THE HOLY BIBLE

THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS

CHAPTER 1
1 In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness [was] upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that [it was]
good: and God divided the light from
the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first
day.
6 # And God said, Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the
waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which [were] under
the firmament from the waters which
[were] above the firmament: and it was
so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening and the morning were
the second day.
9 # And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry [land]
appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry [land] Earth;
and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that
[it was] good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
[and] the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind, whose seed [is] in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass,
[and] herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed [was] in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
13 And the evening and the morning were
the third day.
14 # And God said, Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let
them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: [he
made] the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon the
earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over
the night, and to divide the light from
the darkness: and God saw that [it was]
good.
19 And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature
that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly
above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and every
winged fowl after his kind: and God saw
that [it was] good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl
multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were
the fifth day.
24 # And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and
beast of the earth after his kind: and
it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle after their
kind, and every thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind: and God
saw that [it was] good.
26 # And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his [own]
image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth.
29 # And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb bearing seed, which [is]
upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which [is] the fruit
of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and
to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein [there is] life, [I have given]
every green herb for meat: and it was
so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had
made, and, behold, [it was] very good.
And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.

CHAPTER 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made; and he rested
on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he
had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
4 # These [are] the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before
it was in the earth, and every herb of
the field before it grew: for the LORD
God had not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and [there was] not a man to
till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the
earth, and watered the whole face of
the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the
dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.
8 # And the LORD God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the
man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD
God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to
water the garden; and from thence it
was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first [is] Pison:
that [is] it which compasseth the whole
land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
12 And the gold of that land [is] good:
there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river
[is] Gihon: the same [is] it that
compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river [is]
Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth
toward the east of Assyria. And the
fourth river [is] Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and
put him into the garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 # And the LORD God said, [It is] not
good that the man should be alone; I
will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God
formed every beast of the field, and
every fowl of the air; and brought
[them] unto Adam to see what he would
call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that [was] the
name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam
there was not found an help meet for
him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he
took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and
brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she
shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man
and his wife, and were not ashamed.

CHAPTER 3
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the field which the LORD
God had made. And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of
the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which
[is] in the midst of the garden, God
hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree
[was] good for food, and that it [was]
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make [one] wise, she took of
the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they [were]
naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD
God walking in the garden in the cool
of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the
LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden.
9 And the LORD God called unto Adam,
and said unto him, Where [art] thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in
the garden, and I was afraid, because I
[was] naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou
[wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the
tree, whereof I commanded thee that
thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom
thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave
me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the LORD God said unto the
woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this,
thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and
above every beast of the field; upon
thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and
her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth children; and thy desire [shall
be] to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy
wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the
ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt
thou eat [of] it all the days of thy
life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it
bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat
the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground; for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou [art], and unto dust
shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve;
because she was the mother of all
living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did
the LORD God make coats of skins, and
clothed them.
22 # And the LORD God said, Behold, the
man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil: and now, lest he put
forth his hand, and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live for
ever:
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him
forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he
placed at the east of the garden of
Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword
which turned every way, to keep the way
of the tree of life.

CHAPTER 4
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I
have gotten a man from the LORD.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but
Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in process of time it came to
pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of
the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the
firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. And the LORD had respect unto
Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he
had not respect. And Cain was very
wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art
thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be
accepted? and if thou doest not well,
sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
[shall be] his desire, and thou shalt
rule over him.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his
brother: and it came to pass, when they
were in the field, that Cain rose up
against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 # And the LORD said unto Cain, Where
[is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I
know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done?
the voice of thy brother's blood crieth
unto me from the ground.
11 And now [art] thou cursed from the
earth, which hath opened her mouth to
receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it
shall not henceforth yield unto thee
her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond
shalt thou be in the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My
punishment [is] greater than I can
bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this
day from the face of the earth; and
from thy face shall I be hid; and I
shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in
the earth; and it shall come to pass,
[that] every one that findeth me shall
slay me.
15 And the LORD said unto him,
Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him
sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon
Cain, lest any finding him should kill
him.
16 # And Cain went out from the
presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the
land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Enoch: and he
builded a city, and called the name of
the city, after the name of his son,
Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and
Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat
Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19 # And Lamech took unto him two
wives: the name of the one [was] Adah,
and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the
father of such as dwell in tents, and
[of such as have] cattle.
21 And his brother's name [was] Jubal:
he was the father of all such as handle
the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare
Tubal-cain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the
sister of Tubal-cain [was] Naamah.
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah
and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of
Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I
have slain a man to my wounding, and a
young man to my hurt.
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
25 # And Adam knew his wife again; and
she bare a son, and called his name
Seth: For God, [said she], hath
appointed me another seed instead of
Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was
born a son; and he called his name
Enos: then began men to call upon the
name of the LORD.

CHAPTER 5
1 This [is] the book of the generations
of Adam. In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made he
him;
2 Male and female created he them; and
blessed them, and called their name
Adam, in the day when they were
created.
3 # And Adam lived an hundred and
thirty years, and begat [a son] in his
own likeness, after his image; and
called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Seth were eight hundred years:
and he begat sons and daughters:
5 And all the days that Adam lived were
nine hundred and thirty years: and he
died.
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five
years, and begat Enos:
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos
eight hundred and seven years, and
begat sons and daughters:
8 And all the days of Seth were nine
hundred and twelve years: and he died.
9 # And Enos lived ninety years, and
begat Cainan:
10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan
eight hundred and fifteen years, and
begat sons and daughters:
11 And all the days of Enos were nine
hundred and five years: and he died.
12 # And Cainan lived seventy years,
and begat Mahalaleel:
13 And Cainan lived after he begat
Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty
years, and begat sons and daughters:
14 And all the days of Cainan were nine
hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 # And Mahalaleel lived sixty and
five years, and begat Jared:
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat
Jared eight hundred and thirty years,
and begat sons and daughters:
17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were
eight hundred ninety and five years:
and he died.
18 # And Jared lived an hundred sixty
and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch
eight hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters:
20 And all the days of Jared were nine
hundred sixty and two years: and he
died.
21 # And Enoch lived sixty and five
years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he
begat Methuselah three hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three
hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he
[was] not; for God took him.
25 And Methuselah lived an hundred
eighty and seven years, and begat
Lamech:
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech seven hundred eighty and two
years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the days of Methuselah were
nine hundred sixty and nine years: and
he died.
28 # And Lamech lived an hundred eighty
and two years, and begat a son:
29 And he called his name Noah, saying,
This [same] shall comfort us concerning
our work and toil of our hands, because
of the ground which the LORD hath
cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah
five hundred ninety and five years, and
begat sons and daughters:
31 And all the days of Lamech were
seven hundred seventy and seven years:
and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old:
and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

CHAPTER 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began
to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they [were] fair;
and they took them wives of all which
they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall
not always strive with man, for that he
also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be
an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in
those days; and also after that, when
the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare
[children] to them, the same [became]
mighty men which [were] of old, men of
renown.
5 # And GOD saw that the wickedness of
man [was] great in the earth, and
[that] every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart [was] only evil
continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had
made man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of
the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the
air; for it repenteth me that I have
made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of
the LORD.
9 # These [are] the generations of
Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect
in his generations, [and] Noah walked
with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled with
violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and,
behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of
all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence through
them; and, behold, I will destroy them
with the earth.
14 # Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and
shalt pitch it within and without with
pitch.
15 And this [is the fashion] which thou
shalt make it [of]: The length of the
ark [shall be] three hundred cubits,
the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt
thou set in the side thereof; [with]
lower, second, and third [stories]
shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a
flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the
breath of life, from under heaven;
[and] every thing that [is] in the
earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my
covenant; and thou shalt come into the
ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife,
and thy sons' wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all
flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep [them]
alive with thee; they shall be male and
female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of
cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the earth after his
kind, two of every [sort] shall come
unto thee, to keep [them] alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food
that is eaten, and thou shalt gather
[it] to thee; and it shall be for food
for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that
God commanded him, so did he.

CHAPTER 7
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come
thou and all thy house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before
me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take
to thee by sevens, the male and his
female: and of beasts that [are] not
clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens,
the male and the female; to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause
it to rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I
destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that
the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old
when the flood of waters was upon the
earth.
7 # And Noah went in, and his sons, and
his wife, and his sons' wives with him,
into the ark, because of the waters of
the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that
[are] not clean, and of fowls, and of
every thing that creepeth upon the
earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah
into the ark, the male and the female,
as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven
days, that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth.
11 # In the six hundredth year of
Noah's life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same
day were all the fountains of the great
deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth
forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah,
and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the
sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the
three wives of his sons with them, into
the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his
kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind,
and every fowl after his kind, every
bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the
ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein
[is] the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male
and female of all flesh, as God had
commanded him: and the LORD shut him
in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon
the earth; and the waters increased,
and bare up the ark, and it was lift up
above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon the earth; and
the ark went upon the face of the
waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth; and all the high hills,
that [were] under the whole heaven,
were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters
prevail; and the mountains were
covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon
the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle,
and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth, and
every man:
22 All in whose nostrils [was] the
breath of life, of all that [was] in
the dry [land], died.
23 And every living substance was
destroyed which was upon the face of
the ground, both man, and cattle, and
the creeping things, and the fowl of
the heaven; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah only remained
[alive], and they that [were] with him
in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the
earth an hundred and fifty days.

CHAPTER 8
1 And God remembered Noah, and every
living thing, and all the cattle that
[was] with him in the ark: and God made
a wind to pass over the earth, and the
waters asswaged;
2 The fountains also of the deep and
the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the
earth continually: and after the end of
the hundred and fifty days the waters
were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually
until the tenth month: in the tenth
[month], on the first [day] of the
month, were the tops of the mountains
seen.
6 # And it came to pass at the end of
forty days, that Noah opened the window
of the ark which he had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went
forth to and fro, until the waters were
dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him,
to see if the waters were abated from
off the face of the ground;
9 But the dove found no rest for the
sole of her foot, and she returned unto
him into the ark, for the waters [were]
on the face of the whole earth: then he
put forth his hand, and took her, and
pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days;
and again he sent forth the dove out of
the ark;
11 And the dove came in to him in the
evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an
olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew
that the waters were abated from off
the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days;
and sent forth the dove; which returned
not again unto him any more.
13 # And it came to pass in the six
hundredth and first year, in the first
[month], the first [day] of the month,
the waters were dried up from off the
earth: and Noah removed the covering of
the ark, and looked, and, behold, the
face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the
seven and twentieth day of the month,
was the earth dried.
15 # And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy
wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living
thing that [is] with thee, of all
flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle,
and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth; that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and be
fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons,
and his wife, and his sons' wives with
him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every fowl, [and] whatsoever
creepeth upon the earth, after their
kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 # And Noah builded an altar unto the
LORD; and took of every clean beast,
and of every clean fowl, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;
and the LORD said in his heart, I will
not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake; for the imagination of
man's heart [is] evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more
every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime
and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.

CHAPTER 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons,
and said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of
you shall be upon every beast of the
earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moveth [upon] the earth,
and upon all the fishes of the sea;
into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall
be meat for you; even as the green herb
have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof,
[which is] the blood thereof, shall ye
not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives
will I require; at the hand of every
beast will I require it, and at the
hand of man; at the hand of every man's
brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed: for in the
image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and
multiply; bring forth abundantly in the
earth, and multiply therein.
8 # And God spake unto Noah, and to his
sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my
covenant with you, and with your seed
after you;
10 And with every living creature that
[is] with you, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth
with you; from all that go out of the
ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant
with you; neither shall all flesh be
cut off any more by the waters of a
flood; neither shall there any more be
a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This [is] the token of
the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that
[is] with you, for perpetual
generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant
between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I
bring a cloud over the earth, that the
bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant,
which [is] between me and you and every
living creature of all flesh; and the
waters shall no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud;
and I will look upon it, that I may
remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature
of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This [is]
the token of the covenant, which I have
established between me and all flesh
that [is] upon the earth.
18 # And the sons of Noah, that went
forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of
Canaan.
19 These [are] the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole earth
overspread.
20 And Noah began [to be] an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within
his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw
the nakedness of his father, and told
his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment,
and laid [it] upon both their
shoulders, and went backward, and
covered the nakedness of their father;
and their faces [were] backward, and
they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and
knew what his younger son had done unto
him.
25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a
servant of servants shall he be unto
his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD
God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he
shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant.
28 # And Noah lived after the flood
three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine
hundred and fifty years: and he died.

CHAPTER 10
1 Now these [are] the generations of
the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and unto them were sons born
after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal,
and Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and
Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and
Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By these were the isles of the
Gentiles divided in their lands; every
one after his tongue, after their
families, in their nations.
6 # And the sons of Ham; Cush, and
Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and
Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah;
Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be
a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the
LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as
Nimrod the mighty hunter before the
LORD.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and
Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur,
and builded Nineveh, and the city
Rehoboth, and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah:
the same [is] a great city.
13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim,
and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of
whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
15 # And Canaan begat Sidon his
firstborn, and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite,
and the Girgasite,
17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and
the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite,
and the Hamathite: and afterward were
the families of the Canaanites spread
abroad.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was
from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar,
unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom,
and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim,
even unto Lasha.
20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after
their families, after their tongues, in
their countries, [and] in their
nations.
21 # Unto Shem also, the father of all
the children of Eber, the brother of
Japheth the elder, even to him were
[children] born.
22 The children of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
Aram.
23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and
Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah
begat Eber.
25 And unto Eber were born two sons:
the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his
days was the earth divided; and his
brother's name [was] Joktan.
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and
Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab:
all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha,
as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of
the east.
31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after
their families, after their tongues, in
their lands, after their nations.
32 These [are] the families of the sons
of Noah, after their generations, in
their nations: and by these were the
nations divided in the earth after the
flood.

CHAPTER 11
1 And the whole earth was of one
language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they
journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to,
let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for
stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us
a city and a tower, whose top [may
reach] unto heaven; and let us make us
a name, lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children
of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people
[is] one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there
confound their language, that they may
not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the
earth: and they left off to build the
city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called
Babel; because the LORD did there
confound the language of all the earth:
and from thence did the LORD scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.
10 # These [are] the generations of
Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old,
and begat Arphaxad two years after the
flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat
Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat
sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty
years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat
Salah four hundred and three years, and
begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and
begat Eber:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber
four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty
years, and begat Peleg:
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg
four hundred and thirty years, and
begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and
begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu
two hundred and nine years, and begat
sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years,
and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug
two hundred and seven years, and begat
sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and
begat Nahor:
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor
two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty
years, and begat Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah
an hundred and nineteen years, and
begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 # Now these [are] the generations of
Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father
Terah in the land of his nativity, in
Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives:
the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai;
and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,
the daughter of Haran, the father of
Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no
child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and
Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and
Sarai his daughter in law, his son
Abram's wife; and they went forth with
them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go
into the land of Canaan; and they came
unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two
hundred and five years: and Terah died
in Haran.

CHAPTER 12
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get
thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house,
unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless
thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed.
4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had
spoken unto him; and Lot went with him:
and Abram [was] seventy and five years
old when he departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and
Lot his brother's son, and all their
substance that they had gathered, and
the souls that they had gotten in
Haran; and they went forth to go into
the land of Canaan; and into the land
of Canaan they came.
6 # And Abram passed through the land
unto the place of Sichem, unto the
plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was]
then in the land.
7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and
said, Unto thy seed will I give this
land: and there builded he an altar
unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
8 And he removed from thence unto a
mountain on the east of Beth-el, and
pitched his tent, [having] Beth-el on
the west, and Hai on the east: and
there he builded an altar unto the
LORD, and called upon the name of the
LORD.
9 And Abram journeyed, going on still
toward the south.
10 # And there was a famine in the
land: and Abram went down into Egypt to
sojourn there; for the famine [was]
grievous in the land.
11 And it came to pass, when he was
come near to enter into Egypt, that he
said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I
know that thou [art] a fair woman to
look upon:
12 Therefore it shall come to pass,
when the Egyptians shall see thee, that
they shall say, This [is] his wife: and
they will kill me, but they will save
thee alive.
13 Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my
sister: that it may be well with me for
thy sake; and my soul shall live
because of thee.
14 # And it came to pass, that, when
Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the woman that she
[was] very fair.
15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her,
and commended her before Pharaoh: and
the woman was taken into Pharaoh's
house.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her
sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and
he asses, and menservants, and
maidservants, and she asses, and
camels.
17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his
house with great plagues because of
Sarai Abram's wife.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said,
What [is] this [that] thou hast done
unto me? why didst thou not tell me
that she [was] thy wife?
19 Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister?
so I might have taken her to me to
wife: now therefore behold thy wife,
take [her], and go thy way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men
concerning him: and they sent him away,
and his wife, and all that he had.

CHAPTER 13
1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he,
and his wife, and all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the south.
2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle,
in silver, and in gold.
3 And he went on his journeys from the
south even to Beth-el, unto the place
where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
4 Unto the place of the altar, which he
had made there at the first: and there
Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5 # And Lot also, which went with
Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
tents.
6 And the land was not able to bear
them, that they might dwell together:
for their substance was great, so that
they could not dwell together.
7 And there was a strife between the
herdmen of Abram's cattle and the
herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled
then in the land.
8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be
no strife, I pray thee, between me and
thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we [be] brethren.
9 [Is] not the whole land before thee?
separate thyself, I pray thee, from me:
if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then
I will go to the right; or if [thou
depart] to the right hand, then I will
go to the left.
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and
beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it
[was] well watered every where, before
the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
[even] as the garden of the LORD, like
the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto
Zoar.
11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and
they separated themselves the one from
the other.
12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan,
and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
plain, and pitched [his] tent toward
Sodom.
13 But the men of Sodom [were] wicked
and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
14 # And the LORD said unto Abram,
after that Lot was separated from him,
Lift up now thine eyes, and look from
the place where thou art northward, and
southward, and eastward, and westward:
15 For all the land which thou seest,
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed
for ever.
16 And I will make thy seed as the dust
of the earth: so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, [then]
shall thy seed also be numbered.
17 Arise, walk through the land in the
length of it and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee.
18 Then Abram removed [his] tent, and
came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre,
which [is] in Hebron, and built there
an altar unto the LORD.

CHAPTER 14
1 And it came to pass in the days of
Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of
Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
Tidal king of nations;
2 [That these] made war with Bera king
of Sodom, and with Birsha king of
Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and
Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king
of Bela, which is Zoar.
3 All these were joined together in the
vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
4 Twelve years they served
Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled.
5 And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were]
with him, and smote the Rephaims in
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in
Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
6 And the Horites in their mount Seir,
unto El-paran, which [is] by the
wilderness.
7 And they returned, and came to
En-mishpat, which [is] Kadesh, and
smote all the country of the
Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that
dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
8 And there went out the king of Sodom,
and the king of Gomorrah, and the king
of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and
the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;)
and they joined battle with them in the
vale of Siddim;
9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam,
and with Tidal king of nations, and
Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch
king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of]
slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they
that remained fled to the mountain.
11 And they took all the goods of Sodom
and Gomorrah, and all their victuals,
and went their way.
12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's
son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods,
and departed.
13 And there came one that had escaped,
and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt
in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner:
and these [were] confederate with
Abram.
14 And when Abram heard that his
brother was taken captive, he armed his
trained [servants], born in his own
house, three hundred and eighteen, and
pursued [them] unto Dan.
15 And he divided himself against them,
he and his servants, by night, and
smote them, and pursued them unto
Hobah, which [is] on the left hand of
Damascus.
16 And he brought back all the goods,
and also brought again his brother Lot,
and his goods, and the women also, and
the people.
17 # And the king of Sodom went out to
meet him after his return from the
slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the
kings that [were] with him, at the
valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's
dale.
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem
brought forth bread and wine: and he
[was] the priest of the most high God.
19 And he blessed him, and said,
Blessed [be] Abram of the most high
God, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the most high God,
which hath delivered thine enemies into
thy hand. And he gave him tithes of
all.
21 And the king of Sodom said unto
Abram, Give me the persons, and take
the goods to thyself.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom,
I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD,
the most high God, the possessor of
heaven and earth,
23 That I will not [take] from a thread
even to a shoelatchet, and that I will
not take any thing that [is] thine,
lest thou shouldest say, I have made
Abram rich:
24 Save only that which the young men
have eaten, and the portion of the men
which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre; let them take their portion.

CHAPTER 15
1 After these things the word of the
LORD came unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy
shield, [and] thy exceeding great
reward.
2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt
thou give me, seeing I go childless,
and the steward of my house [is] this
Eliezer of Damascus?
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou
hast given no seed: and, lo, one born
in my house is mine heir.
4 And, behold, the word of the LORD
[came] unto him, saying, This shall not
be thine heir; but he that shall come
forth out of thine own bowels shall be
thine heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and
said, Look now toward heaven, and tell
the stars, if thou be able to number
them: and he said unto him, So shall
thy seed be.
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD
that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to
inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall
I know that I shall inherit it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me an
heifer of three years old, and a she
goat of three years old, and a ram of
three years old, and a turtledove, and
a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and
divided them in the midst, and laid
each piece one against another: but the
birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon
the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a
deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an
horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land [that is] not
their's, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they
shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with
great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in
peace; thou shalt be buried in a good
old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they
shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet
full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the
sun went down, and it was dark, behold
a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river,
the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and
the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and
the Jebusites.

CHAPTER 16
1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no
children: and she had an handmaid, an
Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold
now, the LORD hath restrained me from
bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my
maid; it may be that I may obtain
children by her. And Abram hearkened to
the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her
maid the Egyptian, after Abram had
dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be
his wife.
4 # And he went in unto Hagar, and she
conceived: and when she saw that she
had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong
[be] upon thee: I have given my maid
into thy bosom; and when she saw that
she had conceived, I was despised in
her eyes: the LORD judge between me and
thee.
6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold,
thy maid [is] in thy hand; do to her as
it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her
face.
7 # And the angel of the LORD found her
by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way
to Shur.
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt
thou go? And she said, I flee from the
face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Return to thy mistress, and submit
thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be
numbered for multitude.
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Behold, thou [art] with child, and
shalt bear a son, and shalt call his
name Ishmael; because the LORD hath
heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand
[will be] against every man, and every
man's hand against him; and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.
13 And she called the name of the LORD
that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:
for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me?
14 Wherefore the well was called
Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between
Kadesh and Bered.
15 # And Hagar bare Abram a son: and
Abram called his son's name, which
Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16 And Abram [was] fourscore and six
years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to
Abram.

CHAPTER 17
1 And when Abram was ninety years old
and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram,
and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty
God; walk before me, and be thou
perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between
me and thee, and will multiply thee
exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and God
talked with him, saying,
4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is]
with thee, and thou shalt be a father
of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be
called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for a father of many nations
have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding
fruitful, and I will make nations of
thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant
between me and thee and thy seed after
thee in their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee, the land wherein thou
art a stranger, all the land of Canaan,
for an everlasting possession; and I
will be their God.
9 # And God said unto Abraham, Thou
shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou,
and thy seed after thee in their
generations.
10 This [is] my covenant, which ye
shall keep, between me and you and thy
seed after thee; Every man child among
you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin; and it shall be a token
of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And he that is eight days old shall
be circumcised among you, every man
child in your generations, he that is
born in the house, or bought with money
of any stranger, which [is] not of thy
seed.
13 He that is born in thy house, and he
that is bought with thy money, must
needs be circumcised: and my covenant
shall be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised man child
whose flesh of his foreskin is not
circumcised, that soul shall be cut off
from his people; he hath broken my
covenant.
15 # And God said unto Abraham, As for
Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name
[be].
16 And I will bless her, and give thee
a son also of her: yea, I will bless
her, and she shall be [a mother] of
nations; kings of people shall be of
her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, Shall
[a child] be born unto him that is an
hundred years old? and shall Sarah,
that is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee!
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall
bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt
call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an
everlasting covenant, [and] with his
seed after him.
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard
thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will
multiply him exceedingly; twelve
princes shall he beget, and I will make
him a great nation.
21 But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto
thee at this set time in the next year.
22 And he left off talking with him,
and God went up from Abraham.
23 # And Abraham took Ishmael his son,
and all that were born in his house,
and all that were bought with his
money, every male among the men of
Abraham's house; and circumcised the
flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame
day, as God had said unto him.
24 And Abraham [was] ninety years old
and nine, when he was circumcised in
the flesh of his foreskin.
25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen
years old, when he was circumcised in
the flesh of his foreskin.
26 In the selfsame day was Abraham
circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
27 And all the men of his house, born
in the house, and bought with money of
the stranger, were circumcised with
him.

CHAPTER 18
1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the
plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent
door in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes and looked,
and, lo, three men stood by him: and
when he saw [them], he ran to meet them
from the tent door, and bowed himself
toward the ground,
3 And said, My Lord, if now I have
found favour in thy sight, pass not
away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
4 Let a little water, I pray you, be
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree:
5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread,
and comfort ye your hearts; after that
ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they said, So
do, as thou hast said.
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent
unto Sarah, and said, Make ready
quickly three measures of fine meal,
knead [it], and make cakes upon the
hearth.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and
fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave
[it] unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it.
8 And he took butter, and milk, and the
calf which he had dressed, and set [it]
before them; and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did eat.
9 # And they said unto him, Where [is]
Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in
the tent.
10 And he said, I will certainly return
unto thee according to the time of
life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall
have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the
tent door, which [was] behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old
[and] well stricken in age; [and] it
ceased to be with Sarah after the
manner of women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, After I am waxed old
shall I have pleasure, my lord being
old also?
13 And the LORD said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying,
Shall I of a surety bear a child, which
am old?
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD?
At the time appointed I will return
unto thee, according to the time of
life, and Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed
not; for she was afraid. And he said,
Nay; but thou didst laugh.
16 # And the men rose up from thence,
and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham
went with them to bring them on the
way.
17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do;
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation, and
all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will command
his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the
LORD, to do justice and judgment; that
the LORD may bring upon Abraham that
which he hath spoken of him.
20 And the LORD said, Because the cry
of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and
because their sin is very grievous;
21 I will go down now, and see whether
they have done altogether according to
the cry of it, which is come unto me;
and if not, I will know.
22 And the men turned their faces from
thence, and went toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
23 # And Abraham drew near, and said,
Wilt thou also destroy the righteous
with the wicked?
24 Peradventure there be fifty
righteous within the city: wilt thou
also destroy and not spare the place
for the fifty righteous that [are]
therein?
25 That be far from thee to do after
this manner, to slay the righteous with
the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far
from thee: Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?
26 And the LORD said, If I find in
Sodom fifty righteous within the city,
then I will spare all the place for
their sakes.
27 And Abraham answered and said,
Behold now, I have taken upon me to
speak unto the Lord, which [am but]
dust and ashes:
28 Peradventure there shall lack five
of the fifty righteous: wilt thou
destroy all the city for [lack of]
five? And he said, If I find there
forty and five, I will not destroy
[it].
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and
said, Peradventure there shall be forty
found there. And he said, I will not do
[it] for forty's sake.
30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not
the Lord be angry, and I will speak:
Peradventure there shall thirty be
found there. And he said, I will not do
[it], if I find thirty there.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord:
Peradventure there shall be twenty
found there. And he said, I will not
destroy [it] for twenty's sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be
angry, and I will speak yet but this
once: Peradventure ten shall be found
there. And he said, I will not destroy
[it] for ten's sake.
33 And the LORD went his way, as soon
as he had left communing with Abraham:
and Abraham returned unto his place.

CHAPTER 19
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at
even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom:
and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet
them; and he bowed himself with his
face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords,
turn in, I pray you, into your
servant's house, and tarry all night,
and wash your feet, and ye shall rise
up early, and go on your ways. And they
said, Nay; but we will abide in the
street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and
they turned in unto him, and entered
into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread,
and they did eat.
4 # But before they lay down, the men
of the city, [even] the men of Sodom,
compassed the house round, both old and
young, all the people from every
quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said
unto him, Where [are] the men which
came in to thee this night? bring them
out unto us, that we may know them.
6 And Lot went out at the door unto
them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do
not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters
which have not known man; let me, I
pray you, bring them out unto you, and
do ye to them as [is] good in your
eyes: only unto these men do nothing;
for therefore came they under the
shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back. And they
said [again], This one [fellow] came in
to sojourn, and he will needs be a
judge: now will we deal worse with
thee, than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and came
near to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand,
and pulled Lot into the house to them,
and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that [were]
at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great: so
that they wearied themselves to find
the door.
12 # And the men said unto Lot, Hast
thou here any besides? son in law, and
thy sons, and thy daughters, and
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring
[them] out of this place:
13 For we will destroy this place,
because the cry of them is waxen great
before the face of the LORD; and the
LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his
sons in law, which married his
daughters, and said, Up, get you out of
this place; for the LORD will destroy
this city. But he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons in law.
15 # And when the morning arose, then
the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise,
take thy wife, and thy two daughters,
which are here; lest thou be consumed
in the iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid
hold upon his hand, and upon the hand
of his wife, and upon the hand of his
two daughters; the LORD being merciful
unto him: and they brought him forth,
and set him without the city.
17 # And it came to pass, when they had
brought them forth abroad, that he
said, Escape for thy life; look not
behind thee, neither stay thou in all
the plain; escape to the mountain, lest
thou be consumed.
18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so,
my Lord:
19 Behold now, thy servant hath found
grace in thy sight, and thou hast
magnified thy mercy, which thou hast
shewed unto me in saving my life; and I
cannot escape to the mountain, lest
some evil take me, and I die:
20 Behold now, this city [is] near to
flee unto, and it [is] a little one:
Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not
a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto him, See, I have
accepted thee concerning this thing
also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I
cannot do any thing till thou be come
thither. Therefore the name of the city
was called Zoar.
23 # The sun was risen upon the earth
when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from
the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and
all the plain, and all the inhabitants
of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground.
26 # But his wife looked back from
behind him, and she became a pillar of
salt.
27 # And Abraham gat up early in the
morning to the place where he stood
before the LORD:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of
the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the
smoke of the country went up as the
smoke of a furnace.
29 # And it came to pass, when God
destroyed the cities of the plain, that
God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot
out of the midst of the overthrow, when
he overthrew the cities in the which
Lot dwelt.
30 # And Lot went up out of Zoar, and
dwelt in the mountain, and his two
daughters with him; for he feared to
dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave,
he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the
younger, Our father [is] old, and
[there is] not a man in the earth to
come in unto us after the manner of all
the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink
wine, and we will lie with him, that we
may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink
wine that night: and the firstborn went
in, and lay with her father; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor
when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that the firstborn said unto the
younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with
my father: let us make him drink wine
this night also; and go thou in, [and]
lie with him, that we may preserve seed
of our father.
35 And they made their father drink
wine that night also: and the younger
arose, and lay with him; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor
when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot
with child by their father.
37 And the firstborn bare a son, and
called his name Moab: the same [is] the
father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a
son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the
same [is] the father of the children of
Ammon unto this day.

CHAPTER 20
1 And Abraham journeyed from thence
toward the south country, and dwelled
between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned
in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife,
She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king
of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream
by night, and said to him, Behold, thou
[art but] a dead man, for the woman
which thou hast taken; for she [is] a
man's wife.
4 But Abimelech had not come near her:
and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also
a righteous nation?
5 Said he not unto me, She [is] my
sister? and she, even she herself said,
He [is] my brother: in the integrity of
my heart and innocency of my hands have
I done this.
6 And God said unto him in a dream,
Yea, I know that thou didst this in the
integrity of thy heart; for I also
withheld thee from sinning against me:
therefore suffered I thee not to touch
her.
7 Now therefore restore the man [his]
wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he
shall pray for thee, and thou shalt
live: and if thou restore [her] not,
know thou that thou shalt surely die,
thou, and all that [are] thine.
8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his servants,
and told all these things in their
ears: and the men were sore afraid.
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and
said unto him, What hast thou done unto
us? and what have I offended thee, that
thou hast brought on me and on my
kingdom a great sin? thou hast done
deeds unto me that ought not to be
done.
10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What sawest thou, that thou hast done
this thing?
11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,
Surely the fear of God [is] not in this
place; and they will slay me for my
wife's sake.
12 And yet indeed [she is] my sister;
she [is] the daughter of my father, but
not the daughter of my mother; and she
became my wife.
13 And it came to pass, when God caused
me to wander from my father's house,
that I said unto her, This [is] thy
kindness which thou shalt shew unto me;
at every place whither we shall come,
say of me, He [is] my brother.
14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen,
and menservants, and womenservants, and
gave [them] unto Abraham, and restored
him Sarah his wife.
15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land
[is] before thee: dwell where it
pleaseth thee.
16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I
have given thy brother a thousand
[pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to
thee a covering of the eyes, unto all
that [are] with thee, and with all
[other]: thus she was reproved.
17 # So Abraham prayed unto God: and
God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and
his maidservants; and they bare
[children].
18 For the LORD had fast closed up all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech,
because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

CHAPTER 21
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had
said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he
had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham
a son in his old age, at the set time
of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his
son that was born unto him, whom Sarah
bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac
being eight days old, as God had
commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old,
when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 # And Sarah said, God hath made me to
laugh, [so that] all that hear will
laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said
unto Abraham, that Sarah should have
given children suck? for I have born
[him] a son in his old age.
8 And the child grew, and was weaned:
and Abraham made a great feast the
[same] day that Isaac was weaned.
9 # And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, which she had born unto
Abraham, mocking.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
Cast out this bondwoman and her son:
for the son of this bondwoman shall not
be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grievous in
Abraham's sight because of his son.
12 # And God said unto Abraham, Let it
not be grievous in thy sight because of
the lad, and because of thy bondwoman;
in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac
shall thy seed be called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman
will I make a nation, because he [is]
thy seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and took bread, and a bottle
of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar,
putting [it] on her shoulder, and the
child, and sent her away: and she
departed, and wandered in the
wilderness of Beer-sheba.
15 And the water was spent in the
bottle, and she cast the child under
one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over
against [him] a good way off, as it
were a bowshot: for she said, Let me
not see the death of the child. And she
sat over against [him], and lift up her
voice, and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad;
and the angel of God called to Hagar
out of heaven, and said unto her, What
aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God
hath heard the voice of the lad where
he [is].
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him
in thine hand; for I will make him a
great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw
a well of water; and she went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave
the lad drink.
20 And God was with the lad; and he
grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and
became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of
Paran: and his mother took him a wife
out of the land of Egypt.
22 # And it came to pass at that time,
that Abimelech and Phichol the chief
captain of his host spake unto Abraham,
saying, God [is] with thee in all that
thou doest:
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by
God that thou wilt not deal falsely
with me, nor with my son, nor with my
son's son: [but] according to the
kindness that I have done unto thee,
thou shalt do unto me, and to the land
wherein thou hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech
because of a well of water, which
Abimelech's servants had violently
taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who
hath done this thing: neither didst
thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of
it], but to day.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and
gave them unto Abimelech; and both of
them made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of
the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which
thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe
lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that
they may be a witness unto me, that I
have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place
Beer-sheba; because there they sware
both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at
Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and
Phichol the chief captain of his host,
and they returned into the land of the
Philistines.
33 # And [Abraham] planted a grove in
Beer-sheba, and called there on the
name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the
Philistines' land many days.

CHAPTER 22
1 And it came to pass after these
things, that God did tempt Abraham, and
said unto him, Abraham: and he said,
Behold, [here] I [am].
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine
only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and
get thee into the land of Moriah; and
offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains which I will
tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took
two of his young men with him, and
Isaac his son, and clave the wood for
the burnt offering, and rose up, and
went unto the place of which God had
told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted
up his eyes, and saw the place afar
off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men,
Abide ye here with the ass; and I and
the lad will go yonder and worship, and
come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering, and laid [it] upon
Isaac his son; and he took the fire in
his hand, and a knife; and they went
both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his
father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where
[is] the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will
provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering: so they went both of them
together.
9 And they came to the place which God
had told him of; and Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in
order, and bound Isaac his son, and
laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his
hand, and took the knife to slay his
son.
11 And the angel of the LORD called
unto him out of heaven, and said,
Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here
[am] I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon
the lad, neither do thou any thing unto
him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy
son, thine only [son] from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold behind [him] a ram
caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and
offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to]
this day, In the mount of the LORD it
shall be seen.
15 # And the angel of the LORD called
unto Abraham out of heaven the second
time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn,
saith the LORD, for because thou hast
done this thing, and hast not withheld
thy son, thine only [son]:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee,
and in multiplying I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of the heaven, and as
the sand which [is] upon the sea shore;
and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young
men, and they rose up and went together
to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at
Beer-sheba.
20 # And it came to pass after these
things, that it was told Abraham,
saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also
born children unto thy brother Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his
brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash,
and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these
eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
Abraham's brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name [was]
Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham,
and Thahash, and Maachah.

CHAPTER 23
1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven
and twenty years old: [these were] the
years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the
same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan:
and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah,
and to weep for her.
3 # And Abraham stood up from before
his dead, and spake unto the sons of
Heth, saying,
4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner
with you: give me a possession of a
buryingplace with you, that I may bury
my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered
Abraham, saying unto him,
6 Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a mighty
prince among us: in the choice of our
sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us
shall withhold from thee his sepulchre,
but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed
himself to the people of the land,
[even] to the children of Heth.
8 And he communed with them, saying, If
it be your mind that I should bury my
dead out of my sight; hear me, and
intreat for me to Ephron the son of
Zohar,
9 That he may give me the cave of
Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in
the end of his field; for as much money
as it is worth he shall give it me for
a possession of a buryingplace amongst
you.
10 And Ephron dwelt among the children
of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the audience of the
children of Heth, [even] of all that
went in at the gate of his city,
saying,
11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field
give I thee, and the cave that [is]
therein, I give it thee; in the
presence of the sons of my people give
I it thee: bury thy dead.
12 And Abraham bowed down himself
before the people of the land.
13 And he spake unto Ephron in the
audience of the people of the land,
saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I
pray thee, hear me: I will give thee
money for the field; take [it] of me,
and I will bury my dead there.
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying
unto him,
15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land
[is worth] four hundred shekels of
silver; what [is] that betwixt me and
thee? bury therefore thy dead.
16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron;
and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver, which he had named in the
audience of the sons of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current
[money] with the merchant.
17 # And the field of Ephron, which
[was] in Machpelah, which [was] before
Mamre, the field, and the cave which
[was] therein, and all the trees that
[were] in the field, that [were] in all
the borders round about, were made sure
18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the
presence of the children of Heth,
before all that went in at the gate of
his city.
19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah
his wife in the cave of the field of
Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is]
Hebron in the land of Canaan.
20 And the field, and the cave that
[is] therein, were made sure unto
Abraham for a possession of a
buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

CHAPTER 24
1 And Abraham was old, [and] well
stricken in age: and the LORD had
blessed Abraham in all things.
2 And Abraham said unto his eldest
servant of his house, that ruled over
all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy
hand under my thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the
LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of
the earth, that thou shalt not take a
wife unto my son of the daughters of
the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country,
and to my kindred, and take a wife unto
my son Isaac.
5 And the servant said unto him,
Peradventure the woman will not be
willing to follow me unto this land:
must I needs bring thy son again unto
the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware
thou that thou bring not my son thither
again.
7 # The LORD God of heaven, which took
me from my father's house, and from the
land of my kindred, and which spake
unto me, and that sware unto me,
saying, Unto thy seed will I give this
land; he shall send his angel before
thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto
my son from thence.
8 And if the woman will not be willing
to follow thee, then thou shalt be
clear from this my oath: only bring not
my son thither again.
9 And the servant put his hand under
the thigh of Abraham his master, and
sware to him concerning that matter.
10 # And the servant took ten camels of
the camels of his master, and departed;
for all the goods of his master [were]
in his hand: and he arose, and went to
Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
11 And he made his camels to kneel down
without the city by a well of water at
the time of the evening, [even] the
time that women go out to draw [water].
12 And he said, O LORD God of my master
Abraham, I pray thee, send me good
speed this day, and shew kindness unto
my master Abraham.
13 Behold, I stand [here] by the well
of water; and the daughters of the men
of the city come out to draw water:
14 And let it come to pass, that the
damsel to whom I shall say, Let down
thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may
drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I
will give thy camels drink also: [let
the same be] she [that] thou hast
appointed for thy servant Isaac; and
thereby shall I know that thou hast
shewed kindness unto my master.
15 # And it came to pass, before he had
done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah
came out, who was born to Bethuel, son
of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's
brother, with her pitcher upon her
shoulder.
16 And the damsel [was] very fair to
look upon, a virgin, neither had any
man known her: and she went down to the
well, and filled her pitcher, and came
up.
17 And the servant ran to meet her, and
said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a
little water of thy pitcher.
18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and
she hasted, and let down her pitcher
upon her hand, and gave him drink.
19 And when she had done giving him
drink, she said, I will draw [water]
for thy camels also, until they have
done drinking.
20 And she hasted, and emptied her
pitcher into the trough, and ran again
unto the well to draw [water], and drew
for all his camels.
21 And the man wondering at her held
his peace, to wit whether the LORD had
made his journey prosperous or not.
22 And it came to pass, as the camels
had done drinking, that the man took a
golden earring of half a shekel weight,
and two bracelets for her hands of ten
[shekels] weight of gold;
23 And said, Whose daughter [art] thou?
tell me, I pray thee: is there room
[in] thy father's house for us to lodge
in?
24 And she said unto him, I [am] the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah,
which she bare unto Nahor.
25 She said moreover unto him, We have
both straw and provender enough, and
room to lodge in.
26 And the man bowed down his head, and
worshipped the LORD.
27 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD
God of my master Abraham, who hath not
left destitute my master of his mercy
and his truth: I [being] in the way,
the LORD led me to the house of my
master's brethren.
28 And the damsel ran, and told [them
of] her mother's house these things.
29 # And Rebekah had a brother, and his
name [was] Laban: and Laban ran out
unto the man, unto the well.
30 And it came to pass, when he saw the
earring and bracelets upon his sister's
hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake
the man unto me; that he came unto the
man; and, behold, he stood by the
camels at the well.
31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed
of the LORD; wherefore standest thou
without? for I have prepared the house,
and room for the camels.
32 # And the man came into the house:
and he ungirded his camels, and gave
straw and provender for the camels, and
water to wash his feet, and the men's
feet that [were] with him.
33 And there was set [meat] before him
to eat: but he said, I will not eat,
until I have told mine errand. And he
said, Speak on.
34 And he said, I [am] Abraham's
servant.
35 And the LORD hath blessed my master
greatly; and he is become great: and he
hath given him flocks, and herds, and
silver, and gold, and menservants, and
maidservants, and camels, and asses.
36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a
son to my master when she was old: and
unto him hath he given all that he
hath.
37 And my master made me swear, saying,
Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, in
whose land I dwell:
38 But thou shalt go unto my father's
house, and to my kindred, and take a
wife unto my son.
39 And I said unto my master,
Peradventure the woman will not follow
me.
40 And he said unto me, The LORD,
before whom I walk, will send his angel
with thee, and prosper thy way; and
thou shalt take a wife for my son of my
kindred, and of my father's house:
41 Then shalt thou be clear from [this]
my oath, when thou comest to my
kindred; and if they give not thee
[one], thou shalt be clear from my
oath.
42 And I came this day unto the well,
and said, O LORD God of my master
Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way
which I go:
43 Behold, I stand by the well of
water; and it shall come to pass, that
when the virgin cometh forth to draw
[water], and I say to her, Give me, I
pray thee, a little water of thy
pitcher to drink;
44 And she say to me, Both drink thou,
and I will also draw for thy camels:
[let] the same [be] the woman whom the
LORD hath appointed out for my master's
son.
45 And before I had done speaking in
mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth
with her pitcher on her shoulder; and
she went down unto the well, and drew
[water]: and I said unto her, Let me
drink, I pray thee.
46 And she made haste, and let down her
pitcher from her [shoulder], and said,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and she made the
camels drink also.
47 And I asked her, and said, Whose
daughter [art] thou? And she said, The
daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him: and I put the
earring upon her face, and the
bracelets upon her hands.
48 And I bowed down my head, and
worshipped the LORD, and blessed the
LORD God of my master Abraham, which
had led me in the right way to take my
master's brother's daughter unto his
son.
49 And now if ye will deal kindly and
truly with my master, tell me: and if
not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and
said, The thing proceedeth from the
LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.
51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee,
take [her], and go, and let her be thy
master's son's wife, as the LORD hath
spoken.
52 And it came to pass, that, when
Abraham's servant heard their words, he
worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself]
to the earth.
53 And the servant brought forth jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he
gave also to her brother and to her
mother precious things.
54 And they did eat and drink, he and
the men that [were] with him, and
tarried all night; and they rose up in
the morning, and he said, Send me away
unto my master.
55 And her brother and her mother said,
Let the damsel abide with us [a few]
days, at the least ten; after that she
shall go.
56 And he said unto them, Hinder me
not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my
way; send me away that I may go to my
master.
57 And they said, We will call the
damsel, and enquire at her mouth.
58 And they called Rebekah, and said
unto her, Wilt thou go with this man?
And she said, I will go.
59 And they sent away Rebekah their
sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's
servant, and his men.
60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said
unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be
thou [the mother] of thousands of
millions, and let thy seed possess the
gate of those which hate them.
61 # And Rebekah arose, and her
damsels, and they rode upon the camels,
and followed the man: and the servant
took Rebekah, and went his way.
62 And Isaac came from the way of the
well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the
south country.
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in
the field at the eventide: and he
lifted up his eyes, and saw, and,
behold, the camels [were] coming.
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and
when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the
camel.
65 For she [had] said unto the servant,
What man [is] this that walketh in the
field to meet us? And the servant [had]
said, It [is] my master: therefore she
took a vail, and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all
things that he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into his
mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah,
and she became his wife; and he loved
her: and Isaac was comforted after his
mother's [death].

CHAPTER 25
1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and
her name [was] Keturah.
2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan,
and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and
Shuah.
3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan.
And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim,
and Letushim, and Leummim.
4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and
Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and
Eldaah. All these [were] the children
of Keturah.
5 # And Abraham gave all that he had
unto Isaac.
6 But unto the sons of the concubines,
which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts,
and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the
east country.
7 And these [are] the days of the years
of Abraham's life which he lived, an
hundred threescore and fifteen years.
8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and
died in a good old age, an old man, and
full [of years]; and was gathered to
his people.
9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried
him in the cave of Machpelah, in the
field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;
10 The field which Abraham purchased of
the sons of Heth: there was Abraham
buried, and Sarah his wife.
11 # And it came to pass after the
death of Abraham, that God blessed his
son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well
Lahai-roi.
12 # Now these [are] the generations of
Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the
Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto
Abraham:
13 And these [are] the names of the
sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to their generations: the
firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah:
16 These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and
these [are] their names, by their
towns, and by their castles; twelve
princes according to their nations.
17 And these [are] the years of the
life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty
and seven years: and he gave up the
ghost and died; and was gathered unto
his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto
Shur, that [is] before Egypt, as thou
goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in
the presence of all his brethren.
19 # And these [are] the generations of
Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat
Isaac:
20 And Isaac was forty years old when
he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter
of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram,
the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his
wife, because she [was] barren: and the
LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah
his wife conceived.
22 And the children struggled together
within her; and she said, If [it be]
so, why [am] I thus? And she went to
enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two
nations [are] in thy womb, and two
manner of people shall be separated
from thy bowels; and [the one] people
shall be stronger than [the other]
people; and the elder shall serve the
younger.
24 # And when her days to be delivered
were fulfilled, behold, [there were]
twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over
like an hairy garment; and they called
his name Esau.
26 And after that came his brother out,
and his hand took hold on Esau's heel;
and his name was called Jacob: and
Isaac [was] threescore years old when
she bare them.
27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a
cunning hunter, a man of the field; and
Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in
tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did
eat of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved
Jacob.
29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came
from the field, and he [was] faint:
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I
pray thee, with that same red
[pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore
was his name called Edom.
31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
birthright.
32 And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the
point to die: and what profit shall
this birthright do to me?
33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this
day; and he sware unto him: and he sold
his birthright unto Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and
pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and
drink, and rose up, and went his way:
thus Esau despised [his] birthright.

CHAPTER 26
1 And there was a famine in the land,
beside the first famine that was in the
days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto
Gerar.
2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and
said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in
the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be
with thee, and will bless thee; for
unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will
give all these countries, and I will
perform the oath which I sware unto
Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply
as the stars of heaven, and will give
unto thy seed all these countries; and
in thy seed shall all the nations of
the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice,
and kept my charge, my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws.
6 # And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7 And the men of the place asked [him]
of his wife; and he said, She [is] my
sister: for he feared to say, [She is]
my wife; lest, [said he], the men of
the place should kill me for Rebekah;
because she [was] fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been
there a long time, that Abimelech king
of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac
[was] sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
Behold, of a surety she [is] thy wife:
and how saidst thou, She [is] my
sister? And Isaac said unto him,
Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What [is] this
thou hast done unto us? one of the
people might lightly have lien with thy
wife, and thou shouldest have brought
guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all [his]
people, saying, He that toucheth this
man or his wife shall surely be put to
death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and
received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went
forward, and grew until he became very
great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and
possession of herds, and great store of
servants: and the Philistines envied
him.
15 For all the wells which his father's
servants had digged in the days of
Abraham his father, the Philistines had
stopped them, and filled them with
earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go
from us; for thou art much mightier
than we.
17 # And Isaac departed thence, and
pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of
water, which they had digged in the
days of Abraham his father; for the
Philistines had stopped them after the
death of Abraham: and he called their
names after the names by which his
father had called them.
19 And Isaac's servants digged in the
valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive
with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water
[is] our's: and he called the name of
the well Esek; because they strove with
him.
21 And they digged another well, and
strove for that also: and he called the
name of it Sitnah.
22 And he removed from thence, and
digged another well; and for that they
strove not: and he called the name of
it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the
LORD hath made room for us, and we
shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to
Beer-sheba.
24 And the LORD appeared unto him the
same night, and said, I [am] the God of
Abraham thy father: fear not, for I
[am] with thee, and will bless thee,
and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and
called upon the name of the LORD, and
pitched his tent there: and there
Isaac's servants digged a well.
26 # Then Abimelech went to him from
Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends,
and Phichol the chief captain of his
army.
27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore
come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and
have sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that
the LORD was with thee: and we said,
Let there be now an oath betwixt us,
[even] betwixt us and thee, and let us
make a covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we
have not touched thee, and as we have
done unto thee nothing but good, and
have sent thee away in peace: thou
[art] now the blessed of the LORD.
30 And he made them a feast, and they
did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the
morning, and sware one to another: and
Isaac sent them away, and they departed
from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day,
that Isaac's servants came, and told
him concerning the well which they had
digged, and said unto him, We have
found water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore
the name of the city [is] Beer-sheba
unto this day.
34 # And Esau was forty years old when
he took to wife Judith the daughter of
Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto
Isaac and to Rebekah.

CHAPTER 27
1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac
was old, and his eyes were dim, so that
he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son:
and he said unto him, Behold, [here am]
I.
2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I
know not the day of my death:
3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy
weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go
out to the field, and take me [some]
venison;
4 And make me savoury meat, such as I
love, and bring [it] to me, that I may
eat; that my soul may bless thee before
I die.
5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to
Esau his son. And Esau went to the
field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to
bring [it].
6 # And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her
son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father
speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury
meat, that I may eat, and bless thee
before the LORD before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me
from thence two good kids of the goats;
and I will make them savoury meat for
thy father, such as he loveth:
10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he
may bless thee before his death.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his
mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a
hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
12 My father peradventure will feel me,
and I shall seem to him as a deceiver;
and I shall bring a curse upon me, and
not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him, Upon
me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey my
voice, and go fetch me [them].
14 And he went, and fetched, and
brought [them] to his mother: and his
mother made savoury meat, such as his
father loved.
15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of
her eldest son Esau, which [were] with
her in the house, and put them upon
Jacob her younger son:
16 And she put the skins of the kids of
the goats upon his hands, and upon the
smooth of his neck:
17 And she gave the savoury meat and
the bread, which she had prepared, into
the hand of her son Jacob.
18 # And he came unto his father, and
said, My father: and he said, Here [am]
I; who [art] thou, my son?
19 And Jacob said unto his father, I
[am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done
according as thou badest me: arise, I
pray thee, sit and eat of my venison,
that thy soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said unto his son, How [is
it] that thou hast found [it] so
quickly, my son? And he said, Because
the LORD thy God brought [it] to me.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come
near, I pray thee, that I may feel
thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very
son Esau or not.
22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his
father; and he felt him, and said, The
voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands
[are] the hands of Esau.
23 And he discerned him not, because
his hands were hairy, as his brother
Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
24 And he said, [Art] thou my very son
Esau? And he said, I [am].
25 And he said, Bring [it] near to me,
and I will eat of my son's venison,
that my soul may bless thee. And he
brought [it] near to him, and he did
eat: and he brought him wine, and he
drank.
26 And his father Isaac said unto him,
Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
27 And he came near, and kissed him:
and he smelled the smell of his
raiment, and blessed him, and said,
See, the smell of my son [is] as the
smell of a field which the LORD hath
blessed:
28 Therefore God give thee of the dew
of heaven, and the fatness of the
earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
29 Let people serve thee, and nations
bow down to thee: be lord over thy
brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow
down to thee: cursed [be] every one
that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he
that blesseth thee.
30 # And it came to pass, as soon as
Isaac had made an end of blessing
Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone
out from the presence of Isaac his
father, that Esau his brother came in
from his hunting.
31 And he also had made savoury meat,
and brought it unto his father, and
said unto his father, Let my father
arise, and eat of his son's venison,
that thy soul may bless me.
32 And Isaac his father said unto him,
Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy
son, thy firstborn Esau.
33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly,
and said, Who? where [is] he that hath
taken venison, and brought [it] me, and
I have eaten of all before thou camest,
and have blessed him? yea, [and] he
shall be blessed.
34 And when Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with a great and
exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my
father.
35 And he said, Thy brother came with
subtilty, and hath taken away thy
blessing.
36 And he said, Is not he rightly named
Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these
two times: he took away my birthright;
and, behold, now he hath taken away my
blessing. And he said, Hast thou not
reserved a blessing for me?
37 And Isaac answered and said unto
Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord,
and all his brethren have I given to
him for servants; and with corn and
wine have I sustained him: and what
shall I do now unto thee, my son?
38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast
thou but one blessing, my father? bless
me, [even] me also, O my father. And
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
39 And Isaac his father answered and
said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling
shall be the fatness of the earth, and
of the dew of heaven from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live,
and shalt serve thy brother; and it
shall come to pass when thou shalt have
the dominion, that thou shalt break his
yoke from off thy neck.
41 # And Esau hated Jacob because of
the blessing wherewith his father
blessed him: and Esau said in his
heart, The days of mourning for my
father are at hand; then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
42 And these words of Esau her elder
son were told to Rebekah: and she sent
and called Jacob her younger son, and
said unto him, Behold, thy brother
Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort
himself, [purposing] to kill thee.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my
brother to Haran;
44 And tarry with him a few days, until
thy brother's fury turn away;
45 Until thy brother's anger turn away
from thee, and he forget [that] which
thou hast done to him: then I will
send, and fetch thee from thence: why
should I be deprived also of you both
in one day?
46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am
weary of my life because of the
daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife
of the daughters of Heth, such as these
[which are] of the daughters of the
land, what good shall my life do me?

CHAPTER 28
1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed
him, and charged him, and said unto
him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house
of Bethuel thy mother's father; and
take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's
brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that
thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 And give thee the blessing of
Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with
thee; that thou mayest inherit the land
wherein thou art a stranger, which God
gave unto Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he
went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of
Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6 # When Esau saw that Isaac had
blessed Jacob, and sent him away to
Padan-aram, to take him a wife from
thence; and that as he blessed him he
gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt
not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan;
7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and
his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of
Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took
unto the wives which he had Mahalath
the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son,
the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 # And Jacob went out from
Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain place,
and tarried there all night, because
the sun was set; and he took of the
stones of that place, and put [them
for] his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder
set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven: and behold the
angels of God ascending and descending
on it.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above
it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of
Abraham thy father, and the God of
Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of
the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad
to the west, and to the east, and to
the north, and to the south: and in
thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I [am] with thee, and
will keep thee in all [places] whither
thou goest, and will bring thee again
into this land; for I will not leave
thee, until I have done [that] which I
have spoken to thee of.
16 # And Jacob awaked out of his sleep,
and he said, Surely the LORD is in this
place; and I knew [it] not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful [is] this place! this [is]
none other but the house of God, and
this [is] the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had
put [for] his pillows, and set it up
[for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the
top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place
Beth-el: but the name of that city [was
called] Luz at the first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If
God will be with me, and will keep me
in this way that I go, and will give me
bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 So that I come again to my father's
house in peace; then shall the LORD be
my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set
[for] a pillar, shall be God's house:
and of all that thou shalt give me I
will surely give the tenth unto thee.

CHAPTER 29
1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and
came into the land of the people of the
east.
2 And he looked, and behold a well in
the field, and, lo, there [were] three
flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of
that well they watered the flocks: and
a great stone [was] upon the well's
mouth.
3 And thither were all the flocks
gathered: and they rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the
sheep, and put the stone again upon the
well's mouth in his place.
4 And Jacob said unto them, My
brethren, whence [be] ye? And they
said, Of Haran [are] we.
5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban
the son of Nahor? And they said, We
know [him].
6 And he said unto them, [Is] he well?
And they said, [He is] well: and,
behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with
the sheep.
7 And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high
day, neither [is it] time that the
cattle should be gathered together:
water ye the sheep, and go [and] feed
[them].
8 And they said, We cannot, until all
the flocks be gathered together, and
[till] they roll the stone from the
well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
9 # And while he yet spake with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep:
for she kept them.
10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw
Rachel the daughter of Laban his
mother's brother, and the sheep of
Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob
went near, and rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and watered the flock
of Laban his mother's brother.
11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted
up his voice, and wept.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he [was]
her father's brother, and that he [was]
Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her
father.
13 And it came to pass, when Laban
heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's
son, that he ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and kissed him, and
brought him to his house. And he told
Laban all these things.
14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou
[art] my bone and my flesh. And he
abode with him the space of a month.
15 # And Laban said unto Jacob, Because
thou [art] my brother, shouldest thou
therefore serve me for nought? tell me,
what [shall] thy wages [be]?
16 And Laban had two daughters: the
name of the elder [was] Leah, and the
name of the younger [was] Rachel.
17 Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel
was beautiful and well favoured.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I
will serve thee seven years for Rachel
thy younger daughter.
19 And Laban said, [It is] better that
I give her to thee, than that I should
give her to another man: abide with me.
20 And Jacob served seven years for
Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but]
a few days, for the love he had to her.
21 # And Jacob said unto Laban, Give
[me] my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
22 And Laban gathered together all the
men of the place, and made a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the evening,
that he took Leah his daughter, and
brought her to him; and he went in unto
her.
24 And Laban gave unto his daughter
Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the
morning, behold, it [was] Leah: and he
said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast
done unto me? did not I serve with thee
for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou
beguiled me?
26 And Laban said, It must not be so
done in our country, to give the
younger before the firstborn.
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give
thee this also for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven
other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her
week: and he gave him Rachel his
daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his
daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her
maid.
30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and
he loved also Rachel more than Leah,
and served with him yet seven other
years.
31 # And when the LORD saw that Leah
[was] hated, he opened her womb: but
Rachel [was] barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son,
and she called his name Reuben: for she
said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon
my affliction; now therefore my husband
will love me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and said, Because the LORD hath
heard that I [was] hated, he hath
therefore given me this [son] also: and
she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and said, Now this time will my
husband be joined unto me, because I
have born him three sons: therefore was
his name called Levi.
35 And she conceived again, and bare a
son: and she said, Now will I praise
the LORD: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.

CHAPTER 30
1 And when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against
Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God's
stead, who hath withheld from thee the
fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah,
go in unto her; and she shall bear upon
my knees, that I may also have children
by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid
to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob
a son.
6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me,
and hath also heard my voice, and hath
given me a son: therefore called she
his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived
again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great
wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she
called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left
bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and
gave her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a
son.
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and
she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a
second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the
daughters will call me blessed: and she
called his name Asher.
14 # And Reuben went in the days of
wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in
the field, and brought them unto his
mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah,
Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
15 And she said unto her, [Is it] a
small matter that thou hast taken my
husband? and wouldest thou take away my
son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said,
Therefore he shall lie with thee to
night for thy son's mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came out of the field in
the evening, and Leah went out to meet
him, and said, Thou must come in unto
me; for surely I have hired thee with
my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her
that night.
17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she
conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth
son.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me my
hire, because I have given my maiden to
my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bare
Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God hath endued me
[with] a good dowry; now will my
husband dwell with me, because I have
born him six sons: and she called his
name Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bare a daughter,
and called her name Dinah.
22 # And God remembered Rachel, and God
hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bare a son;
and said, God hath taken away my
reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph; and
said, The LORD shall add to me another
son.
25 # And it came to pass, when Rachel
had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto
Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto
mine own place, and to my country.
26 Give [me] my wives and my children,
for whom I have served thee, and let me
go: for thou knowest my service which I
have done thee.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray
thee, if I have found favour in thine
eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by
experience that the LORD hath blessed
me for thy sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages,
and I will give [it].
29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest
how I have served thee, and how thy
cattle was with me.
30 For [it was] little which thou hadst
before I [came], and it is [now]
increased unto a multitude; and the
LORD hath blessed thee since my coming:
and now when shall I provide for mine
own house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give thee?
And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me
any thing: if thou wilt do this thing
for me, I will again feed [and] keep
thy flock:
32 I will pass through all thy flock to
day, removing from thence all the
speckled and spotted cattle, and all
the brown cattle among the sheep, and
the spotted and speckled among the
goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for
me in time to come, when it shall come
for my hire before thy face: every one
that [is] not speckled and spotted
among the goats, and brown among the
sheep, that shall be counted stolen
with me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it
might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats
that were ringstraked and spotted, and
all the she goats that were speckled
and spotted, [and] every one that had
[some] white in it, and all the brown
among the sheep, and gave [them] into
the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey
betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob
fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
37 # And Jacob took him rods of green
poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut
tree; and pilled white strakes in them,
and made the white appear which [was]
in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had
pilled before the flocks in the gutters
in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should
conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the
rods, and brought forth cattle
ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs,
and set the faces of the flocks toward
the ringstraked, and all the brown in
the flock of Laban; and he put his own
flocks by themselves, and put them not
unto Laban's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the
stronger cattle did conceive, that
Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of
the cattle in the gutters, that they
might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he
put [them] not in: so the feebler were
Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 And the man increased exceedingly,
and had much cattle, and maidservants,
and menservants, and camels, and asses.

CHAPTER 31
1 And he heard the words of Laban's
sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all
that [was] our father's; and of [that]
which [was] our father's hath he gotten
all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of
Laban, and, behold, it [was] not toward
him as before.
3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return
unto the land of thy fathers, and to
thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and
Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your
father's countenance, that it [is] not
toward me as before; but the God of my
father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I
have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and
changed my wages ten times; but God
suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall
be thy wages; then all the cattle bare
speckled: and if he said thus, The
ringstraked shall be thy hire; then
bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle
of your father, and given [them] to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that
the cattle conceived, that I lifted up
mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the
cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled,
and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me
in a dream, [saying], Jacob: And I
said, Here [am] I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes,
and see, all the rams which leap upon
the cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled,
and grisled: for I have seen all that
Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I [am] the God of Beth-el, where
thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where
thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise,
get thee out from this land, and return
unto the land of thy kindred.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and
said unto him, [Is there] yet any
portion or inheritance for us in our
father's house?
15 Are we not counted of him strangers?
for he hath sold us, and hath quite
devoured also our money.
16 For all the riches which God hath
taken from our father, that [is] our's,
and our children's: now then,
whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
17 # Then Jacob rose up, and set his
sons and his wives upon camels;
18 And he carried away all his cattle,
and all his goods which he had gotten,
the cattle of his getting, which he had
gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to
Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban went to shear his sheep:
and Rachel had stolen the images that
[were] her father's.
20 And Jacob stole away unawares to
Laban the Syrian, in that he told him
not that he fled.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and
he rose up, and passed over the river,
and set his face [toward] the mount
Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third
day that Jacob was fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him,
and pursued after him seven days'
journey; and they overtook him in the
mount Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in
a dream by night, and said unto him,
Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
25 # Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now
Jacob had pitched his tent in the
mount: and Laban with his brethren
pitched in the mount of Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast
thou done, that thou hast stolen away
unawares to me, and carried away my
daughters, as captives [taken] with the
sword?
27 Wherefore didst thou flee away
secretly, and steal away from me; and
didst not tell me, that I might have
sent thee away with mirth, and with
songs, with tabret, and with harp?
28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my
sons and my daughters? thou hast now
done foolishly in [so] doing.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do
you hurt: but the God of your father
spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take
thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
30 And now, [though] thou wouldest
needs be gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father's house,
[yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my
gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to
Laban, Because I was afraid: for I
said, Peradventure thou wouldest take
by force thy daughters from me.
32 With whomsoever thou findest thy
gods, let him not live: before our
brethren discern thou what [is] thine
with me, and take [it] to thee. For
Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent,
and into Leah's tent, and into the two
maidservants' tents; but he found
[them] not. Then went he out of Leah's
tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and
put them in the camel's furniture, and
sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found [them] not.
35 And she said to her father, Let it
not displease my lord that I cannot
rise up before thee; for the custom of
women [is] upon me. And he searched,
but found not the images.
36 # And Jacob was wroth, and chode
with Laban: and Jacob answered and said
to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what
[is] my sin, that thou hast so hotly
pursued after me?
37 Whereas thou hast searched all my
stuff, what hast thou found of all thy
household stuff? set [it] here before
my brethren and thy brethren, that they
may judge betwixt us both.
38 This twenty years [have] I [been]
with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats
have not cast their young, and the rams
of thy flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn [of beasts] I
brought not unto thee; I bare the loss
of it; of my hand didst thou require
it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen
by night.
40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night;
and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy
house; I served thee fourteen years for
thy two daughters, and six years for
thy cattle: and thou hast changed my
wages ten times.
42 Except the God of my father, the God
of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had
been with me, surely thou hadst sent me
away now empty. God hath seen mine
affliction and the labour of my hands,
and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
43 # And Laban answered and said unto
Jacob, [These] daughters [are] my
daughters, and [these] children [are]
my children, and [these] cattle [are]
my cattle, and all that thou seest [is]
mine: and what can I do this day unto
these my daughters, or unto their
children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make
a covenant, I and thou; and let it be
for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it
up [for] a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren,
Gather stones; and they took stones,
and made an heap: and they did eat
there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha:
but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a
witness between me and thee this day.
Therefore was the name of it called
Galeed;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD
watch between me and thee, when we are
absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters,
or if thou shalt take [other] wives
beside my daughters, no man [is] with
us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me
and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this
heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I
have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 This heap [be] witness, and [this]
pillar [be] witness, that I will not
pass over this heap to thee, and that
thou shalt not pass over this heap and
this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of
Nahor, the God of their father, judge
betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear
of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon
the mount, and called his brethren to
eat bread: and they did eat bread, and
tarried all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose
up, and kissed his sons and his
daughters, and blessed them: and Laban
departed, and returned unto his place.

CHAPTER 32
1 And Jacob went on his way, and the
angels of God met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them, he said,
This [is] God's host: and he called the
name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him
to Esau his brother unto the land of
Seir, the country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus
shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy
servant Jacob saith thus, I have
sojourned with Laban, and stayed there
until now:
5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks,
and menservants, and womenservants: and
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find grace in thy sight.
6 # And the messengers returned to
Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother
Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee,
and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and
distressed: and he divided the people
that [was] with him, and the flocks,
and herds, and the camels, into two
bands;
8 And said, If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other
company which is left shall escape.
9 # And Jacob said, O God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father Isaac,
the LORD which saidst unto me, Return
unto thy country, and to thy kindred,
and I will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all
the mercies, and of all the truth,
which thou hast shewed unto thy
servant; for with my staff I passed
over this Jordan; and now I am become
two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the
hand of my brother, from the hand of
Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come
and smite me, [and] the mother with the
children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do
thee good, and make thy seed as the
sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude.
13 # And he lodged there that same
night; and took of that which came to
his hand a present for Esau his
brother;
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he
goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty
rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their
colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,
twenty she asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered [them] into the
hand of his servants, every drove by
themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and put a space
betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost,
saying, When Esau my brother meeteth
thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose
[art] thou? and whither goest thou? and
whose [are] these before thee?
18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy
servant Jacob's; it [is] a present sent
unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he
[is] behind us.
19 And so commanded he the second, and
the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying, On this manner shall ye
speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy
servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he
said, I will appease him with the
present that goeth before me, and
afterward I will see his face;
peradventure he will accept of me.
21 So went the present over before him:
and himself lodged that night in the
company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took
his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and
passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over
the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 # And Jacob was left alone; and
there wrestled a man with him until the
breaking of the day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed
not against him, he touched the hollow
of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled
with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I will not let
thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy
name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel: for
as a prince hast thou power with God
and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked [him], and said,
Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And
he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou
dost ask after my name? And he blessed
him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the
place Peniel: for I have seen God face
to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun
rose upon him, and he halted upon his
thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat
not [of] the sinew which shrank, which
[is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto
this day: because he touched the hollow
of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that
shrank.

CHAPTER 33
1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and, behold, Esau came, and
with him four hundred men. And he
divided the children unto Leah, and
unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
2 And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost.
3 And he passed over before them, and
bowed himself to the ground seven
times, until he came near to his
brother.
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and fell on his neck, and
kissed him: and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw
the women and the children; and said,
Who [are] those with thee? And he said,
The children which God hath graciously
given thy servant.
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they
and their children, and they bowed
themselves.
7 And Leah also with her children came
near, and bowed themselves: and after
came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
8 And he said, What [meanest] thou by
all this drove which I met? And he
said, [These are] to find grace in the
sight of my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my
brother; keep that thou hast unto
thyself.
10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if
now I have found grace in thy sight,
then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen thy face, as
though I had seen the face of God, and
thou wast pleased with me.
11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that
is brought to thee; because God hath
dealt graciously with me, and because I
have enough. And he urged him, and he
took [it].
12 And he said, Let us take our
journey, and let us go, and I will go
before thee.
13 And he said unto him, My lord
knoweth that the children [are] tender,
and the flocks and herds with young
[are] with me: and if men should
overdrive them one day, all the flock
will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over
before his servant: and I will lead on
softly, according as the cattle that
goeth before me and the children be
able to endure, until I come unto my
lord unto Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with
thee [some] of the folk that [are] with
me. And he said, What needeth it? let
me find grace in the sight of my lord.
16 # So Esau returned that day on his
way unto Seir.
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and
built him an house, and made booths for
his cattle: therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.
18 # And Jacob came to Shalem, a city
of Shechem, which [is] in the land of
Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram;
and pitched his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field,
where he had spread his tent, at the
hand of the children of Hamor,
Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces
of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and
called it El-elohe-Israel.

CHAPTER 34
1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob, went out to see
the daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the
Hivite, prince of the country, saw her,
he took her, and lay with her, and
defiled her.
3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the
daughter of Jacob, and he loved the
damsel, and spake kindly unto the
damsel.
4 And Shechem spake unto his father
Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to
wife.
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled
Dinah his daughter: now his sons were
with his cattle in the field: and Jacob
held his peace until they were come.
6 # And Hamor the father of Shechem
went out unto Jacob to commune with
him.
7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the
field when they heard [it]: and the men
were grieved, and they were very wroth,
because he had wrought folly in Israel
in lying with Jacob's daughter; which
thing ought not to be done.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying,
The soul of my son Shechem longeth for
your daughter: I pray you give her him
to wife.
9 And make ye marriages with us, [and]
give your daughters unto us, and take
our daughters unto you.
10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the
land shall be before you; dwell and
trade ye therein, and get you
possessions therein.
11 And Shechem said unto her father and
unto her brethren, Let me find grace in
your eyes, and what ye shall say unto
me I will give.
12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift,
and I will give according as ye shall
say unto me: but give me the damsel to
wife.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered
Shechem and Hamor his father
deceitfully, and said, because he had
defiled Dinah their sister:
14 And they said unto them, We cannot
do this thing, to give our sister to
one that is uncircumcised; for that
[were] a reproach unto us:
15 But in this will we consent unto
you: If ye will be as we [be], that
every male of you be circumcised;
16 Then will we give our daughters unto
you, and we will take your daughters to
us, and we will dwell with you, and we
will become one people.
17 But if ye will not hearken unto us,
to be circumcised; then will we take
our daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and
Shechem Hamor's son.
19 And the young man deferred not to do
the thing, because he had delight in
Jacob's daughter: and he [was] more
honourable than all the house of his
father.
20 # And Hamor and Shechem his son came
unto the gate of their city, and
communed with the men of their city,
saying,
21 These men [are] peaceable with us;
therefore let them dwell in the land,
and trade therein; for the land,
behold, [it is] large enough for them;
let us take their daughters to us for
wives, and let us give them our
daughters.
22 Only herein will the men consent
unto us for to dwell with us, to be one
people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they [are] circumcised.
23 [Shall] not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of their's
[be] our's? only let us consent unto
them, and they will dwell with us.
24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his
son hearkened all that went out of the
gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the
gate of his city.
25 # And it came to pass on the third
day, when they were sore, that two of
the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brethren, took each man his
sword, and came upon the city boldly,
and slew all the males.
26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his
son with the edge of the sword, and
took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and
went out.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the
slain, and spoiled the city, because
they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their
oxen, and their asses, and that which
[was] in the city, and that which [was]
in the field,
29 And all their wealth, and all their
little ones, and their wives took they
captive, and spoiled even all that
[was] in the house.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,
Ye have troubled me to make me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land,
among the Canaanites and the
Perizzites: and I [being] few in
number, they shall gather themselves
together against me, and slay me; and I
shall be destroyed, I and my house.
31 And they said, Should he deal with
our sister as with an harlot?

CHAPTER 35
1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up
to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared
unto thee when thou fleddest from the
face of Esau thy brother.
2 Then Jacob said unto his household,
and to all that [were] with him, Put
away the strange gods that [are] among
you, and be clean, and change your
garments:
3 And let us arise, and go up to
Beth-el; and I will make there an altar
unto God, who answered me in the day of
my distress, and was with me in the way
which I went.
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which [were] in their
hand, and [all their] earrings which
[were] in their ears; and Jacob hid
them under the oak which [was] by
Shechem.
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of
God was upon the cities that [were]
round about them, and they did not
pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6 # So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in
the land of Canaan, that [is], Beth-el,
he and all the people that [were] with
him.
7 And he built there an altar, and
called the place El-beth-el: because
there God appeared unto him, when he
fled from the face of his brother.
8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and
she was buried beneath Beth-el under an
oak: and the name of it was called
Allon-bachuth.
9 # And God appeared unto Jacob again,
when he came out of Padan-aram, and
blessed him.
10 And God said unto him, Thy name [is]
Jacob: thy name shall not be called any
more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I [am] God
Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a
nation and a company of nations shall
be of thee, and kings shall come out of
thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham
and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and
to thy seed after thee will I give the
land.
13 And God went up from him in the
place where he talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the
place where he talked with him, [even]
a pillar of stone: and he poured a
drink offering thereon, and he poured
oil thereon.
15 And Jacob called the name of the
place where God spake with him,
Beth-el.
16 # And they journeyed from Beth-el;
and there was but a little way to come
to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and
she had hard labour.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in
hard labour, that the midwife said unto
her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son
also.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was
in departing, (for she died) that she
called his name Ben-oni: but his father
called him Benjamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in
the way to Ephrath, which [is]
Beth-lehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her
grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel's
grave unto this day.
21 # And Israel journeyed, and spread
his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Israel
dwelt in that land, that Reuben went
and lay with Bilhah his father's
concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now
the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and
Benjamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's
handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are]
the sons of Jacob, which were born to
him in Padan-aram.
27 # And Jacob came unto Isaac his
father unto Mamre, unto the city of
Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham
and Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an
hundred and fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and
died, and was gathered unto his people,
[being] old and full of days: and his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

CHAPTER 36
1 Now these [are] the generations of
Esau, who [is] Edom.
2 Esau took his wives of the daughters
of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon
the Hittite, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon
the Hivite;
3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter,
sister of Nebajoth.
4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and
Bashemath bare Reuel;
5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah: these [are] the sons
of Esau, which were born unto him in
the land of Canaan.
6 And Esau took his wives, and his
sons, and his daughters, and all the
persons of his house, and his cattle,
and all his beasts, and all his
substance, which he had got in the land
of Canaan; and went into the country
from the face of his brother Jacob.
7 For their riches were more than that
they might dwell together; and the land
wherein they were strangers could not
bear them because of their cattle.
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau
[is] Edom.
9 # And these [are] the generations of
Esau the father of the Edomites in
mount Seir:
10 These [are] the names of Esau's
sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife
of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the
wife of Esau.
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman,
Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz
Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz
Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah
Esau's wife.
13 And these [are] the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah:
these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's
wife.
14 # And these were the sons of
Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and
she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and
Korah.
15 # These [were] dukes of the sons of
Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn
[son] of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar,
duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, [and] duke
Amalek: these [are] the dukes [that
came] of Eliphaz in the land of Edom;
these [were] the sons of Adah.
17 # And these [are] the sons of Reuel
Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah,
duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these [are]
the dukes [that came] of Reuel in the
land of Edom; these [are] the sons of
Bashemath Esau's wife.
18 # And these [are] the sons of
Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were]
the dukes [that came] of Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
19 These [are] the sons of Esau, who
[is] Edom, and these [are] their dukes.
20 # These [are] the sons of Seir the
Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan,
and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan:
these [are] the dukes of the Horites,
the children of Seir in the land of
Edom.
22 And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Hemam; and Lotan's sister [was]
Timna.
23 And the children of Shobal [were]
these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal,
Shepho, and Onam.
24 And these [are] the children of
Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this [was
that] Anah that found the mules in the
wilderness, as he fed the asses of
Zibeon his father.
25 And the children of Anah [were]
these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah.
26 And these [are] the children of
Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran,
and Cheran.
27 The children of Ezer [are] these;
Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
28 The children of Dishan [are] these;
Uz, and Aran.
29 These [are] the dukes [that came] of
the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal,
duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan:
these [are] the dukes [that came] of
Hori, among their dukes in the land of
Seir.
31 # And these [are] the kings that
reigned in the land of Edom, before
there reigned any king over the
children of Israel.
32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in
Edom: and the name of his city [was]
Dinhabah.
33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of
Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the
land of Temani reigned in his stead.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son
of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field
of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the
name of his city [was] Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his stead.
37 And Samlah died, and Saul of
Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his
stead.
38 And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the
son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor
died, and Hadar reigned in his stead:
and the name of his city [was] Pau; and
his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the
daughter of Matred, the daughter of
Mezahab.
40 And these [are] the names of the
dukes [that came] of Esau, according to
their families, after their places, by
their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah,
duke Jetheth,
41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke
Pinon,
42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these [be]
the dukes of Edom, according to their
habitations in the land of their
possession: he [is] Esau the father of
the Edomites.

CHAPTER 37
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein
his father was a stranger, in the land
of Canaan.
2 These [are] the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, [being] seventeen years old,
was feeding the flock with his
brethren; and the lad [was] with the
sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of
Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph
brought unto his father their evil
report.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all
his children, because he [was] the son
of his old age: and he made him a coat
of [many] colours.
4 And when his brethren saw that their
father loved him more than all his
brethren, they hated him, and could not
speak peaceably unto him.
5 # And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he
told [it] his brethren: and they hated
him yet the more.
6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray
you, this dream which I have dreamed:
7 For, behold, we [were] binding
sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf
arose, and also stood upright; and,
behold, your sheaves stood round about,
and made obeisance to my sheaf.
8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt
thou indeed reign over us? or shalt
thou indeed have dominion over us? And
they hated him yet the more for his
dreams, and for his words.
9 # And he dreamed yet another dream,
and told it his brethren, and said,
Behold, I have dreamed a dream more;
and, behold, the sun and the moon and
the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10 And he told [it] to his father, and
to his brethren: and his father rebuked
him, and said unto him, What [is] this
dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I
and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves to thee to
the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his
father observed the saying.
12 # And his brethren went to feed
their father's flock in Shechem.
13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not
thy brethren feed [the flock] in
Shechem? come, and I will send thee
unto them. And he said to him, Here [am
I].
14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee,
see whether it be well with thy
brethren, and well with the flocks; and
bring me word again. So he sent him out
of the vale of Hebron, and he came to
Shechem.
15 # And a certain man found him, and,
behold, [he was] wandering in the
field: and the man asked him, saying,
What seekest thou?
16 And he said, I seek my brethren:
tell me, I pray thee, where they feed
[their flocks].
17 And the man said, They are departed
hence; for I heard them say, Let us go
to Dothan. And Joseph went after his
brethren, and found them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him afar off, even
before he came near unto them, they
conspired against him to slay him.
19 And they said one to another,
Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20 Come now therefore, and let us slay
him, and cast him into some pit, and we
will say, Some evil beast hath devoured
him: and we shall see what will become
of his dreams.
21 And Reuben heard [it], and he
delivered him out of their hands; and
said, Let us not kill him.
22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no
blood, [but] cast him into this pit
that [is] in the wilderness, and lay no
hand upon him; that he might rid him
out of their hands, to deliver him to
his father again.
23 # And it came to pass, when Joseph
was come unto his brethren, that they
stript Joseph out of his coat, [his]
coat of [many] colours that [was] on
him;
24 And they took him, and cast him into
a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there
was] no water in it.
25 And they sat down to eat bread: and
they lifted up their eyes and looked,
and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites
came from Gilead with their camels
bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,
going to carry [it] down to Egypt.
26 And Judah said unto his brethren,
What profit [is it] if we slay our
brother, and conceal his blood?
27 Come, and let us sell him to the
Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be
upon him; for he [is] our brother [and]
our flesh. And his brethren were
content.
28 Then there passed by Midianites
merchantmen; and they drew and lifted
up Joseph out of the pit, and sold
Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty
[pieces] of silver: and they brought
Joseph into Egypt.
29 # And Reuben returned unto the pit;
and, behold, Joseph [was] not in the
pit; and he rent his clothes.
30 And he returned unto his brethren,
and said, The child [is] not; and I,
whither shall I go?
31 And they took Joseph's coat, and
killed a kid of the goats, and dipped
the coat in the blood;
32 And they sent the coat of [many]
colours, and they brought [it] to their
father; and said, This have we found:
know now whether it [be] thy son's coat
or no.
33 And he knew it, and said, [It is] my
son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured
him; Joseph is without doubt rent in
pieces.
34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned
for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his
daughters rose up to comfort him; but
he refused to be comforted; and he
said, For I will go down into the grave
unto my son mourning. Thus his father
wept for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him into
Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard.

CHAPTER 38
1 And it came to pass at that time,
that Judah went down from his brethren,
and turned in to a certain Adullamite,
whose name [was] Hirah.
2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a
certain Canaanite, whose name [was]
Shuah; and he took her, and went in
unto her.
3 And she conceived, and bare a son;
and he called his name Er.
4 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and she called his name Onan.
5 And she yet again conceived, and bare
a son; and called his name Shelah: and
he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
6 And Judah took a wife for Er his
firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.
7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked
in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD
slew him.
8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto
thy brother's wife, and marry her, and
raise up seed to thy brother.
9 And Onan knew that the seed should
not be his; and it came to pass, when
he went in unto his brother's wife,
that he spilled [it] on the ground,
lest that he should give seed to his
brother.
10 And the thing which he did
displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew
him also.
11 Then said Judah to Tamar his
daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy
father's house, till Shelah my son be
grown: for he said, Lest peradventure
he die also, as his brethren [did]. And
Tamar went and dwelt in her father's
house.
12 # And in process of time the
daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died;
and Judah was comforted, and went up
unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he
and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And it was told Tamar, saying,
Behold thy father in law goeth up to
Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 And she put her widow's garments off
from her, and covered her with a vail,
and wrapped herself, and sat in an open
place, which [is] by the way to
Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was
grown, and she was not given unto him
to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her
[to be] an harlot; because she had
covered her face.
16 And he turned unto her by the way,
and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me
come in unto thee; (for he knew not
that she [was] his daughter in law.)
And she said, What wilt thou give me,
that thou mayest come in unto me?
17 And he said, I will send [thee] a
kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt
thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send
[it]?
18 And he said, What pledge shall I
give thee? And she said, Thy signet,
and thy bracelets, and thy staff that
[is] in thine hand. And he gave [it]
her, and came in unto her, and she
conceived by him.
19 And she arose, and went away, and
laid by her vail from her, and put on
the garments of her widowhood.
20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand
of his friend the Adullamite, to
receive [his] pledge from the woman's
hand: but he found her not.
21 Then he asked the men of that place,
saying, Where [is] the harlot, that
[was] openly by the way side? And they
said, There was no harlot in this
[place].
22 And he returned to Judah, and said,
I cannot find her; and also the men of
the place said, [that] there was no
harlot in this [place].
23 And Judah said, Let her take [it] to
her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent
this kid, and thou hast not found her.
24 # And it came to pass about three
months after, that it was told Judah,
saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath
played the harlot; and also, behold,
she [is] with child by whoredom. And
Judah said, Bring her forth, and let
her be burnt.
25 When she [was] brought forth, she
sent to her father in law, saying, By
the man, whose these [are, am] I with
child: and she said, Discern, I pray
thee, whose [are] these, the signet,
and bracelets, and staff.
26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and
said, She hath been more righteous than
I; because that I gave her not to
Shelah my son. And he knew her again no
more.
27 # And it came to pass in the time of
her travail, that, behold, twins [were]
in her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she
travailed, that [the one] put out [his]
hand: and the midwife took and bound
upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying,
This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back
his hand, that, behold, his brother
came out: and she said, How hast thou
broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon
thee: therefore his name was called
Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother,
that had the scarlet thread upon his
hand: and his name was called Zarah.

CHAPTER 39
1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt;
and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh,
captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him of the hands of the
Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
thither.
2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he
was a prosperous man; and he was in the
house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that the LORD
[was] with him, and that the LORD made
all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Joseph found grace in his sight,
and he served him: and he made him
overseer over his house, and all [that]
he had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time
[that] he had made him overseer in his
house, and over all that he had, that
the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house
for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of
the LORD was upon all that he had in
the house, and in the field.
6 And he left all that he had in
Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he
had, save the bread which he did eat.
And Joseph was [a] goodly [person], and
well favoured.
7 # And it came to pass after these
things, that his master's wife cast her
eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie
with me.
8 But he refused, and said unto his
master's wife, Behold, my master
wotteth not what [is] with me in the
house, and he hath committed all that
he hath to my hand;
9 [There is] none greater in this house
than I; neither hath he kept back any
thing from me but thee, because thou
[art] his wife: how then can I do this
great wickedness, and sin against God?
10 And it came to pass, as she spake to
Joseph day by day, that he hearkened
not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be
with her.
11 And it came to pass about this time,
that [Joseph] went into the house to do
his business; and [there was] none of
the men of the house there within.
12 And she caught him by his garment,
saying, Lie with me: and he left his
garment in her hand, and fled, and got
him out.
13 And it came to pass, when she saw
that he had left his garment in her
hand, and was fled forth,
14 That she called unto the men of her
house, and spake unto them, saying,
See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto
us to mock us; he came in unto me to
lie with me, and I cried with a loud
voice:
15 And it came to pass, when he heard
that I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment with me, and
fled, and got him out.
16 And she laid up his garment by her,
until his lord came home.
17 And she spake unto him according to
these words, saying, The Hebrew
servant, which thou hast brought unto
us, came in unto me to mock me:
18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up
my voice and cried, that he left his
garment with me, and fled out.
19 And it came to pass, when his master
heard the words of his wife, which she
spake unto him, saying, After this
manner did thy servant to me; that his
wrath was kindled.
20 And Joseph's master took him, and
put him into the prison, a place where
the king's prisoners [were] bound: and
he was there in the prison.
21 # But the LORD was with Joseph, and
shewed him mercy, and gave him favour
in the sight of the keeper of the
prison.
22 And the keeper of the prison
committed to Joseph's hand all the
prisoners that [were] in the prison;
and whatsoever they did there, he was
the doer [of it].
23 The keeper of the prison looked not
to any thing [that was] under his hand;
because the LORD was with him, and
[that] which he did, the LORD made [it]
to prosper.

CHAPTER 40
1 And it came to pass after these
things, [that] the butler of the king
of Egypt and [his] baker had offended
their lord the king of Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two
[of] his officers, against the chief of
the butlers, and against the chief of
the bakers.
3 And he put them in ward in the house
of the captain of the guard, into the
prison, the place where Joseph [was]
bound.
4 And the captain of the guard charged
Joseph with them, and he served them:
and they continued a season in ward.
5 # And they dreamed a dream both of
them, each man his dream in one night,
each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the butler
and the baker of the king of Egypt,
which [were] bound in the prison.
6 And Joseph came in unto them in the
morning, and looked upon them, and,
behold, they [were] sad.
7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that
[were] with him in the ward of his
lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye
[so] sadly to day?
8 And they said unto him, We have
dreamed a dream, and [there is] no
interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto
them, [Do] not interpretations [belong]
to God? tell me [them], I pray you.
9 And the chief butler told his dream
to Joseph, and said to him, In my
dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;
10 And in the vine [were] three
branches: and it [was] as though it
budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth;
and the clusters thereof brought forth
ripe grapes:
11 And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand:
and I took the grapes, and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand.
12 And Joseph said unto him, This [is]
the interpretation of it: The three
branches [are] three days:
13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thine head, and restore thee
unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the
former manner when thou wast his
butler.
14 But think on me when it shall be
well with thee, and shew kindness, I
pray thee, unto me, and make mention of
me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of
this house:
15 For indeed I was stolen away out of
the land of the Hebrews: and here also
have I done nothing that they should
put me into the dungeon.
16 When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he said unto
Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and,
behold, [I had] three white baskets on
my head:
17 And in the uppermost basket [there
was] of all manner of bakemeats for
Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out
of the basket upon my head.
18 And Joseph answered and said, This
[is] the interpretation thereof: The
three baskets [are] three days:
19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thy head from off thee, and
shall hang thee on a tree; and the
birds shall eat thy flesh from off
thee.
20 # And it came to pass the third day,
[which was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he
made a feast unto all his servants: and
he lifted up the head of the chief
butler and of the chief baker among his
servants.
21 And he restored the chief butler
unto his butlership again; and he gave
the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
22 But he hanged the chief baker: as
Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet did not the chief butler
remember Joseph, but forgat him.

CHAPTER 41
1 And it came to pass at the end of two
full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and,
behold, he stood by the river.
2 And, behold, there came up out of the
river seven well favoured kine and
fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them out of the river, ill
favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by
the [other] kine upon the brink of the
river.
4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed
kine did eat up the seven well favoured
and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept and dreamed the second
time: and, behold, seven ears of corn
came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 And, behold, seven thin ears and
blasted with the east wind sprung up
after them.
7 And the seven thin ears devoured the
seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.
8 And it came to pass in the morning
that his spirit was troubled; and he
sent and called for all the magicians
of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof:
and Pharaoh told them his dream; but
[there was] none that could interpret
them unto Pharaoh.
9 # Then spake the chief butler unto
Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my
faults this day:
10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants,
and put me in ward in the captain of
the guard's house, [both] me and the
chief baker:
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night,
I and he; we dreamed each man according
to the interpretation of his dream.
12 And [there was] there with us a
young man, an Hebrew, servant to the
captain of the guard; and we told him,
and he interpreted to us our dreams; to
each man according to his dream he did
interpret.
13 And it came to pass, as he
interpreted to us, so it was; me he
restored unto mine office, and him he
hanged.
14 # Then Pharaoh sent and called
Joseph, and they brought him hastily
out of the dungeon: and he shaved
[himself], and changed his raiment, and
came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
dreamed a dream, and [there is] none
that can interpret it: and I have heard
say of thee, [that] thou canst
understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying,
[It is] not in me: God shall give
Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my
dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of
the river:
18 And, behold, there came up out of
the river seven kine, fatfleshed and
well favoured; and they fed in a
meadow:
19 And, behold, seven other kine came
up after them, poor and very ill
favoured and leanfleshed, such as I
never saw in all the land of Egypt for
badness:
20 And the lean and the ill favoured
kine did eat up the first seven fat
kine:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it
could not be known that they had eaten
them; but they [were] still ill
favoured, as at the beginning. So I
awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold,
seven ears came up in one stalk, full
and good:
23 And, behold, seven ears, withered,
thin, [and] blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them:
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven
good ears: and I told [this] unto the
magicians; but [there was] none that
could declare [it] to me.
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The
dream of Pharaoh [is] one: God hath
shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to
do.
26 The seven good kine [are] seven
years; and the seven good ears [are]
seven years: the dream [is] one.
27 And the seven thin and ill favoured
kine that came up after them [are]
seven years; and the seven empty ears
blasted with the east wind shall be
seven years of famine.
28 This [is] the thing which I have
spoken unto Pharaoh: What God [is]
about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29 Behold, there come seven years of
great plenty throughout all the land of
Egypt:
30 And there shall arise after them
seven years of famine; and all the
plenty shall be forgotten in the land
of Egypt; and the famine shall consume
the land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in
the land by reason of that famine
following; for it [shall be] very
grievous.
32 And for that the dream was doubled
unto Pharaoh twice; [it is] because the
thing [is] established by God, and God
will shortly bring it to pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a
man discreet and wise, and set him over
the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him
appoint officers over the land, and
take up the fifth part of the land of
Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
35 And let them gather all the food of
those good years that come, and lay up
corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let
them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food shall be for store to
the land against the seven years of
famine, which shall be in the land of
Egypt; that the land perish not through
the famine.
37 # And the thing was good in the eyes
of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his
servants.
38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants,
Can we find [such a one] as this [is],
a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?
39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all
this, [there is] none so discreet and
wise as thou [art]:
40 Thou shalt be over my house, and
according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled: only in the throne
will I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I
have set thee over all the land of
Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from
his hand, and put it upon Joseph's
hand, and arrayed him in vestures of
fine linen, and put a gold chain about
his neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the
second chariot which he had; and they
cried before him, Bow the knee: and he
made him [ruler] over all the land of
Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I [am]
Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or foot in all the
land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name
Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to
wife Asenath the daughter of
Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph
went out over [all] the land of Egypt.
46 # And Joseph [was] thirty years old
when he stood before Pharaoh king of
Egypt. And Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of
the seven years, which were in the land
of Egypt, and laid up the food in the
cities: the food of the field, which
[was] round about every city, laid he
up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand
of the sea, very much, until he left
numbering; for [it was] without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons
before the years of famine came, which
Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah
priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh: For God, [said he],
hath made me forget all my toil, and
all my father's house.
52 And the name of the second called he
Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be
fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 # And the seven years of
plenteousness, that was in the land of
Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began
to come, according as Joseph had said:
and the dearth was in all lands; but in
all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all
the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he
saith to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face
of the earth: And Joseph opened all the
storehouses, and sold unto the
Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in
the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that
the famine was [so] sore in all lands.

CHAPTER 42
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was
corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his
sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard
that there is corn in Egypt: get you
down thither, and buy for us from
thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 # And Joseph's ten brethren went down
to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren; for he
said, Lest peradventure mischief befall
him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy
[corn] among those that came: for the
famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph [was] the governor over
the land, [and] he [it was] that sold
to all the people of the land: and
Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down
themselves before him [with] their
faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he
knew them, but made himself strange
unto them, and spake roughly unto them;
and he said unto them, Whence come ye?
And they said, From the land of Canaan
to buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but
they knew not him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams
which he dreamed of them, and said unto
them, Ye [are] spies; to see the
nakedness of the land ye are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my
lord, but to buy food are thy servants
come.
11 We [are] all one man's sons; we
[are] true [men], thy servants are no
spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to
see the nakedness of the land ye are
come.
13 And they said, Thy servants [are]
twelve brethren, the sons of one man in
the land of Canaan; and, behold, the
youngest [is] this day with our father,
and one [is] not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is
it] that I spake unto you, saying, Ye
[are] spies:
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the
life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth
hence, except your youngest brother
come hither.
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch
your brother, and ye shall be kept in
prison, that your words may be proved,
whether [there be any] truth in you: or
else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye
[are] spies.
17 And he put them all together into
ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third
day, This do, and live; [for] I fear
God:
19 If ye [be] true [men], let one of
your brethren be bound in the house of
your prison: go ye, carry corn for the
famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto
me; so shall your words be verified,
and ye shall not die. And they did so.
21 # And they said one to another, We
[are] verily guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of
his soul, when he besought us, and we
would not hear; therefore is this
distress come upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying,
Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not
sin against the child; and ye would not
hear? therefore, behold, also his blood
is required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph
understood [them]; for he spake unto
them by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself about from
them, and wept; and returned to them
again, and communed with them, and took
from them Simeon, and bound him before
their eyes.
25 # Then Joseph commanded to fill
their sacks with corn, and to restore
every man's money into his sack, and to
give them provision for the way: and
thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the
corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack
to give his ass provender in the inn,
he espied his money; for, behold, it
[was] in his sack's mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My
money is restored; and, lo, [it is]
even in my sack: and their heart failed
[them], and they were afraid, saying
one to another, What [is] this [that]
God hath done unto us?
29 # And they came unto Jacob their
father unto the land of Canaan, and
told him all that befell unto them;
saying,
30 The man, [who is] the lord of the
land, spake roughly to us, and took us
for spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, We [are] true
[men]; we are no spies:
32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our
father; one [is] not, and the youngest
[is] this day with our father in the
land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the
country, said unto us, Hereby shall I
know that ye [are] true [men]; leave
one of your brethren [here] with me,
and take [food for] the famine of your
households, and be gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto
me: then shall I know that ye [are] no
spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men:
so] will I deliver you your brother,
and ye shall traffick in the land.
35 # And it came to pass as they
emptied their sacks, that, 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.
36 And Jacob their father said unto
them, Me have ye bereaved [of my
children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon
[is] not, and ye will take Benjamin
[away]: all these things are against
me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father,
saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring
him not to thee: deliver him into my
hand, and I will bring him to thee
again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go
down with you; for his brother is dead,
and he is left alone: if mischief
befall him by the way in the which ye
go, then shall ye bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave.

CHAPTER 43
1 And the famine [was] sore in the
land.
2 And it came to pass, when they had
eaten up the corn which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said
unto them, Go again, buy us a little
food.
3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The
man did solemnly protest unto us,
saying, Ye shall not see my face,
except your brother [be] with you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with
us, we will go down and buy thee food:
5 But if thou wilt not send [him], we
will not go down: for the man said unto
us, Ye shall not see my face, except
your brother [be] with you.
6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye
[so] ill with me, [as] to tell the man
whether ye had yet a brother?
7 And they said, The man asked us
straitly of our state, and of our
kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet
alive? have ye [another] brother? and
we told him according to the tenor of
these words: could we certainly know
that he would say, Bring your brother
down?
8 And Judah said unto Israel his
father, Send the lad with me, and we
will arise and go; that we may live,
and not die, both we, and thou, [and]
also our little ones.
9 I will be surety for him; of my hand
shalt thou require him: if I bring him
not unto thee, and set him before thee,
then let me bear the blame for ever:
10 For except we had lingered, surely
now we had returned this second time.
11 And their father Israel said unto
them, If [it must be] so now, do this;
take of the best fruits in the land in
your vessels, and carry down the man a
present, a little balm, and a little
honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and
almonds:
12 And take double money in your hand;
and the money that was brought again in
the mouth of your sacks, carry [it]
again in your hand; peradventure it
[was] an oversight:
13 Take also your brother, and arise,
go again unto the man:
14 And God Almighty give you mercy
before the man, that he may send away
your other brother, and Benjamin. If I
be bereaved [of my children], I am
bereaved.
15 And the men took that present, and
they took double money in their hand,
and Benjamin; and rose up, and went
down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with
them, he said to the ruler of his
house, Bring [these] men home, and
slay, and make ready; for [these] men
shall dine with me at noon.
17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and
the man brought the men into Joseph's
house.
18 And the men were afraid, because
they were brought into Joseph's house;
and they said, Because of the money
that was returned in our sacks at the
first time are we brought in; that he
may seek occasion against us, and fall
upon us, and take us for bondmen, and
our asses.
19 And they came near to the steward of
Joseph's house, and they communed with
him at the door of the house,
20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down
at the first time to buy food:
21 And it came to pass, when we came to
the inn, that we opened our sacks, and,
behold, [every] man's money [was] in
the mouth of his sack, our money in
full weight: and we have brought it
again in our hand.
22 And other money have we brought down
in our hands to buy food: we cannot
tell who put our money in our sacks.
23 And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear
not: your God, and the God of your
father, hath given you treasure in your
sacks: I had your money. And he brought
Simeon out unto them.
24 And the man brought the men into
Joseph's house, and gave [them] water,
and they washed their feet; and he gave
their asses provender.
25 And they made ready the present
against Joseph came at noon: for they
heard that they should eat bread there.
26 # And when Joseph came home, they
brought him the present which [was] in
their hand into the house, and bowed
themselves to him to the earth.
27 And he asked them of [their]
welfare, and said, [Is] your father
well, the old man of whom ye spake?
[Is] he yet alive?
28 And they answered, Thy servant our
father [is] in good health, he [is] yet
alive. And they bowed down their heads,
and made obeisance.
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw
his brother Benjamin, his mother's son,
and said, [Is] this your younger
brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And
he said, God be gracious unto thee, my
son.
30 And Joseph made haste; for his
bowels did yearn upon his brother: and
he sought [where] to weep; and he
entered into [his] chamber, and wept
there.
31 And he washed his face, and went
out, and refrained himself, and said,
Set on bread.
32 And they set on for him by himself,
and for them by themselves, and for the
Egyptians, which did eat with him, by
themselves: because the Egyptians might
not eat bread with the Hebrews; for
that [is] an abomination unto the
Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the
firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his
youth: and the men marvelled one at
another.
34 And he took [and sent] messes unto
them from before him: but Benjamin's
mess was five times so much as any of
their's. And they drank, and were merry
with him.

CHAPTER 44
1 And he commanded the steward of his
house, saying, Fill the men's sacks
[with] food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man's money in his sack's
mouth.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in
the sack's mouth of the youngest, and
his corn money. And he did according to
the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the
men were sent away, they and their
asses.
4 [And] when they were gone out of the
city, [and] not [yet] far off, Joseph
said unto his steward, Up, follow after
the men; and when thou dost overtake
them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye
rewarded evil for good?
5 [Is] not this [it] in which my lord
drinketh, and whereby indeed he
divineth? ye have done evil in so
doing.
6 # And he overtook them, and he spake
unto them these same words.
7 And they said unto him, Wherefore
saith my lord these words? God forbid
that thy servants should do according
to this thing:
8 Behold, the money, which we found in
our sacks' mouths, we brought again
unto thee out of the land of Canaan:
how then should we steal out of thy
lord's house silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be
found, both let him die, and we also
will be my lord's bondmen.
10 And he said, Now also [let] it [be]
according unto your words: he with whom
it is found shall be my servant; and ye
shall be blameless.
11 Then they speedily took down every
man his sack to the ground, and opened
every man his sack.
12 And he searched, [and] began at the
eldest, and left at the youngest: and
the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
13 Then they rent their clothes, and
laded every man his ass, and returned
to the city.
14 # And Judah and his brethren came to
Joseph's house; for he [was] yet there:
and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed
[is] this that ye have done? wot ye not
that such a man as I can certainly
divine?
16 And Judah said, What shall we say
unto my lord? what shall we speak? or
how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants:
behold, we [are] my lord's servants,
both we, and [he] also with whom the
cup is found.
17 And he said, God forbid that I
should do so: [but] the man in whose
hand the cup is found, he shall be my
servant; and as for you, get you up in
peace unto your father.
18 # Then Judah came near unto him, and
said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I
pray thee, speak a word in my lord's
ears, and let not thine anger burn
against thy servant: for thou [art]
even as Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying,
Have ye a father, or a brother?
20 And we said unto my lord, We have a
father, an old man, and a child of his
old age, a little one; and his brother
is dead, and he alone is left of his
mother, and his father loveth him.
21 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Bring him down unto me, that I may set
mine eyes upon him.
22 And we said unto my lord, The lad
cannot leave his father: for [if] he
should leave his father, [his father]
would die.
23 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Except your youngest brother come down
with you, ye shall see my face no more.
24 And it came to pass when we came up
unto thy servant my father, we told him
the words of my lord.
25 And our father said, Go again, [and]
buy us a little food.
26 And we said, We cannot go down: if
our youngest brother be with us, then
will we go down: for we may not see the
man's face, except our youngest brother
[be] with us.
27 And thy servant my father said unto
us, Ye know that my wife bare me two
[sons]:
28 And the one went out from me, and I
said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and
I saw him not since:
29 And if ye take this also from me,
and mischief befall him, ye shall bring
down my gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave.
30 Now therefore when I come to thy
servant my father, and the lad [be] not
with us; seeing that his life is bound
up in the lad's life;
31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth
that the lad [is] not [with us], that
he will die: and thy servants shall
bring down the gray hairs of thy
servant our father with sorrow to the
grave.
32 For thy servant became surety for
the lad unto my father, saying, If I
bring him not unto thee, then I shall
bear the blame to my father for ever.
33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy
servant abide instead of the lad a
bondman to my lord; and let the lad go
up with his brethren.
34 For how shall I go up to my father,
and the lad [be] not with me? lest
peradventure I see the evil that shall
come on my father.

CHAPTER 45
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself
before all them that stood by him; and
he cried, Cause every man to go out
from me. And there stood no man with
him, while Joseph made himself known
unto his brethren.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians
and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
[am] Joseph; doth my father yet live?
And his brethren could not answer him;
for they were troubled at his presence.
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren,
Come near to me, I pray you. And they
came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph
your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor
angry with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither: for God did send me before you
to preserve life.
6 For these two years [hath] the famine
[been] in the land: and yet [there are]
five years, in the which [there shall]
neither [be] earing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to
preserve you a posterity in the earth,
and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
8 So now [it was] not you [that] sent
me hither, but God: and he hath made me
a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house, and a ruler throughout all
the land of Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and
say unto him, Thus saith thy son
Joseph, God hath made me lord of all
Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of
Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me,
thou, and thy children, and thy
children's children, and thy flocks,
and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
11 And there will I nourish thee; for
yet [there are] five years of famine;
lest thou, and thy household, and all
that thou hast, come to poverty.
12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the
eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it
is] my mouth that speaketh unto you.
13 And ye shall tell my father of all
my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye
have seen; and ye shall haste and bring
down my father hither.
14 And he fell upon his brother
Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin
wept upon his neck.
15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren,
and wept upon them: and after that his
brethren talked with him.
16 # And the fame thereof was heard in
Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's
brethren are come: and it pleased
Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say
unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade
your beasts, and go, get you unto the
land of Canaan;
18 And take your father and your
households, and come unto me: and I
will give you the good of the land of
Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the
land.
19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye;
take you wagons out of the land of
Egypt for your little ones, and for
your wives, and bring your father, and
come.
20 Also regard not your stuff; for the
good of all the land of Egypt [is]
your's.
21 And the children of Israel did so:
and Joseph gave them wagons, according
to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave
them provision for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man
changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he
gave three hundred [pieces] of silver,
and five changes of raiment.
23 And to his father he sent after this
[manner]; ten asses laden with the good
things of Egypt, and ten she asses
laden with corn and bread and meat for
his father by the way.
24 So he sent his brethren away, and
they departed: and he said unto them,
See that ye fall not out by the way.
25 # And they went up out of Egypt, and
came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob
their father,
26 And told him, saying, Joseph [is]
yet alive, and he [is] governor over
all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's
heart fainted, for he believed them
not.
27 And they told him all the words of
Joseph, which he had said unto them:
and when he saw the wagons which Joseph
had sent to carry him, the spirit of
Jacob their father revived:
28 And Israel said, [It is] enough;
Joseph my son [is] yet alive: I will go
and see him before I die.

CHAPTER 46
1 And Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to Beer-sheba,
and offered sacrifices unto the God of
his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the
visions of the night, and said, Jacob,
Jacob. And he said, Here [am] I.
3 And he said, I [am] God, the God of
thy father: fear not to go down into
Egypt; for I will there make of thee a
great nation:
4 I will go down with thee into Egypt;
and I will also surely bring thee up
[again]: and Joseph shall put his hand
upon thine eyes.
5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba:
and the sons of Israel carried Jacob
their father, and their little ones,
and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their
goods, which they had gotten in the
land of Canaan, and came into Egypt,
Jacob, and all his seed with him:
7 His sons, and his sons' sons with
him, his daughters, and his sons'
daughters, and all his seed brought he
with him into Egypt.
8 # And these [are] the names of the
children of Israel, which came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob's firstborn.
9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and
Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 # And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel,
and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and
Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman.
11 # And the sons of Levi; Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
12 # And the sons of Judah; Er, and
Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and
Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land
of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were
Hezron and Hamul.
13 # And the sons of Issachar; Tola,
and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14 # And the sons of Zebulun; Sered,
and Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These [be] the sons of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with
his daughter Dinah: all the souls of
his sons and his daughters [were]
thirty and three.
16 # And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and
Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and
Arodi, and Areli.
17 # And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and
Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah
their sister: and the sons of Beriah;
Heber, and Malchiel.
18 These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and
these she bare unto Jacob, [even]
sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife;
Joseph, and Benjamin.
20 # And unto Joseph in the land of
Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
which Asenath the daughter of
Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
21 # And the sons of Benjamin [were]
Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera,
and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and
Huppim, and Ard.
22 These [are] the sons of Rachel,
which were born to Jacob: all the souls
[were] fourteen.
23 # And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 # And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel,
and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These [are] the sons of Bilhah,
which Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto
Jacob: all the souls [were] seven.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob
into Egypt, which came out of his
loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all
the souls [were] threescore and six;
27 And the sons of Joseph, which were
born him in Egypt, [were] two souls:
all the souls of the house of Jacob,
which came into Egypt, [were]
threescore and ten.
28 # And he sent Judah before him unto
Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen;
and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph made ready his chariot,
and went up to meet Israel his father,
to Goshen, and presented himself unto
him; and he fell on his neck, and wept
on his neck a good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let
me die, since I have seen thy face,
because thou [art] yet alive.
31 And Joseph said unto his brethren,
and unto his father's house, I will go
up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him,
My brethren, and my father's house,
which [were] in the land of Canaan, are
come unto me;
32 And the men [are] shepherds, for
their trade hath been to feed cattle;
and they have brought their flocks, and
their herds, and all that they have.
33 And it shall come to pass, when
Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What [is] your occupation?
34 That ye shall say, Thy servants'
trade hath been about cattle from our
youth even until now, both we, [and]
also our fathers: that ye may dwell in
the land of Goshen; for every shepherd
[is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.

CHAPTER 47
1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh,
and said, My father and my brethren,
and their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have, are come out of the
land of Canaan; and, behold, they [are]
in the land of Goshen.
2 And he took some of his brethren,
[even] five men, and presented them
unto Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren,
What [is] your occupation? And they
said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are]
shepherds, both we, [and] also our
fathers.
4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For
to sojourn in the land are we come; for
thy servants have no pasture for their
flocks; for the famine [is] sore in the
land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray
thee, let thy servants dwell in the
land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father and thy brethren are
come unto thee:
6 The land of Egypt [is] before thee;
in the best of the land make thy father
and brethren to dwell; in the land of
Goshen let them dwell: and if thou
knowest [any] men of activity among
them, then make them rulers over my
cattle.
7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his
father, and set him before Pharaoh: and
Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
[art] thou?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days
of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an
hundred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my life
been, and have not attained unto the
days of the years of the life of my
fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage.
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went
out from before Pharaoh.
11 # And Joseph placed his father and
his brethren, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the
best of the land, in the land of
Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and
his brethren, and all his father's
household, with bread, according to
[their] families.
13 # And [there was] no bread in all
the land; for the famine [was] very
sore, so that the land of Egypt and
[all] the land of Canaan fainted by
reason of the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt,
and in the land of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought: and Joseph brought
the money into Pharaoh's house.
15 And when money failed in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all
the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and
said, Give us bread: for why should we
die in thy presence? for the money
faileth.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle;
and I will give you for your cattle, if
money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in
exchange] for horses, and for the
flocks, and for the cattle of the
herds, and for the asses: and he fed
them with bread for all their cattle
for that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came
unto him the second year, and said unto
him, We will not hide [it] from my
lord, how that our money is spent; my
lord also hath our herds of cattle;
there is not ought left in the sight of
my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Wherefore shall we die before thine
eyes, both we and our land? buy us and
our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give
[us] seed, that we may live, and not
die, that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians
sold every man his field, because the
famine prevailed over them: so the land
became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he removed
them to cities from [one] end of the
borders of Egypt even to the [other]
end thereof.
22 Only the land of the priests bought
he not; for the priests had a portion
[assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat
their portion which Pharaoh gave them:
wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then Joseph said unto the people,
Behold, I have bought you this day and
your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is]
seed for you, and ye shall sow the
land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the
increase, that ye shall give the fifth
[part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts
shall be your own, for seed of the
field, and for your food, and for them
of your households, and for food for
your little ones.
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our
lives: let us find grace in the sight
of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the
land of Egypt unto this day, [that]
Pharaoh should have the fifth [part];
except the land of the priests only,
[which] became not Pharaoh's.
27 # And Israel dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and
they had possessions therein, and grew,
and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years: so the whole age of
Jacob was an hundred forty and seven
years.
29 And the time drew nigh that Israel
must die: and he called his son Joseph,
and said unto him, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee,
thy hand under my thigh, and deal
kindly and truly with me; bury me not,
I pray thee, in Egypt:
30 But I will lie with my fathers, and
thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and
bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as thou hast said.
31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he
sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.

CHAPTER 48
1 And it came to pass after these
things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold,
thy father [is] sick: and he took with
him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 And [one] told Jacob, and said,
Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto
thee: and Israel strengthened himself,
and sat upon the bed.
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the
land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I
will make of thee a multitude of
people; and will give this land to thy
seed after thee [for] an everlasting
possession.
5 # And now thy two sons, Ephraim and
Manasseh, which were born unto thee in
the land of Egypt before I came unto
thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben
and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6 And thy issue, which thou begettest
after them, shall be thine, [and] shall
be called after the name of their
brethren in their inheritance.
7 And as for me, when I came from
Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of
Canaan in the way, when yet [there was]
but a little way to come unto Ephrath:
and I buried her there in the way of
Ephrath; the same [is] Beth-lehem.
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and
said, Who [are] these?
9 And Joseph said unto his father, They
[are] my sons, whom God hath given me
in this [place]. And he said, Bring
them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will
bless them.
10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for
age, [so that] he could not see. And he
brought them near unto him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had
not thought to see thy face: and, lo,
God hath shewed me also thy seed.
12 And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees, and he bowed himself
with his face to the earth.
13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim
in his right hand toward Israel's left
hand, and Manasseh in his left hand
toward Israel's right hand, and brought
[them] near unto him.
14 And Israel stretched out his right
hand, and laid [it] upon Ephraim's
head, who [was] the younger, and his
left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding
his hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was]
the firstborn.
15 # And he blessed Joseph, and said,
God, before whom my fathers Abraham and
Isaac did walk, the God which fed me
all my life long unto this day,
16 The Angel which redeemed me from all
evil, bless the lads; and let my name
be named on them, and the name of my
fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them
grow into a multitude in the midst of
the earth.
17 And when Joseph saw that his father
laid his right hand upon the head of
Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held
up his father's hand, to remove it from
Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not
so, my father: for this [is] the
firstborn; put thy right hand upon his
head.
19 And his father refused, and said, I
know [it], my son, I know [it]: he also
shall become a people, and he also
shall be great: but truly his younger
brother shall be greater than he, and
his seed shall become a multitude of
nations.
20 And he blessed them that day,
saying, In thee shall Israel bless,
saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as
Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before
Manasseh.
21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold,
I die: but God shall be with you, and
bring you again unto the land of your
fathers.
22 Moreover I have given to thee one
portion above thy brethren, which I
took out of the hand of the Amorite
with my sword and with my bow.

CHAPTER 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and
said, Gather yourselves together, that
I may tell you [that] which shall
befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear,
ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto
Israel your father.
3 # Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my
might, and the beginning of my
strength, the excellency of dignity,
and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not
excel; because thou wentest up to thy
father's bed; then defiledst thou [it]:
he went up to my couch.
5 # Simeon and Levi [are] brethren;
instruments of cruelty [are in] their
habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their
secret; unto their assembly, mine
honour, be not thou united: for in
their anger they slew a man, and in
their selfwill they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was]
fierce; and their wrath, for it was
cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and
scatter them in Israel.
8 # Judah, thou [art he] whom thy
brethren shall praise: thy hand [shall
be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy
father's children shall bow down before
thee.
9 Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the
prey, my son, thou art gone up: he
stooped down, he couched as a lion, and
as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from
Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his
feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
[shall] the gathering of the people
[be].
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and
his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he
washed his garments in wine, and his
clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes [shall be] red with wine,
and his teeth white with milk.
13 # Zebulun shall dwell at the haven
of the sea; and he [shall be] for an
haven of ships; and his border [shall
be] unto Zidon.
14 # Issachar [is] a strong ass
couching down between two burdens:
15 And he saw that rest [was] good, and
the land that [it was] pleasant; and
bowed his shoulder to bear, and became
a servant unto tribute.
16 # Dan shall judge his people, as one
of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way,
an adder in the path, that biteth the
horse heels, so that his rider shall
fall backward.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O
LORD.
19 # Gad, a troop shall overcome him:
but he shall overcome at the last.
20 # Out of Asher his bread [shall be]
fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21 # Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he
giveth goodly words.
22 # Joseph [is] a fruitful bough,
[even] a fruitful bough by a well;
[whose] branches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him,
and shot [at him], and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and
the arms of his hands were made strong
by the hands of the mighty [God] of
Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd,
the stone of Israel:)
25 [Even] by the God of thy father, who
shall help thee; and by the Almighty,
who shall bless thee with blessings of
heaven above, blessings of the deep
that lieth under, blessings of the
breasts, and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have
prevailed above the blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of
the everlasting hills: they shall be on
the head of Joseph, and on the crown of
the head of him that was separate from
his brethren.
27 # Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf:
in the morning he shall devour the
prey, and at night he shall divide the
spoil.
28 # All these [are] the twelve tribes
of Israel: and this [is it] that their
father spake unto them, and blessed
them; every one according to his
blessing he blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto
them, I am to be gathered unto my
people: bury me with my fathers in the
cave that [is] in the field of Ephron
the Hittite,
30 In the cave that [is] in the field
of Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre,
in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the
Hittite for a possession of a
buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah
his wife; there they buried Isaac and
Rebekah his wife; and there I buried
Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the
cave that [is] therein [was] from the
children of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons, he gathered up his
feet into the bed, and yielded up the
ghost, and was gathered unto his
people.

CHAPTER 50
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's
face, and wept upon him, and kissed
him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father: and
the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for
him; for so are fulfilled the days of
those which are embalmed: and the
Egyptians mourned for him threescore
and ten days.
4 And when the days of his mourning
were past, Joseph spake unto the house
of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found
grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you,
in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo,
I die: in my grave which I have digged
for me in the land of Canaan, there
shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let
me go up, I pray thee, and bury my
father, and I will come again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy
father, according as he made thee
swear.
7 # And Joseph went up to bury his
father: and with him went up all the
servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his
house, and all the elders of the land
of Egypt,
8 And all the house of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father's house: only
their little ones, and their flocks,
and their herds, they left in the land
of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both
chariots and horsemen: and it was a
very great company.
10 And they came to the threshingfloor
of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and
there they mourned with a great and
very sore lamentation: and he made a
mourning for his father seven days.
11 And when the inhabitants of the
land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning
in the floor of Atad, they said, This
[is] a grievous mourning to the
Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was
called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond
Jordan.
12 And his sons did unto him according
as he commanded them:
13 For his sons carried him into the
land of Canaan, and buried him in the
cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field for a
possession of a buryingplace of Ephron
the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 # And Joseph returned into Egypt,
he, and his brethren, and all that went
up with him to bury his father, after
he had buried his father.
15 # And when Joseph's brethren saw
that their father was dead, they said,
Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
will certainly requite us all the evil
which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger unto
Joseph, saying, Thy father did command
before he died, saying,
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph,
Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass
of thy brethren, and their sin; for
they did unto thee evil: and now, we
pray thee, forgive the trespass of the
servants of the God of thy father. And
Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell
down before his face; and they said,
Behold, we [be] thy servants.
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not:
for [am] I in the place of God?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil
against me; [but] God meant it unto
good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this
day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will
nourish you, and your little ones. And
he comforted them, and spake kindly
unto them.
22 # And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and
his father's house: and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of
the third [generation]: the children
also of Machir the son of Manasseh were
brought up upon Joseph's knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
die: and God will surely visit you, and
bring you out of this land unto the
land which he sware to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the
children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up
my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred
and ten years old: and they embalmed
him, and he was put in a coffin in
Egypt.

THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED EXODUS

CHAPTER 1
1 Now these [are] the names of the
children of Israel, which came into
Egypt; every man and his household came
with Jacob.
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 And all the souls that came out of
the loins of Jacob were seventy souls:
for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
6 And Joseph died, and all his
brethren, and all that generation.
7 # And the children of Israel were
fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty;
and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose up a new king over
Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
9 And he said unto his people, Behold,
the people of the children of Israel
[are] more and mightier than we:
10 Come on, let us deal wisely with
them; lest they multiply, and it come
to pass, that, when there falleth out
any war, they join also unto our
enemies, and fight against us, and [so]
get them up out of the land.
11 Therefore they did set over them
taskmasters to afflict them with their
burdens. And they built for Pharaoh
treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them,
the more they multiplied and grew. And
they were grieved because of the
children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children
of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And they made their lives bitter
with hard bondage, in morter, and in
brick, and in all manner of service in
the field: all their service, wherein
they made them serve, [was] with
rigour.
15 # And the king of Egypt spake to the
Hebrew midwives, of which the name of
the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of
the other Puah:
16 And he said, When ye do the office
of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and
see [them] upon the stools; if it [be]
a son, then ye shall kill him: but if
it [be] a daughter, then she shall
live.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did
not as the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the men children alive.
18 And the king of Egypt called for the
midwives, and said unto them, Why have
ye done this thing, and have saved the
men children alive?
19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh,
Because the Hebrew women [are] not as
the Egyptian women; for they [are]
lively, and are delivered ere the
midwives come in unto them.
20 Therefore God dealt well with the
midwives: and the people multiplied,
and waxed very mighty.
21 And it came to pass, because the
midwives feared God, that he made them
houses.
22 And Pharaoh charged all his people,
saying, Every son that is born ye shall
cast into the river, and every daughter
ye shall save alive.

CHAPTER 2
1 And there went a man of the house of
Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of
Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a
son: and when she saw him that he [was
a] goodly [child], she hid him three
months.
3 And when she could not longer hide
him, she took for him an ark of
bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and
with pitch, and put the child therein;
and she laid [it] in the flags by the
river's brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit
what would be done to him.
5 # And the daughter of Pharaoh came
down to wash [herself] at the river;
and her maidens walked along by the
river's side; and when she saw the ark
among the flags, she sent her maid to
fetch it.
6 And when she had opened [it], she saw
the child: and, behold, the babe wept.
And she had compassion on him, and
said, This [is one] of the Hebrews'
children.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's
daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may
nurse the child for thee?
8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her,
Go. And the maid went and called the
child's mother.
9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her,
Take this child away, and nurse it for
me, and I will give [thee] thy wages.
And the woman took the child, and
nursed it.
10 And the child grew, and she brought
him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he
became her son. And she called his name
Moses: and she said, Because I drew him
out of the water.
11 # And it came to pass in those days,
when Moses was grown, that he went out
unto his brethren, and looked on their
burdens: and he spied an Egyptian
smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that way,
and when he saw that [there was] no
man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him
in the sand.
13 And when he went out the second day,
behold, two men of the Hebrews strove
together: and he said to him that did
the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy
fellow?
14 And he said, Who made thee a prince
and a judge over us? intendest thou to
kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?
And Moses feared, and said, Surely this
thing is known.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing,
he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in
the land of Midian: and he sat down by
a well.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters: and they came and drew
[water], and filled the troughs to
water their father's flock.
17 And the shepherds came and drove
them away: but Moses stood up and
helped them, and watered their flock.
18 And when they came to Reuel their
father, he said, How [is it that] ye
are come so soon to day?
19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered
us out of the hand of the shepherds,
and also drew [water] enough for us,
and watered the flock.
20 And he said unto his daughters, And
where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye
have left the man? call him, that he
may eat bread.
21 And Moses was content to dwell with
the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter.
22 And she bare [him] a son, and he
called his name Gershom: for he said, I
have been a stranger in a strange land.
23 # And it came to pass in process of
time, that the king of Egypt died: and
the children of Israel sighed by reason
of the bondage, and they cried, and
their cry came up unto God by reason of
the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and
God remembered his covenant with
Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children of
Israel, and God had respect unto
[them].

CHAPTER 3
1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro
his father in law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the
backside of the desert, and came to the
mountain of God, [even] to Horeb.
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the
midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and
the bush [was] not consumed.
3 And Moses said, I will now turn
aside, and see this great sight, why
the bush is not burnt.
4 And when the LORD saw that he turned
aside to see, God called unto him out
of the midst of the bush, and said,
Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither:
put off thy shoes from off thy feet,
for the place whereon thou standest
[is] holy ground.
6 Moreover he said, I [am] the God of
thy father, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And
Moses hid his face; for he was afraid
to look upon God.
7 # And the LORD said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which
[are] in Egypt, and have heard their
cry by reason of their taskmasters; for
I know their sorrows;
8 And I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
to bring them up out of that land unto
a good land and a large, unto a land
flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the
children of Israel is come unto me: and
I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send
thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest
bring forth my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt.
11 # And Moses said unto God, Who [am]
I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and
that I should bring forth the children
of Israel out of Egypt?
12 And he said, Certainly I will be
with thee; and this [shall be] a token
unto thee, that I have sent thee: When
thou hast brought forth the people out
of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this
mountain.
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold,
[when] I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them, The
God of your fathers hath sent me unto
you; and they shall say to me, What
[is] his name? what shall I say unto
them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I
AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say
unto the children of Israel, I AM hath
sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, The LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent
me unto you: this [is] my name for
ever, and this [is] my memorial unto
all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them, The LORD
God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and [seen] that which is
done to you in Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up
out of the affliction of Egypt unto the
land of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, unto a land flowing with
milk and honey.
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice:
and thou shalt come, thou and the
elders of Israel, unto the king of
Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The
LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: and now let us go, we beseech thee,
three days' journey into the
wilderness, that we may sacrifice to
the LORD our God.
19 # And I am sure that the king of
Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a
mighty hand.
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and
smite Egypt with all my wonders which I
will do in the midst thereof: and after
that he will let you go.
21 And I will give this people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians: and it
shall come to pass, that, when ye go,
ye shall not go empty:
22 But every woman shall borrow of her
neighbour, and of her that sojourneth
in her house, jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye
shall put [them] upon your sons, and
upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil
the Egyptians.

CHAPTER 4
1 And Moses answered and said, But,
behold, they will not believe me, nor
hearken unto my voice: for they will
say, The LORD hath not appeared unto
thee.
2 And the LORD said unto him, What [is]
that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground.
And he cast it on the ground, and it
became a serpent; and Moses fled from
before it.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put
forth thine hand, and take it by the
tail. And he put forth his hand, and
caught it, and it became a rod in his
hand:
5 That they may believe that the LORD
God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 # And the LORD said furthermore unto
him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom.
And he put his hand into his bosom: and
when he took it out, behold, his hand
[was] leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy
bosom again. And he put his hand into
his bosom again; and plucked it out of
his bosom, and, behold, it was turned
again as his [other] flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they
will not believe thee, neither hearken
to the voice of the first sign, that
they will believe the voice of the
latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they
will not believe also these two signs,
neither hearken unto thy voice, that
thou shalt take of the water of the
river, and pour [it] upon the dry
[land]: and the water which thou takest
out of the river shall become blood
upon the dry [land].
10 # And Moses said unto the LORD, O my
Lord, I [am] not eloquent, neither
heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken
unto thy servant: but I [am] slow of
speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath
made man's mouth? or who maketh the
dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the
blind? have not I the LORD?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with
thy mouth, and teach thee what thou
shalt say.
13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray
thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou
wilt send.
14 And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Moses, and he said,
[Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother?
I know that he can speak well. And
also, behold, he cometh forth to meet
thee: and when he seeth thee, he will
be glad in his heart.
15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and
put words in his mouth: and I will be
with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and
will teach you what ye shall do.
16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto
the people: and he shall be, [even] he
shall be to thee instead of a mouth,
and thou shalt be to him instead of
God.
17 And thou shalt take this rod in
thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do
signs.
18 # And Moses went and returned to
Jethro his father in law, and said unto
him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return
unto my brethren which [are] in Egypt,
and see whether they be yet alive. And
Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the LORD said unto Moses in
Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all
the men are dead which sought thy life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his
sons, and set them upon an ass, and he
returned to the land of Egypt: and
Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When
thou goest to return into Egypt, see
that thou do all those wonders before
Pharaoh, which I have put in thine
hand: but I will harden his heart, that
he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh,
Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my
son, [even] my firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go,
that he may serve me: and if thou
refuse to let him go, behold, I will
slay thy son, [even] thy firstborn.
24 # And it came to pass by the way in
the inn, that the LORD met him, and
sought to kill him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone,
and cut off the foreskin of her son,
and cast [it] at his feet, and said,
Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to
me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A
bloody husband [thou art], because of
the circumcision.
27 # And the LORD said to Aaron, Go
into the wilderness to meet Moses. And
he went, and met him in the mount of
God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words
of the LORD who had sent him, and all
the signs which he had commanded him.
29 # And Moses and Aaron went and
gathered together all the elders of the
children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which
the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did
the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when
they heard that the LORD had visited
the children of Israel, and that he had
looked upon their affliction, then they
bowed their heads and worshipped.

CHAPTER 5
1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went
in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast unto me in
the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD,
that I should obey his voice to let
Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither
will I let Israel go.
3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews
hath met with us: let us go, we pray
thee, three days' journey into the
desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our
God; lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
4 And the king of Egypt said unto them,
Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let
the people from their works? get you
unto your burdens.
5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people
of the land now [are] many, and ye make
them rest from their burdens.
6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day
the taskmasters of the people, and
their officers, saying,
7 Ye shall no more give the people
straw to make brick, as heretofore: let
them go and gather straw for
themselves.
8 And the tale of the bricks, which
they did make heretofore, ye shall lay
upon them; ye shall not diminish
[ought] thereof: for they [be] idle;
therefore they cry, saying, Let us go
[and] sacrifice to our God.
9 Let there more work be laid upon the
men, that they may labour therein; and
let them not regard vain words.
10 # And the taskmasters of the people
went out, and their officers, and they
spake to the people, saying, Thus saith
Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can
find it: yet not ought of your work
shall be diminished.
12 So the people were scattered abroad
throughout all the land of Egypt to
gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters hasted [them],
saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily
tasks, as when there was straw.
14 And the officers of the children of
Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had
set over them, were beaten, [and]
demanded, Wherefore have ye not
fulfilled your task in making brick
both yesterday and to day, as
heretofore?
15 # Then the officers of the children
of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh,
saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus
with thy servants?
16 There is no straw given unto thy
servants, and they say to us, Make
brick: and, behold, thy servants [are]
beaten; but the fault [is] in thine own
people.
17 But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are]
idle: therefore ye say, Let us go [and]
do sacrifice to the LORD.
18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for
there shall no straw be given you, yet
shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
19 And the officers of the children of
Israel did see [that] they [were] in
evil [case], after it was said, Ye
shall not minish [ought] from your
bricks of your daily task.
20 # And they met Moses and Aaron, who
stood in the way, as they came forth
from Pharaoh:
21 And they said unto them, The LORD
look upon you, and judge; because ye
have made our savour to be abhorred in
the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of
his servants, to put a sword in their
hand to slay us.
22 And Moses returned unto the LORD,
and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou
[so] evil entreated this people? why
[is] it [that] thou hast sent me?
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak
in thy name, he hath done evil to this
people; neither hast thou delivered thy
people at all.

CHAPTER 6
1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now
shalt thou see what I will do to
Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall
he let them go, and with a strong hand
shall he drive them out of his land.
2 And God spake unto Moses, and said
unto him, I [am] the LORD:
3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto
Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of]
God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
was I not known to them.
4 And I have also established my
covenant with them, to give them the
land of Canaan, the land of their
pilgrimage, wherein they were
strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of
the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have
remembered my covenant.
6 Wherefore say unto the children of
Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will
bring you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians, and I will rid you out
of their bondage, and I will redeem you
with a stretched out arm, and with
great judgments:
7 And I will take you to me for a
people, and I will be to you a God: and
ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your
God, which bringeth you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the
land, concerning the which I did swear
to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; and I will give it you for an
heritage: I [am] the LORD.
9 # And Moses spake so unto the
children of Israel: but they hearkened
not unto Moses for anguish of spirit,
and for cruel bondage.
10 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land.
12 And Moses spake before the LORD,
saying, Behold, the children of Israel
have not hearkened unto me; how then
shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am] of
uncircumcised lips?
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto
the children of Israel, and unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the
children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt.
14 # These [be] the heads of their
fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the
firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi: these [be] the
families of Reuben.
15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and
Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar,
and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman: these [are] the families of
Simeon.
16 # And these [are] the names of the
sons of Levi according to their
generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and
Merari: and the years of the life of
Levi [were] an hundred thirty and seven
years.
17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and
Shimi, according to their families.
18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and
Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the
years of the life of Kohath [were] an
hundred thirty and three years.
19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and
Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi
according to their generations.
20 And Amram took him Jochebed his
father's sister to wife; and she bare
him Aaron and Moses: and the years of
the life of Amram [were] an hundred and
thirty and seven years.
21 # And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and
Nepheg, and Zichri.
22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and
Elzaphan, and Zithri.
23 And Aaron took him Elisheba,
daughter of Amminadab, sister of
Naashon, to wife; and she bare him
Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and
Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these [are] the
families of the Korhites.
25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him
[one] of the daughters of Putiel to
wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these
[are] the heads of the fathers of the
Levites according to their families.
26 These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to
whom the LORD said, Bring out the
children of Israel from the land of
Egypt according to their armies.
27 These [are] they which spake to
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the
children of Israel from Egypt: these
[are] that Moses and Aaron.
28 # And it came to pass on the day
[when] the LORD spake unto Moses in the
land of Egypt,
29 That the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, I [am] the LORD: speak thou
unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I
say unto thee.
30 And Moses said before the LORD,
Behold, I [am] of uncircumcised lips,
and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

CHAPTER 7
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I
have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and
Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
2 Thou shalt speak all that I command
thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak
unto Pharaoh, that he send the children
of Israel out of his land.
3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
and multiply my signs and my wonders in
the land of Egypt.
4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt,
and bring forth mine armies, [and] my
people the children of Israel, out of
the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I
[am] the LORD, when I stretch forth
mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the
children of Israel from among them.
6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD
commanded them, so did they.
7 And Moses [was] fourscore years old,
and Aaron fourscore and three years
old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
8 # And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you,
saying, Shew a miracle for you: then
thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy
rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh,
[and] it shall become a serpent.
10 # And Moses and Aaron went in unto
Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD
had commanded: and Aaron cast down his
rod before Pharaoh, and before his
servants, and it became a serpent.
11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise
men and the sorcerers: now the
magicians of Egypt, they also did in
like manner with their enchantments.
12 For they cast down every man his
rod, and they became serpents: but
Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart,
that he hearkened not unto them; as the
LORD had said.
14 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened, he
refuseth to let the people go.
15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the
morning; lo, he goeth out unto the
water; and thou shalt stand by the
river's brink against he come; and the
rod which was turned to a serpent shalt
thou take in thine hand.
16 And thou shalt say unto him, The
LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me
unto thee, saying, Let my people go,
that they may serve me in the
wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou
wouldest not hear.
17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou
shalt know that I [am] the LORD:
behold, I will smite with the rod that
[is] in mine hand upon the waters which
[are] in the river, and they shall be
turned to blood.
18 And the fish that [is] in the river
shall die, and the river shall stink;
and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink
of the water of the river.
19 # And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch
out thine hand upon the waters of
Egypt, upon their streams, upon their
rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon
all their pools of water, that they may
become blood; and [that] there may be
blood throughout all the land of Egypt,
both in [vessels of] wood, and in
[vessels of] stone.
20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the
LORD commanded; and he lifted up the
rod, and smote the waters that [were]
in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh,
and in the sight of his servants; and
all the waters that [were] in the river
were turned to blood.
21 And the fish that [was] in the river
died; and the river stank, and the
Egyptians could not drink of the water
of the river; and there was blood
throughout all the land of Egypt.
22 And the magicians of Egypt did so
with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, neither did he
hearken unto them; as the LORD had
said.
23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his
house, neither did he set his heart to
this also.
24 And all the Egyptians digged round
about the river for water to drink; for
they could not drink of the water of
the river.
25 And seven days were fulfilled, after
that the LORD had smitten the river.

CHAPTER 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go
unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Let my people go, that
they may serve me.
2 And if thou refuse to let [them] go,
behold, I will smite all thy borders
with frogs:
3 And the river shall bring forth frogs
abundantly, which shall go up and come
into thine house, and into thy
bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into
the house of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and into
thy kneadingtroughs:
4 And the frogs shall come up both on
thee, and upon thy people, and upon all
thy servants.
5 # And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand
with thy rod over the streams, over the
rivers, and over the ponds, and cause
frogs to come up upon the land of
Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over
the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came
up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the magicians did so with their
enchantments, and brought up frogs upon
the land of Egypt.
8 # Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that
he may take away the frogs from me, and
from my people; and I will let the
people go, that they may do sacrifice
unto the LORD.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory
over me: when shall I intreat for thee,
and for thy servants, and for thy
people, to destroy the frogs from thee
and thy houses, [that] they may remain
in the river only?
10 And he said, To morrow. And he said,
[Be it] according to thy word: that
thou mayest know that [there is] none
like unto the LORD our God.
11 And the frogs shall depart from
thee, and from thy houses, and from thy
servants, and from thy people; they
shall remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from
Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD
because of the frogs which he had
brought against Pharaoh.
13 And the LORD did according to the
word of Moses; and the frogs died out
of the houses, out of the villages, and
out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon
heaps: and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was
respite, he hardened his heart, and
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD
had said.
16 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and
smite the dust of the land, that it may
become lice throughout all the land of
Egypt.
17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched
out his hand with his rod, and smote
the dust of the earth, and it became
lice in man, and in beast; all the dust
of the land became lice throughout all
the land of Egypt.
18 And the magicians did so with their
enchantments to bring forth lice, but
they could not: so there were lice upon
man, and upon beast.
19 Then the magicians said unto
Pharaoh, This [is] the finger of God:
and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and
he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD
had said.
20 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise
up early in the morning, and stand
before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to
the water; and say unto him, Thus saith
the LORD, Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people
go, behold, I will send swarms [of
flies] upon thee, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people, and into
thy houses: and the houses of the
Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of
flies], and also the ground whereon
they [are].
22 And I will sever in that day the
land of Goshen, in which my people
dwell, that no swarms [of flies] shall
be there; to the end thou mayest know
that I [am] the LORD in the midst of
the earth.
23 And I will put a division between my
people and thy people: to morrow shall
this sign be.
24 And the LORD did so; and there came
a grievous swarm [of flies] into the
house of Pharaoh, and [into] his
servants' houses, and into all the land
of Egypt: the land was corrupted by
reason of the swarm [of flies].
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for
Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to
your God in the land.
26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to
do; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to the
LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice
the abomination of the Egyptians before
their eyes, and will they not stone us?
27 We will go three days' journey into
the wilderness, and sacrifice to the
LORD our God, as he shall command us.
28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go,
that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your
God in the wilderness; only ye shall
not go very far away: intreat for me.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out
from thee, and I will intreat the LORD
that the swarms [of flies] may depart
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and
from his people, to morrow: but let not
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in
not letting the people go to sacrifice
to the LORD.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and
intreated the LORD.
31 And the LORD did according to the
word of Moses; and he removed the
swarms [of flies] from Pharaoh, from
his servants, and from his people;
there remained not one.
32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at
this time also, neither would he let
the people go.

CHAPTER 9
1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith
the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my
people go, that they may serve me.
2 For if thou refuse to let [them] go,
and wilt hold them still,
3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon
thy cattle which [is] in the field,
upon the horses, upon the asses, upon
the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the
sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous
murrain.
4 And the LORD shall sever between the
cattle of Israel and the cattle of
Egypt: and there shall nothing die of
all [that is] the children's of Israel.
5 And the LORD appointed a set time,
saying, To morrow the LORD shall do
this thing in the land.
6 And the LORD did that thing on the
morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt
died: but of the cattle of the children
of Israel died not one.
7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there
was not one of the cattle of the
Israelites dead. And the heart of
Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not
let the people go.
8 # And the LORD said unto Moses and
unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of
ashes of the furnace, and let Moses
sprinkle it toward the heaven in the
sight of Pharaoh.
9 And it shall become small dust in all
the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil
breaking forth [with] blains upon man,
and upon beast, throughout all the land
of Egypt.
10 And they took ashes of the furnace,
and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses
sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it
became a boil breaking forth [with]
blains upon man, and upon beast.
11 And the magicians could not stand
before Moses because of the boils; for
the boil was upon the magicians, and
upon all the Egyptians.
12 And the LORD hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto
them; as the LORD had spoken unto
Moses.
13 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise
up early in the morning, and stand
before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus
saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let
my people go, that they may serve me.
14 For I will at this time send all my
plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people; that
thou mayest know that [there is] none
like me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out my hand,
that I may smite thee and thy people
with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut
off from the earth.
16 And in very deed for this [cause]
have I raised thee up, for to shew [in]
thee my power; and that my name may be
declared throughout all the earth.
17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against
my people, that thou wilt not let them
go?
18 Behold, to morrow about this time I
will cause it to rain a very grievous
hail, such as hath not been in Egypt
since the foundation thereof even until
now.
19 Send therefore now, [and] gather thy
cattle, and all that thou hast in the
field; [for upon] every man and beast
which shall be found in the field, and
shall not be brought home, the hail
shall come down upon them, and they
shall die.
20 He that feared the word of the LORD
among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the
houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word of
the LORD left his servants and his
cattle in the field.
22 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven,
that there may be hail in all the land
of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and
upon every herb of the field,
throughout the land of Egypt.
23 And Moses stretched forth his rod
toward heaven: and the LORD sent
thunder and hail, and the fire ran
along upon the ground; and the LORD
rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
24 So there was hail, and fire mingled
with the hail, very grievous, such as
there was none like it in all the land
of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 And the hail smote throughout all
the land of Egypt all that [was] in the
field, both man and beast; and the hail
smote every herb of the field, and
brake every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where
the children of Israel [were], was
there no hail.
27 # And Pharaoh sent, and called for
Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I
have sinned this time: the LORD [is]
righteous, and I and my people [are]
wicked.
28 Intreat the LORD (for [it is]
enough) that there be no [more] mighty
thunderings and hail; and I will let
you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as
I am gone out of the city, I will
spread abroad my hands unto the LORD;
[and] the thunder shall cease, neither
shall there be any more hail; that thou
mayest know how that the earth [is] the
LORD'S.
30 But as for thee and thy servants, I
know that ye will not yet fear the LORD
God.
31 And the flax and the barley was
smitten: for the barley [was] in the
ear, and the flax [was] bolled.
32 But the wheat and the rie were not
smitten: for they [were] not grown up.
33 And Moses went out of the city from
Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands
unto the LORD: and the thunders and
hail ceased, and the rain was not
poured upon the earth.
34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain
and the hail and the thunders were
ceased, he sinned yet more, and
hardened his heart, he and his
servants.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was
hardened, neither would he let the
children of Israel go; as the LORD had
spoken by Moses.

CHAPTER 10
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his
heart, and the heart of his servants,
that I might shew these my signs before
him:
2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears
of thy son, and of thy son's son, what
things I have wrought in Egypt, and my
signs which I have done among them;
that ye may know how that I [am] the
LORD.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto
Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith
the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long
wilt thou refuse to humble thyself
before me? let my people go, that they
may serve me.
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people
go, behold, to morrow will I bring the
locusts into thy coast:
5 And they shall cover the face of the
earth, that one cannot be able to see
the earth: and they shall eat the
residue of that which is escaped, which
remaineth unto you from the hail, and
shall eat every tree which groweth for
you out of the field:
6 And they shall fill thy houses, and
the houses of all thy servants, and the
houses of all the Egyptians; which
neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers'
fathers have seen, since the day that
they were upon the earth unto this day.
And he turned himself, and went out
from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him,
How long shall this man be a snare unto
us? let the men go, that they may serve
the LORD their God: knowest thou not
yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto
them, Go, serve the LORD your God:
[but] who [are] they that shall go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our
young and with our old, with our sons
and with our daughters, with our flocks
and with our herds will we go; for we
[must hold] a feast unto the LORD.
10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD
be so with you, as I will let you go,
and your little ones: look [to it]; for
evil [is] before you.
11 Not so: go now ye [that are] men,
and serve the LORD; for that ye did
desire. And they were driven out from
Pharaoh's presence.
12 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand over the land of
Egypt for the locusts, that they may
come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat
every herb of the land, [even] all that
the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod
over the land of Egypt, and the LORD
brought an east wind upon the land all
that day, and all [that] night; [and]
when it was morning, the east wind
brought the locusts.
14 And the locusts went up over all the
land of Egypt, and rested in all the
coasts of Egypt: very grievous [were
they]; before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them
shall be such.
15 For they covered the face of the
whole earth, so that the land was
darkened; and they did eat every herb
of the land, and all the fruit of the
trees which the hail had left: and
there remained not any green thing in
the trees, or in the herbs of the
field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 # Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron in haste; and he said, I have
sinned against the LORD your God, and
against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee,
my sin only this once, and intreat the
LORD your God, that he may take away
from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and
intreated the LORD.
19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong
west wind, which took away the locusts,
and cast them into the Red sea; there
remained not one locust in all the
coasts of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's
heart, so that he would not let the
children of Israel go.
21 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand toward heaven,
that there may be darkness over the
land of Egypt, even darkness [which]
may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand
toward heaven; and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days:
23 They saw not one another, neither
rose any from his place for three days:
but all the children of Israel had
light in their dwellings.
24 # And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and
said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let
your flocks and your herds be stayed:
let your little ones also go with you.
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us
also sacrifices and burnt offerings,
that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our
God.
26 Our cattle also shall go with us;
there shall not an hoof be left behind;
for thereof must we take to serve the
LORD our God; and we know not with what
we must serve the LORD, until we come
thither.
27 # But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he would not let them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee
from me, take heed to thyself, see my
face no more; for in [that] day thou
seest my face thou shalt die.
29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken
well, I will see thy face again no
more.

CHAPTER 11
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet
will I bring one plague [more] upon
Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he
will let you go hence: when he shall
let [you] go, he shall surely thrust
you out hence altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people,
and let every man borrow of his
neighbour, and every woman of her
neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold.
3 And the LORD gave the people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover
the man Moses [was] very great in the
land of Egypt, in the sight of
Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of
the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD,
About midnight will I go out into the
midst of Egypt:
5 And all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of
Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne,
even unto the firstborn of the
maidservant that [is] behind the mill;
and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such
as there was none like it, nor shall be
like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of
Israel shall not a dog move his tongue,
against man or beast: that ye may know
how that the LORD doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these thy servants shall come
down unto me, and bow down themselves
unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all
the people that follow thee: and after
that I will go out. And he went out
from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh
shall not hearken unto you; that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land
of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these
wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD
hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he
would not let the children of Israel go
out of his land.

CHAPTER 12
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month [shall be] unto you the
beginning of months: it [shall be] the
first month of the year to you.
3 # Speak ye unto all the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day]
of this month they shall take to them
every man a lamb, according to the
house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an
house:
4 And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbour
next unto his house take [it] according
to the number of the souls; every man
according to his eating shall make your
count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male of the first year: ye shall take
[it] out from the sheep, or from the
goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the
fourteenth day of the same month: and
the whole assembly of the congregation
of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and
strike [it] on the two side posts and
on the upper door post of the houses,
wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they
shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all
with water, but roast [with] fire; his
head with his legs, and with the
purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it
remain until the morning; and that
which remaineth of it until the morning
ye shall burn with fire.
11 # And thus shall ye eat it; [with]
your loins girded, your shoes on your
feet, and your staff in your hand; and
ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the
LORD'S passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of
Egypt this night, and will smite all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and beast; and against all the
gods of Egypt I will execute judgment:
I [am] the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a
token upon the houses where ye [are]:
and when I see the blood, I will pass
over you, and the plague shall not be
upon you to destroy [you], when I smite
the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a
memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast
to the LORD throughout your
generations; ye shall keep it a feast
by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread; even the first day ye shall put
away leaven out of your houses: for
whosoever eateth leavened bread from
the first day until the seventh day,
that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day [there shall
be] an holy convocation, and in the
seventh day there shall be an holy
convocation to you; no manner of work
shall be done in them, save [that]
which every man must eat, that only may
be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe [the feast of]
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame
day have I brought your armies out of
the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye
observe this day in your generations by
an ordinance for ever.
18 # In the first [month], on the
fourteenth day of the month at even, ye
shall eat unleavened bread, until the
one and twentieth day of the month at
even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven
found in your houses: for whosoever
eateth that which is leavened, even
that soul shall be cut off from the
congregation of Israel, whether he be a
stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in
all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
21 # Then Moses called for all the
elders of Israel, and said unto them,
Draw out and take you a lamb according
to your families, and kill the
passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in
the bason, and strike the lintel and
the two side posts with the blood that
[is] in the bason; and none of you
shall go out at the door of his house
until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to
smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth
the blood upon the lintel, and on the
two side posts, the LORD will pass over
the door, and will not suffer the
destroyer to come in unto your houses
to smite [you].
24 And ye shall observe this thing for
an ordinance to thee and to thy sons
for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye
be come to the land which the LORD will
give you, according as he hath
promised, that ye shall keep this
service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you, What mean
ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It [is] the
sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who
passed over the houses of the children
of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went
away, and did as the LORD had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 # And it came to pass, that at
midnight the LORD smote all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from
the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on
his throne unto the firstborn of the
captive that [was] in the dungeon; and
all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night,
he, and all his servants, and all the
Egyptians; and there was a great cry in
Egypt; for [there was] not a house
where [there was] not one dead.
31 # And he called for Moses and Aaron
by night, and said, Rise up, [and] get
you forth from among my people, both ye
and the children of Israel; and go,
serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your
herds, as ye have said, and be gone;
and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon
the people, that they might send them
out of the land in haste; for they
said, We [be] all dead [men].
34 And the people took their dough
before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their
clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did
according to the word of Moses; and
they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians, so that
they lent unto them [such things as
they required]. And they spoiled the
Egyptians.
37 # And the children of Israel
journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,
about six hundred thousand on foot
[that were] men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also
with them; and flocks, and herds,
[even] very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of
the dough which they brought forth out
of Egypt, for it was not leavened;
because they were thrust out of Egypt,
and could not tarry, neither had they
prepared for themselves any victual.
40 # Now the sojourning of the children
of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was]
four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of
the four hundred and thirty years, even
the selfsame day it came to pass, that
all the hosts of the LORD went out from
the land of Egypt.
42 It [is] a night to be much observed
unto the LORD for bringing them out
from the land of Egypt: this [is] that
night of the LORD to be observed of all
the children of Israel in their
generations.
43 # And the LORD said unto Moses and
Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the
passover: There shall no stranger eat
thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is
bought for money, when thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat
thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant
shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou
shalt not carry forth ought of the
flesh abroad out of the house; neither
shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall
keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn
with thee, and will keep the passover
to the LORD, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near
and keep it; and he shall be as one
that is born in the land: for no
uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is
homeborn, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel;
as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron,
so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame
day, [that] the LORD did bring the
children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their armies.

CHAPTER 13
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn,
whatsoever openeth the womb among the
children of Israel, [both] of man and
of beast: it [is] mine.
3 # And Moses said unto the people,
Remember this day, in which ye came out
from Egypt, out of the house of
bondage; for by strength of hand the
LORD brought you out from this [place]:
there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month
Abib.
5 # And it shall be when the LORD shall
bring thee into the land of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee, a land flowing
with milk and honey, that thou shalt
keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread, and in the seventh day [shall
be] a feast to the LORD.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven
days; and there shall no leavened bread
be seen with thee, neither shall there
be leaven seen with thee in all thy
quarters.
8 # And thou shalt shew thy son in that
day, saying, [This is done] because of
that [which] the LORD did unto me when
I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee
upon thine hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law
may be in thy mouth: for with a strong
hand hath the LORD brought thee out of
Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this
ordinance in his season from year to
year.
11 # And it shall be when the LORD
shall bring thee into the land of the
Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and
to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto the
LORD all that openeth the matrix, and
every firstling that cometh of a beast
which thou hast; the males [shall be]
the LORD'S.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou
shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou
wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt
break his neck: and all the firstborn
of man among thy children shalt thou
redeem.
14 # And it shall be when thy son
asketh thee in time to come, saying,
What [is] this? that thou shalt say
unto him, By strength of hand the LORD
brought us out from Egypt, from the
house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh
would hardly let us go, that the LORD
slew all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and
the firstborn of beast: therefore I
sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth
the matrix, being males; but all the
firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon
thine hand, and for frontlets between
thine eyes: for by strength of hand the
LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
17 # And it came to pass, when Pharaoh
had let the people go, that God led
them not [through] the way of the land
of the Philistines, although that [was]
near; for God said, Lest peradventure
the people repent when they see war,
and they return to Egypt:
18 But God led the people about,
[through] the way of the wilderness of
the Red sea: and the children of Israel
went up harnessed out of the land of
Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph
with him: for he had straitly sworn the
children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you; and ye shall carry up
my bones away hence with you.
20 # And they took their journey from
Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the
edge of the wilderness.
21 And the LORD went before them by day
in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them
the way; and by night in a pillar of
fire, to give them light; to go by day
and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the
cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by
night, [from] before the people.

CHAPTER 14
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they turn and encamp before
Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the
sea, over against Baal-zephon: before
it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children
of Israel, They [are] entangled in the
land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
that he shall follow after them; and I
will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his host; that the Egyptians may
know that I [am] the LORD. And they did
so.
5 # And it was told the king of Egypt
that the people fled: and the heart of
Pharaoh and of his servants was turned
against the people, and they said, Why
have we done this, that we have let
Israel go from serving us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and
took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen
chariots, and all the chariots of
Egypt, and captains over every one of
them.
8 And the LORD hardened the heart of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued
after the children of Israel: and the
children of Israel went out with an
high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them,
all the horses [and] chariots of
Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his
army, and overtook them encamping by
the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before
Baal-zephon.
10 # And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the
children of Israel lifted up their
eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians
marched after them; and they were sore
afraid: and the children of Israel
cried out unto the LORD.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because
[there were] no graves in Egypt, hast
thou taken us away to die in the
wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt
thus with us, to carry us forth out of
Egypt?
12 [Is] not this the word that we did
tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us
alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?
For [it had been] better for us to
serve the Egyptians, than that we
should die in the wilderness.
13 # And Moses said unto the people,
Fear ye not, stand still, and see the
salvation of the LORD, which he will
shew to you to day: for the Egyptians
whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see
them again no more for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye
shall hold your peace.
15 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak
unto the children of Israel, that they
go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and
stretch out thine hand over the sea,
and divide it: and the children of
Israel shall go on dry [ground] through
the midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the
hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall
follow them: and I will get me honour
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host,
upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I
[am] the LORD, when I have gotten me
honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots,
and upon his horsemen.
19 # And the angel of God, which went
before the camp of Israel, removed and
went behind them; and the pillar of the
cloud went from before their face, and
stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the
Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and
it was a cloud and darkness [to them],
but it gave light by night [to these]:
so that the one came not near the other
all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea; and the LORD caused the
sea to go [back] by a strong east wind
all that night, and made the sea dry
[land], and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into
the midst of the sea upon the dry
[ground]: and the waters [were] a wall
unto them on their right hand, and on
their left.
23 # And the Egyptians pursued, and
went in after them to the midst of the
sea, [even] all Pharaoh's horses, his
chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the
morning watch the LORD looked unto the
host of the Egyptians through the
pillar of fire and of the cloud, and
troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels,
that they drave them heavily: so that
the Egyptians said, Let us flee from
the face of Israel; for the LORD
fighteth for them against the
Egyptians.
26 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand over the sea,
that the waters may come again upon the
Egyptians, upon their chariots, and
upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand
over the sea, and the sea returned to
his strength when the morning appeared;
and the Egyptians fled against it; and
the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the
midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered
the chariots, and the horsemen, [and]
all the host of Pharaoh that came into
the sea after them; there remained not
so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked
upon dry [land] in the midst of the
sea; and the waters [were] a wall unto
them on their right hand, and on their
left.
30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day
out of the hand of the Egyptians; and
Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the
sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which
the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and
the people feared the LORD, and
believed the LORD, and his servant
Moses.

CHAPTER 15
1 Then sang Moses and the children of
Israel this song unto the LORD, and
spake, saying, I will sing unto the
LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously:
the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea.
2 The LORD [is] my strength and song,
and he is become my salvation: he [is]
my God, and I will prepare him an
habitation; my father's God, and I will
exalt him.
3 The LORD [is] a man of war: the LORD
[is] his name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath
he cast into the sea: his chosen
captains also are drowned in the Red
sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they
sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become
glorious in power: thy right hand, O
LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine
excellency thou hast overthrown them
that rose up against thee: thou sentest
forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them
as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils
the waters were gathered together, the
floods stood upright as an heap, [and]
the depths were congealed in the heart
of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will
overtake, I will divide the spoil; my
lust shall be satisfied upon them; I
will draw my sword, my hand shall
destroy them.
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the
sea covered them: they sank as lead in
the mighty waters.
11 Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD,
among the gods? who [is] like thee,
glorious in holiness, fearful [in]
praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,
the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the
people [which] thou hast redeemed: thou
hast guided [them] in thy strength unto
thy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, [and] be
afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the
inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be
amazed; the mighty men of Moab,
trembling shall take hold upon them;
all the inhabitants of Canaan shall
melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them;
by the greatness of thine arm they
shall be [as] still as a stone; till
thy people pass over, O LORD, till the
people pass over, [which] thou hast
purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant
them in the mountain of thine
inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD,
[which] thou hast made for thee to
dwell in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Lord,
[which] thy hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and
ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in
with his chariots and with his horsemen
into the sea, and the LORD brought
again the waters of the sea upon them;
but the children of Israel went on dry
[land] in the midst of the sea.
20 # And Miriam the prophetess, the
sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went out after
her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to
the LORD, for he hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider
hath he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red
sea, and they went out into the
wilderness of Shur; and they went three
days in the wilderness, and found no
water.
23 # And when they came to Marah, they
could not drink of the waters of Marah,
for they [were] bitter: therefore the
name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against
Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the
LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he
had cast into the waters, the waters
were made sweet: there he made for them
a statute and an ordinance, and there
he proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently
hearken to the voice of the LORD thy
God, and wilt do that which is right in
his sight, and wilt give ear to his
commandments, and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of these
diseases upon thee, which I have
brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am]
the LORD that healeth thee.
27 # And they came to Elim, where
[were] twelve wells of water, and
threescore and ten palm trees: and they
encamped there by the waters.

CHAPTER 16
1 And they took their journey from
Elim, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the
wilderness of Sin, which [is] between
Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of
the second month after their departing
out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against
Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto
them, Would to God we had died by the
hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the flesh pots, [and]
when we did eat bread to the full; for
ye have brought us forth into this
wilderness, to kill this whole assembly
with hunger.
4 # Then said the LORD unto Moses,
Behold, I will rain bread from heaven
for you; and the people shall go out
and gather a certain rate every day,
that I may prove them, whether they
will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on
the sixth day they shall prepare [that]
which they bring in; and it shall be
twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the
children of Israel, At even, then ye
shall know that the LORD hath brought
you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see
the glory of the LORD; for that he
heareth your murmurings against the
LORD: and what [are] we, that ye murmur
against us?
8 And Moses said, [This shall be], when
the LORD shall give you in the evening
flesh to eat, and in the morning bread
to the full; for that the LORD heareth
your murmurings which ye murmur against
him: and what [are] we? your murmurings
[are] not against us, but against the
LORD.
9 # And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say
unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, Come near before
the LORD: for he hath heard your
murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake
unto the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked
toward the wilderness, and, behold, the
glory of the LORD appeared in the
cloud.
11 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel: speak unto them,
saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and
in the morning ye shall be filled with
bread; and ye shall know that I [am]
the LORD your God.
13 And it came to pass, that at even
the quails came up, and covered the
camp: and in the morning the dew lay
round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone
up, behold, upon the face of the
wilderness [there lay] a small round
thing, [as] small as the hoar frost on
the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw
[it], they said one to another, It [is]
manna: for they wist not what it [was].
And Moses said unto them, This [is] the
bread which the LORD hath given you to
eat.
16 # This [is] the thing which the LORD
hath commanded, Gather of it every man
according to his eating, an omer for
every man, [according to] the number of
your persons; take ye every man for
[them] which [are] in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so,
and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete [it] with an
omer, he that gathered much had nothing
over, and he that gathered little had
no lack; they gathered every man
according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of
it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not
unto Moses; but some of them left of it
until the morning, and it bred worms,
and stank: and Moses was wroth with
them.
21 And they gathered it every morning,
every man according to his eating: and
when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 # And it came to pass, [that] on the
sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for one [man]: and all
the rulers of the congregation came and
told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This [is
that] which the LORD hath said, To
morrow [is] the rest of the holy
sabbath unto the LORD: bake [that]
which ye will bake [to day], and seethe
that ye will seethe; and that which
remaineth over lay up for you to be
kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the
morning, as Moses bade: and it did not
stink, neither was there any worm
therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for
to day [is] a sabbath unto the LORD: to
day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on
the seventh day, [which is] the
sabbath, in it there shall be none.
27 # And it came to pass, [that] there
went out [some] of the people on the
seventh day for to gather, and they
found none.
28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How
long refuse ye to keep my commandments
and my laws?
29 See, for that the LORD hath given
you the sabbath, therefore he giveth
you on the sixth day the bread of two
days; abide ye every man in his place,
let no man go out of his place on the
seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh
day.
31 And the house of Israel called the
name thereof Manna: and it [was] like
coriander seed, white; and the taste of
it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.
32 # And Moses said, This [is] the
thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill
an omer of it to be kept for your
generations; that they may see the
bread wherewith I have fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth
from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a
pot, and put an omer full of manna
therein, and lay it up before the LORD,
to be kept for your generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so
Aaron laid it up before the Testimony,
to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat
manna forty years, until they came to a
land inhabited; they did eat manna,
until they came unto the borders of the
land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of
an ephah.

CHAPTER 17
1 And all the congregation of the
children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, after their
journeys, according to the commandment
of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim:
and [there was] no water for the people
to drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide with
Moses, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Moses said unto them,
Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye
tempt the LORD?
3 And the people thirsted there for
water; and the people murmured against
Moses, and said, Wherefore [is] this
[that] thou hast brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and
our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the LORD,
saying, What shall I do unto this
people? they be almost ready to stone
me.
5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on
before the people, and take with thee
of the elders of Israel; and thy rod,
wherewith thou smotest the river, take
in thine hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee
there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou
shalt smite the rock, and there shall
come water out of it, that the people
may drink. And Moses did so in the
sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place
Massah, and Meribah, because of the
chiding of the children of Israel, and
because they tempted the LORD, saying,
Is the LORD among us, or not?
8 # Then came Amalek, and fought with
Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us
out men, and go out, fight with Amalek:
to morrow I will stand on the top of
the hill with the rod of God in mine
hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to
him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of
the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held
up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and
when he let down his hand, Amalek
prevailed.
12 But Moses' hands [were] heavy; and
they took a stone, and put [it] under
him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and
Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the
one side, and the other on the other
side; and his hands were steady until
the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write
this [for] a memorial in a book, and
rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua:
for I will utterly put out the
remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called
the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
16 For he said, Because the LORD hath
sworn [that] the LORD [will have] war
with Amalek from generation to
generation.

CHAPTER 18
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian,
Moses' father in law, heard of all that
God had done for Moses, and for Israel
his people, [and] that the LORD had
brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law,
took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he
had sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name
of the one [was] Gershom; for he said,
I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other [was]
Eliezer; for the God of my father,
[said he, was] mine help, and delivered
me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law,
came with his sons and his wife unto
Moses into the wilderness, where he
encamped at the mount of God:
6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father
in law Jethro am come unto thee, and
thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7 # And Moses went out to meet his
father in law, and did obeisance, and
kissed him; and they asked each other
of [their] welfare; and they came into
the tent.
8 And Moses told his father in law all
that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and
to the Egyptians for Israel's sake,
[and] all the travail that had come
upon them by the way, and [how] the
LORD delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the
goodness which the LORD had done to
Israel, whom he had delivered out of
the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the
LORD, who hath delivered you out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and out of the
hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the
people from under the hand of the
Egyptians.
11 Now I know that the LORD [is]
greater than all gods: for in the thing
wherein they dealt proudly [he was]
above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law,
took a burnt offering and sacrifices
for God: and Aaron came, and all the
elders of Israel, to eat bread with
Moses' father in law before God.
13 # And it came to pass on the morrow,
that Moses sat to judge the people: and
the people stood by Moses from the
morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses' father in law saw
all that he did to the people, he said,
What [is] this thing that thou doest to
the people? why sittest thou thyself
alone, and all the people stand by thee
from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in
law, Because the people come unto me to
enquire of God:
16 When they have a matter, they come
unto me; and I judge between one and
another, and I do make [them] know the
statutes of God, and his laws.
17 And Moses' father in law said unto
him, The thing that thou doest [is] not
good.
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both
thou, and this people that [is] with
thee: for this thing [is] too heavy for
thee; thou art not able to perform it
thyself alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will
give thee counsel, and God shall be
with thee: Be thou for the people to
God-ward, that thou mayest bring the
causes unto God:
20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances
and laws, and shalt shew them the way
wherein they must walk, and the work
that they must do.
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of
all the people able men, such as fear
God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
and place [such] over them, [to be]
rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens:
22 And let them judge the people at all
seasons: and it shall be, [that] every
great matter they shall bring unto
thee, but every small matter they shall
judge: so shall it be easier for
thyself, and they shall bear [the
burden] with thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God
command thee [so], then thou shalt be
able to endure, and all this people
shall also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of
his father in law, and did all that he
had said.
25 And Moses chose able men out of all
Israel, and made them heads over the
people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens.
26 And they judged the people at all
seasons: the hard causes they brought
unto Moses, but every small matter they
judged themselves.
27 # And Moses let his father in law
depart; and he went his way into his
own land.

CHAPTER 19
1 In the third month, when the children
of Israel were gone forth out of the
land of Egypt, the same day came they
[into] the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim,
and were come [to] the desert of Sinai,
and had pitched in the wilderness; and
there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto God, and the
LORD called unto him out of the
mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say
to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the
Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on
eagles' wings, and brought you unto
myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my
voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure
unto me above all people: for all the
earth [is] mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of
priests, and an holy nation. These
[are] the words which thou shalt speak
unto the children of Israel.
7 # And Moses came and called for the
elders of the people, and laid before
their faces all these words which the
LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together,
and said, All that the LORD hath spoken
we will do. And Moses returned the
words of the people unto the LORD.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I
come unto thee in a thick cloud, that
the people may hear when I speak with
thee, and believe thee for ever. And
Moses told the words of the people unto
the LORD.
10 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Go
unto the people, and sanctify them to
day and to morrow, and let them wash
their clothes,
11 And be ready against the third day:
for the third day the LORD will come
down in the sight of all the people
upon mount Sinai.
12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the
people round about, saying, Take heed
to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up
into the mount, or touch the border of
it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall
be surely put to death:
13 There shall not an hand touch it,
but he shall surely be stoned, or shot
through; whether [it be] beast or man,
it shall not live: when the trumpet
soundeth long, they shall come up to
the mount.
14 # And Moses went down from the mount
unto the people, and sanctified the
people; and they washed their clothes.
15 And he said unto the people, Be
ready against the third day: come not
at [your] wives.
16 # And it came to pass on the third
day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a thick
cloud upon the mount, and the voice of
the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all
the people that [was] in the camp
trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people
out of the camp to meet with God; and
they stood at the nether part of the
mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a
smoke, because the LORD descended upon
it in fire: and the smoke thereof
ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and
the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet
sounded long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and God answered
him by a voice.
20 And the LORD came down upon mount
Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the
LORD called Moses [up] to the top of
the mount; and Moses went up.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go
down, charge the people, lest they
break through unto the LORD to gaze,
and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come
near to the LORD, sanctify themselves,
lest the LORD break forth upon them.
23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The
people cannot come up to mount Sinai:
for thou chargedst us, saying, Set
bounds about the mount, and sanctify
it.
24 And the LORD said unto him, Away,
get thee down, and thou shalt come up,
thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not
the priests and the people break
through to come up unto the LORD, lest
he break forth upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people,
and spake unto them.

CHAPTER 20
1 And God spake all these words,
saying,
2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before
me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness [of any
thing] that [is] in heaven above, or
that [is] in the earth beneath, or that
[is] in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to
them, nor serve them: for I the LORD
thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth
[generation] of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the
LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will
not hold him guiltless that taketh his
name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do
all thy work:
10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath
of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that [is] within thy gates:
11 For [in] six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them [is], and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the LORD blessed the
sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 # Honour thy father and thy mother:
that thy days may be long upon the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his manservant,
nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor
his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy
neighbour's.
18 # And all the people saw the
thunderings, and the lightnings, and
the noise of the trumpet, and the
mountain smoking: and when the people
saw [it], they removed, and stood afar
off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou
with us, and we will hear: but let not
God speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear
not: for God is come to prove you, and
that his fear may be before your faces,
that ye sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off, and
Moses drew near unto the thick darkness
where God [was].
22 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus
thou shalt say unto the children of
Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked
with you from heaven.
23 Ye shall not make with me gods of
silver, neither shall ye make unto you
gods of gold.
24 # An altar of earth thou shalt make
unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon
thy burnt offerings, and thy peace
offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen:
in all places where I record my name I
will come unto thee, and I will bless
thee.
25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stone: for if thou lift up thy tool
upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps
unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be
not discovered thereon.

CHAPTER 21
1 Now these [are] the judgments which
thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six
years he shall serve: and in the
seventh he shall go out free for
nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go
out by himself: if he were married,
then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife,
and she have born him sons or
daughters; the wife and her children
shall be her master's, and he shall go
out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say,
I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto
the judges; he shall also bring him to
the door, or unto the door post; and
his master shall bore his ear through
with an aul; and he shall serve him for
ever.
7 # And if a man sell his daughter to
be a maidservant, she shall not go out
as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who
hath betrothed her to himself, then
shall he let her be redeemed: to sell
her unto a strange nation he shall have
no power, seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his
son, he shall deal with her after the
manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another [wife]; her
food, her raiment, and her duty of
marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto
her, then shall she go out free without
money.
12 # He that smiteth a man, so that he
die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but
God deliver [him] into his hand; then I
will appoint thee a place whither he
shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously
upon his neighbour, to slay him with
guile; thou shalt take him from mine
altar, that he may die.
15 # And he that smiteth his father, or
his mother, shall be surely put to
death.
16 # And he that stealeth a man, and
selleth him, or if he be found in his
hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 # And he that curseth his father, or
his mother, shall surely be put to
death.
18 # And if men strive together, and
one smite another with a stone, or with
[his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth
[his] bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad
upon his staff, then shall he that
smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay
[for] the loss of his time, and shall
cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.
20 # And if a man smite his servant, or
his maid, with a rod, and he die under
his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a
day or two, he shall not be punished:
for he [is] his money.
22 # If men strive, and hurt a woman
with child, so that her fruit depart
[from her], and yet no mischief follow:
he shall be surely punished, according
as the woman's husband will lay upon
him; and he shall pay as the judges
[determine].
23 And if [any] mischief follow, then
thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe.
26 # And if a man smite the eye of his
servant, or the eye of his maid, that
it perish; he shall let him go free for
his eye's sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant's
tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he
shall let him go free for his tooth's
sake.
28 # If an ox gore a man or a woman,
that they die: then the ox shall be
surely stoned, and his flesh shall not
be eaten; but the owner of the ox
[shall be] quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with
his horn in time past, and it hath been
testified to his owner, and he hath not
kept him in, but that he hath killed a
man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned,
and his owner also shall be put to
death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of
money, then he shall give for the
ransom of his life whatsoever is laid
upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have
gored a daughter, according to this
judgment shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or
a maidservant; he shall give unto their
master thirty shekels of silver, and
the ox shall be stoned.
33 # And if a man shall open a pit, or
if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover
it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make [it]
good, [and] give money unto the owner
of them; and the dead [beast] shall be
his.
35 # And if one man's ox hurt
another's, that he die; then they shall
sell the live ox, and divide the money
of it; and the dead [ox] also they
shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath
used to push in time past, and his
owner hath not kept him in; he shall
surely pay ox for ox; and the dead
shall be his own.

CHAPTER 22
1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a
sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he
shall restore five oxen for an ox, and
four sheep for a sheep.
2 # If a thief be found breaking up,
and be smitten that he die, [there
shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
3 If the sun be risen upon him, [there
shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for]
he should make full restitution; if he
have nothing, then he shall be sold for
his theft.
4 If the theft be certainly found in
his hand alive, whether it be ox, or
ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
5 # If a man shall cause a field or
vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in
his beast, and shall feed in another
man's field; of the best of his own
field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution.
6 # If fire break out, and catch in
thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or
the standing corn, or the field, be
consumed [therewith]; he that kindled
the fire shall surely make restitution.
7 # If a man shall deliver unto his
neighbour money or stuff to keep, and
it be stolen out of the man's house; if
the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the
master of the house shall be brought
unto the judges, [to see] whether he
have put his hand unto his neighbour's
goods.
9 For all manner of trespass, [whether
it be] for ox, for ass, for sheep, for
raiment, [or] for any manner of lost
thing, which [another] challengeth to
be his, the cause of both parties shall
come before the judges; [and] whom the
judges shall condemn, he shall pay
double unto his neighbour.
10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour
an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any
beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt,
or driven away, no man seeing [it]:
11 [Then] shall an oath of the LORD be
between them both, that he hath not put
his hand unto his neighbour's goods;
and the owner of it shall accept
[thereof], and he shall not make [it]
good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he
shall make restitution unto the owner
thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, [then] let
him bring it [for] witness, [and] he
shall not make good that which was
torn.
14 # And if a man borrow [ought] of his
neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the
owner thereof [being] not with it, he
shall surely make [it] good.
15 [But] if the owner thereof [be] with
it, he shall not make [it] good: if it
[be] an hired [thing], it came for his
hire.
16 # And if a man entice a maid that is
not betrothed, and lie with her, he
shall surely endow her to be his wife.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give
her unto him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.
18 # Thou shalt not suffer a witch to
live.
19 # Whosoever lieth with a beast shall
surely be put to death.
20 # He that sacrificeth unto [any]
god, save unto the LORD only, he shall
be utterly destroyed.
21 # Thou shalt neither vex a stranger,
nor oppress him: for ye were strangers
in the land of Egypt.
22 # Ye shall not afflict any widow, or
fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise,
and they cry at all unto me, I will
surely hear their cry;
24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I
will kill you with the sword; and your
wives shall be widows, and your
children fatherless.
25 # If thou lend money to [any of] my
people [that is] poor by thee, thou
shalt not be to him as an usurer,
neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's
raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver
it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
27 For that [is] his covering only, it
[is] his raiment for his skin: wherein
shall he sleep? and it shall come to
pass, when he crieth unto me, that I
will hear; for I [am] gracious.
28 # Thou shalt not revile the gods,
nor curse the ruler of thy people.
29 # Thou shalt not delay [to offer]
the first of thy ripe fruits, and of
thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons
shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine
oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days
it shall be with his dam; on the eighth
day thou shalt give it me.
31 # And ye shall be holy men unto me:
neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that
is] torn of beasts in the field; ye
shall cast it to the dogs.

CHAPTER 23
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report:
put not thine hand with the wicked to
be an unrighteous witness.
2 # Thou shalt not follow a multitude
to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak
in a cause to decline after many to
wrest [judgment]:
3 # Neither shalt thou countenance a
poor man in his cause.
4 # If thou meet thine enemy's ox or
his ass going astray, thou shalt surely
bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that
hateth thee lying under his burden, and
wouldest forbear to help him, thou
shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of
thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter;
and the innocent and righteous slay
thou not: for I will not justify the
wicked.
8 # And thou shalt take no gift: for
the gift blindeth the wise, and
perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 # Also thou shalt not oppress a
stranger: for ye know the heart of a
stranger, seeing ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy
land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof:
11 But the seventh [year] thou shalt
let it rest and lie still; that the
poor of thy people may eat: and what
they leave the beasts of the field
shall eat. In like manner thou shalt
deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy
oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and
on the seventh day thou shalt rest:
that thine ox and thine ass may rest,
and the son of thy handmaid, and the
stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all [things] that I have said
unto you be circumspect: and make no
mention of the name of other gods,
neither let it be heard out of thy
mouth.
14 # Three times thou shalt keep a
feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of
unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I
commanded thee, in the time appointed
of the month Abib; for in it thou
camest out from Egypt: and none shall
appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the
firstfruits of thy labours, which thou
hast sown in the field: and the feast
of ingathering, [which is] in the end
of the year, when thou hast gathered in
thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy
males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither
shall the fat of my sacrifice remain
until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy
land thou shalt bring into the house of
the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe
a kid in his mother's milk.
20 # Behold, I send an Angel before
thee, to keep thee in the way, and to
bring thee into the place which I have
prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice,
provoke him not; for he will not pardon
your transgressions: for my name [is]
in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his
voice, and do all that I speak; then I
will be an enemy unto thine enemies,
and an adversary unto thine
adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee,
and bring thee in unto the Amorites,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites,
and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and
the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their
gods, nor serve them, nor do after
their works: but thou shalt utterly
overthrow them, and quite break down
their images.
25 And ye shall serve the LORD your
God, and he shall bless thy bread, and
thy water; and I will take sickness
away from the midst of thee.
26 # There shall nothing cast their
young, nor be barren, in thy land: the
number of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and
will destroy all the people to whom
thou shalt come, and I will make all
thine enemies turn their backs unto
thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee,
which shall drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before
thee.
29 I will not drive them out from
before thee in one year; lest the land
become desolate, and the beast of the
field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive
them out from before thee, until thou
be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the
Red sea even unto the sea of the
Philistines, and from the desert unto
the river: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand;
and thou shalt drive them out before
thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with
them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land,
lest they make thee sin against me: for
if thou serve their gods, it will
surely be a snare unto thee.

CHAPTER 24
1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto
the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel; and worship ye afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near the
LORD: but they shall not come nigh;
neither shall the people go up with
him.
3 # And Moses came and told the people
all the words of the LORD, and all the
judgments: and all the people answered
with one voice, and said, All the words
which the LORD hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the
LORD, and rose up early in the morning,
and builded an altar under the hill,
and twelve pillars, according to the
twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children
of Israel, which offered burnt
offerings, and sacrificed peace
offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and
put [it] in basons; and half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 And he took the book of the covenant,
and read in the audience of the people:
and they said, All that the LORD hath
said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and
sprinkled [it] on the people, and said,
Behold the blood of the covenant, which
the LORD hath made with you concerning
all these words.
9 # Then went up Moses, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the
elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and
[there was] under his feet as it were a
paved work of a sapphire stone, and as
it were the body of heaven in [his]
clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children
of Israel he laid not his hand: also
they saw God, and did eat and drink.
12 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Come
up to me into the mount, and be there:
and I will give thee tables of stone,
and a law, and commandments which I
have written; that thou mayest teach
them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister
Joshua: and Moses went up into the
mount of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry
ye here for us, until we come again
unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur
[are] with you: if any man have any
matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount,
and a cloud covered the mount.
16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon
mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it
six days: and the seventh day he called
unto Moses out of the midst of the
cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of the
LORD [was] like devouring fire on the
top of the mount in the eyes of the
children of Israel.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the
cloud, and gat him up into the mount:
and Moses was in the mount forty days
and forty nights.

CHAPTER 25
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they bring me an offering: of
every man that giveth it willingly with
his heart ye shall take my offering.
3 And this [is] the offering which ye
shall take of them; gold, and silver,
and brass,
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen, and goats' [hair],
5 And rams' skins dyed red, and
badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for
anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in
the ephod, and in the breastplate.
8 And let them make me a sanctuary;
that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I shew thee,
[after] the pattern of the tabernacle,
and the pattern of all the instruments
thereof, even so shall ye make [it].
10 # And they shall make an ark [of]
shittim wood: two cubits and a half
[shall be] the length thereof, and a
cubit and a half the breadth thereof,
and a cubit and a half the height
thereof.
11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure
gold, within and without shalt thou
overlay it, and shalt make upon it a
crown of gold round about.
12 And thou shalt cast four rings of
gold for it, and put [them] in the four
corners thereof; and two rings [shall
be] in the one side of it, and two
rings in the other side of it.
13 And thou shalt make staves [of]
shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold.
14 And thou shalt put the staves into
the rings by the sides of the ark, that
the ark may be borne with them.
15 The staves shall be in the rings of
the ark: they shall not be taken from
it.
16 And thou shalt put into the ark the
testimony which I shall give thee.
17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat
[of] pure gold: two cubits and a half
[shall be] the length thereof, and a
cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
18 And thou shalt make two cherubims
[of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou
make them, in the two ends of the mercy
seat.
19 And make one cherub on the one end,
and the other cherub on the other end:
[even] of the mercy seat shall ye make
the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubims shall stretch
forth [their] wings on high, covering
the mercy seat with their wings, and
their faces [shall look] one to
another; toward the mercy seat shall
the faces of the cherubims be.
21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat
above upon the ark; and in the ark thou
shalt put the testimony that I shall
give thee.
22 And there I will meet with thee, and
I will commune with thee from above the
mercy seat, from between the two
cherubims which [are] upon the ark of
the testimony, of all [things] which I
will give thee in commandment unto the
children of Israel.
23 # Thou shalt also make a table [of]
shittim wood: two cubits [shall be] the
length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof.
24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure
gold, and make thereto a crown of gold
round about.
25 And thou shalt make unto it a border
of an hand breadth round about, and
thou shalt make a golden crown to the
border thereof round about.
26 And thou shalt make for it four
rings of gold, and put the rings in the
four corners that [are] on the four
feet thereof.
27 Over against the border shall the
rings be for places of the staves to
bear the table.
28 And thou shalt make the staves [of]
shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold, that the table may be borne with
them.
29 And thou shalt make the dishes
thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers
thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover
withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make
them.
30 And thou shalt set upon the table
shewbread before me alway.
31 # And thou shalt make a candlestick
[of] pure gold: [of] beaten work shall
the candlestick be made: his shaft, and
his branches, his bowls, his knops, and
his flowers, shall be of the same.
32 And six branches shall come out of
the sides of it; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side, and
three branches of the candlestick out
of the other side:
33 Three bowls made like unto almonds,
[with] a knop and a flower in one
branch; and three bowls made like
almonds in the other branch, [with] a
knop and a flower: so in the six
branches that come out of the
candlestick.
34 And in the candlestick [shall be]
four bowls made like unto almonds,
[with] their knops and their flowers.
35 And [there shall be] a knop under
two branches of the same, and a knop
under two branches of the same, and a
knop under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches that
proceed out of the candlestick.
36 Their knops and their branches shall
be of the same: all it [shall be] one
beaten work [of] pure gold.
37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps
thereof: and they shall light the lamps
thereof, that they may give light over
against it.
38 And the tongs thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure
gold.
39 [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he
make it, with all these vessels.
40 And look that thou make [them] after
their pattern, which was shewed thee in
the mount.

CHAPTER 26
1 Moreover thou shalt make the
tabernacle [with] ten curtains [of]
fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims
of cunning work shalt thou make them.
2 The length of one curtain [shall be]
eight and twenty cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits: and
every one of the curtains shall have
one measure.
3 The five curtains shall be coupled
together one to another; and [other]
five curtains [shall be] coupled one to
another.
4 And thou shalt make loops of blue
upon the edge of the one curtain from
the selvedge in the coupling; and
likewise shalt thou make in the
uttermost edge of [another] curtain, in
the coupling of the second.
5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the
one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou
make in the edge of the curtain that
[is] in the coupling of the second;
that the loops may take hold one of
another.
6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of
gold, and couple the curtains together
with the taches: and it shall be one
tabernacle.
7 # And thou shalt make curtains [of]
goats' [hair] to be a covering upon the
tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou
make.
8 The length of one curtain [shall be]
thirty cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain four cubits: and the eleven
curtains [shall be all] of one measure.
9 And thou shalt couple five curtains
by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves, and shalt double the sixth
curtain in the forefront of the
tabernacle.
10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on
the edge of the one curtain [that is]
outmost in the coupling, and fifty
loops in the edge of the curtain which
coupleth the second.
11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of
brass, and put the taches into the
loops, and couple the tent together,
that it may be one.
12 And the remnant that remaineth of
the curtains of the tent, the half
curtain that remaineth, shall hang over
the backside of the tabernacle.
13 And a cubit on the one side, and a
cubit on the other side of that which
remaineth in the length of the curtains
of the tent, it shall hang over the
sides of the tabernacle on this side
and on that side, to cover it.
14 And thou shalt make a covering for
the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and
a covering above [of] badgers' skins.
15 # And thou shalt make boards for the
tabernacle [of] shittim wood standing
up.
16 Ten cubits [shall be] the length of
a board, and a cubit and a half [shall
be] the breadth of one board.
17 Two tenons [shall there be] in one
board, set in order one against
another: thus shalt thou make for all
the boards of the tabernacle.
18 And thou shalt make the boards for
the tabernacle, twenty boards on the
south side southward.
19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of
silver under the twenty boards; two
sockets under one board for his two
tenons, and two sockets under another
board for his two tenons.
20 And for the second side of the
tabernacle on the north side [there
shall be] twenty boards:
21 And their forty sockets [of] silver;
two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
22 And for the sides of the tabernacle
westward thou shalt make six boards.
23 And two boards shalt thou make for
the corners of the tabernacle in the
two sides.
24 And they shall be coupled together
beneath, and they shall be coupled
together above the head of it unto one
ring: thus shall it be for them both;
they shall be for the two corners.
25 And they shall be eight boards, and
their sockets [of] silver, sixteen
sockets; two sockets under one board,
and two sockets under another board.
26 # And thou shalt make bars [of]
shittim wood; five for the boards of
the one side of the tabernacle,
27 And five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the side of the
tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
28 And the middle bar in the midst of
the boards shall reach from end to end.
29 And thou shalt overlay the boards
with gold, and make their rings [of]
gold [for] places for the bars: and
thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
30 And thou shalt rear up the
tabernacle according to the fashion
thereof which was shewed thee in the
mount.
31 # And thou shalt make a vail [of]
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen of cunning work: with
cherubims shall it be made:
32 And thou shalt hang it upon four
pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with
gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold,
upon the four sockets of silver.
33 # And thou shalt hang up the vail
under the taches, that thou mayest
bring in thither within the vail the
ark of the testimony: and the vail
shall divide unto you between the holy
[place] and the most holy.
34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat
upon the ark of the testimony in the
most holy [place].
35 And thou shalt set the table without
the vail, and the candlestick over
against the table on the side of the
tabernacle toward the south: and thou
shalt put the table on the north side.
36 And thou shalt make an hanging for
the door of the tent, [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, wrought with needlework.
37 And thou shalt make for the hanging
five pillars [of] shittim [wood], and
overlay them with gold, [and] their
hooks [shall be of] gold: and thou
shalt cast five sockets of brass for
them.

CHAPTER 27
1 And thou shalt make an altar [of]
shittim wood, five cubits long, and
five cubits broad; the altar shall be
foursquare: and the height thereof
[shall be] three cubits.
2 And thou shalt make the horns of it
upon the four corners thereof: his
horns shall be of the same: and thou
shalt overlay it with brass.
3 And thou shalt make his pans to
receive his ashes, and his shovels, and
his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his
firepans: all the vessels thereof thou
shalt make [of] brass.
4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of
network [of] brass; and upon the net
shalt thou make four brasen rings in
the four corners thereof.
5 And thou shalt put it under the
compass of the altar beneath, that the
net may be even to the midst of the
altar.
6 And thou shalt make staves for the
altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and
overlay them with brass.
7 And the staves shall be put into the
rings, and the staves shall be upon the
two sides of the altar, to bear it.
8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make
it: as it was shewed thee in the mount,
so shall they make [it].
9 # And thou shalt make the court of
the tabernacle: for the south side
southward [there shall be] hangings for
the court [of] fine twined linen of an
hundred cubits long for one side:
10 And the twenty pillars thereof and
their twenty sockets [shall be of]
brass; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets [shall be of] silver.
11 And likewise for the north side in
length [there shall be] hangings of an
hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty
pillars and their twenty sockets [of]
brass; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets [of] silver.
12 # And [for] the breadth of the court
on the west side [shall be] hangings of
fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and
their sockets ten.
13 And the breadth of the court on the
east side eastward [shall be] fifty
cubits.
14 The hangings of one side [of the
gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And on the other side [shall be]
hangings fifteen [cubits]: their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 # And for the gate of the court
[shall be] an hanging of twenty cubits,
[of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, wrought with
needlework: [and] their pillars [shall
be] four, and their sockets four.
17 All the pillars round about the
court [shall be] filleted with silver;
their hooks [shall be of] silver, and
their sockets [of] brass.
18 # The length of the court [shall be]
an hundred cubits, and the breadth
fifty every where, and the height five
cubits [of] fine twined linen, and
their sockets [of] brass.
19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in
all the service thereof, and all the
pins thereof, and all the pins of the
court, [shall be of] brass.
20 # And thou shalt command the
children of Israel, that they bring
thee pure oil olive beaten for the
light, to cause the lamp to burn
always.
21 In the tabernacle of the
congregation without the vail, which
[is] before the testimony, Aaron and
his sons shall order it from evening to
morning before the LORD: [it shall be]
a statute for ever unto their
generations on the behalf of the
children of Israel.

CHAPTER 28
1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him, from
among the children of Israel, that he
may minister unto me in the priest's
office, [even] Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
2 And thou shalt make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother for glory and for
beauty.
3 And thou shalt speak unto all [that
are] wise hearted, whom I have filled
with the spirit of wisdom, that they
may make Aaron's garments to consecrate
him, that he may minister unto me in
the priest's office.
4 And these [are] the garments which
they shall make; a breastplate, and an
ephod, and a robe, and a broidered
coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they
shall make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother, and his sons, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's
office.
5 And they shall take gold, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen.
6 # And they shall make the ephod [of]
gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, [of]
scarlet, and fine twined linen, with
cunning work.
7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces
thereof joined at the two edges
thereof; and [so] it shall be joined
together.
8 And the curious girdle of the ephod,
which [is] upon it, shall be of the
same, according to the work thereof;
[even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones,
and grave on them the names of the
children of Israel:
10 Six of their names on one stone, and
[the other] six names of the rest on
the other stone, according to their
birth.
11 With the work of an engraver in
stone, [like] the engravings of a
signet, shalt thou engrave the two
stones with the names of the children
of Israel: thou shalt make them to be
set in ouches of gold.
12 And thou shalt put the two stones
upon the shoulders of the ephod [for]
stones of memorial unto the children of
Israel: and Aaron shall bear their
names before the LORD upon his two
shoulders for a memorial.
13 # And thou shalt make ouches [of]
gold;
14 And two chains [of] pure gold at the
ends; [of] wreathen work shalt thou
make them, and fasten the wreathen
chains to the ouches.
15 # And thou shalt make the
breastplate of judgment with cunning
work; after the work of the ephod thou
shalt make it; [of] gold, [of] blue,
and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, and
[of] fine twined linen, shalt thou make
it.
16 Foursquare it shall be [being]
doubled; a span [shall be] the length
thereof, and a span [shall be] the
breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings of
stones, [even] four rows of stones:
[the first] row [shall be] a sardius, a
topaz, and a carbuncle: [this shall be]
the first row.
18 And the second row [shall be] an
emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an
agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an
onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set
in gold in their inclosings.
21 And the stones shall be with the
names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names,
[like] the engravings of a signet;
every one with his name shall they be
according to the twelve tribes.
22 # And thou shalt make upon the
breastplate chains at the ends [of]
wreathen work [of] pure gold.
23 And thou shalt make upon the
breastplate two rings of gold, and
shalt put the two rings on the two ends
of the breastplate.
24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen
[chains] of gold in the two rings
[which are] on the ends of the
breastplate.
25 And [the other] two ends of the two
wreathen [chains] thou shalt fasten in
the two ouches, and put [them] on the
shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
26 # And thou shalt make two rings of
gold, and thou shalt put them upon the
two ends of the breastplate in the
border thereof, which [is] in the side
of the ephod inward.
27 And two [other] rings of gold thou
shalt make, and shalt put them on the
two sides of the ephod underneath,
toward the forepart thereof, over
against the [other] coupling thereof,
above the curious girdle of the ephod.
28 And they shall bind the breastplate
by the rings thereof unto the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that
[it] may be above the curious girdle of
the ephod, and that the breastplate be
not loosed from the ephod.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of
the children of Israel in the
breastplate of judgment upon his heart,
when he goeth in unto the holy [place],
for a memorial before the LORD
continually.
30 # And thou shalt put in the
breastplate of judgment the Urim and
the Thummim; and they shall be upon
Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before
the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the
judgment of the children of Israel upon
his heart before the LORD continually.
31 # And thou shalt make the robe of
the ephod all [of] blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the
top of it, in the midst thereof: it
shall have a binding of woven work
round about the hole of it, as it were
the hole of an habergeon, that it be
not rent.
33 # And [beneath] upon the hem of it
thou shalt make pomegranates [of] blue,
and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet,
round about the hem thereof; and bells
of gold between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a
golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the
hem of the robe round about.
35 And it shall be upon Aaron to
minister: and his sound shall be heard
when he goeth in unto the holy [place]
before the LORD, and when he cometh
out, that he die not.
36 # And thou shalt make a plate [of]
pure gold, and grave upon it, [like]
the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO
THE LORD.
37 And thou shalt put it on a blue
lace, that it may be upon the mitre;
upon the forefront of the mitre it
shall be.
38 And it shall be upon Aaron's
forehead, that Aaron may bear the
iniquity of the holy things, which the
children of Israel shall hallow in all
their holy gifts; and it shall be
always upon his forehead, that they may
be accepted before the LORD.
39 # And thou shalt embroider the coat
of fine linen, and thou shalt make the
mitre [of] fine linen, and thou shalt
make the girdle [of] needlework.
40 # And for Aaron's sons thou shalt
make coats, and thou shalt make for
them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou
make for them, for glory and for
beauty.
41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron
thy brother, and his sons with him; and
shalt anoint them, and consecrate them,
and sanctify them, that they may
minister unto me in the priest's
office.
42 And thou shalt make them linen
breeches to cover their nakedness; from
the loins even unto the thighs they
shall reach:
43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and
upon his sons, when they come in unto
the tabernacle of the congregation, or
when they come near unto the altar to
minister in the holy [place]; that they
bear not iniquity, and die: [it shall
be] a statute for ever unto him and his
seed after him.

CHAPTER 29
1 And this [is] the thing that thou
shalt do unto them to hallow them, to
minister unto me in the priest's
office: Take one young bullock, and two
rams without blemish,
2 And unleavened bread, and cakes
unleavened tempered with oil, and
wafers unleavened anointed with oil:
[of] wheaten flour shalt thou make
them.
3 And thou shalt put them into one
basket, and bring them in the basket,
with the bullock and the two rams.
4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt
bring unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, and shalt wash
them with water.
5 And thou shalt take the garments, and
put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe
of the ephod, and the ephod, and the
breastplate, and gird him with the
curious girdle of the ephod:
6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his
head, and put the holy crown upon the
mitre.
7 Then shalt thou take the anointing
oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and
anoint him.
8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and
put coats upon them.
9 And thou shalt gird them with
girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put
the bonnets on them: and the priest's
office shall be their's for a perpetual
statute: and thou shalt consecrate
Aaron and his sons.
10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be
brought before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron and his sons
shall put their hands upon the head of
the bullock.
11 And thou shalt kill the bullock
before the LORD, [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
12 And thou shalt take of the blood of
the bullock, and put [it] upon the
horns of the altar with thy finger, and
pour all the blood beside the bottom of
the altar.
13 And thou shalt take all the fat that
covereth the inwards, and the caul
[that is] above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon
them, and burn [them] upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bullock, and
his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn
with fire without the camp: it [is] a
sin offering.
15 # Thou shalt also take one ram; and
Aaron and his sons shall put their
hands upon the head of the ram.
16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and
thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle
[it] round about upon the altar.
17 And thou shalt cut the ram in
pieces, and wash the inwards of him,
and his legs, and put [them] unto his
pieces, and unto his head.
18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram
upon the altar: it [is] a burnt
offering unto the LORD: it [is] a sweet
savour, an offering made by fire unto
the LORD.
19 # And thou shalt take the other ram;
and Aaron and his sons shall put their
hands upon the head of the ram.
20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and
take of his blood, and put [it] upon
the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and
upon the tip of the right ear of his
sons, and upon the thumb of their right
hand, and upon the great toe of their
right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon
the altar round about.
21 And thou shalt take of the blood
that [is] upon the altar, and of the
anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon
Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon
his sons, and upon the garments of his
sons with him: and he shall be
hallowed, and his garments, and his
sons, and his sons' garments with him.
22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the
fat and the rump, and the fat that
covereth the inwards, and the caul
[above] the liver, and the two kidneys,
and the fat that [is] upon them, and
the right shoulder; for it [is] a ram
of consecration:
23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake
of oiled bread, and one wafer out of
the basket of the unleavened bread that
[is] before the LORD:
24 And thou shalt put all in the hands
of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons;
and shalt wave them [for] a wave
offering before the LORD.
25 And thou shalt receive them of their
hands, and burn [them] upon the altar
for a burnt offering, for a sweet
savour before the LORD: it [is] an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And thou shalt take the breast of
the ram of Aaron's consecration, and
wave it [for] a wave offering before
the LORD: and it shall be thy part.
27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast
of the wave offering, and the shoulder
of the heave offering, which is waved,
and which is heaved up, of the ram of
the consecration, [even] of [that]
which [is] for Aaron, and of [that]
which is for his sons:
28 And it shall be Aaron's and his
sons' by a statute for ever from the
children of Israel: for it [is] an
heave offering: and it shall be an
heave offering from the children of
Israel of the sacrifice of their peace
offerings, [even] their heave offering
unto the LORD.
29 # And the holy garments of Aaron
shall be his sons' after him, to be
anointed therein, and to be consecrated
in them.
30 [And] that son that is priest in his
stead shall put them on seven days,
when he cometh into the tabernacle of
the congregation to minister in the
holy [place].
31 # And thou shalt take the ram of the
consecration, and seethe his flesh in
the holy place.
32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the
flesh of the ram, and the bread that
[is] in the basket, [by] the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
33 And they shall eat those things
wherewith the atonement was made, to
consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but
a stranger shall not eat [thereof],
because they [are] holy.
34 And if ought of the flesh of the
consecrations, or of the bread, remain
unto the morning, then thou shalt burn
the remainder with fire: it shall not
be eaten, because it [is] holy.
35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron,
and to his sons, according to all
[things] which I have commanded thee:
seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
36 And thou shalt offer every day a
bullock [for] a sin offering for
atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the
altar, when thou hast made an atonement
for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to
sanctify it.
37 Seven days thou shalt make an
atonement for the altar, and sanctify
it; and it shall be an altar most holy:
whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be
holy.
38 # Now this [is that] which thou
shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs
of the first year day by day
continually.
39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the
morning; and the other lamb thou shalt
offer at even:
40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal
of flour mingled with the fourth part
of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth
part of an hin of wine [for] a drink
offering.
41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer
at even, and shalt do thereto according
to the meat offering of the morning,
and according to the drink offering
thereof, for a sweet savour, an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
42 [This shall be] a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations
[at] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation before the LORD: where I
will meet you, to speak there unto
thee.
43 And there I will meet with the
children of Israel, and [the
tabernacle] shall be sanctified by my
glory.
44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle
of the congregation, and the altar: I
will sanctify also both Aaron and his
sons, to minister to me in the priest's
office.
45 # And I will dwell among the
children of Israel, and will be their
God.
46 And they shall know that I [am] the
LORD their God, that brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, that I may
dwell among them: I [am] the LORD their
God.

CHAPTER 30
1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn
incense upon: [of] shittim wood shalt
thou make it.
2 A cubit [shall be] the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof; foursquare shall it be: and
two cubits [shall be] the height
thereof: the horns thereof [shall be]
of the same.
3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure
gold, the top thereof, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns
thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a
crown of gold round about.
4 And two golden rings shalt thou make
to it under the crown of it, by the two
corners thereof, upon the two sides of
it shalt thou make [it]; and they shall
be for places for the staves to bear it
withal.
5 And thou shalt make the staves [of]
shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold.
6 And thou shalt put it before the vail
that [is] by the ark of the testimony,
before the mercy seat that [is] over
the testimony, where I will meet with
thee.
7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet
incense every morning: when he dresseth
the lamps, he shall burn incense upon
it.
8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at
even, he shall burn incense upon it, a
perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations.
9 Ye shall offer no strange incense
thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat
offering; neither shall ye pour drink
offering thereon.
10 And Aaron shall make an atonement
upon the horns of it once in a year
with the blood of the sin offering of
atonements: once in the year shall he
make atonement upon it throughout your
generations: it [is] most holy unto the
LORD.
11 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
12 When thou takest the sum of the
children of Israel after their number,
then shall they give every man a ransom
for his soul unto the LORD, when thou
numberest them; that there be no plague
among them, when [thou] numberest them.
13 This they shall give, every one that
passeth among them that are numbered,
half a shekel after the shekel of the
sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty
gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the
offering of the LORD.
14 Every one that passeth among them
that are numbered, from twenty years
old and above, shall give an offering
unto the LORD.
15 The rich shall not give more, and
the poor shall not give less than half
a shekel, when [they] give an offering
unto the LORD, to make an atonement for
your souls.
16 And thou shalt take the atonement
money of the children of Israel, and
shalt appoint it for the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation; that it
may be a memorial unto the children of
Israel before the LORD, to make an
atonement for your souls.
17 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
18 Thou shalt also make a laver [of]
brass, and his foot [also of] brass, to
wash [withal]: and thou shalt put it
between the tabernacle of the
congregation and the altar, and thou
shalt put water therein.
19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash
their hands and their feet thereat:
20 When they go into the tabernacle of
the congregation, they shall wash with
water, that they die not; or when they
come near to the altar to minister, to
burn offering made by fire unto the
LORD:
21 So they shall wash their hands and
their feet, that they die not: and it
shall be a statute for ever to them,
[even] to him and to his seed
throughout their generations.
22 # Moreover the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
23 Take thou also unto thee principal
spices, of pure myrrh five hundred
[shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half
so much, [even] two hundred and fifty
[shekels], and of sweet calamus two
hundred and fifty [shekels],
24 And of cassia five hundred
[shekels], after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
25 And thou shalt make it an oil of
holy ointment, an ointment compound
after the art of the apothecary: it
shall be an holy anointing oil.
26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle
of the congregation therewith, and the
ark of the testimony,
27 And the table and all his vessels,
and the candlestick and his vessels,
and the altar of incense,
28 And the altar of burnt offering with
all his vessels, and the laver and his
foot.
29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that
they may be most holy: whatsoever
toucheth them shall be holy.
30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his
sons, and consecrate them, that [they]
may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
31 And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, This shall
be an holy anointing oil unto me
throughout your generations.
32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be
poured, neither shall ye make [any
other] like it, after the composition
of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be
holy unto you.
33 Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it,
or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a
stranger, shall even be cut off from
his people.
34 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Take
unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and
onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet
spices with pure frankincense: of each
shall there be a like [weight]:
35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a
confection after the art of the
apothecary, tempered together, pure
[and] holy:
36 And thou shalt beat [some] of it
very small, and put of it before the
testimony in the tabernacle of the
congregation, where I will meet with
thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
37 And [as for] the perfume which thou
shalt make, ye shall not make to
yourselves according to the composition
thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for
the LORD.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that,
to smell thereto, shall even be cut off
from his people.

CHAPTER 31
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah:
3 And I have filled him with the spirit
of God, in wisdom, and in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in
all manner of workmanship,
4 To devise cunning works, to work in
gold, and in silver, and in brass,
5 And in cutting of stones, to set
[them], and in carving of timber, to
work in all manner of workmanship.
6 And I, behold, I have given with him
Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all
that are wise hearted I have put
wisdom, that they may make all that I
have commanded thee;
7 The tabernacle of the congregation,
and the ark of the testimony, and the
mercy seat that [is] thereupon, and all
the furniture of the tabernacle,
8 And the table and his furniture, and
the pure candlestick with all his
furniture, and the altar of incense,
9 And the altar of burnt offering with
all his furniture, and the laver and
his foot,
10 And the cloths of service, and the
holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, to minister
in the priest's office,
11 And the anointing oil, and sweet
incense for the holy [place]: according
to all that I have commanded thee shall
they do.
12 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
13 Speak thou also unto the children of
Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye
shall keep: for it [is] a sign between
me and you throughout your generations;
that [ye] may know that I [am] the LORD
that doth sanctify you.
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore;
for it [is] holy unto you: every one
that defileth it shall surely be put to
death: for whosoever doeth [any] work
therein, that soul shall be cut off
from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in
the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest,
holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth [any]
work in the sabbath day, he shall
surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel
shall keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations,
[for] a perpetual covenant.
17 It [is] a sign between me and the
children of Israel for ever: for [in]
six days the LORD made heaven and
earth, and on the seventh day he
rested, and was refreshed.
18 # And he gave unto Moses, when he
had made an end of communing with him
upon mount Sinai, two tables of
testimony, tables of stone, written
with the finger of God.

CHAPTER 32
1 And when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down out of the mount,
the people gathered themselves together
unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make
us gods, which shall go before us; for
[as for] this Moses, the man that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off
the golden earrings, which [are] in the
ears of your wives, of your sons, and
of your daughters, and bring [them]
unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the
golden earrings which [were] in their
ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.
4 And he received [them] at their hand,
and fashioned it with a graving tool,
after he had made it a molten calf: and
they said, These [be] thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw [it], he built an
altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To morrow [is]
a feast to the LORD.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow,
and offered burnt offerings, and
brought peace offerings; and the people
sat down to eat and to drink, and rose
up to play.
7 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Go,
get thee down; for thy people, which
thou broughtest out of the land of
Egypt, have corrupted [themselves]:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of
the way which I commanded them: they
have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed
thereunto, and said, These [be] thy
gods, O Israel, which have brought thee
up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have
seen this people, and, behold, it [is]
a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my
wrath may wax hot against them, and
that I may consume them: and I will
make of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the LORD his God,
and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax
hot against thy people, which thou hast
brought forth out of the land of Egypt
with great power, and with a mighty
hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians
speak, and say, For mischief did he
bring them out, to slay them in the
mountains, and to consume them from the
face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce
wrath, and repent of this evil against
thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,
thy servants, to whom thou swarest by
thine own self, and saidst unto them, I
will multiply your seed as the stars of
heaven, and all this land that I have
spoken of will I give unto your seed,
and they shall inherit [it] for ever.
14 And the LORD repented of the evil
which he thought to do unto his people.
15 # And Moses turned, and went down
from the mount, and the two tables of
the testimony [were] in his hand: the
tables [were] written on both their
sides; on the one side and on the other
[were] they written.
16 And the tables [were] the work of
God, and the writing [was] the writing
of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of
the people as they shouted, he said
unto Moses, [There is] a noise of war
in the camp.
18 And he said, [It is] not the voice
of [them that] shout for mastery,
neither [is it] the voice of [them
that] cry for being overcome: [but] the
noise of [them that] sing do I hear.
19 # And it came to pass, as soon as he
came nigh unto the camp, that he saw
the calf, and the dancing: and Moses'
anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables
out of his hands, and brake them
beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had
made, and burnt [it] in the fire, and
ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it]
upon the water, and made the children
of Israel drink [of it].
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did
this people unto thee, that thou hast
brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of
my lord wax hot: thou knowest the
people, that they [are set] on
mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods,
which shall go before us: for [as for]
this Moses, the man that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath
any gold, let them break [it] off. So
they gave [it] me: then I cast it into
the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 # And when Moses saw that the people
[were] naked; (for Aaron had made them
naked unto [their] shame among their
enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp, and said, Who [is] on the LORD'S
side? [let him come] unto me. And all
the sons of Levi gathered themselves
together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Put every man
his sword by his side, [and] go in and
out from gate to gate throughout the
camp, and slay every man his brother,
and every man his companion, and every
man his neighbour.
28 And the children of Levi did
according to the word of Moses: and
there fell of the people that day about
three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate
yourselves to day to the LORD, even
every man upon his son, and upon his
brother; that he may bestow upon you a
blessing this day.
30 # And it came to pass on the morrow,
that Moses said unto the people, Ye
have sinned a great sin: and now I will
go up unto the LORD; peradventure I
shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD,
and said, Oh, this people have sinned a
great sin, and have made them gods of
gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their
sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray
thee, out of thy book which thou hast
written.
33 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Whosoever hath sinned against me, him
will I blot out of my book.
34 Therefore now go, lead the people
unto [the place] of which I have spoken
unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go
before thee: nevertheless in the day
when I visit I will visit their sin
upon them.
35 And the LORD plagued the people,
because they made the calf, which Aaron
made.

CHAPTER 33
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart,
[and] go up hence, thou and the people
which thou hast brought up out of the
land of Egypt, unto the land which I
sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I
give it:
2 And I will send an angel before thee;
and I will drive out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and
honey: for I will not go up in the
midst of thee; for thou [art] a
stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee
in the way.
4 # And when the people heard these
evil tidings, they mourned: and no man
did put on him his ornaments.
5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say
unto the children of Israel, Ye [are] a
stiffnecked people: I will come up into
the midst of thee in a moment, and
consume thee: therefore now put off thy
ornaments from thee, that I may know
what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments by the
mount Horeb.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and
pitched it without the camp, afar off
from the camp, and called it the
Tabernacle of the congregation. And it
came to pass, [that] every one which
sought the LORD went out unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, which
[was] without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went
out unto the tabernacle, [that] all the
people rose up, and stood every man
[at] his tent door, and looked after
Moses, until he was gone into the
tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered
into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar
descended, and stood [at] the door of
the tabernacle, and [the LORD] talked
with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy
pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door:
and all the people rose up and
worshipped, every man [in] his tent
door.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face
to face, as a man speaketh unto his
friend. And he turned again into the
camp: but his servant Joshua, the son
of Nun, a young man, departed not out
of the tabernacle.
12 # And Moses said unto the LORD, See,
thou sayest unto me, Bring up this
people: and thou hast not let me know
whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou
hast said, I know thee by name, and
thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I
have found grace in thy sight, shew me
now thy way, that I may know thee, that
I may find grace in thy sight: and
consider that this nation [is] thy
people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go
[with thee], and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy
presence go not [with me], carry us not
up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here
that I and thy people have found grace
in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou
goest with us? so shall we be
separated, I and thy people, from all
the people that [are] upon the face of
the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will
do this thing also that thou hast
spoken: for thou hast found grace in my
sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me
thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my
goodness pass before thee, and I will
proclaim the name of the LORD before
thee; and will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious, and will shew mercy
on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my
face: for there shall no man see me,
and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, [there
is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand
upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my
glory passeth by, that I will put thee
in a clift of the rock, and will cover
thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and
thou shalt see my back parts: but my
face shall not be seen.

CHAPTER 34
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew
thee two tables of stone like unto the
first: and I will write upon [these]
tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come
up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and
present thyself there to me in the top
of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee,
neither let any man be seen throughout
all the mount; neither let the flocks
nor herds feed before that mount.
4 # And he hewed two tables of stone
like unto the first; and Moses rose up
early in the morning, and went up unto
mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded
him, and took in his hand the two
tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud,
and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him,
and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God,
merciful and gracious, longsuffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin, and that will by no means
clear [the guilty]; visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the
children, and upon the children's
children, unto the third and to the
fourth [generation].
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his
head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my
Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it
[is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us
for thine inheritance.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a
covenant: before all thy people I will
do marvels, such as have not been done
in all the earth, nor in any nation:
and all the people among which thou
[art] shall see the work of the LORD:
for it [is] a terrible thing that I
will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command
thee this day: behold, I drive out
before thee the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make
a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land whither thou goest, lest it be for
a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars,
break their images, and cut down their
groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god:
for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous,
[is] a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they go a
whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, and [one]
call thee, and thou eat of his
sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters
unto thy sons, and their daughters go a
whoring after their gods, and make thy
sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 # The feast of unleavened bread
shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt
eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee, in the time of the month Abib:
for in the month Abib thou camest out
from Egypt.
19 All that openeth the matrix [is]
mine; and every firstling among thy
cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is
male].
20 But the firstling of an ass thou
shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou
redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break
his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons
thou shalt redeem. And none shall
appear before me empty.
21 # Six days thou shalt work, but on
the seventh day thou shalt rest: in
earing time and in harvest thou shalt
rest.
22 # And thou shalt observe the feast
of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat
harvest, and the feast of ingathering
at the year's end.
23 # Thrice in the year shall all your
men children appear before the Lord
GOD, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations
before thee, and enlarge thy borders:
neither shall any man desire thy land,
when thou shalt go up to appear before
the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leaven; neither shall
the sacrifice of the feast of the
passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy
land thou shalt bring unto the house of
the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe
a kid in his mother's milk.
27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write
thou these words: for after the tenor
of these words I have made a covenant
with thee and with Israel.
28 And he was there with the LORD forty
days and forty nights; he did neither
eat bread, nor drink water. And he
wrote upon the tables the words of the
covenant, the ten commandments.
29 # And it came to pass, when Moses
came down from mount Sinai with the two
tables of testimony in Moses' hand,
when he came down from the mount, that
Moses wist not that the skin of his
face shone while he talked with him.
30 And when Aaron and all the children
of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
of his face shone; and they were afraid
to come nigh him.
31 And Moses called unto them; and
Aaron and all the rulers of the
congregation returned unto him: and
Moses talked with them.
32 And afterward all the children of
Israel came nigh: and he gave them in
commandment all that the LORD had
spoken with him in mount Sinai.
33 And [till] Moses had done speaking
with them, he put a vail on his face.
34 But when Moses went in before the
LORD to speak with him, he took the
vail off, until he came out. And he
came out, and spake unto the children
of Israel [that] which he was
commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw the
face of Moses, that the skin of Moses'
face shone: and Moses put the vail upon
his face again, until he went in to
speak with him.

