left hand, and cast thine arrows out of thy righthand.
Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will spread my net over thee, namely, a great multitude of people: these shall drive thee into my yarn,
And Israel said, "Wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to tell the man that ye had yet another brother?"
which have builded their thresholds in manner hard upon my thresholds, and their posts almost at my posts: so that there is but a bare wall betwixt me and them. Thus have they defiled my holy name with their abominations, that they have committed. Wherefore I have destroyed them in my wrath:
With the hoofs of his horses' feet shall he tread down all thy streets. He shall slay thy people with the sword, and break down the pillars of thy strength.
They took away also the Caldrons, shovels, flesh hooks, sprinklers, spoons, and all the brazen vessel that was occupied in the service;
these shall stone them and gore them with their swords. They shall slay their sons and daughters and burn up their houses with fire.
Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem:
I myself have laid wait for thee, and thou art taken. Unawares art thou trapped and snared. For why, thou hast provoked the LORD unto anger:
For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness. "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
I will set my stool in Elam, I will destroy both the king and the princes from thence, sayeth the LORD.
Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with destruction.
Yet are ye not sorry this day. Ye fear not, neither walk ye in my law and my commandments, that I have given unto you and your forefathers.
the sword that ye fear, shall overtake you in Egypt; and the hunger whereof ye be here afraid, shall hang upon you into Egypt and there ye shall die.
Then said Jeremiah, "It is not so, I go not to the Chaldeans." Nevertheless Irijah would not believe him, but brought Jeremiah bound before the princes.
and gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
Is not that the glorious city, which hath been of long antiquity? Whose natives dwelling far off, commend her so greatly?
and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself.
The thick clouds poured out water, the air thundered, and thine arrows went abroad.
And so will not we go back from thee; O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name.
He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.
so that he forsook the Tabernacle in Shiloh, even the tent that he had pitched among men.
Reward them according to their deeds and wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the works of their hands; pay them that they have deserved.
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me, but the strange children dissemble with me. {TYNDALE: And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.}
to many, thou shalt give the more inheritance; and to few, the less. To every tribe shall the inheritance be given according to the number thereof.
so that these two boards be coupled together beneath and likewise above with clamps. And so shall it be in both the corners.
and lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it in the place where the burnt offerings are slain.
And the people of the land slew all that had conspired against king Amon. And thereto the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his room.
and said, "If the Syrians be too strong for me, succor me, and if the children of Ammon be too good for thee, I will help thee.
and they were joined close both beneath and also above with clamps, and thus they did to both the corners:
And from this measure, namely of twenty five thousand measuring rods long, and ten thousand broad, thou shalt measure, wherein the Sanctuary and the holiest of all may stand.
But now they shall put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings out of my sight, that I may dwell among them for evermore.
Behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes also of my brother Benjamin, that I speak to you by mouth.
He measured also the porch of the innermore door which contained one measuring rod.
Bear thou the bones together, kindle thou the fire, seeth the flesh, let all be well sodden, that the bones may be sucked out.
So he measured the house which was a hundred cubits long, and the separated building with the wall were a hundred cubits long also.
All the lights of heaven will I put out over thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, sayeth the LORD God.
Ye lean upon your swords, ye work abominations, every one defileth his neighbour's wife: and shall ye then possess the land?'
Therefore was he higher than all the trees of the field, and through the multitude of waters that he sent from him, he obtained many and long branches.
Like as Babylon hath beaten down and slain many out of Israel, so shall there fall many, and be slain, in all her kingdom.
Wherefore mine indignation and wrath was kindled, and it burnt up the cities of Judah, the fields with the streets of Jerusalem, so that they were made waste and desolate, as it is come to pass this day.
And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt with slaughter, with prisonment, and with the sword.
For thus sayeth the LORD: Deceive not your own minds, thinking on this manner, 'Tush, the Chaldeans go now their way from us.' No, they shall not go their way.
The LORD thy God, O Zion, is king for evermore, and throughout all generations. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
but the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, win it, and set fire upon it.
They that fear thee, will be glad when they see me, because I put my trust in thy word.
So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distress.
He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.
When the Almighty setteth kings upon the earth, it shall be clear even in the darkness; as white as snow in Zalmon.
He shall call the heavens from above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: Yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall hear them not. {TYNDALE: They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.}
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem; as against the gods of the nations of the earth, which are the work of the hands of men.
And after this manner ye shall offer throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice of sweet favour unto the LORD. And it shall be done beside the daily burnt offering and his drink offering.
They gave unto them Hebron in the land of Judah with the suburbs round about it.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan in their kindreds: these cities with their villages.
and twenty pillars with twenty sockets of brass: but the knops of the pillars, and the hoops were silver.
All the oxen that were brought for the burnt offerings were twelve and the rams twelve and the lambs twelve of a year old apiece, with the meat offerings: with he goats for sin offerings.
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
they made other twenty boards with forty sockets of silver, two sockets under every board.
from thirty years up unto fifty, every man to do his office and service and to bear his burden in the tabernacle of witness -
Arise, and get you up against yonder rich and careless people, sayeth the LORD, which have neither gates nor door bars, and that dwell not together.
And Pharaoh said, "Go and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."
And therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon everyone that dwelleth in Jerusalem, all the trouble that I have devised against them. For I have spoken unto them, but they would not follow: I have called unto them, nevertheless they would give me no answer."
Therefore came they to the man that was the ruler over Joseph's house, and communed with him at the door,
Seeing now that thou canst not resist the power of the smallest prince that my LORD hath, how darest thou trust in the chariots and horsemen of Egypt?