CHAPTER 35
1 And Moses gathered all the
congregation of the children of Israel
together, and said unto them, These
[are] the words which the LORD hath
commanded, that [ye] should do them.
2 Six days shall work be done, but on
the seventh day there shall be to you
an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the
LORD: whosoever doeth work therein
shall be put to death.
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout
your habitations upon the sabbath day.
4 # And Moses spake unto all the
congregation of the children of Israel,
saying, This [is] the thing which the
LORD commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offering
unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a
willing heart, let him bring it, an
offering of the LORD; gold, and silver,
and brass,
6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen, and goats' [hair],
7 And rams' skins dyed red, and
badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
8 And oil for the light, and spices for
anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense,
9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set
for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
10 And every wise hearted among you
shall come, and make all that the LORD
hath commanded;
11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his
covering, his taches, and his boards,
his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
12 The ark, and the staves thereof,
[with] the mercy seat, and the vail of
the covering,
13 The table, and his staves, and all
his vessels, and the shewbread,
14 The candlestick also for the light,
and his furniture, and his lamps, with
the oil for the light,
15 And the incense altar, and his
staves, and the anointing oil, and the
sweet incense, and the hanging for the
door at the entering in of the
tabernacle,
16 The altar of burnt offering, with
his brasen grate, his staves, and all
his vessels, the laver and his foot,
17 The hangings of the court, his
pillars, and their sockets, and the
hanging for the door of the court,
18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the
pins of the court, and their cords,
19 The cloths of service, to do service
in the holy [place], the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons, to minister in the
priest's office.
20 # And all the congregation of the
children of Israel departed from the
presence of Moses.
21 And they came, every one whose heart
stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit made willing, [and] they brought
the LORD'S offering to the work of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and for
all his service, and for the holy
garments.
22 And they came, both men and women,
as many as were willing hearted, [and]
brought bracelets, and earrings, and
rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold:
and every man that offered [offered] an
offering of gold unto the LORD.
23 And every man, with whom was found
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen, and goats' [hair], and red skins
of rams, and badgers' skins, brought
[them].
24 Every one that did offer an offering
of silver and brass brought the LORD'S
offering: and every man, with whom was
found shittim wood for any work of the
service, brought [it].
25 And all the women that were wise
hearted did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun,
[both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of
scarlet, and of fine linen.
26 And all the women whose heart
stirred them up in wisdom spun goats'
[hair].
27 And the rulers brought onyx stones,
and stones to be set, for the ephod,
and for the breastplate;
28 And spice, and oil for the light,
and for the anointing oil, and for the
sweet incense.
29 The children of Israel brought a
willing offering unto the LORD, every
man and woman, whose heart made them
willing to bring for all manner of
work, which the LORD had commanded to
be made by the hand of Moses.
30 # And Moses said unto the children
of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by
name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
31 And he hath filled him with the
spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in
all manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise curious works, to work
in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set
[them], and in carving of wood, to make
any manner of cunning work.
34 And he hath put in his heart that he
may teach, [both] he, and Aholiab, the
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of
heart, to work all manner of work, of
the engraver, and of the cunning
workman, and of the embroiderer, in
blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in
fine linen, and of the weaver, [even]
of them that do any work, and of those
that devise cunning work.

CHAPTER 36
1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab,
and every wise hearted man, in whom the
LORD put wisdom and understanding to
know how to work all manner of work for
the service of the sanctuary, according
to all that the LORD had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and
Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in
whose heart the LORD had put wisdom,
[even] every one whose heart stirred
him up to come unto the work to do it:
3 And they received of Moses all the
offering, which the children of Israel
had brought for the work of the service
of the sanctuary, to make it [withal].
And they brought yet unto him free
offerings every morning.
4 And all the wise men, that wrought
all the work of the sanctuary, came
every man from his work which they
made;
5 # And they spake unto Moses, saying,
The people bring much more than enough
for the service of the work, which the
LORD commanded to make.
6 And Moses gave commandment, and they
caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the camp, saying, Let neither man nor
woman make any more work for the
offering of the sanctuary. So the
people were restrained from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient
for all the work to make it, and too
much.
8 # And every wise hearted man among
them that wrought the work of the
tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning
work made he them.
9 The length of one curtain [was]
twenty and eight cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits: the
curtains [were] all of one size.
10 And he coupled the five curtains one
unto another: and [the other] five
curtains he coupled one unto another.
11 And he made loops of blue on the
edge of one curtain from the selvedge
in the coupling: likewise he made in
the uttermost side of [another]
curtain, in the coupling of the second.
12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain,
and fifty loops made he in the edge of
the curtain which [was] in the coupling
of the second: the loops held one
[curtain] to another.
13 And he made fifty taches of gold,
and coupled the curtains one unto
another with the taches: so it became
one tabernacle.
14 # And he made curtains [of] goats'
[hair] for the tent over the
tabernacle: eleven curtains he made
them.
15 The length of one curtain [was]
thirty cubits, and four cubits [was]
the breadth of one curtain: the eleven
curtains [were] of one size.
16 And he coupled five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by
themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops upon the
uttermost edge of the curtain in the
coupling, and fifty loops made he upon
the edge of the curtain which coupleth
the second.
18 And he made fifty taches [of] brass
to couple the tent together, that it
might be one.
19 And he made a covering for the tent
[of] rams' skins dyed red, and a
covering [of] badgers' skins above
[that].
20 # And he made boards for the
tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing
up.
21 The length of a board [was] ten
cubits, and the breadth of a board one
cubit and a half.
22 One board had two tenons, equally
distant one from another: thus did he
make for all the boards of the
tabernacle.
23 And he made boards for the
tabernacle; twenty boards for the south
side southward:
24 And forty sockets of silver he made
under the twenty boards; two sockets
under one board for his two tenons, and
two sockets under another board for his
two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the
tabernacle, [which is] toward the north
corner, he made twenty boards,
26 And their forty sockets of silver;
two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.
27 And for the sides of the tabernacle
westward he made six boards.
28 And two boards made he for the
corners of the tabernacle in the two
sides.
29 And they were coupled beneath, and
coupled together at the head thereof,
to one ring: thus he did to both of
them in both the corners.
30 And there were eight boards; and
their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of
silver, under every board two sockets.
31 # And he made bars of shittim wood;
five for the boards of the one side of
the tabernacle,
32 And five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the boards of the tabernacle
for the sides westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to shoot
through the boards from the one end to
the other.
34 And he overlaid the boards with
gold, and made their rings [of] gold
[to be] places for the bars, and
overlaid the bars with gold.
35 # And he made a vail [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen: [with] cherubims made he it of
cunning work.
36 And he made thereunto four pillars
[of] shittim [wood], and overlaid them
with gold: their hooks [were of] gold;
and he cast for them four sockets of
silver.
37 # And he made an hanging for the
tabernacle door [of] blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of
needlework;
38 And the five pillars of it with
their hooks: and he overlaid their
chapiters and their fillets with gold:
but their five sockets [were of] brass.

CHAPTER 37
1 And Bezaleel made the ark [of]
shittim wood: two cubits and a half
[was] the length of it, and a cubit and
a half the breadth of it, and a cubit
and a half the height of it:
2 And he overlaid it with pure gold
within and without, and made a crown of
gold to it round about.
3 And he cast for it four rings of
gold, [to be set] by the four corners
of it; even two rings upon the one side
of it, and two rings upon the other
side of it.
4 And he made staves [of] shittim wood,
and overlaid them with gold.
5 And he put the staves into the rings
by the sides of the ark, to bear the
ark.
6 # And he made the mercy seat [of]
pure gold: two cubits and a half [was]
the length thereof, and one cubit and a
half the breadth thereof.
7 And he made two cherubims [of] gold,
beaten out of one piece made he them,
on the two ends of the mercy seat;
8 One cherub on the end on this side,
and another cherub on the [other] end
on that side: out of the mercy seat
made he the cherubims on the two ends
thereof.
9 And the cherubims spread out [their]
wings on high, [and] covered with their
wings over the mercy seat, with their
faces one to another; [even] to the
mercy seatward were the faces of the
cherubims.
10 # And he made the table [of] shittim
wood: two cubits [was] the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof:
11 And he overlaid it with pure gold,
and made thereunto a crown of gold
round about.
12 Also he made thereunto a border of
an handbreadth round about; and made a
crown of gold for the border thereof
round about.
13 And he cast for it four rings of
gold, and put the rings upon the four
corners that [were] in the four feet
thereof.
14 Over against the border were the
rings, the places for the staves to
bear the table.
15 And he made the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with gold, to
bear the table.
16 And he made the vessels which [were]
upon the table, his dishes, and his
spoons, and his bowls, and his covers
to cover withal, [of] pure gold.
17 # And he made the candlestick [of]
pure gold: [of] beaten work made he the
candlestick; his shaft, and his branch,
his bowls, his knops, and his flowers,
were of the same:
18 And six branches going out of the
sides thereof; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side
thereof, and three branches of the
candlestick out of the other side
thereof:
19 Three bowls made after the fashion
of almonds in one branch, a knop and a
flower; and three bowls made like
almonds in another branch, a knop and a
flower: so throughout the six branches
going out of the candlestick.
20 And in the candlestick [were] four
bowls made like almonds, his knops, and
his flowers:
21 And a knop under two branches of the
same, and a knop under two branches of
the same, and a knop under two branches
of the same, according to the six
branches going out of it.
22 Their knops and their branches were
of the same: all of it [was] one beaten
work [of] pure gold.
23 And he made his seven lamps, and his
snuffers, and his snuffdishes, [of]
pure gold.
24 [Of] a talent of pure gold made he
it, and all the vessels thereof.
25 # And he made the incense altar [of]
shittim wood: the length of it [was] a
cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit;
[it was] foursquare; and two cubits
[was] the height of it; the horns
thereof were of the same.
26 And he overlaid it with pure gold,
[both] the top of it, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns of
it: also he made unto it a crown of
gold round about.
27 And he made two rings of gold for it
under the crown thereof, by the two
corners of it, upon the two sides
thereof, to be places for the staves to
bear it withal.
28 And he made the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with gold.
29 # And he made the holy anointing
oil, and the pure incense of sweet
spices, according to the work of the
apothecary.

CHAPTER 38
1 And he made the altar of burnt
offering [of] shittim wood: five cubits
[was] the length thereof, and five
cubits the breadth thereof; [it was]
foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the
four corners of it; the horns thereof
were of the same: and he overlaid it
with brass.
3 And he made all the vessels of the
altar, the pots, and the shovels, and
the basons, [and] the fleshhooks, and
the firepans: all the vessels thereof
made he [of] brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen
grate of network under the compass
thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
5 And he cast four rings for the four
ends of the grate of brass, [to be]
places for the staves.
6 And he made the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings
on the sides of the altar, to bear it
withal; he made the altar hollow with
boards.
8 # And he made the laver [of] brass,
and the foot of it [of] brass, of the
lookingglasses of [the women]
assembling, which assembled [at] the
door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
9 # And he made the court: on the south
side southward the hangings of the
court [were of] fine twined linen, an
hundred cubits:
10 Their pillars [were] twenty, and
their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets [were
of] silver.
11 And for the north side [the hangings
were] an hundred cubits, their pillars
[were] twenty, and their sockets of
brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars
and their fillets [of] silver.
12 And for the west side [were]
hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars
ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets [of]
silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty
cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side [of the
gate were] fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And for the other side of the court
gate, on this hand and that hand,
[were] hangings of fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets
three.
16 All the hangings of the court round
about [were] of fine twined linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars
[were of] brass; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets [of] silver;
and the overlaying of their chapiters
[of] silver; and all the pillars of the
court [were] filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the
court [was] needlework, [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen: and twenty cubits [was] the
length, and the height in the breadth
[was] five cubits, answerable to the
hangings of the court.
19 And their pillars [were] four, and
their sockets [of] brass four; their
hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying
of their chapiters and their fillets
[of] silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle,
and of the court round about, [were of]
brass.
21 # This is the sum of the tabernacle,
[even] of the tabernacle of testimony,
as it was counted, according to the
commandment of Moses, [for] the service
of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar,
son to Aaron the priest.
22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all
that the LORD commanded Moses.
23 And with him [was] Aholiab, son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an
engraver, and a cunning workman, and an
embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and
in scarlet, and fine linen.
24 All the gold that was occupied for
the work in all the work of the holy
[place], even the gold of the offering,
was twenty and nine talents, and seven
hundred and thirty shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary.
25 And the silver of them that were
numbered of the congregation [was] an
hundred talents, and a thousand seven
hundred and threescore and fifteen
shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
26 A bekah for every man, [that is],
half a shekel, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for every one that went to
be numbered, from twenty years old and
upward, for six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and
fifty [men].
27 And of the hundred talents of silver
were cast the sockets of the sanctuary,
and the sockets of the vail; an hundred
sockets of the hundred talents, a
talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred
seventy and five shekels he made hooks
for the pillars, and overlaid their
chapiters, and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering [was]
seventy talents, and two thousand and
four hundred shekels.
30 And therewith he made the sockets to
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the brasen altar, and
the brasen grate for it, and all the
vessels of the altar,
31 And the sockets of the court round
about, and the sockets of the court
gate, and all the pins of the
tabernacle, and all the pins of the
court round about.

CHAPTER 39
1 And of the blue, and purple, and
scarlet, they made cloths of service,
to do service in the holy [place], and
made the holy garments for Aaron; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
2 And he made the ephod [of] gold,
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
3 And they did beat the gold into thin
plates, and cut [it into] wires, to
work [it] in the blue, and in the
purple, and in the scarlet, and in the
fine linen, [with] cunning work.
4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to
couple [it] together: by the two edges
was it coupled together.
5 And the curious girdle of his ephod,
that [was] upon it, [was] of the same,
according to the work thereof; [of]
gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
6 # And they wrought onyx stones
inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as
signets are graven, with the names of
the children of Israel.
7 And he put them on the shoulders of
the ephod, [that they should be] stones
for a memorial to the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8 # And he made the breastplate [of]
cunning work, like the work of the
ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was foursquare; they made the
breastplate double: a span [was] the
length thereof, and a span the breadth
thereof, [being] doubled.
10 And they set in it four rows of
stones: [the first] row [was] a
sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this
[was] the first row.
11 And the second row, an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond.
12 And the third row, a ligure, an
agate, and an amethyst.
13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an
onyx, and a jasper: [they were]
inclosed in ouches of gold in their
inclosings.
14 And the stones [were] according to
the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names,
[like] the engravings of a signet,
every one with his name, according to
the twelve tribes.
15 And they made upon the breastplate
chains at the ends, [of] wreathen work
[of] pure gold.
16 And they made two ouches [of] gold,
and two gold rings; and put the two
rings in the two ends of the
breastplate.
17 And they put the two wreathen chains
of gold in the two rings on the ends of
the breastplate.
18 And the two ends of the two wreathen
chains they fastened in the two ouches,
and put them on the shoulderpieces of
the ephod, before it.
19 And they made two rings of gold, and
put [them] on the two ends of the
breastplate, upon the border of it,
which [was] on the side of the ephod
inward.
20 And they made two [other] golden
rings, and put them on the two sides of
the ephod underneath, toward the
forepart of it, over against the
[other] coupling thereof, above the
curious girdle of the ephod.
21 And they did bind the breastplate by
his rings unto the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it might be
above the curious girdle of the ephod,
and that the breastplate might not be
loosed from the ephod; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
22 # And he made the robe of the ephod
[of] woven work, all [of] blue.
23 And [there was] an hole in the midst
of the robe, as the hole of an
habergeon, [with] a band round about
the hole, that it should not rend.
24 And they made upon the hems of the
robe pomegranates [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, [and] twined
[linen].
25 And they made bells [of] pure gold,
and put the bells between the
pomegranates upon the hem of the robe,
round about between the pomegranates;
26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and
a pomegranate, round about the hem of
the robe to minister [in]; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
27 # And they made coats [of] fine
linen [of] woven work for Aaron, and
for his sons,
28 And a mitre [of] fine linen, and
goodly bonnets [of] fine linen, and
linen breeches [of] fine twined linen,
29 And a girdle [of] fine twined linen,
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of]
needlework; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
30 # And they made the plate of the
holy crown [of] pure gold, and wrote
upon it a writing, [like to] the
engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE
LORD.
31 And they tied unto it a lace of
blue, to fasten [it] on high upon the
mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 # Thus was all the work of the
tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation finished: and the children
of Israel did according to all that the
LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
33 # And they brought the tabernacle
unto Moses, the tent, and all his
furniture, his taches, his boards, his
bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed
red, and the covering of badgers'
skins, and the vail of the covering,
35 The ark of the testimony, and the
staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
36 The table, [and] all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread,
37 The pure candlestick, [with] the
lamps thereof, [even with] the lamps to
be set in order, and all the vessels
thereof, and the oil for light,
38 And the golden altar, and the
anointing oil, and the sweet incense,
and the hanging for the tabernacle
door,
39 The brasen altar, and his grate of
brass, his staves, and all his vessels,
the laver and his foot,
40 The hangings of the court, his
pillars, and his sockets, and the
hanging for the court gate, his cords,
and his pins, and all the vessels of
the service of the tabernacle, for the
tent of the congregation,
41 The cloths of service to do service
in the holy [place], and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and his
sons' garments, to minister in the
priest's office.
42 According to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel made all the work.
43 And Moses did look upon all the
work, and, behold, they had done it as
the LORD had commanded, even so had
they done it: and Moses blessed them.

CHAPTER 40
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 On the first day of the first month
shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the
tent of the congregation.
3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of
the testimony, and cover the ark with
the vail.
4 And thou shalt bring in the table,
and set in order the things that are to
be set in order upon it; and thou shalt
bring in the candlestick, and light the
lamps thereof.
5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold
for the incense before the ark of the
testimony, and put the hanging of the
door to the tabernacle.
6 And thou shalt set the altar of the
burnt offering before the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation.
7 And thou shalt set the laver between
the tent of the congregation and the
altar, and shalt put water therein.
8 And thou shalt set up the court round
about, and hang up the hanging at the
court gate.
9 And thou shalt take the anointing
oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all
that [is] therein, and shalt hallow it,
and all the vessels thereof: and it
shall be holy.
10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of
the burnt offering, and all his
vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it
shall be an altar most holy.
11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and
his foot, and sanctify it.
12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his
sons unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and wash them with
water.
13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the
holy garments, and anoint him, and
sanctify him; that he may minister unto
me in the priest's office.
14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and
clothe them with coats:
15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou
didst anoint their father, that they
may minister unto me in the priest's
office: for their anointing shall
surely be an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
16 Thus did Moses: according to all
that the LORD commanded him, so did he.
17 # And it came to pass in the first
month in the second year, on the first
[day] of the month, [that] the
tabernacle was reared up.
18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle,
and fastened his sockets, and set up
the boards thereof, and put in the bars
thereof, and reared up his pillars.
19 And he spread abroad the tent over
the tabernacle, and put the covering of
the tent above upon it; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
20 # And he took and put the testimony
into the ark, and set the staves on the
ark, and put the mercy seat above upon
the ark:
21 And he brought the ark into the
tabernacle, and set up the vail of the
covering, and covered the ark of the
testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 # And he put the table in the tent
of the congregation, upon the side of
the tabernacle northward, without the
vail.
23 And he set the bread in order upon
it before the LORD; as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
24 # And he put the candlestick in the
tent of the congregation, over against
the table, on the side of the
tabernacle southward.
25 And he lighted the lamps before the
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
26 # And he put the golden altar in the
tent of the congregation before the
vail:
27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
28 # And he set up the hanging [at] the
door of the tabernacle.
29 And he put the altar of burnt
offering [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation, and offered upon it the
burnt offering and the meat offering;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
30 # And he set the laver between the
tent of the congregation and the altar,
and put water there, to wash [withal].
31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons
washed their hands and their feet
thereat:
32 When they went into the tent of the
congregation, and when they came near
unto the altar, they washed; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
33 And he reared up the court round
about the tabernacle and the altar, and
set up the hanging of the court gate.
So Moses finished the work.
34 # Then a cloud covered the tent of
the congregation, and the glory of the
LORD filled the tabernacle.
35 And Moses was not able to enter into
the tent of the congregation, because
the cloud abode thereon, and the glory
of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
36 And when the cloud was taken up from
over the tabernacle, the children of
Israel went onward in all their
journeys:
37 But if the cloud were not taken up,
then they journeyed not till the day
that it was taken up.
38 For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon
the tabernacle by day, and fire was on
it by night, in the sight of all the
house of Israel, throughout all their
journeys.

THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED
LEVITICUS

CHAPTER 1
1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and
spake unto him out of the tabernacle of
the congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, If any man of you
bring an offering unto the LORD, ye
shall bring your offering of the
cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the
flock.
3 If his offering [be] a burnt
sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a
male without blemish: he shall offer it
of his own voluntary will at the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the LORD.
4 And he shall put his hand upon the
head of the burnt offering; and it
shall be accepted for him to make
atonement for him.
5 And he shall kill the bullock before
the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's
sons, shall bring the blood, and
sprinkle the blood round about upon the
altar that [is by] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
6 And he shall flay the burnt offering,
and cut it into his pieces.
7 And the sons of Aaron the priest
shall put fire upon the altar, and lay
the wood in order upon the fire:
8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall
lay the parts, the head, and the fat,
in order upon the wood that [is] on the
fire which [is] upon the altar:
9 But his inwards and his legs shall he
wash in water: and the priest shall
burn all on the altar, [to be] a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 # And if his offering [be] of the
flocks, [namely], of the sheep, or of
the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he
shall bring it a male without blemish.
11 And he shall kill it on the side of
the altar northward before the LORD:
and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall
sprinkle his blood round about upon the
altar.
12 And he shall cut it into his pieces,
with his head and his fat: and the
priest shall lay them in order on the
wood that [is] on the fire which [is]
upon the altar:
13 But he shall wash the inwards and
the legs with water: and the priest
shall bring [it] all, and burn [it]
upon the altar: it [is] a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savour unto the LORD.
14 # And if the burnt sacrifice for his
offering to the LORD [be] of fowls,
then he shall bring his offering of
turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
15 And the priest shall bring it unto
the altar, and wring off his head, and
burn [it] on the altar; and the blood
thereof shall be wrung out at the side
of the altar:
16 And he shall pluck away his crop
with his feathers, and cast it beside
the altar on the east part, by the
place of the ashes:
17 And he shall cleave it with the
wings thereof, [but] shall not divide
[it] asunder: and the priest shall burn
it upon the altar, upon the wood that
[is] upon the fire: it [is] a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savour unto the LORD.

CHAPTER 2
1 And when any will offer a meat
offering unto the LORD, his offering
shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall
pour oil upon it, and put frankincense
thereon:
2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons
the priests: and he shall take thereout
his handful of the flour thereof, and
of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof; and the priest
shall burn the memorial of it upon the
altar, [to be] an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
3 And the remnant of the meat offering
[shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it
is] a thing most holy of the offerings
of the LORD made by fire.
4 # And if thou bring an oblation of a
meat offering baken in the oven, [it
shall be] unleavened cakes of fine
flour mingled with oil, or unleavened
wafers anointed with oil.
5 # And if thy oblation [be] a meat
offering [baken] in a pan, it shall be
[of] fine flour unleavened, mingled
with oil.
6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and
pour oil thereon: it [is] a meat
offering.
7 # And if thy oblation [be] a meat
offering [baken] in the fryingpan, it
shall be made [of] fine flour with oil.
8 And thou shalt bring the meat
offering that is made of these things
unto the LORD: and when it is presented
unto the priest, he shall bring it unto
the altar.
9 And the priest shall take from the
meat offering a memorial thereof, and
shall burn [it] upon the altar: [it is]
an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
10 And that which is left of the meat
offering [shall be] Aaron's and his
sons': [it is] a thing most holy of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire.
11 No meat offering, which ye shall
bring unto the LORD, shall be made with
leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven,
nor any honey, in any offering of the
LORD made by fire.
12 # As for the oblation of the
firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto
the LORD: but they shall not be burnt
on the altar for a sweet savour.
13 And every oblation of thy meat
offering shalt thou season with salt;
neither shalt thou suffer the salt of
the covenant of thy God to be lacking
from thy meat offering: with all thine
offerings thou shalt offer salt.
14 And if thou offer a meat offering of
thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou
shalt offer for the meat offering of
thy firstfruits green ears of corn
dried by the fire, [even] corn beaten
out of full ears.
15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and
lay frankincense thereon: it [is] a
meat offering.
16 And the priest shall burn the
memorial of it, [part] of the beaten
corn thereof, and [part] of the oil
thereof, with all the frankincense
thereof: [it is] an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.

CHAPTER 3
1 And if his oblation [be] a sacrifice
of peace offering, if he offer [it] of
the herd; whether [it be] a male or
female, he shall offer it without
blemish before the LORD.
2 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of his offering, and kill it [at]
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron's sons the
priests shall sprinkle the blood upon
the altar round about.
3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice
of the peace offering an offering made
by fire unto the LORD; the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat
that [is] upon the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
[is] on them, which [is] by the flanks,
and the caul above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take away.
5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the
altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which
[is] upon the wood that [is] on the
fire: [it is] an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
6 # And if his offering for a sacrifice
of peace offering unto the LORD [be] of
the flock; male or female, he shall
offer it without blemish.
7 If he offer a lamb for his offering,
then shall he offer it before the LORD.
8 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of his offering, and kill it
before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron's sons shall
sprinkle the blood thereof round about
upon the altar.
9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice
of the peace offering an offering made
by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof,
[and] the whole rump, it shall he take
off hard by the backbone; and the fat
that covereth the inwards, and all the
fat that [is] upon the inwards,
10 And the two kidneys, and the fat
that [is] upon them, which [is] by the
flanks, and the caul above the liver,
with the kidneys, it shall he take
away.
11 And the priest shall burn it upon
the altar: [it is] the food of the
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
12 # And if his offering [be] a goat,
then he shall offer it before the LORD.
13 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of it, and kill it before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and the
sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood
thereof upon the altar round about.
14 And he shall offer thereof his
offering, [even] an offering made by
fire unto the LORD; the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat
that [is] upon the inwards,
15 And the two kidneys, and the fat
that [is] upon them, which [is] by the
flanks, and the caul above the liver,
with the kidneys, it shall he take
away.
16 And the priest shall burn them upon
the altar: [it is] the food of the
offering made by fire for a sweet
savour: all the fat [is] the LORD'S.
17 [It shall be] a perpetual statute
for your generations throughout all
your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat
nor blood.

CHAPTER 4
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, If a soul shall sin through
ignorance against any of the
commandments of the LORD [concerning
things] which ought not to be done, and
shall do against any of them:
3 If the priest that is anointed do sin
according to the sin of the people;
then let him bring for his sin, which
he hath sinned, a young bullock without
blemish unto the LORD for a sin
offering.
4 And he shall bring the bullock unto
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation before the LORD; and shall
lay his hand upon the bullock's head,
and kill the bullock before the LORD.
5 And the priest that is anointed shall
take of the bullock's blood, and bring
it to the tabernacle of the
congregation:
6 And the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood
seven times before the LORD, before the
vail of the sanctuary.
7 And the priest shall put [some] of
the blood upon the horns of the altar
of sweet incense before the LORD, which
[is] in the tabernacle of the
congregation; and shall pour all the
blood of the bullock at the bottom of
the altar of the burnt offering, which
[is at] the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
8 And he shall take off from it all the
fat of the bullock for the sin
offering; the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon
the inwards,
9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
[is] upon them, which [is] by the
flanks, and the caul above the liver,
with the kidneys, it shall he take
away,
10 As it was taken off from the bullock
of the sacrifice of peace offerings:
and the priest shall burn them upon the
altar of the burnt offering.
11 And the skin of the bullock, and all
his flesh, with his head, and with his
legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
12 Even the whole bullock shall he
carry forth without the camp unto a
clean place, where the ashes are poured
out, and burn him on the wood with
fire: where the ashes are poured out
shall he be burnt.
13 # And if the whole congregation of
Israel sin through ignorance, and the
thing be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done [somewhat
against] any of the commandments of the
LORD [concerning things] which should
not be done, and are guilty;
14 When the sin, which they have sinned
against it, is known, then the
congregation shall offer a young
bullock for the sin, and bring him
before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
15 And the elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands upon the head of
the bullock before the LORD: and the
bullock shall be killed before the
LORD.
16 And the priest that is anointed
shall bring of the bullock's blood to
the tabernacle of the congregation:
17 And the priest shall dip his finger
[in some] of the blood, and sprinkle
[it] seven times before the LORD,
[even] before the vail.
18 And he shall put [some] of the blood
upon the horns of the altar which [is]
before the LORD, that [is] in the
tabernacle of the congregation, and
shall pour out all the blood at the
bottom of the altar of the burnt
offering, which [is at] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
19 And he shall take all his fat from
him, and burn [it] upon the altar.
20 And he shall do with the bullock as
he did with the bullock for a sin
offering, so shall he do with this: and
the priest shall make an atonement for
them, and it shall be forgiven them.
21 And he shall carry forth the bullock
without the camp, and burn him as he
burned the first bullock: it [is] a sin
offering for the congregation.
22 # When a ruler hath sinned, and done
[somewhat] through ignorance [against]
any of the commandments of the LORD his
God [concerning things] which should
not be done, and is guilty;
23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath
sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall
bring his offering, a kid of the goats,
a male without blemish:
24 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of the goat, and kill it in the
place where they kill the burnt
offering before the LORD: it [is] a sin
offering.
25 And the priest shall take of the
blood of the sin offering with his
finger, and put [it] upon the horns of
the altar of burnt offering, and shall
pour out his blood at the bottom of the
altar of burnt offering.
26 And he shall burn all his fat upon
the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice
of peace offerings: and the priest
shall make an atonement for him as
concerning his sin, and it shall be
forgiven him.
27 # And if any one of the common
people sin through ignorance, while he
doeth [somewhat against] any of the
commandments of the LORD [concerning
things] which ought not to be done, and
be guilty;
28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned,
come to his knowledge: then he shall
bring his offering, a kid of the goats,
a female without blemish, for his sin
which he hath sinned.
29 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of the sin offering, and slay the
sin offering in the place of the burnt
offering.
30 And the priest shall take of the
blood thereof with his finger, and put
[it] upon the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and shall pour out all
the blood thereof at the bottom of the
altar.
31 And he shall take away all the fat
thereof, as the fat is taken away from
off the sacrifice of peace offerings;
and the priest shall burn [it] upon the
altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD;
and the priest shall make an atonement
for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin
offering, he shall bring it a female
without blemish.
33 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of the sin offering, and slay it
for a sin offering in the place where
they kill the burnt offering.
34 And the priest shall take of the
blood of the sin offering with his
finger, and put [it] upon the horns of
the altar of burnt offering, and shall
pour out all the blood thereof at the
bottom of the altar:
35 And he shall take away all the fat
thereof, as the fat of the lamb is
taken away from the sacrifice of the
peace offerings; and the priest shall
burn them upon the altar, according to
the offerings made by fire unto the
LORD: and the priest shall make an
atonement for his sin that he hath
committed, and it shall be forgiven
him.

CHAPTER 5
1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice
of swearing, and [is] a witness,
whether he hath seen or known [of it];
if he do not utter [it], then he shall
bear his iniquity.
2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing,
whether [it be] a carcase of an unclean
beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle,
or the carcase of unclean creeping
things, and [if] it be hidden from him;
he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of
man, whatsoever uncleanness [it be]
that a man shall be defiled withal, and
it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of
it], then he shall be guilty.
4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with
[his] lips to do evil, or to do good,
whatsoever [it be] that a man shall
pronounce with an oath, and it be hid
from him; when he knoweth [of it], then
he shall be guilty in one of these.
5 And it shall be, when he shall be
guilty in one of these [things], that
he shall confess that he hath sinned in
that [thing]:
6 And he shall bring his trespass
offering unto the LORD for his sin
which he hath sinned, a female from the
flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats,
for a sin offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him
concerning his sin.
7 And if he be not able to bring a
lamb, then he shall bring for his
trespass, which he hath committed, two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto
the LORD; one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering.
8 And he shall bring them unto the
priest, who shall offer [that] which
[is] for the sin offering first, and
wring off his head from his neck, but
shall not divide [it] asunder:
9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of
the sin offering upon the side of the
altar; and the rest of the blood shall
be wrung out at the bottom of the
altar: it [is] a sin offering.
10 And he shall offer the second [for]
a burnt offering, according to the
manner: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him for his sin which he
hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven
him.
11 # But if he be not able to bring two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then
he that sinned shall bring for his
offering the tenth part of an ephah of
fine flour for a sin offering; he shall
put no oil upon it, neither shall he
put [any] frankincense thereon: for it
[is] a sin offering.
12 Then shall he bring it to the
priest, and the priest shall take his
handful of it, [even] a memorial
thereof, and burn [it] on the altar,
according to the offerings made by fire
unto the LORD: it [is] a sin offering.
13 And the priest shall make an
atonement for him as touching his sin
that he hath sinned in one of these,
and it shall be forgiven him: and [the
remnant] shall be the priest's, as a
meat offering.
14 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin
through ignorance, in the holy things
of the LORD; then he shall bring for
his trespass unto the LORD a ram
without blemish out of the flocks, with
thy estimation by shekels of silver,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, for
a trespass offering:
16 And he shall make amends for the
harm that he hath done in the holy
thing, and shall add the fifth part
thereto, and give it unto the priest:
and the priest shall make an atonement
for him with the ram of the trespass
offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
17 # And if a soul sin, and commit any
of these things which are forbidden to
be done by the commandments of the
LORD; though he wist [it] not, yet is
he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
18 And he shall bring a ram without
blemish out of the flock, with thy
estimation, for a trespass offering,
unto the priest: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him concerning
his ignorance wherein he erred and wist
[it] not, and it shall be forgiven him.
19 It [is] a trespass offering: he hath
certainly trespassed against the LORD.

CHAPTER 6
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass
against the LORD, and lie unto his
neighbour in that which was delivered
him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a
thing taken away by violence, or hath
deceived his neighbour;
3 Or have found that which was lost,
and lieth concerning it, and sweareth
falsely; in any of all these that a man
doeth, sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath
sinned, and is guilty, that he shall
restore that which he took violently
away, or the thing which he hath
deceitfully gotten, or that which was
delivered him to keep, or the lost
thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which he hath sworn
falsely; he shall even restore it in
the principal, and shall add the fifth
part more thereto, [and] give it unto
him to whom it appertaineth, in the day
of his trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass
offering unto the LORD, a ram without
blemish out of the flock, with thy
estimation, for a trespass offering,
unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the LORD: and
it shall be forgiven him for any thing
of all that he hath done in trespassing
therein.
8 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
This [is] the law of the burnt
offering: It [is] the burnt offering,
because of the burning upon the altar
all night unto the morning, and the
fire of the altar shall be burning in
it.
10 And the priest shall put on his
linen garment, and his linen breeches
shall he put upon his flesh, and take
up the ashes which the fire hath
consumed with the burnt offering on the
altar, and he shall put them beside the
altar.
11 And he shall put off his garments,
and put on other garments, and carry
forth the ashes without the camp unto a
clean place.
12 And the fire upon the altar shall be
burning in it; it shall not be put out:
and the priest shall burn wood on it
every morning, and lay the burnt
offering in order upon it; and he shall
burn thereon the fat of the peace
offerings.
13 The fire shall ever be burning upon
the altar; it shall never go out.
14 # And this [is] the law of the meat
offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer
it before the LORD, before the altar.
15 And he shall take of it his handful,
of the flour of the meat offering, and
of the oil thereof, and all the
frankincense which [is] upon the meat
offering, and shall burn [it] upon the
altar [for] a sweet savour, [even] the
memorial of it, unto the LORD.
16 And the remainder thereof shall
Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened
bread shall it be eaten in the holy
place; in the court of the tabernacle
of the congregation they shall eat it.
17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I
have given it [unto them for] their
portion of my offerings made by fire;
it [is] most holy, as [is] the sin
offering, and as the trespass offering.
18 All the males among the children of
Aaron shall eat of it. [It shall be] a
statute for ever in your generations
concerning the offerings of the LORD
made by fire: every one that toucheth
them shall be holy.
19 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
20 This [is] the offering of Aaron and
of his sons, which they shall offer
unto the LORD in the day when he is
anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of
fine flour for a meat offering
perpetual, half of it in the morning,
and half thereof at night.
21 In a pan it shall be made with oil;
[and when it is] baken, thou shalt
bring it in: [and] the baken pieces of
the meat offering shalt thou offer
[for] a sweet savour unto the LORD.
22 And the priest of his sons that is
anointed in his stead shall offer it:
[it is] a statute for ever unto the
LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
23 For every meat offering for the
priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall
not be eaten.
24 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons,
saying, This [is] the law of the sin
offering: In the place where the burnt
offering is killed shall the sin
offering be killed before the LORD: it
[is] most holy.
26 The priest that offereth it for sin
shall eat it: in the holy place shall
it be eaten, in the court of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh
thereof shall be holy: and when there
is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon
any garment, thou shalt wash that
whereon it was sprinkled in the holy
place.
28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is
sodden shall be broken: and if it be
sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be
both scoured, and rinsed in water.
29 All the males among the priests
shall eat thereof: it [is] most holy.
30 And no sin offering, whereof [any]
of the blood is brought into the
tabernacle of the congregation to
reconcile [withal] in the holy [place],
shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in
the fire.

CHAPTER 7
1 Likewise this [is] the law of the
trespass offering: it [is] most holy.
2 In the place where they kill the
burnt offering shall they kill the
trespass offering: and the blood
thereof shall he sprinkle round about
upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat
thereof; the rump, and the fat that
covereth the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
[is] on them, which [is] by the flanks,
and the caul [that is] above the liver,
with the kidneys, it shall he take
away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon
the altar [for] an offering made by
fire unto the LORD: it [is] a trespass
offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall
eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the
holy place: it [is] most holy.
7 As the sin offering [is], so [is] the
trespass offering: [there is] one law
for them: the priest that maketh
atonement therewith shall have [it].
8 And the priest that offereth any
man's burnt offering, [even] the priest
shall have to himself the skin of the
burnt offering which he hath offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is
baken in the oven, and all that is
dressed in the fryingpan, and in the
pan, shall be the priest's that
offereth it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled
with oil, and dry, shall all the sons
of Aaron have, one [as much] as
another.
11 And this [is] the law of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
shall offer unto the LORD.
12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving,
then he shall offer with the sacrifice
of thanksgiving unleavened cakes
mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers
anointed with oil, and cakes mingled
with oil, of fine flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer
[for] his offering leavened bread with
the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his
peace offerings.
14 And of it he shall offer one out of
the whole oblation [for] an heave
offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall
be the priest's that sprinkleth the
blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of
his peace offerings for thanksgiving
shall be eaten the same day that it is
offered; he shall not leave any of it
until the morning.
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering
[be] a vow, or a voluntary offering, it
shall be eaten the same day that he
offereth his sacrifice: and on the
morrow also the remainder of it shall
be eaten:
17 But the remainder of the flesh of
the sacrifice on the third day shall be
burnt with fire.
18 And if [any] of the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings be
eaten at all on the third day, it shall
not be accepted, neither shall it be
imputed unto him that offereth it: it
shall be an abomination, and the soul
that eateth of it shall bear his
iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any
unclean [thing] shall not be eaten; it
shall be burnt with fire: and as for
the flesh, all that be clean shall eat
thereof.
20 But the soul that eateth [of] the
flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, that [pertain] unto the
LORD, having his uncleanness upon him,
even that soul shall be cut off from
his people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch
any unclean [thing, as] the uncleanness
of man, or [any] unclean beast, or any
abominable unclean [thing], and eat of
the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which [pertain] unto the
LORD, even that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
22 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
23 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat,
of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth
of itself, and the fat of that which is
torn with beasts, may be used in any
other use: but ye shall in no wise eat
of it.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the
beast, of which men offer an offering
made by fire unto the LORD, even the
soul that eateth [it] shall be cut off
from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of
blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of
beast, in any of your dwellings.
27 Whatsoever soul [it be] that eateth
any manner of blood, even that soul
shall be cut off from his people.
28 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
29 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, He that offereth the sacrifice
of his peace offerings unto the LORD
shall bring his oblation unto the LORD
of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, the
fat with the breast, it shall he bring,
that the breast may be waved [for] a
wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat
upon the altar: but the breast shall be
Aaron's and his sons'.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give
unto the priest [for] an heave offering
of the sacrifices of your peace
offerings.
33 He among the sons of Aaron, that
offereth the blood of the peace
offerings, and the fat, shall have the
right shoulder for [his] part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave
shoulder have I taken of the children
of Israel from off the sacrifices of
their peace offerings, and have given
them unto Aaron the priest and unto his
sons by a statute for ever from among
the children of Israel.
35 # This [is the portion] of the
anointing of Aaron, and of the
anointing of his sons, out of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, in
the day [when] he presented them to
minister unto the LORD in the priest's
office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given
them of the children of Israel, in the
day that he anointed them, [by] a
statute for ever throughout their
generations.
37 This [is] the law of the burnt
offering, of the meat offering, and of
the sin offering, and of the trespass
offering, and of the consecrations, and
of the sacrifice of the peace
offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in
mount Sinai, in the day that he
commanded the children of Israel to
offer their oblations unto the LORD, in
the wilderness of Sinai.

CHAPTER 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and
the garments, and the anointing oil,
and a bullock for the sin offering, and
two rams, and a basket of unleavened
bread;
3 And gather thou all the congregation
together unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded
him; and the assembly was gathered
together unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
5 And Moses said unto the congregation,
This [is] the thing which the LORD
commanded to be done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons,
and washed them with water.
7 And he put upon him the coat, and
girded him with the girdle, and clothed
him with the robe, and put the ephod
upon him, and he girded him with the
curious girdle of the ephod, and bound
[it] unto him therewith.
8 And he put the breastplate upon him:
also he put in the breastplate the Urim
and the Thummim.
9 And he put the mitre upon his head;
also upon the mitre, [even] upon his
forefront, did he put the golden plate,
the holy crown; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
10 And Moses took the anointing oil,
and anointed the tabernacle and all
that [was] therein, and sanctified
them.
11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the
altar seven times, and anointed the
altar and all his vessels, both the
laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil
upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to
sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and
put coats upon them, and girded them
with girdles, and put bonnets upon
them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
14 And he brought the bullock for the
sin offering: and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands upon the head of the
bullock for the sin offering.
15 And he slew [it]; and Moses took the
blood, and put [it] upon the horns of
the altar round about with his finger,
and purified the altar, and poured the
blood at the bottom of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make reconciliation
upon it.
16 And he took all the fat that [was]
upon the inwards, and the caul [above]
the liver, and the two kidneys, and
their fat, and Moses burned [it] upon
the altar.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his
flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire
without the camp; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
18 # And he brought the ram for the
burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands upon the head of the
ram.
19 And he killed [it]; and Moses
sprinkled the blood upon the altar
round about.
20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and
Moses burnt the head, and the pieces,
and the fat.
21 And he washed the inwards and the
legs in water; and Moses burnt the
whole ram upon the altar: it [was] a
burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour,
[and] an offering made by fire unto the
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 # And he brought the other ram, the
ram of consecration: and Aaron and his
sons laid their hands upon the head of
the ram.
23 And he slew [it]; and Moses took of
the blood of it, and put [it] upon the
tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot.
24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and
Moses put of the blood upon the tip of
their right ear, and upon the thumbs of
their right hands, and upon the great
toes of their right feet: and Moses
sprinkled the blood upon the altar
round about.
25 And he took the fat, and the rump,
and all the fat that [was] upon the
inwards, and the caul [above] the
liver, and the two kidneys, and their
fat, and the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket of unleavened
bread, that [was] before the LORD, he
took one unleavened cake, and a cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer, and put
[them] on the fat, and upon the right
shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands,
and upon his sons' hands, and waved
them [for] a wave offering before the
LORD.
28 And Moses took them from off their
hands, and burnt [them] on the altar
upon the burnt offering: they [were]
consecrations for a sweet savour: it
[is] an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved
it [for] a wave offering before the
LORD: [for] of the ram of consecration
it was Moses' part; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the anointing oil,
and of the blood which [was] upon the
altar, and sprinkled [it] upon Aaron,
[and] upon his garments, and upon his
sons, and upon his sons' garments with
him; and sanctified Aaron, [and] his
garments, and his sons, and his sons'
garments with him.
31 # And Moses said unto Aaron and to
his sons, Boil the flesh [at] the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation:
and there eat it with the bread that
[is] in the basket of consecrations, as
I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons
shall eat it.
32 And that which remaineth of the
flesh and of the bread shall ye burn
with fire.
33 And ye shall not go out of the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation
[in] seven days, until the days of your
consecration be at an end: for seven
days shall he consecrate you.
34 As he hath done this day, [so] the
LORD hath commanded to do, to make an
atonement for you.
35 Therefore shall ye abide [at] the
door of the tabernacle of the
congregation day and night seven days,
and keep the charge of the LORD, that
ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things
which the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses.

CHAPTER 9
1 And it came to pass on the eighth
day, [that] Moses called Aaron and his
sons, and the elders of Israel;
2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a
young calf for a sin offering, and a
ram for a burnt offering, without
blemish, and offer [them] before the
LORD.
3 And unto the children of Israel thou
shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of
the goats for a sin offering; and a
calf and a lamb, [both] of the first
year, without blemish, for a burnt
offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace
offerings, to sacrifice before the
LORD; and a meat offering mingled with
oil: for to day the LORD will appear
unto you.
5 # And they brought [that] which Moses
commanded before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and all the congregation
drew near and stood before the LORD.
6 And Moses said, This [is] the thing
which the LORD commanded that ye should
do: and the glory of the LORD shall
appear unto you.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto
the altar, and offer thy sin offering,
and thy burnt offering, and make an
atonement for thyself, and for the
people: and offer the offering of the
people, and make an atonement for them;
as the LORD commanded.
8 # Aaron therefore went unto the
altar, and slew the calf of the sin
offering, which [was] for himself.
9 And the sons of Aaron brought the
blood unto him: and he dipped his
finger in the blood, and put [it] upon
the horns of the altar, and poured out
the blood at the bottom of the altar:
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and
the caul above the liver of the sin
offering, he burnt upon the altar; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt
with fire without the camp.
12 And he slew the burnt offering; and
Aaron's sons presented unto him the
blood, which he sprinkled round about
upon the altar.
13 And they presented the burnt
offering unto him, with the pieces
thereof, and the head: and he burnt
[them] upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the inwards and the
legs, and burnt [them] upon the burnt
offering on the altar.
15 # And he brought the people's
offering, and took the goat, which
[was] the sin offering for the people,
and slew it, and offered it for sin, as
the first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering,
and offered it according to the manner.
17 And he brought the meat offering,
and took an handful thereof, and burnt
[it] upon the altar, beside the burnt
sacrifice of the morning.
18 He slew also the bullock and the ram
[for] a sacrifice of peace offerings,
which [was] for the people: and Aaron's
sons presented unto him the blood,
which he sprinkled upon the altar round
about,
19 And the fat of the bullock and of
the ram, the rump, and that which
covereth [the inwards], and the
kidneys, and the caul [above] the
liver:
20 And they put the fat upon the
breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the
altar:
21 And the breasts and the right
shoulder Aaron waved [for] a wave
offering before the LORD; as Moses
commanded.
22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward
the people, and blessed them, and came
down from offering of the sin offering,
and the burnt offering, and peace
offerings.
23 And Moses and Aaron went into the
tabernacle of the congregation, and
came out, and blessed the people: and
the glory of the LORD appeared unto all
the people.
24 And there came a fire out from
before the LORD, and consumed upon the
altar the burnt offering and the fat:
[which] when all the people saw, they
shouted, and fell on their faces.

CHAPTER 10
1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, took either of them his censer,
and put fire therein, and put incense
thereon, and offered strange fire
before the LORD, which he commanded
them not.
2 And there went out fire from the
LORD, and devoured them, and they died
before the LORD.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is
it] that the LORD spake, saying, I will
be sanctified in them that come nigh
me, and before all the people I will be
glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael and
Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle
of Aaron, and said unto them, Come
near, carry your brethren from before
the sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and carried them
in their coats out of the camp; as
Moses had said.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto
Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons,
Uncover not your heads, neither rend
your clothes; lest ye die, and lest
wrath come upon all the people: but let
your brethren, the whole house of
Israel, bewail the burning which the
LORD hath kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation,
lest ye die: for the anointing oil of
the LORD [is] upon you. And they did
according to the word of Moses.
8 # And the LORD spake unto Aaron,
saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink,
thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye
go into the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die: [it shall
be] a statute for ever throughout your
generations:
10 And that ye may put difference
between holy and unholy, and between
unclean and clean;
11 And that ye may teach the children
of Israel all the statutes which the
LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand
of Moses.
12 # And Moses spake unto Aaron, and
unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons
that were left, Take the meat offering
that remaineth of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, and eat it without
leaven beside the altar: for it [is]
most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy
place, because it [is] thy due, and thy
sons' due, of the sacrifices of the
LORD made by fire: for so I am
commanded.
14 And the wave breast and heave
shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place;
thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters
with thee: for [they be] thy due, and
thy sons' due, [which] are given out of
the sacrifices of peace offerings of
the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave
breast shall they bring with the
offerings made by fire of the fat, to
wave [it for] a wave offering before
the LORD; and it shall be thine, and
thy sons' with thee, by a statute for
ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
16 # And Moses diligently sought the
goat of the sin offering, and, behold,
it was burnt: and he was angry with
Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron
[which were] left [alive], saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin
offering in the holy place, seeing it
[is] most holy, and [God] hath given it
you to bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement for
them before the LORD?
18 Behold, the blood of it was not
brought in within the holy [place]: ye
should indeed have eaten it in the holy
[place], as I commanded.
19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold,
this day have they offered their sin
offering and their burnt offering
before the LORD; and such things have
befallen me: and [if] I had eaten the
sin offering to day, should it have
been accepted in the sight of the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard [that], he was
content.

CHAPTER 11
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to
Aaron, saying unto them,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, These [are] the beasts which ye
shall eat among all the beasts that
[are] on the earth.
3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is
clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud,
among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat
of them that chew the cud, or of them
that divide the hoof: [as] the camel,
because he cheweth the cud, but
divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean
unto you.
5 And the coney, because he cheweth the
cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is]
unclean unto you.
6 And the hare, because he cheweth the
cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is]
unclean unto you.
7 And the swine, though he divide the
hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he
cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to
you.
8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and
their carcase shall ye not touch; they
[are] unclean to you.
9 # These shall ye eat of all that
[are] in the waters: whatsoever hath
fins and scales in the waters, in the
seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye
eat.
10 And all that have not fins and
scales in the seas, and in the rivers,
of all that move in the waters, and of
any living thing which [is] in the
waters, they [shall be] an abomination
unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination
unto you; ye shall not eat of their
flesh, but ye shall have their carcases
in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales
in the waters, that [shall be] an
abomination unto you.
13 # And these [are they which] ye
shall have in abomination among the
fowls; they shall not be eaten, they
[are] an abomination: the eagle, and
the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14 And the vulture, and the kite after
his kind;
15 Every raven after his kind;
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and
the cuckow, and the hawk after his
kind,
17 And the little owl, and the
cormorant, and the great owl,
18 And the swan, and the pelican, and
the gier eagle,
19 And the stork, the heron after her
kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
20 All fowls that creep, going upon
[all] four, [shall be] an abomination
unto you.
21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying
creeping thing that goeth upon [all]
four, which have legs above their feet,
to leap withal upon the earth;
22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the
locust after his kind, and the bald
locust after his kind, and the beetle
after his kind, and the grasshopper
after his kind.
23 But all [other] flying creeping
things, which have four feet, [shall
be] an abomination unto you.
24 And for these ye shall be unclean:
whosoever toucheth the carcase of them
shall be unclean until the even.
25 And whosoever beareth [ought] of the
carcase of them shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even.
26 [The carcases] of every beast which
divideth the hoof, and [is] not
clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud,
[are] unclean unto you: every one that
toucheth them shall be unclean.
27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws,
among all manner of beasts that go on
[all] four, those [are] unclean unto
you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall
be unclean until the even.
28 And he that beareth the carcase of
them shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even: they [are]
unclean unto you.
29 # These also [shall be] unclean unto
you among the creeping things that
creep upon the earth; the weasel, and
the mouse, and the tortoise after his
kind,
30 And the ferret, and the chameleon,
and the lizard, and the snail, and the
mole.
31 These [are] unclean to you among all
that creep: whosoever doth touch them,
when they be dead, shall be unclean
until the even.
32 And upon whatsoever [any] of them,
when they are dead, doth fall, it shall
be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel
of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack,
whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein
[any] work is done, it must be put into
water, and it shall be unclean until
the even; so it shall be cleansed.
33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto
[any] of them falleth, whatsoever [is]
in it shall be unclean; and ye shall
break it.
34 Of all meat which may be eaten,
[that] on which [such] water cometh
shall be unclean: and all drink that
may be drunk in every [such] vessel
shall be unclean.
35 And every [thing] whereupon [any
part] of their carcase falleth shall be
unclean; [whether it be] oven, or
ranges for pots, they shall be broken
down: [for] they [are] unclean, and
shall be unclean unto you.
36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit,
[wherein there is] plenty of water,
shall be clean: but that which toucheth
their carcase shall be unclean.
37 And if [any part] of their carcase
fall upon any sowing seed which is to
be sown, it [shall be] clean.
38 But if [any] water be put upon the
seed, and [any part] of their carcase
fall thereon, it [shall be] unclean
unto you.
39 And if any beast, of which ye may
eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase
thereof shall be unclean until the
even.
40 And he that eateth of the carcase of
it shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even: he also that
beareth the carcase of it shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the
even.
41 And every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth [shall be] an
abomination; it shall not be eaten.
42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and
whatsoever goeth upon [all] four, or
whatsoever hath more feet among all
creeping things that creep upon the
earth, them ye shall not eat; for they
[are] an abomination.
43 Ye shall not make yourselves
abominable with any creeping thing that
creepeth, neither shall ye make
yourselves unclean with them, that ye
should be defiled thereby.
44 For I [am] the LORD your God: ye
shall therefore sanctify yourselves,
and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy:
neither shall ye defile yourselves with
any manner of creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
45 For I [am] the LORD that bringeth
you up out of the land of Egypt, to be
your God: ye shall therefore be holy,
for I [am] holy.
46 This [is] the law of the beasts, and
of the fowl, and of every living
creature that moveth in the waters, and
of every creature that creepeth upon
the earth:
47 To make a difference between the
unclean and the clean, and between the
beast that may be eaten and the beast
that may not be eaten.

CHAPTER 12
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, If a woman have conceived seed,
and born a man child: then she shall be
unclean seven days; according to the
days of the separation for her
infirmity shall she be unclean.
3 And in the eighth day the flesh of
his foreskin shall be circumcised.
4 And she shall then continue in the
blood of her purifying three and thirty
days; she shall touch no hallowed
thing, nor come into the sanctuary,
until the days of her purifying be
fulfilled.
5 But if she bear a maid child, then
she shall be unclean two weeks, as in
her separation: and she shall continue
in the blood of her purifying
threescore and six days.
6 And when the days of her purifying
are fulfilled, for a son, or for a
daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the
first year for a burnt offering, and a
young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a
sin offering, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, unto
the priest:
7 Who shall offer it before the LORD,
and make an atonement for her; and she
shall be cleansed from the issue of her
blood. This [is] the law for her that
hath born a male or a female.
8 And if she be not able to bring a
lamb, then she shall bring two turtles,
or two young pigeons; the one for the
burnt offering, and the other for a sin
offering: and the priest shall make an
atonement for her, and she shall be
clean.

CHAPTER 13
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
Aaron, saying,
2 When a man shall have in the skin of
his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright
spot, and it be in the skin of his
flesh [like] the plague of leprosy;
then he shall be brought unto Aaron the
priest, or unto one of his sons the
priests:
3 And the priest shall look on the
plague in the skin of the flesh: and
[when] the hair in the plague is turned
white, and the plague in sight [be]
deeper than the skin of his flesh, it
[is] a plague of leprosy: and the
priest shall look on him, and pronounce
him unclean.
4 If the bright spot [be] white in the
skin of his flesh, and in sight [be]
not deeper than the skin, and the hair
thereof be not turned white; then the
priest shall shut up [him that hath]
the plague seven days:
5 And the priest shall look on him the
seventh day: and, behold, [if] the
plague in his sight be at a stay, [and]
the plague spread not in the skin; then
the priest shall shut him up seven days
more:
6 And the priest shall look on him
again the seventh day: and, behold,
[if] the plague [be] somewhat dark,
[and] the plague spread not in the
skin, the priest shall pronounce him
clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall
wash his clothes, and be clean.
7 But if the scab spread much abroad in
the skin, after that he hath been seen
of the priest for his cleansing, he
shall be seen of the priest again:
8 And [if] the priest see that, behold,
the scab spreadeth in the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean:
it [is] a leprosy.
9 # When the plague of leprosy is in a
man, then he shall be brought unto the
priest;
10 And the priest shall see [him]: and,
behold, [if] the rising [be] white in
the skin, and it have turned the hair
white, and [there be] quick raw flesh
in the rising;
11 It [is] an old leprosy in the skin
of his flesh, and the priest shall
pronounce him unclean, and shall not
shut him up: for he [is] unclean.
12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in
the skin, and the leprosy cover all the
skin of [him that hath] the plague from
his head even to his foot, wheresoever
the priest looketh;
13 Then the priest shall consider: and,
behold, [if] the leprosy have covered
all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him]
clean [that hath] the plague: it is all
turned white: he [is] clean.
14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him,
he shall be unclean.
15 And the priest shall see the raw
flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean:
[for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it
[is] a leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and
be changed unto white, he shall come
unto the priest;
17 And the priest shall see him: and,
behold, [if] the plague be turned into
white; then the priest shall pronounce
[him] clean [that hath] the plague: he
[is] clean.
18 # The flesh also, in which, [even]
in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is
healed,
19 And in the place of the boil there
be a white rising, or a bright spot,
white, and somewhat reddish, and it be
shewed to the priest;
20 And if, when the priest seeth it,
behold, it [be] in sight lower than the
skin, and the hair thereof be turned
white; the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy
broken out of the boil.
21 But if the priest look on it, and,
behold, [there be] no white hairs
therein, and [if] it [be] not lower
than the skin, but [be] somewhat dark;
then the priest shall shut him up seven
days:
22 And if it spread much abroad in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it [is] a plague.
23 But if the bright spot stay in his
place, [and] spread not, it [is] a
burning boil; and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
24 # Or if there be [any] flesh, in the
skin whereof [there is] a hot burning,
and the quick [flesh] that burneth have
a white bright spot, somewhat reddish,
or white;
25 Then the priest shall look upon it:
and, behold, [if] the hair in the
bright spot be turned white, and it [be
in] sight deeper than the skin; it [is]
a leprosy broken out of the burning:
wherefore the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it [is] the plague of
leprosy.
26 But if the priest look on it, and,
behold, [there be] no white hair in the
bright spot, and it [be] no lower than
the [other] skin, but [be] somewhat
dark; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days:
27 And the priest shall look upon him
the seventh day: [and] if it be spread
much abroad in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
[is] the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot stay in his
place, [and] spread not in the skin,
but it [be] somewhat dark; it [is] a
rising of the burning, and the priest
shall pronounce him clean: for it [is]
an inflammation of the burning.
29 # If a man or woman have a plague
upon the head or the beard;
30 Then the priest shall see the
plague: and, behold, if it [be] in
sight deeper than the skin; [and there
be] in it a yellow thin hair; then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
[is] a dry scall, [even] a leprosy upon
the head or beard.
31 And if the priest look on the plague
of the scall, and, behold, it [be] not
in sight deeper than the skin, and
[that there is] no black hair in it;
then the priest shall shut up [him that
hath] the plague of the scall seven
days:
32 And in the seventh day the priest
shall look on the plague: and, behold,
[if] the scall spread not, and there be
in it no yellow hair, and the scall
[be] not in sight deeper than the skin;
33 He shall be shaven, but the scall
shall he not shave; and the priest
shall shut up [him that hath] the scall
seven days more:
34 And in the seventh day the priest
shall look on the scall: and, behold,
[if] the scall be not spread in the
skin, nor [be] in sight deeper than the
skin; then the priest shall pronounce
him clean: and he shall wash his
clothes, and be clean.
35 But if the scall spread much in the
skin after his cleansing;
36 Then the priest shall look on him:
and, behold, if the scall be spread in
the skin, the priest shall not seek for
yellow hair; he [is] unclean.
37 But if the scall be in his sight at
a stay, and [that] there is black hair
grown up therein; the scall is healed,
he [is] clean: and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
38 # If a man also or a woman have in
the skin of their flesh bright spots,
[even] white bright spots;
39 Then the priest shall look: and,
behold, [if] the bright spots in the
skin of their flesh [be] darkish white;
it [is] a freckled spot [that] groweth
in the skin; he [is] clean.
40 And the man whose hair is fallen off
his head, he [is] bald; [yet is] he
clean.
41 And he that hath his hair fallen off
from the part of his head toward his
face, he [is] forehead bald: [yet is]
he clean.
42 And if there be in the bald head, or
bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it
[is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald
head, or his bald forehead.
43 Then the priest shall look upon it:
and, behold, [if] the rising of the
sore [be] white reddish in his bald
head, or in his bald forehead, as the
leprosy appeareth in the skin of the
flesh;
44 He is a leprous man, he [is]
unclean: the priest shall pronounce him
utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his
head.
45 And the leper in whom the plague
[is], his clothes shall be rent, and
his head bare, and he shall put a
covering upon his upper lip, and shall
cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague
[shall be] in him he shall be defiled;
he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone;
without the camp [shall] his habitation
[be].
47 # The garment also that the plague
of leprosy is in, [whether it be] a
woollen garment, or a linen garment;
48 Whether [it be] in the warp, or
woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether
in a skin, or in any thing made of
skin;
49 And if the plague be greenish or
reddish in the garment, or in the skin,
either in the warp, or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin; it [is] a plague
of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto
the priest:
50 And the priest shall look upon the
plague, and shut up [it that hath] the
plague seven days:
51 And he shall look on the plague on
the seventh day: if the plague be
spread in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in a skin,
[or] in any work that is made of skin;
the plague [is] a fretting leprosy; it
[is] unclean.
52 He shall therefore burn that
garment, whether warp or woof, in
woollen or in linen, or any thing of
skin, wherein the plague is: for it
[is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be
burnt in the fire.
53 And if the priest shall look, and,
behold, the plague be not spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in any thing of skin;
54 Then the priest shall command that
they wash [the thing] wherein the
plague [is], and he shall shut it up
seven days more:
55 And the priest shall look on the
plague, after that it is washed: and,
behold, [if] the plague have not
changed his colour, and the plague be
not spread; it [is] unclean; thou shalt
burn it in the fire; it [is] fret
inward, [whether] it [be] bare within
or without.
56 And if the priest look, and, behold,
the plague [be] somewhat dark after the
washing of it; then he shall rend it
out of the garment, or out of the skin,
or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
57 And if it appear still in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in any thing of skin; it [is]
a spreading [plague]: thou shalt burn
that wherein the plague [is] with fire.
58 And the garment, either warp, or
woof, or whatsoever thing of skin [it
be], which thou shalt wash, if the
plague be departed from them, then it
shall be washed the second time, and
shall be clean.
59 This [is] the law of the plague of
leprosy in a garment of woollen or
linen, either in the warp, or woof, or
any thing of skins, to pronounce it
clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

CHAPTER 14
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in
the day of his cleansing: He shall be
brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of
the camp; and the priest shall look,
and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy
be healed in the leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take
for him that is to be cleansed two
birds alive [and] clean, and cedar
wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one
of the birds be killed in an earthen
vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take
it, and the cedar wood, and the
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip
them and the living bird in the blood
of the bird [that was] killed over the
running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that
is to be cleansed from the leprosy
seven times, and shall pronounce him
clean, and shall let the living bird
loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall
wash his clothes, and shave off all his
hair, and wash himself in water, that
he may be clean: and after that he
shall come into the camp, and shall
tarry abroad out of his tent seven
days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day,
that he shall shave all his hair off
his head and his beard and his
eyebrows, even all his hair he shall
shave off: and he shall wash his
clothes, also he shall wash his flesh
in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take
two he lambs without blemish, and one
ewe lamb of the first year without
blemish, and three tenth deals of fine
flour [for] a meat offering, mingled
with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh [him]
clean shall present the man that is to
be made clean, and those things, before
the LORD, [at] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he
lamb, and offer him for a trespass
offering, and the log of oil, and wave
them [for] a wave offering before the
LORD:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the
place where he shall kill the sin
offering and the burnt offering, in the
holy place: for as the sin offering
[is] the priest's, [so is] the trespass
offering: it [is] most holy:
14 And the priest shall take [some] of
the blood of the trespass offering, and
the priest shall put [it] upon the tip
of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take [some] of
the log of oil, and pour [it] into the
palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right
finger in the oil that [is] in his left
hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil
with his finger seven times before the
LORD:
17 And of the rest of the oil that [is]
in his hand shall the priest put upon
the tip of the right ear of him that is
to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe
of his right foot, upon the blood of
the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that [is]
in the priest's hand he shall pour upon
the head of him that is to be cleansed:
and the priest shall make an atonement
for him before the LORD.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin
offering, and make an atonement for him
that is to be cleansed from his
uncleanness; and afterward he shall
kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt
offering and the meat offering upon the
altar: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him, and he shall be
clean.
21 And if he [be] poor, and cannot get
so much; then he shall take one lamb
[for] a trespass offering to be waved,
to make an atonement for him, and one
tenth deal of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering, and a log of
oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, such as he is able to get; and
the one shall be a sin offering, and
the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the
eighth day for his cleansing unto the
priest, unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, before the LORD.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb
of the trespass offering, and the log
of oil, and the priest shall wave them
[for] a wave offering before the LORD:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the
trespass offering, and the priest shall
take [some] of the blood of the
trespass offering, and put [it] upon
the tip of the right ear of him that is
to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe
of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil
into the palm of his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with
his right finger [some] of the oil that
[is] in his left hand seven times
before the LORD:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil
that [is] in his hand upon the tip of
the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot, upon the place of the
blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that [is] in
the priest's hand he shall put upon the
head of him that is to be cleansed, to
make an atonement for him before the
LORD.
30 And he shall offer the one of the
turtledoves, or of the young pigeons,
such as he can get;
31 [Even] such as he is able to get,
the one [for] a sin offering, and the
other [for] a burnt offering, with the
meat offering: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him that is to be
cleansed before the LORD.
32 This [is] the law [of him] in whom
[is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand
is not able to get [that which
pertaineth] to his cleansing.
33 # And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of
Canaan, which I give to you for a
possession, and I put the plague of
leprosy in a house of the land of your
possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall
come and tell the priest, saying, It
seemeth to me [there is] as it were a
plague in the house:
36 Then the priest shall command that
they empty the house, before the priest
go [into it] to see the plague, that
all that [is] in the house be not made
unclean: and afterward the priest shall
go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague,
and, behold, [if] the plague [be] in
the walls of the house with hollow
strakes, greenish or reddish, which in
sight [are] lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the
house to the door of the house, and
shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the
seventh day, and shall look: and,
behold, [if] the plague be spread in
the walls of the house;
40 Then the priest shall command that
they take away the stones in which the
plague [is], and they shall cast them
into an unclean place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be
scraped within round about, and they
shall pour out the dust that they
scrape off without the city into an
unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones,
and put [them] in the place of those
stones; and he shall take other morter,
and shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and
break out in the house, after that he
hath taken away the stones, and after
he hath scraped the house, and after it
is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look,
and, behold, [if] the plague be spread
in the house, it [is] a fretting
leprosy in the house: it [is] unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house,
the stones of it, and the timber
thereof, and all the morter of the
house; and he shall carry [them] forth
out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the
house all the while that it is shut up
shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall
wash his clothes; and he that eateth in
the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and
look [upon it], and, behold, the plague
hath not spread in the house, after the
house was plaistered: then the priest
shall pronounce the house clean,
because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the
house two birds, and cedar wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the
birds in an earthen vessel over running
water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood,
and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and
the living bird, and dip them in the
blood of the slain bird, and in the
running water, and sprinkle the house
seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with
the blood of the bird, and with the
running water, and with the living
bird, and with the cedar wood, and with
the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird
out of the city into the open fields,
and make an atonement for the house:
and it shall be clean.
54 This [is] the law for all manner of
plague of leprosy, and scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment,
and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab,
and for a bright spot:
57 To teach when [it is] unclean, and
when [it is] clean: this [is] the law
of leprosy.

CHAPTER 15
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to
Aaron, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When any man hath a
running issue out of his flesh,
[because of] his issue he [is] unclean.
3 And this shall be his uncleanness in
his issue: whether his flesh run with
his issue, or his flesh be stopped from
his issue, it [is] his uncleanness.
4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath
the issue, is unclean: and every thing,
whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe [himself]
in water, and be unclean until the
even.
6 And he that sitteth on [any] thing
whereon he sat that hath the issue
shall wash his clothes, and bathe
[himself] in water, and be unclean
until the even.
7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him
that hath the issue shall wash his
clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
and be unclean until the even.
8 And if he that hath the issue spit
upon him that is clean; then he shall
wash his clothes, and bathe [himself]
in water, and be unclean until the
even.
9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon
that hath the issue shall be unclean.
10 And whosoever toucheth any thing
that was under him shall be unclean
until the even: and he that beareth
[any of] those things shall wash his
clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
and be unclean until the even.
11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath
the issue, and hath not rinsed his
hands in water, he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
and be unclean until the even.
12 And the vessel of earth, that he
toucheth which hath the issue, shall be
broken: and every vessel of wood shall
be rinsed in water.
13 And when he that hath an issue is
cleansed of his issue; then he shall
number to himself seven days for his
cleansing, and wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in running water, and
shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take
to him two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, and come before the LORD unto
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and give them unto the
priest:
15 And the priest shall offer them, the
one [for] a sin offering, and the other
[for] a burnt offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him before
the LORD for his issue.
16 And if any man's seed of copulation
go out from him, then he shall wash all
his flesh in water, and be unclean
until the even.
17 And every garment, and every skin,
whereon is the seed of copulation,
shall be washed with water, and be
unclean until the even.
18 The woman also with whom man shall
lie [with] seed of copulation, they
shall [both] bathe [themselves] in
water, and be unclean until the even.
19 # And if a woman have an issue,
[and] her issue in her flesh be blood,
she shall be put apart seven days: and
whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean
until the even.
20 And every thing that she lieth upon
in her separation shall be unclean:
every thing also that she sitteth upon
shall be unclean.
21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe [himself]
in water, and be unclean until the
even.
22 And whosoever toucheth any thing
that she sat upon shall wash his
clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
and be unclean until the even.
23 And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on
any thing whereon she sitteth, when he
toucheth it, he shall be unclean until
the even.
24 And if any man lie with her at all,
and her flowers be upon him, he shall
be unclean seven days; and all the bed
whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman have an issue of her
blood many days out of the time of her
separation, or if it run beyond the
time of her separation; all the days of
the issue of her uncleanness shall be
as the days of her separation: she
[shall be] unclean.
26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the
days of her issue shall be unto her as
the bed of her separation: and
whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be
unclean, as the uncleanness of her
separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth those things
shall be unclean, and shall wash his
clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
and be unclean until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue,
then she shall number to herself seven
days, and after that she shall be
clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take
unto her two turtles, or two young
pigeons, and bring them unto the
priest, to the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
30 And the priest shall offer the one
[for] a sin offering, and the other
[for] a burnt offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for her before
the LORD for the issue of her
uncleanness.
31 Thus shall ye separate the children
of Israel from their uncleanness; that
they die not in their uncleanness, when
they defile my tabernacle that [is]
among them.
32 This [is] the law of him that hath
an issue, and [of him] whose seed goeth
from him, and is defiled therewith;
33 And of her that is sick of her
flowers, and of him that hath an issue,
of the man, and of the woman, and of
him that lieth with her that is
unclean.

CHAPTER 16
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after
the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they offered before the LORD, and
died;
2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak
unto Aaron thy brother, that he come
not at all times into the holy [place]
within the vail before the mercy seat,
which [is] upon the ark; that he die
not: for I will appear in the cloud
upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy
[place]: with a young bullock for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen coat,
and he shall have the linen breeches
upon his flesh, and shall be girded
with a linen girdle, and with the linen
mitre shall he be attired: these [are]
holy garments; therefore shall he wash
his flesh in water, and [so] put them
on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation
of the children of Israel two kids of
the goats for a sin offering, and one
ram for a burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of
the sin offering, which [is] for
himself, and make an atonement for
himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and
present them before the LORD [at] the
door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the
two goats; one lot for the LORD, and
the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon
which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer
him [for] a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell
to be the scapegoat, shall be presented
alive before the LORD, to make an
atonement with him, [and] to let him go
for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of
the sin offering, which [is] for
himself, and shall make an atonement
for himself, and for his house, and
shall kill the bullock of the sin
offering which [is] for himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of
burning coals of fire from off the
altar before the LORD, and his hands
full of sweet incense beaten small, and
bring [it] within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon
the fire before the LORD, that the
cloud of the incense may cover the
mercy seat that [is] upon the
testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of
the bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his
finger upon the mercy seat eastward;
and before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his finger
seven times.
15 # Then shall he kill the goat of the
sin offering, that [is] for the people,
and bring his blood within the vail,
and do with that blood as he did with
the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle
it upon the mercy seat, and before the
mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an atonement for
the holy [place], because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel,
and because of their transgressions in
all their sins: and so shall he do for
the tabernacle of the congregation,
that remaineth among them in the midst
of their uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no man in the
tabernacle of the congregation when he
goeth in to make an atonement in the
holy [place], until he come out, and
have made an atonement for himself, and
for his household, and for all the
congregation of Israel.
18 And he shall go out unto the altar
that [is] before the LORD, and make an
atonement for it; and shall take of the
blood of the bullock, and of the blood
of the goat, and put [it] upon the
horns of the altar round about.
19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood
upon it with his finger seven times,
and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
20 # And when he hath made an end of
reconciling the holy [place], and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the
altar, he shall bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands
upon the head of the live goat, and
confess over him all the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their
transgressions in all their sins,
putting them upon the head of the goat,
and shall send [him] away by the hand
of a fit man into the wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all
their iniquities unto a land not
inhabited: and he shall let go the goat
in the wilderness.
23 And Aaron shall come into the
tabernacle of the congregation, and
shall put off the linen garments, which
he put on when he went into the holy
[place], and shall leave them there:
24 And he shall wash his flesh with
water in the holy place, and put on his
garments, and come forth, and offer his
burnt offering, and the burnt offering
of the people, and make an atonement
for himself, and for the people.
25 And the fat of the sin offering
shall he burn upon the altar.
26 And he that let go the goat for the
scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward
come into the camp.
27 And the bullock [for] the sin
offering, and the goat [for] the sin
offering, whose blood was brought in to
make atonement in the holy [place],
shall [one] carry forth without the
camp; and they shall burn in the fire
their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.
28 And he that burneth them shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp.
29 # And [this] shall be a statute for
ever unto you: [that] in the seventh
month, on the tenth [day] of the month,
ye shall afflict your souls, and do no
work at all, [whether it be] one of
your own country, or a stranger that
sojourneth among you:
30 For on that day shall [the priest]
make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, [that] ye may be clean from all
your sins before the LORD.
31 It [shall be] a sabbath of rest unto
you, and ye shall afflict your souls,
by a statute for ever.
32 And the priest, whom he shall
anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to
minister in the priest's office in his
father's stead, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen
clothes, [even] the holy garments:
33 And he shall make an atonement for
the holy sanctuary, and he shall make
an atonement for the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for the altar, and he
shall make an atonement for the
priests, and for all the people of the
congregation.
34 And this shall be an everlasting
statute unto you, to make an atonement
for the children of Israel for all
their sins once a year. And he did as
the LORD commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 17
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel,
and say unto them; This [is] the thing
which the LORD hath commanded, saying,
3 What man soever [there be] of the
house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or
lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that
killeth [it] out of the camp,
4 And bringeth it not unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, to
offer an offering unto the LORD before
the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall
be imputed unto that man; he hath shed
blood; and that man shall be cut off
from among his people:
5 To the end that the children of
Israel may bring their sacrifices,
which they offer in the open field,
even that they may bring them unto the
LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, unto the priest,
and offer them [for] peace offerings
unto the LORD.
6 And the priest shall sprinkle the
blood upon the altar of the LORD [at]
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and burn the fat for a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
7 And they shall no more offer their
sacrifices unto devils, after whom they
have gone a whoring. This shall be a
statute for ever unto them throughout
their generations.
8 # And thou shalt say unto them,
Whatsoever man [there be] of the house
of Israel, or of the strangers which
sojourn among you, that offereth a
burnt offering or sacrifice,
9 And bringeth it not unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, to
offer it unto the LORD; even that man
shall be cut off from among his people.
10 # And whatsoever man [there be] of
the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among you, that
eateth any manner of blood; I will even
set my face against that soul that
eateth blood, and will cut him off from
among his people.
11 For the life of the flesh [is] in
the blood: and I have given it to you
upon the altar to make an atonement for
your souls: for it [is] the blood
[that] maketh an atonement for the
soul.
12 Therefore I said unto the children
of Israel, No soul of you shall eat
blood, neither shall any stranger that
sojourneth among you eat blood.
13 And whatsoever man [there be] of the
children of Israel, or of the strangers
that sojourn among you, which hunteth
and catcheth any beast or fowl that may
be eaten; he shall even pour out the
blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
14 For [it is] the life of all flesh;
the blood of it [is] for the life
thereof: therefore I said unto the
children of Israel, Ye shall eat the
blood of no manner of flesh: for the
life of all flesh [is] the blood
thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be
cut off.
15 And every soul that eateth that
which died [of itself], or that which
was torn [with beasts, whether it be]
one of your own country, or a stranger,
he shall both wash his clothes, and
bathe [himself] in water, and be
unclean until the even: then shall he
be clean.
16 But if he wash [them] not, nor bathe
his flesh; then he shall bear his
iniquity.

CHAPTER 18
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, I am the LORD your
God.
3 After the doings of the land of
Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not
do: and after the doings of the land of
Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye
not do: neither shall ye walk in their
ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep
mine ordinances, to walk therein: I
[am] the LORD your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes,
and my judgments: which if a man do, he
shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
6 # None of you shall approach to any
that is near of kin to him, to uncover
[their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the
nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not
uncover: she [is] thy mother; thou
shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife
shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy
father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the
daughter of thy father, or daughter of
thy mother, [whether she be] born at
home, or born abroad, [even] their
nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter,
or of thy daughter's daughter, [even]
their nakedness thou shalt not uncover:
for their's [is] thine own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's
daughter, begotten of thy father, she
[is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover
her nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy father's sister: she [is] thy
father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy mother's sister: for she [is]
thy mother's near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy father's brother, thou shalt not
approach to his wife: she [is] thine
aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy daughter in law: she [is] thy
son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy
brother's nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of a woman and her daughter, neither
shalt thou take her son's daughter, or
her daughter's daughter, to uncover her
nakedness; [for] they [are] her near
kinswomen: it [is] wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to
her sister, to vex [her], to uncover
her nakedness, beside the other in her
life [time].
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a
woman to uncover her nakedness, as long
as she is put apart for her
uncleanness.
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally
with thy neighbour's wife, to defile
thyself with her.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy
seed pass through [the fire] to Molech,
neither shalt thou profane the name of
thy God: I [am] the LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as
with womankind: it [is] abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any
beast to defile thyself therewith:
neither shall any woman stand before a
beast to lie down thereto: it [is]
confusion.
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of
these things: for in all these the
nations are defiled which I cast out
before you:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I
do visit the iniquity thereof upon it,
and the land itself vomiteth out her
inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes
and my judgments, and shall not commit
[any] of these abominations; [neither]
any of your own nation, nor any
stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the
men of the land done, which [were]
before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not you out also,
when ye defile it, as it spued out the
nations that [were] before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of
these abominations, even the souls that
commit [them] shall be cut off from
among their people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine
ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any
one] of these abominable customs, which
were committed before you, and that ye
defile not yourselves therein: I [am]
the LORD your God.

CHAPTER 19
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and say unto
them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD
your God [am] holy.
3 # Ye shall fear every man his mother,
and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I
[am] the LORD your God.
4 # Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to
yourselves molten gods: I [am] the LORD
your God.
5 # And if ye offer a sacrifice of
peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall
offer it at your own will.
6 It shall be eaten the same day ye
offer it, and on the morrow: and if
ought remain until the third day, it
shall be burnt in the fire.
7 And if it be eaten at all on the
third day, it [is] abominable; it shall
not be accepted.
8 Therefore [every one] that eateth it
shall bear his iniquity, because he
hath profaned the hallowed thing of the
LORD: and that soul shall be cut off
from among his people.
9 # And when ye reap the harvest of
your land, thou shalt not wholly reap
the corners of thy field, neither shalt
thou gather the gleanings of thy
harvest.
10 And thou shalt not glean thy
vineyard, neither shalt thou gather
[every] grape of thy vineyard; thou
shalt leave them for the poor and
stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
11 # Ye shall not steal, neither deal
falsely, neither lie one to another.
12 # And ye shall not swear by my name
falsely, neither shalt thou profane the
name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.
13 # Thou shalt not defraud thy
neighbour, neither rob [him]: the wages
of him that is hired shall not abide
with thee all night until the morning.
14 # Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor
put a stumblingblock before the blind,
but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the
LORD.
15 # Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment: thou shalt not respect the
person of the poor, nor honour the
person of the mighty: [but] in
righteousness shalt thou judge thy
neighbour.
16 # Thou shalt not go up and down [as]
a talebearer among thy people: neither
shalt thou stand against the blood of
thy neighbour: I [am] the LORD.
17 # Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thine heart: thou shalt in any wise
rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer
sin upon him.
18 # Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear
any grudge against the children of thy
people, but thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
19 # Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou
shalt not let thy cattle gender with a
diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy
field with mingled seed: neither shall
a garment mingled of linen and woollen
come upon thee.
20 # And whosoever lieth carnally with
a woman, that [is] a bondmaid,
betrothed to an husband, and not at all
redeemed, nor freedom given her; she
shall be scourged; they shall not be
put to death, because she was not free.
21 And he shall bring his trespass
offering unto the LORD, unto the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation,
[even] a ram for a trespass offering.
22 And the priest shall make an
atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass offering before the LORD for
his sin which he hath done: and the sin
which he hath done shall be forgiven
him.
23 # And when ye shall come into the
land, and shall have planted all manner
of trees for food, then ye shall count
the fruit thereof as uncircumcised:
three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be
eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit
thereof shall be holy to praise the
LORD [withal].
25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat
of the fruit thereof, that it may yield
unto you the increase thereof: I [am]
the LORD your God.
26 # Ye shall not eat [any thing] with
the blood: neither shall ye use
enchantment, nor observe times.
27 Ye shall not round the corners of
your heads, neither shalt thou mar the
corners of thy beard.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in
your flesh for the dead, nor print any
marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
29 # Do not prostitute thy daughter, to
cause her to be a whore; lest the land
fall to whoredom, and the land become
full of wickedness.
30 # Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and
reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the
LORD.
31 # Regard not them that have familiar
spirits, neither seek after wizards, to
be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD
your God.
32 # Thou shalt rise up before the
hoary head, and honour the face of the
old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the
LORD.
33 # And if a stranger sojourn with
thee in your land, ye shall not vex
him.
34 [But] the stranger that dwelleth
with you shall be unto you as one born
among you, and thou shalt love him as
thyself; for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your
God.
35 # Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in
measure.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just
ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I
[am] the LORD your God, which brought
you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all my
statutes, and all my judgments, and do
them: I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 20
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Again, thou shalt say to the children
of Israel, Whosoever [he be] of the
children of Israel, or of the strangers
that sojourn in Israel, that giveth
[any] of his seed unto Molech; he shall
surely be put to death: the people of
the land shall stone him with stones.
3 And I will set my face against that
man, and will cut him off from among
his people; because he hath given of
his seed unto Molech, to defile my
sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4 And if the people of the land do any
ways hide their eyes from the man, when
he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and
kill him not:
5 Then I will set my face against that
man, and against his family, and will
cut him off, and all that go a whoring
after him, to commit whoredom with
Molech, from among their people.
6 # And the soul that turneth after
such as have familiar spirits, and
after wizards, to go a whoring after
them, I will even set my face against
that soul, and will cut him off from
among his people.
7 # Sanctify yourselves therefore, and
be ye holy: for I [am] the LORD your
God.
8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do
them: I [am] the LORD which sanctify
you.
9 # For every one that curseth his
father or his mother shall be surely
put to death: he hath cursed his father
or his mother; his blood [shall be]
upon him.
10 # And the man that committeth
adultery with [another] man's wife,
[even he] that committeth adultery with
his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and
the adulteress shall surely be put to
death.
11 And the man that lieth with his
father's wife hath uncovered his
father's nakedness: both of them shall
surely be put to death; their blood
[shall be] upon them.
12 And if a man lie with his daughter
in law, both of them shall surely be
put to death: they have wrought
confusion; their blood [shall be] upon
them.
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as
he lieth with a woman, both of them
have committed an abomination: they
shall surely be put to death; their
blood [shall be] upon them.
14 And if a man take a wife and her
mother, it [is] wickedness: they shall
be burnt with fire, both he and they;
that there be no wickedness among you.
15 And if a man lie with a beast, he
shall surely be put to death: and ye
shall slay the beast.
16 And if a woman approach unto any
beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt
kill the woman, and the beast: they
shall surely be put to death; their
blood [shall be] upon them.
17 And if a man shall take his sister,
his father's daughter, or his mother's
daughter, and see her nakedness, and
she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked
thing; and they shall be cut off in the
sight of their people: he hath
uncovered his sister's nakedness; he
shall bear his iniquity.
18 And if a man shall lie with a woman
having her sickness, and shall uncover
her nakedness; he hath discovered her
fountain, and she hath uncovered the
fountain of her blood: and both of them
shall be cut off from among their
people.
19 And thou shalt not uncover the
nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor
of thy father's sister: for he
uncovereth his near kin: they shall
bear their iniquity.
20 And if a man shall lie with his
uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his
uncle's nakedness: they shall bear
their sin; they shall die childless.
21 And if a man shall take his
brother's wife, it [is] an unclean
thing: he hath uncovered his brother's
nakedness; they shall be childless.
22 # Ye shall therefore keep all my
statutes, and all my judgments, and do
them: that the land, whither I bring
you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
23 And ye shall not walk in the manners
of the nation, which I cast out before
you: for they committed all these
things, and therefore I abhorred them.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall
inherit their land, and I will give it
unto you to possess it, a land that
floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the
LORD your God, which have separated you
from [other] people.
25 Ye shall therefore put difference
between clean beasts and unclean, and
between unclean fowls and clean: and ye
shall not make your souls abominable by
beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of
living thing that creepeth on the
ground, which I have separated from you
as unclean.
26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I
the LORD [am] holy, and have severed
you from [other] people, that ye should
be mine.
27 # A man also or woman that hath a
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard,
shall surely be put to death: they
shall stone them with stones: their
blood [shall be] upon them.

CHAPTER 21
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak
unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and
say unto them, There shall none be
defiled for the dead among his people:
2 But for his kin, that is near unto
him, [that is], for his mother, and for
his father, and for his son, and for
his daughter, and for his brother,
3 And for his sister a virgin, that is
nigh unto him, which hath had no
husband; for her may he be defiled.
4 [But] he shall not defile himself,
[being] a chief man among his people,
to profane himself.
5 They shall not make baldness upon
their head, neither shall they shave
off the corner of their beard, nor make
any cuttings in their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God,
and not profane the name of their God:
for the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, [and] the bread of their God,
they do offer: therefore they shall be
holy.
7 They shall not take a wife [that is]
a whore, or profane; neither shall they
take a woman put away from her husband:
for he [is] holy unto his God.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore;
for he offereth the bread of thy God:
he shall be holy unto thee: for I the
LORD, which sanctify you, [am] holy.
9 # And the daughter of any priest, if
she profane herself by playing the
whore, she profaneth her father: she
shall be burnt with fire.
10 And [he that is] the high priest
among his brethren, upon whose head the
anointing oil was poured, and that is
consecrated to put on the garments,
shall not uncover his head, nor rend
his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead
body, nor defile himself for his
father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the
sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of
his God; for the crown of the anointing
oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am]
the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her
virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or
profane, [or] an harlot, these shall he
not take: but he shall take a virgin of
his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed
among his people: for I the LORD do
sanctify him.
16 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever
[he be] of thy seed in their
generations that hath [any] blemish,
let him not approach to offer the bread
of his God.
18 For whatsoever man [he be] that hath
a blemish, he shall not approach: a
blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a
flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or
brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that
hath a blemish in his eye, or be
scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones
broken;
21 No man that hath a blemish of the
seed of Aaron the priest shall come
nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD
made by fire: he hath a blemish; he
shall not come nigh to offer the bread
of his God.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God,
[both] of the most holy, and of the
holy.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the
vail, nor come nigh unto the altar,
because he hath a blemish; that he
profane not my sanctuaries: for I the
LORD do sanctify them.
24 And Moses told [it] unto Aaron, and
to his sons, and unto all the children
of Israel.

CHAPTER 22
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons,
that they separate themselves from the
holy things of the children of Israel,
and that they profane not my holy name
[in those things] which they hallow
unto me: I [am] the LORD.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever [he be] of
all your seed among your generations,
that goeth unto the holy things, which
the children of Israel hallow unto the
LORD, having his uncleanness upon him,
that soul shall be cut off from my
presence: I [am] the LORD.
4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron
[is] a leper, or hath a running issue;
he shall not eat of the holy things,
until he be clean. And whoso toucheth
any thing [that is] unclean [by] the
dead, or a man whose seed goeth from
him;
5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping
thing, whereby he may be made unclean,
or a man of whom he may take
uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he
hath;
6 The soul which hath touched any such
shall be unclean until even, and shall
not eat of the holy things, unless he
wash his flesh with water.
7 And when the sun is down, he shall be
clean, and shall afterward eat of the
holy things; because it [is] his food.
8 That which dieth of itself, or is
torn [with beasts], he shall not eat to
defile himself therewith: I [am] the
LORD.
9 They shall therefore keep mine
ordinance, lest they bear sin for it,
and die therefore, if they profane it:
I the LORD do sanctify them.
10 There shall no stranger eat [of] the
holy thing: a sojourner of the priest,
or an hired servant, shall not eat [of]
the holy thing.
11 But if the priest buy [any] soul
with his money, he shall eat of it, and
he that is born in his house: they
shall eat of his meat.
12 If the priest's daughter also be
[married] unto a stranger, she may not
eat of an offering of the holy things.
13 But if the priest's daughter be a
widow, or divorced, and have no child,
and is returned unto her father's
house, as in her youth, she shall eat
of her father's meat: but there shall
no stranger eat thereof.
14 # And if a man eat [of] the holy
thing unwittingly, then he shall put
the fifth [part] thereof unto it, and
shall give [it] unto the priest with
the holy thing.
15 And they shall not profane the holy
things of the children of Israel, which
they offer unto the LORD;
16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity
of trespass, when they eat their holy
things: for I the LORD do sanctify
them.
17 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel,
and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be]
of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers in Israel, that will offer
his oblation for all his vows, and for
all his freewill offerings, which they
will offer unto the LORD for a burnt
offering;
19 [Ye shall offer] at your own will a
male without blemish, of the beeves, of
the sheep, or of the goats.
20 [But] whatsoever hath a blemish,
[that] shall ye not offer: for it shall
not be acceptable for you.
21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice
of peace offerings unto the LORD to
accomplish [his] vow, or a freewill
offering in beeves or sheep, it shall
be perfect to be accepted; there shall
be no blemish therein.
22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or
having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye
shall not offer these unto the LORD,
nor make an offering by fire of them
upon the altar unto the LORD.
23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath
any thing superfluous or lacking in his
parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a
freewill offering; but for a vow it
shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD
that which is bruised, or crushed, or
broken, or cut; neither shall ye make
[any offering thereof] in your land.
25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall
ye offer the bread of your God of any
of these; because their corruption [is]
in them, [and] blemishes [be] in them:
they shall not be accepted for you.
26 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a
goat, is brought forth, then it shall
be seven days under the dam; and from
the eighth day and thenceforth it shall
be accepted for an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
28 And [whether it be] cow or ewe, ye
shall not kill it and her young both in
one day.
29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice
of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer
[it] at your own will.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten
up; ye shall leave none of it until the
morrow: I [am] the LORD.
31 Therefore shall ye keep my
commandments, and do them: I [am] the
LORD.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy
name; but I will be hallowed among the
children of Israel: I [am] the LORD
which hallow you,
33 That brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 23
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, [Concerning] the
feasts of the LORD, which ye shall
proclaim [to be] holy convocations,
[even] these [are] my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the
seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest,
an holy convocation; ye shall do no
work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of
the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 # These [are] the feasts of the LORD,
[even] holy convocations, which ye
shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first
month at even [is] the LORD'S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same
month [is] the feast of unleavened
bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must
eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an
holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made
by fire unto the LORD seven days: in
the seventh day [is] an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile
work [therein].
9 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye be come into
the land which I give unto you, and
shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye
shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits
of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before
the LORD, to be accepted for you: on
the morrow after the sabbath the priest
shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye
wave the sheaf an he lamb without
blemish of the first year for a burnt
offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat offering thereof [shall
be] two tenth deals of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by
fire unto the LORD [for] a sweet
savour: and the drink offering thereof
[shall be] of wine, the fourth [part]
of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor
parched corn, nor green ears, until the
selfsame day that ye have brought an
offering unto your God: [it shall be] a
statute for ever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
15 # And ye shall count unto you from
the morrow after the sabbath, from the
day that ye brought the sheaf of the
wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be
complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the
seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty
days; and ye shall offer a new meat
offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your
habitations two wave loaves of two
tenth deals: they shall be of fine
flour; they shall be baken with leaven;
[they are] the firstfruits unto the
LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread
seven lambs without blemish of the
first year, and one young bullock, and
two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt
offering unto the LORD, with their meat
offering, and their drink offerings,
[even] an offering made by fire, of
sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of
the goats for a sin offering, and two
lambs of the first year for a sacrifice
of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with
the bread of the firstfruits [for] a
wave offering before the LORD, with the
two lambs: they shall be holy to the
LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the
selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy
convocation unto you: ye shall do no
servile work [therein: it shall be] a
statute for ever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.
22 # And when ye reap the harvest of
your land, thou shalt not make clean
riddance of the corners of thy field
when thou reapest, neither shalt thou
gather any gleaning of thy harvest:
thou shalt leave them unto the poor,
and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD
your God.
23 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, In the seventh month, in the
first [day] of the month, shall ye have
a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of
trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work
[therein]: but ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
27 Also on the tenth [day] of this
seventh month [there shall be] a day of
atonement: it shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall
afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same
day: for it [is] a day of atonement, to
make an atonement for you before the
LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul [it be] that
shall not be afflicted in that same
day, he shall be cut off from among his
people.
30 And whatsoever soul [it be] that
doeth any work in that same day, the
same soul will I destroy from among his
people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: [it
shall be] a statute for ever throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of
rest, and ye shall afflict your souls:
in the ninth [day] of the month at
even, from even unto even, shall ye
celebrate your sabbath.
33 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, The fifteenth day of this
seventh month [shall be] the feast of
tabernacles [for] seven days unto the
LORD.
35 On the first day [shall be] an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile
work [therein].
36 Seven days ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: on
the eighth day shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD: it [is] a solemn assembly; [and]
ye shall do no servile work [therein].
37 These [are] the feasts of the LORD,
which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy
convocations, to offer an offering made
by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, and a meat offering, a
sacrifice, and drink offerings, every
thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and
beside your gifts, and beside all your
vows, and beside all your freewill
offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, when ye have gathered in
the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days: on the
first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on
the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first
day the boughs of goodly trees,
branches of palm trees, and the boughs
of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and ye shall rejoice before the
LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto
the LORD seven days in the year. [It
shall be] a statute for ever in your
generations: ye shall celebrate it in
the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days;
all that are Israelites born shall
dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that
I made the children of Israel to dwell
in booths, when I brought them out of
the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your
God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children
of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

CHAPTER 24
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that
they bring unto thee pure oil olive
beaten for the light, to cause the
lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the vail of the testimony, in
the tabernacle of the congregation,
shall Aaron order it from the evening
unto the morning before the LORD
continually: [it shall be] a statute
for ever in your generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the
pure candlestick before the LORD
continually.
5 # And thou shalt take fine flour, and
bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth
deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows,
six on a row, upon the pure table
before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense
upon [each] row, that it may be on the
bread for a memorial, [even] an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in
order before the LORD continually,
[being taken] from the children of
Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron's and his
sons'; and they shall eat it in the
holy place: for it [is] most holy unto
him of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 # And the son of an Israelitish
woman, whose father [was] an Egyptian,
went out among the children of Israel:
and this son of the Israelitish [woman]
and a man of Israel strove together in
the camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son
blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and
cursed. And they brought him unto
Moses: (and his mother's name [was]
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of
the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that the
mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed
without the camp; and let all that
heard [him] lay their hands upon his
head, and let all the congregation
stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, Whosoever
curseth his God shall bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth the name of
the LORD, he shall surely be put to
death, [and] all the congregation shall
certainly stone him: as well the
stranger, as he that is born in the
land, when he blasphemeth the name [of
the LORD], shall be put to death.
17 # And he that killeth any man shall
surely be put to death.
18 And he that killeth a beast shall
make it good; beast for beast.
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his
neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it
be done to him;
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a
blemish in a man, so shall it be done
to him [again].
21 And he that killeth a beast, he
shall restore it: and he that killeth a
man, he shall be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as
well for the stranger, as for one of
your own country: for I [am] the LORD
your God.
23 # And Moses spake to the children of
Israel, that they should bring forth
him that had cursed out of the camp,
and stone him with stones. And the
children of Israel did as the LORD
commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 25
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in
mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye come into
the land which I give you, then shall
the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field,
and six years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather in the fruit
thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a
sabbath of rest unto the land, a
sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt
neither sow thy field, nor prune thy
vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord
of thy harvest thou shalt not reap,
neither gather the grapes of thy vine
undressed: [for] it is a year of rest
unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be
meat for you; for thee, and for thy
servant, and for thy maid, and for thy
hired servant, and for thy stranger
that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast
that [are] in thy land, shall all the
increase thereof be meat.
8 # And thou shalt number seven
sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
times seven years; and the space of the
seven sabbaths of years shall be unto
thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of
the jubile to sound on the tenth [day]
of the seventh month, in the day of
atonement shall ye make the trumpet
sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth
year, and proclaim liberty throughout
[all] the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you;
and ye shall return every man unto his
possession, and ye shall return every
man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be
unto you: ye shall not sow, neither
reap that which groweth of itself in
it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of
thy vine undressed.
12 For it [is] the jubile; it shall be
holy unto you: ye shall eat the
increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall
return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy
neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy
neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress
one another:
15 According to the number of years
after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy
neighbour, [and] according unto the
number of years of the fruits he shall
sell unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of years
thou shalt increase the price thereof,
and according to the fewness of years
thou shalt diminish the price of it:
for [according] to the number [of the
years] of the fruits doth he sell unto
thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one
another; but thou shalt fear thy God:
for I [am] the LORD your God.
18 # Wherefore ye shall do my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them; and
ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land shall yield her fruit,
and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell
therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we
eat the seventh year? behold, we shall
not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing upon
you in the sixth year, and it shall
bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year,
and eat [yet] of old fruit until the
ninth year; until her fruits come in ye
shall eat [of] the old [store].
23 # The land shall not be sold for
ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye
[are] strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your
possession ye shall grant a redemption
for the land.
25 # If thy brother be waxen poor, and
hath sold away [some] of his
possession, and if any of his kin come
to redeem it, then shall he redeem that
which his brother sold.
26 And if the man have none to redeem
it, and himself be able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of the
sale thereof, and restore the overplus
unto the man to whom he sold it; that
he may return unto his possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore
[it] to him, then that which is sold
shall remain in the hand of him that
hath bought it until the year of
jubile: and in the jubile it shall go
out, and he shall return unto his
possession.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling house
in a walled city, then he may redeem it
within a whole year after it is sold;
[within] a full year may he redeem it.
30 And if it be not redeemed within the
space of a full year, then the house
that [is] in the walled city shall be
established for ever to him that bought
it throughout his generations: it shall
not go out in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the villages which
have no wall round about them shall be
counted as the fields of the country:
they may be redeemed, and they shall go
out in the jubile.
32 Notwithstanding the cities of the
Levites, [and] the houses of the cities
of their possession, may the Levites
redeem at any time.
33 And if a man purchase of the
Levites, then the house that was sold,
and the city of his possession, shall
go out in [the year of] jubile: for the
houses of the cities of the Levites
[are] their possession among the
children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of
their cities may not be sold; for it
[is] their perpetual possession.
35 # And if thy brother be waxen poor,
and fallen in decay with thee; then
thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he
be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he
may live with thee.
36 Take thou no usury of him, or
increase: but fear thy God; that thy
brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money
upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals
for increase.
38 I [am] the LORD your God, which
brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan,
[and] to be your God.
39 # And if thy brother [that dwelleth]
by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto
thee; thou shalt not compel him to
serve as a bondservant:
40 [But] as an hired servant, [and] as
a sojourner, he shall be with thee,
[and] shall serve thee unto the year of
jubile:
41 And [then] shall he depart from
thee, [both] he and his children with
him, and shall return unto his own
family, and unto the possession of his
fathers shall he return.
42 For they [are] my servants, which I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt:
they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with
rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids,
which thou shalt have, [shall be] of
the heathen that are round about you;
of them shall ye buy bondmen and
bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the
strangers that do sojourn among you, of
them shall ye buy, and of their
families that [are] with you, which
they begat in your land: and they shall
be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an
inheritance for your children after
you, to inherit [them for] a
possession; they shall be your bondmen
for ever: but over your brethren the
children of Israel, ye shall not rule
one over another with rigour.
47 # And if a sojourner or stranger wax
rich by thee, and thy brother [that
dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell
himself unto the stranger [or]
sojourner by thee, or to the stock of
the stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold he may be
redeemed again; one of his brethren may
redeem him:
49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's
son, may redeem him, or [any] that is
nigh of kin unto him of his family may
redeem him; or if he be able, he may
redeem himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that
bought him from the year that he was
sold to him unto the year of jubile:
and the price of his sale shall be
according unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired
servant shall it be with him.
51 If [there be] yet many years
[behind], according unto them he shall
give again the price of his redemption
out of the money that he was bought
for.
52 And if there remain but few years
unto the year of jubile, then he shall
count with him, [and] according unto
his years shall he give him again the
price of his redemption.
53 [And] as a yearly hired servant
shall he be with him: [and the other]
shall not rule with rigour over him in
thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in these
[years], then he shall go out in the
year of jubile, [both] he, and his
children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel
[are] servants; they [are] my servants
whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

CHAPTER 26
1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven
image, neither rear you up a standing
image, neither shall ye set up [any]
image of stone in your land, to bow
down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your
God.
2 # Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and
reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the
LORD.
3 # If ye walk in my statutes, and keep
my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due
season, and the land shall yield her
increase, and the trees of the field
shall yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach unto
the vintage, and the vintage shall
reach unto the sowing time: and ye
shall eat your bread to the full, and
dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land,
and ye shall lie down, and none shall
make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil
beasts out of the land, neither shall
the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and
they shall fall before you by the
sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an
hundred, and an hundred of you shall
put ten thousand to flight: and your
enemies shall fall before you by the
sword.
9 For I will have respect unto you, and
make you fruitful, and multiply you,
and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old store, and
bring forth the old because of the new.
11 And I will set my tabernacle among
you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among you, and will
be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I [am] the LORD your God, which
brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that ye should not be their
bondmen; and I have broken the bands of
your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 # But if ye will not hearken unto
me, and will not do all these
commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes,
or if your soul abhor my judgments, so
that ye will not do all my
commandments, [but] that ye break my
covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I will
even appoint over you terror,
consumption, and the burning ague, that
shall consume the eyes, and cause
sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your
seed in vain, for your enemies shall
eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you,
and ye shall be slain before your
enemies: they that hate you shall reign
over you; and ye shall flee when none
pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this
hearken unto me, then I will punish you
seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of your
power; and I will make your heaven as
iron, and your earth as brass:
20 And your strength shall be spent in
vain: for your land shall not yield her
increase, neither shall the trees of
the land yield their fruits.
21 # And if ye walk contrary unto me,
and will not hearken unto me; I will
bring seven times more plagues upon you
according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts among
you, which shall rob you of your
children, and destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number; and your [high]
ways shall be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by me
by these things, but will walk contrary
unto me;
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto
you, and will punish you yet seven
times for your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword upon you,
that shall avenge the quarrel of [my]
covenant: and when ye are gathered
together within your cities, I will
send the pestilence among you; and ye
shall be delivered into the hand of the
enemy.
26 [And] when I have broken the staff
of your bread, ten women shall bake
your bread in one oven, and they shall
deliver [you] your bread again by
weight: and ye shall eat, and not be
satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this
hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto
me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you
also in fury; and I, even I, will
chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your
sons, and the flesh of your daughters
shall ye eat.
30 And I will destroy your high places,
and cut down your images, and cast your
carcases upon the carcases of your
idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste,
and bring your sanctuaries unto
desolation, and I will not smell the
savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into
desolation: and your enemies which
dwell therein shall be astonished at
it.
33 And I will scatter you among the
heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you: and your land shall be
desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her
sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate,
and ye [be] in your enemies' land;
[even] then shall the land rest, and
enjoy her sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it
shall rest; because it did not rest in
your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left [alive]
of you I will send a faintness into
their hearts in the lands of their
enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf
shall chase them; and they shall flee,
as fleeing from a sword; and they shall
fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon
another, as it were before a sword,
when none pursueth: and ye shall have
no power to stand before your enemies.
38 And ye shall perish among the
heathen, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall
pine away in their iniquity in your
enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they
pine away with them.
40 If they shall confess their
iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and that also
they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And [that] I also have walked
contrary unto them, and have brought
them into the land of their enemies; if
then their uncircumcised hearts be
humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant
with Jacob, and also my covenant with
Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham will I remember; and I will
remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left of them,
and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she
lieth desolate without them: and they
shall accept of the punishment of their
iniquity: because, even because they
despised my judgments, and because
their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they be
in the land of their enemies, I will
not cast them away, neither will I
abhor them, to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them: for
I [am] the LORD their God.
45 But I will for their sakes remember
the covenant of their ancestors, whom I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt
in the sight of the heathen, that I
might be their God: I [am] the LORD.
46 These [are] the statutes and
judgments and laws, which the LORD made
between him and the children of Israel
in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER 27
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When a man shall
make a singular vow, the persons [shall
be] for the LORD by thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the
male from twenty years old even unto
sixty years old, even thy estimation
shall be fifty shekels of silver, after
the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it [be] a female, then thy
estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if [it be] from five years old
even unto twenty years old, then thy
estimation shall be of the male twenty
shekels, and for the female ten
shekels.
6 And if [it be] from a month old even
unto five years old, then thy
estimation shall be of the male five
shekels of silver, and for the female
thy estimation [shall be] three shekels
of silver.
7 And if [it be] from sixty years old
and above; if [it be] a male, then thy
estimation shall be fifteen shekels,
and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy
estimation, then he shall present
himself before the priest, and the
priest shall value him; according to
his ability that vowed shall the priest
value him.
9 And if [it be] a beast, whereof men
bring an offering unto the LORD, all
that [any man] giveth of such unto the
LORD shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change
it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a
good: and if he shall at all change
beast for beast, then it and the
exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if [it be] any unclean beast, of
which they do not offer a sacrifice
unto the LORD, then he shall present
the beast before the priest:
12 And the priest shall value it,
whether it be good or bad: as thou
valuest it, [who art] the priest, so
shall it be.
13 But if he will at all redeem it,
then he shall add a fifth [part]
thereof unto thy estimation.
14 # And when a man shall sanctify his
house [to be] holy unto the LORD, then
the priest shall estimate it, whether
it be good or bad: as the priest shall
estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will
redeem his house, then he shall add the
fifth [part] of the money of thy
estimation unto it, and it shall be
his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the
LORD [some part] of a field of his
possession, then thy estimation shall
be according to the seed thereof: an
homer of barley seed [shall be valued]
at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he sanctify his field from the
year of jubile, according to thy
estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field after
the jubile, then the priest shall
reckon unto him the money according to
the years that remain, even unto the
year of the jubile, and it shall be
abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field
will in any wise redeem it, then he
shall add the fifth [part] of the money
of thy estimation unto it, and it shall
be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field,
or if he have sold the field to another
man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in
the jubile, shall be holy unto the
LORD, as a field devoted; the
possession thereof shall be the
priest's.
22 And if [a man] sanctify unto the
LORD a field which he hath bought,
which [is] not of the fields of his
possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto
him the worth of thy estimation, [even]
unto the year of the jubile: and he
shall give thine estimation in that
day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD.
24 In the year of the jubile the field
shall return unto him of whom it was
bought, [even] to him to whom the
possession of the land [did belong].
25 And all thy estimations shall be
according to the shekel of the
sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the
shekel.
26 # Only the firstling of the beasts,
which should be the LORD'S firstling,
no man shall sanctify it; whether [it
be] ox, or sheep: it [is] the LORD'S.
27 And if [it be] of an unclean beast,
then he shall redeem [it] according to
thine estimation, and shall add a fifth
[part] of it thereto: or if it be not
redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to thy estimation.
28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing,
that a man shall devote unto the LORD
of all that he hath, [both] of man and
beast, and of the field of his
possession, shall be sold or redeemed:
every devoted thing [is] most holy unto
the LORD.
29 None devoted, which shall be devoted
of men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall
surely be put to death.
30 And all the tithe of the land,
[whether] of the seed of the land, [or]
of the fruit of the tree, [is] the
LORD'S: [it is] holy unto the LORD.
31 And if a man will at all redeem
[ought] of his tithes, he shall add
thereto the fifth [part] thereof.
32 And concerning the tithe of the
herd, or of the flock, [even] of
whatsoever passeth under the rod, the
tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
33 He shall not search whether it be
good or bad, neither shall he change
it: and if he change it at all, then
both it and the change thereof shall be
holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These [are] the commandments, which
the LORD commanded Moses for the
children of Israel in mount Sinai.

THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED
NUMBERS

CHAPTER 1
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle
of the congregation, on the first [day]
of the second month, in the second year
after they were come out of the land of
Egypt, saying,
2 Take ye the sum of all the
congregation of the children of Israel,
after their families, by the house of
their fathers, with the number of
[their] names, every male by their
polls;
3 From twenty years old and upward, all
that are able to go forth to war in
Israel: thou and Aaron shall number
them by their armies.
4 And with you there shall be a man of
every tribe; every one head of the
house of his fathers.
5 # And these [are] the names of the
men that shall stand with you: of [the
tribe of] Reuben; Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai.
7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of
Amminadab.
8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of
Zuar.
9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
10 Of the children of Joseph: of
Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud:
of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of
Gideoni.
12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
16 These [were] the renowned of the
congregation, princes of the tribes of
their fathers, heads of thousands in
Israel.
17 # And Moses and Aaron took these men
which are expressed by [their] names:
18 And they assembled all the
congregation together on the first
[day] of the second month, and they
declared their pedigrees after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, by their polls.
19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he
numbered them in the wilderness of
Sinai.
20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's
eldest son, by their generations, after
their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, by their polls, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war;
21 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Reuben, [were]
forty and six thousand and five
hundred.
22 # Of the children of Simeon, by
their generations, after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, those that were numbered of
them, according to the number of the
names, by their polls, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war;
23 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Simeon, [were]
fifty and nine thousand and three
hundred.
24 # Of the children of Gad, by their
generations, after their families, by
the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
25 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Gad, [were]
forty and five thousand six hundred and
fifty.
26 # Of the children of Judah, by their
generations, after their families, by
the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
27 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Judah, [were]
threescore and fourteen thousand and
six hundred.
28 # Of the children of Issachar, by
their generations, after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
29 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Issachar, [were]
fifty and four thousand and four
hundred.
30 # Of the children of Zebulun, by
their generations, after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
31 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Zebulun, [were]
fifty and seven thousand and four
hundred.
32 # Of the children of Joseph,
[namely], of the children of Ephraim,
by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
33 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Ephraim, [were]
forty thousand and five hundred.
34 # Of the children of Manasseh, by
their generations, after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
35 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Manasseh, [were]
thirty and two thousand and two
hundred.
36 # Of the children of Benjamin, by
their generations, after their
families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
37 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Benjamin, [were]
thirty and five thousand and four
hundred.
38 # Of the children of Dan, by their
generations, after their families, by
the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
39 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Dan, [were]
threescore and two thousand and seven
hundred.
40 # Of the children of Asher, by their
generations, after their families, by
the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
41 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Asher, [were]
forty and one thousand and five
hundred.
42 # Of the children of Naphtali,
throughout their generations, after
their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
43 Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Naphtali, [were]
fifty and three thousand and four
hundred.
44 These [are] those that were
numbered, which Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel,
[being] twelve men: each one was for
the house of his fathers.
45 So were all those that were numbered
of the children of Israel, by the house
of their fathers, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war in Israel;
46 Even all they that were numbered
were six hundred thousand and three
thousand and five hundred and fifty.
47 # But the Levites after the tribe of
their fathers were not numbered among
them.
48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses,
saying,
49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe
of Levi, neither take the sum of them
among the children of Israel:
50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites
over the tabernacle of testimony, and
over all the vessels thereof, and over
all things that [belong] to it: they
shall bear the tabernacle, and all the
vessels thereof; and they shall
minister unto it, and shall encamp
round about the tabernacle.
51 And when the tabernacle setteth
forward, the Levites shall take it
down: and when the tabernacle is to be
pitched, the Levites shall set it up:
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall
be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall
pitch their tents, every man by his own
camp, and every man by his own
standard, throughout their hosts.
53 But the Levites shall pitch round
about the tabernacle of testimony, that
there be no wrath upon the congregation
of the children of Israel: and the
Levites shall keep the charge of the
tabernacle of testimony.
54 And the children of Israel did
according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so did they.

CHAPTER 2
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
2 Every man of the children of Israel
shall pitch by his own standard, with
the ensign of their father's house: far
off about the tabernacle of the
congregation shall they pitch.
3 And on the east side toward the
rising of the sun shall they of the
standard of the camp of Judah pitch
throughout their armies: and Nahshon
the son of Amminadab [shall be] captain
of the children of Judah.
4 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] threescore and
fourteen thousand and six hundred.
5 And those that do pitch next unto him
[shall be] the tribe of Issachar: and
Nethaneel the son of Zuar [shall be]
captain of the children of Issachar.
6 And his host, and those that were
numbered thereof, [were] fifty and four
thousand and four hundred.
7 [Then] the tribe of Zebulun: and
Eliab the son of Helon [shall be]
captain of the children of Zebulun.
8 And his host, and those that were
numbered thereof, [were] fifty and
seven thousand and four hundred.
9 All that were numbered in the camp of
Judah [were] an hundred thousand and
fourscore thousand and six thousand and
four hundred, throughout their armies.
These shall first set forth.
10 # On the south side [shall be] the
standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their armies: and the
captain of the children of Reuben
[shall be] Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11 And his host, and those that were
numbered thereof, [were] forty and six
thousand and five hundred.
12 And those which pitch by him [shall
be] the tribe of Simeon: and the
captain of the children of Simeon
[shall be] Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai.
13 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] fifty and nine
thousand and three hundred.
14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the
captain of the sons of Gad [shall be]
Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
15 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] forty and five
thousand and six hundred and fifty.
16 All that were numbered in the camp
of Reuben [were] an hundred thousand
and fifty and one thousand and four
hundred and fifty, throughout their
armies. And they shall set forth in the
second rank.
17 # Then the tabernacle of the
congregation shall set forward with the
camp of the Levites in the midst of the
camp: as they encamp, so shall they set
forward, every man in his place by
their standards.
18 # On the west side [shall be] the
standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their armies: and the
captain of the sons of Ephraim [shall
be] Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] forty thousand
and five hundred.
20 And by him [shall be] the tribe of
Manasseh: and the captain of the
children of Manasseh [shall be]
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
21 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] thirty and two
thousand and two hundred.
22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the
captain of the sons of Benjamin [shall
be] Abidan the son of Gideoni.
23 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] thirty and
five thousand and four hundred.
24 All that were numbered of the camp
of Ephraim [were] an hundred thousand
and eight thousand and an hundred,
throughout their armies. And they shall
go forward in the third rank.
25 # The standard of the camp of Dan
[shall be] on the north side by their
armies: and the captain of the children
of Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
26 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] threescore and
two thousand and seven hundred.
27 And those that encamp by him [shall
be] the tribe of Asher: and the captain
of the children of Asher [shall be]
Pagiel the son of Ocran.
28 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] forty and one
thousand and five hundred.
29 # Then the tribe of Naphtali: and
the captain of the children of Naphtali
[shall be] Ahira the son of Enan.
30 And his host, and those that were
numbered of them, [were] fifty and
three thousand and four hundred.
31 All they that were numbered in the
camp of Dan [were] an hundred thousand
and fifty and seven thousand and six
hundred. They shall go hindmost with
their standards.
32 # These [are] those which were
numbered of the children of Israel by
the house of their fathers: all those
that were numbered of the camps
throughout their hosts [were] six
hundred thousand and three thousand and
five hundred and fifty.
33 But the Levites were not numbered
among the children of Israel; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
34 And the children of Israel did
according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses: so they pitched by
their standards, and so they set
forward, every one after their
families, according to the house of
their fathers.

CHAPTER 3
1 These also [are] the generations of
Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the
LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
2 And these [are] the names of the sons
of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3 These [are] the names of the sons of
Aaron, the priests which were anointed,
whom he consecrated to minister in the
priest's office.
4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the
LORD, when they offered strange fire
before the LORD, in the wilderness of
Sinai, and they had no children: and
Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the
priest's office in the sight of Aaron
their father.
5 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and
present them before Aaron the priest,
that they may minister unto him.
7 And they shall keep his charge, and
the charge of the whole congregation
before the tabernacle of the
congregation, to do the service of the
tabernacle.
8 And they shall keep all the
instruments of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the charge of the
children of Israel, to do the service
of the tabernacle.
9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto
Aaron and to his sons: they [are]
wholly given unto him out of the
children of Israel.
10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his
sons, and they shall wait on their
priest's office: and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
12 And I, behold, I have taken the
Levites from among the children of
Israel instead of all the firstborn
that openeth the matrix among the
children of Israel: therefore the
Levites shall be mine;
13 Because all the firstborn [are]
mine; [for] on the day that I smote all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt I
hallowed unto me all the firstborn in
Israel, both man and beast: mine shall
they be: I [am] the LORD.
14 # And the LORD spake unto Moses in
the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15 Number the children of Levi after
the house of their fathers, by their
families: every male from a month old
and upward shalt thou number them.
16 And Moses numbered them according to
the word of the LORD, as he was
commanded.
17 And these were the sons of Levi by
their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and
Merari.
18 And these [are] the names of the
sons of Gershon by their families;
Libni, and Shimei.
19 And the sons of Kohath by their
families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron,
and Uzziel.
20 And the sons of Merari by their
families; Mahli, and Mushi. These [are]
the families of the Levites according
to the house of their fathers.
21 Of Gershon [was] the family of the
Libnites, and the family of the
Shimites: these [are] the families of
the Gershonites.
22 Those that were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the
males, from a month old and upward,
[even] those that were numbered of them
[were] seven thousand and five hundred.
23 The families of the Gershonites
shall pitch behind the tabernacle
westward.
24 And the chief of the house of the
father of the Gershonites [shall be]
Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25 And the charge of the sons of
Gershon in the tabernacle of the
congregation [shall be] the tabernacle,
and the tent, the covering thereof, and
the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
26 And the hangings of the court, and
the curtain for the door of the court,
which [is] by the tabernacle, and by
the altar round about, and the cords of
it for all the service thereof.
27 # And of Kohath [was] the family of
the Amramites, and the family of the
Izeharites, and the family of the
Hebronites, and the family of the
Uzzielites: these [are] the families of
the Kohathites.
28 In the number of all the males, from
a month old and upward, [were] eight
thousand and six hundred, keeping the
charge of the sanctuary.
29 The families of the sons of Kohath
shall pitch on the side of the
tabernacle southward.
30 And the chief of the house of the
father of the families of the
Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son
of Uzziel.
31 And their charge [shall be] the ark,
and the table, and the candlestick, and
the altars, and the vessels of the
sanctuary wherewith they minister, and
the hanging, and all the service
thereof.
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest [shall be] chief over the chief
of the Levites, [and have] the
oversight of them that keep the charge
of the sanctuary.
33 # Of Merari [was] the family of the
Mahlites, and the family of the
Mushites: these [are] the families of
Merari.
34 And those that were numbered of
them, according to the number of all
the males, from a month old and upward,
[were] six thousand and two hundred.
35 And the chief of the house of the
father of the families of Merari [was]
Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these]
shall pitch on the side of the
tabernacle northward.
36 And [under] the custody and charge
of the sons of Merari [shall be] the
boards of the tabernacle, and the bars
thereof, and the pillars thereof, and
the sockets thereof, and all the
vessels thereof, and all that serveth
thereto,
37 And the pillars of the court round
about, and their sockets, and their
pins, and their cords.
38 # But those that encamp before the
tabernacle toward the east, [even]
before the tabernacle of the
congregation eastward, [shall be]
Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping
the charge of the sanctuary for the
charge of the children of Israel; and
the stranger that cometh nigh shall be
put to death.
39 All that were numbered of the
Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered
at the commandment of the LORD,
throughout their families, all the
males from a month old and upward,
[were] twenty and two thousand.
40 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Number all the firstborn of the males
of the children of Israel from a month
old and upward, and take the number of
their names.
41 And thou shalt take the Levites for
me (I [am] the LORD) instead of all the
firstborn among the children of Israel;
and the cattle of the Levites instead
of all the firstlings among the cattle
of the children of Israel.
42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD
commanded him, all the firstborn among
the children of Israel.
43 And all the firstborn males by the
number of names, from a month old and
upward, of those that were numbered of
them, were twenty and two thousand two
hundred and threescore and thirteen.
44 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the children of Israel,
and the cattle of the Levites instead
of their cattle; and the Levites shall
be mine: I [am] the LORD.
46 And for those that are to be
redeemed of the two hundred and
threescore and thirteen of the
firstborn of the children of Israel,
which are more than the Levites;
47 Thou shalt even take five shekels
apiece by the poll, after the shekel of
the sanctuary shalt thou take [them]:
(the shekel [is] twenty gerahs:)
48 And thou shalt give the money,
wherewith the odd number of them is to
be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his
sons.
49 And Moses took the redemption money
of them that were over and above them
that were redeemed by the Levites:
50 Of the firstborn of the children of
Israel took he the money; a thousand
three hundred and threescore and five
[shekels], after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
51 And Moses gave the money of them
that were redeemed unto Aaron and to
his sons, according to the word of the
LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 4
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath
from among the sons of Levi, after
their families, by the house of their
fathers,
3 From thirty years old and upward even
until fifty years old, all that enter
into the host, to do the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
4 This [shall be] the service of the
sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the
congregation, [about] the most holy
things:
5 # And when the camp setteth forward,
Aaron shall come, and his sons, and
they shall take down the covering vail,
and cover the ark of testimony with it:
6 And shall put thereon the covering of
badgers' skins, and shall spread over
[it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall
put in the staves thereof.
7 And upon the table of shewbread they
shall spread a cloth of blue, and put
thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and
the bowls, and covers to cover withal:
and the continual bread shall be
thereon:
8 And they shall spread upon them a
cloth of scarlet, and cover the same
with a covering of badgers' skins, and
shall put in the staves thereof.
9 And they shall take a cloth of blue,
and cover the candlestick of the light,
and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels
thereof, wherewith they minister unto
it:
10 And they shall put it and all the
vessels thereof within a covering of
badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon
a bar.
11 And upon the golden altar they shall
spread a cloth of blue, and cover it
with a covering of badgers' skins, and
shall put to the staves thereof:
12 And they shall take all the
instruments of ministry, wherewith they
minister in the sanctuary, and put
[them] in a cloth of blue, and cover
them with a covering of badgers' skins,
and shall put [them] on a bar:
13 And they shall take away the ashes
from the altar, and spread a purple
cloth thereon:
14 And they shall put upon it all the
vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister about it, [even] the censers,
the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and
the basons, all the vessels of the
altar; and they shall spread upon it a
covering of badgers' skins, and put to
the staves of it.
15 And when Aaron and his sons have
made an end of covering the sanctuary,
and all the vessels of the sanctuary,
as the camp is to set forward; after
that, the sons of Kohath shall come to
bear [it]: but they shall not touch
[any] holy thing, lest they die. These
[things are] the burden of the sons of
Kohath in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
16 # And to the office of Eleazar the
son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth]
the oil for the light, and the sweet
incense, and the daily meat offering,
and the anointing oil, [and] the
oversight of all the tabernacle, and of
all that therein [is], in the
sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
17 # And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the
families of the Kohathites from among
the Levites:
19 But thus do unto them, that they may
live, and not die, when they approach
unto the most holy things: Aaron and
his sons shall go in, and appoint them
every one to his service and to his
burden:
20 But they shall not go in to see when
the holy things are covered, lest they
die.
21 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
22 Take also the sum of the sons of
Gershon, throughout the houses of their
fathers, by their families;
23 From thirty years old and upward
until fifty years old shalt thou number
them; all that enter in to perform the
service, to do the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
24 This [is] the service of the
families of the Gershonites, to serve,
and for burdens:
25 And they shall bear the curtains of
the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of
the congregation, his covering, and the
covering of the badgers' skins that
[is] above upon it, and the hanging for
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation,
26 And the hangings of the court, and
the hanging for the door of the gate of
the court, which [is] by the tabernacle
and by the altar round about, and their
cords, and all the instruments of their
service, and all that is made for them:
so shall they serve.
27 At the appointment of Aaron and his
sons shall be all the service of the
sons of the Gershonites, in all their
burdens, and in all their service: and
ye shall appoint unto them in charge
all their burdens.
28 This [is] the service of the
families of the sons of Gershon in the
tabernacle of the congregation: and
their charge [shall be] under the hand
of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
29 # As for the sons of Merari, thou
shalt number them after their families,
by the house of their fathers;
30 From thirty years old and upward
even unto fifty years old shalt thou
number them, every one that entereth
into the service, to do the work of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
31 And this [is] the charge of their
burden, according to all their service
in the tabernacle of the congregation;
the boards of the tabernacle, and the
bars thereof, and the pillars thereof,
and sockets thereof,
32 And the pillars of the court round
about, and their sockets, and their
pins, and their cords, with all their
instruments, and with all their
service: and by name ye shall reckon
the instruments of the charge of their
burden.
33 This [is] the service of the
families of the sons of Merari,
according to all their service, in the
tabernacle of the congregation, under
the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron
the priest.
34 # And Moses and Aaron and the chief
of the congregation numbered the sons
of the Kohathites after their families,
and after the house of their fathers,
35 From thirty years old and upward
even unto fifty years old, every one
that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the
congregation:
36 And those that were numbered of them
by their families were two thousand
seven hundred and fifty.
37 These [were] they that were numbered
of the families of the Kohathites, all
that might do service in the tabernacle
of the congregation, which Moses and
Aaron did number according to the
commandment of the LORD by the hand of
Moses.
38 And those that were numbered of the
sons of Gershon, throughout their
families, and by the house of their
fathers,
39 From thirty years old and upward
even unto fifty years old, every one
that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the
congregation,
40 Even those that were numbered of
them, throughout their families, by the
house of their fathers, were two
thousand and six hundred and thirty.
41 These [are] they that were numbered
of the families of the sons of Gershon,
of all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, whom
Moses and Aaron did number according to
the commandment of the LORD.
42 # And those that were numbered of
the families of the sons of Merari,
throughout their families, by the house
of their fathers,
43 From thirty years old and upward
even unto fifty years old, every one
that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the
congregation,
44 Even those that were numbered of
them after their families, were three
thousand and two hundred.
45 These [be] those that were numbered
of the families of the sons of Merari,
whom Moses and Aaron numbered according
to the word of the LORD by the hand of
Moses.
46 All those that were numbered of the
Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the
chief of Israel numbered, after their
families, and after the house of their
fathers,
47 From thirty years old and upward
even unto fifty years old, every one
that came to do the service of the
ministry, and the service of the burden
in the tabernacle of the congregation,
48 Even those that were numbered of
them, were eight thousand and five
hundred and fourscore.
49 According to the commandment of the
LORD they were numbered by the hand of
Moses, every one according to his
service, and according to his burden:
thus were they numbered of him, as the
LORD commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 5
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that
they put out of the camp every leper,
and every one that hath an issue, and
whosoever is defiled by the dead:
3 Both male and female shall ye put
out, without the camp shall ye put
them; that they defile not their camps,
in the midst whereof I dwell.
4 And the children of Israel did so,
and put them out without the camp: as
the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the
children of Israel.
5 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
6 Speak unto the children of Israel,
When a man or woman shall commit any
sin that men commit, to do a trespass
against the LORD, and that person be
guilty;
7 Then they shall confess their sin
which they have done: and he shall
recompense his trespass with the
principal thereof, and add unto it the
fifth [part] thereof, and give [it]
unto [him] against whom he hath
trespassed.
8 But if the man have no kinsman to
recompense the trespass unto, let the
trespass be recompensed unto the LORD,
[even] to the priest; beside the ram of
the atonement, whereby an atonement
shall be made for him.
9 And every offering of all the holy
things of the children of Israel, which
they bring unto the priest, shall be
his.
10 And every man's hallowed things
shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth
the priest, it shall be his.
11 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
12 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, If any man's wife go
aside, and commit a trespass against
him,
13 And a man lie with her carnally, and
it be hid from the eyes of her husband,
and be kept close, and she be defiled,
and [there be] no witness against her,
neither she be taken [with the manner];
14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon
him, and he be jealous of his wife, and
she be defiled: or if the spirit of
jealousy come upon him, and he be
jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled:
15 Then shall the man bring his wife
unto the priest, and he shall bring her
offering for her, the tenth [part] of
an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour
no oil upon it, nor put frankincense
thereon; for it [is] an offering of
jealousy, an offering of memorial,
bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16 And the priest shall bring her near,
and set her before the LORD:
17 And the priest shall take holy water
in an earthen vessel; and of the dust
that is in the floor of the tabernacle
the priest shall take, and put [it]
into the water:
18 And the priest shall set the woman
before the LORD, and uncover the
woman's head, and put the offering of
memorial in her hands, which [is] the
jealousy offering: and the priest shall
have in his hand the bitter water that
causeth the curse:
19 And the priest shall charge her by
an oath, and say unto the woman, If no
man have lain with thee, and if thou
hast not gone aside to uncleanness
[with another] instead of thy husband,
be thou free from this bitter water
that causeth the curse:
20 But if thou hast gone aside [to
another] instead of thy husband, and if
thou be defiled, and some man have lain
with thee beside thine husband:
21 Then the priest shall charge the
woman with an oath of cursing, and the
priest shall say unto the woman, The
LORD make thee a curse and an oath
among thy people, when the LORD doth
make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to
swell;
22 And this water that causeth the
curse shall go into thy bowels, to make
[thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh
to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen,
amen.
23 And the priest shall write these
curses in a book, and he shall blot
[them] out with the bitter water:
24 And he shall cause the woman to
drink the bitter water that causeth the
curse: and the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, [and
become] bitter.
25 Then the priest shall take the
jealousy offering out of the woman's
hand, and shall wave the offering
before the LORD, and offer it upon the
altar:
26 And the priest shall take an handful
of the offering, [even] the memorial
thereof, and burn [it] upon the altar,
and afterward shall cause the woman to
drink the water.
27 And when he hath made her to drink
the water, then it shall come to pass,
[that], if she be defiled, and have
done trespass against her husband, that
the water that causeth the curse shall
enter into her, [and become] bitter,
and her belly shall swell, and her
thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be
a curse among her people.
28 And if the woman be not defiled, but
be clean; then she shall be free, and
shall conceive seed.
29 This [is] the law of jealousies,
when a wife goeth aside [to another]
instead of her husband, and is defiled;
30 Or when the spirit of jealousy
cometh upon him, and he be jealous over
his wife, and shall set the woman
before the LORD, and the priest shall
execute upon her all this law.
31 Then shall the man be guiltless from
iniquity, and this woman shall bear her
iniquity.

CHAPTER 6
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When either man or
woman shall separate [themselves] to
vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate
[themselves] unto the LORD:
3 He shall separate [himself] from wine
and strong drink, and shall drink no
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong
drink, neither shall he drink any
liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes,
or dried.
4 All the days of his separation shall
he eat nothing that is made of the vine
tree, from the kernels even to the
husk.
5 All the days of the vow of his
separation there shall no razor come
upon his head: until the days be
fulfilled, in the which he separateth
[himself] unto the LORD, he shall be
holy, [and] shall let the locks of the
hair of his head grow.
6 All the days that he separateth
[himself] unto the LORD he shall come
at no dead body.
7 He shall not make himself unclean for
his father, or for his mother, for his
brother, or for his sister, when they
die: because the consecration of his
God [is] upon his head.
8 All the days of his separation he
[is] holy unto the LORD.
9 And if any man die very suddenly by
him, and he hath defiled the head of
his consecration; then he shall shave
his head in the day of his cleansing,
on the seventh day shall he shave it.
10 And on the eighth day he shall bring
two turtles, or two young pigeons, to
the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
11 And the priest shall offer the one
for a sin offering, and the other for a
burnt offering, and make an atonement
for him, for that he sinned by the
dead, and shall hallow his head that
same day.
12 And he shall consecrate unto the
LORD the days of his separation, and
shall bring a lamb of the first year
for a trespass offering: but the days
that were before shall be lost, because
his separation was defiled.
13 # And this [is] the law of the
Nazarite, when the days of his
separation are fulfilled: he shall be
brought unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation:
14 And he shall offer his offering unto
the LORD, one he lamb of the first year
without blemish for a burnt offering,
and one ewe lamb of the first year
without blemish for a sin offering, and
one ram without blemish for peace
offerings,
15 And a basket of unleavened bread,
cakes of fine flour mingled with oil,
and wafers of unleavened bread anointed
with oil, and their meat offering, and
their drink offerings.
16 And the priest shall bring [them]
before the LORD, and shall offer his
sin offering, and his burnt offering:
17 And he shall offer the ram [for] a
sacrifice of peace offerings unto the
LORD, with the basket of unleavened
bread: the priest shall offer also his
meat offering, and his drink offering.
18 And the Nazarite shall shave the
head of his separation [at] the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and
shall take the hair of the head of his
separation, and put [it] in the fire
which [is] under the sacrifice of the
peace offerings.
19 And the priest shall take the sodden
shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened
cake out of the basket, and one
unleavened wafer, and shall put [them]
upon the hands of the Nazarite, after
[the hair of] his separation is shaven:
20 And the priest shall wave them [for]
a wave offering before the LORD: this
[is] holy for the priest, with the wave
breast and heave shoulder: and after
that the Nazarite may drink wine.
21 This [is] the law of the Nazarite
who hath vowed, [and of] his offering
unto the LORD for his separation,
beside [that] that his hand shall get:
according to the vow which he vowed, so
he must do after the law of his
separation.
22 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons,
saying, On this wise ye shall bless the
children of Israel, saying unto them,
24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon
thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace.
27 And they shall put my name upon the
children of Israel; and I will bless
them.

CHAPTER 7
1 And it came to pass on the day that
Moses had fully set up the tabernacle,
and had anointed it, and sanctified it,
and all the instruments thereof, both
the altar and all the vessels thereof,
and had anointed them, and sanctified
them;
2 That the princes of Israel, heads of
the house of their fathers, who [were]
the princes of the tribes, and were
over them that were numbered, offered:
3 And they brought their offering
before the LORD, six covered wagons,
and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the
princes, and for each one an ox: and
they brought them before the
tabernacle.
4 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
5 Take [it] of them, that they may be
to do the service of the tabernacle of
the congregation; and thou shalt give
them unto the Levites, to every man
according to his service.
6 And Moses took the wagons and the
oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto
the sons of Gershon, according to their
service:
8 And four wagons and eight oxen he
gave unto the sons of Merari, according
unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave
none: because the service of the
sanctuary belonging unto them [was
that] they should bear upon their
shoulders.
10 # And the princes offered for
dedicating of the altar in the day that
it was anointed, even the princes
offered their offering before the
altar.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They
shall offer their offering, each prince
on his day, for the dedicating of the
altar.
12 # And he that offered his offering
the first day was Nahshon the son of
Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
13 And his offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight thereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them [were] full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
14 One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold,
full of incense:
15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
16 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
17 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Nahshon the
son of Amminadab.
18 # On the second day Nethaneel the
son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did
offer:
19 He offered [for] his offering one
silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels],
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both
of them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
20 One spoon of gold of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
22 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
23 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Nethaneel
the son of Zuar.
24 # On the third day Eliab the son of
Helon, prince of the children of
Zebulun, [did offer]:
25 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
26 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
28 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
29 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Eliab the
son of Helon.
30 # On the fourth day Elizur the son
of Shedeur, prince of the children of
Reuben, [did offer]:
31 His offering [was] one silver
charger of the weight of an hundred and
thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
32 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
34 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
35 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Elizur the
son of Shedeur.
36 # On the fifth day Shelumiel the son
of Zurishaddai, prince of the children
of Simeon, [did offer]:
37 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
38 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
40 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
41 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai.
42 # On the sixth day Eliasaph the son
of Deuel, prince of the children of
Gad, [offered]:
43 His offering [was] one silver
charger of the weight of an hundred and
thirty [shekels], a silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
44 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
46 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
47 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Eliasaph the
son of Deuel.
48 # On the seventh day Elishama the
son of Ammihud, prince of the children
of Ephraim, [offered]:
49 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
50 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
52 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
53 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Elishama the
son of Ammihud.
54 # On the eighth day [offered]
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of
the children of Manasseh:
55 His offering [was] one silver
charger of the weight of an hundred and
thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
56 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
58 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
59 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Gamaliel the
son of Pedahzur.
60 # On the ninth day Abidan the son of
Gideoni, prince of the children of
Benjamin, [offered]:
61 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
62 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
64 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
65 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Abidan the
son of Gideoni.
66 # On the tenth day Ahiezer the son
of Ammishaddai, prince of the children
of Dan, [offered]:
67 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
68 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
70 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
71 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai.
72 # On the eleventh day Pagiel the son
of Ocran, prince of the children of
Asher, [offered]:
73 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
74 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
76 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
77 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Pagiel the
son of Ocran.
78 # On the twelfth day Ahira the son
of Enan, prince of the children of
Naphtali, [offered]:
79 His offering [was] one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
80 One golden spoon of ten [shekels],
full of incense:
81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt
offering:
82 One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
83 And for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he
goats, five lambs of the first year:
this [was] the offering of Ahira the
son of Enan.
84 This [was] the dedication of the
altar, in the day when it was anointed,
by the princes of Israel: twelve
chargers of silver, twelve silver
bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
85 Each charger of silver [weighing] an
hundred and thirty [shekels], each bowl
seventy: all the silver vessels
[weighed] two thousand and four hundred
[shekels], after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
86 The golden spoons [were] twelve,
full of incense, [weighing] ten
[shekels] apiece, after the shekel of
the sanctuary: all the gold of the
spoons [was] an hundred and twenty
[shekels].
87 All the oxen for the burnt offering
[were] twelve bullocks, the rams
twelve, the lambs of the first year
twelve, with their meat offering: and
the kids of the goats for sin offering
twelve.
88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice
of the peace offerings [were] twenty
and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the
he goats sixty, the lambs of the first
year sixty. This [was] the dedication
of the altar, after that it was
anointed.
89 And when Moses was gone into the
tabernacle of the congregation to speak
with him, then he heard the voice of
one speaking unto him from off the
mercy seat that [was] upon the ark of
testimony, from between the two
cherubims: and he spake unto him.

CHAPTER 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him,
When thou lightest the lamps, the seven
lamps shall give light over against the
candlestick.
3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the
lamps thereof over against the
candlestick, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
4 And this work of the candlestick [was
of] beaten gold, unto the shaft
thereof, unto the flowers thereof,
[was] beaten work: according unto the
pattern which the LORD had shewed
Moses, so he made the candlestick.
5 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
6 Take the Levites from among the
children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to
cleanse them: Sprinkle water of
purifying upon them, and let them shave
all their flesh, and let them wash
their clothes, and [so] make themselves
clean.
8 Then let them take a young bullock
with his meat offering, [even] fine
flour mingled with oil, and another
young bullock shalt thou take for a sin
offering.
9 And thou shalt bring the Levites
before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and thou shalt gather the
whole assembly of the children of
Israel together:
10 And thou shalt bring the Levites
before the LORD: and the children of
Israel shall put their hands upon the
Levites:
11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites
before the LORD [for] an offering of
the children of Israel, that they may
execute the service of the LORD.
12 And the Levites shall lay their
hands upon the heads of the bullocks:
and thou shalt offer the one [for] a
sin offering, and the other [for] a
burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make
an atonement for the Levites.
13 And thou shalt set the Levites
before Aaron, and before his sons, and
offer them [for] an offering unto the
LORD.
14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites
from among the children of Israel: and
the Levites shall be mine.
15 And after that shall the Levites go
in to do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation: and thou shalt
cleanse them, and offer them [for] an
offering.
16 For they [are] wholly given unto me
from among the children of Israel;
instead of such as open every womb,
[even instead of] the firstborn of all
the children of Israel, have I taken
them unto me.
17 For all the firstborn of the
children of Israel [are] mine, [both]
man and beast: on the day that I smote
every firstborn in the land of Egypt I
sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the Levites for all
the firstborn of the children of
Israel.
19 And I have given the Levites [as] a
gift to Aaron and to his sons from
among the children of Israel, to do the
service of the children of Israel in
the tabernacle of the congregation, and
to make an atonement for the children
of Israel: that there be no plague
among the children of Israel, when the
children of Israel come nigh unto the
sanctuary.
20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel,
did to the Levites according unto all
that the LORD commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so did the
children of Israel unto them.
21 And the Levites were purified, and
they washed their clothes; and Aaron
offered them [as] an offering before
the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement
for them to cleanse them.
22 And after that went the Levites in
to do their service in the tabernacle
of the congregation before Aaron, and
before his sons: as the LORD had
commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so did they unto them.
23 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
24 This [is it] that [belongeth] unto
the Levites: from twenty and five years
old and upward they shall go in to wait
upon the service of the tabernacle of
the congregation:
25 And from the age of fifty years they
shall cease waiting upon the service
[thereof], and shall serve no more:
26 But shall minister with their
brethren in the tabernacle of the
congregation, to keep the charge, and
shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do
unto the Levites touching their charge.

CHAPTER 9
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the first month
of the second year after they were come
out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep
the passover at his appointed season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month,
at even, ye shall keep it in his
appointed season: according to all the
rites of it, and according to all the
ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, that they should keep the
passover.
5 And they kept the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month at
even in the wilderness of Sinai:
according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so did the children of
Israel.
6 # And there were certain men, who
were defiled by the dead body of a man,
that they could not keep the passover
on that day: and they came before Moses
and before Aaron on that day:
7 And those men said unto him, We [are]
defiled by the dead body of a man:
wherefore are we kept back, that we may
not offer an offering of the LORD in
his appointed season among the children
of Israel?
8 And Moses said unto them, Stand
still, and I will hear what the LORD
will command concerning you.
9 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, If any man of you or of your
posterity shall be unclean by reason of
a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar
off, yet he shall keep the passover
unto the LORD.
11 The fourteenth day of the second
month at even they shall keep it, [and]
eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
[herbs].
12 They shall leave none of it unto the
morning, nor break any bone of it:
according to all the ordinances of the
passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man that [is] clean, and is
not in a journey, and forbeareth to
keep the passover, even the same soul
shall be cut off from among his people:
because he brought not the offering of
the LORD in his appointed season, that
man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn
among you, and will keep the passover
unto the LORD; according to the
ordinance of the passover, and
according to the manner thereof, so
shall he do: ye shall have one
ordinance, both for the stranger, and
for him that was born in the land.
15 # And on the day that the tabernacle
was reared up the cloud covered the
tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the
testimony: and at even there was upon
the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until the morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered
it [by day], and the appearance of fire
by night.
17 And when the cloud was taken up from
the tabernacle, then after that the
children of Israel journeyed: and in
the place where the cloud abode, there
the children of Israel pitched their
tents.
18 At the commandment of the LORD the
children of Israel journeyed, and at
the commandment of the LORD they
pitched: as long as the cloud abode
upon the tabernacle they rested in
their tents.
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon
the tabernacle many days, then the
children of Israel kept the charge of
the LORD, and journeyed not.
20 And [so] it was, when the cloud was
a few days upon the tabernacle;
according to the commandment of the
LORD they abode in their tents, and
according to the commandment of the
LORD they journeyed.
21 And [so] it was, when the cloud
abode from even unto the morning, and
[that] the cloud was taken up in the
morning, then they journeyed: whether
[it was] by day or by night that the
cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or [whether it were] two days, or a
month, or a year, that the cloud
tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining
thereon, the children of Israel abode
in their tents, and journeyed not: but
when it was taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the LORD they
rested in the tents, and at the
commandment of the LORD they journeyed:
they kept the charge of the LORD, at
the commandment of the LORD by the hand
of Moses.

CHAPTER 10
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of
a whole piece shalt thou make them:
that thou mayest use them for the
calling of the assembly, and for the
journeying of the camps.
3 And when they shall blow with them,
all the assembly shall assemble
themselves to thee at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And if they blow [but] with one
[trumpet], then the princes, [which
are] heads of the thousands of Israel,
shall gather themselves unto thee.
5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps
that lie on the east parts shall go
forward.
6 When ye blow an alarm the second
time, then the camps that lie on the
south side shall take their journey:
they shall blow an alarm for their
journeys.
7 But when the congregation is to be
gathered together, ye shall blow, but
ye shall not sound an alarm.
8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
shall blow with the trumpets; and they
shall be to you for an ordinance for
ever throughout your generations.
9 And if ye go to war in your land
against the enemy that oppresseth you,
then ye shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets; and ye shall be remembered
before the LORD your God, and ye shall
be saved from your enemies.
10 Also in the day of your gladness,
and in your solemn days, and in the
beginnings of your months, ye shall
blow with the trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over the sacrifices of
your peace offerings; that they may be
to you for a memorial before your God:
I [am] the LORD your God.
11 # And it came to pass on the
twentieth [day] of the second month, in
the second year, that the cloud was
taken up from off the tabernacle of the
testimony.
12 And the children of Israel took
their journeys out of the wilderness of
Sinai; and the cloud rested in the
wilderness of Paran.
13 And they first took their journey
according to the commandment of the
LORD by the hand of Moses.
14 # In the first [place] went the
standard of the camp of the children of
Judah according to their armies: and
over his host [was] Nahshon the son of
Amminadab.
15 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Issachar [was]
Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
16 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Zebulun [was] Eliab the
son of Helon.
17 And the tabernacle was taken down;
and the sons of Gershon and the sons of
Merari set forward, bearing the
tabernacle.
18 # And the standard of the camp of
Reuben set forward according to their
armies: and over his host [was] Elizur
the son of Shedeur.
19 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Simeon [was] Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai.
20 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Gad [was] Eliasaph the
son of Deuel.
21 And the Kohathites set forward,
bearing the sanctuary: and [the other]
did set up the tabernacle against they
came.
22 # And the standard of the camp of
the children of Ephraim set forward
according to their armies: and over his
host [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud.
23 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Manasseh [was] Gamaliel
the son of Pedahzur.
24 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Benjamin [was] Abidan
the son of Gideoni.
25 # And the standard of the camp of
the children of Dan set forward, [which
was] the rereward of all the camps
throughout their hosts: and over his
host [was] Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
26 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Asher [was] Pagiel the
son of Ocran.
27 And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Naphtali [was] Ahira
the son of Enan.
28 Thus [were] the journeyings of the
children of Israel according to their
armies, when they set forward.
29 # And Moses said unto Hobab, the son
of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father
in law, We are journeying unto the
place of which the LORD said, I will
give it you: come thou with us, and we
will do thee good: for the LORD hath
spoken good concerning Israel.
30 And he said unto him, I will not go;
but I will depart to mine own land, and
to my kindred.
31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray
thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we
are to encamp in the wilderness, and
thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
32 And it shall be, if thou go with us,
yea, it shall be, that what goodness
the LORD shall do unto us, the same
will we do unto thee.
33 # And they departed from the mount
of the LORD three days' journey: and
the ark of the covenant of the LORD
went before them in the three days'
journey, to search out a resting place
for them.
34 And the cloud of the LORD [was] upon
them by day, when they went out of the
camp.
35 And it came to pass, when the ark
set forward, that Moses said, Rise up,
LORD, and let thine enemies be
scattered; and let them that hate thee
flee before thee.
36 And when it rested, he said, Return,
O LORD, unto the many thousands of
Israel.

CHAPTER 11
1 And [when] the people complained, it
displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard
[it]; and his anger was kindled; and
the fire of the LORD burnt among them,
and consumed [them that were] in the
uttermost parts of the camp.
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and
when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the
fire was quenched.
3 And he called the name of the place
Taberah: because the fire of the LORD
burnt among them.
4 # And the mixt multitude that [was]
among them fell a lusting: and the
children of Israel also wept again, and
said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 We remember the fish, which we did
eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and
the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul [is] dried away:
[there is] nothing at all, beside this
manna, [before] our eyes.
7 And the manna [was] as coriander
seed, and the colour thereof as the
colour of bdellium.
8 [And] the people went about, and
gathered [it], and ground [it] in
mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and
baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of
it: and the taste of it was as the
taste of fresh oil.
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp
in the night, the manna fell upon it.
10 # Then Moses heard the people weep
throughout their families, every man in
the door of his tent: and the anger of
the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses
also was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto the LORD,
Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy
servant? and wherefore have I not found
favour in thy sight, that thou layest
the burden of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people?
have I begotten them, that thou
shouldest say unto me, Carry them in
thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth
the sucking child, unto the land which
thou swarest unto their fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give
unto all this people? for they weep
unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we
may eat.
14 I am not able to bear all this
people alone, because [it is] too heavy
for me.
15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill
me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have
found favour in thy sight; and let me
not see my wretchedness.
16 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Gather unto me seventy men of the
elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to
be the elders of the people, and
officers over them; and bring them unto
the tabernacle of the congregation,
that they may stand there with thee.
17 And I will come down and talk with
thee there: and I will take of the
spirit which [is] upon thee, and will
put [it] upon them; and they shall bear
the burden of the people with thee,
that thou bear [it] not thyself alone.
18 And say thou unto the people,
Sanctify yourselves against to morrow,
and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have
wept in the ears of the LORD, saying,
Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it
was] well with us in Egypt: therefore
the LORD will give you flesh, and ye
shall eat.
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two
days, nor five days, neither ten days,
nor twenty days;
20 [But] even a whole month, until it
come out at your nostrils, and it be
loathsome unto you: because that ye
have despised the LORD which [is] among
you, and have wept before him, saying,
Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21 And Moses said, The people, among
whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand
footmen; and thou hast said, I will
give them flesh, that they may eat a
whole month.
22 Shall the flocks and the herds be
slain for them, to suffice them? or
shall all the fish of the sea be
gathered together for them, to suffice
them?
23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the
LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see
now whether my word shall come to pass
unto thee or not.
24 # And Moses went out, and told the
people the words of the LORD, and
gathered the seventy men of the elders
of the people, and set them round about
the tabernacle.
25 And the LORD came down in a cloud,
and spake unto him, and took of the
spirit that [was] upon him, and gave
[it] unto the seventy elders: and it
came to pass, [that], when the spirit
rested upon them, they prophesied, and
did not cease.
26 But there remained two [of the] men
in the camp, the name of the one [was]
Eldad, and the name of the other Medad:
and the spirit rested upon them; and
they [were] of them that were written,
but went not out unto the tabernacle:
and they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told
Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do
prophesy in the camp.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of Moses, [one] of his young
men, answered and said, My lord Moses,
forbid them.
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest
thou for my sake? would God that all
the LORD'S people were prophets, [and]
that the LORD would put his spirit upon
them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he
and the elders of Israel.
31 # And there went forth a wind from
the LORD, and brought quails from the
sea, and let [them] fall by the camp,
as it were a day's journey on this
side, and as it were a day's journey on
the other side, round about the camp,
and as it were two cubits [high] upon
the face of the earth.
32 And the people stood up all that
day, and all [that] night, and all the
next day, and they gathered the quails:
he that gathered least gathered ten
homers: and they spread [them] all
abroad for themselves round about the
camp.
33 And while the flesh [was] yet
between their teeth, ere it was chewed,
the wrath of the LORD was kindled
against the people, and the LORD smote
the people with a very great plague.
34 And he called the name of that place
Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they
buried the people that lusted.
35 [And] the people journeyed from
Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and
abode at Hazeroth.

CHAPTER 12
1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against
Moses because of the Ethiopian woman
whom he had married: for he had married
an Ethiopian woman.
2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed
spoken only by Moses? hath he not
spoken also by us? And the LORD heard
[it].
3 (Now the man Moses [was] very meek,
above all the men which [were] upon the
face of the earth.)
4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto
Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam,
Come out ye three unto the tabernacle
of the congregation. And they three
came out.
5 And the LORD came down in the pillar
of the cloud, and stood [in] the door
of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and
Miriam: and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If
there be a prophet among you, [I] the
LORD will make myself known unto him in
a vision, [and] will speak unto him in
a dream.
7 My servant Moses [is] not so, who
[is] faithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth,
even apparently, and not in dark
speeches; and the similitude of the
LORD shall he behold: wherefore then
were ye not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?
9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against them; and he departed.
10 And the cloud departed from off the
tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam
[became] leprous, [white] as snow: and
Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold,
[she was] leprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my
lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin
upon us, wherein we have done
foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom
the flesh is half consumed when he
cometh out of his mother's womb.
13 And Moses cried unto the LORD,
saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech
thee.
14 # And the LORD said unto Moses, If
her father had but spit in her face,
should she not be ashamed seven days?
let her be shut out from the camp seven
days, and after that let her be
received in [again].
15 And Miriam was shut out from the
camp seven days: and the people
journeyed not till Miriam was brought
in [again].
16 And afterward the people removed
from Hazeroth, and pitched in the
wilderness of Paran.

CHAPTER 13
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Send thou men, that they may search
the land of Canaan, which I give unto
the children of Israel: of every tribe
of their fathers shall ye send a man,
every one a ruler among them.
3 And Moses by the commandment of the
LORD sent them from the wilderness of
Paran: all those men [were] heads of
the children of Israel.
4 And these [were] their names: of the
tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of
Zaccur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the
son of Hori.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son
of Jephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the
son of Joseph.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the
son of Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the
son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the
son of Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of
the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of
Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son
of Gemalli.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the
son of Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the
son of Vophsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son
of Machi.
16 These [are] the names of the men
which Moses sent to spy out the land.
And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun
Jehoshua.
17 # And Moses sent them to spy out the
land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get
you up this [way] southward, and go up
into the mountain:
18 And see the land, what it [is]; and
the people that dwelleth therein,
whether they [be] strong or weak, few
or many;
19 And what the land [is] that they
dwell in, whether it [be] good or bad;
and what cities [they be] that they
dwell in, whether in tents, or in
strong holds;
20 And what the land [is], whether it
[be] fat or lean, whether there be wood
therein, or not. And be ye of good
courage, and bring of the fruit of the
land. Now the time [was] the time of
the firstripe grapes.
21 # So they went up, and searched the
land from the wilderness of Zin unto
Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
22 And they ascended by the south, and
came unto Hebron; where Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of
Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built
seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the brook of
Eshcol, and cut down from thence a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and
they bare it between two upon a staff;
and [they brought] of the pomegranates,
and of the figs.
24 The place was called the brook
Eshcol, because of the cluster of
grapes which the children of Israel cut
down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of
the land after forty days.
26 # And they went and came to Moses,
and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel,
unto the wilderness of Paran, to
Kadesh; and brought back word unto
them, and unto all the congregation,
and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came
unto the land whither thou sentest us,
and surely it floweth with milk and
honey; and this [is] the fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless the people [be] strong
that dwell in the land, and the cities
[are] walled, [and] very great: and
moreover we saw the children of Anak
there.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of
the south: and the Hittites, and the
Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in
the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell
by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before
Moses, and said, Let us go up at once,
and possess it; for we are well able to
overcome it.
31 But the men that went up with him
said, We be not able to go up against
the people; for they [are] stronger
than we.
32 And they brought up an evil report
of the land which they had searched
unto the children of Israel, saying,
The land, through which we have gone to
search it, [is] a land that eateth up
the inhabitants thereof; and all the
people that we saw in it [are] men of a
great stature.
33 And there we saw the giants, the
sons of Anak, [which come] of the
giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their
sight.

CHAPTER 14
1 And all the congregation lifted up
their voice, and cried; and the people
wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against
Aaron: and the whole congregation said
unto them, Would God that we had died
in the land of Egypt! or would God we
had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought
us unto this land, to fall by the
sword, that our wives and our children
should be a prey? were it not better
for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us
make a captain, and let us return into
Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
6 # And Joshua the son of Nun, and
Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which
were] of them that searched the land,
rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company
of the children of Israel, saying, The
land, which we passed through to search
it, [is] an exceeding good land.
8 If the LORD delight in us, then he
will bring us into this land, and give
it us; a land which floweth with milk
and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD,
neither fear ye the people of the land;
for they [are] bread for us: their
defence is departed from them, and the
LORD [is] with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone
them with stones. And the glory of the
LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation before all the children of
Israel.
11 # And the LORD said unto Moses, How
long will this people provoke me? and
how long will it be ere they believe
me, for all the signs which I have
shewed among them?
12 I will smite them with the
pestilence, and disinherit them, and
will make of thee a greater nation and
mightier than they.
13 # And Moses said unto the LORD, Then
the Egyptians shall hear [it], (for
thou broughtest up this people in thy
might from among them;)
14 And they will tell [it] to the
inhabitants of this land: [for] they
have heard that thou LORD [art] among
this people, that thou LORD art seen
face to face, and [that] thy cloud
standeth over them, and [that] thou
goest before them, by day time in a
pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of
fire by night.
15 # Now [if] thou shalt kill [all]
this people as one man, then the
nations which have heard the fame of
thee will speak, saying,
16 Because the LORD was not able to
bring this people into the land which
he sware unto them, therefore he hath
slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the
power of my Lord be great, according as
thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of
great mercy, forgiving iniquity and
transgression, and by no means clearing
[the guilty], visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth [generation].
19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity
of this people according unto the
greatness of thy mercy, and as thou
hast forgiven this people, from Egypt
even until now.
20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned
according to thy word:
21 But [as] truly [as] I live, all the
earth shall be filled with the glory of
the LORD.
22 Because all those men which have
seen my glory, and my miracles, which I
did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and
have tempted me now these ten times,
and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land
which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that provoked
me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had
another spirit with him, and hath
followed me fully, him will I bring
into the land whereinto he went; and
his seed shall possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the
Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To
morrow turn you, and get you into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26 # And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long [shall I bear with] this
evil congregation, which murmur against
me? I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel, which they murmur
against me.
28 Say unto them, [As truly as] I live,
saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in
mine ears, so will I do to you:
29 Your carcases shall fall in this
wilderness; and all that were numbered
of you, according to your whole number,
from twenty years old and upward, which
have murmured against me,
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the
land, [concerning] which I sware to
make you dwell therein, save Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of
Nun.
31 But your little ones, which ye said
should be a prey, them will I bring in,
and they shall know the land which ye
have despised.
32 But [as for] you, your carcases,
they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall wander in
the wilderness forty years, and bear
your whoredoms, until your carcases be
wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in
which ye searched the land, [even]
forty days, each day for a year, shall
ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty
years, and ye shall know my breach of
promise.
35 I the LORD have said, I will surely
do it unto all this evil congregation,
that are gathered together against me:
in this wilderness they shall be
consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men, which Moses sent to
search the land, who returned, and made
all the congregation to murmur against
him, by bringing up a slander upon the
land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the
evil report upon the land, died by the
plague before the LORD.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of
the men that went to search the land,
lived [still].
39 And Moses told these sayings unto
all the children of Israel: and the
people mourned greatly.
40 # And they rose up early in the
morning, and gat them up into the top
of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be
here], and will go up unto the place
which the LORD hath promised: for we
have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye
transgress the commandment of the LORD?
but it shall not prosper.
42 Go not up, for the LORD [is] not
among you; that ye be not smitten
before your enemies.
43 For the Amalekites and the
Canaanites [are] there before you, and
ye shall fall by the sword: because ye
are turned away from the LORD,
therefore the LORD will not be with
you.
44 But they presumed to go up unto the
hill top: nevertheless the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and Moses,
departed not out of the camp.
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and
the Canaanites which dwelt in that
hill, and smote them, and discomfited
them, [even] unto Hormah.

CHAPTER 15
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye be come into
the land of your habitations, which I
give unto you,
3 And will make an offering by fire
unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a
sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a
freewill offering, or in your solemn
feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the
LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
4 Then shall he that offereth his
offering unto the LORD bring a meat
offering of a tenth deal of flour
mingled with the fourth [part] of an
hin of oil.
5 And the fourth [part] of an hin of
wine for a drink offering shalt thou
prepare with the burnt offering or
sacrifice, for one lamb.
6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare
[for] a meat offering two tenth deals
of flour mingled with the third [part]
of an hin of oil.
7 And for a drink offering thou shalt
offer the third [part] of an hin of
wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the
LORD.
8 And when thou preparest a bullock
[for] a burnt offering, or [for] a
sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace
offerings unto the LORD:
9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a
meat offering of three tenth deals of
flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
10 And thou shalt bring for a drink
offering half an hin of wine, [for] an
offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
11 Thus shall it be done for one
bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb,
or a kid.
12 According to the number that ye
shall prepare, so shall ye do to every
one according to their number.
13 All that are born of the country
shall do these things after this
manner, in offering an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
14 And if a stranger sojourn with you,
or whosoever [be] among you in your
generations, and will offer an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
15 One ordinance [shall be both] for
you of the congregation, and also for
the stranger that sojourneth [with
you], an ordinance for ever in your
generations: as ye [are], so shall the
stranger be before the LORD.
16 One law and one manner shall be for
you, and for the stranger that
sojourneth with you.
17 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
18 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye come into
the land whither I bring you,
19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat
of the bread of the land, ye shall
offer up an heave offering unto the
LORD.
20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the
first of your dough [for] an heave
offering: as [ye do] the heave offering
of the threshingfloor, so shall ye
heave it.
21 Of the first of your dough ye shall
give unto the LORD an heave offering in
your generations.
22 # And if ye have erred, and not
observed all these commandments, which
the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
23 [Even] all that the LORD hath
commanded you by the hand of Moses,
from the day that the LORD commanded
[Moses], and henceforward among your
generations;
24 Then it shall be, if [ought] be
committed by ignorance without the
knowledge of the congregation, that all
the congregation shall offer one young
bullock for a burnt offering, for a
sweet savour unto the LORD, with his
meat offering, and his drink offering,
according to the manner, and one kid of
the goats for a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall make an
atonement for all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it [is] ignorance:
and they shall bring their offering, a
sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD,
and their sin offering before the LORD,
for their ignorance:
26 And it shall be forgiven all the
congregation of the children of Israel,
and the stranger that sojourneth among
them; seeing all the people [were] in
ignorance.
27 # And if any soul sin through
ignorance, then he shall bring a she
goat of the first year for a sin
offering.
28 And the priest shall make an
atonement for the soul that sinneth
ignorantly, when he sinneth by
ignorance before the LORD, to make an
atonement for him; and it shall be
forgiven him.
29 Ye shall have one law for him that
sinneth through ignorance, [both for]
him that is born among the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that
sojourneth among them.
30 # But the soul that doeth [ought]
presumptuously, [whether he be] born in
the land, or a stranger, the same
reproacheth the LORD; and that soul
shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of
the LORD, and hath broken his
commandment, that soul shall utterly be
cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon
him.
32 # And while the children of Israel
were in the wilderness, they found a
man that gathered sticks upon the
sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering
sticks brought him unto Moses and
Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it
was not declared what should be done to
him.
35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The
man shall be surely put to death: all
the congregation shall stone him with
stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him
without the camp, and stoned him with
stones, and he died; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
37 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
38 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and bid them that they make them
fringes in the borders of their
garments throughout their generations,
and that they put upon the fringe of
the borders a ribband of blue:
39 And it shall be unto you for a
fringe, that ye may look upon it, and
remember all the commandments of the
LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not
after your own heart and your own eyes,
after which ye use to go a whoring:
40 That ye may remember, and do all my
commandments, and be holy unto your
God.
41 I [am] the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to be your God: I [am] the LORD your
God.

CHAPTER 16
1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son
of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On,
the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took
[men]:
2 And they rose up before Moses, with
certain of the children of Israel, two
hundred and fifty princes of the
assembly, famous in the congregation,
men of renown:
3 And they gathered themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron, and
said unto them, [Ye take] too much upon
you, seeing all the congregation [are]
holy, every one of them, and the LORD
[is] among them: wherefore then lift ye
up yourselves above the congregation of
the LORD?
4 And when Moses heard [it], he fell
upon his face:
5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all
his company, saying, Even to morrow the
LORD will shew who [are] his, and [who
is] holy; and will cause [him] to come
near unto him: even [him] whom he hath
chosen will he cause to come near unto
him.
6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and
all his company;
7 And put fire therein, and put incense
in them before the LORD to morrow: and
it shall be [that] the man whom the
LORD doth choose, he [shall be] holy:
[ye take] too much upon you, ye sons of
Levi.
8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I
pray you, ye sons of Levi:
9 [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto
you, that the God of Israel hath
separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself to
do the service of the tabernacle of the
LORD, and to stand before the
congregation to minister unto them?
10 And he hath brought thee near [to
him], and all thy brethren the sons of
Levi with thee: and seek ye the
priesthood also?
11 For which cause [both] thou and all
thy company [are] gathered together
against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron,
that ye murmur against him?
12 # And Moses sent to call Dathan and
Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said,
We will not come up:
13 [Is it] a small thing that thou hast
brought us up out of a land that
floweth with milk and honey, to kill us
in the wilderness, except thou make
thyself altogether a prince over us?
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us
into a land that floweth with milk and
honey, or given us inheritance of
fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out
the eyes of these men? we will not come
up.
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said
unto the LORD, Respect not thou their
offering: I have not taken one ass from
them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou
and all thy company before the LORD,
thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
17 And take every man his censer, and
put incense in them, and bring ye
before the LORD every man his censer,
two hundred and fifty censers; thou
also, and Aaron, each [of you] his
censer.
18 And they took every man his censer,
and put fire in them, and laid incense
thereon, and stood in the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation with
Moses and Aaron.
19 And Korah gathered all the
congregation against them unto the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation:
and the glory of the LORD appeared unto
all the congregation.
20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
21 Separate yourselves from among this
congregation, that I may consume them
in a moment.
22 And they fell upon their faces, and
said, O God, the God of the spirits of
all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt
thou be wroth with all the
congregation?
23 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
24 Speak unto the congregation, saying,
Get you up from about the tabernacle of
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
25 And Moses rose up and went unto
Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of
Israel followed him.
26 And he spake unto the congregation,
saying, Depart, I pray you, from the
tents of these wicked men, and touch
nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed
in all their sins.
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle
of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every
side: and Dathan and Abiram came out,
and stood in the door of their tents,
and their wives, and their sons, and
their little children.
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know
that the LORD hath sent me to do all
these works; for [I have] not [done
them] of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of
all men, or if they be visited after
the visitation of all men; [then] the
LORD hath not sent me.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing,
and the earth open her mouth, and
swallow them up, with all that
[appertain] unto them, and they go down
quick into the pit; then ye shall
understand that these men have provoked
the LORD.
31 # And it came to pass, as he had
made an end of speaking all these
words, that the ground clave asunder
that [was] under them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up, and their houses,
and all the men that [appertained] unto
Korah, and all [their] goods.
33 They, and all that [appertained] to
them, went down alive into the pit, and
the earth closed upon them: and they
perished from among the congregation.
34 And all Israel that [were] round
about them fled at the cry of them: for
they said, Lest the earth swallow us up
[also].
35 And there came out a fire from the
LORD, and consumed the two hundred and
fifty men that offered incense.
36 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron
the priest, that he take up the censers
out of the burning, and scatter thou
the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
38 The censers of these sinners against
their own souls, let them make them
broad plates [for] a covering of the
altar: for they offered them before the
LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and
they shall be a sign unto the children
of Israel.
39 And Eleazar the priest took the
brasen censers, wherewith they that
were burnt had offered; and they were
made broad [plates for] a covering of
the altar:
40 [To be] a memorial unto the children
of Israel, that no stranger, which [is]
not of the seed of Aaron, come near to
offer incense before the LORD; that he
be not as Korah, and as his company: as
the LORD said to him by the hand of
Moses.
41 # But on the morrow all the
congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against
Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the
people of the LORD.
42 And it came to pass, when the
congregation was gathered against Moses
and against Aaron, that they looked
toward the tabernacle of the
congregation: and, behold, the cloud
covered it, and the glory of the LORD
appeared.
43 And Moses and Aaron came before the
tabernacle of the congregation.
44 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
45 Get you up from among this
congregation, that I may consume them
as in a moment. And they fell upon
their faces.
46 # And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a
censer, and put fire therein from off
the altar, and put on incense, and go
quickly unto the congregation, and make
an atonement for them: for there is
wrath gone out from the LORD; the
plague is begun.
47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded,
and ran into the midst of the
congregation; and, behold, the plague
was begun among the people: and he put
on incense, and made an atonement for
the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and
the living; and the plague was stayed.
49 Now they that died in the plague
were fourteen thousand and seven
hundred, beside them that died about
the matter of Korah.
50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and the plague was
stayed.

CHAPTER 17
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and take of every one of them a rod
according to the house of [their]
fathers, of all their princes according
to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon
his rod.
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name
upon the rod of Levi: for one rod
[shall be] for the head of the house of
their fathers.
4 And thou shalt lay them up in the
tabernacle of the congregation before
the testimony, where I will meet with
you.
5 And it shall come to pass, [that] the
man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall
blossom: and I will make to cease from
me the murmurings of the children of
Israel, whereby they murmur against
you.
6 # And Moses spake unto the children
of Israel, and every one of their
princes gave him a rod apiece, for each
prince one, according to their fathers'
houses, [even] twelve rods: and the rod
of Aaron [was] among their rods.
7 And Moses laid up the rods before the
LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
8 And it came to pass, that on the
morrow Moses went into the tabernacle
of witness; and, behold, the rod of
Aaron for the house of Levi was budded,
and brought forth buds, and bloomed
blossoms, and yielded almonds.
9 And Moses brought out all the rods
from before the LORD unto all the
children of Israel: and they looked,
and took every man his rod.
10 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Bring Aaron's rod again before the
testimony, to be kept for a token
against the rebels; and thou shalt
quite take away their murmurings from
me, that they die not.
11 And Moses did [so]: as the LORD
commanded him, so did he.
12 And the children of Israel spake
unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we
perish, we all perish.
13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto
the tabernacle of the LORD shall die:
shall we be consumed with dying?

CHAPTER 18
1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou
and thy sons and thy father's house
with thee shall bear the iniquity of
the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons
with thee shall bear the iniquity of
your priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of
Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring
thou with thee, that they may be joined
unto thee, and minister unto thee: but
thou and thy sons with thee [shall
minister] before the tabernacle of
witness.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and
the charge of all the tabernacle: only
they shall not come nigh the vessels of
the sanctuary and the altar, that
neither they, nor ye also, die.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee,
and keep the charge of the tabernacle
of the congregation, for all the
service of the tabernacle: and a
stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the
sanctuary, and the charge of the altar:
that there be no wrath any more upon
the children of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your
brethren the Levites from among the
children of Israel: to you [they are]
given [as] a gift for the LORD, to do
the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee
shall keep your priest's office for
every thing of the altar, and within
the vail; and ye shall serve: I have
given your priest's office [unto you]
as a service of gift: and the stranger
that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 # And the LORD spake unto Aaron,
Behold, I also have given thee the
charge of mine heave offerings of all
the hallowed things of the children of
Israel; unto thee have I given them by
reason of the anointing, and to thy
sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy
things, [reserved] from the fire: every
oblation of their's, every meat
offering of their's, and every sin
offering of their's, and every trespass
offering of their's, which they shall
render unto me, [shall be] most holy
for thee and for thy sons.
10 In the most holy [place] shalt thou
eat it; every male shall eat it: it
shall be holy unto thee.
11 And this [is] thine; the heave
offering of their gift, with all the
wave offerings of the children of
Israel: I have given them unto thee,
and to thy sons and to thy daughters
with thee, by a statute for ever: every
one that is clean in thy house shall
eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the
best of the wine, and of the wheat, the
firstfruits of them which they shall
offer unto the LORD, them have I given
thee.
13 [And] whatsoever is first ripe in
the land, which they shall bring unto
the LORD, shall be thine; every one
that is clean in thine house shall eat
[of] it.
14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall
be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix
in all flesh, which they bring unto the
LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts,
shall be thine: nevertheless the
firstborn of man shalt thou surely
redeem, and the firstling of unclean
beasts shalt thou redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed
from a month old shalt thou redeem,
according to thine estimation, for the
money of five shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty
gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the
firstling of a sheep, or the firstling
of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they
[are] holy: thou shalt sprinkle their
blood upon the altar, and shalt burn
their fat [for] an offering made by
fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
18 And the flesh of them shall be
thine, as the wave breast and as the
right shoulder are thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy
things, which the children of Israel
offer unto the LORD, have I given thee,
and thy sons and thy daughters with
thee, by a statute for ever: it [is] a
covenant of salt for ever before the
LORD unto thee and to thy seed with
thee.
20 # And the LORD spake unto Aaron,
Thou shalt have no inheritance in their
land, neither shalt thou have any part
among them: I [am] thy part and thine
inheritance among the children of
Israel.
21 And, behold, I have given the
children of Levi all the tenth in
Israel for an inheritance, for their
service which they serve, [even] the
service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
22 Neither must the children of Israel
henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of
the congregation, lest they bear sin,
and die.
23 But the Levites shall do the service
of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and they shall bear their iniquity: [it
shall be] a statute for ever throughout
your generations, that among the
children of Israel they have no
inheritance.
24 But the tithes of the children of
Israel, which they offer [as] an heave
offering unto the LORD, I have given to
the Levites to inherit: therefore I
have said unto them, Among the children
of Israel they shall have no
inheritance.
25 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say
unto them, When ye take of the children
of Israel the tithes which I have given
you from them for your inheritance,
then ye shall offer up an heave
offering of it for the LORD, [even] a
tenth [part] of the tithe.
27 And [this] your heave offering shall
be reckoned unto you, as though [it
were] the corn of the threshingfloor,
and as the fulness of the winepress.
28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave
offering unto the LORD of all your
tithes, which ye receive of the
children of Israel; and ye shall give
thereof the LORD'S heave offering to
Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer
every heave offering of the LORD, of
all the best thereof, [even] the
hallowed part thereof out of it.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them,
When ye have heaved the best thereof
from it, then it shall be counted unto
the Levites as the increase of the
threshingfloor, and as the increase of
the winepress.
31 And ye shall eat it in every place,
ye and your households: for it [is]
your reward for your service in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason
of it, when ye have heaved from it the
best of it: neither shall ye pollute
the holy things of the children of
Israel, lest ye die.

CHAPTER 19
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
2 This [is] the ordinance of the law
which the LORD hath commanded, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring thee a red heifer without
spot, wherein [is] no blemish, [and]
upon which never came yoke:
3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar
the priest, that he may bring her forth
without the camp, and [one] shall slay
her before his face:
4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of
her blood with his finger, and sprinkle
of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven
times:
5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in
his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and
her blood, with her dung, shall he
burn:
6 And the priest shall take cedar wood,
and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it]
into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.
7 Then the priest shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh
in water, and afterward he shall come
into the camp, and the priest shall be
unclean until the even.
8 And he that burneth her shall wash
his clothes in water, and bathe his
flesh in water, and shall be unclean
until the even.
9 And a man [that is] clean shall
gather up the ashes of the heifer, and
lay [them] up without the camp in a
clean place, and it shall be kept for
the congregation of the children of
Israel for a water of separation: it
[is] a purification for sin.
10 And he that gathereth the ashes of
the heifer shall wash his clothes, and
be unclean until the even: and it shall
be unto the children of Israel, and
unto the stranger that sojourneth among
them, for a statute for ever.
11 # He that toucheth the dead body of
any man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall purify himself with it on
the third day, and on the seventh day
he shall be clean: but if he purify not
himself the third day, then the seventh
day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of
any man that is dead, and purifieth not
himself, defileth the tabernacle of the
LORD; and that soul shall be cut off
from Israel: because the water of
separation was not sprinkled upon him,
he shall be unclean; his uncleanness
[is] yet upon him.
14 This [is] the law, when a man dieth
in a tent: all that come into the tent,
and all that [is] in the tent, shall be
unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no
covering bound upon it, [is] unclean.
16 And whosoever toucheth one that is
slain with a sword in the open fields,
or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or
a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 And for an unclean [person] they
shall take of the ashes of the burnt
heifer of purification for sin, and
running water shall be put thereto in a
vessel:
18 And a clean person shall take
hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and
sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon
all the vessels, and upon the persons
that were there, and upon him that
touched a bone, or one slain, or one
dead, or a grave:
19 And the clean [person] shall
sprinkle upon the unclean on the third
day, and on the seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall purify himself,
and wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 But the man that shall be unclean,
and shall not purify himself, that soul
shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled
the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of
separation hath not been sprinkled upon
him; he [is] unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute
unto them, that he that sprinkleth the
water of separation shall wash his
clothes; and he that toucheth the water
of separation shall be unclean until
even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean [person]
toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul
that toucheth [it] shall be unclean
until even.

CHAPTER 20
1 Then came the children of Israel,
[even] the whole congregation, into the
desert of Zin in the first month: and
the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam
died there, and was buried there.
2 And there was no water for the
congregation: and they gathered
themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron.
3 And the people chode with Moses, and
spake, saying, Would God that we had
died when our brethren died before the
LORD!
4 And why have ye brought up the
congregation of the LORD into this
wilderness, that we and our cattle
should die there?
5 And wherefore have ye made us to come
up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto
this evil place? it [is] no place of
seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates; neither [is] there any
water to drink.
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the
presence of the assembly unto the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and they fell upon their faces: and the
glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
7 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the
assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy
brother, and speak ye unto the rock
before their eyes; and it shall give
forth his water, and thou shalt bring
forth to them water out of the rock: so
thou shalt give the congregation and
their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before
the LORD, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the
congregation together before the rock,
and he said unto them, Hear now, ye
rebels; must we fetch you water out of
this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and
with his rod he smote the rock twice:
and the water came out abundantly, and
the congregation drank, and their
beasts [also].
12 # And the LORD spake unto Moses and
Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to
sanctify me in the eyes of the children
of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring
this congregation into the land which I
have given them.
13 This [is] the water of Meribah;
because the children of Israel strove
with the LORD, and he was sanctified in
them.
14 # And Moses sent messengers from
Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus
saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest
all the travail that hath befallen us:
15 How our fathers went down into
Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a
long time; and the Egyptians vexed us,
and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he
heard our voice, and sent an angel, and
hath brought us forth out of Egypt:
and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city
in the uttermost of thy border:
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through
thy country: we will not pass through
the fields, or through the vineyards,
neither will we drink [of] the water of
the wells: we will go by the king's
[high] way, we will not turn to the
right hand nor to the left, until we
have passed thy borders.
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt
not pass by me, lest I come out against
thee with the sword.
19 And the children of Israel said unto
him, We will go by the high way: and if
I and my cattle drink of thy water,
then I will pay for it: I will only,
without [doing] any thing [else], go
through on my feet.
20 And he said, Thou shalt not go
through. And Edom came out against him
with much people, and with a strong
hand.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel
passage through his border: wherefore
Israel turned away from him.
22 # And the children of Israel, [even]
the whole congregation, journeyed from
Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the
land of Edom, saying,
24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his
people: for he shall not enter into the
land which I have given unto the
children of Israel, because ye rebelled
against my word at the water of
Meribah.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and
bring them up unto mount Hor:
26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and
put them upon Eleazar his son: and
Aaron shall be gathered [unto his
people], and shall die there.
27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded:
and they went up into mount Hor in the
sight of all the congregation.
28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his
garments, and put them upon Eleazar his
son; and Aaron died there in the top of
the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came
down from the mount.
29 And when all the congregation saw
that Aaron was dead, they mourned for
Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house
of Israel.

CHAPTER 21
1 And [when] king Arad the Canaanite,
which dwelt in the south, heard tell
that Israel came by the way of the
spies; then he fought against Israel,
and took [some] of them prisoners.
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD,
and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver
this people into my hand, then I will
utterly destroy their cities.
3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice
of Israel, and delivered up the
Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed
them and their cities: and he called
the name of the place Hormah.
4 # And they journeyed from mount Hor
by the way of the Red sea, to compass
the land of Edom: and the soul of the
people was much discouraged because of
the way.
5 And the people spake against God, and
against Moses, Wherefore have ye
brought us up out of Egypt to die in
the wilderness? for [there is] no
bread, neither [is there any] water;
and our soul loatheth this light bread.
6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents
among the people, and they bit the
people; and much people of Israel died.
7 # Therefore the people came to Moses,
and said, We have sinned, for we have
spoken against the LORD, and against
thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take
away the serpents from us. And Moses
prayed for the people.
8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make
thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a
pole: and it shall come to pass, that
every one that is bitten, when he
looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass,
and put it upon a pole, and it came to
pass, that if a serpent had bitten any
man, when he beheld the serpent of
brass, he lived.
10 # And the children of Israel set
forward, and pitched in Oboth.
11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and
pitched at Ije-abarim, in the
wilderness which [is] before Moab,
toward the sunrising.
12 # From thence they removed, and
pitched in the valley of Zared.
13 From thence they removed, and
pitched on the other side of Arnon,
which [is] in the wilderness that
cometh out of the coasts of the
Amorites: for Arnon [is] the border of
Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of
the wars of the LORD, What he did in
the Red sea, and in the brooks of
Arnon,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that
goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and
lieth upon the border of Moab.
16 And from thence [they went] to Beer:
that [is] the well whereof the LORD
spake unto Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
17 # Then Israel sang this song, Spring
up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The princes digged the well, the
nobles of the people digged it, by [the
direction of] the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness [they
went] to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and
from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth [in] the valley,
that [is] in the country of Moab, to
the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward
Jeshimon.
21 # And Israel sent messengers unto
Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through thy land: we
will not turn into the fields, or into
the vineyards; we will not drink [of]
the waters of the well: [but] we will
go along by the king's [high] way,
until we be past thy borders.
23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to
pass through his border: but Sihon
gathered all his people together, and
went out against Israel into the
wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and
fought against Israel.
24 And Israel smote him with the edge
of the sword, and possessed his land
from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon: for the border of
the children of Ammon [was] strong.
25 And Israel took all these cities:
and Israel dwelt in all the cities of
the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all
the villages thereof.
26 For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon
the king of the Amorites, who had
fought against the former king of Moab,
and taken all his land out of his hand,
even unto Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in
proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let
the city of Sihon be built and
prepared:
28 For there is a fire gone out of
Heshbon, a flame from the city of
Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab,
[and] the lords of the high places of
Arnon.
29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone,
O people of Chemosh: he hath given his
sons that escaped, and his daughters,
into captivity unto Sihon king of the
Amorites.
30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is
perished even unto Dibon, and we have
laid them waste even unto Nophah, which
[reacheth] unto Medeba.
31 # Thus Israel dwelt in the land of
the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer,
and they took the villages thereof, and
drove out the Amorites that [were]
there.
33 # And they turned and went up by the
way of Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan went out against them, he, and
all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear
him not: for I have delivered him into
thy hand, and all his people, and his
land; and thou shalt do to him as thou
didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
which dwelt at Heshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and
all his people, until there was none
left him alive: and they possessed his
land.

CHAPTER 22
1 And the children of Israel set
forward, and pitched in the plains of
Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.
2 # And Balak the son of Zippor saw all
that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3 And Moab was sore afraid of the
people, because they [were] many: and
Moab was distressed because of the
children of Israel.
4 And Moab said unto the elders of
Midian, Now shall this company lick up
all [that are] round about us, as the
ox licketh up the grass of the field.
And Balak the son of Zippor [was] king
of the Moabites at that time.
5 He sent messengers therefore unto
Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which
[is] by the river of the land of the
children of his people, to call him,
saying, Behold, there is a people come
out from Egypt: behold, they cover the
face of the earth, and they abide over
against me:
6 Come now therefore, I pray thee,
curse me this people; for they [are]
too mighty for me: peradventure I shall
prevail, [that] we may smite them, and
[that] I may drive them out of the
land: for I wot that he whom thou
blessest [is] blessed, and he whom thou
cursest is cursed.
7 And the elders of Moab and the elders
of Midian departed with the rewards of
divination in their hand; and they came
unto Balaam, and spake unto him the
words of Balak.
8 And he said unto them, Lodge here
this night, and I will bring you word
again, as the LORD shall speak unto me:
and the princes of Moab abode with
Balaam.
9 And God came unto Balaam, and said,
What men [are] these with thee?
10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the
son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent
unto me, [saying],
11 Behold, [there is] a people come out
of Egypt, which covereth the face of
the earth: come now, curse me them;
peradventure I shall be able to
overcome them, and drive them out.
12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt
not go with them; thou shalt not curse
the people: for they [are] blessed.
13 And Balaam rose up in the morning,
and said unto the princes of Balak, Get
you into your land: for the LORD
refuseth to give me leave to go with
you.
14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and
they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam
refuseth to come with us.
15 # And Balak sent yet again princes,
more, and more honourable than they.
16 And they came to Balaam, and said to
him, Thus saith Balak the son of
Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee,
hinder thee from coming unto me:
17 For I will promote thee unto very
great honour, and I will do whatsoever
thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I
pray thee, curse me this people.
18 And Balaam answered and said unto
the servants of Balak, If Balak would
give me his house full of silver and
gold, I cannot go beyond the word of
the LORD my God, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye
also here this night, that I may know
what the LORD will say unto me more.
20 And God came unto Balaam at night,
and said unto him, If the men come to
call thee, rise up, [and] go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say unto
thee, that shalt thou do.
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning,
and saddled his ass, and went with the
princes of Moab.
22 # And God's anger was kindled
because he went: and the angel of the
LORD stood in the way for an adversary
against him. Now he was riding upon his
ass, and his two servants [were] with
him.
23 And the ass saw the angel of the
LORD standing in the way, and his sword
drawn in his hand: and the ass turned
aside out of the way, and went into the
field: and Balaam smote the ass, to
turn her into the way.
24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a
path of the vineyards, a wall [being]
on this side, and a wall on that side.
25 And when the ass saw the angel of
the LORD, she thrust herself unto the
wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against
the wall: and he smote her again.
26 And the angel of the LORD went
further, and stood in a narrow place,
where [was] no way to turn either to
the right hand or to the left.
27 And when the ass saw the angel of
the LORD, she fell down under Balaam:
and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he
smote the ass with a staff.
28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the
ass, and she said unto Balaam, What
have I done unto thee, that thou hast
smitten me these three times?
29 And Balaam said unto the ass,
Because thou hast mocked me: I would
there were a sword in mine hand, for
now would I kill thee.
30 And the ass said unto Balaam, [Am]
not I thine ass, upon which thou hast
ridden ever since [I was] thine unto
this day? was I ever wont to do so unto
thee? And he said, Nay.
31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of
Balaam, and he saw the angel of the
LORD standing in the way, and his sword
drawn in his hand: and he bowed down
his head, and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of the LORD said unto
him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine
ass these three times? behold, I went
out to withstand thee, because [thy]
way is perverse before me:
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from
me these three times: unless she had
turned from me, surely now also I had
slain thee, and saved her alive.
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of
the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not
that thou stoodest in the way against
me: now therefore, if it displease
thee, I will get me back again.
35 And the angel of the LORD said unto
Balaam, Go with the men: but only the
word that I shall speak unto thee, that
thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with
the princes of Balak.
36 # And when Balak heard that Balaam
was come, he went out to meet him unto
a city of Moab, which [is] in the
border of Arnon, which [is] in the
utmost coast.
37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I
not earnestly send unto thee to call
thee? wherefore camest thou not unto
me? am I not able indeed to promote
thee to honour?
38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am
come unto thee: have I now any power at
all to say any thing? the word that God
putteth in my mouth, that shall I
speak.
39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they
came unto Kirjath-huzoth.
40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep,
and sent to Balaam, and to the princes
that [were] with him.
41 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that Balak took Balaam, and brought him
up into the high places of Baal, that
thence he might see the utmost [part]
of the people.

CHAPTER 23
1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me
here seven altars, and prepare me here
seven oxen and seven rams.
2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken;
and Balak and Balaam offered on [every]
altar a bullock and a ram.
3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by
thy burnt offering, and I will go:
peradventure the LORD will come to meet
me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will
tell thee. And he went to an high
place.
4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto
him, I have prepared seven altars, and
I have offered upon [every] altar a
bullock and a ram.
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's
mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and
thus thou shalt speak.
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he
stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and
all the princes of Moab.
7 And he took up his parable, and said,
Balak the king of Moab hath brought me
from Aram, out of the mountains of the
east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob,
and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not
cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the
LORD hath not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see
him, and from the hills I behold him:
lo, the people shall dwell alone, and
shall not be reckoned among the
nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and
the number of the fourth [part] of
Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be like
his!
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What
hast thou done unto me? I took thee to
curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou
hast blessed [them] altogether.
12 And he answered and said, Must I not
take heed to speak that which the LORD
hath put in my mouth?
13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I
pray thee, with me unto another place,
from whence thou mayest see them: thou
shalt see but the utmost part of them,
and shalt not see them all: and curse
me them from thence.
14 # And he brought him into the field
of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and
built seven altars, and offered a
bullock and a ram on [every] altar.
15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here
by thy burnt offering, while I meet
[the LORD] yonder.
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a
word in his mouth, and said, Go again
unto Balak, and say thus.
17 And when he came to him, behold, he
stood by his burnt offering, and the
princes of Moab with him. And Balak
said unto him, What hath the LORD
spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and
said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken
unto me, thou son of Zippor:
19 God [is] not a man, that he should
lie; neither the son of man, that he
should repent: hath he said, and shall
he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and
shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received
[commandment] to bless: and he hath
blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
21 He hath not beheld iniquity in
Jacob, neither hath he seen
perverseness in Israel: the LORD his
God [is] with him, and the shout of a
king [is] among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he
hath as it were the strength of an
unicorn.
23 Surely [there is] no enchantment
against Jacob, neither [is there] any
divination against Israel: according to
this time it shall be said of Jacob and
of Israel, What hath God wrought!
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as
a great lion, and lift up himself as a
young lion: he shall not lie down until
he eat [of] the prey, and drink the
blood of the slain.
25 # And Balak said unto Balaam,
Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all.
26 But Balaam answered and said unto
Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All
that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
27 # And Balak said unto Balaam, Come,
I pray thee, I will bring thee unto
another place; peradventure it will
please God that thou mayest curse me
them from thence.
28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the
top of Peor, that looketh toward
Jeshimon.
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me
here seven altars, and prepare me here
seven bullocks and seven rams.
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said,
and offered a bullock and a ram on
[every] altar.

CHAPTER 24
1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased
the LORD to bless Israel, he went not,
as at other times, to seek for
enchantments, but he set his face
toward the wilderness.
2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he
saw Israel abiding [in his tents]
according to their tribes; and the
spirit of God came upon him.
3 And he took up his parable, and said,
Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and
the man whose eyes are open hath said:
4 He hath said, which heard the words
of God, which saw the vision of the
Almighty, falling [into a trance], but
having his eyes open:
5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob,
[and] thy tabernacles, O Israel!
6 As the valleys are they spread forth,
as gardens by the river's side, as the
trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath
planted, [and] as cedar trees beside
the waters.
7 He shall pour the water out of his
buckets, and his seed [shall be] in
many waters, and his king shall be
higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall
be exalted.
8 God brought him forth out of Egypt;
he hath as it were the strength of an
unicorn: he shall eat up the nations
his enemies, and shall break their
bones, and pierce [them] through with
his arrows.
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion,
and as a great lion: who shall stir him
up? Blessed [is] he that blesseth thee,
and cursed [is] he that curseth thee.
10 # And Balak's anger was kindled
against Balaam, and he smote his hands
together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I
called thee to curse mine enemies, and,
behold, thou hast altogether blessed
[them] these three times.
11 Therefore now flee thou to thy
place: I thought to promote thee unto
great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath
kept thee back from honour.
12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I
not also to thy messengers which thou
sentest unto me, saying,
13 If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I cannot go
beyond the commandment of the LORD, to
do [either] good or bad of mine own
mind; [but] what the LORD saith, that
will I speak?
14 And now, behold, I go unto my
people: come [therefore, and] I will
advertise thee what this people shall
do to thy people in the latter days.
15 # And he took up his parable, and
said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said,
and the man whose eyes are open hath
said:
16 He hath said, which heard the words
of God, and knew the knowledge of the
most High, [which] saw the vision of
the Almighty, falling [into a trance],
but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him, but not now: I
shall behold him, but not nigh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a
Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and
shall smite the corners of Moab, and
destroy all the children of Sheth.
18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir
also shall be a possession for his
enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that
shall have dominion, and shall destroy
him that remaineth of the city.
20 # And when he looked on Amalek, he
took up his parable, and said, Amalek
[was] the first of the nations; but his
latter end [shall be] that he perish
for ever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and
took up his parable, and said, Strong
is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest
thy nest in a rock.
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be
wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee
away captive.
23 And he took up his parable, and
said, Alas, who shall live when God
doeth this!
24 And ships [shall come] from the
coast of Chittim, and shall afflict
Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he
also shall perish for ever.
25 And Balaam rose up, and went and
returned to his place: and Balak also
went his way.

CHAPTER 25
1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the
people began to commit whoredom with
the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people unto the
sacrifices of their gods: and the
people did eat, and bowed down to their
gods.
3 And Israel joined himself unto
Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD
was kindled against Israel.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take
all the heads of the people, and hang
them up before the LORD against the
sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD
may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of
Israel, Slay ye every one his men that
were joined unto Baal-peor.
6 # And, behold, one of the children of
Israel came and brought unto his
brethren a Midianitish woman in the
sight of Moses, and in the sight of all
the congregation of the children of
Israel, who [were] weeping [before] the
door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
saw [it], he rose up from among the
congregation, and took a javelin in his
hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel
into the tent, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Israel, and the
woman through her belly. So the plague
was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague
were twenty and four thousand.
10 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my
wrath away from the children of Israel,
while he was zealous for my sake among
them, that I consumed not the children
of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto
him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his seed
after him, [even] the covenant of an
everlasting priesthood; because he was
zealous for his God, and made an
atonement for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the Israelite that
was slain, [even] that was slain with
the Midianitish woman, [was] Zimri, the
son of Salu, a prince of a chief house
among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish
woman that was slain [was] Cozbi, the
daughter of Zur; he [was] head over a
people, [and] of a chief house in
Midian.
16 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18 For they vex you with their wiles,
wherewith they have beguiled you in the
matter of Peor, and in the matter of
Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of
Midian, their sister, which was slain
in the day of the plague for Peor's
sake.

CHAPTER 26
1 And it came to pass after the plague,
that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
saying,
2 Take the sum of all the congregation
of the children of Israel, from twenty
years old and upward, throughout their
fathers' house, all that are able to go
to war in Israel.
3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
spake with them in the plains of Moab
by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
4 [Take the sum of the people], from
twenty years old and upward; as the
LORD commanded Moses and the children
of Israel, which went forth out of the
land of Egypt.
5 # Reuben, the eldest son of Israel:
the children of Reuben; Hanoch, [of
whom cometh] the family of the
Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the
Palluites:
6 Of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the
Carmites.
7 These [are] the families of the
Reubenites: and they that were numbered
of them were forty and three thousand
and seven hundred and thirty.
8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and
Dathan, and Abiram. This [is that]
Dathan and Abiram, [which were] famous
in the congregation, who strove against
Moses and against Aaron in the company
of Korah, when they strove against the
LORD:
10 And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up together with Korah,
when that company died, what time the
fire devoured two hundred and fifty
men: and they became a sign.
11 Notwithstanding the children of
Korah died not.
12 # The sons of Simeon after their
families: of Nemuel, the family of the
Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the
Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the
Jachinites:
13 Of Zerah, the family of the
Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the
Shaulites.
14 These [are] the families of the
Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and
two hundred.
15 # The children of Gad after their
families: of Zephon, the family of the
Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the
Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the
Shunites:
16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites:
of Eri, the family of the Erites:
17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites:
of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
18 These [are] the families of the
children of Gad according to those that
were numbered of them, forty thousand
and five hundred.
19 # The sons of Judah [were] Er and
Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land
of Canaan.
20 And the sons of Judah after their
families were; of Shelah, the family of
the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family
of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family
of the Zarhites.
21 And the sons of Pharez were; of
Hezron, the family of the Hezronites:
of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
22 These [are] the families of Judah
according to those that were numbered
of them, threescore and sixteen
thousand and five hundred.
23 # [Of] the sons of Issachar after
their families: [of] Tola, the family
of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of
the Punites:
24 Of Jashub, the family of the
Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of
the Shimronites.
25 These [are] the families of Issachar
according to those that were numbered
of them, threescore and four thousand
and three hundred.
26 # [Of] the sons of Zebulun after
their families: of Sered, the family of
the Sardites: of Elon, the family of
the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of
the Jahleelites.
27 These [are] the families of the
Zebulunites according to those that
were numbered of them, threescore
thousand and five hundred.
28 # The sons of Joseph after their
families [were] Manasseh and Ephraim.
29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir,
the family of the Machirites: and
Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead [come]
the family of the Gileadites.
30 These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of]
Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites:
of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
31 And [of] Asriel, the family of the
Asrielites: and [of] Shechem, the
family of the Shechemites:
32 And [of] Shemida, the family of the
Shemidaites: and [of] Hepher, the
family of the Hepherites.
33 # And Zelophehad the son of Hepher
had no sons, but daughters: and the
names of the daughters of Zelophehad
[were] Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah,
Milcah, and Tirzah.
34 These [are] the families of
Manasseh, and those that were numbered
of them, fifty and two thousand and
seven hundred.
35 # These [are] the sons of Ephraim
after their families: of Shuthelah, the
family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher,
the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan,
the family of the Tahanites.
36 And these [are] the sons of
Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the
Eranites.
37 These [are] the families of the sons
of Ephraim according to those that were
numbered of them, thirty and two
thousand and five hundred. These [are]
the sons of Joseph after their
families.
38 # The sons of Benjamin after their
families: of Bela, the family of the
Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the
Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of
the Ahiramites:
39 Of Shupham, the family of the
Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of
the Huphamites.
40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and
Naaman: [of Ard], the family of the
Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of
the Naamites.
41 These [are] the sons of Benjamin
after their families: and they that
were numbered of them [were] forty and
five thousand and six hundred.
42 # These [are] the sons of Dan after
their families: of Shuham, the family
of the Shuhamites. These [are] the
families of Dan after their families.
43 All the families of the Shuhamites,
according to those that were numbered
of them, [were] threescore and four
thousand and four hundred.
44 # [Of] the children of Asher after
their families: of Jimna, the family of
the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of
the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of
the Beriites.
45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the
family of the Heberites: of Malchiel,
the family of the Malchielites.
46 And the name of the daughter of
Asher [was] Sarah.
47 These [are] the families of the sons
of Asher according to those that were
numbered of them; [who were] fifty and
three thousand and four hundred.
48 # [Of] the sons of Naphtali after
their families: of Jahzeel, the family
of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family
of the Gunites:
49 Of Jezer, the family of the
Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of
the Shillemites.
50 These [are] the families of Naphtali
according to their families: and they
that were numbered of them [were] forty
and five thousand and four hundred.
51 These [were] the numbered of the
children of Israel, six hundred
thousand and a thousand seven hundred
and thirty.
52 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
53 Unto these the land shall be divided
for an inheritance according to the
number of names.
54 To many thou shalt give the more
inheritance, and to few thou shalt give
the less inheritance: to every one
shall his inheritance be given
according to those that were numbered
of him.
55 Notwithstanding the land shall be
divided by lot: according to the names
of the tribes of their fathers they
shall inherit.
56 According to the lot shall the
possession thereof be divided between
many and few.
57 # And these [are] they that were
numbered of the Levites after their
families: of Gershon, the family of the
Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of
the Kohathites: of Merari, the family
of the Merarites.
58 These [are] the families of the
Levites: the family of the Libnites,
the family of the Hebronites, the
family of the Mahlites, the family of
the Mushites, the family of the
Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
59 And the name of Amram's wife [was]
Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom
[her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and
she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses,
and Miriam their sister.
60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they
offered strange fire before the LORD.
62 And those that were numbered of them
were twenty and three thousand, all
males from a month old and upward: for
they were not numbered among the
children of Israel, because there was
no inheritance given them among the
children of Israel.
63 # These [are] they that were
numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
priest, who numbered the children of
Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan
[near] Jericho.
64 But among these there was not a man
of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest
numbered, when they numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of
Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, They
shall surely die in the wilderness. And
there was not left a man of them, save
Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua
the son of Nun.

CHAPTER 27
1 Then came the daughters of
Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son
of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son
of Manasseh, of the families of
Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these
[are] the names of his daughters;
Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah,
and Tirzah.
2 And they stood before Moses, and
before Eleazar the priest, and before
the princes and all the congregation,
[by] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, saying,
3 Our father died in the wilderness,
and he was not in the company of them
that gathered themselves together
against the LORD in the company of
Korah; but died in his own sin, and had
no sons.
4 Why should the name of our father be
done away from among his family,
because he hath no son? Give unto us
[therefore] a possession among the
brethren of our father.
5 And Moses brought their cause before
the LORD.
6 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak
right: thou shalt surely give them a
possession of an inheritance among
their father's brethren; and thou shalt
cause the inheritance of their father
to pass unto them.
8 And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If a man
die, and have no son, then ye shall
cause his inheritance to pass unto his
daughter.
9 And if he have no daughter, then ye
shall give his inheritance unto his
brethren.
10 And if he have no brethren, then ye
shall give his inheritance unto his
father's brethren.
11 And if his father have no brethren,
then ye shall give his inheritance unto
his kinsman that is next to him of his
family, and he shall possess it: and it
shall be unto the children of Israel a
statute of judgment, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
12 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Get
thee up into this mount Abarim, and see
the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel.
13 And when thou hast seen it, thou
also shalt be gathered unto thy people,
as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
14 For ye rebelled against my
commandment in the desert of Zin, in
the strife of the congregation, to
sanctify me at the water before their
eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
15 # And Moses spake unto the LORD,
saying,
16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits
of all flesh, set a man over the
congregation,
17 Which may go out before them, and
which may go in before them, and which
may lead them out, and which may bring
them in; that the congregation of the
LORD be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.
18 # And the LORD said unto Moses, Take
thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in
whom [is] the spirit, and lay thine
hand upon him;
19 And set him before Eleazar the
priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in
their sight.
20 And thou shalt put [some] of thine
honour upon him, that all the
congregation of the children of Israel
may be obedient.
21 And he shall stand before Eleazar
the priest, who shall ask [counsel] for
him after the judgment of Urim before
the LORD: at his word shall they go
out, and at his word they shall come
in, [both] he, and all the children of
Israel with him, even all the
congregation.
22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded
him: and he took Joshua, and set him
before Eleazar the priest, and before
all the congregation:
23 And he laid his hands upon him, and
gave him a charge, as the LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER 28
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, and
say unto them, My offering, [and] my
bread for my sacrifices made by fire,
[for] a sweet savour unto me, shall ye
observe to offer unto me in their due
season.
3 And thou shalt say unto them, This
[is] the offering made by fire which ye
shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of
the first year without spot day by day,
[for] a continual burnt offering.
4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the
morning, and the other lamb shalt thou
offer at even;
5 And a tenth [part] of an ephah of
flour for a meat offering, mingled with
the fourth [part] of an hin of beaten
oil.
6 [It is] a continual burnt offering,
which was ordained in mount Sinai for a
sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire
unto the LORD.
7 And the drink offering thereof [shall
be] the fourth [part] of an hin for the
one lamb: in the holy [place] shalt
thou cause the strong wine to be poured
unto the LORD [for] a drink offering.
8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer
at even: as the meat offering of the
morning, and as the drink offering
thereof, thou shalt offer [it], a
sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
9 # And on the sabbath day two lambs of
the first year without spot, and two
tenth deals of flour [for] a meat
offering, mingled with oil, and the
drink offering thereof:
10 [This is] the burnt offering of
every sabbath, beside the continual
burnt offering, and his drink offering.
11 # And in the beginnings of your
months ye shall offer a burnt offering
unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and
one ram, seven lambs of the first year
without spot;
12 And three tenth deals of flour [for]
a meat offering, mingled with oil, for
one bullock; and two tenth deals of
flour [for] a meat offering, mingled
with oil, for one ram;
13 And a several tenth deal of flour
mingled with oil [for] a meat offering
unto one lamb; [for] a burnt offering
of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by
fire unto the LORD.
14 And their drink offerings shall be
half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and
the third [part] of an hin unto a ram,
and a fourth [part] of an hin unto a
lamb: this [is] the burnt offering of
every month throughout the months of
the year.
15 And one kid of the goats for a sin
offering unto the LORD shall be
offered, beside the continual burnt
offering, and his drink offering.
16 And in the fourteenth day of the
first month [is] the passover of the
LORD.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this
month [is] the feast: seven days shall
unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day [shall be] an holy
convocation; ye shall do no manner of
servile work [therein]:
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made
by fire [for] a burnt offering unto the
LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram,
and seven lambs of the first year: they
shall be unto you without blemish:
20 And their meat offering [shall be
of] flour mingled with oil: three tenth
deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and
two tenth deals for a ram;
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou
offer for every lamb, throughout the
seven lambs:
22 And one goat [for] a sin offering,
to make an atonement for you.
23 Ye shall offer these beside the
burnt offering in the morning, which
[is] for a continual burnt offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer
daily, throughout the seven days, the
meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of
a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall
be offered beside the continual burnt
offering, and his drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have
an holy convocation; ye shall do no
servile work.
26 # Also in the day of the
firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
offering unto the LORD, after your
weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile
work:
27 But ye shall offer the burnt
offering for a sweet savour unto the
LORD; two young bullocks, one ram,
seven lambs of the first year;
28 And their meat offering of flour
mingled with oil, three tenth deals
unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto
one ram,
29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs;
30 [And] one kid of the goats, to make
an atonement for you.
31 Ye shall offer [them] beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat
offering, (they shall be unto you
without blemish) and their drink
offerings.

CHAPTER 29
1 And in the seventh month, on the
first [day] of the month, ye shall have
an holy convocation; ye shall do no
servile work: it is a day of blowing
the trumpets unto you.
2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering
for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one
young bullock, one ram, [and] seven
lambs of the first year without
blemish:
3 And their meat offering [shall be of]
flour mingled with oil, three tenth
deals for a bullock, [and] two tenth
deals for a ram,
4 And one tenth deal for one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs:
5 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering, to make an atonement for you:
6 Beside the burnt offering of the
month, and his meat offering, and the
daily burnt offering, and his meat
offering, and their drink offerings,
according unto their manner, for a
sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire
unto the LORD.
7 # And ye shall have on the tenth
[day] of this seventh month an holy
convocation; and ye shall afflict your
souls: ye shall not do any work
[therein]:
8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering
unto the LORD [for] a sweet savour; one
young bullock, one ram, [and] seven
lambs of the first year; they shall be
unto you without blemish:
9 And their meat offering [shall be of]
flour mingled with oil, three tenth
deals to a bullock, [and] two tenth
deals to one ram,
10 A several tenth deal for one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs:
11 One kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the sin offering of
atonement, and the continual burnt
offering, and the meat offering of it,
and their drink offerings.
12 # And on the fifteenth day of the
seventh month ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile
work, and ye shall keep a feast unto
the LORD seven days:
13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering,
a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD; thirteen young
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year; they shall be
without blemish:
14 And their meat offering [shall be
of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth
deals unto every bullock of the
thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to
each ram of the two rams,
15 And a several tenth deal to each
lamb of the fourteen lambs:
16 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
17 # And on the second day [ye shall
offer] twelve young bullocks, two rams,
fourteen lambs of the first year
without spot:
18 And their meat offering and their
drink offerings for the bullocks, for
the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the
manner:
19 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and the meat offering
thereof, and their drink offerings.
20 # And on the third day eleven
bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of
the first year without blemish;
21 And their meat offering and their
drink offerings for the bullocks, for
the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the
manner:
22 And one goat [for] a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering,
and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
23 # And on the fourth day ten
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year without
blemish:
24 Their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the
rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the
manner:
25 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
26 # And on the fifth day nine
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year without spot:
27 And their meat offering and their
drink offerings for the bullocks, for
the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the
manner:
28 And one goat [for] a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering,
and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
29 # And on the sixth day eight
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year without
blemish:
30 And their meat offering and their
drink offerings for the bullocks, for
the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the
manner:
31 And one goat [for] a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering,
his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
32 # And on the seventh day seven
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year without
blemish:
33 And their meat offering and their
drink offerings for the bullocks, for
the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the
manner:
34 And one goat [for] a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering,
his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
35 # On the eighth day ye shall have a
solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile
work [therein]:
36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering,
a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one
ram, seven lambs of the first year
without blemish:
37 Their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullock, for the ram,
and for the lambs, [shall be] according
to their number, after the manner:
38 And one goat [for] a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering,
and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
39 These [things] ye shall do unto the
LORD in your set feasts, beside your
vows, and your freewill offerings, for
your burnt offerings, and for your meat
offerings, and for your drink
offerings, and for your peace
offerings.
40 And Moses told the children of
Israel according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 30
1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the
tribes concerning the children of
Israel, saying, This [is] the thing
which the LORD hath commanded.
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or
swear an oath to bind his soul with a
bond; he shall not break his word, he
shall do according to all that
proceedeth out of his mouth.
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the
LORD, and bind herself by a bond,
[being] in her father's house in her
youth;
4 And her father hear her vow, and her
bond wherewith she hath bound her soul,
and her father shall hold his peace at
her: then all her vows shall stand, and
every bond wherewith she hath bound her
soul shall stand.
5 But if her father disallow her in the
day that he heareth; not any of her
vows, or of her bonds wherewith she
hath bound her soul, shall stand: and
the LORD shall forgive her, because her
father disallowed her.
6 And if she had at all an husband,
when she vowed, or uttered ought out of
her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
7 And her husband heard [it,] and held
his peace at her in the day that he
heard [it]: then her vows shall stand,
and her bonds wherewith she bound her
soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on
the day that he heard [it]; then he
shall make her vow which she vowed, and
that which she uttered with her lips,
wherewith she bound her soul, of none
effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her
that is divorced, wherewith they have
bound their souls, shall stand against
her.
10 And if she vowed in her husband's
house, or bound her soul by a bond with
an oath;
11 And her husband heard [it], and held
his peace at her, [and] disallowed her
not: then all her vows shall stand, and
every bond wherewith she bound her soul
shall stand.
12 But if her husband hath utterly made
them void on the day he heard [them;
then] whatsoever proceeded out of her
lips concerning her vows, or concerning
the bond of her soul, shall not stand:
her husband hath made them void; and
the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to
afflict the soul, her husband may
establish it, or her husband may make
it void.
14 But if her husband altogether hold
his peace at her from day to day; then
he establisheth all her vows, or all
her bonds, which [are] upon her: he
confirmeth them, because he held his
peace at her in the day that he heard
[them].
15 But if he shall any ways make them
void after that he hath heard [them];
then he shall bear her iniquity.
16 These [are] the statutes, which the
LORD commanded Moses, between a man and
his wife, between the father and his
daughter, [being yet] in her youth in
her father's house.

CHAPTER 31
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Avenge the children of Israel of the
Midianites: afterward shalt thou be
gathered unto thy people.
3 And Moses spake unto the people,
saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the
war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of
Midian.
4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout
all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send
to the war.
5 So there were delivered out of the
thousands of Israel, a thousand of
[every] tribe, twelve thousand armed
for war.
6 And Moses sent them to the war, a
thousand of [every] tribe, them and
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
to the war, with the holy instruments,
and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 And they warred against the
Midianites, as the LORD commanded
Moses; and they slew all the males.
8 And they slew the kings of Midian,
beside the rest of them that were
slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and
Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of
Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor
they slew with the sword.
9 And the children of Israel took [all]
the women of Midian captives, and their
little ones, and took the spoil of all
their cattle, and all their flocks, and
all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their cities
wherein they dwelt, and all their
goodly castles, with fire.
11 And they took all the spoil, and all
the prey, [both] of men and of beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and
the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses,
and Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel,
unto the camp at the plains of Moab,
which [are] by Jordan [near] Jericho.
13 # And Moses, and Eleazar the priest,
and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them
without the camp.
14 And Moses was wroth with the
officers of the host, [with] the
captains over thousands, and captains
over hundreds, which came from the
battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye
saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam,
to commit trespass against the LORD in
the matter of Peor, and there was a
plague among the congregation of the
LORD.
17 Now therefore kill every male among
the little ones, and kill every woman
that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that
have not known a man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves.
19 And do ye abide without the camp
seven days: whosoever hath killed any
person, and whosoever hath touched any
slain, purify [both] yourselves and
your captives on the third day, and on
the seventh day.
20 And purify all [your] raiment, and
all that is made of skins, and all work
of goats' [hair], and all things made
of wood.
21 # And Eleazar the priest said unto
the men of war which went to the
battle, This [is] the ordinance of the
law which the LORD commanded Moses;
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the
brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the fire,
ye shall make [it] go through the fire,
and it shall be clean: nevertheless it
shall be purified with the water of
separation: and all that abideth not
the fire ye shall make go through the
water.
24 And ye shall wash your clothes on
the seventh day, and ye shall be clean,
and afterward ye shall come into the
camp.
25 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
26 Take the sum of the prey that was
taken, [both] of man and of beast,
thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the
chief fathers of the congregation:
27 And divide the prey into two parts;
between them that took the war upon
them, who went out to battle, and
between all the congregation:
28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of
the men of war which went out to
battle: one soul of five hundred,
[both] of the persons, and of the
beeves, and of the asses, and of the
sheep:
29 Take [it] of their half, and give it
unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave
offering of the LORD.
30 And of the children of Israel's
half, thou shalt take one portion of
fifty, of the persons, of the beeves,
of the asses, and of the flocks, of all
manner of beasts, and give them unto
the Levites, which keep the charge of
the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did
as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 And the booty, [being] the rest of
the prey which the men of war had
caught, was six hundred thousand and
seventy thousand and five thousand
sheep,
33 And threescore and twelve thousand
beeves,
34 And threescore and one thousand
asses,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons
in all, of women that had not known man
by lying with him.
36 And the half, [which was] the
portion of them that went out to war,
was in number three hundred thousand
and seven and thirty thousand and five
hundred sheep:
37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep
was six hundred and threescore and
fifteen.
38 And the beeves [were] thirty and six
thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute
[was] threescore and twelve.
39 And the asses [were] thirty thousand
and five hundred; of which the LORD'S
tribute [was] threescore and one.
40 And the persons [were] sixteen
thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute
[was] thirty and two persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute, [which
was] the LORD'S heave offering, unto
Eleazar the priest, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
42 And of the children of Israel's
half, which Moses divided from the men
that warred,
43 (Now the half [that pertained unto]
the congregation was three hundred
thousand and thirty thousand [and]
seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
45 And thirty thousand asses and five
hundred,
46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
47 Even of the children of Israel's
half, Moses took one portion of fifty,
[both] of man and of beast, and gave
them unto the Levites, which kept the
charge of the tabernacle of the LORD;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
48 # And the officers which [were] over
thousands of the host, the captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds,
came near unto Moses:
49 And they said unto Moses, Thy
servants have taken the sum of the men
of war which [are] under our charge,
and there lacketh not one man of us.
50 We have therefore brought an
oblation for the LORD, what every man
hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains,
and bracelets, rings, earrings, and
tablets, to make an atonement for our
souls before the LORD.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold of them, [even] all
wrought jewels.
52 And all the gold of the offering
that they offered up to the LORD, of
the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen
thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
53 ([For] the men of war had taken
spoil, every man for himself.)
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold of the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and brought
it into the tabernacle of the
congregation, [for] a memorial for the
children of Israel before the LORD.

CHAPTER 32
1 Now the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad had a very great
multitude of cattle: and when they saw
the land of Jazer, and the land of
Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a
place for cattle;
2 The children of Gad and the children
of Reuben came and spake unto Moses,
and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the
princes of the congregation, saying,
3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and
Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
4 [Even] the country which the LORD
smote before the congregation of
Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and thy
servants have cattle:
5 Wherefore, said they, if we have
found grace in thy sight, let this land
be given unto thy servants for a
possession, [and] bring us not over
Jordan.
6 # And Moses said unto the children of
Gad and to the children of Reuben,
Shall your brethren go to war, and
shall ye sit here?
7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart
of the children of Israel from going
over into the land which the LORD hath
given them?
8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent
them from Kadesh-barnea to see the
land.
9 For when they went up unto the valley
of Eshcol, and saw the land, they
discouraged the heart of the children
of Israel, that they should not go into
the land which the LORD had given them.
10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the
same time, and he sware, saying,
11 Surely none of the men that came up
out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
upward, shall see the land which I
sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and
unto Jacob; because they have not
wholly followed me:
12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun:
for they have wholly followed the LORD.
13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled
against Israel, and he made them wander
in the wilderness forty years, until
all the generation, that had done evil
in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your
fathers' stead, an increase of sinful
men, to augment yet the fierce anger of
the LORD toward Israel.
15 For if ye turn away from after him,
he will yet again leave them in the
wilderness; and ye shall destroy all
this people.
16 # And they came near unto him, and
said, We will build sheepfolds here for
our cattle, and cities for our little
ones:
17 But we ourselves will go ready armed
before the children of Israel, until we
have brought them unto their place: and
our little ones shall dwell in the
fenced cities because of the
inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return unto our houses,
until the children of Israel have
inherited every man his inheritance.
19 For we will not inherit with them on
yonder side Jordan, or forward; because
our inheritance is fallen to us on this
side Jordan eastward.
20 # And Moses said unto them, If ye
will do this thing, if ye will go armed
before the LORD to war,
21 And will go all of you armed over
Jordan before the LORD, until he hath
driven out his enemies from before him,
22 And the land be subdued before the
LORD: then afterward ye shall return,
and be guiltless before the LORD, and
before Israel; and this land shall be
your possession before the LORD.
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye
have sinned against the LORD: and be
sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build you cities for your little
ones, and folds for your sheep; and do
that which hath proceeded out of your
mouth.
25 And the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben spake unto Moses,
saying, Thy servants will do as my lord
commandeth.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our
flocks, and all our cattle, shall be
there in the cities of Gilead:
27 But thy servants will pass over,
every man armed for war, before the
LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
28 So concerning them Moses commanded
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son
of Nun, and the chief fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel:
29 And Moses said unto them, If the
children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over Jordan,
every man armed to battle, before the
LORD, and the land shall be subdued
before you; then ye shall give them the
land of Gilead for a possession:
30 But if they will not pass over with
you armed, they shall have possessions
among you in the land of Canaan.
31 And the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben answered, saying, As
the LORD hath said unto thy servants,
so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before the
LORD into the land of Canaan, that the
possession of our inheritance on this
side Jordan [may be] our's.
33 And Moses gave unto them, [even] to
the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and unto half the
tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph,
the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, the land, with the cities
thereof in the coasts, [even] the
cities of the country round about.
34 # And the children of Gad built
Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and
Jogbehah,
36 And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran,
fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
37 And the children of Reuben built
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
38 And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their
names being changed,) and Shibmah: and
gave other names unto the cities which
they builded.
39 And the children of Machir the son
of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took
it, and dispossessed the Amorite which
[was] in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir
the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt
therein.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went
and took the small towns thereof, and
called them Havoth-jair.
42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and
the villages thereof, and called it
Nobah, after his own name.

CHAPTER 33
1 These [are] the journeys of the
children of Israel, which went forth
out of the land of Egypt with their
armies under the hand of Moses and
Aaron.
2 And Moses wrote their goings out
according to their journeys by the
commandment of the LORD: and these
[are] their journeys according to their
goings out.
3 And they departed from Rameses in the
first month, on the fifteenth day of
the first month; on the morrow after
the passover the children of Israel
went out with an high hand in the sight
of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians buried all [their]
firstborn, which the LORD had smitten
among them: upon their gods also the
LORD executed judgments.
5 And the children of Israel removed
from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth, and
pitched in Etham, which [is] in the
edge of the wilderness.
7 And they removed from Etham, and
turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which
[is] before Baal-zephon: and they
pitched before Migdol.
8 And they departed from before
Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the
midst of the sea into the wilderness,
and went three days' journey in the
wilderness of Etham, and pitched in
Marah.
9 And they removed from Marah, and came
unto Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve
fountains of water, and threescore and
ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
10 And they removed from Elim, and
encamped by the Red sea.
11 And they removed from the Red sea,
and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
12 And they took their journey out of
the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in
Dophkah.
13 And they departed from Dophkah, and
encamped in Alush.
14 And they removed from Alush, and
encamped at Rephidim, where was no
water for the people to drink.
15 And they departed from Rephidim, and
pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they removed from the desert of
Sinai, and pitched at
Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 And they departed from
Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at
Hazeroth.
18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and
pitched in Rithmah.
19 And they departed from Rithmah, and
pitched at Rimmon-parez.
20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez,
and pitched in Libnah.
21 And they removed from Libnah, and
pitched at Rissah.
22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and
pitched in Kehelathah.
23 And they went from Kehelathah, and
pitched in mount Shapher.
24 And they removed from mount Shapher,
and encamped in Haradah.
25 And they removed from Haradah, and
pitched in Makheloth.
26 And they removed from Makheloth, and
encamped at Tahath.
27 And they departed from Tahath, and
pitched at Tarah.
28 And they removed from Tarah, and
pitched in Mithcah.
29 And they went from Mithcah, and
pitched in Hashmonah.
30 And they departed from Hashmonah,
and encamped at Moseroth.
31 And they departed from Moseroth, and
pitched in Bene-jaakan.
32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan,
and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and
pitched in Jotbathah.
34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and
encamped at Ebronah.
35 And they departed from Ebronah, and
encamped at Ezion-gaber.
36 And they removed from Ezion-gaber,
and pitched in the wilderness of Zin,
which [is] Kadesh.
37 And they removed from Kadesh, and
pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of
the land of Edom.
38 And Aaron the priest went up into
mount Hor at the commandment of the
LORD, and died there, in the fortieth
year after the children of Israel were
come out of the land of Egypt, in the
first [day] of the fifth month.
39 And Aaron [was] an hundred and
twenty and three years old when he died
in mount Hor.
40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which
dwelt in the south in the land of
Canaan, heard of the coming of the
children of Israel.
41 And they departed from mount Hor,
and pitched in Zalmonah.
42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and
pitched in Punon.
43 And they departed from Punon, and
pitched in Oboth.
44 And they departed from Oboth, and
pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of
Moab.
45 And they departed from Iim, and
pitched in Dibon-gad.
46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and
encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
47 And they removed from
Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 And they departed from the mountains
of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of
Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
49 And they pitched by Jordan, from
Beth-jesimoth [even] unto Abel-shittim
in the plains of Moab.
50 # And the LORD spake unto Moses in
the plains of Moab by Jordan [near]
Jericho, saying,
51 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye are passed
over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
52 Then ye shall drive out all the
inhabitants of the land from before
you, and destroy all their pictures,
and destroy all their molten images,
and quite pluck down all their high
places:
53 And ye shall dispossess [the
inhabitants] of the land, and dwell
therein: for I have given you the land
to possess it.
54 And ye shall divide the land by lot
for an inheritance among your families:
[and] to the more ye shall give the
more inheritance, and to the fewer ye
shall give the less inheritance: every
man's [inheritance] shall be in the
place where his lot falleth; according
to the tribes of your fathers ye shall
inherit.
55 But if ye will not drive out the
inhabitants of the land from before
you; then it shall come to pass, that
those which ye let remain of them
[shall be] pricks in your eyes, and
thorns in your sides, and shall vex you
in the land wherein ye dwell.
56 Moreover it shall come to pass,
[that] I shall do unto you, as I
thought to do unto them.

CHAPTER 34
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When ye come into the
land of Canaan; (this [is] the land
that shall fall unto you for an
inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan
with the coasts thereof:)
3 Then your south quarter shall be from
the wilderness of Zin along by the
coast of Edom, and your south border
shall be the outmost coast of the salt
sea eastward:
4 And your border shall turn from the
south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and
pass on to Zin: and the going forth
thereof shall be from the south to
Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to
Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:
5 And the border shall fetch a compass
from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and
the goings out of it shall be at the
sea.
6 And [as for] the western border, ye
shall even have the great sea for a
border: this shall be your west border.
7 And this shall be your north border:
from the great sea ye shall point out
for you mount Hor:
8 From mount Hor ye shall point out
[your border] unto the entrance of
Hamath; and the goings forth of the
border shall be to Zedad:
9 # And the border shall go on to
Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall
be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your
north border.
10 And ye shall point out your east
border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
11 And the coast shall go down from
Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of
Ain; and the border shall descend, and
shall reach unto the side of the sea of
Chinnereth eastward:
12 And the border shall go down to
Jordan, and the goings out of it shall
be at the salt sea: this shall be your
land with the coasts thereof round
about.
13 And Moses commanded the children of
Israel, saying, This [is] the land
which ye shall inherit by lot, which
the LORD commanded to give unto the
nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
14 For the tribe of the children of
Reuben according to the house of their
fathers, and the tribe of the children
of Gad according to the house of their
fathers, have received [their
inheritance]; and half the tribe of
Manasseh have received their
inheritance:
15 The two tribes and the half tribe
have received their inheritance on this
side Jordan [near] Jericho eastward,
toward the sunrising.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
17 These [are] the names of the men
which shall divide the land unto you:
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son
of Nun.
18 And ye shall take one prince of
every tribe, to divide the land by
inheritance.
19 And the names of the men [are]
these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the
son of Jephunneh.
20 And of the tribe of the children of
Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the
son of Chislon.
22 And the prince of the tribe of the
children of Dan, Bukki the son of
Jogli.
23 The prince of the children of
Joseph, for the tribe of the children
of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
24 And the prince of the tribe of the
children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of
Shiphtan.
25 And the prince of the tribe of the
children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son
of Parnach.
26 And the prince of the tribe of the
children of Issachar, Paltiel the son
of Azzan.
27 And the prince of the tribe of the
children of Asher, Ahihud the son of
Shelomi.
28 And the prince of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son
of Ammihud.
29 These [are they] whom the LORD
commanded to divide the inheritance
unto the children of Israel in the land
of Canaan.

CHAPTER 35
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
plains of Moab by Jordan [near]
Jericho, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that
they give unto the Levites of the
inheritance of their possession cities
to dwell in; and ye shall give [also]
unto the Levites suburbs for the cities
round about them.
3 And the cities shall they have to
dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall
be for their cattle, and for their
goods, and for all their beasts.
4 And the suburbs of the cities, which
ye shall give unto the Levites, [shall
reach] from the wall of the city and
outward a thousand cubits round about.
5 And ye shall measure from without the
city on the east side two thousand
cubits, and on the south side two
thousand cubits, and on the west side
two thousand cubits, and on the north
side two thousand cubits; and the city
[shall be] in the midst: this shall be
to them the suburbs of the cities.
6 And among the cities which ye shall
give unto the Levites [there shall be]
six cities for refuge, which ye shall
appoint for the manslayer, that he may
flee thither: and to them ye shall add
forty and two cities.
7 [So] all the cities which ye shall
give to the Levites [shall be] forty
and eight cities: them [shall ye give]
with their suburbs.
8 And the cities which ye shall give
[shall be] of the possession of the
children of Israel: from [them that
have] many ye shall give many; but from
[them that have] few ye shall give few:
every one shall give of his cities unto
the Levites according to his
inheritance which he inheriteth.
9 # And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye be come over
Jordan into the land of Canaan;
11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to
be cities of refuge for you; that the
slayer may flee thither, which killeth
any person at unawares.
12 And they shall be unto you cities
for refuge from the avenger; that the
manslayer die not, until he stand
before the congregation in judgment.
13 And of these cities which ye shall
give six cities shall ye have for
refuge.
14 Ye shall give three cities on this
side Jordan, and three cities shall ye
give in the land of Canaan, [which]
shall be cities of refuge.
15 These six cities shall be a refuge,
[both] for the children of Israel, and
for the stranger, and for the sojourner
among them: that every one that killeth
any person unawares may flee thither.
16 And if he smite him with an
instrument of iron, so that he die, he
[is] a murderer: the murderer shall
surely be put to death.
17 And if he smite him with throwing a
stone, wherewith he may die, and he
die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
18 Or [if] he smite him with an hand
weapon of wood, wherewith he may die,
and he die, he [is] a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
19 The revenger of blood himself shall
slay the murderer: when he meeteth him,
he shall slay him.
20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or
hurl at him by laying of wait, that he
die;
21 Or in enmity smite him with his
hand, that he die: he that smote [him]
shall surely be put to death; [for] he
[is] a murderer: the revenger of blood
shall slay the murderer, when he
meeteth him.
22 But if he thrust him suddenly
without enmity, or have cast upon him
any thing without laying of wait,
23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man
may die, seeing [him] not, and cast
[it] upon him, that he die, and [was]
not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
24 Then the congregation shall judge
between the slayer and the revenger of
blood according to these judgments:
25 And the congregation shall deliver
the slayer out of the hand of the
revenger of blood, and the congregation
shall restore him to the city of his
refuge, whither he was fled: and he
shall abide in it unto the death of the
high priest, which was anointed with
the holy oil.
26 But if the slayer shall at any time
come without the border of the city of
his refuge, whither he was fled;
27 And the revenger of blood find him
without the borders of the city of his
refuge, and the revenger of blood kill
the slayer; he shall not be guilty of
blood:
28 Because he should have remained in
the city of his refuge until the death
of the high priest: but after the death
of the high priest the slayer shall
return into the land of his possession.
29 So these [things] shall be for a
statute of judgment unto you throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.
30 Whoso killeth any person, the
murderer shall be put to death by the
mouth of witnesses: but one witness
shall not testify against any person
[to cause him] to die.
31 Moreover ye shall take no
satisfaction for the life of a
murderer, which [is] guilty of death:
but he shall be surely put to death.
32 And ye shall take no satisfaction
for him that is fled to the city of his
refuge, that he should come again to
dwell in the land, until the death of
the priest.
33 So ye shall not pollute the land
wherein ye [are]: for blood it defileth
the land: and the land cannot be
cleansed of the blood that is shed
therein, but by the blood of him that
shed it.
34 Defile not therefore the land which
ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for
I the LORD dwell among the children of
Israel.

CHAPTER 36
1 And the chief fathers of the families
of the children of Gilead, the son of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came
near, and spake before Moses, and
before the princes, the chief fathers
of the children of Israel:
2 And they said, The LORD commanded my
lord to give the land for an
inheritance by lot to the children of
Israel: and my lord was commanded by
the LORD to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother unto his
daughters.
3 And if they be married to any of the
sons of the [other] tribes of the
children of Israel, then shall their
inheritance be taken from the
inheritance of our fathers, and shall
be put to the inheritance of the tribe
whereunto they are received: so shall
it be taken from the lot of our
inheritance.
4 And when the jubile of the children
of Israel shall be, then shall their
inheritance be put unto the inheritance
of the tribe whereunto they are
received: so shall their inheritance be
taken away from the inheritance of the
tribe of our fathers.
5 And Moses commanded the children of
Israel according to the word of the
LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of
Joseph hath said well.
6 This [is] the thing which the LORD
doth command concerning the daughters
of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry
to whom they think best; only to the
family of the tribe of their father
shall they marry.
7 So shall not the inheritance of the
children of Israel remove from tribe to
tribe: for every one of the children of
Israel shall keep himself to the
inheritance of the tribe of his
fathers.
8 And every daughter, that possesseth
an inheritance in any tribe of the
children of Israel, shall be wife unto
one of the family of the tribe of her
father, that the children of Israel may
enjoy every man the inheritance of his
fathers.
9 Neither shall the inheritance remove
from [one] tribe to another tribe; but
every one of the tribes of the children
of Israel shall keep himself to his own
inheritance.
10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so
did the daughters of Zelophehad:
11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of
Zelophehad, were married unto their
father's brothers' sons:
12 [And] they were married into the
families of the sons of Manasseh the
son of Joseph, and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of
their father.
13 These [are] the commandments and the
judgments, which the LORD commanded by
the hand of Moses unto the children of
Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan
[near] Jericho.

THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED
DEUTERONOMY

CHAPTER 1
1 These [be] the words which Moses
spake unto all Israel on this side
Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain
over against the Red [sea], between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and
Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey]
from Horeb by the way of mount Seir
unto Kadesh-barnea.)
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth
year, in the eleventh month, on the
first [day] of the month, [that] Moses
spake unto the children of Israel,
according unto all that the LORD had
given him in commandment unto them;
4 After he had slain Sihon the king of
the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon,
and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt
at Astaroth in Edrei:
5 On this side Jordan, in the land of
Moab, began Moses to declare this law,
saying,
6 The LORD our God spake unto us in
Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long
enough in this mount:
7 Turn you, and take your journey, and
go to the mount of the Amorites, and
unto all [the places] nigh thereunto,
in the plain, in the hills, and in the
vale, and in the south, and by the sea
side, to the land of the Canaanites,
and unto Lebanon, unto the great river,
the river Euphrates.
8 Behold, I have set the land before
you: go in and possess the land which
the LORD sware unto your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto
them and to their seed after them.
9 # And I spake unto you at that time,
saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone:
10 The LORD your God hath multiplied
you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as
the stars of heaven for multitude.
11 (The LORD God of your fathers make
you a thousand times so many more as ye
[are], and bless you, as he hath
promised you!)
12 How can I myself alone bear your
cumbrance, and your burden, and your
strife?
13 Take you wise men, and
understanding, and known among your
tribes, and I will make them rulers
over you.
14 And ye answered me, and said, The
thing which thou hast spoken [is] good
[for us] to do.
15 So I took the chief of your tribes,
wise men, and known, and made them
heads over you, captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds,
and captains over fifties, and captains
over tens, and officers among your
tribes.
16 And I charged your judges at that
time, saying, Hear [the causes] between
your brethren, and judge righteously
between [every] man and his brother,
and the stranger [that is] with him.
17 Ye shall not respect persons in
judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small
as well as the great; ye shall not be
afraid of the face of man; for the
judgment [is] God's: and the cause that
is too hard for you, bring [it] unto
me, and I will hear it.
18 And I commanded you at that time all
the things which ye should do.
19 # And when we departed from Horeb,
we went through all that great and
terrible wilderness, which ye saw by
the way of the mountain of the
Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded
us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come
unto the mountain of the Amorites,
which the LORD our God doth give unto
us.
21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set
the land before thee: go up [and]
possess [it], as the LORD God of thy
fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged.
22 # And ye came near unto me every one
of you, and said, We will send men
before us, and they shall search us out
the land, and bring us word again by
what way we must go up, and into what
cities we shall come.
23 And the saying pleased me well: and
I took twelve men of you, one of a
tribe:
24 And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of
Eshcol, and searched it out.
25 And they took of the fruit of the
land in their hands, and brought [it]
down unto us, and brought us word
again, and said, [It is] a good land
which the LORD our God doth give us.
26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up,
but rebelled against the commandment of
the LORD your God:
27 And ye murmured in your tents, and
said, Because the LORD hated us, he
hath brought us forth out of the land
of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand
of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren
have discouraged our heart, saying, The
people [is] greater and taller than we;
the cities [are] great and walled up to
heaven; and moreover we have seen the
sons of the Anakims there.
29 Then I said unto you, Dread not,
neither be afraid of them.
30 The LORD your God which goeth before
you, he shall fight for you, according
to all that he did for you in Egypt
before your eyes;
31 And in the wilderness, where thou
hast seen how that the LORD thy God
bare thee, as a man doth bear his son,
in all the way that ye went, until ye
came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe
the LORD your God,
33 Who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your
tents [in], in fire by night, to shew
you by what way ye should go, and in a
cloud by day.
34 And the LORD heard the voice of your
words, and was wroth, and sware,
saying,
35 Surely there shall not one of these
men of this evil generation see that
good land, which I sware to give unto
your fathers,
36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he
shall see it, and to him will I give
the land that he hath trodden upon, and
to his children, because he hath wholly
followed the LORD.
37 Also the LORD was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not
go in thither.
38 [But] Joshua the son of Nun, which
standeth before thee, he shall go in
thither: encourage him: for he shall
cause Israel to inherit it.
39 Moreover your little ones, which ye
said should be a prey, and your
children, which in that day had no
knowledge between good and evil, they
shall go in thither, and unto them will
I give it, and they shall possess it.
40 But [as for] you, turn you, and take
your journey into the wilderness by the
way of the Red sea.
41 Then ye answered and said unto me,
We have sinned against the LORD, we
will go up and fight, according to all
that the LORD our God commanded us. And
when ye had girded on every man his
weapons of war, ye were ready to go up
into the hill.
42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto
them, Go not up, neither fight; for I
[am] not among you; lest ye be smitten
before your enemies.
43 So I spake unto you; and ye would
not hear, but rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD, and went
presumptuously up into the hill.
44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in
that mountain, came out against you,
and chased you, as bees do, and
destroyed you in Seir, [even] unto
Hormah.
45 And ye returned and wept before the
LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to
your voice, nor give ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode
[there].

CHAPTER 2
1 Then we turned, and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way of the
Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and
we compassed mount Seir many days.
2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
3 Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward.
4 And command thou the people, saying,
Ye [are] to pass through the coast of
your brethren the children of Esau,
which dwell in Seir; and they shall be
afraid of you: take ye good heed unto
yourselves therefore:
5 Meddle not with them; for I will not
give you of their land, no, not so much
as a foot breadth; because I have given
mount Seir unto Esau [for] a
possession.
6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money,
that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy
water of them for money, that ye may
drink.
7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee in all the works of thy hand: he
knoweth thy walking through this great
wilderness: these forty years the LORD
thy God [hath been] with thee; thou
hast lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our
brethren the children of Esau, which
dwelt in Seir, through the way of the
plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber,
we turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab.
9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress
not the Moabites, neither contend with
them in battle: for I will not give
thee of their land [for] a possession;
because I have given Ar unto the
children of Lot [for] a possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times
past, a people great, and many, and
tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as
the Anakims; but the Moabites call them
Emims.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir
beforetime; but the children of Esau
succeeded them, when they had destroyed
them from before them, and dwelt in
their stead; as Israel did unto the
land of his possession, which the LORD
gave unto them.
13 Now rise up, [said I], and get you
over the brook Zered. And we went over
the brook Zered.
14 And the space in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over
the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight
years; until all the generation of the
men of war were wasted out from among
the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was
against them, to destroy them from
among the host, until they were
consumed.
16 # So it came to pass, when all the
men of war were consumed and dead from
among the people,
17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
18 Thou art to pass over through Ar,
the coast of Moab, this day:
19 And [when] thou comest nigh over
against the children of Ammon, distress
them not, nor meddle with them: for I
will not give thee of the land of the
children of Ammon [any] possession;
because I have given it unto the
children of Lot [for] a possession.
20 (That also was accounted a land of
giants: giants dwelt therein in old
time; and the Ammonites call them
Zamzummims;
21 A people great, and many, and tall,
as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed
them before them; and they succeeded
them, and dwelt in their stead:
22 As he did to the children of Esau,
which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed
the Horims from before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their
stead even unto this day:
23 And the Avims which dwelt in
Hazerim, [even] unto Azzah, the
Caphtorims, which came forth out of
Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in
their stead.)
24 # Rise ye up, take your journey, and
pass over the river Arnon: behold, I
have given into thine hand Sihon the
Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land:
begin to possess [it], and contend with
him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the
dread of thee and the fear of thee upon
the nations [that are] under the whole
heaven, who shall hear report of thee,
and shall tremble, and be in anguish
because of thee.
26 # And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king
of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 Let me pass through thy land: I will
go along by the high way, I will
neither turn unto the right hand nor to
the left.
28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money,
that I may eat; and give me water for
money, that I may drink: only I will
pass through on my feet;
29 (As the children of Esau which dwell
in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell
in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass
over Jordan into the land which the
LORD our God giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not
let us pass by him: for the LORD thy
God hardened his spirit, and made his
heart obstinate, that he might deliver
him into thy hand, as [appeareth] this
day.
31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I
have begun to give Sihon and his land
before thee: begin to possess, that
thou mayest inherit his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he
and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 And the LORD our God delivered him
before us; and we smote him, and his
sons, and all his people.
34 And we took all his cities at that
time, and utterly destroyed the men,
and the women, and the little ones, of
every city, we left none to remain:
35 Only the cattle we took for a prey
unto ourselves, and the spoil of the
cities which we took.
36 From Aroer, which [is] by the brink
of the river of Arnon, and [from] the
city that [is] by the river, even unto
Gilead, there was not one city too
strong for us: the LORD our God
delivered all unto us:
37 Only unto the land of the children
of Ammon thou camest not, [nor] unto
any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto
the cities in the mountains, nor unto
whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

CHAPTER 3
1 Then we turned, and went up the way
to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan
came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.
2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him
not: for I will deliver him, and all
his people, and his land, into thy
hand; and thou shalt do unto him as
thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3 So the LORD our God delivered into
our hands Og also, the king of Bashan,
and all his people: and we smote him
until none was left to him remaining.
4 And we took all his cities at that
time, there was not a city which we
took not from them, threescore cities,
all the region of Argob, the kingdom of
Og in Bashan.
5 All these cities [were] fenced with
high walls, gates, and bars; beside
unwalled towns a great many.
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we
did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly
destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city.
7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of
the cities, we took for a prey to
ourselves.
8 And we took at that time out of the
hand of the two kings of the Amorites
the land that [was] on this side
Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto
mount Hermon;
9 ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call
Sirion; and the Amorites call it
Shenir;)
10 All the cities of the plain, and all
Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og
in Bashan.
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained
of the remnant of giants; behold, his
bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is]
it not in Rabbath of the children of
Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length
thereof, and four cubits the breadth of
it, after the cubit of a man.
12 And this land, [which] we possessed
at that time, from Aroer, which [is] by
the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead,
and the cities thereof, gave I unto the
Reubenites and to the Gadites.
13 And the rest of Gilead, and all
Bashan, [being] the kingdom of Og, gave
I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all
the region of Argob, with all Bashan,
which was called the land of giants.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all
the country of Argob unto the coasts of
Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them
after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair,
unto this day.
15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the
Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto
the river Arnon half the valley, and
the border even unto the river Jabbok,
[which is] the border of the children
of Ammon;
17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the
coast [thereof], from Chinnereth even
unto the sea of the plain, [even] the
salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah
eastward.
18 # And I commanded you at that time,
saying, The LORD your God hath given
you this land to possess it: ye shall
pass over armed before your brethren
the children of Israel, all [that are]
meet for the war.
19 But your wives, and your little
ones, and your cattle, ([for] I know
that ye have much cattle,) shall abide
in your cities which I have given you;
20 Until the LORD have given rest unto
your brethren, as well as unto you, and
[until] they also possess the land
which the LORD your God hath given them
beyond Jordan: and [then] shall ye
return every man unto his possession,
which I have given you.
21 # And I commanded Joshua at that
time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all
that the LORD your God hath done unto
these two kings: so shall the LORD do
unto all the kingdoms whither thou
passest.
22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD
your God he shall fight for you.
23 And I besought the LORD at that
time, saying,
24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew
thy servant thy greatness, and thy
mighty hand: for what God [is there] in
heaven or in earth, that can do
according to thy works, and according
to thy might?
25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see
the good land that [is] beyond Jordan,
that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But the LORD was wroth with me for
your sakes, and would not hear me: and
the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this
matter.
27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah,
and lift up thine eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward,
and behold [it] with thine eyes: for
thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage
him, and strengthen him: for he shall
go over before this people, and he
shall cause them to inherit the land
which thou shalt see.
29 So we abode in the valley over
against Beth-peor.

CHAPTER 4
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto
the statutes and unto the judgments,
which I teach you, for to do [them],
that ye may live, and go in and possess
the land which the LORD God of your
fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which
I command you, neither shall ye
diminish [ought] from it, that ye may
keep the commandments of the LORD your
God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did
because of Baal-peor: for all the men
that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy
God hath destroyed them from among you.
4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD
your God [are] alive every one of you
this day.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes
and judgments, even as the LORD my God
commanded me, that ye should do so in
the land whither ye go to possess it.
6 Keep therefore and do [them]; for
this [is] your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the
nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation [is] a wise and understanding
people.
7 For what nation [is there so] great,
who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as
the LORD our God [is] in all [things
that] we call upon him [for]?
8 And what nation [is there so] great,
that hath statutes and judgments [so]
righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day?
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep
thy soul diligently, lest thou forget
the things which thine eyes have seen,
and lest they depart from thy heart all
the days of thy life: but teach them
thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
10 [Specially] the day that thou
stoodest before the LORD thy God in
Horeb, when the LORD said unto me,
Gather me the people together, and I
will make them hear my words, that they
may learn to fear me all the days that
they shall live upon the earth, and
[that] they may teach their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with
fire unto the midst of heaven, with
darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the LORD spake unto you out of
the midst of the fire: ye heard the
voice of the words, but saw no
similitude; only [ye heard] a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his
covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, [even] ten commandments; and
he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 # And the LORD commanded me at that
time to teach you statutes and
judgments, that ye might do them in the
land whither ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto
yourselves; for ye saw no manner of
similitude on the day [that] the LORD
spake unto you in Horeb out of the
midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and
make you a graven image, the similitude
of any figure, the likeness of male or
female,
17 The likeness of any beast that [is]
on the earth, the likeness of any
winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that
creepeth on the ground, the likeness of
any fish that [is] in the waters
beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes
unto heaven, and when thou seest the
sun, and the moon, and the stars,
[even] all the host of heaven,
shouldest be driven to worship them,
and serve them, which the LORD thy God
hath divided unto all nations under the
whole heaven.
20 But the LORD hath taken you, and
brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be
unto him a people of inheritance, as
[ye are] this day.
21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with
me for your sakes, and sware that I
should not go over Jordan, and that I
should not go in unto that good land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee
[for] an inheritance:
22 But I must die in this land, I must
not go over Jordan: but ye shall go
over, and possess that good land.
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye
forget the covenant of the LORD your
God, which he made with you, and make
you a graven image, [or] the likeness
of any [thing], which the LORD thy God
hath forbidden thee.
24 For the LORD thy God [is] a
consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.
25 # When thou shalt beget children,
and children's children, and ye shall
have remained long in the land, and
shall corrupt [yourselves], and make a
graven image, [or] the likeness of any
[thing], and shall do evil in the sight
of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to
anger:
26 I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day, that ye shall
soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess
it; ye shall not prolong [your] days
upon it, but shall utterly be
destroyed.
27 And the LORD shall scatter you among
the nations, and ye shall be left few
in number among the heathen, whither
the LORD shall lead you.
28 And there ye shall serve gods, the
work of men's hands, wood and stone,
which neither see, nor hear, nor eat,
nor smell.
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek
the LORD thy God, thou shalt find
[him], if thou seek him with all thy
heart and with all thy soul.
30 When thou art in tribulation, and
all these things are come upon thee,
[even] in the latter days, if thou turn
to the LORD thy God, and shalt be
obedient unto his voice;
31 (For the LORD thy God [is] a
merciful God;) he will not forsake
thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget
the covenant of thy fathers which he
sware unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are
past, which were before thee, since the
day that God created man upon the
earth, and [ask] from the one side of
heaven unto the other, whether there
hath been [any such thing] as this
great thing [is], or hath been heard
like it?
33 Did [ever] people hear the voice of
God speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
34 Or hath God assayed to go [and] take
him a nation from the midst of
[another] nation, by temptations, by
signs, and by wonders, and by war, and
by a mighty hand, and by a stretched
out arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that the LORD your God
did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou
mightest know that the LORD he [is]
God; [there is] none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear
his voice, that he might instruct thee:
and upon earth he shewed thee his great
fire; and thou heardest his words out
of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after
them, and brought thee out in his sight
with his mighty power out of Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from before
thee greater and mightier than thou
[art], to bring thee in, to give thee
their land [for] an inheritance, as [it
is] this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and
consider [it] in thine heart, that the
LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and
upon the earth beneath: [there is] none
else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his
statutes, and his commandments, which I
command thee this day, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children
after thee, and that thou mayest
prolong [thy] days upon the earth,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for
ever.
41 # Then Moses severed three cities on
this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
42 That the slayer might flee thither,
which should kill his neighbour
unawares, and hated him not in times
past; and that fleeing unto one of
these cities he might live:
43 [Namely], Bezer in the wilderness,
in the plain country, of the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of
the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of
the Manassites.
44 # And this [is] the law which Moses
set before the children of Israel:
45 These [are] the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which
Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, after they came forth out of
Egypt,
46 On this side Jordan, in the valley
over against Beth-peor, in the land of
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt
at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children
of Israel smote, after they were come
forth out of Egypt:
47 And they possessed his land, and the
land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of
the Amorites, which [were] on this side
Jordan toward the sunrising;
48 From Aroer, which [is] by the bank
of the river Arnon, even unto mount
Sion, which [is] Hermon,
49 And all the plain on this side
Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of
the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

CHAPTER 5
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said
unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes
and judgments which I speak in your
ears this day, that ye may learn them,
and keep, and do them.
2 The LORD our God made a covenant with
us in Horeb.
3 The LORD made not this covenant with
our fathers, but with us, [even] us,
who [are] all of us here alive this
day.
4 The LORD talked with you face to face
in the mount out of the midst of the
fire,
5 (I stood between the LORD and you at
that time, to shew you the word of the
LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of
the fire, and went not up into the
mount;) saying,
6 # I [am] the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage.
7 Thou shalt have none other gods
before me.
8 Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven
image, [or] any likeness [of any thing]
that [is] in heaven above, or that [is]
in the earth beneath, or that [is] in
the waters beneath the earth:
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto
them, nor serve them: for I the LORD
thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth
[generation] of them that hate me,
10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me and keep my
commandments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the
LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will
not hold [him] guiltless that taketh
his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it,
as the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee.
13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do
all thy work:
14 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath
of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor
thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor
thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that [is] within thy
gates; that thy manservant and thy
maidservant may rest as well as thou.
15 And remember that thou wast a
servant in the land of Egypt, and
[that] the LORD thy God brought thee
out thence through a mighty hand and by
a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD
thy God commanded thee to keep the
sabbath day.
16 # Honour thy father and thy mother,
as the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee; that thy days may be prolonged,
and that it may go well with thee, in
the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
19 Neither shalt thou steal.
20 Neither shalt thou bear false
witness against thy neighbour.
21 Neither shalt thou desire thy
neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou
covet thy neighbour's house, his field,
or his manservant, or his maidservant,
his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that
[is] thy neighbour's.
22 # These words the LORD spake unto
all your assembly in the mount out of
the midst of the fire, of the cloud,
and of the thick darkness, with a great
voice: and he added no more. And he
wrote them in two tables of stone, and
delivered them unto me.
23 And it came to pass, when ye heard
the voice out of the midst of the
darkness, (for the mountain did burn
with fire,) that ye came near unto me,
[even] all the heads of your tribes,
and your elders;
24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our
God hath shewed us his glory and his
greatness, and we have heard his voice
out of the midst of the fire: we have
seen this day that God doth talk with
man, and he liveth.
25 Now therefore why should we die? for
this great fire will consume us: if we
hear the voice of the LORD our God any
more, then we shall die.
26 For who [is there of] all flesh,
that hath heard the voice of the living
God speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as we [have], and lived?
27 Go thou near, and hear all that the
LORD our God shall say: and speak thou
unto us all that the LORD our God shall
speak unto thee; and we will hear [it],
and do [it].
28 And the LORD heard the voice of your
words, when ye spake unto me; and the
LORD said unto me, I have heard the
voice of the words of this people,
which they have spoken unto thee: they
have well said all that they have
spoken.
29 O that there were such an heart in
them, that they would fear me, and keep
all my commandments always, that it
might be well with them, and with their
children for ever!
30 Go say to them, Get you into your
tents again.
31 But as for thee, stand thou here by
me, and I will speak unto thee all the
commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which thou shalt teach them,
that they may do [them] in the land
which I give them to possess it.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as
the LORD your God hath commanded you:
ye shall not turn aside to the right
hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which
the LORD your God hath commanded you,
that ye may live, and [that it may be]
well with you, and [that] ye may
prolong [your] days in the land which
ye shall possess.

CHAPTER 6
1 Now these [are] the commandments, the
statutes, and the judgments, which the
LORD your God commanded to teach you,
that ye might do [them] in the land
whither ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy
God, to keep all his statutes and his
commandments, which I command thee,
thou, and thy son, and thy son's son,
all the days of thy life; and that thy
days may be prolonged.
3 # Hear therefore, O Israel, and
observe to do [it]; that it may be well
with thee, and that ye may increase
mightily, as the LORD God of thy
fathers hath promised thee, in the land
that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is]
one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God
with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee
this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently
unto thy children, and shalt talk of
them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, and
when thou liest down, and when thou
risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign
upon thine hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the
posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy
God shall have brought thee into the
land which he sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to
give thee great and goodly cities,
which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good
[things], which thou filledst not, and
wells digged, which thou diggedst not,
vineyards and olive trees, which thou
plantedst not; when thou shalt have
eaten and be full;
12 [Then] beware lest thou forget the
LORD, which brought thee forth out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God,
and serve him, and shalt swear by his
name.
14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of
the gods of the people which [are]
round about you;
15 (For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous
God among you) lest the anger of the
LORD thy God be kindled against thee,
and destroy thee from off the face of
the earth.
16 # Ye shall not tempt the LORD your
God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the
commandments of the LORD your God, and
his testimonies, and his statutes,
which he hath commanded thee.
18 And thou shalt do [that which is]
right and good in the sight of the
LORD: that it may be well with thee,
and that thou mayest go in and possess
the good land which the LORD sware unto
thy fathers,
19 To cast out all thine enemies from
before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
20 [And] when thy son asketh thee in
time to come, saying, What [mean] the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD our God hath
commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We
were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and
the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a
mighty hand:
22 And the LORD shewed signs and
wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt,
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
household, before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from thence,
that he might bring us in, to give us
the land which he sware unto our
fathers.
24 And the LORD commanded us to do all
these statutes, to fear the LORD our
God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as [it is] at this
day.
25 And it shall be our righteousness,
if we observe to do all these
commandments before the LORD our God,
as he hath commanded us.

CHAPTER 7
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring
thee into the land whither thou goest
to possess it, and hath cast out many
nations before thee, the Hittites, and
the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and
the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and
the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven
nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the LORD thy God shall
deliver them before thee; thou shalt
smite them, [and] utterly destroy them;
thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages
with them; thy daughter thou shalt not
give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from
following me, that they may serve other
gods: so will the anger of the LORD be
kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye
shall destroy their altars, and break
down their images, and cut down their
groves, and burn their graven images
with fire.
6 For thou [art] an holy people unto
the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath
chosen thee to be a special people unto
himself, above all people that [are]
upon the face of the earth.
7 The LORD did not set his love upon
you, nor choose you, because ye were
more in number than any people; for ye
[were] the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you, and
because he would keep the oath which he
had sworn unto your fathers, hath the
LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house
of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God,
he [is] God, the faithful God, which
keepeth covenant and mercy with them
that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to
their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he
will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the
commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this
day, to do them.
12 # Wherefore it shall come to pass,
if ye hearken to these judgments, and
keep, and do them, that the LORD thy
God shall keep unto thee the covenant
and the mercy which he sware unto thy
fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and bless
thee, and multiply thee: he will also
bless the fruit of thy womb, and the
fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of
thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep,
in the land which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all
people: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your
cattle.
15 And the LORD will take away from
thee all sickness, and will put none of
the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou
knowest, upon thee; but will lay them
upon all [them] that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the
people which the LORD thy God shall
deliver thee; thine eye shall have no
pity upon them: neither shalt thou
serve their gods; for that [will be] a
snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart,
These nations [are] more than I; how
can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them:
[but] shalt well remember what the LORD
thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all
Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine
eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy
God brought thee out: so shall the LORD
thy God do unto all the people of whom
thou art afraid.
20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send
the hornet among them, until they that
are left, and hide themselves from
thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at
them: for the LORD thy God [is] among
you, a mighty God and terrible.
22 And the LORD thy God will put out
those nations before thee by little and
little: thou mayest not consume them at
once, lest the beasts of the field
increase upon thee.
23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver
them unto thee, and shall destroy them
with a mighty destruction, until they
be destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings
into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy
their name from under heaven: there
shall no man be able to stand before
thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods
shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not
desire the silver or gold [that is] on
them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest
thou be snared therein: for it [is] an
abomination to the LORD thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an
abomination into thine house, lest thou
be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou
shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed
thing.

CHAPTER 8
1 All the commandments which I command
thee this day shall ye observe to do,
that ye may live, and multiply, and go
in and possess the land which the LORD
sware unto your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way
which the LORD thy God led thee these
forty years in the wilderness, to
humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to
know what [was] in thine heart, whether
thou wouldest keep his commandments, or
no.
3 And he humbled thee, and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with
manna, which thou knewest not, neither
did thy fathers know; that he might
make thee know that man doth not live
by bread only, but by every [word] that
proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD
doth man live.
4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee,
neither did thy foot swell, these forty
years.
5 Thou shalt also consider in thine
heart, that, as a man chasteneth his
son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth
thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee
into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of fountains and depths that
spring out of valleys and hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and
vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of oil olive, and honey;
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, thou shalt not lack
any [thing] in it; a land whose stones
[are] iron, and out of whose hills thou
mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full,
then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God
for the good land which he hath given
thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD
thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and
his statutes, which I command thee this
day:
12 Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art
full, and hast built goodly houses, and
dwelt [therein];
13 And [when] thy herds and thy flocks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold
is multiplied, and all that thou hast
is multiplied;
14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and
thou forget the LORD thy God, which
brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 Who led thee through that great and
terrible wilderness, [wherein were]
fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where [there was] no water;
who brought thee forth water out of the
rock of flint;
16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with
manna, which thy fathers knew not, that
he might humble thee, and that he might
prove thee, to do thee good at thy
latter end;
17 And thou say in thine heart, My
power and the might of [mine] hand hath
gotten me this wealth.
18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy
God: for [it is] he that giveth thee
power to get wealth, that he may
establish his covenant which he sware
unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.
19 And it shall be, if thou do at all
forget the LORD thy God, and walk after
other gods, and serve them, and worship
them, I testify against you this day
that ye shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD
destroyeth before your face, so shall
ye perish; because ye would not be
obedient unto the voice of the LORD
your God.

CHAPTER 9
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass
over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier
than thyself, cities great and fenced
up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children
of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and
[of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who
can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that
the LORD thy God [is] he which goeth
over before thee; [as] a consuming fire
he shall destroy them, and he shall
bring them down before thy face: so
shalt thou drive them out, and destroy
them quickly, as the LORD hath said
unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after
that the LORD thy God hath cast them
out from before thee, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD hath brought me
in to possess this land: but for the
wickedness of these nations the LORD
doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thine heart, dost thou
go to possess their land: but for the
wickedness of these nations the LORD
thy God doth drive them out from before
thee, and that he may perform the word
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD
thy God giveth thee not this good land
to possess it for thy righteousness;
for thou [art] a stiffnecked people.
7 # Remember, [and] forget not, how
thou provokedst the LORD thy God to
wrath in the wilderness: from the day
that thou didst depart out of the land
of Egypt, until ye came unto this
place, ye have been rebellious against
the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to
wrath, so that the LORD was angry with
you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to
receive the tables of stone, [even] the
tables of the covenant which the LORD
made with you, then I abode in the
mount forty days and forty nights, I
neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two
tables of stone written with the finger
of God; and on them [was written]
according to all the words, which the
LORD spake with you in the mount out of
the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of
forty days and forty nights, [that] the
LORD gave me the two tables of stone,
[even] the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise,
get thee down quickly from hence; for
thy people which thou hast brought
forth out of Egypt have corrupted
[themselves]; they are quickly turned
aside out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made them a molten
image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy
them, and blot out their name from
under heaven: and I will make of thee a
nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the
mount, and the mount burned with fire:
and the two tables of the covenant
[were] in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had
sinned against the LORD your God, [and]
had made you a molten calf: ye had
turned aside quickly out of the way
which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast
them out of my two hands, and brake
them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as
at the first, forty days and forty
nights: I did neither eat bread, nor
drink water, because of all your sins
which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in
the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and
hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was
wroth against you to destroy you. But
the LORD hearkened unto me at that time
also.
20 And the LORD was very angry with
Aaron to have destroyed him: and I
prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which
ye had made, and burnt it with fire,
and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very
small, [even] until it was as small as
dust: and I cast the dust thereof into
the brook that descended out of the
mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and
at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the
LORD to wrath.
23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from
Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given
you; then ye rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God, and
ye believed him not, nor hearkened to
his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the
LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD
forty days and forty nights, as I fell
down [at the first]; because the LORD
had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD,
and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy
people and thine inheritance, which
thou hast redeemed through thy
greatness, which thou hast brought
forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to
their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest
us out say, Because the LORD was not
able to bring them into the land which
he promised them, and because he hated
them, he hath brought them out to slay
them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they [are] thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out
by thy mighty power and by thy
stretched out arm.

CHAPTER 10
1 At that time the LORD said unto me,
Hew thee two tables of stone like unto
the first, and come up unto me into the
mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tables the
words that were in the first tables
which thou brakest, and thou shalt put
them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark [of] shittim wood,
and hewed two tables of stone like unto
the first, and went up into the mount,
having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according
to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which the LORD spake unto
you in the mount out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly:
and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down
from the mount, and put the tables in
the ark which I had made; and there
they be, as the LORD commanded me.
6 # And the children of Israel took
their journey from Beeroth of the
children of Jaakan to Mosera: there
Aaron died, and there he was buried;
and Eleazar his son ministered in the
priest's office in his stead.
7 From thence they journeyed unto
Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath,
a land of rivers of waters.
8 # At that time the LORD separated the
tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, to stand before
the LORD to minister unto him, and to
bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor
inheritance with his brethren; the LORD
[is] his inheritance, according as the
LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according
to the first time, forty days and forty
nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me
at that time also, [and] the LORD would
not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise,
take [thy] journey before the people,
that they may go in and possess the
land, which I sware unto their fathers
to give unto them.
12 # And now, Israel, what doth the
LORD thy God require of thee, but to
fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all
his ways, and to love him, and to serve
the LORD thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the
LORD, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of
heavens [is] the LORD'S thy God, the
earth [also], with all that therein
[is].
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy
fathers to love them, and he chose
their seed after them, [even] you above
all people, as [it is] this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God [is] God of
gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a
mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth
not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the
stranger, in giving him food and
raiment.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for
ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God;
him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt
thou cleave, and swear by his name.
21 He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy
God, that hath done for thee these
great and terrible things, which thine
eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt
with threescore and ten persons; and
now the LORD thy God hath made thee as
the stars of heaven for multitude.

CHAPTER 11
1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD
thy God, and keep his charge, and his
statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.
2 And know ye this day: for [I speak]
not with your children which have not
known, and which have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God, his
greatness, his mighty hand, and his
stretched out arm,
3 And his miracles, and his acts, which
he did in the midst of Egypt unto
Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all
his land;
4 And what he did unto the army of
Egypt, unto their horses, and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the
Red sea to overflow them as they
pursued after you, and [how] the LORD
hath destroyed them unto this day;
5 And what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until ye came into this
place;
6 And what he did unto Dathan and
Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of
Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and all
the substance that [was] in their
possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7 But your eyes have seen all the great
acts of the LORD which he did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the
commandments which I command you this
day, that ye may be strong, and go in
and possess the land, whither ye go to
possess it;
9 And that ye may prolong [your] days
in the land, which the LORD sware unto
your fathers to give unto them and to
their seed, a land that floweth with
milk and honey.
10 # For the land, whither thou goest
in to possess it, [is] not as the land
of Egypt, from whence ye came out,
where thou sowedst thy seed, and
wateredst [it] with thy foot, as a
garden of herbs:
11 But the land, whither ye go to
possess it, [is] a land of hills and
valleys, [and] drinketh water of the
rain of heaven:
12 A land which the LORD thy God careth
for: the eyes of the LORD thy God [are]
always upon it, from the beginning of
the year even unto the end of the year.
13 # And it shall come to pass, if ye
shall hearken diligently unto my
commandments which I command you this
day, to love the LORD your God, and to
serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul,
14 That I will give [you] the rain of
your land in his due season, the first
rain and the latter rain, that thou
mayest gather in thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil.
15 And I will send grass in thy fields
for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat
and be full.
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your
heart be not deceived, and ye turn
aside, and serve other gods, and
worship them;
17 And [then] the LORD'S wrath be
kindled against you, and he shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that
the land yield not her fruit; and
[lest] ye perish quickly from off the
good land which the LORD giveth you.
18 # Therefore shall ye lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul,
and bind them for a sign upon your
hand, that they may be as frontlets
between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your
children, speaking of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the
door posts of thine house, and upon thy
gates:
21 That your days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children, in the
land which the LORD sware unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of
heaven upon the earth.
22 # For if ye shall diligently keep
all these commandments which I command
you, to do them, to love the LORD your
God, to walk in all his ways, and to
cleave unto him;
23 Then will the LORD drive out all
these nations from before you, and ye
shall possess greater nations and
mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place whereon the soles of
your feet shall tread shall be your's:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from
the river, the river Euphrates, even
unto the uttermost sea shall your coast
be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand
before you: [for] the LORD your God
shall lay the fear of you and the dread
of you upon all the land that ye shall
tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26 # Behold, I set before you this day
a blessing and a curse;
27 A blessing, if ye obey the
commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day:
28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the
commandments of the LORD your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I
command you this day, to go after other
gods, which ye have not known.
29 And it shall come to pass, when the
LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto
the land whither thou goest to possess
it, that thou shalt put the blessing
upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon
mount Ebal.
30 [Are] they not on the other side
Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth
down, in the land of the Canaanites,
which dwell in the champaign over
against Gilgal, beside the plains of
Moreh?
31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go
in to possess the land which the LORD
your God giveth you, and ye shall
possess it, and dwell therein.
32 And ye shall observe to do all the
statutes and judgments which I set
before you this day.

CHAPTER 12
1 These [are] the statutes and
judgments, which ye shall observe to do
in the land, which the LORD God of thy
fathers giveth thee to possess it, all
the days that ye live upon the earth.
2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the
places, wherein the nations which ye
shall possess served their gods, upon
the high mountains, and upon the hills,
and under every green tree:
3 And ye shall overthrow their altars,
and break their pillars, and burn their
groves with fire; and ye shall hew down
the graven images of their gods, and
destroy the names of them out of that
place.
4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your
God.
5 But unto the place which the LORD
your God shall choose out of all your
tribes to put his name there, [even]
unto his habitation shall ye seek, and
thither thou shalt come:
6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt
offerings, and your sacrifices, and
your tithes, and heave offerings of
your hand, and your vows, and your
freewill offerings, and the firstlings
of your herds and of your flocks:
7 And there ye shall eat before the
LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in
all that ye put your hand unto, ye and
your households, wherein the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee.
8 Ye shall not do after all [the
things] that we do here this day, every
man whatsoever [is] right in his own
eyes.
9 For ye are not as yet come to the
rest and to the inheritance, which the
LORD your God giveth you.
10 But [when] ye go over Jordan, and
dwell in the land which the LORD your
God giveth you to inherit, and [when]
he giveth you rest from all your
enemies round about, so that ye dwell
in safety;
11 Then there shall be a place which
the LORD your God shall choose to cause
his name to dwell there; thither shall
ye bring all that I command you; your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
your tithes, and the heave offering of
your hand, and all your choice vows
which ye vow unto the LORD:
12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD
your God, ye, and your sons, and your
daughters, and your menservants, and
your maidservants, and the Levite that
[is] within your gates; forasmuch as he
hath no part nor inheritance with you.
13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer
not thy burnt offerings in every place
that thou seest:
14 But in the place which the LORD
shall choose in one of thy tribes,
there thou shalt offer thy burnt
offerings, and there thou shalt do all
that I command thee.
15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and
eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever
thy soul lusteth after, according to
the blessing of the LORD thy God which
he hath given thee: the unclean and the
clean may eat thereof, as of the
roebuck, and as of the hart.
16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye
shall pour it upon the earth as water.
17 # Thou mayest not eat within thy
gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy
wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings
of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any
of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy
freewill offerings, or heave offering
of thine hand:
18 But thou must eat them before the
LORD thy God in the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and
thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
manservant, and thy maidservant, and
the Levite that [is] within thy gates:
and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD
thy God in all that thou puttest thine
hands unto.
19 Take heed to thyself that thou
forsake not the Levite as long as thou
livest upon the earth.
20 # When the LORD thy God shall
enlarge thy border, as he hath promised
thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat
flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat
flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
21 If the place which the LORD thy God
hath chosen to put his name there be
too far from thee, then thou shalt kill
of thy herd and of thy flock, which the
LORD hath given thee, as I have
commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in
thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after.
22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is
eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the
unclean and the clean shall eat [of]
them alike.
23 Only be sure that thou eat not the
blood: for the blood [is] the life; and
thou mayest not eat the life with the
flesh.
24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt
pour it upon the earth as water.
25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may
go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do
[that which is] right in the sight of
the LORD.
26 Only thy holy things which thou
hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take,
and go unto the place which the LORD
shall choose:
27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt
offerings, the flesh and the blood,
upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and
the blood of thy sacrifices shall be
poured out upon the altar of the LORD
thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
28 Observe and hear all these words
which I command thee, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children
after thee for ever, when thou doest
[that which is] good and right in the
sight of the LORD thy God.
29 # When the LORD thy God shall cut
off the nations from before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and
thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
their land;
30 Take heed to thyself that thou be
not snared by following them, after
that they be destroyed from before
thee; and that thou enquire not after
their gods, saying, How did these
nations serve their gods? even so will
I do likewise.
31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD
thy God: for every abomination to the
LORD, which he hateth, have they done
unto their gods; for even their sons
and their daughters they have burnt in
the fire to their gods.
32 What thing soever I command you,
observe to do it: thou shalt not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.

CHAPTER 13
1 If there arise among you a prophet,
or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee
a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to
pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods,
which thou hast not known, and let us
serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words
of that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams: for the LORD your God proveth
you, to know whether ye love the LORD
your God with all your heart and with
all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your
God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and
ye shall serve him, and cleave unto
him.
5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death; because
he hath spoken to turn [you] away from
the LORD your God, which brought you
out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage, to
thrust thee out of the way which the
LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in.
So shalt thou put the evil away from
the midst of thee.
6 # If thy brother, the son of thy
mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or
the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,
which [is] as thine own soul, entice
thee secretly, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which thou hast not
known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 [Namely], of the gods of the people
which [are] round about you, nigh unto
thee, or far off from thee, from the
[one] end of the earth even unto the
[other] end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor
hearken unto him; neither shall thine
eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare,
neither shalt thou conceal him:
9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine
hand shall be first upon him to put him
to death, and afterwards the hand of
all the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with
stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the
LORD thy God, which brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall do no more any such
wickedness as this is among you.
12 # If thou shalt hear [say] in one of
thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath
given thee to dwell there, saying,
13 [Certain] men, the children of
Belial, are gone out from among you,
and have withdrawn the inhabitants of
their city, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which ye have not known;
14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the
thing certain, [that] such abomination
is wrought among you;
15 Thou shalt surely smite the
inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, destroying it utterly,
and all that [is] therein, and the
cattle thereof, with the edge of the
sword.
16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil
of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the
city, and all the spoil thereof every
whit, for the LORD thy God: and it
shall be an heap for ever; it shall not
be built again.
17 And there shall cleave nought of the
cursed thing to thine hand: that the
LORD may turn from the fierceness of
his anger, and shew thee mercy, and
have compassion upon thee, and multiply
thee, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers;
18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice
of the LORD thy God, to keep all his
commandments which I command thee this
day, to do [that which is] right in the
eyes of the LORD thy God.

CHAPTER 14
1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD
your God: ye shall not cut yourselves,
nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead.
2 For thou [art] an holy people unto
the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath
chosen thee to be a peculiar people
unto himself, above all the nations
that [are] upon the earth.
3 # Thou shalt not eat any abominable
thing.
4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall
eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the
fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the
pygarg, and the wild ox, and the
chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the
hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two
claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the
beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat
of them that chew the cud, or of them
that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the
camel, and the hare, and the coney: for
they chew the cud, but divide not the
hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean
unto you.
8 And the swine, because it divideth
the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it
[is] unclean unto you: ye shall not eat
of their flesh, nor touch their dead
carcase.
9 # These ye shall eat of all that
[are] in the waters: all that have fins
and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and
scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean
unto you.
11 # [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.
12 But these [are they] of which ye
shall not eat: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the glede, and the kite, and the
vulture after his kind,
14 And every raven after his kind,
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and
the cuckow, and the hawk after his
kind,
16 The little owl, and the great owl,
and the swan,
17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle,
and the cormorant,
18 And the stork, and the heron after
her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth
[is] unclean unto you: they shall not
be eaten.
20 [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 # Ye shall not eat [of] any thing
that dieth of itself: thou shalt give
it unto the stranger that [is] in thy
gates, that he may eat it; or thou
mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou
[art] an holy people unto the LORD thy
God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the
increase of thy seed, that the field
bringeth forth year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD
thy God, in the place which he shall
choose to place his name there, the
tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of
thine oil, and the firstlings of thy
herds and of thy flocks; that thou
mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God
always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee,
so that thou art not able to carry it;
[or] if the place be too far from thee,
which the LORD thy God shall choose to
set his name there, when the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee:
25 Then shalt thou turn [it] into
money, and bind up the money in thine
hand, and shalt go unto the place which
the LORD thy God shall choose:
26 And thou shalt bestow that money for
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for
oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for
strong drink, or for whatsoever thy
soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there
before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
rejoice, thou, and thine household,
27 And the Levite that [is] within thy
gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for
he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee.
28 # At the end of three years thou
shalt bring forth all the tithe of
thine increase the same year, and shalt
lay [it] up within thy gates:
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no
part nor inheritance with thee,) and
the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, which [are] within thy
gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the LORD thy God may
bless thee in all the work of thine
hand which thou doest.

CHAPTER 15
1 At the end of [every] seven years
thou shalt make a release.
2 And this [is] the manner of the
release: Every creditor that lendeth
[ought] unto his neighbour shall
release [it]; he shall not exact [it]
of his neighbour, or of his brother;
because it is called the LORD'S
release.
3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it
again]: but [that] which is thine with
thy brother thine hand shall release;
4 Save when there shall be no poor
among you; for the LORD shall greatly
bless thee in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee [for] an
inheritance to possess it:
5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto
the voice of the LORD thy God, to
observe to do all these commandments
which I command thee this day.
6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee,
as he promised thee: and thou shalt
lend unto many nations, but thou shalt
not borrow; and thou shalt reign over
many nations, but they shall not reign
over thee.
7 # If there be among you a poor man of
one of thy brethren within any of thy
gates in thy land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden
thine heart, nor shut thine hand from
thy poor brother:
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide
unto him, and shalt surely lend him
sufficient for his need, [in that]
which he wanteth.
9 Beware that there be not a thought in
thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh
year, the year of release, is at hand;
and thine eye be evil against thy poor
brother, and thou givest him nought;
and he cry unto the LORD against thee,
and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and
thine heart shall not be grieved when
thou givest unto him: because that for
this thing the LORD thy God shall bless
thee in all thy works, and in all that
thou puttest thine hand unto.
11 For the poor shall never cease out
of the land: therefore I command thee,
saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide
unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to
thy needy, in thy land.
12 # [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew
man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto
thee, and serve thee six years; then in
the seventh year thou shalt let him go
free from thee.
13 And when thou sendest him out free
from thee, thou shalt not let him go
away empty:
14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out
of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and
out of thy winepress: [of that]
wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee thou shalt give unto him.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,
and the LORD thy God redeemed thee:
therefore I command thee this thing to
day.
16 And it shall be, if he say unto
thee, I will not go away from thee;
because he loveth thee and thine house,
because he is well with thee;
17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and
thrust [it] through his ear unto the
door, and he shall be thy servant for
ever. And also unto thy maidservant
thou shalt do likewise.
18 It shall not seem hard unto thee,
when thou sendest him away free from
thee; for he hath been worth a double
hired servant [to thee], in serving
thee six years: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in all that thou
doest.
19 # All the firstling males that come
of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt
sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou
shalt do no work with the firstling of
thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of
thy sheep.
20 Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD
thy God year by year in the place which
the LORD shall choose, thou and thy
household.
21 And if there be [any] blemish
therein, [as if it be] lame, or blind,
[or have] any ill blemish, thou shalt
not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates:
the unclean and the clean [person shall
eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as
the hart.
23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the
ground as water.

CHAPTER 16
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep
the passover unto the LORD thy God: for
in the month of Abib the LORD thy God
brought thee forth out of Egypt by
night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the
passover unto the LORD thy God, of the
flock and the herd, in the place which
the LORD shall choose to place his name
there.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with
it; seven days shalt thou eat
unleavened bread therewith, [even] the
bread of affliction; for thou camest
forth out of the land of Egypt in
haste: that thou mayest remember the
day when thou camest forth out of the
land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
4 And there shall be no leavened bread
seen with thee in all thy coast seven
days; neither shall there [any thing]
of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst
the first day at even, remain all night
until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the
passover within any of thy gates, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee:
6 But at the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose to place his name in,
there thou shalt sacrifice the passover
at even, at the going down of the sun,
at the season that thou camest forth
out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in
the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose: and thou shalt turn in the
morning, and go unto thy tents.
8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread: and on the seventh day [shall
be] a solemn assembly to the LORD thy
God: thou shalt do no work [therein].
9 # Seven weeks shalt thou number unto
thee: begin to number the seven weeks
from [such time as] thou beginnest [to
put] the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of
weeks unto the LORD thy God with a
tribute of a freewill offering of thine
hand, which thou shalt give [unto the
LORD thy God], according as the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the
LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and
thy maidservant, and the Levite that
[is] within thy gates, and the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that [are] among you, in the
place which the LORD thy God hath
chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt
observe and do these statutes.
13 # Thou shalt observe the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after that thou
hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast,
thou, and thy son, and thy daughter,
and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite, the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that [are] within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn
feast unto the LORD thy God in the
place which the LORD shall choose:
because the LORD thy God shall bless
thee in all thine increase, and in all
the works of thine hands, therefore
thou shalt surely rejoice.
16 # Three times in a year shall all
thy males appear before the LORD thy
God in the place which he shall choose;
in the feast of unleavened bread, and
in the feast of weeks, and in the feast
of tabernacles: and they shall not
appear before the LORD empty:
17 Every man [shall give] as he is
able, according to the blessing of the
LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
18 # Judges and officers shalt thou
make thee in all thy gates, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout
thy tribes: and they shall judge the
people with just judgment.
19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou
shalt not respect persons, neither take
a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes
of the wise, and pervert the words of
the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shalt
thou follow, that thou mayest live, and
inherit the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.
21 # Thou shalt not plant thee a grove
of any trees near unto the altar of the
LORD thy God, which thou shalt make
thee.
22 Neither shalt thou set thee up [any]
image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

CHAPTER 17
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the
LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep,
wherein is blemish, [or] any
evilfavouredness: for that [is] an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
2 If there be found among you, within
any of thy gates which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, man or woman, that hath
wrought wickedness in the sight of the
LORD thy God, in transgressing his
covenant,
3 And hath gone and served other gods,
and worshipped them, either the sun, or
moon, or any of the host of heaven,
which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast
heard [of it], and enquired diligently,
and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the
thing certain, [that] such abomination
is wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man
or that woman, which have committed
that wicked thing, unto thy gates,
[even] that man or that woman, and
shalt stone them with stones, till they
die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or
three witnesses, shall he that is
worthy of death be put to death; [but]
at the mouth of one witness he shall
not be put to death.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be
first upon him to put him to death, and
afterward the hands of all the people.
So thou shalt put the evil away from
among you.
8 # If there arise a matter too hard
for thee in judgment, between blood and
blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, [being]
matters of controversy within thy
gates: then shalt thou arise, and get
thee up into the place which the LORD
thy God shall choose;
9 And thou shalt come unto the priests
the Levites, and unto the judge that
shall be in those days, and enquire;
and they shall shew thee the sentence
of judgment:
10 And thou shalt do according to the
sentence, which they of that place
which the LORD shall choose shall shew
thee; and thou shalt observe to do
according to all that they inform thee:
11 According to the sentence of the law
which they shall teach thee, and
according to the judgment which they
shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou
shalt not decline from the sentence
which they shall shew thee, [to] the
right hand, nor [to] the left.
12 And the man that will do
presumptuously, and will not hearken
unto the priest that standeth to
minister there before the LORD thy God,
or unto the judge, even that man shall
die: and thou shalt put away the evil
from Israel.
13 And all the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 # When thou art come unto the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and
shalt possess it, and shalt dwell
therein, and shalt say, I will set a
king over me, like as all the nations
that [are] about me;
15 Thou shalt in any wise set [him]
king over thee, whom the LORD thy God
shall choose: [one] from among thy
brethren shalt thou set king over thee:
thou mayest not set a stranger over
thee, which [is] not thy brother.
16 But he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return
to Egypt, to the end that he should
multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD
hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth
return no more that way.
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to
himself, that his heart turn not away:
neither shall he greatly multiply to
himself silver and gold.
18 And it shall be, when he sitteth
upon the throne of his kingdom, that he
shall write him a copy of this law in a
book out of [that which is] before the
priests the Levites:
19 And it shall be with him, and he
shall read therein all the days of his
life: that he may learn to fear the
LORD his God, to keep all the words of
this law and these statutes, to do
them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up
above his brethren, and that he turn
not aside from the commandment, [to]
the right hand, or [to] the left: to
the end that he may prolong [his] days
in his kingdom, he, and his children,
in the midst of Israel.

CHAPTER 18
1 The priests the Levites, [and] all
the tribe of Levi, shall have no part
nor inheritance with Israel: they shall
eat the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, and his inheritance.
2 Therefore shall they have no
inheritance among their brethren: the
LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath
said unto them.
3 # And this shall be the priest's due
from the people, from them that offer a
sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep;
and they shall give unto the priest the
shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the
maw.
4 The firstfruit [also] of thy corn, of
thy wine, and of thine oil, and the
first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt
thou give him.
5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him
out of all thy tribes, to stand to
minister in the name of the LORD, him
and his sons for ever.
6 # And if a Levite come from any of
thy gates out of all Israel, where he
sojourned, and come with all the desire
of his mind unto the place which the
LORD shall choose;
7 Then he shall minister in the name of
the LORD his God, as all his brethren
the Levites [do], which stand there
before the LORD.
8 They shall have like portions to eat,
beside that which cometh of the sale of
his patrimony.
9 # When thou art come into the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
thou shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you
[any one] that maketh his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, [or]
that useth divination, [or] an observer
of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with
familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer.
12 For all that do these things [are]
an abomination unto the LORD: and
because of these abominations the LORD
thy God doth drive them out from before
thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD
thy God.
14 For these nations, which thou shalt
possess, hearkened unto observers of
times, and unto diviners: but as for
thee, the LORD thy God hath not
suffered thee so [to do].
15 # The LORD thy God will raise up
unto thee a Prophet from the midst of
thee, of thy brethren, like unto me;
unto him ye shall hearken;
16 According to all that thou desiredst
of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day
of the assembly, saying, Let me not
hear again the voice of the LORD my
God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I die not.
17 And the LORD said unto me, They have
well [spoken that] which they have
spoken.
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from
among their brethren, like unto thee,
and will put my words in his mouth; and
he shall speak unto them all that I
shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, [that]
whosoever will not hearken unto my
words which he shall speak in my name,
I will require [it] of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume
to speak a word in my name, which I
have not commanded him to speak, or
that shall speak in the name of other
gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How
shall we know the word which the LORD
hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name
of the LORD, if the thing follow not,
nor come to pass, that [is] the thing
which the LORD hath not spoken, [but]
the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be
afraid of him.

CHAPTER 19
1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off
the nations, whose land the LORD thy
God giveth thee, and thou succeedest
them, and dwellest in their cities, and
in their houses;
2 Thou shalt separate three cities for
thee in the midst of thy land, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess
it.
3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and
divide the coasts of thy land, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit, into three parts, that every
slayer may flee thither.
4 # And this [is] the case of the
slayer, which shall flee thither, that
he may live: Whoso killeth his
neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not
in time past;
5 As when a man goeth into the wood
with his neighbour to hew wood, and his
hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to
cut down the tree, and the head
slippeth from the helve, and lighteth
upon his neighbour, that he die; he
shall flee unto one of those cities,
and live:
6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue
the slayer, while his heart is hot, and
overtake him, because the way is long,
and slay him; whereas he [was] not
worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated
him not in time past.
7 Wherefore I command thee, saying,
Thou shalt separate three cities for
thee.
8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy
coast, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers, and give thee all the land
which he promised to give unto thy
fathers;
9 If thou shalt keep all these
commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day, to love the LORD
thy God, and to walk ever in his ways;
then shalt thou add three cities more
for thee, beside these three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in
thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee [for] an inheritance, and [so]
blood be upon thee.
11 # But if any man hate his neighbour,
and lie in wait for him, and rise up
against him, and smite him mortally
that he die, and fleeth into one of
these cities:
12 Then the elders of his city shall
send and fetch him thence, and deliver
him into the hand of the avenger of
blood, that he may die.
13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but
thou shalt put away [the guilt of]
innocent blood from Israel, that it may
go well with thee.
14 # Thou shalt not remove thy
neighbour's landmark, which they of old
time have set in thine inheritance,
which thou shalt inherit in the land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
15 # One witness shall not rise up
against a man for any iniquity, or for
any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at
the mouth of two witnesses, or at the
mouth of three witnesses, shall the
matter be established.
16 # If a false witness rise up against
any man to testify against him [that
which is] wrong;
17 Then both the men, between whom the
controversy [is], shall stand before
the LORD, before the priests and the
judges, which shall be in those days;
18 And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, [if] the
witness [be] a false witness, [and]
hath testified falsely against his
brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had
thought to have done unto his brother:
so shalt thou put the evil away from
among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear,
and fear, and shall henceforth commit
no more any such evil among you.
21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but]
life [shall go] for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot.

CHAPTER 20
1 When thou goest out to battle against
thine enemies, and seest horses, and
chariots, [and] a people more than
thou, be not afraid of them: for the
LORD thy God [is] with thee, which
brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt.
2 And it shall be, when ye are come
nigh unto the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak unto the
people,
3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O
Israel, ye approach this day unto
battle against your enemies: let not
your hearts faint, fear not, and do not
tremble, neither be ye terrified
because of them;
4 For the LORD your God [is] he that
goeth with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
5 # And the officers shall speak unto
the people, saying, What man [is there]
that hath built a new house, and hath
not dedicated it? let him go and return
to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it.
6 And what man [is he] that hath
planted a vineyard, and hath not [yet]
eaten of it? let him [also] go and
return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man eat of it.
7 And what man [is there] that hath
betrothed a wife, and hath not taken
her? let him go and return unto his
house, lest he die in the battle, and
another man take her.
8 And the officers shall speak further
unto the people, and they shall say,
What man [is there that is] fearful and
fainthearted? let him go and return
unto his house, lest his brethren's
heart faint as well as his heart.
9 And it shall be, when the officers
have made an end of speaking unto the
people, that they shall make captains
of the armies to lead the people.
10 # When thou comest nigh unto a city
to fight against it, then proclaim
peace unto it.
11 And it shall be, if it make thee
answer of peace, and open unto thee,
then it shall be, [that] all the people
[that is] found therein shall be
tributaries unto thee, and they shall
serve thee.
12 And if it will make no peace with
thee, but will make war against thee,
then thou shalt besiege it:
13 And when the LORD thy God hath
delivered it into thine hands, thou
shalt smite every male thereof with the
edge of the sword:
14 But the women, and the little ones,
and the cattle, and all that is in the
city, [even] all the spoil thereof,
shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou
shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the
cities [which are] very far off from
thee, which [are] not of the cities of
these nations.
16 But of the cities of these people,
which the LORD thy God doth give thee
[for] an inheritance, thou shalt save
alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them;
[namely], the Hittites, and the
Amorites, the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee:
18 That they teach you not to do after
all their abominations, which they have
done unto their gods; so should ye sin
against the LORD your God.
19 # When thou shalt besiege a city a
long time, in making war against it to
take it, thou shalt not destroy the
trees thereof by forcing an axe against
them: for thou mayest eat of them, and
thou shalt not cut them down (for the
tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to
employ [them] in the siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest
that they [be] not trees for meat, thou
shalt destroy and cut them down; and
thou shalt build bulwarks against the
city that maketh war with thee, until
it be subdued.

CHAPTER 21
1 If [one] be found slain in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it, lying in the field, [and]
it be not known who hath slain him:
2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall
come forth, and they shall measure unto
the cities which [are] round about him
that is slain:
3 And it shall be, [that] the city
[which is] next unto the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take
an heifer, which hath not been wrought
with, [and] which hath not drawn in the
yoke;
4 And the elders of that city shall
bring down the heifer unto a rough
valley, which is neither eared nor
sown, and shall strike off the heifer's
neck there in the valley:
5 And the priests the sons of Levi
shall come near; for them the LORD thy
God hath chosen to minister unto him,
and to bless in the name of the LORD;
and by their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be
[tried]:
6 And all the elders of that city,
[that are] next unto the slain [man],
shall wash their hands over the heifer
that is beheaded in the valley:
7 And they shall answer and say, Our
hands have not shed this blood, neither
have our eyes seen [it].
8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people
Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and
lay not innocent blood unto thy people
of Israel's charge. And the blood shall
be forgiven them.
9 So shalt thou put away the [guilt of]
innocent blood from among you, when
thou shalt do [that which is] right in
the sight of the LORD.
10 # When thou goest forth to war
against thine enemies, and the LORD thy
God hath delivered them into thine
hands, and thou hast taken them
captive,
11 And seest among the captives a
beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto
her, that thou wouldest have her to thy
wife;
12 Then thou shalt bring her home to
thine house; and she shall shave her
head, and pare her nails;
13 And she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall
remain in thine house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and
after that thou shalt go in unto her,
and be her husband, and she shall be
thy wife.
14 And it shall be, if thou have no
delight in her, then thou shalt let her
go whither she will; but thou shalt not
sell her at all for money, thou shalt
not make merchandise of her, because
thou hast humbled her.
15 # If a man have two wives, one
beloved, and another hated, and they
have born him children, [both] the
beloved and the hated; and [if] the
firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his
sons to inherit [that] which he hath,
[that] he may not make the son of the
beloved firstborn before the son of the
hated, [which is indeed] the firstborn:
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of
the hated [for] the firstborn, by
giving him a double portion of all that
he hath: for he [is] the beginning of
his strength; the right of the
firstborn [is] his.
18 # If a man have a stubborn and
rebellious son, which will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of
his mother, and [that], when they have
chastened him, will not hearken unto
them:
19 Then shall his father and his mother
lay hold on him, and bring him out unto
the elders of his city, and unto the
gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders
of his city, This our son [is] stubborn
and rebellious, he will not obey our
voice; [he is] a glutton, and a
drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall
stone him with stones, that he die: so
shalt thou put evil away from among
you; and all Israel shall hear, and
fear.
22 # And if a man have committed a sin
worthy of death, and he be to be put to
death, and thou hang him on a tree:
23 His body shall not remain all night
upon the tree, but thou shalt in any
wise bury him that day; (for he that is
hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy
land be not defiled, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

CHAPTER 22
1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox
or his sheep go astray, and hide
thyself from them: thou shalt in any
case bring them again unto thy brother.
2 And if thy brother [be] not nigh unto
thee, or if thou know him not, then
thou shalt bring it unto thine own
house, and it shall be with thee until
thy brother seek after it, and thou
shalt restore it to him again.
3 In like manner shalt thou do with his
ass; and so shalt thou do with his
raiment; and with all lost thing of thy
brother's, which he hath lost, and thou
hast found, shalt thou do likewise:
thou mayest not hide thyself.
4 # Thou shalt not see thy brother's
ass or his ox fall down by the way, and
hide thyself from them: thou shalt
surely help him to lift [them] up
again.
5 # The woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a
man put on a woman's garment: for all
that do so [are] abomination unto the
LORD thy God.
6 # If a bird's nest chance to be
before thee in the way in any tree, or
on the ground, [whether they be] young
ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon
the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt
not take the dam with the young:
7 [But] thou shalt in any wise let the
dam go, and take the young to thee;
that it may be well with thee, and
[that] thou mayest prolong [thy] days.
8 # When thou buildest a new house,
then thou shalt make a battlement for
thy roof, that thou bring not blood
upon thine house, if any man fall from
thence.
9 # Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard
with divers seeds: lest the fruit of
thy seed which thou hast sown, and the
fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10 # Thou shalt not plow with an ox and
an ass together.
11 # Thou shalt not wear a garment of
divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen
together.
12 # Thou shalt make thee fringes upon
the four quarters of thy vesture,
wherewith thou coverest [thyself].
13 # If any man take a wife, and go in
unto her, and hate her,
14 And give occasions of speech against
her, and bring up an evil name upon
her, and say, I took this woman, and
when I came to her, I found her not a
maid:
15 Then shall the father of the damsel,
and her mother, take and bring forth
[the tokens of] the damsel's virginity
unto the elders of the city in the
gate:
16 And the damsel's father shall say
unto the elders, I gave my daughter
unto this man to wife, and he hateth
her;
17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of
speech [against her], saying, I found
not thy daughter a maid; and yet these
[are the tokens of] my daughter's
virginity. And they shall spread the
cloth before the elders of the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall
take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall amerce him in an
hundred [shekels] of silver, and give
[them] unto the father of the damsel,
because he hath brought up an evil name
upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall
be his wife; he may not put her away
all his days.
20 But if this thing be true, [and the
tokens of] virginity be not found for
the damsel:
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel
to the door of her father's house, and
the men of her city shall stone her
with stones that she die: because she
hath wrought folly in Israel, to play
the whore in her father's house: so
shalt thou put evil away from among
you.
22 # If a man be found lying with a
woman married to an husband, then they
shall both of them die, [both] the man
that lay with the woman, and the woman:
so shalt thou put away evil from
Israel.
23 # If a damsel [that is] a virgin be
betrothed unto an husband, and a man
find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out
unto the gate of that city, and ye
shall stone them with stones that they
die; the damsel, because she cried not,
[being] in the city; and the man,
because he hath humbled his neighbour's
wife: so thou shalt put away evil from
among you.
25 # But if a man find a betrothed
damsel in the field, and the man force
her, and lie with her: then the man
only that lay with her shall die:
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do
nothing; [there is] in the damsel no
sin [worthy] of death: for as when a
man riseth against his neighbour, and
slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, [and]
the betrothed damsel cried, and [there
was] none to save her.
28 # If a man find a damsel [that is] a
virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay
hold on her, and lie with her, and they
be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall
give unto the damsel's father fifty
[shekels] of silver, and she shall be
his wife; because he hath humbled her,
he may not put her away all his days.
30 # A man shall not take his father's
wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

CHAPTER 23
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or
hath his privy member cut off, shall
not enter into the congregation of the
LORD.
2 A bastard shall not enter into the
congregation of the LORD; even to his
tenth generation shall he not enter
into the congregation of the LORD.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not
enter into the congregation of the
LORD; even to their tenth generation
shall they not enter into the
congregation of the LORD for ever:
4 Because they met you not with bread
and with water in the way, when ye came
forth out of Egypt; and because they
hired against thee Balaam the son of
Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse
thee.
5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would
not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD
thy God turned the curse into a
blessing unto thee, because the LORD
thy God loved thee.
6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor
their prosperity all thy days for ever.
7 # Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite;
for he [is] thy brother: thou shalt not
abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a
stranger in his land.
8 The children that are begotten of
them shall enter into the congregation
of the LORD in their third generation.
9 # When the host goeth forth against
thine enemies, then keep thee from
every wicked thing.
10 # If there be among you any man,
that is not clean by reason of
uncleanness that chanceth him by night,
then shall he go abroad out of the
camp, he shall not come within the
camp:
11 But it shall be, when evening cometh
on, he shall wash [himself] with water:
and when the sun is down, he shall come
into the camp [again].
12 # Thou shalt have a place also
without the camp, whither thou shalt go
forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon
thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou
wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt
dig therewith, and shalt turn back and
cover that which cometh from thee:
14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the
midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and
to give up thine enemies before thee;
therefore shall thy camp be holy: that
he see no unclean thing in thee, and
turn away from thee.
15 # Thou shalt not deliver unto his
master the servant which is escaped
from his master unto thee:
16 He shall dwell with thee, [even]
among you, in that place which he shall
choose in one of thy gates, where it
liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress
him.
17 # There shall be no whore of the
daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of
the sons of Israel.
18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a
whore, or the price of a dog, into the
house of the LORD thy God for any vow:
for even both these [are] abomination
unto the LORD thy God.
19 # Thou shalt not lend upon usury to
thy brother; usury of money, usury of
victuals, usury of any thing that is
lent upon usury:
20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend
upon usury; but unto thy brother thou
shalt not lend upon usury: that the
LORD thy God may bless thee in all that
thou settest thine hand to in the land
whither thou goest to possess it.
21 # When thou shalt vow a vow unto the
LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to
pay it: for the LORD thy God will
surely require it of thee; and it would
be sin in thee.
22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it
shall be no sin in thee.
23 That which is gone out of thy lips
thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a
freewill offering, according as thou
hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which
thou hast promised with thy mouth.
24 # When thou comest into thy
neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest
eat grapes thy fill at thine own
pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any]
in thy vessel.
25 When thou comest into the standing
corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest
pluck the ears with thine hand; but
thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy
neighbour's standing corn.

CHAPTER 24
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and
married her, and it come to pass that
she find no favour in his eyes, because
he hath found some uncleanness in her:
then let him write her a bill of
divorcement, and give [it] in her hand,
and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his
house, she may go and be another man's
[wife].
3 And [if] the latter husband hate her,
and write her a bill of divorcement,
and giveth [it] in her hand, and
sendeth her out of his house; or if the
latter husband die, which took her [to
be] his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her
away, may not take her again to be his
wife, after that she is defiled; for
that [is] abomination before the LORD:
and thou shalt not cause the land to
sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
[for] an inheritance.
5 # When a man hath taken a new wife,
he shall not go out to war, neither
shall he be charged with any business:
[but] he shall be free at home one
year, and shall cheer up his wife which
he hath taken.
6 # No man shall take the nether or the
upper millstone to pledge: for he
taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
7 # If a man be found stealing any of
his brethren of the children of Israel,
and maketh merchandise of him, or
selleth him; then that thief shall die;
and thou shalt put evil away from among
you.
8 # Take heed in the plague of leprosy,
that thou observe diligently, and do
according to all that the priests the
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded
them, [so] ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the LORD thy God did
unto Miriam by the way, after that ye
were come forth out of Egypt.
10 # When thou dost lend thy brother
any thing, thou shalt not go into his
house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man
to whom thou dost lend shall bring out
the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt
not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him
the pledge again when the sun goeth
down, that he may sleep in his own
raiment, and bless thee: and it shall
be righteousness unto thee before the
LORD thy God.
14 # Thou shalt not oppress an hired
servant [that is] poor and needy,
[whether he be] of thy brethren, or of
thy strangers that [are] in thy land
within thy gates:
15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his
hire, neither shall the sun go down
upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth
his heart upon it: lest he cry against
thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto
thee.
16 The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, neither shall
the children be put to death for the
fathers: every man shall be put to
death for his own sin.
17 # Thou shalt not pervert the
judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the
fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment
to pledge:
18 But thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD
thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore
I command thee to do this thing.
19 # When thou cuttest down thine
harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a
sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go
again to fetch it: it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow: that the LORD thy God may
bless thee in all the work of thine
hands.
20 When thou beatest thine olive tree,
thou shalt not go over the boughs
again: it shall be for the stranger,
for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When thou gatherest the grapes of
thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it]
afterward: it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow.
22 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in the land of Egypt:
therefore I command thee to do this
thing.

CHAPTER 25
1 If there be a controversy between
men, and they come unto judgment, that
[the judges] may judge them; then they
shall justify the righteous, and
condemn the wicked.
2 And it shall be, if the wicked man
[be] worthy to be beaten, that the
judge shall cause him to lie down, and
to be beaten before his face, according
to his fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and]
not exceed: lest, [if] he should
exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then thy brother should
seem vile unto thee.
4 # Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when
he treadeth out [the corn].
5 # If brethren dwell together, and one
of them die, and have no child, the
wife of the dead shall not marry
without unto a stranger: her husband's
brother shall go in unto her, and take
her to him to wife, and perform the
duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn
which she beareth shall succeed in the
name of his brother [which is] dead,
that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 And if the man like not to take his
brother's wife, then let his brother's
wife go up to the gate unto the elders,
and say, My husband's brother refuseth
to raise up unto his brother a name in
Israel, he will not perform the duty of
my husband's brother.
8 Then the elders of his city shall
call him, and speak unto him: and [if]
he stand [to it], and say, I like not
to take her;
9 Then shall his brother's wife come
unto him in the presence of the elders,
and loose his shoe from off his foot,
and spit in his face, and shall answer
and say, So shall it be done unto that
man that will not build up his
brother's house.
10 And his name shall be called in
Israel, The house of him that hath his
shoe loosed.
11 # When men strive together one with
another, and the wife of the one
draweth near for to deliver her husband
out of the hand of him that smiteth
him, and putteth forth her hand, and
taketh him by the secrets:
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand,
thine eye shall not pity [her].
13 # Thou shalt not have in thy bag
divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house
divers measures, a great and a small.
15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and
just weight, a perfect and just measure
shalt thou have: that thy days may be
lengthened in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, [and]
all that do unrighteously, [are] an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
17 # Remember what Amalek did unto thee
by the way, when ye were come forth out
of Egypt;
18 How he met thee by the way, and
smote the hindmost of thee, [even] all
[that were] feeble behind thee, when
thou [wast] faint and weary; and he
feared not God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD
thy God hath given thee rest from all
thine enemies round about, in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee
[for] an inheritance to possess it,
[that] thou shalt blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].

CHAPTER 26
1 And it shall be, when thou [art] come
in unto the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein;
2 That thou shalt take of the first of
all the fruit of the earth, which thou
shalt bring of thy land that the LORD
thy God giveth thee, and shalt put [it]
in a basket, and shalt go unto the
place which the LORD thy God shall
choose to place his name there.
3 And thou shalt go unto the priest
that shall be in those days, and say
unto him, I profess this day unto the
LORD thy God, that I am come unto the
country which the LORD sware unto our
fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest shall take the basket
out of thine hand, and set it down
before the altar of the LORD thy God.
5 And thou shalt speak and say before
the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to
perish [was] my father, and he went
down into Egypt, and sojourned there
with a few, and became there a nation,
great, mighty, and populous:
6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us,
and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard
bondage:
7 And when we cried unto the LORD God
of our fathers, the LORD heard our
voice, and looked on our affliction,
and our labour, and our oppression:
8 And the LORD brought us forth out of
Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great
terribleness, and with signs, and with
wonders:
9 And he hath brought us into this
place, and hath given us this land,
[even] a land that floweth with milk
and honey.
10 And now, behold, I have brought the
firstfruits of the land, which thou, O
LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set
it before the LORD thy God, and worship
before the LORD thy God:
11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good
[thing] which the LORD thy God hath
given unto thee, and unto thine house,
thou, and the Levite, and the stranger
that [is] among you.
12 # When thou hast made an end of
tithing all the tithes of thine
increase the third year, [which is] the
year of tithing, and hast given [it]
unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, that they
may eat within thy gates, and be
filled;
13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD
thy God, I have brought away the
hallowed things out of [mine] house,
and also have given them unto the
Levite, and unto the stranger, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according
to all thy commandments which thou hast
commanded me: I have not transgressed
thy commandments, neither have I
forgotten [them]:
14 I have not eaten thereof in my
mourning, neither have I taken away
[ought] thereof for [any] unclean
[use], nor given [ought] thereof for
the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the
voice of the LORD my God, [and] have
done according to all that thou hast
commanded me.
15 Look down from thy holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless thy people
Israel, and the land which thou hast
given us, as thou swarest unto our
fathers, a land that floweth with milk
and honey.
16 # This day the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee to do these statutes and
judgments: thou shalt therefore keep
and do them with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day
to be thy God, and to walk in his ways,
and to keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his judgments, and to
hearken unto his voice:
18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this
day to be his peculiar people, as he
hath promised thee, and that [thou]
shouldest keep all his commandments;
19 And to make thee high above all
nations which he hath made, in praise,
and in name, and in honour; and that
thou mayest be an holy people unto the
LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

CHAPTER 27
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel
commanded the people, saying, Keep all
the commandments which I command you
this day.
2 And it shall be on the day when ye
shall pass over Jordan unto the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
that thou shalt set thee up great
stones, and plaister them with
plaister:
3 And thou shalt write upon them all
the words of this law, when thou art
passed over, that thou mayest go in
unto the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, a land that floweth with
milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy
fathers hath promised thee.
4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone
over Jordan, [that] ye shall set up
these stones, which I command you this
day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt
plaister them with plaister.
5 And there shalt thou build an altar
unto the LORD thy God, an altar of
stones: thou shalt not lift up [any]
iron [tool] upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of the
LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou
shalt offer burnt offerings thereon
unto the LORD thy God:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings,
and shalt eat there, and rejoice before
the LORD thy God.
8 And thou shalt write upon the stones
all the words of this law very plainly.
9 # And Moses and the priests the
Levites spake unto all Israel, saying,
Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this
day thou art become the people of the
LORD thy God.
10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice
of the LORD thy God, and do his
commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day.
11 # And Moses charged the people the
same day, saying,
12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim
to bless the people, when ye are come
over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and
Benjamin:
13 And these shall stand upon mount
Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher,
and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 # And the Levites shall speak, and
say unto all the men of Israel with a
loud voice,
15 Cursed [be] the man that maketh
[any] graven or molten image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of
the hands of the craftsman, and putteth
[it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the
people shall answer and say, Amen.
16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by
his father or his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
17 Cursed [be] he that removeth his
neighbour's landmark. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
18 Cursed [be] he that maketh the blind
to wander out of the way. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the
judgment of the stranger, fatherless,
and widow. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
20 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his
father's wife; because he uncovereth
his father's skirt. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
21 Cursed [be] he that lieth with any
manner of beast. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
22 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his
sister, the daughter of his father, or
the daughter of his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his
mother in law. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
24 Cursed [be] he that smiteth his
neighbour secretly. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
25 Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to
slay an innocent person. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
26 Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not
[all] the words of this law to do them.
And all the people shall say, Amen.

CHAPTER 28
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe [and]
to do all his commandments which I
command thee this day, that the LORD
thy God will set thee on high above all
nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on
thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt
hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God.
3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the
city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in
the field.
4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy
body, and the fruit of thy ground, and
the fruit of thy cattle, the increase
of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep.
5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy
store.
6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou
comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou
[be] when thou goest out.
7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies
that rise up against thee to be smitten
before thy face: they shall come out
against thee one way, and flee before
thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing
upon thee in thy storehouses, and in
all that thou settest thine hand unto;
and he shall bless thee in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy
people unto himself, as he hath sworn
unto thee, if thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, and
walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall
see that thou art called by the name of
the LORD; and they shall be afraid of
thee.
11 And the LORD shall make thee
plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy
fathers to give thee.
12 The LORD shall open unto thee his
good treasure, the heaven to give the
rain unto thy land in his season, and
to bless all the work of thine hand:
and thou shalt lend unto many nations,
and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the
head, and not the tail; and thou shalt
be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if that thou hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD thy God, which
I command thee this day, to observe and
to do [them]:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any
of the words which I command thee this
day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the
left, to go after other gods to serve
them.
15 # But it shall come to pass, if thou
wilt not hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to observe to do all his
commandments and his statutes which I
command thee this day; that all these
curses shall come upon thee, and
overtake thee:
16 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the
city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in
the field.
17 Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy
store.
18 Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy
body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of
thy sheep.
19 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou
comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be]
when thou goest out.
20 The LORD shall send upon thee
cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for
to do, until thou be destroyed, and
until thou perish quickly; because of
the wickedness of thy doings, whereby
thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence
cleave unto thee, until he have
consumed thee from off the land,
whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a
consumption, and with a fever, and with
an inflammation, and with an extreme
burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew; and they
shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that [is] over thy
head shall be brass, and the earth that
is under thee [shall be] iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy
land powder and dust: from heaven shall
it come down upon thee, until thou be
destroyed.
25 The LORD shall cause thee to be
smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and
flee seven ways before them: and shalt
be removed into all the kingdoms of the
earth.
26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto
all fowls of the air, and unto the
beasts of the earth, and no man shall
fray [them] away.
27 The LORD will smite thee with the
botch of Egypt, and with the emerods,
and with the scab, and with the itch,
whereof thou canst not be healed.
28 The LORD shall smite thee with
madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as
the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou
shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou
shalt be only oppressed and spoiled
evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and
another man shall lie with her: thou
shalt build an house, and thou shalt
not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a
vineyard, and shalt not gather the
grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox [shall be] slain before
thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently
taken away from before thy face, and
shall not be restored to thee: thy
sheep [shall be] given unto thine
enemies, and thou shalt have none to
rescue [them].
32 Thy sons and thy daughters [shall
be] given unto another people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail [with
longing] for them all the day long: and
[there shall be] no might in thine
hand.
33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy
labours, shall a nation which thou
knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be
only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that thou shalt be mad for the
sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
see.
35 The LORD shall smite thee in the
knees, and in the legs, with a sore
botch that cannot be healed, from the
sole of thy foot unto the top of thy
head.
36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy
king which thou shalt set over thee,
unto a nation which neither thou nor
thy fathers have known; and there shalt
thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations whither the LORD
shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into
the field, and shalt gather [but]
little in; for the locust shall consume
it.
39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and
dress [them], but shalt neither drink
[of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes];
for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees
throughout all thy coasts, but thou
shalt not anoint [thyself] with the
oil; for thine olive shall cast [his
fruit].
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters,
but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they
shall go into captivity.
42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land
shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that [is] within thee
shall get up above thee very high; and
thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou
shalt not lend to him: he shall be the
head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come
upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and
overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;
because thou hearkenedst not unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he
commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon thee for a
sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
seed for ever.
47 Because thou servedst not the LORD
thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of
all [things];
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine
enemies which the LORD shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst,
and in nakedness, and in want of all
[things]: and he shall put a yoke of
iron upon thy neck, until he have
destroyed thee.
49 The LORD shall bring a nation
against thee from far, from the end of
the earth, [as swift] as the eagle
flieth; a nation whose tongue thou
shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance,
which shall not regard the person of
the old, nor shew favour to the young:
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy
cattle, and the fruit of thy land,
until thou be destroyed: which [also]
shall not leave thee [either] corn,
wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy
kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he
have destroyed thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy
gates, until thy high and fenced walls
come down, wherein thou trustedst,
throughout all thy land: and he shall
besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of
thine own body, the flesh of thy sons
and of thy daughters, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee, in the siege,
and in the straitness, wherewith thine
enemies shall distress thee:
54 [So that] the man [that is] tender
among you, and very delicate, his eye
shall be evil toward his brother, and
toward the wife of his bosom, and
toward the remnant of his children
which he shall leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of
them of the flesh of his children whom
he shall eat: because he hath nothing
left him in the siege, and in the
straitness, wherewith thine enemies
shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among
you, which would not adventure to set
the sole of her foot upon the ground
for delicateness and tenderness, her
eye shall be evil toward the husband of
her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter,
57 And toward her young one that cometh
out from between her feet, and toward
her children which she shall bear: for
she shall eat them for want of all
[things] secretly in the siege and
straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall
distress thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all
the words of this law that are written
in this book, that thou mayest fear
this glorious and fearful name, THE
LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues
wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed,
[even] great plagues, and of long
continuance, and sore sicknesses, and
of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all
the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast
afraid of; and they shall cleave unto
thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every
plague, which [is] not written in the
book of this law, them will the LORD
bring upon thee, until thou be
destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number,
whereas ye were as the stars of heaven
for multitude; because thou wouldest
not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as
the LORD rejoiced over you to do you
good, and to multiply you; so the LORD
will rejoice over you to destroy you,
and to bring you to nought; and ye
shall be plucked from off the land
whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the LORD shall scatter thee
among all people, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other; and
there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have
known, [even] wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou
find no ease, neither shall the sole of
thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall
give thee there a trembling heart, and
failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And thy life shall hang in doubt
before thee; and thou shalt fear day
and night, and shalt have none
assurance of thy life:
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would
God it were even! and at even thou
shalt say, Would God it were morning!
for the fear of thine heart wherewith
thou shalt fear, and for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And the LORD shall bring thee into
Egypt again with ships, by the way
whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt
see it no more again: and there ye
shall be sold unto your enemies for
bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall
buy [you].

CHAPTER 29
1 These [are] the words of the
covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of
Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in
Horeb.
2 # And Moses called unto all Israel,
and said unto them, Ye have seen all
that the LORD did before your eyes in
the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and
unto all his servants, and unto all his
land;
3 The great temptations which thine
eyes have seen, the signs, and those
great miracles:
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an
heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and
ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the
wilderness: your clothes are not waxen
old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen
old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have
ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye
might know that I [am] the LORD your
God.
7 And when ye came unto this place,
Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, came out against us
unto battle, and we smote them:
8 And we took their land, and gave it
for an inheritance unto the Reubenites,
and to the Gadites, and to the half
tribe of Manasseh.
9 Keep therefore the words of this
covenant, and do them, that ye may
prosper in all that ye do.
10 # Ye stand this day all of you
before the LORD your God; your captains
of your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, [with] all the men of Israel,
11 Your little ones, your wives, and
thy stranger that [is] in thy camp,
from the hewer of thy wood unto the
drawer of thy water:
12 That thou shouldest enter into
covenant with the LORD thy God, and
into his oath, which the LORD thy God
maketh with thee this day:
13 That he may establish thee to day
for a people unto himself, and [that]
he may be unto thee a God, as he hath
said unto thee, and as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make this
covenant and this oath;
15 But with [him] that standeth here
with us this day before the LORD our
God, and also with [him] that [is] not
here with us this day:
16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in
the land of Egypt; and how we came
through the nations which ye passed by;
17 And ye have seen their abominations,
and their idols, wood and stone, silver
and gold, which [were] among them:)
18 Lest there should be among you man,
or woman, or family, or tribe, whose
heart turneth away this day from the
LORD our God, to go [and] serve the
gods of these nations; lest there
should be among you a root that beareth
gall and wormwood;
19 And it come to pass, when he heareth
the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall
have peace, though I walk in the
imagination of mine heart, to add
drunkenness to thirst:
20 The LORD will not spare him, but
then the anger of the LORD and his
jealousy shall smoke against that man,
and all the curses that are written in
this book shall lie upon him, and the
LORD shall blot out his name from under
heaven.
21 And the LORD shall separate him unto
evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the
covenant that are written in this book
of the law:
22 So that the generation to come of
your children that shall rise up after
you, and the stranger that shall come
from a far land, shall say, when they
see the plagues of that land, and the
sicknesses which the LORD hath laid
upon it;
23 [And that] the whole land thereof
[is] brimstone, and salt, [and]
burning, [that] it is not sown, nor
beareth, nor any grass groweth therein,
like the overthrow of Sodom, and
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the
LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his
wrath:
24 Even all nations shall say,
Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
this land? what [meaneth] the heat of
this great anger?
25 Then men shall say, Because they
have forsaken the covenant of the LORD
God of their fathers, which he made
with them when he brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt:
26 For they went and served other gods,
and worshipped them, gods whom they
knew not, and [whom] he had not given
unto them:
27 And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written
in this book:
28 And the LORD rooted them out of
their land in anger, and in wrath, and
in great indignation, and cast them
into another land, as [it is] this day.
29 The secret [things belong] unto the
LORD our God: but those [things which
are] revealed [belong] unto us and to
our children for ever, that [we] may do
all the words of this law.

CHAPTER 30
1 And it shall come to pass, when all
these things are come upon thee, the
blessing and the curse, which I have
set before thee, and thou shalt call
[them] to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven
thee,
2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy
God, and shalt obey his voice according
to all that I command thee this day,
thou and thy children, with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the LORD thy God will turn
thy captivity, and have compassion upon
thee, and will return and gather thee
from all the nations, whither the LORD
thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto
the outmost [parts] of heaven, from
thence will the LORD thy God gather
thee, and from thence will he fetch
thee:
5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee
into the land which thy fathers
possessed, and thou shalt possess it;
and he will do thee good, and multiply
thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise
thine heart, and the heart of thy seed,
to love the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul, that thou
mayest live.
7 And the LORD thy God will put all
these curses upon thine enemies, and on
them that hate thee, which persecuted
thee.
8 And thou shalt return and obey the
voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command thee this
day.
9 And the LORD thy God will make thee
plenteous in every work of thine hand,
in the fruit of thy body, and in the
fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit
of thy land, for good: for the LORD
will again rejoice over thee for good,
as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are
written in this book of the law, [and]
if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with
all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11 # For this commandment which I
command thee this day, it [is] not
hidden from thee, neither [is] it far
off.
12 It [is] not in heaven, that thou
shouldest say, Who shall go up for us
to heaven, and bring it unto us, that
we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that
thou shouldest say, Who shall go over
the sea for us, and bring it unto us,
that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But the word [is] very nigh unto
thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart,
that thou mayest do it.
15 # See, I have set before thee this
day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to
love the LORD thy God, to walk in his
ways, and to keep his commandments and
his statutes and his judgments, that
thou mayest live and multiply: and the
LORD thy God shall bless thee in the
land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so
that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that
ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye
shall not prolong [your] days upon the
land, whither thou passest over Jordan
to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record
this day against you, [that] I have set
before you life and death, blessing and
cursing: therefore choose life, that
both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy
God, [and] that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto
him: for he [is] thy life, and the
length of thy days: that thou mayest
dwell in the land which the LORD sware
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, to give them.

CHAPTER 31
1 And Moses went and spake these words
unto all Israel.
2 And he said unto them, I [am] an
hundred and twenty years old this day;
I can no more go out and come in: also
the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt
not go over this Jordan.
3 The LORD thy God, he will go over
before thee, [and] he will destroy
these nations from before thee, and
thou shalt possess them: [and] Joshua,
he shall go over before thee, as the
LORD hath said.
4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he
did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the
Amorites, and unto the land of them,
whom he destroyed.
5 And the LORD shall give them up
before your face, that ye may do unto
them according unto all the
commandments which I have commanded
you.
6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear
not, nor be afraid of them: for the
LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee.
7 # And Moses called unto Joshua, and
said unto him in the sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of a good
courage: for thou must go with this
people unto the land which the LORD
hath sworn unto their fathers to give
them; and thou shalt cause them to
inherit it.
8 And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go
before thee; he will be with thee, he
will not fail thee, neither forsake
thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
9 # And Moses wrote this law, and
delivered it unto the priests the sons
of Levi, which bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and unto all the
elders of Israel.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At
the end of [every] seven years, in the
solemnity of the year of release, in
the feast of tabernacles,
11 When all Israel is come to appear
before the LORD thy God in the place
which he shall choose, thou shalt read
this law before all Israel in their
hearing.
12 Gather the people together, men, and
women, and children, and thy stranger
that [is] within thy gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn, and
fear the LORD your God, and observe to
do all the words of this law:
13 And [that] their children, which
have not known [any thing], may hear,
and learn to fear the LORD your God, as
long as ye live in the land whither ye
go over Jordan to possess it.
14 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Behold, thy days approach that thou
must die: call Joshua, and present
yourselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation, that I may give him a
charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and
presented themselves in the tabernacle
of the congregation.
15 And the LORD appeared in the
tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and
the pillar of the cloud stood over the
door of the tabernacle.
16 # And the LORD said unto Moses,
Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up,
and go a whoring after the gods of the
strangers of the land, whither they go
[to be] among them, and will forsake
me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them.
17 Then my anger shall be kindled
against them in that day, and I will
forsake them, and I will hide my face
from them, and they shall be devoured,
and many evils and troubles shall
befall them; so that they will say in
that day, Are not these evils come upon
us, because our God [is] not among us?
18 And I will surely hide my face in
that day for all the evils which they
shall have wrought, in that they are
turned unto other gods.
19 Now therefore write ye this song for
you, and teach it the children of
Israel: put it in their mouths, that
this song may be a witness for me
against the children of Israel.
20 For when I shall have brought them
into the land which I sware unto their
fathers, that floweth with milk and
honey; and they shall have eaten and
filled themselves, and waxen fat; then
will they turn unto other gods, and
serve them, and provoke me, and break
my covenant.
21 And it shall come to pass, when many
evils and troubles are befallen them,
that this song shall testify against
them as a witness; for it shall not be
forgotten out of the mouths of their
seed: for I know their imagination
which they go about, even now, before I
have brought them into the land which I
sware.
22 # Moses therefore wrote this song
the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel.
23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a
charge, and said, Be strong and of a
good courage: for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which
I sware unto them: and I will be with
thee.
24 # And it came to pass, when Moses
had made an end of writing the words of
this law in a book, until they were
finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites,
which bare the ark of the covenant of
the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put
it in the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, that it
may be there for a witness against
thee.
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy
stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been
rebellious against the LORD; and how
much more after my death?
28 # Gather unto me all the elders of
your tribes, and your officers, that I
may speak these words in their ears,
and call heaven and earth to record
against them.
29 For I know that after my death ye
will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and
turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will befall you
in the latter days; because ye will do
evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger through the work
of your hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all
the congregation of Israel the words of
this song, until they were ended.

CHAPTER 32
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will
speak; and hear, O earth, the words of
my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
my speech shall distil as the dew, as
the small rain upon the tender herb,
and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of
the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our
God.
4 [He is] the Rock, his work [is]
perfect: for all his ways [are]
judgment: a God of truth and without
iniquity, just and right [is] he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their
spot [is] not [the spot] of his
children: [they are] a perverse and
crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O
foolish people and unwise? [is] not he
thy father [that] hath bought thee?
hath he not made thee, and established
thee?
7 # Remember the days of old, consider
the years of many generations: ask thy
father, and he will shew thee; thy
elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the most High divided to the
nations their inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the
bounds of the people according to the
number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD'S portion [is] his
people; Jacob [is] the lot of his
inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and
in the waste howling wilderness; he led
him about, he instructed him, he kept
him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth
them on her wings:
12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him,
and [there was] no strange god with
him.
13 He made him ride on the high places
of the earth, that he might eat the
increase of the fields; and he made him
to suck honey out of the rock, and oil
out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep,
with fat of lambs, and rams of the
breed of Bashan, and goats, with the
fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst
drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
thou art waxen fat, thou art grown
thick, thou art covered [with fatness];
then he forsook God [which] made him,
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his
salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with
strange [gods], with abominations
provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to
God; to gods whom they knew not, to new
[gods that] came newly up, whom your
fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou
art unmindful, and hast forgotten God
that formed thee.
19 And when the LORD saw [it], he
abhorred [them], because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his
daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face
from them, I will see what their end
[shall be]: for they [are] a very
froward generation, children in whom
[is] no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with
[that which is] not God; they have
provoked me to anger with their
vanities: and I will move them to
jealousy with [those which are] not a
people; I will provoke them to anger
with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger,
and shall burn unto the lowest hell,
and shall consume the earth with her
increase, and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I
will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger,
and devoured with burning heat, and
with bitter destruction: I will also
send the teeth of beasts upon them,
with the poison of serpents of the
dust.
25 The sword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the young
man and the virgin, the suckling [also]
with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into
corners, I would make the remembrance
of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath
of the enemy, lest their adversaries
should behave themselves strangely,
[and] lest they should say, Our hand
[is] high, and the LORD hath not done
all this.
28 For they [are] a nation void of
counsel, neither [is there any]
understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, [that] they
understood this, [that] they would
consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and
two put ten thousand to flight, except
their Rock had sold them, and the LORD
had shut them up?
31 For their rock [is] not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves [being]
judges.
32 For their vine [is] of the vine of
Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah:
their grapes [are] grapes of gall,
their clusters [are] bitter:
33 Their wine [is] the poison of
dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 [Is] not this laid up in store with
me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and
recompence; their foot shall slide in
[due] time: for the day of their
calamity [is] at hand, and the things
that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people,
and repent himself for his servants,
when he seeth that [their] power is
gone, and [there is] none shut up, or
left.
37 And he shall say, Where [are] their
gods, [their] rock in whom they
trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their
sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of
their drink offerings? let them rise up
and help you, [and] be your protection.
39 See now that I, [even] I, [am] he,
and [there is] no god with me: I kill,
and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither [is there any] that can deliver
out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and
say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and
mine hand take hold on judgment; I will
render vengeance to mine enemies, and
will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with
blood, and my sword shall devour flesh;
[and that] with the blood of the slain
and of the captives, from the beginning
of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his
people: for he will avenge the blood of
his servants, and will render vengeance
to his adversaries, and will be
merciful unto his land, [and] to his
people.
44 # And Moses came and spake all the
words of this song in the ears of the
people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 And Moses made an end of speaking
all these words to all Israel:
46 And he said unto them, Set your
hearts unto all the words which I
testify among you this day, which ye
shall command your children to observe
to do, all the words of this law.
47 For it [is] not a vain thing for
you; because it [is] your life: and
through this thing ye shall prolong
[your] days in the land, whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it.
48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that
selfsame day, saying,
49 Get thee up into this mountain
Abarim, [unto] mount Nebo, which [is]
in the land of Moab, that [is] over
against Jericho; and behold the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children
of Israel for a possession:
50 And die in the mount whither thou
goest up, and be gathered unto thy
people; as Aaron thy brother died in
mount Hor, and was gathered unto his
people:
51 Because ye trespassed against me
among the children of Israel at the
waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the
wilderness of Zin; because ye
sanctified me not in the midst of the
children of Israel.
52 Yet thou shalt see the land before
[thee]; but thou shalt not go thither
unto the land which I give the children
of Israel.

CHAPTER 33
1 And this [is] the blessing, wherewith
Moses the man of God blessed the
children of Israel before his death.
2 And he said, The LORD came from
Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them;
he shined forth from mount Paran, and
he came with ten thousands of saints:
from his right hand [went] a fiery law
for them.
3 Yea, he loved the people; all his
saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat
down at thy feet; [every one] shall
receive of thy words.
4 Moses commanded us a law, [even] the
inheritance of the congregation of
Jacob.
5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the
heads of the people [and] the tribes of
Israel were gathered together.
6 # Let Reuben live, and not die; and
let [not] his men be few.
7 # And this [is the blessing] of
Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the
voice of Judah, and bring him unto his
people: let his hands be sufficient for
him; and be thou an help [to him] from
his enemies.
8 # And of Levi he said, [Let] thy
Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy holy
one, whom thou didst prove at Massah,
[and with] whom thou didst strive at
the waters of Meribah;
9 Who said unto his father and to his
mother, I have not seen him; neither
did he acknowledge his brethren, nor
knew his own children: for they have
observed thy word, and kept thy
covenant.
10 They shall teach Jacob thy
judgments, and Israel thy law: they
shall put incense before thee, and
whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and
accept the work of his hands: smite
through the loins of them that rise
against him, and of them that hate him,
that they rise not again.
12 # [And] of Benjamin he said, The
beloved of the LORD shall dwell in
safety by him; [and the LORD] shall
cover him all the day long, and he
shall dwell between his shoulders.
13 # And of Joseph he said, Blessed of
the LORD [be] his land, for the
precious things of heaven, for the dew,
and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
14 And for the precious fruits [brought
forth] by the sun, and for the precious
things put forth by the moon,
15 And for the chief things of the
ancient mountains, and for the precious
things of the lasting hills,
16 And for the precious things of the
earth and fulness thereof, and [for]
the good will of him that dwelt in the
bush: let [the blessing] come upon the
head of Joseph, and upon the top of the
head of him [that was] separated from
his brethren.
17 His glory [is like] the firstling of
his bullock, and his horns [are like]
the horns of unicorns: with them he
shall push the people together to the
ends of the earth: and they [are] the
ten thousands of Ephraim, and they
[are] the thousands of Manasseh.
18 # And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice,
Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
Issachar, in thy tents.
19 They shall call the people unto the
mountain; there they shall offer
sacrifices of righteousness: for they
shall suck [of] the abundance of the
seas, and [of] treasures hid in the
sand.
20 # And of Gad he said, Blessed [be]
he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a
lion, and teareth the arm with the
crown of the head.
21 And he provided the first part for
himself, because there, [in] a portion
of the lawgiver, [was he] seated; and
he came with the heads of the people,
he executed the justice of the LORD,
and his judgments with Israel.
22 # And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a
lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan.
23 # And of Naphtali he said, O
Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and
full with the blessing of the LORD:
possess thou the west and the south.
24 # And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher
[be] blessed with children; let him be
acceptable to his brethren, and let him
dip his foot in oil.
25 Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass;
and as thy days, [so shall] thy
strength [be].
26 # [There is] none like unto the God
of Jeshurun, [who] rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his
excellency on the sky.
27 The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and
underneath [are] the everlasting arms:
and he shall thrust out the enemy from
before thee; and shall say, Destroy
[them].
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety
alone: the fountain of Jacob [shall be]
upon a land of corn and wine; also his
heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is]
like unto thee, O people saved by the
LORD, the shield of thy help, and who
[is] the sword of thy excellency! and
thine enemies shall be found liars unto
thee; and thou shalt tread upon their
high places.

CHAPTER 34
1 And Moses went up from the plains of
Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the
top of Pisgah, that [is] over against
Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all
the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
2 And all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land
of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
3 And the south, and the plain of the
valley of Jericho, the city of palm
trees, unto Zoar.
4 And the LORD said unto him, This [is]
the land which I sware unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I
will give it unto thy seed: I have
caused thee to see [it] with thine
eyes, but thou shalt not go over
thither.
5 # So Moses the servant of the LORD
died there in the land of Moab,
according to the word of the LORD.
6 And he buried him in a valley in the
land of Moab, over against Beth-peor:
but no man knoweth of his sepulchre
unto this day.
7 # And Moses [was] an hundred and
twenty years old when he died: his eye
was not dim, nor his natural force
abated.
8 # And the children of Israel wept for
Moses in the plains of Moab thirty
days: so the days of weeping [and]
mourning for Moses were ended.
9 # And Joshua the son of Nun was full
of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had
laid his hands upon him: and the
children of Israel hearkened unto him,
and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 # And there arose not a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses, whom
the LORD knew face to face,
11 In all the signs and the wonders,
which the LORD sent him to do in the
land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all
his servants, and to all his land,
12 And in all that mighty hand, and in
all the great terror which Moses shewed
in the sight of all Israel.

THE BOOK OF JOSHUA

CHAPTER 1
1 Now after the death of Moses the
servant of the LORD it came to pass,
that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son
of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
2 Moses my servant is dead; now
therefore arise, go over this Jordan,
thou, and all this people, unto the
land which I do give to them, [even] to
the children of Israel.
3 Every place that the sole of your
foot shall tread upon, that have I
given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon
even unto the great river, the river
Euphrates, all the land of the
Hittites, and unto the great sea toward
the going down of the sun, shall be
your coast.
5 There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thy
life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will
be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee.
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for
unto this people shalt thou divide for
an inheritance the land, which I sware
unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be thou strong and very
courageous, that thou mayest observe to
do according to all the law, which
Moses my servant commanded thee: turn
not from it [to] the right hand or [to]
the left, that thou mayest prosper
whithersoever thou goest.
8 This book of the law shall not depart
out of thy mouth; but thou shalt
meditate therein day and night, that
thou mayest observe to do according to
all that is written therein: for then
thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and
then thou shalt have good success.
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong
and of a good courage; be not afraid,
neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD
thy God [is] with thee whithersoever
thou goest.
10 # Then Joshua commanded the officers
of the people, saying,
11 Pass through the host, and command
the people, saying, Prepare you
victuals; for within three days ye
shall pass over this Jordan, to go in
to possess the land, which the LORD
your God giveth you to possess it.
12 # And to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to half the tribe of
Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
13 Remember the word which Moses the
servant of the LORD commanded you,
saying, The LORD your God hath given
you rest, and hath given you this land.
14 Your wives, your little ones, and
your cattle, shall remain in the land
which Moses gave you on this side
Jordan; but ye shall pass before your
brethren armed, all the mighty men of
valour, and help them;
15 Until the LORD have given your
brethren rest, as [he hath given] you,
and they also have possessed the land
which the LORD your God giveth them:
then ye shall return unto the land of
your possession, and enjoy it, which
Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on
this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
16 # And they answered Joshua, saying,
All that thou commandest us we will do,
and whithersoever thou sendest us, we
will go.
17 According as we hearkened unto Moses
in all things, so will we hearken unto
thee: only the LORD thy God be with
thee, as he was with Moses.
18 Whosoever [he be] that doth rebel
against thy commandment, and will not
hearken unto thy words in all that thou
commandest him, he shall be put to
death: only be strong and of a good
courage.

CHAPTER 2
1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of
Shittim two men to spy secretly,
saying, Go view the land, even Jericho.
And they went, and came into an
harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged
there.
2 And it was told the king of Jericho,
saying, Behold, there came men in
hither to night of the children of
Israel to search out the country.
3 And the king of Jericho sent unto
Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that
are come to thee, which are entered
into thine house: for they be come to
search out all the country.
4 And the woman took the two men, and
hid them, and said thus, There came men
unto me, but I wist not whence they
[were]:
5 And it came to pass [about the time]
of shutting of the gate, when it was
dark, that the men went out: whither
the men went I wot not: pursue after
them quickly; for ye shall overtake
them.
6 But she had brought them up to the
roof of the house, and hid them with
the stalks of flax, which she had laid
in order upon the roof.
7 And the men pursued after them the
way to Jordan unto the fords: and as
soon as they which pursued after them
were gone out, they shut the gate.
8 # And before they were laid down, she
came up unto them upon the roof;
9 And she said unto the men, I know
that the LORD hath given you the land,
and that your terror is fallen upon us,
and that all the inhabitants of the
land faint because of you.
10 For we have heard how the LORD dried
up the water of the Red sea for you,
when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye
did unto the two kings of the Amorites,
that [were] on the other side Jordan,
Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly
destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard [these
things], our hearts did melt, neither
did there remain any more courage in
any man, because of you: for the LORD
your God, he [is] God in heaven above,
and in earth beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear
unto me by the LORD, since I have
shewed you kindness, that ye will also
shew kindness unto my father's house,
and give me a true token:
13 And [that] ye will save alive my
father, and my mother, and my brethren,
and my sisters, and all that they have,
and deliver our lives from death.
14 And the men answered her, Our life
for your's, if ye utter not this our
business. And it shall be, when the
LORD hath given us the land, that we
will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15 Then she let them down by a cord
through the window: for her house [was]
upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon
the wall.
16 And she said unto them, Get you to
the mountain, lest the pursuers meet
you; and hide yourselves there three
days, until the pursuers be returned:
and afterward may ye go your way.
17 And the men said unto her, We [will
be] blameless of this thine oath which
thou hast made us swear.
18 Behold, [when] we come into the
land, thou shalt bind this line of
scarlet thread in the window which thou
didst let us down by: and thou shalt
bring thy father, and thy mother, and
thy brethren, and all thy father's
household, home unto thee.
19 And it shall be, [that] whosoever
shall go out of the doors of thy house
into the street, his blood [shall be]
upon his head, and we [will be]
guiltless: and whosoever shall be with
thee in the house, his blood [shall be]
on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.
20 And if thou utter this our business,
then we will be quit of thine oath
which thou hast made us to swear.
21 And she said, According unto your
words, so [be] it. And she sent them
away, and they departed: and she bound
the scarlet line in the window.
22 And they went, and came unto the
mountain, and abode there three days,
until the pursuers were returned: and
the pursuers sought [them] throughout
all the way, but found [them] not.
23 So the two men returned, and
descended from the mountain, and passed
over, and came to Joshua the son of
Nun, and told him all [things] that
befell them:
24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the
LORD hath delivered into our hands all
the land; for even all the inhabitants
of the country do faint because of us.

CHAPTER 3
1 And Joshua rose early in the morning;
and they removed from Shittim, and came
to Jordan, he and all the children of
Israel, and lodged there before they
passed over.
2 And it came to pass after three days,
that the officers went through the
host;
3 And they commanded the people,
saying, When ye see the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, and the
priests the Levites bearing it, then ye
shall remove from your place, and go
after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between
you and it, about two thousand cubits
by measure: come not near unto it, that
ye may know the way by which ye must
go: for ye have not passed [this] way
heretofore.
5 And Joshua said unto the people,
Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the
LORD will do wonders among you.
6 And Joshua spake unto the priests,
saying, Take up the ark of the
covenant, and pass over before the
people. And they took up the ark of the
covenant, and went before the people.
7 # And the LORD said unto Joshua, This
day will I begin to magnify thee in the
sight of all Israel, that they may know
that, as I was with Moses, [so] I will
be with thee.
8 And thou shalt command the priests
that bear the ark of the covenant,
saying, When ye are come to the brink
of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand
still in Jordan.
9 # And Joshua said unto the children
of Israel, Come hither, and hear the
words of the LORD your God.
10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall
know that the living God [is] among
you, and [that] he will without fail
drive out from before you the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Jebusites.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of
the Lord of all the earth passeth over
before you into Jordan.
12 Now therefore take you twelve men
out of the tribes of Israel, out of
every tribe a man.
13 And it shall come to pass, as soon
as the soles of the feet of the priests
that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord
of all the earth, shall rest in the
waters of Jordan, [that] the waters of
Jordan shall be cut off [from] the
waters that come down from above; and
they shall stand upon an heap.
14 # And it came to pass, when the
people removed from their tents, to
pass over Jordan, and the priests
bearing the ark of the covenant before
the people;
15 And as they that bare the ark were
come unto Jordan, and the feet of the
priests that bare the ark were dipped
in the brim of the water, (for Jordan
overfloweth all his banks all the time
of harvest,)
16 That the waters which came down from
above stood [and] rose up upon an heap
very far from the city Adam, that [is]
beside Zaretan: and those that came
down toward the sea of the plain,
[even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were
cut off: and the people passed over
right against Jericho.
17 And the priests that bare the ark of
the covenant of the LORD stood firm on
dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and
all the Israelites passed over on dry
ground, until all the people were
passed clean over Jordan.

CHAPTER 4
1 And it came to pass, when all the
people were clean passed over Jordan,
that the LORD spake unto Joshua,
saying,
2 Take you twelve men out of the
people, out of every tribe a man,
3 And command ye them, saying, Take you
hence out of the midst of Jordan, out
of the place where the priests' feet
stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall
carry them over with you, and leave
them in the lodging place, where ye
shall lodge this night.
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men,
whom he had prepared of the children of
Israel, out of every tribe a man:
5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over
before the ark of the LORD your God
into the midst of Jordan, and take ye
up every man of you a stone upon his
shoulder, according unto the number of
the tribes of the children of Israel:
6 That this may be a sign among you,
[that] when your children ask [their
fathers] in time to come, saying, What
[mean] ye by these stones?
7 Then ye shall answer them, That the
waters of Jordan were cut off before
the ark of the covenant of the LORD;
when it passed over Jordan, the waters
of Jordan were cut off: and these
stones shall be for a memorial unto the
children of Israel for ever.
8 And the children of Israel did so as
Joshua commanded, and took up twelve
stones out of the midst of Jordan, as
the LORD spake unto Joshua, according
to the number of the tribes of the
children of Israel, and carried them
over with them unto the place where
they lodged, and laid them down there.
9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in
the midst of Jordan, in the place where
the feet of the priests which bare the
ark of the covenant stood: and they are
there unto this day.
10 # For the priests which bare the ark
stood in the midst of Jordan, until
every thing was finished that the LORD
commanded Joshua to speak unto the
people, according to all that Moses
commanded Joshua: and the people hasted
and passed over.
11 And it came to pass, when all the
people were clean passed over, that the
ark of the LORD passed over, and the
priests, in the presence of the people.
12 And the children of Reuben, and the
children of Gad, and half the tribe of
Manasseh, passed over armed before the
children of Israel, as Moses spake unto
them:
13 About forty thousand prepared for
war passed over before the LORD unto
battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 # On that day the LORD magnified
Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and
they feared him, as they feared Moses,
all the days of his life.
15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua,
saying,
16 Command the priests that bear the
ark of the testimony, that they come up
out of Jordan.
17 Joshua therefore commanded the
priests, saying, Come ye up out of
Jordan.
18 And it came to pass, when the
priests that bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD were come up out
of the midst of Jordan, [and] the soles
of the priests' feet were lifted up
unto the dry land, that the waters of
Jordan returned unto their place, and
flowed over all his banks, as [they
did] before.
19 # And the people came up out of
Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first
month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the
east border of Jericho.
20 And those twelve stones, which they
took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in
Gilgal.
21 And he spake unto the children of
Israel, saying, When your children
shall ask their fathers in time to
come, saying, What [mean] these stones?
22 Then ye shall let your children
know, saying, Israel came over this
Jordan on dry land.
23 For the LORD your God dried up the
waters of Jordan from before you, until
ye were passed over, as the LORD your
God did to the Red sea, which he dried
up from before us, until we were gone
over:
24 That all the people of the earth
might know the hand of the LORD, that
it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the
LORD your God for ever.

CHAPTER 5
1 And it came to pass, when all the
kings of the Amorites, which [were] on
the side of Jordan westward, and all
the kings of the Canaanites, which
[were] by the sea, heard that the LORD
had dried up the waters of Jordan from
before the children of Israel, until we
were passed over, that their heart
melted, neither was there spirit in
them any more, because of the children
of Israel.
2 # At that time the LORD said unto
Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and
circumcise again the children of Israel
the second time.
3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and
circumcised the children of Israel at
the hill of the foreskins.
4 And this [is] the cause why Joshua
did circumcise: All the people that
came out of Egypt, [that were] males,
[even] all the men of war, died in the
wilderness by the way, after they came
out of Egypt.
5 Now all the people that came out were
circumcised: but all the people [that
were] born in the wilderness by the way
as they came forth out of Egypt, [them]
they had not circumcised.
6 For the children of Israel walked
forty years in the wilderness, till all
the people [that were] men of war,
which came out of Egypt, were consumed,
because they obeyed not the voice of
the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that
he would not shew them the land, which
the LORD sware unto their fathers that
he would give us, a land that floweth
with milk and honey.
7 And their children, [whom] he raised
up in their stead, them Joshua
circumcised: for they were
uncircumcised, because they had not
circumcised them by the way.
8 And it came to pass, when they had
done circumcising all the people, that
they abode in their places in the camp,
till they were whole.
9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This
day have I rolled away the reproach of
Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name
of the place is called Gilgal unto this
day.
10 # And the children of Israel
encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the
month at even in the plains of Jericho.
11 And they did eat of the old corn of
the land on the morrow after the
passover, unleavened cakes, and parched
[corn] in the selfsame day.
12 # And the manna ceased on the morrow
after they had eaten of the old corn of
the land; neither had the children of
Israel manna any more; but they did eat
of the fruit of the land of Canaan that
year.
13 # And it came to pass, when Joshua
was by Jericho, that he lifted up his
eyes and looked, and, behold, there
stood a man over against him with his
sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua
went unto him, and said unto him, [Art]
thou for us, or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but [as] captain
of the host of the LORD am I now come.
And Joshua fell on his face to the
earth, and did worship, and said unto
him, What saith my lord unto his
servant?
15 And the captain of the LORD'S host
said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from
off thy foot; for the place whereon
thou standest [is] holy. And Joshua did
so.

CHAPTER 6
1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up
because of the children of Israel: none
went out, and none came in.
2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I
have given into thine hand Jericho, and
the king thereof, [and] the mighty men
of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all
[ye] men of war, [and] go round about
the city once. Thus shalt thou do six
days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before
the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns:
and the seventh day ye shall compass
the city seven times, and the priests
shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when
they make a long [blast] with the ram's
horn, [and] when ye hear the sound of
the trumpet, all the people shall shout
with a great shout; and the wall of the
city shall fall down flat, and the
people shall ascend up every man
straight before him.
6 # And Joshua the son of Nun called
the priests, and said unto them, Take
up the ark of the covenant, and let
seven priests bear seven trumpets of
rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on,
and compass the city, and let him that
is armed pass on before the ark of the
LORD.
8 # And it came to pass, when Joshua
had spoken unto the people, that the
seven priests bearing the seven
trumpets of rams' horns passed on
before the LORD, and blew with the
trumpets: and the ark of the covenant
of the LORD followed them.
9 # And the armed men went before the
priests that blew with the trumpets,
and the rereward came after the ark,
[the priests] going on, and blowing
with the trumpets.
10 And Joshua had commanded the people,
saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make
any noise with your voice, neither
shall [any] word proceed out of your
mouth, until the day I bid you shout;
then shall ye shout.
11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the
city, going about [it] once: and they
came into the camp, and lodged in the
camp.
12 # And Joshua rose early in the
morning, and the priests took up the
ark of the LORD.
13 And seven priests bearing seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark
of the LORD went on continually, and
blew with the trumpets: and the armed
men went before them; but the rereward
came after the ark of the LORD, [the
priests] going on, and blowing with the
trumpets.
14 And the second day they compassed
the city once, and returned into the
camp: so they did six days.
15 And it came to pass on the seventh
day, that they rose early about the
dawning of the day, and compassed the
city after the same manner seven times:
only on that day they compassed the
city seven times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh
time, when the priests blew with the
trumpets, Joshua said unto the people,
Shout; for the LORD hath given you the
city.
17 # And the city shall be accursed,
[even] it, and all that [are] therein,
to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot
shall live, she and all that [are] with
her in the house, because she hid the
messengers that we sent.
18 And ye, in any wise keep
[yourselves] from the accursed thing,
lest ye make [yourselves] accursed,
when ye take of the accursed thing, and
make the camp of Israel a curse, and
trouble it.
19 But all the silver, and gold, and
vessels of brass and iron, [are]
consecrated unto the LORD: they shall
come into the treasury of the LORD.
20 So the people shouted when [the
priests] blew with the trumpets: and it
came to pass, when the people heard the
sound of the trumpet, and the people
shouted with a great shout, that the
wall fell down flat, so that the people
went up into the city, every man
straight before him, and they took the
city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that
[was] in the city, both man and woman,
young and old, and ox, and sheep, and
ass, with the edge of the sword.
22 But Joshua had said unto the two men
that had spied out the country, Go into
the harlot's house, and bring out
thence the woman, and all that she
hath, as ye sware unto her.
23 And the young men that were spies
went in, and brought out Rahab, and her
father, and her mother, and her
brethren, and all that she had; and
they brought out all her kindred, and
left them without the camp of Israel.
24 And they burnt the city with fire,
and all that [was] therein: only the
silver, and the gold, and the vessels
of brass and of iron, they put into the
treasury of the house of the LORD.
25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot
alive, and her father's household, and
all that she had; and she dwelleth in
Israel [even] unto this day; because
she hid the messengers, which Joshua
sent to spy out Jericho.
26 # And Joshua adjured [them] at that
time, saying, Cursed [be] the man
before the LORD, that riseth up and
buildeth this city Jericho: he shall
lay the foundation thereof in his
firstborn, and in his youngest [son]
shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his
fame was [noised] throughout all the
country.

CHAPTER 7
1 But the children of Israel committed
a trespass in the accursed thing: for
Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe
of Judah, took of the accursed thing:
and the anger of the LORD was kindled
against the children of Israel.
2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to
Ai, which [is] beside Beth-aven, on the
east side of Beth-el, and spake unto
them, saying, Go up and view the
country. And the men went up and viewed
Ai.
3 And they returned to Joshua, and said
unto him, Let not all the people go up;
but let about two or three thousand men
go up and smite Ai; [and] make not all
the people to labour thither; for they
[are but] few.
4 So there went up thither of the
people about three thousand men: and
they fled before the men of Ai.
5 And the men of Ai smote of them about
thirty and six men: for they chased
them [from] before the gate [even] unto
Shebarim, and smote them in the going
down: wherefore the hearts of the
people melted, and became as water.
6 # And Joshua rent his clothes, and
fell to the earth upon his face before
the ark of the LORD until the eventide,
he and the elders of Israel, and put
dust upon their heads.
7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD,
wherefore hast thou at all brought this
people over Jordan, to deliver us into
the hand of the Amorites, to destroy
us? would to God we had been content,
and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel
turneth their backs before their
enemies!
9 For the Canaanites and all the
inhabitants of the land shall hear [of
it], and shall environ us round, and
cut off our name from the earth: and
what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
10 # And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get
thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon
thy face?
11 Israel hath sinned, and they have
also transgressed my covenant which I
commanded them: for they have even
taken of the accursed thing, and have
also stolen, and dissembled also, and
they have put [it] even among their own
stuff.
12 Therefore the children of Israel
could not stand before their enemies,
[but] turned [their] backs before their
enemies, because they were accursed:
neither will I be with you any more,
except ye destroy the accursed from
among you.
13 Up, sanctify the people, and say,
Sanctify yourselves against to morrow:
for thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
[There is] an accursed thing in the
midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not
stand before thine enemies, until ye
take away the accursed thing from among
you.
14 In the morning therefore ye shall be
brought according to your tribes: and
it shall be, [that] the tribe which the
LORD taketh shall come according to the
families [thereof]; and the family
which the LORD shall take shall come by
households; and the household which the
LORD shall take shall come man by man.
15 And it shall be, [that] he that is
taken with the accursed thing shall be
burnt with fire, he and all that he
hath: because he hath transgressed the
covenant of the LORD, and because he
hath wrought folly in Israel.
16 # So Joshua rose up early in the
morning, and brought Israel by their
tribes; and the tribe of Judah was
taken:
17 And he brought the family of Judah;
and he took the family of the Zarhites:
and he brought the family of the
Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was
taken:
18 And he brought his household man by
man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the
son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the
tribe of Judah, was taken.
19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son,
give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD
God of Israel, and make confession unto
him; and tell me now what thou hast
done; hide [it] not from me.
20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said,
Indeed I have sinned against the LORD
God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done:
21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly
Babylonish garment, and two hundred
shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold
of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted
them, and took them; and, behold, they
[are] hid in the earth in the midst of
my tent, and the silver under it.
22 # So Joshua sent messengers, and
they ran unto the tent; and, behold,
[it was] hid in his tent, and the
silver under it.
23 And they took them out of the midst
of the tent, and brought them unto
Joshua, and unto all the children of
Israel, and laid them out before the
LORD.
24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him,
took Achan the son of Zerah, and the
silver, and the garment, and the wedge
of gold, and his sons, and his
daughters, and his oxen, and his asses,
and his sheep, and his tent, and all
that he had: and they brought them unto
the valley of Achor.
25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou
troubled us? the LORD shall trouble
thee this day. And all Israel stoned
him with stones, and burned them with
fire, after they had stoned them with
stones.
26 And they raised over him a great
heap of stones unto this day. So the
LORD turned from the fierceness of his
anger. Wherefore the name of that place
was called, The valley of Achor, unto
this day.

CHAPTER 8
1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear
not, neither be thou dismayed: take all
the people of war with thee, and arise,
go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy
hand the king of Ai, and his people,
and his city, and his land:
2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king
as thou didst unto Jericho and her
king: only the spoil thereof, and the
cattle thereof, shall ye take for a
prey unto yourselves: lay thee an
ambush for the city behind it.
3 # So Joshua arose, and all the people
of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua
chose out thirty thousand mighty men of
valour, and sent them away by night.
4 And he commanded them, saying,
Behold, ye shall lie in wait against
the city, [even] behind the city: go
not very far from the city, but be ye
all ready:
5 And I, and all the people that [are]
with me, will approach unto the city:
and it shall come to pass, when they
come out against us, as at the first,
that we will flee before them,
6 (For they will come out after us)
till we have drawn them from the city;
for they will say, They flee before us,
as at the first: therefore we will flee
before them.
7 Then ye shall rise up from the
ambush, and seize upon the city: for
the LORD your God will deliver it into
your hand.
8 And it shall be, when ye have taken
the city, [that] ye shall set the city
on fire: according to the commandment
of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have
commanded you.
9 # Joshua therefore sent them forth:
and they went to lie in ambush, and
abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the
west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that
night among the people.
10 And Joshua rose up early in the
morning, and numbered the people, and
went up, he and the elders of Israel,
before the people to Ai.
11 And all the people, [even the
people] of war that [were] with him,
went up, and drew nigh, and came before
the city, and pitched on the north side
of Ai: now [there was] a valley between
them and Ai.
12 And he took about five thousand men,
and set them to lie in ambush between
Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the
city.
13 And when they had set the people,
[even] all the host that [was] on the
north of the city, and their liers in
wait on the west of the city, Joshua
went that night into the midst of the
valley.
14 # And it came to pass, when the king
of Ai saw [it], that they hasted and
rose up early, and the men of the city
went out against Israel to battle, he
and all his people, at a time
appointed, before the plain; but he
wist not that [there were] liers in
ambush against him behind the city.
15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if
they were beaten before them, and fled
by the way of the wilderness.
16 And all the people that [were] in Ai
were called together to pursue after
them: and they pursued after Joshua,
and were drawn away from the city.
17 And there was not a man left in Ai
or Beth-el, that went not out after
Israel: and they left the city open,
and pursued after Israel.
18 And the LORD said unto Joshua,
Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy
hand toward Ai; for I will give it into
thine hand. And Joshua stretched out
the spear that [he had] in his hand
toward the city.
19 And the ambush arose quickly out of
their place, and they ran as soon as he
had stretched out his hand: and they
entered into the city, and took it, and
hasted and set the city on fire.
20 And when the men of Ai looked behind
them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke
of the city ascended up to heaven, and
they had no power to flee this way or
that way: and the people that fled to
the wilderness turned back upon the
pursuers.
21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw
that the ambush had taken the city, and
that the smoke of the city ascended,
then they turned again, and slew the
men of Ai.
22 And the other issued out of the city
against them; so they were in the midst
of Israel, some on this side, and some
on that side: and they smote them, so
that they let none of them remain or
escape.
23 And the king of Ai they took alive,
and brought him to Joshua.
24 And it came to pass, when Israel had
made an end of slaying all the
inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the
wilderness wherein they chased them,
and when they were all fallen on the
edge of the sword, until they were
consumed, that all the Israelites
returned unto Ai, and smote it with the
edge of the sword.
25 And [so] it was, [that] all that
fell that day, both of men and women,
[were] twelve thousand, [even] all the
men of Ai.
26 For Joshua drew not his hand back,
wherewith he stretched out the spear,
until he had utterly destroyed all the
inhabitants of Ai.
27 Only the cattle and the spoil of
that city Israel took for a prey unto
themselves, according unto the word of
the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an
heap for ever, [even] a desolation unto
this day.
29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a
tree until eventide: and as soon as the
sun was down, Joshua commanded that
they should take his carcase down from
the tree, and cast it at the entering
of the gate of the city, and raise
thereon a great heap of stones, [that
remaineth] unto this day.
30 # Then Joshua built an altar unto
the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
31 As Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded the children of Israel, as it
is written in the book of the law of
Moses, an altar of whole stones, over
which no man hath lift up [any] iron:
and they offered thereon burnt
offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed
peace offerings.
32 # And he wrote there upon the stones
a copy of the law of Moses, which he
wrote in the presence of the children
of Israel.
33 And all Israel, and their elders,
and officers, and their judges, stood
on this side the ark and on that side
before the priests the Levites, which
bare the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, as well the stranger, as he that
was born among them; half of them over
against mount Gerizim, and half of them
over against mount Ebal; as Moses the
servant of the LORD had commanded
before, that they should bless the
people of Israel.
34 And afterward he read all the words
of the law, the blessings and cursings,
according to all that is written in the
book of the law.
35 There was not a word of all that
Moses commanded, which Joshua read not
before all the congregation of Israel,
with the women, and the little ones,
and the strangers that were conversant
among them.

CHAPTER 9
1 And it came to pass, when all the
kings which [were] on this side Jordan,
in the hills, and in the valleys, and
in all the coasts of the great sea over
against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the
Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard
[thereof];
2 That they gathered themselves
together, to fight with Joshua and with
Israel, with one accord.
3 # And when the inhabitants of Gibeon
heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho
and to Ai,
4 They did work wilily, and went and
made as if they had been ambassadors,
and took old sacks upon their asses,
and wine bottles, old, and rent, and
bound up;
5 And old shoes and clouted upon their
feet, and old garments upon them; and
all the bread of their provision was
dry [and] mouldy.
6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp
at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to
the men of Israel, We be come from a
far country: now therefore make ye a
league with us.
7 And the men of Israel said unto the
Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among
us; and how shall we make a league with
you?
8 And they said unto Joshua, We [are]
thy servants. And Joshua said unto
them, Who [are] ye? and from whence
come ye?
9 And they said unto him, From a very
far country thy servants are come
because of the name of the LORD thy
God: for we have heard the fame of him,
and all that he did in Egypt,
10 And all that he did to the two kings
of the Amorites, that [were] beyond
Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and
to Og king of Bashan, which [was] at
Ashtaroth.
11 Wherefore our elders and all the
inhabitants of our country spake to us,
saying, Take victuals with you for the
journey, and go to meet them, and say
unto them, We [are] your servants:
therefore now make ye a league with us.
12 This our bread we took hot [for] our
provision out of our houses on the day
we came forth to go unto you; but now,
behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
13 And these bottles of wine, which we
filled, [were] new; and, behold, they
be rent: and these our garments and our
shoes are become old by reason of the
very long journey.
14 And the men took of their victuals,
and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of
the LORD.
15 And Joshua made peace with them, and
made a league with them, to let them
live: and the princes of the
congregation sware unto them.
16 # And it came to pass at the end of
three days after they had made a league
with them, that they heard that they
[were] their neighbours, and [that]
they dwelt among them.
17 And the children of Israel
journeyed, and came unto their cities
on the third day. Now their cities
[were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and
Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
18 And the children of Israel smote
them not, because the princes of the
congregation had sworn unto them by the
LORD God of Israel. And all the
congregation murmured against the
princes.
19 But all the princes said unto all
the congregation, We have sworn unto
them by the LORD God of Israel: now
therefore we may not touch them.
20 This we will do to them; we will
even let them live, lest wrath be upon
us, because of the oath which we sware
unto them.
21 And the princes said unto them, Let
them live; but let them be hewers of
wood and drawers of water unto all the
congregation; as the princes had
promised them.
22 # And Joshua called for them, and he
spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have
ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very
far from you; when ye dwell among us?
23 Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and
there shall none of you be freed from
being bondmen, and hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the house of my
God.
24 And they answered Joshua, and said,
Because it was certainly told thy
servants, how that the LORD thy God
commanded his servant Moses to give you
all the land, and to destroy all the
inhabitants of the land from before
you, therefore we were sore afraid of
our lives because of you, and have done
this thing.
25 And now, behold, we [are] in thine
hand: as it seemeth good and right unto
thee to do unto us, do.
26 And so did he unto them, and
delivered them out of the hand of the
children of Israel, that they slew them
not.
27 And Joshua made them that day hewers
of wood and drawers of water for the
congregation, and for the altar of the
LORD, even unto this day, in the place
which he should choose.

CHAPTER 10
1 Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek
king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua
had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed
it; as he had done to Jericho and her
king, so he had done to Ai and her
king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon
had made peace with Israel, and were
among them;
2 That they feared greatly, because
Gibeon [was] a great city, as one of
the royal cities, and because it [was]
greater than Ai, and all the men
thereof [were] mighty.
3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of
Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of
Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth,
and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and
unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we
may smite Gibeon: for it hath made
peace with Joshua and with the children
of Israel.
5 Therefore the five kings of the
Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the
king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon,
gathered themselves together, and went
up, they and all their hosts, and
encamped before Gibeon, and made war
against it.
6 # And the men of Gibeon sent unto
Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying,
Slack not thy hand from thy servants;
come up to us quickly, and save us, and
help us: for all the kings of the
Amorites that dwell in the mountains
are gathered together against us.
7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he,
and all the people of war with him, and
all the mighty men of valour.
8 # And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear
them not: for I have delivered them
into thine hand; there shall not a man
of them stand before thee.
9 Joshua therefore came unto them
suddenly, [and] went up from Gilgal all
night.
10 And the LORD discomfited them before
Israel, and slew them with a great
slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them
along the way that goeth up to
Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah,
and unto Makkedah.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled
from before Israel, [and] were in the
going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD
cast down great stones from heaven upon
them unto Azekah, and they died: [they
were] more which died with hailstones
than [they] whom the children of Israel
slew with the sword.
12 # Then spake Joshua to the LORD in
the day when the LORD delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel,
and he said in the sight of Israel,
Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and
thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the
moon stayed, until the people had
avenged themselves upon their enemies.
[Is] not this written in the book of
Jasher? So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go
down about a whole day.
14 And there was no day like that
before it or after it, that the LORD
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for
the LORD fought for Israel.
15 # And Joshua returned, and all
Israel with him, unto the camp to
Gilgal.
16 But these five kings fled, and hid
themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The
five kings are found hid in a cave at
Makkedah.
18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones
upon the mouth of the cave, and set men
by it for to keep them:
19 And stay ye not, [but] pursue after
your enemies, and smite the hindmost of
them; suffer them not to enter into
their cities: for the LORD your God
hath delivered them into your hand.
20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and
the children of Israel had made an end
of slaying them with a very great
slaughter, till they were consumed,
that the rest [which] remained of them
entered into fenced cities.
21 And all the people returned to the
camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace:
none moved his tongue against any of
the children of Israel.
22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of
the cave, and bring out those five
kings unto me out of the cave.
23 And they did so, and brought forth
those five kings unto him out of the
cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king
of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the
king of Lachish, [and] the king of
Eglon.
24 And it came to pass, when they
brought out those kings unto Joshua,
that Joshua called for all the men of
Israel, and said unto the captains of
the men of war which went with him,
Come near, put your feet upon the necks
of these kings. And they came near, and
put their feet upon the necks of them.
25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not,
nor be dismayed, be strong and of good
courage: for thus shall the LORD do to
all your enemies against whom ye fight.
26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and
slew them, and hanged them on five
trees: and they were hanging upon the
trees until the evening.
27 And it came to pass at the time of
the going down of the sun, [that]
Joshua commanded, and they took them
down off the trees, and cast them into
the cave wherein they had been hid, and
laid great stones in the cave's mouth,
[which remain] until this very day.
28 # And that day Joshua took Makkedah,
and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and the king thereof he utterly
destroyed, them, and all the souls that
[were] therein; he let none remain: and
he did to the king of Makkedah as he
did unto the king of Jericho.
29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah,
and all Israel with him, unto Libnah,
and fought against Libnah:
30 And the LORD delivered it also, and
the king thereof, into the hand of
Israel; and he smote it with the edge
of the sword, and all the souls that
[were] therein; he let none remain in
it; but did unto the king thereof as he
did unto the king of Jericho.
31 # And Joshua passed from Libnah, and
all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and
encamped against it, and fought against
it:
32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into
the hand of Israel, which took it on
the second day, and smote it with the
edge of the sword, and all the souls
that [were] therein, according to all
that he had done to Libnah.
33 # Then Horam king of Gezer came up
to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him
and his people, until he had left him
none remaining.
34 # And from Lachish Joshua passed
unto Eglon, and all Israel with him;
and they encamped against it, and
fought against it:
35 And they took it on that day, and
smote it with the edge of the sword,
and all the souls that [were] therein
he utterly destroyed that day,
according to all that he had done to
Lachish.
36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and
all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and
they fought against it:
37 And they took it, and smote it with
the edge of the sword, and the king
thereof, and all the cities thereof,
and all the souls that [were] therein;
he left none remaining, according to
all that he had done to Eglon; but
destroyed it utterly, and all the souls
that [were] therein.
38 # And Joshua returned, and all
Israel with him, to Debir; and fought
against it:
39 And he took it, and the king
thereof, and all the cities thereof;
and they smote them with the edge of
the sword, and utterly destroyed all
the souls that [were] therein; he left
none remaining: as he had done to
Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the
king thereof; as he had done also to
Libnah, and to her king.
40 # So Joshua smote all the country of
the hills, and of the south, and of the
vale, and of the springs, and all their
kings: he left none remaining, but
utterly destroyed all that breathed, as
the LORD God of Israel commanded.
41 And Joshua smote them from
Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all
the country of Goshen, even unto
Gibeon.
42 And all these kings and their land
did Joshua take at one time, because
the LORD God of Israel fought for
Israel.
43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel
with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

CHAPTER 11
1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king
of Hazor had heard [those things], that
he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to
the king of Shimron, and to the king of
Achshaph,
2 And to the kings that [were] on the
north of the mountains, and of the
plains south of Chinneroth, and in the
valley, and in the borders of Dor on
the west,
3 [And to] the Canaanite on the east
and on the west, and [to] the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and
the Jebusite in the mountains, and [to]
the Hivite under Hermon in the land of
Mizpeh.
4 And they went out, they and all their
hosts with them, much people, even as
the sand that [is] upon the sea shore
in multitude, with horses and chariots
very many.
5 And when all these kings were met
together, they came and pitched
together at the waters of Merom, to
fight against Israel.
6 # And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be
not afraid because of them: for to
morrow about this time will I deliver
them up all slain before Israel: thou
shalt hough their horses, and burn
their chariots with fire.
7 So Joshua came, and all the people of
war with him, against them by the
waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell
upon them.
8 And the LORD delivered them into the
hand of Israel, who smote them, and
chased them unto great Zidon, and unto
Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of
Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them,
until they left them none remaining.
9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD
bade him: he houghed their horses, and
burnt their chariots with fire.
10 # And Joshua at that time turned
back, and took Hazor, and smote the
king thereof with the sword: for Hazor
beforetime was the head of all those
kingdoms.
11 And they smote all the souls that
[were] therein with the edge of the
sword, utterly destroying [them]: there
was not any left to breathe: and he
burnt Hazor with fire.
12 And all the cities of those kings,
and all the kings of them, did Joshua
take, and smote them with the edge of
the sword, [and] he utterly destroyed
them, as Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded.
13 But [as for] the cities that stood
still in their strength, Israel burned
none of them, save Hazor only; [that]
did Joshua burn.
14 And all the spoil of these cities,
and the cattle, the children of Israel
took for a prey unto themselves; but
every man they smote with the edge of
the sword, until they had destroyed
them, neither left they any to breathe.
15 # As the LORD commanded Moses his
servant, so did Moses command Joshua,
and so did Joshua; he left nothing
undone of all that the LORD commanded
Moses.
16 So Joshua took all that land, the
hills, and all the south country, and
all the land of Goshen, and the valley,
and the plain, and the mountain of
Israel, and the valley of the same;
17 [Even] from the mount Halak, that
goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in
the valley of Lebanon under mount
Hermon: and all their kings he took,
and smote them, and slew them.
18 Joshua made war a long time with all
those kings.
19 There was not a city that made peace
with the children of Israel, save the
Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all
[other] they took in battle.
20 For it was of the LORD to harden
their hearts, that they should come
against Israel in battle, that he might
destroy them utterly, [and] that they
might have no favour, but that he might
destroy them, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
21 # And at that time came Joshua, and
cut off the Anakims from the mountains,
from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and
from all the mountains of Judah, and
from all the mountains of Israel:
Joshua destroyed them utterly with
their cities.
22 There was none of the Anakims left
in the land of the children of Israel:
only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod,
there remained.
23 So Joshua took the whole land,
according to all that the LORD said
unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an
inheritance unto Israel according to
their divisions by their tribes. And
the land rested from war.

CHAPTER 12
1 Now these [are] the kings of the
land, which the children of Israel
smote, and possessed their land on the
other side Jordan toward the rising of
the sun, from the river Arnon unto
mount Hermon, and all the plain on the
east:
2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt
in Heshbon, [and] ruled from Aroer,
which [is] upon the bank of the river
Arnon, and from the middle of the
river, and from half Gilead, even unto
the river Jabbok, [which is] the border
of the children of Ammon;
3 And from the plain to the sea of
Chinneroth on the east, and unto the
sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea
on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth;
and from the south, under
Ashdoth-pisgah:
4 # And the coast of Og king of Bashan,
[which was] of the remnant of the
giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at
Edrei,
5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in
Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the
border of the Geshurites and the
Maachathites, and half Gilead, the
border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Them did Moses the servant of the
LORD and the children of Israel smite:
and Moses the servant of the LORD gave
it [for] a possession unto the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half tribe of Manasseh.
7 # And these [are] the kings of the
country which Joshua and the children
of Israel smote on this side Jordan on
the west, from Baal-gad in the valley
of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak,
that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua
gave unto the tribes of Israel [for] a
possession according to their
divisions;
8 In the mountains, and in the valleys,
and in the plains, and in the springs,
and in the wilderness, and in the south
country; the Hittites, the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites:
9 # The king of Jericho, one; the king
of Ai, which [is] beside Beth-el, one;
10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king
of Hebron, one;
11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king
of Lachish, one;
12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of
Gezer, one;
13 The king of Debir, one; the king of
Geder, one;
14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of
Arad, one;
15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of
Adullam, one;
16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king
of Beth-el, one;
17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king
of Hepher, one;
18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of
Lasharon, one;
19 The king of Madon, one; the king of
Hazor, one;
20 The king of Shimron-meron, one; the
king of Achshaph, one;
21 The king of Taanach, one; the king
of Megiddo, one;
22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of
Jokneam of Carmel, one;
23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor,
one; the king of the nations of Gilgal,
one;
24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the
kings thirty and one.

CHAPTER 13
1 Now Joshua was old [and] stricken in
years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou
art old [and] stricken in years, and
there remaineth yet very much land to
be possessed.
2 This [is] the land that yet
remaineth: all the borders of the
Philistines, and all Geshuri,
3 From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt,
even unto the borders of Ekron
northward, [which] is counted to the
Canaanite: five lords of the
Philistines; the Gazathites, and the
Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
Avites:
4 From the south, all the land of the
Canaanites, and Mearah that [is] beside
the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the
borders of the Amorites:
5 And the land of the Giblites, and all
Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from
Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the
entering into Hamath.
6 All the inhabitants of the hill
country from Lebanon unto
Misrephoth-maim, [and] all the
Sidonians, them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only
divide thou it by lot unto the
Israelites for an inheritance, as I
have commanded thee.
7 Now therefore divide this land for an
inheritance unto the nine tribes, and
the half tribe of Manasseh,
8 With whom the Reubenites and the
Gadites have received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them,
beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses
the servant of the LORD gave them;
9 From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank
of the river Arnon, and the city that
[is] in the midst of the river, and all
the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
10 And all the cities of Sihon king of
the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,
unto the border of the children of
Ammon;
11 And Gilead, and the border of the
Geshurites and Maachathites, and all
mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto
Salcah;
12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
which reigned in Ashtaroth and in
Edrei, who remained of the remnant of
the giants: for these did Moses smite,
and cast them out.
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel
expelled not the Geshurites, nor the
Maachathites: but the Geshurites and
the Maachathites dwell among the
Israelites until this day.
14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave
none inheritance; the sacrifices of the
LORD God of Israel made by fire [are]
their inheritance, as he said unto
them.
15 # And Moses gave unto the tribe of
the children of Reuben [inheritance]
according to their families.
16 And their coast was from Aroer, that
[is] on the bank of the river Arnon,
and the city that [is] in the midst of
the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
17 Heshbon, and all her cities that
[are] in the plain; Dibon, and
Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
18 And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and
Mephaath,
19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and
Zareth-shahar in the mount of the
valley,
20 And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah,
and Beth-jeshimoth,
21 And all the cities of the plain, and
all the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,
whom Moses smote with the princes of
Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, [which were] dukes of
Sihon, dwelling in the country.
22 # Balaam also the son of Beor, the
soothsayer, did the children of Israel
slay with the sword among them that
were slain by them.
23 And the border of the children of
Reuben was Jordan, and the border
[thereof]. This [was] the inheritance
of the children of Reuben after their
families, the cities and the villages
thereof.
24 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto
the tribe of Gad, [even] unto the
children of Gad according to their
families.
25 And their coast was Jazer, and all
the cities of Gilead, and half the land
of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer
that [is] before Rabbah;
26 And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh,
and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the
border of Debir;
27 And in the valley, Beth-aram, and
Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon,
the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king
of Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border,
[even] unto the edge of the sea of
Chinnereth on the other side Jordan
eastward.
28 This [is] the inheritance of the
children of Gad after their families,
the cities, and their villages.
29 # And Moses gave [inheritance] unto
the half tribe of Manasseh: and [this]
was [the possession] of the half tribe
of the children of Manasseh by their
families.
30 And their coast was from Mahanaim,
all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king
of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair,
which [are] in Bashan, threescore
cities:
31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and
Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the
children of Machir the son of Manasseh,
[even] to the one half of the children
of Machir by their families.
32 These [are the countries] which
Moses did distribute for inheritance in
the plains of Moab, on the other side
Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses
gave not [any] inheritance: the LORD
God of Israel [was] their inheritance,
as he said unto them.

CHAPTER 14
1 And these [are the countries] which
the children of Israel inherited in the
land of Canaan, which Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and
the heads of the fathers of the tribes
of the children of Israel, distributed
for inheritance to them.
2 By lot [was] their inheritance, as
the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for]
the half tribe.
3 For Moses had given the inheritance
of two tribes and an half tribe on the
other side Jordan: but unto the Levites
he gave none inheritance among them.
4 For the children of Joseph were two
tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore
they gave no part unto the Levites in
the land, save cities to dwell [in],
with their suburbs for their cattle and
for their substance.
5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel did, and they
divided the land.
6 # Then the children of Judah came
unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto
him, Thou knowest the thing that the
LORD said unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and thee in
Kadesh-barnea.
7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses
the servant of the LORD sent me from
Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and
I brought him word again as [it was] in
mine heart.
8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up
with me made the heart of the people
melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my
God.
9 And Moses sware on that day, saying,
Surely the land whereon thy feet have
trodden shall be thine inheritance, and
thy children's for ever, because thou
hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept
me alive, as he said, these forty and
five years, even since the LORD spake
this word unto Moses, while [the
children of] Israel wandered in the
wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this
day fourscore and five years old.
11 As yet I [am as] strong this day as
[I was] in the day that Moses sent me:
as my strength [was] then, even so [is]
my strength now, for war, both to go
out, and to come in.
12 Now therefore give me this mountain,
whereof the LORD spake in that day; for
thou heardest in that day how the
Anakims [were] there, and [that] the
cities [were] great [and] fenced: if so
be the LORD [will be] with me, then I
shall be able to drive them out, as the
LORD said.
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave
unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron
for an inheritance.
14 Hebron therefore became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day,
because that he wholly followed the
LORD God of Israel.
15 And the name of Hebron before [was]
Kirjath-arba; [which Arba was] a great
man among the Anakims. And the land had
rest from war.

CHAPTER 15
1 [This] then was the lot of the tribe
of the children of Judah by their
families; [even] to the border of Edom
the wilderness of Zin southward [was]
the uttermost part of the south coast.
2 And their south border was from the
shore of the salt sea, from the bay
that looketh southward:
3 And it went out to the south side to
Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to
Zin, and ascended up on the south side
unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to
Hezron, and went up to Adar, and
fetched a compass to Karkaa:
4 [From thence] it passed toward Azmon,
and went out unto the river of Egypt;
and the goings out of that coast were
at the sea: this shall be your south
coast.
5 And the east border [was] the salt
sea, [even] unto the end of Jordan. And
[their] border in the north quarter
[was] from the bay of the sea at the
uttermost part of Jordan:
6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla,
and passed along by the north of
Beth-arabah; and the border went up to
the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
7 And the border went up toward Debir
from the valley of Achor, and so
northward, looking toward Gilgal, that
[is] before the going up to Adummim,
which [is] on the south side of the
river: and the border passed toward the
waters of En-shemesh, and the goings
out thereof were at En-rogel:
8 And the border went up by the valley
of the son of Hinnom unto the south
side of the Jebusite; the same [is]
Jerusalem: and the border went up to
the top of the mountain that [lieth]
before the valley of Hinnom westward,
which [is] at the end of the valley of
the giants northward:
9 And the border was drawn from the top
of the hill unto the fountain of the
water of Nephtoah, and went out to the
cities of mount Ephron; and the border
was drawn to Baalah, which [is]
Kirjath-jearim:
10 And the border compassed from Baalah
westward unto mount Seir, and passed
along unto the side of mount Jearim,
which [is] Chesalon, on the north side,
and went down to Beth-shemesh, and
passed on to Timnah:
11 And the border went out unto the
side of Ekron northward: and the border
was drawn to Shicron, and passed along
to mount Baalah, and went out unto
Jabneel; and the goings out of the
border were at the sea.
12 And the west border [was] to the
great sea, and the coast [thereof].
This [is] the coast of the children of
Judah round about according to their
families.
13 # And unto Caleb the son of
Jephunneh he gave a part among the
children of Judah, according to the
commandment of the LORD to Joshua,
[even] the city of Arba the father of
Anak, which [city is] Hebron.
14 And Caleb drove thence the three
sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and
Talmai, the children of Anak.
15 And he went up thence to the
inhabitants of Debir: and the name of
Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.
16 # And Caleb said, He that smiteth
Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him
will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the
brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave
him Achsah his daughter to wife.
18 And it came to pass, as she came
[unto him], that she moved him to ask
of her father a field: and she lighted
off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her,
What wouldest thou?
19 Who answered, Give me a blessing;
for thou hast given me a south land;
give me also springs of water. And he
gave her the upper springs, and the
nether springs.
20 This [is] the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Judah
according to their families.
21 And the uttermost cities of the
tribe of the children of Judah toward
the coast of Edom southward were
Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth,
[and] Hezron, which [is] Hazor,
26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and
Beth-palet,
28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and
Bizjothjah,
29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and
Sansannah,
32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain,
and Rimmon: all the cities [are] twenty
and nine, with their villages:
33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and
Zoreah, and Ashnah,
34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah,
and Enam,
35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and
Azekah,
36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and
Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen
cities with their villages:
37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and
Joktheel,
39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and
Kithlish,
41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and
Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities
with their villages:
42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and
Mareshah; nine cities with their
villages:
45 Ekron, with her towns and her
villages:
46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all
that [lay] near Ashdod, with their
villages:
47 Ashdod with her towns and her
villages, Gaza with her towns and her
villages, unto the river of Egypt, and
the great sea, and the border
[thereof]:
48 # And in the mountains, Shamir, and
Jattir, and Socoh,
49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah,
which [is] Debir,
50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh;
eleven cities with their villages:
52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
53 And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and
Aphekah,
54 And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which
[is] Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with
their villages:
55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and
Zanoah,
57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities
with their villages:
58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and
Eltekon; six cities with their
villages:
60 Kirjath-baal, which [is]
Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities
with their villages:
61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah,
Middin, and Secacah,
62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt,
and En-gedi; six cities with their
villages.
63 # As for the Jebusites the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children
of Judah could not drive them out: but
the Jebusites dwell with the children
of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

CHAPTER 16
1 And the lot of the children of Joseph
fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the
water of Jericho on the east, to the
wilderness that goeth up from Jericho
throughout mount Beth-el,
2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz,
and passeth along unto the borders of
Archi to Ataroth,
3 And goeth down westward to the coast
of Japhleti, unto the coast of
Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer:
and the goings out thereof are at the
sea.
4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh
and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
5 # And the border of the children of
Ephraim according to their families was
[thus]: even the border of their
inheritance on the east side was
Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the
upper;
6 And the border went out toward the
sea to Michmethah on the north side;
and the border went about eastward unto
Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the
east to Janohah;
7 And it went down from Janohah to
Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to
Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
8 The border went out from Tappuah
westward unto the river Kanah; and the
goings out thereof were at the sea.
This [is] the inheritance of the tribe
of the children of Ephraim by their
families.
9 And the separate cities for the
children of Ephraim [were] among the
inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their
villages.
10 And they drave not out the
Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the
Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites
unto this day, and serve under tribute.

CHAPTER 17
1 There was also a lot for the tribe of
Manasseh; for he [was] the firstborn of
Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the
firstborn of Manasseh, the father of
Gilead: because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
2 There was also [a lot] for the rest
of the children of Manasseh by their
families; for the children of Abiezer,
and for the children of Helek, and for
the children of Asriel, and for the
children of Shechem, and for the
children of Hepher, and for the
children of Shemida: these [were] the
male children of Manasseh the son of
Joseph by their families.
3 # But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher,
the son of Gilead, the son of Machir,
the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but
daughters: and these [are] the names of
his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
4 And they came near before Eleazar the
priest, and before Joshua the son of
Nun, and before the princes, saying,
The LORD commanded Moses to give us an
inheritance among our brethren.
Therefore according to the commandment
of the LORD he gave them an inheritance
among the brethren of their father.
5 And there fell ten portions to
Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and
Bashan, which [were] on the other side
Jordan;
6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had
an inheritance among his sons: and the
rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of
Gilead.
7 # And the coast of Manasseh was from
Asher to Michmethah, that [lieth]
before Shechem; and the border went
along on the right hand unto the
inhabitants of En-tappuah.
8 [Now] Manasseh had the land of
Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of
Manasseh [belonged] to the children of
Ephraim;
9 And the coast descended unto the
river Kanah, southward of the river:
these cities of Ephraim [are] among the
cities of Manasseh: the coast of
Manasseh also [was] on the north side
of the river, and the outgoings of it
were at the sea:
10 Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and
northward [it was] Manasseh's, and the
sea is his border; and they met
together in Asher on the north, and in
Issachar on the east.
11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in
Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and
Ibleam and her towns, and the
inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and
the inhabitants of En-dor and her
towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach
and her towns, and the inhabitants of
Megiddo and her towns, [even] three
countries.
12 Yet the children of Manasseh could
not drive out [the inhabitants of]
those cities; but the Canaanites would
dwell in that land.
13 Yet it came to pass, when the
children of Israel were waxen strong,
that they put the Canaanites to
tribute; but did not utterly drive them
out.
14 And the children of Joseph spake
unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou
given me [but] one lot and one portion
to inherit, seeing I [am] a great
people, forasmuch as the LORD hath
blessed me hitherto?
15 And Joshua answered them, If thou
[be] a great people, [then] get thee up
to the wood [country], and cut down for
thyself there in the land of the
Perizzites and of the giants, if mount
Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Joseph said, The
hill is not enough for us: and all the
Canaanites that dwell in the land of
the valley have chariots of iron, [both
they] who [are] of Beth-shean and her
towns, and [they] who [are] of the
valley of Jezreel.
17 And Joshua spake unto the house of
Joseph, [even] to Ephraim and to
Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great
people, and hast great power: thou
shalt not have one lot [only]:
18 But the mountain shall be thine; for
it [is] a wood, and thou shalt cut it
down: and the outgoings of it shall be
thine: for thou shalt drive out the
Canaanites, though they have iron
chariots, [and] though they [be]
strong.

CHAPTER 18
1 And the whole congregation of the
children of Israel assembled together
at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of
the congregation there. And the land
was subdued before them.
2 And there remained among the children
of Israel seven tribes, which had not
yet received their inheritance.
3 And Joshua said unto the children of
Israel, How long [are] ye slack to go
to possess the land, which the LORD God
of your fathers hath given you?
4 Give out from among you three men for
[each] tribe: and I will send them, and
they shall rise, and go through the
land, and describe it according to the
inheritance of them; and they shall
come [again] to me.
5 And they shall divide it into seven
parts: Judah shall abide in their coast
on the south, and the house of Joseph
shall abide in their coasts on the
north.
6 Ye shall therefore describe the land
[into] seven parts, and bring [the
description] hither to me, that I may
cast lots for you here before the LORD
our God.
7 But the Levites have no part among
you; for the priesthood of the LORD
[is] their inheritance: and Gad, and
Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh,
have received their inheritance beyond
Jordan on the east, which Moses the
servant of the LORD gave them.
8 # And the men arose, and went away:
and Joshua charged them that went to
describe the land, saying, Go and walk
through the land, and describe it, and
come again to me, that I may here cast
lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
9 And the men went and passed through
the land, and described it by cities
into seven parts in a book, and came
[again] to Joshua to the host at
Shiloh.
10 # And Joshua cast lots for them in
Shiloh before the LORD: and there
Joshua divided the land unto the
children of Israel according to their
divisions.
11 # And the lot of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin came up according
to their families: and the coast of
their lot came forth between the
children of Judah and the children of
Joseph.
12 And their border on the north side
was from Jordan; and the border went up
to the side of Jericho on the north
side, and went up through the mountains
westward; and the goings out thereof
were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
13 And the border went over from thence
toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which
[is] Beth-el, southward; and the border
descended to Ataroth-adar, near the
hill that [lieth] on the south side of
the nether Beth-horon.
14 And the border was drawn [thence],
and compassed the corner of the sea
southward, from the hill that [lieth]
before Beth-horon southward; and the
goings out thereof were at
Kirjath-baal, which [is]
Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children
of Judah: this [was] the west quarter.
15 And the south quarter [was] from the
end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border
went out on the west, and went out to
the well of waters of Nephtoah:
16 And the border came down to the end
of the mountain that [lieth] before the
valley of the son of Hinnom, [and]
which [is] in the valley of the giants
on the north, and descended to the
valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi
on the south, and descended to
En-rogel,
17 And was drawn from the north, and
went forth to En-shemesh, and went
forth toward Geliloth, which [is] over
against the going up of Adummim, and
descended to the stone of Bohan the son
of Reuben,
18 And passed along toward the side
over against Arabah northward, and went
down unto Arabah:
19 And the border passed along to the
side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the
outgoings of the border were at the
north bay of the salt sea at the south
end of Jordan: this [was] the south
coast.
20 And Jordan was the border of it on
the east side. This [was] the
inheritance of the children of
Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round
about, according to their families.
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin according to their
families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah,
and the valley of Keziz,
22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and
Beth-el,
23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni,
and Gaba; twelve cities with their
villages:
25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and
Mozah,
27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which
[is] Jerusalem, Gibeath, [and] Kirjath;
fourteen cities with their villages.
This [is] the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin according to their
families.

CHAPTER 19
1 And the second lot came forth to
Simeon, [even] for the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their
families: and their inheritance was
within the inheritance of the children
of Judah.
2 And they had in their inheritance
Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
3 And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem,
4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
5 And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and
Hazar-susah,
6 And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen;
thirteen cities and their villages:
7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan;
four cities and their villages:
8 And all the villages that [were]
round about these cities to
Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This
[is] the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Simeon according to
their families.
9 Out of the portion of the children of
Judah [was] the inheritance of the
children of Simeon: for the part of the
children of Judah was too much for
them: therefore the children of Simeon
had their inheritance within the
inheritance of them.
10 # And the third lot came up for the
children of Zebulun according to their
families: and the border of their
inheritance was unto Sarid:
11 And their border went up toward the
sea, and Maralah, and reached to
Dabbasheth, and reached to the river
that [is] before Jokneam;
12 And turned from Sarid eastward
toward the sunrising unto the border of
Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to
Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
13 And from thence passeth on along on
the east to Gittah-hepher, to
Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to
Remmon-methoar to Neah;
14 And the border compasseth it on the
north side to Hannathon: and the
outgoings thereof are in the valley of
Jiphthah-el:
15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and
Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem:
twelve cities with their villages.
16 This [is] the inheritance of the
children of Zebulun according to their
families, these cities with their
villages.
17 # [And] the fourth lot came out to
Issachar, for the children of Issachar
according to their families.
18 And their border was toward Jezreel,
and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
19 And Haphraim, and Shion, and
Anaharath,
20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
21 And Remeth, and En-gannim, and
En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and
Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the
outgoings of their border were at
Jordan: sixteen cities with their
villages.
23 This [is] the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Issachar
according to their families, the cities
and their villages.
24 # And the fifth lot came out for the
tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families.
25 And their border was Helkath, and
Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and
Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel
westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
27 And turneth toward the sunrising to
Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun,
and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward
the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel,
and goeth out to Cabul on the left
hand,
28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon,
and Kanah, [even] unto great Zidon;
29 And [then] the coast turneth to
Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and
the coast turneth to Hosah; and the
outgoings thereof are at the sea from
the coast to Achzib:
30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob:
twenty and two cities with their
villages.
31 This [is] the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families, these
cities with their villages.
32 # The sixth lot came out to the
children of Naphtali, [even] for the
children of Naphtali according to their
families.
33 And their coast was from Heleph,
from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami,
Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the
outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
34 And [then] the coast turneth
westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out
from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to
Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth
to Asher on the west side, and to Judah
upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
35 And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim,
Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and
Chinnereth,
36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
38 And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and
Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen
cities with their villages.
39 This [is] the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Naphtali
according to their families, the cities
and their villages.
40 # [And] the seventh lot came out for
the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families.
41 And the coast of their inheritance
was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and
Jethlah,
43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and
Baalath,
45 And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and
Gath-rimmon,
46 And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the
border before Japho.
47 And the coast of the children of Dan
went out [too little] for them:
therefore the children of Dan went up
to fight against Leshem, and took it,
and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and possessed it, and dwelt
therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after
the name of Dan their father.
48 This [is] the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Dan according
to their families, these cities with
their villages.
49 # When they had made an end of
dividing the land for inheritance by
their coasts, the children of Israel
gave an inheritance to Joshua the son
of Nun among them:
50 According to the word of the LORD
they gave him the city which he asked,
[even] Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim:
and he built the city, and dwelt
therein.
51 These [are] the inheritances, which
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son
of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of
the tribes of the children of Israel,
divided for an inheritance by lot in
Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation. So
they made an end of dividing the
country.

CHAPTER 20
1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua,
saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel,
saying, Appoint out for you cities of
refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the
hand of Moses:
3 That the slayer that killeth [any]
person unawares [and] unwittingly may
flee thither: and they shall be your
refuge from the avenger of blood.
4 And when he that doth flee unto one
of those cities shall stand at the
entering of the gate of the city, and
shall declare his cause in the ears of
the elders of that city, they shall
take him into the city unto them, and
give him a place, that he may dwell
among them.
5 And if the avenger of blood pursue
after him, then they shall not deliver
the slayer up into his hand; because he
smote his neighbour unwittingly, and
hated him not beforetime.
6 And he shall dwell in that city,
until he stand before the congregation
for judgment, [and] until the death of
the high priest that shall be in those
days: then shall the slayer return, and
come unto his own city, and unto his
own house, unto the city from whence he
fled.
7 # And they appointed Kedesh in
Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem
in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba,
which [is] Hebron, in the mountain of
Judah.
8 And on the other side Jordan by
Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
in the wilderness upon the plain out of
the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in
Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and
Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of
Manasseh.
9 These were the cities appointed for
all the children of Israel, and for the
stranger that sojourneth among them,
that whosoever killeth [any] person at
unawares might flee thither, and not
die by the hand of the avenger of
blood, until he stood before the
congregation.

CHAPTER 21
1 Then came near the heads of the
fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the
priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun,
and unto the heads of the fathers of
the tribes of the children of Israel;
2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in
the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses to give
us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs
thereof for our cattle.
3 And the children of Israel gave unto
the Levites out of their inheritance,
at the commandment of the LORD, these
cities and their suburbs.
4 And the lot came out for the families
of the Kohathites: and the children of
Aaron the priest, [which were] of the
Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of
Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon,
and out of the tribe of Benjamin,
thirteen cities.
5 And the rest of the children of
Kohath [had] by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the
tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe
of Manasseh, ten cities.
6 And the children of Gershon [had] by
lot out of the families of the tribe of
Issachar, and out of the tribe of
Asher, and out of the tribe of
Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
7 The children of Merari by their
families [had] out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad,
and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve
cities.
8 And the children of Israel gave by
lot unto the Levites these cities with
their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by
the hand of Moses.
9 # And they gave out of the tribe of
the children of Judah, and out of the
tribe of the children of Simeon, these
cities which are [here] mentioned by
name,
10 Which the children of Aaron, [being]
of the families of the Kohathites, [who
were] of the children of Levi, had: for
their's was the first lot.
11 And they gave them the city of Arba
the father of Anak, which [city is]
Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah,
with the suburbs thereof round about
it.
12 But the fields of the city, and the
villages thereof, gave they to Caleb
the son of Jephunneh for his
possession.
13 # Thus they gave to the children of
Aaron the priest Hebron with her
suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for
the slayer; and Libnah with her
suburbs,
14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and
Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
15 And Holon with her suburbs, and
Debir with her suburbs,
16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah
with her suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh
with her suburbs; nine cities out of
those two tribes.
17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin,
Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her
suburbs,
18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon
with her suburbs; four cities.
19 All the cities of the children of
Aaron, the priests, [were] thirteen
cities with their suburbs.
20 # And the families of the children
of Kohath, the Levites which remained
of the children of Kohath, even they
had the cities of their lot out of the
tribe of Ephraim.
21 For they gave them Shechem with her
suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a
city of refuge for the slayer; and
Gezer with her suburbs,
22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and
Beth-horon with her suburbs; four
cities.
23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh
with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her
suburbs,
24 Aijalon with her suburbs,
Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; four
cities.
25 And out of the half tribe of
Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and
Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two
cities.
26 All the cities [were] ten with their
suburbs for the families of the
children of Kohath that remained.
27 # And unto the children of Gershon,
of the families of the Levites, out of
the [other] half tribe of Manasseh
[they gave] Golan in Bashan with her
suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for
the slayer; and Beesh-terah with her
suburbs; two cities.
28 And out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with
her suburbs,
29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, En-gannim
with her suburbs; four cities.
30 And out of the tribe of Asher,
Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her
suburbs,
31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob
with her suburbs; four cities.
32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali,
Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, [to
be] a city of refuge for the slayer;
and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and
Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
33 All the cities of the Gershonites
according to their families [were]
thirteen cities with their suburbs.
34 # And unto the families of the
children of Merari, the rest of the
Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun,
Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah
with her suburbs,
35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal
with her suburbs; four cities.
36 And out of the tribe of Reuben,
Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah
with her suburbs,
37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and
Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth
in Gilead with her suburbs, [to be] a
city of refuge for the slayer; and
Mahanaim with her suburbs,
39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with
her suburbs; four cities in all.
40 So all the cities for the children
of Merari by their families, which were
remaining of the families of the
Levites, were [by] their lot twelve
cities.
41 All the cities of the Levites within
the possession of the children of
Israel [were] forty and eight cities
with their suburbs.
42 These cities were every one with
their suburbs round about them: thus
[were] all these cities.
43 # And the LORD gave unto Israel all
the land which he sware to give unto
their fathers; and they possessed it,
and dwelt therein.
44 And the LORD gave them rest round
about, according to all that he sware
unto their fathers: and there stood not
a man of all their enemies before them;
the LORD delivered all their enemies
into their hand.
45 There failed not ought of any good
thing which the LORD had spoken unto
the house of Israel; all came to pass.

CHAPTER 22
1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites,
and the Gadites, and the half tribe of
Manasseh,
2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all
that Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded you, and have obeyed my voice
in all that I commanded you:
3 Ye have not left your brethren these
many days unto this day, but have kept
the charge of the commandment of the
LORD your God.
4 And now the LORD your God hath given
rest unto your brethren, as he promised
them: therefore now return ye, and get
you unto your tents, [and] unto the
land of your possession, which Moses
the servant of the LORD gave you on the
other side Jordan.
5 But take diligent heed to do the
commandment and the law, which Moses
the servant of the LORD charged you, to
love the LORD your God, and to walk in
all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to cleave unto him,
and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul.
6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them
away: and they went unto their tents.
7 # Now to the [one] half of the tribe
of Manasseh Moses had given
[possession] in Bashan: but unto the
[other] half thereof gave Joshua among
their brethren on this side Jordan
westward. And when Joshua sent them
away also unto their tents, then he
blessed them,
8 And he spake unto them, saying,
Return with much riches unto your
tents, and with very much cattle, with
silver, and with gold, and with brass,
and with iron, and with very much
raiment: divide the spoil of your
enemies with your brethren.
9 # And the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half tribe of
Manasseh returned, and departed from
the children of Israel out of Shiloh,
which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go
unto the country of Gilead, to the land
of their possession, whereof they were
possessed, according to the word of the
LORD by the hand of Moses.
10 # And when they came unto the
borders of Jordan, that [are] in the
land of Canaan, the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the half
tribe of Manasseh built there an altar
by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
11 # And the children of Israel heard
say, Behold, the children of Reuben and
the children of Gad and the half tribe
of Manasseh have built an altar over
against the land of Canaan, in the
borders of Jordan, at the passage of
the children of Israel.
12 And when the children of Israel
heard [of it], the whole congregation
of the children of Israel gathered
themselves together at Shiloh, to go up
to war against them.
13 And the children of Israel sent unto
the children of Reuben, and to the
children of Gad, and to the half tribe
of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
14 And with him ten princes, of each
chief house a prince throughout all the
tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an
head of the house of their fathers
among the thousands of Israel.
15 # And they came unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and
to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the
land of Gilead, and they spake with
them, saying,
16 Thus saith the whole congregation of
the LORD, What trespass [is] this that
ye have committed against the God of
Israel, to turn away this day from
following the LORD, in that ye have
builded you an altar, that ye might
rebel this day against the LORD?
17 [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little
for us, from which we are not cleansed
until this day, although there was a
plague in the congregation of the LORD,
18 But that ye must turn away this day
from following the LORD? and it will
be, [seeing] ye rebel to day against
the LORD, that to morrow he will be
wroth with the whole congregation of
Israel.
19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your
possession [be] unclean, [then] pass ye
over unto the land of the possession of
the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle
dwelleth, and take possession among us:
but rebel not against the LORD, nor
rebel against us, in building you an
altar beside the altar of the LORD our
God.
20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah
commit a trespass in the accursed
thing, and wrath fell on all the
congregation of Israel? and that man
perished not alone in his iniquity.
21 # Then the children of Reuben and
the children of Gad and the half tribe
of Manasseh answered, and said unto the
heads of the thousands of Israel,
22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God
of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he
shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or
if in transgression against the LORD,
(save us not this day,)
23 That we have built us an altar to
turn from following the LORD, or if to
offer thereon burnt offering or meat
offering, or if to offer peace
offerings thereon, let the LORD himself
require [it];
24 And if we have not [rather] done it
for fear of [this] thing, saying, In
time to come your children might speak
unto our children, saying, What have ye
to do with the LORD God of Israel?
25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a
border between us and you, ye children
of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have
no part in the LORD: so shall your
children make our children cease from
fearing the LORD.
26 Therefore we said, Let us now
prepare to build us an altar, not for
burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
27 But [that] it [may be] a witness
between us, and you, and our
generations after us, that we might do
the service of the LORD before him with
our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices, and with our peace
offerings; that your children may not
say to our children in time to come, Ye
have no part in the LORD.
28 Therefore said we, that it shall be,
when they should [so] say to us or to
our generations in time to come, that
we may say [again], Behold the pattern
of the altar of the LORD, which our
fathers made, not for burnt offerings,
nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a
witness between us and you.
29 God forbid that we should rebel
against the LORD, and turn this day
from following the LORD, to build an
altar for burnt offerings, for meat
offerings, or for sacrifices, beside
the altar of the LORD our God that [is]
before his tabernacle.
30 # And when Phinehas the priest, and
the princes of the congregation and
heads of the thousands of Israel which
[were] with him, heard the words that
the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad and the children of Manasseh
spake, it pleased them.
31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest said unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and
to the children of Manasseh, This day
we perceive that the LORD [is] among
us, because ye have not committed this
trespass against the LORD: now ye have
delivered the children of Israel out of
the hand of the LORD.
32 # And Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest, and the princes, returned
from the children of Reuben, and from
the children of Gad, out of the land of
Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the
children of Israel, and brought them
word again.
33 And the thing pleased the children
of Israel; and the children of Israel
blessed God, and did not intend to go
up against them in battle, to destroy
the land wherein the children of Reuben
and Gad dwelt.
34 And the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad called the altar [Ed]:
for it [shall be] a witness between us
that the LORD [is] God.

CHAPTER 23
1 And it came to pass a long time after
that the LORD had given rest unto
Israel from all their enemies round
about, that Joshua waxed old [and]
stricken in age.
2 And Joshua called for all Israel,
[and] for their elders, and for their
heads, and for their judges, and for
their officers, and said unto them, I
am old [and] stricken in age:
3 And ye have seen all that the LORD
your God hath done unto all these
nations because of you; for the LORD
your God [is] he that hath fought for
you.
4 Behold, I have divided unto you by
lot these nations that remain, to be an
inheritance for your tribes, from
Jordan, with all the nations that I
have cut off, even unto the great sea
westward.
5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel
them from before you, and drive them
from out of your sight; and ye shall
possess their land, as the LORD your
God hath promised unto you.
6 Be ye therefore very courageous to
keep and to do all that is written in
the book of the law of Moses, that ye
turn not aside therefrom [to] the right
hand or [to] the left;
7 That ye come not among these nations,
these that remain among you; neither
make mention of the name of their gods,
nor cause to swear [by them], neither
serve them, nor bow yourselves unto
them:
8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as
ye have done unto this day.
9 For the LORD hath driven out from
before you great nations and strong:
but [as for] you, no man hath been able
to stand before you unto this day.
10 One man of you shall chase a
thousand: for the LORD your God, he [it
is] that fighteth for you, as he hath
promised you.
11 Take good heed therefore unto
yourselves, that ye love the LORD your
God.
12 Else if ye do in any wise go back,
and cleave unto the remnant of these
nations, [even] these that remain among
you, and shall make marriages with
them, and go in unto them, and they to
you:
13 Know for a certainty that the LORD
your God will no more drive out [any
of] these nations from before you; but
they shall be snares and traps unto
you, and scourges in your sides, and
thorns in your eyes, until ye perish
from off this good land which the LORD
your God hath given you.
14 And, behold, this day I [am] going
the way of all the earth: and ye know
in all your hearts and in all your
souls, that not one thing hath failed
of all the good things which the LORD
your God spake concerning you; all are
come to pass unto you, [and] not one
thing hath failed thereof.
15 Therefore it shall come to pass,
[that] as all good things are come upon
you, which the LORD your God promised
you; so shall the LORD bring upon you
all evil things, until he have
destroyed you from off this good land
which the LORD your God hath given you.
16 When ye have transgressed the
covenant of the LORD your God, which he
commanded you, and have gone and served
other gods, and bowed yourselves to
them; then shall the anger of the LORD
be kindled against you, and ye shall
perish quickly from off the good land
which he hath given unto you.

CHAPTER 24
1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of
Israel to Shechem, and called for the
elders of Israel, and for their heads,
and for their judges, and for their
officers; and they presented themselves
before God.
2 And Joshua said unto all the people,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your
fathers dwelt on the other side of the
flood in old time, [even] Terah, the
father of Abraham, and the father of
Nachor: and they served other gods.
3 And I took your father Abraham from
the other side of the flood, and led
him throughout all the land of Canaan,
and multiplied his seed, and gave him
Isaac.
4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau:
and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to
possess it; but Jacob and his children
went down into Egypt.
5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I
plagued Egypt, according to that which
I did among them: and afterward I
brought you out.
6 And I brought your fathers out of
Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and
the Egyptians pursued after your
fathers with chariots and horsemen unto
the Red sea.
7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he
put darkness between you and the
Egyptians, and brought the sea upon
them, and covered them; and your eyes
have seen what I have done in Egypt:
and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long
season.
8 And I brought you into the land of
the Amorites, which dwelt on the other
side Jordan; and they fought with you:
and I gave them into your hand, that ye
might possess their land; and I
destroyed them from before you.
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, arose and warred against Israel,
and sent and called Balaam the son of
Beor to curse you:
10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam;
therefore he blessed you still: so I
delivered you out of his hand.
11 And ye went over Jordan, and came
unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho
fought against you, the Amorites, and
the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I
delivered them into your hand.
12 And I sent the hornet before you,
which drave them out from before you,
[even] the two kings of the Amorites;
[but] not with thy sword, nor with thy
bow.
13 And I have given you a land for
which ye did not labour, and cities
which ye built not, and ye dwell in
them; of the vineyards and oliveyards
which ye planted not do ye eat.
14 # Now therefore fear the LORD, and
serve him in sincerity and in truth:
and put away the gods which your
fathers served on the other side of the
flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the
LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to
serve the LORD, choose you this day
whom ye will serve; whether the gods
which your fathers served that [were]
on the other side of the flood, or the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye
dwell: but as for me and my house, we
will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said,
God forbid that we should forsake the
LORD, to serve other gods;
17 For the LORD our God, he [it is]
that brought us up and our fathers out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage, and which did those great
signs in our sight, and preserved us in
all the way wherein we went, and among
all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drave out from before
us all the people, even the Amorites
which dwelt in the land: [therefore]
will we also serve the LORD; for he
[is] our God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye
cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] an
holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he
will not forgive your transgressions
nor your sins.
20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve
strange gods, then he will turn and do
you hurt, and consume you, after that
he hath done you good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua,
Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye
[are] witnesses against yourselves that
ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve
him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, [said he],
the strange gods which [are] among you,
and incline your heart unto the LORD
God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The
LORD our God will we serve, and his
voice will we obey.
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the
people that day, and set them a statute
and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 # And Joshua wrote these words in
the book of the law of God, and took a
great stone, and set it up there under
an oak, that [was] by the sanctuary of
the LORD.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people,
Behold, this stone shall be a witness
unto us; for it hath heard all the
words of the LORD which he spake unto
us: it shall be therefore a witness
unto you, lest ye deny your God.
28 So Joshua let the people depart,
every man unto his inheritance.
29 # And it came to pass after these
things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of the LORD, died, [being] an
hundred and ten years old.
30 And they buried him in the border of
his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which
[is] in mount Ephraim, on the north
side of the hill of Gaash.
31 And Israel served the LORD all the
days of Joshua, and all the days of the
elders that overlived Joshua, and which
had known all the works of the LORD,
that he had done for Israel.
32 # And the bones of Joseph, which the
children of Israel brought up out of
Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a
parcel of ground which Jacob bought of
the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem
for an hundred pieces of silver: and it
became the inheritance of the children
of Joseph.
33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died;
and they buried him in a hill [that
pertained to] Phinehas his son, which
was given him in mount Ephraim.

THE BOOK OF JUDGES

CHAPTER 1
1 Now after the death of Joshua it came
to pass, that the children of Israel
asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up
for us against the Canaanites first, to
fight against them?
2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up:
behold, I have delivered the land into
his hand.
3 And Judah said unto Simeon his
brother, Come up with me into my lot,
that we may fight against the
Canaanites; and I likewise will go with
thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with
him.
4 And Judah went up; and the LORD
delivered the Canaanites and the
Perizzites into their hand: and they
slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek:
and they fought against him, and they
slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they
pursued after him, and caught him, and
cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and
ten kings, having their thumbs and
their great toes cut off, gathered
[their meat] under my table: as I have
done, so God hath requited me. And they
brought him to Jerusalem, and there he
died.
8 Now the children of Judah had fought
against Jerusalem, and had taken it,
and smitten it with the edge of the
sword, and set the city on fire.
9 # And afterward the children of Judah
went down to fight against the
Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain,
and in the south, and in the valley.
10 And Judah went against the
Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now
the name of Hebron before [was]
Kirjath-arba:) and they slew Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai.
11 And from thence he went against the
inhabitants of Debir: and the name of
Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher:
12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth
Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him
will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz,
Caleb's younger brother, took it: and
he gave him Achsah his daughter to
wife.
14 And it came to pass, when she came
[to him], that she moved him to ask of
her father a field: and she lighted
from off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto
her, What wilt thou?
15 And she said unto him, Give me a
blessing: for thou hast given me a
south land; give me also springs of
water. And Caleb gave her the upper
springs and the nether springs.
16 # And the children of the Kenite,
Moses' father in law, went up out of
the city of palm trees with the
children of Judah into the wilderness
of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of
Arad; and they went and dwelt among the
people.
17 And Judah went with Simeon his
brother, and they slew the Canaanites
that inhabited Zephath, and utterly
destroyed it. And the name of the city
was called Hormah.
18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast
thereof, and Askelon with the coast
thereof, and Ekron with the coast
thereof.
19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he
drave out [the inhabitants of] the
mountain; but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they
had chariots of iron.
20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as
Moses said: and he expelled thence the
three sons of Anak.
21 And the children of Benjamin did not
drive out the Jebusites that inhabited
Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with
the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem
unto this day.
22 # And the house of Joseph, they also
went up against Beth-el: and the LORD
[was] with them.
23 And the house of Joseph sent to
descry Beth-el. (Now the name of the
city before [was] Luz.)
24 And the spies saw a man come forth
out of the city, and they said unto
him, Shew us, we pray thee, the
entrance into the city, and we will
shew thee mercy.
25 And when he shewed them the entrance
into the city, they smote the city with
the edge of the sword; but they let go
the man and all his family.
26 And the man went into the land of
the Hittites, and built a city, and
called the name thereof Luz: which [is]
the name thereof unto this day.
27 # Neither did Manasseh drive out
[the inhabitants of] Beth-shean and her
towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor
the inhabitants of Dor and her towns,
nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her
towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo
and her towns: but the Canaanites would
dwell in that land.
28 And it came to pass, when Israel was
strong, that they put the Canaanites to
tribute, and did not utterly drive them
out.
29 # Neither did Ephraim drive out the
Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the
Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
30 # Neither did Zebulun drive out the
inhabitants of Kitron, nor the
inhabitants of Nahalol; but the
Canaanites dwelt among them, and became
tributaries.
31 # Neither did Asher drive out the
inhabitants of Accho, nor the
inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor
of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik,
nor of Rehob:
32 But the Asherites dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants of the
land: for they did not drive them out.
33 # Neither did Naphtali drive out the
inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the
inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt
among the Canaanites, the inhabitants
of the land: nevertheless the
inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of
Beth-anath became tributaries unto
them.
34 And the Amorites forced the children
of Dan into the mountain: for they
would not suffer them to come down to
the valley:
35 But the Amorites would dwell in
mount Heres in Aijalon, and in
Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of
Joseph prevailed, so that they became
tributaries.
36 And the coast of the Amorites [was]
from the going up to Akrabbim, from the
rock, and upward.

CHAPTER 2
1 And an angel of the LORD came up from
Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you
to go up out of Egypt, and have brought
you unto the land which I sware unto
your fathers; and I said, I will never
break my covenant with you.
2 And ye shall make no league with the
inhabitants of this land; ye shall
throw down their altars: but ye have
not obeyed my voice: why have ye done
this?
3 Wherefore I also said, I will not
drive them out from before you; but
they shall be [as thorns] in your
sides, and their gods shall be a snare
unto you.
4 And it came to pass, when the angel
of the LORD spake these words unto all
the children of Israel, that the people
lifted up their voice, and wept.
5 And they called the name of that
place Bochim: and they sacrificed there
unto the LORD.
6 # And when Joshua had let the people
go, the children of Israel went every
man unto his inheritance to possess the
land.
7 And the people served the LORD all
the days of Joshua, and all the days of
the elders that outlived Joshua, who
had seen all the great works of the
LORD, that he did for Israel.
8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of the LORD, died, [being] an
hundred and ten years old.
9 And they buried him in the border of
his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in
the mount of Ephraim, on the north side
of the hill Gaash.
10 And also all that generation were
gathered unto their fathers: and there
arose another generation after them,
which knew not the LORD, nor yet the
works which he had done for Israel.
11 # And the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the LORD, and
served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the LORD God of
their fathers, which brought them out
of the land of Egypt, and followed
other gods, of the gods of the people
that [were] round about them, and bowed
themselves unto them, and provoked the
LORD to anger.
13 And they forsook the LORD, and
served Baal and Ashtaroth.
14 # And the anger of the LORD was hot
against Israel, and he delivered them
into the hands of spoilers that spoiled
them, and he sold them into the hands
of their enemies round about, so that
they could not any longer stand before
their enemies.
15 Whithersoever they went out, the
hand of the LORD was against them for
evil, as the LORD had said, and as the
LORD had sworn unto them: and they were
greatly distressed.
16 # Nevertheless the LORD raised up
judges, which delivered them out of the
hand of those that spoiled them.
17 And yet they would not hearken unto
their judges, but they went a whoring
after other gods, and bowed themselves
unto them: they turned quickly out of
the way which their fathers walked in,
obeying the commandments of the LORD;
[but] they did not so.
18 And when the LORD raised them up
judges, then the LORD was with the
judge, and delivered them out of the
hand of their enemies all the days of
the judge: for it repented the LORD
because of their groanings by reason of
them that oppressed them and vexed
them.
19 And it came to pass, when the judge
was dead, [that] they returned, and
corrupted [themselves] more than their
fathers, in following other gods to
serve them, and to bow down unto them;
they ceased not from their own doings,
nor from their stubborn way.
20 # And the anger of the LORD was hot
against Israel; and he said, Because
that this people hath transgressed my
covenant which I commanded their
fathers, and have not hearkened unto my
voice;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out
any from before them of the nations
which Joshua left when he died:
22 That through them I may prove
Israel, whether they will keep the way
of the LORD to walk therein, as their
fathers did keep [it], or not.
23 Therefore the LORD left those
nations, without driving them out
hastily; neither delivered he them into
the hand of Joshua.

CHAPTER 3
1 Now these [are] the nations which the
LORD left, to prove Israel by them,
[even] as many [of Israel] as had not
known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the
children of Israel might know, to teach
them war, at the least such as before
knew nothing thereof;
3 [Namely], five lords of the
Philistines, and all the Canaanites,
and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that
dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount
Baal-hermon unto the entering in of
Hamath.
4 And they were to prove Israel by
them, to know whether they would
hearken unto the commandments of the
LORD, which he commanded their fathers
by the hand of Moses.
5 # And the children of Israel dwelt
among the Canaanites, Hittites, and
Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites,
and Jebusites:
6 And they took their daughters to be
their wives, and gave their daughters
to their sons, and served their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil
in the sight of the LORD, and forgat
the LORD their God, and served Baalim
and the groves.
8 # Therefore the anger of the LORD was
hot against Israel, and he sold them
into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim
king of Mesopotamia: and the children
of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim
eight years.
9 And when the children of Israel cried
unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a
deliverer to the children of Israel,
who delivered them, [even] Othniel the
son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon
him, and he judged Israel, and went out
to war: and the LORD delivered
Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia
into his hand; and his hand prevailed
against Chushan-rishathaim.
11 And the land had rest forty years.
And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12 # And the children of Israel did
evil again in the sight of the LORD:
and the LORD strengthened Eglon the
king of Moab against Israel, because
they had done evil in the sight of the
LORD.
13 And he gathered unto him the
children of Ammon and Amalek, and went
and smote Israel, and possessed the
city of palm trees.
14 So the children of Israel served
Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15 But when the children of Israel
cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised
them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of
Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded:
and by him the children of Israel sent
a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had
two edges, of a cubit length; and he
did gird it under his raiment upon his
right thigh.
17 And he brought the present unto
Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon [was] a
very fat man.
18 And when he had made an end to offer
the present, he sent away the people
that bare the present.
19 But he himself turned again from the
quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and
said, I have a secret errand unto thee,
O king: who said, Keep silence. And all
that stood by him went out from him.
20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was
sitting in a summer parlour, which he
had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I
have a message from God unto thee. And
he arose out of [his] seat.
21 And Ehud put forth his left hand,
and took the dagger from his right
thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
22 And the haft also went in after the
blade; and the fat closed upon the
blade, so that he could not draw the
dagger out of his belly; and the dirt
came out.
23 Then Ehud went forth through the
porch, and shut the doors of the
parlour upon him, and locked them.
24 When he was gone out, his servants
came; and when they saw that, behold,
the doors of the parlour [were] locked,
they said, Surely he covereth his feet
in his summer chamber.
25 And they tarried till they were
ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the
doors of the parlour; therefore they
took a key, and opened [them]: and,
behold, their lord [was] fallen down
dead on the earth.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried,
and passed beyond the quarries, and
escaped unto Seirath.
27 And it came to pass, when he was
come, that he blew a trumpet in the
mountain of Ephraim, and the children
of Israel went down with him from the
mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after
me: for the LORD hath delivered your
enemies the Moabites into your hand.
And they went down after him, and took
the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and
suffered not a man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time
about ten thousand men, all lusty, and
all men of valour; and there escaped
not a man.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under
the hand of Israel. And the land had
rest fourscore years.
31 # And after him was Shamgar the son
of Anath, which slew of the Philistines
six hundred men with an ox goad: and he
also delivered Israel.

CHAPTER 4
1 And the children of Israel again did
evil in the sight of the LORD, when
Ehud was dead.
2 And the LORD sold them into the hand
of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned
in Hazor; the captain of whose host
[was] Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth
of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto
the LORD: for he had nine hundred
chariots of iron; and twenty years he
mightily oppressed the children of
Israel.
4 # And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife
of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that
time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of
Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in
mount Ephraim: and the children of
Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son
of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and
said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of
Israel commanded, [saying], Go and draw
toward mount Tabor, and take with thee
ten thousand men of the children of
Naphtali and of the children of
Zebulun?
7 And I will draw unto thee to the
river Kishon Sisera, the captain of
Jabin's army, with his chariots and his
multitude; and I will deliver him into
thine hand.
8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt
go with me, then I will go: but if thou
wilt not go with me, [then] I will not
go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with
thee: notwithstanding the journey that
thou takest shall not be for thine
honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera
into the hand of a woman. And Deborah
arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 # And Barak called Zebulun and
Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with
ten thousand men at his feet: and
Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of
the children of Hobab the father in law
of Moses, had severed himself from the
Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the
plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak
the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount
Tabor.
13 And Sisera gathered together all his
chariots, [even] nine hundred chariots
of iron, and all the people that [were]
with him, from Harosheth of the
Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for
this [is] the day in which the LORD
hath delivered Sisera into thine hand:
is not the LORD gone out before thee?
So Barak went down from mount Tabor,
and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and
all [his] chariots, and all [his] host,
with the edge of the sword before
Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off
[his] chariot, and fled away on his
feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the
chariots, and after the host, unto
Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the
host of Sisera fell upon the edge of
the sword; [and] there was not a man
left.
17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet
to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber
the Kenite: for [there was] peace
between Jabin the king of Hazor and the
house of Heber the Kenite.
18 # And Jael went out to meet Sisera,
and said unto him, Turn in, my lord,
turn in to me; fear not. And when he
had turned in unto her into the tent,
she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said unto her, Give me, I
pray thee, a little water to drink; for
I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle
of milk, and gave him drink, and
covered him.
20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the
door of the tent, and it shall be, when
any man doth come and enquire of thee,
and say, Is there any man here? that
thou shalt say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail
of the tent, and took an hammer in her
hand, and went softly unto him, and
smote the nail into his temples, and
fastened it into the ground: for he was
fast asleep and weary. So he died.
22 And, behold, as Barak pursued
Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and
said unto him, Come, and I will shew
thee the man whom thou seekest. And
when he came into her [tent], behold,
Sisera lay dead, and the nail [was] in
his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the
king of Canaan before the children of
Israel.
24 And the hand of the children of
Israel prospered, and prevailed against
Jabin the king of Canaan, until they
had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

CHAPTER 5
1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son
of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging
of Israel, when the people willingly
offered themselves.
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye
princes; I, [even] I, will sing unto
the LORD; I will sing [praise] to the
LORD God of Israel.
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir,
when thou marchedst out of the field of
Edom, the earth trembled, and the
heavens dropped, the clouds also
dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the
LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the
LORD God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of
Anath, in the days of Jael, the
highways were unoccupied, and the
travellers walked through byways.
7 [The inhabitants of] the villages
ceased, they ceased in Israel, until
that I Deborah arose, that I arose a
mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then [was] war
in the gates: was there a shield or
spear seen among forty thousand in
Israel?
9 My heart [is] toward the governors of
Israel, that offered themselves
willingly among the people. Bless ye
the LORD.
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses,
ye that sit in judgment, and walk by
the way.
11 [They that are delivered] from the
noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they
rehearse the righteous acts of the
LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward
the inhabitants] of his villages in
Israel: then shall the people of the
LORD go down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake,
utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead
thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have
dominion over the nobles among the
people: the LORD made me have dominion
over the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of
them against Amalek; after thee,
Benjamin, among thy people; out of
Machir came down governors, and out of
Zebulun they that handle the pen of the
writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar [were]
with Deborah; even Issachar, and also
Barak: he was sent on foot into the
valley. For the divisions of Reuben
[there were] great thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the
sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of
the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben
[there were] great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why
did Dan remain in ships? Asher
continued on the sea shore, and abode
in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people
[that] jeoparded their lives unto the
death in the high places of the field.
19 The kings came [and] fought, then
fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach
by the waters of Megiddo; they took no
gain of money.
20 They fought from heaven; the stars
in their courses fought against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away,
that ancient river, the river Kishon. O
my soul, thou hast trodden down
strength.
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by
the means of the pransings, the
pransings of their mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of
the LORD, curse ye bitterly the
inhabitants thereof; because they came
not to the help of the LORD, to the
help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the
wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed
shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him]
milk; she brought forth butter in a
lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and
her right hand to the workmen's hammer;
and with the hammer she smote Sisera,
she smote off his head, when she had
pierced and stricken through his
temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he
lay down: at her feet he bowed, he
fell: where he bowed, there he fell
down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a
window, and cried through the lattice,
Why is his chariot [so] long in coming?
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea,
she returned answer to herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they [not]
divided the prey; to every man a damsel
[or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers
colours, a prey of divers colours of
needlework, of divers colours of
needlework on both sides, [meet] for
the necks of [them that take] the
spoil?
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O
LORD: but [let] them that love him [be]
as the sun when he goeth forth in his
might. And the land had rest forty
years.

CHAPTER 6
1 And the children of Israel did evil
in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD
delivered them into the hand of Midian
seven years.
2 And the hand of Midian prevailed
against Israel: [and] because of the
Midianites the children of Israel made
them the dens which [are] in the
mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
3 And [so] it was, when Israel had
sown, that the Midianites came up, and
the Amalekites, and the children of the
east, even they came up against them;
4 And they encamped against them, and
destroyed the increase of the earth,
till thou come unto Gaza, and left no
sustenance for Israel, neither sheep,
nor ox, nor ass.
5 For they came up with their cattle
and their tents, and they came as
grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both
they and their camels were without
number: and they entered into the land
to destroy it.
6 And Israel was greatly impoverished
because of the Midianites; and the
children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
7 # And it came to pass, when the
children of Israel cried unto the LORD
because of the Midianites,
8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the
children of Israel, which said unto
them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I brought you up from Egypt,
and brought you forth out of the house
of bondage;
9 And I delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand
of all that oppressed you, and drave
them out from before you, and gave you
their land;
10 And I said unto you, I [am] the LORD
your God; fear not the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but
ye have not obeyed my voice.
11 # And there came an angel of the
LORD, and sat under an oak which [was]
in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash
the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon
threshed wheat by the winepress, to
hide [it] from the Midianites.
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto him, and said unto him, The LORD
[is] with thee, thou mighty man of
valour.
13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my
Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then
is all this befallen us? and where [be]
all his miracles which our fathers told
us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring
us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath
forsaken us, and delivered us into the
hands of the Midianites.
14 And the LORD looked upon him, and
said, Go in this thy might, and thou
shalt save Israel from the hand of the
Midianites: have not I sent thee?
15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord,
wherewith shall I save Israel? behold,
my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I
[am] the least in my father's house.
16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I
will be with thee, and thou shalt smite
the Midianites as one man.
17 And he said unto him, If now I have
found grace in thy sight, then shew me
a sign that thou talkest with me.
18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until
I come unto thee, and bring forth my
present, and set [it] before thee. And
he said, I will tarry until thou come
again.
19 # And Gideon went in, and made ready
a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah
of flour: the flesh he put in a basket,
and he put the broth in a pot, and
brought [it] out unto him under the
oak, and presented [it].
20 And the angel of God said unto him,
Take the flesh and the unleavened
cakes, and lay [them] upon this rock,
and pour out the broth. And he did so.
21 # Then the angel of the LORD put
forth the end of the staff that [was]
in his hand, and touched the flesh and
the unleavened cakes; and there rose up
fire out of the rock, and consumed the
flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then
the angel of the LORD departed out of
his sight.
22 And when Gideon perceived that he
[was] an angel of the LORD, Gideon
said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I
have seen an angel of the LORD face to
face.
23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace
[be] unto thee; fear not: thou shalt
not die.
24 Then Gideon built an altar there
unto the LORD, and called it
Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it [is]
yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
25 # And it came to pass the same
night, that the LORD said unto him,
Take thy father's young bullock, even
the second bullock of seven years old,
and throw down the altar of Baal that
thy father hath, and cut down the grove
that [is] by it:
26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy
God upon the top of this rock, in the
ordered place, and take the second
bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice
with the wood of the grove which thou
shalt cut down.
27 Then Gideon took ten men of his
servants, and did as the LORD had said
unto him: and [so] it was, because he
feared his father's household, and the
men of the city, that he could not do
[it] by day, that he did [it] by night.
28 # And when the men of the city arose
early in the morning, behold, the altar
of Baal was cast down, and the grove
was cut down that [was] by it, and the
second bullock was offered upon the
altar [that was] built.
29 And they said one to another, Who
hath done this thing? And when they
enquired and asked, they said, Gideon
the son of Joash hath done this thing.
30 Then the men of the city said unto
Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may
die: because he hath cast down the
altar of Baal, and because he hath cut
down the grove that [was] by it.
31 And Joash said unto all that stood
against him, Will ye plead for Baal?
will ye save him? he that will plead
for him, let him be put to death whilst
[it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god,
let him plead for himself, because
[one] hath cast down his altar.
32 Therefore on that day he called him
Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead
against him, because he hath thrown
down his altar.
33 # Then all the Midianites and the
Amalekites and the children of the east
were gathered together, and went over,
and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon
Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and
Abiezer was gathered after him.
35 And he sent messengers throughout
all Manasseh; who also was gathered
after him: and he sent messengers unto
Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto
Naphtali; and they came up to meet
them.
36 # And Gideon said unto God, If thou
wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou
hast said,
37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool
in the floor; [and] if the dew be on
the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon
all the earth [beside], then shall I
know that thou wilt save Israel by mine
hand, as thou hast said.
38 And it was so: for he rose up early
on the morrow, and thrust the fleece
together, and wringed the dew out of
the fleece, a bowl full of water.
39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not
thine anger be hot against me, and I
will speak but this once: let me prove,
I pray thee, but this once with the
fleece; let it now be dry only upon the
fleece, and upon all the ground let
there be dew.
40 And God did so that night: for it
was dry upon the fleece only, and there
was dew on all the ground.

CHAPTER 7
1 Then Jerubbaal, who [is] Gideon, and
all the people that [were] with him,
rose up early, and pitched beside the
well of Harod: so that the host of the
Midianites were on the north side of
them, by the hill of Moreh, in the
valley.
2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The
people that [are] with thee [are] too
many for me to give the Midianites into
their hands, lest Israel vaunt
themselves against me, saying, Mine own
hand hath saved me.
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the
ears of the people, saying, Whosoever
[is] fearful and afraid, let him return
and depart early from mount Gilead. And
there returned of the people twenty and
two thousand; and there remained ten
thousand.
4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The
people [are] yet [too] many; bring them
down unto the water, and I will try
them for thee there: and it shall be,
[that] of whom I say unto thee, This
shall go with thee, the same shall go
with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto
thee, This shall not go with thee, the
same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto
the water: and the LORD said unto
Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the
water with his tongue, as a dog
lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
likewise every one that boweth down
upon his knees to drink.
6 And the number of them that lapped,
[putting] their hand to their mouth,
were three hundred men: but all the
rest of the people bowed down upon
their knees to drink water.
7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the
three hundred men that lapped will I
save you, and deliver the Midianites
into thine hand: and let all the
[other] people go every man unto his
place.
8 So the people took victuals in their
hand, and their trumpets: and he sent
all [the rest of] Israel every man unto
his tent, and retained those three
hundred men: and the host of Midian was
beneath him in the valley.
9 # And it came to pass the same night,
that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get
thee down unto the host; for I have
delivered it into thine hand.
10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou
with Phurah thy servant down to the
host:
11 And thou shalt hear what they say;
and afterward shall thine hands be
strengthened to go down unto the host.
Then went he down with Phurah his
servant unto the outside of the armed
men that [were] in the host.
12 And the Midianites and the
Amalekites and all the children of the
east lay along in the valley like
grasshoppers for multitude; and their
camels [were] without number, as the
sand by the sea side for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold,
[there was] a man that told a dream
unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I
dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of
barley bread tumbled into the host of
Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote
it that it fell, and overturned it,
that the tent lay along.
14 And his fellow answered and said,
This [is] nothing else save the sword
of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of
Israel: [for] into his hand hath God
delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 # And it was [so], when Gideon heard
the telling of the dream, and the
interpretation thereof, that he
worshipped, and returned into the host
of Israel, and said, Arise; for the
LORD hath delivered into your hand the
host of Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred men
[into] three companies, and he put a
trumpet in every man's hand, with empty
pitchers, and lamps within the
pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me,
and do likewise: and, behold, when I
come to the outside of the camp, it
shall be [that], as I do, so shall ye
do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and
all that [are] with me, then blow ye
the trumpets also on every side of all
the camp, and say, [The sword] of the
LORD, and of Gideon.
19 # So Gideon, and the hundred men
that [were] with him, came unto the
outside of the camp in the beginning of
the middle watch; and they had but
newly set the watch: and they blew the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers that
[were] in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and
held the lamps in their left hands, and
the trumpets in their right hands to
blow [withal]: and they cried, The
sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his
place round about the camp: and all the
host ran, and cried, and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew the
trumpets, and the LORD set every man's
sword against his fellow, even
throughout all the host: and the host
fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, [and]
to the border of Abel-meholah, unto
Tabbath.
23 And the men of Israel gathered
themselves together out of Naphtali,
and out of Asher, and out of all
Manasseh, and pursued after the
Midianites.
24 # And Gideon sent messengers
throughout all mount Ephraim, saying,
Come down against the Midianites, and
take before them the waters unto
Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men
of Ephraim gathered themselves
together, and took the waters unto
Beth-barah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the
Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they
slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb
they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and
pursued Midian, and brought the heads
of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other
side Jordan.

CHAPTER 8
1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him,
Why hast thou served us thus, that thou
calledst us not, when thou wentest to
fight with the Midianites? And they did
chide with him sharply.
2 And he said unto them, What have I
done now in comparison of you? [Is] not
the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim
better than the vintage of Abiezer?
3 God hath delivered into your hands
the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb:
and what was I able to do in comparison
of you? Then their anger was abated
toward him, when he had said that.
4 # And Gideon came to Jordan, [and]
passed over, he, and the three hundred
men that [were] with him, faint, yet
pursuing [them].
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth,
Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto
the people that follow me; for they
[be] faint, and I am pursuing after
Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 # And the princes of Succoth said,
[Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna
now in thine hand, that we should give
bread unto thine army?
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the
LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna
into mine hand, then I will tear your
flesh with the thorns of the wilderness
and with briers.
8 # And he went up thence to Penuel,
and spake unto them likewise: and the
men of Penuel answered him as the men
of Succoth had answered [him].
9 And he spake also unto the men of
Penuel, saying, When I come again in
peace, I will break down this tower.
10 # Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in
Karkor, and their hosts with them,
about fifteen thousand [men], all that
were left of all the hosts of the
children of the east: for there fell an
hundred and twenty thousand men that
drew sword.
11 # And Gideon went up by the way of
them that dwelt in tents on the east of
Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host:
for the host was secure.
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he
pursued after them, and took the two
kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna,
and discomfited all the host.
13 # And Gideon the son of Joash
returned from battle before the sun
[was up],
14 And caught a young man of the men of
Succoth, and enquired of him: and he
described unto him the princes of
Succoth, and the elders thereof, [even]
threescore and seventeen men.
15 And he came unto the men of Succoth,
and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna,
with whom ye did upbraid me, saying,
[Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna
now in thine hand, that we should give
bread unto thy men [that are] weary?
16 And he took the elders of the city,
and thorns of the wilderness and
briers, and with them he taught the men
of Succoth.
17 And he beat down the tower of
Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
18 # Then said he unto Zebah and
Zalmunna, What manner of men [were
they] whom ye slew at Tabor? And they
answered, As thou [art], so [were]
they; each one resembled the children
of a king.
19 And he said, They [were] my
brethren, [even] the sons of my mother:
[as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved
them alive, I would not slay you.
20 And he said unto Jether his
firstborn, Up, [and] slay them. But the
youth drew not his sword: for he
feared, because he [was] yet a youth.
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise
thou, and fall upon us: for as the man
[is, so is] his strength. And Gideon
arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and
took away the ornaments that [were] on
their camels' necks.
22 # Then the men of Israel said unto
Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou,
and thy son, and thy son's son also:
for thou hast delivered us from the
hand of Midian.
23 And Gideon said unto them, I will
not rule over you, neither shall my son
rule over you: the LORD shall rule over
you.
24 # And Gideon said unto them, I would
desire a request of you, that ye would
give me every man the earrings of his
prey. (For they had golden earrings,
because they [were] Ishmaelites.)
25 And they answered, We will willingly
give [them]. And they spread a garment,
and did cast therein every man the
earrings of his prey.
26 And the weight of the golden
earrings that he requested was a
thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of
gold; beside ornaments, and collars,
and purple raiment that [was] on the
kings of Midian, and beside the chains
that [were] about their camels' necks.
27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof,
and put it in his city, [even] in
Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a
whoring after it: which thing became a
snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
28 # Thus was Midian subdued before the
children of Israel, so that they lifted
up their heads no more. And the country
was in quietness forty years in the
days of Gideon.
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went
and dwelt in his own house.
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten
sons of his body begotten: for he had
many wives.
31 And his concubine that [was] in
Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose
name he called Abimelech.
32 # And Gideon the son of Joash died
in a good old age, and was buried in
the sepulchre of Joash his father, in
Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 And it came to pass, as soon as
Gideon was dead, that the children of
Israel turned again, and went a whoring
after Baalim, and made Baal-berith
their god.
34 And the children of Israel
remembered not the LORD their God, who
had delivered them out of the hands of
all their enemies on every side:
35 Neither shewed they kindness to the
house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon,
according to all the goodness which he
had shewed unto Israel.

CHAPTER 9
1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal
went to Shechem unto his mother's
brethren, and communed with them, and
with all the family of the house of his
mother's father, saying,
2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all
the men of Shechem, Whether [is] better
for you, either that all the sons of
Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and
ten persons, reign over you, or that
one reign over you? remember also that
I [am] your bone and your flesh.
3 And his mother's brethren spake of
him in the ears of all the men of
Shechem all these words: and their
hearts inclined to follow Abimelech;
for they said, He [is] our brother.
4 And they gave him threescore and ten
[pieces] of silver out of the house of
Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired
vain and light persons, which followed
him.
5 And he went unto his father's house
at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the
sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore
and ten persons, upon one stone:
notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest
son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid
himself.
6 And all the men of Shechem gathered
together, and all the house of Millo,
and went, and made Abimelech king, by
the plain of the pillar that [was] in
Shechem.
7 # And when they told [it] to Jotham,
he went and stood in the top of mount
Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and
cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto
me, ye men of Shechem, that God may
hearken unto you.
8 The trees went forth [on a time] to
anoint a king over them; and they said
unto the olive tree, Reign thou over
us.
9 But the olive tree said unto them,
Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by
me they honour God and man, and go to
be promoted over the trees?
10 And the trees said to the fig tree,
Come thou, [and] reign over us.
11 But the fig tree said unto them,
Should I forsake my sweetness, and my
good fruit, and go to be promoted over
the trees?
12 Then said the trees unto the vine,
Come thou, [and] reign over us.
13 And the vine said unto them, Should
I leave my wine, which cheereth God and
man, and go to be promoted over the
trees?
14 Then said all the trees unto the
bramble, Come thou, [and] reign over
us.
15 And the bramble said unto the trees,
If in truth ye anoint me king over you,
[then] come [and] put your trust in my
shadow: and if not, let fire come out
of the bramble, and devour the cedars
of Lebanon.
16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly
and sincerely, in that ye have made
Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt
well with Jerubbaal and his house, and
have done unto him according to the
deserving of his hands;
17 (For my father fought for you, and
adventured his life far, and delivered
you out of the hand of Midian:
18 And ye are risen up against my
father's house this day, and have slain
his sons, threescore and ten persons,
upon one stone, and have made
Abimelech, the son of his maidservant,
king over the men of Shechem, because
he [is] your brother;)
19 If ye then have dealt truly and
sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his
house this day, [then] rejoice ye in
Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in
you:
20 But if not, let fire come out from
Abimelech, and devour the men of
Shechem, and the house of Millo; and
let fire come out from the men of
Shechem, and from the house of Millo,
and devour Abimelech.
21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and
went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear
of Abimelech his brother.
22 # When Abimelech had reigned three
years over Israel,
23 Then God sent an evil spirit between
Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and
the men of Shechem dealt treacherously
with Abimelech:
24 That the cruelty [done] to the
threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal
might come, and their blood be laid
upon Abimelech their brother, which
slew them; and upon the men of Shechem,
which aided him in the killing of his
brethren.
25 And the men of Shechem set liers in
wait for him in the top of the
mountains, and they robbed all that
came along that way by them: and it was
told Abimelech.
26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with
his brethren, and went over to Shechem:
and the men of Shechem put their
confidence in him.
27 And they went out into the fields,
and gathered their vineyards, and trode
[the grapes], and made merry, and went
into the house of their god, and did
eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who
[is] Abimelech, and who [is] Shechem,
that we should serve him? [is] not [he]
the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his
officer? serve the men of Hamor the
father of Shechem: for why should we
serve him?
29 And would to God this people were
under my hand! then would I remove
Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech,
Increase thine army, and come out.
30 # And when Zebul the ruler of the
city heard the words of Gaal the son of
Ebed, his anger was kindled.
31 And he sent messengers unto
Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal
the son of Ebed and his brethren be
come to Shechem; and, behold, they
fortify the city against thee.
32 Now therefore up by night, thou and
the people that [is] with thee, and lie
in wait in the field:
33 And it shall be, [that] in the
morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou
shalt rise early, and set upon the
city: and, behold, [when] he and the
people that [is] with him come out
against thee, then mayest thou do to
them as thou shalt find occasion.
34 # And Abimelech rose up, and all the
people that [were] with him, by night,
and they laid wait against Shechem in
four companies.
35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out,
and stood in the entering of the gate
of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and
the people that [were] with him, from
lying in wait.
36 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,
Thou seest the shadow of the mountains
as [if they were] men.
37 And Gaal spake again and said, See
there come people down by the middle of
the land, and another company come
along by the plain of Meonenim.
38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where [is]
now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst,
Who [is] Abimelech, that we should
serve him? [is] not this the people
that thou hast despised? go out, I pray
now, and fight with them.
39 And Gaal went out before the men of
Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
40 And Abimelech chased him, and he
fled before him, and many were
overthrown [and] wounded, [even] unto
the entering of the gate.
41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and
Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren,
that they should not dwell in Shechem.
42 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that the people went out into the
field; and they told Abimelech.
43 And he took the people, and divided
them into three companies, and laid
wait in the field, and looked, and,
behold, the people [were] come forth
out of the city; and he rose up against
them, and smote them.
44 And Abimelech, and the company that
[was] with him, rushed forward, 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.
45 And Abimelech fought against the
city all that day; and he took the
city, and slew the people that [was]
therein, and beat down the city, and
sowed it with salt.
46 # And when all the men of the tower
of Shechem heard [that], they entered
into an hold of the house of the god
Berith.
47 And it was told Abimelech, that all
the men of the tower of Shechem were
gathered together.
48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount
Zalmon, he and all the people that
[were] with him; and Abimelech took an
axe in his hand, and cut down a bough
from the trees, and took it, and laid
[it] on his shoulder, and said unto the
people that [were] with him, What ye
have seen me do, make haste, [and] do
as I [have done].
49 And all the people likewise cut down
every man his bough, and followed
Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold,
and set the hold on fire upon them; so
that all the men of the tower of
Shechem died also, about a thousand men
and women.
50 # Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and
encamped against Thebez, and took it.
51 But there was a strong tower within
the city, and thither fled all the men
and women, and all they of the city,
and shut [it] to them, and gat them up
to the top of the tower.
52 And Abimelech came unto the tower,
and fought against it, and went hard
unto the door of the tower to burn it
with fire.
53 And a certain woman cast a piece of
a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and
all to brake his skull.
54 Then he called hastily unto the
young man his armourbearer, and said
unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me,
that men say not of me, A woman slew
him. And his young man thrust him
through, and he died.
55 And when the men of Israel saw that
Abimelech was dead, they departed every
man unto his place.
56 # Thus God rendered the wickedness
of Abimelech, which he did unto his
father, in slaying his seventy
brethren:
57 And all the evil of the men of
Shechem did God render upon their
heads: and upon them came the curse of
Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

CHAPTER 10
1 And after Abimelech there arose to
defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the
son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he
dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
2 And he judged Israel twenty and three
years, and died, and was buried in
Shamir.
3 # And after him arose Jair, a
Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and
two years.
4 And he had thirty sons that rode on
thirty ass colts, and they had thirty
cities, which are called Havoth-jair
unto this day, which [are] in the land
of Gilead.
5 And Jair died, and was buried in
Camon.
6 # And the children of Israel did evil
again in the sight of the LORD, and
served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the
gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon,
and the gods of Moab, and the gods of
the children of Ammon, and the gods of
the Philistines, and forsook the LORD,
and served not him.
7 And the anger of the LORD was hot
against Israel, and he sold them into
the hands of the Philistines, and into
the hands of the children of Ammon.
8 And that year they vexed and
oppressed the children of Israel:
eighteen years, all the children of
Israel that [were] on the other side
Jordan in the land of the Amorites,
which [is] in Gilead.
9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed
over Jordan to fight also against
Judah, and against Benjamin, and
against the house of Ephraim; so that
Israel was sore distressed.
10 # And the children of Israel cried
unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned
against thee, both because we have
forsaken our God, and also served
Baalim.
11 And the LORD said unto the children
of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you]
from the Egyptians, and from the
Amorites, from the children of Ammon,
and from the Philistines?
12 The Zidonians also, and the
Amalekites, and the Maonites, did
oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I
delivered you out of their hand.
13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served
other gods: wherefore I will deliver
you no more.
14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye
have chosen; let them deliver you in
the time of your tribulation.
15 # And the children of Israel said
unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou
unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto
thee; deliver us only, we pray thee,
this day.
16 And they put away the strange gods
from among them, and served the LORD:
and his soul was grieved for the misery
of Israel.
17 Then the children of Ammon were
gathered together, and encamped in
Gilead. And the children of Israel
assembled themselves together, and
encamped in Mizpeh.
18 And the people [and] princes of
Gilead said one to another, What man
[is he] that will begin to fight
against the children of Ammon? he shall
be head over all the inhabitants of
Gilead.

CHAPTER 11
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a
mighty man of valour, and he [was] the
son of an harlot: and Gilead begat
Jephthah.
2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and
his wife's sons grew up, and they
thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him,
Thou shalt not inherit in our father's
house; for thou [art] the son of a
strange woman.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren,
and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there
were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and
went out with him.
4 # And it came to pass in process of
time, that the children of Ammon made
war against Israel.
5 And it was so, that when the children
of Ammon made war against Israel, the
elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah
out of the land of Tob:
6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come,
and be our captain, that we may fight
with the children of Ammon.
7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of
Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel
me out of my father's house? and why
are ye come unto me now when ye are in
distress?
8 And the elders of Gilead said unto
Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to
thee now, that thou mayest go with us,
and fight against the children of
Ammon, and be our head over all the
inhabitants of Gilead.
9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of
Gilead, If ye bring me home again to
fight against the children of Ammon,
and the LORD deliver them before me,
shall I be your head?
10 And the elders of Gilead said unto
Jephthah, The LORD be witness between
us, if we do not so according to thy
words.
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders
of Gilead, and the people made him head
and captain over them: and Jephthah
uttered all his words before the LORD
in Mizpeh.
12 # And Jephthah sent messengers unto
the king of the children of Ammon,
saying, What hast thou to do with me,
that thou art come against me to fight
in my land?
13 And the king of the children of
Ammon answered unto the messengers of
Jephthah, Because Israel took away my
land, when they came up out of Egypt,
from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto
Jordan: now therefore restore those
[lands] again peaceably.
14 And Jephthah sent messengers again
unto the king of the children of Ammon:
15 And said unto him, Thus saith
Jephthah, Israel took not away the land
of Moab, nor the land of the children
of Ammon:
16 But when Israel came up from Egypt,
and walked through the wilderness unto
the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the
king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray
thee, pass through thy land: but the
king of Edom would not hearken
[thereto]. And in like manner they sent
unto the king of Moab: but he would not
[consent]: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18 Then they went along through the
wilderness, and compassed the land of
Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by
the east side of the land of Moab, and
pitched on the other side of Arnon, but
came not within the border of Moab: for
Arnon [was] the border of Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers unto
Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of
Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let
us pass, we pray thee, through thy land
into my place.
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass
through his coast: but Sihon gathered
all his people together, and pitched in
Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered
Sihon and all his people into the hand
of Israel, and they smote them: so
Israel possessed all the land of the
Amorites, the inhabitants of that
country.
22 And they possessed all the coasts of
the Amorites, from Arnon even unto
Jabbok, and from the wilderness even
unto Jordan.
23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath
dispossessed the Amorites from before
his people Israel, and shouldest thou
possess it?
24 Wilt not thou possess that which
Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?
So whomsoever the LORD our God shall
drive out from before us, them will we
possess.
25 And now [art] thou any thing better
than Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab? did he ever strive against
Israel, or did he ever fight against
them,
26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and
her towns, and in Aroer and her towns,
and in all the cities that [be] along
by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred
years? why therefore did ye not recover
[them] within that time?
27 Wherefore I have not sinned against
thee, but thou doest me wrong to war
against me: the LORD the Judge be judge
this day between the children of Israel
and the children of Ammon.
28 Howbeit the king of the children of
Ammon hearkened not unto the words of
Jephthah which he sent him.
29 # Then the Spirit of the LORD came
upon Jephthah, and he passed over
Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over
Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of
Gilead he passed over [unto] the
children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the
LORD, and said, If thou shalt without
fail deliver the children of Ammon into
mine hands,
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever
cometh forth of the doors of my house
to meet me, when I return in peace from
the children of Ammon, shall surely be
the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for
a burnt offering.
32 # So Jephthah passed over unto the
children of Ammon to fight against
them; and the LORD delivered them into
his hands.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even
till thou come to Minnith, [even]
twenty cities, and unto the plain of
the vineyards, with a very great
slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon
were subdued before the children of
Israel.
34 # And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto
his house, and, behold, his daughter
came out to meet him with timbrels and
with dances: and she [was his] only
child; beside her he had neither son
nor daughter.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw
her, that he rent his clothes, and
said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast
brought me very low, and thou art one
of them that trouble me: for I have
opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I
cannot go back.
36 And she said unto him, My father,
[if] thou hast opened thy mouth unto
the LORD, do to me according to that
which hath proceeded out of thy mouth;
forasmuch as the LORD hath taken
vengeance for thee of thine enemies,
[even] of the children of Ammon.
37 And she said unto her father, Let
this thing be done for me: let me alone
two months, that I may go up and down
upon the mountains, and bewail my
virginity, I and my fellows.
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her
away [for] two months: and she went
with her companions, and bewailed her
virginity upon the mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of
two months, that she returned unto her
father, who did with her [according] to
his vow which he had vowed: and she
knew no man. And it was a custom in
Israel,
40 [That] the daughters of Israel went
yearly to lament the daughter of
Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a
year.

CHAPTER 12
1 And the men of Ephraim gathered
themselves together, and went
northward, and said unto Jephthah,
Wherefore passedst thou over to fight
against the children of Ammon, and
didst not call us to go with thee? we
will burn thine house upon thee with
fire.
2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my
people were at great strife with the
children of Ammon; and when I called
you, ye delivered me not out of their
hands.
3 And when I saw that ye delivered [me]
not, I put my life in my hands, and
passed over against the children of
Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into
my hand: wherefore then are ye come up
unto me this day, to fight against me?
4 Then Jephthah gathered together all
the men of Gilead, and fought with
Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote
Ephraim, because they said, Ye
Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim
among the Ephraimites, [and] among the
Manassites.
5 And the Gileadites took the passages
of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and
it was [so], that when those
Ephraimites which were escaped said,
Let me go over; that the men of Gilead
said unto him, [Art] thou an
Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
6 Then said they unto him, Say now
Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for
he could not frame to pronounce [it]
right. Then they took him, and slew him
at the passages of Jordan: and there
fell at that time of the Ephraimites
forty and two thousand.
7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years.
Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and
was buried in [one of] the cities of
Gilead.
8 # And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem
judged Israel.
9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty
daughters, [whom] he sent abroad, and
took in thirty daughters from abroad
for his sons. And he judged Israel
seven years.
10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at
Beth-lehem.
11 # And after him Elon, a Zebulonite,
judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten
years.
12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and
was buried in Aijalon in the country of
Zebulun.
13 # And after him Abdon the son of
Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
14 And he had forty sons and thirty
nephews, that rode on threescore and
ten ass colts: and he judged Israel
eight years.
15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the
Pirathonite died, and was buried in
Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the
mount of the Amalekites.

CHAPTER 13
1 And the children of Israel did evil
again in the sight of the LORD; and the
LORD delivered them into the hand of
the Philistines forty years.
2 # And there was a certain man of
Zorah, of the family of the Danites,
whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife
[was] barren, and bare not.
3 And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto the woman, and said unto her,
Behold now, thou [art] barren, and
bearest not: but thou shalt conceive,
and bear a son.
4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee,
and drink not wine nor strong drink,
and eat not any unclean [thing]:
5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and
bear a son; and no razor shall come on
his head: for the child shall be a
Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he
shall begin to deliver Israel out of
the hand of the Philistines.
6 # Then the woman came and told her
husband, saying, A man of God came unto
me, and his countenance [was] like the
countenance of an angel of God, very
terrible: but I asked him not whence he
[was], neither told he me his name:
7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou
shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now
drink no wine nor strong drink, neither
eat any unclean [thing]: for the child
shall be a Nazarite to God from the
womb to the day of his death.
8 # Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and
said, O my Lord, let the man of God
which thou didst send come again unto
us, and teach us what we shall do unto
the child that shall be born.
9 And God hearkened to the voice of
Manoah; and the angel of God came again
unto the woman as she sat in the field:
but Manoah her husband [was] not with
her.
10 And the woman made haste, and ran,
and shewed her husband, and said unto
him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto
me, that came unto me the [other] day.
11 And Manoah arose, and went after his
wife, and came to the man, and said
unto him, [Art] thou the man that
spakest unto the woman? And he said, I
[am].
12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words
come to pass. How shall we order the
child, and [how] shall we do unto him?
13 And the angel of the LORD said unto
Manoah, Of all that I said unto the
woman let her beware.
14 She may not eat of any [thing] that
cometh of the vine, neither let her
drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any
unclean [thing]: all that I commanded
her let her observe.
15 # And Manoah said unto the angel of
the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain
thee, until we shall have made ready a
kid for thee.
16 And the angel of the LORD said unto
Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will
not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt
offer a burnt offering, thou must offer
it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not
that he [was] an angel of the LORD.
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of
the LORD, What [is] thy name, that when
thy sayings come to pass we may do thee
honour?
18 And the angel of the LORD said unto
him, Why askest thou thus after my
name, seeing it [is] secret?
19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat
offering, and offered [it] upon a rock
unto the LORD: and [the angel] did
wondrously; and Manoah and his wife
looked on.
20 For it came to pass, when the flame
went up toward heaven from off the
altar, that the angel of the LORD
ascended in the flame of the altar. And
Manoah and his wife looked on [it], and
fell on their faces to the ground.
21 But the angel of the LORD did no
more appear to Manoah and to his wife.
Then Manoah knew that he [was] an angel
of the LORD.
22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We
shall surely die, because we have seen
God.
23 But his wife said unto him, If the
LORD were pleased to kill us, he would
not have received a burnt offering and
a meat offering at our hands, neither
would he have shewed us all these
[things], nor would as at this time
have told us [such things] as these.
24 # And the woman bare a son, and
called his name Samson: and the child
grew, and the LORD blessed him.
25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to
move him at times in the camp of Dan
between Zorah and Eshtaol.

CHAPTER 14
1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and
saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters
of the Philistines.
2 And he came up, and told his father
and his mother, and said, I have seen a
woman in Timnath of the daughters of
the Philistines: now therefore get her
for me to wife.
3 Then his father and his mother said
unto him, [Is there] never a woman
among the daughters of thy brethren, or
among all my people, that thou goest to
take a wife of the uncircumcised
Philistines? And Samson said unto his
father, Get her for me; for she
pleaseth me well.
4 But his father and his mother knew
not that it [was] of the LORD, that he
sought an occasion against the
Philistines: for at that time the
Philistines had dominion over Israel.
5 # Then went Samson down, and his
father and his mother, to Timnath, and
came to the vineyards of Timnath: and,
behold, a young lion roared against
him.
6 And the Spirit of the LORD came
mightily upon him, and he rent him as
he would have rent a kid, and [he had]
nothing in his hand: but he told not
his father or his mother what he had
done.
7 And he went down, and talked with the
woman; and she pleased Samson well.
8 # And after a time he returned to
take her, and he turned aside to see
the carcase of the lion: and, behold,
[there was] a swarm of bees and honey
in the carcase of the lion.
9 And he took thereof in his hands, and
went on eating, and came to his father
and mother, and he gave them, and they
did eat: but he told not them that he
had taken the honey out of the carcase
of the lion.
10 # So his father went down unto the
woman: and Samson made there a feast;
for so used the young men to do.
11 And it came to pass, when they saw
him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him.
12 # And Samson said unto them, I will
now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye
can certainly declare it me within the
seven days of the feast, and find [it]
out, then I will give you thirty sheets
and thirty change of garments:
13 But if ye cannot declare [it] me,
then shall ye give me thirty sheets and
thirty change of garments. And they
said unto him, Put forth thy riddle,
that we may hear it.
14 And he said unto them, Out of the
eater came forth meat, and out of the
strong came forth sweetness. And they
could not in three days expound the
riddle.
15 And it came to pass on the seventh
day, that they said unto Samson's wife,
Entice thy husband, that he may declare
unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee
and thy father's house with fire: have
ye called us to take that we have? [is
it] not [so]?
16 And Samson's wife wept before him,
and said, Thou dost but hate me, and
lovest me not: thou hast put forth a
riddle unto the children of my people,
and hast not told [it] me. And he said
unto her, Behold, I have not told [it]
my father nor my mother, and shall I
tell [it] thee?
17 And she wept before him the seven
days, while their feast lasted: and it
came to pass on the seventh day, that
he told her, because she lay sore upon
him: and she told the riddle to the
children of her people.
18 And the men of the city said unto
him on the seventh day before the sun
went down, What [is] sweeter than
honey? and what [is] stronger than a
lion? And he said unto them, If ye had
not plowed with my heifer, ye had not
found out my riddle.
19 # And the Spirit of the LORD came
upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon,
and slew thirty men of them, and took
their spoil, and gave change of
garments unto them which expounded the
riddle. And his anger was kindled, and
he went up to his father's house.
20 But Samson's wife was [given] to his
companion, whom he had used as his
friend.

CHAPTER 15
1 But it came to pass within a while
after, in the time of wheat harvest,
that Samson visited his wife with a
kid; and he said, I will go in to my
wife into the chamber. But her father
would not suffer him to go in.
2 And her father said, I verily thought
that thou hadst utterly hated her;
therefore I gave her to thy companion:
[is] not her younger sister fairer than
she? take her, I pray thee, instead of
her.
3 # And Samson said concerning them,
Now shall I be more blameless than the
Philistines, though I do them a
displeasure.
4 And Samson went and caught three
hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and
turned tail to tail, and put a
firebrand in the midst between two
tails.
5 And when he had set the brands on
fire, he let [them] go into the
standing corn of the Philistines, and
burnt up both the shocks, and also the
standing corn, with the vineyards [and]
olives.
6 # Then the Philistines said, Who hath
done this? And they answered, Samson,
the son in law of the Timnite, because
he had taken his wife, and given her to
his companion. And the Philistines came
up, and burnt her and her father with
fire.
7 # And Samson said unto them, Though
ye have done this, yet will I be
avenged of you, and after that I will
cease.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with
a great slaughter: and he went down and
dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9 # Then the Philistines went up, and
pitched in Judah, and spread themselves
in Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are
ye come up against us? And they
answered, To bind Samson are we come
up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Judah
went to the top of the rock Etam, and
said to Samson, Knowest thou not that
the Philistines [are] rulers over us?
what [is] this [that] thou hast done
unto us? And he said unto them, As they
did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 And they said unto him, We are come
down to bind thee, that we may deliver
thee into the hand of the Philistines.
And Samson said unto them, Swear unto
me, that ye will not fall upon me
yourselves.
13 And they spake unto him, saying, No;
but we will bind thee fast, and deliver
thee into their hand: but surely we
will not kill thee. And they bound him
with two new cords, and brought him up
from the rock.
14 # [And] when he came unto Lehi, the
Philistines shouted against him: and
the Spirit of the LORD came mightily
upon him, and the cords that [were]
upon his arms became as flax that was
burnt with fire, and his bands loosed
from off his hands.
15 And he found a new jawbone of an
ass, and put forth his hand, and took
it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of
an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw
of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 And it came to pass, when he had
made an end of speaking, that he cast
away the jawbone out of his hand, and
called that place Ramath-lehi.
18 # And he was sore athirst, and
called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast
given this great deliverance into the
hand of thy servant: and now shall I
die for thirst, and fall into the hand
of the uncircumcised?
19 But God clave an hollow place that
[was] in the jaw, and there came water
thereout; and when he had drunk, his
spirit came again, and he revived:
wherefore he called the name thereof
En-hakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto
this day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of
the Philistines twenty years.

CHAPTER 16
1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw
there an harlot, and went in unto her.
2 [And it was told] the Gazites,
saying, Samson is come hither. And they
compassed [him] in, and laid wait for
him all night in the gate of the city,
and were quiet all the night, saying,
In the morning, when it is day, we
shall kill him.
3 And Samson lay till midnight, and
arose at midnight, and took the doors
of the gate of the city, and the two
posts, and went away with them, bar and
all, and put [them] upon his shoulders,
and carried them up to the top of an
hill that [is] before Hebron.
4 # And it came to pass afterward, that
he loved a woman in the valley of
Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.
5 And the lords of the Philistines came
up unto her, and said unto her, Entice
him, and see wherein his great strength
[lieth], and by what [means] we may
prevail against him, that we may bind
him to afflict him: and we will give
thee every one of us eleven hundred
[pieces] of silver.
6 # And Delilah said to Samson, Tell
me, I pray thee, wherein thy great
strength [lieth], and wherewith thou
mightest be bound to afflict thee.
7 And Samson said unto her, If they
bind me with seven green withs that
were never dried, then shall I be weak,
and be as another man.
8 Then the lords of the Philistines
brought up to her seven green withs
which had not been dried, and she bound
him with them.
9 Now [there were] men lying in wait,
abiding with her in the chamber. And
she said unto him, The Philistines [be]
upon thee, Samson. And he brake the
withs, as a thread of tow is broken
when it toucheth the fire. So his
strength was not known.
10 And Delilah said unto Samson,
Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told
me lies: now tell me, I pray thee,
wherewith thou mightest be bound.
11 And he said unto her, If they bind
me fast with new ropes that never were
occupied, then shall I be weak, and be
as another man.
12 Delilah therefore took new ropes,
and bound him therewith, and said unto
him, The Philistines [be] upon thee,
Samson. And [there were] liers in wait
abiding in the chamber. And he brake
them from off his arms like a thread.
13 And Delilah said unto Samson,
Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told
me lies: tell me wherewith thou
mightest be bound. And he said unto
her, If thou weavest the seven locks of
my head with the web.
14 And she fastened [it] with the pin,
and said unto him, The Philistines [be]
upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of
his sleep, and went away with the pin
of the beam, and with the web.
15 # And she said unto him, How canst
thou say, I love thee, when thine heart
[is] not with me? thou hast mocked me
these three times, and hast not told me
wherein thy great strength [lieth].
16 And it came to pass, when she
pressed him daily with her words, and
urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed
unto death;
17 That he told her all his heart, and
said unto her, There hath not come a
razor upon mine head; for I [have been]
a Nazarite unto God from my mother's
womb: if I be shaven, then my strength
will go from me, and I shall become
weak, and be like any [other] man.
18 And when Delilah saw that he had
told her all his heart, she sent and
called for the lords of the
Philistines, saying, Come up this once,
for he hath shewed me all his heart.
Then the lords of the Philistines came
up unto her, and brought money in their
hand.
19 And she made him sleep upon her
knees; and she called for a man, and
she caused him to shave off the seven
locks of his head; and she began to
afflict him, and his strength went from
him.
20 And she said, The Philistines [be]
upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of
his sleep, and said, I will go out as
at other times before, and shake
myself. And he wist not that the LORD
was departed from him.
21 # But the Philistines took him, and
put out his eyes, and brought him down
to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of
brass; and he did grind in the prison
house.
22 Howbeit the hair of his head began
to grow again after he was shaven.
23 Then the lords of the Philistines
gathered them together for to offer a
great sacrifice unto Dagon their god,
and to rejoice: for they said, Our god
hath delivered Samson our enemy into
our hand.
24 And when the people saw him, they
praised their god: for they said, Our
god hath delivered into our hands our
enemy, and the destroyer of our
country, which slew many of us.
25 And it came to pass, when their
hearts were merry, that they said, Call
for Samson, that he may make us sport.
And they called for Samson out of the
prison house; and he made them sport:
and they set him between the pillars.
26 And Samson said unto the lad that
held him by the hand, Suffer me that I
may feel the pillars whereupon the
house standeth, that I may lean upon
them.
27 Now the house was full of men and
women; and all the lords of the
Philistines [were] there; and [there
were] upon the roof about three
thousand men and women, that beheld
while Samson made sport.
28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and
said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray
thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee,
only this once, O God, that I may be at
once avenged of the Philistines for my
two eyes.
29 And Samson took hold of the two
middle pillars upon which the house
stood, and on which it was borne up, of
the one with his right hand, and of the
other with his left.
30 And Samson said, Let me die with the
Philistines. And he bowed himself with
[all his] might; and the house fell
upon the lords, and upon all the people
that [were] therein. So the dead which
he slew at his death were more than
[they] which he slew in his life.
31 Then his brethren and all the house
of his father came down, and took him,
and brought [him] up, and buried him
between Zorah and Eshtaol in the
buryingplace of Manoah his father. And
he judged Israel twenty years.

CHAPTER 17
1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim,
whose name [was] Micah.
2 And he said unto his mother, The
eleven hundred [shekels] of silver that
were taken from thee, about which thou
cursedst, and spakest of also in mine
ears, behold, the silver [is] with me;
I took it. And his mother said, Blessed
[be thou] of the LORD, my son.
3 And when he had restored the eleven
hundred [shekels] of silver to his
mother, his mother said, I had wholly
dedicated the silver unto the LORD from
my hand for my son, to make a graven
image and a molten image: now therefore
I will restore it unto thee.
4 Yet he restored the money unto his
mother; and his mother took two hundred
[shekels] of silver, and gave them to
the founder, who made thereof a graven
image and a molten image: and they were
in the house of Micah.
5 And the man Micah had an house of
gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim,
and consecrated one of his sons, who
became his priest.
6 In those days [there was] no king in
Israel, [but] every man did [that which
was] right in his own eyes.
7 # And there was a young man out of
Beth-lehem-judah of the family of
Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he
sojourned there.
8 And the man departed out of the city
from Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where
he could find [a place]: and he came to
mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as
he journeyed.
9 And Micah said unto him, Whence
comest thou? And he said unto him, I
[am] a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and
I go to sojourn where I may find [a
place].
10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with
me, and be unto me a father and a
priest, and I will give thee ten
[shekels] of silver by the year, and a
suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So
the Levite went in.
11 And the Levite was content to dwell
with the man; and the young man was
unto him as one of his sons.
12 And Micah consecrated the Levite;
and the young man became his priest,
and was in the house of Micah.
13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the
LORD will do me good, seeing I have a
Levite to [my] priest.

CHAPTER 18
1 In those days [there was] no king in
Israel: and in those days the tribe of
the Danites sought them an inheritance
to dwell in; for unto that day [all
their] inheritance had not fallen unto
them among the tribes of Israel.
2 And the children of Dan sent of their
family five men from their coasts, men
of valour, from Zorah, and from
Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to
search it; and they said unto them, Go,
search the land: who when they came to
mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah,
they lodged there.
3 When they [were] by the house of
Micah, they knew the voice of the young
man the Levite: and they turned in
thither, and said unto him, Who brought
thee hither? and what makest thou in
this [place]? and what hast thou here?
4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus
dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired
me, and I am his priest.
5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel,
we pray thee, of God, that we may know
whether our way which we go shall be
prosperous.
6 And the priest said unto them, Go in
peace: before the LORD [is] your way
wherein ye go.
7 # Then the five men departed, and
came to Laish, and saw the people that
[were] therein, how they dwelt
careless, after the manner of the
Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there
was] no magistrate in the land, that
might put [them] to shame in [any]
thing; and they [were] far from the
Zidonians, and had no business with
[any] man.
8 And they came unto their brethren to
Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren
said unto them, What [say] ye?
9 And they said, Arise, that we may go
up against them: for we have seen the
land, and, behold, it [is] very good:
and [are] ye still? be not slothful to
go, [and] to enter to possess the land.
10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a
people secure, and to a large land: for
God hath given it into your hands; a
place where [there is] no want of any
thing that [is] in the earth.
11 # And there went from thence of the
family of the Danites, out of Zorah and
out of Eshtaol, six hundred men
appointed with weapons of war.
12 And they went up, and pitched in
Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore
they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto
this day: behold, [it is] behind
Kirjath-jearim.
13 And they passed thence unto mount
Ephraim, and came unto the house of
Micah.
14 # Then answered the five men that
went to spy out the country of Laish,
and said unto their brethren, Do ye
know that there is in these houses an
ephod, and teraphim, and a graven
image, and a molten image? now
therefore consider what ye have to do.
15 And they turned thitherward, and
came to the house of the young man the
Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah,
and saluted him.
16 And the six hundred men appointed
with their weapons of war, which [were]
of the children of Dan, stood by the
entering of the gate.
17 And the five men that went to spy
out the land went up, [and] came in
thither, [and] took the graven image,
and the ephod, and the teraphim, and
the molten image: and the priest stood
in the entering of the gate with the
six hundred men [that were] appointed
with weapons of war.
18 And these went into Micah's house,
and fetched the carved image, the
ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten
image. Then said the priest unto them,
What do ye?
19 And they said unto him, Hold thy
peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth,
and go with us, and be to us a father
and a priest: [is it] better for thee
to be a priest unto the house of one
man, or that thou be a priest unto a
tribe and a family in Israel?
20 And the priest's heart was glad, and
he took the ephod, and the teraphim,
and the graven image, and went in the
midst of the people.
21 So they turned and departed, and put
the little ones and the cattle and the
carriage before them.
22 # [And] when they were a good way
from the house of Micah, the men that
[were] in the houses near to Micah's
house were gathered together, and
overtook the children of Dan.
23 And they cried unto the children of
Dan. And they turned their faces, and
said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that
thou comest with such a company?
24 And he said, Ye have taken away my
gods which I made, and the priest, and
ye are gone away: and what have I more?
and what [is] this [that] ye say unto
me, What aileth thee?
25 And the children of Dan said unto
him, Let not thy voice be heard among
us, lest angry fellows run upon thee,
and thou lose thy life, with the lives
of thy household.
26 And the children of Dan went their
way: and when Micah saw that they
[were] too strong for him, he turned
and went back unto his house.
27 And they took [the things] which
Micah had made, and the priest which he
had, and came unto Laish, unto a people
[that were] at quiet and secure: and
they smote them with the edge of the
sword, and burnt the city with fire.
28 And [there was] no deliverer,
because it [was] far from Zidon, and
they had no business with [any] man;
and it was in the valley that [lieth]
by Beth-rehob. And they built a city,
and dwelt therein.
29 And they called the name of the city
Dan, after the name of Dan their
father, who was born unto Israel:
howbeit the name of the city [was]
Laish at the first.
30 # And the children of Dan set up the
graven image: and Jonathan, the son of
Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and
his sons were priests to the tribe of
Dan until the day of the captivity of
the land.
31 And they set them up Micah's graven
image, which he made, all the time that
the house of God was in Shiloh.

CHAPTER 19
1 And it came to pass in those days,
when [there was] no king in Israel,
that there was a certain Levite
sojourning on the side of mount
Ephraim, who took to him a concubine
out of Beth-lehem-judah.
2 And his concubine played the whore
against him, and went away from him
unto her father's house to
Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four
whole months.
3 And her husband arose, and went after
her, to speak friendly unto her, [and]
to bring her again, having his servant
with him, and a couple of asses: and
she brought him into her father's
house: and when the father of the
damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet
him.
4 And his father in law, the damsel's
father, retained him; and he abode with
him three days: so they did eat and
drink, and lodged there.
5 # And it came to pass on the fourth
day, when they arose early in the
morning, that he rose up to depart: and
the damsel's father said unto his son
in law, Comfort thine heart with a
morsel of bread, and afterward go your
way.
6 And they sat down, and did eat and
drink both of them together: for the
damsel's father had said unto the man,
Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all
night, and let thine heart be merry.
7 And when the man rose up to depart,
his father in law urged him: therefore
he lodged there again.
8 And he arose early in the morning on
the fifth day to depart: and the
damsel's father said, Comfort thine
heart, I pray thee. And they tarried
until afternoon, and they did eat both
of them.
9 And when the man rose up to depart,
he, and his concubine, and his servant,
his father in law, the damsel's father,
said unto him, Behold, now the day
draweth toward evening, I pray you
tarry all night: behold, the day
groweth to an end, lodge here, that
thine heart may be merry; and to morrow
get you early on your way, that thou
mayest go home.
10 But the man would not tarry that
night, but he rose up and departed, and
came over against Jebus, which [is]
Jerusalem; and [there were] with him
two asses saddled, his concubine also
[was] with him.
11 [And] when they [were] by Jebus, the
day was far spent; and the servant said
unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and
let us turn in into this city of the
Jebusites, and lodge in it.
12 And his master said unto him, We
will not turn aside hither into the
city of a stranger, that [is] not of
the children of Israel; we will pass
over to Gibeah.
13 And he said unto his servant, Come,
and let us draw near to one of these
places to lodge all night, in Gibeah,
or in Ramah.
14 And they passed on and went their
way; and the sun went down upon them
[when they were] by Gibeah, which
[belongeth] to Benjamin.
15 And they turned aside thither, to go
in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: and when
he went in, he sat him down in a street
of the city: for [there was] no man
that took them into his house to
lodging.
16 # And, behold, there came an old man
from his work out of the field at even,
which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and
he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of
the place [were] Benjamites.
17 And when he had lifted up his eyes,
he saw a wayfaring man in the street of
the city: and the old man said, Whither
goest thou? and whence comest thou?
18 And he said unto him, We [are]
passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward
the side of mount Ephraim; from thence
[am] I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah,
but I [am now] going to the house of
the LORD; and there [is] no man that
receiveth me to house.
19 Yet there is both straw and
provender for our asses; and there is
bread and wine also for me, and for thy
handmaid, and for the young man [which
is] with thy servants: [there is] no
want of any thing.
20 And the old man said, Peace [be]
with thee; howsoever [let] all thy
wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in
the street.
21 So he brought him into his house,
and gave provender unto the asses: and
they washed their feet, and did eat and
drink.
22 # [Now] as they were making their
hearts merry, behold, the men of the
city, certain sons of Belial, beset the
house round about, [and] beat at the
door, and spake to the master of the
house, the old man, saying, Bring forth
the man that came into thine house,
that we may know him.
23 And the man, the master of the
house, went out unto them, and said
unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I
pray you, do not [so] wickedly; seeing
that this man is come into mine house,
do not this folly.
24 Behold, [here is] my daughter a
maiden, and his concubine; them I will
bring out now, and humble ye them, and
do with them what seemeth good unto
you: but unto this man do not so vile a
thing.
25 But the men would not hearken to
him: so the man took his concubine, and
brought her forth unto them; and they
knew her, and abused her all the night
until the morning: and when the day
began to spring, they let her go.
26 Then came the woman in the dawning
of the day, and fell down at the door
of the man's house where her lord
[was], till it was light.
27 And her lord rose up in the morning,
and opened the doors of the house, and
went out to go his way: and, behold,
the woman his concubine was fallen down
[at] the door of the house, and her
hands [were] upon the threshold.
28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us
be going. But none answered. Then the
man took her [up] upon an ass, and the
man rose up, and gat him unto his
place.
29 # And when he was come into his
house, he took a knife, and laid hold
on his concubine, and divided her,
[together] with her bones, into twelve
pieces, and sent her into all the
coasts of Israel.
30 And it was so, that all that saw it
said, There was no such deed done nor
seen from the day that the children of
Israel came up out of the land of Egypt
unto this day: consider of it, take
advice, and speak [your minds].

CHAPTER 20
1 Then all the children of Israel went
out, and the congregation was gathered
together as one man, from Dan even to
Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead,
unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
2 And the chief of all the people,
[even] of all the tribes of Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of
the people of God, four hundred
thousand footmen that drew sword.
3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard
that the children of Israel were gone
up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children
of Israel, Tell [us], how was this
wickedness?
4 And the Levite, the husband of the
woman that was slain, answered and
said, I came into Gibeah that
[belongeth] to Benjamin, I and my
concubine, to lodge.
5 And the men of Gibeah rose against
me, and beset the house round about
upon me by night, [and] thought to have
slain me: and my concubine have they
forced, that she is dead.
6 And I took my concubine, and cut her
in pieces, and sent her throughout all
the country of the inheritance of
Israel: for they have committed
lewdness and folly in Israel.
7 Behold, ye [are] all children of
Israel; give here your advice and
counsel.
8 # And all the people arose as one
man, saying, We will not any [of us] go
to his tent, neither will we any [of
us] turn into his house.
9 But now this [shall be] the thing
which we will do to Gibeah; [we will go
up] by lot against it;
10 And we will take ten men of an
hundred throughout all the tribes of
Israel, and an hundred of a thousand,
and a thousand out of ten thousand, to
fetch victual for the people, that they
may do, when they come to Gibeah of
Benjamin, according to all the folly
that they have wrought in Israel.
11 So all the men of Israel were
gathered against the city, knit
together as one man.
12 # And the tribes of Israel sent men
through all the tribe of Benjamin,
saying, What wickedness [is] this that
is done among you?
13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men,
the children of Belial, which [are] in
Gibeah, that we may put them to death,
and put away evil from Israel. But the
children of Benjamin would not hearken
to the voice of their brethren the
children of Israel:
14 But the children of Benjamin
gathered themselves together out of the
cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle
against the children of Israel.
15 And the children of Benjamin were
numbered at that time out of the cities
twenty and six thousand men that drew
sword, beside the inhabitants of
Gibeah, which were numbered seven
hundred chosen men.
16 Among all this people [there were]
seven hundred chosen men lefthanded;
every one could sling stones at an hair
[breadth], and not miss.
17 And the men of Israel, beside
Benjamin, were numbered four hundred
thousand men that drew sword: all these
[were] men of war.
18 # And the children of Israel arose,
and went up to the house of God, and
asked counsel of God, and said, Which
of us shall go up first to the battle
against the children of Benjamin? And
the LORD said, Judah [shall go up]
first.
19 And the children of Israel rose up
in the morning, and encamped against
Gibeah.
20 And the men of Israel went out to
battle against Benjamin; and the men of
Israel put themselves in array to fight
against them at Gibeah.
21 And the children of Benjamin came
forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down
to the ground of the Israelites that
day twenty and two thousand men.
22 And the people the men of Israel
encouraged themselves, and set their
battle again in array in the place
where they put themselves in array the
first day.
23 (And the children of Israel went up
and wept before the LORD until even,
and asked counsel of the LORD, saying,
Shall I go up again to battle against
the children of Benjamin my brother?
And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
24 And the children of Israel came near
against the children of Benjamin the
second day.
25 And Benjamin went forth against them
out of Gibeah the second day, and
destroyed down to the ground of the
children of Israel again eighteen
thousand men; all these drew the sword.
26 # Then all the children of Israel,
and all the people, went up, and came
unto the house of God, and wept, and
sat there before the LORD, and fasted
that day until even, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings before
the LORD.
27 And the children of Israel enquired
of the LORD, (for the ark of the
covenant of God [was] there in those
days,
28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron, stood before it in
those days,) saying, Shall I yet again
go out to battle against the children
of Benjamin my brother, or shall I
cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to
morrow I will deliver them into thine
hand.
29 And Israel set liers in wait round
about Gibeah.
30 And the children of Israel went up
against the children of Benjamin on the
third day, and put themselves in array
against Gibeah, as at other times.
31 And the children of Benjamin went
out against the people, [and] were
drawn away from the city; and they
began to smite of the people, [and]
kill, as at other times, in the
highways, of which one goeth up to the
house of God, and the other to Gibeah
in the field, about thirty men of
Israel.
32 And the children of Benjamin said,
They [are] smitten down before us, as
at the first. But the children of
Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them
from the city unto the highways.
33 And all the men of Israel rose up
out of their place, and put themselves
in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers
in wait of Israel came forth out of
their places, [even] out of the meadows
of Gibeah.
34 And there came against Gibeah ten
thousand chosen men out of all Israel,
and the battle was sore: but they knew
not that evil [was] near them.
35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before
Israel: and the children of Israel
destroyed of the Benjamites that day
twenty and five thousand and an hundred
men: all these drew the sword.
36 So the children of Benjamin saw that
they were smitten: for the men of
Israel gave place to the Benjamites,
because they trusted unto the liers in
wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
37 And the liers in wait hasted, and
rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in
wait drew [themselves] along, and smote
all the city with the edge of the
sword.
38 Now there was an appointed sign
between the men of Israel and the liers
in wait, that they should make a great
flame with smoke rise up out of the
city.
39 And when the men of Israel retired
in the battle, Benjamin began to smite
[and] kill of the men of Israel about
thirty persons: for they said, Surely
they are smitten down before us, as
[in] the first battle.
40 But when the flame began to arise up
out of the city with a pillar of smoke,
the Benjamites looked behind them, and,
behold, the flame of the city ascended
up to heaven.
41 And when the men of Israel turned
again, the men of Benjamin were amazed:
for they saw that evil was come upon
them.
42 Therefore they turned [their backs]
before the men of Israel unto the way
of the wilderness; but the battle
overtook them; and them which [came]
out of the cities they destroyed in the
midst of them.
43 [Thus] they inclosed the Benjamites
round about, [and] chased them, [and]
trode them down with ease over against
Gibeah toward the sunrising.
44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen
thousand men; all these [were] men of
valour.
45 And they turned and fled toward the
wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and
they gleaned of them in the highways
five thousand men; and pursued hard
after them unto Gidom, and slew two
thousand men of them.
46 So that all which fell that day of
Benjamin were twenty and five thousand
men that drew the sword; all these
[were] men of valour.
47 But six hundred men turned and fled
to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon,
and abode in the rock Rimmon four
months.
48 And the men of Israel turned again
upon the children of Benjamin, and
smote them with the edge of the sword,
as well the men of [every] city, as the
beast, and all that came to hand: also
they set on fire all the cities that
they came to.

CHAPTER 21
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in
Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of
us give his daughter unto Benjamin to
wife.
2 And the people came to the house of
God, and abode there till even before
God, and lifted up their voices, and
wept sore;
3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why
is this come to pass in Israel, that
there should be to day one tribe
lacking in Israel?
4 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that the people rose early, and built
there an altar, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings.
5 And the children of Israel said, Who
[is there] among all the tribes of
Israel that came not up with the
congregation unto the LORD? For they
had made a great oath concerning him
that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh,
saying, He shall surely be put to
death.
6 And the children of Israel repented
them for Benjamin their brother, and
said, There is one tribe cut off from
Israel this day.
7 How shall we do for wives for them
that remain, seeing we have sworn by
the LORD that we will not give them of
our daughters to wives?
8 # And they said, What one [is there]
of the tribes of Israel that came not
up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold,
there came none to the camp from
Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
9 For the people were numbered, and,
behold, [there were] none of the
inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
10 And the congregation sent thither
twelve thousand men of the valiantest,
and commanded them, saying, Go and
smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead
with the edge of the sword, with the
women and the children.
11 And this [is] the thing that ye
shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy
every male, and every woman that hath
lain by man.
12 And they found among the inhabitants
of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young
virgins, that had known no man by lying
with any male: and they brought them
unto the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in
the land of Canaan.
13 And the whole congregation sent
[some] to speak to the children of
Benjamin that [were] in the rock
Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto
them.
14 And Benjamin came again at that
time; and they gave them wives which
they had saved alive of the women of
Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed
them not.
15 And the people repented them for
Benjamin, because that the LORD had
made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16 Then the elders of the congregation
said, How shall we do for wives for
them that remain, seeing the women are
destroyed out of Benjamin?
17 And they said, [There must be] an
inheritance for them that be escaped of
Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed
out of Israel.
18 Howbeit we may not give them wives
of our daughters: for the children of
Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be]
he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
19 Then they said, Behold, [there is] a
feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in
a place] which [is] on the north side
of Beth-el, on the east side of the
highway that goeth up from Beth-el to
Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
20 Therefore they commanded the
children of Benjamin, saying, Go and
lie in wait in the vineyards;
21 And see, and, behold, if the
daughters of Shiloh come out to dance
in dances, then come ye out of the
vineyards, and catch you every man his
wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go
to the land of Benjamin.
22 And it shall be, when their fathers
or their brethren come unto us to
complain, that we will say unto them,
Be favourable unto them for our sakes:
because we reserved not to each man his
wife in the war: for ye did not give
unto them at this time, [that] ye
should be guilty.
23 And the children of Benjamin did so,
and took [them] wives, according to
their number, of them that danced, whom
they caught: and they went and returned
unto their inheritance, and repaired
the cities, and dwelt in them.
24 And the children of Israel departed
thence at that time, every man to his
tribe and to his family, and they went
out from thence every man to his
inheritance.
25 In those days [there was] no king in
Israel: every man did [that which was]
right in his own eyes.

THE BOOK OF RUTH

CHAPTER 1
1 Now it came to pass in the days when
the judges ruled, that there was a
famine in the land. And a certain man
of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in
the country of Moab, he, and his wife,
and his two sons.
2 And the name of the man [was]
Elimelech, and the name of his wife
Naomi, and the name of his two sons
Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of
Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into
the country of Moab, and continued
there.
3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died;
and she was left, and her two sons.
4 And they took them wives of the women
of Moab; the name of the one [was]
Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth:
and they dwelled there about ten years.
5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both
of them; and the woman was left of her
two sons and her husband.
6 # Then she arose with her daughters
in law, that she might return from the
country of Moab: for she had heard in
the country of Moab how that the LORD
had visited his people in giving them
bread.
7 Wherefore she went forth out of the
place where she was, and her two
daughters in law with her; and they
went on the way to return unto the land
of Judah.
8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters
in law, Go, return each to her mother's
house: the LORD deal kindly with you,
as ye have dealt with the dead, and
with me.
9 The LORD grant you that ye may find
rest, each [of you] in the house of her
husband. Then she kissed them; and they
lifted up their voice, and wept.
10 And they said unto her, Surely we
will return with thee unto thy people.
11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my
daughters: why will ye go with me?
[are] there yet [any more] sons in my
womb, that they may be your husbands?
12 Turn again, my daughters, go [your
way]; for I am too old to have an
husband. If I should say, I have hope,
[if] I should have an husband also to
night, and should also bear sons;
13 Would ye tarry for them till they
were grown? would ye stay for them from
having husbands? nay, my daughters; for
it grieveth me much for your sakes that
the hand of the LORD is gone out
against me.
14 And they lifted up their voice, and
wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother
in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in
law is gone back unto her people, and
unto her gods: return thou after thy
sister in law.
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to
leave thee, [or] to return from
following after thee: for whither thou
goest, I will go; and where thou
lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
[shall be] my people, and thy God my
God:
17 Where thou diest, will I die, and
there will I be buried: the LORD do so
to me, and more also, [if ought] but
death part thee and me.
18 When she saw that she was stedfastly
minded to go with her, then she left
speaking unto her.
19 # So they two went until they came
to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass,
when they were come to Beth-lehem, that
all the city was moved about them, and
they said, [Is] this Naomi?
20 And she said unto them, Call me not
Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty
hath dealt very bitterly with me.
21 I went out full, and the LORD hath
brought me home again empty: why [then]
call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath
testified against me, and the Almighty
hath afflicted me?
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the
Moabitess, her daughter in law, with
her, which returned out of the country
of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in
the beginning of barley harvest.

CHAPTER 2
1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her
husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of
the family of Elimelech; and his name
[was] Boaz.
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto
Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and
glean ears of corn after [him] in whose
sight I shall find grace. And she said
unto her, Go, my daughter.
3 And she went, and came, and gleaned
in the field after the reapers: and her
hap was to light on a part of the field
[belonging] unto Boaz, who [was] of the
kindred of Elimelech.
4 # And, behold, Boaz came from
Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers,
The LORD [be] with you. And they
answered him, The LORD bless thee.
5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that
was set over the reapers, Whose damsel
[is] this?
6 And the servant that was set over the
reapers answered and said, It [is] the
Moabitish damsel that came back with
Naomi out of the country of Moab:
7 And she said, I pray you, let me
glean and gather after the reapers
among the sheaves: so she came, and
hath continued even from the morning
until now, that she tarried a little in
the house.
8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest
thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean
in another field, neither go from
hence, but abide here fast by my
maidens:
9 [Let] thine eyes [be] on the field
that they do reap, and go thou after
them: have I not charged the young men
that they shall not touch thee? and
when thou art athirst, go unto the
vessels, and drink of [that] which the
young men have drawn.
10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground, and said unto
him, Why have I found grace in thine
eyes, that thou shouldest take
knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a
stranger?
11 And Boaz answered and said unto her,
It hath fully been shewed me, all that
thou hast done unto thy mother in law
since the death of thine husband: and
[how] thou hast left thy father and thy
mother, and the land of thy nativity,
and art come unto a people which thou
knewest not heretofore.
12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a
full reward be given thee of the LORD
God of Israel, under whose wings thou
art come to trust.
13 Then she said, Let me find favour in
thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast
comforted me, and for that thou hast
spoken friendly unto thine handmaid,
though I be not like unto one of thine
handmaidens.
14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime
come thou hither, and eat of the bread,
and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And
she sat beside the reapers: and he
reached her parched [corn], and she did
eat, and was sufficed, and left.
15 And when she was risen up to glean,
Boaz commanded his young men, saying,
Let her glean even among the sheaves,
and reproach her not:
16 And let fall also [some] of the
handfuls of purpose for her, and leave
[them], that she may glean [them], and
rebuke her not.
17 So she gleaned in the field until
even, and beat out that she had
gleaned: and it was about an ephah of
barley.
18 # And she took [it] up, and went
into the city: and her mother in law
saw what she had gleaned: and she
brought forth, and gave to her that she
had reserved after she was sufficed.
19 And her mother in law said unto her,
Where hast thou gleaned to day? and
where wroughtest thou? blessed be he
that did take knowledge of thee. And
she shewed her mother in law with whom
she had wrought, and said, The man's
name with whom I wrought to day [is]
Boaz.
20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in
law, Blessed [be] he of the LORD, who
hath not left off his kindness to the
living and to the dead. And Naomi said
unto her, The man [is] near of kin unto
us, one of our next kinsmen.
21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said
unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by
my young men, until they have ended all
my harvest.
22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her
daughter in law, [It is] good, my
daughter, that thou go out with his
maidens, that they meet thee not in any
other field.
23 So she kept fast by the maidens of
Boaz to glean unto the end of barley
harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt
with her mother in law.

CHAPTER 3
1 Then Naomi her mother in law said
unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek
rest for thee, that it may be well with
thee?
2 And now [is] not Boaz of our kindred,
with whose maidens thou wast? Behold,
he winnoweth barley to night in the
threshingfloor.
3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint
thee, and put thy raiment upon thee,
and get thee down to the floor: [but]
make not thyself known unto the man,
until he shall have done eating and
drinking.
4 And it shall be, when he lieth down,
that thou shalt mark the place where he
shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and
uncover his feet, and lay thee down;
and he will tell thee what thou shalt
do.
5 And she said unto her, All that thou
sayest unto me I will do.
6 # And she went down unto the floor,
and did according to all that her
mother in law bade her.
7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk,
and his heart was merry, he went to lie
down at the end of the heap of corn:
and she came softly, and uncovered his
feet, and laid her down.
8 # And it came to pass at midnight,
that the man was afraid, and turned
himself: and, behold, a woman lay at
his feet.
9 And he said, Who [art] thou? And she
answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid:
spread therefore thy skirt over thine
handmaid; for thou [art] a near
kinsman.
10 And he said, Blessed [be] thou of
the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast
shewed more kindness in the latter end
than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou
followedst not young men, whether poor
or rich.
11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I
will do to thee all that thou
requirest: for all the city of my
people doth know that thou [art] a
virtuous woman.
12 And now it is true that I [am thy]
near kinsman: howbeit there is a
kinsman nearer than I.
13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in
the morning, [that] if he will perform
unto thee the part of a kinsman, well;
let him do the kinsman's part: but if
he will not do the part of a kinsman to
thee, then will I do the part of a
kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth:
lie down until the morning.
14 # And she lay at his feet until the
morning: and she rose up before one
could know another. And he said, Let it
not be known that a woman came into the
floor.
15 Also he said, Bring the vail that
[thou hast] upon thee, and hold it. And
when she held it, he measured six
[measures] of barley, and laid [it] on
her: and she went into the city.
16 And when she came to her mother in
law, she said, Who [art] thou, my
daughter? And she told her all that the
man had done to her.
17 And she said, These six [measures]
of barley gave he me; for he said to
me, Go not empty unto thy mother in
law.
18 Then said she, Sit still, my
daughter, until thou know how the
matter will fall: for the man will not
be in rest, until he have finished the
thing this day.

CHAPTER 4
1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and
sat him down there: and, behold, the
kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by;
unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn
aside, sit down here. And he turned
aside, and sat down.
2 And he took ten men of the elders of
the city, and said, Sit ye down here.
And they sat down.
3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi,
that is come again out of the country
of Moab, selleth a parcel of land,
which [was] our brother Elimelech's:
4 And I thought to advertise thee,
saying, Buy [it] before the
inhabitants, and before the elders of
my people. If thou wilt redeem [it],
redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not
redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may
know: for [there is] none to redeem
[it] beside thee; and I [am] after
thee. And he said, I will redeem [it].
5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest
the field of the hand of Naomi, thou
must buy [it] also of Ruth the
Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to
raise up the name of the dead upon his
inheritance.
6 # And the kinsman said, I cannot
redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine
own inheritance: redeem thou my right
to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it].
7 Now this [was the manner] in former
time in Israel concerning redeeming and
concerning changing, for to confirm all
things; a man plucked off his shoe, and
gave [it] to his neighbour: and this
[was] a testimony in Israel.
8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz,
Buy [it] for thee. So he drew off his
shoe.
9 # And Boaz said unto the elders, and
[unto] all the people, Ye [are]
witnesses this day, that I have bought
all that [was] Elimelech's, and all
that [was] Chilion's and Mahlon's, of
the hand of Naomi.
10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the
wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be
my wife, to raise up the name of the
dead upon his inheritance, that the
name of the dead be not cut off from
among his brethren, and from the gate
of his place: ye [are] witnesses this
day.
11 And all the people that [were] in
the gate, and the elders, said, [We
are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman
that is come into thine house like
Rachel and like Leah, which two did
build the house of Israel: and do thou
worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in
Beth-lehem:
12 And let thy house be like the house
of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah,
of the seed which the LORD shall give
thee of this young woman.
13 # So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his
wife: and when he went in unto her, the
LORD gave her conception, and she bare
a son.
14 And the women said unto Naomi,
Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not
left thee this day without a kinsman,
that his name may be famous in Israel.
15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer
of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine
old age: for thy daughter in law, which
loveth thee, which is better to thee
than seven sons, hath born him.
16 And Naomi took the child, and laid
it in her bosom, and became nurse unto
it.
17 And the women her neighbours gave it
a name, saying, There is a son born to
Naomi; and they called his name Obed:
he [is] the father of Jesse, the father
of David.
18 # Now these [are] the generations of
Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat
Amminadab,
20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and
Nahshon begat Salmon,
21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz
begat Obed,
22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse
begat David.

THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL

OTHERWISE CALLED, THE FIRST BOOK OF THE
KINGS

CHAPTER 1
1 Now there was a certain man of
Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and
his name [was] Elkanah, the son of
Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of
Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
2 And he had two wives; the name of the
one [was] Hannah, and the name of the
other Peninnah: and Peninnah had
children, but Hannah had no children.
3 And this man went up out of his city
yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto
the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the
two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
the priests of the LORD, [were] there.
4 # And when the time was that Elkanah
offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife,
and to all her sons and her daughters,
portions:
5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy
portion; for he loved Hannah: but the
LORD had shut up her womb.
6 And her adversary also provoked her
sore, for to make her fret, because the
LORD had shut up her womb.
7 And [as] he did so year by year, when
she went up to the house of the LORD,
so she provoked her; therefore she
wept, and did not eat.
8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her,
Hannah, why weepest thou? and why
eatest thou not? and why is thy heart
grieved? [am] not I better to thee than
ten sons?
9 # So Hannah rose up after they had
eaten in Shiloh, and after they had
drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a
seat by a post of the temple of the
LORD.
10 And she [was] in bitterness of soul,
and prayed unto the LORD, and wept
sore.
11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O
LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look
on the affliction of thine handmaid,
and remember me, and not forget thine
handmaid, but wilt give unto thine
handmaid a man child, then I will give
him unto the LORD all the days of his
life, and there shall no razor come
upon his head.
12 And it came to pass, as she
continued praying before the LORD, that
Eli marked her mouth.
13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart;
only her lips moved, but her voice was
not heard: therefore Eli thought she
had been drunken.
14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt
thou be drunken? put away thy wine from
thee.
15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my
lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful
spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor
strong drink, but have poured out my
soul before the LORD.
16 Count not thine handmaid for a
daughter of Belial: for out of the
abundance of my complaint and grief
have I spoken hitherto.
17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in
peace: and the God of Israel grant
[thee] thy petition that thou hast
asked of him.
18 And she said, Let thine handmaid
find grace in thy sight. So the woman
went her way, and did eat, and her
countenance was no more [sad].
19 # And they rose up in the morning
early, and worshipped before the LORD,
and returned, and came to their house
to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his
wife; and the LORD remembered her.
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the
time was come about after Hannah had
conceived, that she bare a son, and
called his name Samuel, [saying],
Because I have asked him of the LORD.
21 And the man Elkanah, and all his
house, went up to offer unto the LORD
the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
22 But Hannah went not up; for she said
unto her husband, [I will not go up]
until the child be weaned, and [then] I
will bring him, that he may appear
before the LORD, and there abide for
ever.
23 And Elkanah her husband said unto
her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry
until thou have weaned him; only the
LORD establish his word. So the woman
abode, and gave her son suck until she
weaned him.
24 # And when she had weaned him, she
took him up with her, with three
bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a
bottle of wine, and brought him unto
the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and
the child [was] young.
25 And they slew a bullock, and brought
the child to Eli.
26 And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy
soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman
that stood by thee here, praying unto
the LORD.
27 For this child I prayed; and the
LORD hath given me my petition which I
asked of him:
28 Therefore also I have lent him to
the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall
be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped
the LORD there.

CHAPTER 2
1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart
rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is
exalted in the LORD: my mouth is
enlarged over mine enemies; because I
rejoice in thy salvation.
2 [There is] none holy as the LORD: for
[there is] none beside thee: neither
[is there] any rock like our God.
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly;
let [not] arrogancy come out of your
mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of
knowledge, and by him actions are
weighed.
4 The bows of the mighty men [are]
broken, and they that stumbled are
girded with strength.
5 [They that were] full have hired out
themselves for bread; and [they that
were] hungry ceased: so that the barren
hath born seven; and she that hath many
children is waxed feeble.
6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive:
he bringeth down to the grave, and
bringeth up.
7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh
rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the
dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from
the dunghill, to set [them] among
princes, and to make them inherit the
throne of glory: for the pillars of the
earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set
the world upon them.
9 He will keep the feet of his saints,
and the wicked shall be silent in
darkness; for by strength shall no man
prevail.
10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be
broken to pieces; out of heaven shall
he thunder upon them: the LORD shall
judge the ends of the earth; and he
shall give strength unto his king, and
exalt the horn of his anointed.
11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his
house. And the child did minister unto
the LORD before Eli the priest.
12 # Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of
Belial; they knew not the LORD.
13 And the priests' custom with the
people [was, that], when any man
offered sacrifice, the priest's servant
came, while the flesh was in seething,
with a fleshhook of three teeth in his
hand;
14 And he struck [it] into the pan, or
kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that
the fleshhook brought up the priest
took for himself. So they did in Shiloh
unto all the Israelites that came
thither.
15 Also before they burnt the fat, the
priest's servant came, and said to the
man that sacrificed, Give flesh to
roast for the priest; for he will not
have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
16 And [if] any man said unto him, Let
them not fail to burn the fat
presently, and [then] take [as much] as
thy soul desireth; then he would answer
him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me]
now: and if not, I will take [it] by
force.
17 Wherefore the sin of the young men
was very great before the LORD: for men
abhorred the offering of the LORD.
18 # But Samuel ministered before the
LORD, [being] a child, girded with a
linen ephod.
19 Moreover his mother made him a
little coat, and brought [it] to him
from year to year, when she came up
with her husband to offer the yearly
sacrifice.
20 # And Eli blessed Elkanah and his
wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed
of this woman for the loan which is
lent to the LORD. And they went unto
their own home.
21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that
she conceived, and bare three sons and
two daughters. And the child Samuel
grew before the LORD.
22 # Now Eli was very old, and heard
all that his sons did unto all Israel;
and how they lay with the women that
assembled [at] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
23 And he said unto them, Why do ye
such things? for I hear of your evil
dealings by all this people.
24 Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good
report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S
people to transgress.
25 If one man sin against another, the
judge shall judge him: but if a man sin
against the LORD, who shall intreat for
him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not
unto the voice of their father, because
the LORD would slay them.
26 And the child Samuel grew on, and
was in favour both with the LORD, and
also with men.
27 # And there came a man of God unto
Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the
house of thy father, when they were in
Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
28 And did I choose him out of all the
tribes of Israel [to be] my priest, to
offer upon mine altar, to burn incense,
to wear an ephod before me? and did I
give unto the house of thy father all
the offerings made by fire of the
children of Israel?
29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice
and at mine offering, which I have
commanded [in my] habitation; and
honourest thy sons above me, to make
yourselves fat with the chiefest of all
the offerings of Israel my people?
30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel
saith, I said indeed [that] thy house,
and the house of thy father, should
walk before me for ever: but now the
LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them
that honour me I will honour, and they
that despise me shall be lightly
esteemed.
31 Behold, the days come, that I will
cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy
father's house, that there shall not be
an old man in thine house.
32 And thou shalt see an enemy [in my]
habitation, in all [the wealth] which
[God] shall give Israel: and there
shall not be an old man in thine house
for ever.
33 And the man of thine, [whom] I shall
not cut off from mine altar, [shall be]
to consume thine eyes, and to grieve
thine heart: and all the increase of
thine house shall die in the flower of
their age.
34 And this [shall be] a sign unto
thee, that shall come upon thy two
sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one
day they shall die both of them.
35 And I will raise me up a faithful
priest, [that] shall do according to
[that] which [is] in mine heart and in
my mind: and I will build him a sure
house; and he shall walk before mine
anointed for ever.
36 And it shall come to pass, [that]
every one that is left in thine house
shall come [and] crouch to him for a
piece of silver and a morsel of bread,
and shall say, Put me, I pray thee,
into one of the priests' offices, that
I may eat a piece of bread.

CHAPTER 3
1 And the child Samuel ministered unto
the LORD before Eli. And the word of
the LORD was precious in those days;
[there was] no open vision.
2 And it came to pass at that time,
when Eli [was] laid down in his place,
and his eyes began to wax dim, [that]
he could not see;
3 And ere the lamp of God went out in
the temple of the LORD, where the ark
of God [was], and Samuel was laid down
[to sleep];
4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he
answered, Here [am] I.
5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here
[am] I; for thou calledst me. And he
said, I called not; lie down again. And
he went and lay down.
6 And the LORD called yet again,
Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to
Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou
didst call me. And he answered, I
called not, my son; lie down again.
7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD,
neither was the word of the LORD yet
revealed unto him.
8 And the LORD called Samuel again the
third time. And he arose and went to
Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou
didst call me. And Eli perceived that
the LORD had called the child.
9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go,
lie down: and it shall be, if he call
thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD;
for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went
and lay down in his place.
10 And the LORD came, and stood, and
called as at other times, Samuel,
Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak;
for thy servant heareth.
11 # And the LORD said to Samuel,
Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at
which both the ears of every one that
heareth it shall tingle.
12 In that day I will perform against
Eli all [things] which I have spoken
concerning his house: when I begin, I
will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will
judge his house for ever for the
iniquity which he knoweth; because his
sons made themselves vile, and he
restrained them not.
14 And therefore I have sworn unto the
house of Eli, that the iniquity of
Eli's house shall not be purged with
sacrifice nor offering for ever.
15 # And Samuel lay until the morning,
and opened the doors of the house of
the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli
the vision.
16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said,
Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here
[am] I.
17 And he said, What [is] the thing
that [the LORD] hath said unto thee? I
pray thee hide [it] not from me: God do
so to thee, and more also, if thou hide
[any] thing from me of all the things
that he said unto thee.
18 And Samuel told him every whit, and
hid nothing from him. And he said, It
[is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth
him good.
19 # And Samuel grew, and the LORD was
with him, and did let none of his words
fall to the ground.
20 And all Israel from Dan even to
Beer-sheba knew that Samuel [was]
established [to be] a prophet of the
LORD.
21 And the LORD appeared again in
Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself
to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the
LORD.

CHAPTER 4
1 And the word of Samuel came to all
Israel. Now Israel went out against the
Philistines to battle, and pitched
beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines
pitched in Aphek.
2 And the Philistines put themselves in
array against Israel: and when they
joined battle, Israel was smitten
before the Philistines: and they slew
of the army in the field about four
thousand men.
3 # And when the people were come into
the camp, the elders of Israel said,
Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to
day before the Philistines? Let us
fetch the ark of the covenant of the
LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when
it cometh among us, it may save us out
of the hand of our enemies.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that
they might bring from thence the ark of
the covenant of the LORD of hosts,
which dwelleth [between] the cherubims:
and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of
the covenant of God.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of
the LORD came into the camp, all Israel
shouted with a great shout, so that the
earth rang again.
6 And when the Philistines heard the
noise of the shout, they said, What
[meaneth] the noise of this great shout
in the camp of the Hebrews? And they
understood that the ark of the LORD was
come into the camp.
7 And the Philistines were afraid, for
they said, God is come into the camp.
And they said, Woe unto us! for there
hath not been such a thing heretofore.
8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out
of the hand of these mighty Gods? these
[are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians
with all the plagues in the wilderness.
9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like
men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not
servants unto the Hebrews, as they have
been to you: quit yourselves like men,
and fight.
10 # And the Philistines fought, and
Israel was smitten, and they fled every
man into his tent: and there was a very
great slaughter; for there fell of
Israel thirty thousand footmen.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and
the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.
12 # And there ran a man of Benjamin
out of the army, and came to Shiloh the
same day with his clothes rent, and
with earth upon his head.
13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a
seat by the wayside watching: for his
heart trembled for the ark of God. And
when the man came into the city, and
told [it], all the city cried out.
14 And when Eli heard the noise of the
crying, he said, What [meaneth] the
noise of this tumult? And the man came
in hastily, and told Eli.
15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years
old; and his eyes were dim, that he
could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I [am] he
that came out of the army, and I fled
to day out of the army. And he said,
What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said,
Israel is fled before the Philistines,
and there hath been also a great
slaughter among the people, and thy two
sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are
dead, and the ark of God is taken.
18 And it came to pass, when he made
mention of the ark of God, that he fell
from off the seat backward by the side
of the gate, and his neck brake, and he
died: for he was an old man, and heavy.
And he had judged Israel forty years.
19 # And his daughter in law, Phinehas'
wife, was with child, [near] to be
delivered: and when she heard the
tidings that the ark of God was taken,
and that her father in law and her
husband were dead, she bowed herself
and travailed; for her pains came upon
her.
20 And about the time of her death the
women that stood by her said unto her,
Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But
she answered not, neither did she
regard [it].
21 And she named the child I-chabod,
saying, The glory is departed from
Israel: because the ark of God was
taken, and because of her father in law
and her husband.
22 And she said, The glory is departed
from Israel: for the ark of God is
taken.

CHAPTER 5
1 And the Philistines took the ark of
God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto
Ashdod.
2 When the Philistines took the ark of
God, they brought it into the house of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
3 # And when they of Ashdod arose early
on the morrow, behold, Dagon [was]
fallen upon his face to the earth
before the ark of the LORD. And they
took Dagon, and set him in his place
again.
4 And when they arose early on the
morrow morning, behold, Dagon [was]
fallen upon his face to the ground
before the ark of the LORD; and the
head of Dagon and both the palms of his
hands [were] cut off upon the
threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon
was left to him.
5 Therefore neither the priests of
Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's
house, tread on the threshold of Dagon
in Ashdod unto this day.
6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy
upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed
them, and smote them with emerods,
[even] Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that
[it was] so, they said, The ark of the
God of Israel shall not abide with us:
for his hand is sore upon us, and upon
Dagon our god.
8 They sent therefore and gathered all
the lords of the Philistines unto them,
and said, What shall we do with the ark
of the God of Israel? And they
answered, Let the ark of the God of
Israel be carried about unto Gath. And
they carried the ark of the God of
Israel about [thither].
9 And it was [so], that, after they had
carried it about, the hand of the LORD
was against the city with a very great
destruction: and he smote the men of
the city, both small and great, and
they had emerods in their secret parts.
10 # Therefore they sent the ark of God
to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the
ark of God came to Ekron, that the
Ekronites cried out, saying, They have
brought about the ark of the God of
Israel to us, to slay us and our
people.
11 So they sent and gathered together
all the lords of the Philistines, and
said, Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and let it go again to his own
place, that it slay us not, and our
people: for there was a deadly
destruction throughout all the city;
the hand of God was very heavy there.
12 And the men that died not were
smitten with the emerods: and the cry
of the city went up to heaven.

CHAPTER 6
1 And the ark of the LORD was in the
country of the Philistines seven
months.
2 And the Philistines called for the
priests and the diviners, saying, What
shall we do to the ark of the LORD?
tell us wherewith we shall send it to
his place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the
ark of the God of Israel, send it not
empty; but in any wise return him a
trespass offering: then ye shall be
healed, and it shall be known to you
why his hand is not removed from you.
4 Then said they, What [shall be] the
trespass offering which we shall return
to him? They answered, Five golden
emerods, and five golden mice,
[according to] the number of the lords
of the Philistines: for one plague
[was] on you all, and on your lords.
5 Wherefore ye shall make images of
your emerods, and images of your mice
that mar the land; and ye shall give
glory unto the God of Israel:
peradventure he will lighten his hand
from off you, and from off your gods,
and from off your land.
6 Wherefore then do ye harden your
hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh
hardened their hearts? when he had
wrought wonderfully among them, did
they not let the people go, and they
departed?
7 Now therefore make a new cart, and
take two milch kine, on which there
hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to
the cart, and bring their calves home
from them:
8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay
it upon the cart; and put the jewels of
gold, which ye return him [for] a
trespass offering, in a coffer by the
side thereof; and send it away, that it
may go.
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of
his own coast to Beth-shemesh, [then]
he hath done us this great evil: but if
not, then we shall know that [it is]
not his hand [that] smote us: it [was]
a chance [that] happened to us.
10 # And the men did so; and took two
milch kine, and tied them to the cart,
and shut up their calves at home:
11 And they laid the ark of the LORD
upon the cart, and the coffer with the
mice of gold and the images of their
emerods.
12 And the kine took the straight way
to the way of Beth-shemesh, [and] went
along the highway, lowing as they went,
and turned not aside [to] the right
hand or [to] the left; and the lords of
the Philistines went after them unto
the border of Beth-shemesh.
13 And [they of] Beth-shemesh [were]
reaping their wheat harvest in the
valley: and they lifted up their eyes,
and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see
[it].
14 And the cart came into the field of
Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood
there, where [there was] a great stone:
and they clave the wood of the cart,
and offered the kine a burnt offering
unto the LORD.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of
the LORD, and the coffer that [was]
with it, wherein the jewels of gold
[were], and put [them] on the great
stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh
offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
16 And when the five lords of the
Philistines had seen [it], they
returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these [are] the golden emerods
which the Philistines returned [for] a
trespass offering unto the LORD; for
Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon
one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 And the golden mice, [according to]
the number of all the cities of the
Philistines [belonging] to the five
lords, [both] of fenced cities, and of
country villages, even unto the great
[stone of] Abel, whereon they set down
the ark of the LORD: [which stone
remaineth] unto this day in the field
of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.
19 # And he smote the men of
Beth-shemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of the LORD, even he smote
of the people fifty thousand and
threescore and ten men: and the people
lamented, because the LORD had smitten
[many] of the people with a great
slaughter.
20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said,
Who is able to stand before this holy
LORD God? and to whom shall he go up
from us?
21 # And they sent messengers to the
inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying,
The Philistines have brought again the
ark of the LORD; come ye down, [and]
fetch it up to you.

CHAPTER 7
1 And the men of Kirjath-jearim came,
and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and
brought it into the house of Abinadab
in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his
son to keep the ark of the LORD.
2 And it came to pass, while the ark
abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time
was long; for it was twenty years: and
all the house of Israel lamented after
the LORD.
3 # And Samuel spake unto all the house
of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto
the LORD with all your hearts, [then]
put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth
from among you, and prepare your hearts
unto the LORD, and serve him only: and
he will deliver you out of the hand of
the Philistines.
4 Then the children of Israel did put
away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served
the LORD only.
5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to
Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto
the LORD.
6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh,
and drew water, and poured [it] out
before the LORD, and fasted on that
day, and said there, We have sinned
against the LORD. And Samuel judged the
children of Israel in Mizpeh.
7 And when the Philistines heard that
the children of Israel were gathered
together to Mizpeh, the lords of the
Philistines went up against Israel. And
when the children of Israel heard [it],
they were afraid of the Philistines.
8 And the children of Israel said to
Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD
our God for us, that he will save us
out of the hand of the Philistines.
9 # And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and
offered [it for] a burnt offering
wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried
unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD
heard him.
10 And as Samuel was offering up the
burnt offering, the Philistines drew
near to battle against Israel: but the
LORD thundered with a great thunder on
that day upon the Philistines, and
discomfited them; and they were smitten
before Israel.
11 And the men of Israel went out of
Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines,
and smote them, until [they came] under
Beth-car.
12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set
[it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and
called the name of it Eben-ezer,
saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped
us.
13 # So the Philistines were subdued,
and they came no more into the coast of
Israel: and the hand of the LORD was
against the Philistines all the days of
Samuel.
14 And the cities which the Philistines
had taken from Israel were restored to
Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and
the coasts thereof did Israel deliver
out of the hands of the Philistines.
And there was peace between Israel and
the Amorites.
15 And Samuel judged Israel all the
days of his life.
16 And he went from year to year in
circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and
Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those
places.
17 And his return [was] to Ramah; for
there [was] his house; and there he
judged Israel; and there he built an
altar unto the LORD.

CHAPTER 8
1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was
old, that he made his sons judges over
Israel.
2 Now the name of his firstborn was
Joel; and the name of his second,
Abiah: [they were] judges in
Beer-sheba.
3 And his sons walked not in his ways,
but turned aside after lucre, and took
bribes, and perverted judgment.
4 Then all the elders of Israel
gathered themselves together, and came
to Samuel unto Ramah,
5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art
old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways:
now make us a king to judge us like all
the nations.
6 # But the thing displeased Samuel,
when they said, Give us a king to judge
us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7 And the LORD said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in
all that they say unto thee: for they
have not rejected thee, but they have
rejected me, that I should not reign
over them.
8 According to all the works which they
have done since the day that I brought
them up out of Egypt even unto this
day, wherewith they have forsaken me,
and served other gods, so do they also
unto thee.
9 Now therefore hearken unto their
voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly
unto them, and shew them the manner of
the king that shall reign over them.
10 # And Samuel told all the words of
the LORD unto the people that asked of
him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner
of the king that shall reign over you:
He will take your sons, and appoint
[them] for himself, for his chariots,
and [to be] his horsemen; and [some]
shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains
over thousands, and captains over
fifties; and [will set them] to ear his
ground, and to reap his harvest, and to
make his instruments of war, and
instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters [to
be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks,
and [to be] bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and
your vineyards, and your oliveyards,
[even] the best [of them], and give
[them] to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your
seed, and of your vineyards, and give
to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants,
and your maidservants, and your
goodliest young men, and your asses,
and put [them] to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your
sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day
because of your king which ye shall
have chosen you; and the LORD will not
hear you in that day.
19 # Nevertheless the people refused to
obey the voice of Samuel; and they
said, Nay; but we will have a king over
us;
20 That we also may be like all the
nations; and that our king may judge
us, and go out before us, and fight our
battles.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of
the people, and he rehearsed them in
the ears of the LORD.
22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken
unto their voice, and make them a king.
And Samuel said unto the men of Israel,
Go ye every man unto his city.

CHAPTER 9
1 Now there was a man of Benjamin,
whose name [was] Kish, the son of
Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of
Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a
Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
2 And he had a son, whose name [was]
Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly:
and [there was] not among the children
of Israel a goodlier person than he:
from his shoulders and upward [he was]
higher than any of the people.
3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father
were lost. And Kish said to Saul his
son, Take now one of the servants with
thee, and arise, go seek the asses.
4 And he passed through mount Ephraim,
and passed through the land of
Shalisha, but they found [them] not:
then they passed through the land of
Shalim, and [there they were] not: and
he passed through the land of the
Benjamites, but they found [them] not.
5 [And] when they were come to the land
of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that
[was] with him, Come, and let us
return; lest my father leave [caring]
for the asses, and take thought for us.
6 And he said unto him, Behold now,
[there is] in this city a man of God,
and [he is] an honourable man; all that
he saith cometh surely to pass: now let
us go thither; peradventure he can shew
us our way that we should go.
7 Then said Saul to his servant, But,
behold, [if] we go, what shall we bring
the man? for the bread is spent in our
vessels, and [there is] not a present
to bring to the man of God: what have
we?
8 And the servant answered Saul again,
and said, Behold, I have here at hand
the fourth part of a shekel of silver:
[that] will I give to the man of God,
to tell us our way.
9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man
went to enquire of God, thus he spake,
Come, and let us go to the seer: for
[he that is] now [called] a Prophet was
beforetime called a Seer.)
10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well
said; come, let us go. So they went
unto the city where the man of God
[was].
11 # [And] as they went up the hill to
the city, they found young maidens
going out to draw water, and said unto
them, Is the seer here?
12 And they answered them, and said, He
is; behold, [he is] before you: make
haste now, for he came to day to the
city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the
people to day in the high place:
13 As soon as ye be come into the city,
ye shall straightway find him, before
he go up to the high place to eat: for
the people will not eat until he come,
because he doth bless the sacrifice;
[and] afterwards they eat that be
bidden. Now therefore get you up; for
about this time ye shall find him.
14 And they went up into the city:
[and] when they were come into the
city, behold, Samuel came out against
them, for to go up to the high place.
15 # Now the LORD had told Samuel in
his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
16 To morrow about this time I will
send thee a man out of the land of
Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to
be] captain over my people Israel, that
he may save my people out of the hand
of the Philistines: for I have looked
upon my people, because their cry is
come unto me.
17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD
said unto him, Behold the man whom I
spake to thee of! this same shall reign
over my people.
18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the
gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee,
where the seer's house [is].
19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said,
I [am] the seer: go up before me unto
the high place; for ye shall eat with
me to day, and to morrow I will let
thee go, and will tell thee all that
[is] in thine heart.
20 And as for thine asses that were
lost three days ago, set not thy mind
on them; for they are found. And on
whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is
it] not on thee, and on all thy
father's house?
21 And Saul answered and said, [Am] not
I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the
tribes of Israel? and my family the
least of all the families of the tribe
of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest
thou so to me?
22 And Samuel took Saul and his
servant, and brought them into the
parlour, and made them sit in the
chiefest place among them that were
bidden, which [were] about thirty
persons.
23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring
the portion which I gave thee, of which
I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
24 And the cook took up the shoulder,
and [that] which [was] upon it, and set
[it] before Saul. And [Samuel] said,
Behold that which is left! set [it]
before thee, [and] eat: for unto this
time hath it been kept for thee since I
said, I have invited the people. So
Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
25 # And when they were come down from
the high place into the city, [Samuel]
communed with Saul upon the top of the
house.
26 And they arose early: and it came to
pass about the spring of the day, that
Samuel called Saul to the top of the
house, saying, Up, that I may send thee
away. And Saul arose, and they went out
both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
27 [And] as they were going down to the
end of the city, Samuel said to Saul,
Bid the servant pass on before us, (and
he passed on,) but stand thou still a
while, that I may shew thee the word of
God.

CHAPTER 10
1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and
poured [it] upon his head, and kissed
him, and said, [Is it] not because the
LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain
over his inheritance?
2 When thou art departed from me to
day, then thou shalt find two men by
Rachel's sepulchre in the border of
Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say
unto thee, The asses which thou wentest
to seek are found: and, lo, thy father
hath left the care of the asses, and
sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I
do for my son?
3 Then shalt thou go on forward from
thence, and thou shalt come to the
plain of Tabor, and there shall meet
thee three men going up to God to
Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and
another carrying three loaves of bread,
and another carrying a bottle of wine:
4 And they will salute thee, and give
thee two [loaves] of bread; which thou
shalt receive of their hands.
5 After that thou shalt come to the
hill of God, where [is] the garrison of
the Philistines: and it shall come to
pass, when thou art come thither to the
city, that thou shalt meet a company of
prophets coming down from the high
place with a psaltery, and a tabret,
and a pipe, and a harp, before them;
and they shall prophesy:
6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come
upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with
them, and shalt be turned into another
man.
7 And let it be, when these signs are
come unto thee, [that] thou do as
occasion serve thee; for God [is] with
thee.
8 And thou shalt go down before me to
Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down
unto thee, to offer burnt offerings,
[and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace
offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry,
till I come to thee, and shew thee what
thou shalt do.
9 # And it was [so], that when he had
turned his back to go from Samuel, God
gave him another heart: and all those
signs came to pass that day.
10 And when they came thither to the
hill, behold, a company of prophets met
him; and the Spirit of God came upon
him, and he prophesied among them.
11 And it came to pass, when all that
knew him beforetime saw that, behold,
he prophesied among the prophets, then
the people said one to another, What
[is] this [that] is come unto the son
of Kish? [Is] Saul also among the
prophets?
12 And one of the same place answered
and said, But who [is] their father?
Therefore it became a proverb, [Is]
Saul also among the prophets?
13 And when he had made an end of
prophesying, he came to the high place.
14 # And Saul's uncle said unto him and
to his servant, Whither went ye? And he
said, To seek the asses: and when we
saw that [they were] no where, we came
to Samuel.
15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I
pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He
told us plainly that the asses were
found. But of the matter of the
kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told
him not.
17 # And Samuel called the people
together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
18 And said unto the children of
Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I brought up Israel out of
Egypt, and delivered you out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and out of the
hand of all kingdoms, [and] of them
that oppressed you:
19 And ye have this day rejected your
God, who himself saved you out of all
your adversities and your tribulations;
and ye have said unto him, [Nay], but
set a king over us. Now therefore
present yourselves before the LORD by
your tribes, and by your thousands.
20 And when Samuel had caused all the
tribes of Israel to come near, the
tribe of Benjamin was taken.
21 When he had caused the tribe of
Benjamin to come near by their
families, the family of Matri was
taken, and Saul the son of Kish was
taken: and when they sought him, he
could not be found.
22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD
further, if the man should yet come
thither. And the LORD answered, Behold,
he hath hid himself among the stuff.
23 And they ran and fetched him thence:
and when he stood among the people, he
was higher than any of the people from
his shoulders and upward.
24 And Samuel said to all the people,
See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen,
that [there is] none like him among all
the people? And all the people shouted,
and said, God save the king.
25 Then Samuel told the people the
manner of the kingdom, and wrote [it]
in a book, and laid [it] up before the
LORD. And Samuel sent all the people
away, every man to his house.
26 # And Saul also went home to Gibeah;
and there went with him a band of men,
whose hearts God had touched.
27 But the children of Belial said, How
shall this man save us? And they
despised him, and brought him no
presents. But he held his peace.

CHAPTER 11
1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and
encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all
the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash,
Make a covenant with us, and we will
serve thee.
2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered
them, On this [condition] will I make
[a covenant] with you, that I may
thrust out all your right eyes, and lay
it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.
3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto
him, Give us seven days' respite, that
we may send messengers unto all the
coasts of Israel: and then, if [there
be] no man to save us, we will come out
to thee.
4 # Then came the messengers to Gibeah
of Saul, and told the tidings in the
ears of the people: and all the people
lifted up their voices, and wept.
5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd
out of the field; and Saul said, What
[aileth] the people that they weep? And
they told him the tidings of the men of
Jabesh.
6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul
when he heard those tidings, and his
anger was kindled greatly.
7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed
them in pieces, and sent [them]
throughout all the coasts of Israel by
the hands of messengers, saying,
Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul
and after Samuel, so shall it be done
unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD
fell on the people, and they came out
with one consent.
8 And when he numbered them in Bezek,
the children of Israel were three
hundred thousand, and the men of Judah
thirty thousand.
9 And they said unto the messengers
that came, Thus shall ye say unto the
men of Jabesh-gilead, To morrow, by
[that time] the sun be hot, ye shall
have help. And the messengers came and
shewed [it] to the men of Jabesh; and
they were glad.
10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To
morrow we will come out unto you, and
ye shall do with us all that seemeth
good unto you.
11 And it was [so] on the morrow, that
Saul put the people in three companies;
and they came into the midst of the
host in the morning watch, and slew the
Ammonites until the heat of the day:
and it came to pass, that they which
remained were scattered, so that two of
them were not left together.
12 # And the people said unto Samuel,
Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign
over us? bring the men, that we may put
them to death.
13 And Saul said, There shall not a man
be put to death this day: for to day
the LORD hath wrought salvation in
Israel.
14 Then said Samuel to the people,
Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and
renew the kingdom there.
15 And all the people went to Gilgal;
and there they made Saul king before
the LORD in Gilgal; and there they
sacrificed sacrifices of peace
offerings before the LORD; and there
Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced
greatly.

CHAPTER 12
1 And Samuel said unto all Israel,
Behold, I have hearkened unto your
voice in all that ye said unto me, and
have made a king over you.
2 And now, behold, the king walketh
before you: and I am old and
grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are]
with you: and I have walked before you
from my childhood unto this day.
3 Behold, here I [am]: witness against
me before the LORD, and before his
anointed: whose ox have I taken? or
whose ass have I taken? or whom have I
defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of
whose hand have I received [any] bribe
to blind mine eyes therewith? and I
will restore it you.
4 And they said, Thou hast not
defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither
hast thou taken ought of any man's
hand.
5 And he said unto them, The LORD [is]
witness against you, and his anointed
[is] witness this day, that ye have not
found ought in my hand. And they
answered, [He is] witness.
6 # And Samuel said unto the people,
[It is] the LORD that advanced Moses
and Aaron, and that brought your
fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may
reason with you before the LORD of all
the righteous acts of the LORD, which
he did to you and to your fathers.
8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and
your fathers cried unto the LORD, then
the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which
brought forth your fathers out of
Egypt, and made them dwell in this
place.
9 And when they forgat the LORD their
God, he sold them into the hand of
Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor,
and into the hand of the Philistines,
and into the hand of the king of Moab,
and they fought against them.
10 And they cried unto the LORD, and
said, We have sinned, because we have
forsaken the LORD, and have served
Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver
us out of the hand of our enemies, and
we will serve thee.
11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and
Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and
delivered you out of the hand of your
enemies on every side, and ye dwelled
safe.
12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king
of the children of Ammon came against
you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king
shall reign over us: when the LORD your
God [was] your king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom
ye have chosen, [and] whom ye have
desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set
a king over you.
14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve
him, and obey his voice, and not rebel
against the commandment of the LORD,
then shall both ye and also the king
that reigneth over you continue
following the LORD your God:
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of
the LORD, but rebel against the
commandment of the LORD, then shall the
hand of the LORD be against you, as [it
was] against your fathers.
16 # Now therefore stand and see this
great thing, which the LORD will do
before your eyes.
17 [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I
will call unto the LORD, and he shall
send thunder and rain; that ye may
perceive and see that your wickedness
[is] great, which ye have done in the
sight of the LORD, in asking you a
king.
18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and
the LORD sent thunder and rain that
day: and all the people greatly feared
the LORD and Samuel.
19 And all the people said unto Samuel,
Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy
God, that we die not: for we have added
unto all our sins [this] evil, to ask
us a king.
20 # And Samuel said unto the people,
Fear not: ye have done all this
wickedness: yet turn not aside from
following the LORD, but serve the LORD
with all your heart;
21 And turn ye not aside: for [then
should ye go] after vain [things],
which cannot profit nor deliver; for
they [are] vain.
22 For the LORD will not forsake his
people for his great name's sake:
because it hath pleased the LORD to
make you his people.
23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that
I should sin against the LORD in
ceasing to pray for you: but I will
teach you the good and the right way:
24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in
truth with all your heart: for consider
how great [things] he hath done for
you.
25 But if ye shall still do wickedly,
ye shall be consumed, both ye and your
king.

CHAPTER 13
1 Saul reigned one year; and when he
had reigned two years over Israel,
2 Saul chose him three thousand [men]
of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were
with Saul in Michmash and in mount
Beth-el, and a thousand were with
Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the
rest of the people he sent every man to
his tent.
3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of
the Philistines that [was] in Geba, and
the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul
blew the trumpet throughout all the
land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
4 And all Israel heard say [that] Saul
had smitten a garrison of the
Philistines, and [that] Israel also was
had in abomination with the
Philistines. And the people were called
together after Saul to Gilgal.
5 # And the Philistines gathered
themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and
six thousand horsemen, and people as
the sand which [is] on the sea shore in
multitude: and they came up, and
pitched in Michmash, eastward from
Beth-aven.
6 When the men of Israel saw that they
were in a strait, (for the people were
distressed,) then the people did hide
themselves in caves, and in thickets,
and in rocks, and in high places, and
in pits.
7 And [some of] the Hebrews went over
Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.
As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal,
and all the people followed him
trembling.
8 # And he tarried seven days,
according to the set time that Samuel
[had appointed]: but Samuel came not to
Gilgal; and the people were scattered
from him.
9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt
offering to me, and peace offerings.
And he offered the burnt offering.
10 And it came to pass, that as soon as
he had made an end of offering the
burnt offering, behold, Samuel came;
and Saul went out to meet him, that he
might salute him.
11 # And Samuel said, What hast thou
done? And Saul said, Because I saw that
the people were scattered from me, and
[that] thou camest not within the days
appointed, and [that] the Philistines
gathered themselves together at
Michmash;
12 Therefore said I, The Philistines
will come down now upon me to Gilgal,
and I have not made supplication unto
the LORD: I forced myself therefore,
and offered a burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast
done foolishly: thou hast not kept the
commandment of the LORD thy God, which
he commanded thee: for now would the
LORD have established thy kingdom upon
Israel for ever.
14 But now thy kingdom shall not
continue: the LORD hath sought him a
man after his own heart, and the LORD
hath commanded him [to be] captain over
his people, because thou hast not kept
[that] which the LORD commanded thee.
15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up
from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin.
And Saul numbered the people [that
were] present with him, about six
hundred men.
16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and
the people [that were] present with
them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but
the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
17 # And the spoilers came out of the
camp of the Philistines in three
companies: one company turned unto the
way [that leadeth to] Ophrah, unto the
land of Shual:
18 And another company turned the way
[to] Beth-horon: and another company
turned [to] the way of the border that
looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward
the wilderness.
19 # Now there was no smith found
throughout all the land of Israel: for
the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews
make [them] swords or spears:
20 But all the Israelites went down to
the Philistines, to sharpen every man
his share, and his coulter, and his
axe, and his mattock.
21 Yet they had a file for the
mattocks, and for the coulters, and for
the forks, and for the axes, and to
sharpen the goads.
22 So it came to pass in the day of
battle, that there was neither sword
nor spear found in the hand of any of
the people that [were] with Saul and
Jonathan: but with Saul and with
Jonathan his son was there found.
23 And the garrison of the Philistines
went out to the passage of Michmash.

CHAPTER 14
1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that
Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the
young man that bare his armour, Come,
and let us go over to the Philistines'
garrison, that [is] on the other side.
But he told not his father.
2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost
part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree
which [is] in Migron: and the people
that [were] with him [were] about six
hundred men;
3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub,
I-chabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S
priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And
the people knew not that Jonathan was
gone.
4 # And between the passages, by which
Jonathan sought to go over unto the
Philistines' garrison, [there was] a
sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp
rock on the other side: and the name of
the one [was] Bozez, and the name of
the other Seneh.
5 The forefront of the one [was]
situate northward over against
Michmash, and the other southward over
against Gibeah.
6 And Jonathan said to the young man
that bare his armour, Come, and let us
go over unto the garrison of these
uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD
will work for us: for [there is] no
restraint to the LORD to save by many
or by few.
7 And his armourbearer said unto him,
Do all that [is] in thine heart: turn
thee; behold, I [am] with thee
according to thy heart.
8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will
pass over unto [these] men, and we will
discover ourselves unto them.
9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until
we come to you; then we will stand
still in our place, and will not go up
unto them.
10 But if they say thus, Come up unto
us; then we will go up: for the LORD
hath delivered them into our hand: and
this [shall be] a sign unto us.
11 And both of them discovered
themselves unto the garrison of the
Philistines: and the Philistines said,
Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of
the holes where they had hid
themselves.
12 And the men of the garrison answered
Jonathan and his armourbearer, and
said, Come up to us, and we will shew
you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his
armourbearer, Come up after me: for the
LORD hath delivered them into the hand
of Israel.
13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his
hands and upon his feet, and his
armourbearer after him: and they fell
before Jonathan; and his armourbearer
slew after him.
14 And that first slaughter, which
Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was
about twenty men, within as it were an
half acre of land, [which] a yoke [of
oxen might plow].
15 And there was trembling in the host,
in the field, and among all the people:
the garrison, and the spoilers, they
also trembled, and the earth quaked: so
it was a very great trembling.
16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah
of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the
multitude melted away, and they went on
beating down [one another].
17 Then said Saul unto the people that
[were] with him, Number now, and see
who is gone from us. And when they had
numbered, behold, Jonathan and his
armourbearer [were] not [there].
18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring
hither the ark of God. For the ark of
God was at that time with the children
of Israel.
19 # And it came to pass, while Saul
talked unto the priest, that the noise
that [was] in the host of the
Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw
thine hand.
20 And Saul and all the people that
[were] with him assembled themselves,
and they came to the battle: and,
behold, every man's sword was against
his fellow, [and there was] a very
great discomfiture.
21 Moreover the Hebrews [that] were
with the Philistines before that time,
which went up with them into the camp
[from the country] round about, even
they also [turned] to be with the
Israelites that [were] with Saul and
Jonathan.
22 Likewise all the men of Israel which
had hid themselves in mount Ephraim,
[when] they heard that the Philistines
fled, even they also followed hard
after them in the battle.
23 So the LORD saved Israel that day:
and the battle passed over unto
Beth-aven.
24 # And the men of Israel were
distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be]
the man that eateth [any] food until
evening, that I may be avenged on mine
enemies. So none of the people tasted
[any] food.
25 And all [they of] the land came to a
wood; and there was honey upon the
ground.
26 And when the people were come into
the wood, behold, the honey dropped;
but no man put his hand to his mouth:
for the people feared the oath.
27 But Jonathan heard not when his
father charged the people with the
oath: wherefore he put forth the end of
the rod that [was] in his hand, and
dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his
hand to his mouth; and his eyes were
enlightened.
28 Then answered one of the people, and
said, Thy father straitly charged the
people with an oath, saying, Cursed
[be] the man that eateth [any] food
this day. And the people were faint.
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath
troubled the land: see, I pray you, how
mine eyes have been enlightened,
because I tasted a little of this
honey.
30 How much more, if haply the people
had eaten freely to day of the spoil of
their enemies which they found? for had
there not been now a much greater
slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that
day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the
people were very faint.
32 And the people flew upon the spoil,
and took sheep, and oxen, and calves,
and slew [them] on the ground: and the
people did eat [them] with the blood.
33 # Then they told Saul, saying,
Behold, the people sin against the
LORD, in that they eat with the blood.
And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll
a great stone unto me this day.
34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves
among the people, and say unto them,
Bring me hither every man his ox, and
every man his sheep, and slay [them]
here, and eat; and sin not against the
LORD in eating with the blood. And all
the people brought every man his ox
with him that night, and slew [them]
there.
35 And Saul built an altar unto the
LORD: the same was the first altar that
he built unto the LORD.
36 # And Saul said, Let us go down
after the Philistines by night, and
spoil them until the morning light, and
let us not leave a man of them. And
they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good
unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us
draw near hither unto God.
37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall
I go down after the Philistines? wilt
thou deliver them into the hand of
Israel? But he answered him not that
day.
38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither,
all the chief of the people: and know
and see wherein this sin hath been this
day.
39 For, [as] the LORD liveth, which
saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan
my son, he shall surely die. But [there
was] not a man among all the people
[that] answered him.
40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye
on one side, and I and Jonathan my son
will be on the other side. And the
people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth
good unto thee.
41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD
God of Israel, Give a perfect [lot].
And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but
the people escaped.
42 And Saul said, Cast [lots] between
me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan
was taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me
what thou hast done. And Jonathan told
him, and said, I did but taste a little
honey with the end of the rod that
[was] in mine hand, [and], lo, I must
die.
44 And Saul answered, God do so and
more also: for thou shalt surely die,
Jonathan.
45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall
Jonathan die, who hath wrought this
great salvation in Israel? God forbid:
[as] the LORD liveth, there shall not
one hair of his head fall to the
ground; for he hath wrought with God
this day. So the people rescued
Jonathan, that he died not.
46 Then Saul went up from following the
Philistines: and the Philistines went
to their own place.
47 # So Saul took the kingdom over
Israel, and fought against all his
enemies on every side, against Moab,
and against the children of Ammon, and
against Edom, and against the kings of
Zobah, and against the Philistines: and
whithersoever he turned himself, he
vexed [them].
48 And he gathered an host, and smote
the Amalekites, and delivered Israel
out of the hands of them that spoiled
them.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan,
and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the
names of his two daughters [were
these]; the name of the firstborn
Merab, and the name of the younger
Michal:
50 And the name of Saul's wife [was]
Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and
the name of the captain of his host
[was] Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's
uncle.
51 And Kish [was] the father of Saul;
and Ner the father of Abner [was] the
son of Abiel.
52 And there was sore war against the
Philistines all the days of Saul: and
when Saul saw any strong man, or any
valiant man, he took him unto him.

CHAPTER 15
1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD
sent me to anoint thee [to be] king
over his people, over Israel: now
therefore hearken thou unto the voice
of the words of the LORD.
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I
remember [that] which Amalek did to
Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in
the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly
destroy all that they have, and spare
them not; but slay both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and sheep,
camel and ass.
4 And Saul gathered the people
together, and numbered them in Telaim,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten
thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek,
and laid wait in the valley.
6 # And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go,
depart, get you down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with
them: for ye shewed kindness to all the
children of Israel, when they came up
out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed
from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from
Havilah [until] thou comest to Shur,
that [is] over against Egypt.
8 And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed
all the people with the edge of the
sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag,
and the best of the sheep, and of the
oxen, and of the fatlings, and the
lambs, and all [that was] good, and
would not utterly destroy them: but
every thing [that was] vile and refuse,
that they destroyed utterly.
10 # Then came the word of the LORD
unto Samuel, saying,
11 It repenteth me that I have set up
Saul [to be] king: for he is turned
back from following me, and hath not
performed my commandments. And it
grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the
LORD all night.
12 And when Samuel rose early to meet
Saul in the morning, it was told
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel,
and, behold, he set him up a place, and
is gone about, and passed on, and gone
down to Gilgal.
13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul
said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the
LORD: I have performed the commandment
of the LORD.
14 And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then
this bleating of the sheep in mine
ears, and the lowing of the oxen which
I hear?
15 And Saul said, They have brought
them from the Amalekites: for the
people spared the best of the sheep and
of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD
thy God; and the rest we have utterly
destroyed.
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay,
and I will tell thee what the LORD hath
said to me this night. And he said unto
him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When thou [wast]
little in thine own sight, [wast] thou
not [made] the head of the tribes of
Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king
over Israel?
18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey,
and said, Go and utterly destroy the
sinners the Amalekites, and fight
against them until they be consumed.
19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey
the voice of the LORD, but didst fly
upon the spoil, and didst evil in the
sight of the LORD?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I
have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and
have gone the way which the LORD sent
me, and have brought Agag the king of
Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the
Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil,
sheep and oxen, the chief of the things
which should have been utterly
destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD
thy God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as
great] delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of
the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better
than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than
the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of
witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as]
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou
hast rejected the word of the LORD, he
hath also rejected thee from [being]
king.
24 # And Saul said unto Samuel, I have
sinned: for I have transgressed the
commandment of the LORD, and thy words:
because I feared the people, and obeyed
their voice.
25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon
my sin, and turn again with me, that I
may worship the LORD.
26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will
not return with thee: for thou hast
rejected the word of the LORD, and the
LORD hath rejected thee from being king
over Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned about to go
away, he laid hold upon the skirt of
his mantle, and it rent.
28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD
hath rent the kingdom of Israel from
thee this day, and hath given it to a
neighbour of thine, [that is] better
than thou.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will
not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a
man, that he should repent.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: [yet]
honour me now, I pray thee, before the
elders of my people, and before Israel,
and turn again with me, that I may
worship the LORD thy God.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul;
and Saul worshipped the LORD.
32 # Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither
to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.
And Agag came unto him delicately. And
Agag said, Surely the bitterness of
death is past.
33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath
made women childless, so shall thy
mother be childless among women. And
Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the
LORD in Gilgal.
34 # Then Samuel went to Ramah; and
Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of
Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul
until the day of his death:
nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul:
and the LORD repented that he had made
Saul king over Israel.

CHAPTER 16
1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I
have rejected him from reigning over
Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and
go, I will send thee to Jesse the
Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a
king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if
Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And
the LORD said, Take an heifer with
thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice
to the LORD.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and
I will shew thee what thou shalt do:
and thou shalt anoint unto me [him]
whom I name unto thee.
4 And Samuel did that which the LORD
spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the
elders of the town trembled at his
coming, and said, Comest thou
peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to
sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify
yourselves, and come with me to the
sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and
his sons, and called them to the
sacrifice.
6 # And it came to pass, when they were
come, that he looked on Eliab, and
said, Surely the LORD'S anointed [is]
before him.
7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look
not on his countenance, or on the
height of his stature; because I have
refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not
as man seeth; for man looketh on the
outward appearance, but the LORD
looketh on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made
him pass before Samuel. And he said,
Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by.
And he said, Neither hath the LORD
chosen this.
10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons
to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said
unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen
these.
11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here
all [thy] children? And he said, There
remaineth yet the youngest, and,
behold, he keepeth the sheep. And
Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch
him: for we will not sit down till he
come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now
he [was] ruddy, [and] withal of a
beautiful countenance, and goodly to
look to. And the LORD said, Arise,
anoint him: for this [is] he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil,
and anointed him in the midst of his
brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD
came upon David from that day forward.
So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 # But the Spirit of the LORD
departed from Saul, and an evil spirit
from the LORD troubled him.
15 And Saul's servants said unto him,
Behold now, an evil spirit from God
troubleth thee.
16 Let our lord now command thy
servants, [which are] before thee, to
seek out a man, [who is] a cunning
player on an harp: and it shall come to
pass, when the evil spirit from God is
upon thee, that he shall play with his
hand, and thou shalt be well.
17 And Saul said unto his servants,
Provide me now a man that can play
well, and bring [him] to me.
18 Then answered one of the servants,
and said, Behold, I have seen a son of
Jesse the Beth-lehemite, [that is]
cunning in playing, and a mighty
valiant man, and a man of war, and
prudent in matters, and a comely
person, and the LORD [is] with him.
19 # Wherefore Saul sent messengers
unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy
son, which [is] with the sheep.
20 And Jesse took an ass [laden] with
bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid,
and sent [them] by David his son unto
Saul.
21 And David came to Saul, and stood
before him: and he loved him greatly;
and he became his armourbearer.
22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let
David, I pray thee, stand before me;
for he hath found favour in my sight.
23 And it came to pass, when the [evil]
spirit from God was upon Saul, that
David took an harp, and played with his
hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was
well, and the evil spirit departed from
him.

CHAPTER 17
1 Now the Philistines gathered together
their armies to battle, and were
gathered together at Shochoh, which
[belongeth] to Judah, and pitched
between Shochoh and Azekah, in
Ephes-dammim.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel were
gathered together, and pitched by the
valley of Elah, and set the battle in
array against the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stood on a
mountain on the one side, and Israel
stood on a mountain on the other side:
and [there was] a valley between them.
4 # And there went out a champion out
of the camp of the Philistines, named
Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was]
six cubits and a span.
5 And [he had] an helmet of brass upon
his head, and he [was] armed with a
coat of mail; and the weight of the
coat [was] five thousand shekels of
brass.
6 And [he had] greaves of brass upon
his legs, and a target of brass between
his shoulders.
7 And the staff of his spear [was] like
a weaver's beam; and his spear's head
[weighed] six hundred shekels of iron:
and one bearing a shield went before
him.
8 And he stood and cried unto the
armies of Israel, and said unto them,
Why are ye come out to set [your]
battle in array? [am] not I a
Philistine, and ye servants to Saul?
choose you a man for you, and let him
come down to me.
9 If he be able to fight with me, and
to kill me, then will we be your
servants: but if I prevail against him,
and kill him, then shall ye be our
servants, and serve us.
10 And the Philistine said, I defy the
armies of Israel this day; give me a
man, that we may fight together.
11 When Saul and all Israel heard those
words of the Philistine, they were
dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12 # Now David [was] the son of that
Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose
name [was] Jesse; and he had eight
sons: and the man went among men [for]
an old man in the days of Saul.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse
went [and] followed Saul to the battle:
and the names of his three sons that
went to the battle [were] Eliab the
firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab,
and the third Shammah.
14 And David [was] the youngest: and
the three eldest followed Saul.
15 But David went and returned from
Saul to feed his father's sheep at
Beth-lehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near morning
and evening, and presented himself
forty days.
17 And Jesse said unto David his son,
Take now for thy brethren an ephah of
this parched [corn], and these ten
loaves, and run to the camp to thy
brethren;
18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the
captain of [their] thousand, and look
how thy brethren fare, and take their
pledge.
19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men
of Israel, [were] in the valley of
Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20 # And David rose up early in the
morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse
had commanded him; and he came to the
trench, as the host was going forth to
the fight, and shouted for the battle.
21 For Israel and the Philistines had
put the battle in array, army against
army.
22 And David left his carriage in the
hand of the keeper of the carriage, and
ran into the army, and came and saluted
his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold,
there came up the champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name,
out of the armies of the Philistines,
and spake according to the same words:
and David heard [them].
24 And all the men of Israel, when they
saw the man, fled from him, and were
sore afraid.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye
seen this man that is come up? surely
to defy Israel is he come up: and it
shall be, [that] the man who killeth
him, the king will enrich him with
great riches, and will give him his
daughter, and make his father's house
free in Israel.
26 And David spake to the men that
stood by him, saying, What shall be
done to the man that killeth this
Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who [is] this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he
should defy the armies of the living
God?
27 And the people answered him after
this manner, saying, So shall it be
done to the man that killeth him.
28 # And Eliab his eldest brother heard
when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's
anger was kindled against David, and he
said, Why camest thou down hither? and
with whom hast thou left those few
sheep in the wilderness? I know thy
pride, and the naughtiness of thine
heart; for thou art come down that thou
mightest see the battle.
29 And David said, What have I now
done? [Is there] not a cause?
30 # And he turned from him toward
another, and spake after the same
manner: and the people answered him
again after the former manner.
31 And when the words were heard which
David spake, they rehearsed [them]
before Saul: and he sent for him.
32 # And David said to Saul, Let no
man's heart fail because of him; thy
servant will go and fight with this
Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not
able to go against this Philistine to
fight with him: for thou [art but] a
youth, and he a man of war from his
youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Thy
servant kept his father's sheep, and
there came a lion, and a bear, and took
a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote
him, and delivered [it] out of his
mouth: and when he arose against me, I
caught [him] by his beard, and smote
him, and slew him.
36 Thy servant slew both the lion and
the bear: and this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one of them,
seeing he hath defied the armies of the
living God.
37 David said moreover, The LORD that
delivered me out of the paw of the
lion, and out of the paw of the bear,
he will deliver me out of the hand of
this Philistine. And Saul said unto
David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
38 # And Saul armed David with his
armour, and he put an helmet of brass
upon his head; also he armed him with a
coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword upon his
armour, and he assayed to go; for he
had not proved [it]. And David said
unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for
I have not proved [them]. And David put
them off him.
40 And he took his staff in his hand,
and chose him five smooth stones out of
the brook, and put them in a shepherd's
bag which he had, even in a scrip; and
his sling [was] in his hand: and he
drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew
near unto David; and the man that bare
the shield [went] before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked
about, and saw David, he disdained him:
for he was [but] a youth, and ruddy,
and of a fair countenance.
43 And the Philistine said unto David,
[Am] I a dog, that thou comest to me
with staves? And the Philistine cursed
David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David,
Come to me, and I will give thy flesh
unto the fowls of the air, and to the
beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine,
Thou comest to me with a sword, and
with a spear, and with a shield: but I
come to thee in the name of the LORD of
hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom thou hast defied.
46 This day will the LORD deliver thee
into mine hand; and I will smite thee,
and take thine head from thee; and I
will give the carcases of the host of
the Philistines this day unto the fowls
of the air, and to the wild beasts of
the earth; that all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know
that the LORD saveth not with sword and
spear: for the battle [is] the LORD'S,
and he will give you into our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the
Philistine arose, and came and drew
nigh to meet David, that David hasted,
and ran toward the army to meet the
Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag,
and took thence a stone, and slang
[it], and smote the Philistine in his
forehead, that the stone sunk into his
forehead; and he fell upon his face to
the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the
Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and smote the Philistine, and
slew him; but [there was] no sword in
the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon
the Philistine, and took his sword, and
drew it out of the sheath thereof, and
slew him, and cut off his head
therewith. And when the Philistines saw
their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah
arose, and shouted, and pursued the
Philistines, until thou come to the
valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And
the wounded of the Philistines fell
down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto
Gath, and unto Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned
from chasing after the Philistines, and
they spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head of the
Philistine, and brought it to
Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his
tent.
55 # And when Saul saw David go forth
against the Philistine, he said unto
Abner, the captain of the host, Abner,
whose son [is] this youth? And Abner
said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I
cannot tell.
56 And the king said, Enquire thou
whose son the stripling [is].
57 And as David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took
him, and brought him before Saul with
the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son
[art] thou, [thou] young man? And David
answered, I [am] the son of thy servant
Jesse the Beth-lehemite.

CHAPTER 18
1 And it came to pass, when he had made
an end of speaking unto Saul, that the
soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul
of David, and Jonathan loved him as his
own soul.
2 And Saul took him that day, and would
let him go no more home to his father's
house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a
covenant, because he loved him as his
own soul.
4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the
robe that [was] upon him, and gave it
to David, and his garments, even to his
sword, and to his bow, and to his
girdle.
5 # And David went out whithersoever
Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself
wisely: and Saul set him over the men
of war, and he was accepted in the
sight of all the people, and also in
the sight of Saul's servants.
6 And it came to pass as they came,
when David was returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, that the
women came out of all cities of Israel,
singing and dancing, to meet king Saul,
with tabrets, with joy, and with
instruments of musick.
7 And the women answered [one another]
as they played, and said, Saul hath
slain his thousands, and David his ten
thousands.
8 And Saul was very wroth, and the
saying displeased him; and he said,
They have ascribed unto David ten
thousands, and to me they have ascribed
[but] thousands: and [what] can he have
more but the kingdom?
9 And Saul eyed David from that day and
forward.
10 # And it came to pass on the morrow,
that the evil spirit from God came upon
Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of
the house: and David played with his
hand, as at other times: and [there
was] a javelin in Saul's hand.
11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he
said, I will smite David even to the
wall [with it]. And David avoided out
of his presence twice.
12 # And Saul was afraid of David,
because the LORD was with him, and was
departed from Saul.
13 Therefore Saul removed him from him,
and made him his captain over a
thousand; and he went out and came in
before the people.
14 And David behaved himself wisely in
all his ways; and the LORD [was] with
him.
15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he
behaved himself very wisely, he was
afraid of him.
16 But all Israel and Judah loved
David, because he went out and came in
before them.
17 # And Saul said to David, Behold my
elder daughter Merab, her will I give
thee to wife: only be thou valiant for
me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For
Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon
him, but let the hand of the
Philistines be upon him.
18 And David said unto Saul, Who [am]
I? and what [is] my life, [or] my
father's family in Israel, that I
should be son in law to the king?
19 But it came to pass at the time when
Merab Saul's daughter should have been
given to David, that she was given unto
Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved
David: and they told Saul, and the
thing pleased him.
21 And Saul said, I will give him her,
that she may be a snare to him, and
that the hand of the Philistines may be
against him. Wherefore Saul said to
David, Thou shalt this day be my son in
law in [the one of] the twain.
22 # And Saul commanded his servants,
[saying], Commune with David secretly,
and say, Behold, the king hath delight
in thee, and all his servants love
thee: now therefore be the king's son
in law.
23 And Saul's servants spake those
words in the ears of David. And David
said, Seemeth it to you [a] light
[thing] to be a king's son in law,
seeing that I [am] a poor man, and
lightly esteemed?
24 And the servants of Saul told him,
saying, On this manner spake David.
25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to
David, The king desireth not any dowry,
but an hundred foreskins of the
Philistines, to be avenged of the
king's enemies. But Saul thought to
make David fall by the hand of the
Philistines.
26 And when his servants told David
these words, it pleased David well to
be the king's son in law: and the days
were not expired.
27 Wherefore David arose and went, he
and his men, and slew of the
Philistines two hundred men; and David
brought their foreskins, and they gave
them in full tale to the king, that he
might be the king's son in law. And
Saul gave him Michal his daughter to
wife.
28 # And Saul saw and knew that the
LORD [was] with David, and [that]
Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of
David; and Saul became David's enemy
continually.
30 Then the princes of the Philistines
went forth: and it came to pass, after
they went forth, [that] David behaved
himself more wisely than all the
servants of Saul; so that his name was
much set by.

CHAPTER 19
1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son,
and to all his servants, that they
should kill David.
2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted
much in David: and Jonathan told David,
saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill
thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take
heed to thyself until the morning, and
abide in a secret [place], and hide
thyself:
3 And I will go out and stand beside my
father in the field where thou [art],
and I will commune with my father of
thee; and what I see, that I will tell
thee.
4 # And Jonathan spake good of David
unto Saul his father, and said unto
him, Let not the king sin against his
servant, against David; because he hath
not sinned against thee, and because
his works [have been] to thee-ward very
good:
5 For he did put his life in his hand,
and slew the Philistine, and the LORD
wrought a great salvation for all
Israel: thou sawest [it], and didst
rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin
against innocent blood, to slay David
without a cause?
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of
Jonathan: and Saul sware, [As] the LORD
liveth, he shall not be slain.
7 And Jonathan called David, and
Jonathan shewed him all those things.
And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and
he was in his presence, as in times
past.
8 # And there was war again: and David
went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and slew them with a great
slaughter; and they fled from him.
9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was
upon Saul, as he sat in his house with
his javelin in his hand: and David
played with [his] hand.
10 And Saul sought to smite David even
to the wall with the javelin; but he
slipped away out of Saul's presence,
and he smote the javelin into the wall:
and David fled, and escaped that night.
11 Saul also sent messengers unto
David's house, to watch him, and to
slay him in the morning: and Michal
David's wife told him, saying, If thou
save not thy life to night, to morrow
thou shalt be slain.
12 # So Michal let David down through a
window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped.
13 And Michal took an image, and laid
[it] in the bed, and put a pillow of
goats' [hair] for his bolster, and
covered [it] with a cloth.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to
take David, she said, He [is] sick.
15 And Saul sent the messengers [again]
to see David, saying, Bring him up to
me in the bed, that I may slay him.
16 And when the messengers were come
in, behold, [there was] an image in the
bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for
his bolster.
17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast
thou deceived me so, and sent away mine
enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal
answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me
go; why should I kill thee?
18 # So David fled, and escaped, and
came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him
all that Saul had done to him. And he
and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
19 And it was told Saul, saying,
Behold, David [is] at Naioth in Ramah.
20 And Saul sent messengers to take
David: and when they saw the company of
the prophets prophesying, and Samuel
standing [as] appointed over them, the
Spirit of God was upon the messengers
of Saul, and they also prophesied.
21 And when it was told Saul, he sent
other messengers, and they prophesied
likewise. And Saul sent messengers
again the third time, and they
prophesied also.
22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came
to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and
he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel
and David? And [one] said, Behold,
[they be] at Naioth in Ramah.
23 And he went thither to Naioth in
Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon
him also, and he went on, and
prophesied, until he came to Naioth in
Ramah.
24 And he stripped off his clothes
also, and prophesied before Samuel in
like manner, and lay down naked all
that day and all that night. Wherefore
they say, [Is] Saul also among the
prophets?

CHAPTER 20
1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah,
and came and said before Jonathan, What
have I done? what [is] mine iniquity?
and what [is] my sin before thy father,
that he seeketh my life?
2 And he said unto him, God forbid;
thou shalt not die: behold, my father
will do nothing either great or small,
but that he will shew it me: and why
should my father hide this thing from
me? it [is] not [so].
3 And David sware moreover, and said,
Thy father certainly knoweth that I
have found grace in thine eyes; and he
saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest
he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD
liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth,
[there is] but a step between me and
death.
4 Then said Jonathan unto David,
Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will
even do [it] for thee.
5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold,
to morrow [is] the new moon, and I
should not fail to sit with the king at
meat: but let me go, that I may hide
myself in the field unto the third
[day] at even.
6 If thy father at all miss me, then
say, David earnestly asked [leave] of
me that he might run to Beth-lehem his
city: for [there is] a yearly sacrifice
there for all the family.
7 If he say thus, [It is] well; thy
servant shall have peace: but if he be
very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is
determined by him.
8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with
thy servant; for thou hast brought thy
servant into a covenant of the LORD
with thee: notwithstanding, if there be
in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for
why shouldest thou bring me to thy
father?
9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from
thee: for if I knew certainly that evil
were determined by my father to come
upon thee, then would not I tell it
thee?
10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who
shall tell me? or what [if] thy father
answer thee roughly?
11 # And Jonathan said unto David,
Come, and let us go out into the field.
And they went out both of them into the
field.
12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD
God of Israel, when I have sounded my
father about to morrow any time, [or]
the third [day], and, behold, [if there
be] good toward David, and I then send
not unto thee, and shew it thee;
13 The LORD do so and much more to
Jonathan: but if it please my father
[to do] thee evil, then I will shew it
thee, and send thee away, that thou
mayest go in peace: and the LORD be
with thee, as he hath been with my
father.
14 And thou shalt not only while yet I
live shew me the kindness of the LORD,
that I die not:
15 But [also] thou shalt not cut off
thy kindness from my house for ever:
no, not when the LORD hath cut off the
enemies of David every one from the
face of the earth.
16 So Jonathan made [a covenant] with
the house of David, [saying], Let the
LORD even require [it] at the hand of
David's enemies.
17 And Jonathan caused David to swear
again, because he loved him: for he
loved him as he loved his own soul.
18 Then Jonathan said to David, To
morrow [is] the new moon: and thou
shalt be missed, because thy seat will
be empty.
19 And [when] thou hast stayed three
days, [then] thou shalt go down
quickly, and come to the place where
thou didst hide thyself when the
business was [in hand], and shalt
remain by the stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows on the
side [thereof], as though I shot at a
mark.
21 And, behold, I will send a lad,
[saying], Go, find out the arrows. If I
expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the
arrows [are] on this side of thee, take
them; then come thou: for [there is]
peace to thee, and no hurt; [as] the
LORD liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the young
man, Behold, the arrows [are] beyond
thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath
sent thee away.
23 And [as touching] the matter which
thou and I have spoken of, behold, the
LORD [be] between thee and me for ever.
24 # So David hid himself in the field:
and when the new moon was come, the
king sat him down to eat meat.
25 And the king sat upon his seat, as
at other times, [even] upon a seat by
the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner
sat by Saul's side, and David's place
was empty.
26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any
thing that day: for he thought,
Something hath befallen him, he [is]
not clean; surely he [is] not clean.
27 And it came to pass on the morrow,
[which was] the second [day] of the
month, that David's place was empty:
and Saul said unto Jonathan his son,
Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse
to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David
earnestly asked [leave] of me [to go]
to Beth-lehem:
29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee;
for our family hath a sacrifice in the
city; and my brother, he hath commanded
me [to be there]: and now, if I have
found favour in thine eyes, let me get
away, I pray thee, and see my brethren.
Therefore he cometh not unto the king's
table.
30 Then Saul's anger was kindled
against Jonathan, and he said unto him,
Thou son of the perverse rebellious
[woman], do not I know that thou hast
chosen the son of Jesse to thine own
confusion, and unto the confusion of
thy mother's nakedness?
31 For as long as the son of Jesse
liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not
be established, nor thy kingdom.
Wherefore now send and fetch him unto
me, for he shall surely die.
32 And Jonathan answered Saul his
father, and said unto him, Wherefore
shall he be slain? what hath he done?
33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to
smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that
it was determined of his father to slay
David.
34 So Jonathan arose from the table in
fierce anger, and did eat no meat the
second day of the month: for he was
grieved for David, because his father
had done him shame.
35 # And it came to pass in the
morning, that Jonathan went out into
the field at the time appointed with
David, and a little lad with him.
36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find
out now the arrows which I shoot. [And]
as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond
him.
37 And when the lad was come to the
place of the arrow which Jonathan had
shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and
said, [Is] not the arrow beyond thee?
38 And Jonathan cried after the lad,
Make speed, haste, stay not. And
Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows,
and came to his master.
39 But the lad knew not any thing: only
Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto
his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry
[them] to the city.
41 # [And] as soon as the lad was gone,
David arose out of [a place] toward the
south, and fell on his face to the
ground, and bowed himself three times:
and they kissed one another, and wept
one with another, until David exceeded.
42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in
peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both
of us in the name of the LORD, saying,
The LORD be between me and thee, and
between my seed and thy seed for ever.
And he arose and departed: and Jonathan
went into the city.

CHAPTER 21
1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech
the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at
the meeting of David, and said unto
him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man
with thee?
2 And David said unto Ahimelech the
priest, The king hath commanded me a
business, and hath said unto me, Let no
man know any thing of the business
whereabout I send thee, and what I have
commanded thee: and I have appointed
[my] servants to such and such a place.
3 Now therefore what is under thine
hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread
in mine hand, or what there is present.
4 And the priest answered David, and
said, [There is] no common bread under
mine hand, but there is hallowed bread;
if the young men have kept themselves
at least from women.
5 And David answered the priest, and
said unto him, Of a truth women [have
been] kept from us about these three
days, since I came out, and the vessels
of the young men are holy, and [the
bread is] in a manner common, yea,
though it were sanctified this day in
the vessel.
6 So the priest gave him hallowed
[bread]: for there was no bread there
but the shewbread, that was taken from
before the LORD, to put hot bread in
the day when it was taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of
Saul [was] there that day, detained
before the LORD; and his name [was]
Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the
herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.
8 # And David said unto Ahimelech, And
is there not here under thine hand
spear or sword? for I have neither
brought my sword nor my weapons with
me, because the king's business
required haste.
9 And the priest said, The sword of
Goliath the Philistine, whom thou
slewest in the valley of Elah, behold,
it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind
the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take
[it]: for [there is] no other save that
here. And David said, [There is] none
like that; give it me.
10 # And David arose, and fled that day
for fear of Saul, and went to Achish
the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto
him, [Is] not this David the king of
the land? did they not sing one to
another of him in dances, saying, Saul
hath slain his thousands, and David his
ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his
heart, and was sore afraid of Achish
the king of Gath.
13 And he changed his behaviour before
them, and feigned himself mad in their
hands, and scrabbled on the doors of
the gate, and let his spittle fall down
upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants,
Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore
[then] have ye brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have
brought this [fellow] to play the mad
man in my presence? shall this [fellow]
come into my house?

CHAPTER 22
1 David therefore departed thence, and
escaped to the cave Adullam: and when
his brethren and all his father's house
heard [it], they went down thither to
him.
2 And every one [that was] in distress,
and every one that [was] in debt, and
every one [that was] discontented,
gathered themselves unto him; and he
became a captain over them: and there
were with him about four hundred men.
3 # And David went thence to Mizpeh of
Moab: and he said unto the king of
Moab, Let my father and my mother, I
pray thee, come forth, [and be] with
you, till I know what God will do for
me.
4 And he brought them before the king
of Moab: and they dwelt with him all
the while that David was in the hold.
5 # And the prophet Gad said unto
David, Abide not in the hold; depart,
and get thee into the land of Judah.
Then David departed, and came into the
forest of Hareth.
6 # When Saul heard that David was
discovered, and the men that [were]
with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah
under a tree in Ramah, having his spear
in his hand, and all his servants
[were] standing about him;)
7 Then Saul said unto his servants that
stood about him, Hear now, ye
Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give
every one of you fields and vineyards,
[and] make you all captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds;
8 That all of you have conspired
against me, and [there is] none that
sheweth me that my son hath made a
league with the son of Jesse, and
[there is] none of you that is sorry
for me, or sheweth unto me that my son
hath stirred up my servant against me,
to lie in wait, as at this day?
9 # Then answered Doeg the Edomite,
which was set over the servants of
Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse
coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of
Ahitub.
10 And he enquired of the LORD for him,
and gave him victuals, and gave him the
sword of Goliath the Philistine.
11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech
the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all
his father's house, the priests that
[were] in Nob: and they came all of
them to the king.
12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of
Ahitub. And he answered, Here I [am],
my lord.
13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye
conspired against me, thou and the son
of Jesse, in that thou hast given him
bread, and a sword, and hast enquired
of God for him, that he should rise
against me, to lie in wait, as at this
day?
14 Then Ahimelech answered the king,
and said, And who [is so] faithful
among all thy servants as David, which
is the king's son in law, and goeth at
thy bidding, and is honourable in thine
house?
15 Did I then begin to enquire of God
for him? be it far from me: let not the
king impute [any] thing unto his
servant, [nor] to all the house of my
father: for thy servant knew nothing of
all this, less or more.
16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely
die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy
father's house.
17 # And the king said unto the footmen
that stood about him, Turn, and slay
the priests of the LORD; because their
hand also [is] with David, and because
they knew when he fled, and did not
shew it to me. But the servants of the
king would not put forth their hand to
fall upon the priests of the LORD.
18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn
thou, and fall upon the priests. And
Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell
upon the priests, and slew on that day
fourscore and five persons that did
wear a linen ephod.
19 And Nob, the city of the priests,
smote he with the edge of the sword,
both men and women, children and
sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and
sheep, with the edge of the sword.
20 # And one of the sons of Ahimelech
the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar,
escaped, and fled after David.
21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul
had slain the LORD'S priests.
22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew
[it] that day, when Doeg the Edomite
[was] there, that he would surely tell
Saul: I have occasioned [the death] of
all the persons of thy father's house.
23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he
that seeketh my life seeketh thy life:
but with me thou [shalt be] in
safeguard.

CHAPTER 23
1 Then they told David, saying, Behold,
the Philistines fight against Keilah,
and they rob the threshingfloors.
2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD,
saying, Shall I go and smite these
Philistines? And the LORD said unto
David, Go, and smite the Philistines,
and save Keilah.
3 And David's men said unto him,
Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how
much more then if we come to Keilah
against the armies of the Philistines?
4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet
again. And the LORD answered him and
said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I
will deliver the Philistines into thine
hand.
5 So David and his men went to Keilah,
and fought with the Philistines, and
brought away their cattle, and smote
them with a great slaughter. So David
saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar
the son of Ahimelech fled to David to
Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an
ephod in his hand.
7 # And it was told Saul that David was
come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath
delivered him into mine hand; for he is
shut in, by entering into a town that
hath gates and bars.
8 And Saul called all the people
together to war, to go down to Keilah,
to besiege David and his men.
9 # And David knew that Saul secretly
practised mischief against him; and he
said to Abiathar the priest, Bring
hither the ephod.
10 Then said David, O LORD God of
Israel, thy servant hath certainly
heard that Saul seeketh to come to
Keilah, to destroy the city for my
sake.
11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up
into his hand? will Saul come down, as
thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of
Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy
servant. And the LORD said, He will
come down.
12 Then said David, Will the men of
Keilah deliver me and my men into the
hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They
will deliver [thee] up.
13 # Then David and his men, [which
were] about six hundred, arose and
departed out of Keilah, and went
whithersoever they could go. And it was
told Saul that David was escaped from
Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
14 And David abode in the wilderness in
strong holds, and remained in a
mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And
Saul sought him every day, but God
delivered him not into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul was come out
to seek his life: and David [was] in
the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
16 # And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and
went to David into the wood, and
strengthened his hand in God.
17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for
the hand of Saul my father shall not
find thee; and thou shalt be king over
Israel, and I shall be next unto thee;
and that also Saul my father knoweth.
18 And they two made a covenant before
the LORD: and David abode in the wood,
and Jonathan went to his house.
19 # Then came up the Ziphites to Saul
to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide
himself with us in strong holds in the
wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which
[is] on the south of Jeshimon?
20 Now therefore, O king, come down
according to all the desire of thy soul
to come down; and our part [shall be]
to deliver him into the king's hand.
21 And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of
the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and
know and see his place where his haunt
is, [and] who hath seen him there: for
it is told me [that] he dealeth very
subtilly.
23 See therefore, and take knowledge of
all the lurking places where he hideth
himself, and come ye again to me with
the certainty, and I will go with you:
and it shall come to pass, if he be in
the land, that I will search him out
throughout all the thousands of Judah.
24 And they arose, and went to Ziph
before Saul: but David and his men
[were] in the wilderness of Maon, in
the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
25 Saul also and his men went to seek
[him]. And they told David: wherefore
he came down into a rock, and abode in
the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul
heard [that], he pursued after David in
the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul went on this side of the
mountain, and David and his men on that
side of the mountain: and David made
haste to get away for fear of Saul; for
Saul and his men compassed David and
his men round about to take them.
27 # But there came a messenger unto
Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for
the Philistines have invaded the land.
28 Wherefore Saul returned from
pursuing after David, and went against
the Philistines: therefore they called
that place Selahammahlekoth.
29 And David went up from thence, and
dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.

CHAPTER 24
1 And it came to pass, when Saul was
returned from following the
Philistines, that it was told him,
saying, Behold, David [is] in the
wilderness of En-gedi.
2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen
men out of all Israel, and went to seek
David and his men upon the rocks of the
wild goats.
3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the
way, where [was] a cave; and Saul went
in to cover his feet: and David and his
men remained in the sides of the cave.
4 And the men of David said unto him,
Behold the day of which the LORD said
unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine
enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest
do to him as it shall seem good unto
thee. Then David arose, and cut off the
skirt of Saul's robe privily.
5 And it came to pass afterward, that
David's heart smote him, because he had
cut off Saul's skirt.
6 And he said unto his men, The LORD
forbid that I should do this thing unto
my master, the LORD'S anointed, to
stretch forth mine hand against him,
seeing he [is] the anointed of the
LORD.
7 So David stayed his servants with
these words, and suffered them not to
rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out
of the cave, and went on [his] way.
8 David also arose afterward, and went
out of the cave, and cried after Saul,
saying, My lord the king. And when Saul
looked behind him, David stooped with
his face to the earth, and bowed
himself.
9 # And David said to Saul, Wherefore
hearest thou men's words, saying,
Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
10 Behold, this day thine eyes have
seen how that the LORD had delivered
thee to day into mine hand in the cave:
and [some] bade [me] kill thee: but
[mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I
will not put forth mine hand against my
lord; for he [is] the LORD'S anointed.
11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see
the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for
in that I cut off the skirt of thy
robe, and killed thee not, know thou
and see that [there is] neither evil
nor transgression in mine hand, and I
have not sinned against thee; yet thou
huntest my soul to take it.
12 The LORD judge between me and thee,
and the LORD avenge me of thee: but
mine hand shall not be upon thee.
13 As saith the proverb of the
ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be
upon thee.
14 After whom is the king of Israel
come out? after whom dost thou pursue?
after a dead dog, after a flea.
15 The LORD therefore be judge, and
judge between me and thee, and see, and
plead my cause, and deliver me out of
thine hand.
16 # And it came to pass, when David
had made an end of speaking these words
unto Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this
thy voice, my son David? And Saul
lifted up his voice, and wept.
17 And he said to David, Thou [art]
more righteous than I: for thou hast
rewarded me good, whereas I have
rewarded thee evil.
18 And thou hast shewed this day how
that thou hast dealt well with me:
forasmuch as when the LORD had
delivered me into thine hand, thou
killedst me not.
19 For if a man find his enemy, will he
let him go well away? wherefore the
LORD reward thee good for that thou
hast done unto me this day.
20 And now, behold, I know well that
thou shalt surely be king, and that the
kingdom of Israel shall be established
in thine hand.
21 Swear now therefore unto me by the
LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my
seed after me, and that thou wilt not
destroy my name out of my father's
house.
22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul
went home; but David and his men gat
them up unto the hold.

CHAPTER 25
1 And Samuel died; and all the
Israelites were gathered together, and
lamented him, and buried him in his
house at Ramah. And David arose, and
went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2 And [there was] a man in Maon, whose
possessions [were] in Carmel; and the
man [was] very great, and he had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats:
and he was shearing his sheep in
Carmel.
3 Now the name of the man [was] Nabal;
and the name of his wife Abigail: and
[she was] a woman of good
understanding, and of a beautiful
countenance: but the man [was] churlish
and evil in his doings; and he [was] of
the house of Caleb.
4 # And David heard in the wilderness
that Nabal did shear his sheep.
5 And David sent out ten young men, and
David said unto the young men, Get you
up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and
greet him in my name:
6 And thus shall ye say to him that
liveth [in prosperity], Peace [be] both
to thee, and peace [be] to thine house,
and peace [be] unto all that thou hast.
7 And now I have heard that thou hast
shearers: now thy shepherds which were
with us, we hurt them not, neither was
there ought missing unto them, all the
while they were in Carmel.
8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew
thee. Wherefore let the young men find
favour in thine eyes: for we come in a
good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever
cometh to thine hand unto thy servants,
and to thy son David.
9 And when David's young men came, they
spake to Nabal according to all those
words in the name of David, and ceased.
10 # And Nabal answered David's
servants, and said, Who [is] David? and
who [is] the son of Jesse? there be
many servants now a days that break
away every man from his master.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my
water, and my flesh that I have killed
for my shearers, and give [it] unto
men, whom I know not whence they [be]?
12 So David's young men turned their
way, and went again, and came and told
him all those sayings.
13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye
on every man his sword. And they girded
on every man his sword; and David also
girded on his sword: and there went up
after David about four hundred men; and
two hundred abode by the stuff.
14 # But one of the young men told
Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold,
David sent messengers out of the
wilderness to salute our master; and he
railed on them.
15 But the men [were] very good unto
us, and we were not hurt, neither
missed we any thing, as long as we were
conversant with them, when we were in
the fields:
16 They were a wall unto us both by
night and day, all the while we were
with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore know and consider what
thou wilt do; for evil is determined
against our master, and against all his
household: for he [is such] a son of
Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to
him.
18 # Then Abigail made haste, and took
two hundred loaves, and two bottles of
wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and
five measures of parched [corn], and an
hundred clusters of raisins, and two
hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them]
on asses.
19 And she said unto her servants, Go
on before me; behold, I come after you.
But she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And it was [so, as] she rode on the
ass, that she came down by the covert
of the hill, and, behold, David and his
men came down against her; and she met
them.
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain
have I kept all that this [fellow] hath
in the wilderness, so that nothing was
missed of all that [pertained] unto
him: and he hath requited me evil for
good.
22 So and more also do God unto the
enemies of David, if I leave of all
that [pertain] to him by the morning
light any that pisseth against the
wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she
hasted, and lighted off the ass, and
fell before David on her face, and
bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon
me, my lord, [upon] me [let this]
iniquity [be]: and let thine handmaid,
I pray thee, speak in thine audience,
and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard
this man of Belial, [even] Nabal: for
as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal
[is] his name, and folly [is] with him:
but I thine handmaid saw not the young
men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
26 Now therefore, my lord, [as] the
LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth,
seeing the LORD hath withholden thee
from coming to [shed] blood, and from
avenging thyself with thine own hand,
now let thine enemies, and they that
seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27 And now this blessing which thine
handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let
it even be given unto the young men
that follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of
thine handmaid: for the LORD will
certainly make my lord a sure house;
because my lord fighteth the battles of
the LORD, and evil hath not been found
in thee [all] thy days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee,
and to seek thy soul: but the soul of
my lord shall be bound in the bundle of
life with the LORD thy God; and the
souls of thine enemies, them shall he
sling out, [as out] of the middle of a
sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when the
LORD shall have done to my lord
according to all the good that he hath
spoken concerning thee, and shall have
appointed thee ruler over Israel;
31 That this shall be no grief unto
thee, nor offence of heart unto my
lord, either that thou hast shed blood
causeless, or that my lord hath avenged
himself: but when the LORD shall have
dealt well with my lord, then remember
thine handmaid.
32 # And David said to Abigail, Blessed
[be] the LORD God of Israel, which sent
thee this day to meet me:
33 And blessed [be] thy advice, and
blessed [be] thou, which hast kept me
this day from coming to [shed] blood,
and from avenging myself with mine own
hand.
34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD God
of Israel liveth, which hath kept me
back from hurting thee, except thou
hadst hasted and come to meet me,
surely there had not been left unto
Nabal by the morning light any that
pisseth against the wall.
35 So David received of her hand [that]
which she had brought him, and said
unto her, Go up in peace to thine
house; see, I have hearkened to thy
voice, and have accepted thy person.
36 # And Abigail came to Nabal; and,
behold, he held a feast in his house,
like the feast of a king; and Nabal's
heart [was] merry within him, for he
[was] very drunken: wherefore she told
him nothing, less or more, until the
morning light.
37 But it came to pass in the morning,
when the wine was gone out of Nabal,
and his wife had told him these things,
that his heart died within him, and he
became [as] a stone.
38 And it came to pass about ten days
[after], that the LORD smote Nabal,
that he died.
39 # And when David heard that Nabal
was dead, he said, Blessed [be] the
LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my
reproach from the hand of Nabal, and
hath kept his servant from evil: for
the LORD hath returned the wickedness
of Nabal upon his own head. And David
sent and communed with Abigail, to take
her to him to wife.
40 And when the servants of David were
come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake
unto her, saying, David sent us unto
thee, to take thee to him to wife.
41 And she arose, and bowed herself on
[her] face to the earth, and said,
Behold, [let] thine handmaid [be] a
servant to wash the feet of the
servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and
rode upon an ass, with five damsels of
hers that went after her; and she went
after the messengers of David, and
became his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel;
and they were also both of them his
wives.
44 # But Saul had given Michal his
daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the
son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.

CHAPTER 26
1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to
Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide
himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which
is] before Jeshimon?
2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the
wilderness of Ziph, having three
thousand chosen men of Israel with him,
to seek David in the wilderness of
Ziph.
3 And Saul pitched in the hill of
Hachilah, which [is] before Jeshimon,
by the way. But David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came
after him into the wilderness.
4 David therefore sent out spies, and
understood that Saul was come in very
deed.
5 # And David arose, and came to the
place where Saul had pitched: and David
beheld the place where Saul lay, and
Abner the son of Ner, the captain of
his host: and Saul lay in the trench,
and the people pitched round about him.
6 Then answered David and said to
Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai
the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab,
saying, Who will go down with me to
Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I
will go down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came to the
people by night: and, behold, Saul lay
sleeping within the trench, and his
spear stuck in the ground at his
bolster: but Abner and the people lay
round about him.
8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath
delivered thine enemy into thine hand
this day: now therefore let me smite
him, I pray thee, with the spear even
to the earth at once, and I will not
[smite] him the second time.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy
him not: for who can stretch forth his
hand against the LORD'S anointed, and
be guiltless?
10 David said furthermore, [As] the
LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him;
or his day shall come to die; or he
shall descend into battle, and perish.
11 The LORD forbid that I should
stretch forth mine hand against the
LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take
thou now the spear that [is] at his
bolster, and the cruse of water, and
let us go.
12 So David took the spear and the
cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and
they gat them away, and no man saw
[it], nor knew [it], neither awaked:
for they [were] all asleep; because a
deep sleep from the LORD was fallen
upon them.
13 # Then David went over to the other
side, and stood on the top of an hill
afar off; a great space [being] between
them:
14 And David cried to the people, and
to Abner the son of Ner, saying,
Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner
answered and said, Who [art] thou
[that] criest to the king?
15 And David said to Abner, [Art] not
thou a [valiant] man? and who [is] like
to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast
thou not kept thy lord the king? for
there came one of the people in to
destroy the king thy lord.
16 This thing [is] not good that thou
hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, ye
[are] worthy to die, because ye have
not kept your master, the LORD'S
anointed. And now see where the king's
spear [is], and the cruse of water that
[was] at his bolster.
17 And Saul knew David's voice, and
said, [Is] this thy voice, my son
David? And David said, [It is] my
voice, my lord, O king.
18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord
thus pursue after his servant? for what
have I done? or what evil [is] in mine
hand?
19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my
lord the king hear the words of his
servant. If the LORD have stirred thee
up against me, let him accept an
offering: but if [they be] the children
of men, cursed [be] they before the
LORD; for they have driven me out this
day from abiding in the inheritance of
the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall
to the earth before the face of the
LORD: for the king of Israel is come
out to seek a flea, as when one doth
hunt a partridge in the mountains.
21 # Then said Saul, I have sinned:
return, my son David: for I will no
more do thee harm, because my soul was
precious in thine eyes this day:
behold, I have played the fool, and
have erred exceedingly.
22 And David answered and said, Behold
the king's spear! and let one of the
young men come over and fetch it.
23 The LORD render to every man his
righteousness and his faithfulness: for
the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand
to day, but I would not stretch forth
mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.
24 And, behold, as thy life was much
set by this day in mine eyes, so let my
life be much set by in the eyes of the
LORD, and let him deliver me out of all
tribulation.
25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed
[be] thou, my son David: thou shalt
both do great [things], and also shalt
still prevail. So David went on his
way, and Saul returned to his place.

CHAPTER 27
1 And David said in his heart, I shall
now perish one day by the hand of Saul:
[there is] nothing better for me than
that I should speedily escape into the
land of the Philistines; and Saul shall
despair of me, to seek me any more in
any coast of Israel: so shall I escape
out of his hand.
2 And David arose, and he passed over
with the six hundred men that [were]
with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch,
king of Gath.
3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath,
he and his men, every man with his
household, [even] David with his two
wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
4 And it was told Saul that David was
fled to Gath: and he sought no more
again for him.
5 # And David said unto Achish, If I
have now found grace in thine eyes, let
them give me a place in some town in
the country, that I may dwell there:
for why should thy servant dwell in the
royal city with thee?
6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day:
wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the
kings of Judah unto this day.
7 And the time that David dwelt in the
country of the Philistines was a full
year and four months.
8 # And David and his men went up, and
invaded the Geshurites, and the
Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those
[nations were] of old the inhabitants
of the land, as thou goest to Shur,
even unto the land of Egypt.
9 And David smote the land, and left
neither man nor woman alive, and took
away the sheep, and the oxen, and the
asses, and the camels, and the apparel,
and returned, and came to Achish.
10 And Achish said, Whither have ye
made a road to day? And David said,
Against the south of Judah, and against
the south of the Jerahmeelites, and
against the south of the Kenites.
11 And David saved neither man nor
woman alive, to bring [tidings] to
Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on
us, saying, So did David, and so [will
be] his manner all the while he
dwelleth in the country of the
Philistines.
12 And Achish believed David, saying,
He hath made his people Israel utterly
to abhor him; therefore he shall be my
servant for ever.

CHAPTER 28
1 And it came to pass in those days,
that the Philistines gathered their
armies together for warfare, to fight
with Israel. And Achish said unto
David, Know thou assuredly, that thou
shalt go out with me to battle, thou
and thy men.
2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou
shalt know what thy servant can do. And
Achish said to David, Therefore will I
make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
3 # Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel
had lamented him, and buried him in
Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul
had put away those that had familiar
spirits, and the wizards, out of the
land.
4 And the Philistines gathered
themselves together, and came and
pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered
all Israel together, and they pitched
in Gilboa.
5 And when Saul saw the host of the
Philistines, he was afraid, and his
heart greatly trembled.
6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD,
the LORD answered him not, neither by
dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
7 # Then said Saul unto his servants,
Seek me a woman that hath a familiar
spirit, that I may go to her, and
enquire of her. And his servants said
to him, Behold, [there is] a woman that
hath a familiar spirit at En-dor.
8 And Saul disguised himself, and put
on other raiment, and he went, and two
men with him, and they came to the
woman by night: and he said, I pray
thee, divine unto me by the familiar
spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I
shall name unto thee.
9 And the woman said unto him, Behold,
thou knowest what Saul hath done, how
he hath cut off those that have
familiar spirits, and the wizards, out
of the land: wherefore then layest thou
a snare for my life, to cause me to
die?
10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD,
saying, [As] the LORD liveth, there
shall no punishment happen to thee for
this thing.
11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I
bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring
me up Samuel.
12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she
cried with a loud voice: and the woman
spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou
deceived me? for thou [art] Saul.
13 And the king said unto her, Be not
afraid: for what sawest thou? And the
woman said unto Saul, I saw gods
ascending out of the earth.
14 And he said unto her, What form [is]
he of? And she said, An old man cometh
up; and he [is] covered with a mantle.
And Saul perceived that it [was]
Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face
to the ground, and bowed himself.
15 # And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast
thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And
Saul answered, I am sore distressed;
for the Philistines make war against
me, and God is departed from me, and
answereth me no more, neither by
prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I
have called thee, that thou mayest make
known unto me what I shall do.
16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then
dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is
departed from thee, and is become thine
enemy?
17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he
spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the
kingdom out of thine hand, and given it
to thy neighbour, [even] to David:
18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice
of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce
wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the
LORD done this thing unto thee this
day.
19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver
Israel with thee into the hand of the
Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou
and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD
also shall deliver the host of Israel
into the hand of the Philistines.
20 Then Saul fell straightway all along
on the earth, and was sore afraid,
because of the words of Samuel: and
there was no strength in him; for he
had eaten no bread all the day, nor all
the night.
21 # And the woman came unto Saul, and
saw that he was sore troubled, and said
unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath
obeyed thy voice, and I have put my
life in my hand, and have hearkened
unto thy words which thou spakest unto
me.
22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken
thou also unto the voice of thine
handmaid, and let me set a morsel of
bread before thee; and eat, that thou
mayest have strength, when thou goest
on thy way.
23 But he refused, and said, I will not
eat. But his servants, together with
the woman, compelled him; and he
hearkened unto their voice. So he arose
from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
24 And the woman had a fat calf in the
house; and she hasted, and killed it,
and took flour, and kneaded [it], and
did bake unleavened bread thereof:
25 And she brought [it] before Saul,
and before his servants; and they did
eat. Then they rose up, and went away
that night.

CHAPTER 29
1 Now the Philistines gathered together
all their armies to Aphek: and the
Israelites pitched by a fountain which
[is] in Jezreel.
2 And the lords of the Philistines
passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands: but David and his men passed
on in the rereward with Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the
Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews
[here]? And Achish said unto the
princes of the Philistines, [Is] not
this David, the servant of Saul the
king of Israel, which hath been with me
these days, or these years, and I have
found no fault in him since he fell
[unto me] unto this day?
4 And the princes of the Philistines
were wroth with him; and the princes of
the Philistines said unto him, Make
this fellow return, that he may go
again to his place which thou hast
appointed him, and let him not go down
with us to battle, lest in the battle
he be an adversary to us: for wherewith
should he reconcile himself unto his
master? [should it] not [be] with the
heads of these men?
5 [Is] not this David, of whom they
sang one to another in dances, saying,
Saul slew his thousands, and David his
ten thousands?
6 # Then Achish called David, and said
unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth,
thou hast been upright, and thy going
out and thy coming in with me in the
host [is] good in my sight: for I have
not found evil in thee since the day of
thy coming unto me unto this day:
nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
7 Wherefore now return, and go in
peace, that thou displease not the
lords of the Philistines.
8 # And David said unto Achish, But
what have I done? and what hast thou
found in thy servant so long as I have
been with thee unto this day, that I
may not go fight against the enemies of
my lord the king?
9 And Achish answered and said to
David, I know that thou [art] good in
my sight, as an angel of God:
notwithstanding the princes of the
Philistines have said, He shall not go
up with us to the battle.
10 Wherefore now rise up early in the
morning with thy master's servants that
are come with thee: and as soon as ye
be up early in the morning, and have
light, depart.
11 So David and his men rose up early
to depart in the morning, to return
into the land of the Philistines. And
the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

CHAPTER 30
1 And it came to pass, when David and
his men were come to Ziklag on the
third day, that the Amalekites had
invaded the south, and Ziklag, and
smitten Ziklag, and burned it with
fire;
2 And had taken the women captives,
that [were] therein: they slew not any,
either great or small, but carried
[them] away, and went on their way.
3 # So David and his men came to the
city, and, behold, [it was] burned with
fire; and their wives, and their sons,
and their daughters, were taken
captives.
4 Then David and the people that [were]
with him lifted up their voice and
wept, until they had no more power to
weep.
5 And David's two wives were taken
captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for
the people spake of stoning him,
because the soul of all the people was
grieved, every man for his sons and for
his daughters: but David encouraged
himself in the LORD his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the
priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee,
bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar
brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David enquired at the LORD,
saying, Shall I pursue after this
troop? shall I overtake them? And he
answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt
surely overtake [them], and without
fail recover [all].
9 So David went, he and the six hundred
men that [were] with him, and came to
the brook Besor, where those that were
left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four
hundred men: for two hundred abode
behind, which were so faint that they
could not go over the brook Besor.
11 # And they found an Egyptian in the
field, and brought him to David, and
gave him bread, and he did eat; and
they made him drink water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake
of figs, and two clusters of raisins:
and when he had eaten, his spirit came
again to him: for he had eaten no
bread, nor drunk [any] water, three
days and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom
[belongest] thou? and whence [art]
thou? And he said, I [am] a young man
of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and
my master left me, because three days
agone I fell sick.
14 We made an invasion [upon] the south
of the Cherethites, and upon [the
coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and
upon the south of Caleb; and we burned
Ziklag with fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou
bring me down 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 down to this company.
16 # And when he had brought him down,
behold, [they were] spread abroad upon
all the earth, eating and drinking, and
dancing, because of all the great spoil
that they had taken out of the land of
the Philistines, and out of the land of
Judah.
17 And David smote them from the
twilight even unto the evening of the
next day: and there escaped not a man
of them, save four hundred young men,
which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the
Amalekites had carried away: and David
rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to
them, neither small nor great, neither
sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor
any [thing] that they had taken to
them: David recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and
the herds, [which] they drave before
those [other] cattle, and said, This
[is] David's spoil.
21 # And David came to the two hundred
men, which were so faint that they
could not follow David, whom they had
made also to abide at the brook Besor:
and they went forth to meet David, and
to meet the people that [were] with
him: and when David came near to the
people, he saluted them.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and
[men] of Belial, of those that went
with David, and said, Because they went
not with us, we will not give them
[ought] of the spoil that we have
recovered, save to every man his wife
and his children, that they may lead
[them] away, and depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so,
my brethren, with that which the LORD
hath given us, who hath preserved us,
and delivered the company that came
against us into our hand.
24 For who will hearken unto you in
this matter? but as his part [is] that
goeth down to the battle, so [shall]
his part [be] that tarrieth by the
stuff: they shall part alike.
25 And it was [so] from that day
forward, that he made it a statute and
an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
26 # And when David came to Ziklag, he
sent of the spoil unto the elders of
Judah, [even] to his friends, saying,
Behold a present for you of the spoil
of the enemies of the LORD;
27 To [them] which [were] in Beth-el,
and to [them] which [were] in south
Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in
Jattir,
28 And to [them] which [were] in Aroer,
and to [them] which [were] in Siphmoth,
and to [them] which [were] in Eshtemoa,
29 And to [them] which [were] in
Rachal, and to [them] which [were] in
the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to
[them] which [were] in the cities of
the Kenites,
30 And to [them] which [were] in
Hormah, and to [them] which [were] in
Chorashan, and to [them] which [were]
in Athach,
31 And to [them] which [were] in
Hebron, and to all the places where
David himself and his men were wont to
haunt.

CHAPTER 31
1 Now the Philistines fought against
Israel: and the men of Israel fled from
before the Philistines, and fell down
slain in mount Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines followed hard
upon Saul and upon his sons; and the
Philistines slew Jonathan, and
Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons.
3 And the battle went sore against
Saul, and the archers hit him; and he
was sore wounded of the archers.
4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer,
Draw thy sword, and thrust me through
therewith; lest these uncircumcised
come and thrust me through, and abuse
me. But his armourbearer would not; for
he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took
a sword, and fell upon it.
5 And when his armourbearer saw that
Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon
his sword, and died with him.
6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and
his armourbearer, and all his men, that
same day together.
7 # And when the men of Israel that
[were] on the other side of the valley,
and [they] that [were] on the other
side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel
fled, and that Saul and his sons were
dead, they forsook the cities, and
fled; and the Philistines came and
dwelt in them.
8 And it came to pass on the morrow,
when the Philistines came to strip the
slain, that they found Saul and his
three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9 And they cut off his head, and
stripped off his armour, and sent into
the land of the Philistines round
about, to publish [it in] the house of
their idols, and among the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house
of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his
body to the wall of Beth-shan.
11 # And when the inhabitants of
Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the
Philistines had done to Saul;
12 All the valiant men arose, and went
all night, and took the body of Saul
and the bodies of his sons from the
wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh,
and burnt them there.
13 And they took their bones, and
buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh,
and fasted seven days.

THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL

OTHERWISE CALLED, THE SECOND BOOK OF
THE KINGS

CHAPTER 1
1 Now it came to pass after the death
of Saul, when David was returned from
the slaughter of the Amalekites, and
David had abode two days in Ziklag;
2 It came even to pass on the third
day, that, behold, a man came out of
the camp from Saul with his clothes
rent, and earth upon his head: and [so]
it was, when he came to David, that he
fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
3 And David said unto him, From whence
comest thou? And he said unto him, Out
of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
4 And David said unto him, How went the
matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he
answered, That the people are fled from
the battle, and many of the people also
are fallen and dead; and Saul and
Jonathan his son are dead also.
5 And David said unto the young man
that told him, How knowest thou that
Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
6 And the young man that told him said,
As I happened by chance upon mount
Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his
spear; and, lo, the chariots and
horsemen followed hard after him.
7 And when he looked behind him, he saw
me, and called unto me. And I answered,
Here [am] I.
8 And he said unto me, Who [art] thou?
And I answered him, I [am] an
Amalekite.
9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray
thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish
is come upon me, because my life [is]
yet whole in me.
10 So I stood upon him, and slew him,
because I was sure that he could not
live after that he was fallen: and I
took the crown that [was] upon his
head, and the bracelet that [was] on
his arm, and have brought them hither
unto my lord.
11 Then David took hold on his clothes,
and rent them; and likewise all the men
that [were] with him:
12 And they mourned, and wept, and
fasted until even, for Saul, and for
Jonathan his son, and for the people of
the LORD, and for the house of Israel;
because they were fallen by the sword.
13 # And David said unto the young man
that told him, Whence [art] thou? And
he answered, I [am] the son of a
stranger, an Amalekite.
14 And David said unto him, How wast
thou not afraid to stretch forth thine
hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
15 And David called one of the young
men, and said, Go near, [and] fall upon
him. And he smote him that he died.
16 And David said unto him, Thy blood
[be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath
testified against thee, saying, I have
slain the LORD'S anointed.
17 # And David lamented with this
lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan
his son:
18 (Also he bade them teach the
children of Judah [the use of] the bow:
behold, [it is] written in the book of
Jasher.)
19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon
thy high places: how are the mighty
fallen!
20 Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it]
not in the streets of Askelon; lest the
daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
triumph.
21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there
be] no dew, neither [let there be]
rain, upon you, nor fields of
offerings: for there the shield of the
mighty is vilely cast away, the shield
of Saul, [as though he had] not [been]
anointed with oil.
22 From the blood of the slain, from
the fat of the mighty, the bow of
Jonathan turned not back, and the sword
of Saul returned not empty.
23 Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and
pleasant in their lives, and in their
death they were not divided: they were
swifter than eagles, they were stronger
than lions.
24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over
Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with
[other] delights, who put on ornaments
of gold upon your apparel.
25 How are the mighty fallen in the
midst of the battle! O Jonathan, [thou
wast] slain in thine high places.
26 I am distressed for thee, my brother
Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been
unto me: thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women.
27 How are the mighty fallen, and the
weapons of war perished!

CHAPTER 2
1 And it came to pass after this, that
David enquired of the LORD, saying,
Shall I go up into any of the cities of
Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go
up. And David said, Whither shall I go
up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
2 So David went up thither, and his two
wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
3 And his men that [were] with him did
David bring up, every man with his
household: and they dwelt in the cities
of Hebron.
4 And the men of Judah came, and there
they anointed David king over the house
of Judah. And they told David, saying,
[That] the men of Jabesh-gilead [were
they] that buried Saul.
5 # And David sent messengers unto the
men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto
them, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD, that
ye have shewed this kindness unto your
lord, [even] unto Saul, and have buried
him.
6 And now the LORD shew kindness and
truth unto you: and I also will requite
you this kindness, because ye have done
this thing.
7 Therefore now let your hands be
strengthened, and be ye valiant: for
your master Saul is dead, and also the
house of Judah have anointed me king
over them.
8 # But Abner the son of Ner, captain
of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the
son of Saul, and brought him over to
Mahanaim;
9 And made him king over Gilead, and
over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel,
and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin,
and over all Israel.
10 Ish-bosheth Saul's son [was] forty
years old when he began to reign over
Israel, and reigned two years. But the
house of Judah followed David.
11 And the time that David was king in
Hebron over the house of Judah was
seven years and six months.
12 # And Abner the son of Ner, and the
servants of Ish-bosheth the son of
Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the
servants of David, went out, and met
together by the pool of Gibeon: and
they sat down, the one on the one side
of the pool, and the other on the other
side of the pool.
14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the
young men now arise, and play before
us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
15 Then there arose and went over by
number twelve of Benjamin, which
[pertained] to Ish-bosheth the son of
Saul, and twelve of the servants of
David.
16 And they caught every one his fellow
by the head, and [thrust] his sword in
his fellow's side; so they fell down
together: wherefore that place was
called Helkath-hazzurim, which [is] in
Gibeon.
17 And there was a very sore battle
that day; and Abner was beaten, and the
men of Israel, before the servants of
David.
18 # And there were three sons of
Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and
Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of
foot as a wild roe.
19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and
in going he turned not to the right
hand nor to the left from following
Abner.
20 Then Abner looked behind him, and
said, [Art] thou Asahel? And he
answered, I [am].
21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee
aside to thy right hand or to thy left,
and lay thee hold on one of the young
men, and take thee his armour. But
Asahel would not turn aside from
following of him.
22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn
thee aside from following me: wherefore
should I smite thee to the ground? how
then should I hold up my face to Joab
thy brother?
23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside:
wherefore Abner with the hinder end of
the spear smote him under the fifth
[rib], that the spear came out behind
him; and he fell down there, and died
in the same place: and it came to pass,
[that] as many as came to the place
where Asahel fell down and died stood
still.
24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after
Abner: and the sun went down when they
were come to the hill of Ammah, that
[lieth] before Giah by the way of the
wilderness of Gibeon.
25 # And the children of Benjamin
gathered themselves together after
Abner, and became one troop, and stood
on the top of an hill.
26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said,
Shall the sword devour for ever?
knowest thou not that it will be
bitterness in the latter end? how long
shall it be then, ere thou bid the
people return from following their
brethren?
27 And Joab said, [As] God liveth,
unless thou hadst spoken, surely then
in the morning the people had gone up
every one from following his brother.
28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the
people stood still, and pursued after
Israel no more, neither fought they any
more.
29 And Abner and his men walked all
that night through the plain, and
passed over Jordan, and went through
all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
30 And Joab returned from following
Abner: and when he had gathered all the
people together, there lacked of
David's servants nineteen men and
Asahel.
31 But the servants of David had
smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's
men, [so that] three hundred and
threescore men died.
32 # And they took up Asahel, and
buried him in the sepulchre of his
father, which [was in] Beth-lehem. And
Joab and his men went all night, and
they came to Hebron at break of day.

CHAPTER 3
1 Now there was long war between the
house of Saul and the house of David:
but David waxed stronger and stronger,
and the house of Saul waxed weaker and
weaker.
2 # And unto David were sons born in
Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail
the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and
the third, Absalom the son of Maacah
the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of
Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the
son of Abital;
5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah
David's wife. These were born to David
in Hebron.
6 # And it came to pass, while there
was war between the house of Saul and
the house of David, that Abner made
himself strong for the house of Saul.
7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name
[was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and
[Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore
hast thou gone in unto my father's
concubine?
8 Then was Abner very wroth for the
words of Ish-bosheth, and said, [Am] I
a dog's head, which against Judah do
shew kindness this day unto the house
of Saul thy father, to his brethren,
and to his friends, and have not
delivered thee into the hand of David,
that thou chargest me to day with a
fault concerning this woman?
9 So do God to Abner, and more also,
except, as the LORD hath sworn to
David, even so I do to him;
10 To translate the kingdom from the
house of Saul, and to set up the throne
of David over Israel and over Judah,
from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
11 And he could not answer Abner a word
again, because he feared him.
12 # And Abner sent messengers to David
on his behalf, saying, Whose [is] the
land? saying [also], Make thy league
with me, and, behold, my hand [shall
be] with thee, to bring about all
Israel unto thee.
13 # And he said, Well; I will make a
league with thee: but one thing I
require of thee, that is, Thou shalt
not see my face, except thou first
bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou
comest to see my face.
14 And David sent messengers to
Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver
[me] my wife Michal, which I espoused
to me for an hundred foreskins of the
Philistines.
15 And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her
from [her] husband, [even] from
Phaltiel the son of Laish.
16 And her husband went with her along
weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then
said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he
returned.
17 # And Abner had communication with
the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought
for David in times past [to be] king
over you:
18 Now then do [it]: for the LORD hath
spoken of David, saying, By the hand of
my servant David I will save my people
Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines, and out of the hand of all
their enemies.
19 And Abner also spake in the ears of
Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak
in the ears of David in Hebron all that
seemed good to Israel, and that seemed
good to the whole house of Benjamin.
20 So Abner came to David to Hebron,
and twenty men with him. And David made
Abner and the men that [were] with him
a feast.
21 And Abner said unto David, I will
arise and go, and will gather all
Israel unto my lord the king, that they
may make a league with thee, and that
thou mayest reign over all that thine
heart desireth. And David sent Abner
away; and he went in peace.
22 # And, behold, the servants of David
and Joab came from [pursuing] a troop,
and brought in a great spoil with them:
but Abner [was] not with David in
Hebron; for he had sent him away, and
he was gone in peace.
23 When Joab and all the host that
[was] with him were come, they told
Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came
to the king, and he hath sent him away,
and he is gone in peace.
24 Then Joab came to the king, and
said, What hast thou done? behold,
Abner came unto thee; why [is] it
[that] thou hast sent him away, and he
is quite gone?
25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner,
that he came to deceive thee, and to
know thy going out and thy coming in,
and to know all that thou doest.
26 And when Joab was come out from
David, he sent messengers after Abner,
which brought him again from the well
of Sirah: but David knew [it] not.
27 And when Abner was returned to
Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate
to speak with him quietly, and smote
him there under the fifth [rib], that
he died, for the blood of Asahel his
brother.
28 # And afterward when David heard
[it], he said, I and my kingdom [are]
guiltless before the LORD for ever from
the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and
on all his father's house; and let
there not fail from the house of Joab
one that hath an issue, or that is a
leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or
that falleth on the sword, or that
lacketh bread.
30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew
Abner, because he had slain their
brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31 # And David said to Joab, and to all
the people that [were] with him, Rend
your clothes, and gird you with
sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And
king David [himself] followed the bier.
32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and
the king lifted up his voice, and wept
at the grave of Abner; and all the
people wept.
33 And the king lamented over Abner,
and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
34 Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy
feet put into fetters: as a man falleth
before wicked men, [so] fellest thou.
And all the people wept again over him.
35 And when all the people came to
cause David to eat meat while it was
yet day, David sware, saying, So do God
to me, and more also, if I taste bread,
or ought else, till the sun be down.
36 And all the people took notice [of
it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever
the king did pleased all the people.
37 For all the people and all Israel
understood that day that it was not of
the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
38 And the king said unto his servants,
Know ye not that there is a prince and
a great man fallen this day in Israel?
39 And I [am] this day weak, though
anointed king; and these men the sons
of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the
LORD shall reward the doer of evil
according to his wickedness.

CHAPTER 4
1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner
was dead in Hebron, his hands were
feeble, and all the Israelites were
troubled.
2 And Saul's son had two men [that
were] captains of bands: the name of
the one [was] Baanah, and the name of
the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a
Beerothite, of the children of
Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was
reckoned to Benjamin:
3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim,
and were sojourners there until this
day.)
4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son
[that was] lame of [his] feet. He was
five years old when the tidings came of
Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and
his nurse took him up, and fled: and it
came to pass, as she made haste to
flee, that he fell, and became lame.
And his name [was] Mephibosheth.
5 And the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went,
and came about the heat of the day to
the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a
bed at noon.
6 And they came thither into the midst
of the house, [as though] they would
have fetched wheat; and they smote him
under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and
Baanah his brother escaped.
7 For when they came into the house, he
lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and
they smote him, and slew him, and
beheaded him, and took his head, and
gat them away through the plain all
night.
8 And they brought the head of
Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and
said to the king, Behold the head of
Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine
enemy, which sought thy life; and the
LORD hath avenged my lord the king this
day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 # And David answered Rechab and
Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said unto them,
[As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed
my soul out of all adversity,
10 When one told me, saying, Behold,
Saul is dead, thinking to have brought
good tidings, I took hold of him, and
slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that
I would have given him a reward for his
tidings:
11 How much more, when wicked men have
slain a righteous person in his own
house upon his bed? shall I not
therefore now require his blood of your
hand, and take you away from the earth?
12 And David commanded his young men,
and they slew them, and cut off their
hands and their feet, and hanged [them]
up over the pool in Hebron. But they
took the head of Ish-bosheth, and
buried [it] in the sepulchre of Abner
in Hebron.

CHAPTER 5
1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to
David unto Hebron, and spake, saying,
Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy
flesh.
2 Also in time past, when Saul was king
over us, thou wast he that leddest out
and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD
said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people
Israel, and thou shalt be a captain
over Israel.
3 So all the elders of Israel came to
the king to Hebron; and king David made
a league with them in Hebron before the
LORD: and they anointed David king over
Israel.
4 # David [was] thirty years old when
he began to reign, [and] he reigned
forty years.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven
years and six months: and in Jerusalem
he reigned thirty and three years over
all Israel and Judah.
6 # And the king and his men went to
Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the
inhabitants of the land: which spake
unto David, saying, Except thou take
away the blind and the lame, thou shalt
not come in hither: thinking, David
cannot come in hither.
7 Nevertheless David took the strong
hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of
David.
8 And David said on that day, Whosoever
getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth
the Jebusites, and the lame and the
blind, [that are] hated of David's
soul, [he shall be chief and captain].
Wherefore they said, The blind and the
lame shall not come into the house.
9 So David dwelt in the fort, and
called it the city of David. And David
built round about from Millo and
inward.
10 And David went on, and grew great,
and the LORD God of hosts [was] with
him.
11 # And Hiram king of Tyre sent
messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and carpenters, and masons: and they
built David an house.
12 And David perceived that the LORD
had established him king over Israel,
and that he had exalted his kingdom for
his people Israel's sake.
13 # And David took [him] more
concubines and wives out of Jerusalem,
after he was come from Hebron: and
there were yet sons and daughters born
to David.
14 And these [be] the names of those
that were born unto him in Jerusalem;
Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and
Solomon,
15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg,
and Japhia,
16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and
Eliphalet.
17 # But when the Philistines heard
that they had anointed David king over
Israel, all the Philistines came up to
seek David; and David heard [of it],
and went down to the hold.
18 The Philistines also came and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
19 And David enquired of the LORD,
saying, Shall I go up to the
Philistines? wilt thou deliver them
into mine hand? And the LORD said unto
David, Go up: for I will doubtless
deliver the Philistines into thine
hand.
20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and
David smote them there, and said, The
LORD hath broken forth upon mine
enemies before me, as the breach of
waters. Therefore he called the name of
that place Baal-perazim.
21 And there they left their images,
and David and his men burned them.
22 # And the Philistines came up yet
again, and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David enquired of the LORD,
he said, Thou shalt not go up; [but]
fetch a compass behind them, and come
upon them over against the mulberry
trees.
24 And let it be, when thou hearest the
sound of a going in the tops of the
mulberry trees, that then thou shalt
bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD
go out before thee, to smite the host
of the Philistines.
25 And David did so, as the LORD had
commanded him; and smote the
Philistines from Geba until thou come
to Gazer.

CHAPTER 6
1 Again, David gathered together all
[the] chosen [men] of Israel, thirty
thousand.
2 And David arose, and went with all
the people that [were] with him from
Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence
the ark of God, whose name is called by
the name of the LORD of hosts that
dwelleth [between] the cherubims.
3 And they set the ark of God upon a
new cart, and brought it out of the
house of Abinadab that [was] in Gibeah:
and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of
Abinadab, drave the new cart.
4 And they brought it out of the house
of Abinadab which [was] at Gibeah,
accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio
went before the ark.
5 And David and all the house of Israel
played before the LORD on all manner of
[instruments made of] fir wood, even on
harps, and on psalteries, and on
timbrels, and on cornets, and on
cymbals.
6 # And when they came to Nachon's
threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth [his
hand] to the ark of God, and took hold
of it; for the oxen shook [it].
7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Uzzah; and God smote him there
for [his] error; and there he died by
the ark of God.
8 And David was displeased, because the
LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and
he called the name of the place
Perez-uzzah to this day.
9 And David was afraid of the LORD that
day, and said, How shall the ark of the
LORD come to me?
10 So David would not remove the ark of
the LORD unto him into the city of
David: but David carried it aside into
the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
11 And the ark of the LORD continued in
the house of Obed-edom the Gittite
three months: and the LORD blessed
Obed-edom, and all his household.
12 # And it was told king David,
saying, The LORD hath blessed the house
of Obed-edom, and all that [pertaineth]
unto him, because of the ark of God. So
David went and brought up the ark of
God from the house of Obed-edom into
the city of David with gladness.
13 And it was [so], that when they that
bare the ark of the LORD had gone six
paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
14 And David danced before the LORD
with all [his] might; and David [was]
girded with a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel
brought up the ark of the LORD with
shouting, and with the sound of the
trumpet.
16 And as the ark of the LORD came into
the city of David, Michal Saul's
daughter looked through a window, and
saw king David leaping and dancing
before the LORD; and she despised him
in her heart.
17 # And they brought in the ark of the
LORD, and set it in his place, in the
midst of the tabernacle that David had
pitched for it: and David offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings before
the LORD.
18 And as soon as David had made an end
of offering burnt offerings and peace
offerings, he blessed the people in the
name of the LORD of hosts.
19 And he dealt among all the people,
[even] among the whole multitude of
Israel, as well to the women as men, to
every one a cake of bread, and a good
piece [of flesh], and a flagon [of
wine]. So all the people departed every
one to his house.
20 # Then David returned to bless his
household. And Michal the daughter of
Saul came out to meet David, and said,
How glorious was the king of Israel to
day, who uncovered himself to day in
the eyes of the handmaids of his
servants, as one of the vain fellows
shamelessly uncovereth himself!
21 And David said unto Michal, [It was]
before the LORD, which chose me before
thy father, and before all his house,
to appoint me ruler over the people of
the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I
play before the LORD.
22 And I will yet be more vile than
thus, and will be base in mine own
sight: and of the maidservants which
thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be
had in honour.
23 Therefore Michal the daughter of
Saul had no child unto the day of her
death.

CHAPTER 7
1 And it came to pass, when the king
sat in his house, and the LORD had
given him rest round about from all his
enemies;
2 That the king said unto Nathan the
prophet, See now, I dwell in an house
of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth
within curtains.
3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do
all that [is] in thine heart; for the
LORD [is] with thee.
4 # And it came to pass that night,
that the word of the LORD came unto
Nathan, saying,
5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus
saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an
house for me to dwell in?
6 Whereas I have not dwelt in [any]
house since the time that I brought up
the children of Israel out of Egypt,
even to this day, but have walked in a
tent and in a tabernacle.
7 In all [the places] wherein I have
walked with all the children of Israel
spake I a word with any of the tribes
of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my
people Israel, saying, Why build ye not
me an house of cedar?
8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto
my servant David, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, I took thee from the
sheepcote, from following the sheep, to
be ruler over my people, over Israel:
9 And I was with thee whithersoever
thou wentest, and have cut off all
thine enemies out of thy sight, and
have made thee a great name, like unto
the name of the great [men] that [are]
in the earth.
10 Moreover I will appoint a place for
my people Israel, and will plant them,
that they may dwell in a place of their
own, and move no more; neither shall
the children of wickedness afflict them
any more, as beforetime,
11 And as since the time that I
commanded judges [to be] over my people
Israel, and have caused thee to rest
from all thine enemies. Also the LORD
telleth thee that he will make thee an
house.
12 # And when thy days be fulfilled,
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,
I will set up thy seed after thee,
which shall proceed out of thy bowels,
and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build an house for my name,
and I will stablish the throne of his
kingdom for ever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall
be my son. If he commit iniquity, I
will chasten him with the rod of men,
and with the stripes of the children of
men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away
from him, as I took [it] from Saul,
whom I put away before thee.
16 And thine house and thy kingdom
shall be established for ever before
thee: thy throne shall be established
for ever.
17 According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so did
Nathan speak unto David.
18 # Then went king David in, and sat
before the LORD, and he said, Who [am]
I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house,
that thou hast brought me hitherto?
19 And this was yet a small thing in
thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast
spoken also of thy servant's house for
a great while to come. And [is] this
the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
20 And what can David say more unto
thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy
servant.
21 For thy word's sake, and according
to thine own heart, hast thou done all
these great things, to make thy servant
know [them].
22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD
God: for [there is] none like thee,
neither [is there any] God beside thee,
according to all that we have heard
with our ears.
23 And what one nation in the earth
[is] like thy people, [even] like
Israel, whom God went to redeem for a
people to himself, and to make him a
name, and to do for you great things
and terrible, for thy land, before thy
people, which thou redeemedst to thee
from Egypt, [from] the nations and
their gods?
24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself
thy people Israel [to be] a people unto
thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art
become their God.
25 And now, O LORD God, the word that
thou hast spoken concerning thy
servant, and concerning his house,
establish [it] for ever, and do as thou
hast said.
26 And let thy name be magnified for
ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is]
the God over Israel: and let the house
of thy servant David be established
before thee.
27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of
Israel, hast revealed to thy servant,
saying, I will build thee an house:
therefore hath thy servant found in his
heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that
God, and thy words be true, and thou
hast promised this goodness unto thy
servant:
29 Therefore now let it please thee to
bless the house of thy servant, that it
may continue for ever before thee: for
thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken [it]: and
with thy blessing let the house of thy
servant be blessed for ever.

CHAPTER 8
1 And after this it came to pass, that
David smote the Philistines, and
subdued them: and David took
Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the
Philistines.
2 And he smote Moab, and measured them
with a line, casting them down to the
ground; even with two lines measured he
to put to death, and with one full line
to keep alive. And [so] the Moabites
became David's servants, [and] brought
gifts.
3 # David smote also Hadadezer, the son
of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to
recover his border at the river
Euphrates.
4 And David took from him a thousand
[chariots], and seven hundred horsemen,
and twenty thousand footmen: and David
houghed all the chariot [horses], but
reserved of them [for] an hundred
chariots.
5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came
to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah,
David slew of the Syrians two and
twenty thousand men.
6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of
Damascus: and the Syrians became
servants to David, [and] brought gifts.
And the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold
that were on the servants of Hadadezer,
and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 And from Betah, and from Berothai,
cities of Hadadezer, king David took
exceeding much brass.
9 # When Toi king of Hamath heard that
David had smitten all the host of
Hadadezer,
10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto
king David, to salute him, and to bless
him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer, and smitten him: for
Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And
[Joram] brought with him vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and
vessels of brass:
11 Which also king David did dedicate
unto the LORD, with the silver and gold
that he had dedicated of all nations
which he subdued;
12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the
children of Ammon, and of the
Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the
spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king
of Zobah.
13 And David gat [him] a name when he
returned from smiting of the Syrians in
the valley of salt, [being] eighteen
thousand [men].
14 # And he put garrisons in Edom;
throughout all Edom put he garrisons,
and all they of Edom became David's
servants. And the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
15 And David reigned over all Israel;
and David executed judgment and justice
unto all his people.
16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was]
over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud [was] recorder;
17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and
Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, [were]
the priests; and Seraiah [was] the
scribe;
18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was
over] both the Cherethites and the
Pelethites; and David's sons were chief
rulers.

CHAPTER 9
1 And David said, Is there yet any that
is left of the house of Saul, that I
may shew him kindness for Jonathan's
sake?
2 And [there was] of the house of Saul
a servant whose name [was] Ziba. And
when they had called him unto David,
the king said unto him, [Art] thou
Ziba? And he said, Thy servant [is he].
3 And the king said, [Is] there not yet
any of the house of Saul, that I may
shew the kindness of God unto him? And
Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath
yet a son, [which is] lame on [his]
feet.
4 And the king said unto him, Where
[is] he? And Ziba said unto the king,
Behold, he [is] in the house of Machir,
the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.
5 # Then king David sent, and fetched
him out of the house of Machir, the son
of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of
Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come
unto David, he fell on his face, and
did reverence. And David said,
Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold
thy servant!
7 # And David said unto him, Fear not:
for I will surely shew thee kindness
for Jonathan thy father's sake, and
will restore thee all the land of Saul
thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at
my table continually.
8 And he bowed himself, and said, What
[is] thy servant, that thou shouldest
look upon such a dead dog as I [am]?
9 # Then the king called to Ziba,
Saul's servant, and said unto him, I
have given unto thy master's son all
that pertained to Saul and to all his
house.
10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and
thy servants, shall till the land for
him, and thou shalt bring in [the
fruits], that thy master's son may have
food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy
master's son shall eat bread alway at
my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and
twenty servants.
11 Then said Ziba unto the king,
According to all that my lord the king
hath commanded his servant, so shall
thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth,
[said the king], he shall eat at my
table, as one of the king's sons.
12 And Mephibosheth had a young son,
whose name [was] Micha. And all that
dwelt in the house of Ziba [were]
servants unto Mephibosheth.
13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem:
for he did eat continually at the
king's table; and was lame on both his
feet.

CHAPTER 10
1 And it came to pass after this, that
the king of the children of Ammon died,
and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
2 Then said David, I will shew kindness
unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his
father shewed kindness unto me. And
David sent to comfort him by the hand
of his servants for his father. And
David's servants came into the land of
the children of Ammon.
3 And the princes of the children of
Ammon said unto Hanun their lord,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour
thy father, that he hath sent
comforters unto thee? hath not David
[rather] sent his servants unto thee,
to search the city, and to spy it out,
and to overthrow it?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David's
servants, and shaved off the one half
of their beards, and cut off their
garments in the middle, [even] to their
buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When they told [it] unto David, he
sent to meet them, because the men were
greatly ashamed: and the king said,
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be
grown, and [then] return.
6 # And when the children of Ammon saw
that they stank before David, the
children of Ammon sent and hired the
Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians
of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and
of king Maacah a thousand men, and of
Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
7 And when David heard of [it], he sent
Joab, and all the host of the mighty
men.
8 And the children of Ammon came out,
and put the battle in array at the
entering in of the gate: and the
Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and
Ish-tob, and Maacah, [were] by
themselves in the field.
9 When Joab saw that the front of the
battle was against him before and
behind, he chose of all the choice
[men] of Israel, and put [them] in
array against the Syrians:
10 And the rest of the people he
delivered into the hand of Abishai his
brother, that he might put [them] in
array against the children of Ammon.
11 And he said, If the Syrians be too
strong for me, then thou shalt help me:
but if the children of Ammon be too
strong for thee, then I will come and
help thee.
12 Be of good courage, and let us play
the men for our people, and for the
cities of our God: and the LORD do that
which seemeth him good.
13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people
that [were] with him, unto the battle
against the Syrians: and they fled
before him.
14 And when the children of Ammon saw
that the Syrians were fled, then fled
they also before Abishai, and entered
into the city. So Joab returned from
the children of Ammon, and came to
Jerusalem.
15 # And when the Syrians saw that they
were smitten before Israel, they
gathered themselves together.
16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out
the Syrians that [were] beyond the
river: and they came to Helam; and
Shobach the captain of the host of
Hadarezer [went] before them.
17 And when it was told David, he
gathered all Israel together, and
passed over Jordan, and came to Helam.
And the Syrians set themselves in array
against David, and fought with him.
18 And the Syrians fled before Israel;
and David slew [the men of] seven
hundred chariots of the Syrians, and
forty thousand horsemen, and smote
Shobach the captain of their host, who
died there.
19 And when all the kings [that were]
servants to Hadarezer saw that they
were smitten before Israel, they made
peace with Israel, and served them. So
the Syrians feared to help the children
of Ammon any more.

CHAPTER 11
1 And it came to pass, after the year
was expired, at the time when kings go
forth [to battle], that David sent
Joab, and his servants with him, and
all Israel; and they destroyed the
children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
2 # And it came to pass in an
eveningtide, that David arose from off
his bed, and walked upon the roof of
the king's house: and from the roof he
saw a woman washing herself; and the
woman [was] very beautiful to look
upon.
3 And David sent and enquired after the
woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this
Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the
wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers, and took
her; and she came in unto him, and he
lay with her; for she was purified from
her uncleanness: and she returned unto
her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and
told David, and said, I [am] with
child.
6 # And David sent to Joab, [saying],
Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab
sent Uriah to David.
7 And when Uriah was come unto him,
David demanded [of him] how Joab did,
and how the people did, and how the war
prospered.
8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to
thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah
departed out of the king's house, and
there followed him a mess [of meat]
from the king.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the
king's house with all the servants of
his lord, and went not down to his
house.
10 And when they had told David,
saying, Uriah went not down unto his
house, David said unto Uriah, Camest
thou not from [thy] journey? why [then]
didst thou not go down unto thine
house?
11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark,
and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents;
and my lord Joab, and the servants of
my lord, are encamped in the open
fields; shall I then go into mine
house, to eat and to drink, and to lie
with my wife? [as] thou livest, and
[as] thy soul liveth, I will not do
this thing.
12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here
to day also, and to morrow I will let
thee depart. So Uriah abode in
Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
13 And when David had called him, he
did eat and drink before him; and he
made him drunk: and at even he went out
to lie on his bed with the servants of
his lord, but went not down to his
house.
14 # And it came to pass in the
morning, that David wrote a letter to
Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of
Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying,
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the
hottest battle, and retire ye from him,
that he may be smitten, and die.
16 And it came to pass, when Joab
observed the city, that he assigned
Uriah unto a place where he knew that
valiant men [were].
17 And the men of the city went out,
and fought with Joab: and there fell
[some] of the people of the servants of
David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18 # Then Joab sent and told David all
the things concerning the war;
19 And charged the messenger, saying,
When thou hast made an end of telling
the matters of the war unto the king,
20 And if so be that the king's wrath
arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore
approached ye so nigh unto the city
when ye did fight? knew ye not that
they would shoot from the wall?
21 Who smote Abimelech the son of
Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a
piece of a millstone upon him from the
wall, that he died in Thebez? why went
ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy
servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
22 # So the messenger went, and came
and shewed David all that Joab had sent
him for.
23 And the messenger said unto David,
Surely the men prevailed against us,
and came out unto us into the field,
and we were upon them even unto the
entering of the gate.
24 And the shooters shot from off the
wall upon thy servants; and [some] of
the king's servants be dead, and thy
servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
25 Then David said unto the messenger,
Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not
this thing displease thee, for the
sword devoureth one as well as another:
make thy battle more strong against the
city, and overthrow it: and encourage
thou him.
26 # And when the wife of Uriah heard
that Uriah her husband was dead, she
mourned for her husband.
27 And when the mourning was past,
David sent and fetched her to his
house, and she became his wife, and
bare him a son. But the thing that
David had done displeased the LORD.

CHAPTER 12
1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David.
And he came unto him, and said unto
him, There were two men in one city;
the one rich, and the other poor.
2 The rich [man] had exceeding many
flocks and herds:
3 But the poor [man] had nothing, save
one little ewe lamb, which he had
bought and nourished up: and it grew up
together with him, and with his
children; it did eat of his own meat,
and drank of his own cup, and lay in
his bosom, and was unto him as a
daughter.
4 And there came a traveller unto the
rich man, and he spared to take of his
own flock and of his own herd, to dress
for the wayfaring man that was come
unto him; but took the poor man's lamb,
and dressed it for the man that was
come to him.
5 And David's anger was greatly kindled
against the man; and he said to Nathan,
[As] the LORD liveth, the man that hath
done this [thing] shall surely die:
6 And he shall restore the lamb
fourfold, because he did this thing,
and because he had no pity.
7 # And Nathan said to David, Thou
[art] the man. Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, I anointed thee king over
Israel, and I delivered thee out of the
hand of Saul;
8 And I gave thee thy master's house,
and thy master's wives into thy bosom,
and gave thee the house of Israel and
of Judah; and if [that had been] too
little, I would moreover have given
unto thee such and such things.
9 Wherefore hast thou despised the
commandment of the LORD, to do evil in
his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the
Hittite with the sword, and hast taken
his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast
slain him with the sword of the
children of Ammon.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never
depart from thine house; because thou
hast despised me, and hast taken the
wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy
wife.
11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
raise up evil against thee out of thine
own house, and I will take thy wives
before thine eyes, and give [them] unto
thy neighbour, and he shall lie with
thy wives in the sight of this sun.
12 For thou didst [it] secretly: but I
will do this thing before all Israel,
and before the sun.
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have
sinned against the LORD. And Nathan
said unto David, The LORD also hath put
away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou
hast given great occasion to the
enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the
child also [that is] born unto thee
shall surely die.
15 # And Nathan departed unto his
house. And the LORD struck the child
that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and
it was very sick.
16 David therefore besought God for the
child; and David fasted, and went in,
and lay all night upon the earth.
17 And the elders of his house arose,
[and went] to him, to raise him up from
the earth: but he would not, neither
did he eat bread with them.
18 And it came to pass on the seventh
day, that the child died. And the
servants of David feared to tell him
that the child was dead: for they said,
Behold, while the child was yet alive,
we spake unto him, and he would not
hearken unto our voice: how will he
then vex himself, if we tell him that
the child is dead?
19 But when David saw that his servants
whispered, David perceived that the
child was dead: therefore David said
unto his servants, Is the child dead?
And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and
washed, and anointed [himself], and
changed his apparel, and came into the
house of the LORD, and worshipped: then
he came to his own house; and when he
required, they set bread before him,
and he did eat.
21 Then said his servants unto him,
What thing [is] this that thou hast
done? thou didst fast and weep for the
child, [while it was] alive; but when
the child was dead, thou didst rise and
eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet
alive, I fasted and wept: for I said,
Who can tell [whether] GOD will be
gracious to me, that the child may
live?
23 But now he is dead, wherefore should
I fast? can I bring him back again? I
shall go to him, but he shall not
return to me.
24 # And David comforted Bath-sheba his
wife, and went in unto her, and lay
with her: and she bare a son, and he
called his name Solomon: and the LORD
loved him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan
the prophet; and he called his name
Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of
the children of Ammon, and took the
royal city.
27 And Joab sent messengers to David,
and said, I have fought against Rabbah,
and have taken the city of waters.
28 Now therefore gather the rest of the
people together, and encamp against the
city, and take it: lest I take the
city, and it be called after my name.
29 And David gathered all the people
together, and went to Rabbah, and
fought against it, and took it.
30 And he took their king's crown from
off his head, the weight whereof [was]
a talent of gold with the precious
stones: and it was [set] on David's
head. And he brought forth the spoil of
the city in great abundance.
31 And he brought forth the people that
[were] therein, and put [them] under
saws, and under harrows of iron, and
under axes of iron, and made them pass
through the brickkiln: and thus did he
unto all the cities of the children of
Ammon. So David and all the people
returned unto Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 13
1 And it came to pass after this, that
Absalom the son of David had a fair
sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and
Amnon the son of David loved her.
2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell
sick for his sister Tamar; for she
[was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it
hard for him to do any thing to her.
3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name
[was] Jonadab, the son of Shimeah
David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a
very subtil man.
4 And he said unto him, Why [art] thou,
[being] the king's son, lean from day
to day? wilt thou not tell me? And
Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my
brother Absalom's sister.
5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee
down on thy bed, and make thyself sick:
and when thy father cometh to see thee,
say unto him, I pray thee, let my
sister Tamar come, and give me meat,
and dress the meat in my sight, that I
may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.
6 # So Amnon lay down, and made himself
sick: and when the king was come to see
him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray
thee, let Tamar my sister come, and
make me a couple of cakes in my sight,
that I may eat at her hand.
7 Then David sent home to Tamar,
saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's
house, and dress him meat.
8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's
house; and he was laid down. And she
took flour, and kneaded [it], and made
cakes in his sight, and did bake the
cakes.
9 And she took a pan, and poured [them]
out before him; but he refused to eat.
And Amnon said, Have out all men from
me. And they went out every man from
him.
10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the
meat into the chamber, that I may eat
of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes
which she had made, and brought [them]
into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
11 And when she had brought [them] unto
him to eat, he took hold of her, and
said unto her, Come lie with me, my
sister.
12 And she answered him, Nay, my
brother, do not force me; for no such
thing ought to be done in Israel: do
not thou this folly.
13 And I, whither shall I cause my
shame to go? and as for thee, thou
shalt be as one of the fools in Israel.
Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto
the king; for he will not withhold me
from thee.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto
her voice: but, being stronger than
she, forced her, and lay with her.
15 # Then Amnon hated her exceedingly;
so that the hatred wherewith he hated
her [was] greater than the love
wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon
said unto her, Arise, be gone.
16 And she said unto him, [There is] no
cause: this evil in sending me away
[is] greater than the other that thou
didst unto me. But he would not hearken
unto her.
17 Then he called his servant that
ministered unto him, and said, Put now
this [woman] out from me, and bolt the
door after her.
18 And [she had] a garment of divers
colours upon her: for with such robes
were the king's daughters [that were]
virgins apparelled. Then his servant
brought her out, and bolted the door
after her.
19 # And Tamar put ashes on her head,
and rent her garment of divers colours
that [was] on her, and laid her hand on
her head, and went on crying.
20 And Absalom her brother said unto
her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with
thee? but hold now thy peace, my
sister: he [is] thy brother; regard not
this thing. So Tamar remained desolate
in her brother Absalom's house.
21 # But when king David heard of all
these things, he was very wroth.
22 And Absalom spake unto his brother
Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom
hated Amnon, because he had forced his
sister Tamar.
23 # And it came to pass after two full
years, that Absalom had sheepshearers
in Baal-hazor, which [is] beside
Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the
king's sons.
24 And Absalom came to the king, and
said, Behold now, thy servant hath
sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech
thee, and his servants go with thy
servant.
25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay,
my son, let us not all now go, lest we
be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed
him: howbeit he would not go, but
blessed him.
26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray
thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.
And the king said unto him, Why should
he go with thee?
27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let
Amnon and all the king's sons go with
him.
28 # Now Absalom had commanded his
servants, saying, Mark ye now when
Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and
when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then
kill him, fear not: have not I
commanded you? be courageous, and be
valiant.
29 And the servants of Absalom did unto
Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then
all the king's sons arose, and every
man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
30 # And it came to pass, while they
were in the way, that tidings came to
David, saying, Absalom hath slain all
the king's sons, and there is not one
of them left.
31 Then the king arose, and tare his
garments, and lay on the earth; and all
his servants stood by with their
clothes rent.
32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah
David's brother, answered and said, Let
not my lord suppose [that] they have
slain all the young men the king's
sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by
the appointment of Absalom this hath
been determined from the day that he
forced his sister Tamar.
33 Now therefore let not my lord the
king take the thing to his heart, to
think that all the king's sons are
dead: for Amnon only is dead.
34 But Absalom fled. And the young man
that kept the watch lifted up his eyes,
and looked, and, behold, there came
much people by the way of the hill side
behind him.
35 And Jonadab said unto the king,
Behold, the king's sons come: as thy
servant said, so it is.
36 And it came to pass, as soon as he
had made an end of speaking, that,
behold, the king's sons came, and
lifted up their voice and wept: and the
king also and all his servants wept
very sore.
37 # But Absalom fled, and went to
Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of
Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son
every day.
38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur,
and was there three years.
39 And [the soul of] king David longed
to go forth unto Absalom: for he was
comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he
was dead.

CHAPTER 14
1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived
that the king's heart [was] toward
Absalom.
2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched
thence a wise woman, and said unto her,
I pray thee, feign thyself to be a
mourner, and put on now mourning
apparel, and anoint not thyself with
oil, but be as a woman that had a long
time mourned for the dead:
3 And come to the king, and speak on
this manner unto him. So Joab put the
words in her mouth.
4 # And when the woman of Tekoah spake
to the king, she fell on her face to
the ground, and did obeisance, and
said, Help, O king.
5 And the king said unto her, What
aileth thee? And she answered, I [am]
indeed a widow woman, and mine husband
is dead.
6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and
they two strove together in the field,
and [there was] none to part them, but
the one smote the other, and slew him.
7 And, behold, the whole family is
risen against thine handmaid, and they
said, Deliver him that smote his
brother, that we may kill him, for the
life of his brother whom he slew; and
we will destroy the heir also: and so
they shall quench my coal which is
left, and shall not leave to my husband
[neither] name nor remainder upon the
earth.
8 And the king said unto the woman, Go
to thine house, and I will give charge
concerning thee.
9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the
king, My lord, O king, the iniquity
[be] on me, and on my father's house:
and the king and his throne [be]
guiltless.
10 And the king said, Whosoever saith
[ought] unto thee, bring him to me, and
he shall not touch thee any more.
11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the
king remember the LORD thy God, that
thou wouldest not suffer the revengers
of blood to destroy any more, lest they
destroy my son. And he said, [As] the
LORD liveth, there shall not one hair
of thy son fall to the earth.
12 Then the woman said, Let thine
handmaid, I pray thee, speak [one] word
unto my lord the king. And he said, Say
on.
13 And the woman said, Wherefore then
hast thou thought such a thing against
the people of God? for the king doth
speak this thing as one which is
faulty, in that the king doth not fetch
home again his banished.
14 For we must needs die, and [are] as
water spilt on the ground, which cannot
be gathered up again; neither doth God
respect [any] person: yet doth he
devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him.
15 Now therefore that I am come to
speak of this thing unto my lord the
king, [it is] because the people have
made me afraid: and thy handmaid said,
I will now speak unto the king; it may
be that the king will perform the
request of his handmaid.
16 For the king will hear, to deliver
his handmaid out of the hand of the man
[that would] destroy me and my son
together out of the inheritance of God.
17 Then thine handmaid said, The word
of my lord the king shall now be
comfortable: for as an angel of God, so
[is] my lord the king to discern good
and bad: therefore the LORD thy God
will be with thee.
18 Then the king answered and said unto
the woman, Hide not from me, I pray
thee, the thing that I shall ask thee.
And the woman said, Let my lord the
king now speak.
19 And the king said, [Is not] the hand
of Joab with thee in all this? And the
woman answered and said, [As] thy soul
liveth, my lord the king, none can turn
to the right hand or to the left from
ought that my lord the king hath
spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade
me, and he put all these words in the
mouth of thine handmaid:
20 To fetch about this form of speech
hath thy servant Joab done this thing:
and my lord [is] wise, according to the
wisdom of an angel of God, to know all
[things] that [are] in the earth.
21 # And the king said unto Joab,
Behold now, I have done this thing: go
therefore, bring the young man Absalom
again.
22 And Joab fell to the ground on his
face, and bowed himself, and thanked
the king: and Joab said, To day thy
servant knoweth that I have found grace
in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that
the king hath fulfilled the request of
his servant.
23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur,
and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
24 And the king said, Let him turn to
his own house, and let him not see my
face. So Absalom returned to his own
house, and saw not the king's face.
25 # But in all Israel there was none
to be so much praised as Absalom for
his beauty: from the sole of his foot
even to the crown of his head there was
no blemish in him.
26 And when he polled his head, (for it
was at every year's end that he polled
[it]: because [the hair] was heavy on
him, therefore he polled it:) he
weighed the hair of his head at two
hundred shekels after the king's
weight.
27 And unto Absalom there were born
three sons, and one daughter, whose
name [was] Tamar: she was a woman of a
fair countenance.
28 # So Absalom dwelt two full years in
Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.
29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to
have sent him to the king; but he would
not come to him: and when he sent again
the second time, he would not come.
30 Therefore he said unto his servants,
See, Joab's field is near mine, and he
hath barley there; go and set it on
fire. And Absalom's servants set the
field on fire.
31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom
unto [his] house, and said unto him,
Wherefore have thy servants set my
field on fire?
32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I
sent unto thee, saying, Come hither,
that I may send thee to the king, to
say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur?
[it had been] good for me [to have
been] there still: now therefore let me
see the king's face; and if there be
[any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.
33 So Joab came to the king, and told
him: and when he had called for
Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed
himself on his face to the ground
before the king: and the king kissed
Absalom.

CHAPTER 15
1 And it came to pass after this, that
Absalom prepared him chariots and
horses, and fifty men to run before
him.
2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood
beside the way of the gate: and it was
[so], that when any man that had a
controversy came to the king for
judgment, then Absalom called unto him,
and said, Of what city [art] thou? And
he said, Thy servant [is] of one of the
tribes of Israel.
3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy
matters [are] good and right; but
[there is] no man [deputed] of the king
to hear thee.
4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were
made judge in the land, that every man
which hath any suit or cause might come
unto me, and I would do him justice!
5 And it was [so], that when any man
came nigh [to him] to do him obeisance,
he put forth his hand, and took him,
and kissed him.
6 And on this manner did Absalom to all
Israel that came to the king for
judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts
of the men of Israel.
7 # And it came to pass after forty
years, that Absalom said unto the king,
I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow,
which I have vowed unto the LORD, in
Hebron.
8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I
abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If
the LORD shall bring me again indeed to
Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.
9 And the king said unto him, Go in
peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
10 # But Absalom sent spies throughout
all the tribes of Israel, saying, As
soon as ye hear the sound of the
trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom
reigneth in Hebron.
11 And with Absalom went two hundred
men out of Jerusalem, [that were]
called; and they went in their
simplicity, and they knew not any
thing.
12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the
Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his
city, [even] from Giloh, while he
offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy
was strong; for the people increased
continually with Absalom.
13 # And there came a messenger to
David, saying, The hearts of the men of
Israel are after Absalom.
14 And David said unto all his servants
that [were] with him at Jerusalem,
Arise, and let us flee; for we shall
not [else] escape from Absalom: make
speed to depart, lest he overtake us
suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and
smite the city with the edge of the
sword.
15 And the king's servants said unto
the king, Behold, thy servants [are
ready to do] whatsoever my lord the
king shall appoint.
16 And the king went forth, and all his
household after him. And the king left
ten women, [which were] concubines, to
keep the house.
17 And the king went forth, and all the
people after him, and tarried in a
place that was far off.
18 And all his servants passed on
beside him; and all the Cherethites,
and all the Pelethites, and all the
Gittites, six hundred men which came
after him from Gath, passed on before
the king.
19 # Then said the king to Ittai the
Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with
us? return to thy place, and abide with
the king: for thou [art] a stranger,
and also an exile.
20 Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday,
should I this day make thee go up and
down with us? seeing I go whither I
may, return thou, and take back thy
brethren: mercy and truth [be] with
thee.
21 And Ittai answered the king, and
said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] my
lord the king liveth, surely in what
place my lord the king shall be,
whether in death or life, even there
also will thy servant be.
22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass
over. And Ittai the Gittite passed
over, and all his men, and all the
little ones that [were] with him.
23 And all the country wept with a loud
voice, and all the people passed over:
the king also himself passed over the
brook Kidron, and all the people passed
over, toward the way of the wilderness.
24 # And lo Zadok also, and all the
Levites [were] with him, bearing the
ark of the covenant of God: and they
set down the ark of God; and Abiathar
went up, until all the people had done
passing out of the city.
25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry
back the ark of God into the city: if I
shall find favour in the eyes of the
LORD, he will bring me again, and shew
me [both] it, and his habitation:
26 But if he thus say, I have no
delight in thee; behold, [here am] I,
let him do to me as seemeth good unto
him.
27 The king said also unto Zadok the
priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return
into the city in peace, and your two
sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and
Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
28 See, I will tarry in the plain of
the wilderness, until there come word
from you to certify me.
29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried
the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and
they tarried there.
30 # And David went up by the ascent of
[mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up,
and had his head covered, and he went
barefoot: and all the people that [was]
with him covered every man his head,
and they went up, weeping as they went
up.
31 # And [one] told David, saying,
Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators
with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I
pray thee, turn the counsel of
Ahithophel into foolishness.
32 # And it came to pass, that [when]
David was come to the top [of the
mount], where he worshipped God,
behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet
him with his coat rent, and earth upon
his head:
33 Unto whom David said, If thou
passest on with me, then thou shalt be
a burden unto me:
34 But if thou return to the city, and
say unto Absalom, I will be thy
servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy
father's servant hitherto, so [will] I
now also [be] thy servant: then mayest
thou for me defeat the counsel of
Ahithophel.
35 And [hast thou] not there with thee
Zadok and Abiathar the priests?
therefore it shall be, [that] what
thing soever thou shalt hear out of the
king's house, thou shalt tell [it] to
Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
36 Behold, [they have] there with them
their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's [son],
and Jonathan Abiathar's [son]; and by
them ye shall send unto me every thing
that ye can hear.
37 So Hushai David's friend came into
the city, and Absalom came into
Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 16
1 And when David was a little past the
top [of the hill], behold, Ziba the
servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a
couple of asses saddled, and upon them
two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an
hundred bunches of raisins, and an
hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle
of wine.
2 And the king said unto Ziba, What
meanest thou by these? And Ziba said,
The asses [be] for the king's household
to ride on; and the bread and summer
fruit for the young men to eat; and the
wine, that such as be faint in the
wilderness may drink.
3 And the king said, And where [is] thy
master's son? And Ziba said unto the
king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem:
for he said, To day shall the house of
Israel restore me the kingdom of my
father.
4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold,
thine [are] all that [pertained] unto
Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly
beseech thee [that] I may find grace in
thy sight, my lord, O king.
5 # And when king David came to
Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man
of the family of the house of Saul,
whose name [was] Shimei, the son of
Gera: he came forth, and cursed still
as he came.
6 And he cast stones at David, and at
all the servants of king David: and all
the people and all the mighty men
[were] on his right hand and on his
left.
7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed,
Come out, come out, thou bloody man,
and thou man of Belial:
8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all
the blood of the house of Saul, in
whose stead thou hast reigned; and the
LORD hath delivered the kingdom into
the hand of Absalom thy son: and,
behold, thou [art taken] in thy
mischief, because thou [art] a bloody
man.
9 # Then said Abishai the son of
Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this
dead dog curse my lord the king? let me
go over, I pray thee, and take off his
head.
10 And the king said, What have I to do
with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let
him curse, because the LORD hath said
unto him, Curse David. Who shall then
say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
11 And David said to Abishai, and to
all his servants, Behold, my son, which
came forth of my bowels, seeketh my
life: how much more now [may this]
Benjamite [do it]? let him alone, and
let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden
him.
12 It may be that the LORD will look on
mine affliction, and that the LORD will
requite me good for his cursing this
day.
13 And as David and his men went by the
way, Shimei went along on the hill's
side over against him, and cursed as he
went, and threw stones at him, and cast
dust.
14 And the king, and all the people
that [were] with him, came weary, and
refreshed themselves there.
15 # And Absalom, and all the people
the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem,
and Ahithophel with him.
16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the
Archite, David's friend, was come unto
Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom,
God save the king, God save the king.
17 And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is]
this thy kindness to thy friend? why
wentest thou not with thy friend?
18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay;
but whom the LORD, and this people, and
all the men of Israel, choose, his will
I be, and with him will I abide.
19 And again, whom should I serve?
[should I] not [serve] in the presence
of his son? as I have served in thy
father's presence, so will I be in thy
presence.
20 # Then said Absalom to Ahithophel,
Give counsel among you what we shall
do.
21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go
in unto thy father's concubines, which
he hath left to keep the house; and all
Israel shall hear that thou art
abhorred of thy father: then shall the
hands of all that [are] with thee be
strong.
22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon
the top of the house; and Absalom went
in unto his father's concubines in the
sight of all Israel.
23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which
he counselled in those days, [was] as
if a man had enquired at the oracle of
God: so [was] all the counsel of
Ahithophel both with David and with
Absalom.

CHAPTER 17
1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto
Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve
thousand men, and I will arise and
pursue after David this night:
2 And I will come upon him while he
[is] weary and weak handed, and will
make him afraid: and all the people
that [are] with him shall flee; and I
will smite the king only:
3 And I will bring back all the people
unto thee: the man whom thou seekest
[is] as if all returned: [so] all the
people shall be in peace.
4 And the saying pleased Absalom well,
and all the elders of Israel.
5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai
the Archite also, and let us hear
likewise what he saith.
6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom,
Absalom spake unto him, saying,
Ahithophel hath spoken after this
manner: shall we do [after] his saying?
if not; speak thou.
7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The
counsel that Ahithophel hath given [is]
not good at this time.
8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy
father and his men, that they [be]
mighty men, and they [be] chafed in
their minds, as a bear robbed of her
whelps in the field: and thy father
[is] a man of war, and will not lodge
with the people.
9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or
in some [other] place: and it will come
to pass, when some of them be
overthrown at the first, that whosoever
heareth it will say, There is a
slaughter among the people that follow
Absalom.
10 And he also [that is] valiant, whose
heart [is] as the heart of a lion,
shall utterly melt: for all Israel
knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty
man, and [they] which [be] with him
[are] valiant men.
11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel
be generally gathered unto thee, from
Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand
that [is] by the sea for multitude; and
that thou go to battle in thine own
person.
12 So shall we come upon him in some
place where he shall be found, and we
will light upon him as the dew falleth
on the ground: and of him and of all
the men that [are] with him there shall
not be left so much as one.
13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a
city, then shall all Israel bring ropes
to that city, and we will draw it into
the river, until there be not one small
stone found there.
14 And Absalom and all the men of
Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the
Archite [is] better than the counsel of
Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed
to defeat the good counsel of
Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD
might bring evil upon Absalom.
15 # Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to
Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did
Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the
elders of Israel; and thus and thus
have I counselled.
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell
David, saying, Lodge not this night in
the plains of the wilderness, but
speedily pass over; lest the king be
swallowed up, and all the people that
[are] with him.
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by
En-rogel; for they might not be seen to
come into the city: and a wench went
and told them; and they went and told
king David.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and
told Absalom: but they went both of
them away quickly, and came to a man's
house in Bahurim, which had a well in
his court; whither they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a
covering over the well's mouth, and
spread ground corn thereon; and the
thing was not known.
20 And when Absalom's servants came to
the woman to the house, they said,
Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And
the woman said unto them, They be gone
over the brook of water. And when they
had sought and could not find [them],
they returned to Jerusalem.
21 And it came to pass, after they were
departed, that they came up out of the
well, and went and told king David, and
said unto David, Arise, and pass
quickly over the water: for thus hath
Ahithophel counselled against you.
22 Then David arose, and all the people
that [were] with him, and they passed
over Jordan: by the morning light there
lacked not one of them that was not
gone over Jordan.
23 # And when Ahithophel saw that his
counsel was not followed, he saddled
[his] ass, and arose, and gat him home
to his house, to his city, and put his
household in order, and hanged himself,
and died, and was buried in the
sepulchre of his father.
24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And
Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all
the men of Israel with him.
25 # And Absalom made Amasa captain of
the host instead of Joab: which Amasa
[was] a man's son, whose name [was]
Ithra an Israelite, that went in to
Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister
to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the
land of Gilead.
27 # And it came to pass, when David
was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the
son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children
of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel
of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the
Gileadite of Rogelim,
28 Brought beds, and basons, and
earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley,
and flour, and parched [corn], and
beans, and lentiles, and parched
[pulse],
29 And honey, and butter, and sheep,
and cheese of kine, for David, and for
the people that [were] with him, to
eat: for they said, The people [is]
hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the
wilderness.

CHAPTER 18
1 And David numbered the people that
[were] with him, and set captains of
thousands and captains of hundreds over
them.
2 And David sent forth a third part of
the people under the hand of Joab, and
a third part under the hand of Abishai
the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and
a third part under the hand of Ittai
the Gittite. And the king said unto the
people, I will surely go forth with you
myself also.
3 But the people answered, Thou shalt
not go forth: for if we flee away, they
will not care for us; neither if half
of us die, will they care for us: but
now [thou art] worth ten thousand of
us: therefore now [it is] better that
thou succour us out of the city.
4 And the king said unto them, What
seemeth you best I will do. And the
king stood by the gate side, and all
the people came out by hundreds and by
thousands.
5 And the king commanded Joab and
Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal]
gently for my sake with the young man,
[even] with Absalom. And all the people
heard when the king gave all the
captains charge concerning Absalom.
6 # So the people went out into the
field against Israel: and the battle
was in the wood of Ephraim;
7 Where the people of Israel were slain
before the servants of David, and there
was there a great slaughter that day of
twenty thousand [men].
8 For the battle was there scattered
over the face of all the country: and
the wood devoured more people that day
than the sword devoured.
9 # And Absalom met the servants of
David. And Absalom rode upon a mule,
and the mule went under the thick
boughs of a great oak, and his head
caught hold of the oak, and he was
taken up between the heaven and the
earth; and the mule that [was] under
him went away.
10 And a certain man saw [it], and told
Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom
hanged in an oak.
11 And Joab said unto the man that told
him, And, behold, thou sawest [him],
and why didst thou not smite him there
to the ground? and I would have given
thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a
girdle.
12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I
should receive a thousand [shekels] of
silver in mine hand, [yet] would I not
put forth mine hand against the king's
son: for in our hearing the king
charged thee and Abishai and Ittai,
saying, Beware that none [touch] the
young man Absalom.
13 Otherwise I should have wrought
falsehood against mine own life: for
there is no matter hid from the king,
and thou thyself wouldest have set
thyself against [me].
14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus
with thee. And he took three darts in
his hand, and thrust them through the
heart of Absalom, while he [was] yet
alive in the midst of the oak.
15 And ten young men that bare Joab's
armour compassed about and smote
Absalom, and slew him.
16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the
people returned from pursuing after
Israel: for Joab held back the people.
17 And they took Absalom, and cast him
into a great pit in the wood, and laid
a very great heap of stones upon him:
and all Israel fled every one to his
tent.
18 # Now Absalom in his lifetime had
taken and reared up for himself a
pillar, which [is] in the king's dale:
for he said, I have no son to keep my
name in remembrance: and he called the
pillar after his own name: and it is
called unto this day, Absalom's place.
19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok,
Let me now run, and bear the king
tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged
him of his enemies.
20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt
not bear tidings this day, but thou
shalt bear tidings another day: but
this day thou shalt bear no tidings,
because the king's son is dead.
21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the
king what thou hast seen. And Cushi
bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok
yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let
me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi.
And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run,
my son, seeing that thou hast no
tidings ready?
23 But howsoever, [said he], let me
run. And he said unto him, Run. Then
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain,
and overran Cushi.
24 And David sat between the two gates:
and the watchman went up to the roof
over the gate unto the wall, and lifted
up his eyes, and looked, and behold a
man running alone.
25 And the watchman cried, and told the
king. And the king said, If he [be]
alone, [there is] tidings in his mouth.
And he came apace, and drew near.
26 And the watchman saw another man
running: and the watchman called unto
the porter, and said, Behold [another]
man running alone. And the king said,
He also bringeth tidings.
27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh
the running of the foremost is like the
running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.
And the king said, He [is] a good man,
and cometh with good tidings.
28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto
the king, All is well. And he fell down
to the earth upon his face before the
king, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD
thy God, which hath delivered up the
men that lifted up their hand against
my lord the king.
29 And the king said, Is the young man
Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered,
When Joab sent the king's servant, and
[me] thy servant, I saw a great tumult,
but I knew not what [it was].
30 And the king said [unto him], Turn
aside, [and] stand here. And he turned
aside, and stood still.
31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi
said, Tidings, my lord the king: for
the LORD hath avenged thee this day of
all them that rose up against thee.
32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the
young man Absalom safe? And Cushi
answered, The enemies of my lord the
king, and all that rise against thee to
do [thee] hurt, be as [that] young man
[is].
33 # And the king was much moved, and
went up to the chamber over the gate,
and wept: and as he went, thus he said,
O my son Absalom, my son, my son
Absalom! would God I had died for thee,
O Absalom, my son, my son!

CHAPTER 19
1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the
king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 And the victory that day was [turned]
into mourning unto all the people: for
the people heard say that day how the
king was grieved for his son.
3 And the people gat them by stealth
that day into the city, as people being
ashamed steal away when they flee in
battle.
4 But the king covered his face, and
the king cried with a loud voice, O my
son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
5 And Joab came into the house to the
king, and said, Thou hast shamed this
day the faces of all thy servants,
which this day have saved thy life, and
the lives of thy sons and of thy
daughters, and the lives of thy wives,
and the lives of thy concubines;
6 In that thou lovest thine enemies,
and hatest thy friends. For thou hast
declared this day, that thou regardest
neither princes nor servants: for this
day I perceive, that if Absalom had
lived, and all we had died this day,
then it had pleased thee well.
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and
speak comfortably unto thy servants:
for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not
forth, there will not tarry one with
thee this night: and that will be worse
unto thee than all the evil that befell
thee from thy youth until now.
8 Then the king arose, and sat in the
gate. And they told unto all the
people, saying, Behold, the king doth
sit in the gate. And all the people
came before the king: for Israel had
fled every man to his tent.
9 # And all the people were at strife
throughout all the tribes of Israel,
saying, The king saved us out of the
hand of our enemies, and he delivered
us out of the hand of the Philistines;
and now he is fled out of the land for
Absalom.
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over
us, is dead in battle. Now therefore
why speak ye not a word of bringing the
king back?
11 # And king David sent to Zadok and
to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak
unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why
are ye the last to bring the king back
to his house? seeing the speech of all
Israel is come to the king, [even] to
his house.
12 Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my
bones and my flesh: wherefore then are
ye the last to bring back the king?
13 And say ye to Amasa, [Art] thou not
of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so
to me, and more also, if thou be not
captain of the host before me
continually in the room of Joab.
14 And he bowed the heart of all the
men of Judah, even as [the heart of]
one man; so that they sent [this word]
unto the king, Return thou, and all thy
servants.
15 So the king returned, and came to
Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go
to meet the king, to conduct the king
over Jordan.
16 # And Shimei the son of Gera, a
Benjamite, which [was] of Bahurim,
hasted and came down with the men of
Judah to meet king David.
17 And [there were] a thousand men of
Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant
of the house of Saul, and his fifteen
sons and his twenty servants with him;
and they went over Jordan before the
king.
18 And there went over a ferry boat to
carry over the king's household, and to
do what he thought good. And Shimei the
son of Gera fell down before the king,
as he was come over Jordan;
19 And said unto the king, Let not my
lord impute iniquity unto me, neither
do thou remember that which thy servant
did perversely the day that my lord the
king went out of Jerusalem, that the
king should take it to his heart.
20 For thy servant doth know that I
have sinned: therefore, behold, I am
come the first this day of all the
house of Joseph to go down to meet my
lord the king.
21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah
answered and said, Shall not Shimei be
put to death for this, because he
cursed the LORD'S anointed?
22 And David said, What have I to do
with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
should this day be adversaries unto me?
shall there any man be put to death
this day in Israel? for do not I know
that I [am] this day king over Israel?
23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei,
Thou shalt not die. And the king sware
unto him.
24 # And Mephibosheth the son of Saul
came down to meet the king, and had
neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed
his beard, nor washed his clothes, from
the day the king departed until the day
he came [again] in peace.
25 And it came to pass, when he was
come to Jerusalem to meet the king,
that the king said unto him, Wherefore
wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my
servant deceived me: for thy servant
said, I will saddle me an ass, that I
may ride thereon, and go to the king;
because thy servant [is] lame.
27 And he hath slandered thy servant
unto my lord the king; but my lord the
king [is] as an angel of God: do
therefore [what is] good in thine eyes.
28 For all [of] my father's house were
but dead men before my lord the king:
yet didst thou set thy servant among
them that did eat at thine own table.
What right therefore have I yet to cry
any more unto the king?
29 And the king said unto him, Why
speakest thou any more of thy matters?
I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the
land.
30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king,
Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my
lord the king is come again in peace
unto his own house.
31 # And Barzillai the Gileadite came
down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan
with the king, to conduct him over
Jordan.
32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man,
[even] fourscore years old: and he had
provided the king of sustenance while
he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very
great man.
33 And the king said unto Barzillai,
Come thou over with me, and I will feed
thee with me in Jerusalem.
34 And Barzillai said unto the king,
How long have I to live, that I should
go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
35 I [am] this day fourscore years old:
[and] can I discern between good and
evil? can thy servant taste what I eat
or what I drink? can I hear any more
the voice of singing men and singing
women? wherefore then should thy
servant be yet a burden unto my lord
the king?
36 Thy servant will go a little way
over Jordan with the king: and why
should the king recompense it me with
such a reward?
37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn
back again, that I may die in mine own
city, [and be buried] by the grave of
my father and of my mother. But behold
thy servant Chimham; let him go over
with my lord the king; and do to him
what shall seem good unto thee.
38 And the king answered, Chimham shall
go over with me, and I will do to him
that which shall seem good unto thee:
and whatsoever thou shalt require of
me, [that] will I do for thee.
39 And all the people went over Jordan.
And when the king was come over, the
king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him;
and he returned unto his own place.
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and
Chimham went on with him: and all the
people of Judah conducted the king, and
also half the people of Israel.
41 # And, behold, all the men of Israel
came to the king, and said unto the
king, Why have our brethren the men of
Judah stolen thee away, and have
brought the king, and his household,
and all David's men with him, over
Jordan?
42 And all the men of Judah answered
the men of Israel, Because the king
[is] near of kin to us: wherefore then
be ye angry for this matter? have we
eaten at all of the king's [cost]? or
hath he given us any gift?
43 And the men of Israel answered the
men of Judah, and said, We have ten
parts in the king, and we have also
more [right] in David than ye: why then
did ye despise us, that our advice
should not be first had in bringing
back our king? And the words of the men
of Judah were fiercer than the words of
the men of Israel.

CHAPTER 20
1 And there happened to be there a man
of Belial, whose name [was] Sheba, the
son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew
a trumpet, and said, We have no part in
David, neither have we inheritance in
the son of Jesse: every man to his
tents, O Israel.
2 So every man of Israel went up from
after David, [and] followed Sheba the
son of Bichri: but the men of Judah
clave unto their king, from Jordan even
to Jerusalem.
3 # And David came to his house at
Jerusalem; and the king took the ten
women [his] concubines, whom he had
left to keep the house, and put them in
ward, and fed them, but went not in
unto them. So they were shut up unto
the day of their death, living in
widowhood.
4 # Then said the king to Amasa,
Assemble me the men of Judah within
three days, and be thou here present.
5 So Amasa went to assemble [the men
of] Judah: but he tarried longer than
the set time which he had appointed
him.
6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall
Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm
than [did] Absalom: take thou thy
lord's servants, and pursue after him,
lest he get him fenced cities, and
escape us.
7 And there went out after him Joab's
men, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and
they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue
after Sheba the son of Bichri.
8 When they [were] at the great stone
which [is] in Gibeon, Amasa went before
them. And Joab's garment that he had
put on was girded unto him, and upon it
a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon
his loins in the sheath thereof; and as
he went forth it fell out.
9 And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in
health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa
by the beard with the right hand to
kiss him.
10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword
that [was] in Joab's hand: so he smote
him therewith in the fifth [rib], and
shed out his bowels to the ground, and
struck him not again; and he died. So
Joab and Abishai his brother pursued
after Sheba the son of Bichri.
11 And one of Joab's men stood by him,
and said, He that favoureth Joab, and
he that [is] for David, [let him go]
after Joab.
12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the
midst of the highway. And when the man
saw that all the people stood still, he
removed Amasa out of the highway into
the field, and cast a cloth upon him,
when he saw that every one that came by
him stood still.
13 When he was removed out of the
highway, all the people went on after
Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
14 # And he went through all the tribes
of Israel unto Abel, and to
Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and
they were gathered together, and went
also after him.
15 And they came and besieged him in
Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up
a bank against the city, and it stood
in the trench: and all the people that
[were] with Joab battered the wall, to
throw it down.
16 # Then cried a wise woman out of the
city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto
Joab, Come near hither, that I may
speak with thee.
17 And when he was come near unto her,
the woman said, [Art] thou Joab? And he
answered, I [am he]. Then she said unto
him, Hear the words of thine handmaid.
And he answered, I do hear.
18 Then she spake, saying, They were
wont to speak in old time, saying, They
shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and
so they ended [the matter].
19 I [am one of them that are]
peaceable [and] faithful in Israel:
thou seekest to destroy a city and a
mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow
up the inheritance of the LORD?
20 And Joab answered and said, Far be
it, far be it from me, that I should
swallow up or destroy.
21 The matter [is] not so: but a man of
mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri
by name, hath lifted up his hand
against the king, [even] against David:
deliver him only, and I will depart
from the city. And the woman said unto
Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown
to thee over the wall.
22 Then the woman went unto all the
people in her wisdom. And they cut off
the head of Sheba the son of Bichri,
and cast [it] out to Joab. And he blew
a trumpet, and they retired from the
city, every man to his tent. And Joab
returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
23 # Now Joab [was] over all the host
of Israel: and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and
over the Pelethites:
24 And Adoram [was] over the tribute:
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was]
recorder:
25 And Sheva [was] scribe: and Zadok
and Abiathar [were] the priests:
26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief
ruler about David.

CHAPTER 21
1 Then there was a famine in the days
of David three years, year after year;
and David enquired of the LORD. And the
LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and
for [his] bloody house, because he slew
the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites,
and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites
[were] not of the children of Israel,
but of the remnant of the Amorites; and
the children of Israel had sworn unto
them: and Saul sought to slay them in
his zeal to the children of Israel and
Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the
Gibeonites, What shall I do for you?
and wherewith shall I make the
atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We
will have no silver nor gold of Saul,
nor of his house; neither for us shalt
thou kill any man in Israel. And he
said, What ye shall say, [that] will I
do for you.
5 And they answered the king, The man
that consumed us, and that devised
against us [that] we should be
destroyed from remaining in any of the
coasts of Israel,
6 Let seven men of his sons be
delivered unto us, and we will hang
them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of
Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And
the king said, I will give [them].
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the
son of Jonathan the son of Saul,
because of the LORD'S oath that [was]
between them, between David and
Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 But the king took the two sons of
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she
bare unto Saul, Armoni and
Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she
brought up for Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the hands
of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them
in the hill before the LORD: and they
fell [all] seven together, and were put
to death in the days of harvest, in the
first [days], in the beginning of
barley harvest.
10 # And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah
took sackcloth, and spread it for her
upon the rock, from the beginning of
harvest until water dropped upon them
out of heaven, and suffered neither the
birds of the air to rest on them by
day, nor the beasts of the field by
night.
11 And it was told David what Rizpah
the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of
Saul, had done.
12 # And David went and took the bones
of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son from the men of Jabesh-gilead,
which had stolen them from the street
of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had
hanged them, when the Philistines had
slain Saul in Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the
bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan
his son; and they gathered the bones of
them that were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan
his son buried they in the country of
Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of
Kish his father: and they performed all
that the king commanded. And after that
God was intreated for the land.
15 # Moreover the Philistines had yet
war again with Israel; and David went
down, and his servants with him, and
fought against the Philistines: and
David waxed faint.
16 And Ishbi-benob, which [was] of the
sons of the giant, the weight of whose
spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels]
of brass in weight, he being girded
with a new [sword], thought to have
slain David.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah
succoured him, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the
men of David sware unto him, saying,
Thou shalt go no more out with us to
battle, that thou quench not the light
of Israel.
18 And it came to pass after this, that
there was again a battle with the
Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the
Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of
the sons of the giant.
19 And there was again a battle in Gob
with the Philistines, where Elhanan the
son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite,
slew [the brother of] Goliath the
Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was]
like a weaver's beam.
20 And there was yet a battle in Gath,
where was a man of [great] stature,
that had on every hand six fingers, and
on every foot six toes, four and twenty
in number; and he also was born to the
giant.
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan
the son of Shimea the brother of David
slew him.
22 These four were born to the giant in
Gath, and fell by the hand of David,
and by the hand of his servants.

CHAPTER 22
1 And David spake unto the LORD the
words of this song in the day [that]
the LORD had delivered him out of the
hand of all his enemies, and out of the
hand of Saul:
2 And he said, The LORD [is] my rock,
and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I
trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn
of my salvation, my high tower, and my
refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from
violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, [who is]
worthy to be praised: so shall I be
saved from mine enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me,
the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell compassed me
about; the snares of death prevented
me;
7 In my distress I called upon the
LORD, and cried to my God: and he did
hear my voice out of his temple, and my
cry [did enter] into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled;
the foundations of heaven moved and
shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came
down; and darkness [was] under his
feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did
fly: and he was seen upon the wings of
the wind.
12 And he made darkness pavilions round
about him, dark waters, [and] thick
clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness before him
were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and
the most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and
scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea
appeared, the foundations of the world
were discovered, at the rebuking of the
LORD, at the blast of the breath of his
nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he
drew me out of many waters;
18 He delivered me from my strong
enemy, [and] from them that hated me:
for they were too strong for me.
19 They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a
large place: he delivered me, because
he delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness: according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the
LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
23 For all his judgments [were] before
me: and [as for] his statutes, I did
not depart from them.
24 I was also upright before him, and
have kept myself from mine iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed
me according to my righteousness;
according to my cleanness in his eye
sight.
26 With the merciful thou wilt shew
thyself merciful, [and] with the
upright man thou wilt shew thyself
upright.
27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself
pure; and with the froward thou wilt
shew thyself unsavoury.
28 And the afflicted people thou wilt
save: but thine eyes [are] upon the
haughty, [that] thou mayest bring
[them] down.
29 For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and
the LORD will lighten my darkness.
30 For by thee I have run through a
troop: by my God have I leaped over a
wall.
31 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect;
the word of the LORD [is] tried: he
[is] a buckler to all them that trust
in him.
32 For who [is] God, save the LORD? and
who [is] a rock, save our God?
33 God [is] my strength [and] power:
and he maketh my way perfect.
34 He maketh my feet like hinds'
[feet]: and setteth me upon my high
places.
35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that
a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
36 Thou hast also given me the shield
of thy salvation: and thy gentleness
hath made me great.
37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under
me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and
destroyed them; and turned not again
until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and
wounded them, that they could not
arise: yea, they are fallen under my
feet.
40 For thou hast girded me with
strength to battle: them that rose up
against me hast thou subdued under me.
41 Thou hast also given me the necks of
mine enemies, that I might destroy them
that hate me.
42 They looked, but [there was] none to
save; [even] unto the LORD, but he
answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the
dust of the earth, I did stamp them as
the mire of the street, [and] did
spread them abroad.
44 Thou also hast delivered me from the
strivings of my people, thou hast kept
me [to be] head of the heathen: a
people [which] I knew not shall serve
me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves
unto me: as soon as they hear, they
shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they
shall be afraid out of their close
places.
47 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my
rock; and exalted be the God of the
rock of my salvation.
48 It [is] God that avengeth me, and
that bringeth down the people under me,
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine
enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on
high above them that rose up against
me: thou hast delivered me from the
violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto
thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I
will sing praises unto thy name.
51 [He is] the tower of salvation for
his king: and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, unto David, and to his seed
for evermore.

CHAPTER 23
1 Now these [be] the last words of
David. David the son of Jesse said, and
the man [who was] raised up on high,
the anointed of the God of Jacob, and
the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me,
and his word [was] in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of
Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over
men [must be] just, ruling in the fear
of God.
4 And [he shall be] as the light of the
morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even]
a morning without clouds; [as] the
tender grass [springing] out of the
earth by clear shining after rain.
5 Although my house [be] not so with
God; yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all
[things], and sure: for [this is] all
my salvation, and all [my] desire,
although he make [it] not to grow.
6 # But [the sons] of Belial [shall be]
all of them as thorns thrust away,
because they cannot be taken with
hands:
7 But the man [that] shall touch them
must be fenced with iron and the staff
of a spear; and they shall be utterly
burned with fire in the [same] place.
8 # These [be] the names of the mighty
men whom David had: The Tachmonite that
sat in the seat, chief among the
captains; the same [was] Adino the
Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against
eight hundred, whom he slew at one
time.
9 And after him [was] Eleazar the son
of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three
mighty men with David, when they defied
the Philistines [that] were there
gathered together to battle, and the
men of Israel were gone away:
10 He arose, and smote the Philistines
until his hand was weary, and his hand
clave unto the sword: and the LORD
wrought a great victory that day; and
the people returned after him only to
spoil.
11 And after him [was] Shammah the son
of Agee the Hararite. And the
Philistines were gathered together into
a troop, where was a piece of ground
full of lentiles: and the people fled
from the Philistines.
12 But he stood in the midst of the
ground, and defended it, and slew the
Philistines: and the LORD wrought a
great victory.
13 And three of the thirty chief went
down, and came to David in the harvest
time unto the cave of Adullam: and the
troop of the Philistines pitched in the
valley of Rephaim.
14 And David [was] then in an hold, and
the garrison of the Philistines [was]
then [in] Beth-lehem.
15 And David longed, and said, Oh that
one would give me drink of the water of
the well of Beth-lehem, which [is] by
the gate!
16 And the three mighty men brake
through the host of the Philistines,
and drew water out of the well of
Beth-lehem, that [was] by the gate, and
took [it], and brought [it] to David:
nevertheless he would not drink
thereof, but poured it out unto the
LORD.
17 And he said, Be it far from me, O
LORD, that I should do this: [is not
this] the blood of the men that went in
jeopardy of their lives? therefore he
would not drink it. These things did
these three mighty men.
18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab,
the son of Zeruiah, was chief among
three. And he lifted up his spear
against three hundred, [and] slew
[them], and had the name among three.
19 Was he not most honourable of three?
therefore he was their captain: howbeit
he attained not unto the [first] three.
20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the
son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who
had done many acts, he slew two
lionlike men of Moab: he went down also
and slew a lion in the midst of a pit
in time of snow:
21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly
man: and the Egyptian had a spear in
his hand; but he went down to him with
a staff, and plucked the spear out of
the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with
his own spear.
22 These [things] did Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada, and had the name among
three mighty men.
23 He was more honourable than the
thirty, but he attained not to the
[first] three. And David set him over
his guard.
24 Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one
of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo
of Beth-lehem,
25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the
Harodite,
26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of
Ikkesh the Tekoite,
27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai
the Hushathite,
28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the
Netophathite,
29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a
Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai
out of Gibeah of the children of
Benjamin,
30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of
the brooks of Gaash,
31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth
the Barhumite,
32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons
of Jashen, Jonathan,
33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son
of Sharar the Hararite,
34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the
son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son
of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the
Arbite,
36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah,
Bani the Gadite,
37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the
Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the
son of Zeruiah,
38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven
in all.

CHAPTER 24
1 And again the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Israel, and he moved
David against them to say, Go, number
Israel and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab the captain
of the host, which [was] with him, Go
now through all the tribes of Israel,
from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number
ye the people, that I may know the
number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the
LORD thy God add unto the people, how
many soever they be, an hundredfold,
and that the eyes of my lord the king
may see [it]: but why doth my lord the
king delight in this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king's word
prevailed against Joab, and against the
captains of the host. And Joab and the
captains of the host went out from the
presence of the king, to number the
people of Israel.
5 # And they passed over Jordan, and
pitched in Aroer, on the right side of
the city that [lieth] in the midst of
the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the
land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to
Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,
7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre,
and to all the cities of the Hivites,
and of the Canaanites: and they went
out to the south of Judah, [even] to
Beer-sheba.
8 So when they had gone through all the
land, they came to Jerusalem at the end
of nine months and twenty days.
9 And Joab gave up the sum of the
number of the people unto the king: and
there were in Israel eight hundred
thousand valiant men that drew the
sword; and the men of Judah [were] five
hundred thousand men.
10 # And David's heart smote him after
that he had numbered the people. And
David said unto the LORD, I have sinned
greatly in that I have done: and now, I
beseech thee, O LORD, take away the
iniquity of thy servant; for I have
done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the
morning, the word of the LORD came unto
the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith
the LORD, I offer thee three [things];
choose thee one of them, that I may [do
it] unto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him,
and said unto him, Shall seven years of
famine come unto thee in thy land? or
wilt thou flee three months before
thine enemies, while they pursue thee?
or that there be three days' pestilence
in thy land? now advise, and see what
answer I shall return to him that sent
me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a
great strait: let us fall now into the
hand of the LORD; for his mercies [are]
great: and let me not fall into the
hand of man.
15 # So the LORD sent a pestilence upon
Israel from the morning even to the
time appointed: and there died of the
people from Dan even to Beer-sheba
seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his
hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the
LORD repented him of the evil, and said
to the angel that destroyed the people,
It is enough: stay now thine hand. And
the angel of the LORD was by the
threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the LORD when
he saw the angel that smote the people,
and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have
done wickedly: but these sheep, what
have they done? let thine hand, I pray
thee, be against me, and against my
father's house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and
said unto him, Go up, rear an altar
unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of
Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying
of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king
and his servants coming on toward him:
and Araunah went out, and bowed himself
before the king on his face upon the
ground.
21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my
lord the king come to his servant? And
David said, To buy the threshingfloor
of thee, to build an altar unto the
LORD, that the plague may be stayed
from the people.
22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my
lord the king take and offer up what
[seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here
be] oxen for burnt sacrifice, and
threshing instruments and [other]
instruments of the oxen for wood.
23 All these [things] did Araunah, [as]
a king, give unto the king. And Araunah
said unto the king, The LORD thy God
accept thee.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay;
but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a
price: neither will I offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD my God of that
which doth cost me nothing. So David
bought the threshingfloor and the oxen
for fifty shekels of silver.
25 And David built there an altar unto
the LORD, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings. So the LORD was
intreated for the land, and the plague
was stayed from Israel.

THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS

COMMONLY CALLED, THE THIRD BOOK OF THE
KINGS

CHAPTER 1
1 Now king David was old [and] stricken
in years; and they covered him with
clothes, but he gat no heat.
2 Wherefore his servants said unto him,
Let there be sought for my lord the
king a young virgin: and let her stand
before the king, and let her cherish
him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that
my lord the king may get heat.
3 So they sought for a fair damsel
throughout all the coasts of Israel,
and found Abishag a Shunammite, and
brought her to the king.
4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and
cherished the king, and ministered to
him: but the king knew her not.
5 # Then Adonijah the son of Haggith
exalted himself, saying, I will be
king: and he prepared him chariots and
horsemen, and fifty men to run before
him.
6 And his father had not displeased him
at any time in saying, Why hast thou
done so? and he also [was a] very
goodly [man]; and [his mother] bare him
after Absalom.
7 And he conferred with Joab the son of
Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest:
and they following Adonijah helped
[him].
8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the
prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the
mighty men which [belonged] to David,
were not with Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and
fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth,
which [is] by En-rogel, and called all
his brethren the king's sons, and all
the men of Judah the king's servants:
10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah,
and the mighty men, and Solomon his
brother, he called not.
11 # Wherefore Nathan spake unto
Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon,
saying, Hast thou not heard that
Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign,
and David our lord knoweth [it] not?
12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray
thee, give thee counsel, that thou
mayest save thine own life, and the
life of thy son Solomon.
13 Go and get thee in unto king David,
and say unto him, Didst not thou, my
lord, O king, swear unto thine
handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy
son shall reign after me, and he shall
sit upon my throne? why then doth
Adonijah reign?
14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there
with the king, I also will come in
after thee, and confirm thy words.
15 # And Bath-sheba went in unto the
king into the chamber: and the king was
very old; and Abishag the Shunammite
ministered unto the king.
16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did
obeisance unto the king. And the king
said, What wouldest thou?
17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou
swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine
handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon
thy son shall reign after me, and he
shall sit upon my throne.
18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth;
and now, my lord the king, thou knowest
[it] not:
19 And he hath slain oxen and fat
cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath
called all the sons of the king, and
Abiathar the priest, and Joab the
captain of the host: but Solomon thy
servant hath he not called.
20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes
of all Israel [are] upon thee, that
thou shouldest tell them who shall sit
on the throne of my lord the king after
him.
21 Otherwise it shall come to pass,
when my lord the king shall sleep with
his fathers, that I and my son Solomon
shall be counted offenders.
22 # And, lo, while she yet talked with
the king, Nathan the prophet also came
in.
23 And they told the king, saying,
Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he
was come in before the king, he bowed
himself before the king with his face
to the ground.
24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king,
hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign
after me, and he shall sit upon my
throne?
25 For he is gone down this day, and
hath slain oxen and fat cattle and
sheep in abundance, and hath called all
the king's sons, and the captains of
the host, and Abiathar the priest; and,
behold, they eat and drink before him,
and say, God save king Adonijah.
26 But me, [even] me thy servant, and
Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon,
hath he not called.
27 Is this thing done by my lord the
king, and thou hast not shewed [it]
unto thy servant, who should sit on the
throne of my lord the king after him?
28 # Then king David answered and said,
Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into
the king's presence, and stood before
the king.
29 And the king sware, and said, [As]
the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my
soul out of all distress,
30 Even as I sware unto thee by the
LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly
Solomon thy son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne in my
stead; even so will I certainly do this
day.
31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with [her]
face to the earth, and did reverence to
the king, and said, Let my lord king
David live for ever.
32 # And king David said, Call me Zadok
the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they
came before the king.
33 The king also said unto them, Take
with you the servants of your lord, and
cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine
own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan
the prophet anoint him there king over
Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet,
and say, God save king Solomon.
35 Then ye shall come up after him,
that he may come and sit upon my
throne; for he shall be king in my
stead: and I have appointed him to be
ruler over Israel and over Judah.
36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
answered the king, and said, Amen: the
LORD God of my lord the king say so
[too].
37 As the LORD hath been with my lord
the king, even so be he with Solomon,
and make his throne greater than the
throne of my lord king David.
38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, went down, and caused
Solomon to ride upon king David's mule,
and brought him to Gihon.
39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of
oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed
Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and
all the people said, God save king
Solomon.
40 And all the people came up after
him, and the people piped with pipes,
and rejoiced with great joy, so that
the earth rent with the sound of them.
41 # And Adonijah and all the guests
that [were] with him heard [it] as they
had made an end of eating. And when
Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he
said, Wherefore [is this] noise of the
city being in an uproar?
42 And while he yet spake, behold,
Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest
came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come
in; for thou [art] a valiant man, and
bringest good tidings.
43 And Jonathan answered and said to
Adonijah, Verily our lord king David
hath made Solomon king.
44 And the king hath sent with him
Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, and they have caused him to
ride upon the king's mule:
45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the
prophet have anointed him king in
Gihon: and they are come up from thence
rejoicing, so that the city rang again.
This [is] the noise that ye have heard.
46 And also Solomon sitteth on the
throne of the kingdom.
47 And moreover the king's servants
came to bless our lord king David,
saying, God make the name of Solomon
better than thy name, and make his
throne greater than thy throne. And the
king bowed himself upon the bed.
48 And also thus said the king, Blessed
[be] the LORD God of Israel, which hath
given [one] to sit on my throne this
day, mine eyes even seeing [it].
49 And all the guests that [were] with
Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and
went every man his way.
50 # And Adonijah feared because of
Solomon, and arose, and went, and
caught hold on the horns of the altar.
51 And it was told Solomon, saying,
Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon:
for, lo, he hath caught hold on the
horns of the altar, saying, Let king
Solomon swear unto me to day that he
will not slay his servant with the
sword.
52 And Solomon said, If he will shew
himself a worthy man, there shall not
an hair of him fall to the earth: but
if wickedness shall be found in him, he
shall die.
53 So king Solomon sent, and they
brought him down from the altar. And he
came and bowed himself to king Solomon:
and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine
house.

CHAPTER 2
1 Now the days of David drew nigh that
he should die; and he charged Solomon
his son, saying,
2 I go the way of all the earth: be
thou strong therefore, and shew thyself
a man;
3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, to keep his
statutes, and his commandments, and his
judgments, and his testimonies, as it
is written in the law of Moses, that
thou mayest prosper in all that thou
doest, and whithersoever thou turnest
thyself:
4 That the LORD may continue his word
which he spake concerning me, saying,
If thy children take heed to their way,
to walk before me in truth with all
their heart and with all their soul,
there shall not fail thee (said he) a
man on the throne of Israel.
5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab
the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and]
what he did to the two captains of the
hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of
Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether,
whom he slew, and shed the blood of war
in peace, and put the blood of war upon
his girdle that [was] about his loins,
and in his shoes that [were] on his
feet.
6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom,
and let not his hoar head go down to
the grave in peace.
7 But shew kindness unto the sons of
Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them
be of those that eat at thy table: for
so they came to me when I fled because
of Absalom thy brother.
8 And, behold, [thou hast] with thee
Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of
Bahurim, which cursed me with a
grievous curse in the day when I went
to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet
me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the
LORD, saying, I will not put thee to
death with the sword.
9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless:
for thou [art] a wise man, and knowest
what thou oughtest to do unto him; but
his hoar head bring thou down to the
grave with blood.
10 So David slept with his fathers, and
was buried in the city of David.
11 And the days that David reigned over
Israel [were] forty years: seven years
reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and
three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
12 # Then sat Solomon upon the throne
of David his father; and his kingdom
was established greatly.
13 # And Adonijah the son of Haggith
came to Bath-sheba the mother of
Solomon. And she said, Comest thou
peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to
say unto thee. And she said, Say on.
15 And he said, Thou knowest that the
kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel
set their faces on me, that I should
reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned
about, and is become my brother's: for
it was his from the LORD.
16 And now I ask one petition of thee,
deny me not. And she said unto him, Say
on.
17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee,
unto Solomon the king, (for he will not
say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag
the Shunammite to wife.
18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will
speak for thee unto the king.
19 # Bath-sheba therefore went unto
king Solomon, to speak unto him for
Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet
her, and bowed himself unto her, and
sat down on his throne, and caused a
seat to be set for the king's mother;
and she sat on his right hand.
20 Then she said, I desire one small
petition of thee; [I pray thee], say me
not nay. And the king said unto her,
Ask on, my mother: for I will not say
thee nay.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the
Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy
brother to wife.
22 And king Solomon answered and said
unto his mother, And why dost thou ask
Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah?
ask for him the kingdom also; for he
[is] mine elder brother; even for him,
and for Abiathar the priest, and for
Joab the son of Zeruiah.
23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD,
saying, God do so to me, and more also,
if Adonijah have not spoken this word
against his own life.
24 Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth,
which hath established me, and set me
on the throne of David my father, and
who hath made me an house, as he
promised, Adonijah shall be put to
death this day.
25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he
fell upon him that he died.
26 # And unto Abiathar the priest said
the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto
thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy
of death: but I will not at this time
put thee to death, because thou barest
the ark of the Lord GOD before David my
father, and because thou hast been
afflicted in all wherein my father was
afflicted.
27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from
being priest unto the LORD; that he
might fulfil the word of the LORD,
which he spake concerning the house of
Eli in Shiloh.
28 # Then tidings came to Joab: for
Joab had turned after Adonijah, though
he turned not after Absalom. And Joab
fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD,
and caught hold on the horns of the
altar.
29 And it was told king Solomon that
Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of
the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the
altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon
him.
30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle
of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus
saith the king, Come forth. And he
said, Nay; but I will die here. And
Benaiah brought the king word again,
saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he
answered me.
31 And the king said unto him, Do as he
hath said, and fall upon him, and bury
him; that thou mayest take away the
innocent blood, which Joab shed, from
me, and from the house of my father.
32 And the LORD shall return his blood
upon his own head, who fell upon two
men more righteous and better than he,
and slew them with the sword, my father
David not knowing [thereof, to wit],
Abner the son of Ner, captain of the
host of Israel, and Amasa the son of
Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
33 Their blood shall therefore return
upon the head of Joab, and upon the
head of his seed for ever: but upon
David, and upon his seed, and upon his
house, and upon his throne, shall there
be peace for ever from the LORD.
34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went
up, and fell upon him, and slew him:
and he was buried in his own house in
the wilderness.
35 And the king put Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada in his room over the host: and
Zadok the priest did the king put in
the room of Abiathar.
36 # And the king sent and called for
Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee
an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there,
and go not forth thence any whither.
37 For it shall be, [that] on the day
thou goest out, and passest over the
brook Kidron, thou shalt know for
certain that thou shalt surely die: thy
blood shall be upon thine own head.
38 And Shimei said unto the king, The
saying [is] good: as my lord the king
hath said, so will thy servant do. And
Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
39 And it came to pass at the end of
three years, that two of the servants
of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of
Maachah king of Gath. And they told
Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants
[be] in Gath.
40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his
ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek
his servants: and Shimei went, and
brought his servants from Gath.
41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei
had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and
was come again.
42 And the king sent and called for
Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not
make thee to swear by the LORD, and
protested unto thee, saying, Know for a
certain, on the day thou goest out, and
walkest abroad any whither, that thou
shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto
me, The word [that] I have heard [is]
good.
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath
of the LORD, and the commandment that I
have charged thee with?
44 The king said moreover to Shimei,
Thou knowest all the wickedness which
thine heart is privy to, that thou
didst to David my father: therefore the
LORD shall return thy wickedness upon
thine own head;
45 And king Solomon [shall be] blessed,
and the throne of David shall be
established before the LORD for ever.
46 So the king commanded Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada; which went out, and
fell upon him, that he died. And the
kingdom was established in the hand of
Solomon.

CHAPTER 3
1 And Solomon made affinity with
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her
into the city of David, until he had
made an end of building his own house,
and the house of the LORD, and the wall
of Jerusalem round about.
2 Only the people sacrificed in high
places, because there was no house
built unto the name of the LORD, until
those days.
3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking
in the statutes of David his father:
only he sacrificed and burnt incense in
high places.
4 And the king went to Gibeon to
sacrifice there; for that [was] the
great high place: a thousand burnt
offerings did Solomon offer upon that
altar.
5 # In Gibeon the LORD appeared to
Solomon in a dream by night: and God
said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed
unto thy servant David my father great
mercy, according as he walked before
thee in truth, and in righteousness,
and in uprightness of heart with thee;
and thou hast kept for him this great
kindness, that thou hast given him a
son to sit on his throne, as [it is]
this day.
7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast
made thy servant king instead of David
my father: and I [am but] a little
child: I know not [how] to go out or
come in.
8 And thy servant [is] in the midst of
thy people which thou hast chosen, a
great people, that cannot be numbered
nor counted for multitude.
9 Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy
people, that I may discern between good
and bad: for who is able to judge this
thy so great a people?
10 And the speech pleased the Lord,
that Solomon had asked this thing.
11 And God said unto him, Because thou
hast asked this thing, and hast not
asked for thyself long life; neither
hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast
asked the life of thine enemies; but
hast asked for thyself understanding to
discern judgment;
12 Behold, I have done according to thy
words: lo, I have given thee a wise and
an understanding heart; so that there
was none like thee before thee, neither
after thee shall any arise like unto
thee.
13 And I have also given thee that
which thou hast not asked, both riches,
and honour: so that there shall not be
any among the kings like unto thee all
thy days.
14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to
keep my statutes and my commandments,
as thy father David did walk, then I
will lengthen thy days.
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it
was] a dream. And he came to Jerusalem,
and stood before the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and offered up
burnt offerings, and offered peace
offerings, and made a feast to all his
servants.
16 # Then came there two women, [that
were] harlots, unto the king, and stood
before him.
17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I
and this woman dwell in one house; and
I was delivered of a child with her in
the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day
after that I was delivered, that this
woman was delivered also: and we [were]
together; [there was] no stranger with
us in the house, save we two in the
house.
19 And this woman's child died in the
night; because she overlaid it.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took
my son from beside me, while thine
handmaid slept, and laid it in her
bosom, and laid her dead child in my
bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to
give my child suck, behold, it was
dead: but when I had considered it in
the morning, behold, it was not my son,
which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but
the living [is] my son, and the dead
[is] thy son. And this said, No; but
the dead [is] thy son, and the living
[is] my son. Thus they spake before the
king.
23 Then said the king, The one saith,
This [is] my son that liveth, and thy
son [is] the dead: and the other saith,
Nay; but thy son [is] the dead, and my
son [is] the living.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword.
And they brought a sword before the
king.
25 And the king said, Divide the living
child in two, and give half to the one,
and half to the other.
26 Then spake the woman whose the
living child [was] unto the king, for
her bowels yearned upon her son, and
she said, O my lord, give her the
living child, and in no wise slay it.
But the other said, Let it be neither
mine nor thine, [but] divide [it].
27 Then the king answered and said,
Give her the living child, and in no
wise slay it: she [is] the mother
thereof.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment
which the king had judged; and they
feared the king: for they saw that the
wisdom of God [was] in him, to do
judgment.

CHAPTER 4
1 So king Solomon was king over all
Israel.
2 And these [were] the princes which he
had; Azariah the son of Zadok the
priest,
3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of
Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of
Ahilud, the recorder.
4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was]
over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar
[were] the priests:
5 And Azariah the son of Nathan [was]
over the officers: and Zabud the son of
Nathan [was] principal officer, [and]
the king's friend:
6 And Ahishar [was] over the household:
and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over
the tribute.
7 # And Solomon had twelve officers
over all Israel, which provided
victuals for the king and his
household: each man his month in a year
made provision.
8 And these [are] their names: The son
of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in
Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and
Elon-beth-hanan:
10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him
[pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of
Hepher:
11 The son of Abinadab, in all the
region of Dor; which had Taphath the
daughter of Solomon to wife:
12 Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him
pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all
Beth-shean, which [is] by Zartanah
beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to
Abel-meholah, [even] unto [the place
that is] beyond Jokneam:
13 The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead;
to him [pertained] the towns of Jair
the son of Manasseh, which [are] in
Gilead; to him [also pertained] the
region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan,
threescore great cities with walls and
brasen bars:
14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had]
Mahanaim:
15 Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also
took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to
wife:
16 Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in
Asher and in Aloth:
17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in
Issachar:
18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
19 Geber the son of Uri [was] in the
country of Gilead, [in] the country of
Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og
king of Bashan; and [he was] the only
officer which [was] in the land.
20 # Judah and Israel [were] many, as
the sand which [is] by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking, and
making merry.
21 And Solomon reigned over all
kingdoms from the river unto the land
of the Philistines, and unto the border
of Egypt: they brought presents, and
served Solomon all the days of his
life.
22 # And Solomon's provision for one
day was thirty measures of fine flour,
and threescore measures of meal,
23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of
the pastures, and an hundred sheep,
beside harts, and roebucks, and
fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
24 For he had dominion over all [the
region] on this side the river, from
Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the
kings on this side the river: and he
had peace on all sides round about him.
25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely,
every man under his vine and under his
fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba,
all the days of Solomon.
26 # And Solomon had forty thousand
stalls of horses for his chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen.
27 And those officers provided victual
for king Solomon, and for all that came
unto king Solomon's table, every man in
his month: they lacked nothing.
28 Barley also and straw for the horses
and dromedaries brought they unto the
place where [the officers] were, every
man according to his charge.
29 # And God gave Solomon wisdom and
understanding exceeding much, and
largeness of heart, even as the sand
that [is] on the sea shore.
30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the
wisdom of all the children of the east
country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
31 For he was wiser than all men; than
Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and
Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol:
and his fame was in all nations round
about.
32 And he spake three thousand
proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
and five.
33 And he spake of trees, from the
cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even
unto the hyssop that springeth out of
the wall: he spake also of beasts, and
of fowl, and of creeping things, and of
fishes.
34 And there came of all people to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings
of the earth, which had heard of his
wisdom.

CHAPTER 5
1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his
servants unto Solomon; for he had heard
that they had anointed him king in the
room of his father: for Hiram was ever
a lover of David.
2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3 Thou knowest how that David my father
could not build an house unto the name
of the LORD his God for the wars which
were about him on every side, until the
LORD put them under the soles of his
feet.
4 But now the LORD my God hath given me
rest on every side, [so that there is]
neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
5 And, behold, I purpose to build an
house unto the name of the LORD my God,
as the LORD spake unto David my father,
saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon
thy throne in thy room, he shall build
an house unto my name.
6 Now therefore command thou that they
hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and
my servants shall be with thy servants:
and unto thee will I give hire for thy
servants according to all that thou
shalt appoint: for thou knowest that
[there is] not among us any that can
skill to hew timber like unto the
Sidonians.
7 # And it came to pass, when Hiram
heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed
[be] the LORD this day, which hath
given unto David a wise son over this
great people.
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I
have considered the things which thou
sentest to me for: [and] I will do all
thy desire concerning timber of cedar,
and concerning timber of fir.
9 My servants shall bring [them] down
from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will
convey them by sea in floats unto the
place that thou shalt appoint me, and
will cause them to be discharged there,
and thou shalt receive [them]: and thou
shalt accomplish my desire, in giving
food for my household.
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees
and fir trees [according to] all his
desire.
11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty
thousand measures of wheat [for] food
to his household, and twenty measures
of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram
year by year.
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as
he promised him: and there was peace
between Hiram and Solomon; and they two
made a league together.
13 # And king Solomon raised a levy out
of all Israel; and the levy was thirty
thousand men.
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten
thousand a month by courses: a month
they were in Lebanon, [and] two months
at home: and Adoniram [was] over the
levy.
15 And Solomon had threescore and ten
thousand that bare burdens, and
fourscore thousand hewers in the
mountains;
16 Beside the chief of Solomon's
officers which [were] over the work,
three thousand and three hundred, which
ruled over the people that wrought in
the work.
17 And the king commanded, and they
brought great stones, costly stones,
[and] hewed stones, to lay the
foundation of the house.
18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's
builders did hew [them], and the
stonesquarers: so they prepared timber
and stones to build the house.

CHAPTER 6
1 And it came to pass in the four
hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the
land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
Solomon's reign over Israel, in the
month Zif, which [is] the second month,
that he began to build the house of the
LORD.
2 And the house which king Solomon
built for the LORD, the length thereof
[was] threescore cubits, and the
breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and
the height thereof thirty cubits.
3 And the porch before the temple of
the house, twenty cubits [was] the
length thereof, according to the
breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits
[was] the breadth thereof before the
house.
4 And for the house he made windows of
narrow lights.
5 # And against the wall of the house
he built chambers round about,
[against] the walls of the house round
about, [both] of the temple and of the
oracle: and he made chambers round
about:
6 The nethermost chamber [was] five
cubits broad, and the middle [was] six
cubits broad, and the third [was] seven
cubits broad: for without [in the wall]
of the house he made narrowed rests
round about, that [the beams] should
not be fastened in the walls of the
house.
7 And the house, when it was in
building, was built of stone made ready
before it was brought thither: so that
there was neither hammer nor axe [nor]
any tool of iron heard in the house,
while it was in building.
8 The door for the middle chamber [was]
in the right side of the house: and
they went up with winding stairs into
the middle [chamber], and out of the
middle into the third.
9 So he built the house, and finished
it; and covered the house with beams
and boards of cedar.
10 And [then] he built chambers against
all the house, five cubits high: and
they rested on the house [with] timber
of cedar.
11 # And the word of the LORD came to
Solomon, saying,
12 [Concerning] this house which thou
art in building, if thou wilt walk in
my statutes, and execute my judgments,
and keep all my commandments to walk in
them; then will I perform my word with
thee, which I spake unto David thy
father:
13 And I will dwell among the children
of Israel, and will not forsake my
people Israel.
14 So Solomon built the house, and
finished it.
15 And he built the walls of the house
within with boards of cedar, both the
floor of the house, and the walls of
the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on
the inside with wood, and covered the
floor of the house with planks of fir.
16 And he built twenty cubits on the
sides of the house, both the floor and
the walls with boards of cedar: he even
built [them] for it within, [even] for
the oracle, [even] for the most holy
[place].
17 And the house, that [is], the temple
before it, was forty cubits [long].
18 And the cedar of the house within
[was] carved with knops and open
flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no
stone seen.
19 And the oracle he prepared in the
house within, to set there the ark of
the covenant of the LORD.
20 And the oracle in the forepart [was]
twenty cubits in length, and twenty
cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in
the height thereof: and he overlaid it
with pure gold; and [so] covered the
altar [which was of] cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within
with pure gold: and he made a partition
by the chains of gold before the
oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
22 And the whole house he overlaid with
gold, until he had finished all the
house: also the whole altar that [was]
by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 # And within the oracle he made two
cherubims [of] olive tree, [each] ten
cubits high.
24 And five cubits [was] the one wing
of the cherub, and five cubits the
other wing of the cherub: from the
uttermost part of the one wing unto the
uttermost part of the other [were] ten
cubits.
25 And the other cherub [was] ten
cubits: both the cherubims [were] of
one measure and one size.
26 The height of the one cherub [was]
ten cubits, and so [was it] of the
other cherub.
27 And he set the cherubims within the
inner house: and they stretched forth
the wings of the cherubims, so that the
wing of the one touched the [one] wall,
and the wing of the other cherub
touched the other wall; and their wings
touched one another in the midst of the
house.
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with
gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the
house round about with carved figures
of cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers, within and without.
30 And the floor of the house he
overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 # And for the entering of the oracle
he made doors [of] olive tree: the
lintel [and] side posts [were] a fifth
part [of the wall].
32 The two doors also [were of] olive
tree; and he carved upon them carvings
of cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold,
and spread gold upon the cherubims, and
upon the palm trees.
33 So also made he for the door of the
temple posts [of] olive tree, a fourth
part [of the wall].
34 And the two doors [were of] fir
tree: the two leaves of the one door
[were] folding, and the two leaves of
the other door [were] folding.
35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims
and palm trees and open flowers: and
covered [them] with gold fitted upon
the carved work.
36 # And he built the inner court with
three rows of hewed stone, and a row of
cedar beams.
37 # In the fourth year was the
foundation of the house of the LORD
laid, in the month Zif:
38 And in the eleventh year, in the
month Bul, which [is] the eighth month,
was the house finished throughout all
the parts thereof, and according to all
the fashion of it. So was he seven
years in building it.

CHAPTER 7
1 But Solomon was building his own
house thirteen years, and he finished
all his house.
2 He built also the house of the forest
of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an
hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof
fifty cubits, and the height thereof
thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar
pillars, with cedar beams upon the
pillars.
3 And [it was] covered with cedar above
upon the beams, that [lay] on forty
five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
4 And [there were] windows [in] three
rows, and light [was] against light
[in] three ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts [were]
square, with the windows: and light
[was] against light [in] three ranks.
6 # And he made a porch of pillars; the
length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and
the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and
the porch [was] before them: and the
[other] pillars and the thick beam
[were] before them.
7 # Then he made a porch for the throne
where he might judge, [even] the porch
of judgment: and [it was] covered with
cedar from one side of the floor to the
other.
8 # And his house where he dwelt [had]
another court within the porch, [which]
was of the like work. Solomon made also
an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom
he had taken [to wife], like unto this
porch.
9 All these [were of] costly stones,
according to the measures of hewed
stones, sawed with saws, within and
without, even from the foundation unto
the coping, and [so] on the outside
toward the great court.
10 And the foundation [was of] costly
stones, even great stones, stones of
ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above [were] costly stones,
after the measures of hewed stones, and
cedars.
12 And the great court round about
[was] with three rows of hewed stones,
and a row of cedar beams, both for the
inner court of the house of the LORD,
and for the porch of the house.
13 # And king Solomon sent and fetched
Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe
of Naphtali, and his father [was] a man
of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was
filled with wisdom, and understanding,
and cunning to work all works in brass.
And he came to king Solomon, and
wrought all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of
eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line
of twelve cubits did compass either of
them about.
16 And he made two chapiters [of]
molten brass, to set upon the tops of
the pillars: the height of the one
chapiter [was] five cubits, and the
height of the other chapiter [was] five
cubits:
17 [And] nets of checker work, and
wreaths of chain work, for the
chapiters which [were] upon the top of
the pillars; seven for the one
chapiter, and seven for the other
chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars, and two
rows round about upon the one network,
to cover the chapiters that [were] upon
the top, with pomegranates: and so did
he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that [were] upon
the top of the pillars [were] of lily
work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two
pillars [had pomegranates] also above,
over against the belly which [was] by
the network: and the pomegranates
[were] two hundred in rows round about
upon the other chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the
porch of the temple: and he set up the
right pillar, and called the name
thereof Jachin: and he set up the left
pillar, and called the name thereof
Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars
[was] lily work: so was the work of the
pillars finished.
23 # And he made a molten sea, ten
cubits from the one brim to the other:
[it was] round all about, and his
height [was] five cubits: and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round
about.
24 And under the brim of it round about
[there were] knops compassing it, ten
in a cubit, compassing the sea round
about: the knops [were] cast in two
rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three
looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three
looking toward the south, and three
looking toward the east: and the sea
[was set] above upon them, and all
their hinder parts [were] inward.
26 And it [was] an hand breadth thick,
and the brim thereof was wrought like
the brim of a cup, with flowers of
lilies: it contained two thousand
baths.
27 # And he made ten bases of brass;
four cubits [was] the length of one
base, and four cubits the breadth
thereof, and three cubits the height of
it.
28 And the work of the bases [was] on
this [manner]: they had borders, and
the borders [were] between the ledges:
29 And on the borders that [were]
between the ledges [were] lions, oxen,
and cherubims: and upon the ledges
[there was] a base above: and beneath
the lions and oxen [were] certain
additions made of thin work.
30 And every base had four brasen
wheels, and plates of brass: and the
four corners thereof had undersetters:
under the laver [were] undersetters
molten, at the side of every addition.
31 And the mouth of it within the
chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but
the mouth thereof [was] round [after]
the work of the base, a cubit and an
half: and also upon the mouth of it
[were] gravings with their borders,
foursquare, not round.
32 And under the borders [were] four
wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels
[were joined] to the base: and the
height of a wheel [was] a cubit and
half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels [was]
like the work of a chariot wheel: their
axletrees, and their naves, and their
felloes, and their spokes, [were] all
molten.
34 And [there were] four undersetters
to the four corners of one base: [and]
the undersetters [were] of the very
base itself.
35 And in the top of the base [was
there] a round compass of half a cubit
high: and on the top of the base the
ledges thereof and the borders thereof
[were] of the same.
36 For on the plates of the ledges
thereof, and on the borders thereof, he
graved cherubims, lions, and palm
trees, according to the proportion of
every one, and additions round about.
37 After this [manner] he made the ten
bases: all of them had one casting, one
measure, [and] one size.
38 # Then made he ten lavers of brass:
one laver contained forty baths: [and]
every laver was four cubits: [and] upon
every one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he put five bases on the right
side of the house, and five on the left
side of the house: and he set the sea
on the right side of the house eastward
over against the south.
40 # And Hiram made the lavers, and the
shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made
an end of doing all the work that he
made king Solomon for the house of the
LORD:
41 The two pillars, and the [two] bowls
of the chapiters that [were] on the top
of the two pillars; and the two
networks, to cover the two bowls of the
chapiters which [were] upon the top of
the pillars;
42 And four hundred pomegranates for
the two networks, [even] two rows of
pomegranates for one network, to cover
the two bowls of the chapiters that
[were] upon the pillars;
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on
the bases;
44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under
the sea;
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and
the basons: and all these vessels,
which Hiram made to king Solomon for
the house of the LORD, [were of] bright
brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king
cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels
[unweighed], because they were
exceeding many: neither was the weight
of the brass found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels
that [pertained] unto the house of the
LORD: the altar of gold, and the table
of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was],
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold,
five on the right [side], and five on
the left, before the oracle, with the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs
[of] gold,
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and
the basons, and the spoons, and the
censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges
[of] gold, [both] for the doors of the
inner house, the most holy [place, and]
for the doors of the house, [to wit],
of the temple.
51 So was ended all the work that king
Solomon made for the house of the LORD.
And Solomon brought in the things which
David his father had dedicated; [even]
the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, did he put among the treasures
of the house of the LORD.

CHAPTER 8
1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of
Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto king Solomon
in Jerusalem, that they might bring up
the ark of the covenant of the LORD out
of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto king Solomon at the
feast in the month Ethanim, which [is]
the seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came,
and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they brought up the ark of the
LORD, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels
that [were] in the tabernacle, even
those did the priests and the Levites
bring up.
5 And king Solomon, and all the
congregation of Israel, that were
assembled unto him, [were] with him
before the ark, sacrificing sheep and
oxen, that could not be told nor
numbered for multitude.
6 And the priests brought in the ark of
the covenant of the LORD unto his
place, into the oracle of the house, to
the most holy [place, even] under the
wings of the cherubims.
7 For the cherubims spread forth
[their] two wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubims covered the ark
and the staves thereof above.
8 And they drew out the staves, that
the ends of the staves were seen out in
the holy [place] before the oracle, and
they were not seen without: and there
they are unto this day.
9 [There was] nothing in the ark save
the two tables of stone, which Moses
put there at Horeb, when the LORD made
[a covenant] with the children of
Israel, when they came out of the land
of Egypt.
10 And it came to pass, when the
priests were come out of the holy
[place], that the cloud filled the
house of the LORD,
11 So that the priests could not stand
to minister because of the cloud: for
the glory of the LORD had filled the
house of the LORD.
12 # Then spake Solomon, The LORD said
that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
13 I have surely built thee an house to
dwell in, a settled place for thee to
abide in for ever.
14 And the king turned his face about,
and blessed all the congregation of
Israel: (and all the congregation of
Israel stood;)
15 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD
God of Israel, which spake with his
mouth unto David my father, and hath
with his hand fulfilled [it], saying,
16 Since the day that I brought forth
my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose
no city out of all the tribes of Israel
to build an house, that my name might
be therein; but I chose David to be
over my people Israel.
17 And it was in the heart of David my
father to build an house for the name
of the LORD God of Israel.
18 And the LORD said unto David my
father, Whereas it was in thine heart
to build an house unto my name, thou
didst well that it was in thine heart.
19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build
the house; but thy son that shall come
forth out of thy loins, he shall build
the house unto my name.
20 And the LORD hath performed his word
that he spake, and I am risen up in the
room of David my father, and sit on the
throne of Israel, as the LORD promised,
and have built an house for the name of
the LORD God of Israel.
21 And I have set there a place for the
ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the
LORD, which he made with our fathers,
when he brought them out of the land of
Egypt.
22 # And Solomon stood before the altar
of the LORD in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands toward heaven:
23 And he said, LORD God of Israel,
[there is] no God like thee, in heaven
above, or on earth beneath, who keepest
covenant and mercy with thy servants
that walk before thee with all their
heart:
24 Who hast kept with thy servant David
my father that thou promisedst him:
thou spakest also with thy mouth, and
hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as
[it is] this day.
25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel,
keep with thy servant David my father
that thou promisedst him, saying, There
shall not fail thee a man in my sight
to sit on the throne of Israel; so that
thy children take heed to their way,
that they walk before me as thou hast
walked before me.
26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy
word, I pray thee, be verified, which
thou spakest unto thy servant David my
father.
27 But will God indeed dwell on the
earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of
heavens cannot contain thee; how much
less this house that I have builded?
28 Yet have thou respect unto the
prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken
unto the cry and to the prayer, which
thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
29 That thine eyes may be open toward
this house night and day, [even] toward
the place of which thou hast said, My
name shall be there: that thou mayest
hearken unto the prayer which thy
servant shall make toward this place.
30 And hearken thou to the supplication
of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, when they shall pray toward
this place: and hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place: and when thou hearest,
forgive.
31 # If any man trespass against his
neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him
to cause him to swear, and the oath
come before thine altar in this house:
32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do,
and judge thy servants, condemning the
wicked, to bring his way upon his head;
and justifying the righteous, to give
him according to his righteousness.
33 # When thy people Israel be smitten
down before the enemy, because they
have sinned against thee, and shall
turn again to thee, and confess thy
name, and pray, and make supplication
unto thee in this house:
34 Then hear thou in heaven, and
forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land
which thou gavest unto their fathers.
35 # When heaven is shut up, and there
is no rain, because they have sinned
against thee; if they pray toward this
place, and confess thy name, and turn
from their sin, when thou afflictest
them:
36 Then hear thou in heaven, and
forgive the sin of thy servants, and of
thy people Israel, that thou teach them
the good way wherein they should walk,
and give rain upon thy land, which thou
hast given to thy people for an
inheritance.
37 # If there be in the land famine, if
there be pestilence, blasting, mildew,
locust, [or] if there be caterpiller;
if their enemy besiege them in the land
of their cities; whatsoever plague,
whatsoever sickness [there be];
38 What prayer and supplication soever
be [made] by any man, [or] by all thy
people Israel, which shall know every
man the plague of his own heart, and
spread forth his hands toward this
house:
39 Then hear thou in heaven thy
dwelling place, and forgive, and do,
and give to every man according to his
ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for
thou, [even] thou only, knowest the
hearts of all the children of men;)
40 That they may fear thee all the days
that they live in the land which thou
gavest unto our fathers.
41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that
[is] not of thy people Israel, but
cometh out of a far country for thy
name's sake;
42 (For they shall hear of thy great
name, and of thy strong hand, and of
thy stretched out arm;) when he shall
come and pray toward this house;
43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place, and do according to all that the
stranger calleth to thee for: that all
people of the earth may know thy name,
to fear thee, as [do] thy people
Israel; and that they may know that
this house, which I have builded, is
called by thy name.
44 # If thy people go out to battle
against their enemy, whithersoever thou
shalt send them, and shall pray unto
the LORD toward the city which thou
hast chosen, and [toward] the house
that I have built for thy name:
45 Then hear thou in heaven their
prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause.
46 If they sin against thee, (for
[there is] no man that sinneth not,)
and thou be angry with them, and
deliver them to the enemy, so that they
carry them away captives unto the land
of the enemy, far or near;
47 [Yet] if they shall bethink
themselves in the land whither they
were carried captives, and repent, and
make supplication unto thee in the land
of them that carried them captives,
saying, We have sinned, and have done
perversely, we have committed
wickedness;
48 And [so] return unto thee with all
their heart, and with all their soul,
in the land of their enemies, which led
them away captive, and pray unto thee
toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their fathers, the city which thou
hast chosen, and the house which I have
built for thy name:
49 Then hear thou their prayer and
their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their
cause,
50 And forgive thy people that have
sinned against thee, and all their
transgressions wherein they have
transgressed against thee, and give
them compassion before them who carried
them captive, that they may have
compassion on them:
51 For they [be] thy people, and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of
the furnace of iron:
52 That thine eyes may be open unto the
supplication of thy servant, and unto
the supplication of thy people Israel,
to hearken unto them in all that they
call for unto thee.
53 For thou didst separate them from
among all the people of the earth, [to
be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest
by the hand of Moses thy servant, when
thou broughtest our fathers out of
Egypt, O Lord GOD.
54 And it was [so], that when Solomon
had made an end of praying all this
prayer and supplication unto the LORD,
he arose from before the altar of the
LORD, from kneeling on his knees with
his hands spread up to heaven.
55 And he stood, and blessed all the
congregation of Israel with a loud
voice, saying,
56 Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath
given rest unto his people Israel,
according to all that he promised:
there hath not failed one word of all
his good promise, which he promised by
the hand of Moses his servant.
57 The LORD our God be with us, as he
was with our fathers: let him not leave
us, nor forsake us:
58 That he may incline our hearts unto
him, to walk in all his ways, and to
keep his commandments, and his
statutes, and his judgments, which he
commanded our fathers.
59 And let these my words, wherewith I
have made supplication before the LORD,
be nigh unto the LORD our God day and
night, that he maintain the cause of
his servant, and the cause of his
people Israel at all times, as the
matter shall require:
60 That all the people of the earth may
know that the LORD [is] God, [and that
there is] none else.
61 Let your heart therefore be perfect
with the LORD our God, to walk in his
statutes, and to keep his commandments,
as at this day.
62 # And the king, and all Israel with
him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of
peace offerings, which he offered unto
the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen,
and an hundred and twenty thousand
sheep. So the king and all the children
of Israel dedicated the house of the
LORD.
64 The same day did the king hallow the
middle of the court that [was] before
the house of the LORD: for there he
offered burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings: because the brasen altar
that [was] before the LORD [was] too
little to receive the burnt offerings,
and meat offerings, and the fat of the
peace offerings.
65 And at that time Solomon held a
feast, and all Israel with him, a great
congregation, from the entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before
the LORD our God, seven days and seven
days, [even] fourteen days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people
away: and they blessed the king, and
went unto their tents joyful and glad
of heart for all the goodness that the
LORD had done for David his servant,
and for Israel his people.

CHAPTER 9
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had
finished the building of the house of
the LORD, and the king's house, and all
Solomon's desire which he was pleased
to do,
2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the
second time, as he had appeared unto
him at Gibeon.
3 And the LORD said unto him, I have
heard thy prayer and thy supplication,
that thou hast made before me: I have
hallowed this house, which thou hast
built, to put my name there for ever;
and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.
4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as
David thy father walked, in integrity
of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded
thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and
my judgments:
5 Then I will establish the throne of
thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I
promised to David thy father, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man upon
the throne of Israel.
6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from
following me, ye or your children, and
will not keep my commandments [and] my
statutes which I have set before you,
but go and serve other gods, and
worship them:
7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the
land which I have given them; and this
house, which I have hallowed for my
name, will I cast out of my sight; and
Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
8 And at this house, [which] is high,
every one that passeth by it shall be
astonished, and shall hiss; and they
shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus
unto this land, and to this house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they
forsook the LORD their God, who brought
forth their fathers out of the land of
Egypt, and have taken hold upon other
gods, and have worshipped them, and
served them: therefore hath the LORD
brought upon them all this evil.
10 # And it came to pass at the end of
twenty years, when Solomon had built
the two houses, the house of the LORD,
and the king's house,
11 ([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had
furnished Solomon with cedar trees and
fir trees, and with gold, according to
all his desire,) that then king Solomon
gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of
Galilee.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see
the cities which Solomon had given him;
and they pleased him not.
13 And he said, What cities [are] these
which thou hast given me, my brother?
And he called them the land of Cabul
unto this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore
talents of gold.
15 # And this [is] the reason of the
levy which king Solomon raised; for to
build the house of the LORD, and his
own house, and Millo, and the wall of
Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and
Gezer.
16 [For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone
up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with
fire, and slain the Canaanites that
dwelt in the city, and given it [for] a
present unto his daughter, Solomon's
wife.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and
Beth-horon the nether,
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the
wilderness, in the land,
19 And all the cities of store that
Solomon had, and cities for his
chariots, and cities for his horsemen,
and that which Solomon desired to build
in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in
all the land of his dominion.
20 [And] all the people [that were]
left of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,
which [were] not of the children of
Israel,
21 Their children that were left after
them in the land, whom the children of
Israel also were not able utterly to
destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a
tribute of bondservice unto this day.
22 But of the children of Israel did
Solomon make no bondmen: but they
[were] men of war, and his servants,
and his princes, and his captains, and
rulers of his chariots, and his
horsemen.
23 These [were] the chief of the
officers that [were] over Solomon's
work, five hundred and fifty, which
bare rule over the people that wrought
in the work.
24 # But Pharaoh's daughter came up out
of the city of David unto her house
which [Solomon] had built for her: then
did he build Millo.
25 # And three times in a year did
Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace
offerings upon the altar which he built
unto the LORD, and he burnt incense
upon the altar that [was] before the
LORD. So he finished the house.
26 # And king Solomon made a navy of
ships in Ezion-geber, which [is] beside
Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in
the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his
servants, shipmen that had knowledge of
the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched
from thence gold, four hundred and
twenty talents, and brought [it] to
king Solomon.

CHAPTER 10
1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of
the fame of Solomon concerning the name
of the LORD, she came to prove him with
hard questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very
great train, with camels that bare
spices, and very much gold, and
precious stones: and when she was come
to Solomon, she communed with him of
all that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon told her all her
questions: there was not [any] thing
hid from the king, which he told her
not.
4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen
all Solomon's wisdom, and the house
that he had built,
5 And the meat of his table, and the
sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their
apparel, and his cupbearers, and his
ascent by which he went up unto the
house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
6 And she said to the king, It was a
true report that I heard in mine own
land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
7 Howbeit I believed not the words,
until I came, and mine eyes had seen
[it]: and, behold, the half was not
told me: thy wisdom and prosperity
exceedeth the fame which I heard.
8 Happy [are] thy men, happy [are]
these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, [and] that
hear thy wisdom.
9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which
delighted in thee, to set thee on the
throne of Israel: because the LORD
loved Israel for ever, therefore made
he thee king, to do judgment and
justice.
10 And she gave the king an hundred and
twenty talents of gold, and of spices
very great store, and precious stones:
there came no more such abundance of
spices as these which the queen of
Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11 And the navy also of Hiram, that
brought gold from Ophir, brought in
from Ophir great plenty of almug trees,
and precious stones.
12 And the king made of the almug trees
pillars for the house of the LORD, and
for the king's house, harps also and
psalteries for singers: there came no
such almug trees, nor were seen unto
this day.
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen
of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she
asked, beside [that] which Solomon gave
her of his royal bounty. So she turned
and went to her own country, she and
her servants.
14 # Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred
threescore and six talents of gold,
15 Beside [that he had] of the
merchantmen, and of the traffick of the
spice merchants, and of all the kings
of Arabia, and of the governors of the
country.
16 # And king Solomon made two hundred
targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred
[shekels] of gold went to one target.
17 And [he made] three hundred shields
[of] beaten gold; three pound of gold
went to one shield: and the king put
them in the house of the forest of
Lebanon.
18 # Moreover the king made a great
throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
the best gold.
19 The throne had six steps, and the
top of the throne [was] round behind:
and [there were] stays on either side
on the place of the seat, and two lions
stood beside the stays.
20 And twelve lions stood there on the
one side and on the other upon the six
steps: there was not the like made in
any kingdom.
21 # And all king Solomon's drinking
vessels [were of] gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of
Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were
of] silver: it was nothing accounted of
in the days of Solomon.
22 For the king had at sea a navy of
Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once
in three years came the navy of
Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver,
ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23 So king Solomon exceeded all the
kings of the earth for riches and for
wisdom.
24 # And all the earth sought to
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God
had put in his heart.
25 And they brought every man his
present, vessels of silver, and vessels
of gold, and garments, and armour, and
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year
by year.
26 # And Solomon gathered together
chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen, whom he
bestowed in the cities for chariots,
and with the king at Jerusalem.
27 And the king made silver [to be] in
Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he
[to be] as the sycomore trees that
[are] in the vale, for abundance.
28 # And Solomon had horses brought out
of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's
merchants received the linen yarn at a
price.
29 And a chariot came up and went out
of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of
silver, and an horse for an hundred and
fifty: and so for all the kings of the
Hittites, and for the kings of Syria,
did they bring [them] out by their
means.

CHAPTER 11
1 But king Solomon loved many strange
women, together with the daughter of
Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and]
Hittites;
2 Of the nations [concerning] which the
LORD said unto the children of Israel,
Ye shall not go in to them, neither
shall they come in unto you: [for]
surely they will turn away your heart
after their gods: Solomon clave unto
these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives,
princesses, and three hundred
concubines: and his wives turned away
his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was
old, [that] his wives turned away his
heart after other gods: and his heart
was not perfect with the LORD his God,
as [was] the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, and after
Milcom the abomination of the
Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of
the LORD, and went not fully after the
LORD, as [did] David his father.
7 Then did Solomon build an high place
for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab,
in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem,
and for Molech, the abomination of the
children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his
strange wives, which burnt incense and
sacrificed unto their gods.
9 # And the LORD was angry with
Solomon, because his heart was turned
from the LORD God of Israel, which had
appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning
this thing, that he should not go after
other gods: but he kept not that which
the LORD commanded.
11 Wherefore the LORD said unto
Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of
thee, and thou hast not kept my
covenant and my statutes, which I have
commanded thee, I will surely rend the
kingdom from thee, and will give it to
thy servant.
12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will
not do it for David thy father's sake:
[but] I will rend it out of the hand of
thy son.
13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the
kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to
thy son for David my servant's sake,
and for Jerusalem's sake which I have
chosen.
14 # And the LORD stirred up an
adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in
Edom.
15 For it came to pass, when David was
in Edom, and Joab the captain of the
host was gone up to bury the slain,
after he had smitten every male in
Edom;
16 (For six months did Joab remain
there with all Israel, until he had cut
off every male in Edom:)
17 That Hadad fled, he and certain
Edomites of his father's servants with
him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being]
yet a little child.
18 And they arose out of Midian, and
came to Paran: and they took men with
them out of Paran, and they came to
Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt;
which gave him an house, and appointed
him victuals, and gave him land.
19 And Hadad found great favour in the
sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him
to wife the sister of his own wife, the
sister of Tahpenes the queen.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him
Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned
in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in
Pharaoh's household among the sons of
Pharaoh.
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that
David slept with his fathers, and that
Joab the captain of the host was dead,
Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart,
that I may go to mine own country.
22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what
hast thou lacked with me, that, behold,
thou seekest to go to thine own
country? And he answered, Nothing:
howbeit let me go in any wise.
23 # And God stirred him up [another]
adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
which fled from his lord Hadadezer king
of Zobah:
24 And he gathered men unto him, and
became captain over a band, when David
slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to
Damascus, and dwelt therein, and
reigned in Damascus.
25 And he was an adversary to Israel
all the days of Solomon, beside the
mischief that Hadad [did]: and he
abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria.
26 # And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an
Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's
servant, whose mother's name [was]
Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted
up [his] hand against the king.
27 And this [was] the cause that he
lifted up [his] hand against the king:
Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the
breaches of the city of David his
father.
28 And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty
man of valour: and Solomon seeing the
young man that he was industrious, he
made him ruler over all the charge of
the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to pass at that time
when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
found him in the way; and he had clad
himself with a new garment; and they
two [were] alone in the field:
30 And Ahijah caught the new garment
that [was] on him, and rent it [in]
twelve pieces:
31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee
ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD,
the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend
the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon,
and will give ten tribes to thee:
32 (But he shall have one tribe for my
servant David's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel:)
33 Because that they have forsaken me,
and have worshipped Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the
god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god
of the children of Ammon, and have not
walked in my ways, to do [that which
is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep]
my statutes and my judgments, as [did]
David his father.
34 Howbeit I will not take the whole
kingdom out of his hand: but I will
make him prince all the days of his
life for David my servant's sake, whom
I chose, because he kept my
commandments and my statutes:
35 But I will take the kingdom out of
his son's hand, and will give it unto
thee, [even] ten tribes.
36 And unto his son will I give one
tribe, that David my servant may have a
light alway before me in Jerusalem, the
city which I have chosen me to put my
name there.
37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt
reign according to all that thy soul
desireth, and shalt be king over
Israel.
38 And it shall be, if thou wilt
hearken unto all that I command thee,
and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that
is] right in my sight, to keep my
statutes and my commandments, as David
my servant did; that I will be with
thee, and build thee a sure house, as I
built for David, and will give Israel
unto thee.
39 And I will for this afflict the seed
of David, but not for ever.
40 Solomon sought therefore to kill
Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled
into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt,
and was in Egypt until the death of
Solomon.
41 # And the rest of the acts of
Solomon, and all that he did, and his
wisdom, [are] they not written in the
book of the acts of Solomon?
42 And the time that Solomon reigned in
Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty
years.
43 And Solomon slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the city of David his
father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in
his stead.

CHAPTER 12
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all
Israel were come to Shechem to make him
king.
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt,
heard [of it], (for he was fled from
the presence of king Solomon, and
Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
3 That they sent and called him. And
Jeroboam and all the congregation of
Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam,
saying,
4 Thy father made our yoke grievous:
now therefore make thou the grievous
service of thy father, and his heavy
yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and
we will serve thee.
5 And he said unto them, Depart yet
[for] three days, then come again to
me. And the people departed.
6 # And king Rehoboam consulted with
the old men, that stood before Solomon
his father while he yet lived, and
said, How do ye advise that I may
answer this people?
7 And they spake unto him, saying, If
thou wilt be a servant unto this people
this day, and wilt serve them, and
answer them, and speak good words to
them, then they will be thy servants
for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel of the old
men, which they had given him, and
consulted with the young men that were
grown up with him, [and] which stood
before him:
9 And he said unto them, What counsel
give ye that we may answer this people,
who have spoken to me, saying, Make the
yoke which thy father did put upon us
lighter?
10 And the young men that were grown up
with him spake unto him, saying, Thus
shalt thou speak unto this people that
spake unto thee, saying, Thy father
made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it]
lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say
unto them, My little [finger] shall be
thicker than my father's loins.
11 And now whereas my father did lade
you with a heavy yoke, I will add to
your yoke: my father hath chastised you
with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions.
12 # So Jeroboam and all the people
came to Rehoboam the third day, as the
king had appointed, saying, Come to me
again the third day.
13 And the king answered the people
roughly, and forsook the old men's
counsel that they gave him;
14 And spake to them after the counsel
of the young men, saying, My father
made your yoke heavy, and I will add to
your yoke: my father [also] chastised
you with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions.
15 Wherefore the king hearkened not
unto the people; for the cause was from
the LORD, that he might perform his
saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah
the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
16 # So when all Israel saw that the
king hearkened not unto them, the
people answered the king, saying, What
portion have we in David? neither [have
we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to
your tents, O Israel: now see to thine
own house, David. So Israel departed
unto their tents.
17 But [as for] the children of Israel
which dwelt in the cities of Judah,
Rehoboam reigned over them.
18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who
[was] over the tribute; and all Israel
stoned him with stones, that he died.
Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to
get him up to his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem.
19 So Israel rebelled against the house
of David unto this day.
20 And it came to pass, when all Israel
heard that Jeroboam was come again,
that they sent and called him unto the
congregation, and made him king over
all Israel: there was none that
followed the house of David, but the
tribe of Judah only.
21 # And when Rehoboam was come to
Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin,
an hundred and fourscore thousand
chosen men, which were warriors, to
fight against the house of Israel, to
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the
son of Solomon.
22 But the word of God came unto
Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of
Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all
the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to
the remnant of the people, saying,
24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go
up, nor fight against your brethren the
children of Israel: return every man to
his house; for this thing is from me.
They hearkened therefore to the word of
the LORD, and returned to depart,
according to the word of the LORD.
25 # Then Jeroboam built Shechem in
mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and
went out from thence, and built Penuel.
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now
shall the kingdom return to the house
of David:
27 If this people go up to do sacrifice
in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem,
then shall the heart of this people
turn again unto their lord, [even] unto
Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall
kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king
of Judah.
28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and
made two calves [of] gold, and said
unto them, It is too much for you to go
up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt.
29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and
the other put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the
people went [to worship] before the
one, [even] unto Dan.
31 And he made an house of high places,
and made priests of the lowest of the
people, which were not of the sons of
Levi.
32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the
eighth month, on the fifteenth day of
the month, like unto the feast that
[is] in Judah, and he offered upon the
altar. So did he in Beth-el,
sacrificing unto the calves that he had
made: and he placed in Beth-el the
priests of the high places which he had
made.
33 So he offered upon the altar which
he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth
day of the eighth month, [even] in the
month which he had devised of his own
heart; and ordained a feast unto the
children of Israel: and he offered upon
the altar, and burnt incense.

CHAPTER 13
1 And, behold, there came a man of God
out of Judah by the word of the LORD
unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the
altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar in the
word of the LORD, and said, O altar,
altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a
child shall be born unto the house of
David, Josiah by name; and upon thee
shall he offer the priests of the high
places that burn incense upon thee, and
men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
3 And he gave a sign the same day,
saying, This [is] the sign which the
LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar
shall be rent, and the ashes that [are]
upon it shall be poured out.
4 And it came to pass, when king
Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of
God, which had cried against the altar
in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand
from the altar, saying, Lay hold on
him. And his hand, which he put forth
against him, dried up, so that he could
not pull it in again to him.
5 The altar also was rent, and the
ashes poured out from the altar,
according to the sign which the man of
God had given by the word of the LORD.
6 And the king answered and said unto
the man of God, Intreat now the face of
the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that
my hand may be restored me again. And
the man of God besought the LORD, and
the king's hand was restored him again,
and became as [it was] before.
7 And the king said unto the man of
God, Come home with me, and refresh
thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
8 And the man of God said unto the
king, If thou wilt give me half thine
house, I will not go in with thee,
neither will I eat bread nor drink
water in this place:
9 For so was it charged me by the word
of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor
drink water, nor turn again by the same
way that thou camest.
10 So he went another way, and returned
not by the way that he came to Beth-el.
11 # Now there dwelt an old prophet in
Beth-el; and his sons came and told him
all the works that the man of God had
done that day in Beth-el: the words
which he had spoken unto the king, them
they told also to their father.
12 And their father said unto them,
What way went he? For his sons had seen
what way the man of God went, which
came from Judah.
13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me
the ass. So they saddled him the ass:
and he rode thereon,
14 And went after the man of God, and
found him sitting under an oak: and he
said unto him, [Art] thou the man of
God that camest from Judah? And he
said, I [am].
15 Then he said unto him, Come home
with me, and eat bread.
16 And he said, I may not return with
thee, nor go in with thee: neither will
I eat bread nor drink water with thee
in this place:
17 For it was said to me by the word of
the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor
drink water there, nor turn again to go
by the way that thou camest.
18 He said unto him, I [am] a prophet
also as thou [art]; and an angel spake
unto me by the word of the LORD,
saying, Bring him back with thee into
thine house, that he may eat bread and
drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
19 So he went back with him, and did
eat bread in his house, and drank
water.
20 # And it came to pass, as they sat
at the table, that the word of the LORD
came unto the prophet that brought him
back:
21 And he cried unto the man of God
that came from Judah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast
disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and
hast not kept the commandment which the
LORD thy God commanded thee,
22 But camest back, and hast eaten
bread and drunk water in the place, of
the which [the LORD] did say to thee,
Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy
carcase shall not come unto the
sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 # And it came to pass, after he had
eaten bread, and after he had drunk,
that he saddled for him the ass, [to
wit], for the prophet whom he had
brought back.
24 And when he was gone, a lion met him
by the way, and slew him: and his
carcase was cast in the way, and the
ass stood by it, the lion also stood by
the carcase.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw
the carcase cast in the way, and the
lion standing by the carcase: and they
came and told [it] in the city where
the old prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet that brought
him back from the way heard [thereof],
he said, It [is] the man of God, who
was disobedient unto the word of the
LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered
him unto the lion, which hath torn him,
and slain him, according to the word of
the LORD, which he spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying,
Saddle me the ass. And they saddled
[him].
28 And he went and found his carcase
cast in the way, and the ass and the
lion standing by the carcase: the lion
had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the
ass.
29 And the prophet took up the carcase
of the man of God, and laid it upon the
ass, and brought it back: and the old
prophet came to the city, to mourn and
to bury him.
30 And he laid his carcase in his own
grave; and they mourned over him,
[saying], Alas, my brother!
31 And it came to pass, after he had
buried him, that he spake to his sons,
saying, When I am dead, then bury me in
the sepulchre wherein the man of God
[is] buried; lay my bones beside his
bones:
32 For the saying which he cried by the
word of the LORD against the altar in
Beth-el, and against all the houses of
the high places which [are] in the
cities of Samaria, shall surely come to
pass.
33 # After this thing Jeroboam returned
not from his evil way, but made again
of the lowest of the people priests of
the high places: whosoever would, he
consecrated him, and he became [one] of
the priests of the high places.
34 And this thing became sin unto the
house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it]
off, and to destroy [it] from off the
face of the earth.

CHAPTER 14
1 At that time Abijah the son of
Jeroboam fell sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise,
I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that
thou be not known to be the wife of
Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh:
behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet,
which told me that [I should be] king
over this people.
3 And take with thee ten loaves, and
cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go
to him: he shall tell thee what shall
become of the child.
4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and
arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to
the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could
not see; for his eyes were set by
reason of his age.
5 # And the LORD said unto Ahijah,
Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
ask a thing of thee for her son; for he
[is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say
unto her: for it shall be, when she
cometh in, that she shall feign herself
[to be] another [woman].
6 And it was [so], when Ahijah heard
the sound of her feet, as she came in
at the door, that he said, Come in,
thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest
thou thyself [to be] another? for I
[am] sent to thee [with] heavy
[tidings].
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
exalted thee from among the people, and
made thee prince over my people Israel,
8 And rent the kingdom away from the
house of David, and gave it thee: and
[yet] thou hast not been as my servant
David, who kept my commandments, and
who followed me with all his heart, to
do [that] only [which was] right in
mine eyes;
9 But hast done evil above all that
were before thee: for thou hast gone
and made thee other gods, and molten
images, to provoke me to anger, and
hast cast me behind thy back:
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil
upon the house of Jeroboam, and will
cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth
against the wall, [and] him that is
shut up and left in Israel, and will
take away the remnant of the house of
Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung,
till it be all gone.
11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the
city shall the dogs eat; and him that
dieth in the field shall the fowls of
the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken
[it].
12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to
thine own house: [and] when thy feet
enter into the city, the child shall
die.
13 And all Israel shall mourn for him,
and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam
shall come to the grave, because in him
there is found [some] good thing toward
the LORD God of Israel in the house of
Jeroboam.
14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up
a king over Israel, who shall cut off
the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? even now.
15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as
a reed is shaken in the water, and he
shall root up Israel out of this good
land, which he gave to their fathers,
and shall scatter them beyond the
river, because they have made their
groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
16 And he shall give Israel up because
of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin,
and who made Israel to sin.
17 # And Jeroboam's wife arose, and
departed, and came to Tirzah: [and]
when she came to the threshold of the
door, the child died;
18 And they buried him; and all Israel
mourned for him, according to the word
of the LORD, which he spake by the hand
of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 And the rest of the acts of
Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
reigned, behold, they [are] written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned
[were] two and twenty years: and he
slept with his fathers, and Nadab his
son reigned in his stead.
21 # And Rehoboam the son of Solomon
reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty
and one years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned seventeen years
in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD
did choose out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there. And his
mother's name [was] Naamah an
Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of
the LORD, and they provoked him to
jealousy with their sins which they had
committed, above all that their fathers
had done.
23 For they also built them high
places, and images, and groves, on
every high hill, and under every green
tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the
land: [and] they did according to all
the abominations of the nations which
the LORD cast out before the children
of Israel.
25 # And it came to pass in the fifth
year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak
king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem:
26 And he took away the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house; he even
took away all: and he took away all the
shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27 And king Rehoboam made in their
stead brasen shields, and committed
[them] unto the hands of the chief of
the guard, which kept the door of the
king's house.
28 And it was [so], when the king went
into the house of the LORD, that the
guard bare them, and brought them back
into the guard chamber.
29 # Now the rest of the acts of
Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all [their] days.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David. And his mother's name
[was] Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam
his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 15
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king
Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned
Abijam over Judah.
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Maachah,
the daughter of Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his
father, which he had done before him:
and his heart was not perfect with the
LORD his God, as the heart of David his
father.
4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the
LORD his God give him a lamp in
Jerusalem, to set up his son after him,
and to establish Jerusalem:
5 Because David did [that which was]
right in the eyes of the LORD, and
turned not aside from any [thing] that
he commanded him all the days of his
life, save only in the matter of Uriah
the Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah? And there was
war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers;
and they buried him in the city of
David: and Asa his son reigned in his
stead.
9 # And in the twentieth year of
Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa
over Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Maachah, the daughter of
Abishalom.
11 And Asa did [that which was] right
in the eyes of the LORD, as [did] David
his father.
12 And he took away the sodomites out
of the land, and removed all the idols
that his fathers had made.
13 And also Maachah his mother, even
her he removed from [being] queen,
because she had made an idol in a
grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and
burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not
removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
perfect with the LORD all his days.
15 And he brought in the things which
his father had dedicated, and the
things which himself had dedicated,
into the house of the LORD, silver, and
gold, and vessels.
16 # And there was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up
against Judah, and built Ramah, that he
might not suffer any to go out or come
in to Asa king of Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the
gold [that were] left in the treasures
of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house, and
delivered them into the hand of his
servants: and king Asa sent them to
Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son
of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at
Damascus, saying,
19 [There is] a league between me and
thee, [and] between my father and thy
father: behold, I have sent unto thee a
present of silver and gold; come and
break thy league with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me.
20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king
Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts
which he had against the cities of
Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and
Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth,
with all the land of Naphtali.
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha
heard [thereof], that he left off
building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22 Then king Asa made a proclamation
throughout all Judah; none [was]
exempted: and they took away the stones
of Ramah, and the timber thereof,
wherewith Baasha had builded; and king
Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin,
and Mizpah.
23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and
all his might, and all that he did, and
the cities which he built, [are] they
not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Nevertheless in the time of his old age
he was diseased in his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city
of David his father: and Jehoshaphat
his son reigned in his stead.
25 # And Nadab the son of Jeroboam
began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah, and
reigned over Israel two years.
26 And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the way of his
father, and in his sin wherewith he
made Israel to sin.
27 # And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of
the house of Issachar, conspired
against him; and Baasha smote him at
Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the
Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel
laid siege to Gibbethon.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king
of Judah did Baasha slay him, and
reigned in his stead.
29 And it came to pass, when he
reigned, [that] he smote all the house
of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam
any that breathed, until he had
destroyed him, according unto the
saying of the LORD, which he spake by
his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam
which he sinned, and which he made
Israel sin, by his provocation
wherewith he provoked the LORD God of
Israel to anger.
31 # Now the rest of the acts of Nadab,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
32 And there was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel all their days.
33 In the third year of Asa king of
Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to
reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty
and four years.
34 And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he
made Israel to sin.

CHAPTER 16
1 Then the word of the LORD came to
Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha,
saying,
2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of
the dust, and made thee prince over my
people Israel; and thou hast walked in
the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my
people Israel to sin, to provoke me to
anger with their sins;
3 Behold, I will take away the
posterity of Baasha, and the posterity
of his house; and will make thy house
like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city
shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth
of his in the fields shall the fowls of
the air eat.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha,
and what he did, and his might, [are]
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son
reigned in his stead.
7 And also by the hand of the prophet
Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of
the LORD against Baasha, and against
his house, even for all the evil that
he did in the sight of the LORD, in
provoking him to anger with the work of
his hands, in being like the house of
Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
8 # In the twenty and sixth year of Asa
king of Judah began Elah the son of
Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah,
two years.
9 And his servant Zimri, captain of
half [his] chariots, conspired against
him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking
himself drunk in the house of Arza
steward of [his] house in Tirzah.
10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and
killed him, in the twenty and seventh
year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned
in his stead.
11 # And it came to pass, when he began
to reign, as soon as he sat on his
throne, [that] he slew all the house of
Baasha: he left him not one that
pisseth against a wall, neither of his
kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house
of Baasha, according to the word of the
LORD, which he spake against Baasha by
Jehu the prophet,
13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the
sins of Elah his son, by which they
sinned, and by which they made Israel
to sin, in provoking the LORD God of
Israel to anger with their vanities.
14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
15 # In the twenty and seventh year of
Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven
days in Tirzah. And the people [were]
encamped against Gibbethon, which
[belonged] to the Philistines.
16 And the people [that were] encamped
heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and
hath also slain the king: wherefore all
Israel made Omri, the captain of the
host, king over Israel that day in the
camp.
17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and
all Israel with him, and they besieged
Tirzah.
18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw
that the city was taken, that he went
into the palace of the king's house,
and burnt the king's house over him
with fire, and died,
19 For his sins which he sinned in
doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in
walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in
his sin which he did, to make Israel to
sin.
20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri,
and his treason that he wrought, [are]
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
21 # Then were the people of Israel
divided into two parts: half of the
people followed Tibni the son of
Ginath, to make him king; and half
followed Omri.
22 But the people that followed Omri
prevailed against the people that
followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so
Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
23 # In the thirty and first year of
Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign
over Israel, twelve years: six years
reigned he in Tirzah.
24 And he bought the hill Samaria of
Shemer for two talents of silver, and
built on the hill, and called the name
of the city which he built, after the
name of Shemer, owner of the hill,
Samaria.
25 # But Omri wrought evil in the eyes
of the LORD, and did worse than all
that [were] before him.
26 For he walked in all the way of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his
sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to
provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger
with their vanities.
27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri
which he did, and his might that he
shewed, [are] they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son
reigned in his stead.
29 # And in the thirty and eighth year
of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son
of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab
the son of Omri reigned over Israel in
Samaria twenty and two years.
30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in
the sight of the LORD above all that
[were] before him.
31 And it came to pass, as if it had
been a light thing for him to walk in
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
that he took to wife Jezebel the
daughter of Ethbaal king of the
Zidonians, and went and served Baal,
and worshipped him.
32 And he reared up an altar for Baal
in the house of Baal, which he had
built in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did
more to provoke the LORD God of Israel
to anger than all the kings of Israel
that were before him.
34 # In his days did Hiel the
Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the
foundation thereof in Abiram his
firstborn, and set up the gates thereof
in his youngest [son] Segub, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake
by Joshua the son of Nun.

CHAPTER 17
1 And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of
the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto
Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel
liveth, before whom I stand, there
shall not be dew nor rain these years,
but according to my word.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto
him, saying,
3 Get thee hence, and turn thee
eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
4 And it shall be, [that] thou shalt
drink of the brook; and I have
commanded the ravens to feed thee
there.
5 So he went and did according unto the
word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt
by the brook Cherith, that [is] before
Jordan.
6 And the ravens brought him bread and
flesh in the morning, and bread and
flesh in the evening; and he drank of
the brook.
7 And it came to pass after a while,
that the brook dried up, because there
had been no rain in the land.
8 # And the word of the LORD came unto
him, saying,
9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which
[belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there:
behold, I have commanded a widow woman
there to sustain thee.
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath.
And when he came to the gate of the
city, behold, the widow woman [was]
there gathering of sticks: and he
called to her, and said, Fetch me, I
pray thee, a little water in a vessel,
that I may drink.
11 And as she was going to fetch [it],
he called to her, and said, Bring me, I
pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine
hand.
12 And she said, [As] the LORD thy God
liveth, I have not a cake, but an
handful of meal in a barrel, and a
little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I
[am] gathering two sticks, that I may
go in and dress it for me and my son,
that we may eat it, and die.
13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not;
go [and] do as thou hast said: but make
me thereof a little cake first, and
bring [it] unto me, and after make for
thee and for thy son.
14 For thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
waste, neither shall the cruse of oil
fail, until the day [that] the LORD
sendeth rain upon the earth.
15 And she went and did according to
the saying of Elijah: and she, and he,
and her house, did eat [many] days.
16 [And] the barrel of meal wasted not,
neither did the cruse of oil fail,
according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake by Elijah.
17 # And it came to pass after these
things, [that] the son of the woman,
the mistress of the house, fell sick;
and his sickness was so sore, that
there was no breath left in him.
18 And she said unto Elijah, What have
I to do with thee, O thou man of God?
art thou come unto me to call my sin to
remembrance, and to slay my son?
19 And he said unto her, Give me thy
son. And he took him out of her bosom,
and carried him up into a loft, where
he abode, and laid him upon his own
bed.
20 And he cried unto the LORD, and
said, O LORD my God, hast thou also
brought evil upon the widow with whom I
sojourn, by slaying her son?
21 And he stretched himself upon the
child three times, and cried unto the
LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray
thee, let this child's soul come into
him again.
22 And the LORD heard the voice of
Elijah; and the soul of the child came
into him again, and he revived.
23 And Elijah took the child, and
brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto
his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy
son liveth.
24 # And the woman said to Elijah, Now
by this I know that thou [art] a man of
God, [and] that the word of the LORD in
thy mouth [is] truth.

CHAPTER 18
1 And it came to pass [after] many
days, that the word of the LORD came to
Elijah in the third year, saying, Go,
shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send
rain upon the earth.
2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto
Ahab. And [there was] a sore famine in
Samaria.
3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was]
the governor of [his] house. (Now
Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
4 For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off
the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah
took an hundred prophets, and hid them
by fifty in a cave, and fed them with
bread and water.)
5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into
the land, unto all fountains of water,
and unto all brooks: peradventure we
may find grass to save the horses and
mules alive, that we lose not all the
beasts.
6 So they divided the land between them
to pass throughout it: Ahab went one
way by himself, and Obadiah went
another way by himself.
7 # And as Obadiah was in the way,
behold, Elijah met him: and he knew
him, and fell on his face, and said,
[Art] thou that my lord Elijah?
8 And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell
thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
9 And he said, What have I sinned, that
thou wouldest deliver thy servant into
the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
10 [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there
is no nation or kingdom, whither my
lord hath not sent to seek thee: and
when they said, [He is] not [there]; he
took an oath of the kingdom and nation,
that they found thee not.
11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy
lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
12 And it shall come to pass, [as soon
as] I am gone from thee, that the
Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee
whither I know not; and [so] when I
come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find
thee, he shall slay me: but I thy
servant fear the LORD from my youth.
13 Was it not told my lord what I did
when Jezebel slew the prophets of the
LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the
LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and
fed them with bread and water?
14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy
lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]: and he
shall slay me.
15 And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of
hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I
will surely shew myself unto him to
day.
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and
told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17 # And it came to pass, when Ahab saw
Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, [Art]
thou he that troubleth Israel?
18 And he answered, I have not troubled
Israel; but thou, and thy father's
house, in that ye have forsaken the
commandments of the LORD, and thou hast
followed Baalim.
19 Now therefore send, [and] gather to
me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and
the prophets of Baal four hundred and
fifty, and the prophets of the groves
four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's
table.
20 So Ahab sent unto all the children
of Israel, and gathered the prophets
together unto mount Carmel.
21 And Elijah came unto all the people,
and said, How long halt ye between two
opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow
him: but if Baal, [then] follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.
22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I,
[even] I only, remain a prophet of the
LORD; but Baal's prophets [are] four
hundred and fifty men.
23 Let them therefore give us two
bullocks; and let them choose one
bullock for themselves, and cut it in
pieces, and lay [it] on wood, and put
no fire [under]: and I will dress the
other bullock, and lay [it] on wood,
and put no fire [under]:
24 And call ye on the name of your
gods, and I will call on the name of
the LORD: and the God that answereth by
fire, let him be God. And all the
people answered and said, It is well
spoken.
25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of
Baal, Choose you one bullock for
yourselves, and dress [it] first; for
ye [are] many; and call on the name of
your gods, but put no fire [under].
26 And they took the bullock which was
given them, and they dressed [it], and
called on the name of Baal from morning
even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear
us. But [there was] no voice, nor any
that answered. And they leaped upon the
altar which was made.
27 And it came to pass at noon, that
Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry
aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is
talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in
a journey, [or] peradventure he
sleepeth, and must be awaked.
28 And they cried aloud, and cut
themselves after their manner with
knives and lancets, till the blood
gushed out upon them.
29 And it came to pass, when midday was
past, and they prophesied until the
[time] of the offering of the [evening]
sacrifice, that [there was] neither
voice, nor any to answer, nor any that
regarded.
30 And Elijah said unto all the people,
Come near unto me. And all the people
came near unto him. And he repaired the
altar of the LORD [that was] broken
down.
31 And Elijah took twelve stones,
according to the number of the tribes
of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the
word of the LORD came, saying, Israel
shall be thy name:
32 And with the stones he built an
altar in the name of the LORD: and he
made a trench about the altar, as great
as would contain two measures of seed.
33 And he put the wood in order, and
cut the bullock in pieces, and laid
[him] on the wood, and said, Fill four
barrels with water, and pour [it] on
the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34 And he said, Do [it] the second
time. And they did [it] the second
time. And he said, Do [it] the third
time. And they did [it] the third time.
35 And the water ran round about the
altar; and he filled the trench also
with water.
36 And it came to pass at [the time of]
the offering of the [evening]
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came
near, and said, LORD God of Abraham,
Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known
this day that thou [art] God in Israel,
and [that] I [am] thy servant, and
[that] I have done all these things at
thy word.
37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this
people may know that thou [art] the
LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned
their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and
consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the
wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
licked up the water that [was] in the
trench.
39 And when all the people saw [it],
they fell on their faces: and they
said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the
LORD, he [is] the God.
40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the
prophets of Baal; let not one of them
escape. And they took them: and Elijah
brought them down to the brook Kishon,
and slew them there.
41 # And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get
thee up, eat and drink; for [there is]
a sound of abundance of rain.
42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.
And Elijah went up to the top of
Carmel; and he cast himself down upon
the earth, and put his face between his
knees,
43 And said to his servant, Go up now,
look toward the sea. And he went up,
and looked, and said, [There is]
nothing. And he said, Go again seven
times.
44 And it came to pass at the seventh
time, that he said, Behold, there
ariseth a little cloud out of the sea,
like a man's hand. And he said, Go up,
say unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot],
and get thee down, that the rain stop
thee not.
45 And it came to pass in the mean
while, that the heaven was black with
clouds and wind, and there was a great
rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
Jezreel.
46 And the hand of the LORD was on
Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and
ran before Ahab to the entrance of
Jezreel.

CHAPTER 19
1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah
had done, and withal how he had slain
all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto
Elijah, saying, So let the gods do [to
me], and more also, if I make not thy
life as the life of one of them by to
morrow about this time.
3 And when he saw [that], he arose, and
went for his life, and came to
Beer-sheba, which [belongeth] to Judah,
and left his servant there.
4 # But he himself went a day's journey
into the wilderness, and came and sat
down under a juniper tree: and he
requested for himself that he might
die; and said, It is enough; now, O
LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not
better than my fathers.
5 And as he lay and slept under a
juniper tree, behold, then an angel
touched him, and said unto him, Arise
[and] eat.
6 And he looked, and, behold, [there
was] a cake baken on the coals, and a
cruse of water at his head. And he did
eat and drink, and laid him down again.
7 And the angel of the LORD came again
the second time, and touched him, and
said, Arise [and] eat; because the
journey [is] too great for thee.
8 And he arose, and did eat and drink,
and went in the strength of that meat
forty days and forty nights unto Horeb
the mount of God.
9 # And he came thither unto a cave,
and lodged there; and, behold, the word
of the LORD [came] to him, and he said
unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very
jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for
the children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant, thrown down thine altars,
and slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I, [even] I only, am left; and they
seek my life, to take it away.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand
upon the mount before the LORD. And,
behold, the LORD passed by, and a great
and strong wind rent the mountains, and
brake in pieces the rocks before the
LORD; [but] the LORD [was] not in the
wind: and after the wind an earthquake;
[but] the LORD [was] not in the
earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire;
[but] the LORD [was] not in the fire:
and after the fire a still small voice.
13 And it was [so], when Elijah heard
[it], that he wrapped his face in his
mantle, and went out, and stood in the
entering in of the cave. And, behold,
[there came] a voice unto him, and
said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been very
jealous for the LORD God of hosts:
because the children of Israel have
forsaken thy covenant, thrown down
thine altars, and slain thy prophets
with the sword; and I, [even] I only,
am left; and they seek my life, to take
it away.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Go,
return on thy way to the wilderness of
Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint
Hazael [to be] king over Syria:
16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt
thou anoint [to be] king over Israel:
and Elisha the son of Shaphat of
Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint [to be]
prophet in thy room.
17 And it shall come to pass, [that]
him that escapeth the sword of Hazael
shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth
from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha
slay.
18 Yet I have left [me] seven thousand
in Israel, all the knees which have not
bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which
hath not kissed him.
19 # So he departed thence, and found
Elisha the son of Shaphat, who [was]
plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen]
before him, and he with the twelfth:
and Elijah passed by him, and cast his
mantle upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after
Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee,
kiss my father and my mother, and
[then] I will follow thee. And he said
unto him, Go back again: for what have
I done to thee?
21 And he returned back from him, and
took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and
boiled their flesh with the instruments
of the oxen, and gave unto the people,
and they did eat. Then he arose, and
went after Elijah, and ministered unto
him.

CHAPTER 20
1 And Ben-hadad the king of Syria
gathered all his host together: and
[there were] thirty and two kings with
him, and horses, and chariots: and he
went up and besieged Samaria, and
warred against it.
2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king
of Israel into the city, and said unto
him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
3 Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine;
thy wives also and thy children, [even]
the goodliest, [are] mine.
4 And the king of Israel answered and
said, My lord, O king, according to thy
saying, I [am] thine, and all that I
have.
5 And the messengers came again, and
said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying,
Although I have sent unto thee, saying,
Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and
thy gold, and thy wives, and thy
children;
6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee
to morrow about this time, and they
shall search thine house, and the
houses of thy servants; and it shall
be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant in
thine eyes, they shall put [it] in
their hand, and take [it] away.
7 Then the king of Israel called all
the elders of the land, and said, Mark,
I pray you, and see how this [man]
seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me
for my wives, and for my children, and
for my silver, and for my gold; and I
denied him not.
8 And all the elders and all the people
said unto him, Hearken not [unto him],
nor consent.
9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers
of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king,
All that thou didst send for to thy
servant at the first I will do: but
this thing I may not do. And the
messengers departed, and brought him
word again.
10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and
said, The gods do so unto me, and more
also, if the dust of Samaria shall
suffice for handfuls for all the people
that follow me.
11 And the king of Israel answered and
said, Tell [him], Let not him that
girdeth on [his harness] boast himself
as he that putteth it off.
12 And it came to pass, when
[Ben-hadad] heard this message, as he
[was] drinking, he and the kings in the
pavilions, that he said unto his
servants, Set [yourselves in array].
And they set [themselves in array]
against the city.
13 # And, behold, there came a prophet
unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus
saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this
great multitude? behold, I will deliver
it into thine hand this day; and thou
shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said,
Thus saith the LORD, [Even] by the
young men of the princes of the
provinces. Then he said, Who shall
order the battle? And he answered,
Thou.
15 Then he numbered the young men of
the princes of the provinces, and they
were two hundred and thirty two: and
after them he numbered all the people,
[even] all the children of Israel,
[being] seven thousand.
16 And they went out at noon. But
Ben-hadad [was] drinking himself drunk
in the pavilions, he and the kings, the
thirty and two kings that helped him.
17 And the young men of the princes of
the provinces went out first; and
Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him,
saying, There are men come out of
Samaria.
18 And he said, Whether they be come
out for peace, take them alive; or
whether they be come out for war, take
them alive.
19 So these young men of the princes of
the provinces came out of the city, and
the army which followed them.
20 And they slew every one his man: and
the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued
them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria
escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
21 And the king of Israel went out, and
smote the horses and chariots, and slew
the Syrians with a great slaughter.
22 # And the prophet came to the king
of Israel, and said unto him, Go,
strengthen thyself, and mark, and see
what thou doest: for at the return of
the year the king of Syria will come up
against thee.
23 And the servants of the king of
Syria said unto him, Their gods [are]
gods of the hills; therefore they were
stronger than we; but let us fight
against them in the plain, and surely
we shall be stronger than they.
24 And do this thing, Take the kings
away, every man out of his place, and
put captains in their rooms:
25 And number thee an army, like the
army that thou hast lost, horse for
horse, and chariot for chariot: and we
will fight against them in the plain,
[and] surely we shall be stronger than
they. And he hearkened unto their
voice, and did so.
26 And it came to pass at the return of
the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the
Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight
against Israel.
27 And the children of Israel were
numbered, and were all present, and
went against them: and the children of
Israel pitched before them like two
little flocks of kids; but the Syrians
filled the country.
28 # And there came a man of God, and
spake unto the king of Israel, and
said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the
Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of
the hills, but he [is] not God of the
valleys, therefore will I deliver all
this great multitude into thine hand,
and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
29 And they pitched one over against
the other seven days. And [so] it was,
that in the seventh day the battle was
joined: and the children of Israel slew
of the Syrians an hundred thousand
footmen in one day.
30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the
city; and [there] a wall fell upon
twenty and seven thousand of the men
[that were] left. And Ben-hadad fled,
and came into the city, into an inner
chamber.
31 # And his servants said unto him,
Behold now, we have heard that the
kings of the house of Israel [are]
merciful kings: let us, I pray thee,
put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes
upon our heads, and go out to the king
of Israel: peradventure he will save
thy life.
32 So they girded sackcloth on their
loins, and [put] ropes on their heads,
and came to the king of Israel, and
said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I
pray thee, let me live. And he said,
[Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother.
33 Now the men did diligently observe
whether [any thing would come] from
him, and did hastily catch [it]: and
they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then
he said, Go ye, bring him. Then
Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he
caused him to come up into the chariot.
34 And [Ben-hadad] said unto him, The
cities, which my father took from thy
father, I will restore; and thou shalt
make streets for thee in Damascus, as
my father made in Samaria. Then [said
Ahab], I will send thee away with this
covenant. So he made a covenant with
him, and sent him away.
35 # And a certain man of the sons of
the prophets said unto his neighbour in
the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray
thee. And the man refused to smite him.
36 Then said he unto him, Because thou
hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD,
behold, as soon as thou art departed
from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as
soon as he was departed from him, a
lion found him, and slew him.
37 Then he found another man, and said,
Smite me, I pray thee. And the man
smote him, so that in smiting he
wounded [him].
38 So the prophet departed, and waited
for the king by the way, and disguised
himself with ashes upon his face.
39 And as the king passed by, he cried
unto the king: and he said, Thy servant
went out into the midst of the battle;
and, behold, a man turned aside, and
brought a man unto me, and said, Keep
this man: if by any means he be
missing, then shall thy life be for his
life, or else thou shalt pay a talent
of silver.
40 And as thy servant was busy here and
there, he was gone. And the king of
Israel said unto him, So [shall] thy
judgment [be]; thyself hast decided
[it].
41 And he hasted, and took the ashes
away from his face; and the king of
Israel discerned him that he [was] of
the prophets.
42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Because thou hast let go out of
[thy] hand a man whom I appointed to
utter destruction, therefore thy life
shall go for his life, and thy people
for his people.
43 And the king of Israel went to his
house heavy and displeased, and came to
Samaria.

CHAPTER 21
1 And it came to pass after these
things, [that] Naboth the Jezreelite
had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel,
hard by the palace of Ahab king of
Samaria.
2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying,
Give me thy vineyard, that I may have
it for a garden of herbs, because it
[is] near unto my house: and I will
give thee for it a better vineyard than
it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I
will give thee the worth of it in
money.
3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD
forbid it me, that I should give the
inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
4 And Ahab came into his house heavy
and displeased because of the word
which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken
to him: for he had said, I will not
give thee the inheritance of my
fathers. And he laid him down upon his
bed, and turned away his face, and
would eat no bread.
5 # But Jezebel his wife came to him,
and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so
sad, that thou eatest no bread?
6 And he said unto her, Because I spake
unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said
unto him, Give me thy vineyard for
money; or else, if it please thee, I
will give thee [another] vineyard for
it: and he answered, I will not give
thee my vineyard.
7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him,
Dost thou now govern the kingdom of
Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let
thine heart be merry: I will give thee
the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name,
and sealed [them] with his seal, and
sent the letters unto the elders and to
the nobles that [were] in his city,
dwelling with Naboth.
9 And she wrote in the letters, saying,
Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high
among the people:
10 And set two men, sons of Belial,
before him, to bear witness against
him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God
and the king. And [then] carry him out,
and stone him, that he may die.
11 And the men of his city, [even] the
elders and the nobles who were the
inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel
had sent unto them, [and] as it [was]
written in the letters which she had
sent unto them.
12 They proclaimed a fast, and set
Naboth on high among the people.
13 And there came in two men, children
of Belial, and sat before him: and the
men of Belial witnessed against him,
[even] against Naboth, in the presence
of the people, saying, Naboth did
blaspheme God and the king. Then they
carried him forth out of the city, and
stoned him with stones, that he died.
14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying,
Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
15 # And it came to pass, when Jezebel
heard that Naboth was stoned, and was
dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise,
take possession of the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused
to give thee for money: for Naboth is
not alive, but dead.
16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard
that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up
to go down to the vineyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite, to take possession of
it.
17 # And the word of the LORD came to
Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of
Israel, which [is] in Samaria: behold,
[he is] in the vineyard of Naboth,
whither he is gone down to possess it.
19 And thou shalt speak unto him,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou
killed, and also taken possession? And
thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus
saith the LORD, In the place where dogs
licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs
lick thy blood, even thine.
20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou
found me, O mine enemy? And he
answered, I have found [thee]: because
thou hast sold thyself to work evil in
the sight of the LORD.
21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee,
and will take away thy posterity, and
will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth
against the wall, and him that is shut
up and left in Israel,
22 And will make thine house like the
house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and
like the house of Baasha the son of
Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith
thou hast provoked [me] to anger, and
made Israel to sin.
23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD,
saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by
the wall of Jezreel.
24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city
the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth
in the field shall the fowls of the air
eat.
25 # But there was none like unto Ahab,
which did sell himself to work
wickedness in the sight of the LORD,
whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
26 And he did very abominably in
following idols, according to all
[things] as did the Amorites, whom the
LORD cast out before the children of
Israel.
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard
those words, that he rent his clothes,
and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and
fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went
softly.
28 And the word of the LORD came to
Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself
before me? because he humbleth himself
before me, I will not bring the evil in
his days: [but] in his son's days will
I bring the evil upon his house.

CHAPTER 22
1 And they continued three years
without war between Syria and Israel.
2 And it came to pass in the third
year, that Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah came down to the king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said unto his
servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead
[is] our's, and we [be] still, [and]
take it not out of the hand of the king
of Syria?
4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt
thou go with me to battle to
Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to
the king of Israel, I [am] as thou
[art], my people as thy people, my
horses as thy horses.
5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of
Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the
word of the LORD to day.
6 Then the king of Israel gathered the
prophets together, about four hundred
men, and said unto them, Shall I go
against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or
shall I forbear? And they said, Go up;
for the Lord shall deliver [it] into
the hand of the king.
7 And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not
here a prophet of the LORD besides,
that we might enquire of him?
8 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man,
Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we
may enquire of the LORD: but I hate
him; for he doth not prophesy good
concerning me, but evil. And
Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say
so.
9 Then the king of Israel called an
officer, and said, Hasten [hither]
Micaiah the son of Imlah.
10 And the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each
on his throne, having put on their
robes, in a void place in the entrance
of the gate of Samaria; and all the
prophets prophesied before them.
11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
made him horns of iron: and he said,
Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt
thou push the Syrians, until thou have
consumed them.
12 And all the prophets prophesied so,
saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and
prosper: for the LORD shall deliver
[it] into the king's hand.
13 And the messenger that was gone to
call Micaiah spake unto him, saying,
Behold now, the words of the prophets
[declare] good unto the king with one
mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be
like the word of one of them, and speak
[that which is] good.
14 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD
liveth, what the LORD saith unto me,
that will I speak.
15 # So he came to the king. And the
king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we
go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or
shall we forbear? And he answered him,
Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall
deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
16 And the king said unto him, How many
times shall I adjure thee that thou
tell me nothing but [that which is]
true in the name of the LORD?
17 And he said, I saw all Israel
scattered upon the hills, as sheep that
have not a shepherd: and the LORD said,
These have no master: let them return
every man to his house in peace.
18 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that
he would prophesy no good concerning
me, but evil?
19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the
word of the LORD: I saw the LORD
sitting on his throne, and all the host
of heaven standing by him on his right
hand and on his left.
20 And the LORD said, Who shall
persuade Ahab, that he may go up and
fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on
this manner, and another said on that
manner.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and
stood before the LORD, and said, I will
persuade him.
22 And the LORD said unto him,
Wherewith? And he said, I will go
forth, and I will be a lying spirit in
the mouth of all his prophets. And he
said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and
prevail also: go forth, and do so.
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath
put a lying spirit in the mouth of all
these thy prophets, and the LORD hath
spoken evil concerning thee.
24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
went near, and smote Micaiah on the
cheek, and said, Which way went the
Spirit of the LORD from me to speak
unto thee?
25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt
see in that day, when thou shalt go
into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
26 And the king of Israel said, Take
Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon
the governor of the city, and to Joash
the king's son;
27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put
this [fellow] in the prison, and feed
him with bread of affliction and with
water of affliction, until I come in
peace.
28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at
all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken
by me. And he said, Hearken, O people,
every one of you.
29 So the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up
to Ramoth-gilead.
30 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself,
and enter into the battle; but put thou
on thy robes. And the king of Israel
disguised himself, and went into the
battle.
31 But the king of Syria commanded his
thirty and two captains that had rule
over his chariots, saying, Fight
neither with small nor great, save only
with the king of Israel.
32 And it came to pass, when the
captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it
[is] the king of Israel. And they
turned aside to fight against him: and
Jehoshaphat cried out.
33 And it came to pass, when the
captains of the chariots perceived that
it [was] not the king of Israel, that
they turned back from pursuing him.
34 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a
venture, and smote the king of Israel
between the joints of the harness:
wherefore he said unto the driver of
his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry
me out of the host; for I am wounded.
35 And the battle increased that day:
and the king was stayed up in his
chariot against the Syrians, and died
at even: and the blood ran out of the
wound into the midst of the chariot.
36 And there went a proclamation
throughout the host about the going
down of the sun, saying, Every man to
his city, and every man to his own
country.
37 # So the king died, and was brought
to Samaria; and they buried the king in
Samaria.
38 And [one] washed the chariot in the
pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up
his blood; and they washed his armour;
according unto the word of the LORD
which he spake.
39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab,
and all that he did, and the ivory
house which he made, and all the cities
that he built, [are] they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and
Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
41 # And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa
began to reign over Judah in the fourth
year of Ahab king of Israel.
42 Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five
years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned twenty and five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa
his father; he turned not aside from
it, doing [that which was] right in the
eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high
places were not taken away; [for] the
people offered and burnt incense yet in
the high places.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the
king of Israel.
45 Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
shewed, and how he warred, [are] they
not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 And the remnant of the sodomites,
which remained in the days of his
father Asa, he took out of the land.
47 [There was] then no king in Edom: a
deputy [was] king.
48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish
to go to Ophir for gold: but they went
not; for the ships were broken at
Ezion-geber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab
unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go
with thy servants in the ships. But
Jehoshaphat would not.
50 # And Jehoshaphat slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his
father: and Jehoram his son reigned in
his stead.
51 # Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to
reign over Israel in Samaria the
seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned two years over
Israel.
52 And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the way of his
father, and in the way of his mother,
and in the way of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
53 For he served Baal, and worshipped
him, and provoked to anger the LORD God
of Israel, according to all that his
father had done.

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS

COMMONLY CALLED, THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE
KINGS

CHAPTER 1
1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel
after the death of Ahab.
2 And Ahaziah fell down through a
lattice in his upper chamber that [was]
in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent
messengers, and said unto them, Go,
enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron
whether I shall recover of this
disease.
3 But the angel of the LORD said to
Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to
meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] not
because [there is] not a God in Israel,
[that] ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub
the god of Ekron?
4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD,
Thou shalt not come down from that bed
on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. And Elijah departed.
5 # And when the messengers turned back
unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye
now turned back?
6 And they said unto him, There came a
man up to meet us, and said unto us,
Go, turn again unto the king that sent
you, and say unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, [Is it] not because [there is]
not a God in Israel, [that] thou
sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub the
god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou
art gone up, but shalt surely die.
7 And he said unto them, What manner of
man [was he] which came up to meet you,
and told you these words?
8 And they answered him, [He was] an
hairy man, and girt with a girdle of
leather about his loins. And he said,
It [is] Elijah the Tishbite.
9 Then the king sent unto him a captain
of fifty with his fifty. And he went up
to him: and, behold, he sat on the top
of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou
man of God, the king hath said, Come
down.
10 And Elijah answered and said to the
captain of fifty, If I [be] a man of
God, then let fire come down from
heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.
And there came down fire from heaven,
and consumed him and his fifty.
11 Again also he sent unto him another
captain of fifty with his fifty. And he
answered and said unto him, O man of
God, thus hath the king said, Come down
quickly.
12 And Elijah answered and said unto
them, If I [be] a man of God, let fire
come down from heaven, and consume thee
and thy fifty. And the fire of God came
down from heaven, and consumed him and
his fifty.
13 # And he sent again a captain of the
third fifty with his fifty. And the
third captain of fifty went up, and
came and fell on his knees before
Elijah, and besought him, and said unto
him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my
life, and the life of these fifty thy
servants, be precious in thy sight.
14 Behold, there came fire down from
heaven, and burnt up the two captains
of the former fifties with their
fifties: therefore let my life now be
precious in thy sight.
15 And the angel of the LORD said unto
Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid
of him. And he arose, and went down
with him unto the king.
16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent
messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the
god of Ekron, [is it] not because
[there is] no God in Israel to enquire
of his word? therefore thou shalt not
come down off that bed on which thou
art gone up, but shalt surely die.
17 # So he died according to the word
of the LORD which Elijah had spoken.
And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the
second year of Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he
had no son.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah
which he did, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?

CHAPTER 2
1 And it came to pass, when the LORD
would take up Elijah into heaven by a
whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha
from Gilgal.
2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry
here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath
sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said
[unto him, As] the LORD liveth, and
[as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave
thee. So they went down to Beth-el.
3 And the sons of the prophets that
[were] at Beth-el came forth to Elisha,
and said unto him, Knowest thou that
the LORD will take away thy master from
thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I
know [it]; hold ye your peace.
4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha,
tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD
hath sent me to Jericho. And he said,
[As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So they
came to Jericho.
5 And the sons of the prophets that
[were] at Jericho came to Elisha, and
said unto him, Knowest thou that the
LORD will take away thy master from thy
head to day? And he answered, Yea, I
know [it]; hold ye your peace.
6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I
pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent
me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the
LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee. And they two
went on.
7 And fifty men of the sons of the
prophets went, and stood to view afar
off: and they two stood by Jordan.
8 And Elijah took his mantle, and
wrapped [it] together, and smote the
waters, and they were divided hither
and thither, so that they two went over
on dry ground.
9 # And it came to pass, when they were
gone over, that Elijah said unto
Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee,
before I be taken away from thee. And
Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double
portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard
thing: [nevertheless], if thou see me
[when I am] taken from thee, it shall
be so unto thee; but if not, it shall
not be [so].
11 And it came to pass, as they still
went on, and talked, that, behold,
[there appeared] a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven.
12 # And Elisha saw [it], and he cried,
My father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And
he saw him no more: and he took hold of
his own clothes, and rent them in two
pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah
that fell from him, and went back, and
stood by the bank of Jordan;
14 And he took the mantle of Elijah
that fell from him, and smote the
waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD
God of Elijah? and when he also had
smitten the waters, they parted hither
and thither: and Elisha went over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets
which [were] to view at Jericho saw
him, they said, The spirit of Elijah
doth rest on Elisha. And they came to
meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before him.
16 # And they said unto him, Behold
now, there be with thy servants fifty
strong men; let them go, we pray thee,
and seek thy master: lest peradventure
the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him
up, and cast him upon some mountain, or
into some valley. And he said, Ye shall
not send.
17 And when they urged him till he was
ashamed, he said, Send. They sent
therefore fifty men; and they sought
three days, but found him not.
18 And when they came again to him,
(for he tarried at Jericho,) he said
unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go
not?
19 # And the men of the city said unto
Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the
situation of this city [is] pleasant,
as my lord seeth: but the water [is]
naught, and the ground barren.
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse,
and put salt therein. And they brought
[it] to him.
21 And he went forth unto the spring of
the waters, and cast the salt in there,
and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have
healed these waters; there shall not be
from thence any more death or barren
[land].
22 So the waters were healed unto this
day, according to the saying of Elisha
which he spake.
23 # And he went up from thence unto
Beth-el: and as he was going up by the
way, there came forth little children
out of the city, and mocked him, and
said unto him, Go up, thou bald head;
go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on
them, and cursed them in the name of
the LORD. And there came forth two she
bears out of the wood, and tare forty
and two children of them.
25 And he went from thence to mount
Carmel, and from thence he returned to
Samaria.

CHAPTER 3
1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to
reign over Israel in Samaria the
eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2 And he wrought evil in the sight of
the LORD; but not like his father, and
like his mother: for he put away the
image of Baal that his father had made.
3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which
made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom.
4 # And Mesha king of Moab was a
sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king
of Israel an hundred thousand lambs,
and an hundred thousand rams, with the
wool.
5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was
dead, that the king of Moab rebelled
against the king of Israel.
6 # And king Jehoram went out of
Samaria the same time, and numbered all
Israel.
7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah, saying, The king of
Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt
thou go with me against Moab to battle?
And he said, I will go up: I [am] as
thou [art], my people as thy people,
[and] my horses as thy horses.
8 And he said, Which way shall we go
up? And he answered, The way through
the wilderness of Edom.
9 So the king of Israel went, and the
king of Judah, and the king of Edom:
and they fetched a compass of seven
days' journey: and there was no water
for the host, and for the cattle that
followed them.
10 And the king of Israel said, Alas!
that the LORD hath called these three
kings together, to deliver them into
the hand of Moab!
11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not
here a prophet of the LORD, that we may
enquire of the LORD by him? And one of
the king of Israel's servants answered
and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of
Shaphat, which poured water on the
hands of Elijah.
12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of
the LORD is with him. So the king of
Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of
Edom went down to him.
13 And Elisha said unto the king of
Israel, What have I to do with thee?
get thee to the prophets of thy father,
and to the prophets of thy mother. And
the king of Israel said unto him, Nay:
for the LORD hath called these three
kings together, to deliver them into
the hand of Moab.
14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of
hosts liveth, before whom I stand,
surely, were it not that I regard the
presence of Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah, I would not look toward thee,
nor see thee.
15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it
came to pass, when the minstrel played,
that the hand of the LORD came upon
him.
16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD,
Make this valley full of ditches.
17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall
not see wind, neither shall ye see
rain; yet that valley shall be filled
with water, that ye may drink, both ye,
and your cattle, and your beasts.
18 And this is [but] a light thing in
the sight of the LORD: he will deliver
the Moabites also into your hand.
19 And ye shall smite every fenced
city, and every choice city, and shall
fell every good tree, and stop all
wells of water, and mar every good
piece of land with stones.
20 And it came to pass in the morning,
when the meat offering was offered,
that, behold, there came water by the
way of Edom, and the country was filled
with water.
21 # And when all the Moabites heard
that the kings were come up to fight
against them, they gathered all that
were able to put on armour, and upward,
and stood in the border.
22 And they rose up early in the
morning, and the sun shone upon the
water, and the Moabites saw the water
on the other side [as] red as blood:
23 And they said, This [is] blood: the
kings are surely slain, and they have
smitten one another: now therefore,
Moab, to the spoil.
24 And when they came to the camp of
Israel, the Israelites rose up and
smote the Moabites, so that they fled
before them: but they went forward
smiting the Moabites, even in [their]
country.
25 And they beat down the cities, and
on every good piece of land cast every
man his stone, and filled it; and they
stopped all the wells of water, and
felled all the good trees: only in
Kir-haraseth left they the stones
thereof; howbeit the slingers went
about [it], and smote it.
26 # And when the king of Moab saw that
the battle was too sore for him, he
took with him seven hundred men that
drew swords, to break through [even]
unto the king of Edom: but they could
not.
27 Then he took his eldest son that
should have reigned in his stead, and
offered him [for] a burnt offering upon
the wall. And there was great
indignation against Israel: and they
departed from him, and returned to
[their own] land.

CHAPTER 4
1 Now there cried a certain woman of
the wives of the sons of the prophets
unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my
husband is dead; and thou knowest that
thy servant did fear the LORD: and the
creditor is come to take unto him my
two sons to be bondmen.
2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall
I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou
in the house? And she said, Thine
handmaid hath not any thing in the
house, save a pot of oil.
3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels
abroad of all thy neighbours, [even]
empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt
shut the door upon thee and upon thy
sons, and shalt pour out into all those
vessels, and thou shalt set aside that
which is full.
5 So she went from him, and shut the
door upon her and upon her sons, who
brought [the vessels] to her; and she
poured out.
6 And it came to pass, when the vessels
were full, that she said unto her son,
Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto
her, [There is] not a vessel more. And
the oil stayed.
7 Then she came and told the man of
God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and
pay thy debt, and live thou and thy
children of the rest.
8 # And it fell on a day, that Elisha
passed to Shunem, where [was] a great
woman; and she constrained him to eat
bread. And [so] it was, [that] as oft
as he passed by, he turned in thither
to eat bread.
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold
now, I perceive that this [is] an holy
man of God, which passeth by us
continually.
10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray
thee, on the wall; and let us set for
him there a bed, and a table, and a
stool, and a candlestick: and it shall
be, when he cometh to us, that he shall
turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came
thither, and he turned into the
chamber, and lay there.
12 And he said to Gehazi his servant,
Call this Shunammite. And when he had
called her, she stood before him.
13 And he said unto him, Say now unto
her, Behold, thou hast been careful for
us with all this care; what [is] to be
done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken
for to the king, or to the captain of
the host? And she answered, I dwell
among mine own people.
14 And he said, What then [is] to be
done for her? And Gehazi answered,
Verily she hath no child, and her
husband is old.
15 And he said, Call her. And when he
had called her, she stood in the door.
16 And he said, About this season,
according to the time of life, thou
shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay,
my lord, [thou] man of God, do not lie
unto thine handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a
son at that season that Elisha had said
unto her, according to the time of
life.
18 # And when the child was grown, it
fell on a day, that he went out to his
father to the reapers.
19 And he said unto his father, My
head, my head. And he said to a lad,
Carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him, and
brought him to his mother, he sat on
her knees till noon, and [then] died.
21 And she went up, and laid him on the
bed of the man of God, and shut [the
door] upon him, and went out.
22 And she called unto her husband, and
said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the
young men, and one of the asses, that I
may run to the man of God, and come
again.
23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go
to him to day? [it is] neither new
moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It
shall be] well.
24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to
her servant, Drive, and go forward;
slack not [thy] riding for me, except I
bid thee.
25 So she went and came unto the man of
God to mount Carmel. And it came to
pass, when the man of God saw her afar
off, that he said to Gehazi his
servant, Behold, [yonder is] that
Shunammite:
26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her,
and say unto her, [Is it] well with
thee? [is it] well with thy husband?
[is it] well with the child? And she
answered, [It is] well.
27 And when she came to the man of God
to the hill, she caught him by the
feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust
her away. And the man of God said, Let
her alone; for her soul [is] vexed
within her: and the LORD hath hid [it]
from me, and hath not told me.
28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of
my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive
me?
29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy
loins, and take my staff in thine hand,
and go thy way: if thou meet any man,
salute him not; and if any salute thee,
answer him not again: and lay my staff
upon the face of the child.
30 And the mother of the child said,
[As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And he
arose, and followed her.
31 And Gehazi passed on before them,
and laid the staff upon the face of the
child; but [there was] neither voice,
nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to
meet him, and told him, saying, The
child is not awaked.
32 And when Elisha was come into the
house, behold, the child was dead,
[and] laid upon his bed.
33 He went in therefore, and shut the
door upon them twain, and prayed unto
the LORD.
34 And he went up, and lay upon the
child, and put his mouth upon his
mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and
his hands upon his hands: and he
stretched himself upon the child; and
the flesh of the child waxed warm.
35 Then he returned, and walked in the
house to and fro; and went up, and
stretched himself upon him: and the
child sneezed seven times, and the
child opened his eyes.
36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call
this Shunammite. So he called her. And
when she was come in unto him, he said,
Take up thy son.
37 Then she went in, and fell at his
feet, and bowed herself to the ground,
and took up her son, and went out.
38 # And Elisha came again to Gilgal:
and [there was] a dearth in the land;
and the sons of the prophets [were]
sitting before him: and he said unto
his servant, Set on the great pot, and
seethe pottage for the sons of the
prophets.
39 And one went out into the field to
gather herbs, and found a wild vine,
and gathered thereof wild gourds his
lap full, and came and shred [them]
into the pot of pottage: for they knew
[them] not.
40 So they poured out for the men to
eat. And it came to pass, as they were
eating of the pottage, that they cried
out, and said, O [thou] man of God,
[there is] death in the pot. And they
could not eat [thereof].
41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he
cast [it] into the pot; and he said,
Pour out for the people, that they may
eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
42 # And there came a man from
Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of
God bread of the firstfruits, twenty
loaves of barley, and full ears of corn
in the husk thereof. And he said, Give
unto the people, that they may eat.
43 And his servitor said, What, should
I set this before an hundred men? He
said again, Give the people, that they
may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They
shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
44 So he set [it] before them, and they
did eat, and left [thereof], according
to the word of the LORD.

CHAPTER 5
1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of
the king of Syria, was a great man with
his master, and honourable, because by
him the LORD had given deliverance unto
Syria: he was also a mighty man in
valour, [but he was] a leper.
2 And the Syrians had gone out by
companies, and had brought away captive
out of the land of Israel a little
maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
3 And she said unto her mistress, Would
God my lord [were] with the prophet
that [is] in Samaria! for he would
recover him of his leprosy.
4 And [one] went in, and told his lord,
saying, Thus and thus said the maid
that [is] of the land of Israel.
5 And the king of Syria said, Go to,
go, and I will send a letter unto the
king of Israel. And he departed, and
took with him ten talents of silver,
and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and
ten changes of raiment.
6 And he brought the letter to the king
of Israel, saying, Now when this letter
is come unto thee, behold, I have
[therewith] sent Naaman my servant to
thee, that thou mayest recover him of
his leprosy.
7 And it came to pass, when the king of
Israel had read the letter, that he
rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God,
to kill and to make alive, that this
man doth send unto me to recover a man
of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I
pray you, and see how he seeketh a
quarrel against me.
8 # And it was [so], when Elisha the
man of God had heard that the king of
Israel had rent his clothes, that he
sent to the king, saying, Wherefore
hast thou rent thy clothes? let him
come now to me, and he shall know that
there is a prophet in Israel.
9 So Naaman came with his horses and
with his chariot, and stood at the door
of the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto
him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan
seven times, and thy flesh shall come
again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away,
and said, Behold, I thought, He will
surely come out to me, and stand, and
call on the name of the LORD his God,
and strike his hand over the place, and
recover the leper.
12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers
of Damascus, better than all the waters
of Israel? may I not wash in them, and
be clean? So he turned and went away in
a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and
spake unto him, and said, My father,
[if] the prophet had bid thee [do some]
great thing, wouldest thou not have
done [it]? how much rather then, when
he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
14 Then went he down, and dipped
himself seven times in Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of
God: and his flesh came again like unto
the flesh of a little child, and he was
clean.
15 # And he returned to the man of God,
he and all his company, and came, and
stood before him: and he said, Behold,
now I know that [there is] no God in
all the earth, but in Israel: now
therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing
of thy servant.
16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth,
before whom I stand, I will receive
none. And he urged him to take [it];
but he refused.
17 And Naaman said, Shall there not
then, I pray thee, be given to thy
servant two mules' burden of earth? for
thy servant will henceforth offer
neither burnt offering nor sacrifice
unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy
servant, [that] when my master goeth
into the house of Rimmon to worship
there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I
bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when
I bow down myself in the house of
Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in
this thing.
19 And he said unto him, Go in peace.
So he departed from him a little way.
20 # But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha
the man of God, said, Behold, my master
hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
receiving at his hands that which he
brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I
will run after him, and take somewhat
of him.
21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And
when Naaman saw [him] running after
him, he lighted down from the chariot
to meet him, and said, [Is] all well?
22 And he said, All [is] well. My
master hath sent me, saying, Behold,
even now there be come to me from mount
Ephraim two young men of the sons of
the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a
talent of silver, and two changes of
garments.
23 And Naaman said, Be content, take
two talents. And he urged him, and
bound two talents of silver in two
bags, with two changes of garments, and
laid [them] upon two of his servants;
and they bare [them] before him.
24 And when he came to the tower, he
took [them] from their hand, and
bestowed [them] in the house: and he
let the men go, and they departed.
25 But he went in, and stood before his
master. And Elisha said unto him,
Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he
said, Thy servant went no whither.
26 And he said unto him, Went not mine
heart [with thee], when the man turned
again from his chariot to meet thee?
[Is it] a time to receive money, and to
receive garments, and oliveyards, and
vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and maidservants?
27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman
shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy
seed for ever. And he went out from his
presence a leper [as white] as snow.

CHAPTER 6
1 And the sons of the prophets said
unto Elisha, Behold now, the place
where we dwell with thee is too strait
for us.
2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan,
and take thence every man a beam, and
let us make us a place there, where we
may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
3 And one said, Be content, I pray
thee, and go with thy servants. And he
answered, I will go.
4 So he went with them. And when they
came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 But as one was felling a beam, the
axe head fell into the water: and he
cried, and said, Alas, master! for it
was borrowed.
6 And the man of God said, Where fell
it? And he shewed him the place. And he
cut down a stick, and cast [it] in
thither; and the iron did swim.
7 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to
thee. And he put out his hand, and took
it.
8 # Then the king of Syria warred
against Israel, and took counsel with
his servants, saying, In such and such
a place [shall be] my camp.
9 And the man of God sent unto the king
of Israel, saying, Beware that thou
pass not such a place; for thither the
Syrians are come down.
10 And the king of Israel sent to the
place which the man of God told him and
warned him of, and saved himself there,
not once nor twice.
11 Therefore the heart of the king of
Syria was sore troubled for this thing;
and he called his servants, and said
unto them, Will ye not shew me which of
us [is] for the king of Israel?
12 And one of his servants said, None,
my lord, O king: but Elisha, the
prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth
the king of Israel the words that thou
speakest in thy bedchamber.
13 # And he said, Go and spy where he
[is], that I may send and fetch him.
And it was told him, saying, Behold,
[he is] in Dothan.
14 Therefore sent he thither horses,
and chariots, and a great host: and
they came by night, and compassed the
city about.
15 And when the servant of the man of
God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, an host compassed the city both
with horses and chariots. And his
servant said unto him, Alas, my master!
how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they
that [be] with us [are] more than they
that [be] with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I
pray thee, open his eyes, that he may
see. And the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold,
the mountain [was] full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him,
Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said,
Smite this people, I pray thee, with
blindness. And he smote them with
blindness according to the word of
Elisha.
19 # And Elisha said unto them, This
[is] not the way, neither [is] this the
city: follow me, and I will bring you
to the man whom ye seek. But he led
them to Samaria.
20 And it came to pass, when they were
come into Samaria, that Elisha said,
LORD, open the eyes of these [men],
that they may see. And the LORD opened
their eyes, and they saw; and, behold,
[they were] in the midst of Samaria.
21 And the king of Israel said unto
Elisha, when he saw them, My father,
shall I smite [them]? shall I smite
[them]?
22 And he answered, Thou shalt not
smite [them]: wouldest thou smite those
whom thou hast taken captive with thy
sword and with thy bow? set bread and
water before them, that they may eat
and drink, and go to their master.
23 And he prepared great provision for
them: and when they had eaten and
drunk, he sent them away, and they went
to their master. So the bands of Syria
came no more into the land of Israel.
24 # And it came to pass after this,
that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered
all his host, and went up, and besieged
Samaria.
25 And there was a great famine in
Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it,
until an ass's head was [sold] for
fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the
fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for
five [pieces] of silver.
26 And as the king of Israel was
passing by upon the wall, there cried a
woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord,
O king.
27 And he said, If the LORD do not help
thee, whence shall I help thee? out of
the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
28 And the king said unto her, What
aileth thee? And she answered, This
woman said unto me, Give thy son, that
we may eat him to day, and we will eat
my son to morrow.
29 So we boiled my son, and did eat
him: and I said unto her on the next
day, Give thy son, that we may eat him:
and she hath hid her son.
30 # And it came to pass, when the king
heard the words of the woman, that he
rent his clothes; and he passed by upon
the wall, and the people looked, and,
behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon
his flesh.
31 Then he said, God do so and more
also to me, if the head of Elisha the
son of Shaphat shall stand on him this
day.
32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the
elders sat with him; and [the king]
sent a man from before him: but ere the
messenger came to him, he said to the
elders, See ye how this son of a
murderer hath sent to take away mine
head? look, when the messenger cometh,
shut the door, and hold him fast at the
door: [is] not the sound of his
master's feet behind him?
33 And while he yet talked with them,
behold, the messenger came down unto
him: and he said, Behold, this evil
[is] of the LORD; what should I wait
for the LORD any longer?

CHAPTER 7
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of
the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To
morrow about this time [shall] a
measure of fine flour [be sold] for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for
a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king
leaned answered the man of God, and
said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make
windows in heaven, might this thing be?
And he said, Behold, thou shalt see
[it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.
3 # And there were four leprous men at
the entering in of the gate: and they
said one to another, Why sit we here
until we die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the
city, then the famine [is] in the city,
and we shall die there: and if we sit
still here, we die also. Now therefore
come, and let us fall unto the host of
the Syrians: if they save us alive, we
shall live; and if they kill us, we
shall but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to
go unto the camp of the Syrians: and
when they were come to the uttermost
part of the camp of Syria, behold,
[there was] no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the
Syrians to hear a noise of chariots,
and a noise of horses, [even] the noise
of a great host: and they said one to
another, Lo, the king of Israel hath
hired against us the kings of the
Hittites, and the kings of the
Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the
twilight, and left their tents, and
their horses, and their asses, even the
camp as it [was], and fled for their
life.
8 And when these lepers came to the
uttermost part of the camp, they went
into one tent, and did eat and drink,
and carried thence silver, and gold,
and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and
came again, and entered into another
tent, and carried thence [also], and
went and hid [it].
9 Then they said one to another, We do
not well: this day [is] a day of good
tidings, and we hold our peace: if we
tarry till the morning light, some
mischief will come upon us: now
therefore come, that we may go and tell
the king's household.
10 So they came and called unto the
porter of the city: and they told them,
saying, We came to the camp of the
Syrians, and, behold, [there was] no
man there, neither voice of man, but
horses tied, and asses tied, and the
tents as they [were].
11 And he called the porters; and they
told [it] to the king's house within.
12 # And the king arose in the night,
and said unto his servants, I will now
shew you what the Syrians have done to
us. They know that we [be] hungry;
therefore are they gone out of the camp
to hide themselves in the field,
saying, When they come out of the city,
we shall catch them alive, and get into
the city.
13 And one of his servants answered and
said, Let [some] take, I pray thee,
five of the horses that remain, which
are left in the city, (behold, they
[are] as all the multitude of Israel
that are left in it: behold, [I say],
they [are] even as all the multitude of
the Israelites that are consumed:) and
let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two chariot
horses; and the king sent after the
host of the Syrians, saying, Go and
see.
15 And they went after them unto
Jordan: and, lo, all the way [was] full
of garments and vessels, which the
Syrians had cast away in their haste.
And the messengers returned, and told
the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled
the tents of the Syrians. So a measure
of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a
shekel, according to the word of the
LORD.
17 # And the king appointed the lord on
whose hand he leaned to have the charge
of the gate: and the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died, as the
man of God had said, who spake when the
king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of
God had spoken to the king, saying, Two
measures of barley for a shekel, and a
measure of fine flour for a shekel,
shall be to morrow about this time in
the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of
God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the
LORD should make windows in heaven,
might such a thing be? And he said,
Behold, thou shalt see it with thine
eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the
people trode upon him in the gate, and
he died.

CHAPTER 8
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman,
whose son he had restored to life,
saying, Arise, and go thou and thine
household, and sojourn wheresoever thou
canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called
for a famine; and it shall also come
upon the land seven years.
2 And the woman arose, and did after
the saying of the man of God: and she
went with her household, and sojourned
in the land of the Philistines seven
years.
3 And it came to pass at the seven
years' end, that the woman returned out
of the land of the Philistines: and she
went forth to cry unto the king for her
house and for her land.
4 And the king talked with Gehazi the
servant of the man of God, saying, Tell
me, I pray thee, all the great things
that Elisha hath done.
5 And it came to pass, as he was
telling the king how he had restored a
dead body to life, that, behold, the
woman, whose son he had restored to
life, cried to the king for her house
and for her land. And Gehazi said, My
lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and
this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored
to life.
6 And when the king asked the woman,
she told him. So the king appointed
unto her a certain officer, saying,
Restore all that [was] hers, and all
the fruits of the field since the day
that she left the land, even until now.
7 # And Elisha came to Damascus; and
Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick;
and it was told him, saying, The man of
God is come hither.
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a
present in thine hand, and go, meet the
man of God, and enquire of the LORD by
him, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took
a present with him, even of every good
thing of Damascus, forty camels'
burden, and came and stood before him,
and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying,
Shall I recover of this disease?
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say
unto him, Thou mayest certainly
recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed
me that he shall surely die.
11 And he settled his countenance
stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and
the man of God wept.
12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my
lord? And he answered, Because I know
the evil that thou wilt do unto the
children of Israel: their strong holds
wilt thou set on fire, and their young
men wilt thou slay with the sword, and
wilt dash their children, and rip up
their women with child.
13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy
servant a dog, that he should do this
great thing? And Elisha answered, The
LORD hath shewed me that thou [shalt
be] king over Syria.
14 So he departed from Elisha, and came
to his master; who said to him, What
said Elisha to thee? And he answered,
He told me [that] thou shouldest surely
recover.
15 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that he took a thick cloth, and dipped
[it] in water, and spread [it] on his
face, so that he died: and Hazael
reigned in his stead.
16 # And in the fifth year of Joram the
son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat
[being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the
son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began
to reign.
17 Thirty and two years old was he when
he began to reign; and he reigned eight
years in Jerusalem.
18 And he walked in the way of the
kings of Israel, as did the house of
Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his
wife: and he did evil in the sight of
the LORD.
19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah
for David his servant's sake, as he
promised him to give him alway a light,
[and] to his children.
20 # In his days Edom revolted from
under the hand of Judah, and made a
king over themselves.
21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all
the chariots with him: and he rose by
night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him about, and the captains
of the chariots: and the people fled
into their tents.
22 Yet Edom revolted from under the
hand of Judah unto this day. Then
Libnah revolted at the same time.
23 And the rest of the acts of Joram,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
24 And Joram slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead.
25 # In the twelfth year of Joram the
son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah
the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin
to reign.
26 Two and twenty years old [was]
Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Athaliah, the
daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 And he walked in the way of the
house of Ahab, and did evil in the
sight of the LORD, as [did] the house
of Ahab: for he [was] the son in law of
the house of Ahab.
28 # And he went with Joram the son of
Ahab to the war against Hazael king of
Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram.
29 And king Joram went back to be
healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him at Ramah,
when he fought against Hazael king of
Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah went down to see Joram
the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he
was sick.

CHAPTER 9
1 And Elisha the prophet called one of
the children of the prophets, and said
unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take
this box of oil in thine hand, and go
to Ramoth-gilead:
2 And when thou comest thither, look
out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat
the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make
him arise up from among his brethren,
and carry him to an inner chamber;
3 Then take the box of oil, and pour
[it] on his head, and say, Thus saith
the LORD, I have anointed thee king
over Israel. Then open the door, and
flee, and tarry not.
4 # So the young man, [even] the young
man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
5 And when he came, behold, the
captains of the host [were] sitting;
and he said, I have an errand to thee,
O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of
all us? And he said, To thee, O
captain.
6 And he arose, and went into the
house; and he poured the oil on his
head, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, I have anointed
thee king over the people of the LORD,
[even] over Israel.
7 And thou shalt smite the house of
Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the
blood of my servants the prophets, and
the blood of all the servants of the
LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
8 For the whole house of Ahab shall
perish: and I will cut off from Ahab
him that pisseth against the wall, and
him that is shut up and left in Israel:
9 And I will make the house of Ahab
like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the
son of Ahijah:
10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in
the portion of Jezreel, and [there
shall be] none to bury [her]. And he
opened the door, and fled.
11 # Then Jehu came forth to the
servants of his lord: and [one] said
unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came
this mad [fellow] to thee? And he said
unto them, Ye know the man, and his
communication.
12 And they said, [It is] false; tell
us now. And he said, Thus and thus
spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the
LORD, I have anointed thee king over
Israel.
13 Then they hasted, and took every man
his garment, and put [it] under him on
the top of the stairs, and blew with
trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the
son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.
(Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he
and all Israel, because of Hazael king
of Syria.
15 But king Joram was returned to be
healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him, when he
fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And
Jehu said, If it be your minds, [then]
let none go forth [nor] escape out of
the city to go to tell [it] in Jezreel.
16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went
to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And
Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to
see Joram.
17 And there stood a watchman on the
tower in Jezreel, and he spied the
company of Jehu as he came, and said, I
see a company. And Joram said, Take an
horseman, and send to meet them, and
let him say, [Is it] peace?
18 So there went one on horseback to
meet him, and said, Thus saith the
king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said,
What hast thou to do with peace? turn
thee behind me. And the watchman told,
saying, The messenger came to them, but
he cometh not again.
19 Then he sent out a second on
horseback, which came to them, and
said, Thus saith the king, [Is it]
peace? And Jehu answered, What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind
me.
20 And the watchman told, saying, He
came even unto them, and cometh not
again: and the driving [is] like the
driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for
he driveth furiously.
21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his
chariot was made ready. And Joram king
of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah
went out, each in his chariot, and they
went out against Jehu, and met him in
the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw
Jehu, that he said, [Is it] peace,
Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so
long as the whoredoms of thy mother
Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so]
many?
23 And Joram turned his hands, and
fled, and said to Ahaziah, [There is]
treachery, O Ahaziah.
24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full
strength, and smote Jehoram between his
arms, and the arrow went out at his
heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his
captain, Take up, [and] cast him in the
portion of the field of Naboth the
Jezreelite: for remember how that, when
I and thou rode together after Ahab his
father, the LORD laid this burden upon
him;
26 Surely I have seen yesterday the
blood of Naboth, and the blood of his
sons, saith the LORD; and I will
requite thee in this plat, saith the
LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him
into the plat [of ground], according to
the word of the LORD.
27 # But when Ahaziah the king of Judah
saw [this], he fled by the way of the
garden house. And Jehu followed after
him, and said, Smite him also in the
chariot. [And they did so] at the going
up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he
fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28 And his servants carried him in a
chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in
his sepulchre with his fathers in the
city of David.
29 And in the eleventh year of Joram
the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign
over Judah.
30 # And when Jehu was come to Jezreel,
Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted
her face, and tired her head, and
looked out at a window.
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate,
she said, [Had] Zimri peace, who slew
his master?
32 And he lifted up his face to the
window, and said, Who [is] on my side?
who? And there looked out to him two
[or] three eunuchs.
33 And he said, Throw her down. So they
threw her down: and [some] of her blood
was sprinkled on the wall, and on the
horses: and he trode her under foot.
34 And when he was come in, he did eat
and drink, and said, Go, see now this
cursed [woman], and bury her: for she
[is] a king's daughter.
35 And they went to bury her: but they
found no more of her than the skull,
and the feet, and the palms of [her]
hands.
36 Wherefore they came again, and told
him. And he said, This [is] the word of
the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the
portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the
flesh of Jezebel:
37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be
as dung upon the face of the field in
the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they
shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.

CHAPTER 10
1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria.
And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to
Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to
the elders, and to them that brought up
Ahab's [children], saying,
2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to
you, seeing your master's sons [are]
with you, and [there are] with you
chariots and horses, a fenced city
also, and armour;
3 Look even out the best and meetest of
your master's sons, and set [him] on
his father's throne, and fight for your
master's house.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and
said, Behold, two kings stood not
before him: how then shall we stand?
5 And he that [was] over the house, and
he that [was] over the city, the elders
also, and the bringers up [of the
children], sent to Jehu, saying, We
[are] thy servants, and will do all
that thou shalt bid us; we will not
make any king: do thou [that which is]
good in thine eyes.
6 Then he wrote a letter the second
time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine,
and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice,
take ye the heads of the men your
master's sons, and come to me to
Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the
king's sons, [being] seventy persons,
[were] with the great men of the city,
which brought them up.
7 And it came to pass, when the letter
came to them, that they took the king's
sons, and slew seventy persons, and put
their heads in baskets, and sent him
[them] to Jezreel.
8 # And there came a messenger, and
told him, saying, They have brought the
heads of the king's sons. And he said,
Lay ye them in two heaps at the
entering in of the gate until the
morning.
9 And it came to pass in the morning,
that he went out, and stood, and said
to all the people, Ye [be] righteous:
behold, I conspired against my master,
and slew him: but who slew all these?
10 Know now that there shall fall unto
the earth nothing of the word of the
LORD, which the LORD spake concerning
the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath
done [that] which he spake by his
servant Elijah.
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of
the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all
his great men, and his kinsfolks, and
his priests, until he left him none
remaining.
12 # And he arose and departed, and
came to Samaria. [And] as he [was] at
the shearing house in the way,
13 Jehu met with the brethren of
Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who
[are] ye? And they answered, We [are]
the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down
to salute the children of the king and
the children of the queen.
14 And he said, Take them alive. And
they took them alive, and slew them at
the pit of the shearing house, [even]
two and forty men; neither left he any
of them.
15 # And when he was departed thence,
he lighted on Jehonadab the son of
Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he
saluted him, and said to him, Is thine
heart right, as my heart [is] with thy
heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is.
If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he
gave [him] his hand; and he took him up
to him into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see
my zeal for the LORD. So they made him
ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew
all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria,
till he had destroyed him, according to
the saying of the LORD, which he spake
to Elijah.
18 # And Jehu gathered all the people
together, and said unto them, Ahab
served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall
serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the
prophets of Baal, all his servants, and
all his priests; let none be wanting:
for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to
Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he
shall not live. But Jehu did [it] in
subtilty, to the intent that he might
destroy the worshippers of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn
assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed
[it].
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel:
and all the worshippers of Baal came,
so that there was not a man left that
came not. And they came into the house
of Baal; and the house of Baal was full
from one end to another.
22 And he said unto him that [was] over
the vestry, Bring forth vestments for
all the worshippers of Baal. And he
brought them forth vestments.
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son
of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and
said unto the worshippers of Baal,
Search, and look that there be here
with you none of the servants of the
LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to offer
sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu
appointed fourscore men without, and
said, [If] any of the men whom I have
brought into your hands escape, [he
that letteth him go], his life [shall
be] for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he
had made an end of offering the burnt
offering, that Jehu said to the guard
and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay
them; let none come forth. And they
smote them with the edge of the sword;
and the guard and the captains cast
[them] out, and went to the city of the
house of Baal.
26 And they brought forth the images
out of the house of Baal, and burned
them.
27 And they brake down the image of
Baal, and brake down the house of Baal,
and made it a draught house unto this
day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of
Israel.
29 # Howbeit [from] the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from
after them, [to wit], the golden calves
that [were] in Beth-el, and that [were]
in Dan.
30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because
thou hast done well in executing [that
which is] right in mine eyes, [and]
hast done unto the house of Ahab
according to all that [was] in mine
heart, thy children of the fourth
[generation] shall sit on the throne of
Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the
law of the LORD God of Israel with all
his heart: for he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to
sin.
32 # In those days the LORD began to
cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them
in all the coasts of Israel;
33 From Jordan eastward, all the land
of Gilead, the Gadites, and the
Reubenites, and the Manassites, from
Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon,
even Gilead and Bashan.
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu,
and all that he did, and all his might,
[are] they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and
they buried him in Samaria. And
Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over
Israel in Samaria [was] twenty and
eight years.

CHAPTER 11
1 And when Athaliah the mother of
Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she
arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king
Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash
the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from
among the king's sons [which were]
slain; and they hid him, [even] him and
his nurse, in the bedchamber from
Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house
of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did
reign over the land.
4 # And the seventh year Jehoiada sent
and fetched the rulers over hundreds,
with the captains and the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of
the LORD, and made a covenant with
them, and took an oath of them in the
house of the LORD, and shewed them the
king's son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, This
[is] the thing that ye shall do; A
third part of you that enter in on the
sabbath shall even be keepers of the
watch of the king's house;
6 And a third part [shall be] at the
gate of Sur; and a third part at the
gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep
the watch of the house, that it be not
broken down.
7 And two parts of all you that go
forth on the sabbath, even they shall
keep the watch of the house of the LORD
about the king.
8 And ye shall compass the king round
about, every man with his weapons in
his hand: and he that cometh within the
ranges, let him be slain: and be ye
with the king as he goeth out and as he
cometh in.
9 And the captains over the hundreds
did according to all [things] that
Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they
took every man his men that were to
come in on the sabbath, with them that
should go out on the sabbath, and came
to Jehoiada the priest.
10 And to the captains over hundreds
did the priest give king David's spears
and shields, that [were] in the temple
of the LORD.
11 And the guard stood, every man with
his weapons in his hand, round about
the king, from the right corner of the
temple to the left corner of the
temple, [along] by the altar and the
temple.
12 And he brought forth the king's son,
and put the crown upon him, and [gave
him] the testimony; and they made him
king, and anointed him; and they
clapped their hands, and said, God save
the king.
13 # And when Athaliah heard the noise
of the guard [and] of the people, she
came to the people into the temple of
the LORD.
14 And when she looked, behold, the
king stood by a pillar, as the manner
[was], and the princes and the
trumpeters by the king, and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew
with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded
the captains of the hundreds, the
officers of the host, and said unto
them, Have her forth without the
ranges: and him that followeth her kill
with the sword. For the priest had
said, Let her not be slain in the house
of the LORD.
16 And they laid hands on her; and she
went by the way by the which the horses
came into the king's house: and there
was she slain.
17 # And Jehoiada made a covenant
between the LORD and the king and the
people, that they should be the LORD'S
people; between the king also and the
people.
18 And all the people of the land went
into the house of Baal, and brake it
down; his altars and his images brake
they in pieces thoroughly, and slew
Mattan the priest of Baal before the
altars. And the priest appointed
officers over the house of the LORD.
19 And he took the rulers over
hundreds, and the captains, and the
guard, and all the people of the land;
and they brought down the king from the
house of the LORD, and came by the way
of the gate of the guard to the king's
house. And he sat on the throne of the
kings.
20 And all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was in quiet:
and they slew Athaliah with the sword
[beside] the king's house.
21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when
he began to reign.

CHAPTER 12
1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash
began to reign; and forty years reigned
he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 And Jehoash did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD all his
days wherein Jehoiada the priest
instructed him.
3 But the high places were not taken
away: the people still sacrificed and
burnt incense in the high places.
4 # And Jehoash said to the priests,
All the money of the dedicated things
that is brought into the house of the
LORD, [even] the money of every one
that passeth [the account], the money
that every man is set at, [and] all the
money that cometh into any man's heart
to bring into the house of the LORD,
5 Let the priests take [it] to them,
every man of his acquaintance: and let
them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
6 But it was [so, that] in the three
and twentieth year of king Jehoash the
priests had not repaired the breaches
of the house.
7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada
the priest, and the [other] priests,
and said unto them, Why repair ye not
the breaches of the house? now
therefore receive no [more] money of
your acquaintance, but deliver it for
the breaches of the house.
8 And the priests consented to receive
no [more] money of the people, neither
to repair the breaches of the house.
9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest,
and bored a hole in the lid of it, and
set it beside the altar, on the right
side as one cometh into the house of
the LORD: and the priests that kept the
door put therein all the money [that
was] brought into the house of the
LORD.
10 And it was [so], when they saw that
[there was] much money in the chest,
that the king's scribe and the high
priest came up, and they put up in
bags, and told the money that was found
in the house of the LORD.
11 And they gave the money, being told,
into the hands of them that did the
work, that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD: and they laid it out
to the carpenters and builders, that
wrought upon the house of the LORD,
12 And to masons, and hewers of stone,
and to buy timber and hewed stone to
repair the breaches of the house of the
LORD, and for all that was laid out for
the house to repair [it].
13 Howbeit there were not made for the
house of the LORD bowls of silver,
snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels
of gold, or vessels of silver, of the
money [that was] brought into the house
of the LORD:
14 But they gave that to the workmen,
and repaired therewith the house of the
LORD.
15 Moreover they reckoned not with the
men, into whose hand they delivered the
money to be bestowed on workmen: for
they dealt faithfully.
16 The trespass money and sin money was
not brought into the house of the LORD:
it was the priests'.
17 # Then Hazael king of Syria went up,
and fought against Gath, and took it:
and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem.
18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all
the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat,
and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers,
kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his
own hallowed things, and all the gold
[that was] found in the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and in the
king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael
king of Syria: and he went away from
Jerusalem.
19 # And the rest of the acts of Joash,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
20 And his servants arose, and made a
conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house
of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath,
and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his
servants, smote him, and he died; and
they buried him with his fathers in the
city of David: and Amaziah his son
reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 13
1 In the three and twentieth year of
Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah
Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign
over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned]
seventeen years.
2 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, and followed the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin; he departed
not therefrom.
3 # And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael
king of Syria, and into the hand of
Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all
[their] days.
4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and
the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw
the oppression of Israel, because the
king of Syria oppressed them.
5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour,
so that they went out from under the
hand of the Syrians: and the children
of Israel dwelt in their tents, as
beforetime.
6 Nevertheless they departed not from
the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who
made Israel sin, [but] walked therein:
and there remained the grove also in
Samaria.)
7 Neither did he leave of the people to
Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten
chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for
the king of Syria had destroyed them,
and had made them like the dust by
threshing.
8 # Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his
might, [are] they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers;
and they buried him in Samaria: and
Joash his son reigned in his stead.
10 # In the thirty and seventh year of
Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the
son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
11 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD; he departed not
from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he
walked therein.
12 And the rest of the acts of Joash,
and all that he did, and his might
wherewith he fought against Amaziah
king of Judah, [are] they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
13 And Joash slept with his fathers;
and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and
Joash was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel.
14 # Now Elisha was fallen sick of his
sickness whereof he died. And Joash the
king of Israel came down unto him, and
wept over his face, and said, O my
father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow
and arrows. And he took unto him bow
and arrows.
16 And he said to the king of Israel,
Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put
his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his
hands upon the king's hands.
17 And he said, Open the window
eastward. And he opened [it]. Then
Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he
said, The arrow of the LORD'S
deliverance, and the arrow of
deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt
smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou
have consumed [them].
18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he
took [them]. And he said unto the king
of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And
he smote thrice, and stayed.
19 And the man of God was wroth with
him, and said, Thou shouldest have
smitten five or six times; then hadst
thou smitten Syria till thou hadst
consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt
smite Syria [but] thrice.
20 # And Elisha died, and they buried
him. And the bands of the Moabites
invaded the land at the coming in of
the year.
21 And it came to pass, as they were
burying a man, that, behold, they spied
a band [of men]; and they cast the man
into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when
the man was let down, and touched the
bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood
up on his feet.
22 # But Hazael king of Syria oppressed
Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
23 And the LORD was gracious unto them,
and had compassion on them, and had
respect unto them, because of his
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and would not destroy them,
neither cast he them from his presence
as yet.
24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and
Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead.
25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took
again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the
son of Hazael the cities, which he had
taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his
father by war. Three times did Joash
beat him, and recovered the cities of
Israel.

CHAPTER 14
1 In the second year of Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah
the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 He was twenty and five years old when
he began to reign, and reigned twenty
and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of
Jerusalem.
3 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, yet not like
David his father: he did according to
all things as Joash his father did.
4 Howbeit the high places were not
taken away: as yet the people did
sacrifice and burnt incense on the high
places.
5 # And it came to pass, as soon as the
kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that
he slew his servants which had slain
the king his father.
6 But the children of the murderers he
slew not: according unto that which is
written in the book of the law of
Moses, wherein the LORD commanded,
saying, The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, nor the
children be put to death for the
fathers; but every man shall be put to
death for his own sin.
7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt
ten thousand, and took Selah by war,
and called the name of it Joktheel unto
this day.
8 # Then Amaziah sent messengers to
Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of
Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let
us look one another in the face.
9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent
to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The
thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to
the cedar that [was] in Lebanon,
saying, Give thy daughter to my son to
wife: and there passed by a wild beast
that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down
the thistle.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and
thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory
[of this], and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt,
that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou,
and Judah with thee?
11 But Amaziah would not hear.
Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went
up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah
looked one another in the face at
Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to
Judah.
12 And Judah was put to the worse
before Israel; and they fled every man
to their tents.
13 And Jehoash king of Israel took
Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at
Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem
from the gate of Ephraim unto the
corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gold and silver,
and all the vessels that were found in
the house of the LORD, and in the
treasures of the king's house, and
hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15 # Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoash which he did, and his might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of
Judah, [are] they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers,
and was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son
reigned in his stead.
17 # And Amaziah the son of Joash king
of Judah lived after the death of
Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years.
18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah,
[are] they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 Now they made a conspiracy against
him in Jerusalem: and he fled to
Lachish; but they sent after him to
Lachish, and slew him there.
20 And they brought him on horses: and
he was buried at Jerusalem with his
fathers in the city of David.
21 # And all the people of Judah took
Azariah, which [was] sixteen years old,
and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to
Judah, after that the king slept with
his fathers.
23 # In the fifteenth year of Amaziah
the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam
the son of Joash king of Israel began
to reign in Samaria, [and reigned]
forty and one years.
24 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD: he departed not
from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
25 He restored the coast of Israel from
the entering of Hamath unto the sea of
the plain, according to the word of the
LORD God of Israel, which he spake by
the hand of his servant Jonah, the son
of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of
Gath-hepher.
26 For the LORD saw the affliction of
Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for
[there was] not any shut up, nor any
left, nor any helper for Israel.
27 And the LORD said not that he would
blot out the name of Israel from under
heaven: but he saved them by the hand
of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 # Now the rest of the acts of
Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
might, how he warred, and how he
recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which
belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers,
[even] with the kings of Israel; and
Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 15
1 In the twenty and seventh year of
Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah
son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Sixteen years old was he when he
began to reign, and he reigned two and
fifty years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jecholiah of
Jerusalem.
3 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Amaziah had done;
4 Save that the high places were not
removed: the people sacrificed and
burnt incense still on the high places.
5 # And the LORD smote the king, so
that he was a leper unto the day of his
death, and dwelt in a several house.
And Jotham the king's son [was] over
the house, judging the people of the
land.
6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
7 So Azariah slept with his fathers;
and they buried him with his fathers in
the city of David: and Jotham his son
reigned in his stead.
8 # In the thirty and eighth year of
Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the
son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in
Samaria six months.
9 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, as his fathers
had done: he departed not from the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh
conspired against him, and smote him
before the people, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
11 And the rest of the acts of
Zachariah, behold, they [are] written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
12 This [was] the word of the LORD
which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy
sons shall sit on the throne of Israel
unto the fourth [generation]. And so it
came to pass.
13 # Shallum the son of Jabesh began to
reign in the nine and thirtieth year of
Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a
full month in Samaria.
14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up
from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and
smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in
Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in
his stead.
15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum,
and his conspiracy which he made,
behold, they [are] written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
16 # Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and
all that [were] therein, and the coasts
thereof from Tirzah: because they
opened not [to him], therefore he smote
[it; and] all the women therein that
were with child he ripped up.
17 In the nine and thirtieth year of
Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the
son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and
reigned] ten years in Samaria.
18 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD: he departed not
all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.
19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came
against the land: and Menahem gave Pul
a thousand talents of silver, that his
hand might be with him to confirm the
kingdom in his hand.
20 And Menahem exacted the money of
Israel, [even] of all the mighty men of
wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the king of Assyria.
So the king of Assyria turned back, and
stayed not there in the land.
21 # And the rest of the acts of
Menahem, and all that he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22 And Menahem slept with his fathers;
and Pekahiah his son reigned in his
stead.
23 # In the fiftieth year of Azariah
king of Judah Pekahiah the son of
Menahem began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] two years.
24 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD: he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a
captain of his, conspired against him,
and smote him in Samaria, in the palace
of the king's house, with Argob and
Arieh, and with him fifty men of the
Gileadites: and he killed him, and
reigned in his room.
26 And the rest of the acts of
Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold,
they [are] written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27 # In the two and fiftieth year of
Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of
Remaliah began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years.
28 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD: he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel
came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria,
and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah,
and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and
Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of
Naphtali, and carried them captive to
Assyria.
30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a
conspiracy against Pekah the son of
Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead, in the
twentieth year of Jotham the son of
Uzziah.
31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah,
and all that he did, behold, they [are]
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel.
32 # In the second year of Pekah the
son of Remaliah king of Israel began
Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah
to reign.
33 Five and twenty years old was he
when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jerusha, the
daughter of Zadok.
34 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD: he did according
to all that his father Uzziah had done.
35 # Howbeit the high places were not
removed: the people sacrificed and
burned incense still in the high
places. He built the higher gate of the
house of the LORD.
36 # Now the rest of the acts of
Jotham, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
37 In those days the LORD began to send
against Judah Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
38 And Jotham slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David his father: and Ahaz his
son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 16
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the
son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham
king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he
began to reign, and reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem, and did not [that
which was] right in the sight of the
LORD his God, like David his father.
3 But he walked in the way of the kings
of Israel, yea, and made his son to
pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the heathen, whom the
LORD cast out from before the children
of Israel.
4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense
in the high places, and on the hills,
and under every green tree.
5 # Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah
son of Remaliah king of Israel came up
to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged
Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].
6 At that time Rezin king of Syria
recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the
Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came
to Elath, and dwelt there unto this
day.
7 So Ahaz sent messengers to
Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria,
saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son:
come up, and save me out of the hand of
the king of Syria, and out of the hand
of the king of Israel, which rise up
against me.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold
that was found in the house of the
LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house, and sent [it for] a
present to the king of Assyria.
9 And the king of Assyria hearkened
unto him: for the king of Assyria went
up against Damascus, and took it, and
carried [the people of] it captive to
Kir, and slew Rezin.
10 # And king Ahaz went to Damascus to
meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria,
and saw an altar that [was] at
Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah
the priest the fashion of the altar,
and the pattern of it, according to all
the workmanship thereof.
11 And Urijah the priest built an altar
according to all that king Ahaz had
sent from Damascus: so Urijah the
priest made [it] against king Ahaz came
from Damascus.
12 And when the king was come from
Damascus, the king saw the altar: and
the king approached to the altar, and
offered thereon.
13 And he burnt his burnt offering and
his meat offering, and poured his drink
offering, and sprinkled the blood of
his peace offerings, upon the altar.
14 And he brought also the brasen
altar, which [was] before the LORD,
from the forefront of the house, from
between the altar and the house of the
LORD, and put it on the north side of
the altar.
15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the
priest, saying, Upon the great altar
burn the morning burnt offering, and
the evening meat offering, and the
king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat
offering, with the burnt offering of
all the people of the land, and their
meat offering, and their drink
offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the
blood of the burnt offering, and all
the blood of the sacrifice: and the
brasen altar shall be for me to enquire
[by].
16 Thus did Urijah the priest,
according to all that king Ahaz
commanded.
17 # And king Ahaz cut off the borders
of the bases, and removed the laver
from off them; and took down the sea
from off the brasen oxen that [were]
under it, and put it upon a pavement of
stones.
18 And the covert for the sabbath that
they had built in the house, and the
king's entry without, turned he from
the house of the LORD for the king of
Assyria.
19 # Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz
which he did, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city
of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned
in his stead.

CHAPTER 17
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of
Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to
reign in Samaria over Israel nine
years.
2 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, but not as the
kings of Israel that were before him.
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king
of Assyria; and Hoshea became his
servant, and gave him presents.
4 And the king of Assyria found
conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent
messengers to So king of Egypt, and
brought no present to the king of
Assyria, as [he had done] year by year:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him
up, and bound him in prison.
5 # Then the king of Assyria came up
throughout all the land, and went up to
Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 # In the ninth year of Hoshea the
king of Assyria took Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and
placed them in Halah and in Habor [by]
the river of Gozan, and in the cities
of the Medes.
7 For [so] it was, that the children of
Israel had sinned against the LORD
their God, which had brought them up
out of the land of Egypt, from under
the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
had feared other gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from
before the children of Israel, and of
the kings of Israel, which they had
made.
9 And the children of Israel did
secretly [those] things that [were] not
right against the LORD their God, and
they built them high places in all
their cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up images and
groves in every high hill, and under
every green tree:
11 And there they burnt incense in all
the high places, as [did] the heathen
whom the LORD carried away before them;
and wrought wicked things to provoke
the LORD to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof the
LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not
do this thing.
13 Yet the LORD testified against
Israel, and against Judah, by all the
prophets, [and by] all the seers,
saying, Turn ye from your evil ways,
and keep my commandments [and] my
statutes, according to all the law
which I commanded your fathers, and
which I sent to you by my servants the
prophets.
14 Notwithstanding they would not hear,
but hardened their necks, like to the
neck of their fathers, that did not
believe in the LORD their God.
15 And they rejected his statutes, and
his covenant that he made with their
fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they
followed vanity, and became vain, and
went after the heathen that [were]
round about them, [concerning] whom the
LORD had charged them, that they should
not do like them.
16 And they left all the commandments
of the LORD their God, and made them
molten images, [even] two calves, and
made a grove, and worshipped all the
host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 And they caused their sons and their
daughters to pass through the fire, and
used divination and enchantments, and
sold themselves to do evil in the sight
of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was very angry
with Israel, and removed them out of
his sight: there was none left but the
tribe of Judah only.
19 Also Judah kept not the commandments
of the LORD their God, but walked in
the statutes of Israel which they made.
20 And the LORD rejected all the seed
of Israel, and afflicted them, and
delivered them into the hand of
spoilers, until he had cast them out of
his sight.
21 For he rent Israel from the house of
David; and they made Jeroboam the son
of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave
Israel from following the LORD, and
made them sin a great sin.
22 For the children of Israel walked in
all the sins of Jeroboam which he did;
they departed not from them;
23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of
his sight, as he had said by all his
servants the prophets. So was Israel
carried away out of their own land to
Assyria unto this day.
24 # And the king of Assyria brought
[men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah,
and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the
cities of Samaria instead of the
children of Israel: and they possessed
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities
thereof.
25 And [so] it was at the beginning of
their dwelling there, [that] they
feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD
sent lions among them, which slew
[some] of them.
26 Wherefore they spake to the king of
Assyria, saying, The nations which thou
hast removed, and placed in the cities
of Samaria, know not the manner of the
God of the land: therefore he hath sent
lions among them, and, behold, they
slay them, because they know not the
manner of the God of the land.
27 Then the king of Assyria commanded,
saying, Carry thither one of the
priests whom ye brought from thence;
and let them go and dwell there, and
let him teach them the manner of the
God of the land.
28 Then one of the priests whom they
had carried away from Samaria came and
dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how
they should fear the LORD.
29 Howbeit every nation made gods of
their own, and put [them] in the houses
of the high places which the Samaritans
had made, every nation in their cities
wherein they dwelt.
30 And the men of Babylon made
Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made
Ashima,
31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and
Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their
children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 So they feared the LORD, and made
unto themselves of the lowest of them
priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of
the high places.
33 They feared the LORD, and served
their own gods, after the manner of the
nations whom they carried away from
thence.
34 Unto this day they do after the
former manners: they fear not the LORD,
neither do they after their statutes,
or after their ordinances, or after the
law and commandment which the LORD
commanded the children of Jacob, whom
he named Israel;
35 With whom the LORD had made a
covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye
shall not fear other gods, nor bow
yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor
sacrifice to them:
36 But the LORD, who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt with great power
and a stretched out arm, him shall ye
fear, and him shall ye worship, and to
him shall ye do sacrifice.
37 And the statutes, and the
ordinances, and the law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye
shall observe to do for evermore; and
ye shall not fear other gods.
38 And the covenant that I have made
with you ye shall not forget; neither
shall ye fear other gods.
39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear;
and he shall deliver you out of the
hand of all your enemies.
40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but
they did after their former manner.
41 So these nations feared the LORD,
and served their graven images, both
their children, and their children's
children: as did their fathers, so do
they unto this day.

CHAPTER 18
1 Now it came to pass in the third year
of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
[that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of
Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when
he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also [was] Abi, the
daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that David his father did.
4 # He removed the high places, and
brake the images, and cut down the
groves, and brake in pieces the brasen
serpent that Moses had made: for unto
those days the children of Israel did
burn incense to it: and he called it
Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel;
so that after him was none like him
among all the kings of Judah, nor [any]
that were before him.
6 For he clave to the LORD, [and]
departed not from following him, but
kept his commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses.
7 And the LORD was with him; [and] he
prospered whithersoever he went forth:
and he rebelled against the king of
Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto
Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the
tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city.
9 # And it came to pass in the fourth
year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the
seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king
of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of
Assyria came up against Samaria, and
besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they
took it: [even] in the sixth year of
Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of
Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was
taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry
away Israel unto Assyria, and put them
in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of
Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of
the LORD their God, but transgressed
his covenant, [and] all that Moses the
servant of the LORD commanded, and
would not hear [them], nor do [them].
13 # Now in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of
Assyria come up against all the fenced
cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to
the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying,
I have offended; return from me: that
which thou puttest on me will I bear.
And the king of Assyria appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred
talents of silver and thirty talents of
gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the
silver that was found in the house of
the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off
[the gold from] the doors of the temple
of the LORD, and [from] the pillars
which Hezekiah king of Judah had
overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
17 # And the king of Assyria sent
Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from
Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great
host against Jerusalem. And they went
up and came to Jerusalem. And when they
were come up, they came and stood by
the conduit of the upper pool, which
[is] in the highway of the fuller's
field.
18 And when they had called to the
king, there came out to them Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over
the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak
ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence [is] this wherein thou
trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but [they are but]
vain words,) [I have] counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom dost
thou trust, that thou rebellest against
me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the
staff of this bruised reed, [even] upon
Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will
go into his hand, and pierce it: so
[is] Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all
that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in
the LORD our God: [is] not that he,
whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said
to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give
pledges to my lord the king of Assyria,
and I will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to
set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away the
face of one captain of the least of my
master's servants, and put thy trust on
Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Am I now come up without the LORD
against this place to destroy it? The
LORD said to me, Go up against this
land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy
servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand [it]: and talk not with us
in the Jews' language in the ears of
the people that [are] on the wall.
27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath
my master sent me to thy master, and to
thee, to speak these words? [hath he]
not [sent me] to the men which sit on
the wall, that they may eat their own
dung, and drink their own piss with
you?
28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with
a loud voice in the Jews' language, and
spake, saying, Hear the word of the
great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not
Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not
be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust
in the LORD, saying, The LORD will
surely deliver us, and this city shall
not be delivered into the hand of the
king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus
saith the king of Assyria, Make [an
agreement] with me by a present, and
come out to me, and [then] eat ye every
man of his own vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and drink ye every one
the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a
land like your own land, a land of corn
and wine, a land of bread and
vineyards, a land of oil olive and of
honey, that ye may live, and not die:
and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he
persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will
deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered at all his land out of the
hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and
of Arpad? where [are] the gods of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they
delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who [are] they among all the gods of
the countries, that have delivered
their country out of mine hand, that
the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out
of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and
answered him not a word: for the king's
commandment was, saying, Answer him
not.
37 Then came Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, which [was] over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to
Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and
told him the words of Rabshakeh.

CHAPTER 19
1 And it came to pass, when king
Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of
the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over
the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests, covered
with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy:
for the children are come to the birth,
and [there is] not strength to bring
forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear
all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the
king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will
reprove the words which the LORD thy
God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy]
prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah.
6 # And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say to your master, Thus saith
the LORD, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with which the
servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him,
and he shall hear a rumour, and shall
return to his own land; and I will
cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land.
8 # So Rabshakeh returned, and found
the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come
out to fight against thee: he sent
messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king
of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in
whom thou trustest deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all
lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which
[were] in Thelasar?
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the
city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 # And Hezekiah received the letter
of the hand of the messengers, and read
it: and Hezekiah went up into the house
of the LORD, and spread it before the
LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD,
and said, O LORD God of Israel, which
dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou
art the God, [even] thou alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast
made heaven and earth.
16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear:
open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and
hear the words of Sennacherib, which
hath sent him to reproach the living
God.
17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of
Assyria have destroyed the nations and
their lands,
18 And have cast their gods into the
fire: for they [were] no gods, but the
work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I
beseech thee, save thou us out of his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the
earth may know that thou [art] the LORD
God, [even] thou only.
20 # Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent
to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou
hast prayed to me against Sennacherib
king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This [is] the word that the LORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin
the daughter of Zion hath despised
thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her
head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and
blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up
thine eyes on high? [even] against the
Holy [One] of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast
reproached the Lord, and hast said,
With the multitude of my chariots I am
come up to the height of the mountains,
to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut
down the tall cedar trees thereof,
[and] the choice fir trees thereof: and
I will enter into the lodgings of his
borders, [and into] the forest of his
Carmel.
24 I have digged and drunk strange
waters, and with the sole of my feet
have I dried up all the rivers of
besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I
have done it, [and] of ancient times
that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest
be to lay waste fenced cities [into]
ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of
small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; they were [as] the grass of
the field, and [as] the green herb,
[as] the grass on the housetops, and
[as corn] blasted before it be grown
up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, and thy rage
against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy
tumult is come up into mine ears,
therefore I will put my hook in thy
nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I
will turn thee back by the way by which
thou camest.
29 And this [shall be] a sign unto
thee, Ye shall eat this year such
things as grow of themselves, and in
the second year that which springeth of
the same; and in the third year sow ye,
and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat
the fruits thereof.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of
the house of Judah shall yet again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth
a remnant, and they that escape out of
mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of
hosts] shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning the king of Assyria, He
shall not come into this city, nor
shoot an arrow there, nor come before
it with shield, nor cast a bank against
it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the LORD.
34 For I will defend this city, to save
it, for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
35 # And it came to pass that night,
that the angel of the LORD went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
an hundred fourscore and five thousand:
and when they arose early in the
morning, behold, they [were] all dead
corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was
worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his
sons smote him with the sword: and they
escaped into the land of Armenia. And
Esar-haddon his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 20
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto
death. And the prophet Isaiah the son
of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in
order; for thou shalt die, and not
live.
2 Then he turned his face to the wall,
and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now
how I have walked before thee in truth
and with a perfect heart, and have done
[that which is] good in thy sight. And
Hezekiah wept sore.
4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was
gone out into the middle court, that
the word of the LORD came to him,
saying,
5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the
captain of my people, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of David thy father, I
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the
third day thou shalt go up unto the
house of the LORD.
6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen
years; and I will deliver thee and this
city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria; and I will defend this city
for mine own sake, and for my servant
David's sake.
7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs.
And they took and laid [it] on the
boil, and he recovered.
8 # And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What
[shall be] the sign that the LORD will
heal me, and that I shall go up into
the house of the LORD the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou
have of the LORD, that the LORD will do
the thing that he hath spoken: shall
the shadow go forward ten degrees, or
go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light
thing for the shadow to go down ten
degrees: nay, but let the shadow return
backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto
the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten
degrees backward, by which it had gone
down in the dial of Ahaz.
12 # At that time Berodach-baladan, the
son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present unto Hezekiah:
for he had heard that Hezekiah had been
sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them,
and shewed them all the house of his
precious things, the silver, and the
gold, and the spices, and the precious
ointment, and [all] the house of his
armour, and all that was found in his
treasures: there was nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not.
14 # Then came Isaiah the prophet unto
king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What
said these men? and from whence came
they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They
are come from a far country, [even]
from Babylon.
15 And he said, What have they seen in
thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
[the things] that [are] in mine house
have they seen: there is nothing among
my treasures that I have not shewed
them.
16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear
the word of the LORD.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that
[is] in thine house, and that which thy
fathers have laid up in store unto this
day, shall be carried into Babylon:
nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
18 And of thy sons that shall issue
from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon.
19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good
[is] the word of the LORD which thou
hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not
[good], if peace and truth be in my
days?
20 # And the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he
made a pool, and a conduit, and brought
water into the city, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers:
and Manasseh his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 21
1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when
he began to reign, and reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Hephzi-bah.
2 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, after the
abominations of the heathen, whom the
LORD cast out before the children of
Israel.
3 For he built up again the high places
which Hezekiah his father had
destroyed; and he reared up altars for
Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab
king of Israel; and worshipped all the
host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of
the LORD, of which the LORD said, In
Jerusalem will I put my name.
5 And he built altars for all the host
of heaven in the two courts of the
house of the LORD.
6 And he made his son pass through the
fire, and observed times, and used
enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much
wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke [him] to anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the
grove that he had made in the house, of
which the LORD said to David, and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of
all tribes of Israel, will I put my
name for ever:
8 Neither will I make the feet of
Israel move any more out of the land
which I gave their fathers; only if
they will observe to do according to
all that I have commanded them, and
according to all the law that my
servant Moses commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh
seduced them to do more evil than did
the nations whom the LORD destroyed
before the children of Israel.
10 # And the LORD spake by his servants
the prophets, saying,
11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath
done these abominations, [and] hath
done wickedly above all that the
Amorites did, which [were] before him,
and hath made Judah also to sin with
his idols:
12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such]
evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears
shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem
the line of Samaria, and the plummet of
the house of Ahab: and I will wipe
Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish,
wiping [it], and turning [it] upside
down.
14 And I will forsake the remnant of
mine inheritance, and deliver them into
the hand of their enemies; and they
shall become a prey and a spoil to all
their enemies;
15 Because they have done [that which
was] evil in my sight, and have
provoked me to anger, since the day
their fathers came forth out of Egypt,
even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent
blood very much, till he had filled
Jerusalem from one end to another;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah
to sin, in doing [that which was] evil
in the sight of the LORD.
17 # Now the rest of the acts of
Manasseh, and all that he did, and his
sin that he sinned, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the garden of his own
house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon
his son reigned in his stead.
19 # Amon [was] twenty and two years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Meshullemeth, the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, as his father
Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that
his father walked in, and served the
idols that his father served, and
worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the LORD God of his
fathers, and walked not in the way of
the LORD.
23 # And the servants of Amon conspired
against him, and slew the king in his
own house.
24 And the people of the land slew all
them that had conspired against king
Amon; and the people of the land made
Josiah his son king in his stead.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon
which he did, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
26 And he was buried in his sepulchre
in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his
son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 22
1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned thirty
and one years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jedidah, the
daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, and walked in
all the way of David his father, and
turned not aside to the right hand or
to the left.
3 # And it came to pass in the
eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that]
the king sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the
scribe, to the house of the LORD,
saying,
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest,
that he may sum the silver which is
brought into the house of the LORD,
which the keepers of the door have
gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand
of the doers of the work, that have the
oversight of the house of the LORD: and
let them give it to the doers of the
work which [is] in the house of the
LORD, to repair the breaches of the
house,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and
masons, and to buy timber and hewn
stone to repair the house.
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made
with them of the money that was
delivered into their hand, because they
dealt faithfully.
8 # And Hilkiah the high priest said
unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found
the book of the law in the house of the
LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to
Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the
king, and brought the king word again,
and said, Thy servants have gathered
the money that was found in the house,
and have delivered it into the hand of
them that do the work, that have the
oversight of the house of the LORD.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the
king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
delivered me a book. And Shaphan read
it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king
had heard the words of the book of the
law, that he rent his clothes.
12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the
priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and
Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a
servant of the king's, saying,
13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me,
and for the people, and for all Judah,
concerning the words of this book that
is found: for great [is] the wrath of
the LORD that is kindled against us,
because our fathers have not hearkened
unto the words of this book, to do
according unto all that which is
written concerning us.
14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam,
and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah,
went unto Huldah the prophetess, the
wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the
son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe;
(now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the
college;) and they communed with her.
15 # And she said unto them, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man
that sent you to me,
16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
bring evil upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the
words of the book which the king of
Judah hath read:
17 Because they have forsaken me, and
have burned incense unto other gods,
that they might provoke me to anger
with all the works of their hands;
therefore my wrath shall be kindled
against this place, and shall not be
quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent
you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall
ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, [As touching] the words
which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and
thou hast humbled thyself before the
LORD, when thou heardest what I spake
against this place, and against the
inhabitants thereof, that they should
become a desolation and a curse, and
hast rent thy clothes, and wept before
me; I also have heard [thee], saith the
LORD.
20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee
unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be
gathered into thy grave in peace; and
thine eyes shall not see all the evil
which I will bring upon this place. And
they brought the king word again.

CHAPTER 23
1 And the king sent, and they gathered
unto him all the elders of Judah and of
Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house
of the LORD, and all the men of Judah
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
with him, and the priests, and the
prophets, and all the people, both
small and great: and he read in their
ears all the words of the book of the
covenant which was found in the house
of the LORD.
3 # And the king stood by a pillar, and
made a covenant before the LORD, to
walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments and his testimonies and
his statutes with all [their] heart and
all [their] soul, to perform the words
of this covenant that were written in
this book. And all the people stood to
the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the
high priest, and the priests of the
second order, and the keepers of the
door, to bring forth out of the temple
of the LORD all the vessels that were
made for Baal, and for the grove, and
for all the host of heaven: and he
burned them without Jerusalem in the
fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes
of them unto Beth-el.
5 And he put down the idolatrous
priests, whom the kings of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high
places in the cities of Judah, and in
the places round about Jerusalem; them
also that burned incense unto Baal, to
the sun, and to the moon, and to the
planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the
house of the LORD, without Jerusalem,
unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at
the brook Kidron, and stamped [it]
small to powder, and cast the powder
thereof upon the graves of the children
of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the
sodomites, that [were] by the house of
the LORD, where the women wove hangings
for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of
the cities of Judah, and defiled the
high places where the priests had
burned incense, from Geba to
Beer-sheba, and brake down the high
places of the gates that [were] in the
entering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the city, which [were] on a
man's left hand at the gate of the
city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high
places came not up to the altar of the
LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of
the unleavened bread among their
brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth, which [is]
in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son
or his daughter to pass through the
fire to Molech.
11 And he took away the horses that the
kings of Judah had given to the sun, at
the entering in of the house of the
LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech
the chamberlain, which [was] in the
suburbs, and burned the chariots of the
sun with fire.
12 And the altars that [were] on the
top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which
the kings of Judah had made, and the
altars which Manasseh had made in the
two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the king beat down, and brake
[them] down from thence, and cast the
dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that [were]
before Jerusalem, which [were] on the
right hand of the mount of corruption,
which Solomon the king of Israel had
builded for Ashtoreth the abomination
of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the
abomination of the Moabites, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children
of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images,
and cut down the groves, and filled
their places with the bones of men.
15 # Moreover the altar that [was] at
Beth-el, [and] the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, had made, both that
altar and the high place he brake down,
and burned the high place, [and]
stamped [it] small to powder, and
burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he
spied the sepulchres that [were] there
in the mount, and sent, and took the
bones out of the sepulchres, and burned
[them] upon the altar, and polluted it,
according to the word of the LORD which
the man of God proclaimed, who
proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What title [is] that
that I see? And the men of the city
told him, [It is] the sepulchre of the
man of God, which came from Judah, and
proclaimed these things that thou hast
done against the altar of Beth-el.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no
man move his bones. So they let his
bones alone, with the bones of the
prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high
places that [were] in the cities of
Samaria, which the kings of Israel had
made to provoke [the LORD] to anger,
Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had
done in Beth-el.
20 And he slew all the priests of the
high places that [were] there upon the
altars, and burned men's bones upon
them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 # And the king commanded all the
people, saying, Keep the passover unto
the LORD your God, as [it is] written
in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a
passover from the days of the judges
that judged Israel, nor in all the days
of the kings of Israel, nor of the
kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, [wherein] this passover was
holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24 # Moreover the [workers with]
familiar spirits, and the wizards, and
the images, and the idols, and all the
abominations that were spied in the
land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did
Josiah put away, that he might perform
the words of the law which were written
in the book that Hilkiah the priest
found in the house of the LORD.
25 And like unto him was there no king
before him, that turned to the LORD
with all his heart, and with all his
soul, and with all his might, according
to all the law of Moses; neither after
him arose there [any] like him.
26 # Notwithstanding the LORD turned
not from the fierceness of his great
wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled
against Judah, because of all the
provocations that Manasseh had provoked
him withal.
27 And the LORD said, I will remove
Judah also out of my sight, as I have
removed Israel, and will cast off this
city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and
the house of which I said, My name
shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah,
and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
29 # In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of
Egypt went up against the king of
Assyria to the river Euphrates: and
king Josiah went against him; and he
slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen
him.
30 And his servants carried him in a
chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought
him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his
own sepulchre. And the people of the
land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
and anointed him, and made him king in
his father's stead.
31 # Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three
years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Hamutal,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands
at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that
he might not reign in Jerusalem; and
put the land to a tribute of an hundred
talents of silver, and a talent of
gold.
34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the
son of Josiah king in the room of
Josiah his father, and turned his name
to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away:
and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and
the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the
land to give the money according to the
commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the
silver and the gold of the people of
the land, of every one according to his
taxation, to give [it] unto
Pharaoh-nechoh.
36 # Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five
years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Zebudah,
the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his fathers had done.

CHAPTER 24
1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became
his servant three years: then he turned
and rebelled against him.
2 And the LORD sent against him bands
of the Chaldees, and bands of the
Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and
bands of the children of Ammon, and
sent them against Judah to destroy it,
according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake by his servants the
prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD
came [this] upon Judah, to remove
[them] out of his sight, for the sins
of Manasseh, according to all that he
did;
4 And also for the innocent blood that
he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood; which the LORD would
not pardon.
5 # Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoiakim, and all that he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers:
and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his
stead.
7 And the king of Egypt came not again
any more out of his land: for the king
of Babylon had taken from the river of
Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that
pertained to the king of Egypt.
8 # Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
in Jerusalem three months. And his
mother's name [was] Nehushta, the
daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father had done.
10 # At that time the servants of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
against Jerusalem, and the city was
besieged.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came against the city, and his servants
did besiege it.
12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah
went out to the king of Babylon, he,
and his mother, and his servants, and
his princes, and his officers: and the
king of Babylon took him in the eighth
year of his reign.
13 And he carried out thence all the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and
the treasures of the king's house, and
cut in pieces all the vessels of gold
which Solomon king of Israel had made
in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD
had said.
14 And he carried away all Jerusalem,
and all the princes, and all the mighty
men of valour, [even] ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and
smiths: none remained, save the poorest
sort of the people of the land.
15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to
Babylon, and the king's mother, and the
king's wives, and his officers, and the
mighty of the land, [those] carried he
into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon.
16 And all the men of might, [even]
seven thousand, and craftsmen and
smiths a thousand, all [that were]
strong [and] apt for war, even them the
king of Babylon brought captive to
Babylon.
17 # And the king of Babylon made
Mattaniah his father's brother king in
his stead, and changed his name to
Zedekiah.
18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done.
20 For through the anger of the LORD it
came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah,
until he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.

CHAPTER 25
1 And it came to pass in the ninth year
of his reign, in the tenth month, in
the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came,
he, and all his host, against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and
they built forts against it round
about.
2 And the city was besieged unto the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3 And on the ninth [day] of the
[fourth] month the famine prevailed in
the city, and there was no bread for
the people of the land.
4 # And the city was broken up, and all
the men of war [fled] by night by the
way of the gate between two walls,
which [is] by the king's garden: (now
the Chaldees [were] against the city
round about:) and [the king] went the
way toward the plain.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued
after the king, and overtook him in the
plains of Jericho: and all his army
were scattered from him.
6 So they took the king, and brought
him up to the king of Babylon to
Riblah; and they gave judgment upon
him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes
of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters
of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8 # And in the fifth month, on the
seventh [day] of the month, which [is]
the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came
Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a
servant of the king of Babylon, unto
Jerusalem:
9 And he burnt the house of the LORD,
and the king's house, and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and every great
[man's] house burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees,
that [were with] the captain of the
guard, brake down the walls of
Jerusalem round about.
11 Now the rest of the people [that
were] left in the city, and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of
Babylon, with the remnant of the
multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain
of the guard carry away.
12 But the captain of the guard left of
the poor of the land [to be]
vinedressers and husbandmen.
13 And the pillars of brass that [were]
in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in
the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees
break in pieces, and carried the brass
of them to Babylon.
14 And the pots, and the shovels, and
the snuffers, and the spoons, and all
the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
15 And the firepans, and the bowls,
[and] such things as [were] of gold,
[in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver,
the captain of the guard took away.
16 The two pillars, one sea, and the
bases which Solomon had made for the
house of the LORD; the brass of all
these vessels was without weight.
17 The height of the one pillar [was]
eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon
it [was] brass: and the height of the
chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen
work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round about, all of brass: and
like unto these had the second pillar
with wreathen work.
18 # And the captain of the guard took
Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah
the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door:
19 And out of the city he took an
officer that was set over the men of
war, and five men of them that were in
the king's presence, which were found
in the city, and the principal scribe
of the host, which mustered the people
of the land, and threescore men of the
people of the land [that were] found in
the city:
20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the
guard took these, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah:
21 And the king of Babylon smote them,
and slew them at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away out
of their land.
22 # And [as for] the people that
remained in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had
left, even over them he made Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
ruler.
23 And when all the captains of the
armies, they and their men, heard that
the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
governor, there came to Gedaliah to
Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of
Careah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and
Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite,
they and their men.
24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to
their men, and said unto them, Fear not
to be the servants of the Chaldees:
dwell in the land, and serve the king
of Babylon; and it shall be well with
you.
25 But it came to pass in the seventh
month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the
seed royal, came, and ten men with him,
and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and
the Jews and the Chaldees that were
with him at Mizpah.
26 And all the people, both small and
great, and the captains of the armies,
arose, and came to Egypt: for they were
afraid of the Chaldees.
27 # And it came to pass in the seven
and thirtieth year of the captivity of
Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, on the seven and
twentieth [day] of the month, [that]
Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the
year that he began to reign did lift up
the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah
out of prison;
28 And he spake kindly to him, and set
his throne above the throne of the
kings that [were] with him in Babylon;
29 And changed his prison garments: and
he did eat bread continually before him
all the days of his life.
30 And his allowance [was] a continual
allowance given him of the king, a
daily rate for every day, all the days
of his life.

THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES

CHAPTER 1
1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5 # The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal,
and Meshech, and Tiras.
6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and
Riphath, and Togarmah.
7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and
Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
8 # The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim,
Put, and Canaan.
9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and
Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah;
Sheba, and Dedan.
10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to
be mighty upon the earth.
11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim,
and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of
whom came the Philistines,) and
Caphthorim.
13 And Canaan begat Zidon his
firstborn, and Heth,
14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite,
and the Girgashite,
15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and
the Sinite,
16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite,
and the Hamathite.
17 # The sons of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Meshech.
18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and
Shelah begat Eber.
19 And unto Eber were born two sons:
the name of the one [was] Peleg;
because in his days the earth was
divided: and his brother's name [was]
Joktan.
20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and
Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab.
All these [were] the sons of Joktan.
24 # Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
27 Abram; the same [is] Abraham.
28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and
Ishmael.
29 # These [are] their generations: The
firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and
Tema,
31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These
are the sons of Ishmael.
32 # Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's
concubine: she bare Zimran, and
Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and
Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of
Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and
Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and
Eldaah. All these [are] the sons of
Keturah.
34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of
Isaac; Esau and Israel.
35 # The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel,
and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and
Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and
Timna, and Amalek.
37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah,
Shammah, and Mizzah.
38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and
Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and
Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and
Homam: and Timna [was] Lotan's sister.
40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and
Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam.
And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the
sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and
Ithran, and Cheran.
42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan,
[and] Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz,
and Aran.
43 # Now these [are] the kings that
reigned in the land of Edom before
[any] king reigned over the children of
Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the
name of his city [was] Dinhabah.
44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the
son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his
stead.
45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of
the land of the Temanites reigned in
his stead.
46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the
son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the
field of Moab, reigned in his stead:
and the name of his city [was] Avith.
47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his stead.
48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of
Rehoboth by the river reigned in his
stead.
49 And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan
the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad
reigned in his stead: and the name of
his city [was] Pai; and his wife's name
[was] Mehetabel, the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
51 # Hadad died also. And the dukes of
Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah,
duke Jetheth,
52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke
Pinon,
53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These [are]
the dukes of Edom.

CHAPTER 2
1 These [are] the sons of Israel;
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun,
2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali,
Gad, and Asher.
3 # The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan,
and Shelah: [which] three were born
unto him of the daughter of Shua the
Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of
Judah, was evil in the sight of the
LORD; and he slew him.
4 And Tamar his daughter in law bare
him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of
Judah [were] five.
5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and
Hamul.
6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and
Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara:
five of them in all.
7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the
troubler of Israel, who transgressed in
the thing accursed.
8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
9 The sons also of Hezron, that were
born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and
Chelubai.
10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and
Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the
children of Judah;
11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma
begat Boaz,
12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat
Jesse,
13 # And Jesse begat his firstborn
Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and
Shimma the third,
14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the
fifth,
15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
16 Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and
Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah;
Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the
father of Amasa [was] Jether the
Ishmeelite.
18 # And Caleb the son of Hezron begat
[children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of
Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher,
and Shobab, and Ardon.
19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took
unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat
Bezaleel.
21 # And afterward Hezron went in to
the daughter of Machir the father of
Gilead, whom he married when he [was]
threescore years old; and she bare him
Segub.
22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three
and twenty cities in the land of
Gilead.
23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with
the towns of Jair, from them, with
Kenath, and the towns thereof, [even]
threescore cities. All these [belonged
to] the sons of Machir the father of
Gilead.
24 And after that Hezron was dead in
Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's
wife bare him Ashur the father of
Tekoa.
25 # And the sons of Jerahmeel the
firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the
firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and
Ozem, [and] Ahijah.
26 Jerahmeel had also another wife,
whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the
mother of Onam.
27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of
Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and
Eker.
28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai,
and Jada. And the sons of Shammai;
Nadab, and Abishur.
29 And the name of the wife of Abishur
[was] Abihail, and she bare him Ahban,
and Molid.
30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and
Appaim: but Seled died without
children.
31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And
the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the
children of Sheshan; Ahlai.
32 And the sons of Jada the brother of
Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and
Jether died without children.
33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth,
and Zaza. These were the sons of
Jerahmeel.
34 # Now Sheshan had no sons, but
daughters. And Sheshan had a servant,
an Egyptian, whose name [was] Jarha.
35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to
Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare
him Attai.
36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan
begat Zabad,
37 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal
begat Obed,
38 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat
Azariah,
39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez
begat Eleasah,
40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and
Sisamai begat Shallum,
41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and
Jekamiah begat Elishama.
42 # Now the sons of Caleb the brother
of Jerahmeel [were], Mesha his
firstborn, which was the father of
Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the
father of Hebron.
43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and
Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of
Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
45 And the son of Shammai [was] Maon:
and Maon [was] the father of Beth-zur.
46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare
Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran
begat Gazez.
47 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and
Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and
Ephah, and Shaaph.
48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare
Sheber, and Tirhanah.
49 She bare also Shaaph the father of
Madmannah, Sheva the father of
Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and
the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsa.
50 # These were the sons of Caleb the
son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah;
Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,
51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem,
Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
52 And Shobal the father of
Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, [and]
half of the Manahethites.
53 And the families of Kirjath-jearim;
the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the
Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of
them came the Zareathites, and the
Eshtaulites.
54 The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and
the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house
of Joab, and half of the Manahethites,
the Zorites.
55 And the families of the scribes
which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites,
the Shimeathites, [and] Suchathites.
These [are] the Kenites that came of
Hemath, the father of the house of
Rechab.

CHAPTER 3
1 Now these were the sons of David,
which were born unto him in Hebron; the
firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of
Abigail the Carmelitess:
2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah
the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur:
the fourth, Adonijah the son of
Haggith:
3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the
sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
4 [These] six were born unto him in
Hebron; and there he reigned seven
years and six months: and in Jerusalem
he reigned thirty and three years.
5 And these were born unto him in
Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and
Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua
the daughter of Ammiel:
6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and
Eliphelet,
7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and
Eliphelet, nine.
9 [These were] all the sons of David,
beside the sons of the concubines, and
Tamar their sister.
10 # And Solomon's son [was] Rehoboam,
Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat
his son,
11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son,
Joash his son,
12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son,
Jotham his son,
13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son,
Manasseh his son,
14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
15 And the sons of Josiah [were], the
firstborn Johanan, the second
Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the
fourth Shallum.
16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah
his son, Zedekiah his son.
17 # And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir,
Salathiel his son,
18 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and
Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and
Nedabiah.
19 And the sons of Pedaiah [were],
Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of
Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah,
and Shelomith their sister:
20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and
Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed,
five.
21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah,
and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the
sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the
sons of Shechaniah.
22 And the sons of Shechaniah;
Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah;
Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and
Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai,
and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
24 And the sons of Elioenai [were],
Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and
Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and
Anani, seven.

CHAPTER 4
1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron,
and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat
Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and
Lahad. These [are] the families of the
Zorathites.
3 And these [were of] the father of
Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash:
and the name of their sister [was]
Hazelelponi:
4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and
Ezer the father of Hushah. These [are]
the sons of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
5 # And Ashur the father of Tekoa had
two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and
Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari.
These [were] the sons of Naarah.
7 And the sons of Helah [were], Zereth,
and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and
the families of Aharhel the son of
Harum.
9 # And Jabez was more honourable than
his brethren: and his mother called his
name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him
with sorrow.
10 And Jabez called on the God of
Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest
bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast,
and that thine hand might be with me,
and that thou wouldest keep [me] from
evil, that it may not grieve me! And
God granted him that which he
requested.
11 # And Chelub the brother of Shuah
begat Mehir, which [was] the father of
Eshton.
12 And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and
Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of
Ir-nahash. These [are] the men of
Rechah.
13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and
Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel;
Hathath.
14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and
Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the
valley of Charashim; for they were
craftsmen.
15 And the sons of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the
sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph,
and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
17 And the sons of Ezra [were], Jether,
and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and
she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and
Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered
the father of Gedor, and Heber the
father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the
father of Zanoah. And these [are] the
sons of Bithiah the daughter of
Pharaoh, which Mered took.
19 And the sons of [his] wife Hodiah
the sister of Naham, the father of
Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the
Maachathite.
20 And the sons of Shimon [were],
Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and
Tilon. And the sons of Ishi [were],
Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
21 # The sons of Shelah the son of
Judah [were], Er the father of Lecah,
and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and
the families of the house of them that
wrought fine linen, of the house of
Ashbea,
22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba,
and Joash, and Saraph, who had the
dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem.
And [these are] ancient things.
23 These [were] the potters, and those
that dwelt among plants and hedges:
there they dwelt with the king for his
work.
24 # The sons of Simeon [were], Nemuel,
and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, [and] Shaul:
25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son,
Mishma his son.
26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his
son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six
daughters; but his brethren had not
many children, neither did all their
family multiply, like to the children
of Judah.
28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and
Moladah, and Hazar-shual,
29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at
Tolad,
30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and
at Ziklag,
31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and
Hazar-susim, and at Beth-birei, and at
Shaaraim. These [were] their cities
unto the reign of David.
32 And their villages [were], Etam, and
Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan,
five cities:
33 And all their villages that [were]
round about the same cities, unto Baal.
These [were] their habitations, and
their genealogy.
34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and
Joshah the son of Amaziah,
35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of
Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son
of Asiel,
36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and
Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and
Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son
of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son
of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
38 These mentioned by [their] names
[were] princes in their families: and
the house of their fathers increased
greatly.
39 # And they went to the entrance of
Gedor, [even] unto the east side of the
valley, to seek pasture for their
flocks.
40 And they found fat pasture and good,
and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and
peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt
there of old.
41 And these written by name came in
the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and
smote their tents, and the habitations
that were found there, and destroyed
them utterly unto this day, and dwelt
in their rooms: because [there was]
pasture there for their flocks.
42 And [some] of them, [even] of the
sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went
to mount Seir, having for their
captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and
Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43 And they smote the rest of the
Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt
there unto this day.

CHAPTER 5
1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn
of Israel, (for he [was] the firstborn;
but, forasmuch as he defiled his
father's bed, his birthright was given
unto the sons of Joseph the son of
Israel: and the genealogy is not to be
reckoned after the birthright.
2 For Judah prevailed above his
brethren, and of him [came] the chief
ruler; but the birthright [was]
Joseph's:)
3 The sons, [I say], of Reuben the
firstborn of Israel [were], Hanoch, and
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son,
Gog his son, Shimei his son,
5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal
his son,
6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser
king of Assyria carried away [captive]:
he [was] prince of the Reubenites.
7 And his brethren by their families,
when the genealogy of their generations
was reckoned, [were] the chief, Jeiel,
and Zechariah,
8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of
Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in
Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:
9 And eastward he inhabited unto the
entering in of the wilderness from the
river Euphrates: because their cattle
were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
10 And in the days of Saul they made
war with the Hagarites, who fell by
their hand: and they dwelt in their
tents throughout all the east [land] of
Gilead.
11 # And the children of Gad dwelt over
against them, in the land of Bashan
unto Salchah:
12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the
next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in
Bashan.
13 And their brethren of the house of
their fathers [were], Michael, and
Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and
Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.
14 These [are] the children of Abihail
the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the
son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the
son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the
son of Buz;
15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of
Guni, chief of the house of their
fathers.
16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan,
and in her towns, and in all the
suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
17 All these were reckoned by
genealogies in the days of Jotham king
of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam
king of Israel.
18 # The sons of Reuben, and the
Gadites, and half the tribe of
Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to
bear buckler and sword, and to shoot
with bow, and skilful in war, [were]
four and forty thousand seven hundred
and threescore, that went out to the
war.
19 And they made war with the
Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and
Nodab.
20 And they were helped against them,
and the Hagarites were delivered into
their hand, and all that [were] with
them: for they cried to God in the
battle, and he was intreated of them;
because they put their trust in him.
21 And they took away their cattle; of
their camels fifty thousand, and of
sheep two hundred and fifty thousand,
and of asses two thousand, and of men
an hundred thousand.
22 For there fell down many slain,
because the war [was] of God. And they
dwelt in their steads until the
captivity.
23 # And the children of the half tribe
of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they
increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon
and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
24 And these [were] the heads of the
house of their fathers, even Epher, and
Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and
Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel,
mighty men of valour, famous men, [and]
heads of the house of their fathers.
25 # And they transgressed against the
God of their fathers, and went a
whoring after the gods of the people of
the land, whom God destroyed before
them.
26 And the God of Israel stirred up the
spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the
spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of
Assyria, and he carried them away, even
the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought
them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara,
and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

CHAPTER 6
1 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.
2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar,
and Hebron, and Uzziel.
3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and
Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of
Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
4 # Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas
begat Abishua,
5 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki
begat Uzzi,
6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah
begat Meraioth,
7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah
begat Ahitub,
8 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok
begat Ahimaaz,
9 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and
Azariah begat Johanan,
10 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he [it
is] that executed the priest's office
in the temple that Solomon built in
Jerusalem:)
11 And Azariah begat Amariah, and
Amariah begat Ahitub,
12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok
begat Shallum,
13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and
Hilkiah begat Azariah,
14 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and
Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
15 And Jehozadak went [into captivity],
when the LORD carried away Judah and
Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar.
16 # The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath,
and Merari.
17 And these [be] the names of the sons
of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
18 And the sons of Kohath [were],
Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel.
19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and
Mushi. And these [are] the families of
the Levites according to their fathers.
20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath
his son, Zimmah his son,
21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah
his son, Jeaterai his son.
22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his
son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his
son, and Assir his son,
24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son,
Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
25 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and
Ahimoth.
26 [As for] Elkanah: the sons of
Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his
son,
27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son,
Elkanah his son.
28 And the sons of Samuel; the
firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his
son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son,
Asaiah his son.
31 And these [are they] whom David set
over the service of song in the house
of the LORD, after that the ark had
rest.
32 And they ministered before the
dwelling place of the tabernacle of the
congregation with singing, until
Solomon had built the house of the LORD
in Jerusalem: and [then] they waited on
their office according to their order.
33 And these [are] they that waited
with their children. Of the sons of the
Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of
Joel, the son of Shemuel,
34 The son of Elkanah, the son of
Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of
Toah,
35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah,
the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel,
the son of Azariah, the son of
Zephaniah,
37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir,
the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on
his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of
Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
40 The son of Michael, the son of
Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah,
the son of Adaiah,
42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah,
the son of Shimei,
43 The son of Jahath, the son of
Gershom, the son of Levi.
44 And their brethren the sons of
Merari [stood] on the left hand: Ethan
the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the
son of Malluch,
45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of
Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani,
the son of Shamer,
47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi,
the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
48 Their brethren also the Levites
[were] appointed unto all manner of
service of the tabernacle of the house
of God.
49 # But Aaron and his sons offered
upon the altar of the burnt offering,
and on the altar of incense, [and were
appointed] for all the work of the
[place] most holy, and to make an
atonement for Israel, according to all
that Moses the servant of God had
commanded.
50 And these [are] the sons of Aaron;
Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son,
Abishua his son,
51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son,
Zerahiah his son,
52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son,
Ahitub his son,
53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
54 # Now these [are] their dwelling
places throughout their castles in
their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of
the families of the Kohathites: for
their's was the lot.
55 And they gave them Hebron in the
land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof
round about it.
56 But the fields of the city, and the
villages thereof, they gave to Caleb
the son of Jephunneh.
57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave
the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron,
[the city] of refuge, and Libnah with
her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa,
with their suburbs,
58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir
with her suburbs,
59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and
Beth-shemesh with her suburbs:
60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin;
Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with
her suburbs, and Anathoth with her
suburbs. All their cities throughout
their families [were] thirteen cities.
61 And unto the sons of Kohath, [which
were] left of the family of that tribe,
[were cities given] out of the half
tribe, [namely, out of] the half
[tribe] of Manasseh, by lot, ten
cities.
62 And to the sons of Gershom
throughout their families out of the
tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe
of Asher, and out of the tribe of
Naphtali, and out of the tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
63 Unto the sons of Merari [were given]
by lot, throughout their families, out
of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the
tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of
Zebulun, twelve cities.
64 And the children of Israel gave to
the Levites [these] cities with their
suburbs.
65 And they gave by lot out of the
tribe of the children of Judah, and out
of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
and out of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin, these cities, which are
called by [their] names.
66 And [the residue] of the families of
the sons of Kohath had cities of their
coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
67 And they gave unto them, [of] the
cities of refuge, Shechem in mount
Ephraim with her suburbs; [they gave]
also Gezer with her suburbs,
68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and
Beth-horon with her suburbs,
69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and
Gath-rimmon with her suburbs:
70 And out of the half tribe of
Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and
Bileam with her suburbs, for the family
of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
71 Unto the sons of Gershom [were
given] out of the family of the half
tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with
her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her
suburbs:
72 And out of the tribe of Issachar;
Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with
her suburbs,
73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and
Anem with her suburbs:
74 And out of the tribe of Asher;
Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with
her suburbs,
75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and
Rehob with her suburbs:
76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali;
Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and
Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim
with her suburbs.
77 Unto the rest of the children of
Merari [were given] out of the tribe of
Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor
with her suburbs:
78 And on the other side Jordan by
Jericho, on the east side of Jordan,
[were given them] out of the tribe of
Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with
her suburbs, and Jahzah with her
suburbs,
79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and
Mephaath with her suburbs:
80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth
in Gilead with her suburbs, and
Mahanaim with her suburbs,
81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and
Jazer with her suburbs.

CHAPTER 7
1 Now the sons of Issachar [were],
Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron,
four.
2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and
Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and
Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their
father's house, [to wit], of Tola:
[they were] valiant men of might in
their generations; whose number [was]
in the days of David two and twenty
thousand and six hundred.
3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and
the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and
Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of
them chief men.
4 And with them, by their generations,
after the house of their fathers,
[were] bands of soldiers for war, six
and thirty thousand [men]: for they had
many wives and sons.
5 And their brethren among all the
families of Issachar [were] valiant men
of might, reckoned in all by their
genealogies fourscore and seven
thousand.
6 # [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and
Becher, and Jediael, three.
7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and
Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and
Iri, five; heads of the house of
[their] fathers, mighty men of valour;
and were reckoned by their genealogies
twenty and two thousand and thirty and
four.
8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and
Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and
Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and
Anathoth, and Alameth. All these [are]
the sons of Becher.
9 And the number of them, after their
genealogy by their generations, heads
of the house of their fathers, mighty
men of valour, [was] twenty thousand
and two hundred.
10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan:
and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and
Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and
Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these the sons of Jediael, by
the heads of their fathers, mighty men
of valour, [were] seventeen thousand
and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go
out for war [and] battle.
12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the
children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons
of Aher.
13 # The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and
Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons
of Bilhah.
14 # The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel,
whom she bare: ([but] his concubine the
Aramitess bare Machir the father of
Gilead:
15 And Machir took to wife [the sister]
of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's
name [was] Maachah;) and the name of
the second [was] Zelophehad: and
Zelophehad had daughters.
16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare
a son, and she called his name Peresh;
and the name of his brother [was]
Sheresh; and his sons [were] Ulam and
Rakem.
17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These
[were] the sons of Gilead, the son of
Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare
Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
19 And the sons of Shemidah were,
Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and
Aniam.
20 # And the sons of Ephraim;
Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and
Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and
Tahath his son,
21 # And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah
his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the
men of Gath [that were] born in [that]
land slew, because they came down to
take away their cattle.
22 And Ephraim their father mourned
many days, and his brethren came to
comfort him.
23 # And when he went in to his wife,
she conceived, and bare a son, and he
called his name Beriah, because it went
evil with his house.
24 (And his daughter [was] Sherah, who
built Beth-horon the nether, and the
upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
25 And Rephah [was] his son, also
Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan
his son,
26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son,
Elishama his son,
27 Non his son, Jehoshua his son.
28 # And their possessions and
habitations [were], Beth-el and the
towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and
westward Gezer, with the towns thereof;
Shechem also and the towns thereof,
unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
29 And by the borders of the children
of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns,
Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her
towns, Dor and her towns. In these
dwelt the children of Joseph the son of
Israel.
30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah,
and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their
sister.
31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and
Malchiel, who [is] the father of
Birzavith.
32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer,
and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and
Bimhal, and Ashvath. These [are] the
children of Japhlet.
34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and
Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 And the sons of his brother Helem;
Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and
Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and
Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and
Imrah,
37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and
Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh,
and Pispah, and Ara.
39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and
Haniel, and Rezia.
40 All these [were] the children of
Asher, heads of [their] father's house,
choice [and] mighty men of valour,
chief of the princes. And the number
throughout the genealogy of them that
were apt to the war [and] to battle
[was] twenty and six thousand men.

CHAPTER 8
1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his
firstborn, Ashbel the second, and
Aharah the third,
2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the
fifth.
3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and
Gera, and Abihud,
4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
6 And these [are] the sons of Ehud:
these are the heads of the fathers of
the inhabitants of Geba, and they
removed them to Manahath:
7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he
removed them, and begat Uzza, and
Ahihud.
8 And Shaharaim begat [children] in the
country of Moab, after he had sent them
away; Hushim and Baara [were] his
wives.
9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife,
Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and
Malcham,
10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma.
These [were] his sons, heads of the
fathers.
11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and
Elpaal.
12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and
Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and
Lod, with the towns thereof:
13 Beriah also, and Shema, who [were]
heads of the fathers of the inhabitants
of Aijalon, who drove away the
inhabitants of Gath:
14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,
16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha,
the sons of Beriah;
17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and
Hezeki, and Heber,
18 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and
Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
20 And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and
Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
22 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and
Antothijah,
25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons
of Shashak;
26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and
Athaliah,
27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri,
the sons of Jeroham.
28 These [were] heads of the fathers,
by their generations, chief [men].
These dwelt in Jerusalem.
29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of
Gibeon; whose wife's name [was]
Maachah:
30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and
Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these
also dwelt with their brethren in
Jerusalem, over against them.
33 # And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat
Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and
Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and
Esh-baal.
34 And the son of Jonathan [was]
Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.
35 And the sons of Micah [were],
Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and
Ahaz.
36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and
Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth,
and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,
37 And Moza begat Binea: Rapha [was]
his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son:
38 And Azel had six sons, whose names
[are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and
Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and
Hanan. All these [were] the sons of
Azel.
39 And the sons of Eshek his brother
[were], Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the
second, and Eliphelet the third.
40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men
of valour, archers, and had many sons,
and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty.
All these [are] of the sons of
Benjamin.

CHAPTER 9
1 So all Israel were reckoned by
genealogies; and, behold, they [were]
written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah, [who] were carried
away to Babylon for their
transgression.
2 # Now the first inhabitants that
[dwelt] in their possessions in their
cities [were], the Israelites, the
priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the
children of Judah, and of the children
of Benjamin, and of the children of
Ephraim, and Manasseh;
4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of
Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani,
of the children of Pharez the son of
Judah.
5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the
firstborn, and his sons.
6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and
their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu
the son of Meshullam, the son of
Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and
Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of
Michri, and Meshullam the son of
Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son
of Ibnijah;
9 And their brethren, according to
their generations, nine hundred and
fifty and six. All these men [were]
chief of the fathers in the house of
their fathers.
10 # And of the priests; Jedaiah, and
Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the
son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the
son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the
ruler of the house of God;
12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the
son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah,
and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son
of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the
son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
13 And their brethren, heads of the
house of their fathers, a thousand and
seven hundred and threescore; very able
men for the work of the service of the
house of God.
14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son
of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son
of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal,
and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son
of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the
son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and
Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of
Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of
the Netophathites.
17 And the porters [were], Shallum, and
Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and
their brethren: Shallum [was] the
chief;
18 Who hitherto [waited] in the king's
gate eastward: they [were] porters in
the companies of the children of Levi.
19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son
of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his
brethren, of the house of his father,
the Korahites, [were] over the work of
the service, keepers of the gates of
the tabernacle: and their fathers,
[being] over the host of the LORD,
[were] keepers of the entry.
20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was
the ruler over them in time past, [and]
the LORD [was] with him.
21 [And] Zechariah the son of
Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
22 All these [which were] chosen to be
porters in the gates [were] two hundred
and twelve. These were reckoned by
their genealogy in their villages, whom
David and Samuel the seer did ordain in
their set office.
23 So they and their children [had] the
oversight of the gates of the house of
the LORD, [namely], the house of the
tabernacle, by wards.
24 In four quarters were the porters,
toward the east, west, north, and
south.
25 And their brethren, [which were] in
their villages, [were] to come after
seven days from time to time with them.
26 For these Levites, the four chief
porters, were in [their] set office,
and were over the chambers and
treasuries of the house of God.
27 # And they lodged round about the
house of God, because the charge [was]
upon them, and the opening thereof
every morning [pertained] to them.
28 And [certain] of them had the charge
of the ministering vessels, that they
should bring them in and out by tale.
29 [Some] of them also [were] appointed
to oversee the vessels, and all the
instruments of the sanctuary, and the
fine flour, and the wine, and the oil,
and the frankincense, and the spices.
30 And [some] of the sons of the
priests made the ointment of the
spices.
31 And Mattithiah, [one] of the
Levites, who [was] the firstborn of
Shallum the Korahite, had the set
office over the things that were made
in the pans.
32 And [other] of their brethren, of
the sons of the Kohathites, [were] over
the shewbread, to prepare [it] every
sabbath.
33 And these [are] the singers, chief
of the fathers of the Levites, [who
remaining] in the chambers [were] free:
for they were employed in [that] work
day and night.
34 These chief fathers of the Levites
[were] chief throughout their
generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
35 # And in Gibeon dwelt the father of
Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name [was]
Maachah:
36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then
Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and
Nadab,
37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah,
and Mikloth.
38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they
also dwelt with their brethren at
Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat
Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and
Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and
Esh-baal.
40 And the son of Jonathan [was]
Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah.
41 And the sons of Micah [were],
Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, [and
Ahaz].
42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah
begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri;
and Zimri begat Moza;
43 And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah
his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
44 And Azel had six sons, whose names
[are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and
Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and
Hanan: these [were] the sons of Azel.

CHAPTER 10
1 Now the Philistines fought against
Israel; and the men of Israel fled from
before the Philistines, and fell down
slain in mount Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines followed hard
after Saul, and after his sons; and the
Philistines slew Jonathan, and
Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of
Saul.
3 And the battle went sore against
Saul, and the archers hit him, and he
was wounded of the archers.
4 Then said Saul to his armourbearer,
Draw thy sword, and thrust me through
therewith; lest these uncircumcised
come and abuse me. But his armourbearer
would not; for he was sore afraid. So
Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
5 And when his armourbearer saw that
Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the
sword, and died.
6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and
all his house died together.
7 And when all the men of Israel that
[were] in the valley saw that they
fled, and that Saul and his sons were
dead, then they forsook their cities,
and fled: and the Philistines came and
dwelt in them.
8 # And it came to pass on the morrow,
when the Philistines came to strip the
slain, that they found Saul and his
sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9 And when they had stripped him, they
took his head, and his armour, and sent
into the land of the Philistines round
about, to carry tidings unto their
idols, and to the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house
of their gods, and fastened his head in
the temple of Dagon.
11 # And when all Jabesh-gilead heard
all that the Philistines had done to
Saul,
12 They arose, all the valiant men, and
took away the body of Saul, and the
bodies of his sons, and brought them to
Jabesh, and buried their bones under
the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven
days.
13 # So Saul died for his transgression
which he committed against the LORD,
[even] against the word of the LORD,
which he kept not, and also for asking
[counsel] of [one that had] a familiar
spirit, to enquire [of it];
14 And enquired not of the LORD:
therefore he slew him, and turned the
kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

CHAPTER 11
1 Then all Israel gathered themselves
to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold,
we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.
2 And moreover in time past, even when
Saul was king, thou [wast] he that
leddest out and broughtest in Israel:
and the LORD thy God said unto thee,
Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and
thou shalt be ruler over my people
Israel.
3 Therefore came all the elders of
Israel to the king to Hebron; and David
made a covenant with them in Hebron
before the LORD; and they anointed
David king over Israel, according to
the word of the LORD by Samuel.
4 # And David and all Israel went to
Jerusalem, which [is] Jebus; where the
Jebusites [were], the inhabitants of
the land.
5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to
David, Thou shalt not come hither.
Nevertheless David took the castle of
Zion, which [is] the city of David.
6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the
Jebusites first shall be chief and
captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah
went first up, and was chief.
7 And David dwelt in the castle;
therefore they called it the city of
David.
8 And he built the city round about,
even from Millo round about: and Joab
repaired the rest of the city.
9 So David waxed greater and greater:
for the LORD of hosts [was] with him.
10 # These also [are] the chief of the
mighty men whom David had, who
strengthened themselves with him in his
kingdom, [and] with all Israel, to make
him king, according to the word of the
LORD concerning Israel.
11 And this [is] the number of the
mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam,
an Hachmonite, the chief of the
captains: he lifted up his spear
against three hundred slain [by him] at
one time.
12 And after him [was] Eleazar the son
of Dodo, the Ahohite, who [was one] of
the three mighties.
13 He was with David at Pas-dammim, and
there the Philistines were gathered
together to battle, where was a parcel
of ground full of barley; and the
people fled from before the
Philistines.
14 And they set themselves in the midst
of [that] parcel, and delivered it, and
slew the Philistines; and the LORD
saved [them] by a great deliverance.
15 # Now three of the thirty captains
went down to the rock to David, into
the cave of Adullam; and the host of
the Philistines encamped in the valley
of Rephaim.
16 And David [was] then in the hold,
and the Philistines' garrison [was]
then at Beth-lehem.
17 And David longed, and said, Oh that
one would give me drink of the water of
the well of Beth-lehem, that [is] at
the gate!
18 And the three brake through the host
of the Philistines, and drew water out
of the well of Beth-lehem, that [was]
by the gate, and took [it], and brought
[it] to David: but David would not
drink [of] it, but poured it out to the
LORD,
19 And said, My God forbid it me, that
I should do this thing: shall I drink
the blood of these men that have put
their lives in jeopardy? for with [the
jeopardy of] their lives they brought
it. Therefore he would not drink it.
These things did these three mightiest.
20 # And Abishai the brother of Joab,
he was chief of the three: for lifting
up his spear against three hundred, he
slew [them], and had a name among the
three.
21 Of the three, he was more honourable
than the two; for he was their captain:
howbeit he attained not to the [first]
three.
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son
of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had
done many acts; he slew two lionlike
men of Moab: also he went down and slew
a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of
[great] stature, five cubits high; and
in the Egyptian's hand [was] a spear
like a weaver's beam; and he went down
to him with a staff, and plucked the
spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and
slew him with his own spear.
24 These [things] did Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada, and had the name among the
three mighties.
25 Behold, he was honourable among the
thirty, but attained not to the [first]
three: and David set him over his
guard.
26 # Also the valiant men of the armies
[were], Asahel the brother of Joab,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the
Pelonite,
28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Abiezer the Antothite,
29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
Ahohite,
30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the
son of Baanah the Netophathite,
31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah,
[that pertained] to the children of
Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel
the Arbathite,
33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the
Shaalbonite,
34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite,
Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite,
Eliphal the son of Ur,
36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the
Pelonite,
37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son
of Ezbai,
38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar
the son of Haggeri,
39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the
Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the
son of Zeruiah,
40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of
Ahlai,
42 Adina the son of Shiza the
Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites,
and thirty with him,
43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and
Joshaphat the Mithnite,
44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and
Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha
his brother, the Tizite,
46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and
Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and
Ithmah the Moabite,
47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the
Mesobaite.

CHAPTER 12
1 Now these [are] they that came to
David to Ziklag, while he yet kept
himself close because of Saul the son
of Kish: and they [were] among the
mighty men, helpers of the war.
2 [They were] armed with bows, and
could use both the right hand and the
left in [hurling] stones and [shooting]
arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's
brethren of Benjamin.
3 The chief [was] Ahiezer, then Joash,
the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and
Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of
Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the
Antothite,
4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty
man among the thirty, and over the
thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and
Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah,
and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the
Haruphite,
6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and
Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of
Jeroham of Gedor.
8 And of the Gadites there separated
themselves unto David into the hold to
the wilderness men of might, [and] men
of war [fit] for the battle, that could
handle shield and buckler, whose faces
[were like] the faces of lions, and
[were] as swift as the roes upon the
mountains;
9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second,
Eliab the third,
10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the
fifth,
11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the
ninth,
13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the
eleventh.
14 These [were] of the sons of Gad,
captains of the host: one of the least
[was] over an hundred, and the greatest
over a thousand.
15 These [are] they that went over
Jordan in the first month, when it had
overflown all his banks; and they put
to flight all [them] of the valleys,
[both] toward the east, and toward the
west.
16 And there came of the children of
Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto
David.
17 And David went out to meet them, and
answered and said unto them, If ye be
come peaceably unto me to help me, mine
heart shall be knit unto you: but if
[ye be come] to betray me to mine
enemies, seeing [there is] no wrong in
mine hands, the God of our fathers look
[thereon], and rebuke [it].
18 Then the spirit came upon Amasai,
[who was] chief of the captains, [and
he said], Thine [are we], David, and on
thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace,
peace [be] unto thee, and peace [be] to
thine helpers; for thy God helpeth
thee. Then David received them, and
made them captains of the band.
19 And there fell [some] of Manasseh to
David, when he came with the
Philistines against Saul to battle: but
they helped them not: for the lords of
the Philistines upon advisement sent
him away, saying, He will fall to his
master Saul to [the jeopardy of] our
heads.
20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to
him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad,
and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad,
and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the
thousands that [were] of Manasseh.
21 And they helped David against the
band [of the rovers]: for they [were]
all mighty men of valour, and were
captains in the host.
22 For at [that] time day by day there
came to David to help him, until [it
was] a great host, like the host of
God.
23 # And these [are] the numbers of the
bands [that were] ready armed to the
war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to
turn the kingdom of Saul to him,
according to the word of the LORD.
24 The children of Judah that bare
shield and spear [were] six thousand
and eight hundred, ready armed to the
war.
25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty
men of valour for the war, seven
thousand and one hundred.
26 Of the children of Levi four
thousand and six hundred.
27 And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the
Aaronites, and with him [were] three
thousand and seven hundred;
28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of
valour, and of his father's house
twenty and two captains.
29 And of the children of Benjamin, the
kindred of Saul, three thousand: for
hitherto the greatest part of them had
kept the ward of the house of Saul.
30 And of the children of Ephraim
twenty thousand and eight hundred,
mighty men of valour, famous throughout
the house of their fathers.
31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh
eighteen thousand, which were expressed
by name, to come and make David king.
32 And of the children of Issachar,
[which were men] that had understanding
of the times, to know what Israel ought
to do; the heads of them [were] two
hundred; and all their brethren [were]
at their commandment.
33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to
battle, expert in war, with all
instruments of war, fifty thousand,
which could keep rank: [they were] not
of double heart.
34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains,
and with them with shield and spear
thirty and seven thousand.
35 And of the Danites expert in war
twenty and eight thousand and six
hundred.
36 And of Asher, such as went forth to
battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
37 And on the other side of Jordan, of
the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of
the half tribe of Manasseh, with all
manner of instruments of war for the
battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
38 All these men of war, that could
keep rank, came with a perfect heart to
Hebron, to make David king over all
Israel: and all the rest also of Israel
[were] of one heart to make David king.
39 And there they were with David three
days, eating and drinking: for their
brethren had prepared for them.
40 Moreover they that were nigh them,
[even] unto Issachar and Zebulun and
Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and
on camels, and on mules, and on oxen,
[and] meat, meal, cakes of figs, and
bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil,
and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for
[there was] joy in Israel.

CHAPTER 13
1 And David consulted with the captains
of thousands and hundreds, [and] with
every leader.
2 And David said unto all the
congregation of Israel, If [it seem]
good unto you, and [that it be] of the
LORD our God, let us send abroad unto
our brethren every where, [that are]
left in all the land of Israel, and
with them [also] to the priests and
Levites [which are] in their cities
[and] suburbs, that they may gather
themselves unto us:
3 And let us bring again the ark of our
God to us: for we enquired not at it in
the days of Saul.
4 And all the congregation said that
they would do so: for the thing was
right in the eyes of all the people.
5 So David gathered all Israel
together, from Shihor of Egypt even
unto the entering of Hemath, to bring
the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
6 And David went up, and all Israel, to
Baalah, [that is], to Kirjath-jearim,
which [belonged] to Judah, to bring up
thence the ark of God the LORD, that
dwelleth [between] the cherubims, whose
name is called [on it].
7 And they carried the ark of God in a
new cart out of the house of Abinadab:
and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
8 And David and all Israel played
before God with all [their] might, and
with singing, and with harps, and with
psalteries, and with timbrels, and with
cymbals, and with trumpets.
9 # And when they came unto the
threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put
forth his hand to hold the ark; for the
oxen stumbled.
10 And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Uzza, and he smote him,
because he put his hand to the ark: and
there he died before God.
11 And David was displeased, because
the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza:
wherefore that place is called
Perez-uzza to this day.
12 And David was afraid of God that
day, saying, How shall I bring the ark
of God [home] to me?
13 So David brought not the ark [home]
to himself to the city of David, but
carried it aside into the house of
Obed-edom the Gittite.
14 And the ark of God remained with the
family of Obed-edom in his house three
months. And the LORD blessed the house
of Obed-edom, and all that he had.

CHAPTER 14
1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent
messengers to David, and timber of
cedars, with masons and carpenters, to
build him an house.
2 And David perceived that the LORD had
confirmed him king over Israel, for his
kingdom was lifted up on high, because
of his people Israel.
3 # And David took more wives at
Jerusalem: and David begat more sons
and daughters.
4 Now these [are] the names of [his]
children which he had in Jerusalem;
Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and
Solomon,
5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and
Eliphalet.
8 # And when the Philistines heard that
David was anointed king over all
Israel, all the Philistines went up to
seek David. And David heard [of it],
and went out against them.
9 And the Philistines came and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
10 And David enquired of God, saying,
Shall I go up against the Philistines?
and wilt thou deliver them into mine
hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go
up; for I will deliver them into thine
hand.
11 So they came up to Baal-perazim; and
David smote them there. Then David
said, God hath broken in upon mine
enemies by mine hand like the breaking
forth of waters: therefore they called
the name of that place Baal-perazim.
12 And when they had left their gods
there, David gave a commandment, and
they were burned with fire.
13 And the Philistines yet again spread
themselves abroad in the valley.
14 Therefore David enquired again of
God; and God said unto him, Go not up
after them; turn away from them, and
come upon them over against the
mulberry trees.
15 And it shall be, when thou shalt
hear a sound of going in the tops of
the mulberry trees, [that] then thou
shalt go out to battle: for God is gone
forth before thee to smite the host of
the Philistines.
16 David therefore did as God commanded
him: and they smote the host of the
Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
17 And the fame of David went out into
all lands; and the LORD brought the
fear of him upon all nations.

CHAPTER 15
1 And [David] made him houses in the
city of David, and prepared a place for
the ark of God, and pitched for it a
tent.
2 Then David said, None ought to carry
the ark of God but the Levites: for
them hath the LORD chosen to carry the
ark of God, and to minister unto him
for ever.
3 And David gathered all Israel
together to Jerusalem, to bring up the
ark of the LORD unto his place, which
he had prepared for it.
4 And David assembled the children of
Aaron, and the Levites:
5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the
chief, and his brethren an hundred and
twenty:
6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the
chief, and his brethren two hundred and
twenty:
7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the
chief, and his brethren an hundred and
thirty:
8 Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah
the chief, and his brethren two
hundred:
9 Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the
chief, and his brethren fourscore:
10 Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the
chief, and his brethren an hundred and
twelve.
11 And David called for Zadok and
Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel,
Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
12 And said unto them, Ye [are] the
chief of the fathers of the Levites:
sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your
brethren, that ye may bring up the ark
of the LORD God of Israel unto [the
place that] I have prepared for it.
13 For because ye [did it] not at the
first, the LORD our God made a breach
upon us, for that we sought him not
after the due order.
14 So the priests and the Levites
sanctified themselves to bring up the
ark of the LORD God of Israel.
15 And the children of the Levites bare
the ark of God upon their shoulders
with the staves thereon, as Moses
commanded according to the word of the
LORD.
16 And David spake to the chief of the
Levites to appoint their brethren [to
be] the singers with instruments of
musick, psalteries and harps and
cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the
voice with joy.
17 So the Levites appointed Heman the
son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph
the son of Berechiah; and of the sons
of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son
of Kushaiah;
18 And with them their brethren of the
second [degree], Zechariah, Ben, and
Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and
Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and
Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom,
and Jeiel, the porters.
19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and
Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with
cymbals of brass;
20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and
Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with
psalteries on Alamoth;
21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and
Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and
Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to
excel.
22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites,
[was] for song: he instructed about the
song, because he [was] skilful.
23 And Berechiah and Elkanah [were]
doorkeepers for the ark.
24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and
Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah,
and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests,
did blow with the trumpets before the
ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah
[were] doorkeepers for the ark.
25 # So David, and the elders of
Israel, and the captains over
thousands, went to bring up the ark of
the covenant of the LORD out of the
house of Obed-edom with joy.
26 And it came to pass, when God helped
the Levites that bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, that they offered
seven bullocks and seven rams.
27 And David [was] clothed with a robe
of fine linen, and all the Levites that
bare the ark, and the singers, and
Chenaniah the master of the song with
the singers: David also [had] upon him
an ephod of linen.
28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark
of the covenant of the LORD with
shouting, and with sound of the cornet,
and with trumpets, and with cymbals,
making a noise with psalteries and
harps.
29 # And it came to pass, [as] the ark
of the covenant of the LORD came to the
city of David, that Michal the daughter
of Saul looking out at a window saw
king David dancing and playing: and she
despised him in her heart.

CHAPTER 16
1 So they brought the ark of God, and
set it in the midst of the tent that
David had pitched for it: and they
offered burnt sacrifices and peace
offerings before God.
2 And when David had made an end of
offering the burnt offerings and the
peace offerings, he blessed the people
in the name of the LORD.
3 And he dealt to every one of Israel,
both man and woman, to every one a loaf
of bread, and a good piece of flesh,
and a flagon [of wine].
4 # And he appointed [certain] of the
Levites to minister before the ark of
the LORD, and to record, and to thank
and praise the LORD God of Israel:
5 Asaph the chief, and next to him
Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with
psalteries and with harps; but Asaph
made a sound with cymbals;
6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests
with trumpets continually before the
ark of the covenant of God.
7 # Then on that day David delivered
first [this psalm] to thank the LORD
into the hand of Asaph and his
brethren.
8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon
his name, make known his deeds among
the people.
9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him,
talk ye of all his wondrous works.
10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the
heart of them rejoice that seek the
LORD.
11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek
his face continually.
12 Remember his marvellous works that
he hath done, his wonders, and the
judgments of his mouth;
13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye
children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
14 He [is] the LORD our God; his
judgments [are] in all the earth.
15 Be ye mindful always of his
covenant; the word [which] he commanded
to a thousand generations;
16 [Even of the covenant] which he made
with Abraham, and of his oath unto
Isaac;
17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob
for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an
everlasting covenant,
18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the
land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance;
19 When ye were but few, even a few,
and strangers in it.
20 And [when] they went from nation to
nation, and from [one] kingdom to
another people;
21 He suffered no man to do them wrong:
yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
22 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed,
and do my prophets no harm.
23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth;
shew forth from day to day his
salvation.
24 Declare his glory among the heathen;
his marvellous works among all nations.
25 For great [is] the LORD, and greatly
to be praised: he also [is] to be
feared above all gods.
26 For all the gods of the people [are]
idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
27 Glory and honour [are] in his
presence; strength and gladness [are]
in his place.
28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of
the people, give unto the LORD glory
and strength.
29 Give unto the LORD the glory [due]
unto his name: bring an offering, and
come before him: worship the LORD in
the beauty of holiness.
30 Fear before him, all the earth: the
world also shall be stable, that it be
not moved.
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the
earth rejoice: and let [men] say among
the nations, The LORD reigneth.
32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness
thereof: let the fields rejoice, and
all that [is] therein.
33 Then shall the trees of the wood
sing out at the presence of the LORD,
because he cometh to judge the earth.
34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he
is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our
salvation, and gather us together, and
deliver us from the heathen, that we
may give thanks to thy holy name, [and]
glory in thy praise.
36 Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel
for ever and ever. And all the people
said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
37 # So he left there before the ark of
the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his
brethren, to minister before the ark
continually, as every day's work
required:
38 And Obed-edom with their brethren,
threescore and eight; Obed-edom also
the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [to be]
porters:
39 And Zadok the priest, and his
brethren the priests, before the
tabernacle of the LORD in the high
place that [was] at Gibeon,
40 To offer burnt offerings unto the
LORD upon the altar of the burnt
offering continually morning and
evening, and [to do] according to all
that is written in the law of the LORD,
which he commanded Israel;
41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun,
and the rest that were chosen, who were
expressed by name, to give thanks to
the LORD, because his mercy [endureth]
for ever;
42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun
with trumpets and cymbals for those
that should make a sound, and with
musical instruments of God. And the
sons of Jeduthun [were] porters.
43 And all the people departed every
man to his house: and David returned to
bless his house.

CHAPTER 17
1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in
his house, that David said to Nathan
the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of
cedars, but the ark of the covenant of
the LORD [remaineth] under curtains.
2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all
that [is] in thine heart; for God [is]
with thee.
3 # And it came to pass the same night,
that the word of God came to Nathan,
saying,
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus
saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me
an house to dwell in:
5 For I have not dwelt in an house
since the day that I brought up Israel
unto this day; but have gone from tent
to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to
another].
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all
Israel, spake I a word to any of the
judges of Israel, whom I commanded to
feed my people, saying, Why have ye not
built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say
unto my servant David, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, I took thee from the
sheepcote, [even] from following the
sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler
over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with thee
whithersoever thou hast walked, and
have cut off all thine enemies from
before thee, and have made thee a name
like the name of the great men that
[are] in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my
people Israel, and will plant them, and
they shall dwell in their place, and
shall be moved no more; neither shall
the children of wickedness waste them
any more, as at the beginning,
10 And since the time that I commanded
judges [to be] over my people Israel.
Moreover I will subdue all thine
enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that
the LORD will build thee an house.
11 # And it shall come to pass, when
thy days be expired that thou must go
[to be] with thy fathers, that I will
raise up thy seed after thee, which
shall be of thy sons; and I will
establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I
will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall
be my son: and I will not take my mercy
away from him, as I took [it] from
[him] that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house
and in my kingdom for ever: and his
throne shall be established for
evermore.
15 According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so did
Nathan speak unto David.
16 # And David the king came and sat
before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I,
O LORD God, and what [is] mine house,
that thou hast brought me hitherto?
17 And [yet] this was a small thing in
thine eyes, O God; for thou hast [also]
spoken of thy servant's house for a
great while to come, and hast regarded
me according to the estate of a man of
high degree, O LORD God.
18 What can David [speak] more to thee
for the honour of thy servant? for thou
knowest thy servant.
19 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and
according to thine own heart, hast thou
done all this greatness, in making
known all [these] great things.
20 O LORD, [there is] none like thee,
neither [is there any] God beside thee,
according to all that we have heard
with our ears.
21 And what one nation in the earth
[is] like thy people Israel, whom God
went to redeem [to be] his own people,
to make thee a name of greatness and
terribleness, by driving out nations
from before thy people, whom thou hast
redeemed out of Egypt?
22 For thy people Israel didst thou
make thine own people for ever; and
thou, LORD, becamest their God.
23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing
that thou hast spoken concerning thy
servant and concerning his house be
established for ever, and do as thou
hast said.
24 Let it even be established, that thy
name may be magnified for ever, saying,
The LORD of hosts [is] the God of
Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and
[let] the house of David thy servant
[be] established before thee.
25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy
servant that thou wilt build him an
house: therefore thy servant hath found
[in his heart] to pray before thee.
26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and
hast promised this goodness unto thy
servant:
27 Now therefore let it please thee to
bless the house of thy servant, that it
may be before thee for ever: for thou
blessest, O LORD, and [it shall be]
blessed for ever.

CHAPTER 18
1 Now after this it came to pass, that
David smote the Philistines, and
subdued them, and took Gath and her
towns out of the hand of the
Philistines.
2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites
became David's servants, [and] brought
gifts.
3 # And David smote Hadarezer king of
Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to
stablish his dominion by the river
Euphrates.
4 And David took from him a thousand
chariots, and seven thousand horsemen,
and twenty thousand footmen: David also
houghed all the chariot [horses], but
reserved of them an hundred chariots.
5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came
to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David
slew of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men.
6 Then David put [garrisons] in
Syria-damascus; and the Syrians became
David's servants, [and] brought gifts.
Thus the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold
that were on the servants of Hadarezer,
and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun,
cities of Hadarezer, brought David very
much brass, wherewith Solomon made the
brasen sea, and the pillars, and the
vessels of brass.
9 # Now when Tou king of Hamath heard
how David had smitten all the host of
Hadarezer king of Zobah;
10 He sent Hadoram his son to king
David, to enquire of his welfare, and
to congratulate him, because he had
fought against Hadarezer, and smitten
him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;)
and [with him] all manner of vessels of
gold and silver and brass.
11 # Them also king David dedicated
unto the LORD, with the silver and the
gold that he brought from all [these]
nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and
from the children of Ammon, and from
the Philistines, and from Amalek.
12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah
slew of the Edomites in the valley of
salt eighteen thousand.
13 # And he put garrisons in Edom; and
all the Edomites became David's
servants. Thus the LORD preserved David
whithersoever he went.
14 # So David reigned over all Israel,
and executed judgment and justice among
all his people.
15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was]
over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud, recorder.
16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and
Abimelech the son of Abiathar, [were]
the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
[was] over the Cherethites and the
Pelethites; and the sons of David
[were] chief about the king.

CHAPTER 19
1 Now it came to pass after this, that
Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his
stead.
2 And David said, I will shew kindness
unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because
his father shewed kindness to me. And
David sent messengers to comfort him
concerning his father. So the servants
of David came into the land of the
children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort
him.
3 But the princes of the children of
Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that
David doth honour thy father, that he
hath sent comforters unto thee? are not
his servants come unto thee for to
search, and to overthrow, and to spy
out the land?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David's
servants, and shaved them, and cut off
their garments in the midst hard by
their buttocks, and sent them away.
5 Then there went [certain], and told
David how the men were served. And he
sent to meet them: for the men were
greatly ashamed. And the king said,
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be
grown, and [then] return.
6 # And when the children of Ammon saw
that they had made themselves odious to
David, Hanun and the children of Ammon
sent a thousand talents of silver to
hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah,
and out of Zobah.
7 So they hired thirty and two thousand
chariots, and the king of Maachah and
his people; who came and pitched before
Medeba. And the children of Ammon
gathered themselves together from their
cities, and came to battle.
8 And when David heard [of it], he sent
Joab, and all the host of the mighty
men.
9 And the children of Ammon came out,
and put the battle in array before the
gate of the city: and the kings that
were come [were] by themselves in the
field.
10 Now when Joab saw that the battle
was set against him before and behind,
he chose out of all the choice of
Israel, and put [them] in array against
the Syrians.
11 And the rest of the people he
delivered unto the hand of Abishai his
brother, and they set [themselves] in
array against the children of Ammon.
12 And he said, If the Syrians be too
strong for me, then thou shalt help me:
but if the children of Ammon be too
strong for thee, then I will help thee.
13 Be of good courage, and let us
behave ourselves valiantly for our
people, and for the cities of our God:
and let the LORD do [that which is]
good in his sight.
14 So Joab and the people that [were]
with him drew nigh before the Syrians
unto the battle; and they fled before
him.
15 And when the children of Ammon saw
that the Syrians were fled, they
likewise fled before Abishai his
brother, and entered into the city.
Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
16 # And when the Syrians saw that they
were put to the worse before Israel,
they sent messengers, and drew forth
the Syrians that [were] beyond the
river: and Shophach the captain of the
host of Hadarezer [went] before them.
17 And it was told David; and he
gathered all Israel, and passed over
Jordan, and came upon them, and set
[the battle] in array against them. So
when David had put the battle in array
against the Syrians, they fought with
him.
18 But the Syrians fled before Israel;
and David slew of the Syrians seven
thousand [men which fought in]
chariots, and forty thousand footmen,
and killed Shophach the captain of the
host.
19 And when the servants of Hadarezer
saw that they were put to the worse
before Israel, they made peace with
David, and became his servants: neither
would the Syrians help the children of
Ammon any more.

CHAPTER 20
1 And it came to pass, that after the
year was expired, at the time that
kings go out [to battle], Joab led
forth the power of the army, and wasted
the country of the children of Ammon,
and came and besieged Rabbah. But David
tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote
Rabbah, and destroyed it.
2 And David took the crown of their
king from off his head, and found it to
weigh a talent of gold, and [there
were] precious stones in it; and it was
set upon David's head: and he brought
also exceeding much spoil out of the
city.
3 And he brought out the people that
[were] in it, and cut [them] with saws,
and with harrows of iron, and with
axes. Even so dealt David with all the
cities of the children of Ammon. And
David and all the people returned to
Jerusalem.
4 # And it came to pass after this,
that there arose war at Gezer with the
Philistines; at which time Sibbechai
the Hushathite slew Sippai, [that was]
of the children of the giant: and they
were subdued.
5 And there was war again with the
Philistines; and Elhanan the son of
Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath
the Gittite, whose spear staff [was]
like a weaver's beam.
6 And yet again there was war at Gath,
where was a man of [great] stature,
whose fingers and toes [were] four and
twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on
each foot]: and he also was the son of
the giant.
7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan
the son of Shimea David's brother slew
him.
8 These were born unto the giant in
Gath; and they fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants.

CHAPTER 21
1 And Satan stood up against Israel,
and provoked David to number Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the
rulers of the people, Go, number Israel
from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring
the number of them to me, that I may
know [it].
3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his
people an hundred times so many more as
they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are]
they not all my lord's servants? why
then doth my lord require this thing?
why will he be a cause of trespass to
Israel?
4 Nevertheless the king's word
prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab
departed, and went throughout all
Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5 # And Joab gave the sum of the number
of the people unto David. And all [they
of] Israel were a thousand thousand and
an hundred thousand men that drew
sword: and Judah [was] four hundred
threescore and ten thousand men that
drew sword.
6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not
among them: for the king's word was
abominable to Joab.
7 And God was displeased with this
thing; therefore he smote Israel.
8 And David said unto God, I have
sinned greatly, because I have done
this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do
away the iniquity of thy servant; for I
have done very foolishly.
9 # And the LORD spake unto Gad,
David's seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus
saith the LORD, I offer thee three
[things]: choose thee one of them, that
I may do [it] unto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
12 Either three years' famine; or three
months to be destroyed before thy foes,
while that the sword of thine enemies
overtaketh [thee]; or else three days
the sword of the LORD, even the
pestilence, in the land, and the angel
of the LORD destroying throughout all
the coasts of Israel. Now therefore
advise thyself what word I shall bring
again to him that sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a
great strait: let me fall now into the
hand of the LORD; for very great [are]
his mercies: but let me not fall into
the hand of man.
14 # So the LORD sent pestilence upon
Israel: and there fell of Israel
seventy thousand men.
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem
to destroy it: and as he was
destroying, the LORD beheld, and he
repented him of the evil, and said to
the angel that destroyed, It is enough,
stay now thine hand. And the angel of
the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and
saw the angel of the LORD stand between
the earth and the heaven, having a
drawn sword in his hand stretched out
over Jerusalem. Then David and the
elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in
sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, [Is it] not
I [that] commanded the people to be
numbered? even I it is that have sinned
and done evil indeed; but [as for]
these sheep, what have they done? let
thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God,
be on me, and on my father's house; but
not on thy people, that they should be
plagued.
18 # Then the angel of the LORD
commanded Gad to say to David, that
David should go up, and set up an altar
unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of
Gad, which he spake in the name of the
LORD.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the
angel; and his four sons with him hid
themselves. Now Ornan was threshing
wheat.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan
looked and saw David, and went out of
the threshingfloor, and bowed himself
to David with [his] face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me
the place of [this] threshingfloor,
that I may build an altar therein unto
the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for
the full price: that the plague may be
stayed from the people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take [it]
to thee, and let my lord the king do
[that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I
give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt
offerings, and the threshing
instruments for wood, and the wheat for
the meat offering; I give it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay;
but I will verily buy it for the full
price: for I will not take [that] which
[is] thine for the LORD, nor offer
burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place
six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto
the LORD, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings, and called upon
the LORD; and he answered him from
heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt
offering.
27 And the LORD commanded the angel;
and he put up his sword again into the
sheath thereof.
28 # At that time when David saw that
the LORD had answered him in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite,
then he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of the LORD,
which Moses made in the wilderness, and
the altar of the burnt offering, [were]
at that season in the high place at
Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to
enquire of God: for he was afraid
because of the sword of the angel of
the LORD.

CHAPTER 22
1 Then David said, This [is] the house
of the LORD God, and this [is] the
altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
2 And David commanded to gather
together the strangers that [were] in
the land of Israel; and he set masons
to hew wrought stones to build the
house of God.
3 And David prepared iron in abundance
for the nails for the doors of the
gates, and for the joinings; and brass
in abundance without weight;
4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for
the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought
much cedar wood to David.
5 And David said, Solomon my son [is]
young and tender, and the house [that
is] to be builded for the LORD [must
be] exceeding magnifical, of fame and
of glory throughout all countries: I
will [therefore] now make preparation
for it. So David prepared abundantly
before his death.
6 # Then he called for Solomon his son,
and charged him to build an house for
the LORD God of Israel.
7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as
for me, it was in my mind to build an
house unto the name of the LORD my God:
8 But the word of the LORD came to me,
saying, Thou hast shed blood
abundantly, and hast made great wars:
thou shalt not build an house unto my
name, because thou hast shed much blood
upon the earth in my sight.
9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee,
who shall be a man of rest; and I will
give him rest from all his enemies
round about: for his name shall be
Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness unto Israel in his days.
10 He shall build an house for my name;
and he shall be my son, and I [will be]
his father; and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom over Israel for
ever.
11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee;
and prosper thou, and build the house
of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of
thee.
12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and
understanding, and give thee charge
concerning Israel, that thou mayest
keep the law of the LORD thy God.
13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou
takest heed to fulfil the statutes and
judgments which the LORD charged Moses
with concerning Israel: be strong, and
of good courage; dread not, nor be
dismayed.
14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have
prepared for the house of the LORD an
hundred thousand talents of gold, and a
thousand thousand talents of silver;
and of brass and iron without weight;
for it is in abundance: timber also and
stone have I prepared; and thou mayest
add thereto.
15 Moreover [there are] workmen with
thee in abundance, hewers and workers
of stone and timber, and all manner of
cunning men for every manner of work.
16 Of the gold, the silver, and the
brass, and the iron, [there is] no
number. Arise [therefore], and be
doing, and the LORD be with thee.
17 # David also commanded all the
princes of Israel to help Solomon his
son, [saying],
18 [Is] not the LORD your God with you?
and hath he [not] given you rest on
every side? for he hath given the
inhabitants of the land into mine hand;
and the land is subdued before the
LORD, and before his people.
19 Now set your heart and your soul to
seek the LORD your God; arise
therefore, and build ye the sanctuary
of the LORD God, to bring the ark of
the covenant of the LORD, and the holy
vessels of God, into the house that is
to be built to the name of the LORD.

CHAPTER 23
1 So when David was old and full of
days, he made Solomon his son king over
Israel.
2 # And he gathered together all the
princes of Israel, with the priests and
the Levites.
3 Now the Levites were numbered from
the age of thirty years and upward: and
their number by their polls, man by
man, was thirty and eight thousand.
4 Of which, twenty and four thousand
[were] to set forward the work of the
house of the LORD; and six thousand
[were] officers and judges:
5 Moreover four thousand [were]
porters; and four thousand praised the
LORD with the instruments which I made,
[said David], to praise [therewith].
6 And David divided them into courses
among the sons of Levi, [namely],
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 # Of the Gershonites [were], Laadan,
and Shimei.
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief [was]
Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and
Haziel, and Haran, three. These [were]
the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
10 And the sons of Shimei [were],
Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah.
These four [were] the sons of Shimei.
11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah
the second: but Jeush and Beriah had
not many sons; therefore they were in
one reckoning, according to [their]
father's house.
12 # The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar,
Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses:
and Aaron was separated, that he should
sanctify the most holy things, he and
his sons for ever, to burn incense
before the LORD, to minister unto him,
and to bless in his name for ever.
14 Now [concerning] Moses the man of
God, his sons were named of the tribe
of Levi.
15 The sons of Moses [were], Gershom,
and Eliezer.
16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel
[was] the chief.
17 And the sons of Eliezer [were],
Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had
none other sons; but the sons of
Rehabiah were very many.
18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the
chief.
19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the
first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the
third, and Jekameam the fourth.
20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the
first, and Jesiah the second.
21 # The sons of Merari; Mahli, and
Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and
Kish.
22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons,
but daughters: and their brethren the
sons of Kish took them.
23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder,
and Jeremoth, three.
24 # These [were] the sons of Levi
after the house of their fathers;
[even] the chief of the fathers, as
they were counted by number of names by
their polls, that did the work for the
service of the house of the LORD, from
the age of twenty years and upward.
25 For David said, The LORD God of
Israel hath given rest unto his people,
that they may dwell in Jerusalem for
ever:
26 And also unto the Levites; they
shall no [more] carry the tabernacle,
nor any vessels of it for the service
thereof.
27 For by the last words of David the
Levites [were] numbered from twenty
years old and above:
28 Because their office [was] to wait
on the sons of Aaron for the service of
the house of the LORD, in the courts,
and in the chambers, and in the
purifying of all holy things, and the
work of the service of the house of
God;
29 Both for the shewbread, and for the
fine flour for meat offering, and for
the unleavened cakes, and for [that
which is baked in] the pan, and for
that which is fried, and for all manner
of measure and size;
30 And to stand every morning to thank
and praise the LORD, and likewise at
even;
31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices
unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the
new moons, and on the set feasts, by
number, according to the order
commanded unto them, continually before
the LORD:
32 And that they should keep the charge
of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and the charge of the holy [place], and
the charge of the sons of Aaron their
brethren, in the service of the house
of the LORD.

CHAPTER 24
1 Now [these are] the divisions of the
sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron;
Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their
father, and had no children: therefore
Eleazar and Ithamar executed the
priest's office.
3 And David distributed them, both
Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and
Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar,
according to their offices in their
service.
4 And there were more chief men found
of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons
of Ithamar; and [thus] were they
divided. Among the sons of Eleazar
[there were] sixteen chief men of the
house of [their] fathers, and eight
among the sons of Ithamar according to
the house of their fathers.
5 Thus were they divided by lot, one
sort with another; for the governors of
the sanctuary, and governors [of the
house] of God, were of the sons of
Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the
scribe, [one] of the Levites, wrote
them before the king, and the princes,
and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the
son of Abiathar, and [before] the chief
of the fathers of the priests and
Levites: one principal household being
taken for Eleazar, and [one] taken for
Ithamar.
7 Now the first lot came forth to
Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
8 The third to Harim, the fourth to
Seorim,
9 The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to
Mijamin,
10 The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to
Abijah,
11 The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to
Shecaniah,
12 The eleventh to Eliashib, the
twelfth to Jakim,
13 The thirteenth to Huppah, the
fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
14 The fifteenth to Bilgah, the
sixteenth to Immer,
15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the
eighteenth to Aphses,
16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the
twentieth to Jehezekel,
17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the
two and twentieth to Gamul,
18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah,
the four and twentieth to Maaziah.
19 These [were] the orderings of them
in their service to come into the house
of the LORD, according to their manner,
under Aaron their father, as the LORD
God of Israel had commanded him.
20 # And the rest of the sons of Levi
[were these]: Of the sons of Amram;
Shubael: of the sons of Shubael;
Jehdeiah.
21 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of
Rehabiah, the first [was] Isshiah.
22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the
sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.
23 And the sons [of Hebron]; Jeriah
[the first], Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the
fourth.
24 [Of] the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of
the sons of Michah; Shamir.
25 The brother of Michah [was] Isshiah:
of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.
26 The sons of Merari [were] Mahli and
Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.
27 # The sons of Merari by Jaaziah;
Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
28 Of Mahli [came] Eleazar, who had no
sons.
29 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish
[was] Jerahmeel.
30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and
Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the
sons of the Levites after the house of
their fathers.
31 These likewise cast lots over
against their brethren the sons of
Aaron in the presence of David the
king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the
chief of the fathers of the priests and
Levites, even the principal fathers
over against their younger brethren.

CHAPTER 25
1 Moreover David and the captains of
the host separated to the service of
the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of
Jeduthun, who should prophesy with
harps, with psalteries, and with
cymbals: and the number of the workmen
according to their service was:
2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and
Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah,
the sons of Asaph under the hands of
Asaph, which prophesied according to
the order of the king.
3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun;
Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah,
Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under
the hands of their father Jeduthun, who
prophesied with a harp, to give thanks
and to praise the LORD.
4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah,
Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and
Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah,
Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer,
Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, [and]
Mahazioth:
5 All these [were] the sons of Heman
the king's seer in the words of God, to
lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman
fourteen sons and three daughters.
6 All these [were] under the hands of
their father for song [in] the house of
the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and
harps, for the service of the house of
God, according to the king's order to
Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
7 So the number of them, with their
brethren that were instructed in the
songs of the LORD, [even] all that were
cunning, was two hundred fourscore and
eight.
8 # And they cast lots, ward against
[ward], as well the small as the great,
the teacher as the scholar.
9 Now the first lot came forth for
Asaph to Joseph: the second to
Gedaliah, who with his brethren and
sons [were] twelve:
10 The third to Zaccur, [he], his sons,
and his brethren, [were] twelve:
11 The fourth to Izri, [he], his sons,
and his brethren, [were] twelve:
12 The fifth to Nethaniah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
13 The sixth to Bukkiah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
14 The seventh to Jesharelah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
16 The ninth to Mattaniah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
17 The tenth to Shimei, [he], his sons,
and his brethren, [were] twelve:
18 The eleventh to Azareel, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
20 The thirteenth to Shubael, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, [he],
his sons, and his brethren, [were]
twelve:
22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah,
[he], his sons, and his brethren,
[were] twelve:
25 The eighteenth to Hanani, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, [he],
his sons, and his brethren, [were]
twelve:
27 The twentieth to Eliathah, [he], his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
28 The one and twentieth to Hothir,
[he], his sons, and his brethren,
[were] twelve:
29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti,
[he], his sons, and his brethren,
[were] twelve:
30 The three and twentieth to
Mahazioth, [he], his sons, and his
brethren, [were] twelve:
31 The four and twentieth to
Romamti-ezer, [he], his sons, and his
brethren, [were] twelve.

CHAPTER 26
1 Concerning the divisions of the
porters: Of the Korhites [was]
Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the
sons of Asaph.
2 And the sons of Meshelemiah [were],
Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the
second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel
the fourth,
3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth,
Elioenai the seventh.
4 Moreover the sons of Obed-edom
[were], Shemaiah the firstborn,
Jehozabad the second, Joah the third,
and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the
fifth,
5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the
seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God
blessed him.
6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons
born, that ruled throughout the house
of their father: for they [were] mighty
men of valour.
7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and
Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose
brethren [were] strong men, Elihu, and
Semachiah.
8 All these of the sons of Obed-edom:
they and their sons and their brethren,
able men for strength for the service,
[were] threescore and two of Obed-edom.
9 And Meshelemiah had sons and
brethren, strong men, eighteen.
10 Also Hosah, of the children of
Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for
[though] he was not the firstborn, yet
his father made him the chief;)
11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the
third, Zechariah the fourth: all the
sons and brethren of Hosah [were]
thirteen.
12 Among these [were] the divisions of
the porters, [even] among the chief
men, [having] wards one against
another, to minister in the house of
the LORD.
13 # And they cast lots, as well the
small as the great, according to the
house of their fathers, for every gate.
14 And the lot eastward fell to
Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son,
a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and
his lot came out northward.
15 To Obed-edom southward; and to his
sons the house of Asuppim.
16 To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came
forth] westward, with the gate
Shallecheth, by the causeway of the
going up, ward against ward.
17 Eastward [were] six Levites,
northward four a day, southward four a
day, and toward Asuppim two [and] two.
18 At Parbar westward, four at the
causeway, [and] two at Parbar.
19 These [are] the divisions of the
porters among the sons of Kore, and
among the sons of Merari.
20 # And of the Levites, Ahijah [was]
over the treasures of the house of God,
and over the treasures of the dedicated
things.
21 [As concerning] the sons of Laadan;
the sons of the Gershonite Laadan,
chief fathers, [even] of Laadan the
Gershonite, [were] Jehieli.
22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and
Joel his brother, [which were] over the
treasures of the house of the LORD.
23 Of the Amramites, [and] the
Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the
Uzzielites:
24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the
son of Moses, [was] ruler of the
treasures.
25 And his brethren by Eliezer;
Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son,
and Joram his son, and Zichri his son,
and Shelomith his son.
26 Which Shelomith and his brethren
[were] over all the treasures of the
dedicated things, which David the king,
and the chief fathers, the captains
over thousands and hundreds, and the
captains of the host, had dedicated.
27 Out of the spoils won in battles did
they dedicate to maintain the house of
the LORD.
28 And all that Samuel the seer, and
Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son
of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah,
had dedicated; [and] whosoever had
dedicated [any thing, it was] under the
hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
29 # Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and
his sons [were] for the outward
business over Israel, for officers and
judges.
30 [And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah
and his brethren, men of valour, a
thousand and seven hundred, [were]
officers among them of Israel on this
side Jordan westward in all the
business of the LORD, and in the
service of the king.
31 Among the Hebronites [was] Jerijah
the chief, [even] among the Hebronites,
according to the generations of his
fathers. In the fortieth year of the
reign of David they were sought for,
and there were found among them mighty
men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
32 And his brethren, men of valour,
[were] two thousand and seven hundred
chief fathers, whom king David made
rulers over the Reubenites, the
Gadites, and the half tribe of
Manasseh, for every matter pertaining
to God, and affairs of the king.

CHAPTER 27
1 Now the children of Israel after
their number, [to wit], the chief
fathers and captains of thousands and
hundreds, and their officers that
served the king in any matter of the
courses, which came in and went out
month by month throughout all the
months of the year, of every course
[were] twenty and four thousand.
2 Over the first course for the first
month [was] Jashobeam the son of
Zabdiel: and in his course [were]
twenty and four thousand.
3 Of the children of Perez [was] the
chief of all the captains of the host
for the first month.
4 And over the course of the second
month [was] Dodai an Ahohite, and of
his course [was] Mikloth also the
ruler: in his course likewise [were]
twenty and four thousand.
5 The third captain of the host for the
third month [was] Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his
course [were] twenty and four thousand.
6 This [is that] Benaiah, [who was]
mighty [among] the thirty, and above
the thirty: and in his course [was]
Ammizabad his son.
7 The fourth [captain] for the fourth
month [was] Asahel the brother of Joab,
and Zebadiah his son after him: and in
his course [were] twenty and four
thousand.
8 The fifth captain for the fifth month
[was] Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his
course [were] twenty and four thousand.
9 The sixth [captain] for the sixth
month [was] Ira the son of Ikkesh the
Tekoite: and in his course [were]
twenty and four thousand.
10 The seventh [captain] for the
seventh month [was] Helez the Pelonite,
of the children of Ephraim: and in his
course [were] twenty and four thousand.
11 The eighth [captain] for the eighth
month [was] Sibbecai the Hushathite, of
the Zarhites: and in his course [were]
twenty and four thousand.
12 The ninth [captain] for the ninth
month [was] Abiezer the Anetothite, of
the Benjamites: and in his course
[were] twenty and four thousand.
13 The tenth [captain] for the tenth
month [was] Maharai the Netophathite,
of the Zarhites: and in his course
[were] twenty and four thousand.
14 The eleventh [captain] for the
eleventh month [was] Benaiah the
Pirathonite, of the children of
Ephraim: and in his course [were]
twenty and four thousand.
15 The twelfth [captain] for the
twelfth month [was] Heldai the
Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his
course [were] twenty and four thousand.
16 # Furthermore over the tribes of
Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites
[was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the
Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of
Maachah:
17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of
Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:
18 Of Judah, Elihu, [one] of the
brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri
the son of Michael:
19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of
Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son
of Azriel:
20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea
the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe
of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
21 Of the half [tribe] of Manasseh in
Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of
Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
22 Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham.
These [were] the princes of the tribes
of Israel.
23 # But David took not the number of
them from twenty years old and under:
because the LORD had said he would
increase Israel like to the stars of
the heavens.
24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to
number, but he finished not, because
there fell wrath for it against Israel;
neither was the number put in the
account of the chronicles of king
David.
25 # And over the king's treasures
[was] Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and
over the storehouses in the fields, in
the cities, and in the villages, and in
the castles, [was] Jehonathan the son
of Uzziah:
26 And over them that did the work of
the field for tillage of the ground
[was] Ezri the son of Chelub:
27 And over the vineyards [was] Shimei
the Ramathite: over the increase of the
vineyards for the wine cellars [was]
Zabdi the Shiphmite:
28 And over the olive trees and the
sycomore trees that [were] in the low
plains [was] Baal-hanan the Gederite:
and over the cellars of oil [was]
Joash:
29 And over the herds that fed in
Sharon [was] Shitrai the Sharonite: and
over the herds [that were] in the
valleys [was] Shaphat the son of Adlai:
30 Over the camels also [was] Obil the
Ishmaelite: and over the asses [was]
Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
31 And over the flocks [was] Jaziz the
Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers
of the substance which [was] king
David's.
32 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a
counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe:
and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni [was]
with the king's sons:
33 And Ahithophel [was] the king's
counsellor: and Hushai the Archite
[was] the king's companion:
34 And after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada
the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and
the general of the king's army [was]
Joab.

CHAPTER 28
1 And David assembled all the princes
of Israel, the princes of the tribes,
and the captains of the companies that
ministered to the king by course, and
the captains over the thousands, and
captains over the hundreds, and the
stewards over all the substance and
possession of the king, and of his
sons, with the officers, and with the
mighty men, and with all the valiant
men, unto Jerusalem.
2 Then David the king stood up upon his
feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren,
and my people: [As for me], I [had] in
mine heart to build an house of rest
for the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, and for the footstool of our God,
and had made ready for the building:
3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not
build an house for my name, because
thou [hast been] a man of war, and hast
shed blood.
4 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose
me before all the house of my father to
be king over Israel for ever: for he
hath chosen Judah [to be] the ruler;
and of the house of Judah, the house of
my father; and among the sons of my
father he liked me to make [me] king
over all Israel:
5 And of all my sons, (for the LORD
hath given me many sons,) he hath
chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the
throne of the kingdom of the LORD over
Israel.
6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son,
he shall build my house and my courts:
for I have chosen him [to be] my son,
and I will be his father.
7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom
for ever, if he be constant to do my
commandments and my judgments, as at
this day.
8 Now therefore in the sight of all
Israel the congregation of the LORD,
and in the audience of our God, keep
and seek for all the commandments of
the LORD your God: that ye may possess
this good land, and leave [it] for an
inheritance for your children after you
for ever.
9 # And thou, Solomon my son, know thou
the God of thy father, and serve him
with a perfect heart and with a willing
mind: for the LORD searcheth all
hearts, and understandeth all the
imaginations of the thoughts: if thou
seek him, he will be found of thee; but
if thou forsake him, he will cast thee
off for ever.
10 Take heed now; for the LORD hath
chosen thee to build an house for the
sanctuary: be strong, and do [it].
11 # Then David gave to Solomon his son
the pattern of the porch, and of the
houses thereof, and of the treasuries
thereof, and of the upper chambers
thereof, and of the inner parlours
thereof, and of the place of the mercy
seat,
12 And the pattern of all that he had
by the spirit, of the courts of the
house of the LORD, and of all the
chambers round about, of the treasuries
of the house of God, and of the
treasuries of the dedicated things:
13 Also for the courses of the priests
and the Levites, and for all the work
of the service of the house of the
LORD, and for all the vessels of
service in the house of the LORD.
14 [He gave] of gold by weight for
[things] of gold, for all instruments
of all manner of service; [silver also]
for all instruments of silver by
weight, for all instruments of every
kind of service:
15 Even the weight for the candlesticks
of gold, and for their lamps of gold,
by weight for every candlestick, and
for the lamps thereof: and for the
candlesticks of silver by weight,
[both] for the candlestick, and [also]
for the lamps thereof, according to the
use of every candlestick.
16 And by weight [he gave] gold for the
tables of shewbread, for every table;
and [likewise] silver for the tables of
silver:
17 Also pure gold for the fleshhooks,
and the bowls, and the cups: and for
the golden basons [he gave gold] by
weight for every bason; and [likewise
silver] by weight for every bason of
silver:
18 And for the altar of incense refined
gold by weight; and gold for the
pattern of the chariot of the
cherubims, that spread out [their
wings], and covered the ark of the
covenant of the LORD.
19 All [this, said David], the LORD
made me understand in writing by [his]
hand upon me, [even] all the works of
this pattern.
20 And David said to Solomon his son,
Be strong and of good courage, and do
[it]: fear not, nor be dismayed: for
the LORD God, [even] my God, [will be]
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee, until thou hast finished
all the work for the service of the
house of the LORD.
21 And, behold, the courses of the
priests and the Levites, [even they
shall be with thee] for all the service
of the house of God: and [there shall
be] with thee for all manner of
workmanship every willing skilful man,
for any manner of service: also the
princes and all the people [will be]
wholly at thy commandment.

CHAPTER 29
1 Furthermore David the king said unto
all the congregation, Solomon my son,
whom alone God hath chosen, [is yet]
young and tender, and the work [is]
great: for the palace [is] not for man,
but for the LORD God.
2 Now I have prepared with all my might
for the house of my God the gold for
[things to be made] of gold, and the
silver for [things] of silver, and the
brass for [things] of brass, the iron
for [things] of iron, and wood for
[things] of wood; onyx stones, and
[stones] to be set, glistering stones,
and of divers colours, and all manner
of precious stones, and marble stones
in abundance.
3 Moreover, because I have set my
affection to the house of my God, I
have of mine own proper good, of gold
and silver, [which] I have given to the
house of my God, over and above all
that I have prepared for the holy
house,
4 [Even] three thousand talents of
gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven
thousand talents of refined silver, to
overlay the walls of the houses
[withal]:
5 The gold for [things] of gold, and
the silver for [things] of silver, and
for all manner of work [to be made] by
the hands of artificers. And who [then]
is willing to consecrate his service
this day unto the LORD?
6 # Then the chief of the fathers and
princes of the tribes of Israel, and
the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, with the rulers of the king's
work, offered willingly,
7 And gave for the service of the house
of God of gold five thousand talents
and ten thousand drams, and of silver
ten thousand talents, and of brass
eighteen thousand talents, and one
hundred thousand talents of iron.
8 And they with whom [precious] stones
were found gave [them] to the treasure
of the house of the LORD, by the hand
of Jehiel the Gershonite.
9 Then the people rejoiced, for that
they offered willingly, because with
perfect heart they offered willingly to
the LORD: and David the king also
rejoiced with great joy.
10 # Wherefore David blessed the LORD
before all the congregation: and David
said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of
Israel our father, for ever and ever.
11 Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness,
and the power, and the glory, and the
victory, and the majesty: for all [that
is] in the heaven and in the earth [is
thine]; thine [is] the kingdom, O LORD,
and thou art exalted as head above all.
12 Both riches and honour [come] of
thee, and thou reignest over all; and
in thine hand [is] power and might; and
in thine hand [it is] to make great,
and to give strength unto all.
13 Now therefore, our God, we thank
thee, and praise thy glorious name.
14 But who [am] I, and what [is] my
people, that we should be able to offer
so willingly after this sort? for all
things [come] of thee, and of thine own
have we given thee.
15 For we [are] strangers before thee,
and sojourners, as [were] all our
fathers: our days on the earth [are] as
a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.
16 O LORD our God, all this store that
we have prepared to build thee an house
for thine holy name [cometh] of thine
hand, and [is] all thine own.
17 I know also, my God, that thou
triest the heart, and hast pleasure in
uprightness. As for me, in the
uprightness of mine heart I have
willingly offered all these things: and
now have I seen with joy thy people,
which are present here, to offer
willingly unto thee.
18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of
Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever
in the imagination of the thoughts of
the heart of thy people, and prepare
their heart unto thee:
19 And give unto Solomon my son a
perfect heart, to keep thy
commandments, thy testimonies, and thy
statutes, and to do all [these things],
and to build the palace, [for] the
which I have made provision.
20 # And David said to all the
congregation, Now bless the LORD your
God. And all the congregation blessed
the LORD God of their fathers, and
bowed down their heads, and worshipped
the LORD, and the king.
21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto
the LORD, and offered burnt offerings
unto the LORD, on the morrow after that
day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a
thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs,
with their drink offerings, and
sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
22 And did eat and drink before the
LORD on that day with great gladness.
And they made Solomon the son of David
king the second time, and anointed
[him] unto the LORD [to be] the chief
governor, and Zadok [to be] priest.
23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of
the LORD as king instead of David his
father, and prospered; and all Israel
obeyed him.
24 And all the princes, and the mighty
men, and all the sons likewise of king
David, submitted themselves unto
Solomon the king.
25 And the LORD magnified Solomon
exceedingly in the sight of all Israel,
and bestowed upon him [such] royal
majesty as had not been on any king
before him in Israel.
26 # Thus David the son of Jesse
reigned over all Israel.
27 And the time that he reigned over
Israel [was] forty years; seven years
reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and
three [years] reigned he in Jerusalem.
28 And he died in a good old age, full
of days, riches, and honour: and
Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
29 Now the acts of David the king,
first and last, behold, they [are]
written in the book of Samuel the seer,
and in the book of Nathan the prophet,
and in the book of Gad the seer,
30 With all his reign and his might,
and the times that went over him, and
over Israel, and over all the kingdoms
of the countries.

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES

CHAPTER 1
1 And Solomon the son of David was
strengthened in his kingdom, and the
LORD his God [was] with him, and
magnified him exceedingly.
2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel,
to the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and to the judges, and to
every governor in all Israel, the chief
of the fathers.
3 So Solomon, and all the congregation
with him, went to the high place that
[was] at Gibeon; for there was the
tabernacle of the congregation of God,
which Moses the servant of the LORD had
made in the wilderness.
4 But the ark of God had David brought
up from Kirjath-jearim to [the place
which] David had prepared for it: for
he had pitched a tent for it at
Jerusalem.
5 Moreover the brasen altar, that
Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, had made, he put before the
tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and
the congregation sought unto it.
6 And Solomon went up thither to the
brasen altar before the LORD, which
[was] at the tabernacle of the
congregation, and offered a thousand
burnt offerings upon it.
7 # In that night did God appear unto
Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I
shall give thee.
8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast
shewed great mercy unto David my
father, and hast made me to reign in
his stead.
9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto
David my father be established: for
thou hast made me king over a people
like the dust of the earth in
multitude.
10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge,
that I may go out and come in before
this people: for who can judge this thy
people, [that is so] great?
11 And God said to Solomon, Because
this was in thine heart, and thou hast
not asked riches, wealth, or honour,
nor the life of thine enemies, neither
yet hast asked long life; but hast
asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself,
that thou mayest judge my people, over
whom I have made thee king:
12 Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted
unto thee; and I will give thee riches,
and wealth, and honour, such as none of
the kings have had that [have been]
before thee, neither shall there any
after thee have the like.
13 # Then Solomon came [from his
journey] to the high place that [was]
at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the
tabernacle of the congregation, and
reigned over Israel.
14 And Solomon gathered chariots and
horsemen: and he had a thousand and
four hundred chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen, which he placed in
the chariot cities, and with the king
at Jerusalem.
15 And the king made silver and gold at
Jerusalem [as plenteous] as stones, and
cedar trees made he as the sycomore
trees that [are] in the vale for
abundance.
16 And Solomon had horses brought out
of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's
merchants received the linen yarn at a
price.
17 And they fetched up, and brought
forth out of Egypt a chariot for six
hundred [shekels] of silver, and an
horse for an hundred and fifty: and so
brought they out [horses] for all the
kings of the Hittites, and for the
kings of Syria, by their means.

CHAPTER 2
1 And Solomon determined to build an
house for the name of the LORD, and an
house for his kingdom.
2 And Solomon told out threescore and
ten thousand men to bear burdens, and
fourscore thousand to hew in the
mountain, and three thousand and six
hundred to oversee them.
3 # And Solomon sent to Huram the king
of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal
with David my father, and didst send
him cedars to build him an house to
dwell therein, [even so deal with me].
4 Behold, I build an house to the name
of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to
him, [and] to burn before him sweet
incense, and for the continual
shewbread, and for the burnt offerings
morning and evening, on the sabbaths,
and on the new moons, and on the solemn
feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an
ordinance] for ever to Israel.
5 And the house which I build [is]
great: for great [is] our God above all
gods.
6 But who is able to build him an
house, seeing the heaven and heaven of
heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I
then, that I should build him an house,
save only to burn sacrifice before him?
7 Send me now therefore a man cunning
to work in gold, and in silver, and in
brass, and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson, and blue, and that can skill
to grave with the cunning men that
[are] with me in Judah and in
Jerusalem, whom David my father did
provide.
8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees,
and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I
know that thy servants can skill to cut
timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my
servants [shall be] with thy servants,
9 Even to prepare me timber in
abundance: for the house which I am
about to build [shall be] wonderful
great.
10 And, behold, I will give to thy
servants, the hewers that cut timber,
twenty thousand measures of beaten
wheat, and twenty thousand measures of
barley, and twenty thousand baths of
wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
11 # Then Huram the king of Tyre
answered in writing, which he sent to
Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved
his people, he hath made thee king over
them.
12 Huram said moreover, Blessed [be]
the LORD God of Israel, that made
heaven and earth, who hath given to
David the king a wise son, endued with
prudence and understanding, that might
build an house for the LORD, and an
house for his kingdom.
13 And now I have sent a cunning man,
endued with understanding, of Huram my
father's,
14 The son of a woman of the daughters
of Dan, and his father [was] a man of
Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in
silver, in brass, in iron, in stone,
and in timber, in purple, in blue, and
in fine linen, and in crimson; also to
grave any manner of graving, and to
find out every device which shall be
put to him, with thy cunning men, and
with the cunning men of my lord David
thy father.
15 Now therefore the wheat, and the
barley, the oil, and the wine, which my
lord hath spoken of, let him send unto
his servants:
16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon,
as much as thou shalt need: and we will
bring it to thee in flotes by sea to
Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to
Jerusalem.
17 # And Solomon numbered all the
strangers that [were] in the land of
Israel, after the numbering wherewith
David his father had numbered them; and
they were found an hundred and fifty
thousand and three thousand and six
hundred.
18 And he set threescore and ten
thousand of them [to be] bearers of
burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be]
hewers in the mountain, and three
thousand and six hundred overseers to
set the people a work.

CHAPTER 3
1 Then Solomon began to build the house
of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount
Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto
David his father, in the place that
David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second
[day] of the second month, in the
fourth year of his reign.
3 # Now these [are the things wherein]
Solomon was instructed for the building
of the house of God. The length by
cubits after the first measure [was]
threescore cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits.
4 And the porch that [was] in the front
[of the house], the length [of it was]
according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the height [was] an
hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it
within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he cieled with
fir tree, which he overlaid with fine
gold, and set thereon palm trees and
chains.
6 And he garnished the house with
precious stones for beauty: and the
gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
7 He overlaid also the house, the
beams, the posts, and the walls
thereof, and the doors thereof, with
gold; and graved cherubims on the
walls.
8 And he made the most holy house, the
length whereof [was] according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
and the breadth thereof twenty cubits:
and he overlaid it with fine gold,
[amounting] to six hundred talents.
9 And the weight of the nails [was]
fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid
the upper chambers with gold.
10 And in the most holy house he made
two cherubims of image work, and
overlaid them with gold.
11 # And the wings of the cherubims
[were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of
the one cherub was] five cubits,
reaching to the wall of the house: and
the other wing [was likewise] five
cubits, reaching to the wing of the
other cherub.
12 And [one] wing of the other cherub
[was] five cubits, reaching to the wall
of the house: and the other wing [was]
five cubits [also], joining to the wing
of the other cherub.
13 The wings of these cherubims spread
themselves forth twenty cubits: and
they stood on their feet, and their
faces [were] inward.
14 # And he made the vail [of] blue,
and purple, and crimson, and fine
linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
15 Also he made before the house two
pillars of thirty and five cubits high,
and the chapiter that [was] on the top
of each of them [was] five cubits.
16 And he made chains, [as] in the
oracle, and put [them] on the heads of
the pillars; and made an hundred
pomegranates, and put [them] on the
chains.
17 And he reared up the pillars before
the temple, one on the right hand, and
the other on the left; and called the
name of that on the right hand Jachin,
and the name of that on the left Boaz.

CHAPTER 4
1 Moreover he made an altar of brass,
twenty cubits the length thereof, and
twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and
ten cubits the height thereof.
2 # Also he made a molten sea of ten
cubits from brim to brim, round in
compass, and five cubits the height
thereof; and a line of thirty cubits
did compass it round about.
3 And under it [was] the similitude of
oxen, which did compass it round about:
ten in a cubit, compassing the sea
round about. Two rows of oxen [were]
cast, when it was cast.
4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three
looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three
looking toward the south, and three
looking toward the east: and the sea
[was set] above upon them, and all
their hinder parts [were] inward.
5 And the thickness of it [was] an
handbreadth, and the brim of it like
the work of the brim of a cup, with
flowers of lilies; [and] it received
and held three thousand baths.
6 # He made also ten lavers, and put
five on the right hand, and five on the
left, to wash in them: such things as
they offered for the burnt offering
they washed in them; but the sea [was]
for the priests to wash in.
7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold
according to their form, and set [them]
in the temple, five on the right hand,
and five on the left.
8 He made also ten tables, and placed
[them] in the temple, five on the right
side, and five on the left. And he made
an hundred basons of gold.
9 # Furthermore he made the court of
the priests, and the great court, and
doors for the court, and overlaid the
doors of them with brass.
10 And he set the sea on the right side
of the east end, over against the
south.
11 And Huram made the pots, and the
shovels, and the basons. And Huram
finished the work that he was to make
for king Solomon for the house of God;
12 [To wit], the two pillars, and the
pommels, and the chapiters [which were]
on the top of the two pillars, and the
two wreaths to cover the two pommels of
the chapiters which [were] on the top
of the pillars;
13 And four hundred pomegranates on the
two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates
on each wreath, to cover the two
pommels of the chapiters which [were]
upon the pillars.
14 He made also bases, and lavers made
he upon the bases;
15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
16 The pots also, and the shovels, and
the fleshhooks, and all their
instruments, did Huram his father make
to king Solomon for the house of the
LORD of bright brass.
17 In the plain of Jordan did the king
cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zeredathah.
18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels
in great abundance: for the weight of
the brass could not be found out.
19 # And Solomon made all the vessels
that [were for] the house of God, the
golden altar also, and the tables
whereon the shewbread [was set];
20 Moreover the candlesticks with their
lamps, that they should burn after the
manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and
the tongs, [made he of] gold, [and]
that perfect gold;
22 And the snuffers, and the basons,
and the spoons, and the censers, [of]
pure gold: and the entry of the house,
the inner doors thereof for the most
holy [place], and the doors of the
house of the temple, [were of] gold.

CHAPTER 5
1 Thus all the work that Solomon made
for the house of the LORD was finished:
and Solomon brought in [all] the things
that David his father had dedicated;
and the silver, and the gold, and all
the instruments, put he among the
treasures of the house of God.
2 # Then Solomon assembled the elders
of Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to
bring up the ark of the covenant of the
LORD out of the city of David, which
[is] Zion.
3 Wherefore all the men of Israel
assembled themselves unto the king in
the feast which [was] in the seventh
month.
4 And all the elders of Israel came;
and the Levites took up the ark.
5 And they brought up the ark, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all
the holy vessels that [were] in the
tabernacle, these did the priests [and]
the Levites bring up.
6 Also king Solomon, and all the
congregation of Israel that were
assembled unto him before the ark,
sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could
not be told nor numbered for multitude.
7 And the priests brought in the ark of
the covenant of the LORD unto his
place, to the oracle of the house, into
the most holy [place, even] under the
wings of the cherubims:
8 For the cherubims spread forth
[their] wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubims covered the ark
and the staves thereof above.
9 And they drew out the staves [of the
ark], that the ends of the staves were
seen from the ark before the oracle;
but they were not seen without. And
there it is unto this day.
10 [There was] nothing in the ark save
the two tables which Moses put
[therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made
[a covenant] with the children of
Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
11 # And it came to pass, when the
priests were come out of the holy
[place]: (for all the priests [that
were] present were sanctified, [and]
did not [then] wait by course:
12 Also the Levites [which were] the
singers, all of them of Asaph, of
Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and
their brethren, [being] arrayed in
white linen, having cymbals and
psalteries and harps, stood at the east
end of the altar, and with them an
hundred and twenty priests sounding
with trumpets:)
13 It came even to pass, as the
trumpeters and singers [were] as one,
to make one sound to be heard in
praising and thanking the LORD; and
when they lifted up [their] voice with
the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of musick, and praised the
LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for
his mercy [endureth] for ever: that
[then] the house was filled with a
cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;
14 So that the priests could not stand
to minister by reason of the cloud: for
the glory of the LORD had filled the
house of God.

CHAPTER 6
1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said
that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
2 But I have built an house of
habitation for thee, and a place for
thy dwelling for ever.
3 And the king turned his face, and
blessed the whole congregation of
Israel: and all the congregation of
Israel stood.
4 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD
God of Israel, who hath with his hands
fulfilled [that] which he spake with
his mouth to my father David, saying,
5 Since the day that I brought forth my
people out of the land of Egypt I chose
no city among all the tribes of Israel
to build an house in, that my name
might be there; neither chose I any man
to be a ruler over my people Israel:
6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my
name might be there; and have chosen
David to be over my people Israel.
7 Now it was in the heart of David my
father to build an house for the name
of the LORD God of Israel.
8 But the LORD said to David my father,
Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to
build an house for my name, thou didst
well in that it was in thine heart:
9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build
the house; but thy son which shall come
forth out of thy loins, he shall build
the house for my name.
10 The LORD therefore hath performed
his word that he hath spoken: for I am
risen up in the room of David my
father, and am set on the throne of
Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built the house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
11 And in it have I put the ark,
wherein [is] the covenant of the LORD,
that he made with the children of
Israel.
12 # And he stood before the altar of
the LORD in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands:
13 For Solomon had made a brasen
scaffold, of five cubits long, and five
cubits broad, and three cubits high,
and had set it in the midst of the
court: and upon it he stood, and
kneeled down upon his knees before all
the congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands toward heaven,
14 And said, O LORD God of Israel,
[there is] no God like thee in the
heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and [shewest] mercy unto thy
servants, that walk before thee with
all their hearts:
15 Thou which hast kept with thy
servant David my father that which thou
hast promised him; and spakest with thy
mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with
thine hand, as [it is] this day.
16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel,
keep with thy servant David my father
that which thou hast promised him,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man
in my sight to sit upon the throne of
Israel; yet so that thy children take
heed to their way to walk in my law, as
thou hast walked before me.
17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let
thy word be verified, which thou hast
spoken unto thy servant David.
18 But will God in very deed dwell with
men on the earth? behold, heaven and
the heaven of heavens cannot contain
thee; how much less this house which I
have built!
19 Have respect therefore to the prayer
of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken
unto the cry and the prayer which thy
servant prayeth before thee:
20 That thine eyes may be open upon
this house day and night, upon the
place whereof thou hast said that thou
wouldest put thy name there; to hearken
unto the prayer which thy servant
prayeth toward this place.
21 Hearken therefore unto the
supplications of thy servant, and of
thy people Israel, which they shall
make toward this place: hear thou from
thy dwelling place, [even] from heaven;
and when thou hearest, forgive.
22 # If a man sin against his
neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him
to make him swear, and the oath come
before thine altar in this house;
23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do,
and judge thy servants, by requiting
the wicked, by recompensing his way
upon his own head; and by justifying
the righteous, by giving him according
to his righteousness.
24 # And if thy people Israel be put to
the worse before the enemy, because
they have sinned against thee; and
shall return and confess thy name, and
pray and make supplication before thee
in this house;
25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and
forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land
which thou gavest to them and to their
fathers.
26 # When the heaven is shut up, and
there is no rain, because they have
sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray
toward this place, and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when
thou dost afflict them;
27 Then hear thou from heaven, and
forgive the sin of thy servants, and of
thy people Israel, when thou hast
taught them the good way, wherein they
should walk; and send rain upon thy
land, which thou hast given unto thy
people for an inheritance.
28 # If there be dearth in the land, if
there be pestilence, if there be
blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
caterpillers; if their enemies besiege
them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness
[there be]:
29 [Then] what prayer [or] what
supplication soever shall be made of
any man, or of all thy people Israel,
when every one shall know his own sore
and his own grief, and shall spread
forth his hands in this house:
30 Then hear thou from heaven thy
dwelling place, and forgive, and render
unto every man according unto all his
ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for
thou only knowest the hearts of the
children of men:)
31 That they may fear thee, to walk in
thy ways, so long as they live in the
land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
32 # Moreover concerning the stranger,
which is not of thy people Israel, but
is come from a far country for thy
great name's sake, and thy mighty hand,
and thy stretched out arm; if they come
and pray in this house;
33 Then hear thou from the heavens,
[even] from thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger
calleth to thee for; that all people of
the earth may know thy name, and fear
thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and
may know that this house which I have
built is called by thy name.
34 If thy people go out to war against
their enemies by the way that thou
shalt send them, and they pray unto
thee toward this city which thou hast
chosen, and the house which I have
built for thy name;
35 Then hear thou from the heavens
their prayer and their supplication,
and maintain their cause.
36 If they sin against thee, (for
[there is] no man which sinneth not,)
and thou be angry with them, and
deliver them over before [their]
enemies, and they carry them away
captives unto a land far off or near;
37 Yet [if] they bethink themselves in
the land whither they are carried
captive, and turn and pray unto thee in
the land of their captivity, saying, We
have sinned, we have done amiss, and
have dealt wickedly;
38 If they return to thee with all
their heart and with all their soul in
the land of their captivity, whither
they have carried them captives, and
pray toward their land, which thou
gavest unto their fathers, and [toward]
the city which thou hast chosen, and
toward the house which I have built for
thy name:
39 Then hear thou from the heavens,
[even] from thy dwelling place, their
prayer and their supplications, and
maintain their cause, and forgive thy
people which have sinned against thee.
40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee,
thine eyes be open, and [let] thine
ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that
is made] in this place.
41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God,
into thy resting place, thou, and the
ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O
LORD God, be clothed with salvation,
and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
42 O LORD God, turn not away the face
of thine anointed: remember the mercies
of David thy servant.

CHAPTER 7
1 Now when Solomon had made an end of
praying, the fire came down from
heaven, and consumed the burnt offering
and the sacrifices; and the glory of
the LORD filled the house.
2 And the priests could not enter into
the house of the LORD, because the
glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S
house.
3 And when all the children of Israel
saw how the fire came down, and the
glory of the LORD upon the house, they
bowed themselves with their faces to
the ground upon the pavement, and
worshipped, and praised the LORD,
[saying], For [he is] good; for his
mercy [endureth] for ever.
4 # Then the king and all the people
offered sacrifices before the LORD.
5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice
of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an
hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so
the king and all the people dedicated
the house of God.
6 And the priests waited on their
offices: the Levites also with
instruments of musick of the LORD,
which David the king had made to praise
the LORD, because his mercy [endureth]
for ever, when David praised by their
ministry; and the priests sounded
trumpets before them, and all Israel
stood.
7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle
of the court that [was] before the
house of the LORD: for there he offered
burnt offerings, and the fat of the
peace offerings, because the brasen
altar which Solomon had made was not
able to receive the burnt offerings,
and the meat offerings, and the fat.
8 # Also at the same time Solomon kept
the feast seven days, and all Israel
with him, a very great congregation,
from the entering in of Hamath unto the
river of Egypt.
9 And in the eighth day they made a
solemn assembly: for they kept the
dedication of the altar seven days, and
the feast seven days.
10 And on the three and twentieth day
of the seventh month he sent the people
away into their tents, glad and merry
in heart for the goodness that the LORD
had shewed unto David, and to Solomon,
and to Israel his people.
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of
the LORD, and the king's house: and all
that came into Solomon's heart to make
in the house of the LORD, and in his
own house, he prosperously effected.
12 # And the LORD appeared to Solomon
by night, and said unto him, I have
heard thy prayer, and have chosen this
place to myself for an house of
sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no
rain, or if I command the locusts to
devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people;
14 If my people, which are called by my
name, shall humble themselves, and
pray, and seek my face, and turn from
their wicked ways; then will I hear
from heaven, and will forgive their
sin, and will heal their land.
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and
mine ears attent unto the prayer [that
is made] in this place.
16 For now have I chosen and sanctified
this house, that my name may be there
for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart
shall be there perpetually.
17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk
before me, as David thy father walked,
and do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and shalt observe my
statutes and my judgments;
18 Then will I stablish the throne of
thy kingdom, according as I have
covenanted with David thy father,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man
[to be] ruler in Israel.
19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my
statutes and my commandments, which I
have set before you, and shall go and
serve other gods, and worship them;
20 Then will I pluck them up by the
roots out of my land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have
sanctified for my name, will I cast out
of my sight, and will make it [to be] a
proverb and a byword among all nations.
21 And this house, which is high, shall
be an astonishment to every one that
passeth by it; so that he shall say,
Why hath the LORD done thus unto this
land, and unto this house?
22 And it shall be answered, Because
they forsook the LORD God of their
fathers, which brought them forth out
of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on
other gods, and worshipped them, and
served them: therefore hath he brought
all this evil upon them.

CHAPTER 8
1 And it came to pass at the end of
twenty years, wherein Solomon had built
the house of the LORD, and his own
house,
2 That the cities which Huram had
restored to Solomon, Solomon built
them, and caused the children of Israel
to dwell there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and
prevailed against it.
4 And he built Tadmor in the
wilderness, and all the store cities,
which he built in Hamath.
5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper,
and Beth-horon the nether, fenced
cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
6 And Baalath, and all the store cities
that Solomon had, and all the chariot
cities, and the cities of the horsemen,
and all that Solomon desired to build
in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
throughout all the land of his
dominion.
7 # [As for] all the people [that were]
left of the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,
and the Jebusites, which [were] not of
Israel,
8 [But] of their children, who were
left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel consumed not, them
did Solomon make to pay tribute until
this day.
9 But of the children of Israel did
Solomon make no servants for his work;
but they [were] men of war, and chief
of his captains, and captains of his
chariots and horsemen.
10 And these [were] the chief of king
Solomon's officers, [even] two hundred
and fifty, that bare rule over the
people.
11 # And Solomon brought up the
daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of
David unto the house that he had built
for her: for he said, My wife shall not
dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because [the places are] holy,
whereunto the ark of the LORD hath
come.
12 # Then Solomon offered burnt
offerings unto the LORD on the altar of
the LORD, which he had built before the
porch,
13 Even after a certain rate every day,
offering according to the commandment
of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the
new moons, and on the solemn feasts,
three times in the year, [even] in the
feast of unleavened bread, and in the
feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles.
14 # And he appointed, according to the
order of David his father, the courses
of the priests to their service, and
the Levites to their charges, to praise
and minister before the priests, as the
duty of every day required: the porters
also by their courses at every gate:
for so had David the man of God
commanded.
15 And they departed not from the
commandment of the king unto the
priests and Levites concerning any
matter, or concerning the treasures.
16 Now all the work of Solomon was
prepared unto the day of the foundation
of the house of the LORD, and until it
was finished. [So] the house of the
LORD was perfected.
17 # Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber,
and to Eloth, at the sea side in the
land of Edom.
18 And Huram sent him by the hands of
his servants ships, and servants that
had knowledge of the sea; and they went
with the servants of Solomon to Ophir,
and took thence four hundred and fifty
talents of gold, and brought [them] to
king Solomon.

CHAPTER 9
1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of
the fame of Solomon, she came to prove
Solomon with hard questions at
Jerusalem, with a very great company,
and camels that bare spices, and gold
in abundance, and precious stones: and
when she was come to Solomon, she
communed with him of all that was in
her heart.
2 And Solomon told her all her
questions: and there was nothing hid
from Solomon which he told her not.
3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen
the wisdom of Solomon, and the house
that he had built,
4 And the meat of his table, and the
sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their
apparel; his cupbearers also, and their
apparel; and his ascent by which he
went up into the house of the LORD;
there was no more spirit in her.
5 And she said to the king, [It was] a
true report which I heard in mine own
land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
6 Howbeit I believed not their words,
until I came, and mine eyes had seen
[it]: and, behold, the one half of the
greatness of thy wisdom was not told
me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that
I heard.
7 Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are]
these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, and hear thy
wisdom.
8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which
delighted in thee to set thee on his
throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy
God: because thy God loved Israel, to
establish them for ever, therefore made
he thee king over them, to do judgment
and justice.
9 And she gave the king an hundred and
twenty talents of gold, and of spices
great abundance, and precious stones:
neither was there any such spice as the
queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
10 And the servants also of Huram, and
the servants of Solomon, which brought
gold from Ophir, brought algum trees
and precious stones.
11 And the king made [of] the algum
trees terraces to the house of the
LORD, and to the king's palace, and
harps and psalteries for singers: and
there were none such seen before in the
land of Judah.
12 And king Solomon gave to the queen
of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she
asked, beside [that] which she had
brought unto the king. So she turned,
and went away to her own land, she and
her servants.
13 # Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred
and threescore and six talents of gold;
14 Beside [that which] chapmen and
merchants brought. And all the kings of
Arabia and governors of the country
brought gold and silver to Solomon.
15 # And king Solomon made two hundred
targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred
[shekels] of beaten gold went to one
target.
16 And three hundred shields [made he
of] beaten gold: three hundred
[shekels] of gold went to one shield.
And the king put them in the house of
the forest of Lebanon.
17 Moreover the king made a great
throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
pure gold.
18 And [there were] six steps to the
throne, with a footstool of gold,
[which were] fastened to the throne,
and stays on each side of the sitting
place, and two lions standing by the
stays:
19 And twelve lions stood there on the
one side and on the other upon the six
steps. There was not the like made in
any kingdom.
20 # And all the drinking vessels of
king Solomon [were of] gold, and all
the vessels of the house of the forest
of Lebanon [were of] pure gold: none
[were of] silver; it was [not] any
thing accounted of in the days of
Solomon.
21 For the king's ships went to
Tarshish with the servants of Huram:
every three years once came the ships
of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver,
ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
22 And king Solomon passed all the
kings of the earth in riches and
wisdom.
23 # And all the kings of the earth
sought the presence of Solomon, to hear
his wisdom, that God had put in his
heart.
24 And they brought every man his
present, vessels of silver, and vessels
of gold, and raiment, harness, and
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year
by year.
25 # And Solomon had four thousand
stalls for horses and chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen; whom he
bestowed in the chariot cities, and
with the king at Jerusalem.
26 # And he reigned over all the kings
from the river even unto the land of
the Philistines, and to the border of
Egypt.
27 And the king made silver in
Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees
made he as the sycomore trees that
[are] in the low plains in abundance.
28 And they brought unto Solomon horses
out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
29 # Now the rest of the acts of
Solomon, first and last, [are] they not
written in the book of Nathan the
prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah
the Shilonite, and in the visions of
Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son
of Nebat?
30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem
over all Israel forty years.
31 And Solomon slept with his fathers,
and he was buried in the city of David
his father: and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 10
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to
Shechem were all Israel come to make
him king.
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who [was] in Egypt,
whither he had fled from the presence
of Solomon the king, heard [it], that
Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
3 And they sent and called him. So
Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake
to Rehoboam, saying,
4 Thy father made our yoke grievous:
now therefore ease thou somewhat the
grievous servitude of thy father, and
his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and
we will serve thee.
5 And he said unto them, Come again
unto me after three days. And the
people departed.
6 # And king Rehoboam took counsel with
the old men that had stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived,
saying, What counsel give ye [me] to
return answer to this people?
7 And they spake unto him, saying, If
thou be kind to this people, and please
them, and speak good words to them,
they will be thy servants for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel which the
old men gave him, and took counsel with
the young men that were brought up with
him, that stood before him.
9 And he said unto them, What advice
give ye that we may return answer to
this people, which have spoken to me,
saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy
father did put upon us?
10 And the young men that were brought
up with him spake unto him, saying,
Thus shalt thou answer the people that
spake unto thee, saying, Thy father
made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it]
somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt
thou say unto them, My little [finger]
shall be thicker than my father's
loins.
11 For whereas my father put a heavy
yoke upon you, I will put more to your
yoke: my father chastised you with
whips, but I [will chastise you] with
scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came
to Rehoboam on the third day, as the
king bade, saying, Come again to me on
the third day.
13 And the king answered them roughly;
and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel
of the old men,
14 And answered them after the advice
of the young men, saying, My father
made your yoke heavy, but I will add
thereto: my father chastised you with
whips, but I [will chastise you] with
scorpions.
15 So the king hearkened not unto the
people: for the cause was of God, that
the LORD might perform his word, which
he spake by the hand of Ahijah the
Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 # And when all Israel [saw] that the
king would not hearken unto them, the
people answered the king, saying, What
portion have we in David? and [we have]
none inheritance in the son of Jesse:
every man to your tents, O Israel:
[and] now, David, see to thine own
house. So all Israel went to their
tents.
17 But [as for] the children of Israel
that dwelt in the cities of Judah,
Rehoboam reigned over them.
18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that
[was] over the tribute; and the
children of Israel stoned him with
stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam
made speed to get him up to [his]
chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
19 And Israel rebelled against the
house of David unto this day.

CHAPTER 11
1 And when Rehoboam was come to
Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of
Judah and Benjamin an hundred and
fourscore thousand chosen [men], which
were warriors, to fight against Israel,
that he might bring the kingdom again
to Rehoboam.
2 But the word of the LORD came to
Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of
Solomon, king of Judah, and to all
Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go
up, nor fight against your brethren:
return every man to his house: for this
thing is done of me. And they obeyed
the words of the LORD, and returned
from going against Jeroboam.
5 # And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem,
and built cities for defence in Judah.
6 He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam,
and Tekoa,
7 And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron,
which [are] in Judah and in Benjamin
fenced cities.
11 And he fortified the strong holds,
and put captains in them, and store of
victual, and of oil and wine.
12 And in every several city [he put]
shields and spears, and made them
exceeding strong, having Judah and
Benjamin on his side.
13 # And the priests and the Levites
that [were] in all Israel resorted to
him out of all their coasts.
14 For the Levites left their suburbs
and their possession, and came to Judah
and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his
sons had cast them off from executing
the priest's office unto the LORD:
15 And he ordained him priests for the
high places, and for the devils, and
for the calves which he had made.
16 And after them out of all the tribes
of Israel such as set their hearts to
seek the LORD God of Israel came to
Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD
God of their fathers.
17 So they strengthened the kingdom of
Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of
Solomon strong, three years: for three
years they walked in the way of David
and Solomon.
18 # And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the
daughter of Jerimoth the son of David
to wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of
Eliab the son of Jesse;
19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and
Shamariah, and Zaham.
20 And after her he took Maachah the
daughter of Absalom; which bare him
Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and
Shelomith.
21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the
daughter of Absalom above all his wives
and his concubines: (for he took
eighteen wives, and threescore
concubines; and begat twenty and eight
sons, and threescore daughters.)
22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of
Maachah the chief, [to be] ruler among
his brethren: for [he thought] to make
him king.
23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed
of all his children throughout all the
countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto
every fenced city: and he gave them
victual in abundance. And he desired
many wives.

CHAPTER 12
1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam
had established the kingdom, and had
strengthened himself, he forsook the
law of the LORD, and all Israel with
him.
2 And it came to pass, [that] in the
fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak
king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem, because they had
transgressed against the LORD,
3 With twelve hundred chariots, and
threescore thousand horsemen: and the
people [were] without number that came
with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the
Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
4 And he took the fenced cities which
[pertained] to Judah, and came to
Jerusalem.
5 # Then came Shemaiah the prophet to
Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of
Judah, that were gathered together to
Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said
unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have
forsaken me, and therefore have I also
left you in the hand of Shishak.
6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and
the king humbled themselves; and they
said, The LORD [is] righteous.
7 And when the LORD saw that they
humbled themselves, the word of the
LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They
have humbled themselves; [therefore] I
will not destroy them, but I will grant
them some deliverance; and my wrath
shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem
by the hand of Shishak.
8 Nevertheless they shall be his
servants; that they may know my
service, and the service of the
kingdoms of the countries.
9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem, and took away the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and
the treasures of the king's house; he
took all: he carried away also the
shields of gold which Solomon had made.
10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made
shields of brass, and committed [them]
to the hands of the chief of the guard,
that kept the entrance of the king's
house.
11 And when the king entered into the
house of the LORD, the guard came and
fetched them, and brought them again
into the guard chamber.
12 And when he humbled himself, the
wrath of the LORD turned from him, that
he would not destroy [him] altogether:
and also in Judah things went well.
13 # So king Rehoboam strengthened
himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for
Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city
which the LORD had chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel, to put his name
there. And his mother's name [was]
Naamah an Ammonitess.
14 And he did evil, because he prepared
not his heart to seek the LORD.
15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and
last, [are] they not written in the
book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of
Iddo the seer concerning genealogies?
And [there were] wars between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam continually.
16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the city of David:
and Abijah his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 13
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king
Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over
Judah.
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name also [was] Michaiah
the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And
there was war between Abijah and
Jeroboam.
3 And Abijah set the battle in array
with an army of valiant men of war,
[even] four hundred thousand chosen
men: Jeroboam also set the battle in
array against him with eight hundred
thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men
of valour.
4 # And Abijah stood up upon mount
Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim,
and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and
all Israel;
5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD
God of Israel gave the kingdom over
Israel to David for ever, [even] to him
and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the
servant of Solomon the son of David, is
risen up, and hath rebelled against his
lord.
7 And there are gathered unto him vain
men, the children of Belial, and have
strengthened themselves against
Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when
Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted,
and could not withstand them.
8 And now ye think to withstand the
kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the
sons of David; and ye [be] a great
multitude, and [there are] with you
golden calves, which Jeroboam made you
for gods.
9 Have ye not cast out the priests of
the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the
Levites, and have made you priests
after the manner of the nations of
[other] lands? so that whosoever cometh
to consecrate himself with a young
bullock and seven rams, [the same] may
be a priest of [them that are] no gods.
10 But as for us, the LORD [is] our
God, and we have not forsaken him; and
the priests, which minister unto the
LORD, [are] the sons of Aaron, and the
Levites [wait] upon [their] business:
11 And they burn unto the LORD every
morning and every evening burnt
sacrifices and sweet incense: the
shewbread also [set they in order] upon
the pure table; and the candlestick of
gold with the lamps thereof, to burn
every evening: for we keep the charge
of the LORD our God; but ye have
forsaken him.
12 And, behold, God himself [is] with
us for [our] captain, and his priests
with sounding trumpets to cry alarm
against you. O children of Israel,
fight ye not against the LORD God of
your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
13 # But Jeroboam caused an ambushment
to come about behind them: so they were
before Judah, and the ambushment [was]
behind them.
14 And when Judah looked back, behold,
the battle [was] before and behind: and
they cried unto the LORD, and the
priests sounded with the trumpets.
15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout:
and as the men of Judah shouted, it
came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam
and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
16 And the children of Israel fled
before Judah: and God delivered them
into their hand.
17 And Abijah and his people slew them
with a great slaughter: so there fell
down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men.
18 Thus the children of Israel were
brought under at that time, and the
children of Judah prevailed, because
they relied upon the LORD God of their
fathers.
19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam,
and took cities from him, Beth-el with
the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with
the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the
towns thereof.
20 Neither did Jeroboam recover
strength again in the days of Abijah:
and the LORD struck him, and he died.
21 # But Abijah waxed mighty, and
married fourteen wives, and begat
twenty and two sons, and sixteen
daughters.
22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah,
and his ways, and his sayings, [are]
written in the story of the prophet
Iddo.

CHAPTER 14
1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of David:
and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
In his days the land was quiet ten
years.
2 And Asa did [that which was] good and
right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
3 For he took away the altars of the
strange [gods], and the high places,
and brake down the images, and cut down
the groves:
4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD
God of their fathers, and to do the law
and the commandment.
5 Also he took away out of all the
cities of Judah the high places and the
images: and the kingdom was quiet
before him.
6 And he built fenced cities in Judah:
for the land had rest, and he had no
war in those years; because the LORD
had given him rest.
7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us
build these cities, and make about
[them] walls, and towers, gates, and
bars, [while] the land [is] yet before
us; because we have sought the LORD our
God, we have sought [him], and he hath
given us rest on every side. So they
built and prospered.
8 And Asa had an army [of men] that
bare targets and spears, out of Judah
three hundred thousand; and out of
Benjamin, that bare shields and drew
bows, two hundred and fourscore
thousand: all these [were] mighty men
of valour.
9 # And there came out against them
Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a
thousand thousand, and three hundred
chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
10 Then Asa went out against him, and
they set the battle in array in the
valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God,
and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with
thee to help, whether with many, or
with them that have no power: help us,
O LORD our God; for we rest on thee,
and in thy name we go against this
multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God;
let not man prevail against thee.
12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians
before Asa, and before Judah; and the
Ethiopians fled.
13 And Asa and the people that [were]
with him pursued them unto Gerar: and
the Ethiopians were overthrown, that
they could not recover themselves; for
they were destroyed before the LORD,
and before his host; and they carried
away very much spoil.
14 And they smote all the cities round
about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD
came upon them: and they spoiled all
the cities; for there was exceeding
much spoil in them.
15 They smote also the tents of cattle,
and carried away sheep and camels in
abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 15
1 And the Spirit of God came upon
Azariah the son of Oded:
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said
unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all
Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with
you, while ye be with him; and if ye
seek him, he will be found of you; but
if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
3 Now for a long season Israel [hath
been] without the true God, and without
a teaching priest, and without law.
4 But when they in their trouble did
turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and
sought him, he was found of them.
5 And in those times [there was] no
peace to him that went out, nor to him
that came in, but great vexations
[were] upon all the inhabitants of the
countries.
6 And nation was destroyed of nation,
and city of city: for God did vex them
with all adversity.
7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not
your hands be weak: for your work shall
be rewarded.
8 And when Asa heard these words, and
the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he
took courage, and put away the
abominable idols out of all the land of
Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
cities which he had taken from mount
Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the
LORD, that [was] before the porch of
the LORD.
9 And he gathered all Judah and
Benjamin, and the strangers with them
out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of
Simeon: for they fell to him out of
Israel in abundance, when they saw that
the LORD his God [was] with him.
10 So they gathered themselves together
at Jerusalem in the third month, in the
fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
11 And they offered unto the LORD the
same time, of the spoil [which] they
had brought, seven hundred oxen and
seven thousand sheep.
12 And they entered into a covenant to
seek the LORD God of their fathers with
all their heart and with all their
soul;
13 That whosoever would not seek the
LORD God of Israel should be put to
death, whether small or great, whether
man or woman.
14 And they sware unto the LORD with a
loud voice, and with shouting, and with
trumpets, and with cornets.
15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath:
for they had sworn with all their
heart, and sought him with their whole
desire; and he was found of them: and
the LORD gave them rest round about.
16 # And also [concerning] Maachah the
mother of Asa the king, he removed her
from [being] queen, because she had
made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut
down her idol, and stamped [it], and
burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.
17 But the high places were not taken
away out of Israel: nevertheless the
heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
18 # And he brought into the house of
God the things that his father had
dedicated, and that he himself had
dedicated, silver, and gold, and
vessels.
19 And there was no [more] war unto the
five and thirtieth year of the reign of
Asa.

CHAPTER 16
1 In the six and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came
up against Judah, and built Ramah, to
the intent that he might let none go
out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold
out of the treasures of the house of
the LORD and of the king's house, and
sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that
dwelt at Damascus, saying,
3 [There is] a league between me and
thee, as [there was] between my father
and thy father: behold, I have sent
thee silver and gold; go, break thy
league with Baasha king of Israel, that
he may depart from me.
4 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king
Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of Israel;
and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and
Abel-maim, and all the store cities of
Naphtali.
5 And it came to pass, when Baasha
heard [it], that he left off building
of Ramah, and let his work cease.
6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and
they carried away the stones of Ramah,
and the timber thereof, wherewith
Baasha was building; and he built
therewith Geba and Mizpah.
7 # And at that time Hanani the seer
came to Asa king of Judah, and said
unto him, Because thou hast relied on
the king of Syria, and not relied on
the LORD thy God, therefore is the host
of the king of Syria escaped out of
thine hand.
8 Were not the Ethiopians and the
Lubims a huge host, with very many
chariots and horsemen? yet, because
thou didst rely on the LORD, he
delivered them into thine hand.
9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and
fro throughout the whole earth, to shew
himself strong in the behalf of [them]
whose heart [is] perfect toward him.
Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from henceforth thou shalt
have wars.
10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer,
and put him in a prison house; for [he
was] in a rage with him because of this
[thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of
the people the same time.
11 # And, behold, the acts of Asa,
first and last, lo, they [are] written
in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year
of his reign was diseased in his feet,
until his disease [was] exceeding
[great]: yet in his disease he sought
not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
13 # And Asa slept with his fathers,
and died in the one and fortieth year
of his reign.
14 And they buried him in his own
sepulchres, which he had made for
himself in the city of David, and laid
him in the bed which was filled with
sweet odours and divers kinds [of
spices] prepared by the apothecaries'
art: and they made a very great burning
for him.

CHAPTER 17
1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in
his stead, and strengthened himself
against Israel.
2 And he placed forces in all the
fenced cities of Judah, and set
garrisons in the land of Judah, and in
the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his
father had taken.
3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat,
because he walked in the first ways of
his father David, and sought not unto
Baalim;
4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his
father, and walked in his commandments,
and not after the doings of Israel.
5 Therefore the LORD stablished the
kingdom in his hand; and all Judah
brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he
had riches and honour in abundance.
6 And his heart was lifted up in the
ways of the LORD: moreover he took away
the high places and groves out of
Judah.
7 # Also in the third year of his reign
he sent to his princes, [even] to
Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to
Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to
Michaiah, to teach in the cities of
Judah.
8 And with them [he sent] Levites,
[even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and
Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth,
and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and
Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and
with them Elishama and Jehoram,
priests.
9 And they taught in Judah, and [had]
the book of the law of the LORD with
them, and went about throughout all the
cities of Judah, and taught the people.
10 # And the fear of the LORD fell upon
all the kingdoms of the lands that
[were] round about Judah, so that they
made no war against Jehoshaphat.
11 Also [some] of the Philistines
brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
tribute silver; and the Arabians
brought him flocks, seven thousand and
seven hundred rams, and seven thousand
and seven hundred he goats.
12 # And Jehoshaphat waxed great
exceedingly; and he built in Judah
castles, and cities of store.
13 And he had much business in the
cities of Judah: and the men of war,
mighty men of valour, [were] in
Jerusalem.
14 And these [are] the numbers of them
according to the house of their
fathers: Of Judah, the captains of
thousands; Adnah the chief, and with
him mighty men of valour three hundred
thousand.
15 And next to him [was] Jehohanan the
captain, and with him two hundred and
fourscore thousand.
16 And next him [was] Amasiah the son
of Zichri, who willingly offered
himself unto the LORD; and with him two
hundred thousand mighty men of valour.
17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man
of valour, and with him armed men with
bow and shield two hundred thousand.
18 And next him [was] Jehozabad, and
with him an hundred and fourscore
thousand ready prepared for the war.
19 These waited on the king, beside
[those] whom the king put in the fenced
cities throughout all Judah.

CHAPTER 18
1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour
in abundance, and joined affinity with
Ahab.
2 And after [certain] years he went
down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab
killed sheep and oxen for him in
abundance, and for the people that [he
had] with him, and persuaded him to go
up [with him] to Ramoth-gilead.
3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go
with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he
answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and
my people as thy people; and [we will
be] with thee in the war.
4 # And Jehoshaphat said unto the king
of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the
word of the LORD to day.
5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered
together of prophets four hundred men,
and said unto them, Shall we go to
Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I
forbear? And they said, Go up; for God
will deliver [it] into the king's hand.
6 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not
here a prophet of the LORD besides,
that we might enquire of him?
7 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by
whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I
hate him; for he never prophesied good
unto me, but always evil: the same [is]
Micaiah the son of Imla. And
Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say
so.
8 And the king of Israel called for one
[of his] officers, and said, Fetch
quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
9 And the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of
them on his throne, clothed in [their]
robes, and they sat in a void place at
the entering in of the gate of Samaria;
and all the prophets prophesied before
them.
10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
had made him horns of iron, and said,
Thus saith the LORD, With these thou
shalt push Syria until they be
consumed.
11 And all the prophets prophesied so,
saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and
prosper: for the LORD shall deliver
[it] into the hand of the king.
12 And the messenger that went to call
Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold,
the words of the prophets [declare]
good to the king with one assent; let
thy word therefore, I pray thee, be
like one of their's, and speak thou
good.
13 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD
liveth, even what my God saith, that
will I speak.
14 And when he was come to the king,
the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall
we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or
shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up,
and prosper, and they shall be
delivered into your hand.
15 And the king said to him, How many
times shall I adjure thee that thou say
nothing but the truth to me in the name
of the LORD?
16 Then he said, I did see all Israel
scattered upon the mountains, as sheep
that have no shepherd: and the LORD
said, These have no master; let them
return [therefore] every man to his
house in peace.
17 And the king of Israel said to
Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee [that]
he would not prophesy good unto me, but
evil?
18 Again he said, Therefore hear the
word of the LORD; I saw the LORD
sitting upon his throne, and all the
host of heaven standing on his right
hand and [on] his left.
19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice
Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up
and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one
spake saying after this manner, and
another saying after that manner.
20 Then there came out a spirit, and
stood before the LORD, and said, I will
entice him. And the LORD said unto him,
Wherewith?
21 And he said, I will go out, and be a
lying spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou
shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also
prevail: go out, and do [even] so.
22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath
put a lying spirit in the mouth of
these thy prophets, and the LORD hath
spoken evil against thee.
23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
came near, and smote Micaiah upon the
cheek, and said, Which way went the
Spirit of the LORD from me to speak
unto thee?
24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt
see on that day when thou shalt go into
an inner chamber to hide thyself.
25 Then the king of Israel said, Take
ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon
the governor of the city, and to Joash
the king's son;
26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put
this [fellow] in the prison, and feed
him with bread of affliction and with
water of affliction, until I return in
peace.
27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly
return in peace, [then] hath not the
LORD spoken by me. And he said,
Hearken, all ye people.
28 So the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up
to Ramoth-gilead.
29 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself,
and will go to the battle; but put thou
on thy robes. So the king of Israel
disguised himself; and they went to the
battle.
30 Now the king of Syria had commanded
the captains of the chariots that
[were] with him, saying, Fight ye not
with small or great, save only with the
king of Israel.
31 And it came to pass, when the
captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is]
the king of Israel. Therefore they
compassed about him to fight: but
Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD
helped him; and God moved them [to
depart] from him.
32 For it came to pass, that, when the
captains of the chariots perceived that
it was not the king of Israel, they
turned back again from pursuing him.
33 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a
venture, and smote the king of Israel
between the joints of the harness:
therefore he said to his chariot man,
Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry
me out of the host; for I am wounded.
34 And the battle increased that day:
howbeit the king of Israel stayed
[himself] up in [his] chariot against
the Syrians until the even: and about
the time of the sun going down he died.

CHAPTER 19
1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
returned to his house in peace to
Jerusalem.
2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer
went out to meet him, and said to king
Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the
ungodly, and love them that hate the
LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee
from before the LORD.
3 Nevertheless there are good things
found in thee, in that thou hast taken
away the groves out of the land, and
hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem:
and he went out again through the
people from Beer-sheba to mount
Ephraim, and brought them back unto the
LORD God of their fathers.
5 # And he set judges in the land
throughout all the fenced cities of
Judah, city by city,
6 And said to the judges, Take heed
what ye do: for ye judge not for man,
but for the LORD, who [is] with you in
the judgment.
7 Wherefore now let the fear of the
LORD be upon you; take heed and do
[it]: for [there is] no iniquity with
the LORD our God, nor respect of
persons, nor taking of gifts.
8 # Moreover in Jerusalem did
Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and
[of] the priests, and of the chief of
the fathers of Israel, for the judgment
of the LORD, and for controversies,
when they returned to Jerusalem.
9 And he charged them, saying, Thus
shall ye do in the fear of the LORD,
faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
10 And what cause soever shall come to
you of your brethren that dwell in
their cities, between blood and blood,
between law and commandment, statutes
and judgments, ye shall even warn them
that they trespass not against the
LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you, and
upon your brethren: this do, and ye
shall not trespass.
11 And, behold, Amariah the chief
priest [is] over you in all matters of
the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of
Ishmael, the ruler of the house of
Judah, for all the king's matters: also
the Levites [shall be] officers before
you. Deal courageously, and the LORD
shall be with the good.

CHAPTER 20
1 It came to pass after this also,
[that] the children of Moab, and the
children of Ammon, and with them
[other] beside the Ammonites, came
against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Then there came some that told
Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a
great multitude against thee from
beyond the sea on this side Syria; and,
behold, they [be] in Hazazon-tamar,
which [is] En-gedi.
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set
himself to seek the LORD, and
proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4 And Judah gathered themselves
together, to ask [help] of the LORD:
even out of all the cities of Judah
they came to seek the LORD.
5 # And Jehoshaphat stood in the
congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in
the house of the LORD, before the new
court,
6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers,
[art] not thou God in heaven? and
rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms
of the heathen? and in thine hand [is
there not] power and might, so that
none is able to withstand thee?
7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst
drive out the inhabitants of this land
before thy people Israel, and gavest it
to the seed of Abraham thy friend for
ever?
8 And they dwelt therein, and have
built thee a sanctuary therein for thy
name, saying,
9 If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as]
the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or
famine, we stand before this house, and
in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in
this house,) and cry unto thee in our
affliction, then thou wilt hear and
help.
10 And now, behold, the children of
Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom
thou wouldest not let Israel invade,
when they came out of the land of
Egypt, but they turned from them, and
destroyed them not;
11 Behold, [I say, how] they reward us,
to come to cast us out of thy
possession, which thou hast given us to
inherit.
12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them?
for we have no might against this great
company that cometh against us; neither
know we what to do: but our eyes [are]
upon thee.
13 And all Judah stood before the LORD,
with their little ones, their wives,
and their children.
14 # Then upon Jahaziel the son of
Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son
of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a
Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the
Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the
congregation;
15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah,
and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the
LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor
dismayed by reason of this great
multitude; for the battle [is] not
your's, but God's.
16 To morrow go ye down against them:
behold, they come up by the cliff of
Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end
of the brook, before the wilderness of
Jeruel.
17 Ye shall not [need] to fight in this
[battle]: set yourselves, stand ye
[still], and see the salvation of the
LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem:
fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go
out against them: for the LORD [will
be] with you.
18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with
[his] face to the ground: and all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell
before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
19 And the Levites, of the children of
the Kohathites, and of the children of
the Korhites, stood up to praise the
LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on
high.
20 # And they rose early in the
morning, and went forth into the
wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went
forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear
me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your
God, so shall ye be established;
believe his prophets, so shall ye
prosper.
21 And when he had consulted with the
people, he appointed singers unto the
LORD, and that should praise the beauty
of holiness, as they went out before
the army, and to say, Praise the LORD;
for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
22 # And when they began to sing and to
praise, the LORD set ambushments
against the children of Ammon, Moab,
and mount Seir, which were come against
Judah; and they were smitten.
23 For the children of Ammon and Moab
stood up against the inhabitants of
mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy
[them]: and when they had made an end
of the inhabitants of Seir, every one
helped to destroy another.
24 And when Judah came toward the watch
tower in the wilderness, they looked
unto the multitude, and, behold, they
[were] dead bodies fallen to the earth,
and none escaped.
25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people
came to take away the spoil of them,
they found among them in abundance both
riches with the dead bodies, and
precious jewels, which they stripped
off for themselves, more than they
could carry away: and they were three
days in gathering of the spoil, it was
so much.
26 # And on the fourth day they
assembled themselves in the valley of
Berachah; for there they blessed the
LORD: therefore the name of the same
place was called, The valley of
Berachah, unto this day.
27 Then they returned, every man of
Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in
the forefront of them, to go again to
Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had
made them to rejoice over their
enemies.
28 And they came to Jerusalem with
psalteries and harps and trumpets unto
the house of the LORD.
29 And the fear of God was on all the
kingdoms of [those] countries, when
they had heard that the LORD fought
against the enemies of Israel.
30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was
quiet: for his God gave him rest round
about.
31 # And Jehoshaphat reigned over
Judah: [he was] thirty and five years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
32 And he walked in the way of Asa his
father, and departed not from it, doing
[that which was] right in the sight of
the LORD.
33 Howbeit the high places were not
taken away: for as yet the people had
not prepared their hearts unto the God
of their fathers.
34 Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold,
they [are] written in the book of Jehu
the son of Hanani, who [is] mentioned
in the book of the kings of Israel.
35 # And after this did Jehoshaphat
king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah
king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
36 And he joined himself with him to
make ships to go to Tarshish: and they
made the ships in Ezion-geber.
37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of
Mareshah prophesied against
Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast
joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD
hath broken thy works. And the ships
were broken, that they were not able to
go to Tarshish.

CHAPTER 21
1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David. And
Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brethren the sons of
Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and
Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael,
and Shephatiah: all these [were] the
sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3 And their father gave them great
gifts of silver, and of gold, and of
precious things, with fenced cities in
Judah: but the kingdom gave he to
Jehoram; because he [was] the
firstborn.
4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the
kingdom of his father, he strengthened
himself, and slew all his brethren with
the sword, and [divers] also of the
princes of Israel.
5 # Jehoram [was] thirty and two years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings
of Israel, like as did the house of
Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab
to wife: and he wrought [that which
was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.
7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy
the house of David, because of the
covenant that he had made with David,
and as he promised to give a light to
him and to his sons for ever.
8 # In his days the Edomites revolted
from under the dominion of Judah, and
made themselves a king.
9 Then Jehoram went forth with his
princes, and all his chariots with him:
and he rose up by night, and smote the
Edomites which compassed him in, and
the captains of the chariots.
10 So the Edomites revolted from under
the hand of Judah unto this day. The
same time [also] did Libnah revolt from
under his hand; because he had forsaken
the LORD God of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the
mountains of Judah, and caused the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit
fornication, and compelled Judah
[thereto].
12 # And there came a writing to him
from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of David thy father,
Because thou hast not walked in the
ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in
the ways of Asa king of Judah,
13 But hast walked in the way of the
kings of Israel, and hast made Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go
a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the
house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy
brethren of thy father's house, [which
were] better than thyself:
14 Behold, with a great plague will the
LORD smite thy people, and thy
children, and thy wives, and all thy
goods:
15 And thou [shalt have] great sickness
by disease of thy bowels, until thy
bowels fall out by reason of the
sickness day by day.
16 # Moreover the LORD stirred up
against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians, that
[were] near the Ethiopians:
17 And they came up into Judah, and
brake into it, and carried away all the
substance that was found in the king's
house, and his sons also, and his
wives; so that there was never a son
left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest
of his sons.
18 # And after all this the LORD smote
him in his bowels with an incurable
disease.
19 And it came to pass, that in process
of time, after the end of two years,
his bowels fell out by reason of his
sickness: so he died of sore diseases.
And his people made no burning for him,
like the burning of his fathers.
20 Thirty and two years old was he when
he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem eight years, and departed
without being desired. Howbeit they
buried him in the city of David, but
not in the sepulchres of the kings.

CHAPTER 22
1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made
Ahaziah his youngest son king in his
stead: for the band of men that came
with the Arabians to the camp had slain
all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah
when he began to reign, and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also [was] Athaliah the daughter
of Omri.
3 He also walked in the ways of the
house of Ahab: for his mother was his
counsellor to do wickedly.
4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of
the LORD like the house of Ahab: for
they were his counsellors after the
death of his father to his destruction.
5 # He walked also after their counsel,
and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab
king of Israel to war against Hazael
king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the
Syrians smote Joram.
6 And he returned to be healed in
Jezreel because of the wounds which
were given him at Ramah, when he fought
with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah
the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at
Jezreel, because he was sick.
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of
God by coming to Joram: for when he was
come, he went out with Jehoram against
Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD
had anointed to cut off the house of
Ahab.
8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu
was executing judgment upon the house
of Ahab, and found the princes of
Judah, and the sons of the brethren of
Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he
slew them.
9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they
caught him, (for he was hid in
Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and
when they had slain him, they buried
him: Because, said they, he [is] the
son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD
with all his heart. So the house of
Ahaziah had no power to keep still the
kingdom.
10 # But when Athaliah the mother of
Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she
arose and destroyed all the seed royal
of the house of Judah.
11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of
the king, took Joash the son of
Ahaziah, and stole him from among the
king's sons that were slain, and put
him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So
Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king
Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the
priest, (for she was the sister of
Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so
that she slew him not.
12 And he was with them hid in the
house of God six years: and Athaliah
reigned over the land.

CHAPTER 23
1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada
strengthened himself, and took the
captains of hundreds, Azariah the son
of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of
Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed,
and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and
Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into
covenant with him.
2 And they went about in Judah, and
gathered the Levites out of all the
cities of Judah, and the chief of the
fathers of Israel, and they came to
Jerusalem.
3 And all the congregation made a
covenant with the king in the house of
God. And he said unto them, Behold, the
king's son shall reign, as the LORD
hath said of the sons of David.
4 This [is] the thing that ye shall do;
A third part of you entering on the
sabbath, of the priests and of the
Levites, [shall be] porters of the
doors;
5 And a third part [shall be] at the
king's house; and a third part at the
gate of the foundation: and all the
people [shall be] in the courts of the
house of the LORD.
6 But let none come into the house of
the LORD, save the priests, and they
that minister of the Levites; they
shall go in, for they [are] holy: but
all the people shall keep the watch of
the LORD.
7 And the Levites shall compass the
king round about, every man with his
weapons in his hand; and whosoever
[else] cometh into the house, he shall
be put to death: but be ye with the
king when he cometh in, and when he
goeth out.
8 So the Levites and all Judah did
according to all things that Jehoiada
the priest had commanded, and took
every man his men that were to come in
on the sabbath, with them that were to
go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada
the priest dismissed not the courses.
9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest
delivered to the captains of hundreds
spears, and bucklers, and shields, that
[had been] king David's, which [were]
in the house of God.
10 And he set all the people, every man
having his weapon in his hand, from the
right side of the temple to the left
side of the temple, along by the altar
and the temple, by the king round
about.
11 Then they brought out the king's
son, and put upon him the crown, and
[gave him] the testimony, and made him
king. And Jehoiada and his sons
anointed him, and said, God save the
king.
12 # Now when Athaliah heard the noise
of the people running and praising the
king, she came to the people into the
house of the LORD:
13 And she looked, and, behold, the
king stood at his pillar at the
entering in, and the princes and the
trumpets by the king: and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and
sounded with trumpets, also the singers
with instruments of musick, and such as
taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah
rent her clothes, and said, Treason,
Treason.
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out
the captains of hundreds that were set
over the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth of the ranges: and whoso
followeth her, let him be slain with
the sword. For the priest said, Slay
her not in the house of the LORD.
15 So they laid hands on her; and when
she was come to the entering of the
horse gate by the king's house, they
slew her there.
16 # And Jehoiada made a covenant
between him, and between all the
people, and between the king, that they
should be the LORD'S people.
17 Then all the people went to the
house of Baal, and brake it down, and
brake his altars and his images in
pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of
Baal before the altars.
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices
of the house of the LORD by the hand of
the priests the Levites, whom David had
distributed in the house of the LORD,
to offer the burnt offerings of the
LORD, as [it is] written in the law of
Moses, with rejoicing and with singing,
[as it was ordained] by David.
19 And he set the porters at the gates
of the house of the LORD, that none
[which was] unclean in any thing should
enter in.
20 And he took the captains of
hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the people, and all the
people of the land, and brought down
the king from the house of the LORD:
and they came through the high gate
into the king's house, and set the king
upon the throne of the kingdom.
21 And all the people of the land
rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after
that they had slain Athaliah with the
sword.

CHAPTER 24
1 Joash [was] seven years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned forty
years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 And Joash did [that which was] right
in the sight of the LORD all the days
of Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives;
and he begat sons and daughters.
4 # And it came to pass after this,
[that] Joash was minded to repair the
house of the LORD.
5 And he gathered together the priests
and the Levites, and said to them, Go
out unto the cities of Judah, and
gather of all Israel money to repair
the house of your God from year to
year, and see that ye hasten the
matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened
[it] not.
6 And the king called for Jehoiada the
chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou
not required of the Levites to bring in
out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the
collection, [according to the
commandment] of Moses the servant of
the LORD, and of the congregation of
Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked
woman, had broken up the house of God;
and also all the dedicated things of
the house of the LORD did they bestow
upon Baalim.
8 And at the king's commandment they
made a chest, and set it without at the
gate of the house of the LORD.
9 And they made a proclamation through
Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the
LORD the collection [that] Moses the
servant of God [laid] upon Israel in
the wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the
people rejoiced, and brought in, and
cast into the chest, until they had
made an end.
11 Now it came to pass, that at what
time the chest was brought unto the
king's office by the hand of the
Levites, and when they saw that [there
was] much money, the king's scribe and
the high priest's officer came and
emptied the chest, and took it, and
carried it to his place again. Thus
they did day by day, and gathered money
in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to
such as did the work of the service of
the house of the LORD, and hired masons
and carpenters to repair the house of
the LORD, and also such as wrought iron
and brass to mend the house of the
LORD.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work
was perfected by them, and they set the
house of God in his state, and
strengthened it.
14 And when they had finished [it],
they brought the rest of the money
before the king and Jehoiada, whereof
were made vessels for the house of the
LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and
to offer [withal], and spoons, and
vessels of gold and silver. And they
offered burnt offerings in the house of
the LORD continually all the days of
Jehoiada.
15 # But Jehoiada waxed old, and was
full of days when he died; an hundred
and thirty years old [was he] when he
died.
16 And they buried him in the city of
David among the kings, because he had
done good in Israel, both toward God,
and toward his house.
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came
the princes of Judah, and made
obeisance to the king. Then the king
hearkened unto them.
18 And they left the house of the LORD
God of their fathers, and served groves
and idols: and wrath came upon Judah
and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to
bring them again unto the LORD; and
they testified against them: but they
would not give ear.
20 And the Spirit of God came upon
Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the
priest, which stood above the people,
and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why
transgress ye the commandments of the
LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because
ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also
forsaken you.
21 And they conspired against him, and
stoned him with stones at the
commandment of the king in the court of
the house of the LORD.
22 Thus Joash the king remembered not
the kindness which Jehoiada his father
had done to him, but slew his son. And
when he died, he said, The LORD look
upon [it], and require [it].
23 # And it came to pass at the end of
the year, [that] the host of Syria came
up against him: and they came to Judah
and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the
princes of the people from among the
people, and sent all the spoil of them
unto the king of Damascus.
24 For the army of the Syrians came
with a small company of men, and the
LORD delivered a very great host into
their hand, because they had forsaken
the LORD God of their fathers. So they
executed judgment against Joash.
25 And when they were departed from
him, (for they left him in great
diseases,) his own servants conspired
against him for the blood of the sons
of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on
his bed, and he died: and they buried
him in the city of David, but they
buried him not in the sepulchres of the
kings.
26 And these are they that conspired
against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath
an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of
Shimrith a Moabitess.
27 # Now [concerning] his sons, and the
greatness of the burdens [laid] upon
him, and the repairing of the house of
God, behold, they [are] written in the
story of the book of the kings. And
Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 25
1 Amaziah [was] twenty and five years
old [when] he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, but not with a
perfect heart.
3 # Now it came to pass, when the
kingdom was established to him, that he
slew his servants that had killed the
king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, but
[did] as [it is] written in the law in
the book of Moses, where the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall
not die for the children, neither shall
the children die for the fathers, but
every man shall die for his own sin.
5 # Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah
together, and made them captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds,
according to the houses of [their]
fathers, throughout all Judah and
Benjamin: and he numbered them from
twenty years old and above, and found
them three hundred thousand choice
[men, able] to go forth to war, that
could handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also an hundred thousand
mighty men of valour out of Israel for
an hundred talents of silver.
7 But there came a man of God to him,
saying, O king, let not the army of
Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is]
not with Israel, [to wit, with] all the
children of Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be
strong for the battle: God shall make
thee fall before the enemy: for God
hath power to help, and to cast down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God,
But what shall we do for the hundred
talents which I have given to the army
of Israel? And the man of God answered,
The LORD is able to give thee much more
than this.
10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to
wit], the army that was come to him out
of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore
their anger was greatly kindled against
Judah, and they returned home in great
anger.
11 # And Amaziah strengthened himself,
and led forth his people, and went to
the valley of salt, and smote of the
children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And [other] ten thousand [left]
alive did the children of Judah carry
away captive, and brought them unto the
top of the rock, and cast them down
from the top of the rock, that they all
were broken in pieces.
13 # But the soldiers of the army which
Amaziah sent back, that they should not
go with him to battle, fell upon the
cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto
Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of
them, and took much spoil.
14 # Now it came to pass, after that
Amaziah was come from the slaughter of
the Edomites, that he brought the gods
of the children of Seir, and set them
up [to be] his gods, and bowed down
himself before them, and burned incense
unto them.
15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Amaziah, and he sent
unto him a prophet, which said unto
him, Why hast thou sought after the
gods of the people, which could not
deliver their own people out of thine
hand?
16 And it came to pass, as he talked
with him, that [the king] said unto
him, Art thou made of the king's
counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be
smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and
said, I know that God hath determined
to destroy thee, because thou hast done
this, and hast not hearkened unto my
counsel.
17 # Then Amaziah king of Judah took
advice, and sent to Joash, the son of
Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of
Israel, saying, Come, let us see one
another in the face.
18 And Joash king of Israel sent to
Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The
thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to
the cedar that [was] in Lebanon,
saying, Give thy daughter to my son to
wife: and there passed by a wild beast
that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down
the thistle.
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten
the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth
thee up to boast: abide now at home;
why shouldest thou meddle to [thine]
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even]
thou, and Judah with thee?
20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it
[came] of God, that he might deliver
them into the hand [of their enemies],
because they sought after the gods of
Edom.
21 So Joash the king of Israel went up;
and they saw one another in the face,
[both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to
Judah.
22 And Judah was put to the worse
before Israel, and they fled every man
to his tent.
23 And Joash the king of Israel took
Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at
Beth-shemesh, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of
Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to
the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
24 And [he took] all the gold and the
silver, and all the vessels that were
found in the house of God with
Obed-edom, and the treasures of the
king's house, the hostages also, and
returned to Samaria.
25 # And Amaziah the son of Joash king
of Judah lived after the death of Joash
son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah,
first and last, behold, [are] they not
written in the book of the kings of
Judah and Israel?
27 # Now after the time that Amaziah
did turn away from following the LORD
they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but
they sent to Lachish after him, and
slew him there.
28 And they brought him upon horses,
and buried him with his fathers in the
city of Judah.

CHAPTER 26
1 Then all the people of Judah took
Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old,
and made him king in the room of his
father Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to
Judah, after that the king slept with
his fathers.
3 Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when
he began to reign, and he reigned fifty
and two years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also [was] Jecoliah of
Jerusalem.
4 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Amaziah did.
5 And he sought God in the days of
Zechariah, who had understanding in the
visions of God: and as long as he
sought the LORD, God made him to
prosper.
6 And he went forth and warred against
the Philistines, and brake down the
wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh,
and the wall of Ashdod, and built
cities about Ashdod, and among the
Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the
Philistines, and against the Arabians
that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the
Mehunims.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to
Uzziah: and his name spread abroad
[even] to the entering in of Egypt; for
he strengthened [himself] exceedingly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in
Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at
the valley gate, and at the turning [of
the wall], and fortified them.
10 Also he built towers in the desert,
and digged many wells: for he had much
cattle, both in the low country, and in
the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine
dressers in the mountains, and in
Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of
fighting men, that went out to war by
bands, according to the number of their
account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe
and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand
of Hananiah, [one] of the king's
captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the
fathers of the mighty men of valour
[were] two thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand [was] an army,
three hundred thousand and seven
thousand and five hundred, that made
war with mighty power, to help the king
against the enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them
throughout all the host shields, and
spears, and helmets, and habergeons,
and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines,
invented by cunning men, to be on the
towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot
arrows and great stones withal. And his
name spread far abroad; for he was
marvellously helped, till he was
strong.
16 # But when he was strong, his heart
was lifted up to [his] destruction: for
he transgressed against the LORD his
God, and went into the temple of the
LORD to burn incense upon the altar of
incense.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after
him, and with him fourscore priests of
the LORD, [that were] valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king,
and said unto him, [It appertaineth]
not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense
unto the LORD, but to the priests the
sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to
burn incense: go out of the sanctuary;
for thou hast trespassed; neither
[shall it be] for thine honour from the
LORD God.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a
censer in his hand to burn incense: and
while he was wroth with the priests,
the leprosy even rose up in his
forehead before the priests in the
house of the LORD, from beside the
incense altar.
20 And Azariah the chief priest, and
all the priests, looked upon him, and,
behold, he [was] leprous in his
forehead, and they thrust him out from
thence; yea, himself hasted also to go
out, because the LORD had smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto
the day of his death, and dwelt in a
several house, [being] a leper; for he
was cut off from the house of the LORD:
and Jotham his son [was] over the
king's house, judging the people of the
land.
22 # Now the rest of the acts of
Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the
prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers,
and they buried him with his fathers in
the field of the burial which
[belonged] to the kings; for they said,
He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son
reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 27
1 Jotham [was] twenty and five years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the
daughter of Zadok.
2 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he
entered not into the temple of the
LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
3 He built the high gate of the house
of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel
he built much.
4 Moreover he built cities in the
mountains of Judah, and in the forests
he built castles and towers.
5 # He fought also with the king of the
Ammonites, and prevailed against them.
And the children of Ammon gave him the
same year an hundred talents of silver,
and ten thousand measures of wheat, and
ten thousand of barley. So much did the
children of Ammon pay unto him, both
the second year, and the third.
6 So Jotham became mighty, because he
prepared his ways before the LORD his
God.
7 # Now the rest of the acts of Jotham,
and all his wars, and his ways, lo,
they [are] written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah.
8 He was five and twenty years old when
he began to reign, and reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem.
9 # And Jotham slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in the city of
David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 28
1 Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem: but he did not
[that which was] right in the sight of
the LORD, like David his father:
2 For he walked in the ways of the
kings of Israel, and made also molten
images for Baalim.
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt
his children in the fire, after the
abominations of the heathen whom the
LORD had cast out before the children
of Israel.
4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense
in the high places, and on the hills,
and under every green tree.
5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered
him into the hand of the king of Syria;
and they smote him, and carried away a
great multitude of them captives, and
brought [them] to Damascus. And he was
also delivered into the hand of the
king of Israel, who smote him with a
great slaughter.
6 # For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew
in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand
in one day, [which were] all valiant
men; because they had forsaken the LORD
God of their fathers.
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim,
slew Maaseiah the king's son, and
Azrikam the governor of the house, and
Elkanah [that was] next to the king.
8 And the children of Israel carried
away captive of their brethren two
hundred thousand, women, sons, and
daughters, and took also away much
spoil from them, and brought the spoil
to Samaria.
9 But a prophet of the LORD was there,
whose name [was] Oded: and he went out
before the host that came to Samaria,
and said unto them, Behold, because the
LORD God of your fathers was wroth with
Judah, he hath delivered them into your
hand, and ye have slain them in a rage
[that] reacheth up unto heaven.
10 And now ye purpose to keep under the
children of Judah and Jerusalem for
bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but
are there] not with you, even with you,
sins against the LORD your God?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver
the captives again, which ye have taken
captive of your brethren: for the
fierce wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the
children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of
Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of
Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
stood up against them that came from
the war,
13 And said unto them, Ye shall not
bring in the captives hither: for
whereas we have offended against the
LORD [already], ye intend to add [more]
to our sins and to our trespass: for
our trespass is great, and [there is]
fierce wrath against Israel.
14 So the armed men left the captives
and the spoil before the princes and
all the congregation.
15 And the men which were expressed by
name rose up, and took the captives,
and with the spoil clothed all that
were naked among them, and arrayed
them, and shod them, and gave them to
eat and to drink, and anointed them,
and carried all the feeble of them upon
asses, and brought them to Jericho, the
city of palm trees, to their brethren:
then they returned to Samaria.
16 # At that time did king Ahaz send
unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
17 For again the Edomites had come and
smitten Judah, and carried away
captives.
18 The Philistines also had invaded the
cities of the low country, and of the
south of Judah, and had taken
Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth,
and Shocho with the villages thereof,
and Timnah with the villages thereof,
Gimzo also and the villages thereof:
and they dwelt there.
19 For the LORD brought Judah low
because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he
made Judah naked, and transgressed sore
against the LORD.
20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria
came unto him, and distressed him, but
strengthened him not.
21 For Ahaz took away a portion [out]
of the house of the LORD, and [out] of
the house of the king, and of the
princes, and gave [it] unto the king of
Assyria: but he helped him not.
22 # And in the time of his distress
did he trespass yet more against the
LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of
Damascus, which smote him: and he said,
Because the gods of the kings of Syria
help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice
to them, that they may help me. But
they were the ruin of him, and of all
Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the
vessels of the house of God, and cut in
pieces the vessels of the house of God,
and shut up the doors of the house of
the LORD, and he made him altars in
every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every several city of Judah
he made high places to burn incense
unto other gods, and provoked to anger
the LORD God of his fathers.
26 # Now the rest of his acts and of
all his ways, first and last, behold,
they [are] written in the book of the
kings of Judah and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city, [even] in
Jerusalem: but they brought him not
into the sepulchres of the kings of
Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in
his stead.

CHAPTER 29
1 Hezekiah began to reign [when he was]
five and twenty years old, and he
reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all
that David his father had done.
3 # He in the first year of his reign,
in the first month, opened the doors of
the house of the LORD, and repaired
them.
4 And he brought in the priests and the
Levites, and gathered them together
into the east street,
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye
Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and
sanctify the house of the LORD God of
your fathers, and carry forth the
filthiness out of the holy [place].
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and
done [that which was] evil in the eyes
of the LORD our God, and have forsaken
him, and have turned away their faces
from the habitation of the LORD, and
turned [their] backs.
7 Also they have shut up the doors of
the porch, and put out the lamps, and
have not burned incense nor offered
burnt offerings in the holy [place]
unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was
upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath
delivered them to trouble, to
astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see
with your eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by
the sword, and our sons and our
daughters and our wives [are] in
captivity for this.
10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a
covenant with the LORD God of Israel,
that his fierce wrath may turn away
from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for
the LORD hath chosen you to stand
before him, to serve him, and that ye
should minister unto him, and burn
incense.
12 # Then the Levites arose, Mahath the
son of Amasai, and Joel the son of
Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites:
and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son
of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah
the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of
Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan;
Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of
Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel,
and Shimei: and of the sons of
Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren,
and sanctified themselves, and came,
according to the commandment of the
king, by the words of the LORD, to
cleanse the house of the LORD.
16 And the priests went into the inner
part of the house of the LORD, to
cleanse [it], and brought out all the
uncleanness that they found in the
temple of the LORD into the court of
the house of the LORD. And the Levites
took [it], to carry [it] out abroad
into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first [day] of
the first month to sanctify, and on the
eighth day of the month came they to
the porch of the LORD: so they
sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and in the sixteenth day of
the first month they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the
king, and said, We have cleansed all
the house of the LORD, and the altar of
burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread table, with
all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king
Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his
transgression, have we prepared and
sanctified, and, behold, they [are]
before the altar of the LORD.
20 # Then Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the rulers of the city,
and went up to the house of the LORD.
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and
seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven
he goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for
Judah. And he commanded the priests the
sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the
altar of the LORD.
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the
priests received the blood, and
sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise,
when they had killed the rams, they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats
[for] the sin offering before the king
and the congregation; and they laid
their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and
they made reconciliation with their
blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king
commanded [that] the burnt offering and
the sin offering [should be made] for
all Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house
of the LORD with cymbals, with
psalteries, and with harps, according
to the commandment of David, and of Gad
the king's seer, and Nathan the
prophet: for [so was] the commandment
of the LORD by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the
instruments of David, and the priests
with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the
burnt offering upon the altar. And when
the burnt offering began, the song of
the LORD began [also] with the
trumpets, and with the instruments
[ordained] by David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshipped,
and the singers sang, and the
trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this
continued] until the burnt offering was
finished.
29 And when they had made an end of
offering, the king and all that were
present with him bowed themselves, and
worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the
princes commanded the Levites to sing
praise unto the LORD with the words of
David, and of Asaph the seer. And they
sang praises with gladness, and they
bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now
ye have consecrated yourselves unto the
LORD, come near and bring sacrifices
and thank offerings into the house of
the LORD. And the congregation brought
in sacrifices and thank offerings; and
as many as were of a free heart burnt
offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt
offerings, which the congregation
brought, was threescore and ten
bullocks, an hundred rams, [and] two
hundred lambs: all these [were] for a
burnt offering to the LORD.
33 And the consecrated things [were]
six hundred oxen and three thousand
sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, so
that they could not flay all the burnt
offerings: wherefore their brethren the
Levites did help them, till the work
was ended, and until the [other]
priests had sanctified themselves: for
the Levites [were] more upright in
heart to sanctify themselves than the
priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings [were]
in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings, and the drink offerings for
[every] burnt offering. So the service
of the house of the LORD was set in
order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the
people, that God had prepared the
people: for the thing was [done]
suddenly.

CHAPTER 30
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and
Judah, and wrote letters also to
Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should
come to the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto
the LORD God of Israel.
2 For the king had taken counsel, and
his princes, and all the congregation
in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in
the second month.
3 For they could not keep it at that
time, because the priests had not
sanctified themselves sufficiently,
neither had the people gathered
themselves together to Jerusalem.
4 And the thing pleased the king and
all the congregation.
5 So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all Israel,
from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they
should come to keep the passover unto
the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem:
for they had not done [it] of a long
[time in such sort] as it was written.
6 So the posts went with the letters
from the king and his princes
throughout all Israel and Judah, and
according to the commandment of the
king, saying, Ye children of Israel,
turn again unto the LORD God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will
return to the remnant of you, that are
escaped out of the hand of the kings of
Assyria.
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and
like your brethren, which trespassed
against the LORD God of their fathers,
[who] therefore gave them up to
desolation, as ye see.
8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your
fathers [were, but] yield yourselves
unto the LORD, and enter into his
sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for
ever: and serve the LORD your God, that
the fierceness of his wrath may turn
away from you.
9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD,
your brethren and your children [shall
find] compassion before them that lead
them captive, so that they shall come
again into this land: for the LORD your
God [is] gracious and merciful, and
will not turn away [his] face from you,
if ye return unto him.
10 So the posts passed from city to
city through the country of Ephraim and
Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they
laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and
Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to
give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the
princes, by the word of the LORD.
13 # And there assembled at Jerusalem
much people to keep the feast of
unleavened bread in the second month, a
very great congregation.
14 And they arose and took away the
altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and
all the altars for incense took they
away, and cast [them] into the brook
Kidron.
15 Then they killed the passover on the
fourteenth [day] of the second month:
and the priests and the Levites were
ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and
brought in the burnt offerings into the
house of the LORD.
16 And they stood in their place after
their manner, according to the law of
Moses the man of God: the priests
sprinkled the blood, [which they
received] of the hand of the Levites.
17 For [there were] many in the
congregation that were not sanctified:
therefore the Levites had the charge of
the killing of the passovers for every
one [that was] not clean, to sanctify
[them] unto the LORD.
18 For a multitude of the people,
[even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh,
Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed
themselves, yet did they eat the
passover otherwise than it was written.
But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying,
The good LORD pardon every one
19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek
God, the LORD God of his fathers,
though [he be] not [cleansed] according
to the purification of the sanctuary.
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah,
and healed the people.
21 And the children of Israel that were
present at Jerusalem kept the feast of
unleavened bread seven days with great
gladness: and the Levites and the
priests praised the LORD day by day,
[singing] with loud instruments unto
the LORD.
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto
all the Levites that taught the good
knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat
throughout the feast seven days,
offering peace offerings, and making
confession to the LORD God of their
fathers.
23 And the whole assembly took counsel
to keep other seven days: and they kept
[other] seven days with gladness.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give
to the congregation a thousand bullocks
and seven thousand sheep; and the
princes gave to the congregation a
thousand bullocks and ten thousand
sheep: and a great number of priests
sanctified themselves.
25 And all the congregation of Judah,
with the priests and the Levites, and
all the congregation that came out of
Israel, and the strangers that came out
of the land of Israel, and that dwelt
in Judah, rejoiced.
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem:
for since the time of Solomon the son
of David king of Israel [there was] not
the like in Jerusalem.
27 # Then the priests the Levites arose
and blessed the people: and their voice
was heard, and their prayer came [up]
to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto
heaven.

CHAPTER 31
1 Now when all this was finished, all
Israel that were present went out to
the cities of Judah, and brake the
images in pieces, and cut down the
groves, and threw down the high places
and the altars out of all Judah and
Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh,
until they had utterly destroyed them
all. Then all the children of Israel
returned, every man to his possession,
into their own cities.
2 # And Hezekiah appointed the courses
of the priests and the Levites after
their courses, every man according to
his service, the priests and Levites
for burnt offerings and for peace
offerings, to minister, and to give
thanks, and to praise in the gates of
the tents of the LORD.
3 [He appointed] also the king's
portion of his substance for the burnt
offerings, [to wit], for the morning
and evening burnt offerings, and the
burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and
for the new moons, and for the set
feasts, as [it is] written in the law
of the LORD.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that
dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion
of the priests and the Levites, that
they might be encouraged in the law of
the LORD.
5 # And as soon as the commandment came
abroad, the children of Israel brought
in abundance the firstfruits of corn,
wine, and oil, and honey, and of all
the increase of the field; and the
tithe of all [things] brought they in
abundantly.
6 And [concerning] the children of
Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, they also brought in
the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the
tithe of holy things which were
consecrated unto the LORD their God,
and laid [them] by heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay
the foundation of the heaps, and
finished [them] in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes
came and saw the heaps, they blessed
the LORD, and his people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the
priests and the Levites concerning the
heaps.
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the
house of Zadok answered him, and said,
Since [the people] began to bring the
offerings into the house of the LORD,
we have had enough to eat, and have
left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed
his people; and that which is left [is]
this great store.
11 # Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare
chambers in the house of the LORD; and
they prepared [them],
12 And brought in the offerings and the
tithes and the dedicated [things]
faithfully: over which Cononiah the
Levite [was] ruler, and Shimei his
brother [was] the next.
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath,
and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,
and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah, [were] overseers under the
hand of Cononiah and Shimei his
brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah
the king, and Azariah the ruler of the
house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the
Levite, the porter toward the east,
[was] over the freewill offerings of
God, to distribute the oblations of the
LORD, and the most holy things.
15 And next him [were] Eden, and
Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities
of the priests, in [their] set office,
to give to their brethren by courses,
as well to the great as to the small:
16 Beside their genealogy of males,
from three years old and upward, [even]
unto every one that entereth into the
house of the LORD, his daily portion
for their service in their charges
according to their courses;
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests
by the house of their fathers, and the
Levites from twenty years old and
upward, in their charges by their
courses;
18 And to the genealogy of all their
little ones, their wives, and their
sons, and their daughters, through all
the congregation: for in their set
office they sanctified themselves in
holiness:
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the
priests, [which were] in the fields of
the suburbs of their cities, in every
several city, the men that were
expressed by name, to give portions to
all the males among the priests, and to
all that were reckoned by genealogies
among the Levites.
20 # And thus did Hezekiah throughout
all Judah, and wrought [that which was]
good and right and truth before the
LORD his God.
21 And in every work that he began in
the service of the house of God, and in
the law, and in the commandments, to
seek his God, he did [it] with all his
heart, and prospered.

CHAPTER 32
1 After these things, and the
establishment thereof, Sennacherib king
of Assyria came, and entered into
Judah, and encamped against the fenced
cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
2 And when Hezekiah saw that
Sennacherib was come, and that he was
purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
3 He took counsel with his princes and
his mighty men to stop the waters of
the fountains which [were] without the
city: and they did help him.
4 So there was gathered much people
together, who stopped all the
fountains, and the brook that ran
through the midst of the land, saying,
Why should the kings of Assyria come,
and find much water?
5 Also he strengthened himself, and
built up all the wall that was broken,
and raised [it] up to the towers, and
another wall without, and repaired
Millo [in] the city of David, and made
darts and shields in abundance.
6 And he set captains of war over the
people, and gathered them together to
him in the street of the gate of the
city, and spake comfortably to them,
saying,
7 Be strong and courageous, be not
afraid nor dismayed for the king of
Assyria, nor for all the multitude that
[is] with him: for [there be] more with
us than with him:
8 With him [is] an arm of flesh; but
with us [is] the LORD our God to help
us, and to fight our battles. And the
people rested themselves upon the words
of Hezekiah king of Judah.
9 # After this did Sennacherib king of
Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem,
(but he [himself laid siege] against
Lachish, and all his power with him,)
unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto
all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem,
saying,
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of
Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye
abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to
give over yourselves to die by famine
and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God
shall deliver us out of the hand of the
king of Assyria?
12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken
away his high places and his altars,
and commanded Judah and Jerusalem,
saying, Ye shall worship before one
altar, and burn incense upon it?
13 Know ye not what I and my fathers
have done unto all the people of
[other] lands? were the gods of the
nations of those lands any ways able to
deliver their lands out of mine hand?
14 Who [was there] among all the gods
of those nations that my fathers
utterly destroyed, that could deliver
his people out of mine hand, that your
God should be able to deliver you out
of mine hand?
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah
deceive you, nor persuade you on this
manner, neither yet believe him: for no
god of any nation or kingdom was able
to deliver his people out of mine hand,
and out of the hand of my fathers: how
much less shall your God deliver you
out of mine hand?
16 And his servants spake yet [more]
against the LORD God, and against his
servant Hezekiah.
17 He wrote also letters to rail on the
LORD God of Israel, and to speak
against him, saying, As the gods of the
nations of [other] lands have not
delivered their people out of mine
hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah
deliver his people out of mine hand.
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' speech unto the people of
Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to
affright them, and to trouble them;
that they might take the city.
19 And they spake against the God of
Jerusalem, as against the gods of the
people of the earth, [which were] the
work of the hands of man.
20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah the
king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of
Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
21 # And the LORD sent an angel, which
cut off all the mighty men of valour,
and the leaders and captains in the
camp of the king of Assyria. So he
returned with shame of face to his own
land. And when he was come into the
house of his god, they that came forth
of his own bowels slew him there with
the sword.
22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand
of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and
from the hand of all [other], and
guided them on every side.
23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD
to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah
king of Judah: so that he was magnified
in the sight of all nations from
thenceforth.
24 # In those days Hezekiah was sick to
the death, and prayed unto the LORD:
and he spake unto him, and he gave him
a sign.
25 But Hezekiah rendered not again
according to the benefit [done] unto
him; for his heart was lifted up:
therefore there was wrath upon him, and
upon Judah and Jerusalem.
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled
himself for the pride of his heart,
[both] he and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the
LORD came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah.
27 # And Hezekiah had exceeding much
riches and honour: and he made himself
treasuries for silver, and for gold,
and for precious stones, and for
spices, and for shields, and for all
manner of pleasant jewels;
28 Storehouses also for the increase of
corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for
all manner of beasts, and cotes for
flocks.
29 Moreover he provided him cities, and
possessions of flocks and herds in
abundance: for God had given him
substance very much.
30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the
upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought
it straight down to the west side of
the city of David. And Hezekiah
prospered in all his works.
31 # Howbeit in [the business of] the
ambassadors of the princes of Babylon,
who sent unto him to enquire of the
wonder that was [done] in the land, God
left him, to try him, that he might
know all [that was] in his heart.
32 Now the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold,
they [are] written in the vision of
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
[and] in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel.
33 # And Hezekiah slept with his
fathers, and they buried him in the
chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons
of David: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour
at his death. And Manasseh his son
reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 33
1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem:
2 But did [that which was] evil in the
sight of the LORD, like unto the
abominations of the heathen, whom the
LORD had cast out before the children
of Israel.
3 # For he built again the high places
which Hezekiah his father had broken
down, and he reared up altars for
Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped
all the host of heaven, and served
them.
4 Also he built altars in the house of
the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In
Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
5 And he built altars for all the host
of heaven in the two courts of the
house of the LORD.
6 And he caused his children to pass
through the fire in the valley of the
son of Hinnom: also he observed times,
and used enchantments, and used
witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar
spirit, and with wizards: he wrought
much evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.
7 And he set a carved image, the idol
which he had made, in the house of God,
of which God had said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen before
all the tribes of Israel, will I put my
name for ever:
8 Neither will I any more remove the
foot of Israel from out of the land
which I have appointed for your
fathers; so that they will take heed to
do all that I have commanded them,
according to the whole law and the
statutes and the ordinances by the hand
of Moses.
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and]
to do worse than the heathen, whom the
LORD had destroyed before the children
of Israel.
10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and
to his people: but they would not
hearken.
11 # Wherefore the LORD brought upon
them the captains of the host of the
king of Assyria, which took Manasseh
among the thorns, and bound him with
fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12 And when he was in affliction, he
besought the LORD his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his
fathers,
13 And prayed unto him: and he was
intreated of him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to
Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was]
God.
14 Now after this he built a wall
without the city of David, on the west
side of Gihon, in the valley, even to
the entering in at the fish gate, and
compassed about Ophel, and raised it up
a very great height, and put captains
of war in all the fenced cities of
Judah.
15 And he took away the strange gods,
and the idol out of the house of the
LORD, and all the altars that he had
built in the mount of the house of the
LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them]
out of the city.
16 And he repaired the altar of the
LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace
offerings and thank offerings, and
commanded Judah to serve the LORD God
of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did
sacrifice still in the high places,
[yet] unto the LORD their God only.
18 # Now the rest of the acts of
Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God,
and the words of the seers that spake
to him in the name of the LORD God of
Israel, behold, they [are written] in
the book of the kings of Israel.
19 His prayer also, and [how God] was
intreated of him, and all his sin, and
his trespass, and the places wherein he
built high places, and set up groves
and graven images, before he was
humbled: behold, they [are] written
among the sayings of the seers.
20 # So Manasseh slept with his
fathers, and they buried him in his own
house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead.
21 # Amon [was] two and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and reigned
two years in Jerusalem.
22 But he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh
his father: for Amon sacrificed unto
all the carved images which Manasseh
his father had made, and served them;
23 And humbled not himself before the
LORD, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself; but Amon trespassed
more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against
him, and slew him in his own house.
25 # But the people of the land slew
all them that had conspired against
king Amon; and the people of the land
made Josiah his son king in his stead.

CHAPTER 34
1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2 And he did [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD, and walked in
the ways of David his father, and
declined [neither] to the right hand,
nor to the left.
3 # For in the eighth year of his
reign, while he was yet young, he began
to seek after the God of David his
father: and in the twelfth year he
began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from
the high places, and the groves, and
the carved images, and the molten
images.
4 And they brake down the altars of
Baalim in his presence; and the images,
that [were] on high above them, he cut
down; and the groves, and the carved
images, and the molten images, he brake
in pieces, and made dust [of them], and
strowed [it] upon the graves of them
that had sacrificed unto them.
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests
upon their altars, and cleansed Judah
and Jerusalem.
6 And [so did he] in the cities of
Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even
unto Naphtali, with their mattocks
round about.
7 And when he had broken down the
altars and the groves, and had beaten
the graven images into powder, and cut
down all the idols throughout all the
land of Israel, he returned to
Jerusalem.
8 # Now in the eighteenth year of his
reign, when he had purged the land, and
the house, he sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of
the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz
the recorder, to repair the house of
the LORD his God.
9 And when they came to Hilkiah the
high priest, they delivered the money
that was brought into the house of God,
which the Levites that kept the doors
had gathered of the hand of Manasseh
and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of
Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin;
and they returned to Jerusalem.
10 And they put [it] in the hand of the
workmen that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD, and they gave it to
the workmen that wrought in the house
of the LORD, to repair and amend the
house:
11 Even to the artificers and builders
gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and
timber for couplings, and to floor the
houses which the kings of Judah had
destroyed.
12 And the men did the work faithfully:
and the overseers of them [were] Jahath
and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons
of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam,
of the sons of the Kohathites, to set
[it] forward; and [other of] the
Levites, all that could skill of
instruments of musick.
13 Also [they were] over the bearers of
burdens, and [were] overseers of all
that wrought the work in any manner of
service: and of the Levites [there
were] scribes, and officers, and
porters.
14 # And when they brought out the
money that was brought into the house
of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a
book of the law of the LORD [given] by
Moses.
15 And Hilkiah answered and said to
Shaphan the scribe, I have found the
book of the law in the house of the
LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to
Shaphan.
16 And Shaphan carried the book to the
king, and brought the king word back
again, saying, All that was committed
to thy servants, they do [it].
17 And they have gathered together the
money that was found in the house of
the LORD, and have delivered it into
the hand of the overseers, and to the
hand of the workmen.
18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the
king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
given me a book. And Shaphan read it
before the king.
19 And it came to pass, when the king
had heard the words of the law, that he
rent his clothes.
20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon
the son of Micah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the
king's, saying,
21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and
for them that are left in Israel and in
Judah, concerning the words of the book
that is found: for great [is] the wrath
of the LORD that is poured out upon us,
because our fathers have not kept the
word of the LORD, to do after all that
is written in this book.
22 And Hilkiah, and [they] that the
king [had appointed], went to Huldah
the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah,
keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt
in Jerusalem in the college:) and they
spake to her to that [effect].
23 # And she answered them, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man
that sent you to me,
24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
bring evil upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the
curses that are written in the book
which they have read before the king of
Judah:
25 Because they have forsaken me, and
have burned incense unto other gods,
that they might provoke me to anger
with all the works of their hands;
therefore my wrath shall be poured out
upon this place, and shall not be
quenched.
26 And as for the king of Judah, who
sent you to enquire of the LORD, so
shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel [concerning] the
words which thou hast heard;
27 Because thine heart was tender, and
thou didst humble thyself before God,
when thou heardest his words against
this place, and against the inhabitants
thereof, and humbledst thyself before
me, and didst rend thy clothes, and
weep before me; I have even heard
[thee] also, saith the LORD.
28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy
fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to
thy grave in peace, neither shall thine
eyes see all the evil that I will bring
upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants of the same. So they
brought the king word again.
29 # Then the king sent and gathered
together all the elders of Judah and
Jerusalem.
30 And the king went up into the house
of the LORD, and all the men of Judah,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
the priests, and the Levites, and all
the people, great and small: and he
read in their ears all the words of the
book of the covenant that was found in
the house of the LORD.
31 And the king stood in his place, and
made a covenant before the LORD, to
walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments, and his testimonies, and
his statutes, with all his heart, and
with all his soul, to perform the words
of the covenant which are written in
this book.
32 And he caused all that were present
in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to
it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem
did according to the covenant of God,
the God of their fathers.
33 And Josiah took away all the
abominations out of all the countries
that [pertained] to the children of
Israel, and made all that were present
in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the
LORD their God. [And] all his days they
departed not from following the LORD,
the God of their fathers.

CHAPTER 35
1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto
the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed
the passover on the fourteenth [day] of
the first month.
2 And he set the priests in their
charges, and encouraged them to the
service of the house of the LORD,
3 And said unto the Levites that taught
all Israel, which were holy unto the
LORD, Put the holy ark in the house
which Solomon the son of David king of
Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a
burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now
the LORD your God, and his people
Israel,
4 And prepare [yourselves] by the
houses of your fathers, after your
courses, according to the writing of
David king of Israel, and according to
the writing of Solomon his son.
5 And stand in the holy [place]
according to the divisions of the
families of the fathers of your
brethren the people, and [after] the
division of the families of the
Levites.
6 So kill the passover, and sanctify
yourselves, and prepare your brethren,
that [they] may do according to the
word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the
flock, lambs and kids, all for the
passover offerings, for all that were
present, to the number of thirty
thousand, and three thousand bullocks:
these [were] of the king's substance.
8 And his princes gave willingly unto
the people, to the priests, and to the
Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and
Jehiel, rulers of the house of God,
gave unto the priests for the passover
offerings two thousand and six hundred
[small cattle], and three hundred oxen.
9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and
Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah
and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the
Levites, gave unto the Levites for
passover offerings five thousand [small
cattle], and five hundred oxen.
10 So the service was prepared, and the
priests stood in their place, and the
Levites in their courses, according to
the king's commandment.
11 And they killed the passover, and
the priests sprinkled [the blood] from
their hands, and the Levites flayed
[them].
12 And they removed the burnt
offerings, that they might give
according to the divisions of the
families of the people, to offer unto
the LORD, as [it is] written in the
book of Moses. And so [did they] with
the oxen.
13 And they roasted the passover with
fire according to the ordinance: but
the [other] holy [offerings] sod they
in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans,
and divided [them] speedily among all
the people.
14 And afterward they made ready for
themselves, and for the priests:
because the priests the sons of Aaron
[were busied] in offering of burnt
offerings and the fat until night;
therefore the Levites prepared for
themselves, and for the priests the
sons of Aaron.
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph
[were] in their place, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and
Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer;
and the porters [waited] at every gate;
they might not depart from their
service; for their brethren the Levites
prepared for them.
16 So all the service of the LORD was
prepared the same day, to keep the
passover, and to offer burnt offerings
upon the altar of the LORD, according
to the commandment of king Josiah.
17 And the children of Israel that were
present kept the passover at that time,
and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days.
18 And there was no passover like to
that kept in Israel from the days of
Samuel the prophet; neither did all the
kings of Israel keep such a passover as
Josiah kept, and the priests, and the
Levites, and all Judah and Israel that
were present, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign
of Josiah was this passover kept.
20 # After all this, when Josiah had
prepared the temple, Necho king of
Egypt came up to fight against
Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah
went out against him.
21 But he sent ambassadors to him,
saying, What have I to do with thee,
thou king of Judah? [I come] not
against thee this day, but against the
house wherewith I have war: for God
commanded me to make haste: forbear
thee from [meddling with] God, who [is]
with me, that he destroy thee not.
22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn
his face from him, but disguised
himself, that he might fight with him,
and hearkened not unto the words of
Necho from the mouth of God, and came
to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
23 And the archers shot at king Josiah;
and the king said to his servants, Have
me away; for I am sore wounded.
24 His servants therefore took him out
of that chariot, and put him in the
second chariot that he had; and they
brought him to Jerusalem, and he died,
and was buried in [one of] the
sepulchres of his fathers. And all
Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
25 # And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah:
and all the singing men and the singing
women spake of Josiah in their
lamentations to this day, and made them
an ordinance in Israel: and, behold,
they [are] written in the lamentations.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah,
and his goodness, according to [that
which was] written in the law of the
LORD,
27 And his deeds, first and last,
behold, they [are] written in the book
of the kings of Israel and Judah.

CHAPTER 36
1 Then the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made
him king in his father's stead in
Jerusalem.
2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3 And the king of Egypt put him down at
Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an
hundred talents of silver and a talent
of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim
his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his
brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 # Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five
years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
and he did [that which was] evil in the
sight of the LORD his God.
6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and bound him in
fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the
vessels of the house of the LORD to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at
Babylon.
8 Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoiakim, and his abominations which
he did, and that which was found in
him, behold, they [are] written in the
book of the kings of Israel and Judah:
and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his
stead.
9 # Jehoiachin [was] eight years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
three months and ten days in Jerusalem:
and he did [that which was] evil in the
sight of the LORD.
10 And when the year was expired, king
Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to
Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the
house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah
his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem.
11 # Zedekiah [was] one and twenty
years old when he began to reign, and
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD his God, [and]
humbled not himself before Jeremiah the
prophet [speaking] from the mouth of
the LORD.
13 And he also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear
by God: but he stiffened his neck, and
hardened his heart from turning unto
the LORD God of Israel.
14 # Moreover all the chief of the
priests, and the people, transgressed
very much after all the abominations of
the heathen; and polluted the house of
the LORD which he had hallowed in
Jerusalem.
15 And the LORD God of their fathers
sent to them by his messengers, rising
up betimes, and sending; because he had
compassion on his people, and on his
dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of
God, and despised his words, and
misused his prophets, until the wrath
of the LORD arose against his people,
till [there was] no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the
king of the Chaldees, who slew their
young men with the sword in the house
of their sanctuary, and had no
compassion upon young man or maiden,
old man, or him that stooped for age:
he gave [them] all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of
God, great and small, and the treasures
of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king, and of his
princes; all [these] he brought to
Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and
brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and
burnt all the palaces thereof with
fire, and destroyed all the goodly
vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the
sword carried he away to Babylon; where
they were servants to him and his sons
until the reign of the kingdom of
Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by
the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land
had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long
as she lay desolate she kept sabbath,
to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 # Now in the first year of Cyrus
king of Persia, that the word of the
LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah
might be accomplished, the LORD stirred
up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
that he made a proclamation throughout
all his kingdom, and [put it] also in
writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All
the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD
God of heaven given me; and he hath
charged me to build him an house in
Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is
there] among you of all his people? The
LORD his God [be] with him, and let him
go up.

EZRA

CHAPTER 1
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king
of Persia, that the word of the LORD by
the mouth of Jeremiah might be
fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the
spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he
made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and [put it] also in writing,
saying,
2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The
LORD God of heaven hath given me all
the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath
charged me to build him an house at
Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah.
3 Who [is there] among you of all his
people? his God be with him, and let
him go up to Jerusalem, which [is] in
Judah, and build the house of the LORD
God of Israel, (he [is] the God,) which
[is] in Jerusalem.
4 And whosoever remaineth in any place
where he sojourneth, let the men of his
place help him with silver, and with
gold, and with goods, and with beasts,
beside the freewill offering for the
house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.
5 # Then rose up the chief of the
fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the
priests, and the Levites, with all
[them] whose spirit God had raised, to
go up to build the house of the LORD
which [is] in Jerusalem.
6 And all they that [were] about them
strengthened their hands with vessels
of silver, with gold, with goods, and
with beasts, and with precious things,
beside all [that] was willingly
offered.
7 # Also Cyrus the king brought forth
the vessels of the house of the LORD,
which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth
out of Jerusalem, and had put them in
the house of his gods;
8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia
bring forth by the hand of Mithredath
the treasurer, and numbered them unto
Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
9 And this [is] the number of them:
thirty chargers of gold, a thousand
chargers of silver, nine and twenty
knives,
10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons
of a second [sort] four hundred and
ten, [and] other vessels a thousand.
11 All the vessels of gold and of
silver [were] five thousand and four
hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar
bring up with [them of] the captivity
that were brought up from Babylon unto
Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 2
1 Now these [are] the children of the
province that went up out of the
captivity, of those which had been
carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon had carried away unto
Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem
and Judah, every one unto his city;
2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua,
Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai,
Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah.
The number of the men of the people of
Israel:
3 The children of Parosh, two thousand
an hundred seventy and two.
4 The children of Shephatiah, three
hundred seventy and two.
5 The children of Arah, seven hundred
seventy and five.
6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the
children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two
thousand eight hundred and twelve.
7 The children of Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.
8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred
forty and five.
9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred
and threescore.
10 The children of Bani, six hundred
forty and two.
11 The children of Bebai, six hundred
twenty and three.
12 The children of Azgad, a thousand
two hundred twenty and two.
13 The children of Adonikam, six
hundred sixty and six.
14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand
fifty and six.
15 The children of Adin, four hundred
fifty and four.
16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah,
ninety and eight.
17 The children of Bezai, three hundred
twenty and three.
18 The children of Jorah, an hundred
and twelve.
19 The children of Hashum, two hundred
twenty and three.
20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and
five.
21 The children of Beth-lehem, an
hundred twenty and three.
22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred
twenty and eight.
24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and
two.
25 The children of Kirjath-arim,
Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred
and forty and three.
26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six
hundred twenty and one.
27 The men of Michmas, an hundred
twenty and two.
28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, two
hundred twenty and three.
29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
30 The children of Magbish, an hundred
fifty and six.
31 The children of the other Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty and four.
32 The children of Harim, three hundred
and twenty.
33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono,
seven hundred twenty and five.
34 The children of Jericho, three
hundred forty and five.
35 The children of Senaah, three
thousand and six hundred and thirty.
36 # The priests: the children of
Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine
hundred seventy and three.
37 The children of Immer, a thousand
fifty and two.
38 The children of Pashur, a thousand
two hundred forty and seven.
39 The children of Harim, a thousand
and seventeen.
40 # The Levites: the children of
Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of
Hodaviah, seventy and four.
41 # The singers: the children of
Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
42 # The children of the porters: the
children of Shallum, the children of
Ater, the children of Talmon, the
children of Akkub, the children of
Hatita, the children of Shobai, [in]
all an hundred thirty and nine.
43 # The Nethinims: the children of
Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the
children of Tabbaoth,
44 The children of Keros, the children
of Siaha, the children of Padon,
45 The children of Lebanah, the
children of Hagabah, the children of
Akkub,
46 The children of Hagab, the children
of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,
47 The children of Giddel, the children
of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
48 The children of Rezin, the children
of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
49 The children of Uzza, the children
of Paseah, the children of Besai,
50 The children of Asnah, the children
of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
51 The children of Bakbuk, the children
of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
52 The children of Bazluth, the
children of Mehida, the children of
Harsha,
53 The children of Barkos, the children
of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
54 The children of Neziah, the children
of Hatipha.
55 # The children of Solomon's
servants: the children of Sotai, the
children of Sophereth, the children of
Peruda,
56 The children of Jaalah, the children
of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
57 The children of Shephatiah, the
children of Hattil, the children of
Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of
Ami.
58 All the Nethinims, and the children
of Solomon's servants, [were] three
hundred ninety and two.
59 And these [were] they which went up
from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub,
Addan, [and] Immer: but they could not
shew their father's house, and their
seed, whether they [were] of Israel:
60 The children of Delaiah, the
children of Tobiah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
61 # And of the children of the
priests: the children of Habaiah, the
children of Koz, the children of
Barzillai; which took a wife of the
daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite,
and was called after their name:
62 These sought their register [among]
those that were reckoned by genealogy,
but they were not found: therefore were
they, as polluted, put from the
priesthood.
63 And the Tirshatha said unto them,
that they should not eat of the most
holy things, till there stood up a
priest with Urim and with Thummim.
64 # The whole congregation together
[was] forty and two thousand three
hundred [and] threescore,
65 Beside their servants and their
maids, of whom [there were] seven
thousand three hundred thirty and
seven: and [there were] among them two
hundred singing men and singing women.
66 Their horses [were] seven hundred
thirty and six; their mules, two
hundred forty and five;
67 Their camels, four hundred thirty
and five; [their] asses, six thousand
seven hundred and twenty.
68 # And [some] of the chief of the
fathers, when they came to the house of
the LORD which [is] at Jerusalem,
offered freely for the house of God to
set it up in his place:
69 They gave after their ability unto
the treasure of the work threescore and
one thousand drams of gold, and five
thousand pound of silver, and one
hundred priests' garments.
70 So the priests, and the Levites, and
[some] of the people, and the singers,
and the porters, and the Nethinims,
dwelt in their cities, and all Israel
in their cities.

CHAPTER 3
1 And when the seventh month was come,
and the children of Israel [were] in
the cities, the people gathered
themselves together as one man to
Jerusalem.
2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of
Jozadak, and his brethren the priests,
and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and his brethren, and builded the altar
of the God of Israel, to offer burnt
offerings thereon, as [it is] written
in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 And they set the altar upon his
bases; for fear [was] upon them because
of the people of those countries: and
they offered burnt offerings thereon
unto the LORD, [even] burnt offerings
morning and evening.
4 # They kept also the feast of
tabernacles, as [it is] written, and
[offered] the daily burnt offerings by
number, according to the custom, as the
duty of every day required;
5 And afterward [offered] the continual
burnt offering, both of the new moons,
and of all the set feasts of the LORD
that were consecrated, and of every one
that willingly offered a freewill
offering unto the LORD.
6 From the first day of the seventh
month began they to offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD. But the
foundation of the temple of the LORD
was not [yet] laid.
7 They gave money also unto the masons,
and to the carpenters; and meat, and
drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and
to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees
from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa,
according to the grant that they had of
Cyrus king of Persia.
8 # Now in the second year of their
coming unto the house of God at
Jerusalem, in the second month, began
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and
Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the
remnant of their brethren the priests
and the Levites, and all they that were
come out of the captivity unto
Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites,
from twenty years old and upward, to
set forward the work of the house of
the LORD.
9 Then stood Jeshua [with] his sons and
his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the
sons of Judah, together, to set forward
the workmen in the house of God: the
sons of Henadad, [with] their sons and
their brethren the Levites.
10 And when the builders laid the
foundation of the temple of the LORD,
they set the priests in their apparel
with trumpets, and the Levites the sons
of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the
LORD, after the ordinance of David king
of Israel.
11 And they sang together by course in
praising and giving thanks unto the
LORD; because [he is] good, for his
mercy [endureth] for ever toward
Israel. And all the people shouted with
a great shout, when they praised the
LORD, because the foundation of the
house of the LORD was laid.
12 But many of the priests and Levites
and chief of the fathers, [who were]
ancient men, that had seen the first
house, when the foundation of this
house was laid before their eyes, wept
with a loud voice; and many shouted
aloud for joy:
13 So that the people could not discern
the noise of the shout of joy from the
noise of the weeping of the people: for
the people shouted with a loud shout,
and the noise was heard afar off.

CHAPTER 4
1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and
Benjamin heard that the children of the
captivity builded the temple unto the
LORD God of Israel;
2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to
the chief of the fathers, and said unto
them, Let us build with you: for we
seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do
sacrifice unto him since the days of
Esar-haddon king of Assur, which
brought us up hither.
3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the
rest of the chief of the fathers of
Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing
to do with us to build an house unto
our God; but we ourselves together will
build unto the LORD God of Israel, as
king Cyrus the king of Persia hath
commanded us.
4 Then the people of the land weakened
the hands of the people of Judah, and
troubled them in building,
5 And hired counsellors against them,
to frustrate their purpose, all the
days of Cyrus king of Persia, even
until the reign of Darius king of
Persia.
6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the
beginning of his reign, wrote they
[unto him] an accusation against the
inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7 # And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote
Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the
rest of their companions, unto
Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the
writing of the letter [was] written in
the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in
the Syrian tongue.
8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the
scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem
to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
9 Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor,
and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest
of their companions; the Dinaites, the
Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the
Apharsites, the Archevites, the
Babylonians, the Susanchites, the
Dehavites, [and] the Elamites,
10 And the rest of the nations whom the
great and noble Asnappar brought over,
and set in the cities of Samaria, and
the rest [that are] on this side the
river, and at such a time.
11 # This [is] the copy of the letter
that they sent unto him, [even] unto
Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the
men on this side the river, and at such
a time.
12 Be it known unto the king, that the
Jews which came up from thee to us are
come unto Jerusalem, building the
rebellious and the bad city, and have
set up the walls [thereof], and joined
the foundations.
13 Be it known now unto the king, that,
if this city be builded, and the walls
set up [again, then] will they not pay
toll, tribute, and custom, and [so]
thou shalt endamage the revenue of the
kings.
14 Now because we have maintenance from
[the king's] palace, and it was not
meet for us to see the king's
dishonour, therefore have we sent and
certified the king;
15 That search may be made in the book
of the records of thy fathers: so shalt
thou find in the book of the records,
and know that this city [is] a
rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings
and provinces, and that they have moved
sedition within the same of old time:
for which cause was this city
destroyed.
16 We certify the king that, if this
city be builded [again], and the walls
thereof set up, by this means thou
shalt have no portion on this side the
river.
17 # [Then] sent the king an answer
unto Rehum the chancellor, and [to]
Shimshai the scribe, and [to] the rest
of their companions that dwell in
Samaria, and [unto] the rest beyond the
river, Peace, and at such a time.
18 The letter which ye sent unto us
hath been plainly read before me.
19 And I commanded, and search hath
been made, and it is found that this
city of old time hath made insurrection
against kings, and [that] rebellion and
sedition have been made therein.
20 There have been mighty kings also
over Jerusalem, which have ruled over
all [countries] beyond the river; and
toll, tribute, and custom, was paid
unto them.
21 Give ye now commandment to cause
these men to cease, and that this city
be not builded, until [another]
commandment shall be given from me.
22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do
this: why should damage grow to the
hurt of the kings?
23 # Now when the copy of king
Artaxerxes' letter [was] read before
Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and
their companions, they went up in haste
to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made
them to cease by force and power.
24 Then ceased the work of the house of
God which [is] at Jerusalem. So it
ceased unto the second year of the
reign of Darius king of Persia.

CHAPTER 5
1 Then the prophets, Haggai the
prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo,
prophesied unto the Jews that [were] in
Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the
God of Israel, [even] unto them.
2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of
Jozadak, and began to build the house
of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and
with them [were] the prophets of God
helping them.
3 # At the same time came to them
Tatnai, governor on this side the
river, and Shethar-boznai, and their
companions, and said thus unto them,
Who hath commanded you to build this
house, and to make up this wall?
4 Then said we unto them after this
manner, What are the names of the men
that make this building?
5 But the eye of their God was upon the
elders of the Jews, that they could not
cause them to cease, till the matter
came to Darius: and then they returned
answer by letter concerning this
[matter].
6 # The copy of the letter that Tatnai,
governor on this side the river, and
Shethar-boznai, and his companions the
Apharsachites, which [were] on this
side the river, sent unto Darius the
king:
7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein
was written thus; Unto Darius the king,
all peace.
8 Be it known unto the king, that we
went into the province of Judea, to the
house of the great God, which is
builded with great stones, and timber
is laid in the walls, and this work
goeth fast on, and prospereth in their
hands.
9 Then asked we those elders, [and]
said unto them thus, Who commanded you
to build this house, and to make up
these walls?
10 We asked their names also, to
certify thee, that we might write the
names of the men that [were] the chief
of them.
11 And thus they returned us answer,
saying, We are the servants of the God
of heaven and earth, and build the
house that was builded these many years
ago, which a great king of Israel
builded and set up.
12 But after that our fathers had
provoked the God of heaven unto wrath,
he gave them into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the
Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and
carried the people away into Babylon.
13 But in the first year of Cyrus the
king of Babylon [the same] king Cyrus
made a decree to build this house of
God.
14 And the vessels also of gold and
silver of the house of God, which
Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple
that [was] in Jerusalem, and brought
them into the temple of Babylon, those
did Cyrus the king take out of the
temple of Babylon, and they were
delivered unto [one], whose name [was]
Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
15 And said unto him, Take these
vessels, go, carry them into the temple
that [is] in Jerusalem, and let the
house of God be builded in his place.
16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar,
[and] laid the foundation of the house
of God which [is] in Jerusalem: and
since that time even until now hath it
been in building, and [yet] it is not
finished.
17 Now therefore, if [it seem] good to
the king, let there be search made in
the king's treasure house, which [is]
there at Babylon, whether it be [so],
that a decree was made of Cyrus the
king to build this house of God at
Jerusalem, and let the king send his
pleasure to us concerning this matter.

CHAPTER 6
1 Then Darius the king made a decree,
and search was made in the house of the
rolls, where the treasures were laid up
in Babylon.
2 And there was found at Achmetha, in
the palace that [is] in the province of
the Medes, a roll, and therein [was] a
record thus written:
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king
[the same] Cyrus the king made a decree
[concerning] the house of God at
Jerusalem, Let the house be builded,
the place where they offered
sacrifices, and let the foundations
thereof be strongly laid; the height
thereof threescore cubits, [and] the
breadth thereof threescore cubits;
4 [With] three rows of great stones,
and a row of new timber: and let the
expenses be given out of the king's
house:
5 And also let the golden and silver
vessels of the house of God, which
Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the
temple which [is] at Jerusalem, and
brought unto Babylon, be restored, and
brought again unto the temple which
[is] at Jerusalem, [every one] to his
place, and place [them] in the house of
God.
6 Now [therefore], Tatnai, governor
beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and
your companions the Apharsachites,
which [are] beyond the river, be ye far
from thence:
7 Let the work of this house of God
alone; let the governor of the Jews and
the elders of the Jews build this house
of God in his place.
8 Moreover I make a decree what ye
shall do to the elders of these Jews
for the building of this house of God:
that of the king's goods, [even] of the
tribute beyond the river, forthwith
expenses be given unto these men, that
they be not hindered.
9 And that which they have need of,
both young bullocks, and rams, and
lambs, for the burnt offerings of the
God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and
oil, according to the appointment of
the priests which [are] at Jerusalem,
let it be given them day by day without
fail:
10 That they may offer sacrifices of
sweet savours unto the God of heaven,
and pray for the life of the king, and
of his sons.
11 Also I have made a decree, that
whosoever shall alter this word, let
timber be pulled down from his house,
and being set up, let him be hanged
thereon; and let his house be made a
dunghill for this.
12 And the God that hath caused his
name to dwell there destroy all kings
and people, that shall put to their
hand to alter [and] to destroy this
house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. I
Darius have made a decree; let it be
done with speed.
13 # Then Tatnai, governor on this side
the river, Shethar-boznai, and their
companions, according to that which
Darius the king had sent, so they did
speedily.
14 And the elders of the Jews builded,
and they prospered through the
prophesying of Haggai the prophet and
Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they
builded, and finished [it], according
to the commandment of the God of
Israel, and according to the
commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and
Artaxerxes king of Persia.
15 And this house was finished on the
third day of the month Adar, which was
in the sixth year of the reign of
Darius the king.
16 # And the children of Israel, the
priests, and the Levites, and the rest
of the children of the captivity, kept
the dedication of this house of God
with joy,
17 And offered at the dedication of
this house of God an hundred bullocks,
two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
and for a sin offering for all Israel,
twelve he goats, according to the
number of the tribes of Israel.
18 And they set the priests in their
divisions, and the Levites in their
courses, for the service of God, which
[is] at Jerusalem; as it is written in
the book of Moses.
19 And the children of the captivity
kept the passover upon the fourteenth
[day] of the first month.
20 For the priests and the Levites were
purified together, all of them [were]
pure, and killed the passover for all
the children of the captivity, and for
their brethren the priests, and for
themselves.
21 And the children of Israel, which
were come again out of captivity, and
all such as had separated themselves
unto them from the filthiness of the
heathen of the land, to seek the LORD
God of Israel, did eat,
22 And kept the feast of unleavened
bread seven days with joy: for the LORD
had made them joyful, and turned the
heart of the king of Assyria unto them,
to strengthen their hands in the work
of the house of God, the God of Israel.

CHAPTER 7
1 Now after these things, in the reign
of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the
son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the
son of Hilkiah,
2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok,
the son of Ahitub,
3 The son of Amariah, the son of
Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi,
the son of Bukki,
5 The son of Abishua, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son
of Aaron the chief priest:
6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and
he [was] a ready scribe in the law of
Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had
given: and the king granted him all his
request, according to the hand of the
LORD his God upon him.
7 And there went up [some] of the
children of Israel, and of the priests,
and the Levites, and the singers, and
the porters, and the Nethinims, unto
Jerusalem, in the seventh year of
Artaxerxes the king.
8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth
month, which [was] in the seventh year
of the king.
9 For upon the first [day] of the first
month began he to go up from Babylon,
and on the first [day] of the fifth
month came he to Jerusalem, according
to the good hand of his God upon him.
10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to
seek the law of the LORD, and to do
[it], and to teach in Israel statutes
and judgments.
11 # Now this [is] the copy of the
letter that the king Artaxerxes gave
unto Ezra the priest, the scribe,
[even] a scribe of the words of the
commandments of the LORD, and of his
statutes to Israel.
12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra
the priest, a scribe of the law of the
God of heaven, perfect [peace], and at
such a time.
13 I make a decree, that all they of
the people of Israel, and [of] his
priests and Levites, in my realm, which
are minded of their own freewill to go
up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the
king, and of his seven counsellors, to
enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
according to the law of thy God which
[is] in thine hand;
15 And to carry the silver and gold,
which the king and his counsellors have
freely offered unto the God of Israel,
whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem,
16 And all the silver and gold that
thou canst find in all the province of
Babylon, with the freewill offering of
the people, and of the priests,
offering willingly for the house of
their God which [is] in Jerusalem:
17 That thou mayest buy speedily with
this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with
their meat offerings and their drink
offerings, and offer them upon the
altar of the house of your God which
[is] in Jerusalem.
18 And whatsoever shall seem good to
thee, and to thy brethren, to do with
the rest of the silver and the gold,
that do after the will of your God.
19 The vessels also that are given thee
for the service of the house of thy
God, [those] deliver thou before the
God of Jerusalem.
20 And whatsoever more shall be needful
for the house of thy God, which thou
shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow
[it] out of the king's treasure house.
21 And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king,
do make a decree to all the treasurers
which [are] beyond the river, that
whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe
of the law of the God of heaven, shall
require of you, it be done speedily,
22 Unto an hundred talents of silver,
and to an hundred measures of wheat,
and to an hundred baths of wine, and to
an hundred baths of oil, and salt
without prescribing [how much].
23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God
of heaven, let it be diligently done
for the house of the God of heaven: for
why should there be wrath against the
realm of the king and his sons?
24 Also we certify you, that touching
any of the priests and Levites,
singers, porters, Nethinims, or
ministers of this house of God, it
shall not be lawful to impose toll,
tribute, or custom, upon them.
25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of
thy God, that [is] in thine hand, set
magistrates and judges, which may judge
all the people that [are] beyond the
river, all such as know the laws of thy
God; and teach ye them that know [them]
not.
26 And whosoever will not do the law of
thy God, and the law of the king, let
judgment be executed speedily upon him,
whether [it be] unto death, or to
banishment, or to confiscation of
goods, or to imprisonment.
27 # Blessed [be] the LORD God of our
fathers, which hath put [such a thing]
as this in the king's heart, to
beautify the house of the LORD which
[is] in Jerusalem:
28 And hath extended mercy unto me
before the king, and his counsellors,
and before all the king's mighty
princes. And I was strengthened as the
hand of the LORD my God [was] upon me,
and I gathered together out of Israel
chief men to go up with me.

CHAPTER 8
1 These [are] now the chief of their
fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of
them that went up with me from Babylon,
in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of
the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the
sons of David; Hattush.
3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the
sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with
him were reckoned by genealogy of the
males an hundred and fifty.
4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai
the son of Zerahiah, and with him two
hundred males.
5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of
Jahaziel, and with him three hundred
males.
6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the
son of Jonathan, and with him fifty
males.
7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the
son of Athaliah, and with him seventy
males.
8 And of the sons of Shephatiah;
Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with
him fourscore males.
9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son
of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and
eighteen males.
10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the
son of Josiphiah, and with him an
hundred and threescore males.
11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah
the son of Bebai, and with him twenty
and eight males.
12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan
the son of Hakkatan, and with him an
hundred and ten males.
13 And of the last sons of Adonikam,
whose names [are] these, Eliphelet,
Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them
threescore males.
14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai,
and Zabbud, and with them seventy
males.
15 # And I gathered them together to
the river that runneth to Ahava; and
there abode we in tents three days: and
I viewed the people, and the priests,
and found there none of the sons of
Levi.
16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel,
for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for
Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for
Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for
Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib,
and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
17 And I sent them with commandment
unto Iddo the chief at the place
Casiphia, and I told them what they
should say unto Iddo, [and] to his
brethren the Nethinims, at the place
Casiphia, that they should bring unto
us ministers for the house of our God.
18 And by the good hand of our God upon
us they brought us a man of
understanding, of the sons of Mahli,
the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and
Sherebiah, with his sons and his
brethren, eighteen;
19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah
of the sons of Merari, his brethren and
their sons, twenty;
20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David
and the princes had appointed for the
service of the Levites, two hundred and
twenty Nethinims: all of them were
expressed by name.
21 # Then I proclaimed a fast there, at
the river of Ahava, that we might
afflict ourselves before our God, to
seek of him a right way for us, and for
our little ones, and for all our
substance.
22 For I was ashamed to require of the
king a band of soldiers and horsemen to
help us against the enemy in the way:
because we had spoken unto the king,
saying, The hand of our God [is] upon
all them for good that seek him; but
his power and his wrath [is] against
all them that forsake him.
23 So we fasted and besought our God
for this: and he was intreated of us.
24 # Then I separated twelve of the
chief of the priests, Sherebiah,
Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren
with them,
25 And weighed unto them the silver,
and the gold, and the vessels, [even]
the offering of the house of our God,
which the king, and his counsellors,
and his lords, and all Israel [there]
present, had offered:
26 I even weighed unto their hand six
hundred and fifty talents of silver,
and silver vessels an hundred talents,
[and] of gold an hundred talents;
27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a
thousand drams; and two vessels of fine
copper, precious as gold.
28 And I said unto them, Ye [are] holy
unto the LORD; the vessels [are] holy
also; and the silver and the gold [are]
a freewill offering unto the LORD God
of your fathers.
29 Watch ye, and keep [them], until ye
weigh [them] before the chief of the
priests and the Levites, and chief of
the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in
the chambers of the house of the LORD.
30 So took the priests and the Levites
the weight of the silver, and the gold,
and the vessels, to bring [them] to
Jerusalem unto the house of our God.
31 # Then we departed from the river of
Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first
month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the
hand of our God was upon us, and he
delivered us from the hand of the
enemy, and of such as lay in wait by
the way.
32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode
there three days.
33 # Now on the fourth day was the
silver and the gold and the vessels
weighed in the house of our God by the
hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the
priest; and with him [was] Eleazar the
son of Phinehas; and with them [was]
Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah
the son of Binnui, Levites;
34 By number [and] by weight of every
one: and all the weight was written at
that time.
35 [Also] the children of those that
had been carried away, which were come
out of the captivity, offered burnt
offerings unto the God of Israel,
twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety
and six rams, seventy and seven lambs,
twelve he goats [for] a sin offering:
all [this was] a burnt offering unto
the LORD.
36 # And they delivered the king's
commissions unto the king's
lieutenants, and to the governors on
this side the river: and they furthered
the people, and the house of God.

CHAPTER 9
1 Now when these things were done, the
princes came to me, saying, The people
of Israel, and the priests, and the
Levites, have not separated themselves
from the people of the lands, [doing]
according to their abominations, [even]
of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians,
and the Amorites.
2 For they have taken of their
daughters for themselves, and for their
sons: so that the holy seed have
mingled themselves with the people of
[those] lands: yea, the hand of the
princes and rulers hath been chief in
this trespass.
3 And when I heard this thing, I rent
my garment and my mantle, and plucked
off the hair of my head and of my
beard, and sat down astonied.
4 Then were assembled unto me every one
that trembled at the words of the God
of Israel, because of the transgression
of those that had been carried away;
and I sat astonied until the evening
sacrifice.
5 # And at the evening sacrifice I
arose up from my heaviness; and having
rent my garment and my mantle, I fell
upon my knees, and spread out my hands
unto the LORD my God,
6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and
blush to lift up my face to thee, my
God: for our iniquities are increased
over [our] head, and our trespass is
grown up unto the heavens.
7 Since the days of our fathers [have]
we [been] in a great trespass unto this
day; and for our iniquities have we,
our kings, [and] our priests, been
delivered into the hand of the kings of
the lands, to the sword, to captivity,
and to a spoil, and to confusion of
face, as [it is] this day.
8 And now for a little space grace hath
been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to
leave us a remnant to escape, and to
give us a nail in his holy place, that
our God may lighten our eyes, and give
us a little reviving in our bondage.
9 For we [were] bondmen; yet our God
hath not forsaken us in our bondage,
but hath extended mercy unto us in the
sight of the kings of Persia, to give
us a reviving, to set up the house of
our God, and to repair the desolations
thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah
and in Jerusalem.
10 And now, O our God, what shall we
say after this? for we have forsaken
thy commandments,
11 Which thou hast commanded by thy
servants the prophets, saying, The
land, unto which ye go to possess it,
is an unclean land with the filthiness
of the people of the lands, with their
abominations, which have filled it from
one end to another with their
uncleanness.
12 Now therefore give not your
daughters unto their sons, neither take
their daughters unto your sons, nor
seek their peace or their wealth for
ever: that ye may be strong, and eat
the good of the land, and leave [it]
for an inheritance to your children for
ever.
13 And after all that is come upon us
for our evil deeds, and for our great
trespass, seeing that thou our God hast
punished us less than our iniquities
[deserve], and hast given us [such]
deliverance as this;
14 Should we again break thy
commandments, and join in affinity with
the people of these abominations?
wouldest not thou be angry with us till
thou hadst consumed [us], so that
[there should be] no remnant nor
escaping?
15 O LORD God of Israel, thou [art]
righteous: for we remain yet escaped,
as [it is] this day: behold, we [are]
before thee in our trespasses: for we
cannot stand before thee because of
this.

CHAPTER 10
1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he
had confessed, weeping and casting
himself down before the house of God,
there assembled unto him out of Israel
a very great congregation of men and
women and children: for the people wept
very sore.
2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel,
[one] of the sons of Elam, answered and
said unto Ezra, We have trespassed
against our God, and have taken strange
wives of the people of the land: yet
now there is hope in Israel concerning
this thing.
3 Now therefore let us make a covenant
with our God to put away all the wives,
and such as are born of them, according
to the counsel of my lord, and of those
that tremble at the commandment of our
God; and let it be done according to
the law.
4 Arise; for [this] matter [belongeth]
unto thee: we also [will be] with thee:
be of good courage, and do [it].
5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief
priests, the Levites, and all Israel,
to swear that they should do according
to this word. And they sware.
6 # Then Ezra rose up from before the
house of God, and went into the chamber
of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and
[when] he came thither, he did eat no
bread, nor drink water: for he mourned
because of the transgression of them
that had been carried away.
7 And they made proclamation throughout
Judah and Jerusalem unto all the
children of the captivity, that they
should gather themselves together unto
Jerusalem;
8 And that whosoever would not come
within three days, according to the
counsel of the princes and the elders,
all his substance should be forfeited,
and himself separated from the
congregation of those that had been
carried away.
9 # Then all the men of Judah and
Benjamin gathered themselves together
unto Jerusalem within three days. It
[was] the ninth month, on the twentieth
[day] of the month; and all the people
sat in the street of the house of God,
trembling because of [this] matter, and
for the great rain.
10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and
said unto them, Ye have transgressed,
and have taken strange wives, to
increase the trespass of Israel.
11 Now therefore make confession unto
the LORD God of your fathers, and do
his pleasure: and separate yourselves
from the people of the land, and from
the strange wives.
12 Then all the congregation answered
and said with a loud voice, As thou
hast said, so must we do.
13 But the people [are] many, and [it
is] a time of much rain, and we are not
able to stand without, neither [is
this] a work of one day or two: for we
are many that have transgressed in this
thing.
14 Let now our rulers of all the
congregation stand, and let all them
which have taken strange wives in our
cities come at appointed times, and
with them the elders of every city, and
the judges thereof, until the fierce
wrath of our God for this matter be
turned from us.
15 # Only Jonathan the son of Asahel
and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were
employed about this [matter]: and
Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite
helped them.
16 And the children of the captivity
did so. And Ezra the priest, [with]
certain chief of the fathers, after the
house of their fathers, and all of them
by [their] names, were separated, and
sat down in the first day of the tenth
month to examine the matter.
17 And they made an end with all the
men that had taken strange wives by the
first day of the first month.
18 # And among the sons of the priests
there were found that had taken strange
wives: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua
the son of Jozadak, and his brethren;
Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and
Gedaliah.
19 And they gave their hands that they
would put away their wives; and [being]
guilty, [they offered] a ram of the
flock for their trespass.
20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani,
and Zebadiah.
21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah,
and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel,
and Uzziah.
22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai,
Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad,
and Elasah.
23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and
Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same [is]
Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and
of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and
Uri.
25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of
Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and
Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and
Malchijah, and Benaiah.
26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah,
Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and
Jeremoth, and Eliah.
27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai,
Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and
Zabad, and Aziza.
28 Of the sons also of Bebai;
Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, [and]
Athlai.
29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam,
Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal,
and Ramoth.
30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab;
Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah,
Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and
Manasseh.
31 And [of] the sons of Harim; Eliezer,
Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32 Benjamin, Malluch, [and] Shemariah.
33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai,
Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai,
Manasseh, [and] Shimei.
34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram,
and Uel,
35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and
Adaiah,
40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42 Shallum, Amariah, [and] Joseph.
43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel,
Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and
Joel, Benaiah.
44 All these had taken strange wives:
and [some] of them had wives by whom
they had children.

THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of
Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the
month Chisleu, in the twentieth year,
as I was in Shushan the palace,
2 That Hanani, one of my brethren,
came, he and [certain] men of Judah;
and I asked them concerning the Jews
that had escaped, which were left of
the captivity, and concerning
Jerusalem.
3 And they said unto me, The remnant
that are left of the captivity there in
the province [are] in great affliction
and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem
also [is] broken down, and the gates
thereof are burned with fire.
4 # And it came to pass, when I heard
these words, that I sat down and wept,
and mourned [certain] days, and fasted,
and prayed before the God of heaven,
5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God
of heaven, the great and terrible God,
that keepeth covenant and mercy for
them that love him and observe his
commandments:
6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and
thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear
the prayer of thy servant, which I pray
before thee now, day and night, for the
children of Israel thy servants, and
confess the sins of the children of
Israel, which we have sinned against
thee: both I and my father's house have
sinned.
7 We have dealt very corruptly against
thee, and have not kept the
commandments, nor the statutes, nor the
judgments, which thou commandedst thy
servant Moses.
8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word
that thou commandedst thy servant
Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I
will scatter you abroad among the
nations:
9 But [if] ye turn unto me, and keep my
commandments, and do them; though there
were of you cast out unto the uttermost
part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather
them from thence, and will bring them
unto the place that I have chosen to
set my name there.
10 Now these [are] thy servants and thy
people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy
great power, and by thy strong hand.
11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now
thine ear be attentive to the prayer of
thy servant, and to the prayer of thy
servants, who desire to fear thy name:
and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant
this day, and grant him mercy in the
sight of this man. For I was the king's
cupbearer.

CHAPTER 2
1 And it came to pass in the month
Nisan, in the twentieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was]
before him: and I took up the wine, and
gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not
been [beforetime] sad in his presence.
2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why
[is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou
[art] not sick? this [is] nothing
[else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was
very sore afraid,
3 And said unto the king, Let the king
live for ever: why should not my
countenance be sad, when the city, the
place of my fathers' sepulchres,
[lieth] waste, and the gates thereof
are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said unto me, For what
dost thou make request? So I prayed to
the God of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it
please the king, and if thy servant
have found favour in thy sight, that
thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto
the city of my fathers' sepulchres,
that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen
also sitting by him,) For how long
shall thy journey be? and when wilt
thou return? So it pleased the king to
send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it
please the king, let letters be given
me to the governors beyond the river,
that they may convey me over till I
come into Judah;
8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of
the king's forest, that he may give me
timber to make beams for the gates of
the palace which [appertained] to the
house, and for the wall of the city,
and for the house that I shall enter
into. And the king granted me,
according to the good hand of my God
upon me.
9 # Then I came to the governors beyond
the river, and gave them the king's
letters. Now the king had sent captains
of the army and horsemen with me.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and
Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard
[of it], it grieved them exceedingly
that there was come a man to seek the
welfare of the children of Israel.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was
there three days.
12 # And I arose in the night, I and
some few men with me; neither told I
[any] man what my God had put in my
heart to do at Jerusalem: neither [was
there any] beast with me, save the
beast that I rode upon.
13 And I went out by night by the gate
of the valley, even before the dragon
well, and to the dung port, and viewed
the walls of Jerusalem, which were
broken down, and the gates thereof were
consumed with fire.
14 Then I went on to the gate of the
fountain, and to the king's pool: but
[there was] no place for the beast
[that was] under me to pass.
15 Then went I up in the night by the
brook, and viewed the wall, and turned
back, and entered by the gate of the
valley, and [so] returned.
16 And the rulers knew not whither I
went, or what I did; neither had I as
yet told [it] to the Jews, nor to the
priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the
rulers, nor to the rest that did the
work.
17 # Then said I unto them, Ye see the
distress that we [are] in, how
Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates
thereof are burned with fire: come, and
let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,
that we be no more a reproach.
18 Then I told them of the hand of my
God which was good upon me; as also the
king's words that he had spoken unto
me. And they said, Let us rise up and
build. So they strengthened their hands
for [this] good [work].
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and
Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and
Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they
laughed us to scorn, and despised us,
and said, What [is] this thing that ye
do? will ye rebel against the king?
20 Then answered I them, and said unto
them, The God of heaven, he will
prosper us; therefore we his servants
will arise and build: but ye have no
portion, nor right, nor memorial, in
Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 3
1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up
with his brethren the priests, and they
builded the sheep gate; they sanctified
it, and set up the doors of it; even
unto the tower of Meah they sanctified
it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
2 And next unto him builded the men of
Jericho. And next to them builded
Zaccur the son of Imri.
3 But the fish gate did the sons of
Hassenaah build, who [also] laid the
beams thereof, and set up the doors
thereof, the locks thereof, and the
bars thereof.
4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth
the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And
next unto them repaired Meshullam the
son of Berechiah, the son of
Meshezabeel. And next unto them
repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
5 And next unto them the Tekoites
repaired; but their nobles put not
their necks to the work of their Lord.
6 Moreover the old gate repaired
Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and
Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they
laid the beams thereof, and set up the
doors thereof, and the locks thereof,
and the bars thereof.
7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah
the Gibeonite, and Jadon the
Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of
Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor
on this side the river.
8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son
of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next
unto him also repaired Hananiah the son
of [one of] the apothecaries, and they
fortified Jerusalem unto the broad
wall.
9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah
the son of Hur, the ruler of the half
part of Jerusalem.
10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah
the son of Harumaph, even over against
his house. And next unto him repaired
Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and
Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired
the other piece, and the tower of the
furnaces.
12 And next unto him repaired Shallum
the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the
half part of Jerusalem, he and his
daughters.
13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and
the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built
it, and set up the doors thereof, the
locks thereof, and the bars thereof,
and a thousand cubits on the wall unto
the dung gate.
14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah
the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of
Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up
the doors thereof, the locks thereof,
and the bars thereof.
15 But the gate of the fountain
repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh,
the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built
it, and covered it, and set up the
doors thereof, the locks thereof, and
the bars thereof, and the wall of the
pool of Siloah by the king's garden,
and unto the stairs that go down from
the city of David.
16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son
of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of
Beth-zur, unto [the place] over against
the sepulchres of David, and to the
pool that was made, and unto the house
of the mighty.
17 After him repaired the Levites,
Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him
repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the
half part of Keilah, in his part.
18 After him repaired their brethren,
Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of
the half part of Keilah.
19 And next to him repaired Ezer the
son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah,
another piece over against the going up
to the armoury at the turning [of the
wall].
20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai
earnestly repaired the other piece,
from the turning [of the wall] unto the
door of the house of Eliashib the high
priest.
21 After him repaired Meremoth the son
of Urijah the son of Koz another piece,
from the door of the house of Eliashib
even to the end of the house of
Eliashib.
22 And after him repaired the priests,
the men of the plain.
23 After him repaired Benjamin and
Hashub over against their house. After
him repaired Azariah the son of
Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his
house.
24 After him repaired Binnui the son of
Henadad another piece, from the house
of Azariah unto the turning [of the
wall], even unto the corner.
25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against
the turning [of the wall], and the
tower which lieth out from the king's
high house, that [was] by the court of
the prison. After him Pedaiah the son
of Parosh.
26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in
Ophel, unto [the place] over against
the water gate toward the east, and the
tower that lieth out.
27 After them the Tekoites repaired
another piece, over against the great
tower that lieth out, even unto the
wall of Ophel.
28 From above the horse gate repaired
the priests, every one over against his
house.
29 After them repaired Zadok the son of
Immer over against his house. After him
repaired also Shemaiah the son of
Shechaniah, the keeper of the east
gate.
30 After him repaired Hananiah the son
of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son
of Zalaph, another piece. After him
repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah
over against his chamber.
31 After him repaired Malchiah the
goldsmith's son unto the place of the
Nethinims, and of the merchants, over
against the gate Miphkad, and to the
going up of the corner.
32 And between the going up of the
corner unto the sheep gate repaired the
goldsmiths and the merchants.

CHAPTER 4
1 But it came to pass, that when
Sanballat heard that we builded the
wall, he was wroth, and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spake before his brethren and
the army of Samaria, and said, What do
these feeble Jews? will they fortify
themselves? will they sacrifice? will
they make an end in a day? will they
revive the stones out of the heaps of
the rubbish which are burned?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him,
and he said, Even that which they
build, if a fox go up, he shall even
break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised:
and turn their reproach upon their own
head, and give them for a prey in the
land of captivity:
5 And cover not their iniquity, and let
not their sin be blotted out from
before thee: for they have provoked
[thee] to anger before the builders.
6 So built we the wall; and all the
wall was joined together unto the half
thereof: for the people had a mind to
work.
7 # But it came to pass, [that] when
Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the
Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the
Ashdodites, heard that the walls of
Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the
breaches began to be stopped, then they
were very wroth,
8 And conspired all of them together to
come [and] to fight against Jerusalem,
and to hinder it.
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto
our God, and set a watch against them
day and night, because of them.
10 And Judah said, The strength of the
bearers of burdens is decayed, and
[there is] much rubbish; so that we are
not able to build the wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall
not know, neither see, till we come in
the midst among them, and slay them,
and cause the work to cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the
Jews which dwelt by them came, they
said unto us ten times, From all places
whence ye shall return unto us [they
will be upon you].
13 # Therefore set I in the lower
places behind the wall, [and] on the
higher places, I even set the people
after their families with their swords,
their spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said
unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and
to the rest of the people, Be not ye
afraid of them: remember the Lord,
[which is] great and terrible, and
fight for your brethren, your sons, and
your daughters, your wives, and your
houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our
enemies heard that it was known unto
us, and God had brought their counsel
to nought, that we returned all of us
to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time
forth, [that] the half of my servants
wrought in the work, and the other half
of them held both the spears, the
shields, and the bows, and the
habergeons; and the rulers [were]
behind all the house of Judah.
17 They which builded on the wall, and
they that bare burdens, with those that
laded, [every one] with one of his
hands wrought in the work, and with the
other [hand] held a weapon.
18 For the builders, every one had his
sword girded by his side, and [so]
builded. And he that sounded the
trumpet [was] by me.
19 # And I said unto the nobles, and to
the rulers, and to the rest of the
people, The work [is] great and large,
and we are separated upon the wall, one
far from another.
20 In what place [therefore] ye hear
the sound of the trumpet, resort ye
thither unto us: our God shall fight
for us.
21 So we laboured in the work: and half
of them held the spears from the rising
of the morning till the stars appeared.
22 Likewise at the same time said I
unto the people, Let every one with his
servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in
the night they may be a guard to us,
and labour on the day.
23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor
my servants, nor the men of the guard
which followed me, none of us put off
our clothes, [saving that] every one
put them off for washing.

CHAPTER 5
1 And there was a great cry of the
people and of their wives against their
brethren the Jews.
2 For there were that said, We, our
sons, and our daughters, [are] many:
therefore we take up corn [for them],
that we may eat, and live.
3 [Some] also there were that said, We
have mortgaged our lands, vineyards,
and houses, that we might buy corn,
because of the dearth.
4 There were also that said, We have
borrowed money for the king's tribute,
[and that upon] our lands and
vineyards.
5 Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh
of our brethren, our children as their
children: and, lo, we bring into
bondage our sons and our daughters to
be servants, and [some] of our
daughters are brought unto bondage
[already]: neither [is it] in our power
[to redeem them]; for other men have
our lands and vineyards.
6 # And I was very angry when I heard
their cry and these words.
7 Then I consulted with myself, and I
rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and
said unto them, Ye exact usury, every
one of his brother. And I set a great
assembly against them.
8 And I said unto them, We after our
ability have redeemed our brethren the
Jews, which were sold unto the heathen;
and will ye even sell your brethren? or
shall they be sold unto us? Then held
they their peace, and found nothing [to
answer].
9 Also I said, It [is] not good that ye
do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of
our God because of the reproach of the
heathen our enemies?
10 I likewise, [and] my brethren, and
my servants, might exact of them money
and corn: I pray you, let us leave off
this usury.
11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even
this day, their lands, their vineyards,
their oliveyards, and their houses,
also the hundredth [part] of the money,
and of the corn, the wine, and the oil,
that ye exact of them.
12 Then said they, We will restore
[them], and will require nothing of
them; so will we do as thou sayest.
Then I called the priests, and took an
oath of them, that they should do
according to this promise.
13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So
God shake out every man from his house,
and from his labour, that performeth
not this promise, even thus be he
shaken out, and emptied. And all the
congregation said, Amen, and praised
the LORD. And the people did according
to this promise.
14 # Moreover from the time that I was
appointed to be their governor in the
land of Judah, from the twentieth year
even unto the two and thirtieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve
years, I and my brethren have not eaten
the bread of the governor.
15 But the former governors that [had
been] before me were chargeable unto
the people, and had taken of them bread
and wine, beside forty shekels of
silver; yea, even their servants bare
rule over the people: but so did not I,
because of the fear of God.
16 Yea, also I continued in the work of
this wall, neither bought we any land:
and all my servants [were] gathered
thither unto the work.
17 Moreover [there were] at my table an
hundred and fifty of the Jews and
rulers, beside those that came unto us
from among the heathen that [are] about
us.
18 Now [that] which was prepared [for
me] daily [was] one ox [and] six choice
sheep; also fowls were prepared for me,
and once in ten days store of all sorts
of wine: yet for all this required not
I the bread of the governor, because
the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 Think upon me, my God, for good,
[according] to all that I have done for
this people.

CHAPTER 6
1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat,
and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and
the rest of our enemies, heard that I
had builded the wall, and [that] there
was no breach left therein; (though at
that time I had not set up the doors
upon the gates;)
2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto
me, saying, Come, let us meet together
in [some one of] the villages in the
plain of Ono. But they thought to do me
mischief.
3 And I sent messengers unto them,
saying, I [am] doing a great work, so
that I cannot come down: why should the
work cease, whilst I leave it, and come
down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times
after this sort; and I answered them
after the same manner.
5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto
me in like manner the fifth time with
an open letter in his hand;
6 Wherein [was] written, It is reported
among the heathen, and Gashmu saith
[it, that] thou and the Jews think to
rebel: for which cause thou buildest
the wall, that thou mayest be their
king, according to these words.
7 And thou hast also appointed prophets
to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying,
[There is] a king in Judah: and now
shall it be reported to the king
according to these words. Come now
therefore, and let us take counsel
together.
8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There
are no such things done as thou sayest,
but thou feignest them out of thine own
heart.
9 For they all made us afraid, saying,
Their hands shall be weakened from the
work, that it be not done. Now
therefore, [O God], strengthen my
hands.
10 Afterward I came unto the house of
Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of
Mehetabeel, who [was] shut up; and he
said, Let us meet together in the house
of God, within the temple, and let us
shut the doors of the temple: for they
will come to slay thee; yea, in the
night will they come to slay thee.
11 And I said, Should such a man as I
flee? and who [is there], that, [being]
as I [am], would go into the temple to
save his life? I will not go in.
12 And, lo, I perceived that God had
not sent him; but that he pronounced
this prophecy against me: for Tobiah
and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Therefore [was] he hired, that I
should be afraid, and do so, and sin,
and [that] they might have [matter] for
an evil report, that they might
reproach me.
14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and
Sanballat according to these their
works, and on the prophetess Noadiah,
and the rest of the prophets, that
would have put me in fear.
15 # So the wall was finished in the
twenty and fifth [day] of [the month]
Elul, in fifty and two days.
16 And it came to pass, that when all
our enemies heard [thereof], and all
the heathen that [were] about us saw
[these things], they were much cast
down in their own eyes: for they
perceived that this work was wrought of
our God.
17 # Moreover in those days the nobles
of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah,
and [the letters] of Tobiah came unto
them.
18 For [there were] many in Judah sworn
unto him, because he [was] the son in
law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and
his son Johanan had taken the daughter
of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19 Also they reported his good deeds
before me, and uttered my words to him.
[And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in
fear.

CHAPTER 7
1 Now it came to pass, when the wall
was built, and I had set up the doors,
and the porters and the singers and the
Levites were appointed,
2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and
Hananiah the ruler of the palace,
charge over Jerusalem: for he [was] a
faithful man, and feared God above
many.
3 And I said unto them, Let not the
gates of Jerusalem be opened until the
sun be hot; and while they stand by,
let them shut the doors, and bar
[them]: and appoint watches of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in
his watch, and every one [to be] over
against his house.
4 Now the city [was] large and great:
but the people [were] few therein, and
the houses [were] not builded.
5 # And my God put into mine heart to
gather together the nobles, and the
rulers, and the people, that they might
be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a
register of the genealogy of them which
came up at the first, and found written
therein,
6 These [are] the children of the
province, that went up out of the
captivity, of those that had been
carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon had carried away, and
came again to Jerusalem and to Judah,
every one unto his city;
7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua,
Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani,
Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai,
Nehum, Baanah. The number, [I say], of
the men of the people of Israel [was
this];
8 The children of Parosh, two thousand
an hundred seventy and two.
9 The children of Shephatiah, three
hundred seventy and two.
10 The children of Arah, six hundred
fifty and two.
11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the
children of Jeshua and Joab, two
thousand and eight hundred [and]
eighteen.
12 The children of Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.
13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred
forty and five.
14 The children of Zaccai, seven
hundred and threescore.
15 The children of Binnui, six hundred
forty and eight.
16 The children of Bebai, six hundred
twenty and eight.
17 The children of Azgad, two thousand
three hundred twenty and two.
18 The children of Adonikam, six
hundred threescore and seven.
19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand
threescore and seven.
20 The children of Adin, six hundred
fifty and five.
21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah,
ninety and eight.
22 The children of Hashum, three
hundred twenty and eight.
23 The children of Bezai, three hundred
twenty and four.
24 The children of Hariph, an hundred
and twelve.
25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and
five.
26 The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah,
an hundred fourscore and eight.
27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred
twenty and eight.
28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and
two.
29 The men of Kirjath-jearim,
Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred
forty and three.
30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six
hundred twenty and one.
31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and
twenty and two.
32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, an
hundred twenty and three.
33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and
two.
34 The children of the other Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty and four.
35 The children of Harim, three hundred
and twenty.
36 The children of Jericho, three
hundred forty and five.
37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono,
seven hundred twenty and one.
38 The children of Senaah, three
thousand nine hundred and thirty.
39 # The priests: the children of
Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine
hundred seventy and three.
40 The children of Immer, a thousand
fifty and two.
41 The children of Pashur, a thousand
two hundred forty and seven.
42 The children of Harim, a thousand
and seventeen.
43 # The Levites: the children of
Jeshua, of Kadmiel, [and] of the
children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
44 # The singers: the children of
Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
45 # The porters: the children of
Shallum, the children of Ater, the
children of Talmon, the children of
Akkub, the children of Hatita, the
children of Shobai, an hundred thirty
and eight.
46 # The Nethinims: the children of
Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the
children of Tabbaoth,
47 The children of Keros, the children
of Sia, the children of Padon,
48 The children of Lebana, the children
of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
49 The children of Hanan, the children
of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
50 The children of Reaiah, the children
of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
51 The children of Gazzam, the children
of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
52 The children of Besai, the children
of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,
53 The children of Bakbuk, the children
of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
54 The children of Bazlith, the
children of Mehida, the children of
Harsha,
55 The children of Barkos, the children
of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
56 The children of Neziah, the children
of Hatipha.
57 The children of Solomon's servants:
the children of Sotai, the children of
Sophereth, the children of Perida,
58 The children of Jaala, the children
of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
59 The children of Shephatiah, the
children of Hattil, the children of
Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of
Amon.
60 All the Nethinims, and the children
of Solomon's servants, [were] three
hundred ninety and two.
61 And these [were] they which went up
[also] from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha,
Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they
could not shew their father's house,
nor their seed, whether they [were] of
Israel.
62 The children of Delaiah, the
children of Tobiah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
63 # And of the priests: the children
of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the
children of Barzillai, which took [one]
of the daughters of Barzillai the
Gileadite to wife, and was called after
their name.
64 These sought their register [among]
those that were reckoned by genealogy,
but it was not found: therefore were
they, as polluted, put from the
priesthood.
65 And the Tirshatha said unto them,
that they should not eat of the most
holy things, till there stood [up] a
priest with Urim and Thummim.
66 # The whole congregation together
[was] forty and two thousand three
hundred and threescore,
67 Beside their manservants and their
maidservants, of whom [there were]
seven thousand three hundred thirty and
seven: and they had two hundred forty
and five singing men and singing women.
68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty
and six: their mules, two hundred forty
and five:
69 [Their] camels, four hundred thirty
and five: six thousand seven hundred
and twenty asses.
70 # And some of the chief of the
fathers gave unto the work. The
Tirshatha gave to the treasure a
thousand drams of gold, fifty basons,
five hundred and thirty priests'
garments.
71 And [some] of the chief of the
fathers gave to the treasure of the
work twenty thousand drams of gold, and
two thousand and two hundred pound of
silver.
72 And [that] which the rest of the
people gave [was] twenty thousand drams
of gold, and two thousand pound of
silver, and threescore and seven
priests' garments.
73 So the priests, and the Levites, and
the porters, and the singers, and
[some] of the people, and the
Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in
their cities; and when the seventh
month came, the children of Israel
[were] in their cities.

CHAPTER 8
1 And all the people gathered
themselves together as one man into the
street that [was] before the water
gate; and they spake unto Ezra the
scribe to bring the book of the law of
Moses, which the LORD had commanded to
Israel.
2 And Ezra the priest brought the law
before the congregation both of men and
women, and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the first day of
the seventh month.
3 And he read therein before the street
that [was] before the water gate from
the morning until midday, before the
men and the women, and those that could
understand; and the ears of all the
people [were attentive] unto the book
of the law.
4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a
pulpit of wood, which they had made for
the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and
Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on
his right hand; and on his left hand,
Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and
Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah,
[and] Meshullam.
5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight
of all the people; (for he was above
all the people;) and when he opened it,
all the people stood up:
6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great
God. And all the people answered, Amen,
Amen, with lifting up their hands: and
they bowed their heads, and worshipped
the LORD with [their] faces to the
ground.
7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah,
Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah,
Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused
the people to understand the law: and
the people [stood] in their place.
8 So they read in the book in the law
of God distinctly, and gave the sense,
and caused [them] to understand the
reading.
9 # And Nehemiah, which [is] the
Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
scribe, and the Levites that taught the
people, said unto all the people, This
day [is] holy unto the LORD your God;
mourn not, nor weep. For all the people
wept, when they heard the words of the
law.
10 Then he said unto them, Go your way,
eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and
send portions unto them for whom
nothing is prepared: for [this] day
[is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye
sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your
strength.
11 So the Levites stilled all the
people, saying, Hold your peace, for
the day [is] holy; neither be ye
grieved.
12 And all the people went their way to
eat, and to drink, and to send
portions, and to make great mirth,
because they had understood the words
that were declared unto them.
13 # And on the second day were
gathered together the chief of the
fathers of all the people, the priests,
and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe,
even to understand the words of the
law.
14 And they found written in the law
which the LORD had commanded by Moses,
that the children of Israel should
dwell in booths in the feast of the
seventh month:
15 And that they should publish and
proclaim in all their cities, and in
Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the
mount, and fetch olive branches, and
pine branches, and myrtle branches, and
palm branches, and branches of thick
trees, to make booths, as [it is]
written.
16 # So the people went forth, and
brought [them], and made themselves
booths, every one upon the roof of his
house, and in their courts, and in the
courts of the house of God, and in the
street of the water gate, and in the
street of the gate of Ephraim.
17 And all the congregation of them
that were come again out of the
captivity made booths, and sat under
the booths: for since the days of
Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had
not the children of Israel done so. And
there was very great gladness.
18 Also day by day, from the first day
unto the last day, he read in the book
of the law of God. And they kept the
feast seven days; and on the eighth day
[was] a solemn assembly, according unto
the manner.

CHAPTER 9
1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of
this month the children of Israel were
assembled with fasting, and with
sackclothes, and earth upon them.
2 And the seed of Israel separated
themselves from all strangers, and
stood and confessed their sins, and the
iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they stood up in their place, and
read in the book of the law of the LORD
their God [one] fourth part of the day;
and [another] fourth part they
confessed, and worshipped the LORD
their God.
4 # Then stood up upon the stairs, of
the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel,
Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani,
[and] Chenani, and cried with a loud
voice unto the LORD their God.
5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and
Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah,
Hodijah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah,
said, Stand up [and] bless the LORD
your God for ever and ever: and blessed
be thy glorious name, which is exalted
above all blessing and praise.
6 Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone;
thou hast made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their host, the
earth, and all [things] that [are]
therein, the seas, and all that [is]
therein, and thou preservest them all;
and the host of heaven worshippeth
thee.
7 Thou [art] the LORD the God, who
didst choose Abram, and broughtest him
forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and
gavest him the name of Abraham;
8 And foundest his heart faithful
before thee, and madest a covenant with
him to give the land of the Canaanites,
the Hittites, the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the
Girgashites, to give [it, I say], to
his seed, and hast performed thy words;
for thou [art] righteous:
9 And didst see the affliction of our
fathers in Egypt, and heardest their
cry by the Red sea;
10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon
Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and
on all the people of his land: for thou
knewest that they dealt proudly against
them. So didst thou get thee a name, as
[it is] this day.
11 And thou didst divide the sea before
them, so that they went through the
midst of the sea on the dry land; and
their persecutors thou threwest into
the deeps, as a stone into the mighty
waters.
12 Moreover thou leddest them in the
day by a cloudy pillar; and in the
night by a pillar of fire, to give them
light in the way wherein they should
go.
13 Thou camest down also upon mount
Sinai, and spakest with them from
heaven, and gavest them right
judgments, and true laws, good statutes
and commandments:
14 And madest known unto them thy holy
sabbath, and commandedst them precepts,
statutes, and laws, by the hand of
Moses thy servant:
15 And gavest them bread from heaven
for their hunger, and broughtest forth
water for them out of the rock for
their thirst, and promisedst them that
they should go in to possess the land
which thou hadst sworn to give them.
16 But they and our fathers dealt
proudly, and hardened their necks, and
hearkened not to thy commandments,
17 And refused to obey, neither were
mindful of thy wonders that thou didst
among them; but hardened their necks,
and in their rebellion appointed a
captain to return to their bondage: but
thou [art] a God ready to pardon,
gracious and merciful, slow to anger,
and of great kindness, and forsookest
them not.
18 Yea, when they had made them a
molten calf, and said, This [is] thy
God that brought thee up out of Egypt,
and had wrought great provocations;
19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies
forsookest them not in the wilderness:
the pillar of the cloud departed not
from them by day, to lead them in the
way; neither the pillar of fire by
night, to shew them light, and the way
wherein they should go.
20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to
instruct them, and withheldest not thy
manna from their mouth, and gavest them
water for their thirst.
21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain
them in the wilderness, [so that] they
lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not
old, and their feet swelled not.
22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms
and nations, and didst divide them into
corners: so they possessed the land of
Sihon, and the land of the king of
Heshbon, and the land of Og king of
Bashan.
23 Their children also multipliedst
thou as the stars of heaven, and
broughtest them into the land,
concerning which thou hadst promised to
their fathers, that they should go in
to possess [it].
24 So the children went in and
possessed the land, and thou subduedst
before them the inhabitants of the
land, the Canaanites, and gavest them
into their hands, with their kings, and
the people of the land, that they might
do with them as they would.
25 And they took strong cities, and a
fat land, and possessed houses full of
all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and
oliveyards, and fruit trees in
abundance: so they did eat, and were
filled, and became fat, and delighted
themselves in thy great goodness.
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient,
and rebelled against thee, and cast thy
law behind their backs, and slew thy
prophets which testified against them
to turn them to thee, and they wrought
great provocations.
27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into
the hand of their enemies, who vexed
them: and in the time of their trouble,
when they cried unto thee, thou
heardest [them] from heaven; and
according to thy manifold mercies thou
gavest them saviours, who saved them
out of the hand of their enemies.
28 But after they had rest, they did
evil again before thee: therefore
leftest thou them in the hand of their
enemies, so that they had the dominion
over them: yet when they returned, and
cried unto thee, thou heardest [them]
from heaven; and many times didst thou
deliver them according to thy mercies;
29 And testifiedst against them, that
thou mightest bring them again unto thy
law: yet they dealt proudly, and
hearkened not unto thy commandments,
but sinned against thy judgments,
(which if a man do, he shall live in
them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and
hardened their neck, and would not
hear.
30 Yet many years didst thou forbear
them, and testifiedst against them by
thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would
they not give ear: therefore gavest
thou them into the hand of the people
of the lands.
31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies'
sake thou didst not utterly consume
them, nor forsake them; for thou [art]
a gracious and merciful God.
32 Now therefore, our God, the great,
the mighty, and the terrible God, who
keepest covenant and mercy, let not all
the trouble seem little before thee,
that hath come upon us, on our kings,
on our princes, and on our priests, and
on our prophets, and on our fathers,
and on all thy people, since the time
of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
33 Howbeit thou [art] just in all that
is brought upon us; for thou hast done
right, but we have done wickedly:
34 Neither have our kings, our princes,
our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy
law, nor hearkened unto thy
commandments and thy testimonies,
wherewith thou didst testify against
them.
35 For they have not served thee in
their kingdom, and in thy great
goodness that thou gavest them, and in
the large and fat land which thou
gavest before them, neither turned they
from their wicked works.
36 Behold, we [are] servants this day,
and [for] the land that thou gavest
unto our fathers to eat the fruit
thereof and the good thereof, behold,
we [are] servants in it:
37 And it yieldeth much increase unto
the kings whom thou hast set over us
because of our sins: also they have
dominion over our bodies, and over our
cattle, at their pleasure, and we [are]
in great distress.
38 And because of all this we make a
sure [covenant], and write [it]; and
our princes, Levites, [and] priests,
seal [unto it].

CHAPTER 10
1 Now those that sealed [were],
Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of
Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,
4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these
[were] the priests.
9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son
of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of
Henadad, Kadmiel;
10 And their brethren, Shebaniah,
Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
14 The chief of the people; Parosh,
Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,
15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
28 # And the rest of the people, the
priests, the Levites, the porters, the
singers, the Nethinims, and all they
that had separated themselves from the
people of the lands unto the law of
God, their wives, their sons, and their
daughters, every one having knowledge,
and having understanding;
29 They clave to their brethren, their
nobles, and entered into a curse, and
into an oath, to walk in God's law,
which was given by Moses the servant of
God, and to observe and do all the
commandments of the LORD our Lord, and
his judgments and his statutes;
30 And that we would not give our
daughters unto the people of the land,
nor take their daughters for our sons:
31 And [if] the people of the land
bring ware or any victuals on the
sabbath day to sell, [that] we would
not buy it of them on the sabbath, or
on the holy day: and [that] we would
leave the seventh year, and the
exaction of every debt.
32 Also we made ordinances for us, to
charge ourselves yearly with the third
part of a shekel for the service of the
house of our God;
33 For the shewbread, and for the
continual meat offering, and for the
continual burnt offering, of the
sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set
feasts, and for the holy [things], and
for the sin offerings to make an
atonement for Israel, and [for] all the
work of the house of our God.
34 And we cast the lots among the
priests, the Levites, and the people,
for the wood offering, to bring [it]
into the house of our God, after the
houses of our fathers, at times
appointed year by year, to burn upon
the altar of the LORD our God, as [it
is] written in the law:
35 And to bring the firstfruits of our
ground, and the firstfruits of all
fruit of all trees, year by year, unto
the house of the LORD:
36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and
of our cattle, as [it is] written in
the law, and the firstlings of our
herds and of our flocks, to bring to
the house of our God, unto the priests
that minister in the house of our God:
37 And [that] we should bring the
firstfruits of our dough, and our
offerings, and the fruit of all manner
of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the
priests, to the chambers of the house
of our God; and the tithes of our
ground unto the Levites, that the same
Levites might have the tithes in all
the cities of our tillage.
38 And the priest the son of Aaron
shall be with the Levites, when the
Levites take tithes: and the Levites
shall bring up the tithe of the tithes
unto the house of our God, to the
chambers, into the treasure house.
39 For the children of Israel and the
children of Levi shall bring the
offering of the corn, of the new wine,
and the oil, unto the chambers, where
[are] the vessels of the sanctuary, and
the priests that minister, and the
porters, and the singers: and we will
not forsake the house of our God.

CHAPTER 11
1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at
Jerusalem: the rest of the people also
cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell
in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine
parts [to dwell] in [other] cities.
2 And the people blessed all the men,
that willingly offered themselves to
dwell at Jerusalem.
3 # Now these [are] the chief of the
province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but
in the cities of Judah dwelt every one
in his possession in their cities, [to
wit], Israel, the priests, and the
Levites, and the Nethinims, and the
children of Solomon's servants.
4 And at Jerusalem dwelt [certain] of
the children of Judah, and of the
children of Benjamin. Of the children
of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah,
the son of Zechariah, the son of
Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son
of Mahalaleel, of the children of
Perez;
5 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the
son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah,
the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib,
the son of Zechariah, the son of
Shiloni.
6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at
Jerusalem [were] four hundred
threescore and eight valiant men.
7 And these [are] the sons of Benjamin;
Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of
Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of
Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son
of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.
8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine
hundred twenty and eight.
9 And Joel the son of Zichri [was]
their overseer: and Judah the son of
Senuah [was] second over the city.
10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of
Joiarib, Jachin.
11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son
of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son
of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, [was]
the ruler of the house of God.
12 And their brethren that did the work
of the house [were] eight hundred
twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of
Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son
of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son
of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,
13 And his brethren, chief of the
fathers, two hundred forty and two: and
Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of
Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the
son of Immer,
14 And their brethren, mighty men of
valour, an hundred twenty and eight:
and their overseer [was] Zabdiel, the
son of [one of] the great men.
15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the
son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the
son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the
chief of the Levites, [had] the
oversight of the outward business of
the house of God.
17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the
son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, [was]
the principal to begin the thanksgiving
in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second
among his brethren, and Abda the son of
Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of
Jeduthun.
18 All the Levites in the holy city
[were] two hundred fourscore and four.
19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon,
and their brethren that kept the gates,
[were] an hundred seventy and two.
20 # And the residue of Israel, of the
priests, [and] the Levites, [were] in
all the cities of Judah, every one in
his inheritance.
21 But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel:
and Ziha and Gispa [were] over the
Nethinims.
22 The overseer also of the Levites at
Jerusalem [was] Uzzi the son of Bani,
the son of Hashabiah, the son of
Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the
sons of Asaph, the singers [were] over
the business of the house of God.
23 For [it was] the king's commandment
concerning them, that a certain portion
should be for the singers, due for
every day.
24 And Pethahiah the son of
Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah
the son of Judah, [was] at the king's
hand in all matters concerning the
people.
25 And for the villages, with their
fields, [some] of the children of Judah
dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and [in] the
villages thereof, and at Dibon, and
[in] the villages thereof, and at
Jekabzeel, and [in] the villages
thereof,
26 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and
at Beth-phelet,
27 And at Hazar-shual, and at
Beer-sheba, and [in] the villages
thereof,
28 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and
in the villages thereof,
29 And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and
at Jarmuth,
30 Zanoah, Adullam, and [in] their
villages, at Lachish, and the fields
thereof, at Azekah, and [in] the
villages thereof. And they dwelt from
Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
31 The children also of Benjamin from
Geba [dwelt] at Michmash, and Aija, and
Beth-el, and [in] their villages,
32 [And] at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of
craftsmen.
36 And of the Levites [were] divisions
[in] Judah, [and] in Benjamin.

CHAPTER 12
1 Now these [are] the priests and the
Levites that went up with Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua:
Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These
[were] the chief of the priests and of
their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui,
Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and]
Mattaniah, [which was] over the
thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their
brethren, [were] over against them in
the watches.
10 # And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim
also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat
Joiada,
11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and
Jonathan begat Jaddua.
12 And in the days of Joiakim were
priests, the chief of the fathers: of
Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah,
Hananiah;
13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah,
Jehohanan;
14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah,
Joseph;
15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon,
Meshullam;
17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of
Moadiah, Piltai;
18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah,
Jehonathan;
19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of
Jedaiah, Uzzi;
20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah,
Nethaneel.
22 # The Levites in the days of
Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and
Jaddua, [were] recorded chief of the
fathers: also the priests, to the reign
of Darius the Persian.
23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the
fathers, [were] written in the book of
the chronicles, even until the days of
Johanan the son of Eliashib.
24 And the chief of the Levites:
Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the
son of Kadmiel, with their brethren
over against them, to praise [and] to
give thanks, according to the
commandment of David the man of God,
ward over against ward.
25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah,
Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, [were]
porters keeping the ward at the
thresholds of the gates.
26 These [were] in the days of Joiakim
the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak,
and in the days of Nehemiah the
governor, and of Ezra the priest, the
scribe.
27 # And at the dedication of the wall
of Jerusalem they sought the Levites
out of all their places, to bring them
to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication
with gladness, both with thanksgivings,
and with singing, [with] cymbals,
psalteries, and with harps.
28 And the sons of the singers gathered
themselves together, both out of the
plain country round about Jerusalem,
and from the villages of Netophathi;
29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and
out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth:
for the singers had builded them
villages round about Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites
purified themselves, and purified the
people, and the gates, and the wall.
31 Then I brought up the princes of
Judah upon the wall, and appointed two
great [companies of them that gave]
thanks, [whereof one] went on the right
hand upon the wall toward the dung
gate:
32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and
half of the princes of Judah,
33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah,
and Jeremiah,
35 And [certain] of the priests' sons
with trumpets; [namely], Zechariah the
son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah,
the son of Mattaniah, the son of
Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of
Asaph:
36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and
Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai,
Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the
musical instruments of David the man of
God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
37 And at the fountain gate, which was
over against them, they went up by the
stairs of the city of David, at the
going up of the wall, above the house
of David, even unto the water gate
eastward.
38 And the other [company of them that
gave] thanks went over against [them],
and I after them, and the half of the
people upon the wall, from beyond the
tower of the furnaces even unto the
broad wall;
39 And from above the gate of Ephraim,
and above the old gate, and above the
fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel,
and the tower of Meah, even unto the
sheep gate: and they stood still in the
prison gate.
40 So stood the two [companies of them
that gave] thanks in the house of God,
and I, and the half of the rulers with
me:
41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah,
Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai,
Zechariah, [and] Hananiah, with
trumpets;
42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and
Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and
Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the
singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah
[their] overseer.
43 Also that day they offered great
sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had
made them rejoice with great joy: the
wives also and the children rejoiced:
so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard
even afar off.
44 # And at that time were some
appointed over the chambers for the
treasures, for the offerings, for the
firstfruits, and for the tithes, to
gather into them out of the fields of
the cities the portions of the law for
the priests and Levites: for Judah
rejoiced for the priests and for the
Levites that waited.
45 And both the singers and the porters
kept the ward of their God, and the
ward of the purification, according to
the commandment of David, [and] of
Solomon his son.
46 For in the days of David and Asaph
of old [there were] chief of the
singers, and songs of praise and
thanksgiving unto God.
47 And all Israel in the days of
Zerubbabel, and in the days of
Nehemiah, gave the portions of the
singers and the porters, every day his
portion: and they sanctified [holy
things] unto the Levites; and the
Levites sanctified [them] unto the
children of Aaron.

CHAPTER 13
1 On that day they read in the book of
Moses in the audience of the people;
and therein was found written, that the
Ammonite and the Moabite should not
come into the congregation of God for
ever;
2 Because they met not the children of
Israel with bread and with water, but
hired Balaam against them, that he
should curse them: howbeit our God
turned the curse into a blessing.
3 Now it came to pass, when they had
heard the law, that they separated from
Israel all the mixed multitude.
4 # And before this, Eliashib the
priest, having the oversight of the
chamber of the house of our God, [was]
allied unto Tobiah:
5 And he had prepared for him a great
chamber, where aforetime they laid the
meat offerings, the frankincense, and
the vessels, and the tithes of the
corn, the new wine, and the oil, which
was commanded [to be given] to the
Levites, and the singers, and the
porters; and the offerings of the
priests.
6 But in all this [time] was not I at
Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth
year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came
I unto the king, and after certain days
obtained I leave of the king:
7 And I came to Jerusalem, and
understood of the evil that Eliashib
did for Tobiah, in preparing him a
chamber in the courts of the house of
God.
8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I
cast forth all the household stuff of
Tobiah out of the chamber.
9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed
the chambers: and thither brought I
again the vessels of the house of God,
with the meat offering and the
frankincense.
10 # And I perceived that the portions
of the Levites had not been given
[them]: for the Levites and the
singers, that did the work, were fled
every one to his field.
11 Then contended I with the rulers,
and said, Why is the house of God
forsaken? And I gathered them together,
and set them in their place.
12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of
the corn and the new wine and the oil
unto the treasuries.
13 And I made treasurers over the
treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and
Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites,
Pedaiah: and next to them [was] Hanan
the son of Zaccur, the son of
Mattaniah: for they were counted
faithful, and their office [was] to
distribute unto their brethren.
14 Remember me, O my God, concerning
this, and wipe not out my good deeds
that I have done for the house of my
God, and for the offices thereof.
15 # In those days saw I in Judah
[some] treading wine presses on the
sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and
lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and
figs, and all [manner of] burdens,
which they brought into Jerusalem on
the sabbath day: and I testified
[against them] in the day wherein they
sold victuals.
16 There dwelt men of Tyre also
therein, which brought fish, and all
manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath
unto the children of Judah, and in
Jerusalem.
17 Then I contended with the nobles of
Judah, and said unto them, What evil
thing [is] this that ye do, and profane
the sabbath day?
18 Did not your fathers thus, and did
not our God bring all this evil upon
us, and upon this city? yet ye bring
more wrath upon Israel by profaning the
sabbath.
19 And it came to pass, that when the
gates of Jerusalem began to be dark
before the sabbath, I commanded that
the gates should be shut, and charged
that they should not be opened till
after the sabbath: and [some] of my
servants set I at the gates, [that]
there should no burden be brought in on
the sabbath day.
20 So the merchants and sellers of all
kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem
once or twice.
21 Then I testified against them, and
said unto them, Why lodge ye about the
wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay
hands on you. From that time forth came
they no [more] on the sabbath.
22 And I commanded the Levites that
they should cleanse themselves, and
[that] they should come [and] keep the
gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.
Remember me, O my God, [concerning]
this also, and spare me according to
the greatness of thy mercy.
23 # In those days also saw I Jews
[that] had married wives of Ashdod, of
Ammon, [and] of Moab:
24 And their children spake half in the
speech of Ashdod, and could not speak
in the Jews' language, but according to
the language of each people.
25 And I contended with them, and
cursed them, and smote certain of them,
and plucked off their hair, and made
them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall
not give your daughters unto their
sons, nor take their daughters unto
your sons, or for yourselves.
26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin
by these things? yet among many nations
was there no king like him, who was
beloved of his God, and God made him
king over all Israel: nevertheless even
him did outlandish women cause to sin.
27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do
all this great evil, to transgress
against our God in marrying strange
wives?
28 And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the
son of Eliashib the high priest, [was]
son in law to Sanballat the Horonite:
therefore I chased him from me.
29 Remember them, O my God, because
they have defiled the priesthood, and
the covenant of the priesthood, and of
the Levites.
30 Thus cleansed I them from all
strangers, and appointed the wards of
the priests and the Levites, every one
in his business;
31 And for the wood offering, at times
appointed, and for the firstfruits.
Remember me, O my God, for good.

THE BOOK OF ESTHER

CHAPTER 1
1 Now it came to pass in the days of
Ahasuerus, (this [is] Ahasuerus which
reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia,
[over] an hundred and seven and twenty
provinces:)
2 [That] in those days, when the king
Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his
kingdom, which [was] in Shushan the
palace,
3 In the third year of his reign, he
made a feast unto all his princes and
his servants; the power of Persia and
Media, the nobles and princes of the
provinces, [being] before him:
4 When he shewed the riches of his
glorious kingdom and the honour of his
excellent majesty many days, [even] an
hundred and fourscore days.
5 And when these days were expired, the
king made a feast unto all the people
that were present in Shushan the
palace, both unto great and small,
seven days, in the court of the garden
of the king's palace;
6 [Where were] white, green, and blue,
[hangings], fastened with cords of fine
linen and purple to silver rings and
pillars of marble: the beds [were of]
gold and silver, upon a pavement of
red, and blue, and white, and black,
marble.
7 And they gave [them] drink in vessels
of gold, (the vessels being diverse one
from another,) and royal wine in
abundance, according to the state of
the king.
8 And the drinking [was] according to
the law; none did compel: for so the
king had appointed to all the officers
of his house, that they should do
according to every man's pleasure.
9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast
for the women [in] the royal house
which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus.
10 # On the seventh day, when the heart
of the king was merry with wine, he
commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona,
Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and
Carcas, the seven chamberlains that
served in the presence of Ahasuerus the
king,
11 To bring Vashti the queen before the
king with the crown royal, to shew the
people and the princes her beauty: for
she [was] fair to look on.
12 But the queen Vashti refused to come
at the king's commandment by [his]
chamberlains: therefore was the king
very wroth, and his anger burned in
him.
13 # Then the king said to the wise
men, which knew the times, (for so
[was] the king's manner toward all that
knew law and judgment:
14 And the next unto him [was]
Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish,
Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the
seven princes of Persia and Media,
which saw the king's face, [and] which
sat the first in the kingdom;)
15 What shall we do unto the queen
Vashti according to law, because she
hath not performed the commandment of
the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
16 And Memucan answered before the king
and the princes, Vashti the queen hath
not done wrong to the king only, but
also to all the princes, and to all the
people that [are] in all the provinces
of the king Ahasuerus.
17 For [this] deed of the queen shall
come abroad unto all women, so that
they shall despise their husbands in
their eyes, when it shall be reported,
The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the
queen to be brought in before him, but
she came not.
18 [Likewise] shall the ladies of
Persia and Media say this day unto all
the king's princes, which have heard of
the deed of the queen. Thus [shall
there arise] too much contempt and
wrath.
19 If it please the king, let there go
a royal commandment from him, and let
it be written among the laws of the
Persians and the Medes, that it be not
altered, That Vashti come no more
before king Ahasuerus; and let the king
give her royal estate unto another that
is better than she.
20 And when the king's decree which he
shall make shall be published
throughout all his empire, (for it is
great,) all the wives shall give to
their husbands honour, both to great
and small.
21 And the saying pleased the king and
the princes; and the king did according
to the word of Memucan:
22 For he sent letters into all the
king's provinces, into every province
according to the writing thereof, and
to every people after their language,
that every man should bear rule in his
own house, and that [it] should be
published according to the language of
every people.

CHAPTER 2
1 After these things, when the wrath of
king Ahasuerus was appeased, he
remembered Vashti, and what she had
done, and what was decreed against her.
2 Then said the king's servants that
ministered unto him, Let there be fair
young virgins sought for the king:
3 And let the king appoint officers in
all the provinces of his kingdom, that
they may gather together all the fair
young virgins unto Shushan the palace,
to the house of the women, unto the
custody of Hege the king's chamberlain,
keeper of the women; and let their
things for purification be given
[them]:
4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the
king be queen instead of Vashti. And
the thing pleased the king; and he did
so.
5 # [Now] in Shushan the palace there
was a certain Jew, whose name [was]
Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of
Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
6 Who had been carried away from
Jerusalem with the captivity which had
been carried away with Jeconiah king of
Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon had carried away.
7 And he brought up Hadassah, that
[is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for
she had neither father nor mother, and
the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom
Mordecai, when her father and mother
were dead, took for his own daughter.
8 # So it came to pass, when the king's
commandment and his decree was heard,
and when many maidens were gathered
together unto Shushan the palace, to
the custody of Hegai, that Esther was
brought also unto the king's house, to
the custody of Hegai, keeper of the
women.
9 And the maiden pleased him, and she
obtained kindness of him; and he
speedily gave her her things for
purification, with such things as
belonged to her, and seven maidens,
[which were] meet to be given her, out
of the king's house: and he preferred
her and her maids unto the best [place]
of the house of the women.
10 Esther had not shewed her people nor
her kindred: for Mordecai had charged
her that she should not shew [it].
11 And Mordecai walked every day before
the court of the women's house, to know
how Esther did, and what should become
of her.
12 # Now when every maid's turn was
come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after
that she had been twelve months,
according to the manner of the women,
(for so were the days of their
purifications accomplished, [to wit],
six months with oil of myrrh, and six
months with sweet odours, and with
[other] things for the purifying of the
women;)
13 Then thus came [every] maiden unto
the king; whatsoever she desired was
given her to go with her out of the
house of the women unto the king's
house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the
morrow she returned into the second
house of the women, to the custody of
Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain,
which kept the concubines: she came in
unto the king no more, except the king
delighted in her, and that she were
called by name.
15 # Now when the turn of Esther, the
daughter of Abihail the uncle of
Mordecai, who had taken her for his
daughter, was come to go in unto the
king, she required nothing but what
Hegai the king's chamberlain, the
keeper of the women, appointed. And
Esther obtained favour in the sight of
all them that looked upon her.
16 So Esther was taken unto king
Ahasuerus into his house royal in the
tenth month, which [is] the month
Tebeth, in the seventh year of his
reign.
17 And the king loved Esther above all
the women, and she obtained grace and
favour in his sight more than all the
virgins; so that he set the royal crown
upon her head, and made her queen
instead of Vashti.
18 Then the king made a great feast
unto all his princes and his servants,
[even] Esther's feast; and he made a
release to the provinces, and gave
gifts, according to the state of the
king.
19 And when the virgins were gathered
together the second time, then Mordecai
sat in the king's gate.
20 Esther had not [yet] shewed her
kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had
charged her: for Esther did the
commandment of Mordecai, like as when
she was brought up with him.
21 # In those days, while Mordecai sat
in the king's gate, two of the king's
chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of
those which kept the door, were wroth,
and sought to lay hand on the king
Ahasuerus.
22 And the thing was known to Mordecai,
who told [it] unto Esther the queen;
and Esther certified the king [thereof]
in Mordecai's name.
23 And when inquisition was made of the
matter, it was found out; therefore
they were both hanged on a tree: and it
was written in the book of the
chronicles before the king.

CHAPTER 3
1 After these things did king Ahasuerus
promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the
Agagite, and advanced him, and set his
seat above all the princes that [were]
with him.
2 And all the king's servants, that
[were] in the king's gate, bowed, and
reverenced Haman: for the king had so
commanded concerning him. But Mordecai
bowed not, nor did [him] reverence.
3 Then the king's servants, which
[were] in the king's gate, said unto
Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the
king's commandment?
4 Now it came to pass, when they spake
daily unto him, and he hearkened not
unto them, that they told Haman, to see
whether Mordecai's matters would stand:
for he had told them that he [was] a
Jew.
5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai
bowed not, nor did him reverence, then
was Haman full of wrath.
6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on
Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him
the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman
sought to destroy all the Jews that
[were] throughout the whole kingdom of
Ahasuerus, [even] the people of
Mordecai.
7 # In the first month, that [is], the
month Nisan, in the twelfth year of
king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that
[is], the lot, before Haman from day to
day, and from month to month, [to] the
twelfth [month], that [is], the month
Adar.
8 # And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus,
There is a certain people scattered
abroad and dispersed among the people
in all the provinces of thy kingdom;
and their laws [are] diverse from all
people; neither keep they the king's
laws: therefore it [is] not for the
king's profit to suffer them.
9 If it please the king, let it be
written that they may be destroyed: and
I will pay ten thousand talents of
silver to the hands of those that have
the charge of the business, to bring
[it] into the king's treasuries.
10 And the king took his ring from his
hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews'
enemy.
11 And the king said unto Haman, The
silver [is] given to thee, the people
also, to do with them as it seemeth
good to thee.
12 Then were the king's scribes called
on the thirteenth day of the first
month, and there was written according
to all that Haman had commanded unto
the king's lieutenants, and to the
governors that [were] over every
province, and to the rulers of every
people of every province according to
the writing thereof, and [to] every
people after their language; in the
name of king Ahasuerus was it written,
and sealed with the king's ring.
13 And the letters were sent by posts
into all the king's provinces, to
destroy, to kill, and to cause to
perish, all Jews, both young and old,
little children and women, in one day,
[even] upon the thirteenth [day] of the
twelfth month, which is the month Adar,
and [to take] the spoil of them for a
prey.
14 The copy of the writing for a
commandment to be given in every
province was published unto all people,
that they should be ready against that
day.
15 The posts went out, being hastened
by the king's commandment, and the
decree was given in Shushan the palace.
And the king and Haman sat down to
drink; but the city Shushan was
perplexed.

CHAPTER 4
1 When Mordecai perceived all that was
done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and
put on sackcloth with ashes, and went
out into the midst of the city, and
cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 And came even before the king's gate:
for none [might] enter into the king's
gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 And in every province, whithersoever
the king's commandment and his decree
came, [there was] great mourning among
the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and
wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and
ashes.
4 # So Esther's maids and her
chamberlains came and told [it] her.
Then was the queen exceedingly grieved;
and she sent raiment to clothe
Mordecai, and to take away his
sackcloth from him: but he received
[it] not.
5 Then called Esther for Hatach, [one]
of the king's chamberlains, whom he had
appointed to attend upon her, and gave
him a commandment to Mordecai, to know
what it [was], and why it [was].
6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto
the street of the city, which [was]
before the king's gate.
7 And Mordecai told him of all that had
happened unto him, and of the sum of
the money that Haman had promised to
pay to the king's treasuries for the
Jews, to destroy them.
8 Also he gave him the copy of the
writing of the decree that was given at
Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it]
unto Esther, and to declare [it] unto
her, and to charge her that she should
go in unto the king, to make
supplication unto him, and to make
request before him for her people.
9 And Hatach came and told Esther the
words of Mordecai.
10 # Again Esther spake unto Hatach,
and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;
11 All the king's servants, and the
people of the king's provinces, do
know, that whosoever, whether man or
woman, shall come unto the king into
the inner court, who is not called,
[there is] one law of his to put [him]
to death, except such to whom the king
shall hold out the golden sceptre, that
he may live: but I have not been called
to come in unto the king these thirty
days.
12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's
words.
13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer
Esther, Think not with thyself that
thou shalt escape in the king's house,
more than all the Jews.
14 For if thou altogether holdest thy
peace at this time, [then] shall there
enlargement and deliverance arise to
the Jews from another place; but thou
and thy father's house shall be
destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou
art come to the kingdom for [such] a
time as this?
15 # Then Esther bade [them] return
Mordecai [this answer],
16 Go, gather together all the Jews
that are present in Shushan, and fast
ye for me, and neither eat nor drink
three days, night or day: I also and my
maidens will fast likewise; and so will
I go in unto the king, which [is] not
according to the law: and if I perish,
I perish.
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did
according to all that Esther had
commanded him.

CHAPTER 5
1 Now it came to pass on the third day,
that Esther put on [her] royal
[apparel], and stood in the inner court
of the king's house, over against the
king's house: and the king sat upon his
royal throne in the royal house, over
against the gate of the house.
2 And it was so, when the king saw
Esther the queen standing in the court,
[that] she obtained favour in his
sight: and the king held out to Esther
the golden sceptre that [was] in his
hand. So Esther drew near, and touched
the top of the sceptre.
3 Then said the king unto her, What
wilt thou, queen Esther? and what [is]
thy request? it shall be even given
thee to the half of the kingdom.
4 And Esther answered, If [it seem]
good unto the king, let the king and
Haman come this day unto the banquet
that I have prepared for him.
5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to
make haste, that he may do as Esther
hath said. So the king and Haman came
to the banquet that Esther had
prepared.
6 # And the king said unto Esther at
the banquet of wine, What [is] thy
petition? and it shall be granted thee:
and what [is] thy request? even to the
half of the kingdom it shall be
performed.
7 Then answered Esther, and said, My
petition and my request [is];
8 If I have found favour in the sight
of the king, and if it please the king
to grant my petition, and to perform my
request, let the king and Haman come to
the banquet that I shall prepare for
them, and I will do to morrow as the
king hath said.
9 # Then went Haman forth that day
joyful and with a glad heart: but when
Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate,
that he stood not up, nor moved for
him, he was full of indignation against
Mordecai.
10 Nevertheless Haman refrained
himself: and when he came home, he sent
and called for his friends, and Zeresh
his wife.
11 And Haman told them of the glory of
his riches, and the multitude of his
children, and all [the things] wherein
the king had promoted him, and how he
had advanced him above the princes and
servants of the king.
12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the
queen did let no man come in with the
king unto the banquet that she had
prepared but myself; and to morrow am I
invited unto her also with the king.
13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so
long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting
at the king's gate.
14 # Then said Zeresh his wife and all
his friends unto him, Let a gallows be
made of fifty cubits high, and to
morrow speak thou unto the king that
Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go
thou in merrily with the king unto the
banquet. And the thing pleased Haman;
and he caused the gallows to be made.

CHAPTER 6
1 On that night could not the king
sleep, and he commanded to bring the
book of records of the chronicles; and
they were read before the king.
2 And it was found written, that
Mordecai had told of Bigthana and
Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains,
the keepers of the door, who sought to
lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
3 And the king said, What honour and
dignity hath been done to Mordecai for
this? Then said the king's servants
that ministered unto him, There is
nothing done for him.
4 # And the king said, Who [is] in the
court? Now Haman was come into the
outward court of the king's house, to
speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on
the gallows that he had prepared for
him.
5 And the king's servants said unto
him, Behold, Haman standeth in the
court. And the king said, Let him come
in.
6 So Haman came in. And the king said
unto him, What shall be done unto the
man whom the king delighteth to honour?
Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom
would the king delight to do honour
more than to myself?
7 And Haman answered the king, For the
man whom the king delighteth to honour,
8 Let the royal apparel be brought
which the king [useth] to wear, and the
horse that the king rideth upon, and
the crown royal which is set upon his
head:
9 And let this apparel and horse be
delivered to the hand of one of the
king's most noble princes, that they
may array the man [withal] whom the
king delighteth to honour, and bring
him on horseback through the street of
the city, and proclaim before him, Thus
shall it be done to the man whom the
king delighteth to honour.
10 Then the king said to Haman, Make
haste, [and] take the apparel and the
horse, as thou hast said, and do even
so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at
the king's gate: let nothing fail of
all that thou hast spoken.
11 Then took Haman the apparel and the
horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and
brought him on horseback through the
street of the city, and proclaimed
before him, Thus shall it be done unto
the man whom the king delighteth to
honour.
12 # And Mordecai came again to the
king's gate. But Haman hasted to his
house mourning, and having his head
covered.
13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and
all his friends every [thing] that had
befallen him. Then said his wise men
and Zeresh his wife unto him, If
Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews,
before whom thou hast begun to fall,
thou shalt not prevail against him, but
shalt surely fall before him.
14 And while they [were] yet talking
with him, came the king's chamberlains,
and hasted to bring Haman unto the
banquet that Esther had prepared.

CHAPTER 7
1 So the king and Haman came to banquet
with Esther the queen.
2 And the king said again unto Esther
on the second day at the banquet of
wine, What [is] thy petition, queen
Esther? and it shall be granted thee:
and what [is] thy request? and it shall
be performed, [even] to the half of the
kingdom.
3 Then Esther the queen answered and
said, If I have found favour in thy
sight, O king, and if it please the
king, let my life be given me at my
petition, and my people at my request:
4 For we are sold, I and my people, to
be destroyed, to be slain, and to
perish. But if we had been sold for
bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my
tongue, although the enemy could not
countervail the king's damage.
5 # Then the king Ahasuerus answered
and said unto Esther the queen, Who is
he, and where is he, that durst presume
in his heart to do so?
6 And Esther said, The adversary and
enemy [is] this wicked Haman. Then
Haman was afraid before the king and
the queen.
7 # And the king arising from the
banquet of wine in his wrath [went]
into the palace garden: and Haman stood
up to make request for his life to
Esther the queen; for he saw that there
was evil determined against him by the
king.
8 Then the king returned out of the
palace garden into the place of the
banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen
upon the bed whereon Esther [was]. Then
said the king, Will he force the queen
also before me in the house? As the
word went out of the king's mouth, they
covered Haman's face.
9 And Harbonah, one of the
chamberlains, said before the king,
Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits
high, which Haman had made for
Mordecai, who had spoken good for the
king, standeth in the house of Haman.
Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows
that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then
was the king's wrath pacified.

CHAPTER 8
1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus
give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy
unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai
came before the king; for Esther had
told what he [was] unto her.
2 And the king took off his ring, which
he had taken from Haman, and gave it
unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai
over the house of Haman.
3 # And Esther spake yet again before
the king, and fell down at his feet,
and besought him with tears to put away
the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and
his device that he had devised against
the Jews.
4 Then the king held out the golden
sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose,
and stood before the king,
5 And said, If it please the king, and
if I have found favour in his sight,
and the thing [seem] right before the
king, and I [be] pleasing in his eyes,
let it be written to reverse the
letters devised by Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote
to destroy the Jews which [are] in all
the king's provinces:
6 For how can I endure to see the evil
that shall come unto my people? or how
can I endure to see the destruction of
my kindred?
7 # Then the king Ahasuerus said unto
Esther the queen and to Mordecai the
Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the
house of Haman, and him they have
hanged upon the gallows, because he
laid his hand upon the Jews.
8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it
liketh you, in the king's name, and
seal [it] with the king's ring: for the
writing which is written in the king's
name, and sealed with the king's ring,
may no man reverse.
9 Then were the king's scribes called
at that time in the third month, that
[is], the month Sivan, on the three and
twentieth [day] thereof; and it was
written according to all that Mordecai
commanded unto the Jews, and to the
lieutenants, and the deputies and
rulers of the provinces which [are]
from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred
twenty and seven provinces, unto every
province according to the writing
thereof, and unto every people after
their language, and to the Jews
according to their writing, and
according to their language.
10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus'
name, and sealed [it] with the king's
ring, and sent letters by posts on
horseback, [and] riders on mules,
camels, [and] young dromedaries:
11 Wherein the king granted the Jews
which [were] in every city to gather
themselves together, and to stand for
their life, to destroy, to slay, and to
cause to perish, all the power of the
people and province that would assault
them, [both] little ones and women, and
[to take] the spoil of them for a prey,
12 Upon one day in all the provinces of
king Ahasuerus, [namely], upon the
thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month,
which [is] the month Adar.
13 The copy of the writing for a
commandment to be given in every
province [was] published unto all
people, and that the Jews should be
ready against that day to avenge
themselves on their enemies.
14 [So] the posts that rode upon mules
[and] camels went out, being hastened
and pressed on by the king's
commandment. And the decree was given
at Shushan the palace.
15 # And Mordecai went out from the
presence of the king in royal apparel
of blue and white, and with a great
crown of gold, and with a garment of
fine linen and purple: and the city of
Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
16 The Jews had light, and gladness,
and joy, and honour.
17 And in every province, and in every
city, whithersoever the king's
commandment and his decree came, the
Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and
a good day. And many of the people of
the land became Jews; for the fear of
the Jews fell upon them.

CHAPTER 9
1 Now in the twelfth month, that [is],
the month Adar, on the thirteenth day
of the same, when the king's
commandment and his decree drew near to
be put in execution, in the day that
the enemies of the Jews hoped to have
power over them, (though it was turned
to the contrary, that the Jews had rule
over them that hated them;)
2 The Jews gathered themselves together
in their cities throughout all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay
hand on such as sought their hurt: and
no man could withstand them; for the
fear of them fell upon all people.
3 And all the rulers of the provinces,
and the lieutenants, and the deputies,
and officers of the king, helped the
Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell
upon them.
4 For Mordecai [was] great in the
king's house, and his fame went out
throughout all the provinces: for this
man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies
with the stroke of the sword, and
slaughter, and destruction, and did
what they would unto those that hated
them.
6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews
slew and destroyed five hundred men.
7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and
Aspatha,
8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and
Aridatha,
9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and
Aridai, and Vajezatha,
10 The ten sons of Haman the son of
Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew
they; but on the spoil laid they not
their hand.
11 On that day the number of those that
were slain in Shushan the palace was
brought before the king.
12 # And the king said unto Esther the
queen, The Jews have slain and
destroyed five hundred men in Shushan
the palace, and the ten sons of Haman;
what have they done in the rest of the
king's provinces? now what [is] thy
petition? and it shall be granted thee:
or what [is] thy request further? and
it shall be done.
13 Then said Esther, If it please the
king, let it be granted to the Jews
which [are] in Shushan to do to morrow
also according unto this day's decree,
and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon
the gallows.
14 And the king commanded it so to be
done: and the decree was given at
Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten
sons.
15 For the Jews that [were] in Shushan
gathered themselves together on the
fourteenth day also of the month Adar,
and slew three hundred men at Shushan;
but on the prey they laid not their
hand.
16 But the other Jews that [were] in
the king's provinces gathered
themselves together, and stood for
their lives, and had rest from their
enemies, and slew of their foes seventy
and five thousand, but they laid not
their hands on the prey,
17 On the thirteenth day of the month
Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the
same rested they, and made it a day of
feasting and gladness.
18 But the Jews that [were] at Shushan
assembled together on the thirteenth
[day] thereof, and on the fourteenth
thereof; and on the fifteenth [day] of
the same they rested, and made it a day
of feasting and gladness.
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages,
that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made
the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a
day of] gladness and feasting, and a
good day, and of sending portions one
to another.
20 # And Mordecai wrote these things,
and sent letters unto all the Jews that
[were] in all the provinces of the king
Ahasuerus, [both] nigh and far,
21 To stablish [this] among them, that
they should keep the fourteenth day of
the month Adar, and the fifteenth day
of the same, yearly,
22 As the days wherein the Jews rested
from their enemies, and the month which
was turned unto them from sorrow to
joy, and from mourning into a good day:
that they should make them days of
feasting and joy, and of sending
portions one to another, and gifts to
the poor.
23 And the Jews undertook to do as they
had begun, and as Mordecai had written
unto them;
24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha,
the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews,
had devised against the Jews to destroy
them, and had cast Pur, that [is], the
lot, to consume them, and to destroy
them;
25 But when [Esther] came before the
king, he commanded by letters that his
wicked device, which he devised against
the Jews, should return upon his own
head, and that he and his sons should
be hanged on the gallows.
26 Wherefore they called these days
Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore
for all the words of this letter, and
[of that] which they had seen
concerning this matter, and which had
come unto them,
27 The Jews ordained, and took upon
them, and upon their seed, and upon all
such as joined themselves unto them, so
as it should not fail, that they would
keep these two days according to their
writing, and according to their
[appointed] time every year;
28 And [that] these days [should be]
remembered and kept throughout every
generation, every family, every
province, and every city; and [that]
these days of Purim should not fail
from among the Jews, nor the memorial
of them perish from their seed.
29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter
of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote
with all authority, to confirm this
second letter of Purim.
30 And he sent the letters unto all the
Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven
provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
[with] words of peace and truth,
31 To confirm these days of Purim in
their times [appointed], according as
Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen
had enjoined them, and as they had
decreed for themselves and for their
seed, the matters of the fastings and
their cry.
32 And the decree of Esther confirmed
these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.

CHAPTER 10
1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute
upon the land, and [upon] the isles of
the sea.
2 And all the acts of his power and of
his might, and the declaration of the
greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the
king advanced him, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Media and Persia?
3 For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto
king Ahasuerus, and great among the
Jews, and accepted of the multitude of
his brethren, seeking the wealth of his
people, and speaking peace to all his
seed.

THE BOOK OF JOB

CHAPTER 1
1 There was a man in the land of Uz,
whose name [was] Job; and that man was
perfect and upright, and one that
feared God, and eschewed evil.
2 And there were born unto him seven
sons and three daughters.
3 His substance also was seven thousand
sheep, and three thousand camels, and
five hundred yoke of oxen, and five
hundred she asses, and a very great
household; so that this man was the
greatest of all the men of the east.
4 And his sons went and feasted [in
their] houses, every one his day; and
sent and called for their three sisters
to eat and to drink with them.
5 And it was so, when the days of
[their] feasting were gone about, that
Job sent and sanctified them, and rose
up early in the morning, and offered
burnt offerings [according] to the
number of them all: for Job said, It
may be that my sons have sinned, and
cursed God in their hearts. Thus did
Job continually.
6 # Now there was a day when the sons
of God came to present themselves
before the LORD, and Satan came also
among them.
7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence
comest thou? Then Satan answered the
LORD, and said, From going to and fro
in the earth, and from walking up and
down in it.
8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast
thou considered my servant Job, that
[there is] none like him in the earth,
a perfect and an upright man, one that
feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and
said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about
him, and about his house, and about all
that he hath on every side? thou hast
blessed the work of his hands, and his
substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and
touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to thy face.
12 And the LORD said unto Satan,
Behold, all that he hath [is] in thy
power; only upon himself put not forth
thine hand. So Satan went forth from
the presence of the LORD.
13 # And there was a day when his sons
and his daughters [were] eating and
drinking wine in their eldest brother's
house:
14 And there came a messenger unto Job,
and said, The oxen were plowing, and
the asses feeding beside them:
15 And the Sabeans fell [upon them],
and took them away; yea, they have
slain the servants with the edge of the
sword; and I only am escaped alone to
tell thee.
16 While he [was] yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, The fire
of God is fallen from heaven, and hath
burned up the sheep, and the servants,
and consumed them; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee.
17 While he [was] yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, The
Chaldeans made out three bands, and
fell upon the camels, and have carried
them away, yea, and slain the servants
with the edge of the sword; and I only
am escaped alone to tell thee.
18 While he [was] yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, Thy sons
and thy daughters [were] eating and
drinking wine in their eldest brother's
house:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind
from the wilderness, and smote the four
corners of the house, and it fell upon
the young men, and they are dead; and I
only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle,
and shaved his head, and fell down upon
the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my
mother's womb, and naked shall I return
thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD
hath taken away; blessed be the name of
the LORD.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor
charged God foolishly.

CHAPTER 2
1 Again there was a day when the sons
of God came to present themselves
before the LORD, and Satan came also
among them to present himself before
the LORD.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From
whence comest thou? And Satan answered
the LORD, and said, From going to and
fro in the earth, and from walking up
and down in it.
3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast
thou considered my servant Job, that
[there is] none like him in the earth,
a perfect and an upright man, one that
feareth God, and escheweth evil? and
still he holdeth fast his integrity,
although thou movedst me against him,
to destroy him without cause.
4 And Satan answered the LORD, and
said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a
man hath will he give for his life.
5 But put forth thine hand now, and
touch his bone and his flesh, and he
will curse thee to thy face.
6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold,
he [is] in thine hand; but save his
life.
7 # So went Satan forth from the
presence of the LORD, and smote Job
with sore boils from the sole of his
foot unto his crown.
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape
himself withal; and he sat down among
the ashes.
9 # Then said his wife unto him, Dost
thou still retain thine integrity?
curse God, and die.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest
as one of the foolish women speaketh.
What? shall we receive good at the hand
of God, and shall we not receive evil?
In all this did not Job sin with his
lips.
11 # Now when Job's three friends heard
of all this evil that was come upon
him, they came every one from his own
place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad
the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite:
for they had made an appointment
together to come to mourn with him and
to comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes
afar off, and knew him not, they lifted
up their voice, and wept; and they rent
every one his mantle, and sprinkled
dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 So they sat down with him upon the
ground seven days and seven nights, and
none spake a word unto him: for they
saw that [his] grief was very great.

CHAPTER 3
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and
cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was
born, and the night [in which] it was
said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God
regard it from above, neither let the
light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death
stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify
it.
6 As [for] that night, let darkness
seize upon it; let it not be joined
unto the days of the year, let it not
come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let
no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their
mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof
be dark; let it look for light, but
[have] none; neither let it see the
dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of
my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from
mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? [why]
did I [not] give up the ghost when I
came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why
the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and
been quiet, I should have slept: then
had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the
earth, which built desolate places for
themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who
filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had
not been; as infants [which] never saw
light.
17 There the wicked cease [from]
troubling; and there the weary be at
rest.
18 [There] the prisoners rest together;
they hear not the voice of the
oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and
the servant [is] free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that
is in misery, and life unto the bitter
[in] soul;
21 Which long for death, but it
[cometh] not; and dig for it more than
for hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are
glad, when they can find the grave?
23 [Why is light given] to a man whose
way is hid, and whom God hath hedged
in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
and my roarings are poured out like the
waters.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared
is come upon me, and that which I was
afraid of is come unto me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I
rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble
came.

CHAPTER 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered
and said,
2 [If] we assay to commune with thee,
wilt thou be grieved? but who can
withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many,
and thou hast strengthened the weak
hands.
4 Thy words have upholden him that was
falling, and thou hast strengthened the
feeble knees.
5 But now it is come upon thee, and
thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and
thou art troubled.
6 [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy
confidence, thy hope, and the
uprightness of thy ways?
7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever]
perished, being innocent? or where were
the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow
iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the
same.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and
by the breath of his nostrils are they
consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the
voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth
of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of
prey, and the stout lion's whelps are
scattered abroad.
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to
me, and mine ear received a little
thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the
night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not
discern the form thereof: an image
[was] before mine eyes, [there was]
silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
17 Shall mortal man be more just than
God? shall a man be more pure than his
maker?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his
servants; and his angels he charged
with folly:
19 How much less [in] them that dwell
in houses of clay, whose foundation
[is] in the dust, [which] are crushed
before the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to
evening: they perish for ever without
any regarding [it].
21 Doth not their excellency [which is]
in them go away? they die, even without
wisdom.

CHAPTER 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will
answer thee; and to which of the saints
wilt thou turn?
2 For wrath killeth the foolish man,
and envy slayeth the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root:
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and
they are crushed in the gate, neither
[is there] any to deliver [them].
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
and taketh it even out of the thorns,
and the robber swalloweth up their
substance.
6 Although affliction cometh not forth
of the dust, neither doth trouble
spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the
sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God
would I commit my cause:
9 Which doeth great things and
unsearchable; marvellous things without
number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and
sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low;
that those which mourn may be exalted
to safety.
12 He disappointeth the devices of the
crafty, so that their hands cannot
perform [their] enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness: and the counsel of the
froward is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the
daytime, and grope in the noonday as in
the night.
15 But he saveth the poor from the
sword, from their mouth, and from the
hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity
stoppeth her mouth.
17 Behold, happy [is] the man whom God
correcteth: therefore despise not thou
the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up:
he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver thee in six
troubles: yea, in seven there shall no
evil touch thee.
20 In famine he shall redeem thee from
death: and in war from the power of the
sword.
21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge
of the tongue: neither shalt thou be
afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 At destruction and famine thou shalt
laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of
the beasts of the earth.
23 For thou shalt be in league with the
stones of the field: and the beasts of
the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 And thou shalt know that thy
tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and
thou shalt visit thy habitation, and
shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed
[shall be] great, and thine offspring
as the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a
full age, like as a shock of corn
cometh in in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it
[is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for
thy good.

CHAPTER 6
1 But Job answered and said,
2 Oh that my grief were throughly
weighed, and my calamity laid in the
balances together!
3 For now it would be heavier than the
sand of the sea: therefore my words are
swallowed up.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are]
within me, the poison whereof drinketh
up my spirit: the terrors of God do set
themselves in array against me.
5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath
grass? or loweth the ox over his
fodder?
6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten
without salt? or is there [any] taste
in the white of an egg?
7 The things [that] my soul refused to
touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
8 Oh that I might have my request; and
that God would grant [me] the thing
that I long for!
9 Even that it would please God to
destroy me; that he would let loose his
hand, and cut me off!
10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea,
I would harden myself in sorrow: let
him not spare; for I have not concealed
the words of the Holy One.
11 What [is] my strength, that I should
hope? and what [is] mine end, that I
should prolong my life?
12 [Is] my strength the strength of
stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?
13 [Is] not my help in me? and is
wisdom driven quite from me?
14 To him that is afflicted pity
[should be shewed] from his friend; but
he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully
as a brook, [and] as the stream of
brooks they pass away;
16 Which are blackish by reason of the
ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:
17 What time they wax warm, they
vanish: when it is hot, they are
consumed out of their place.
18 The paths of their way are turned
aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19 The troops of Tema looked, the
companies of Sheba waited for them.
20 They were confounded because they
had hoped; they came thither, and were
ashamed.
21 For now ye are nothing; ye see [my]
casting down, and are afraid.
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a
reward for me of your substance?
23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's
hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of
the mighty?
24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue:
and cause me to understand wherein I
have erred.
25 How forcible are right words! but
what doth your arguing reprove?
26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and
the speeches of one that is desperate,
[which are] as wind?
27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,
and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon
me; for [it is] evident unto you if I
lie.
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be
iniquity; yea, return again, my
righteousness [is] in it.
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue?
cannot my taste discern perverse
things?

CHAPTER 7
1 [Is there] not an appointed time to
man upon earth? [are not] his days also
like the days of an hireling?
2 As a servant earnestly desireth the
shadow, and as an hireling looketh for
[the reward of] his work:
3 So am I made to possess months of
vanity, and wearisome nights are
appointed to me.
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I
arise, and the night be gone? and I am
full of tossings to and fro unto the
dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and
clods of dust; my skin is broken, and
become loathsome.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's
shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 O remember that my life [is] wind:
mine eye shall no more see good.
8 The eye of him that hath seen me
shall see me no [more]: thine eyes
[are] upon me, and I [am] not.
9 [As] the cloud is consumed and
vanisheth away: so he that goeth down
to the grave shall come up no [more].
10 He shall return no more to his
house, neither shall his place know him
any more.
11 Therefore I will not refrain my
mouth; I will speak in the anguish of
my spirit; I will complain in the
bitterness of my soul.
12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou
settest a watch over me?
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me,
my couch shall ease my complaint;
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams,
and terrifiest me through visions:
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling,
[and] death rather than my life.
16 I loathe [it]; I would not live
alway: let me alone; for my days [are]
vanity.
17 What [is] man, that thou shouldest
magnify him? and that thou shouldest
set thine heart upon him?
18 And [that] thou shouldest visit him
every morning, [and] try him every
moment?
19 How long wilt thou not depart from
me, nor let me alone till I swallow
down my spittle?
20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto
thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast
thou set me as a mark against thee, so
that I am a burden to myself?
21 And why dost thou not pardon my
transgression, and take away mine
iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the
dust; and thou shalt seek me in the
morning, but I [shall] not [be].

CHAPTER 8
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said,
2 How long wilt thou speak these
[things]? and [how long shall] the
words of thy mouth [be like] a strong
wind?
3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth
the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If thy children have sinned against
him, and he have cast them away for
their transgression;
5 If thou wouldest seek unto God
betimes, and make thy supplication to
the Almighty;
6 If thou [wert] pure and upright;
surely now he would awake for thee, and
make the habitation of thy
righteousness prosperous.
7 Though thy beginning was small, yet
thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the
former age, and prepare thyself to the
search of their fathers:
9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and
know nothing, because our days upon
earth [are] a shadow:)
10 Shall not they teach thee, [and]
tell thee, and utter words out of their
heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire?
can the flag grow without water?
12 Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness,
[and] not cut down, it withereth before
any [other] herb.
13 So [are] the paths of all that
forget God; and the hypocrite's hope
shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and
whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it
shall not stand: he shall hold it fast,
but it shall not endure.
16 He [is] green before the sun, and
his branch shooteth forth in his
garden.
17 His roots are wrapped about the
heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
18 If he destroy him from his place,
then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I
have not seen thee.
19 Behold, this [is] the joy of his
way, and out of the earth shall others
grow.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a
perfect [man], neither will he help the
evil doers:
21 Till he fill thy mouth with
laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed
with shame; and the dwelling place of
the wicked shall come to nought.

CHAPTER 9
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I know [it is] so of a truth: but how
should man be just with God?
3 If he will contend with him, he
cannot answer him one of a thousand.
4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in
strength: who hath hardened [himself]
against him, and hath prospered?
5 Which removeth the mountains, and
they know not: which overturneth them
in his anger.
6 Which shaketh the earth out of her
place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it
riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the
heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
the sea.
9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and
Pleiades, and the chambers of the
south.
10 Which doeth great things past
finding out; yea, and wonders without
number.
11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him]
not: he passeth on also, but I perceive
him not.
12 Behold, he taketh away, who can
hinder him? who will say unto him, What
doest thou?
13 [If] God will not withdraw his
anger, the proud helpers do stoop under
him.
14 How much less shall I answer him,
[and] choose out my words [to reason]
with him?
15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet]
would I not answer, [but] I would make
supplication to my judge.
16 If I had called, and he had answered
me; [yet] would I not believe that he
had hearkened unto my voice.
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest,
and multiplieth my wounds without
cause.
18 He will not suffer me to take my
breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he
is] strong: and if of judgment, who
shall set me a time [to plead]?
20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth
shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am]
perfect, it shall also prove me
perverse.
21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet]
would I not know my soul: I would
despise my life.
22 This [is] one [thing], therefore I
said [it], He destroyeth the perfect
and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he
will laugh at the trial of the
innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of
the wicked: he covereth the faces of
the judges thereof; if not, where,
[and] who [is] he?
25 Now my days are swifter than a post:
they flee away, they see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift
ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to
the prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my
complaint, I will leave off my
heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I
know that thou wilt not hold me
innocent.
29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I
in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water,
and make my hands never so clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the
ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor
me.
32 For [he is] not a man, as I [am,
that] I should answer him, [and] we
should come together in judgment.
33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt
us, [that] might lay his hand upon us
both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me,
and let not his fear terrify me:
35 [Then] would I speak, and not fear
him; but [it is] not so with me.

CHAPTER 10
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will
leave my complaint upon myself; I will
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn
me; shew me wherefore thou contendest
with me.
3 [Is it] good unto thee that thou
shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest
despise the work of thine hands, and
shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest
thou as man seeth?
5 [Are] thy days as the days of man?
[are] thy years as man's days,
6 That thou enquirest after mine
iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked;
and [there is] none that can deliver
out of thine hand.
8 Thine hands have made me and
fashioned me together round about; yet
thou dost destroy me.
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou
hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou
bring me into dust again?
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk,
and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and
flesh, and hast fenced me with bones
and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and
favour, and thy visitation hath
preserved my spirit.
13 And these [things] hast thou hid in
thine heart: I know that this [is] with
thee.
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and
thou wilt not acquit me from mine
iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and
[if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not
lift up my head. [I am] full of
confusion; therefore see thou mine
affliction;
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me
as a fierce lion: and again thou
shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against
me, and increasest thine indignation
upon me; changes and war [are] against
me.
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me
forth out of the womb? Oh that I had
given up the ghost, and no eye had seen
me!
19 I should have been as though I had
not been; I should have been carried
from the womb to the grave.
20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then,
and] let me alone, that I may take
comfort a little,
21 Before I go [whence] I shall not
return, [even] to the land of darkness
and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness
[itself; and] of the shadow of death,
without any order, and [where] the
light [is] as darkness.

CHAPTER 11
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,
and said,
2 Should not the multitude of words be
answered? and should a man full of talk
be justified?
3 Should thy lies make men hold their
peace? and when thou mockest, shall no
man make thee ashamed?
4 For thou hast said, My doctrine [is]
pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
5 But oh that God would speak, and open
his lips against thee;
6 And that he would shew thee the
secrets of wisdom, that [they are]
double to that which is! Know therefore
that God exacteth of thee [less] than
thine iniquity [deserveth].
7 Canst thou by searching find out God?
canst thou find out the Almighty unto
perfection?
8 [It is] as high as heaven; what canst
thou do? deeper than hell; what canst
thou know?
9 The measure thereof [is] longer than
the earth, and broader than the sea.
10 If he cut off, and shut up, or
gather together, then who can hinder
him?
11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth
wickedness also; will he not then
consider [it]?
12 For vain man would be wise, though
man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and
stretch out thine hands toward him;
14 If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put
it far away, and let not wickedness
dwell in thy tabernacles.
15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face
without spot; yea, thou shalt be
stedfast, and shalt not fear:
16 Because thou shalt forget [thy]
misery, [and] remember [it] as waters
[that] pass away:
17 And [thine] age shall be clearer
than the noonday; thou shalt shine
forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
18 And thou shalt be secure, because
there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig
[about thee, and] thou shalt take thy
rest in safety.
19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none
shall make [thee] afraid; yea, many
shall make suit unto thee.
20 But the eyes of the wicked shall
fail, and they shall not escape, and
their hope [shall be as] the giving up
of the ghost.

CHAPTER 12
1 And Job answered and said,
2 No doubt but ye [are] the people, and
wisdom shall die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as
you; I [am] not inferior to you: yea,
who knoweth not such things as these?
4 I am [as] one mocked of his
neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he
answereth him: the just upright [man
is] laughed to scorn.
5 He that is ready to slip with [his]
feet [is as] a lamp despised in the
thought of him that is at ease.
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper,
and they that provoke God are secure;
into whose hand God bringeth
[abundantly].
7 But ask now the beasts, and they
shall teach thee; and the fowls of the
air, and they shall tell thee:
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall
teach thee: and the fishes of the sea
shall declare unto thee.
9 Who knoweth not in all these that the
hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
10 In whose hand [is] the soul of every
living thing, and the breath of all
mankind.
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the
mouth taste his meat?
12 With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in
length of days understanding.
13 With him [is] wisdom and strength,
he hath counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it
cannot be built again: he shutteth up a
man, and there can be no opening.
15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters,
and they dry up: also he sendeth them
out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him [is] strength and wisdom:
the deceived and the deceiver [are]
his.
17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,
and maketh the judges fools.
18 He looseth the bond of kings, and
girdeth their loins with a girdle.
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and
overthroweth the mighty.
20 He removeth away the speech of the
trusty, and taketh away the
understanding of the aged.
21 He poureth contempt upon princes,
and weakeneth the strength of the
mighty.
22 He discovereth deep things out of
darkness, and bringeth out to light the
shadow of death.
23 He increaseth the nations, and
destroyeth them: he enlargeth the
nations, and straiteneth them [again].
24 He taketh away the heart of the
chief of the people of the earth, and
causeth them to wander in a wilderness
[where there is] no way.
25 They grope in the dark without
light, and he maketh them to stagger
like [a] drunken [man].

CHAPTER 13
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this],
mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, [the same] do I know
also: I [am] not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye
[are] all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your
peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to
the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and
talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye
contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you
out? or as one man mocketh another, do
ye [so] mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do
secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you
afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances [are] like unto
ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that
I may speak, and let come on me what
[will].
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my
teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust
in him: but I will maintain mine own
ways before him.
16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for
an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my
declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered [my]
cause; I know that I shall be
justified.
19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with
me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I
shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two [things] unto me:
then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and
let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer:
or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many [are] mine iniquities and
sins? make me to know my transgression
and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and
holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and
fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry
stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things
against me, and makest me to possess
the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the
stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all
my paths; thou settest a print upon the
heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing,
consumeth, as a garment that is moth
eaten.

CHAPTER 14
1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of
few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is
cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow,
and continueth not.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon
such an one, and bringest me into
judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of
an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days [are] determined, the
number of his months [are] with thee,
thou hast appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till
he shall accomplish, as an hireling,
his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be
cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that the tender branch thereof will
not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in
the earth, and the stock thereof die in
the ground;
9 [Yet] through the scent of water it
will bud, and bring forth boughs like a
plant.
10 But man dieth, and wasteth away:
yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where
[is] he?
11 [As] the waters fail from the sea,
and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not:
till the heavens [be] no more, they
shall not awake, nor be raised out of
their sleep.
13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the
grave, that thou wouldest keep me
secret, until thy wrath be past, that
thou wouldest appoint me a set time,
and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live [again]?
all the days of my appointed time will
I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer
thee: thou wilt have a desire to the
work of thine hands.
16 For now thou numberest my steps:
dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression [is] sealed up in a
bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountain falling
cometh to nought, and the rock is
removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: thou
washest away the things which grow
[out] of the dust of the earth; and
thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou prevailest for ever against
him, and he passeth: thou changest his
countenance, and sendest him away.
21 His sons come to honour, and he
knoweth [it] not; and they are brought
low, but he perceiveth [it] not of
them.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have
pain, and his soul within him shall
mourn.

CHAPTER 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite,
and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain
knowledge, and fill his belly with the
east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable
talk? or with speeches wherewith he can
do no good?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and
restrainest prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine
iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue
of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and
not I: yea, thine own lips testify
against thee.
7 [Art] thou the first man [that] was
born? or wast thou made before the
hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God?
and dost thou restrain wisdom to
thyself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not?
[what] understandest thou, which [is]
not in us?
10 With us [are] both the grayheaded
and very aged men, much elder than thy
father.
11 [Are] the consolations of God small
with thee? is there any secret thing
with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee
away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against
God, and lettest [such] words go out of
thy mouth?
14 What [is] man, that he should be
clean? and [he which is] born of a
woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his
saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy
[is] man, which drinketh iniquity like
water?
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that
[which] I have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their
fathers, and have not hid [it]:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given,
and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain
all [his] days, and the number of years
is hidden to the oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound [is] in his ears:
in prosperity the destroyer shall come
upon him.
22 He believeth not that he shall
return out of darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread,
[saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at
his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him
afraid; they shall prevail against him,
as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand
against God, and strengtheneth himself
against the Almighty.
26 He runneth upon him, [even] on [his]
neck, upon the thick bosses of his
bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with
his fatness, and maketh collops of fat
on [his] flanks.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities,
[and] in houses which no man
inhabiteth, which are ready to become
heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall
his substance continue, neither shall
he prolong the perfection thereof upon
the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness;
the flame shall dry up his branches,
and by the breath of his mouth shall he
go away.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust
in vanity: for vanity shall be his
recompence.
32 It shall be accomplished before his
time, and his branch shall not be
green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape
as the vine, and shall cast off his
flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites
[shall be] desolate, and fire shall
consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring
forth vanity, and their belly prepareth
deceit.

CHAPTER 16
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things:
miserable comforters [are] ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what
emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye [do]: if
your soul were in my soul's stead, I
could heap up words against you, and
shake mine head at you.
5 [But] I would strengthen you with my
mouth, and the moving of my lips should
asswage [your grief].
6 Though I speak, my grief is not
asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what
am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou
hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with
wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against
me]: and my leanness rising up in me
beareth witness to my face.
9 He teareth [me] in his wrath, who
hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his
teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes
upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their
mouth; they have smitten me upon the
cheek reproachfully; they have gathered
themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the
ungodly, and turned me over into the
hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me
asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my
neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set
me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about,
he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth
not spare; he poureth out my gall upon
the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon
breach, he runneth upon me like a
giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on
my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
17 Not for [any] injustice in mine
hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood,
and let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness [is] in
heaven, and my record [is] on high.
20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye
poureth out [tears] unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man
with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his
neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I
shall go the way [whence] I shall not
return.

CHAPTER 17
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are
extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and
doth not mine eye continue in their
provocation?
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with
thee; who [is] he [that] will strike
hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from
understanding: therefore shalt thou not
exalt [them].
5 He that speaketh flattery to [his]
friends, even the eyes of his children
shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the
people; and aforetime I was as a
tabret.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of
sorrow, and all my members [are] as a
shadow.
8 Upright [men] shall be astonied at
this, and the innocent shall stir up
himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his
way, and he that hath clean hands shall
be stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return,
and come now: for I cannot find [one]
wise [man] among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are
broken off, [even] the thoughts of my
heart.
12 They change the night into day: the
light [is] short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine
house: I have made my bed in the
darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou
[art] my father: to the worm, [Thou
art] my mother, and my sister.
15 And where [is] now my hope? as for
my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of
the pit, when [our] rest together [is]
in the dust.

CHAPTER 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said,
2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an
end of words? mark, and afterwards we
will speak.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
[and] reputed vile in your sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger:
shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
and shall the rock be removed out of
his place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be
put out, and the spark of his fire
shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his
tabernacle, and his candle shall be put
out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be
straitened, and his own counsel shall
cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own
feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel,
[and] the robber shall prevail against
him.
10 The snare [is] laid for him in the
ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on
every side, and shall drive him to his
feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten,
and destruction [shall be] ready at his
side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his
skin: [even] the firstborn of death
shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out
of his tabernacle, and it shall bring
him to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle,
because [it is] none of his: brimstone
shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath,
and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from
the earth, and he shall have no name in
the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into
darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew
among his people, nor any remaining in
his dwellings.
20 They that come after [him] shall be
astonied at his day, as they that went
before were affrighted.
21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of
the wicked, and this [is] the place [of
him that] knoweth not God.

CHAPTER 19
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and
break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached
me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make
yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed [that] I have erred,
mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify
[yourselves] against me, and plead
against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me,
and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am
not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is]
no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I
cannot pass, and he hath set darkness
in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and
taken the crown [from] my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side,
and I am gone: and mine hope hath he
removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath
against me, and he counteth me unto him
as [one of] his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise
up their way against me, and encamp
round about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me,
and mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my
familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and
my maids, count me for a stranger: I am
an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave
[me] no answer; I intreated him with my
mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife,
though I intreated for the children's
[sake] of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I
arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me:
and they whom I loved are turned
against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to
my flesh, and I am escaped with the
skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon
me, O ye my friends; for the hand of
God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and
are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written!
oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron
pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know [that] my redeemer
liveth, and [that] he shall stand at
the latter [day] upon the earth:
26 And [though] after my skin [worms]
destroy this [body], yet in my flesh
shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and
mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; [though] my reins be consumed
within me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we
him, seeing the root of the matter is
found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
[bringeth] the punishments of the
sword, that ye may know [there is] a
judgment.

CHAPTER 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,
and said,
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to
answer, and for [this] I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my
reproach, and the spirit of my
understanding causeth me to answer.
4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since
man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked
[is] short, and the joy of the
hypocrite [but] for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the
heavens, and his head reach unto the
clouds;
7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like
his own dung: they which have seen him
shall say, Where [is] he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and
shall not be found: yea, he shall be
chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also [which] saw him shall
[see him] no more; neither shall his
place any more behold him.
10 His children shall seek to please
the poor, and his hands shall restore
their goods.
11 His bones are full [of the sin] of
his youth, which shall lie down with
him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his
mouth, [though] he hide it under his
tongue;
13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it
not; but keep it still within his
mouth:
14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is
turned, [it is] the gall of asps within
him.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and
he shall vomit them up again: God shall
cast them out of his belly.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps:
the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the
floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 That which he laboured for shall he
restore, and shall not swallow [it]
down: according to [his] substance
[shall] the restitution [be], and he
shall not rejoice [therein].
19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath
forsaken the poor; [because] he hath
violently taken away an house which he
builded not;
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness
in his belly, he shall not save of that
which he desired.
21 There shall none of his meat be
left; therefore shall no man look for
his goods.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he
shall be in straits: every hand of the
wicked shall come upon him.
23 [When] he is about to fill his
belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his
wrath upon him, and shall rain [it]
upon him while he is eating.
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon,
[and] the bow of steel shall strike him
through.
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the
body; yea, the glittering sword cometh
out of his gall: terrors [are] upon
him.
26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his
secret places: a fire not blown shall
consume him; it shall go ill with him
that is left in his tabernacle.
27 The heaven shall reveal his
iniquity; and the earth shall rise up
against him.
28 The increase of his house shall
depart, [and his goods] shall flow away
in the day of his wrath.
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked
man from God, and the heritage
appointed unto him by God.

CHAPTER 21
1 But Job answered and said,
2 Hear diligently my speech, and let
this be your consolations.
3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after
that I have spoken, mock on.
4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man?
and if [it were so], why should not my
spirit be troubled?
5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay
[your] hand upon [your] mouth.
6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and
trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become
old, yea, are mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established in their
sight with them, and their offspring
before their eyes.
9 Their houses [are] safe from fear,
neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth
not; their cow calveth, and casteth not
her calf.
11 They send forth their little ones
like a flock, and their children dance.
12 They take the timbrel and harp, and
rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and
in a moment go down to the grave.
14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart
from us; for we desire not the
knowledge of thy ways.
15 What [is] the Almighty, that we
should serve him? and what profit
should we have, if we pray unto him?
16 Lo, their good [is] not in their
hand: the counsel of the wicked is far
from me.
17 How oft is the candle of the wicked
put out! and [how oft] cometh their
destruction upon them! [God]
distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18 They are as stubble before the wind,
and as chaff that the storm carrieth
away.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his
children: he rewardeth him, and he
shall know [it].
20 His eyes shall see his destruction,
and he shall drink of the wrath of the
Almighty.
21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his
house after him, when the number of his
months is cut off in the midst?
22 Shall [any] teach God knowledge?
seeing he judgeth those that are high.
23 One dieth in his full strength,
being wholly at ease and quiet.
24 His breasts are full of milk, and
his bones are moistened with marrow.
25 And another dieth in the bitterness
of his soul, and never eateth with
pleasure.
26 They shall lie down alike in the
dust, and the worms shall cover them.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and
the devices [which] ye wrongfully
imagine against me.
28 For ye say, Where [is] the house of
the prince? and where [are] the
dwelling places of the wicked?
29 Have ye not asked them that go by
the way? and do ye not know their
tokens,
30 That the wicked is reserved to the
day of destruction? they shall be
brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his
face? and who shall repay him [what] he
hath done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to the
grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley shall be
sweet unto him, and every man shall
draw after him, as [there are]
innumerable before him.
34 How then comfort ye me in vain,
seeing in your answers there remaineth
falsehood?

CHAPTER 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered
and said,
2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as
he that is wise may be profitable unto
himself?
3 [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty,
that thou art righteous? or [is it]
gain [to him], that thou makest thy
ways perfect?
4 Will he reprove thee for fear of
thee? will he enter with thee into
judgment?
5 [Is] not thy wickedness great? and
thine iniquities infinite?
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy
brother for nought, and stripped the
naked of their clothing.
7 Thou hast not given water to the
weary to drink, and thou hast
withholden bread from the hungry.
8 But [as for] the mighty man, he had
the earth; and the honourable man dwelt
in it.
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and
the arms of the fatherless have been
broken.
10 Therefore snares [are] round about
thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not
see; and abundance of waters cover
thee.
12 [Is] not God in the height of
heaven? and behold the height of the
stars, how high they are!
13 And thou sayest, How doth God know?
can he judge through the dark cloud?
14 Thick clouds [are] a covering to
him, that he seeth not; and he walketh
in the circuit of heaven.
15 Hast thou marked the old way which
wicked men have trodden?
16 Which were cut down out of time,
whose foundation was overflown with a
flood:
17 Which said unto God, Depart from us:
and what can the Almighty do for them?
18 Yet he filled their houses with good
[things]: but the counsel of the wicked
is far from me.
19 The righteous see [it], and are
glad: and the innocent laugh them to
scorn.
20 Whereas our substance is not cut
down, but the remnant of them the fire
consumeth.
21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and
be at peace: thereby good shall come
unto thee.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from
his mouth, and lay up his words in
thine heart.
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou
shalt be built up, thou shalt put away
iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,
and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones
of the brooks.
25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy
defence, and thou shalt have plenty of
silver.
26 For then shalt thou have thy delight
in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy
face unto God.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him,
and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt
pay thy vows.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and
it shall be established unto thee: and
the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29 When [men] are cast down, then thou
shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and
he shall save the humble person.
30 He shall deliver the island of the
innocent: and it is delivered by the
pureness of thine hands.

CHAPTER 23
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 Even to day [is] my complaint bitter:
my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find
him! [that] I might come [even] to his
seat!
4 I would order [my] cause before him,
and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words [which] he
would answer me, and understand what he
would say unto me.
6 Will he plead against me with [his]
great power? No; but he would put
[strength] in me.
7 There the righteous might dispute
with him; so should I be delivered for
ever from my judge.
8 Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not
[there]; and backward, but I cannot
perceive him:
9 On the left hand, where he doth work,
but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth
himself on the right hand, that I
cannot see [him]:
10 But he knoweth the way that I take:
[when] he hath tried me, I shall come
forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held his steps, his way
have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the
commandment of his lips; I have
esteemed the words of his mouth more
than my necessary [food].
13 But he [is] in one [mind], and who
can turn him? and [what] his soul
desireth, even [that] he doeth.
14 For he performeth [the thing that
is] appointed for me: and many such
[things are] with him.
15 Therefore am I troubled at his
presence: when I consider, I am afraid
of him.
16 For God maketh my heart soft, and
the Almighty troubleth me:
17 Because I was not cut off before the
darkness, [neither] hath he covered the
darkness from my face.

CHAPTER 24
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from
the Almighty, do they that know him not
see his days?
2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they
violently take away flocks, and feed
[thereof].
3 They drive away the ass of the
fatherless, they take the widow's ox
for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way:
the poor of the earth hide themselves
together.
5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the
desert, go they forth to their work;
rising betimes for a prey: the
wilderness [yieldeth] food for them
[and] for [their] children.
6 They reap [every one] his corn in the
field: and they gather the vintage of
the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without
clothing, that [they have] no covering
in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the
mountains, and embrace the rock for
want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the
breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause [him] to go naked without
clothing, and they take away the sheaf
[from] the hungry;
11 [Which] make oil within their walls,
[and] tread [their] winepresses, and
suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and
the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet
God layeth not folly [to them].
13 They are of those that rebel against
the light; they know not the ways
thereof, nor abide in the paths
thereof.
14 The murderer rising with the light
killeth the poor and needy, and in the
night is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer
waiteth for the twilight, saying, No
eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his]
face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses,
[which] they had marked for themselves
in the daytime: they know not the
light.
17 For the morning [is] to them even as
the shadow of death: if [one] know
[them, they are in] the terrors of the
shadow of death.
18 He [is] swift as the waters; their
portion is cursed in the earth: he
beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow
waters: [so doth] the grave [those
which] have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him; the worm
shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be
no more remembered; and wickedness
shall be broken as a tree.
21 He evil entreateth the barren [that]
beareth not: and doeth not good to the
widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his
power: he riseth up, and no [man] is
sure of life.
23 [Though] it be given him [to be] in
safety, whereon he resteth; yet his
eyes [are] upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while,
but are gone and brought low; they are
taken out of the way as all [other],
and cut off as the tops of the ears of
corn.
25 And if [it be] not [so] now, who
will make me a liar, and make my speech
nothing worth?

CHAPTER 25
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said,
2 Dominion and fear [are] with him, he
maketh peace in his high places.
3 Is there any number of his armies?
and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4 How then can man be justified with
God? or how can he be clean [that is]
born of a woman?
5 Behold even to the moon, and it
shineth not; yea, the stars are not
pure in his sight.
6 How much less man, [that is] a worm?
and the son of man, [which is] a worm?

CHAPTER 26
1 But Job answered and said,
2 How hast thou helped [him that is]
without power? [how] savest thou the
arm [that hath] no strength?
3 How hast thou counselled [him that
hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou
plentifully declared the thing as it
is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and
whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead [things] are formed from under
the waters, and the inhabitants
thereof.
6 Hell [is] naked before him, and
destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the
empty place, [and] hangeth the earth
upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick
clouds; and the cloud is not rent under
them.
9 He holdeth back the face of his
throne, [and] spreadeth his cloud upon
it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with
bounds, until the day and night come to
an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and
are astonished at his reproof.
12 He divideth the sea with his power,
and by his understanding he smiteth
through the proud.
13 By his spirit he hath garnished the
heavens; his hand hath formed the
crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these [are] parts of his ways:
but how little a portion is heard of
him? but the thunder of his power who
can understand?

CHAPTER 27
1 Moreover Job continued his parable,
and said,
2 [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken
away my judgment; and the Almighty,
[who] hath vexed my soul;
3 All the while my breath [is] in me,
and the spirit of God [is] in my
nostrils;
4 My lips shall not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
5 God forbid that I should justify you:
till I die I will not remove mine
integrity from me.
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and
will not let it go: my heart shall not
reproach [me] so long as I live.
7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and
he that riseth up against me as the
unrighteous.
8 For what [is] the hope of the
hypocrite, though he hath gained, when
God taketh away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble
cometh upon him?
10 Will he delight himself in the
Almighty? will he always call upon God?
11 I will teach you by the hand of God:
[that] which [is] with the Almighty
will I not conceal.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen
[it]; why then are ye thus altogether
vain?
13 This [is] the portion of a wicked
man with God, and the heritage of
oppressors, [which] they shall receive
of the Almighty.
14 If his children be multiplied, [it
is] for the sword: and his offspring
shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those that remain of him shall be
buried in death: and his widows shall
not weep.
16 Though he heap up silver as the
dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
17 He may prepare [it], but the just
shall put [it] on, and the innocent
shall divide the silver.
18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and
as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he
shall not be gathered: he openeth his
eyes, and he [is] not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters,
a tempest stealeth him away in the
night.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and
he departeth: and as a storm hurleth
him out of his place.
22 For [God] shall cast upon him, and
not spare: he would fain flee out of
his hand.
23 [Men] shall clap their hands at him,
and shall hiss him out of his place.

CHAPTER 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the
silver, and a place for gold [where]
they fine [it].
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and
brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and
searcheth out all perfection: the
stones of darkness, and the shadow of
death.
4 The flood breaketh out from the
inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten
of the foot: they are dried up, they
are gone away from men.
5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh
bread: and under it is turned up as it
were fire.
6 The stones of it [are] the place of
sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7 [There is] a path which no fowl
knoweth, and which the vulture's eye
hath not seen:
8 The lion's whelps have not trodden
it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the
rock; he overturneth the mountains by
the roots.
10 He cutteth out rivers among the
rocks; and his eye seeth every precious
thing.
11 He bindeth the floods from
overflowing; and [the thing that is]
hid bringeth he forth to light.
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and
where [is] the place of understanding?
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof;
neither is it found in the land of the
living.
14 The depth saith, It [is] not in me:
and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold,
neither shall silver be weighed [for]
the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of
Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the
sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot
equal it: and the exchange of it [shall
not be for] jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral,
or of pearls: for the price of wisdom
[is] above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not
equal it, neither shall it be valued
with pure gold.
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where
[is] the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of
all living, and kept close from the
fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death say, We have
heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 God understandeth the way thereof,
and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he looketh to the ends of the
earth, [and] seeth under the whole
heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds;
and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain,
and a way for the lightning of the
thunder:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it;
he prepared it, yea, and searched it
out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the
fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and
to depart from evil [is] understanding.

CHAPTER 29
1 Moreover Job continued his parable,
and said,
2 Oh that I were as [in] months past,
as [in] the days [when] God preserved
me;
3 When his candle shined upon my head,
[and when] by his light I walked
[through] darkness;
4 As I was in the days of my youth,
when the secret of God [was] upon my
tabernacle;
5 When the Almighty [was] yet with me,
[when] my children [were] about me;
6 When I washed my steps with butter,
and the rock poured me out rivers of
oil;
7 When I went out to the gate through
the city, [when] I prepared my seat in
the street!
8 The young men saw me, and hid
themselves: and the aged arose, [and]
stood up.
9 The princes refrained talking, and
laid [their] hand on their mouth.
10 The nobles held their peace, and
their tongue cleaved to the roof of
their mouth.
11 When the ear heard [me], then it
blessed me; and when the eye saw [me],
it gave witness to me:
12 Because I delivered the poor that
cried, and the fatherless, and [him
that had] none to help him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready
to perish came upon me: and I caused
the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it
clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe
and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet
[was] I to the lame.
16 I [was] a father to the poor: and
the cause [which] I knew not I searched
out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked,
and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest,
and I shall multiply [my] days as the
sand.
19 My root [was] spread out by the
waters, and the dew lay all night upon
my branch.
20 My glory [was] fresh in me, and my
bow was renewed in my hand.
21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited,
and kept silence at my counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again;
and my speech dropped upon them.
23 And they waited for me as for the
rain; and they opened their mouth wide
[as] for the latter rain.
24 [If] I laughed on them, they
believed [it] not; and the light of my
countenance they cast not down.
25 I chose out their way, and sat
chief, and dwelt as a king in the army,
as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

CHAPTER 30
1 But now [they that are] younger than
I have me in derision, whose fathers I
would have disdained to have set with
the dogs of my flock.
2 Yea, whereto [might] the strength of
their hands [profit] me, in whom old
age was perished?
3 For want and famine [they were]
solitary; fleeing into the wilderness
in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and
juniper roots [for] their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among
[men], (they cried after them as
[after] a thief;)
6 To dwell in the clifts of the
valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and
[in] the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under
the nettles they were gathered
together.
8 [They were] children of fools, yea,
children of base men: they were viler
than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am
their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from
me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and
afflicted me, they have also let loose
the bridle before me.
12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the
youth; they push away my feet, and they
raise up against me the ways of their
destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward
my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came [upon me] as a wide
breaking in [of waters]: in the
desolation they rolled themselves [upon
me].
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they
pursue my soul as the wind: and my
welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon
me; the days of affliction have taken
hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the
night season: and my sinews take no
rest.
18 By the great force [of my disease]
is my garment changed: it bindeth me
about as the collar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I
am become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not
hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest
me [not].
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with
thy strong hand thou opposest thyself
against me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou
causest me to ride [upon it], and
dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me
[to] death, and [to] the house
appointed for all living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out
[his] hand to the grave, though they
cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in
trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for
the poor?
26 When I looked for good, then evil
came [unto me]: and when I waited for
light, there came darkness.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not:
the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I
stood up, [and] I cried in the
congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a
companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my
bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is [turned] to
mourning, and my organ into the voice
of them that weep.

CHAPTER 31
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why
then should I think upon a maid?
2 For what portion of God [is there]
from above? and [what] inheritance of
the Almighty from on high?
3 [Is] not destruction to the wicked?
and a strange [punishment] to the
workers of iniquity?
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count
all my steps?
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if
my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance,
that God may know mine integrity.
7 If my step hath turned out of the
way, and mine heart walked after mine
eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to
mine hands;
8 [Then] let me sow, and let another
eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted
out.
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a
woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my
neighbour's door;
10 [Then] let my wife grind unto
another, and let others bow down upon
her.
11 For this [is] an heinous crime; yea,
it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by]
the judges.
12 For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth
to destruction, and would root out all
mine increase.
13 If I did despise the cause of my
manservant or of my maidservant, when
they contended with me;
14 What then shall I do when God riseth
up? and when he visiteth, what shall I
answer him?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb
make him? and did not one fashion us in
the womb?
16 If I have withheld the poor from
[their] desire, or have caused the eyes
of the widow to fail;
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself
alone, and the fatherless hath not
eaten thereof;
18 (For from my youth he was brought up
with me, as [with] a father, and I have
guided her from my mother's womb;)
19 If I have seen any perish for want
of clothing, or any poor without
covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me,
and [if] he were [not] warmed with the
fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against
the fatherless, when I saw my help in
the gate:
22 [Then] let mine arm fall from my
shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken
from the bone.
23 For destruction [from] God [was] a
terror to me, and by reason of his
highness I could not endure.
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have
said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my
confidence;
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth
[was] great, and because mine hand had
gotten much;
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined,
or the moon walking [in] brightness;
27 And my heart hath been secretly
enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my
hand:
28 This also [were] an iniquity [to be
punished by] the judge: for I should
have denied the God [that is] above.
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of
him that hated me, or lifted up myself
when evil found him:
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to
sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said
not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we
cannot be satisfied.
32 The stranger did not lodge in the
street: [but] I opened my doors to the
traveller.
33 If I covered my transgressions as
Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my
bosom:
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did
the contempt of families terrify me,
that I kept silence, [and] went not out
of the door?
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold,
my desire [is, that] the Almighty would
answer me, and [that] mine adversary
had written a book.
36 Surely I would take it upon my
shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to
me.
37 I would declare unto him the number
of my steps; as a prince would I go
near unto him.
38 If my land cry against me, or that
the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof
without money, or have caused the
owners thereof to lose their life:
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat,
and cockle instead of barley. The words
of Job are ended.

CHAPTER 32
1 So these three men ceased to answer
Job, because he [was] righteous in his
own eyes.
2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu
the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the
kindred of Ram: against Job was his
wrath kindled, because he justified
himself rather than God.
3 Also against his three friends was
his wrath kindled, because they had
found no answer, and [yet] had
condemned Job.
4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had
spoken, because they [were] elder than
he.
5 When Elihu saw that [there was] no
answer in the mouth of [these] three
men, then his wrath was kindled.
6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite answered and said, I [am] young,
and ye [are] very old; wherefore I was
afraid, and durst not shew you mine
opinion.
7 I said, Days should speak, and
multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8 But [there is] a spirit in man: and
the inspiration of the Almighty giveth
them understanding.
9 Great men are not [always] wise:
neither do the aged understand
judgment.
10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I
also will shew mine opinion.
11 Behold, I waited for your words; I
gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye
searched out what to say.
12 Yea, I attended unto you, and,
behold, [there was] none of you that
convinced Job, [or] that answered his
words:
13 Lest ye should say, We have found
out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not
man.
14 Now he hath not directed [his] words
against me: neither will I answer him
with your speeches.
15 They were amazed, they answered no
more: they left off speaking.
16 When I had waited, (for they spake
not, but stood still, [and] answered no
more;)
17 [I said], I will answer also my
part, I also will shew mine opinion.
18 For I am full of matter, the spirit
within me constraineth me.
19 Behold, my belly [is] as wine
[which] hath no vent; it is ready to
burst like new bottles.
20 I will speak, that I may be
refreshed: I will open my lips and
answer.
21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any
man's person, neither let me give
flattering titles unto man.
22 For I know not to give flattering
titles; [in so doing] my maker would
soon take me away.

CHAPTER 33
1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my
speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth,
my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
3 My words [shall be of] the
uprightness of my heart: and my lips
shall utter knowledge clearly.
4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and
the breath of the Almighty hath given
me life.
5 If thou canst answer me, set [thy
words] in order before me, stand up.
6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish
in God's stead: I also am formed out of
the clay.
7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee
afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy
upon thee.
8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine
hearing, and I have heard the voice of
[thy] words, [saying],
9 I am clean without transgression, I
[am] innocent; neither [is there]
iniquity in me.
10 Behold, he findeth occasions against
me, he counteth me for his enemy,
11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he
marketh all my paths.
12 Behold, [in] this thou art not just:
I will answer thee, that God is greater
than man.
13 Why dost thou strive against him?
for he giveth not account of any of his
matters.
14 For God speaketh once, yea twice,
[yet man] perceiveth it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the
night, when deep sleep falleth upon
men, in slumberings upon the bed;
16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and
sealeth their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man [from his]
purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keepeth back his soul from the
pit, and his life from perishing by the
sword.
19 He is chastened also with pain upon
his bed, and the multitude of his bones
with strong [pain]:
20 So that his life abhorreth bread,
and his soul dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it
cannot be seen; and his bones [that]
were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the
grave, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an
interpreter, one among a thousand, to
shew unto man his uprightness:
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and
saith, Deliver him from going down to
the pit: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a
child's: he shall return to the days of
his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will
be favourable unto him: and he shall
see his face with joy: for he will
render unto man his righteousness.
27 He looketh upon men, and [if any]
say, I have sinned, and perverted [that
which was] right, and it profited me
not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going
into the pit, and his life shall see
the light.
29 Lo, all these [things] worketh God
oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit,
to be enlightened with the light of the
living.
31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me:
hold thy peace, and I will speak.
32 If thou hast any thing to say,
answer me: speak, for I desire to
justify thee.
33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy
peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

CHAPTER 34
1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
2 Hear my words, O ye wise [men]; and
give ear unto me, ye that have
knowledge.
3 For the ear trieth words, as the
mouth tasteth meat.
4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us
know among ourselves what [is] good.
5 For Job hath said, I am righteous:
and God hath taken away my judgment.
6 Should I lie against my right? my
wound [is] incurable without
transgression.
7 What man [is] like Job, [who]
drinketh up scorning like water?
8 Which goeth in company with the
workers of iniquity, and walketh with
wicked men.
9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man
nothing that he should delight himself
with God.
10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of
understanding: far be it from God,
[that he should do] wickedness; and
[from] the Almighty, [that he should
commit] iniquity.
11 For the work of a man shall he
render unto him, and cause every man to
find according to [his] ways.
12 Yea, surely God will not do
wickedly, neither will the Almighty
pervert judgment.
13 Who hath given him a charge over the
earth? or who hath disposed the whole
world?
14 If he set his heart upon man, [if]
he gather unto himself his spirit and
his breath;
15 All flesh shall perish together, and
man shall turn again unto dust.
16 If now [thou hast] understanding,
hear this: hearken to the voice of my
words.
17 Shall even he that hateth right
govern? and wilt thou condemn him that
is most just?
18 [Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou
art] wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are]
ungodly?
19 [How much less to him] that
accepteth not the persons of princes,
nor regardeth the rich more than the
poor? for they all [are] the work of
his hands.
20 In a moment shall they die, and the
people shall be troubled at midnight,
and pass away: and the mighty shall be
taken away without hand.
21 For his eyes [are] upon the ways of
man, and he seeth all his goings.
22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow
of death, where the workers of iniquity
may hide themselves.
23 For he will not lay upon man more
[than right]; that he should enter into
judgment with God.
24 He shall break in pieces mighty men
without number, and set others in their
stead.
25 Therefore he knoweth their works,
and he overturneth [them] in the night,
so that they are destroyed.
26 He striketh them as wicked men in
the open sight of others;
27 Because they turned back from him,
and would not consider any of his ways:
28 So that they cause the cry of the
poor to come unto him, and he heareth
the cry of the afflicted.
29 When he giveth quietness, who then
can make trouble? and when he hideth
[his] face, who then can behold him?
whether [it be done] against a nation,
or against a man only:
30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest
the people be ensnared.
31 Surely it is meet to be said unto
God, I have borne [chastisement], I
will not offend [any more]:
32 [That which] I see not teach thou
me: if I have done iniquity, I will do
no more.
33 [Should it be] according to thy
mind? he will recompense it, whether
thou refuse, or whether thou choose;
and not I: therefore speak what thou
knowest.
34 Let men of understanding tell me,
and let a wise man hearken unto me.
35 Job hath spoken without knowledge,
and his words [were] without wisdom.
36 My desire [is that] Job may be tried
unto the end because of [his] answers
for wicked men.
37 For he addeth rebellion unto his
sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us,
and multiplieth his words against God.

CHAPTER 35
1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2 Thinkest thou this to be right,
[that] thou saidst, My righteousness
[is] more than God's?
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will
it be unto thee? [and], What profit
shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from
my sin?
4 I will answer thee, and thy
companions with thee.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and
behold the clouds [which] are higher
than thou.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou
against him? or [if] thy transgressions
be multiplied, what doest thou unto
him?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest
thou him? or what receiveth he of thine
hand?
8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as
thou [art]; and thy righteousness [may
profit] the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of
oppressions they make [the oppressed]
to cry: they cry out by reason of the
arm of the mighty.
10 But none saith, Where [is] God my
maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts
of the earth, and maketh us wiser than
the fowls of heaven?
12 There they cry, but none giveth
answer, because of the pride of evil
men.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity,
neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not
see him, [yet] judgment [is] before
him; therefore trust thou in him.
15 But now, because [it is] not [so],
he hath visited in his anger; yet he
knoweth [it] not in great extremity:
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in
vain; he multiplieth words without
knowledge.

CHAPTER 36
1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew
thee that [I have] yet to speak on
God's behalf.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
and will ascribe righteousness to my
Maker.
4 For truly my words [shall] not [be]
false: he that is perfect in knowledge
[is] with thee.
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and
despiseth not [any: he is] mighty in
strength [and] wisdom.
6 He preserveth not the life of the
wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the
righteous: but with kings [are they] on
the throne; yea, he doth establish them
for ever, and they are exalted.
8 And if [they be] bound in fetters,
[and] be holden in cords of affliction;
9 Then he sheweth them their work, and
their transgressions that they have
exceeded.
10 He openeth also their ear to
discipline, and commandeth that they
return from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serve [him], they
shall spend their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they obey not, they shall
perish by the sword, and they shall die
without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up
wrath: they cry not when he bindeth
them.
14 They die in youth, and their life
[is] among the unclean.
15 He delivereth the poor in his
affliction, and openeth their ears in
oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed thee
out of the strait [into] a broad place,
where [there is] no straitness; and
that which should be set on thy table
[should be] full of fatness.
17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment
of the wicked: judgment and justice
take hold [on thee].
18 Because [there is] wrath, [beware]
lest he take thee away with [his]
stroke: then a great ransom cannot
deliver thee.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not
gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night, when people
are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for
this hast thou chosen rather than
affliction.
22 Behold, God exalteth by his power:
who teacheth like him?
23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or
who can say, Thou hast wrought
iniquity?
24 Remember that thou magnify his work,
which men behold.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold
[it] afar off.
26 Behold, God [is] great, and we know
[him] not, neither can the number of
his years be searched out.
27 For he maketh small the drops of
water: they pour down rain according to
the vapour thereof:
28 Which the clouds do drop [and]
distil upon man abundantly.
29 Also can [any] understand the
spreadings of the clouds, [or] the
noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon
it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31 For by them judgeth he the people;
he giveth meat in abundance.
32 With clouds he covereth the light;
and commandeth it [not to shine] by
[the cloud] that cometh betwixt.
33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning
it, the cattle also concerning the
vapour.

CHAPTER 37
1 At this also my heart trembleth, and
is moved out of his place.
2 Hear attentively the noise of his
voice, and the sound [that] goeth out
of his mouth.
3 He directeth it under the whole
heaven, and his lightning unto the ends
of the earth.
4 After it a voice roareth: he
thundereth with the voice of his
excellency; and he will not stay them
when his voice is heard.
5 God thundereth marvellously with his
voice; great things doeth he, which we
cannot comprehend.
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou
[on] the earth; likewise to the small
rain, and to the great rain of his
strength.
7 He sealeth up the hand of every man;
that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts go into dens, and
remain in their places.
9 Out of the south cometh the
whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath of God frost is given:
and the breadth of the waters is
straitened.
11 Also by watering he wearieth the
thick cloud: he scattereth his bright
cloud:
12 And it is turned round about by his
counsels: that they may do whatsoever
he commandeth them upon the face of the
world in the earth.
13 He causeth it to come, whether for
correction, or for his land, or for
mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand
still, and consider the wondrous works
of God.
15 Dost thou know when God disposed
them, and caused the light of his cloud
to shine?
16 Dost thou know the balancings of the
clouds, the wondrous works of him which
is perfect in knowledge?
17 How thy garments [are] warm, when he
quieteth the earth by the south [wind]?
18 Hast thou with him spread out the
sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a
molten looking glass?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him;
[for] we cannot order [our speech] by
reason of darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I speak?
if a man speak, surely he shall be
swallowed up.
21 And now [men] see not the bright
light which [is] in the clouds: but the
wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
22 Fair weather cometh out of the
north: with God [is] terrible majesty.
23 [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot
find him out: [he is] excellent in
power, and in judgment, and in plenty
of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he
respecteth not any [that are] wise of
heart.

CHAPTER 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the
whirlwind, and said,
2 Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel
by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for
I will demand of thee, and answer thou
me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? declare, if
thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof,
if thou knowest? or who hath stretched
the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened? or who laid the corner stone
thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for
joy?
8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors,
when it brake forth, [as if] it had
issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment
thereof, and thick darkness a
swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed
[place], and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come,
but no further: and here shall thy
proud waves be stayed?
12 Hast thou commanded the morning
since thy days; [and] caused the
dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends
of the earth, that the wicked might be
shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay [to] the seal;
and they stand as a garment.
15 And from the wicked their light is
withholden, and the high arm shall be
broken.
16 Hast thou entered into the springs
of the sea? or hast thou walked in the
search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death been opened
unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors
of the shadow of death?
18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of
the earth? declare if thou knowest it
all.
19 Where [is] the way [where] light
dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where
[is] the place thereof,
20 That thou shouldest take it to the
bound thereof, and that thou shouldest
know the paths [to] the house thereof?
21 Knowest thou [it], because thou wast
then born? or [because] the number of
thy days [is] great?
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures
of the snow? or hast thou seen the
treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the
time of trouble, against the day of
battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted,
[which] scattereth the east wind upon
the earth?
25 Who hath divided a watercourse for
the overflowing of waters, or a way for
the lightning of thunder;
26 To cause it to rain on the earth,
[where] no man [is; on] the wilderness,
wherein [there is] no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste
[ground]; and to cause the bud of the
tender herb to spring forth?
28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath
begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and
the hoary frost of heaven, who hath
gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as [with] a
stone, and the face of the deep is
frozen.
31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences
of Pleiades, or loose the bands of
Orion?
32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in
his season? or canst thou guide
Arcturus with his sons?
33 Knowest thou the ordinances of
heaven? canst thou set the dominion
thereof in the earth?
34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the
clouds, that abundance of waters may
cover thee?
35 Canst thou send lightnings, that
they may go, and say unto thee, Here we
[are]?
36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward
parts? or who hath given understanding
to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust groweth into hardness,
and the clods cleave fast together?
39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the
lion? or fill the appetite of the young
lions,
40 When they couch in [their] dens,
[and] abide in the covert to lie in
wait?
41 Who provideth for the raven his
food? when his young ones cry unto God,
they wander for lack of meat.

CHAPTER 39
1 Knowest thou the time when the wild
goats of the rock bring forth? [or]
canst thou mark when the hinds do
calve?
2 Canst thou number the months [that]
they fulfil? or knowest thou the time
when they bring forth?
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth
their young ones, they cast out their
sorrows.
4 Their young ones are in good liking,
they grow up with corn; they go forth,
and return not unto them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free?
or who hath loosed the bands of the
wild ass?
6 Whose house I have made the
wilderness, and the barren land his
dwellings.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the
city, neither regardeth he the crying
of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains [is] his
pasture, and he searcheth after every
green thing.
9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve
thee, or abide by thy crib?
10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his
band in the furrow? or will he harrow
the valleys after thee?
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his
strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave
thy labour to him?
12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will
bring home thy seed, and gather [it
into] thy barn?
13 [Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto
the peacocks? or wings and feathers
unto the ostrich?
14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth,
and warmeth them in dust,
15 And forgetteth that the foot may
crush them, or that the wild beast may
break them.
16 She is hardened against her young
ones, as though [they were] not hers:
her labour is in vain without fear;
17 Because God hath deprived her of
wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her
understanding.
18 What time she lifteth up herself on
high, she scorneth the horse and his
rider.
19 Hast thou given the horse strength?
hast thou clothed his neck with
thunder?
20 Canst thou make him afraid as a
grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils
[is] terrible.
21 He paweth in the valley, and
rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth
on to meet the armed men.
22 He mocketh at fear, and is not
affrighted; neither turneth he back
from the sword.
23 The quiver rattleth against him, the
glittering spear and the shield.
24 He swalloweth the ground with
fierceness and rage: neither believeth
he that [it is] the sound of the
trumpet.
25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha;
and he smelleth the battle afar off,
the thunder of the captains, and the
shouting.
26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom,
[and] stretch her wings toward the
south?
27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy
command, and make her nest on high?
28 She dwelleth and abideth on the
rock, upon the crag of the rock, and
the strong place.
29 From thence she seeketh the prey,
[and] her eyes behold afar off.
30 Her young ones also suck up blood:
and where the slain [are], there [is]
she.

CHAPTER 40
1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and
said,
2 Shall he that contendeth with the
Almighty instruct [him]? he that
reproveth God, let him answer it.
3 # Then Job answered the LORD, and
said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I
answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon
my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not
answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed
no further.
6 # Then answered the LORD unto Job out
of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I
will demand of thee, and declare thou
unto me.
8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?
wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest
be righteous?
9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst
thou thunder with a voice like him?
10 Deck thyself now [with] majesty and
excellency; and array thyself with
glory and beauty.
11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath:
and behold every one [that is] proud,
and abase him.
12 Look on every one [that is] proud,
[and] bring him low; and tread down the
wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together;
[and] bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also confess unto thee
that thine own right hand can save
thee.
15 # Behold now behemoth, which I made
with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength [is] in his
loins, and his force [is] in the navel
of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the
sinews of his stones are wrapped
together.
18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of
brass; his bones [are] like bars of
iron.
19 He [is] the chief of the ways of
God: he that made him can make his
sword to approach [unto him].
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth
food, where all the beasts of the field
play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in
the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him [with]
their shadow; the willows of the brook
compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river,
[and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he
can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: [his]
nose pierceth through snares.

CHAPTER 41
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an
hook? or his tongue with a cord [which]
thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose?
or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto
thee? will he speak soft [words] unto
thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee?
wilt thou take him for a servant for
ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as [with] a
bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy
maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet
of him? shall they part him among the
merchants?
7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed
irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the
battle, do no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain:
shall not [one] be cast down even at
the sight of him?
10 None [is so] fierce that dare stir
him up: who then is able to stand
before me?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should
repay [him? whatsoever is] under the
whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not conceal his parts, nor
his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of his
garment? [or] who can come [to him]
with his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face?
his teeth [are] terrible round about.
15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut
up together [as with] a close seal.
16 One is so near to another, that no
air can come between them.
17 They are joined one to another, they
stick together, that they cannot be
sundered.
18 By his neesings a light doth shine,
and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of
the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps,
[and] sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as
[out] of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a
flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 In his neck remaineth strength, and
sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined
together: they are firm in themselves;
they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone;
yea, as hard as a piece of the nether
[millstone].
25 When he raiseth up himself, the
mighty are afraid: by reason of
breakings they purify themselves.
26 The sword of him that layeth at him
cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor
the habergeon.
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, [and]
brass as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee:
slingstones are turned with him into
stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he
laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp stones [are] under him: he
spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the
mire.
31 He maketh the deep to boil like a
pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of
ointment.
32 He maketh a path to shine after him;
[one] would think the deep [to be]
hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like,
who is made without fear.
34 He beholdeth all high [things]: he
[is] a king over all the children of
pride.

CHAPTER 42
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every
[thing], and [that] no thought can be
withholden from thee.
3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel
without knowledge? therefore have I
uttered that I understood not; things
too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will
speak: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing
of the ear: but now mine eye seeth
thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and
repent in dust and ashes.
7 # And it was [so], that after the
LORD had spoken these words unto Job,
the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
My wrath is kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye have
not spoken of me [the thing that is]
right, as my servant Job [hath].
8 Therefore take unto you now seven
bullocks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for
yourselves a burnt offering; and my
servant Job shall pray for you: for him
will I accept: lest I deal with you
[after your] folly, in that ye have not
spoken of me [the thing which is]
right, like my servant Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad
the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite
went, and did according as the LORD
commanded them: the LORD also accepted
Job.
10 And the LORD turned the captivity of
Job, when he prayed for his friends:
also the LORD gave Job twice as much as
he had before.
11 Then came there unto him all his
brethren, and all his sisters, and all
they that had been of his acquaintance
before, and did eat bread with him in
his house: and they bemoaned him, and
comforted him over all the evil that
the LORD had brought upon him: every
man also gave him a piece of money, and
every one an earring of gold.
12 So the LORD blessed the latter end
of Job more than his beginning: for he
had fourteen thousand sheep, and six
thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13 He had also seven sons and three
daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first,
Jemima; and the name of the second,
Kezia; and the name of the third,
Keren-happuch.
15 And in all the land were no women
found [so] fair as the daughters of
Job: and their father gave them
inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and
forty years, and saw his sons, and his
sons' sons, [even] four generations.
17 So Job died, [being] old and full of
days.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS

PSALM 1
1 Blessed [is] the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor
sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight [is] in the law of
the LORD; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of water, that bringeth
forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
also shall not wither; and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly [are] not so: but [are]
like the chaff which the wind driveth
away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand
in the judgment, nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the
righteous: but the way of the ungodly
shall perish.

PSALM 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the
people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set
themselves, and the rulers take counsel
together, against the LORD, and against
his anointed, [saying],
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and
cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall
laugh: the Lord shall have them in
derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his
wrath, and vex them in his sore
displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy
hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD
hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son;
this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give [thee]
the heathen [for] thine inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth
[for] thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of
iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces
like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings:
be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and
rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and
ye perish [from] the way, when his
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed
[are] all they that put their trust in
him.

PSALM 3
A Psalm of David, when he fled from
Absalom his son.
1 LORD, how are they increased that
trouble me! many [are] they that rise
up against me.
2 Many [there be] which say of my soul,
[There is] no help for him in God.
Selah.
3 But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for
me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine
head.
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice,
and he heard me out of his holy hill.
Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked;
for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands
of people, that have set [themselves]
against me round about.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for
thou hast smitten all mine enemies
[upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken
the teeth of the ungodly.
8 Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD:
thy blessing [is] upon thy people.
Selah.

PSALM 4
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A
Psalm of David.
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my
righteousness: thou hast enlarged me
[when I was] in distress; have mercy
upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O ye sons of men, how long [will ye
turn] my glory into shame? [how long]
will ye love vanity, [and] seek after
leasing? Selah.
3 But know that the LORD hath set apart
him that is godly for himself: the LORD
will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune
with your own heart upon your bed, and
be still. Selah.
5 Offer the sacrifices of
righteousness, and put your trust in
the LORD.
6 [There be] many that say, Who will
shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up
the light of thy countenance upon us.
7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart,
more than in the time [that] their corn
and their wine increased.
8 I will both lay me down in peace, and
sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me
dwell in safety.

PSALM 5
To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A
Psalm of David.
1 Give ear to my words, O LORD,
consider my meditation.
2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my
King, and my God: for unto thee will I
pray.
3 My voice shalt thou hear in the
morning, O LORD; in the morning will I
direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will
look up.
4 For thou [art] not a God that hath
pleasure in wickedness: neither shall
evil dwell with thee.
5 The foolish shall not stand in thy
sight: thou hatest all workers of
iniquity.
6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak
leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody
and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come [into] thy
house in the multitude of thy mercy:
[and] in thy fear will I worship toward
thy holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness
because of mine enemies; make thy way
straight before my face.
9 For [there is] no faithfulness in
their mouth; their inward part [is]
very wickedness; their throat [is] an
open sepulchre; they flatter with their
tongue.
10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them
fall by their own counsels; cast them
out in the multitude of their
transgressions; for they have rebelled
against thee.
11 But let all those that put their
trust in thee rejoice: let them ever
shout for joy, because thou defendest
them: let them also that love thy name
be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the
righteous; with favour wilt thou
compass him as [with] a shield.

PSALM 6
To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon
Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger,
neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I
[am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my
bones are vexed.
3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou,
O LORD, how long?
4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh
save me for thy mercies' sake.
5 For in death [there is] no
remembrance of thee: in the grave who
shall give thee thanks?
6 I am weary with my groaning; all the
night make I my bed to swim; I water my
couch with my tears.
7 Mine eye is consumed because of
grief; it waxeth old because of all
mine enemies.
8 Depart from me, all ye workers of
iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the
voice of my weeping.
9 The LORD hath heard my supplication;
the LORD will receive my prayer.
10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and
sore vexed: let them return [and] be
ashamed suddenly.

PSALM 7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto
the LORD, concerning the words of Cush
the Benjamite.
1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my
trust: save me from all them that
persecute me, and deliver me:
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion,
rending [it] in pieces, while [there
is] none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this;
if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that
was at peace with me; (yea, I have
delivered him that without cause is
mine enemy:)
5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and
take [it]; yea, let him tread down my
life upon the earth, and lay mine
honour in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift
up thyself because of the rage of mine
enemies: and awake for me [to] the
judgment [that] thou hast commanded.
7 So shall the congregation of the
people compass thee about: for their
sakes therefore return thou on high.
8 The LORD shall judge the people:
judge me, O LORD, according to my
righteousness, and according to mine
integrity [that is] in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked
come to an end; but establish the just:
for the righteous God trieth the hearts
and reins.
10 My defence [is] of God, which saveth
the upright in heart.
11 God judgeth the righteous, and God
is angry [with the wicked] every day.
12 If he turn not, he will whet his
sword; he hath bent his bow, and made
it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the
instruments of death; he ordaineth his
arrows against the persecutors.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity,
and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood.
15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is
fallen into the ditch [which] he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his
own head, and his violent dealing shall
come down upon his own pate.
17 I will praise the LORD according to
his righteousness: and will sing praise
to the name of the LORD most high.

PSALM 8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A
Psalm of David.
1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is]
thy name in all the earth! who hast set
thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings hast thou ordained strength
because of thine enemies, that thou
mightest still the enemy and the
avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work
of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of
him? and the son of man, that thou
visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower
than the angels, and hast crowned him
with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over
the works of thy hands; thou hast put
all [things] under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the
beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of
the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth
through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is]
thy name in all the earth!

PSALM 9
To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben,
A Psalm of David.
1 I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my
whole heart; I will shew forth all thy
marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I
will sing praise to thy name, O thou
most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back,
they shall fall and perish at thy
presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and
my cause; thou satest in the throne
judging right.
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou
hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast
put out their name for ever and ever.
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come
to a perpetual end: and thou hast
destroyed cities; their memorial is
perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever:
he hath prepared his throne for
judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in
righteousness, he shall minister
judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for
the oppressed, a refuge in times of
trouble.
10 And they that know thy name will put
their trust in thee: for thou, LORD,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which
dwelleth in Zion: declare among the
people his doings.
12 When he maketh inquisition for
blood, he remembereth them: he
forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider
my trouble [which I suffer] of them
that hate me, thou that liftest me up
from the gates of death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise
in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I
will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit
[that] they made: in the net which they
hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known [by] the judgment
[which] he executeth: the wicked is
snared in the work of his own hands.
Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into
hell, [and] all the nations that forget
God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be
forgotten: the expectation of the poor
shall [not] perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail:
let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the
nations may know themselves [to be but]
men. Selah.

PSALM 10
1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD?
[why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of
trouble?
2 The wicked in [his] pride doth
persecute the poor: let them be taken
in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his
heart's desire, and blesseth the
covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his
countenance, will not seek [after God]:
God [is] not in all his thoughts.
5 His ways are always grievous; thy
judgments [are] far above out of his
sight: [as for] all his enemies, he
puffeth at them.
6 He hath said in his heart, I shall
not be moved: for [I shall] never [be]
in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and
deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is]
mischief and vanity.
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of
the villages: in the secret places doth
he murder the innocent: his eyes are
privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion
in his den: he lieth in wait to catch
the poor: he doth catch the poor, when
he draweth him into his net.
10 He croucheth, [and] humbleth
himself, that the poor may fall by his
strong ones.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath
forgotten: he hideth his face; he will
never see [it].
12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine
hand: forget not the humble.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn
God? he hath said in his heart, Thou
wilt not require [it].
14 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou
beholdest mischief and spite, to
requite [it] with thy hand: the poor
committeth himself unto thee; thou art
the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and
the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness
[till] thou find none.
16 The LORD [is] King for ever and
ever: the heathen are perished out of
his land.
17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of
the humble: thou wilt prepare their
heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to
hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the
oppressed, that the man of the earth
may no more oppress.

PSALM 11
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of
David.
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say
ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your
mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow,
they make ready their arrow upon the
string, that they may privily shoot at
the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what
can the righteous do?
4 The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the
LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes
behold, his eyelids try, the children
of men.
5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but
the wicked and him that loveth violence
his soul hateth.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares,
fire and brimstone, and an horrible
tempest: [this shall be] the portion of
their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loveth
righteousness; his countenance doth
behold the upright.

PSALM 12
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A
Psalm of David.
1 Help, LORD; for the godly man
ceaseth; for the faithful fail from
among the children of men.
2 They speak vanity every one with his
neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and]
with a double heart do they speak.
3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering
lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh
proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will
we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who
[is] lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for
the sighing of the needy, now will I
arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him]
in safety [from him that] puffeth at
him.
6 The words of the LORD [are] pure
words: [as] silver tried in a furnace
of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou
shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when
the vilest men are exalted.

PSALM 13
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD?
for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy
face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel in my
soul, [having] sorrow in my heart
daily? how long shall mine enemy be
exalted over me?
3 Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my
God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep
the [sleep of] death;
4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed
against him; [and] those that trouble
me rejoice when I am moved.
5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my
heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he
hath dealt bountifully with me.

PSALM 14
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of
David.
1 The fool hath said in his heart,
[There is] no God. They are corrupt,
they have done abominable works, [there
is] none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon
the children of men, to see if there
were any that did understand, [and]
seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are
[all] together become filthy: [there
is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no
knowledge? who eat up my people [as]
they eat bread, and call not upon the
LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for
God [is] in the generation of the
righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the
poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel [were
come] out of Zion! when the LORD
bringeth back the captivity of his
people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and]
Israel shall be glad.

PSALM 15
A Psalm of David.
1 LORD, who shall abide in thy
tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy
hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and
worketh righteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart.
3 [He that] backbiteth not with his
tongue, nor doeth evil to his
neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach
against his neighbour.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is
contemned; but he honoureth them that
fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to
[his own] hurt, and changeth not.
5 [He that] putteth not out his money
to usury, nor taketh reward against the
innocent. He that doeth these [things]
shall never be moved.

PSALM 16
Michtam of David.
1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I
put my trust.
2 [O my soul], thou hast said unto the
LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my goodness
[extendeth] not to thee;
3 [But] to the saints that [are] in the
earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom
[is] all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied
[that] hasten [after] another [god]:
their drink offerings of blood will I
not offer, nor take up their names into
my lips.
5 The LORD [is] the portion of mine
inheritance and of my cup: thou
maintainest my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly
heritage.
7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given
me counsel: my reins also instruct me
in the night seasons.
8 I have set the LORD always before me:
because [he is] at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my
glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall
rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in
hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at
thy right hand [there are] pleasures
for evermore.

PSALM 17
A Prayer of David.
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto
my cry, give ear unto my prayer, [that
goeth] not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy
presence; let thine eyes behold the
things that are equal.
3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou
hast visited [me] in the night; thou
hast tried me, [and] shalt find
nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth
shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the
word of thy lips I have kept [me from]
the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in thy paths,
[that] my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon thee, for thou
wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear
unto me, [and hear] my speech.
7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O
thou that savest by thy right hand them
which put their trust [in thee] from
those that rise up [against them].
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide
me under the shadow of thy wings,
9 From the wicked that oppress me,
[from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass
me about.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat:
with their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our
steps: they have set their eyes bowing
down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of
his prey, and as it were a young lion
lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast
him down: deliver my soul from the
wicked, [which is] thy sword:
14 From men [which are] thy hand, O
LORD, from men of the world, [which
have] their portion in [this] life, and
whose belly thou fillest with thy hid
[treasure]: they are full of children,
and leave the rest of their [substance]
to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in
righteousness: I shall be satisfied,
when I awake, with thy likeness.

PSALM 18
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of
David, the servant of the LORD, who
spake unto the LORD the words of this
song in the day [that] the LORD
delivered him from the hand of all his
enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And
he said,
1 I will love thee, O LORD, my
strength.
2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my
strength, in whom I will trust; my
buckler, and the horn of my salvation,
[and] my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is
worthy] to be praised: so shall I be
saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me,
and the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me
about: the snares of death prevented
me.
6 In my distress I called upon the
LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard
my voice out of his temple, and my cry
came before him, [even] into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
the foundations also of the hills moved
and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came
down: and darkness [was] under his
feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did
fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of
the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place;
his pavilion round about him [were]
dark waters [and] thick clouds of the
skies.
12 At the brightness [that was] before
him his thick clouds passed, hail
[stones] and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the
heavens, and the Highest gave his
voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and
scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were
seen, and the foundations of the world
were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD,
at the blast of the breath of thy
nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he
drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong
enemy, and from them which hated me:
for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a
large place; he delivered me, because
he delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness; according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the
LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
22 For all his judgments [were] before
me, and I did not put away his statutes
from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I
kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed
me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands
in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew
thyself merciful; with an upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself
pure; and with the froward thou wilt
shew thyself froward.
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted
people; but wilt bring down high looks.
28 For thou wilt light my candle: the
LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by thee I have run through a
troop; and by my God have I leaped over
a wall.
30 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect:
the word of the LORD is tried: he [is]
a buckler to all those that trust in
him.
31 For who [is] God save the LORD? or
who [is] a rock save our God?
32 [It is] God that girdeth me with
strength, and maketh my way perfect.
33 He maketh my feet like hinds'
[feet], and setteth me upon my high
places.
34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that
a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 Thou hast also given me the shield
of thy salvation: and thy right hand
hath holden me up, and thy gentleness
hath made me great.
36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under
me, that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued mine enemies, and
overtaken them: neither did I turn
again till they were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were
not able to rise: they are fallen under
my feet.
39 For thou hast girded me with
strength unto the battle: thou hast
subdued under me those that rose up
against me.
40 Thou hast also given me the necks of
mine enemies; that I might destroy them
that hate me.
41 They cried, but [there was] none to
save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he
answered them not.
42 Then did I beat them small as the
dust before the wind: I did cast them
out as the dirt in the streets.
43 Thou hast delivered me from the
strivings of the people; [and] thou
hast made me the head of the heathen: a
people [whom] I have not known shall
serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they
shall obey me: the strangers shall
submit themselves unto me.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and
be afraid out of their close places.
46 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my
rock; and let the God of my salvation
be exalted.
47 [It is] God that avengeth me, and
subdueth the people under me.
48 He delivereth me from mine enemies:
yea, thou liftest me up above those
that rise up against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto
thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and
sing praises unto thy name.
50 Great deliverance giveth he to his
king; and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore.

PSALM 19
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and
night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 [There is] no speech nor language,
[where] their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all
the earth, and their words to the end
of the world. In them hath he set a
tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out
of his chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a
strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth [is] from the end of
the heaven, and his circuit unto the
ends of it: and there is nothing hid
from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect,
converting the soul: the testimony of
the LORD [is] sure, making wise the
simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right,
rejoicing the heart: the commandment of
the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the
eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean,
enduring for ever: the judgments of the
LORD [are] true [and] righteous
altogether.
10 More to be desired [are they] than
gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter
also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant
warned: [and] in keeping of them [there
is] great reward.
12 Who can understand [his] errors?
cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
13 Keep back thy servant also from
presumptuous [sins]; let them not have
dominion over me: then shall I be
upright, and I shall be innocent from
the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart, be acceptable
in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and
my redeemer.

PSALM 20
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 The LORD hear thee in the day of
trouble; the name of the God of Jacob
defend thee;
2 Send thee help from the sanctuary,
and strengthen thee out of Zion;
3 Remember all thy offerings, and
accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant thee according to thine own
heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and
in the name of our God we will set up
[our] banners: the LORD fulfil all thy
petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his
anointed; he will hear him from his
holy heaven with the saving strength of
his right hand.
7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in
horses: but we will remember the name
of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but
we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when
we call.

PSALM 21
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O
LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly
shall he rejoice!
2 Thou hast given him his heart's
desire, and hast not withholden the
request of his lips. Selah.
3 For thou preventest him with the
blessings of goodness: thou settest a
crown of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked life of thee, [and] thou
gavest [it] him, [even] length of days
for ever and ever.
5 His glory [is] great in thy
salvation: honour and majesty hast thou
laid upon him.
6 For thou hast made him most blessed
for ever: thou hast made him exceeding
glad with thy countenance.
7 For the king trusteth in the LORD,
and through the mercy of the most High
he shall not be moved.
8 Thine hand shall find out all thine
enemies: thy right hand shall find out
those that hate thee.
9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven
in the time of thine anger: the LORD
shall swallow them up in his wrath, and
the fire shall devour them.
10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from
the earth, and their seed from among
the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against thee:
they imagined a mischievous device,
[which] they are not able [to perform].
12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn
their back, [when] thou shalt make
ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings
against the face of them.
13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own
strength: [so] will we sing and praise
thy power.

PSALM 22
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth
Shahar, A Psalm of David.
1 My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from
helping me, [and from] the words of my
roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but
thou hearest not; and in the night
season, and am not silent.
3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that
inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they
trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were
delivered: they trusted in thee, and
were not confounded.
6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a
reproach of men, and despised of the
people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to
scorn: they shoot out the lip, they
shake the head, [saying],
8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he
would deliver him: let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou [art] he that took me out of
the womb: thou didst make me hope [when
I was] upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb:
thou [art] my God from my mother's
belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is]
near; for [there is] none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong
[bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me [with] their
mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring
lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all
my bones are out of joint: my heart is
like wax; it is melted in the midst of
my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a
potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my
jaws; and thou hast brought me into the
dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the
assembly of the wicked have inclosed
me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look
[and] stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them,
and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD:
O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my
darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for
thou hast heard me from the horns of
the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my
brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him;
all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of
Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor
abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid his face
from him; but when he cried unto him,
he heard.
25 My praise [shall be] of thee in the
great congregation: I will pay my vows
before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied:
they shall praise the LORD that seek
him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall
remember and turn unto the LORD: and
all the kindreds of the nations shall
worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and
he [is] the governor among the nations.
29 All [they that be] fat upon earth
shall eat and worship: all they that go
down to the dust shall bow before him:
and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be
accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare
his righteousness unto a people that
shall be born, that he hath done
[this].

PSALM 23
A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall
not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures: he leadeth me beside the
still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me
in the paths of righteousness for his
name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod
and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in
the presence of mine enemies: thou
anointest my head with oil; my cup
runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life: and
I will dwell in the house of the LORD
for ever.

PSALM 24
A Psalm of David.
1 The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the
fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas,
and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the
LORD? or who shall stand in his holy
place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure
heart; who hath not lifted up his soul
unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from
the LORD, and righteousness from the
God of his salvation.
6 This [is] the generation of them that
seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob.
Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and
be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD
strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in
battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even
lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD
of hosts, he [is] the King of glory.
Selah.

PSALM 25
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my
soul.
2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not
be ashamed, let not mine enemies
triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be
ashamed: let them be ashamed which
transgress without cause.
4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me
thy paths.
5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me:
for thou [art] the God of my salvation;
on thee do I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies
and thy lovingkindnesses; for they
[have been] ever of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth,
nor my transgressions: according to thy
mercy remember thou me for thy
goodness' sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright [is] the LORD:
therefore will he teach sinners in the
way.
9 The meek will he guide in judgment:
and the meek will he teach his way.
10 All the paths of the LORD [are]
mercy and truth unto such as keep his
covenant and his testimonies.
11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon
mine iniquity; for it [is] great.
12 What man [is] he that feareth the
LORD? him shall he teach in the way
[that] he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and
his seed shall inherit the earth.
14 The secret of the LORD [is] with
them that fear him; and he will shew
them his covenant.
15 Mine eyes [are] ever toward the
LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of
the net.
16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy
upon me; for I [am] desolate and
afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are
enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my
distresses.
18 Look upon mine affliction and my
pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider mine enemies; for they are
many; and they hate me with cruel
hatred.
20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let
me not be ashamed; for I put my trust
in thee.
21 Let integrity and uprightness
preserve me; for I wait on thee.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his
troubles.

PSALM 26
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked
in mine integrity: I have trusted also
in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not
slide.
2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try
my reins and my heart.
3 For thy lovingkindness [is] before
mine eyes: and I have walked in thy
truth.
4 I have not sat with vain persons,
neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5 I have hated the congregation of evil
doers; and will not sit with the
wicked.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency:
so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
7 That I may publish with the voice of
thanksgiving, and tell of all thy
wondrous works.
8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of
thy house, and the place where thine
honour dwelleth.
9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor
my life with bloody men:
10 In whose hands [is] mischief, and
their right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in mine
integrity: redeem me, and be merciful
unto me.
12 My foot standeth in an even place:
in the congregations will I bless the
LORD.

PSALM 27
[A Psalm] of David.
1 The LORD [is] my light and my
salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD
[is] the strength of my life; of whom
shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, [even] mine enemies
and my foes, came upon me to eat up my
flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though an host should encamp against
me, my heart shall not fear: though war
should rise against me, in this [will]
I [be] confident.
4 One [thing] have I desired of the
LORD, that will I seek after; that I
may dwell in the house of the LORD all
the days of my life, to behold the
beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in
his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall
hide me in his pavilion: in the secret
of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he
shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up
above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his
tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will
sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the
LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my
voice: have mercy also upon me, and
answer me.
8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face;
my heart said unto thee, Thy face,
LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not thy face [far] from me; put
not thy servant away in anger: thou
hast been my help; leave me not,
neither forsake me, O God of my
salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake
me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead
me in a plain path, because of mine
enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of
mine enemies: for false witnesses are
risen up against me, and such as
breathe out cruelty.
13 [I had fainted], unless I had
believed to see the goodness of the
LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good
courage, and he shall strengthen thine
heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

PSALM 28
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock;
be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be
silent to me, I become like them that
go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications,
when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my
hands toward thy holy oracle.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and
with the workers of iniquity, which
speak peace to their neighbours, but
mischief [is] in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their deeds,
and according to the wickedness of
their endeavours: give them after the
work of their hands; render to them
their desert.
5 Because they regard not the works of
the LORD, nor the operation of his
hands, he shall destroy them, and not
build them up.
6 Blessed [be] the LORD, because he
hath heard the voice of my
supplications.
7 The LORD [is] my strength and my
shield; my heart trusted in him, and I
am helped: therefore my heart greatly
rejoiceth; and with my song will I
praise him.
8 The LORD [is] their strength, and he
[is] the saving strength of his
anointed.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine
inheritance: feed them also, and lift
them up for ever.

PSALM 29
A Psalm of David.
1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give
unto the LORD glory and strength.
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto
his name; worship the LORD in the
beauty of holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD [is] upon the
waters: the God of glory thundereth:
the LORD [is] upon many waters.
4 The voice of the LORD [is] powerful;
the voice of the LORD [is] full of
majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the
cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the
cedars of Lebanon.
6 He maketh them also to skip like a
calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young
unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divideth the
flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the
wilderness; the LORD shaketh the
wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD maketh the
hinds to calve, and discovereth the
forests: and in his temple doth every
one speak of [his] glory.
10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood;
yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
11 The LORD will give strength unto his
people; the LORD will bless his people
with peace.

PSALM 30
A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication
of the house of David.
1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou
hast lifted me up, and hast not made my
foes to rejoice over me.
2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and
thou hast healed me.
3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul
from the grave: thou hast kept me
alive, that I should not go down to the
pit.
4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of
his, and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness.
5 For his anger [endureth but] a
moment; in his favour [is] life:
weeping may endure for a night, but joy
[cometh] in the morning.
6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall
never be moved.
7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my
mountain to stand strong: thou didst
hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the
LORD I made supplication.
9 What profit [is there] in my blood,
when I go down to the pit? Shall the
dust praise thee? shall it declare thy
truth?
10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon
me: LORD, be thou my helper.
11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning
into dancing: thou hast put off my
sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
12 To the end that [my] glory may sing
praise to thee, and not be silent. O
LORD my God, I will give thanks unto
thee for ever.

PSALM 31
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;
let me never be ashamed: deliver me in
thy righteousness.
2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me
speedily: be thou my strong rock, for
an house of defence to save me.
3 For thou [art] my rock and my
fortress; therefore for thy name's sake
lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have
laid privily for me: for thou [art] my
strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit:
thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of
truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying
vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy
mercy: for thou hast considered my
trouble; thou hast known my soul in
adversities;
8 And hast not shut me up into the hand
of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in
a large room.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am
in trouble: mine eye is consumed with
grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and
my years with sighing: my strength
faileth because of mine iniquity, and
my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all mine
enemies, but especially among my
neighbours, and a fear to mine
acquaintance: they that did see me
without fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of
mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of
many: fear [was] on every side: while
they took counsel together against me,
they devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I
said, Thou [art] my God.
15 My times [are] in thy hand: deliver
me from the hand of mine enemies, and
from them that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy
servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I
have called upon thee: let the wicked
be ashamed, [and] let them be silent in
the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to
silence; which speak grievous things
proudly and contemptuously against the
righteous.
19 [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness,
which thou hast laid up for them that
fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought
for them that trust in thee before the
sons of men!
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret
of thy presence from the pride of man:
thou shalt keep them secretly in a
pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath
shewed me his marvellous kindness in a
strong city.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off
from before thine eyes: nevertheless
thou heardest the voice of my
supplications when I cried unto thee.
23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints:
[for] the LORD preserveth the faithful,
and plentifully rewardeth the proud
doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen your heart, all ye that hope
in the LORD.

PSALM 32
[A Psalm] of David, Maschil.
1 Blessed [is he whose] transgression
[is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is]
covered.
2 Blessed [is] the man unto whom the
LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in
whose spirit [there is] no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed
old through my roaring all the day
long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy
upon me: my moisture is turned into the
drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and
mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I
will confess my transgressions unto the
LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity
of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is
godly pray unto thee in a time when
thou mayest be found: surely in the
floods of great waters they shall not
come nigh unto him.
7 Thou [art] my hiding place; thou
shalt preserve me from trouble; thou
shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee
in the way which thou shalt go: I will
guide thee with mine eye.
9 Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the
mule, [which] have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit
and bridle, lest they come near unto
thee.
10 Many sorrows [shall be] to the
wicked: but he that trusteth in the
LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye
righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye
that are] upright in heart.

PSALM 33
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous:
[for] praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto
him with the psaltery [and] an
instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto him a new song; play
skilfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the LORD [is] right;
and all his works [are done] in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment:
the earth is full of the goodness of
the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD were the
heavens made; and all the host of them
by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea
together as an heap: he layeth up the
depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let
all the inhabitants of the world stand
in awe of him.
9 For he spake, and it was [done]; he
commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the
heathen to nought: he maketh the
devices of the people of none effect.
11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for
ever, the thoughts of his heart to all
generations.
12 Blessed [is] the nation whose God
[is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom]
he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he
beholdeth all the sons of men.
14 From the place of his habitation he
looketh upon all the inhabitants of the
earth.
15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he
considereth all their works.
16 There is no king saved by the
multitude of an host: a mighty man is
not delivered by much strength.
17 An horse [is] a vain thing for
safety: neither shall he deliver [any]
by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD [is]
upon them that fear him, upon them that
hope in his mercy;
19 To deliver their soul from death,
and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he
[is] our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in him,
because we have trusted in his holy
name.
22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us,
according as we hope in thee.

PSALM 34
[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his
behaviour before Abimelech; who drove
him away, and he departed.
1 I will bless the LORD at all times:
his praise [shall] continually [be] in
my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the
LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof],
and be glad.
3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let
us exalt his name together.
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
5 They looked unto him, and were
lightened: and their faces were not
ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD
heard [him], and saved him out of all
his troubles.
7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round
about them that fear him, and
delivereth them.
8 O taste and see that the LORD [is]
good: blessed [is] the man [that]
trusteth in him.
9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for
[there is] no want to them that fear
him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer
hunger: but they that seek the LORD
shall not want any good [thing].
11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me:
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 What man [is he that] desireth life,
[and] loveth [many] days, that he may
see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy
lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek
peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the
righteous, and his ears [are open] unto
their cry.
16 The face of the LORD [is] against
them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD
heareth, and delivereth them out of all
their troubles.
18 The LORD [is] nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart; and saveth such
as be of a contrite spirit.
19 Many [are] the afflictions of the
righteous: but the LORD delivereth him
out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of
them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they
that hate the righteous shall be
desolate.
22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his
servants: and none of them that trust
in him shall be desolate.

PSALM 35
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them
that strive with me: fight against them
that fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and
stand up for mine help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop
[the way] against them that persecute
me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy
salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to
shame that seek after my soul: let them
be turned back and brought to confusion
that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind:
and let the angel of the LORD chase
[them].
6 Let their way be dark and slippery:
and let the angel of the LORD persecute
them.
7 For without cause have they hid for
me their net [in] a pit, [which]
without cause they have digged for my
soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at
unawares; and let his net that he hath
hid catch himself: into that very
destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the
LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who
[is] like unto thee, which deliverest
the poor from him that is too strong
for him, yea, the poor and the needy
from him that spoileth him?
11 False witnesses did rise up; they
laid to my charge [things] that I knew
not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good [to]
the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick,
my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled
my soul with fasting; and my prayer
returned into mine own bosom.
14 I behaved myself as though [he had
been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed
down heavily, as one that mourneth [for
his] mother.
15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced,
and gathered themselves together:
[yea], the abjects gathered themselves
together against me, and I knew [it]
not; they did tear [me], and ceased
not:
16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts,
they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on?
rescue my soul from their destructions,
my darling from the lions.
18 I will give thee thanks in the great
congregation: I will praise thee among
much people.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies
wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither]
let them wink with the eye that hate me
without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they
devise deceitful matters against [them
that are] quiet in the land.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide
against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our
eye hath seen [it].
22 [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep
not silence: O Lord, be not far from
me.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my
judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God
and my Lord.
24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according
to thy righteousness; and let them not
rejoice over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts,
Ah, so would we have it: let them not
say, We have swallowed him up.
26 Let them be ashamed and brought to
confusion together that rejoice at mine
hurt: let them be clothed with shame
and dishonour that magnify [themselves]
against me.
27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad,
that favour my righteous cause: yea,
let them say continually, Let the LORD
be magnified, which hath pleasure in
the prosperity of his servant.
28 And my tongue shall speak of thy
righteousness [and] of thy praise all
the day long.

PSALM 36
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of
David the servant of the LORD.
1 The transgression of the wicked saith
within my heart, [that there is] no
fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flattereth himself in his own
eyes, until his iniquity be found to be
hateful.
3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity
and deceit: he hath left off to be
wise, [and] to do good.
4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he
setteth himself in a way [that is] not
good; he abhorreth not evil.
5 Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the
heavens; [and] thy faithfulness
[reacheth] unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness [is] like the great
mountains; thy judgments [are] a great
deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and
beast.
7 How excellent [is] thy
lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under
the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied
with the fatness of thy house; and thou
shalt make them drink of the river of
thy pleasures.
9 For with thee [is] the fountain of
life: in thy light shall we see light.
10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto
them that know thee; and thy
righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come
against me, and let not the hand of the
wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers of iniquity
fallen: they are cast down, and shall
not be able to rise.

PSALM 37
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Fret not thyself because of
evildoers, neither be thou envious
against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like
the grass, and wither as the green
herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so]
shalt thou dwell in the land, and
verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and
he shall give thee the desires of thine
heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust
also in him; and he shall bring [it] to
pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy
righteousness as the light, and thy
judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently
for him: fret not thyself because of
him who prospereth in his way, because
of the man who bringeth wicked devices
to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath:
fret not thyself in any wise to do
evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but
those that wait upon the LORD, they
shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the
wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou
shalt diligently consider his place,
and it [shall] not [be].
11 But the meek shall inherit the
earth; and shall delight themselves in
the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plotteth against the
just, and gnasheth upon him with his
teeth.
13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he
seeth that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword,
and have bent their bow, to cast down
the poor and needy, [and] to slay such
as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their
own heart, and their bows shall be
broken.
16 A little that a righteous man hath
[is] better than the riches of many
wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be
broken: but the LORD upholdeth the
righteous.
18 The LORD knoweth the days of the
upright: and their inheritance shall be
for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the
evil time: and in the days of famine
they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the
enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the
fat of lambs: they shall consume; into
smoke shall they consume away.
21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not
again: but the righteous sheweth mercy,
and giveth.
22 For [such as be] blessed of him
shall inherit the earth; and [they that
be] cursed of him shall be cut off.
23 The steps of a [good] man are
ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth
in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be
utterly cast down: for the LORD
upholdeth [him with] his hand.
25 I have been young, and [now] am old;
yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 [He is] ever merciful, and lendeth;
and his seed [is] blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and
dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and
forsaketh not his saints; they are
preserved for ever: but the seed of the
wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the
land, and dwell therein for ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh
wisdom, and his tongue talketh of
judgment.
31 The law of his God [is] in his
heart; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous,
and seeketh to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his
hand, nor condemn him when he is
judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way,
and he shall exalt thee to inherit the
land: when the wicked are cut off, thou
shalt see [it].
35 I have seen the wicked in great
power, and spreading himself like a
green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he
[was] not: yea, I sought him, but he
could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect [man], and behold
the upright: for the end of [that] man
[is] peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be
destroyed together: the end of the
wicked shall be cut off.
39 But the salvation of the righteous
[is] of the LORD: [he is] their
strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and
deliver them: he shall deliver them
from the wicked, and save them, because
they trust in him.

PSALM 38
A Psalm of David, to bring to
remembrance.
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath:
neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me,
and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh
because of thine anger; neither [is
there any] rest in my bones because of
my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over
mine head: as an heavy burden they are
too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt
because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down
greatly; I go mourning all the day
long.
7 For my loins are filled with a
loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no
soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have
roared by reason of the disquietness of
my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire [is] before thee;
and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength
faileth me: as for the light of mine
eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof
from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar
off.
12 They also that seek after my life
lay snares [for me]: and they that seek
my hurt speak mischievous things, and
imagine deceits all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf [man], heard not;
and [I was] as a dumb man [that]
openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth
not, and in whose mouth [are] no
reproofs.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou
wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, [Hear me], lest
[otherwise] they should rejoice over
me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify
[themselves] against me.
17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my
sorrow [is] continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I
will be sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies [are] lively, [and]
they are strong: and they that hate me
wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good
are mine adversaries; because I follow
[the thing that] good [is].
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be
not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my
salvation.

PSALM 39
To the chief Musician, [even] to
Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways,
that I sin not with my tongue: I will
keep my mouth with a bridle, while the
wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my
peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow
was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I
was musing the fire burned: [then]
spake I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and
the measure of my days, what it [is;
that] I may know how frail I [am].
5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as]
an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as
nothing before thee: verily every man
at his best state [is] altogether
vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain
shew: surely they are disquieted in
vain: he heapeth up [riches], and
knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my
hope [is] in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my
transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;
because thou didst [it].
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am
consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct
man for iniquity, thou makest his
beauty to consume away like a moth:
surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear
unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my
tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee,
[and] a sojourner, as all my fathers
[were].
13 O spare me, that I may recover
strength, before I go hence, and be no
more.

PSALM 40
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and
he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an
horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and
set my feet upon a rock, [and]
established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my
mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many
shall see [it], and fear, and shall
trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed [is] that man that maketh the
LORD his trust, and respecteth not the
proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy
wonderful works [which] thou hast done,
and thy thoughts [which are] to
us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in
order unto thee: [if] I would declare
and speak [of them], they are more than
can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not
desire; mine ears hast thou opened:
burnt offering and sin offering hast
thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the
volume of the book [it is] written of
me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God:
yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the
great congregation: lo, I have not
refrained my lips, O LORD, thou
knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness
within my heart; I have declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation: I have
not concealed thy lovingkindness and
thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies
from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness
and thy truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed
me about: mine iniquities have taken
hold upon me, so that I am not able to
look up; they are more than the hairs
of mine head: therefore my heart
faileth me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O
LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded
together that seek after my soul to
destroy it; let them be driven backward
and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of
their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice
and be glad in thee: let such as love
thy salvation say continually, The LORD
be magnified.
17 But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the
Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my
help and my deliverer; make no
tarrying, O my God.

PSALM 41
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 Blessed [is] he that considereth the
poor: the LORD will deliver him in time
of trouble.
2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep
him alive; [and] he shall be blessed
upon the earth: and thou wilt not
deliver him unto the will of his
enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the
bed of languishing: thou wilt make all
his bed in his sickness.
4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me:
heal my soul; for I have sinned against
thee.
5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When
shall he die, and his name perish?
6 And if he come to see [me], he
speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth
iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth
abroad, he telleth [it].
7 All that hate me whisper together
against me: against me do they devise
my hurt.
8 An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth
fast unto him: and [now] that he lieth
he shall rise up no more.
9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in
whom I trusted, which did eat of my
bread, hath lifted up [his] heel
against me.
10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto
me, and raise me up, that I may requite
them.
11 By this I know that thou favourest
me, because mine enemy doth not triumph
over me.
12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in
mine integrity, and settest me before
thy face for ever.
13 Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel
from everlasting, and to everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.

PSALM 42
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the
sons of Korah.
1 As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the
living God: when shall I come and
appear before God?
3 My tears have been my meat day and
night, while they continually say unto
me, Where [is] thy God?
4 When I remember these [things], I
pour out my soul in me: for I had gone
with the multitude, I went with them to
the house of God, with the voice of joy
and praise, with a multitude that kept
holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and [why] art thou disquieted in me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet
praise him [for] the help of his
countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within
me: therefore will I remember thee from
the land of Jordan, and of the
Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise
of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and
thy billows are gone over me.
8 [Yet] the LORD will command his
lovingkindness in the daytime, and in
the night his song [shall be] with me,
[and] my prayer unto the God of my
life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast
thou forgotten me? why go I mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine
enemies reproach me; while they say
daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet
praise him, [who is] the health of my
countenance, and my God.

PSALM 43
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause
against an ungodly nation: O deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou [art] the God of my
strength: why dost thou cast me off?
why go I mourning because of the
oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth:
let them lead me; let them bring me
unto thy holy hill, and to thy
tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God,
unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon
the harp will I praise thee, O God my
God.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope in God: for I shall yet praise
him, [who is] the health of my
countenance, and my God.

PSALM 44
To the chief Musician for the sons of
Korah, Maschil.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God,
our fathers have told us, [what] work
thou didst in their days, in the times
of old.
2 [How] thou didst drive out the
heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them; [how] thou didst afflict the
people, and cast them out.
3 For they got not the land in
possession by their own sword, neither
did their own arm save them: but thy
right hand, and thine arm, and the
light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them.
4 Thou art my King, O God: command
deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our
enemies: through thy name will we tread
them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow,
neither shall my sword save me.
7 But thou hast saved us from our
enemies, and hast put them to shame
that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and
praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to
shame; and goest not forth with our
armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the
enemy: and they which hate us spoil for
themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep
[appointed] for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
12 Thou sellest thy people for nought,
and dost not increase [thy wealth] by
their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our
neighbours, a scorn and a derision to
them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the
heathen, a shaking of the head among
the people.
15 My confusion [is] continually before
me, and the shame of my face hath
covered me,
16 For the voice of him that
reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason
of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have
we not forgotten thee, neither have we
dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back,
neither have our steps declined from
thy way;
19 Though thou hast sore broken us in
the place of dragons, and covered us
with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our
God, or stretched out our hands to a
strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for
he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all
the day long; we are counted as sheep
for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
[and] forgettest our affliction and our
oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the
dust: our belly cleaveth unto the
earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us
for thy mercies' sake.

PSALM 45
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim,
for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song
of loves.
1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I
speak of the things which I have made
touching the king: my tongue [is] the
pen of a ready writer.
2 Thou art fairer than the children of
men: grace is poured into thy lips:
therefore God hath blessed thee for
ever.
3 Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O
[most] mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously
because of truth and meekness [and]
righteousness; and thy right hand shall
teach thee terrible things.
5 Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart
of the king's enemies; [whereby] the
people fall under thee.
6 Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and
ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom [is] a
right sceptre.
7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest
wickedness: therefore God, thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows.
8 All thy garments [smell] of myrrh,
and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the
ivory palaces, whereby they have made
thee glad.
9 Kings' daughters [were] among thy
honourable women: upon thy right hand
did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider,
and incline thine ear; forget also
thine own people, and thy father's
house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire thy
beauty: for he [is] thy Lord; and
worship thou him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre [shall be
there] with a gift; [even] the rich
among the people shall intreat thy
favour.
13 The king's daughter [is] all
glorious within: her clothing [is] of
wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king
in raiment of needlework: the virgins
her companions that follow her shall be
brought unto thee.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall
they be brought: they shall enter into
the king's palace.
16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy
children, whom thou mayest make princes
in all the earth.
17 I will make thy name to be
remembered in all generations:
therefore shall the people praise thee
for ever and ever.

PSALM 46
To the chief Musician for the sons of
Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
1 God [is] our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though
the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea;
3 [Though] the waters thereof roar
[and] be troubled, [though] the
mountains shake with the swelling
thereof. Selah.
4 [There is] a river, the streams
whereof shall make glad the city of
God, the holy [place] of the
tabernacles of the most High.
5 God [is] in the midst of her; she
shall not be moved: God shall help her,
[and that] right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were
moved: he uttered his voice, the earth
melted.
7 The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the
God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
what desolations he hath made in the
earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end
of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and
cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth
the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I [am] God:
I will be exalted among the heathen, I
will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the
God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.

PSALM 47
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the
sons of Korah.
1 O clap your hands, all ye people;
shout unto God with the voice of
triumph.
2 For the LORD most high [is] terrible;
[he is] a great King over all the
earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us,
and the nations under our feet.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for
us, the excellency of Jacob whom he
loved. Selah.
5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD
with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises:
sing praises unto our King, sing
praises.
7 For God [is] the King of all the
earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
8 God reigneth over the heathen: God
sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness.
9 The princes of the people are
gathered together, [even] the people of
the God of Abraham: for the shields of
the earth [belong] unto God: he is
greatly exalted.

PSALM 48
A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of
Korah.
1 Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to
be praised in the city of our God, [in]
the mountain of his holiness.
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of
the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on]
the sides of the north, the city of the
great King.
3 God is known in her palaces for a
refuge.
4 For, lo, the kings were assembled,
they passed by together.
5 They saw [it, and] so they marvelled;
they were troubled, [and] hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, [and]
pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish
with an east wind.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in
the city of the LORD of hosts, in the
city of our God: God will establish it
for ever. Selah.
9 We have thought of thy
lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of
thy temple.
10 According to thy name, O God, so
[is] thy praise unto the ends of the
earth: thy right hand is full of
righteousness.
11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the
daughters of Judah be glad, because of
thy judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about
her: tell the towers thereof.
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider
her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to
the generation following.
14 For this God [is] our God for ever
and ever: he will be our guide [even]
unto death.

PSALM 49
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the
sons of Korah.
1 Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear,
all [ye] inhabitants of the world:
2 Both low and high, rich and poor,
together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and
the meditation of my heart [shall be]
of understanding.
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable:
I will open my dark saying upon the
harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days
of evil, [when] the iniquity of my
heels shall compass me about?
6 They that trust in their wealth, and
boast themselves in the multitude of
their riches;
7 None [of them] can by any means
redeem his brother, nor give to God a
ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their soul
[is] precious, and it ceaseth for
ever:)
9 That he should still live for ever,
[and] not see corruption.
10 For he seeth [that] wise men die,
likewise the fool and the brutish
person perish, and leave their wealth
to others.
11 Their inward thought [is, that]
their houses [shall continue] for ever,
[and] their dwelling places to all
generations; they call [their] lands
after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man [being] in honour
abideth not: he is like the beasts
[that] perish.
13 This their way [is] their folly: yet
their posterity approve their sayings.
Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the
grave; death shall feed on them; and
the upright shall have dominion over
them in the morning; and their beauty
shall consume in the grave from their
dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the
power of the grave: for he shall
receive me. Selah.
16 Be not thou afraid when one is made
rich, when the glory of his house is
increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry
nothing away: his glory shall not
descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his
soul: and [men] will praise thee, when
thou doest well to thyself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his
fathers; they shall never see light.
20 Man [that is] in honour, and
understandeth not, is like the beasts
[that] perish.

PSALM 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath
spoken, and called the earth from the
rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of
beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not
keep silence: a fire shall devour
before him, and it shall be very
tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from
above, and to the earth, that he may
judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me;
those that have made a covenant with me
by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his
righteousness: for God [is] judge
himself. Selah.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, and I will testify against
thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy
sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to
have been] continually before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy
house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds.
10 For every beast of the forest [is]
mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand
hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the
mountains: and the wild beasts of the
field [are] mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell
thee: for the world [is] mine, and the
fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or
drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay
thy vows unto the most High:
15 And call upon me in the day of
trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What
hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
or [that] thou shouldest take my
covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and
castest my words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou
consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and
thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against
thy brother; thou slanderest thine own
mother's son.
21 These [things] hast thou done, and I
kept silence; thou thoughtest that I
was altogether [such an one] as
thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and
set [them] in order before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget
God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and
[there be] none to deliver.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:
and to him that ordereth [his]
conversation [aright] will I shew the
salvation of God.

PSALM 51
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David, when Nathan the prophet came
unto him, after he had gone in to
Bath-sheba.
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according
to thy lovingkindness: according unto
the multitude of thy tender mercies
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions:
and my sin [is] ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I
sinned, and done [this] evil in thy
sight: that thou mightest be justified
when thou speakest, [and] be clear when
thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and
in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the
inward parts: and in the hidden [part]
thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be
clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness;
[that] the bones [which] thou hast
broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot
out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy
salvation; and uphold me [with thy]
free spirit.
13 [Then] will I teach transgressors
thy ways; and sinners shall be
converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O
God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my
tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my
mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice;
else would I give [it]: thou delightest
not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God [are] a broken
spirit: a broken and a contrite heart,
O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto
Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the
sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt
offering and whole burnt offering: then
shall they offer bullocks upon thine
altar.

PSALM 52
To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A
Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite
came and told Saul, and said unto him,
David is come to the house of
Ahimelech.
1 Why boastest thou thyself in
mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of
God [endureth] continually.
2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a
sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good;
[and] lying rather than to speak
righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O
[thou] deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for
ever, he shall take thee away, and
pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place,
and root thee out of the land of the
living. Selah.
6 The righteous also shall see, and
fear, and shall laugh at him:
7 Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not
God his strength; but trusted in the
abundance of his riches, [and]
strengthened himself in his wickedness.
8 But I [am] like a green olive tree in
the house of God: I trust in the mercy
of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because
thou hast done [it]: and I will wait on
thy name; for [it is] good before thy
saints.

PSALM 53
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath,
Maschil, [A Psalm] of David.
1 The fool hath said in his heart,
[There is] no God. Corrupt are they,
and have done abominable iniquity:
[there is] none that doeth good.
2 God looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were
[any] that did understand, that did
seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone back: they
are altogether become filthy; [there
is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no
knowledge? who eat up my people [as]
they eat bread: they have not called
upon God.
5 There were they in great fear,
[where] no fear was: for God hath
scattered the bones of him that
encampeth [against] thee: thou hast put
[them] to shame, because God hath
despised them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel [were
come] out of Zion! When God bringeth
back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be
glad.

PSALM 54
To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the
Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not
David hide himself with us?
1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and
judge me by thy strength.
2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to
the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers are risen up against
me, and oppressors seek after my soul:
they have not set God before them.
Selah.
4 Behold, God [is] mine helper: the
Lord [is] with them that uphold my
soul.
5 He shall reward evil unto mine
enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I
will praise thy name, O LORD; for [it
is] good.
7 For he hath delivered me out of all
trouble: and mine eye hath seen [his
desire] upon mine enemies.

PSALM 55
To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
Maschil, [A Psalm] of David.
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and
hide not thyself from my supplication.
2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn
in my complaint, and make a noise;
3 Because of the voice of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the
wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me,
and in wrath they hate me.
4 My heart is sore pained within me:
and the terrors of death are fallen
upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling are come
upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed
me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like
a dove! [for then] would I fly away,
and be at rest.
7 Lo, [then] would I wander far off,
[and] remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8 I would hasten my escape from the
windy storm [and] tempest.
9 Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their
tongues: for I have seen violence and
strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon
the walls thereof: mischief also and
sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness [is] in the midst
thereof: deceit and guile depart not
from her streets.
12 For [it was] not an enemy [that]
reproached me; then I could have borne
[it]: neither [was it] he that hated me
[that] did magnify [himself] against
me; then I would have hid myself from
him:
13 But [it was] thou, a man mine equal,
my guide, and mine acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together,
[and] walked unto the house of God in
company.
15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let
them go down quick into hell: for
wickedness [is] in their dwellings,
[and] among them.
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and
the LORD shall save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon,
will I pray, and cry aloud: and he
shall hear my voice.
18 He hath delivered my soul in peace
from the battle [that was] against me:
for there were many with me.
19 God shall hear, and afflict them,
even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Because they have no changes, therefore
they fear not God.
20 He hath put forth his hands against
such as be at peace with him: he hath
broken his covenant.
21 [The words] of his mouth were
smoother than butter, but war [was] in
his heart: his words were softer than
oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.
22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and
he shall sustain thee: he shall never
suffer the righteous to be moved.
23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them
down into the pit of destruction:
bloody and deceitful men shall not live
out half their days; but I will trust
in thee.

PSALM 56
To the chief Musician upon
Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David,
when the Philistines took him in Gath.
1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man
would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me.
2 Mine enemies would daily swallow [me]
up: for [they be] many that fight
against me, O thou most High.
3 What time I am afraid, I will trust
in thee.
4 In God I will praise his word, in God
I have put my trust; I will not fear
what flesh can do unto me.
5 Every day they wrest my words: all
their thoughts [are] against me for
evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they
hide themselves, they mark my steps,
when they wait for my soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in
[thine] anger cast down the people, O
God.
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou
my tears into thy bottle: [are they]
not in thy book?
9 When I cry [unto thee], then shall
mine enemies turn back: this I know;
for God [is] for me.
10 In God will I praise [his] word: in
the LORD will I praise [his] word.
11 In God have I put my trust: I will
not be afraid what man can do unto me.
12 Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I
will render praises unto thee.
13 For thou hast delivered my soul from
death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my
feet from falling, that I may walk
before God in the light of the living?

PSALM 57
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith,
Michtam of David, when he fled from
Saul in the cave.
1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be
merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth
in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy
wings will I make my refuge, until
[these] calamities be overpast.
2 I will cry unto God most high; unto
God that performeth [all things] for
me.
3 He shall send from heaven, and save
me [from] the reproach of him that
would swallow me up. Selah. God shall
send forth his mercy and his truth.
4 My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie
[even among] them that are set on fire,
[even] the sons of men, whose teeth
[are] spears and arrows, and their
tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens; [let] thy glory [be] above all
the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my
steps; my soul is bowed down: they have
digged a pit before me, into the midst
whereof they are fallen [themselves].
Selah.
7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is
fixed: I will sing and give praise.
8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery
and harp: I [myself] will awake early.
9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the
people: I will sing unto thee among the
nations.
10 For thy mercy [is] great unto the
heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens: [let] thy glory [be] above all
the earth.

PSALM 58
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith,
Michtam of David.
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O
congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O
ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye
weigh the violence of your hands in the
earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the
womb: they go astray as soon as they be
born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison [is] like the poison of
a serpent: [they are] like the deaf
adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice
of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their
mouth: break out the great teeth of the
young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters [which]
run continually: [when] he bendeth [his
bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be
as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail [which] melteth, let
[every one of them] pass away: [like]
the untimely birth of a woman, [that]
they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,
he shall take them away as with a
whirlwind, both living, and in [his]
wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he
seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his
feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily
[there is] a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the
earth.

PSALM 59
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith,
Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and
they watched the house to kill him.
1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my
God: defend me from them that rise up
against me.
2 Deliver me from the workers of
iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my
soul: the mighty are gathered against
me; not [for] my transgression, nor
[for] my sin, O LORD.
4 They run and prepare themselves
without [my] fault: awake to help me,
and behold.
5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts,
the God of Israel, awake to visit all
the heathen: be not merciful to any
wicked transgressors. Selah.
6 They return at evening: they make a
noise like a dog, and go round about
the city.
7 Behold, they belch out with their
mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for
who, [say they], doth hear?
8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at
them; thou shalt have all the heathen
in derision.
9 [Because of] his strength will I wait
upon thee: for God [is] my defence.
10 The God of my mercy shall prevent
me: God shall let me see [my desire]
upon mine enemies.
11 Slay them not, lest my people
forget: scatter them by thy power; and
bring them down, O Lord our shield.
12 [For] the sin of their mouth [and]
the words of their lips let them even
be taken in their pride: and for
cursing and lying [which] they speak.
13 Consume [them] in wrath, consume
[them], that they [may] not [be]: and
let them know that God ruleth in Jacob
unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
14 And at evening let them return;
[and] let them make a noise like a dog,
and go round about the city.
15 Let them wander up and down for
meat, and grudge if they be not
satisfied.
16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I
will sing aloud of thy mercy in the
morning: for thou hast been my defence
and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I
sing: for God [is] my defence, [and]
the God of my mercy.

PSALM 60
To the chief Musician upon
Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to
teach; when he strove with
Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when
Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the
valley of salt twelve thousand.
1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou
hast scattered us, thou hast been
displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble;
thou hast broken it: heal the breaches
thereof; for it shaketh.
3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard
things: thou hast made us to drink the
wine of astonishment.
4 Thou hast given a banner to them that
fear thee, that it may be displayed
because of the truth. Selah.
5 That thy beloved may be delivered;
save [with] thy right hand, and hear
me.
6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I
will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is]
mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of
mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
8 Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will
I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph
thou because of me.
9 Who will bring me [into] the strong
city? who will lead me into Edom?
10 [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which]
hadst cast us off? and [thou], O God,
[which] didst not go out with our
armies?
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain
[is] the help of man.
12 Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he [it is that] shall tread down
our enemies.

PSALM 61
To the chief Musician upon Neginah, [A
Psalm] of David.
1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my
prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I cry
unto thee, when my heart is
overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that]
is higher than I.
3 For thou hast been a shelter for me,
[and] a strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for
ever: I will trust in the covert of thy
wings. Selah.
5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows:
thou hast given [me] the heritage of
those that fear thy name.
6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life:
[and] his years as many generations.
7 He shall abide before God for ever: O
prepare mercy and truth, [which] may
preserve him.
8 So will I sing praise unto thy name
for ever, that I may daily perform my
vows.

PSALM 62
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A
Psalm of David.
1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from
him [cometh] my salvation.
2 He only [is] my rock and my
salvation; [he is] my defence; I shall
not be greatly moved.
3 How long will ye imagine mischief
against a man? ye shall be slain all of
you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be, and
as] a tottering fence.
4 They only consult to cast [him] down
from his excellency: they delight in
lies: they bless with their mouth, but
they curse inwardly. Selah.
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for
my expectation [is] from him.
6 He only [is] my rock and my
salvation: [he is] my defence; I shall
not be moved.
7 In God [is] my salvation and my
glory: the rock of my strength, [and]
my refuge, [is] in God.
8 Trust in him at all times; [ye]
people, pour out your heart before him:
God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
9 Surely men of low degree [are]
vanity, [and] men of high degree [are]
a lie: to be laid in the balance, they
[are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.
10 Trust not in oppression, and become
not vain in robbery: if riches
increase, set not your heart [upon
them].
11 God hath spoken once; twice have I
heard this; that power [belongeth] unto
God.
12 Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth]
mercy: for thou renderest to every man
according to his work.

PSALM 63
A Psalm of David, when he was in the
wilderness of Judah.
1 O God, thou [art] my God; early will
I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for
thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a
dry and thirsty land, where no water
is;
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so
[as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
3 Because thy lovingkindness [is]
better than life, my lips shall praise
thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live:
I will lift up my hands in thy name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as [with]
marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall
praise [thee] with joyful lips:
6 When I remember thee upon my bed,
[and] meditate on thee in the [night]
watches.
7 Because thou hast been my help,
therefore in the shadow of thy wings
will I rejoice.
8 My soul followeth hard after thee:
thy right hand upholdeth me.
9 But those [that] seek my soul, to
destroy [it], shall go into the lower
parts of the earth.
10 They shall fall by the sword: they
shall be a portion for foxes.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God;
every one that sweareth by him shall
glory: but the mouth of them that speak
lies shall be stopped.

PSALM 64
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer:
preserve my life from fear of the
enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of
the wicked; from the insurrection of
the workers of iniquity:
3 Who whet their tongue like a sword,
[and] bend [their bows to shoot] their
arrows, [even] bitter words:
4 That they may shoot in secret at the
perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him,
and fear not.
5 They encourage themselves [in] an
evil matter: they commune of laying
snares privily; they say, Who shall see
them?
6 They search out iniquities; they
accomplish a diligent search: both the
inward [thought] of every one [of
them], and the heart, [is] deep.
7 But God shall shoot at them [with] an
arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
8 So they shall make their own tongue
to fall upon themselves: all that see
them shall flee away.
9 And all men shall fear, and shall
declare the work of God; for they shall
wisely consider of his doing.
10 The righteous shall be glad in the
LORD, and shall trust in him; and all
the upright in heart shall glory.

PSALM 65
To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and]
Song of David.
1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in
Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be
performed.
2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee
shall all flesh come.
3 Iniquities prevail against me: [as
for] our transgressions, thou shalt
purge them away.
4 Blessed [is the man whom] thou
choosest, and causest to approach [unto
thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts:
we shall be satisfied with the goodness
of thy house, [even] of thy holy
temple.
5 [By] terrible things in righteousness
wilt thou answer us, O God of our
salvation; [who art] the confidence of
all the ends of the earth, and of them
that are afar off [upon] the sea:
6 Which by his strength setteth fast
the mountains; [being] girded with
power:
7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas,
the noise of their waves, and the
tumult of the people.
8 They also that dwell in the uttermost
parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou
makest the outgoings of the morning and
evening to rejoice.
9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest
it: thou greatly enrichest it with the
river of God, [which] is full of water:
thou preparest them corn, when thou
hast so provided for it.
10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof
abundantly: thou settlest the furrows
thereof: thou makest it soft with
showers: thou blessest the springing
thereof.
11 Thou crownest the year with thy
goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
12 They drop [upon] the pastures of the
wilderness: and the little hills
rejoice on every side.
13 The pastures are clothed with
flocks; the valleys also are covered
over with corn; they shout for joy,
they also sing.

PSALM 66
To the chief Musician, A Song [or]
Psalm.
1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye
lands:
2 Sing forth the honour of his name:
make his praise glorious.
3 Say unto God, How terrible [art thou
in] thy works! through the greatness of
thy power shall thine enemies submit
themselves unto thee.
4 All the earth shall worship thee, and
shall sing unto thee; they shall sing
[to] thy name. Selah.
5 Come and see the works of God: [he
is] terrible [in his] doing toward the
children of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry [land]:
they went through the flood on foot:
there did we rejoice in him.
7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his
eyes behold the nations: let not the
rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
8 O bless our God, ye people, and make
the voice of his praise to be heard:
9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and
suffereth not our feet to be moved.
10 For thou, O God, hast proved us:
thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11 Thou broughtest us into the net;
thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over
our heads; we went through fire and
through water: but thou broughtest us
out into a wealthy [place].
13 I will go into thy house with burnt
offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
14 Which my lips have uttered, and my
mouth hath spoken, when I was in
trouble.
15 I will offer unto thee burnt
sacrifices of fatlings, with the
incense of rams; I will offer bullocks
with goats. Selah.
16 Come [and] hear, all ye that fear
God, and I will declare what he hath
done for my soul.
17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and
he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart,
the Lord will not hear [me]:
19 [But] verily God hath heard [me]; he
hath attended to the voice of my
prayer.
20 Blessed [be] God, which hath not
turned away my prayer, nor his mercy
from me.

PSALM 67
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A
Psalm [or] Song.
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless
us; [and] cause his face to shine upon
us; Selah.
2 That thy way may be known upon earth,
thy saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise thee, O God;
let all the people praise thee.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing
for joy: for thou shalt judge the
people righteously, and govern the
nations upon earth. Selah.
5 Let the people praise thee, O God;
let all the people praise thee.
6 [Then] shall the earth yield her
increase; [and] God, [even] our own
God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us; and all the ends
of the earth shall fear him.

PSALM 68
To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or]
Song of David.
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be
scattered: let them also that hate him
flee before him.
2 As smoke is driven away, [so] drive
[them] away: as wax melteth before the
fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the
presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let
them rejoice before God: yea, let them
exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his
name: extol him that rideth upon the
heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice
before him.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a
judge of the widows, [is] God in his
holy habitation.
6 God setteth the solitary in families:
he bringeth out those which are bound
with chains: but the rebellious dwell
in a dry [land].
7 O God, when thou wentest forth before
thy people, when thou didst march
through the wilderness; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also
dropped at the presence of God: [even]
Sinai itself [was moved] at the
presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful
rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine
inheritance, when it was weary.
10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein:
thou, O God, hast prepared of thy
goodness for the poor.
11 The Lord gave the word: great [was]
the company of those that published
[it].
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and
she that tarried at home divided the
spoil.
13 Though ye have lien among the pots,
[yet shall ye be as] the wings of a
dove covered with silver, and her
feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in
it, it was [white] as snow in Salmon.
15 The hill of God [is as] the hill of
Bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of
Bashan.
16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this
is] the hill [which] God desireth to
dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in
it] for ever.
17 The chariots of God [are] twenty
thousand, [even] thousands of angels:
the Lord [is] among them, [as in]
Sinai, in the holy [place].
18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou
hast led captivity captive: thou hast
received gifts for men; yea, [for] the
rebellious also, that the LORD God
might dwell [among them].
19 Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily
loadeth us [with benefits, even] the
God of our salvation. Selah.
20 [He that is] our God [is] the God of
salvation; and unto GOD the Lord
[belong] the issues from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his
enemies, [and] the hairy scalp of such
an one as goeth on still in his
trespasses.
22 The Lord said, I will bring again
from Bashan, I will bring [my people]
again from the depths of the sea:
23 That thy foot may be dipped in the
blood of [thine] enemies, [and] the
tongue of thy dogs in the same.
24 They have seen thy goings, O God;
[even] the goings of my God, my King,
in the sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the players
on instruments [followed] after; among
[them were] the damsels playing with
timbrels.
26 Bless ye God in the congregations,
[even] the Lord, from the fountain of
Israel.
27 There [is] little Benjamin [with]
their ruler, the princes of Judah [and]
their council, the princes of Zebulun,
[and] the princes of Naphtali.
28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
strengthen, O God, that which thou hast
wrought for us.
29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem
shall kings bring presents unto thee.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the
multitude of the bulls, with the calves
of the people, [till every one] submit
himself with pieces of silver: scatter
thou the people [that] delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her
hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the
earth; O sing praises unto the Lord;
Selah:
33 To him that rideth upon the heavens
of heavens, [which were] of old; lo, he
doth send out his voice, [and that] a
mighty voice.
34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his
excellency [is] over Israel, and his
strength [is] in the clouds.
35 O God, [thou art] terrible out of
thy holy places: the God of Israel [is]
he that giveth strength and power unto
[his] people. Blessed [be] God.

PSALM 69
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim,
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Save me, O God; for the waters are
come in unto [my] soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where [there is]
no standing: I am come into deep
waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is
dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for
my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are
more than the hairs of mine head: they
that would destroy me, [being] mine
enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I
restored [that] which I took not away.
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
and my sins are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O
Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my
sake: let not those that seek thee be
confounded for my sake, O God of
Israel.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne
reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my
brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath
eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon
me.
10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul
with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment;
and I became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak
against me; and I [was] the song of the
drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer [is] unto
thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time:
O God, in the multitude of thy mercy
hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let
me not sink: let me be delivered from
them that hate me, and out of the deep
waters.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me,
neither let the deep swallow me up, and
let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy
lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me
according to the multitude of thy
tender mercies.
17 And hide not thy face from thy
servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem
it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my
shame, and my dishonour: mine
adversaries [are] all before thee.
20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I
am full of heaviness: and I looked [for
some] to take pity, but [there was]
none; and for comforters, but I found
none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare
before them: and [that which should
have been] for [their] welfare, [let it
become] a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that
they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon
them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate;
[and] let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute [him] whom thou
hast smitten; and they talk to the
grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy
righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book
of the living, and not be written with
the righteous.
29 But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let
thy salvation, O God, set me up on
high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a
song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
31 [This] also shall please the LORD
better than an ox [or] bullock that
hath horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see [this, and] be
glad: and your heart shall live that
seek God.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and
despiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him,
the seas, and every thing that moveth
therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will
build the cities of Judah: that they
may dwell there, and have it in
possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall
inherit it: and they that love his name
shall dwell therein.

PSALM 70
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of
David, to bring to remembrance.
1 [Make haste], O God, to deliver me;
make haste to help me, O LORD.
2 Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after my soul: let them be
turned backward, and put to confusion,
that desire my hurt.
3 Let them be turned back for a reward
of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice
and be glad in thee: and let such as
love thy salvation say continually, Let
God be magnified.
5 But I [am] poor and needy: make haste
unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and
my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

PSALM 71
1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust:
let me never be put to confusion.
2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and
cause me to escape: incline thine ear
unto me, and save me.
3 Be thou my strong habitation,
whereunto I may continually resort:
thou hast given commandment to save me;
for thou [art] my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand
of the wicked, out of the hand of the
unrighteous and cruel man.
5 For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD:
[thou art] my trust from my youth.
6 By thee have I been holden up from
the womb: thou art he that took me out
of my mother's bowels: my praise [shall
be] continually of thee.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou
[art] my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled [with] thy
praise [and with] thy honour all the
day.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old
age; forsake me not when my strength
faileth.
10 For mine enemies speak against me;
and they that lay wait for my soul take
counsel together,
11 Saying, God hath forsaken him:
persecute and take him; for [there is]
none to deliver [him].
12 O God, be not far from me: O my God,
make haste for my help.
13 Let them be confounded [and]
consumed that are adversaries to my
soul; let them be covered [with]
reproach and dishonour that seek my
hurt.
14 But I will hope continually, and
will yet praise thee more and more.
15 My mouth shall shew forth thy
righteousness [and] thy salvation all
the day; for I know not the numbers
[thereof].
16 I will go in the strength of the
Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy
righteousness, [even] of thine only.
17 O God, thou hast taught me from my
youth: and hitherto have I declared thy
wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and
grayheaded, O God, forsake me not;
until I have shewed thy strength unto
[this] generation, [and] thy power to
every one [that] is to come.
19 Thy righteousness also, O God, [is]
very high, who hast done great things:
O God, who [is] like unto thee!
20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great
and sore troubles, shalt quicken me
again, and shalt bring me up again from
the depths of the earth.
21 Thou shalt increase my greatness,
and comfort me on every side.
22 I will also praise thee with the
psaltery, [even] thy truth, O my God:
unto thee will I sing with the harp, O
thou Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I
sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou
hast redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of thy
righteousness all the day long: for
they are confounded, for they are
brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

PSALM 72
[A Psalm] for Solomon.
1 Give the king thy judgments, O God,
and thy righteousness unto the king's
son.
2 He shall judge thy people with
righteousness, and thy poor with
judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to
the people, and the little hills, by
righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the
people, he shall save the children of
the needy, and shall break in pieces
the oppressor.
5 They shall fear thee as long as the
sun and moon endure, throughout all
generations.
6 He shall come down like rain upon the
mown grass: as showers [that] water the
earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous
flourish; and abundance of peace so
long as the moon endureth.
8 He shall have dominion also from sea
to sea, and from the river unto the
ends of the earth.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness
shall bow before him; and his enemies
shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the
isles shall bring presents: the kings
of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down
before him: all nations shall serve
him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when
he crieth; the poor also, and [him]
that hath no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy,
and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from
deceit and violence: and precious shall
their blood be in his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall
be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer
also shall be made for him continually;
[and] daily shall he be praised.
16 There shall be an handful of corn in
the earth upon the top of the
mountains; the fruit thereof shall
shake like Lebanon: and [they] of the
city shall flourish like grass of the
earth.
17 His name shall endure for ever: his
name shall be continued as long as the
sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him:
all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God
of Israel, who only doeth wondrous
things.
19 And blessed [be] his glorious name
for ever: and let the whole earth be
filled [with] his glory; Amen, and
Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of
Jesse are ended.

PSALM 73
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even]
to such as are of a clean heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost
gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish,
[when] I saw the prosperity of the
wicked.
4 For [there are] no bands in their
death: but their strength [is] firm.
5 They [are] not in trouble [as other]
men; neither are they plagued like
[other] men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about
as a chain; violence covereth them [as]
a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness:
they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly
[concerning] oppression: they speak
loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the
heavens, and their tongue walketh
through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither:
and waters of a full [cup] are wrung
out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and
is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who
prosper in the world; they increase
[in] riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart [in]
vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been
plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold,
I should offend [against] the
generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it
[was] too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of
God; [then] understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in
slippery places: thou castedst them
down into destruction.
19 How are they [brought] into
desolation, as in a moment! they are
utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so],
O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt
despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was
pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I
was [as] a beast before thee.
23 Nevertheless I [am] continually with
thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right
hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy
counsel, and afterward receive me [to]
glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]?
and [there is] none upon earth [that] I
desire beside thee.
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: [but]
God [is] the strength of my heart, and
my portion for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee
shall perish: thou hast destroyed all
them that go a whoring from thee.
28 But [it is] good for me to draw near
to God: I have put my trust in the Lord
GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

PSALM 74
Maschil of Asaph.
1 O God, why hast thou cast [us] off
for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke
against the sheep of thy pasture?
2 Remember thy congregation, [which]
thou hast purchased of old; the rod of
thine inheritance, [which] thou hast
redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou
hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations; [even] all [that] the
enemy hath done wickedly in the
sanctuary.
4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of
thy congregations; they set up their
ensigns [for] signs.
5 [A man] was famous according as he
had lifted up axes upon the thick
trees.
6 But now they break down the carved
work thereof at once with axes and
hammers.
7 They have cast fire into thy
sanctuary, they have defiled [by
casting down] the dwelling place of thy
name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us
destroy them together: they have burned
up all the synagogues of God in the
land.
9 We see not our signs: [there is] no
more any prophet: neither [is there]
among us any that knoweth how long.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary
reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy
name for ever?
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even
thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy
bosom.
12 For God [is] my King of old, working
salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy
strength: thou brakest the heads of the
dragons in the waters.
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan
in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be]
meat to the people inhabiting the
wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and
the flood: thou driedst up mighty
rivers.
16 The day [is] thine, the night also
[is] thine: thou hast prepared the
light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the
earth: thou hast made summer and
winter.
18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath
reproached, O LORD, and [that] the
foolish people have blasphemed thy
name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy
turtledove unto the multitude [of the
wicked]: forget not the congregation of
thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for
the dark places of the earth are full
of the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return
ashamed: let the poor and needy praise
thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice of thine
enemies: the tumult of those that rise
up against thee increaseth continually.

PSALM 75
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A
Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.
1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks,
[unto thee] do we give thanks: for
[that] thy name is near thy wondrous
works declare.
2 When I shall receive the congregation
I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants
thereof are dissolved: I bear up the
pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not
foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not
up the horn:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak
[not with] a stiff neck.
6 For promotion [cometh] neither from
the east, nor from the west, nor from
the south.
7 But God [is] the judge: he putteth
down one, and setteth up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD [there
is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is
full of mixture; and he poureth out of
the same: but the dregs thereof, all
the wicked of the earth shall wring
[them] out, [and] drink [them].
9 But I will declare for ever; I will
sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked also
will I cut off; [but] the horns of the
righteous shall be exalted.

PSALM 76
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A
Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.
1 In Judah [is] God known: his name
[is] great in Israel.
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and
his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow,
the shield, and the sword, and the
battle. Selah.
4 Thou [art] more glorious [and]
excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they
have slept their sleep: and none of the
men of might have found their hands.
6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both
the chariot and horse are cast into a
dead sleep.
7 Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be
feared: and who may stand in thy sight
when once thou art angry?
8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard
from heaven; the earth feared, and was
still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save
all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise
thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou
restrain.
11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God:
let all that be round about him bring
presents unto him that ought to be
feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of
princes: [he is] terrible to the kings
of the earth.

PSALM 77
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A
Psalm of Asaph.
1 I cried unto God with my voice,
[even] unto God with my voice; and he
gave ear unto me.
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the
Lord: my sore ran in the night, and
ceased not: my soul refused to be
comforted.
3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I
complained, and my spirit was
overwhelmed. Selah.
4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am
so troubled that I cannot speak.
5 I have considered the days of old,
the years of ancient times.
6 I call to remembrance my song in the
night: I commune with mine own heart:
and my spirit made diligent search.
7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and
will he be favourable no more?
8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
hath he in anger shut up his tender
mercies? Selah.
10 And I said, This [is] my infirmity:
[but I will remember] the years of the
right hand of the most High.
11 I will remember the works of the
LORD: surely I will remember thy
wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also of all thy
work, and talk of thy doings.
13 Thy way, O God, [is] in the
sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as
[our] God?
14 Thou [art] the God that doest
wonders: thou hast declared thy
strength among the people.
15 Thou hast with [thine] arm redeemed
thy people, the sons of Jacob and
Joseph. Selah.
16 The waters saw thee, O God, the
waters saw thee; they were afraid: the
depths also were troubled.
17 The clouds poured out water: the
skies sent out a sound: thine arrows
also went abroad.
18 The voice of thy thunder [was] in
the heaven: the lightnings lightened
the world: the earth trembled and
shook.
19 Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy
path in the great waters, and thy
footsteps are not known.
20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

PSALM 78
Maschil of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O my people, [to] my law:
incline your ears to the words of my
mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I
will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known, and
our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide [them] from their
children, shewing to the generation to
come the praises of the LORD, and his
strength, and his wonderful works that
he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in
Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers, that
they should make them known to their
children:
6 That the generation to come might
know [them, even] the children [which]
should be born; [who] should arise and
declare [them] to their children:
7 That they might set their hope in
God, and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments:
8 And might not be as their fathers, a
stubborn and rebellious generation; a
generation [that] set not their heart
aright, and whose spirit was not
stedfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim, [being]
armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back
in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God,
and refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgat his works, and his
wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the
sight of their fathers, in the land of
Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea, and caused them
to pass through; and he made the waters
to stand as an heap.
14 In the daytime also he led them with
a cloud, and all the night with a light
of fire.
15 He clave the rocks in the
wilderness, and gave [them] drink as
[out of] the great depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the
rock, and caused waters to run down
like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him
by provoking the most High in the
wilderness.
18 And they tempted God in their heart
by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they
said, Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the
waters gushed out, and the streams
overflowed; can he give bread also? can
he provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore the LORD heard [this], and
was wroth: so a fire was kindled
against Jacob, and anger also came up
against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God,
and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the clouds
from above, and opened the doors of
heaven,
24 And had rained down manna upon them
to eat, and had given them of the corn
of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent
them meat to the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in
the heaven: and by his power he brought
in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as
dust, and feathered fowls like as the
sand of the sea:
28 And he let [it] fall in the midst of
their camp, round about their
habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well
filled: for he gave them their own
desire;
30 They were not estranged from their
lust. But while their meat [was] yet in
their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and
slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen [men] of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and
believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume
in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought
him: and they returned and enquired
early after God.
35 And they remembered that God [was]
their rock, and the high God their
redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him
with their mouth, and they lied unto
him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with
him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant.
38 But he, [being] full of compassion,
forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed
[them] not: yea, many a time turned he
his anger away, and did not stir up all
his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they [were
but] flesh; a wind that passeth away,
and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the
wilderness, [and] grieve him in the
desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted
God, and limited the Holy One of
Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, [nor]
the day when he delivered them from the
enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in
Egypt, and his wonders in the field of
Zoan:
44 And had turned their rivers into
blood; and their floods, that they
could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among
them, which devoured them; and frogs,
which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the
caterpiller, and their labour unto the
locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the
hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of
his anger, wrath, and indignation, and
trouble, by sending evil angels [among
them].
50 He made a way to his anger; he
spared not their soul from death, but
gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in
Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in
the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his own people to go forth
like sheep, and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them on safely, so that
they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of
his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain,
[which] his right hand had purchased.
55 He cast out the heathen also before
them, and divided them an inheritance
by line, and made the tribes of Israel
to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the
most high God, and kept not his
testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt
unfaithfully like their fathers: they
were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with
their high places, and moved him to
jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard [this], he was wroth,
and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of
Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed
among men;
61 And delivered his strength into
captivity, and his glory into the
enemy's hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto
the sword; and was wroth with his
inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men;
and their maidens were not given to
marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and
their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of
sleep, [and] like a mighty man that
shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the
hinder parts: he put them to a
perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle
of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim:
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the
mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like high
[palaces], like the earth which he hath
established for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant, and
took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes great with
young he brought him to feed Jacob his
people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he fed them according to the
integrity of his heart; and guided them
by the skilfulness of his hands.

PSALM 79
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the heathen are come into
thine inheritance; thy holy temple have
they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem
on heaps.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have
they given [to be] meat unto the fowls
of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints
unto the beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood have they shed like water
round about Jerusalem; and [there was]
none to bury [them].
4 We are become a reproach to our
neighbours, a scorn and derision to
them that are round about us.
5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry
for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like
fire?
6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen
that have not known thee, and upon the
kingdoms that have not called upon thy
name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and
laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us former
iniquities: let thy tender mercies
speedily prevent us: for we are brought
very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for
the glory of thy name: and deliver us,
and purge away our sins, for thy name's
sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say,
Where [is] their God? let him be known
among the heathen in our sight [by] the
revenging of the blood of thy servants
[which is] shed.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come
before thee; according to the greatness
of thy power preserve thou those that
are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our neighbours
sevenfold into their bosom their
reproach, wherewith they have
reproached thee, O Lord.
13 So we thy people and sheep of thy
pasture will give thee thanks for ever:
we will shew forth thy praise to all
generations.

PSALM 80
To the chief Musician upon
Shoshannim-Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou
that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou
that dwellest [between] the cherubims,
shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and
Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
[and] save us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy
face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt
thou be angry against the prayer of thy
people?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of
tears; and givest them tears to drink
in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our
neighbours: and our enemies laugh among
themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and
cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of
Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen,
and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, and
didst cause it to take deep root, and
it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the
shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
[were like] the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the
sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 Why hast thou [then] broken down her
hedges, so that all they which pass by
the way do pluck her?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste
it, and the wild beast of the field
doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of
hosts: look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right
hand hath planted, and the branch
[that] thou madest strong for thyself.
16 [It is] burned with fire, [it is]
cut down: they perish at the rebuke of
thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy
right hand, upon the son of man [whom]
thou madest strong for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from thee:
quicken us, and we will call upon thy
name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts,
cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.

PSALM 81
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A
Psalm] of Asaph.
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength:
make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the
timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,
in the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day.
4 For this [was] a statute for Israel,
[and] a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph [for] a
testimony, when he went out through the
land of Egypt: [where] I heard a
language [that] I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the
burden: his hands were delivered from
the pots.
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I
delivered thee; I answered thee in the
secret place of thunder: I proved thee
at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify
unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt
hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in
thee; neither shalt thou worship any
strange god.
10 I [am] the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill
it.
11 But my people would not hearken to
my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own
hearts' lust: [and] they walked in
their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto
me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their
enemies, and turned my hand against
their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have
submitted themselves unto him: but
their time should have endured for
ever.
16 He should have fed them also with
the finest of the wheat: and with honey
out of the rock should I have satisfied
thee.

PSALM 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 God standeth in the congregation of
the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and
accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do
justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid
[them] out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they
understand; they walk on in darkness:
all the foundations of the earth are
out of course.
6 I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all
of you [are] children of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall
like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for
thou shalt inherit all nations.

PSALM 83
A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold
not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:
and they that hate thee have lifted up
the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel
against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut
them off from [being] a nation; that
the name of Israel may be no more in
remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with
one consent: they are confederate
against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the
Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the
Philistines with the inhabitants of
Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they
have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as [unto] the
Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to]
Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 [Which] perished at En-dor: they
became [as] dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and
like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as
Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves
the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as
the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as
the flame setteth the mountains on
fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest,
and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that
they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled
for ever; yea, let them be put to
shame, and perish:
18 That [men] may know that thou, whose
name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most
high over all the earth.

PSALM 84
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A
Psalm for the sons of Korah.
1 How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O
LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
for the courts of the LORD: my heart
and my flesh crieth out for the living
God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young, [even]
thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King,
and my God.
4 Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy
house: they will be still praising
thee. Selah.
5 Blessed [is] the man whose strength
[is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the
ways [of them].
6 [Who] passing through the valley of
Baca make it a well; the rain also
filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength,
[every one of them] in Zion appeareth
before God.
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer:
give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look
upon the face of thine anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts [is] better
than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than
to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God [is] a sun and
shield: the LORD will give grace and
glory: no good [thing] will he withhold
from them that walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the
man that trusteth in thee.

PSALM 85
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the
sons of Korah.
1 LORD, thou hast been favourable unto
thy land: thou hast brought back the
captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of
thy people, thou hast covered all their
sin. Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:
thou hast turned [thyself] from the
fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and
cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
wilt thou draw out thine anger to all
generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that
thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant
us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the LORD will
speak: for he will speak peace unto his
people, and to his saints: but let them
not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation [is] nigh them
that fear him; that glory may dwell in
our land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed
[each other].
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth;
and righteousness shall look down from
heaven.
12 Yea, the LORD shall give [that which
is] good; and our land shall yield her
increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him;
and shall set [us] in the way of his
steps.

PSALM 86
A Prayer of David.
1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me:
for I [am] poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O
thou my God, save thy servant that
trusteth in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I
cry unto thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for
unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul.
5 For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready
to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto
all them that call upon thee.
6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and
attend to the voice of my
supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call
upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
8 Among the gods [there is] none like
unto thee, O Lord; neither [are there
any works] like unto thy works.
9 All nations whom thou hast made shall
come and worship before thee, O Lord;
and shall glorify thy name.
10 For thou [art] great, and doest
wondrous things: thou [art] God alone.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will
walk in thy truth: unite my heart to
fear thy name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God,
with all my heart: and I will glorify
thy name for evermore.
13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me:
and thou hast delivered my soul from
the lowest hell.
14 O God, the proud are risen against
me, and the assemblies of violent [men]
have sought after my soul; and have not
set thee before them.
15 But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full
of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy
and truth.
16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon
me; give thy strength unto thy servant,
and save the son of thine handmaid.
17 Shew me a token for good; that they
which hate me may see [it], and be
ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast
holpen me, and comforted me.

PSALM 87
A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of
Korah.
1 His foundation [is] in the holy
mountains.
2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O
city of God. Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and
Babylon to them that know me: behold
Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia;
this [man] was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This
and that man was born in her: and the
highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth
up the people, [that] this [man] was
born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on
instruments [shall be there]: all my
springs [are] in thee.

PSALM 88
A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of
Korah, to the chief Musician upon
Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the
Ezrahite.
1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have
cried day [and] night before thee:
2 Let my prayer come before thee:
incline thine ear unto my cry;
3 For my soul is full of troubles: and
my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down
into the pit: I am as a man [that hath]
no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain
that lie in the grave, whom thou
rememberest no more: and they are cut
off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,
in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and
thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy
waves. Selah.
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance
far from me; thou hast made me an
abomination unto them: [I am] shut up,
and I cannot come forth.
9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of
affliction: LORD, I have called daily
upon thee, I have stretched out my
hands unto thee.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?
shall the dead arise [and] praise thee?
Selah.
11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared
in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in
destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the
dark? and thy righteousness in the land
of forgetfulness?
13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD;
and in the morning shall my prayer
prevent thee.
14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul?
[why] hidest thou thy face from me?
15 I [am] afflicted and ready to die
from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer
thy terrors I am distracted.
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy
terrors have cut me off.
17 They came round about me daily like
water; they compassed me about
together.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far
from me, [and] mine acquaintance into
darkness.

PSALM 89
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of the mercies of the
LORD for ever: with my mouth will I
make known thy faithfulness to all
generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built
up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt
thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my
chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever,
and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
5 And the heavens shall praise thy
wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also
in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who in the heaven can be compared
unto the LORD? [who] among the sons of
the mighty can be likened unto the
LORD?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the
assembly of the saints, and to be had
in reverence of all [them that are]
about him.
8 O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a
strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy
faithfulness round about thee?
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea:
when the waves thereof arise, thou
stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as
one that is slain; thou hast scattered
thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 The heavens [are] thine, the earth
also [is] thine: [as for] the world and
the fulness thereof, thou hast founded
them.
12 The north and the south thou hast
created them: Tabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is
thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment [are] the
habitation of thy throne: mercy and
truth shall go before thy face.
15 Blessed [is] the people that know
the joyful sound: they shall walk, O
LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16 In thy name shall they rejoice all
the day: and in thy righteousness shall
they be exalted.
17 For thou [art] the glory of their
strength: and in thy favour our horn
shall be exalted.
18 For the LORD [is] our defence; and
the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy
holy one, and saidst, I have laid help
upon [one that is] mighty; I have
exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David my servant; with
my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 With whom my hand shall be
established: mine arm also shall
strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him;
nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before
his face, and plague them that hate
him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy
[shall be] with him: and in my name
shall his horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea,
and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou [art] my
father, my God, and the rock of my
salvation.
27 Also I will make him [my] firstborn,
higher than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for
evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make [to
endure] for ever, and his throne as the
days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and
walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep
not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their
transgression with the rod, and their
iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will
I not utterly take from him, nor suffer
my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor
alter the thing that is gone out of my
lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness
that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and
his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as
the moon, and [as] a faithful witness
in heaven. Selah.
38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred,
thou hast been wroth with thine
anointed.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant of
thy servant: thou hast profaned his
crown [by casting it] to the ground.
40 Thou hast broken down all his
hedges; thou hast brought his strong
holds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him:
he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 Thou hast set up the right hand of
his adversaries; thou hast made all his
enemies to rejoice.
43 Thou hast also turned the edge of
his sword, and hast not made him to
stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast made his glory to cease,
and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth hast thou
shortened: thou hast covered him with
shame. Selah.
46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide
thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is:
wherefore hast thou made all men in
vain?
48 What man [is he that] liveth, and
shall not see death? shall he deliver
his soul from the hand of the grave?
Selah.
49 Lord, where [are] thy former
lovingkindnesses, [which] thou swarest
unto David in thy truth?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy
servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom
[the reproach of] all the mighty
people;
51 Wherewith thine enemies have
reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have
reproached the footsteps of thine
anointed.
52 Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.

PSALM 90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling
place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought
forth, or ever thou hadst formed the
earth and the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting, thou [art]
God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and
sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight
[are but] as yesterday when it is past,
and [as] a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a
flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the
morning [they are] like grass [which]
groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and
groweth up; in the evening it is cut
down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger,
and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before
thee, our secret [sins] in the light of
thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in
thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale
[that is told].
10 The days of our years [are]
threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength [they be] fourscore
years, yet [is] their strength labour
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and
we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine
anger? even according to thy fear, [so
is] thy wrath.
12 So teach [us] to number our days,
that we may apply [our] hearts unto
wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it
repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy;
that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days.
15 Make us glad according to the days
[wherein] thou hast afflicted us, [and]
the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy
servants, and thy glory unto their
children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our
God be upon us: and establish thou the
work of our hands upon us; yea, the
work of our hands establish thou it.

PSALM 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place
of the most High shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, [He is] my
refuge and my fortress: my God; in him
will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the
snare of the fowler, [and] from the
noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his
feathers, and under his wings shalt
thou trust: his truth [shall be thy]
shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the
terror by night; [nor] for the arrow
[that] flieth by day;
6 [Nor] for the pestilence [that]
walketh in darkness; [nor] for the
destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side,
and ten thousand at thy right hand;
[but] it shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou
behold and see the reward of the
wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD,
[which is] my refuge, [even] the most
High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee,
neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge
over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in [their]
hands, lest thou dash thy foot against
a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and
adder: the young lion and the dragon
shalt thou trample under feet.
14 Because he hath set his love upon
me, therefore will I deliver him: I
will set him on high, because he hath
known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will
answer him: I [will be] with him in
trouble; I will deliver him, and honour
him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him,
and shew him my salvation.

PSALM 92
A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day.
1 [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks
unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto
thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in
the morning, and thy faithfulness every
night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings,
and upon the psaltery; upon the harp
with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad
through thy work: I will triumph in the
works of thy hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works!
[and] thy thoughts are very deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither
doth a fool understand this.
7 When the wicked spring as the grass,
and when all the workers of iniquity do
flourish; [it is] that they shall be
destroyed for ever:
8 But thou, LORD, [art most] high for
evermore.
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for,
lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the
workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like
[the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be
anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see [my desire]
on mine enemies, [and] mine ears shall
hear [my desire] of the wicked that
rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like
the palm tree: he shall grow like a
cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house
of the LORD shall flourish in the
courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit
in old age; they shall be fat and
flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD [is] upright:
[he is] my rock, and [there is] no
unrighteousness in him.

PSALM 93
1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with
majesty; the LORD is clothed with
strength, [wherewith] he hath girded
himself: the world also is stablished,
that it cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne [is] established of old:
thou [art] from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their waves.
4 The LORD on high [is] mightier than
the noise of many waters, [yea, than]
the mighty waves of the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure:
holiness becometh thine house, O LORD,
for ever.

PSALM 94
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance
belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance
belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the
earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how
long shall the wicked triumph?
4 [How long] shall they utter [and]
speak hard things? [and] all the
workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O
LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger,
and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see,
neither shall the God of Jacob regard
[it].
8 Understand, ye brutish among the
people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be
wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not
hear? he that formed the eye, shall he
not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen,
shall not he correct? he that teacheth
man knowledge, [shall not he know]?
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of
man, that they [are] vanity.
12 Blessed [is] the man whom thou
chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him
out of thy law;
13 That thou mayest give him rest from
the days of adversity, until the pit be
digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his
people, neither will he forsake his
inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto
righteousness: and all the upright in
heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the
evildoers? [or] who will stand up for
me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD [had been] my help,
my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy
mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts
within me thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have
fellowship with thee, which frameth
mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together
against the soul of the righteous, and
condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defence; and my
God [is] the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their
own iniquity, and shall cut them off in
their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD
our God shall cut them off.

PSALM 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD:
let us make a joyful noise to the rock
of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with
thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise
unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD [is] a great God, and a
great King above all gods.
4 In his hand [are] the deep places of
the earth: the strength of the hills
[is] his also.
5 The sea [is] his, and he made it: and
his hands formed the dry [land].
6 O come, let us worship and bow down:
let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he [is] our God; and we [are] the
people of his pasture, and the sheep of
his hand. To day if ye will hear his
voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the
provocation, [and] as [in] the day of
temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved
me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with
[this] generation, and said, It [is] a
people that do err in their heart, and
they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that
they should not enter into my rest.

PSALM 96
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing
unto the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name;
shew forth his salvation from day to
day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen,
his wonders among all people.
4 For the LORD [is] great, and greatly
to be praised: he [is] to be feared
above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations [are]
idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
6 Honour and majesty [are] before him:
strength and beauty [are] in his
sanctuary.
7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of
the people, give unto the LORD glory
and strength.
8 Give unto the LORD the glory [due
unto] his name: bring an offering, and
come into his courts.
9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of
holiness: fear before him, all the
earth.
10 Say among the heathen [that] the
LORD reigneth: the world also shall be
established that it shall not be moved:
he shall judge the people righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the
earth be glad; let the sea roar, and
the fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all
that [is] therein: then shall all the
trees of the wood rejoice
13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for
he cometh to judge the earth: he shall
judge the world with righteousness, and
the people with his truth.

PSALM 97
1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth
rejoice; let the multitude of isles be
glad [thereof].
2 Clouds and darkness [are] round about
him: righteousness and judgment [are]
the habitation of his throne.
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth
up his enemies round about.
4 His lightnings enlightened the world:
the earth saw, and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the
presence of the LORD, at the presence
of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his
righteousness, and all the people see
his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve
graven images, that boast themselves of
idols: worship him, all [ye] gods.
8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the
daughters of Judah rejoiced because of
thy judgments, O LORD.
9 For thou, LORD, [art] high above all
the earth: thou art exalted far above
all gods.
10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he
preserveth the souls of his saints; he
delivereth them out of the hand of the
wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and
gladness for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous;
and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness.

PSALM 98
A Psalm.
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for
he hath done marvellous things: his
right hand, and his holy arm, hath
gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD hath made known his
salvation: his righteousness hath he
openly shewed in the sight of the
heathen.
3 He hath remembered his mercy and his
truth toward the house of Israel: all
the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD,
all the earth: make a loud noise, and
rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp;
with the harp, and the voice of a
psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet
make a joyful noise before the LORD,
the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness
thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein.
8 Let the floods clap [their] hands:
let the hills be joyful together
9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to
judge the earth: with righteousness
shall he judge the world, and the
people with equity.

PSALM 99
1 The LORD reigneth; let the people
tremble: he sitteth [between] the
cherubims; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD [is] great in Zion; and he
[is] high above all the people.
3 Let them praise thy great and
terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.
4 The king's strength also loveth
judgment; thou dost establish equity,
thou executest judgment and
righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and
worship at his footstool; [for] he [is]
holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests,
and Samuel among them that call upon
his name; they called upon the LORD,
and he answered them.
7 He spake unto them in the cloudy
pillar: they kept his testimonies, and
the ordinance [that] he gave them.
8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God:
thou wast a God that forgavest them,
though thou tookest vengeance of their
inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship
at his holy hill; for the LORD our God
[is] holy.

PSALM 100
A Psalm of praise.
1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD,
all ye lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come
before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he [is] God:
[it is] he [that] hath made us, and not
we ourselves; [we are] his people, and
the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving, [and] into his courts
with praise: be thankful unto him,
[and] bless his name.
5 For the LORD [is] good; his mercy
[is] everlasting; and his truth
[endureth] to all generations.

PSALM 101
A Psalm of David.
1 I will sing of mercy and judgment:
unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a
perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto
me? I will walk within my house with a
perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before
mine eyes: I hate the work of them that
turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to
me.
4 A froward heart shall depart from me:
I will not know a wicked [person].
5 Whoso privily slandereth his
neighbour, him will I cut off: him that
hath an high look and a proud heart
will not I suffer.
6 Mine eyes [shall be] upon the
faithful of the land, that they may
dwell with me: he that walketh in a
perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 He that worketh deceit shall not
dwell within my house: he that telleth
lies shall not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked
of the land; that I may cut off all
wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

PSALM 102
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is
overwhelmed, and poureth out his
complaint before the LORD.
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my
cry come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day
[when] I am in trouble; incline thine
ear unto me: in the day [when] I call
answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke,
and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered
like grass; so that I forget to eat my
bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning
my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the
wilderness: I am like an owl of the
desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone
upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
[and] they that are mad against me are
sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread,
and mingled my drink with weeping,
10 Because of thine indignation and thy
wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and
cast me down.
11 My days [are] like a shadow that
declineth; and I am withered like
grass.
12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for
ever; and thy remembrance unto all
generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy
upon Zion: for the time to favour her,
yea, the set time, is come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in
her stones, and favour the dust
thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name
of the LORD, and all the kings of the
earth thy glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion,
he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the
destitute, and not despise their
prayer.
18 This shall be written for the
generation to come: and the people
which shall be created shall praise the
LORD.
19 For he hath looked down from the
height of his sanctuary; from heaven
did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the
prisoner; to loose those that are
appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in
Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered
together, and the kingdoms, to serve
the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way;
he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away
in the midst of my days: thy years
[are] throughout all generations.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation
of the earth: and the heavens [are] the
work of thy hands.
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt
endure: yea, all of them shall wax old
like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou
change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But thou [art] the same, and thy
years shall have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall
continue, and their seed shall be
established before thee.

PSALM 103
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all
that is within me, [bless] his holy
name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget
not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from
destruction; who crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good
[things; so that] thy youth is renewed
like the eagle's.
6 The LORD executeth righteousness and
judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The LORD [is] merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither
will he keep [his anger] for ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our
sins; nor rewarded us according to our
iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the
earth, [so] great is his mercy toward
them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
[so] far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth [his]
children, [so] the LORD pitieth them
that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he
remembereth that we [are] dust.
15 [As for] man, his days [are] as
grass: as a flower of the field, so he
flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it
is gone; and the place thereof shall
know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD [is] from
everlasting to everlasting upon them
that fear him, and his righteousness
unto children's children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to
those that remember his commandments to
do them.
19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in
the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth
over all.
20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that
excel in strength, that do his
commandments, hearkening unto the voice
of his word.
21 Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his
hosts; [ye] ministers of his, that do
his pleasure.
22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all
places of his dominion: bless the LORD,
O my soul.

PSALM 104
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my
God, thou art very great; thou art
clothed with honour and majesty.
2 Who coverest [thyself] with light as
[with] a garment: who stretchest out
the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers
in the waters: who maketh the clouds
his chariot: who walketh upon the wings
of the wind:
4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his
ministers a flaming fire:
5 [Who] laid the foundations of the
earth, [that] it should not be removed
for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as
[with] a garment: the waters stood
above the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice
of thy thunder they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go
down by the valleys unto the place
which thou hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may
not pass over; that they turn not again
to cover the earth.
10 He sendeth the springs into the
valleys, [which] run among the hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of
the field: the wild asses quench their
thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls of the
heaven have their habitation, [which]
sing among the branches.
13 He watereth the hills from his
chambers: the earth is satisfied with
the fruit of thy works.
14 He causeth the grass to grow for the
cattle, and herb for the service of
man: that he may bring forth food out
of the earth;
15 And wine [that] maketh glad the
heart of man, [and] oil to make [his]
face to shine, and bread [which]
strengtheneth man's heart.
16 The trees of the LORD are full [of
sap]; the cedars of Lebanon, which he
hath planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests:
[as for] the stork, the fir trees [are]
her house.
18 The high hills [are] a refuge for
the wild goats; [and] the rocks for the
conies.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons:
the sun knoweth his going down.
20 Thou makest darkness, and it is
night: wherein all the beasts of the
forest do creep [forth].
21 The young lions roar after their
prey, and seek their meat from God.
22 The sun ariseth, they gather
themselves together, and lay them down
in their dens.
23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to
his labour until the evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works!
in wisdom hast thou made them all: the
earth is full of thy riches.
25 [So is] this great and wide sea,
wherein [are] things creeping
innumerable, both small and great
beasts.
26 There go the ships: [there is] that
leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to
play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou
mayest give [them] their meat in due
season.
28 [That] thou givest them they gather:
thou openest thine hand, they are
filled with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are
troubled: thou takest away their
breath, they die, and return to their
dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they
are created: and thou renewest the face
of the earth.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure
for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his
works.
32 He looketh on the earth, and it
trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and
they smoke.
33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as
I live: I will sing praise to my God
while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet:
I will be glad in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of
the earth, and let the wicked be no
more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul.
Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM 105
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call
upon his name: make known his deeds
among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him:
talk ye of all his wondrous works.
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the
heart of them rejoice that seek the
LORD.
4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek
his face evermore.
5 Remember his marvellous works that he
hath done; his wonders, and the
judgments of his mouth;
6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye
children of Jacob his chosen.
7 He [is] the LORD our God: his
judgments [are] in all the earth.
8 He hath remembered his covenant for
ever, the word [which] he commanded to
a thousand generations.
9 Which [covenant] he made with
Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob
for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an
everlasting covenant:
11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the
land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance:
12 When they were [but] a few men in
number; yea, very few, and strangers in
it.
13 When they went from one nation to
another, from [one] kingdom to another
people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong:
yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
15 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed,
and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon
the land: he brake the whole staff of
bread.
17 He sent a man before them, [even]
Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters:
he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came:
the word of the LORD tried him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; [even]
the ruler of the people, and let him go
free.
21 He made him lord of his house, and
ruler of all his substance:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure;
and teach his senators wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly;
and made them stronger than their
enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his
people, to deal subtilly with his
servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; [and]
Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark;
and they rebelled not against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood,
and slew their fish.
30 Their land brought forth frogs in
abundance, in the chambers of their
kings.
31 He spake, and there came divers
sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their
coasts.
32 He gave them hail for rain, [and]
flaming fire in their land.
33 He smote their vines also and their
fig trees; and brake the trees of their
coasts.
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and
caterpillers, and that without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in
their land, and devoured the fruit of
their ground.
36 He smote also all the firstborn in
their land, the chief of all their
strength.
37 He brought them forth also with
silver and gold: and [there was] not
one feeble [person] among their tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed:
for the fear of them fell upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering;
and fire to give light in the night.
40 [The people] asked, and he brought
quails, and satisfied them with the
bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and the waters
gushed out; they ran in the dry places
[like] a river.
42 For he remembered his holy promise,
[and] Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people with
joy, [and] his chosen with gladness:
44 And gave them the lands of the
heathen: and they inherited the labour
of the people;
45 That they might observe his
statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye
the LORD.

PSALM 106
1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks
unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for
his mercy [endureth] for ever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the
LORD? [who] can shew forth all his
praise?
3 Blessed [are] they that keep
judgment, [and] he that doeth
righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour
[that thou bearest unto] thy people: O
visit me with thy salvation;
5 That I may see the good of thy
chosen, that I may rejoice in the
gladness of thy nation, that I may
glory with thine inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, we
have committed iniquity, we have done
wickedly.
7 Our fathers understood not thy
wonders in Egypt; they remembered not
the multitude of thy mercies; but
provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at
the Red sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his
name's sake, that he might make his
mighty power to be known.
9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it
was dried up: so he led them through
the depths, as through the wilderness.
10 And he saved them from the hand of
him that hated [them], and redeemed
them from the hand of the enemy.
11 And the waters covered their
enemies: there was not one of them
left.
12 Then believed they his words; they
sang his praise.
13 They soon forgat his works; they
waited not for his counsel:
14 But lusted exceedingly in the
wilderness, and tempted God in the
desert.
15 And he gave them their request; but
sent leanness into their soul.
16 They envied Moses also in the camp,
[and] Aaron the saint of the LORD.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up
Dathan, and covered the company of
Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their
company; the flame burned up the
wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and
worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus they changed their glory into
the similitude of an ox that eateth
grass.
21 They forgat God their saviour, which
had done great things in Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
[and] terrible things by the Red sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would
destroy them, had not Moses his chosen
stood before him in the breach, to turn
away his wrath, lest he should destroy
[them].
24 Yea, they despised the pleasant
land, they believed not his word:
25 But murmured in their tents, [and]
hearkened not unto the voice of the
LORD.
26 Therefore he lifted up his hand
against them, to overthrow them in the
wilderness:
27 To overthrow their seed also among
the nations, and to scatter them in the
lands.
28 They joined themselves also unto
Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of
the dead.
29 Thus they provoked [him] to anger
with their inventions: and the plague
brake in upon them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed
judgment: and [so] the plague was
stayed.
31 And that was counted unto him for
righteousness unto all generations for
evermore.
32 They angered [him] also at the
waters of strife, so that it went ill
with Moses for their sakes:
33 Because they provoked his spirit, so
that he spake unadvisedly with his
lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations,
concerning whom the LORD commanded
them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen,
and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which
were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and
their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, [even] the
blood of their sons and of their
daughters, whom they sacrificed unto
the idols of Canaan: and the land was
polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their
own works, and went a whoring with
their own inventions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD
kindled against his people, insomuch
that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of
the heathen; and they that hated them
ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection
under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but
they provoked [him] with their counsel,
and were brought low for their
iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their
affliction, when he heard their cry:
45 And he remembered for them his
covenant, and repented according to the
multitude of his mercies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of
all those that carried them captives.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather
us from among the heathen, to give
thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to
triumph in thy praise.
48 Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting: and
let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye
the LORD.

PSALM 107
1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he
is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say
[so], whom he hath redeemed from the
hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands,
from the east, and from the west, from
the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a
solitary way; they found no city to
dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul
fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the LORD in
their trouble, [and] he delivered them
out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right
way, that they might go to a city of
habitation.
8 Oh that [men] would praise the LORD
[for] his goodness, and [for] his
wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul,
and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death, [being] bound in
affliction and iron;
11 Because they rebelled against the
words of God, and contemned the counsel
of the most High:
12 Therefore he brought down their
heart with labour; they fell down, and
[there was] none to help.
13 Then they cried unto the LORD in
their trouble, [and] he saved them out
of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and
the shadow of death, and brake their
bands in sunder.
15 Oh that [men] would praise the LORD
[for] his goodness, and [for] his
wonderful works to the children of men!
16 For he hath broken the gates of
brass, and cut the bars of iron in
sunder.
17 Fools because of their
transgression, and because of their
iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of
meat; and they draw near unto the gates
of death.
19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their
trouble, [and] he saveth them out of
their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them,
and delivered [them] from their
destructions.
21 Oh that [men] would praise the LORD
[for] his goodness, and [for] his
wonderful works to the children of men!
22 And let them sacrifice the
sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare
his works with rejoicing.
23 They that go down to the sea in
ships, that do business in great
waters;
24 These see the works of the LORD, and
his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the
stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves
thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go
down again to the depths: their soul is
melted because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger
like a drunken man, and are at their
wits' end.
28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their
trouble, and he bringeth them out of
their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that
the waves thereof are still.
30 Then are they glad because they be
quiet; so he bringeth them unto their
desired haven.
31 Oh that [men] would praise the LORD
[for] his goodness, and [for] his
wonderful works to the children of men!
32 Let them exalt him also in the
congregation of the people, and praise
him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness,
and the watersprings into dry ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for
the wickedness of them that dwell
therein.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a
standing water, and dry ground into
watersprings.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to
dwell, that they may prepare a city for
habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant
vineyards, which may yield fruits of
increase.
38 He blesseth them also, so that they
are multiplied greatly; and suffereth
not their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are minished and brought
low through oppression, affliction, and
sorrow.
40 He poureth contempt upon princes,
and causeth them to wander in the
wilderness, [where there is] no way.
41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from
affliction, and maketh [him] families
like a flock.
42 The righteous shall see [it], and
rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop
her mouth.
43 Whoso [is] wise, and will observe
these [things], even they shall
understand the lovingkindness of the
LORD.

PSALM 108
A Song [or] Psalm of David.
1 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing
and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself]
will awake early.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the
people: and I will sing praises unto
thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy [is] great above the
heavens: and thy truth [reacheth] unto
the clouds.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens: and thy glory above all the
earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered:
save [with] thy right hand, and answer
me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I
will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine;
Ephraim also [is] the strength of mine
head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
9 Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will
I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will
I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong
city? who will lead me into Edom?
11 [Wilt] not [thou], O God, [who] hast
cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God,
go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain
[is] the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he [it is that] shall tread down
our enemies.

PSALM 109
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my
praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the
mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me
with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with
words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries:
but I [give myself unto] prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for
good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and
let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be
condemned: and let his prayer become
sin.
8 Let his days be few; [and] let
another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and
his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually
vagabonds, and beg: let them seek
[their bread] also out of their
desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that
he hath; and let the strangers spoil
his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy
unto him: neither let there be any to
favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and]
in the generation following let their
name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be
remembered with the LORD; and let not
the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD
continually, that he may cut off the
memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to
shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and
needy man, that he might even slay the
broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come
unto him: as he delighted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing
like as with his garment, so let it
come into his bowels like water, and
like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment
[which] covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
20 [Let] this [be] the reward of mine
adversaries from the LORD, and of them
that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord,
for thy name's sake: because thy mercy
[is] good, deliver thou me.
22 For I [am] poor and needy, and my
heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it
declineth: I am tossed up and down as
the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them:
[when] they looked upon me they shaked
their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me
according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this [is]
thy hand; [that] thou, LORD, hast done
it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when
they arise, let them be ashamed; but
let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with
shame, and let them cover themselves
with their own confusion, as with a
mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with
my mouth; yea, I will praise him among
the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand
of the poor, to save [him] from those
that condemn his soul.

PSALM 110
A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou
at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy
strength out of Zion: rule thou in the
midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people [shall be] willing in the
day of thy power, in the beauties of
holiness from the womb of the morning:
thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not
repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever
after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through kings in the day of his
wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he
shall fill [the places] with the dead
bodies; he shall wound the heads over
many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the
way: therefore shall he lift up the
head.

PSALM 111
1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the
LORD with [my] whole heart, in the
assembly of the upright, and [in] the
congregation.
2 The works of the LORD [are] great,
sought out of all them that have
pleasure therein.
3 His work [is] honourable and
glorious: and his righteousness
endureth for ever.
4 He hath made his wonderful works to
be remembered: the LORD [is] gracious
and full of compassion.
5 He hath given meat unto them that
fear him: he will ever be mindful of
his covenant.
6 He hath shewed his people the power
of his works, that he may give them the
heritage of the heathen.
7 The works of his hands [are] verity
and judgment; all his commandments
[are] sure.
8 They stand fast for ever and ever,
[and are] done in truth and
uprightness.
9 He sent redemption unto his people:
he hath commanded his covenant for
ever: holy and reverend [is] his name.
10 The fear of the LORD [is] the
beginning of wisdom: a good
understanding have all they that do
[his commandments]: his praise endureth
for ever.

PSALM 112
1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the
man [that] feareth the LORD, [that]
delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth:
the generation of the upright shall be
blessed.
3 Wealth and riches [shall be] in his
house: and his righteousness endureth
for ever.
4 Unto the upright there ariseth light
in the darkness: [he is] gracious, and
full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man sheweth favour, and
lendeth: he will guide his affairs with
discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved for
ever: the righteous shall be in
everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil
tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting
in the LORD.
8 His heart [is] established, he shall
not be afraid, until he see [his
desire] upon his enemies.
9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to
the poor; his righteousness endureth
for ever; his horn shall be exalted
with honour.
10 The wicked shall see [it], and be
grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth,
and melt away: the desire of the wicked
shall perish.

PSALM 113
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye
servants of the LORD, praise the name
of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from
this time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the
going down of the same the LORD'S name
[is] to be praised.
4 The LORD [is] high above all nations,
[and] his glory above the heavens.
5 Who [is] like unto the LORD our God,
who dwelleth on high,
6 Who humbleth [himself] to behold [the
things that are] in heaven, and in the
earth!
7 He raiseth up the poor out of the
dust, [and] lifteth the needy out of
the dunghill;
8 That he may set [him] with princes,
[even] with the princes of his people.
9 He maketh the barren woman to keep
house, [and to be] a joyful mother of
children. Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the
house of Jacob from a people of strange
language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel
his dominion.
3 The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan
was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
[and] the little hills like lambs.
5 What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that
thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou
wast driven back?
6 Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like
rams; [and] ye little hills, like
lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence
of the Lord, at the presence of the God
of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock [into] a
standing water, the flint into a
fountain of waters.

PSALM 115
1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but
unto thy name give glory, for thy
mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.
2 Wherefore should the heathen say,
Where [is] now their God?
3 But our God [is] in the heavens: he
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
4 Their idols [are] silver and gold,
the work of men's hands.
5 They have mouths, but they speak not:
eyes have they, but they see not:
6 They have ears, but they hear not:
noses have they, but they smell not:
7 They have hands, but they handle not:
feet have they, but they walk not:
neither speak they through their
throat.
8 They that make them are like unto
them; [so is] every one that trusteth
in them.
9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he
[is] their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD:
he [is] their help and their shield.
11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the
LORD: he [is] their help and their
shield.
12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he
will bless [us]; he will bless the
house of Israel; he will bless the
house of Aaron.
13 He will bless them that fear the
LORD, [both] small and great.
14 The LORD shall increase you more and
more, you and your children.
15 Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which
made heaven and earth.
16 The heaven, [even] the heavens,
[are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he
given to the children of men.
17 The dead praise not the LORD,
neither any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD from this
time forth and for evermore. Praise the
LORD.

PSALM 116
1 I love the LORD, because he hath
heard my voice [and] my supplications.
2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto
me, therefore will I call upon [him] as
long as I live.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me,
and the pains of hell gat hold upon me:
I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of the
LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver
my soul.
5 Gracious [is] the LORD, and
righteous; yea, our God [is] merciful.
6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was
brought low, and he helped me.
7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for
the LORD hath dealt bountifully with
thee.
8 For thou hast delivered my soul from
death, mine eyes from tears, [and] my
feet from falling.
9 I will walk before the LORD in the
land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore have I spoken:
I was greatly afflicted:
11 I said in my haste, All men [are]
liars.
12 What shall I render unto the LORD
[for] all his benefits toward me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation,
and call upon the name of the LORD.
14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now
in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
[is] the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I
[am] thy servant, [and] the son of
thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my
bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice
of thanksgiving, and will call upon the
name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now
in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of the LORD'S house,
in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM 117
1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations:
praise him, all ye people.
2 For his merciful kindness is great
toward us: and the truth of the LORD
[endureth] for ever. Praise ye the
LORD.

PSALM 118
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he
is] good: because his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that
his mercy [endureth] for ever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say,
that his mercy [endureth] for ever.
5 I called upon the LORD in distress:
the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a
large place.
6 The LORD [is] on my side; I will not
fear: what can man do unto me?
7 The LORD taketh my part with them
that help me: therefore shall I see [my
desire] upon them that hate me.
8 [It is] better to trust in the LORD
than to put confidence in man.
9 [It is] better to trust in the LORD
than to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations compassed me about: but
in the name of the LORD will I destroy
them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they
compassed me about: but in the name of
the LORD I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees;
they are quenched as the fire of
thorns: for in the name of the LORD I
will destroy them.
13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I
might fall: but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD [is] my strength and song,
and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation
[is] in the tabernacles of the
righteous: the right hand of the LORD
doeth valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is
exalted: the right hand of the LORD
doeth valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and
declare the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but
he hath not given me over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of
righteousness: I will go into them,
[and] I will praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which
the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise thee: for thou hast
heard me, and art become my salvation.
22 The stone [which] the builders
refused is become the head [stone] of
the corner.
23 This is the LORD'S doing; it [is]
marvellous in our eyes.
24 This [is] the day [which] the LORD
hath made; we will rejoice and be glad
in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O
LORD, I beseech thee, send now
prosperity.
26 Blessed [be] he that cometh in the
name of the LORD: we have blessed you
out of the house of the LORD.
27 God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed
us light: bind the sacrifice with
cords, [even] unto the horns of the
altar.
28 Thou [art] my God, and I will praise
thee: [thou art] my God, I will exalt
thee.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he
is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.

PSALM 119

ALEPH.
1 Blessed [are] the undefiled in the
way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
2 Blessed [are] they that keep his
testimonies, [and that] seek him with
the whole heart.
3 They also do no iniquity: they walk
in his ways.
4 Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy
precepts diligently.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep
thy statutes!
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I
have respect unto all thy commandments.
7 I will praise thee with uprightness
of heart, when I shall have learned thy
righteous judgments.
8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake
me not utterly.

BETH.
9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse
his way? by taking heed [thereto]
according to thy word.
10 With my whole heart have I sought
thee: O let me not wander from thy
commandments.
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart,
that I might not sin against thee.
12 Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me
thy statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared all the
judgments of thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy
testimonies, as [much as] in all
riches.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and
have respect unto thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy
statutes: I will not forget thy word.

GIMEL.
17 Deal bountifully with thy servant,
[that] I may live, and keep thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may
behold wondrous things out of thy law.
19 I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide
not thy commandments from me.
20 My soul breaketh for the longing
[that it hath] unto thy judgments at
all times.
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud [that
are] cursed, which do err from thy
commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and
contempt; for I have kept thy
testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit [and] speak
against me: [but] thy servant did
meditate in thy statutes.
24 Thy testimonies also [are] my
delight [and] my counsellors.

DALETH.
25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust:
quicken thou me according to thy word.
26 I have declared my ways, and thou
heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of thy
precepts: so shall I talk of thy
wondrous works.
28 My soul melteth for heaviness:
strengthen thou me according unto thy
word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying: and
grant me thy law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy
judgments have I laid [before me].
31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O
LORD, put me not to shame.
32 I will run the way of thy
commandments, when thou shalt enlarge
my heart.

HE.
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy
statutes; and I shall keep it [unto]
the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall
keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it
with [my] whole heart.
35 Make me to go in the path of thy
commandments; for therein do I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto thy
testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding
vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy
way.
38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant,
who [is devoted] to thy fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear:
for thy judgments [are] good.
40 Behold, I have longed after thy
precepts: quicken me in thy
righteousness.

VAU.
41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O
LORD, [even] thy salvation, according
to thy word.
42 So shall I have wherewith to answer
him that reproacheth me: for I trust in
thy word.
43 And take not the word of truth
utterly out of my mouth; for I have
hoped in thy judgments.
44 So shall I keep thy law continually
for ever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I
seek thy precepts.
46 I will speak of thy testimonies also
before kings, and will not be ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in thy
commandments, which I have loved.
48 My hands also will I lift up unto
thy commandments, which I have loved;
and I will meditate in thy statutes.

ZAIN.
49 Remember the word unto thy servant,
upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
50 This [is] my comfort in my
affliction: for thy word hath quickened
me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in
derision: [yet] have I not declined
from thy law.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O
LORD; and have comforted myself.
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me
because of the wicked that forsake thy
law.
54 Thy statutes have been my songs in
the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD,
in the night, and have kept thy law.
56 This I had, because I kept thy
precepts.

CHETH.
57 [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I
have said that I would keep thy words.
58 I intreated thy favour with [my]
whole heart: be merciful unto me
according to thy word.
59 I thought on my ways, and turned my
feet unto thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to
keep thy commandments.
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed
me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give
thanks unto thee because of thy
righteous judgments.
63 I [am] a companion of all [them]
that fear thee, and of them that keep
thy precepts.
64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy
mercy: teach me thy statutes.

TETH.
65 Thou hast dealt well with thy
servant, O LORD, according unto thy
word.
66 Teach me good judgment and
knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went
astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68 Thou [art] good, and doest good;
teach me thy statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against
me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with
[my] whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease;
[but] I delight in thy law.
71 [It is] good for me that I have been
afflicted; that I might learn thy
statutes.
72 The law of thy mouth [is] better
unto me than thousands of gold and
silver.

JOD.
73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned
me: give me understanding, that I may
learn thy commandments.
74 They that fear thee will be glad
when they see me; because I have hoped
in thy word.
75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments
[are] right, and [that] thou in
faithfulness hast afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful
kindness be for my comfort, according
to thy word unto thy servant.
77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me,
that I may live: for thy law [is] my
delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they
dealt perversely with me without a
cause: [but] I will meditate in thy
precepts.
79 Let those that fear thee turn unto
me, and those that have known thy
testimonies.
80 Let my heart be sound in thy
statutes; that I be not ashamed.

CAPH.
81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation:
[but] I hope in thy word.
82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying,
When wilt thou comfort me?
83 For I am become like a bottle in the
smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy
statutes.
84 How many [are] the days of thy
servant? when wilt thou execute
judgment on them that persecute me?
85 The proud have digged pits for me,
which [are] not after thy law.
86 All thy commandments [are] faithful:
they persecute me wrongfully; help thou
me.
87 They had almost consumed me upon
earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness;
so shall I keep the testimony of thy
mouth.

LAMED.
89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is
settled in heaven.
90 Thy faithfulness [is] unto all
generations: thou hast established the
earth, and it abideth.
91 They continue this day according to
thine ordinances: for all [are] thy
servants.
92 Unless thy law [had been] my
delights, I should then have perished
in mine affliction.
93 I will never forget thy precepts:
for with them thou hast quickened me.
94 I [am] thine, save me; for I have
sought thy precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to
destroy me: [but] I will consider thy
testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all
perfection: [but] thy commandment [is]
exceeding broad.

MEM.
97 O how love I thy law! it [is] my
meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast
made me wiser than mine enemies: for
they [are] ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all
my teachers: for thy testimonies [are]
my meditation.
100 I understand more than the
ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every
evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy
judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my
taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my
mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get
understanding: therefore I hate every
false way.

NUN.
105 Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path.
106 I have sworn, and I will perform
[it], that I will keep thy righteous
judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken
me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the
freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD,
and teach me thy judgments.
109 My soul [is] continually in my
hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for
me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an
heritage for ever: for they [are] the
rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined mine heart to
perform thy statutes alway, [even unto]
the end.

SAMECH.
113 I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law
do I love.
114 Thou [art] my hiding place and my
shield: I hope in thy word.
115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I
will keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according unto thy word,
that I may live: and let me not be
ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be
safe: and I will have respect unto thy
statutes continually.
118 Thou hast trodden down all them
that err from thy statutes: for their
deceit [is] falsehood.
119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of
the earth [like] dross: therefore I
love thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembleth for fear of
thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

AIN.
121 I have done judgment and justice:
leave me not to mine oppressors.
122 Be surety for thy servant for good:
let not the proud oppress me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation,
and for the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant according
unto thy mercy, and teach me thy
statutes.
125 I [am] thy servant; give me
understanding, that I may know thy
testimonies.
126 [It is] time for [thee], LORD, to
work: [for] they have made void thy
law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments
above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all [thy]
precepts [concerning] all [things to
be] right; [and] I hate every false
way.

PE.
129 Thy testimonies [are] wonderful:
therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth
light; it giveth understanding unto the
simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for
I longed for thy commandments.
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful
unto me, as thou usest to do unto those
that love thy name.
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let
not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of
man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy
servant; and teach me thy statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine
eyes, because they keep not thy law.

TZADDI.
137 Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and
upright [are] thy judgments.
138 Thy testimonies [that] thou hast
commanded [are] righteous and very
faithful.
139 My zeal hath consumed me, because
mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
140 Thy word [is] very pure: therefore
thy servant loveth it.
141 I [am] small and despised: [yet] do
not I forget thy precepts.
142 Thy righteousness [is] an
everlasting righteousness, and thy law
[is] the truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold
on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my
delights.
144 The righteousness of thy
testimonies [is] everlasting: give me
understanding, and I shall live.

KOPH.
145 I cried with [my] whole heart; hear
me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I
shall keep thy testimonies.
147 I prevented the dawning of the
morning, and cried: I hoped in thy
word.
148 Mine eyes prevent the [night]
watches, that I might meditate in thy
word.
149 Hear my voice according unto thy
lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me
according to thy judgment.
150 They draw nigh that follow after
mischief: they are far from thy law.
151 Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all
thy commandments [are] truth.
152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have
known of old that thou hast founded
them for ever.

RESH.
153 Consider mine affliction, and
deliver me: for I do not forget thy
law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me:
quicken me according to thy word.
155 Salvation [is] far from the wicked:
for they seek not thy statutes.
156 Great [are] thy tender mercies, O
LORD: quicken me according to thy
judgments.
157 Many [are] my persecutors and mine
enemies; [yet] do I not decline from
thy testimonies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was
grieved; because they kept not thy
word.
159 Consider how I love thy precepts:
quicken me, O LORD, according to thy
lovingkindness.
160 Thy word [is] true [from] the
beginning: and every one of thy
righteous judgments [endureth] for
ever.

SCHIN.
161 Princes have persecuted me without
a cause: but my heart standeth in awe
of thy word.
162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that
findeth great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy
law do I love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise thee
because of thy righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have they which love
thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
166 LORD, I have hoped for thy
salvation, and done thy commandments.
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies;
and I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept thy precepts and thy
testimonies: for all my ways [are]
before thee.

TAU.
169 Let my cry come near before thee, O
LORD: give me understanding according
to thy word.
170 Let my supplication come before
thee: deliver me according to thy word.
171 My lips shall utter praise, when
thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of thy word:
for all thy commandments [are]
righteousness.
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have
chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O
LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall
praise thee; and let thy judgments help
me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost
sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not
forget thy commandments.

PSALM 120
A Song of degrees.
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD,
and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying
lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or
what shall be done unto thee, thou
false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with
coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech,
[that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that
hateth peace.
7 I [am for] peace: but when I speak,
they [are] for war.

PSALM 121
A Song of degrees.
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the
hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help [cometh] from the LORD, which
made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be
moved: he that keepeth thee will not
slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD
[is] thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all
evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out
and thy coming in from this time forth,
and even for evermore.

PSALM 122
A Song of degrees of David.
1 I was glad when they said unto me,
Let us go into the house of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy
gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that
is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes
of the LORD, unto the testimony of
Israel, to give thanks unto the name of
the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of
judgment, the thrones of the house of
David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they
shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, [and]
prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions'
sakes, I will now say, Peace [be]
within thee.
9 Because of the house of the LORD our
God I will seek thy good.

PSALM 123
A Song of degrees.
1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou
that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants
[look] unto the hand of their masters,
[and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the
hand of her mistress; so our eyes
[wait] upon the LORD our God, until
that he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have
mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with
the scorning of those that are at ease,
[and] with the contempt of the proud.

PSALM 124
A Song of degrees of David.
1 If [it had not been] the LORD who was
on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If [it had not been] the LORD who was
on our side, when men rose up against
us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick,
when their wrath was kindled against
us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us,
the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over
our soul.
6 Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not
given us [as] a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of
the snare of the fowlers: the snare is
broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help [is] in the name of the
LORD, who made heaven and earth.

PSALM 125
A Song of degrees.
1 They that trust in the LORD [shall
be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be
removed, [but] abideth for ever.
2 As the mountains [are] round about
Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] round about
his people from henceforth even for
ever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not
rest upon the lot of the righteous;
lest the righteous put forth their
hands unto iniquity.
4 Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be]
good, and [to them that are] upright in
their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto their
crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them
forth with the workers of iniquity:
[but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.

PSALM 126
A Song of degrees.
1 When the LORD turned again the
captivity of Zion, we were like them
that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with
laughter, and our tongue with singing:
then said they among the heathen, The
LORD hath done great things for them.
3 The LORD hath done great things for
us; [whereof] we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as
the streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in
joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves [with him].

PSALM 127
A Song of degrees for Solomon.
1 Except the LORD build the house, they
labour in vain that build it: except
the LORD keep the city, the watchman
waketh [but] in vain.
2 [It is] vain for you to rise up
early, to sit up late, to eat the bread
of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his
beloved sleep.
3 Lo, children [are] an heritage of the
LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is
his] reward.
4 As arrows [are] in the hand of a
mighty man; so [are] children of the
youth.
5 Happy [is] the man that hath his
quiver full of them: they shall not be
ashamed, but they shall speak with the
enemies in the gate.

PSALM 128
A Song of degrees.
1 Blessed [is] every one that feareth
the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of
thine hands: happy [shalt] thou [be],
and [it shall be] well with thee.
3 Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful
vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about
thy table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be
blessed that feareth the LORD.
5 The LORD shall bless thee out of
Zion: and thou shalt see the good of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's
children, [and] peace upon Israel.

PSALM 129
A Song of degrees.
1 Many a time have they afflicted me
from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me
from my youth: yet they have not
prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they
made long their furrows.
4 The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut
asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned
back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the
housetops, which withereth afore it
groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his
hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his
bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by say, The
blessing of the LORD [be] upon you: we
bless you in the name of the LORD.

PSALM 130
A Song of degrees.
1 Out of the depths have I cried unto
thee, O LORD.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears
be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
4 But [there is] forgiveness with thee,
that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth
wait, and in his word do I hope.
6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more
than they that watch for the morning:
[I say, more than] they that watch for
the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with
the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him
[is] plenteous redemption.
8 And he shall redeem Israel from all
his iniquities.

PSALM 131
A Song of degrees of David.
1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor
mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise
myself in great matters, or in things
too high for me.
2 Surely I have behaved and quieted
myself, as a child that is weaned of
his mother: my soul [is] even as a
weaned child.
3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from
henceforth and for ever.

PSALM 132
A Song of degrees.
1 LORD, remember David, [and] all his
afflictions:
2 How he sware unto the LORD, [and]
vowed unto the mighty [God] of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the
tabernacle of my house, nor go up into
my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes,
[or] slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the
LORD, an habitation for the mighty
[God] of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we
found it in the fields of the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we
will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou,
and the ark of thy strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed with
righteousness; and let thy saints shout
for joy.
10 For thy servant David's sake turn
not away the face of thine anointed.
11 The LORD hath sworn [in] truth unto
David; he will not turn from it; Of the
fruit of thy body will I set upon thy
throne.
12 If thy children will keep my
covenant and my testimony that I shall
teach them, their children shall also
sit upon thy throne for evermore.
13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he
hath desired [it] for his habitation.
14 This [is] my rest for ever: here
will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her
provision: I will satisfy her poor with
bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with
salvation: and her saints shall shout
aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David
to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine
anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with
shame: but upon himself shall his crown
flourish.

PSALM 133
A Song of degrees of David.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant [it
is] for brethren to dwell together in
unity!
2 [It is] like the precious ointment
upon the head, that ran down upon the
beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went
down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, [and as the
dew] that descended upon the mountains
of Zion: for there the LORD commanded
the blessing, [even] life for evermore.

PSALM 134
A Song of degrees.
1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye]
servants of the LORD, which by night
stand in the house of the LORD.
2 Lift up your hands [in] the
sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
3 The LORD that made heaven and earth
bless thee out of Zion.

PSALM 135
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the
name of the LORD; praise [him], O ye
servants of the LORD.
2 Ye that stand in the house of the
LORD, in the courts of the house of our
God,
3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is]
good: sing praises unto his name; for
[it is] pleasant.
4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto
himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar
treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD [is] great,
and [that] our Lord [is] above all
gods.
6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that]
did he in heaven, and in earth, in the
seas, and all deep places.
7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from
the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings for the rain; he bringeth
the wind out of his treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt,
both of man and beast.
9 [Who] sent tokens and wonders into
the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
10 Who smote great nations, and slew
mighty kings;
11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og
king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of
Canaan:
12 And gave their land [for] an
heritage, an heritage unto Israel his
people.
13 Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for
ever; [and] thy memorial, O LORD,
throughout all generations.
14 For the LORD will judge his people,
and he will repent himself concerning
his servants.
15 The idols of the heathen [are]
silver and gold, the work of men's
hands.
16 They have mouths, but they speak
not; eyes have they, but they see not;
17 They have ears, but they hear not;
neither is there [any] breath in their
mouths.
18 They that make them are like unto
them: [so is] every one that trusteth
in them.
19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel:
bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:
20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye
that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion,
which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye
the LORD.

PSALM 136
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he
is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods:
for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords:
for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great wonders:
for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the
heavens: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth
above the waters: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
7 To him that made great lights: for
his mercy [endureth] for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night:
for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in their
firstborn: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among
them: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever:
12 With a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
13 To him which divided the Red sea
into parts: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the
midst of it: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host
in the Red sea: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
16 To him which led his people through
the wilderness: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
17 To him which smote great kings: for
his mercy [endureth] for ever:
18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his
mercy [endureth] for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his
mercy [endureth] for ever:
21 And gave their land for an heritage:
for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
22 [Even] an heritage unto Israel his
servant: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate:
for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our
enemies: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for
his mercy [endureth] for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of
heaven: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.

PSALM 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we
sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows
in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away
captive required of us a song; and they
that wasted us [required of us] mirth,
[saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of
Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in
a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget [her cunning].
6 If I do not remember thee, let my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my
chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of
Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the
foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be
destroyed; happy [shall he be], that
rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy [shall he be], that taketh and
dasheth thy little ones against the
stones.

PSALM 138
[A Psalm] of David.
1 I will praise thee with my whole
heart: before the gods will I sing
praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy
temple, and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for
thou hast magnified thy word above all
thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou
answeredst me, [and] strengthenedst me
[with] strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth shall
praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the
words of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of
the LORD: for great [is] the glory of
the LORD.
6 Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath
he respect unto the lowly: but the
proud he knoweth afar off.
7 Though I walk in the midst of
trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou
shalt stretch forth thine hand against
the wrath of mine enemies, and thy
right hand shall save me.
8 The LORD will perfect [that which]
concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD,
[endureth] for ever: forsake not the
works of thine own hands.

PSALM 139
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and
known [me].
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine
uprising, thou understandest my thought
afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying
down, and art acquainted [with] all my
ways.
4 For [there is] not a word in my
tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest
it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before,
and laid thine hand upon me.
6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful
for me; it is high, I cannot [attain]
unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou
[art] there: if I make my bed in hell,
behold, thou [art there].
9 [If] I take the wings of the morning,
[and] dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me,
and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall be light
about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from
thee; but the night shineth as the day:
the darkness and the light [are] both
alike [to thee].
13 For thou hast possessed my reins:
thou hast covered me in my mother's
womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am
fearfully [and] wonderfully made:
marvellous [are] thy works; and [that]
my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee,
when I was made in secret, [and]
curiously wrought in the lowest parts
of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet
being unperfect; and in thy book all
[my members] were written, [which] in
continuance were fashioned, when [as
yet there was] none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts
unto me, O God! how great is the sum of
them!
18 [If] I should count them, they are
more in number than the sand: when I
awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O
God: depart from me therefore, ye
bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee
wickedly, [and] thine enemies take [thy
name] in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that
hate thee? and am not I grieved with
those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I
count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart:
try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if [there be any] wicked way
in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting.

PSALM 140
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil
man: preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in [their]
heart; continually are they gathered
together [for] war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues
like a serpent; adders' poison [is]
under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of
the wicked; preserve me from the
violent man; who have purposed to
overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me,
and cords; they have spread a net by
the wayside; they have set gins for me.
Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my
God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my
salvation, thou hast covered my head in
the day of battle.
8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the
wicked: further not his wicked device;
[lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.
9 [As for] the head of those that
compass me about, let the mischief of
their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon them:
let them be cast into the fire; into
deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be
established in the earth: evil shall
hunt the violent man to overthrow
[him].
12 I know that the LORD will maintain
the cause of the afflicted, [and] the
right of the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give
thanks unto thy name: the upright shall
dwell in thy presence.

PSALM 141
A Psalm of David.
1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste
unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I
cry unto thee.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before
thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up
of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth;
keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to [any] evil
thing, to practise wicked works with
men that work iniquity: and let me not
eat of their dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me; [it shall
be] a kindness: and let him reprove me;
[it shall be] an excellent oil, [which]
shall not break my head: for yet my
prayer also [shall be] in their
calamities.
6 When their judges are overthrown in
stony places, they shall hear my words;
for they are sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the
grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and
cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
8 But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD
the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave
not my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snares [which] they
have laid for me, and the gins of the
workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own
nets, whilst that I withal escape.

PSALM 142
Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was
in the cave.
1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice;
with my voice unto the LORD did I make
my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before him;
I shewed before him my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within
me, then thou knewest my path. In the
way wherein I walked have they privily
laid a snare for me.
4 I looked on [my] right hand, and
beheld, but [there was] no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no man
cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said,
Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion
in the land of the living.
6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought
very low: deliver me from my
persecutors; for they are stronger than
I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I
may praise thy name: the righteous
shall compass me about; for thou shalt
deal bountifully with me.

PSALM 143
A Psalm of David.
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to
my supplications: in thy faithfulness
answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.
2 And enter not into judgment with thy
servant: for in thy sight shall no man
living be justified.
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my
soul; he hath smitten my life down to
the ground; he hath made me to dwell in
darkness, as those that have been long
dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed
within me; my heart within me is
desolate.
5 I remember the days of old; I
meditate on all thy works; I muse on
the work of thy hands.
6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee:
my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a
thirsty land. Selah.
7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit
faileth: hide not thy face from me,
lest I be like unto them that go down
into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness
in the morning; for in thee do I trust:
cause me to know the way wherein I
should walk; for I lift up my soul unto
thee.
9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine
enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou
[art] my God: thy spirit [is] good;
lead me into the land of uprightness.
11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's
sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring
my soul out of trouble.
12 And of thy mercy cut off mine
enemies, and destroy all them that
afflict my soul: for I [am] thy
servant.

PSALM 144
[A Psalm] of David.
1 Blessed [be] the LORD my strength,
which teacheth my hands to war, [and]
my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high
tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and
[he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my
people under me.
3 LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest
knowledge of him! [or] the son of man,
that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are]
as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come
down: touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter
them: shoot out thine arrows, and
destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me,
and deliver me out of great waters,
from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and
their right hand [is] a right hand of
falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O
God: upon a psaltery [and] an
instrument of ten strings will I sing
praises unto thee.
10 [It is he] that giveth salvation
unto kings: who delivereth David his
servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand
of strange children, whose mouth
speaketh vanity, and their right hand
[is] a right hand of falsehood:
12 That our sons [may be] as plants
grown up in their youth; [that] our
daughters [may be] as corner stones,
polished [after] the similitude of a
palace:
13 [That] our garners [may be] full,
affording all manner of store: [that]
our sheep may bring forth thousands and
ten thousands in our streets:
14 [That] our oxen [may be] strong to
labour; [that there be] no breaking in,
nor going out; that [there be] no
complaining in our streets.
15 Happy [is that] people, that is in
such a case: [yea], happy [is that]
people, whose God [is] the LORD.

PSALM 145
David's [Psalm] of praise.
1 I will extol thee, my God, O king;
and I will bless thy name for ever and
ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I
will praise thy name for ever and ever.
3 Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to
be praised; and his greatness [is]
unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works
to another, and shall declare thy
mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honour
of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous
works.
6 And [men] shall speak of the might of
thy terrible acts: and I will declare
thy greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter the
memory of thy great goodness, and shall
sing of thy righteousness.
8 The LORD [is] gracious, and full of
compassion; slow to anger, and of great
mercy.
9 The LORD [is] good to all: and his
tender mercies [are] over all his
works.
10 All thy works shall praise thee, O
LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
11 They shall speak of the glory of thy
kingdom, and talk of thy power;
12 To make known to the sons of men his
mighty acts, and the glorious majesty
of his kingdom.
13 Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting
kingdom, and thy dominion [endureth]
throughout all generations.
14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall,
and raiseth up all [those that be]
bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and
thou givest them their meat in due
season.
16 Thou openest thine hand, and
satisfiest the desire of every living
thing.
17 The LORD [is] righteous in all his
ways, and holy in all his works.
18 The LORD [is] nigh unto all them
that call upon him, to all that call
upon him in truth.
19 He will fulfil the desire of them
that fear him: he also will hear their
cry, and will save them.
20 The LORD preserveth all them that
love him: but all the wicked will he
destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of
the LORD: and let all flesh bless his
holy name for ever and ever.

PSALM 146
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD,
O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD:
I will sing praises unto my God while I
have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, [nor]
in the son of man, in whom [there is]
no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth
to his earth; in that very day his
thoughts perish.
5 Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of
Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in
the LORD his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the
sea, and all that therein [is]: which
keepeth truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for the
oppressed: which giveth food to the
hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the
blind: the LORD raiseth them that are
bowed down: the LORD loveth the
righteous:
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he
relieveth the fatherless and widow: but
the way of the wicked he turneth upside
down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever,
[even] thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations. Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM 147
1 Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good
to sing praises unto our God; for [it
is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he
gathereth together the outcasts of
Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and
bindeth up their wounds.
4 He telleth the number of the stars;
he calleth them all by [their] names.
5 Great [is] our Lord, and of great
power: his understanding [is] infinite.
6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he
casteth the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving;
sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds,
who prepareth rain for the earth, who
maketh grass to grow upon the
mountains.
9 He giveth to the beast his food,
[and] to the young ravens which cry.
10 He delighteth not in the strength of
the horse: he taketh not pleasure in
the legs of a man.
11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them
that fear him, in those that hope in
his mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise
thy God, O Zion.
13 For he hath strengthened the bars of
thy gates; he hath blessed thy children
within thee.
14 He maketh peace [in] thy borders,
[and] filleth thee with the finest of
the wheat.
15 He sendeth forth his commandment
[upon] earth: his word runneth very
swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he
scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like
morsels: who can stand before his cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth
them: he causeth his wind to blow,
[and] the waters flow.
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his
statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any
nation: and [as for his] judgments,
they have not known them. Praise ye the
LORD.

PSALM 148
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the
LORD from the heavens: praise him in
the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise
ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise
him, all ye stars of light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens,
and ye waters that [be] above the
heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD:
for he commanded, and they were
created.
6 He hath also stablished them for ever
and ever: he hath made a decree which
shall not pass.
7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye
dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour;
stormy wind fulfilling his word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful
trees, and all cedars:
10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping
things, and flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all people;
princes, and all judges of the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old
men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name of the
LORD: for his name alone is excellent;
his glory [is] above the earth and
heaven.
14 He also exalteth the horn of his
people, the praise of all his saints;
[even] of the children of Israel, a
people near unto him. Praise ye the
LORD.

PSALM 149
1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the
LORD a new song, [and] his praise in
the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made
him: let the children of Zion be joyful
in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the
dance: let them sing praises unto him
with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his
people: he will beautify the meek with
salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory:
let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 [Let] the high [praises] of God [be]
in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in
their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the
heathen, [and] punishments upon the
people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and
their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment
written: this honour have all his
saints. Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM 150
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his
sanctuary: praise him in the firmament
of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts:
praise him according to his excellent
greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the
trumpet: praise him with the psaltery
and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and
dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals:
praise him upon the high sounding
cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath
praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

THE PROVERBS

CHAPTER 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of
David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to
perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,
justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to
the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise [man] will hear, and will
increase learning; and a man of
understanding shall attain unto wise
counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the
interpretation; the words of the wise,
and their dark sayings.
7 # The fear of the LORD [is] the
beginning of knowledge: [but] fools
despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy
father, and forsake not the law of thy
mother:
9 For they [shall be] an ornament of
grace unto thy head, and chains about
thy neck.
10 # My son, if sinners entice thee,
consent thou not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us
lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily
for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the
grave; and whole, as those that go down
into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious
substance, we shall fill our houses
with spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all
have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way
with them; refrain thy foot from their
path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make
haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in
the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their [own]
blood; they lurk privily for their
[own] lives.
19 So [are] the ways of every one that
is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away
the life of the owners thereof.
20 # Wisdom crieth without; she
uttereth her voice in the streets:
21 She crieth in the chief place of
concourse, in the openings of the
gates: in the city she uttereth her
words, [saying],
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye
love simplicity? and the scorners
delight in their scorning, and fools
hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I
will pour out my spirit unto you, I
will make known my words unto you.
24 # Because I have called, and ye
refused; I have stretched out my hand,
and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my
counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation,
and your destruction cometh as a
whirlwind; when distress and anguish
cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I
will not answer; they shall seek me
early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and
did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they
despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the
fruit of their own way, and be filled
with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple
shall slay them, and the prosperity of
fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall
dwell safely, and shall be quiet from
fear of evil.

CHAPTER 2
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my
words, and hide my commandments with
thee;
2 So that thou incline thine ear unto
wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to
understanding;
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,
[and] liftest up thy voice for
understanding;
4 If thou seekest her as silver, and
searchest for her as [for] hid
treasures;
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear
of the LORD, and find the knowledge of
God.
6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of
his mouth [cometh] knowledge and
understanding.
7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the
righteous: [he is] a buckler to them
that walk uprightly.
8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and
preserveth the way of his saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand
righteousness, and judgment, and
equity; [yea], every good path.
10 # When wisdom entereth into thine
heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto
thy soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve thee,
understanding shall keep thee:
12 To deliver thee from the way of the
evil [man], from the man that speaketh
froward things;
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness,
to walk in the ways of darkness;
14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and]
delight in the frowardness of the
wicked;
15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they]
froward in their paths:
16 To deliver thee from the strange
woman, [even] from the stranger [which]
flattereth with her words;
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her
youth, and forgetteth the covenant of
her God.
18 For her house inclineth unto death,
and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again,
neither take they hold of the paths of
life.
20 That thou mayest walk in the way of
good [men], and keep the paths of the
righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the
land, and the perfect shall remain in
it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from
the earth, and the transgressors shall
be rooted out of it.

CHAPTER 3
1 My son, forget not my law; but let
thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life,
and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee:
bind them about thy neck; write them
upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good
understanding in the sight of God and
man.
5 # Trust in the LORD with all thine
heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and
he shall direct thy paths.
7 # Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear
the LORD, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and
marrow to thy bones.
9 Honour the LORD with thy substance,
and with the firstfruits of all thine
increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with
plenty, and thy presses shall burst out
with new wine.
11 # My son, despise not the chastening
of the LORD; neither be weary of his
correction:
12 For whom the LORD loveth he
correcteth; even as a father the son
[in whom] he delighteth.
13 # Happy [is] the man [that] findeth
wisdom, and the man [that] getteth
understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it [is]
better than the merchandise of silver,
and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She [is] more precious than rubies:
and all the things thou canst desire
are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days [is] in her right
hand; [and] in her left hand riches and
honour.
17 Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths [are] peace.
18 She [is] a tree of life to them that
lay hold upon her: and happy [is every
one] that retaineth her.
19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the
earth; by understanding hath he
established the heavens.
20 By his knowledge the depths are
broken up, and the clouds drop down the
dew.
21 # My son, let not them depart from
thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and
discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto thy soul,
and grace to thy neck.
23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way
safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not
be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down,
and thy sleep shall be sweet.
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear,
neither of the desolation of the
wicked, when it cometh.
26 For the LORD shall be thy
confidence, and shall keep thy foot
from being taken.
27 # Withhold not good from them to
whom it is due, when it is in the power
of thine hand to do [it].
28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and
come again, and to morrow I will give;
when thou hast it by thee.
29 Devise not evil against thy
neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely
by thee.
30 # Strive not with a man without
cause, if he have done thee no harm.
31 # Envy thou not the oppressor, and
choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward [is] abomination to
the LORD: but his secret [is] with the
righteous.
33 # The curse of the LORD [is] in the
house of the wicked: but he blesseth
the habitation of the just.
34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but
he giveth grace unto the lowly.
35 The wise shall inherit glory: but
shame shall be the promotion of fools.

CHAPTER 4
1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of
a father, and attend to know
understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake
ye not my law.
3 For I was my father's son, tender and
only [beloved] in the sight of my
mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words: keep
my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget
[it] not; neither decline from the
words of my mouth.
6 Forsake her not, and she shall
preserve thee: love her, and she shall
keep thee.
7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing;
[therefore] get wisdom: and with all
thy getting get understanding.
8 Exalt her, and she shall promote
thee: she shall bring thee to honour,
when thou dost embrace her.
9 She shall give to thine head an
ornament of grace: a crown of glory
shall she deliver to thee.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my
sayings; and the years of thy life
shall be many.
11 I have taught thee in the way of
wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not
be straitened; and when thou runnest,
thou shalt not stumble.
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let
[her] not go: keep her; for she [is]
thy life.
14 # Enter not into the path of the
wicked, and go not in the way of evil
[men].
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from
it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have
done mischief; and their sleep is taken
away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of
wickedness, and drink the wine of
violence.
18 But the path of the just [is] as the
shining light, that shineth more and
more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked [is] as
darkness: they know not at what they
stumble.
20 # My son, attend to my words;
incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes;
keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22 For they [are] life unto those that
find them, and health to all their
flesh.
23 # Keep thy heart with all diligence;
for out of it [are] the issues of life.
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth,
and perverse lips put far from thee.
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and
let thine eyelids look straight before
thee.
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let
all thy ways be established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to
the left: remove thy foot from evil.

CHAPTER 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and]
bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion,
and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
3 # For the lips of a strange woman
drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth
[is] smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps
take hold on hell.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path
of life, her ways are moveable, [that]
thou canst not know [them].
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children,
and depart not from the words of my
mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come
not nigh the door of her house:
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto
others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy
wealth; and thy labours [be] in the
house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy
flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated
instruction, and my heart despised
reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my
teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them
that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the
midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 # Drink waters out of thine own
cistern, and running waters out of
thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed
abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the
streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not
strangers' with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and
rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and
pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy
thee at all times; and be thou ravished
always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be
ravished with a strange woman, and
embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man [are] before the
eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all
his goings.
22 # His own iniquities shall take the
wicked himself, and he shall be holden
with the cords of his sins.
23 He shall die without instruction;
and in the greatness of his folly he
shall go astray.

CHAPTER 6
1 My son, if thou be surety for thy
friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy
hand with a stranger,
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy
mouth, thou art taken with the words of
thy mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver
thyself, when thou art come into the
hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself,
and make sure thy friend.
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor
slumber to thine eyelids.
5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the
hand [of the hunter], and as a bird
from the hand of the fowler.
6 # Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise:
7 Which having no guide, overseer, or
ruler,
8 Provideth her meat in the summer,
[and] gathereth her food in the
harvest.
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one
that travelleth, and thy want as an
armed man.
12 # A naughty person, a wicked man,
walketh with a froward mouth.
13 He winketh with his eyes, he
speaketh with his feet, he teacheth
with his fingers;
14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he
deviseth mischief continually; he
soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come
suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken
without remedy.
16 # These six [things] doth the LORD
hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination
unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked
imaginations, feet that be swift in
running to mischief,
19 A false witness [that] speaketh
lies, and he that soweth discord among
brethren.
20 # My son, keep thy father's
commandment, and forsake not the law of
thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine
heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;
and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk
with thee.
23 For the commandment [is] a lamp; and
the law [is] light; and reproofs of
instruction [are] the way of life:
24 To keep thee from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a
strange woman.
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine
heart; neither let her take thee with
her eyelids.
26 For by means of a whorish woman [a
man is brought] to a piece of bread:
and the adulteress will hunt for the
precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom,
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his
feet not be burned?
29 So he that goeth in to his
neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth
her shall not be innocent.
30 [Men] do not despise a thief, if he
steal to satisfy his soul when he is
hungry;
31 But [if] he be found, he shall
restore sevenfold; he shall give all
the substance of his house.
32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with
a woman lacketh understanding: he
[that] doeth it destroyeth his own
soul.
33 A wound and dishonour shall he get;
and his reproach shall not be wiped
away.
34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man:
therefore he will not spare in the day
of vengeance.
35 He will not regard any ransom;
neither will he rest content, though
thou givest many gifts.

CHAPTER 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my
commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and
my law as the apple of thine eye.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write
them upon the table of thine heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my
sister; and call understanding [thy]
kinswoman:
5 That they may keep thee from the
strange woman, from the stranger
[which] flattereth with her words.
6 # For at the window of my house I
looked through my casement,
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I
discerned among the youths, a young man
void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her
corner; and he went the way to her
house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in
the black and dark night:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman
[with] the attire of an harlot, and
subtil of heart.
11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her
feet abide not in her house:
12 Now [is she] without, now in the
streets, and lieth in wait at every
corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him,
[and] with an impudent face said unto
him,
14 [I have] peace offerings with me;
this day have I payed my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
diligently to seek thy face, and I have
found thee.
16 I have decked my bed with coverings
of tapestry, with carved [works], with
fine linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love
until the morning: let us solace
ourselves with loves.
19 For the goodman [is] not at home, he
is gone a long journey:
20 He hath taken a bag of money with
him, [and] will come home at the day
appointed.
21 With her much fair speech she caused
him to yield, with the flattering of
her lips she forced him.
22 He goeth after her straightway, as
an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a
fool to the correction of the stocks;
23 Till a dart strike through his
liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare,
and knoweth not that it [is] for his
life.
24 # Hearken unto me now therefore, O
ye children, and attend to the words of
my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her
ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she hath cast down many wounded:
yea, many strong [men] have been slain
by her.
27 Her house [is] the way to hell,
going down to the chambers of death.

CHAPTER 8
1 Doth not wisdom cry? and
understanding put forth her voice?
2 She standeth in the top of high
places, by the way in the places of the
paths.
3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry
of the city, at the coming in at the
doors.
4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice
[is] to the sons of man.
5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and,
ye fools, be ye of an understanding
heart.
6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent
things; and the opening of my lips
[shall be] right things.
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and
wickedness [is] an abomination to my
lips.
8 All the words of my mouth [are] in
righteousness; [there is] nothing
froward or perverse in them.
9 They [are] all plain to him that
understandeth, and right to them that
find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not
silver; and knowledge rather than
choice gold.
11 For wisdom [is] better than rubies;
and all the things that may be desired
are not to be compared to it.
12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and
find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate
evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the
evil way, and the froward mouth, do I
hate.
14 Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom:
I [am] understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes
decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles,
[even] all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those
that seek me early shall find me.
18 Riches and honour [are] with me;
[yea], durable riches and
righteousness.
19 My fruit [is] better than gold, yea,
than fine gold; and my revenue than
choice silver.
20 I lead in the way of righteousness,
in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me
to inherit substance; and I will fill
their treasures.
22 The LORD possessed me in the
beginning of his way, before his works
of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from
the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When [there were] no depths, I was
brought forth; when [there were] no
fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled,
before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the
earth, nor the fields, nor the highest
part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I
[was] there: when he set a compass upon
the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds
above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree,
that the waters should not pass his
commandment: when he appointed the
foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, [as] one brought
up [with him]: and I was daily [his]
delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of
his earth; and my delights [were] with
the sons of men.
32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye
children: for blessed [are they that]
keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and
refuse it not.
34 Blessed [is] the man that heareth
me, watching daily at my gates, waiting
at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoso findeth me findeth life,
and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
36 But he that sinneth against me
wrongeth his own soul: all they that
hate me love death.

CHAPTER 9
1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she
hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath
mingled her wine; she hath also
furnished her table.
3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she
crieth upon the highest places of the
city,
4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in
hither: [as for] him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of
the wine [which] I have mingled.
6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go
in the way of understanding.
7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth
to himself shame: and he that rebuketh
a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.
8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate
thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will
love thee.
9 Give [instruction] to a wise [man],
and he will be yet wiser: teach a just
[man], and he will increase in
learning.
10 The fear of the LORD [is] the
beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge
of the holy [is] understanding.
11 For by me thy days shall be
multiplied, and the years of thy life
shall be increased.
12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise
for thyself: but [if] thou scornest,
thou alone shalt bear [it].
13 A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she
is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14 For she sitteth at the door of her
house, on a seat in the high places of
the city,
15 To call passengers who go right on
their ways:
16 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in
hither: and [as for] him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him,
17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread
[eaten] in secret is pleasant.
18 But he knoweth not that the dead
[are] there; [and that] her guests
[are] in the depths of hell.

CHAPTER 10
1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son
maketh a glad father: but a foolish son
[is] the heaviness of his mother.
2 Treasures of wickedness profit
nothing: but righteousness delivereth
from death.
3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of
the righteous to famish: but he casteth
away the substance of the wicked.
4 He becometh poor that dealeth [with]
a slack hand: but the hand of the
diligent maketh rich.
5 He that gathereth in summer [is] a
wise son: [but] he that sleepeth in
harvest [is] a son that causeth shame.
6 Blessings [are] upon the head of the
just: but violence covereth the mouth
of the wicked.
7 The memory of the just [is] blessed:
but the name of the wicked shall rot.
8 The wise in heart will receive
commandments: but a prating fool shall
fall.
9 He that walketh uprightly walketh
surely: but he that perverteth his ways
shall be known.
10 He that winketh with the eye causeth
sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
11 The mouth of a righteous [man is] a
well of life: but violence covereth the
mouth of the wicked.
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love
covereth all sins.
13 In the lips of him that hath
understanding wisdom is found: but a
rod [is] for the back of him that is
void of understanding.
14 Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the
mouth of the foolish [is] near
destruction.
15 The rich man's wealth [is] his
strong city: the destruction of the
poor [is] their poverty.
16 The labour of the righteous
[tendeth] to life: the fruit of the
wicked to sin.
17 He [is in] the way of life that
keepeth instruction: but he that
refuseth reproof erreth.
18 He that hideth hatred [with] lying
lips, and he that uttereth a slander,
[is] a fool.
19 In the multitude of words there
wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth
his lips [is] wise.
20 The tongue of the just [is as]
choice silver: the heart of the wicked
[is] little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many:
but fools die for want of wisdom.
22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh
rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
23 [It is] as sport to a fool to do
mischief: but a man of understanding
hath wisdom.
24 The fear of the wicked, it shall
come upon him: but the desire of the
righteous shall be granted.
25 As the whirlwind passeth, so [is]
the wicked no [more]: but the righteous
[is] an everlasting foundation.
26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as
smoke to the eyes, so [is] the sluggard
to them that send him.
27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth
days: but the years of the wicked shall
be shortened.
28 The hope of the righteous [shall be]
gladness: but the expectation of the
wicked shall perish.
29 The way of the LORD [is] strength to
the upright: but destruction [shall be]
to the workers of iniquity.
30 The righteous shall never be
removed: but the wicked shall not
inhabit the earth.
31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth
wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be
cut out.
32 The lips of the righteous know what
is acceptable: but the mouth of the
wicked [speaketh] frowardness.

CHAPTER 11
1 A false balance [is] abomination to
the LORD: but a just weight [is] his
delight.
2 [When] pride cometh, then cometh
shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright shall
guide them: but the perverseness of
transgressors shall destroy them.
4 Riches profit not in the day of
wrath: but righteousness delivereth
from death.
5 The righteousness of the perfect
shall direct his way: but the wicked
shall fall by his own wickedness.
6 The righteousness of the upright
shall deliver them: but transgressors
shall be taken in [their own]
naughtiness.
7 When a wicked man dieth, [his]
expectation shall perish: and the hope
of unjust [men] perisheth.
8 The righteous is delivered out of
trouble, and the wicked cometh in his
stead.
9 An hypocrite with [his] mouth
destroyeth his neighbour: but through
knowledge shall the just be delivered.
10 When it goeth well with the
righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when
the wicked perish, [there is] shouting.
11 By the blessing of the upright the
city is exalted: but it is overthrown
by the mouth of the wicked.
12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth
his neighbour: but a man of
understanding holdeth his peace.
13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but
he that is of a faithful spirit
concealeth the matter.
14 Where no counsel [is], the people
fall: but in the multitude of
counsellors [there is] safety.
15 He that is surety for a stranger
shall smart [for it]: and he that
hateth suretiship is sure.
16 A gracious woman retaineth honour:
and strong [men] retain riches.
17 The merciful man doeth good to his
own soul: but [he that is] cruel
troubleth his own flesh.
18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work:
but to him that soweth righteousness
[shall be] a sure reward.
19 As righteousness [tendeth] to life:
so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it]
to his own death.
20 They that are of a froward heart
[are] abomination to the LORD: but
[such as are] upright in [their] way
[are] his delight.
21 [Though] hand [join] in hand, the
wicked shall not be unpunished: but the
seed of the righteous shall be
delivered.
22 [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's
snout, [so is] a fair woman which is
without discretion.
23 The desire of the righteous [is]
only good: [but] the expectation of the
wicked [is] wrath.
24 There is that scattereth, and yet
increaseth; and [there is] that
withholdeth more than is meet, but [it
tendeth] to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat:
and he that watereth shall be watered
also himself.
26 He that withholdeth corn, the people
shall curse him: but blessing [shall
be] upon the head of him that selleth
[it].
27 He that diligently seeketh good
procureth favour: but he that seeketh
mischief, it shall come unto him.
28 He that trusteth in his riches shall
fall: but the righteous shall flourish
as a branch.
29 He that troubleth his own house
shall inherit the wind: and the fool
[shall be] servant to the wise of
heart.
30 The fruit of the righteous [is] a
tree of life; and he that winneth souls
[is] wise.
31 Behold, the righteous shall be
recompensed in the earth: much more the
wicked and the sinner.

CHAPTER 12
1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth
knowledge: but he that hateth reproof
[is] brutish.
2 A good [man] obtaineth favour of the
LORD: but a man of wicked devices will
he condemn.
3 A man shall not be established by
wickedness: but the root of the
righteous shall not be moved.
4 A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her
husband: but she that maketh ashamed
[is] as rottenness in his bones.
5 The thoughts of the righteous [are]
right: [but] the counsels of the wicked
[are] deceit.
6 The words of the wicked [are] to lie
in wait for blood: but the mouth of the
upright shall deliver them.
7 The wicked are overthrown, and [are]
not: but the house of the righteous
shall stand.
8 A man shall be commended according to
his wisdom: but he that is of a
perverse heart shall be despised.
9 [He that is] despised, and hath a
servant, [is] better than he that
honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
10 A righteous [man] regardeth the life
of his beast: but the tender mercies of
the wicked [are] cruel.
11 He that tilleth his land shall be
satisfied with bread: but he that
followeth vain [persons is] void of
understanding.
12 The wicked desireth the net of evil
[men]: but the root of the righteous
yieldeth [fruit].
13 The wicked is snared by the
transgression of [his] lips: but the
just shall come out of trouble.
14 A man shall be satisfied with good
by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the
recompence of a man's hands shall be
rendered unto him.
15 The way of a fool [is] right in his
own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto
counsel [is] wise.
16 A fool's wrath is presently known:
but a prudent [man] covereth shame.
17 [He that] speaketh truth sheweth
forth righteousness: but a false
witness deceit.
18 There is that speaketh like the
piercings of a sword: but the tongue of
the wise [is] health.
19 The lip of truth shall be
established for ever: but a lying
tongue [is] but for a moment.
20 Deceit [is] in the heart of them
that imagine evil: but to the
counsellors of peace [is] joy.
21 There shall no evil happen to the
just: but the wicked shall be filled
with mischief.
22 Lying lips [are] abomination to the
LORD: but they that deal truly [are]
his delight.
23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge:
but the heart of fools proclaimeth
foolishness.
24 The hand of the diligent shall bear
rule: but the slothful shall be under
tribute.
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh
it stoop: but a good word maketh it
glad.
26 The righteous [is] more excellent
than his neighbour: but the way of the
wicked seduceth them.
27 The slothful [man] roasteth not that
which he took in hunting: but the
substance of a diligent man [is]
precious.
28 In the way of righteousness [is]
life; and [in] the pathway [thereof
there is] no death.

CHAPTER 13
1 A wise son [heareth] his father's
instruction: but a scorner heareth not
rebuke.
2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of
[his] mouth: but the soul of the
transgressors [shall eat] violence.
3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his
life: [but] he that openeth wide his
lips shall have destruction.
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth,
and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the
diligent shall be made fat.
5 A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a
wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh
to shame.
6 Righteousness keepeth [him that is]
upright in the way: but wickedness
overthroweth the sinner.
7 There is that maketh himself rich,
yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that
maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great
riches.
8 The ransom of a man's life [are] his
riches: but the poor heareth not
rebuke.
9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth:
but the lamp of the wicked shall be put
out.
10 Only by pride cometh contention: but
with the well advised [is] wisdom.
11 Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be
diminished: but he that gathereth by
labour shall increase.
12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:
but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a
tree of life.
13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be
destroyed: but he that feareth the
commandment shall be rewarded.
14 The law of the wise [is] a fountain
of life, to depart from the snares of
death.
15 Good understanding giveth favour:
but the way of transgressors [is] hard.
16 Every prudent [man] dealeth with
knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his]
folly.
17 A wicked messenger falleth into
mischief: but a faithful ambassador
[is] health.
18 Poverty and shame [shall be to] him
that refuseth instruction: but he that
regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
19 The desire accomplished is sweet to
the soul: but [it is] abomination to
fools to depart from evil.
20 He that walketh with wise [men]
shall be wise: but a companion of fools
shall be destroyed.
21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the
righteous good shall be repayed.
22 A good [man] leaveth an inheritance
to his children's children: and the
wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for
the just.
23 Much food [is in] the tillage of the
poor: but there is [that is] destroyed
for want of judgment.
24 He that spareth his rod hateth his
son: but he that loveth him chasteneth
him betimes.
25 The righteous eateth to the
satisfying of his soul: but the belly
of the wicked shall want.

CHAPTER 14
1 Every wise woman buildeth her house:
but the foolish plucketh it down with
her hands.
2 He that walketh in his uprightness
feareth the LORD: but [he that is]
perverse in his ways despiseth him.
3 In the mouth of the foolish [is] a
rod of pride: but the lips of the wise
shall preserve them.
4 Where no oxen [are], the crib [is]
clean: but much increase [is] by the
strength of the ox.
5 A faithful witness will not lie: but
a false witness will utter lies.
6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and
[findeth it] not: but knowledge [is]
easy unto him that understandeth.
7 Go from the presence of a foolish
man, when thou perceivest not [in him]
the lips of knowledge.
8 The wisdom of the prudent [is] to
understand his way: but the folly of
fools [is] deceit.
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among
the righteous [there is] favour.
10 The heart knoweth his own
bitterness; and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with his joy.
11 The house of the wicked shall be
overthrown: but the tabernacle of the
upright shall flourish.
12 There is a way which seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof [are]
the ways of death.
13 Even in laughter the heart is
sorrowful; and the end of that mirth
[is] heaviness.
14 The backslider in heart shall be
filled with his own ways: and a good
man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
15 The simple believeth every word: but
the prudent [man] looketh well to his
going.
16 A wise [man] feareth, and departeth
from evil: but the fool rageth, and is
confident.
17 [He that is] soon angry dealeth
foolishly: and a man of wicked devices
is hated.
18 The simple inherit folly: but the
prudent are crowned with knowledge.
19 The evil bow before the good; and
the wicked at the gates of the
righteous.
20 The poor is hated even of his own
neighbour: but the rich [hath] many
friends.
21 He that despiseth his neighbour
sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the
poor, happy [is] he.
22 Do they not err that devise evil?
but mercy and truth [shall be] to them
that devise good.
23 In all labour there is profit: but
the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to
penury.
24 The crown of the wise [is] their
riches: [but] the foolishness of fools
[is] folly.
25 A true witness delivereth souls: but
a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies.
26 In the fear of the LORD [is] strong
confidence: and his children shall have
a place of refuge.
27 The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain
of life, to depart from the snares of
death.
28 In the multitude of people [is] the
king's honour: but in the want of
people [is] the destruction of the
prince.
29 [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of
great understanding: but [he that is]
hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
30 A sound heart [is] the life of the
flesh: but envy the rottenness of the
bones.
31 He that oppresseth the poor
reproacheth his Maker: but he that
honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
32 The wicked is driven away in his
wickedness: but the righteous hath hope
in his death.
33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him
that hath understanding: but [that
which is] in the midst of fools is made
known.
34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but
sin [is] a reproach to any people.
35 The king's favour [is] toward a wise
servant: but his wrath is [against] him
that causeth shame.

CHAPTER 15
1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but
grievous words stir up anger.
2 The tongue of the wise useth
knowledge aright: but the mouth of
fools poureth out foolishness.
3 The eyes of the LORD [are] in every
place, beholding the evil and the good.
4 A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of
life: but perverseness therein [is] a
breach in the spirit.
5 A fool despiseth his father's
instruction: but he that regardeth
reproof is prudent.
6 In the house of the righteous [is]
much treasure: but in the revenues of
the wicked is trouble.
7 The lips of the wise disperse
knowledge: but the heart of the foolish
[doeth] not so.
8 The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an
abomination to the LORD: but the prayer
of the upright [is] his delight.
9 The way of the wicked [is] an
abomination unto the LORD: but he
loveth him that followeth after
righteousness.
10 Correction [is] grievous unto him
that forsaketh the way: [and] he that
hateth reproof shall die.
11 Hell and destruction [are] before
the LORD: how much more then the hearts
of the children of men?
12 A scorner loveth not one that
reproveth him: neither will he go unto
the wise.
13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful
countenance: but by sorrow of the heart
the spirit is broken.
14 The heart of him that hath
understanding seeketh knowledge: but
the mouth of fools feedeth on
foolishness.
15 All the days of the afflicted [are]
evil: but he that is of a merry heart
[hath] a continual feast.
16 Better [is] little with the fear of
the LORD than great treasure and
trouble therewith.
17 Better [is] a dinner of herbs where
love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith.
18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife:
but [he that is] slow to anger
appeaseth strife.
19 The way of the slothful [man is] as
an hedge of thorns: but the way of the
righteous [is] made plain.
20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but
a foolish man despiseth his mother.
21 Folly [is] joy to [him that is]
destitute of wisdom: but a man of
understanding walketh uprightly.
22 Without counsel purposes are
disappointed: but in the multitude of
counsellors they are established.
23 A man hath joy by the answer of his
mouth: and a word [spoken] in due
season, how good [is it]!
24 The way of life [is] above to the
wise, that he may depart from hell
beneath.
25 The LORD will destroy the house of
the proud: but he will establish the
border of the widow.
26 The thoughts of the wicked [are] an
abomination to the LORD: but [the
words] of the pure [are] pleasant
words.
27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth
his own house; but he that hateth gifts
shall live.
28 The heart of the righteous studieth
to answer: but the mouth of the wicked
poureth out evil things.
29 The LORD [is] far from the wicked:
but he heareth the prayer of the
righteous.
30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the
heart: [and] a good report maketh the
bones fat.
31 The ear that heareth the reproof of
life abideth among the wise.
32 He that refuseth instruction
despiseth his own soul: but he that
heareth reproof getteth understanding.
33 The fear of the LORD [is] the
instruction of wisdom; and before
honour [is] humility.

CHAPTER 16
1 The preparations of the heart in man,
and the answer of the tongue, [is] from
the LORD.
2 All the ways of a man [are] clean in
his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the
spirits.
3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and
thy thoughts shall be established.
4 The LORD hath made all [things] for
himself: yea, even the wicked for the
day of evil.
5 Every one [that is] proud in heart
[is] an abomination to the LORD:
[though] hand [join] in hand, he shall
not be unpunished.
6 By mercy and truth iniquity is
purged: and by the fear of the LORD
[men] depart from evil.
7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he
maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him.
8 Better [is] a little with
righteousness than great revenues
without right.
9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but
the LORD directeth his steps.
10 A divine sentence [is] in the lips
of the king: his mouth transgresseth
not in judgment.
11 A just weight and balance [are] the
LORD'S: all the weights of the bag
[are] his work.
12 [It is] an abomination to kings to
commit wickedness: for the throne is
established by righteousness.
13 Righteous lips [are] the delight of
kings; and they love him that speaketh
right.
14 The wrath of a king [is as]
messengers of death: but a wise man
will pacify it.
15 In the light of the king's
countenance [is] life; and his favour
[is] as a cloud of the latter rain.
16 How much better [is it] to get
wisdom than gold! and to get
understanding rather to be chosen than
silver!
17 The highway of the upright [is] to
depart from evil: he that keepeth his
way preserveth his soul.
18 Pride [goeth] before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better [it is to be] of an humble
spirit with the lowly, than to divide
the spoil with the proud.
20 He that handleth a matter wisely
shall find good: and whoso trusteth in
the LORD, happy [is] he.
21 The wise in heart shall be called
prudent: and the sweetness of the lips
increaseth learning.
22 Understanding [is] a wellspring of
life unto him that hath it: but the
instruction of fools [is] folly.
23 The heart of the wise teacheth his
mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words [are as] an
honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and
health to the bones.
25 There is a way that seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof [are]
the ways of death.
26 He that laboureth laboureth for
himself; for his mouth craveth it of
him.
27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and
in his lips [there is] as a burning
fire.
28 A froward man soweth strife: and a
whisperer separateth chief friends.
29 A violent man enticeth his
neighbour, and leadeth him into the way
[that is] not good.
30 He shutteth his eyes to devise
froward things: moving his lips he
bringeth evil to pass.
31 The hoary head [is] a crown of
glory, [if] it be found in the way of
righteousness.
32 [He that is] slow to anger [is]
better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a
city.
33 The lot is cast into the lap; but
the whole disposing thereof [is] of the
LORD.

CHAPTER 17
1 Better [is] a dry morsel, and
quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices [with] strife.
2 A wise servant shall have rule over a
son that causeth shame, and shall have
part of the inheritance among the
brethren.
3 The fining pot [is] for silver, and
the furnace for gold: but the LORD
trieth the hearts.
4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false
lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a
naughty tongue.
5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth
his Maker: [and] he that is glad at
calamities shall not be unpunished.
6 Children's children [are] the crown
of old men; and the glory of children
[are] their fathers.
7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool:
much less do lying lips a prince.
8 A gift [is as] a precious stone in
the eyes of him that hath it:
whithersoever it turneth, it
prospereth.
9 He that covereth a transgression
seeketh love; but he that repeateth a
matter separateth [very] friends.
10 A reproof entereth more into a wise
man than an hundred stripes into a
fool.
11 An evil [man] seeketh only
rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger
shall be sent against him.
12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet
a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil
shall not depart from his house.
14 The beginning of strife [is as] when
one letteth out water: therefore leave
off contention, before it be meddled
with.
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and
he that condemneth the just, even they
both [are] abomination to the LORD.
16 Wherefore [is there] a price in the
hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing
[he hath] no heart [to it]?
17 A friend loveth at all times, and a
brother is born for adversity.
18 A man void of understanding striketh
hands, [and] becometh surety in the
presence of his friend.
19 He loveth transgression that loveth
strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate
seeketh destruction.
20 He that hath a froward heart findeth
no good: and he that hath a perverse
tongue falleth into mischief.
21 He that begetteth a fool [doeth it]
to his sorrow: and the father of a fool
hath no joy.
22 A merry heart doeth good [like] a
medicine: but a broken spirit drieth
the bones.
23 A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of
the bosom to pervert the ways of
judgment.
24 Wisdom [is] before him that hath
understanding; but the eyes of a fool
[are] in the ends of the earth.
25 A foolish son [is] a grief to his
father, and bitterness to her that bare
him.
26 Also to punish the just [is] not
good, [nor] to strike princes for
equity.
27 He that hath knowledge spareth his
words: [and] a man of understanding is
of an excellent spirit.
28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his
peace, is counted wise: [and] he that
shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man
of understanding.

CHAPTER 18
1 Through desire a man, having
separated himself, seeketh [and]
intermeddleth with all wisdom.
2 A fool hath no delight in
understanding, but that his heart may
discover itself.
3 When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh
also contempt, and with ignominy
reproach.
4 The words of a man's mouth [are as]
deep waters, [and] the wellspring of
wisdom [as] a flowing brook.
5 [It is] not good to accept the person
of the wicked, to overthrow the
righteous in judgment.
6 A fool's lips enter into contention,
and his mouth calleth for strokes.
7 A fool's mouth [is] his destruction,
and his lips [are] the snare of his
soul.
8 The words of a talebearer [are] as
wounds, and they go down into the
innermost parts of the belly.
9 He also that is slothful in his work
is brother to him that is a great
waster.
10 The name of the LORD [is] a strong
tower: the righteous runneth into it,
and is safe.
11 The rich man's wealth [is] his
strong city, and as an high wall in his
own conceit.
12 Before destruction the heart of man
is haughty, and before honour [is]
humility.
13 He that answereth a matter before he
heareth [it], it [is] folly and shame
unto him.
14 The spirit of a man will sustain his
infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can
bear?
15 The heart of the prudent getteth
knowledge; and the ear of the wise
seeketh knowledge.
16 A man's gift maketh room for him,
and bringeth him before great men.
17 [He that is] first in his own cause
[seemeth] just; but his neighbour
cometh and searcheth him.
18 The lot causeth contentions to
cease, and parteth between the mighty.
19 A brother offended [is harder to be
won] than a strong city: and [their]
contentions [are] like the bars of a
castle.
20 A man's belly shall be satisfied
with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with
the increase of his lips shall he be
filled.
21 Death and life [are] in the power of
the tongue: and they that love it shall
eat the fruit thereof.
22 [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a
good [thing], and obtaineth favour of
the LORD.
23 The poor useth intreaties; but the
rich answereth roughly.
24 A man [that hath] friends must shew
himself friendly: and there is a friend
[that] sticketh closer than a brother.

CHAPTER 19
1 Better [is] the poor that walketh in
his integrity, than [he that is]
perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
2 Also, [that] the soul [be] without
knowledge, [it is] not good; and he
that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.
3 The foolishness of man perverteth his
way: and his heart fretteth against the
LORD.
4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the
poor is separated from his neighbour.
5 A false witness shall not be
unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies
shall not escape.
6 Many will intreat the favour of the
prince: and every man [is] a friend to
him that giveth gifts.
7 All the brethren of the poor do hate
him: how much more do his friends go
far from him? he pursueth [them with]
words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to
him].
8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own
soul: he that keepeth understanding
shall find good.
9 A false witness shall not be
unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies
shall perish.
10 Delight is not seemly for a fool;
much less for a servant to have rule
over princes.
11 The discretion of a man deferreth
his anger; and [it is] his glory to
pass over a transgression.
12 The king's wrath [is] as the roaring
of a lion; but his favour [is] as dew
upon the grass.
13 A foolish son [is] the calamity of
his father: and the contentions of a
wife [are] a continual dropping.
14 House and riches [are] the
inheritance of fathers: and a prudent
wife [is] from the LORD.
15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep
sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer
hunger.
16 He that keepeth the commandment
keepeth his own soul; [but] he that
despiseth his ways shall die.
17 He that hath pity upon the poor
lendeth unto the LORD; and that which
he hath given will he pay him again.
18 Chasten thy son while there is hope,
and let not thy soul spare for his
crying.
19 A man of great wrath shall suffer
punishment: for if thou deliver [him],
yet thou must do it again.
20 Hear counsel, and receive
instruction, that thou mayest be wise
in thy latter end.
21 [There are] many devices in a man's
heart; nevertheless the counsel of the
LORD, that shall stand.
22 The desire of a man [is] his
kindness: and a poor man [is] better
than a liar.
23 The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to
life: and [he that hath it] shall abide
satisfied; he shall not be visited with
evil.
24 A slothful [man] hideth his hand in
[his] bosom, and will not so much as
bring it to his mouth again.
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will
beware: and reprove one that hath
understanding, [and] he will understand
knowledge.
26 He that wasteth [his] father, [and]
chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son
that causeth shame, and bringeth
reproach.
27 Cease, my son, to hear the
instruction [that causeth] to err from
the words of knowledge.
28 An ungodly witness scorneth
judgment: and the mouth of the wicked
devoureth iniquity.
29 Judgments are prepared for scorners,
and stripes for the back of fools.

CHAPTER 20
1 Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is]
raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise.
2 The fear of a king [is] as the
roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh
him to anger sinneth [against] his own
soul.
3 [It is] an honour for a man to cease
from strife: but every fool will be
meddling.
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason
of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg
in harvest, and [have] nothing.
5 Counsel in the heart of man [is like]
deep water; but a man of understanding
will draw it out.
6 Most men will proclaim every one his
own goodness: but a faithful man who
can find?
7 The just [man] walketh in his
integrity: his children [are] blessed
after him.
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of
judgment scattereth away all evil with
his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart
clean, I am pure from my sin?
10 Divers weights, [and] divers
measures, both of them [are] alike
abomination to the LORD.
11 Even a child is known by his doings,
whether his work [be] pure, and whether
[it be] right.
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
the LORD hath made even both of them.
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to
poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou
shalt be satisfied with bread.
14 [It is] naught, [it is] naught,
saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
15 There is gold, and a multitude of
rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are]
a precious jewel.
16 Take his garment that is surety
[for] a stranger: and take a pledge of
him for a strange woman.
17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man;
but afterwards his mouth shall be
filled with gravel.
18 [Every] purpose is established by
counsel: and with good advice make war.
19 He that goeth about [as] a
talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore
meddle not with him that flattereth
with his lips.
20 Whoso curseth his father or his
mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness.
21 An inheritance [may be] gotten
hastily at the beginning; but the end
thereof shall not be blessed.
22 Say not thou, I will recompense
evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he
shall save thee.
23 Divers weights [are] an abomination
unto the LORD; and a false balance [is]
not good.
24 Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how
can a man then understand his own way?
25 [It is] a snare to the man [who]
devoureth [that which is] holy, and
after vows to make enquiry.
26 A wise king scattereth the wicked,
and bringeth the wheel over them.
27 The spirit of man [is] the candle of
the LORD, searching all the inward
parts of the belly.
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king:
and his throne is upholden by mercy.
29 The glory of young men [is] their
strength: and the beauty of old men
[is] the gray head.
30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth
away evil: so [do] stripes the inward
parts of the belly.

CHAPTER 21
1 The king's heart [is] in the hand of
the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he
turneth it whithersoever he will.
2 Every way of a man [is] right in his
own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the
hearts.
3 To do justice and judgment [is] more
acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
4 An high look, and a proud heart,
[and] the plowing of the wicked, [is]
sin.
5 The thoughts of the diligent [tend]
only to plenteousness; but of every one
[that is] hasty only to want.
6 The getting of treasures by a lying
tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro
of them that seek death.
7 The robbery of the wicked shall
destroy them; because they refuse to do
judgment.
8 The way of man [is] froward and
strange: but [as for] the pure, his
work [is] right.
9 [It is] better to dwell in a corner
of the housetop, than with a brawling
woman in a wide house.
10 The soul of the wicked desireth
evil: his neighbour findeth no favour
in his eyes.
11 When the scorner is punished, the
simple is made wise: and when the wise
is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
12 The righteous [man] wisely
considereth the house of the wicked:
[but God] overthroweth the wicked for
[their] wickedness.
13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry
of the poor, he also shall cry himself,
but shall not be heard.
14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger:
and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
15 [It is] joy to the just to do
judgment: but destruction [shall be] to
the workers of iniquity.
16 The man that wandereth out of the
way of understanding shall remain in
the congregation of the dead.
17 He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a
poor man: he that loveth wine and oil
shall not be rich.
18 The wicked [shall be] a ransom for
the righteous, and the transgressor for
the upright.
19 [It is] better to dwell in the
wilderness, than with a contentious and
an angry woman.
20 [There is] treasure to be desired
and oil in the dwelling of the wise;
but a foolish man spendeth it up.
21 He that followeth after
righteousness and mercy findeth life,
righteousness, and honour.
22 A wise [man] scaleth the city of the
mighty, and casteth down the strength
of the confidence thereof.
23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his
tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
24 Proud [and] haughty scorner [is] his
name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
25 The desire of the slothful killeth
him; for his hands refuse to labour.
26 He coveteth greedily all the day
long: but the righteous giveth and
spareth not.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked [is]
abomination: how much more, [when] he
bringeth it with a wicked mind?
28 A false witness shall perish: but
the man that heareth speaketh
constantly.
29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but
[as for] the upright, he directeth his
way.
30 [There is] no wisdom nor
understanding nor counsel against the
LORD.
31 The horse [is] prepared against the
day of battle: but safety [is] of the
LORD.

CHAPTER 22
1 A [good] name [is] rather to be
chosen than great riches, [and] loving
favour rather than silver and gold.
2 The rich and poor meet together: the
LORD [is] the maker of them all.
3 A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil,
and hideth himself: but the simple pass
on, and are punished.
4 By humility [and] the fear of the
LORD [are] riches, and honour, and
life.
5 Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way
of the froward: he that doth keep his
soul shall be far from them.
6 Train up a child in the way he should
go: and when he is old, he will not
depart from it.
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and
the borrower [is] servant to the
lender.
8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap
vanity: and the rod of his anger shall
fail.
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be
blessed; for he giveth of his bread to
the poor.
10 Cast out the scorner, and contention
shall go out; yea, strife and reproach
shall cease.
11 He that loveth pureness of heart,
[for] the grace of his lips the king
[shall be] his friend.
12 The eyes of the LORD preserve
knowledge, and he overthroweth the
words of the transgressor.
13 The slothful [man] saith, [There is]
a lion without, I shall be slain in the
streets.
14 The mouth of strange women [is] a
deep pit: he that is abhorred of the
LORD shall fall therein.
15 Foolishness [is] bound in the heart
of a child; [but] the rod of correction
shall drive it far from him.
16 He that oppresseth the poor to
increase his [riches, and] he that
giveth to the rich, [shall] surely
[come] to want.
17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the
words of the wise, and apply thine
heart unto my knowledge.
18 For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou
keep them within thee; they shall
withal be fitted in thy lips.
19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I
have made known to thee this day, even
to thee.
20 Have not I written to thee excellent
things in counsels and knowledge,
21 That I might make thee know the
certainty of the words of truth; that
thou mightest answer the words of truth
to them that send unto thee?
22 Rob not the poor, because he [is]
poor: neither oppress the afflicted in
the gate:
23 For the LORD will plead their cause,
and spoil the soul of those that
spoiled them.
24 Make no friendship with an angry
man; and with a furious man thou shalt
not go:
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a
snare to thy soul.
26 Be not thou [one] of them that
strike hands, [or] of them that are
sureties for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why
should he take away thy bed from under
thee?
28 Remove not the ancient landmark,
which thy fathers have set.
29 Seest thou a man diligent in his
business? he shall stand before kings;
he shall not stand before mean [men].

CHAPTER 23
1 When thou sittest to eat with a
ruler, consider diligently what [is]
before thee:
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if
thou [be] a man given to appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for
they [are] deceitful meat.
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from
thine own wisdom.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that
which is not? for [riches] certainly
make themselves wings; they fly away as
an eagle toward heaven.
6 Eat thou not the bread of [him that
hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou
his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so
[is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to
thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
8 The morsel [which] thou hast eaten
shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet
words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for
he will despise the wisdom of thy
words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and
enter not into the fields of the
fatherless:
11 For their redeemer [is] mighty; he
shall plead their cause with thee.
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction,
and thine ears to the words of
knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the
child: for [if] thou beatest him with
the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my
heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when
thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners:
but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD
all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end; and
thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and
guide thine heart in the way.
20 Be not among winebibbers; among
riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton
shall come to poverty: and drowsiness
shall clothe [a man] with rags.
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat
thee, and despise not thy mother when
she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell [it] not;
[also] wisdom, and instruction, and
understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall
greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth
a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be
glad, and she that bare thee shall
rejoice.
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let
thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a
strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a
prey, and increaseth the transgressors
among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who
hath contentions? who hath babbling?
who hath wounds without cause? who hath
redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine;
they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it
is red, when it giveth his colour in
the cup, [when] it moveth itself
aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange
women, and thine heart shall utter
perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth
down in the midst of the sea, or as he
that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou
say, and] I was not sick; they have
beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when
shall I awake? I will seek it yet
again.

CHAPTER 24
1 Be not thou envious against evil men,
neither desire to be with them.
2 For their heart studieth destruction,
and their lips talk of mischief.
3 Through wisdom is an house builded;
and by understanding it is established:
4 And by knowledge shall the chambers
be filled with all precious and
pleasant riches.
5 A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of
knowledge increaseth strength.
6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make
thy war: and in multitude of
counsellors [there is] safety.
7 Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he
openeth not his mouth in the gate.
8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be
called a mischievous person.
9 The thought of foolishness [is] sin:
and the scorner [is] an abomination to
men.
10 [If] thou faint in the day of
adversity, thy strength [is] small.
11 If thou forbear to deliver [them
that are] drawn unto death, and [those
that are] ready to be slain;
12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it
not; doth not he that pondereth the
heart consider [it]? and he that
keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know
[it]? and shall [not] he render to
[every] man according to his works?
13 My son, eat thou honey, because [it
is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is]
sweet to thy taste:
14 So [shall] the knowledge of wisdom
[be] unto thy soul: when thou hast
found [it], then there shall be a
reward, and thy expectation shall not
be cut off.
15 Lay not wait, O wicked [man],
against the dwelling of the righteous;
spoil not his resting place:
16 For a just [man] falleth seven
times, and riseth up again: but the
wicked shall fall into mischief.
17 Rejoice not when thine enemy
falleth, and let not thine heart be
glad when he stumbleth:
18 Lest the LORD see [it], and it
displease him, and he turn away his
wrath from him.
19 Fret not thyself because of evil
[men], neither be thou envious at the
wicked;
20 For there shall be no reward to the
evil [man]; the candle of the wicked
shall be put out.
21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the
king: [and] meddle not with them that
are given to change:
22 For their calamity shall rise
suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of
them both?
23 These [things] also [belong] to the
wise. [It is] not good to have respect
of persons in judgment.
24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou
[art] righteous; him shall the people
curse, nations shall abhor him:
25 But to them that rebuke [him] shall
be delight, and a good blessing shall
come upon them.
26 [Every man] shall kiss [his] lips
that giveth a right answer.
27 Prepare thy work without, and make
it fit for thyself in the field; and
afterwards build thine house.
28 Be not a witness against thy
neighbour without cause; and deceive
[not] with thy lips.
29 Say not, I will do so to him as he
hath done to me: I will render to the
man according to his work.
30 I went by the field of the slothful,
and by the vineyard of the man void of
understanding;
31 And, lo, it was all grown over with
thorns, [and] nettles had covered the
face thereof, and the stone wall
thereof was broken down.
32 Then I saw, [and] considered [it]
well: I looked upon [it, and] received
instruction.
33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep:
34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one
that travelleth; and thy want as an
armed man.

CHAPTER 25
1 These [are] also proverbs of Solomon,
which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah
copied out.
2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a
thing: but the honour of kings [is] to
search out a matter.
3 The heaven for height, and the earth
for depth, and the heart of kings [is]
unsearchable.
4 Take away the dross from the silver,
and there shall come forth a vessel for
the finer.
5 Take away the wicked [from] before
the king, and his throne shall be
established in righteousness.
6 Put not forth thyself in the presence
of the king, and stand not in the place
of great [men]:
7 For better [it is] that it be said
unto thee, Come up hither; than that
thou shouldest be put lower in the
presence of the prince whom thine eyes
have seen.
8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest
[thou know not] what to do in the end
thereof, when thy neighbour hath put
thee to shame.
9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour
[himself]; and discover not a secret to
another:
10 Lest he that heareth [it] put thee
to shame, and thine infamy turn not
away.
11 A word fitly spoken [is like] apples
of gold in pictures of silver.
12 [As] an earring of gold, and an
ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise
reprover upon an obedient ear.
13 As the cold of snow in the time of
harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger
to them that send him: for he
refresheth the soul of his masters.
14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false
gift [is like] clouds and wind without
rain.
15 By long forbearing is a prince
persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh
the bone.
16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much
as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be
filled therewith, and vomit it.
17 Withdraw thy foot from thy
neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and [so] hate thee.
18 A man that beareth false witness
against his neighbour [is] a maul, and
a sword, and a sharp arrow.
19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in
time of trouble [is like] a broken
tooth, and a foot out of joint.
20 [As] he that taketh away a garment
in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon
nitre, so [is] he that singeth songs to
an heavy heart.
21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him
bread to eat; and if he be thirsty,
give him water to drink:
22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire
upon his head, and the LORD shall
reward thee.
23 The north wind driveth away rain: so
[doth] an angry countenance a
backbiting tongue.
24 [It is] better to dwell in the
corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman and in a wide house.
25 [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul,
so [is] good news from a far country.
26 A righteous man falling down before
the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain,
and a corrupt spring.
27 [It is] not good to eat much honey:
so [for men] to search their own glory
[is not] glory.
28 He that [hath] no rule over his own
spirit [is like] a city [that is]
broken down, [and] without walls.

CHAPTER 26
1 As snow in summer, and as rain in
harvest, so honour is not seemly for a
fool.
2 As the bird by wandering, as the
swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for
the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
4 Answer not a fool according to his
folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own conceit.
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand
of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and]
drinketh damage.
7 The legs of the lame are not equal:
so [is] a parable in the mouth of
fools.
8 As he that bindeth a stone in a
sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to
a fool.
9 [As] a thorn goeth up into the hand
of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the
mouth of fools.
10 The great [God] that formed all
[things] both rewardeth the fool, and
rewardeth transgressors.
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit,
[so] a fool returneth to his folly.
12 Seest thou a man wise in his own
conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool
than of him.
13 The slothful [man] saith, [There is]
a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the
streets.
14 [As] the door turneth upon his
hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his
bed.
15 The slothful hideth his hand in
[his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring
it again to his mouth.
16 The sluggard [is] wiser in his own
conceit than seven men that can render
a reason.
17 He that passeth by, [and] meddleth
with strife [belonging] not to him, [is
like] one that taketh a dog by the
ears.
18 As a mad [man] who casteth
firebrands, arrows, and death,
19 So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his
neighbour, and saith, Am not I in
sport?
20 Where no wood is, [there] the fire
goeth out: so where [there is] no
talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
21 [As] coals [are] to burning coals,
and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious
man to kindle strife.
22 The words of a talebearer [are] as
wounds, and they go down into the
innermost parts of the belly.
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart [are
like] a potsherd covered with silver
dross.
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his
lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
25 When he speaketh fair, believe him
not: for [there are] seven abominations
in his heart.
26 [Whose] hatred is covered by deceit,
his wickedness shall be shewed before
the [whole] congregation.
27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall
therein: and he that rolleth a stone,
it will return upon him.
28 A lying tongue hateth [those that
are] afflicted by it; and a flattering
mouth worketh ruin.

CHAPTER 27
1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for
thou knowest not what a day may bring
forth.
2 Let another man praise thee, and not
thine own mouth; a stranger, and not
thine own lips.
3 A stone [is] heavy, and the sand
weighty; but a fool's wrath [is]
heavier than them both.
4 Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is]
outrageous; but who [is] able to stand
before envy?
5 Open rebuke [is] better than secret
love.
6 Faithful [are] the wounds of a
friend; but the kisses of an enemy
[are] deceitful.
7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb;
but to the hungry soul every bitter
thing is sweet.
8 As a bird that wandereth from her
nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from
his place.
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the
heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a
man's friend by hearty counsel.
10 Thine own friend, and thy father's
friend, forsake not; neither go into
thy brother's house in the day of thy
calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour
[that is] near than a brother far off.
11 My son, be wise, and make my heart
glad, that I may answer him that
reproacheth me.
12 A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil,
[and] hideth himself; [but] the simple
pass on, [and] are punished.
13 Take his garment that is surety for
a stranger, and take a pledge of him
for a strange woman.
14 He that blesseth his friend with a
loud voice, rising early in the
morning, it shall be counted a curse to
him.
15 A continual dropping in a very rainy
day and a contentious woman are alike.
16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the
wind, and the ointment of his right
hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man
sharpeneth the countenance of his
friend.
18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat
the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth
on his master shall be honoured.
19 As in water face [answereth] to
face, so the heart of man to man.
20 Hell and destruction are never full;
so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 [As] the fining pot for silver, and
the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to
his praise.
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in
a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
[yet] will not his foolishness depart
from him.
23 Be thou diligent to know the state
of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy
herds.
24 For riches [are] not for ever: and
doth the crown [endure] to every
generation?
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender
grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the
mountains are gathered.
26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing,
and the goats [are] the price of the
field.
27 And [thou shalt have] goats' milk
enough for thy food, for the food of
thy household, and [for] the
maintenance for thy maidens.

CHAPTER 28
1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth:
but the righteous are bold as a lion.
2 For the transgression of a land many
[are] the princes thereof: but by a man
of understanding [and] knowledge the
state [thereof] shall be prolonged.
3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor
[is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth
no food.
4 They that forsake the law praise the
wicked: but such as keep the law
contend with them.
5 Evil men understand not judgment: but
they that seek the LORD understand all
[things].
6 Better [is] the poor that walketh in
his uprightness, than [he that is]
perverse [in his] ways, though he [be]
rich.
7 Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise
son: but he that is a companion of
riotous [men] shameth his father.
8 He that by usury and unjust gain
increaseth his substance, he shall
gather it for him that will pity the
poor.
9 He that turneth away his ear from
hearing the law, even his prayer [shall
be] abomination.
10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go
astray in an evil way, he shall fall
himself into his own pit: but the
upright shall have good [things] in
possession.
11 The rich man [is] wise in his own
conceit; but the poor that hath
understanding searcheth him out.
12 When righteous [men] do rejoice,
[there is] great glory: but when the
wicked rise, a man is hidden.
13 He that covereth his sins shall not
prosper: but whoso confesseth and
forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
14 Happy [is] the man that feareth
alway: but he that hardeneth his heart
shall fall into mischief.
15 [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging
bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the
poor people.
16 The prince that wanteth
understanding [is] also a great
oppressor: [but] he that hateth
covetousness shall prolong [his] days.
17 A man that doeth violence to the
blood of [any] person shall flee to the
pit; let no man stay him.
18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be
saved: but [he that is] perverse [in
his] ways shall fall at once.
19 He that tilleth his land shall have
plenty of bread: but he that followeth
after vain [persons] shall have poverty
enough.
20 A faithful man shall abound with
blessings: but he that maketh haste to
be rich shall not be innocent.
21 To have respect of persons [is] not
good: for for a piece of bread [that]
man will transgress.
22 He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an
evil eye, and considereth not that
poverty shall come upon him.
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards
shall find more favour than he that
flattereth with the tongue.
24 Whoso robbeth his father or his
mother, and saith, [It is] no
transgression; the same [is] the
companion of a destroyer.
25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth
up strife: but he that putteth his
trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
26 He that trusteth in his own heart is
a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he
shall be delivered.
27 He that giveth unto the poor shall
not lack: but he that hideth his eyes
shall have many a curse.
28 When the wicked rise, men hide
themselves: but when they perish, the
righteous increase.

CHAPTER 29
1 He, that being often reproved
hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that without remedy.
2 When the righteous are in authority,
the people rejoice: but when the wicked
beareth rule, the people mourn.
3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his
father: but he that keepeth company
with harlots spendeth [his] substance.
4 The king by judgment establisheth the
land: but he that receiveth gifts
overthroweth it.
5 A man that flattereth his neighbour
spreadeth a net for his feet.
6 In the transgression of an evil man
[there is] a snare: but the righteous
doth sing and rejoice.
7 The righteous considereth the cause
of the poor: [but] the wicked regardeth
not to know [it].
8 Scornful men bring a city into a
snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.
9 [If] a wise man contendeth with a
foolish man, whether he rage or laugh,
[there is] no rest.
10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright:
but the just seek his soul.
11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a
wise [man] keepeth it in till
afterwards.
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his
servants [are] wicked.
13 The poor and the deceitful man meet
together: the LORD lighteneth both
their eyes.
14 The king that faithfully judgeth the
poor, his throne shall be established
for ever.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but
a child left [to himself] bringeth his
mother to shame.
16 When the wicked are multiplied,
transgression increaseth: but the
righteous shall see their fall.
17 Correct thy son, and he shall give
thee rest; yea, he shall give delight
unto thy soul.
18 Where [there is] no vision, the
people perish: but he that keepeth the
law, happy [is] he.
19 A servant will not be corrected by
words: for though he understand he will
not answer.
20 Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in
his words? [there is] more hope of a
fool than of him.
21 He that delicately bringeth up his
servant from a child shall have him
become [his] son at the length.
22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and
a furious man aboundeth in
transgression.
23 A man's pride shall bring him low:
but honour shall uphold the humble in
spirit.
24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth
his own soul: he heareth cursing, and
bewrayeth [it] not.
25 The fear of man bringeth a snare:
but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD
shall be safe.
26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but
[every] man's judgment [cometh] from
the LORD.
27 An unjust man [is] an abomination to
the just: and [he that is] upright in
the way [is] abomination to the wicked.

CHAPTER 30
1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh,
[even] the prophecy: the man spake unto
Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
2 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any]
man, and have not the understanding of
a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have
the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or
descended? who hath gathered the wind
in his fists? who hath bound the waters
in a garment? who hath established all
the ends of the earth? what [is] his
name, and what [is] his son's name, if
thou canst tell?
5 Every word of God [is] pure: he [is]
a shield unto them that put their trust
in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he
reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
7 Two [things] have I required of thee;
deny me [them] not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies:
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and
say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be
poor, and steal, and take the name of
my God [in vain].
10 Accuse not a servant unto his
master, lest he curse thee, and thou be
found guilty.
11 [There is] a generation [that]
curseth their father, and doth not
bless their mother.
12 [There is] a generation [that are]
pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is
not washed from their filthiness.
13 [There is] a generation, O how lofty
are their eyes! and their eyelids are
lifted up.
14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth
[are as] swords, and their jaw teeth
[as] knives, to devour the poor from
off the earth, and the needy from
[among] men.
15 The horseleach hath two daughters,
[crying], Give, give. There are three
[things that] are never satisfied,
[yea], four [things] say not, [It is]
enough:
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the
earth [that] is not filled with water;
and the fire [that] saith not, [It is]
enough.
17 The eye [that] mocketh at [his]
father, and despiseth to obey [his]
mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out, and the young eagles shall
eat it.
18 There be three [things which] are
too wonderful for me, yea, four which I
know not:
19 The way of an eagle in the air; the
way of a serpent upon a rock; the way
of a ship in the midst of the sea; and
the way of a man with a maid.
20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous
woman; she eateth, and wipeth her
mouth, and saith, I have done no
wickedness.
21 For three [things] the earth is
disquieted, and for four [which] it
cannot bear:
22 For a servant when he reigneth; and
a fool when he is filled with meat;
23 For an odious [woman] when she is
married; and an handmaid that is heir
to her mistress.
24 There be four [things which are]
little upon the earth, but they [are]
exceeding wise:
25 The ants [are] a people not strong,
yet they prepare their meat in the
summer;
26 The conies [are but] a feeble folk,
yet make they their houses in the
rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, yet go
they forth all of them by bands;
28 The spider taketh hold with her
hands, and is in kings' palaces.
29 There be three [things] which go
well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion [which is] strongest among
beasts, and turneth not away for any;
31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a
king, against whom [there is] no rising
up.
32 If thou hast done foolishly in
lifting up thyself, or if thou hast
thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy
mouth.
33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth
forth butter, and the wringing of the
nose bringeth forth blood: so the
forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

CHAPTER 31
1 The words of king Lemuel, the
prophecy that his mother taught him.
2 What, my son? and what, the son of my
womb? and what, the son of my vows?
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor
thy ways to that which destroyeth
kings.
4 [It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it
is] not for kings to drink wine; nor
for princes strong drink:
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law,
and pervert the judgment of any of the
afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is
ready to perish, and wine unto those
that be of heavy hearts.
7 Let him drink, and forget his
poverty, and remember his misery no
more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the
cause of all such as are appointed to
destruction.
9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously,
and plead the cause of the poor and
needy.
10 # Who can find a virtuous woman? for
her price [is] far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely
trust in her, so that he shall have no
need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil
all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and
worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants' ships;
she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet
night, and giveth meat to her
household, and a portion to her
maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth
it: with the fruit of her hands she
planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth her loins with strength,
and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth that her merchandise
[is] good: her candle goeth not out by
night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle,
and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the
poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands
to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for
her household: for all her household
[are] clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of
tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and
purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates,
when he sitteth among the elders of the
land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth
[it]; and delivereth girdles unto the
merchant.
25 Strength and honour [are] her
clothing; and she shall rejoice in time
to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom;
and in her tongue [is] the law of
kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her
household, and eateth not the bread of
idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her
blessed; her husband [also], and he
praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously,
but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty
[is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth
the LORD, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands;
and let her own works praise her in the
gates.

ECCLESIASTES; OR, THE PREACHER

CHAPTER 1
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of
David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the
Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is]
vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his
labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 [One] generation passeth away, and
[another] generation cometh: but the
earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun
goeth down, and hasteth to his place
where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and
turneth about unto the north; it
whirleth about continually, and the
wind returneth again according to his
circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet
the sea [is] not full; unto the place
from whence the rivers come, thither
they return again.
8 All things [are] full of labour; man
cannot utter [it]: the eye is not
satisfied with seeing, nor the ear
filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it [is
that] which shall be; and that which is
done [is] that which shall be done: and
[there is] no new [thing] under the
sun.
10 Is there [any] thing whereof it may
be said, See, this [is] new? it hath
been already of old time, which was
before us.
11 [There is] no remembrance of former
[things]; neither shall there be [any]
remembrance of [things] that are to
come with [those] that shall come
after.
12 # I the Preacher was king over
Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and
search out by wisdom concerning all
[things] that are done under heaven:
this sore travail hath God given to the
sons of man to be exercised therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are
done under the sun; and, behold, all
[is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 [That which is] crooked cannot be
made straight: and that which is
wanting cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with mine own heart,
saying, Lo, I am come to great estate,
and have gotten more wisdom than all
[they] that have been before me in
Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great
experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom,
and to know madness and folly: I
perceived that this also is vexation of
spirit.
18 For in much wisdom [is] much grief:
and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow.

CHAPTER 2
1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I
will prove thee with mirth, therefore
enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also
[is] vanity.
2 I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and
of mirth, What doeth it?
3 I sought in mine heart to give myself
unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart
with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly,
till I might see what [was] that good
for the sons of men, which they should
do under the heaven all the days of
their life.
4 I made me great works; I builded me
houses; I planted me vineyards:
5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I
planted trees in them of all [kind of]
fruits:
6 I made me pools of water, to water
therewith the wood that bringeth forth
trees:
7 I got [me] servants and maidens, and
had servants born in my house; also I
had great possessions of great and
small cattle above all that were in
Jerusalem before me:
8 I gathered me also silver and gold,
and the peculiar treasure of kings and
of the provinces: I gat me men singers
and women singers, and the delights of
the sons of men, [as] musical
instruments, and that of all sorts.
9 So I was great, and increased more
than all that were before me in
Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with
me.
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I
kept not from them, I withheld not my
heart from any joy; for my heart
rejoiced in all my labour: and this was
my portion of all my labour.
11 Then I looked on all the works that
my hands had wrought, and on the labour
that I had laboured to do: and, behold,
all [was] vanity and vexation of
spirit, and [there was] no profit under
the sun.
12 # And I turned myself to behold
wisdom, and madness, and folly: for
what [can] the man [do] that cometh
after the king? [even] that which hath
been already done.
13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth
folly, as far as light excelleth
darkness.
14 The wise man's eyes [are] in his
head; but the fool walketh in darkness:
and I myself perceived also that one
event happeneth to them all.
15 Then said I in my heart, As it
happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth
even to me; and why was I then more
wise? Then I said in my heart, that
this also [is] vanity.
16 For [there is] no remembrance of the
wise more than of the fool for ever;
seeing that which now [is] in the days
to come shall all be forgotten. And how
dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.
17 Therefore I hated life; because the
work that is wrought under the sun [is]
grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity
and vexation of spirit.
18 # Yea, I hated all my labour which I
had taken under the sun: because I
should leave it unto the man that shall
be after me.
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be
a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he
have rule over all my labour wherein I
have laboured, and wherein I have
shewed myself wise under the sun. This
[is] also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my
heart to despair of all the labour
which I took under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labour [is]
in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in
equity; yet to a man that hath not
laboured therein shall he leave it
[for] his portion. This also [is]
vanity and a great evil.
22 For what hath man of all his labour,
and of the vexation of his heart,
wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and
his travail grief; yea, his heart
taketh not rest in the night. This is
also vanity.
24 # [There is] nothing better for a
man, [than] that he should eat and
drink, and [that] he should make his
soul enjoy good in his labour. This
also I saw, that it [was] from the hand
of God.
25 For who can eat, or who else can
hasten [hereunto], more than I?
26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is]
good in his sight wisdom, and
knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner
he giveth travail, to gather and to
heap up, that he may give to [him that
is] good before God. This also [is]
vanity and vexation of spirit.

CHAPTER 3
1 To every [thing there is] a season,
and a time to every purpose under the
heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up
[that which is] planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build
up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a
time to gather stones together; a time
to embrace, and a time to refrain from
embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a
time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a
time to keep silence, and a time to
speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a
time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in
that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God
hath given to the sons of men to be
exercised in it.
11 He hath made every [thing] beautiful
in his time: also he hath set the world
in their heart, so that no man can find
out the work that God maketh from the
beginning to the end.
12 I know that [there is] no good in
them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and
to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat
and drink, and enjoy the good of all
his labour, it [is] the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth,
it shall be for ever: nothing can be
put to it, nor any thing taken from it:
and God doeth [it], that [men] should
fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and
that which is to be hath already been;
and God requireth that which is past.
16 # And moreover I saw under the sun
the place of judgment, [that]
wickedness [was] there; and the place
of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was]
there.
17 I said in mine heart, God shall
judge the righteous and the wicked: for
[there is] a time there for every
purpose and for every work.
18 I said in mine heart concerning the
estate of the sons of men, that God
might manifest them, and that they
might see that they themselves are
beasts.
19 For that which befalleth the sons of
men befalleth beasts; even one thing
befalleth them: as the one dieth, so
dieth the other; yea, they have all one
breath; so that a man hath no
preeminence above a beast: for all [is]
vanity.
20 All go unto one place; all are of
the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that
goeth upward, and the spirit of the
beast that goeth downward to the earth?
22 Wherefore I perceive that [there is]
nothing better, than that a man should
rejoice in his own works; for that [is]
his portion: for who shall bring him to
see what shall be after him?

CHAPTER 4
1 So I returned, and considered all the
oppressions that are done under the
sun: and behold the tears of [such as
were] oppressed, and they had no
comforter; and on the side of their
oppressors [there was] power; but they
had no comforter.
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which
are already dead more than the living
which are yet alive.
3 Yea, better [is he] than both they,
which hath not yet been, who hath not
seen the evil work that is done under
the sun.
4 # Again, I considered all travail,
and every right work, that for this a
man is envied of his neighbour. This
[is] also vanity and vexation of
spirit.
5 The fool foldeth his hands together,
and eateth his own flesh.
6 Better [is] an handful [with]
quietness, than both the hands full
[with] travail and vexation of spirit.
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity
under the sun.
8 There is one [alone], and [there is]
not a second; yea, he hath neither
child nor brother: yet [is there] no
end of all his labour; neither is his
eye satisfied with riches; neither
[saith he], For whom do I labour, and
bereave my soul of good? This [is] also
vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.
9 # Two [are] better than one; because
they have a good reward for their
labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift
up his fellow: but woe to him [that is]
alone when he falleth; for [he hath]
not another to help him up.
11 Again, if two lie together, then
they have heat: but how can one be warm
[alone]?
12 And if one prevail against him, two
shall withstand him; and a threefold
cord is not quickly broken.
13 # Better [is] a poor and a wise
child than an old and foolish king, who
will no more be admonished.
14 For out of prison he cometh to
reign; whereas also [he that is] born
in his kingdom becometh poor.
15 I considered all the living which
walk under the sun, with the second
child that shall stand up in his stead.
16 [There is] no end of all the people,
[even] of all that have been before
them: they also that come after shall
not rejoice in him. Surely this also
[is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

CHAPTER 5
1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the
house of God, and be more ready to
hear, than to give the sacrifice of
fools: for they consider not that they
do evil.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let
not thine heart be hasty to utter [any]
thing before God: for God [is] in
heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore
let thy words be few.
3 For a dream cometh through the
multitude of business; and a fool's
voice [is known] by multitude of words.
4 When thou vowest a vow unto God,
defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no
pleasure in fools: pay that which thou
hast vowed.
5 Better [is it] that thou shouldest
not vow, than that thou shouldest vow
and not pay.
6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy
flesh to sin; neither say thou before
the angel, that it [was] an error:
wherefore should God be angry at thy
voice, and destroy the work of thine
hands?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and
many words [there are] also [divers]
vanities: but fear thou God.
8 # If thou seest the oppression of the
poor, and violent perverting of
judgment and justice in a province,
marvel not at the matter: for [he that
is] higher than the highest regardeth;
and [there be] higher than they.
9 # Moreover the profit of the earth is
for all: the king [himself] is served
by the field.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be
satisfied with silver; nor he that
loveth abundance with increase: this
[is] also vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are
increased that eat them: and what good
[is there] to the owners thereof,
saving the beholding [of them] with
their eyes?
12 The sleep of a labouring man [is]
sweet, whether he eat little or much:
but the abundance of the rich will not
suffer him to sleep.
13 There is a sore evil [which] I have
seen under the sun, [namely], riches
kept for the owners thereof to their
hurt.
14 But those riches perish by evil
travail: and he begetteth a son, and
[there is] nothing in his hand.
15 As he came forth of his mother's
womb, naked shall he return to go as he
came, and shall take nothing of his
labour, which he may carry away in his
hand.
16 And this also [is] a sore evil,
[that] in all points as he came, so
shall he go: and what profit hath he
that hath laboured for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in
darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and
wrath with his sickness.
18 # Behold [that] which I have seen:
[it is] good and comely [for one] to
eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good
of all his labour that he taketh under
the sun all the days of his life, which
God giveth him: for it [is] his
portion.
19 Every man also to whom God hath
given riches and wealth, and hath given
him power to eat thereof, and to take
his portion, and to rejoice in his
labour; this [is] the gift of God.
20 For he shall not much remember the
days of his life; because God answereth
[him] in the joy of his heart.

CHAPTER 6
1 There is an evil which I have seen
under the sun, and it [is] common among
men:
2 A man to whom God hath given riches,
wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth
nothing for his soul of all that he
desireth, yet God giveth him not power
to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth
it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an
evil disease.
3 # If a man beget an hundred
[children], and live many years, so
that the days of his years be many, and
his soul be not filled with good, and
also [that] he have no burial; I say,
[that] an untimely birth [is] better
than he.
4 For he cometh in with vanity, and
departeth in darkness, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun,
nor known [any thing]: this hath more
rest than the other.
6 # Yea, though he live a thousand
years twice [told], yet hath he seen no
good: do not all go to one place?
7 All the labour of man [is] for his
mouth, and yet the appetite is not
filled.
8 For what hath the wise more than the
fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth
to walk before the living?
9 # Better [is] the sight of the eyes
than the wandering of the desire: this
[is] also vanity and vexation of
spirit.
10 That which hath been is named
already, and it is known that it [is]
man: neither may he contend with him
that is mightier than he.
11 # Seeing there be many things that
increase vanity, what [is] man the
better?
12 For who knoweth what [is] good for
man in [this] life, all the days of his
vain life which he spendeth as a
shadow? for who can tell a man what
shall be after him under the sun?

CHAPTER 7
1 A good name [is] better than precious
ointment; and the day of death than the
day of one's birth.
2 # [It is] better to go to the house
of mourning, than to go to the house of
feasting: for that [is] the end of all
men; and the living will lay [it] to
his heart.
3 Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for
by the sadness of the countenance the
heart is made better.
4 The heart of the wise [is] in the
house of mourning; but the heart of
fools [is] in the house of mirth.
5 [It is] better to hear the rebuke of
the wise, than for a man to hear the
song of fools.
6 For as the crackling of thorns under
a pot, so [is] the laughter of the
fool: this also [is] vanity.
7 # Surely oppression maketh a wise man
mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
8 Better [is] the end of a thing than
the beginning thereof: [and] the
patient in spirit [is] better than the
proud in spirit.
9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be
angry: for anger resteth in the bosom
of fools.
10 Say not thou, What is [the cause]
that the former days were better than
these? for thou dost not enquire wisely
concerning this.
11 # Wisdom [is] good with an
inheritance: and [by it there is]
profit to them that see the sun.
12 For wisdom [is] a defence, [and]
money [is] a defence: but the
excellency of knowledge [is, that]
wisdom giveth life to them that have
it.
13 Consider the work of God: for who
can make [that] straight, which he hath
made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful,
but in the day of adversity consider:
God also hath set the one over against
the other, to the end that man should
find nothing after him.
15 All [things] have I seen in the days
of my vanity: there is a just [man]
that perisheth in his righteousness,
and there is a wicked [man] that
prolongeth [his life] in his
wickedness.
16 Be not righteous over much; neither
make thyself over wise: why shouldest
thou destroy thyself?
17 Be not over much wicked, neither be
thou foolish: why shouldest thou die
before thy time?
18 [It is] good that thou shouldest
take hold of this; yea, also from this
withdraw not thine hand: for he that
feareth God shall come forth of them
all.
19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more
than ten mighty [men] which are in the
city.
20 For [there is] not a just man upon
earth, that doeth good, and sinneth
not.
21 Also take no heed unto all words
that are spoken; lest thou hear thy
servant curse thee:
22 For oftentimes also thine own heart
knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast
cursed others.
23 # All this have I proved by wisdom:
I said, I will be wise; but it [was]
far from me.
24 That which is far off, and exceeding
deep, who can find it out?
25 I applied mine heart to know, and to
search, and to seek out wisdom, and the
reason [of things], and to know the
wickedness of folly, even of
foolishness [and] madness:
26 And I find more bitter than death
the woman, whose heart [is] snares and
nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso
pleaseth God shall escape from her; but
the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 Behold, this have I found, saith the
preacher, [counting] one by one, to
find out the account:
28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I
find not: one man among a thousand have
I found; but a woman among all those
have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God
hath made man upright; but they have
sought out many inventions.

CHAPTER 8
1 Who [is] as the wise [man]? and who
knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
a man's wisdom maketh his face to
shine, and the boldness of his face
shall be changed.
2 I [counsel thee] to keep the king's
commandment, and [that] in regard of
the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight:
stand not in an evil thing; for he
doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4 Where the word of a king [is, there
is] power: and who may say unto him,
What doest thou?
5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall
feel no evil thing: and a wise man's
heart discerneth both time and
judgment.
6 # Because to every purpose there is
time and judgment, therefore the misery
of man [is] great upon him.
7 For he knoweth not that which shall
be: for who can tell him when it shall
be?
8 [There is] no man that hath power
over the spirit to retain the spirit;
neither [hath he] power in the day of
death: and [there is] no discharge in
[that] war; neither shall wickedness
deliver those that are given to it.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my
heart unto every work that is done
under the sun: [there is] a time
wherein one man ruleth over another to
his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who
had come and gone from the place of the
holy, and they were forgotten in the
city where they had so done: this [is]
also vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil
work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men
is fully set in them to do evil.
12 # Though a sinner do evil an hundred
times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet
surely I know that it shall be well
with them that fear God, which fear
before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the
wicked, neither shall he prolong [his]
days, [which are] as a shadow; because
he feareth not before God.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon
the earth; that there be just [men],
unto whom it happeneth according to the
work of the wicked; again, there be
wicked [men], to whom it happeneth
according to the work of the righteous:
I said that this also [is] vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a
man hath no better thing under the sun,
than to eat, and to drink, and to be
merry: for that shall abide with him of
his labour the days of his life, which
God giveth him under the sun.
16 # When I applied mine heart to know
wisdom, and to see the business that is
done upon the earth: (for also [there
is that] neither day nor night seeth
sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God,
that a man cannot find out the work
that is done under the sun: because
though a man labour to seek [it] out,
yet he shall not find [it]; yea
further; though a wise [man] think to
know [it], yet shall he not be able to
find [it].

CHAPTER 9
1 For all this I considered in my heart
even to declare all this, that the
righteous, and the wise, and their
works, [are] in the hand of God: no man
knoweth either love or hatred [by] all
[that is] before them.
2 All [things come] alike to all:
[there is] one event to the righteous,
and to the wicked; to the good and to
the clean, and to the unclean; to him
that sacrificeth, and to him that
sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so
[is] the sinner; [and] he that
sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.
3 This [is] an evil among all [things]
that are done under the sun, that
[there is] one event unto all: yea,
also the heart of the sons of men is
full of evil, and madness [is] in their
heart while they live, and after that
[they go] to the dead.
4 # For to him that is joined to all
the living there is hope: for a living
dog is better than a dead lion.
5 For the living know that they shall
die: but the dead know not any thing,
neither have they any more a reward;
for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred,
and their envy, is now perished;
neither have they any more a portion
for ever in any [thing] that is done
under the sun.
7 # Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy,
and drink thy wine with a merry heart;
for God now accepteth thy works.
8 Let thy garments be always white; and
let thy head lack no ointment.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou
lovest all the days of the life of thy
vanity, which he hath given thee under
the sun, all the days of thy vanity:
for that [is] thy portion in [this]
life, and in thy labour which thou
takest under the sun.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do [it] with thy might; for [there is]
no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
goest.
11 # I returned, and saw under the sun,
that the race [is] not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, neither
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches
to men of understanding, nor yet favour
to men of skill; but time and chance
happeneth to them all.
12 For man also knoweth not his time:
as the fishes that are taken in an evil
net, and as the birds that are caught
in the snare; so [are] the sons of men
snared in an evil time, when it falleth
suddenly upon them.
13 # This wisdom have I seen also under
the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me:
14 [There was] a little city, and few
men within it; and there came a great
king against it, and besieged it, and
built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor
wise man, and he by his wisdom
delivered the city; yet no man
remembered that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than
strength: nevertheless the poor man's
wisdom [is] despised, and his words are
not heard.
17 The words of wise [men are] heard in
quiet more than the cry of him that
ruleth among fools.
18 Wisdom [is] better than weapons of
war: but one sinner destroyeth much
good.

CHAPTER 10
1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the
apothecary to send forth a stinking
savour: [so doth] a little folly him
that is in reputation for wisdom [and]
honour.
2 A wise man's heart [is] at his right
hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
3 Yea also, when he that is a fool
walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth
[him], and he saith to every one [that]
he [is] a fool.
4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up
against thee, leave not thy place; for
yielding pacifieth great offences.
5 There is an evil [which] I have seen
under the sun, as an error [which]
proceedeth from the ruler:
6 Folly is set in great dignity, and
the rich sit in low place.
7 I have seen servants upon horses, and
princes walking as servants upon the
earth.
8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into
it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a
serpent shall bite him.
9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt
therewith; [and] he that cleaveth wood
shall be endangered thereby.
10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not
whet the edge, then must he put to more
strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to
direct.
11 Surely the serpent will bite without
enchantment; and a babbler is no
better.
12 The words of a wise man's mouth
[are] gracious; but the lips of a fool
will swallow up himself.
13 The beginning of the words of his
mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of
his talk [is] mischievous madness.
14 A fool also is full of words: a man
cannot tell what shall be; and what
shall be after him, who can tell him?
15 The labour of the foolish wearieth
every one of them, because he knoweth
not how to go to the city.
16 # Woe to thee, O land, when thy king
[is] a child, and thy princes eat in
the morning!
17 Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy
king [is] the son of nobles, and thy
princes eat in due season, for
strength, and not for drunkenness!
18 # By much slothfulness the building
decayeth; and through idleness of the
hands the house droppeth through.
19 # A feast is made for laughter, and
wine maketh merry: but money answereth
all [things].
20 # Curse not the king, no not in thy
thought; and curse not the rich in thy
bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall
carry the voice, and that which hath
wings shall tell the matter.

CHAPTER 11
1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for
thou shalt find it after many days.
2 Give a portion to seven, and also to
eight; for thou knowest not what evil
shall be upon the earth.
3 If the clouds be full of rain, they
empty [themselves] upon the earth: and
if the tree fall toward the south, or
toward the north, in the place where
the tree falleth, there it shall be.
4 He that observeth the wind shall not
sow; and he that regardeth the clouds
shall not reap.
5 As thou knowest not what [is] the way
of the spirit, [nor] how the bones [do
grow] in the womb of her that is with
child: even so thou knowest not the
works of God who maketh all.
6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in
the evening withhold not thine hand:
for thou knowest not whether shall
prosper, either this or that, or
whether they both [shall be] alike
good.
7 # Truly the light [is] sweet, and a
pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to
behold the sun:
8 But if a man live many years, [and]
rejoice in them all; yet let him
remember the days of darkness; for they
shall be many. All that cometh [is]
vanity.
9 # Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth;
and let thy heart cheer thee in the
days of thy youth, and walk in the ways
of thine heart, and in the sight of
thine eyes: but know thou, that for all
these [things] God will bring thee into
judgment.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy
heart, and put away evil from thy
flesh: for childhood and youth [are]
vanity.

CHAPTER 12
1 Remember now thy Creator in the days
of thy youth, while the evil days come
not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou
shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the
moon, or the stars, be not darkened,
nor the clouds return after the rain:
3 In the day when the keepers of the
house shall tremble, and the strong men
shall bow themselves, and the grinders
cease because they are few, and those
that look out of the windows be
darkened,
4 And the doors shall be shut in the
streets, when the sound of the grinding
is low, and he shall rise up at the
voice of the bird, and all the
daughters of musick shall be brought
low;
5 Also [when] they shall be afraid of
[that which is] high, and fears [shall
be] in the way, and the almond tree
shall flourish, and the grasshopper
shall be a burden, and desire shall
fail: because man goeth to his long
home, and the mourners go about the
streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or
the golden bowl be broken, or the
pitcher be broken at the fountain, or
the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was: and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.
8 # Vanity of vanities, saith the
preacher; all [is] vanity.
9 And moreover, because the preacher
was wise, he still taught the people
knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and
sought out, [and] set in order many
proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out
acceptable words: and [that which was]
written [was] upright, [even] words of
truth.
11 The words of the wise [are] as
goads, and as nails fastened [by] the
masters of assemblies, [which] are
given from one shepherd.
12 And further, by these, my son, be
admonished: of making many books [there
is] no end; and much study [is] a
weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Fear God, and keep his
commandments: for this [is] the whole
[duty] of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing,
whether [it be] good, or whether [it
be] evil.

THE SONG OF SOLOMON

CHAPTER 1
1 The song of songs, which [is]
Solomon's.
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of
his mouth: for thy love [is] better
than wine.
3 Because of the savour of thy good
ointments thy name [is as] ointment
poured forth, therefore do the virgins
love thee.
4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the
king hath brought me into his chambers:
we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we
will remember thy love more than wine:
the upright love thee.
5 I [am] black, but comely, O ye
daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of
Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Look not upon me, because I [am]
black, because the sun hath looked upon
me: my mother's children were angry
with me; they made me the keeper of the
vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have
I not kept.
7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,
where thou feedest, where thou makest
[thy flock] to rest at noon: for why
should I be as one that turneth aside
by the flocks of thy companions?
8 # If thou know not, O thou fairest
among women, go thy way forth by the
footsteps of the flock, and feed thy
kids beside the shepherds' tents.
9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a
company of horses in Pharaoh's
chariots.
10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of
jewels], thy neck with chains [of
gold].
11 We will make thee borders of gold
with studs of silver.
12 # While the king [sitteth] at his
table, my spikenard sendeth forth the
smell thereof.
13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my
wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all
night betwixt my breasts.
14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a
cluster of camphire in the vineyards of
En-gedi.
15 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love;
behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast]
doves' eyes.
16 Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved,
yea, pleasant: also our bed [is] green.
17 The beams of our house [are] cedar,
[and] our rafters of fir.

CHAPTER 2
1 I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the
lily of the valleys.
2 As the lily among thorns, so [is] my
love among the daughters.
3 As the apple tree among the trees of
the wood, so [is] my beloved among the
sons. I sat down under his shadow with
great delight, and his fruit [was]
sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting
house, and his banner over me [was]
love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with
apples: for I [am] sick of love.
6 His left hand [is] under my head, and
his right hand doth embrace me.
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of
Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the
hinds of the field, that ye stir not
up, nor awake [my] love, till he
please.
8 # The voice of my beloved! behold, he
cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping upon the hills.
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young
hart: behold, he standeth behind our
wall, he looketh forth at the windows,
shewing himself through the lattice.
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me,
Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come
away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the
rain is over [and] gone;
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the
time of the singing [of birds] is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in
our land;
13 The fig tree putteth forth her green
figs, and the vines [with] the tender
grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my
love, my fair one, and come away.
14 # O my dove, [that art] in the
clefts of the rock, in the secret
[places] of the stairs, let me see thy
countenance, let me hear thy voice; for
sweet [is] thy voice, and thy
countenance [is] comely.
15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes,
that spoil the vines: for our vines
[have] tender grapes.
16 # My beloved [is] mine, and I [am]
his: he feedeth among the lilies.
17 Until the day break, and the shadows
flee away, turn, my beloved, and be
thou like a roe or a young hart upon
the mountains of Bether.

CHAPTER 3
1 By night on my bed I sought him whom
my soul loveth: I sought him, but I
found him not.
2 I will rise now, and go about the
city in the streets, and in the broad
ways I will seek him whom my soul
loveth: I sought him, but I found him
not.
3 The watchmen that go about the city
found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him
whom my soul loveth?
4 [It was] but a little that I passed
from them, but I found him whom my soul
loveth: I held him, and would not let
him go, until I had brought him into my
mother's house, and into the chamber of
her that conceived me.
5 I charge you, O ye daughters of
Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the
hinds of the field, that ye stir not
up, nor awake [my] love, till he
please.
6 # Who [is] this that cometh out of
the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all powders of the merchant?
7 Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's;
threescore valiant men [are] about it,
of the valiant of Israel.
8 They all hold swords, [being] expert
in war: every man [hath] his sword upon
his thigh because of fear in the night.
9 King Solomon made himself a chariot
of the wood of Lebanon.
10 He made the pillars thereof [of]
silver, the bottom thereof [of] gold,
the covering of it [of] purple, the
midst thereof being paved [with] love,
for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion,
and behold king Solomon with the crown
wherewith his mother crowned him in the
day of his espousals, and in the day of
the gladness of his heart.

CHAPTER 4
1 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love;
behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast]
doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair
[is] as a flock of goats, that appear
from mount Gilead.
2 Thy teeth [are] like a flock [of
sheep that are even] shorn, which came
up from the washing; whereof every one
bear twins, and none [is] barren among
them.
3 Thy lips [are] like a thread of
scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely:
thy temples [are] like a piece of a
pomegranate within thy locks.
4 Thy neck [is] like the tower of David
builded for an armoury, whereon there
hang a thousand bucklers, all shields
of mighty men.
5 Thy two breasts [are] like two young
roes that are twins, which feed among
the lilies.
6 Until the day break, and the shadows
flee away, I will get me to the
mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of
frankincense.
7 Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there
is] no spot in thee.
8 # Come with me from Lebanon, [my]
spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from
the top of Amana, from the top of
Shenir and Hermon, from the lions'
dens, from the mountains of the
leopards.
9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my
sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished
my heart with one of thine eyes, with
one chain of thy neck.
10 How fair is thy love, my sister,
[my] spouse! how much better is thy
love than wine! and the smell of thine
ointments than all spices!
11 Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as]
the honeycomb: honey and milk [are]
under thy tongue; and the smell of thy
garments [is] like the smell of
Lebanon.
12 A garden inclosed [is] my sister,
[my] spouse; a spring shut up, a
fountain sealed.
13 Thy plants [are] an orchard of
pomegranates, with pleasant fruits;
camphire, with spikenard,
14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and
cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all
the chief spices:
15 A fountain of gardens, a well of
living waters, and streams from
Lebanon.
16 # Awake, O north wind; and come,
thou south; blow upon my garden, [that]
the spices thereof may flow out. Let my
beloved come into his garden, and eat
his pleasant fruits.

CHAPTER 5
1 I am come into my garden, my sister,
[my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh
with my spice; I have eaten my
honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk
my wine with my milk: eat, O friends;
drink, yea, drink abundantly, O
beloved.
2 # I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it
is] the voice of my beloved that
knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my
sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled:
for my head is filled with dew, [and]
my locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my coat; how shall I
put it on? I have washed my feet; how
shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the
hole [of the door], and my bowels were
moved for him.
5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and
my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my
fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh,
upon the handles of the lock.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my
beloved had withdrawn himself, [and]
was gone: my soul failed when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that went about the city
found me, they smote me, they wounded
me; the keepers of the walls took away
my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of
Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that
ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.
9 # What [is] thy beloved more than
[another] beloved, O thou fairest among
women? what [is] thy beloved more than
[another] beloved, that thou dost so
charge us?
10 My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the
chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head [is as] the most fine gold,
his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a
raven.
12 His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of
doves by the rivers of waters, washed
with milk, [and] fitly set.
13 His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices,
[as] sweet flowers: his lips [like]
lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 His hands [are as] gold rings set
with the beryl: his belly [is as]
bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires.
15 His legs [are as] pillars of marble,
set upon sockets of fine gold: his
countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent
as the cedars.
16 His mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he
[is] altogether lovely. This [is] my
beloved, and this [is] my friend, O
daughters of Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 6
1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou
fairest among women? whither is thy
beloved turned aside? that we may seek
him with thee.
2 My beloved is gone down into his
garden, to the beds of spices, to feed
in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
3 I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved
[is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
4 # Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as
Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible
as [an army] with banners.
5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for
they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as
a flock of goats that appear from
Gilead.
6 Thy teeth [are] as a flock of sheep
which go up from the washing, whereof
every one beareth twins, and [there is]
not one barren among them.
7 As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy
temples within thy locks.
8 There are threescore queens, and
fourscore concubines, and virgins
without number.
9 My dove, my undefiled is [but] one;
she [is] the [only] one of her mother,
she [is] the choice [one] of her that
bare her. The daughters saw her, and
blessed her; [yea], the queens and the
concubines, and they praised her.
10 # Who [is] she [that] looketh forth
as the morning, fair as the moon, clear
as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army]
with banners?
11 I went down into the garden of nuts
to see the fruits of the valley, [and]
to see whether the vine flourished,
[and] the pomegranates budded.
12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me
[like] the chariots of Amminadib.
13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return,
return, that we may look upon thee.
What will ye see in the Shulamite? As
it were the company of two armies.

CHAPTER 7
1 How beautiful are thy feet with
shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints
of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the
work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel [is like] a round goblet,
[which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly
[is like] an heap of wheat set about
with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts [are] like two young
roes [that are] twins.
4 Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory;
thine eyes [like] the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim:
thy nose [is] as the tower of Lebanon
which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee [is] like
Carmel, and the hair of thine head like
purple; the king [is] held in the
galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O
love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm
tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of
grapes].
8 I said, I will go up to the palm
tree, I will take hold of the boughs
thereof: now also thy breasts shall be
as clusters of the vine, and the smell
of thy nose like apples;
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the
best wine for my beloved, that goeth
[down] sweetly, causing the lips of
those that are asleep to speak.
10 # I [am] my beloved's, and his
desire [is] toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth
into the field; let us lodge in the
villages.
12 Let us get up early to the
vineyards; let us see if the vine
flourish, [whether] the tender grape
appear, [and] the pomegranates bud
forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at
our gates [are] all manner of pleasant
[fruits], new and old, [which] I have
laid up for thee, O my beloved.

CHAPTER 8
1 O that thou [wert] as my brother,
that sucked the breasts of my mother!
[when] I should find thee without, I
would kiss thee; yea, I should not be
despised.
2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee
into my mother's house, [who] would
instruct me: I would cause thee to
drink of spiced wine of the juice of my
pomegranate.
3 His left hand [should be] under my
head, and his right hand should embrace
me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of
Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor
awake [my] love, until he please.
5 Who [is] this that cometh up from the
wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I
raised thee up under the apple tree:
there thy mother brought thee forth:
there she brought thee forth [that]
bare thee.
6 # Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is]
strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as
the grave: the coals thereof [are]
coals of fire, [which hath a] most
vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it: if [a]
man would give all the substance of his
house for love, it would utterly be
contemned.
8 # We have a little sister, and she
hath no breasts: what shall we do for
our sister in the day when she shall be
spoken for?
9 If she [be] a wall, we will build
upon her a palace of silver: and if she
[be] a door, we will inclose her with
boards of cedar.
10 I [am] a wall, and my breasts like
towers: then was I in his eyes as one
that found favour.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at
Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard
unto keepers; every one for the fruit
thereof was to bring a thousand
[pieces] of silver.
12 My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is]
before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have]
a thousand, and those that keep the
fruit thereof two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
the companions hearken to thy voice:
cause me to hear [it].
14 # Make haste, my beloved, and be
thou like to a roe or to a young hart
upon the mountains of spices.

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of
Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O
earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have
nourished and brought up children, and
they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass
his master's crib: [but] Israel doth
not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters: they have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked the Holy
One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward.
5 # Why should ye be stricken any more?
ye will revolt more and more: the whole
head is sick, and the whole heart
faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto
the head [there is] no soundness in it;
[but] wounds, and bruises, and
putrifying sores: they have not been
closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
7 Your country [is] desolate, your
cities [are] burned with fire: your
land, strangers devour it in your
presence, and [it is] desolate, as
overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a
cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a
garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left
unto us a very small remnant, we should
have been as Sodom, [and] we should
have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 # Hear the word of the LORD, ye
rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law
of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose [is] the multitude
of your sacrifices unto me? saith the
LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings
of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and
I delight not in the blood of bullocks,
or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me; the
new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is]
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth: they are a
trouble unto me; I am weary to bear
[them].
15 And when ye spread forth your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you: yea,
when ye make many prayers, I will not
hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away
the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the LORD: though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye
shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall
be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
21 # How is the faithful city become an
harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now
murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine
mixed with water:
23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and
companions of thieves: every one loveth
gifts, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither
doth the cause of the widow come unto
them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD
of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah,
I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies:
25 # And I will turn my hand upon thee,
and purely purge away thy dross, and
take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at
the first, and thy counsellors as at
the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the
faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with
judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.
28 # And the destruction of the
transgressors and of the sinners [shall
be] together, and they that forsake the
LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the
oaks which ye have desired, and ye
shall be confounded for the gardens
that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf
fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and
the maker of it as a spark, and they
shall both burn together, and none
shall quench [them].

CHAPTER 2
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last
days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S
house shall be established in the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted
above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of the LORD, to the house of
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us
of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth
the law, and the word of the LORD from
Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations,
and shall rebuke many people: and they
shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us
walk in the light of the LORD.
6 # Therefore thou hast forsaken thy
people the house of Jacob, because they
be replenished from the east, and [are]
soothsayers like the Philistines, and
they please themselves in the children
of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and
gold, neither [is there any] end of
their treasures; their land is also
full of horses, neither [is there any]
end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols;
they worship the work of their own
hands, that which their own fingers
have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the
great man humbleth himself: therefore
forgive them not.
10 # Enter into the rock, and hide thee
in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and
for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be
humbled, and the haughtiness of men
shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts
[shall be] upon every [one that is]
proud and lofty, and upon every [one
that is] lifted up; and he shall be
brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
[that are] high and lifted up, and upon
all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and
upon all the hills [that are] lifted
up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon
every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish,
and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be
bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly
abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of
the rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, for fear of the LORD, and for
the glory of his majesty, when he
ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which they made [each one] for himself
to worship, to the moles and to the
bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory
of his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is]
in his nostrils: for wherein is he to
be accounted of?

CHAPTER 3
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of
hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah the stay and the staff,
the whole stay of bread, and the whole
stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of war,
the judge, and the prophet, and the
prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the
honourable man, and the counsellor, and
the cunning artificer, and the eloquent
orator.
4 And I will give children [to be]
their princes, and babes shall rule
over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed,
every one by another, and every one by
his neighbour: the child shall behave
himself proudly against the ancient,
and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his
brother of the house of his father,
[saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou
our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be]
under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I
will not be an healer; for in my house
[is] neither bread nor clothing: make
me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is
fallen: because their tongue and their
doings [are] against the LORD, to
provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 # The shew of their countenance doth
witness against them; and they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not.
Woe unto their soul! for they have
rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it
shall be] well [with him]: for they
shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be]
ill [with him]: for the reward of his
hands shall be given him.
12 # [As for] my people, children [are]
their oppressors, and women rule over
them. O my people, they which lead thee
cause [thee] to err, and destroy the
way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and
standeth to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment
with the ancients of his people, and
the princes thereof: for ye have eaten
up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor
[is] in your houses.
15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my
people to pieces, and grind the faces
of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of
hosts.
16 # Moreover the LORD saith, Because
the daughters of Zion are haughty, and
walk with stretched forth necks and
wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as]
they go, and making a tinkling with
their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a
scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the LORD will
discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away
the bravery of [their] tinkling
ornaments [about their feet], and
[their] cauls, and [their] round tires
like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and
the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of
the legs, and the headbands, and the
tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and
the mantles, and the wimples, and the
crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and
the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, [that]
instead of sweet smell there shall be
stink; and instead of a girdle a rent;
and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of
sackcloth; [and] burning instead of
beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and
thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and
mourn; and she [being] desolate shall
sit upon the ground.

CHAPTER 4
1 And in that day seven women shall
take hold of one man, saying, We will
eat our own bread, and wear our own
apparel: only let us be called by thy
name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the
LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent
and comely for them that are escaped of
Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, [that he
that is] left in Zion, and [he that]
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called
holy, [even] every one that is written
among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion, and
shall have purged the blood of
Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the
spirit of judgment, and by the spirit
of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every
dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon
her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by
day, and the shining of a flaming fire
by night: for upon all the glory [shall
be] a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a
shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a
covert from storm and from rain.

CHAPTER 5
1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a
song of my beloved touching his
vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a
vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out
the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a tower in
the midst of it, and also made a
winepress therein: and he looked that
it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my
vineyard, that I have not done in it?
wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, brought it forth
wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I
will do to my vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; [and] break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not
be pruned, nor digged; but there shall
come up briers and thorns: I will also
command the clouds that they rain no
rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts
[is] the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he
looked for judgment, but behold
oppression; for righteousness, but
behold a cry.
8 # Woe unto them that join house to
house, [that] lay field to field, till
[there be] no place, that they may be
placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of
hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
desolate, [even] great and fair,
without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall
yield one bath, and the seed of an
homer shall yield an ephah.
11 # Woe unto them that rise up early
in the morning, [that] they may follow
strong drink; that continue until
night, [till] wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the
tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in
their feasts: but they regard not the
work of the LORD, neither consider the
operation of his hands.
13 # Therefore my people are gone into
captivity, because [they have] no
knowledge: and their honourable men
[are] famished, and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged
herself, and opened her mouth without
measure: and their glory, and their
multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought
down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty
shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be
exalted in judgment, and God that is
holy shall be sanctified in
righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after
their manner, and the waste places of
the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity
with cords of vanity, and sin as it
were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, [and]
hasten his work, that we may see [it]:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of
Israel draw nigh and come, that we may
know [it]!
20 # Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in
their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight!
22 Woe unto [them that are] mighty to
drink wine, and men of strength to
mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward,
and take away the righteousness of the
righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the
stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaff, [so] their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go
up as dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and
despised the word of the Holy One of
Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD
kindled against his people, and he hath
stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them: and the hills
did tremble, and their carcases [were]
torn in the midst of the streets. For
all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand [is] stretched out still.
26 # And he will lift up an ensign to
the nations from far, and will hiss
unto them from the end of the earth:
and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble
among them; none shall slumber nor
sleep; neither shall the girdle of
their loins be loosed, nor the latchet
of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all
their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their
wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring [shall be] like a
lion, they shall roar like young lions:
yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of
the prey, and shall carry [it] away
safe, and none shall deliver [it].
30 And in that day they shall roar
against them like the roaring of the
sea: and if [one] look unto the land,
behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the
light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.

CHAPTER 6
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I
saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his
train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each
one had six wings; with twain he
covered his face, and with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said,
Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of
hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his
glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at
the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke.
5 # Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am
undone; because I [am] a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for mine eyes
have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto
me, having a live coal in his hand,
[which] he had taken with the tongs
from off the altar:
7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and
thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and who will
go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I;
send me.
9 # And he said, Go, and tell this
people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat,
and make their ears heavy, and shut
their eyes; lest they see with their
eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and
convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he
answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses
without man, and the land be utterly
desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far
away, and [there be] a great forsaking
in the midst of the land.
13 # But yet in it [shall be] a tenth,
and [it] shall return, and shall be
eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak,
whose substance [is] in them, when they
cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed
[shall be] the substance thereof.

CHAPTER 7
1 And it came to pass in the days of
Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the
king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
toward Jerusalem to war against it, but
could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David,
saying, Syria is confederate with
Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and
the heart of his people, as the trees
of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go
forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the
conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be
quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these
smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the
son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son
of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
against thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex
it, and let us make a breach therein
for us, and set a king in the midst of
it, [even] the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not
stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria [is] Damascus,
and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin;
and within threescore and five years
shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not
a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria,
and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's
son. If ye will not believe, surely ye
shall not be established.
10 # Moreover the LORD spake again unto
Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God;
ask it either in the depth, or in the
height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask,
neither will I tempt the LORD.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of
David; [Is it] a small thing for you to
weary men, but will ye weary my God
also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall
give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall
call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that
he may know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to
refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land that thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of both her kings.
17 # The LORD shall bring upon thee,
and upon thy people, and upon thy
father's house, days that have not
come, from the day that Ephraim
departed from Judah; [even] the king of
Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the
fly that [is] in the uttermost part of
the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee
that [is] in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest
all of them in the desolate valleys,
and in the holes of the rocks, and upon
all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave
with a razor that is hired, [namely],
by them beyond the river, by the king
of Assyria, the head, and the hair of
the feet: and it shall also consume the
beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] a man shall nourish a young
cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the
abundance of milk [that] they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter
and honey shall every one eat that is
left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] every place shall be, where
there were a thousand vines at a
thousand silverlings, it shall [even]
be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall
[men] come thither; because all the
land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And [on] all hills that shall be
digged with the mattock, there shall
not come thither the fear of briers and
thorns: but it shall be for the sending
forth of oxen, and for the treading of
lesser cattle.

CHAPTER 8
1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take
thee a great roll, and write in it with
a man's pen concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses
to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and
she conceived, and bare a son. Then
said the LORD to me, Call his name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4 For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and my
mother, the riches of Damascus and the
spoil of Samaria shall be taken away
before the king of Assyria.
5 # The LORD spake also unto me again,
saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the
waters of Shiloah that go softly, and
rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord
bringeth up upon them the waters of the
river, strong and many, [even] the king
of Assyria, and all his glory: and he
shall come up over all his channels,
and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he
shall overflow and go over, he shall
reach [even] to the neck; and the
stretching out of his wings shall fill
the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 # Associate yourselves, O ye people,
and ye shall be broken in pieces; and
give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall
be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall
come to nought; speak the word, and it
shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
11 # For the LORD spake thus to me with
a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walk in the way of this
people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all
[them to] whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their
fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself;
and [let] him [be] your fear, and [let]
him [be] your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but
for a stone of stumbling and for a rock
of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and for a snare to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble,
and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law
among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that
hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the
LORD hath given me [are] for signs and
for wonders in Israel from the LORD of
hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 # And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep,
and that mutter: should not a people
seek unto their God? for the living to
the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word,
[it is] because [there is] no light in
them.
21 And they shall pass through it,
hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be
hungry, they shall fret themselves, and
curse their king and their God, and
look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth;
and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and [they shall be]
driven to darkness.

CHAPTER 9
1 Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not
[be] such as [was] in her vexation,
when at the first he lightly afflicted
the land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously afflict [her by] the way of
the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of
the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness
have seen a great light: they that
dwell in the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation,
[and] not increased the joy: they joy
before thee according to the joy in
harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when
they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his
burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor, as in the day
of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior [is]
with confused noise, and garments
rolled in blood; but [this] shall be
with burning [and] fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us
a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his
name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace.
7 Of the increase of [his] government
and peace [there shall be] no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon his
kingdom, to order it, and to establish
it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 # The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, [even]
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we
will build with hewn stones: the
sycomores are cut down, but we will
change [them into] cedars.
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the
adversaries of Rezin against him, and
join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the
Philistines behind; and they shall
devour Israel with open mouth. For all
this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
13 # For the people turneth not unto
him that smiteth them, neither do they
seek the LORD of hosts.
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from
Israel head and tail, branch and rush,
in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he [is]
the head; and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he [is] the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause
[them] to err; and [they that are] led
of them [are] destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy
in their young men, neither shall have
mercy on their fatherless and widows:
for every one [is] an hypocrite and an
evildoer, and every mouth speaketh
folly. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand [is]
stretched out still.
18 # For wickedness burneth as the
fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the
thickets of the forest, and they shall
mount up [like] the lifting up of
smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of
hosts is the land darkened, and the
people shall be as the fuel of the
fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right
hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat
on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied: they shall eat every man the
flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
Manasseh: [and] they together [shall
be] against Judah. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand
[is] stretched out still.

CHAPTER 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grievousness
[which] they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from
judgment, and to take away the right
from the poor of my people, that widows
may be their prey, and [that] they may
rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of
visitation, and in the desolation
[which] shall come from far? to whom
will ye flee for help? and where will
ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under
the prisoners, and they shall fall
under the slain. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand [is]
stretched out still.
5 # O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger,
and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.
6 I will send him against an
hypocritical nation, and against the
people of my wrath will I give him a
charge, to take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down like
the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither
doth his heart think so; but [it is] in
his heart to destroy and cut off
nations not a few.
8 For he saith, [Are] not my princes
altogether kings?
9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is]
not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria
as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms
of the idols, and whose graven images
did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass,
[that] when the Lord hath performed his
whole work upon mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of
the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my
hand I have done [it], and by my
wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have
removed the bounds of the people, and
have robbed their treasures, and I have
put down the inhabitants like a valiant
[man]:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the
riches of the people: and as one
gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I
gathered all the earth; and there was
none that moved the wing, or opened the
mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against
him that heweth therewith? [or] shall
the saw magnify itself against him that
shaketh it? as if the rod should shake
[itself] against them that lift it up,
[or] as if the staff should lift up
[itself, as if it were] no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord
of hosts, send among his fat ones
leanness; and under his glory he shall
kindle a burning like the burning of a
fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for
a fire, and his Holy One for a flame:
and it shall burn and devour his thorns
and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his
forest, and of his fruitful field, both
soul and body: and they shall be as
when a standardbearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his
forest shall be few, that a child may
write them.
20 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of
Jacob, shall no more again stay upon
him that smote them; but shall stay
upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel,
in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, [even] the
remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as
the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of
them shall return: the consumption
decreed shall overflow with
righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make
a consumption, even determined, in the
midst of all the land.
24 # Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD
of hosts, O my people that dwellest in
Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he
shall smite thee with a rod, and shall
lift up his staff against thee, after
the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the
indignation shall cease, and mine anger
in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up
a scourge for him according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of
Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the
sea, so shall he lift it up after the
manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, and his
yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to
Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his
carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they
have taken up their lodging at Geba;
Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is
fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of
Gallim: cause it to be heard unto
Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants
of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that
day: he shall shake his hand [against]
the mount of the daughter of Zion, the
hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
shall lop the bough with terror: and
the high ones of stature [shall be]
hewn down, and the haughty shall be
humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets
of the forest with iron, and Lebanon
shall fall by a mighty one.

CHAPTER 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out
of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel
and might, the spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick
understanding in the fear of the LORD:
and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither reprove after the
hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge
the poor, and reprove with equity for
the meek of the earth: and he shall
smite the earth with the rod of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle
of his loins, and faithfulness the
girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the
cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in
all my holy mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 # And in that day there shall be a
root of Jesse, which shall stand for an
ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be
glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and
from Pathros, and from Cush, and from
Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath,
and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for
the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall
depart, and the adversaries of Judah
shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not
envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex
Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the
shoulders of the Philistines toward the
west; they shall spoil them of the east
together: they shall lay their hand
upon Edom and Moab; and the children of
Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy
the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his mighty wind shall he shake his
hand over the river, and shall smite it
in the seven streams, and make [men] go
over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for
the remnant of his people, which shall
be left, from Assyria; like as it was
to Israel in the day that he came up
out of the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER 12
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O
LORD, I will praise thee: though thou
wast angry with me, thine anger is
turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will
trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD
JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song;
he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise
the LORD, call upon his name, declare
his doings among the people, make
mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done
excellent things: this [is] known in
all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of
Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of
Israel in the midst of thee.

CHAPTER 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah
the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high
mountain, exalt the voice unto them,
shake the hand, that they may go into
the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones,
I have also called my mighty ones for
mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in
my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, like as of a great people; a
tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of
nations gathered together: the LORD of
hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from
the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and
the weapons of his indignation, to
destroy the whole land.
6 # Howl ye; for the day of the LORD
[is] at hand; it shall come as a
destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint,
and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they
shall be in pain as a woman that
travaileth: they shall be amazed one at
another; their faces [shall be as]
flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh,
cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened
in his going forth, and the moon shall
not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for
[their] evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and
will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than
fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens,
and the earth shall remove out of her
place, in the wrath of the LORD of
hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe,
and as a sheep that no man taketh up:
they shall every man turn to his own
people, and flee every one into his own
land.
15 Every one that is found shall be
thrust through; and every one that is
joined [unto them] shall fall by the
sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed
to pieces before their eyes; their
houses shall be spoiled, and their
wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, which shall not regard
silver; and [as for] gold, they shall
not delight in it.
18 [Their] bows also shall dash the
young men to pieces; and they shall
have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eye shall not spare children.
19 # And Babylon, the glory of
kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither
shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the
shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall
lie there; and their houses shall be
full of doleful creatures; and owls
shall dwell there, and satyrs shall
dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands
shall cry in their desolate houses, and
dragons in [their] pleasant palaces:
and her time [is] near to come, and her
days shall not be prolonged.

CHAPTER 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on
Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and
set them in their own land: and the
strangers shall be joined with them,
and they shall cleave to the house of
Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and
bring them to their place: and the
house of Israel shall possess them in
the land of the LORD for servants and
handmaids: and they shall take them
captives, whose captives they were; and
they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day
that the LORD shall give thee rest from
thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from
the hard bondage wherein thou wast made
to serve,
4 # That thou shalt take up this
proverb against the king of Babylon,
and say, How hath the oppressor ceased!
the golden city ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the
wicked, [and] the sceptre of the
rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with
a continual stroke, he that ruled the
nations in anger, is persecuted, [and]
none hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is
quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee,
[and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying],
Since thou art laid down, no feller is
come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee
to meet [thee] at thy coming: it
stirreth up the dead for thee, [even]
all the chief ones of the earth; it
hath raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto
thee, Art thou also become weak as we?
art thou become like unto us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the
grave, [and] the noise of thy viols:
the worm is spread under thee, and the
worms cover thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art
thou cut down to the ground, which
didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I
will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God: I
will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the
north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the most
High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly
look upon thee, [and] consider thee,
[saying, Is] this the man that made the
earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms;
17 [That] made the world as a
wilderness, and destroyed the cities
thereof; [that] opened not the house of
his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, [even]
all of them, lie in glory, every one in
his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave
like an abominable branch, [and as] the
raiment of those that are slain, thrust
through with a sword, that go down to
the stones of the pit; as a carcase
trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them
in burial, because thou hast destroyed
thy land, [and] slain thy people: the
seed of evildoers shall never be
renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children
for the iniquity of their fathers; that
they do not rise, nor possess the land,
nor fill the face of the world with
cities.
22 For I will rise up against them,
saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off
from Babylon the name, and remnant, and
son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for
the bittern, and pools of water: and I
will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
24 # The LORD of hosts hath sworn,
saying, Surely as I have thought, so
shall it come to pass; and as I have
purposed, [so] shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my
land, and upon my mountains tread him
under foot: then shall his yoke depart
from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulders.
26 This [is] the purpose that is
purposed upon the whole earth: and this
[is] the hand that is stretched out
upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed,
and who shall disannul [it]? and his
hand [is] stretched out, and who shall
turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden.
29 # Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,
because the rod of him that smote thee
is broken: for out of the serpent's
root shall come forth a cockatrice, and
his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying
serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou,
whole Palestina, [art] dissolved: for
there shall come from the north a
smoke, and none [shall be] alone in his
appointed times.
32 What shall [one] then answer the
messengers of the nation? That the LORD
hath founded Zion, and the poor of his
people shall trust in it.

CHAPTER 15
1 The burden of Moab. Because in the
night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and]
brought to silence; because in the
night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and]
brought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to
Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab
shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba:
on all their heads [shall be] baldness,
[and] every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird
themselves with sackcloth: on the tops
of their houses, and in their streets,
every one shall howl, weeping
abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh:
their voice shall be heard [even] unto
Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of
Moab shall cry out; his life shall be
grievous unto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his
fugitives [shall flee] unto Zoar, an
heifer of three years old: for by the
mounting up of Luhith with weeping
shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of
destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate: for the hay is withered away,
the grass faileth, there is no green
thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid
up, shall they carry away to the brook
of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the howling thereof
unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof
unto Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full
of blood: for I will bring more upon
Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of
Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

CHAPTER 16
1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the
land from Sela to the wilderness, unto
the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, [that], as a
wandering bird cast out of the nest,
[so] the daughters of Moab shall be at
the fords of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make
thy shadow as the night in the midst of
the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray
not him that wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee,
Moab; be thou a covert to them from the
face of the spoiler: for the
extortioner is at an end, the spoiler
ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed
out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be
established: and he shall sit upon it
in truth in the tabernacle of David,
judging, and seeking judgment, and
hasting righteousness.
6 # We have heard of the pride of Moab;
[he is] very proud: [even] of his
haughtiness, and his pride, and his
wrath: [but] his lies [shall] not [be]
so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab,
every one shall howl: for the
foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye
mourn; surely [they are] stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish,
[and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of
the heathen have broken down the
principal plants thereof, they are come
[even] unto Jazer, they wandered
[through] the wilderness: her branches
are stretched out, they are gone over
the sea.
9 # Therefore I will bewail with the
weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I
will water thee with my tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting
for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy
out of the plentiful field; and in the
vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither shall there be shouting: the
treaders shall tread out no wine in
[their] presses; I have made [their
vintage] shouting to cease.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like
an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts
for Kir-haresh.
12 # And it shall come to pass, when it
is seen that Moab is weary on the high
place, that he shall come to his
sanctuary to pray; but he shall not
prevail.
13 This [is] the word that the LORD
hath spoken concerning Moab since that
time.
14 But now the LORD hath spoken,
saying, Within three years, as the
years of an hireling, and the glory of
Moab shall be contemned, with all that
great multitude; and the remnant [shall
be] very small [and] feeble.

CHAPTER 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from [being] a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken:
they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down, and none shall make [them]
afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria: they shall be
as the glory of the children of Israel,
saith the LORD of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to
pass, [that] the glory of Jacob shall
be made thin, and the fatness of his
flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the
harvestman gathereth the corn, and
reapeth the ears with his arm; and it
shall be as he that gathereth ears in
the valley of Rephaim.
6 # Yet gleaning grapes shall be left
in it, as the shaking of an olive tree,
two [or] three berries in the top of
the uppermost bough, four [or] five in
the outmost fruitful branches thereof,
saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his
Maker, and his eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars,
the work of his hands, neither shall
respect [that] which his fingers have
made, either the groves, or the images.
9 # In that day shall his strong cities
be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left
because of the children of Israel: and
there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God
of thy salvation, and hast not been
mindful of the rock of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant pleasant
plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant
to grow, and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seed to flourish: [but] the
harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of
grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 # Woe to the multitude of many
people, [which] make a noise like the
noise of the seas; and to the rushing
of nations, [that] make a rushing like
the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the
rushing of many waters: but [God] shall
rebuke them, and they shall flee far
off, and shall be chased as the chaff
of the mountains before the wind, and
like a rolling thing before the
whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble;
[and] before the morning he [is] not.
This [is] the portion of them that
spoil us, and the lot of them that rob
us.

CHAPTER 18
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which [is] beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, [saying], Go, ye swift
messengers, to a nation scattered and
peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out
and trodden down, whose land the rivers
have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and
dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he
lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will
take my rest, and I will consider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the
heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud
is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, he shall both
cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
and take away [and] cut down the
branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the
fowls of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth: and the fowls
shall summer upon them, and all the
beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them.
7 # In that time shall the present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts of a
people scattered and peeled, and from a
people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the
rivers have spoiled, to the place of
the name of the LORD of hosts, the
mount Zion.

CHAPTER 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD
rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall
come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt
shall be moved at his presence, and the
heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst
of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against
the Egyptians: and they shall fight
every one against his brother, and
every one against his neighbour; city
against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in
the midst thereof; and I will destroy
the counsel thereof: and they shall
seek to the idols, and to the charmers,
and to them that have familiar spirits,
and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over
into the hand of a cruel lord; and a
fierce king shall rule over them, saith
the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the
sea, and the river shall be wasted and
dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far
away; [and] the brooks of defence shall
be emptied and dried up: the reeds and
flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the
mouth of the brooks, and every thing
sown by the brooks, shall wither, be
driven away, and be no [more].
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all
they that cast angle into the brooks
shall lament, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax,
and they that weave networks, shall be
confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the
purposes thereof, all that make sluices
[and] ponds for fish.
11 # Surely the princes of Zoan [are]
fools, the counsel of the wise
counsellors of Pharaoh is become
brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I
[am] the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings?
12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy
wise [men]? and let them tell thee now,
and let them know what the LORD of
hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become
fools, the princes of Noph are
deceived; they have also seduced Egypt,
[even they that are] the stay of the
tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse
spirit in the midst thereof: and they
have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth
in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be [any] work
for Egypt, which the head or tail,
branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto
women: and it shall be afraid and fear
because of the shaking of the hand of
the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh
over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a
terror unto Egypt, every one that
maketh mention thereof shall be afraid
in himself, because of the counsel of
the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
18 # In that day shall five cities in
the land of Egypt speak the language of
Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;
one shall be called, The city of
destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar
to the LORD in the midst of the land of
Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to the LORD.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a
witness unto the LORD of hosts in the
land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto
the LORD because of the oppressors, and
he shall send them a saviour, and a
great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to
Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the
LORD in that day, and shall do
sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall
vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
[it].
22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he
shall smite and heal [it]: and they
shall return [even] to the LORD, and he
shall be intreated of them, and shall
heal them.
23 # In that day shall there be a
highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and
the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and
the Egyptian into Assyria, and the
Egyptians shall serve with the
Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the
third with Egypt and with Assyria,
[even] a blessing in the midst of the
land:
25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless,
saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people,
and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance.

CHAPTER 20
1 In the year that Tartan came unto
Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him,) and fought against
Ashdod, and took it;
2 At the same time spake the LORD by
Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and
loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And
he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant
Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot
three years [for] a sign and wonder
upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead
away the Egyptians prisoners, and the
Ethiopians captives, young and old,
naked and barefoot, even with [their]
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed
of Ethiopia their expectation, and of
Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall
say in that day, Behold, such [is] our
expectation, whither we flee for help
to be delivered from the king of
Assyria: and how shall we escape?

CHAPTER 21
1 The burden of the desert of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the south pass
through; [so] it cometh from the
desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared unto
me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler
spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O
Media; all the sighing thereof have I
made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with
pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as
the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I
was bowed down at the hearing [of it];
I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].
4 My heart panted, fearfulness
affrighted me: the night of my pleasure
hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the
watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye
princes, [and] anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman, let him declare
what he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot [with] a couple
of horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and]
a chariot of camels; and he hearkened
diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I
stand continually upon the watchtower
in the daytime, and I am set in my ward
whole nights:
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of
men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And
he answered and said, Babylon is
fallen, is fallen; and all the graven
images of her gods he hath broken unto
the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my
floor: that which I have heard of the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have
I declared unto you.
11 # The burden of Dumah. He calleth to
me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning
cometh, and also the night: if ye will
enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13 # The burden upon Arabia. In the
forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema
brought water to him that was thirsty,
they prevented with their bread him
that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from
the drawn sword, and from the bent bow,
and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Within a year, according to the years
of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of
archers, the mighty men of the children
of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the
LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].

CHAPTER 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou art
wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a
tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy
slain [men are] not slain with the
sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together,
they are bound by the archers: all that
are found in thee are bound together,
[which] have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me;
I will weep bitterly, labour not to
comfort me, because of the spoiling of
the daughter of my people.
5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of
treading down, and of perplexity by the
Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of
vision, breaking down the walls, and of
crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with
chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir
uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy
choicest valleys shall be full of
chariots, and the horsemen shall set
themselves in array at the gate.
8 # And he discovered the covering of
Judah, and thou didst look in that day
to the armour of the house of the
forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the
city of David, that they are many: and
ye gathered together the waters of the
lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and the houses have ye
broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two
walls for the water of the old pool:
but ye have not looked unto the maker
thereof, neither had respect unto him
that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of
hosts call to weeping, and to mourning,
and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying
oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh,
and drinking wine: let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by
the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged from you till ye
die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 # Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts,
Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
[even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the
house, [and say],
16 What hast thou here? and whom hast
thou here, that thou hast hewed thee
out a sepulchre here, [as] he that
heweth him out a sepulchre on high,
[and] that graveth an habitation for
himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee
away with a mighty captivity, and will
surely cover thee.
18 He will surely violently turn and
toss thee [like] a ball into a large
country: there shalt thou die, and
there the chariots of thy glory [shall
be] the shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will drive thee from thy
station, and from thy state shall he
pull thee down.
20 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, that I will call my servant
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe,
and strengthen him with thy girdle, and
I will commit thy government into his
hand: and he shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the
house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David
will I lay upon his shoulder; so he
shall open, and none shall shut; and he
shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in
a sure place; and he shall be for a
glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the
glory of his father's house, the
offspring and the issue, all vessels of
small quantity, from the vessels of
cups, even to all the vessels of
flagons.
25 In that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, shall the nail that is fastened
in the sure place be removed, and be
cut down, and fall; and the burden that
[was] upon it shall be cut off: for the
LORD hath spoken [it].

CHAPTER 23
1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of
Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that
there is no house, no entering in: from
the land of Chittim it is revealed to
them.
2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle;
thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that
pass over the sea, have replenished.
3 And by great waters the seed of
Sihor, the harvest of the river, [is]
her revenue; and she is a mart of
nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea
hath spoken, [even] the strength of the
sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring
forth children, neither do I nourish up
young men, [nor] bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt,
[so] shall they be sorely pained at the
report of Tyre.
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye
inhabitants of the isle.
7 [Is] this your joyous [city], whose
antiquity [is] of ancient days? her own
feet shall carry her afar off to
sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against
Tyre, the crowning [city], whose
merchants [are] princes, whose
traffickers [are] the honourable of the
earth?
9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it,
to stain the pride of all glory, [and]
to bring into contempt all the
honourable of the earth.
10 Pass through thy land as a river, O
daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no
more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand over the
sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD
hath given a commandment against the
merchant [city], to destroy the strong
holds thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more
rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin,
daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to
Chittim; there also shalt thou have no
rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans;
this people was not, [till] the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell
in the wilderness: they set up the
towers thereof, they raised up the
palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to
ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your
strength is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of
one king: after the end of seventy
years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city,
thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs,
that thou mayest be remembered.
17 # And it shall come to pass after
the end of seventy years, that the LORD
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to
her hire, and shall commit fornication
with all the kingdoms of the world upon
the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire
shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall
not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise shall be for them that
dwell before the LORD, to eat
sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

CHAPTER 24
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth
it upside down, and scattereth abroad
the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people,
so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with
the maid, so with her mistress; as with
the buyer, so with the seller; as with
the lender, so with the borrower; as
with the taker of usury, so with the
giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied,
and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath
spoken this word.
4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away,
the world languisheth [and] fadeth
away, the haughty people of the earth
do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the
earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: therefore the inhabitants of
the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine
languisheth, all the merryhearted do
sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the
noise of them that rejoice endeth, the
joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a
song; strong drink shall be bitter to
them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken
down: every house is shut up, that no
man may come in.
11 [There is] a crying for wine in the
streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth
of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and
the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 # When thus it shall be in the midst
of the land among the people, [there
shall be] as the shaking of an olive
tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when
the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they
shall sing for the majesty of the LORD,
they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the
fires, [even] the name of the LORD God
of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 # From the uttermost part of the
earth have we heard songs, [even] glory
to the righteous. But I said, My
leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the
treacherous dealers have dealt
treacherously; yea, the treacherous
dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare,
[are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he
who fleeth from the noise of the fear
shall fall into the pit; and he that
cometh up out of the midst of the pit
shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on high are open, and the
foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down,
the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like
a drunkard, and shall be removed like a
cottage; and the transgression thereof
shall be heavy upon it; and it shall
fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the LORD shall punish the
host of the high ones [that are] on
high, and the kings of the earth upon
the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together,
[as] prisoners are gathered in the pit,
and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded,
and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of
hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients
gloriously.

CHAPTER 25
1 O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will
exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for
thou hast done wonderful [things; thy]
counsels of old [are] faithfulness
[and] truth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap;
[of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace
of strangers to be no city; it shall
never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people
glorify thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been a strength to the
poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a
shadow from the heat, when the blast of
the terrible ones [is] as a storm
[against] the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of
strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
[even] the heat with the shadow of a
cloud: the branch of the terrible ones
shall be brought low.
6 # And in this mountain shall the LORD
of hosts make unto all people a feast
of fat things, a feast of wines on the
lees, of fat things full of marrow, of
wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering cast over all
people, and the vail that is spread
over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the rebuke of
his people shall he take away from off
all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken
[it].
9 # And it shall be said in that day,
Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us: this [is]
the LORD; we have waited for him, we
will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand
of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw
is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands
in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to
swim: and he shall bring down their
pride together with the spoils of their
hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of
thy walls shall he bring down, lay low,
[and] bring to the ground, [even] to
the dust.

CHAPTER 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung
in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will [God] appoint
[for] walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth the truth may
enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect
peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on
thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in
the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting
strength:
5 # For he bringeth down them that
dwell on high; the lofty city, he
layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even]
to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to
the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, [even]
the feet of the poor, [and] the steps
of the needy.
7 The way of the just [is] uprightness:
thou, most upright, dost weigh the path
of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O
LORD, have we waited for thee; the
desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name,
and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in
the night; yea, with my spirit within
me will I seek thee early: for when thy
judgments [are] in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked,
[yet] will he not learn righteousness:
in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and will not behold the
majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up,
they will not see: [but] they shall
see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at
the people; yea, the fire of thine
enemies shall devour them.
12 # LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for
us: for thou also hast wrought all our
works in us.
13 O LORD our God, [other] lords beside
thee have had dominion over us: [but]
by thee only will we make mention of
thy name.
14 [They are] dead, they shall not
live; [they are] deceased, they shall
not rise: therefore hast thou visited
and destroyed them, and made all their
memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O
LORD, thou hast increased the nation:
thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
[it] far [unto] all the ends of the
earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited
thee, they poured out a prayer [when]
thy chastening [was] upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, [that]
draweth near the time of her delivery,
is in pain, [and] crieth out in her
pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O
LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have
been in pain, we have as it were
brought forth wind; we have not wrought
any deliverance in the earth; neither
have the inhabitants of the world
fallen.
19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together
with] my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 # Come, my people, enter thou into
thy chambers, and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thyself as it were for a
little moment, until the indignation be
overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity: the earth
also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain.

CHAPTER 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore
and great and strong sword shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent, even
leviathan that crooked serpent; and he
shall slay the dragon that [is] in the
sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A
vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water
it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I
will keep it night and day.
4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set
the briers [and] thorns against me in
battle? I would go through them, I
would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength,
[that] he may make peace with me; [and]
he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of
Jacob to take root: Israel shall
blossom and bud, and fill the face of
the world with fruit.
7 # Hath he smitten him, as he smote
those that smote him? [or] is he slain
according to the slaughter of them that
are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth,
thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth
his rough wind in the day of the east
wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity
of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all
the fruit to take away his sin; when he
maketh all the stones of the altar as
chalkstones that are beaten in sunder,
the groves and images shall not stand
up.
10 Yet the defenced city [shall be]
desolate, [and] the habitation
forsaken, and left like a wilderness:
there shall the calf feed, and there
shall he lie down, and consume the
branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are
withered, they shall be broken off: the
women come, [and] set them on fire: for
it [is] a people of no understanding:
therefore he that made them will not
have mercy on them, and he that formed
them will shew them no favour.
12 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the LORD shall beat off
from the channel of the river unto the
stream of Egypt, and ye shall be
gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the great trumpet shall be
blown, and they shall come which were
ready to perish in the land of Assyria,
and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
and shall worship the LORD in the holy
mount at Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the
drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
beauty [is] a fading flower, which
[are] on the head of the fat valleys of
them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and
strong one, [which] as a tempest of
hail [and] a destroying storm, as a
flood of mighty waters overflowing,
shall cast down to the earth with the
hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of
Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which [is]
on the head of the fat valley, shall be
a fading flower, [and] as the hasty
fruit before the summer; which [when]
he that looketh upon it seeth, while it
is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5 # In that day shall the LORD of hosts
be for a crown of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty, unto the residue of
his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him
that sitteth in judgment, and for
strength to them that turn the battle
to the gate.
7 # But they also have erred through
wine, and through strong drink are out
of the way; the priest and the prophet
have erred through strong drink, they
are swallowed up of wine, they are out
of the way through strong drink; they
err in vision, they stumble [in]
judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit
[and] filthiness, [so that there is] no
place [clean].
9 # Whom shall he teach knowledge? and
whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? [them that are] weaned from
the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept [must be] upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, [and]
there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest
[wherewith] ye may cause the weary to
rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet
they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, [and] there a
little; that they might go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared,
and taken.
14 # Wherefore hear the word of the
LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this
people which [is] in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a
covenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall
not come unto us: for we have made lies
our refuge, and under falsehood have we
hid ourselves:
16 # Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
a stone, a tried stone, a precious
corner [stone], a sure foundation: he
that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the
line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep away the
refuge of lies, and the waters shall
overflow the hiding place.
18 # And your covenant with death shall
be disannulled, and your agreement with
hell shall not stand; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it
shall take you: for morning by morning
shall it pass over, by day and by
night: and it shall be a vexation only
[to] understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that [a
man] can stretch himself [on it]: and
the covering narrower than that he can
wrap himself [in it].
21 For the LORD shall rise up as [in]
mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as
[in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may
do his work, his strange work; and
bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers,
lest your bands be made strong: for I
have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even determined upon the
whole earth.
23 # Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to
sow? doth he open and break the clods
of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face
thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and
cast in the principal wheat and the
appointed barley and the rie in their
place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to
discretion, [and] doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed
with a threshing instrument, neither is
a cart wheel turned about upon the
cummin; but the fitches are beaten out
with a staff, and the cummin with a
rod.
28 Bread [corn] is bruised; because he
will not ever be threshing it, nor
break [it with] the wheel of his cart,
nor bruise it [with] his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the LORD
of hosts, [which] is wonderful in
counsel, [and] excellent in working.

CHAPTER 29
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city
[where] David dwelt! add ye year to
year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there
shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it
shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round
about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, [and]
shalt speak out of the ground, and thy
speech shall be low out of the dust,
and thy voice shall be, as of one that
hath a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and thy speech shall whisper
out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy
strangers shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible ones
[shall be] as chaff that passeth away:
yea, it shall be at an instant
suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of
hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm
and tempest, and the flame of devouring
fire.
7 # And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel, even
all that fight against her and her
munition, and that distress her, shall
be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry
[man] dreameth, and, behold, he eateth;
but he awaketh, and his soul is empty:
or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and,
behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh,
and, behold, [he is] faint, and his
soul hath appetite: so shall the
multitude of all the nations be, that
fight against mount Zion.
9 # Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye
out, and cry: they are drunken, but not
with wine; they stagger, but not with
strong drink.
10 For the LORD hath poured out upon
you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes: the prophets and your
rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto
you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which [men] deliver to one that
is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
[is] sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him
that is not learned, saying, Read this,
I pray thee: and he saith, I am not
learned.
13 # Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch
as this people draw near [me] with
their mouth, and with their lips do
honour me, but have removed their heart
far from me, and their fear toward me
is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvellous work among this people,
[even] a marvellous work and a wonder:
for the wisdom of their wise [men]
shall perish, and the understanding of
their prudent [men] shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide
their counsel from the LORD, and their
works are in the dark, and they say,
Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside
down shall be esteemed as the potter's
clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall
the thing framed say of him that framed
it, He had no understanding?
17 [Is] it not yet a very little while,
and Lebanon shall be turned into a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field
shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 # And in that day shall the deaf
hear the words of the book, and the
eyes of the blind shall see out of
obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase [their]
joy in the LORD, and the poor among men
shall rejoice in the Holy One of
Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to
nought, and the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut
off:
21 That make a man an offender for a
word, and lay a snare for him that
reproveth in the gate, and turn aside
the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who
redeemed Abraham, concerning the house
of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be
ashamed, neither shall his face now wax
pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the
work of mine hands, in the midst of
him, they shall sanctify my name, and
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and
shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall
come to understanding, and they that
murmured shall learn doctrine.

CHAPTER 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith
the LORD, that take counsel, but not of
me; and that cover with a covering, but
not of my spirit, that they may add sin
to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength
of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow
of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of
Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his
ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people
[that] could not profit them, nor be an
help nor profit, but a shame, and also
a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the
south: into the land of trouble and
anguish, from whence [come] the young
and old lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the shoulders of young
asses, and their treasures upon the
bunches of camels, to a people [that]
shall not profit [them].
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain,
and to no purpose: therefore have I
cried concerning this, Their strength
[is] to sit still.
8 # Now go, write it before them in a
table, and note it in a book, that it
may be for the time to come for ever
and ever:
9 That this [is] a rebellious people,
lying children, children [that] will
not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us
right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside
out of the path, cause the Holy One of
Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of
Israel, Because ye despise this word,
and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to
you as a breach ready to fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking
cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the
breaking of the potters' vessel that is
broken in pieces; he shall not spare:
so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire
from the hearth, or to take water
[withal] out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the
Holy One of Israel; In returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quietness
and in confidence shall be your
strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee
upon horses; therefore shall ye flee:
and, We will ride upon the swift;
therefore shall they that pursue you be
swift.
17 One thousand [shall flee] at the
rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five
shall ye flee: till ye be left as a
beacon upon the top of a mountain, and
as an ensign on an hill.
18 # And therefore will the LORD wait,
that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore will he be exalted, that he
may have mercy upon you: for the LORD
[is] a God of judgment: blessed [are]
all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion
at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more:
he will be very gracious unto thee at
the voice of thy cry; when he shall
hear it, he will answer thee.
20 And [though] the Lord give you the
bread of adversity, and the water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers
be removed into a corner any more, but
thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word
behind thee, saying, This [is] the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the
right hand, and when ye turn to the
left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of
thy graven images of silver, and the
ornament of thy molten images of gold:
thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto
it, Get thee hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain of thy
seed, that thou shalt sow the ground
withal; and bread of the increase of
the earth, and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young
asses that ear the ground shall eat
clean provender, which hath been
winnowed with the shovel and with the
fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high
mountain, and upon every high hill,
rivers [and] streams of waters in the
day of the great slaughter, when the
towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall
be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as
the light of seven days, in the day
that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people, and healeth the stroke of
their wound.
27 # Behold, the name of the LORD
cometh from far, burning [with] his
anger, and the burden [thereof is]
heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a
devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing
stream, shall reach to the midst of the
neck, to sift the nations with the
sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a
bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing [them] to err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the
night [when] a holy solemnity is kept;
and gladness of heart, as when one
goeth with a pipe to come into the
mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One
of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his
glorious voice to be heard, and shall
shew the lighting down of his arm, with
the indignation of [his] anger, and
[with] the flame of a devouring fire,
[with] scattering, and tempest, and
hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD
shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
[which] smote with a rod.
32 And [in] every place where the
grounded staff shall pass, which the
LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be
with tabrets and harps: and in battles
of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet [is] ordained of old;
yea, for the king it is prepared; he
hath made [it] deep [and] large: the
pile thereof [is] fire and much wood;
the breath of the LORD, like a stream
of brimstone, doth kindle it.

CHAPTER 31
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for
help; and stay on horses, and trust in
chariots, because [they are] many; and
in horsemen, because they are very
strong; but they look not unto the Holy
One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring
evil, and will not call back his words:
but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of them
that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not
God; and their horses flesh, and not
spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out
his hand, both he that helpeth shall
fall, and he that is holpen shall fall
down, and they all shall fail together.
4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto
me, Like as the lion and the young lion
roaring on his prey, when a multitude
of shepherds is called forth against
him, [he] will not be afraid of their
voice, nor abase himself for the noise
of them: so shall the LORD of hosts
come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of
hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also
he will deliver [it; and] passing over
he will preserve it.
6 # Turn ye unto [him from] whom the
children of Israel have deeply
revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast
away his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which your own hands have made
unto you [for] a sin.
8 # Then shall the Assyrian fall with
the sword, not of a mighty man; and the
sword, not of a mean man, shall devour
him: but he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be discomfited.
9 And he shall pass over to his strong
hold for fear, and his princes shall be
afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD,
whose fire [is] in Zion, and his
furnace in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule
in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place
from the wind, and a covert from the
tempest; as rivers of water in a dry
place, as the shadow of a great rock in
a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall
not be dim, and the ears of them that
hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of
the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more
called liberal, nor the churl said [to
be] bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak
villany, and his heart will work
iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to
utter error against the LORD, to make
empty the soul of the hungry, and he
will cause the drink of the thirsty to
fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl
[are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices
to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal
things; and by liberal things shall he
stand.
9 # Rise up, ye women that are at ease;
hear my voice, ye careless daughters;
give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be
troubled, ye careless women: for the
vintage shall fail, the gathering shall
not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease;
be troubled, ye careless ones: strip
you, and make you bare, and gird
[sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for
the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall
come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon
all the houses of joy [in] the joyous
city:
14 Because the palaces shall be
forsaken; the multitude of the city
shall be left; the forts and towers
shall be for dens for ever, a joy of
wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us
from on high, and the wilderness be a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field
be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the
wilderness, and righteousness remain in
the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall
be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance
for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a
peaceable habitation, and in sure
dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on
the forest; and the city shall be low
in a low place.
20 Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all
waters, that send forth [thither] the
feet of the ox and the ass.

CHAPTER 33
1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou
[wast] not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not
treacherously with thee! when thou
shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be
spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an
end to deal treacherously, they shall
deal treacherously with thee.
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have
waited for thee: be thou their arm
every morning, our salvation also in
the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people
fled; at the lifting up of thyself the
nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered
[like] the gathering of the
caterpiller: as the running to and fro
of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth
on high: he hath filled Zion with
judgment and righteousness.
6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the
stability of thy times, [and] strength
of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is]
his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry
without: the ambassadors of peace shall
weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring
man ceaseth: he hath broken the
covenant, he hath despised the cities,
he regardeth no man.
9 The earth mourneth [and] languisheth:
Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down:
Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan
and Carmel shake off [their fruits].
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now
will I be exalted; now will I lift up
myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall
bring forth stubble: your breath, [as]
fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be [as] the
burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up
shall they be burned in the fire.
13 # Hear, ye [that are] far off, what
I have done; and, ye [that are] near,
acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell
with the devouring fire? who among us
shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and
speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth
the gain of oppressions, that shaketh
his hands from holding of bribes, that
stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and shutteth his eyes from
seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of
defence [shall be] the munitions of
rocks: bread shall be given him; his
waters [shall be] sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his
beauty: they shall behold the land that
is very far off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror.
Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the
receiver? where [is] he that counted
the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people,
a people of a deeper speech than thou
canst perceive; of a stammering tongue,
[that thou canst] not understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our
solemnities: thine eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a
tabernacle [that] shall not be taken
down; not one of the stakes thereof
shall ever be removed, neither shall
any of the cords thereof be broken.
21 But there the glorious LORD [will
be] unto us a place of broad rivers
[and] streams; wherein shall go no
galley with oars, neither shall gallant
ship pass thereby.
22 For the LORD [is] our judge, the
LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is]
our king; he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could
not well strengthen their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then is the
prey of a great spoil divided; the lame
take the prey.
24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I
am sick: the people that dwell therein
[shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.

CHAPTER 34
1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and
hearken, ye people: let the earth hear,
and all that is therein; the world, and
all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD [is]
upon all nations, and [his] fury upon
all their armies: he hath utterly
destroyed them, he hath delivered them
to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out,
and their stink shall come up out of
their carcases, and the mountains shall
be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll: and all
their host shall fall down, as the leaf
falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling [fig] from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in
heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and upon the people of my
curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with
blood, it is made fat with fatness,
[and] with the blood of lambs and
goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the
land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with
them, and the bullocks with the bulls;
and their land shall be soaked with
blood, and their dust made fat with
fatness.
8 For [it is] the day of the LORD'S
vengeance, [and] the year of
recompences for the controversy of
Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be
turned into pitch, and the dust thereof
into brimstone, and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor
day; the smoke thereof shall go up for
ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever.
11 # But the cormorant and the bittern
shall possess it; the owl also and the
raven shall dwell in it: and he shall
stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof
to the kingdom, but none [shall be]
there, and all her princes shall be
nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her
palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an
habitation of dragons, [and] a court
for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall
also meet with the wild beasts of the
island, and the satyr shall cry to his
fellow; the screech owl also shall rest
there, and find for herself a place of
rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her
nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather
under her shadow: there shall the
vultures also be gathered, every one
with her mate.
16 # Seek ye out of the book of the
LORD, and read: no one of these shall
fail, none shall want her mate: for my
mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit
it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them,
and his hand hath divided it unto them
by line: they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation
shall they dwell therein.

CHAPTER 35
1 The wilderness and the solitary place
shall be glad for them; and the desert
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice even with joy and singing: the
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and
Sharon, they shall see the glory of the
LORD, [and] the excellency of our God.
3 # Strengthen ye the weak hands, and
confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to them [that are] of a fearful
heart, Be strong, fear not: behold,
your God will come [with] vengeance,
[even] God [with] a recompence; he will
come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be
opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame [man] leap as an
hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing:
for in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a
pool, and the thirsty land springs of
water: in the habitation of dragons,
where each lay, [shall be] grass with
reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway shall be there, and a
way, and it shall be called The way of
holiness; the unclean shall not pass
over it; but it [shall be] for those:
the wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err [therein].
9 No lion shall be there, nor [any]
ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
shall not be found there; but the
redeemed shall walk [there]:
10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall
return, and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads: they
shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

CHAPTER 36
1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth
year of king Hezekiah, [that]
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up
against all the defenced cities of
Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
unto king Hezekiah with a great army.
And he stood by the conduit of the
upper pool in the highway of the
fuller's field.
3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim,
Hilkiah's son, which was over the
house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah,
Asaph's son, the recorder.
4 # And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say
ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence [is] this wherein thou
trustest?
5 I say, [sayest thou], (but [they are
but] vain words) [I have] counsel and
strength for war: now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of
this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if
a man lean, it will go into his hand,
and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of
Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say to me, We trust in
the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose
high places and whose altars Hezekiah
hath taken away, and said to Judah and
to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before
this altar?
8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray
thee, to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to
set riders upon them.
9 How then wilt thou turn away the face
of one captain of the least of my
master's servants, and put thy trust on
Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come up without the
LORD against this land to destroy it?
the LORD said unto me, Go up against
this land, and destroy it.
11 # Then said Eliakim and Shebna and
Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray
thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian
language; for we understand [it]: and
speak not to us in the Jews' language,
in the ears of the people that [are] on
the wall.
12 # But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master
sent me to thy master and to thee to
speak these words? [hath he] not [sent
me] to the men that sit upon the wall,
that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their own piss with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with
a loud voice in the Jews' language, and
said, Hear ye the words of the great
king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus saith the king, Let not
Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not
be able to deliver you.
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust
in the LORD, saying, The LORD will
surely deliver us: this city shall not
be delivered into the hand of the king
of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus
saith the king of Assyria, Make [an
agreement] with me [by] a present, and
come out to me: and eat ye every one of
his vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink ye every one the waters
of his own cistern;
17 Until I come and take you away to a
land like your own land, a land of corn
and wine, a land of bread and
vineyards.
18 [Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you,
saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath
any of the gods of the nations
delivered his land out of the hand of
the king of Assyria?
19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and
Arphad? where [are] the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered
Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who [are they] among all the gods of
these lands, that have delivered their
land out of my hand, that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out of my
hand?
21 But they held their peace, and
answered him not a word: for the king's
commandment was, saying, Answer him
not.
22 # Then came Eliakim, the son of
Hilkiah, that [was] over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the
son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah
with [their] clothes rent, and told him
the words of Rabshakeh.

CHAPTER 37
1 And it came to pass, when king
Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of
the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over
the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests covered
with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of
blasphemy: for the children are come to
the birth, and [there is] not strength
to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear
the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king
of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God, and will
reprove the words which the LORD thy
God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy]
prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah.
6 # And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say unto your master, Thus
saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the
words that thou hast heard, wherewith
the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him,
and he shall hear a rumour, and return
to his own land; and I will cause him
to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 # So Rabshakeh returned, and found
the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to
make war with thee. And when he heard
[it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king
of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in
whom thou trustest, deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be given
into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all lands
by destroying them utterly; and shalt
thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which
[were] in Telassar?
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arphad, and the king of the
city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14 # And Hezekiah received the letter
from the hand of the messengers, and
read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the
house of the LORD, and spread it before
the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD,
saying,
16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that
dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou
[art] the God, [even] thou alone, of
all the kingdoms of the earth: thou
hast made heaven and earth.
17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear;
open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and
hear all the words of Sennacherib,
which hath sent to reproach the living
God.
18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of
Assyria have laid waste all the
nations, and their countries,
19 And have cast their gods into the
fire: for they [were] no gods, but the
work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save
us from his hand, that all the kingdoms
of the earth may know that thou [art]
the LORD, [even] thou only.
21 # Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent
unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast
prayed to me against Sennacherib king
of Assyria:
22 This [is] the word which the LORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin,
the daughter of Zion, hath despised
thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her
head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and
blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up
thine eyes on high? [even] against the
Holy One of Israel.
24 By thy servants hast thou reproached
the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up
to the height of the mountains, to the
sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof, [and] the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will
enter into the height of his border,
[and] the forest of his Carmel.
25 I have digged, and drunk water; and
with the sole of my feet have I dried
up all the rivers of the besieged
places.
26 Hast thou not heard long ago, [how]
I have done it; [and] of ancient times,
that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest
be to lay waste defenced cities [into]
ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore their inhabitants [were]
of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded: they were [as] the grass of
the field, and [as] the green herb,
[as] the grass on the housetops, and
[as corn] blasted before it be grown
up.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, and thy rage
against me.
29 Because thy rage against me, and thy
tumult, is come up into mine ears,
therefore will I put my hook in thy
nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I
will turn thee back by the way by which
thou camest.
30 And this [shall be] a sign unto
thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as
groweth of itself; and the second year
that which springeth of the same: and
in the third year sow ye, and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of
the house of Judah shall again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth
a remnant, and they that escape out of
mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of
hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning the king of Assyria, He
shall not come into this city, nor
shoot an arrow there, nor come before
it with shields, nor cast a bank
against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the LORD.
35 For I will defend this city to save
it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
36 Then the angel of the LORD went
forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and
five thousand: and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they
[were] all dead corpses.
37 # So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And it came to pass, as he was
worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his
sons smote him with the sword; and they
escaped into the land of Armenia: and
Esar-haddon his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 38
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto
death. And Isaiah the prophet the son
of Amoz came unto him, and said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine
house in order: for thou shalt die, and
not live.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward
the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I
beseech thee, how I have walked before
thee in truth and with a perfect heart,
and have done [that which is] good in
thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 # Then came the word of the LORD to
Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith
the LORD, the God of David thy father,
I have heard thy prayer, I have seen
thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy
days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city
out of the hand of the king of Assyria:
and I will defend this city.
7 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee
from the LORD, that the LORD will do
this thing that he hath spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow
of the degrees, which is gone down in
the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees
backward. So the sun returned ten
degrees, by which degrees it was gone
down.
9 # The writing of Hezekiah king of
Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my
days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue of
my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD,
[even] the LORD, in the land of the
living: I shall behold man no more with
the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is removed
from me as a shepherd's tent: I have
cut off like a weaver my life: he will
cut me off with pining sickness: from
day [even] to night wilt thou make an
end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, [that], as
a lion, so will he break all my bones:
from day [even] to night wilt thou make
an end of me.
14 Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did
I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine
eyes fail [with looking] upward: O
LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both
spoken unto me, and himself hath done
[it]: I shall go softly all my years in
the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these [things men] live,
and in all these [things is] the life
of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me,
and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great
bitterness: but thou hast in love to my
soul [delivered it] from the pit of
corruption: for thou hast cast all my
sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee,
death can [not] celebrate thee: they
that go down into the pit cannot hope
for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall
praise thee, as I [do] this day: the
father to the children shall make known
thy truth.
20 The LORD [was ready] to save me:
therefore we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments all the days of
our life in the house of the LORD.
21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a
lump of figs, and lay [it] for a
plaister upon the boil, and he shall
recover.
22 Hezekiah also had said, What [is]
the sign that I shall go up to the
house of the LORD?

CHAPTER 39
1 At that time Merodach-baladan, the
son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present to Hezekiah: for
he had heard that he had been sick, and
was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and
shewed them the house of his precious
things, the silver, and the gold, and
the spices, and the precious ointment,
and all the house of his armour, and
all that was found in his treasures:
there was nothing in his house, nor in
all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed
them not.
3 # Then came Isaiah the prophet unto
king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What
said these men? and from whence came
they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They
are come from a far country unto me,
[even] from Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in
thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
that [is] in mine house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shewed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear
the word of the LORD of hosts:
6 Behold, the days come, that all that
[is] in thine house, and [that] which
thy fathers have laid up in store until
this day, shall be carried to Babylon:
nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from
thee, which thou shalt beget, shall
they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good
[is] the word of the LORD which thou
hast spoken. He said moreover, For
there shall be peace and truth in my
days.

CHAPTER 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is
pardoned: for she hath received of the
LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
3 # The voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
LORD, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and
every mountain and hill shall be made
low: and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see [it]
together: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken [it].
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said,
What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass,
and all the goodliness thereof [is] as
the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD
bloweth upon it: surely the people [is]
grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth: but the word of our God shall
stand for ever.
9 # O Zion, that bringest good tidings,
get thee up into the high mountain; O
Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings,
lift up thy voice with strength; lift
[it] up, be not afraid; say unto the
cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with
strong [hand], and his arm shall rule
for him: behold, his reward [is] with
him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a
shepherd: he shall gather the lambs
with his arm, and carry [them] in his
bosom, [and] shall gently lead those
that are with young.
12 # Who hath measured the waters in
the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended
the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and
the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the
LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath
taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and [who]
instructed him, and taught him in the
path of judgment, and taught him
knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
understanding?
15 Behold, the nations [are] as a drop
of a bucket, and are counted as the
small dust of the balance: behold, he
taketh up the isles as a very little
thing.
16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to
burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient
for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him [are] as
nothing; and they are counted to him
less than nothing, and vanity.
18 # To whom then will ye liken God? or
what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image,
and the goldsmith spreadeth it over
with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20 He that [is] so impoverished that he
hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that]
will not rot; he seeketh unto him a
cunning workman to prepare a graven
image, [that] shall not be moved.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not
heard? hath it not been told you from
the beginning? have ye not understood
from the foundations of the earth?
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the
circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof [are] as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to
nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea,
they shall not be sown: yea, their
stock shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also blow upon them, and
they shall wither, and the whirlwind
shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or
shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and
behold who hath created these [things],
that bringeth out their host by number:
he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that [he
is] strong in power; not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and
speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from
the LORD, and my judgment is passed
over from my God?
28 # Hast thou not known? hast thou not
heard, [that] the everlasting God, the
LORD, the Creator of the ends of the
earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
[there is] no searching of his
understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to
[them that have] no might he increaseth
strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be
weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD
shall renew [their] strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; [and]
they shall walk, and not faint.

CHAPTER 41
1 Keep silence before me, O islands;
and let the people renew [their]
strength: let them come near; then let
them speak: let us come near together
to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous [man]
from the east, called him to his foot,
gave the nations before him, and made
[him] rule over kings? he gave [them]
as the dust to his sword, [and] as
driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, [and] passed safely;
[even] by the way [that] he had not
gone with his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done [it],
calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and
with the last; I [am] he.
5 The isles saw [it], and feared; the
ends of the earth were afraid, drew
near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbour;
and [every one] said to his brother, Be
of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the
goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth
[with] the hammer him that smote the
anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the
sodering: and he fastened it with
nails, [that] it should not be moved.
8 But thou, Israel, [art] my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend.
9 [Thou] whom I have taken from the
ends of the earth, and called thee from
the chief men thereof, and said unto
thee, Thou [art] my servant; I have
chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 # Fear thou not; for I [am] with
thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy
God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I
will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my
righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and
confounded: they shall be as nothing;
and they that strive with thee shall
perish.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not
find them, [even] them that contended
with thee: they that war against thee
shall be as nothing, and as a thing of
nought.
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy
right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not;
I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye
men of Israel; I will help thee, saith
the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp
threshing instrument having teeth: thou
shalt thresh the mountains, and beat
[them] small, and shalt make the hills
as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind
shall carry them away, and the
whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou
shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 [When] the poor and needy seek
water, and [there is] none, [and] their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD
will hear them, I the God of Israel
will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a
pool of water, and the dry land springs
of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the
cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in
the desert the fir tree, [and] the
pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and
consider, and understand together, that
the hand of the LORD hath done this,
and the Holy One of Israel hath created
it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD;
bring forth your strong [reasons],
saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring [them] forth, and
shew us what shall happen: let them
shew the former things, what they [be],
that we may consider them, and know the
latter end of them; or declare us
things for to come.
23 Shew the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that ye
[are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed, and behold
[it] together.
24 Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and
your work of nought: an abomination [is
he that] chooseth you.
25 I have raised up [one] from the
north, and he shall come: from the
rising of the sun shall he call upon my
name: and he shall come upon princes as
[upon] morter, and as the potter
treadeth clay.
26 Who hath declared from the
beginning, that we may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, [He is]
righteous? yea, [there is] none that
sheweth, yea, [there is] none that
declareth, yea, [there is] none that
heareth your words.
27 The first [shall say] to Zion,
Behold, behold them: and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good
tidings.
28 For I beheld, and [there was] no
man; even among them, and [there was]
no counsellor, that, when I asked of
them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their
works [are] nothing: their molten
images [are] wind and confusion.

CHAPTER 42
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold;
mine elect, [in whom] my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon
him: he shall bring forth judgment to
the Gentiles.
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor
cause his voice to be heard in the
street.
3 A bruised reed shall he not break,
and the smoking flax shall he not
quench: he shall bring forth judgment
unto truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged,
till he have set judgment in the earth:
and the isles shall wait for his law.
5 # Thus saith God the LORD, he that
created the heavens, and stretched them
out; he that spread forth the earth,
and that which cometh out of it; he
that giveth breath unto the people upon
it, and spirit to them that walk
therein:
6 I the LORD have called thee in
righteousness, and will hold thine
hand, and will keep thee, and give thee
for a covenant of the people, for a
light of the Gentiles;
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out
the prisoners from the prison, [and]
them that sit in darkness out of the
prison house.
8 I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name:
and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven
images.
9 Behold, the former things are come to
pass, and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of
them.
10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and]
his praise from the end of the earth,
ye that go down to the sea, and all
that is therein; the isles, and the
inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wilderness and the cities
thereof lift up [their voice], the
villages [that] Kedar doth inhabit: let
the inhabitants of the rock sing, let
them shout from the top of the
mountains.
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD,
and declare his praise in the islands.
13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty
man, he shall stir up jealousy like a
man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he
shall prevail against his enemies.
14 I have long time holden my peace; I
have been still, [and] refrained
myself: [now] will I cry like a
travailing woman; I will destroy and
devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and
hills, and dry up all their herbs; and
I will make the rivers islands, and I
will dry up the pools.
16 And I will bring the blind by a way
[that] they knew not; I will lead them
in paths [that] they have not known: I
will make darkness light before them,
and crooked things straight. These
things will I do unto them, and not
forsake them.
17 # They shall be turned back, they
shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in
graven images, that say to the molten
images, Ye [are] our gods.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind,
that ye may see.
19 Who [is] blind, but my servant? or
deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent?
who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect,
and blind as the LORD'S servant?
20 Seeing many things, but thou
observest not; opening the ears, but he
heareth not.
21 The LORD is well pleased for his
righteousness' sake; he will magnify
the law, and make [it] honourable.
22 But this [is] a people robbed and
spoiled; [they are] all of them snared
in holes, and they are hid in prison
houses: they are for a prey, and none
delivereth; for a spoil, and none
saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this?
[who] will hearken and hear for the
time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and
Israel to the robbers? did not the
LORD, he against whom we have sinned?
for they would not walk in his ways,
neither were they obedient unto his
law.
25 Therefore he hath poured upon him
the fury of his anger, and the strength
of battle: and it hath set him on fire
round about, yet he knew not; and it
burned him, yet he laid [it] not to
heart.

CHAPTER 43
1 But now thus saith the LORD that
created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I
have redeemed thee, I have called
[thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.
2 When thou passest through the waters,
I [will be] with thee; and through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee:
when thou walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned; neither shall
the flame kindle upon thee.
3 For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy
One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave
Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and
Seba for thee.
4 Since thou wast precious in my sight,
thou hast been honourable, and I have
loved thee: therefore will I give men
for thee, and people for thy life.
5 Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I
will bring thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west;
6 I will say to the north, Give up; and
to the south, Keep not back: bring my
sons from far, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth;
7 [Even] every one that is called by my
name: for I have created him for my
glory, I have formed him; yea, I have
made him.
8 # Bring forth the blind people that
have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered
together, and let the people be
assembled: who among them can declare
this, and shew us former things? let
them bring forth their witnesses, that
they may be justified: or let them
hear, and say, [It is] truth.
10 Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the
LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe
me, and understand that I [am] he:
before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me.
11 I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and
beside me [there is] no saviour.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and
I have shewed, when [there was] no
strange [god] among you: therefore ye
[are] my witnesses, saith the LORD,
that I [am] God.
13 Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he;
and [there is] none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who
shall let it?
14 # Thus saith the LORD, your
redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For
your sake I have sent to Babylon, and
have brought down all their nobles, and
the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in the
ships.
15 I [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the
creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a
way in the sea, and a path in the
mighty waters;
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and
horse, the army and the power; they
shall lie down together, they shall not
rise: they are extinct, they are
quenched as tow.
18 # Remember ye not the former things,
neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now
it shall spring forth; shall ye not
know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall honour
me, the dragons and the owls: because I
give waters in the wilderness, [and]
rivers in the desert, to give drink to
my people, my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for
myself; they shall shew forth my
praise.
22 # But thou hast not called upon me,
O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of
me, O Israel.
23 Thou hast not brought me the small
cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither
hast thou honoured me with thy
sacrifices. I have not caused thee to
serve with an offering, nor wearied
thee with incense.
24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane
with money, neither hast thou filled me
with the fat of thy sacrifices: but
thou hast made me to serve with thy
sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
iniquities.
25 I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth
out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy sins.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead
together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified.
27 Thy first father hath sinned, and
thy teachers have transgressed against
me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the
princes of the sanctuary, and have
given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to
reproaches.

CHAPTER 44
1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and
Israel, whom I have chosen:
2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee,
and formed thee from the womb, [which]
will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my
servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have
chosen.
3 For I will pour water upon him that
is thirsty, and floods upon the dry
ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy
seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring:
4 And they shall spring up [as] among
the grass, as willows by the water
courses.
5 One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and
another shall call [himself] by the
name of Jacob; and another shall
subscribe [with] his hand unto the
LORD, and surname [himself] by the name
of Israel.
6 Thus saith the LORD the King of
Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of
hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the
last; and beside me [there is] no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall
declare it, and set it in order for me,
since I appointed the ancient people?
and the things that are coming, and
shall come, let them shew unto them.
8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have
not I told thee from that time, and
have declared [it]? ye [are] even my
witnesses. Is there a God beside me?
yea, [there is] no God; I know not
[any].
9 # They that make a graven image [are]
all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and
they [are] their own witnesses; they
see not, nor know; that they may be
ashamed.
10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a
graven image [that] is profitable for
nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be
ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of
men: let them all be gathered together,
let them stand up; [yet] they shall
fear, [and] they shall be ashamed
together.
12 The smith with the tongs both
worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it
with hammers, and worketh it with the
strength of his arms: yea, he is
hungry, and his strength faileth: he
drinketh no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretcheth out [his]
rule; he marketh it out with a line; he
fitteth it with planes, and he marketh
it out with the compass, and maketh it
after the figure of a man, according to
the beauty of a man; that it may remain
in the house.
14 He heweth him down cedars, and
taketh the cypress and the oak, which
he strengtheneth for himself among the
trees of the forest: he planteth an
ash, and the rain doth nourish [it].
15 Then shall it be for a man to burn:
for he will take thereof, and warm
himself; yea, he kindleth [it], and
baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and
worshippeth [it]; he maketh it a graven
image, and falleth down thereto.
16 He burneth part thereof in the fire;
with part thereof he eateth flesh; he
roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea,
he warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I
am warm, I have seen the fire:
17 And the residue thereof he maketh a
god, [even] his graven image: he
falleth down unto it, and worshippeth
[it], and prayeth unto it, and saith,
Deliver me; for thou [art] my god.
18 They have not known nor understood:
for he hath shut their eyes, that they
cannot see; [and] their hearts, that
they cannot understand.
19 And none considereth in his heart,
neither [is there] knowledge nor
understanding to say, I have burned
part of it in the fire; yea, also I
have baked bread upon the coals
thereof; I have roasted flesh, and
eaten [it]: and shall I make the
residue thereof an abomination? shall I
fall down to the stock of a tree?
20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived
heart hath turned him aside, that he
cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is
there] not a lie in my right hand?
21 # Remember these, O Jacob and
Israel; for thou [art] my servant: I
have formed thee; thou [art] my
servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be
forgotten of me.
22 I have blotted out, as a thick
cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I
have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD
hath done [it]: shout, ye lower parts
of the earth: break forth into singing,
ye mountains, O forest, and every tree
therein: for the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer,
and he that formed thee from the womb,
I [am] the LORD that maketh all
[things]; that stretcheth forth the
heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad
the earth by myself;
25 That frustrateth the tokens of the
liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh
their knowledge foolish;
26 That confirmeth the word of his
servant, and performeth the counsel of
his messengers; that saith to
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and
to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be
built, and I will raise up the decayed
places thereof:
27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and
I will dry up thy rivers:
28 That saith of Cyrus, [He is] my
shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem,
Thou shalt be built; and to the temple,
Thy foundation shall be laid.

CHAPTER 45
1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
holden, to subdue nations before him;
and I will loose the loins of kings, to
open before him the two leaved gates;
and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before thee, and make the
crooked places straight: I will break
in pieces the gates of brass, and cut
in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee the treasures of
darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, that thou mayest know that I,
the LORD, which call [thee] by thy
name, [am] the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and
Israel mine elect, I have even called
thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee,
though thou hast not known me.
5 # I [am] the LORD, and [there is]
none else, [there is] no God beside me:
I girded thee, though thou hast not
known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that [there
is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD,
and [there is] none else.
7 I form the light, and create
darkness: I make peace, and create
evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and
let them bring forth salvation, and let
righteousness spring up together; I the
LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that striveth with his
Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with
the potsherds of the earth. Shall the
clay say to him that fashioneth it,
What makest thou? or thy work, He hath
no hands?
10 Woe unto him that saith unto [his]
father, What begettest thou? or to the
woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of
Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things
to come concerning my sons, and
concerning the work of my hands command
ye me.
12 I have made the earth, and created
man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and all
their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him up in
righteousness, and I will direct all
his ways: he shall build my city, and
he shall let go my captives, not for
price nor reward, saith the LORD of
hosts.
14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of
Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and
of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall
come over unto thee, and they shall be
thine: they shall come after thee; in
chains they shall come over, and they
shall fall down unto thee, they shall
make supplication unto thee, [saying],
Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is]
none else, [there is] no God.
15 Verily thou [art] a God that hidest
thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also
confounded, all of them: they shall go
to confusion together [that are] makers
of idols.
17 [But] Israel shall be saved in the
LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye
shall not be ashamed nor confounded
world without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that created
the heavens; God himself that formed
the earth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in
vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
[am] the LORD; and [there is] none
else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a
dark place of the earth: I said not
unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in
vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I
declare things that are right.
20 # Assemble yourselves and come; draw
near together, ye [that are] escaped of
the nations: they have no knowledge
that set up the wood of their graven
image, and pray unto a god [that]
cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea,
let them take counsel together: who
hath declared this from ancient time?
[who] hath told it from that time?
[have] not I the LORD? and [there is]
no God else beside me; a just God and a
Saviour; [there is] none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth: for I [am] God,
and [there is] none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is
gone out of my mouth [in]
righteousness, and shall not return,
That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD
have I righteousness and strength:
[even] to him shall [men] come; and all
that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of
Israel be justified, and shall glory.

CHAPTER 46
1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their
idols were upon the beasts, and upon
the cattle: your carriages [were] heavy
loaden; [they are] a burden to the
weary [beast].
2 They stoop, they bow down together;
they could not deliver the burden, but
themselves are gone into captivity.
3 # Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house of
Israel, which are borne [by me] from
the belly, which are carried from the
womb:
4 And [even] to [your] old age I [am]
he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I
carry [you]: I have made, and I will
bear; even I will carry, and will
deliver [you].
5 # To whom will ye liken me, and make
[me] equal, and compare me, that we may
be like?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and
weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire
a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god:
they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they
carry him, and set him in his place,
and he standeth; from his place shall
he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry
unto him, yet can he not answer, nor
save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and shew yourselves
men: bring [it] again to mind, O ye
transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old:
for I [am] God, and [there is] none
else; [I am] God, and [there is] none
like me,
10 Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times [the
things] that are not [yet] done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I
will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird from the
east, the man that executeth my counsel
from a far country: yea, I have spoken
[it], I will also bring it to pass; I
have purposed [it], I will also do it.
12 # Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted,
that [are] far from righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it
shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place
salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

CHAPTER 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O
virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the
ground: [there is] no throne, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou
shalt no more be called tender and
delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal:
uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,
uncover the thigh, pass over the
rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,
yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will
take vengeance, and I will not meet
[thee as] a man.
4 [As for] our redeemer, the LORD of
hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of
Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into
darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called, The
lady of kingdoms.
6 # I was wroth with my people, I have
polluted mine inheritance, and given
them into thine hand: thou didst shew
them no mercy; upon the ancient hast
thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
7 # And thou saidst, I shall be a lady
for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay
these [things] to thy heart, neither
didst remember the latter end of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, [thou that
art] given to pleasures, that dwellest
carelessly, that sayest in thine heart,
I [am], and none else beside me; I
shall not sit [as] a widow, neither
shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two [things] shall come to
thee in a moment in one day, the loss
of children, and widowhood: they shall
come upon thee in their perfection for
the multitude of thy sorceries, [and]
for the great abundance of thine
enchantments.
10 # For thou hast trusted in thy
wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth
me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it
hath perverted thee; and thou hast said
in thine heart, I [am], and none else
beside me.
11 # Therefore shall evil come upon
thee; thou shalt not know from whence
it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon
thee; thou shalt not be able to put it
off: and desolation shall come upon
thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not
know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments,
and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured
from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be
able to profit, if so be thou mayest
prevail.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of
thy counsels. Let now the astrologers,
the stargazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save
thee from [these things] that shall
come upon thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble;
the fire shall burn them; they shall
not deliver themselves from the power
of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a
coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit
before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto thee with
whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy
merchants, from thy youth: they shall
wander every one to his quarter; none
shall save thee.

CHAPTER 48
1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which
are called by the name of Israel, and
are come forth out of the waters of
Judah, which swear by the name of the
LORD, and make mention of the God of
Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in
righteousness.
2 For they call themselves of the holy
city, and stay themselves upon the God
of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his
name.
3 I have declared the former things
from the beginning; and they went forth
out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I
did [them] suddenly, and they came to
pass.
4 Because I knew that thou [art]
obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron
sinew, and thy brow brass;
5 I have even from the beginning
declared [it] to thee; before it came
to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou
shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them, and my graven image, and my
molten image, hath commanded them.
6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and
will not ye declare [it]? I have shewed
thee new things from this time, even
hidden things, and thou didst not know
them.
7 They are created now, and not from
the beginning; even before the day when
thou heardest them not; lest thou
shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou
knewest not; yea, from that time [that]
thine ear was not opened: for I knew
that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor from the womb.
9 # For my name's sake will I defer
mine anger, and for my praise will I
refrain for thee, that I cut thee not
off.
10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not
with silver; I have chosen thee in the
furnace of affliction.
11 For mine own sake, [even] for mine
own sake, will I do [it]: for how
should [my name] be polluted? and I
will not give my glory unto another.
12 # Hearken unto me, O Jacob and
Israel, my called; I [am] he; I [am]
the first, I also [am] the last.
13 Mine hand also hath laid the
foundation of the earth, and my right
hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I
call unto them, they stand up together.
14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and
hear; which among them hath declared
these [things]? The LORD hath loved
him: he will do his pleasure on
Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the
Chaldeans.
15 I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I
have called him: I have brought him,
and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 # Come ye near unto me, hear ye
this; I have not spoken in secret from
the beginning; from the time that it
was, there [am] I: and now the Lord
GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD
thy God which teacheth thee to profit,
which leadeth thee by the way [that]
thou shouldest go.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my
commandments! then had thy peace been
as a river, and thy righteousness as
the waves of the sea:
19 Thy seed also had been as the sand,
and the offspring of thy bowels like
the gravel thereof; his name should not
have been cut off nor destroyed from
before me.
20 # Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye
from the Chaldeans, with a voice of
singing declare ye, tell this, utter it
[even] to the end of the earth; say ye,
The LORD hath redeemed his servant
Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not [when] he led
them through the deserts: he caused the
waters to flow out of the rock for
them: he clave the rock also, and the
waters gushed out.
22 [There is] no peace, saith the LORD,
unto the wicked.

CHAPTER 49
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and
hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD
hath called me from the womb; from the
bowels of my mother hath he made
mention of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a
sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand
hath he hid me, and made me a polished
shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
3 And said unto me, Thou [art] my
servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain,
I have spent my strength for nought,
and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment
[is] with the LORD, and my work with my
God.
5 # And now, saith the LORD that formed
me from the womb [to be] his servant,
to bring Jacob again to him, Though
Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be
glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and
my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that
thou shouldest be my servant to raise
up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore
the preserved of Israel: I will also
give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
that thou mayest be my salvation unto
the end of the earth.
7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of
Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom
man despiseth, to him whom the nation
abhorreth, to a servant of rulers,
Kings shall see and arise, princes also
shall worship, because of the LORD that
is faithful, [and] the Holy One of
Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable
time have I heard thee, and in a day of
salvation have I helped thee: and I
will preserve thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, to establish
the earth, to cause to inherit the
desolate heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the
prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are]
in darkness, Shew yourselves. They
shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures [shall be] in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun smite
them: for he that hath mercy on them
shall lead them, even by the springs of
water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a
way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far:
and, lo, these from the north and from
the west; and these from the land of
Sinim.
13 # Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O
earth; and break forth into singing, O
mountains: for the LORD hath comforted
his people, and will have mercy upon
his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD hath
forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten
me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking
child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea,
they may forget, yet will I not forget
thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the
palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are]
continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy
destroyers and they that made thee
waste shall go forth of thee.
18 # Lift up thine eyes round about,
and behold: all these gather themselves
together, [and] come to thee. [As] I
live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely
clothe thee with them all, as with an
ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a
bride [doeth].
19 For thy waste and thy desolate
places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too
narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and they that swallowed thee up shall
be far away.
20 The children which thou shalt have,
after thou hast lost the other, shall
say again in thine ears, The place [is]
too strait for me: give place to me
that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart,
Who hath begotten me these, seeing I
have lost my children, and am desolate,
a captive, and removing to and fro? and
who hath brought up these? Behold, I
was left alone; these, where [had] they
[been]?
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I
will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people:
and they shall bring thy sons in
[their] arms, and thy daughters shall
be carried upon [their] shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing
fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow down to thee
with [their] face toward the earth, and
lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for
they shall not be ashamed that wait for
me.
24 # Shall the prey be taken from the
mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered?
25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the
captives of the mighty shall be taken
away, and the prey of the terrible
shall be delivered: for I will contend
with him that contendeth with thee, and
I will save thy children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress
thee with their own flesh; and they
shall be drunken with their own blood,
as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall
know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour
and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of
Jacob.

CHAPTER 50
1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the
bill of your mother's divorcement, whom
I have put away? or which of my
creditors [is it] to whom I have sold
you? Behold, for your iniquities have
ye sold yourselves, and for your
transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, [was there]
no man? when I called, [was there] none
to answer? Is my hand shortened at all,
that it cannot redeem? or have I no
power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke
I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a
wilderness: their fish stinketh,
because [there is] no water, and dieth
for thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,
and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue
of the learned, that I should know how
to speak a word in season to [him that
is] weary: he wakeneth morning by
morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear
as the learned.
5 # The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear,
and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my
cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
7 # For the Lord GOD will help me;
therefore shall I not be confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a
flint, and I know that I shall not be
ashamed.
8 [He is] near that justifieth me; who
will contend with me? let us stand
together: who [is] mine adversary? let
him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me;
who [is] he [that] shall condemn me?
lo, they all shall wax old as a
garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 # Who [is] among you that feareth
the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh [in] darkness,
and hath no light? let him trust in the
name of the LORD, and stay upon his
God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,
that compass [yourselves] about with
sparks: walk in the light of your fire,
and in the sparks [that] ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine
hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

CHAPTER 51
1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the LORD:
look unto the rock [whence] ye are
hewn, and to the hole of the pit
[whence] ye are digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and
unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I
called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him.
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he
will comfort all her waste places; and
he will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the
LORD; joy and gladness shall be found
therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of
melody.
4 # Hearken unto me, my people; and
give ear unto me, O my nation: for a
law shall proceed from me, and I will
make my judgment to rest for a light of
the people.
5 My righteousness [is] near; my
salvation is gone forth, and mine arms
shall judge the people; the isles shall
wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and
look upon the earth beneath: for the
heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and the earth shall wax old like a
garment, and they that dwell therein
shall die in like manner: but my
salvation shall be for ever, and my
righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 # Hearken unto me, ye that know
righteousness, the people in whose
heart [is] my law; fear ye not the
reproach of men, neither be ye afraid
of their revilings.
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a
garment, and the worm shall eat them
like wool: but my righteousness shall
be for ever, and my salvation from
generation to generation.
9 # Awake, awake, put on strength, O
arm of the LORD; awake, as in the
ancient days, in the generations of
old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut
Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
10 [Art] thou not it which hath dried
the sea, the waters of the great deep;
that hath made the depths of the sea a
way for the ransomed to pass over?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD
shall return, and come with singing
unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall
be] upon their head: they shall obtain
gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
12 I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth
you: who [art] thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man [that]
shall die, and of the son of man
[which] shall be made [as] grass;
13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens,
and laid the foundations of the earth;
and hast feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor,
as if he were ready to destroy? and
where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he
may be loosed, and that he should not
die in the pit, nor that his bread
should fail.
15 But I [am] the LORD thy God, that
divided the sea, whose waves roared:
The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
16 And I have put my words in thy
mouth, and I have covered thee in the
shadow of mine hand, that I may plant
the heavens, and lay the foundations of
the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou
[art] my people.
17 # Awake, awake, stand up, O
Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand
of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou
hast drunken the dregs of the cup of
trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.
18 [There is] none to guide her among
all the sons [whom] she hath brought
forth; neither [is there any] that
taketh her by the hand of all the sons
[that] she hath brought up.
19 These two [things] are come unto
thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
desolation, and destruction, and the
famine, and the sword: by whom shall I
comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at
the head of all the streets, as a wild
bull in a net: they are full of the
fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy
God.
21 # Therefore hear now this, thou
afflicted, and drunken, but not with
wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and
thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of
his people, Behold, I have taken out of
thine hand the cup of trembling, [even]
the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou
shalt no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of
them that afflict thee; which have said
to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go
over: and thou hast laid thy body as
the ground, and as the street, to them
that went over.

CHAPTER 52
1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O
Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O
Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come
into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise,
[and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck, O
captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold
yourselves for nought; and ye shall be
redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My
people went down aforetime into Egypt
to sojourn there; and the Assyrian
oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here,
saith the LORD, that my people is taken
away for nought? they that rule over
them make them to howl, saith the LORD;
and my name continually every day [is]
blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my
name: therefore [they shall know] in
that day that I [am] he that doth
speak: behold, [it is] I.
7 # How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace; that
bringeth good tidings of good, that
publisheth salvation; that saith unto
Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;
with the voice together shall they
sing: for they shall see eye to eye,
when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 # Break forth into joy, sing
together, ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the LORD hath comforted his people,
he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations; and all
the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.
11 # Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out
from thence, touch no unclean [thing];
go ye out of the midst of her; be ye
clean, that bear the vessels of the
LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste,
nor go by flight: for the LORD will go
before you; and the God of Israel [will
be] your rereward.
13 # Behold, my servant shall deal
prudently, he shall be exalted and
extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his
visage was so marred more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations;
the kings shall shut their mouths at
him: for [that] which had not been told
them shall they see; and [that] which
they had not heard shall they consider.

CHAPTER 53
1 Who hath believed our report? and to
whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a
tender plant, and as a root out of a
dry ground: he hath no form nor
comeliness; and when we shall see him,
[there is] no beauty that we should
desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a
man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief: and we hid as it were [our]
faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.
4 # Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted.
5 But he [was] wounded for our
transgressions, [he was] bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace [was] upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own
way; and the LORD hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was
afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from
judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of
the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he
stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his death;
because he had done no violence,
neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.
10 # Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise
him; he hath put [him] to grief: when
thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he
shall prolong [his] days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his
soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant
justify many; for he shall bear their
iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him [a
portion] with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong;
because he hath poured out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with
the transgressors; and he bare the sin
of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.

CHAPTER 54
1 Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not
bear; break forth into singing, and cry
aloud, thou [that] didst not travail
with child: for more [are] the children
of the desolate than the children of
the married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and
let them stretch forth the curtains of
thine habitations: spare not, lengthen
thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the
right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and
make the desolate cities to be
inhabited.
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be
ashamed: neither be thou confounded;
for thou shalt not be put to shame: for
thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker [is] thine husband; the
LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The
God of the whole earth shall he be
called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a
woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
and a wife of youth, when thou wast
refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken
thee; but with great mercies will I
gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from
thee for a moment; but with everlasting
kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
9 For this [is as] the waters of Noah
unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the
waters of Noah should no more go over
the earth; so have I sworn that I would
not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke
thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and
the hills be removed; but my kindness
shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be
removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy
on thee.
11 # O thou afflicted, tossed with
tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I
will lay thy stones with fair colours,
and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of
agates, and thy gates of carbuncles,
and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children [shall be]
taught of the LORD; and great [shall
be] the peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be
established: thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear:
and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather
together, [but] not by me: whosoever
shall gather together against thee
shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith
that bloweth the coals in the fire, and
that bringeth forth an instrument for
his work; and I have created the waster
to destroy.
17 # No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper; and every tongue
[that] shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is]
the heritage of the servants of the
LORD, and their righteousness [is] of
me, saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 55
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye
to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea,
come, buy wine and milk without money
and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money for [that
which is] not bread? and your labour
for [that which] satisfieth not?
hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye
[that which is] good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me:
hear, and your soul shall live; and I
will make an everlasting covenant with
you, [even] the sure mercies of David.
4 Behold, I have given him [for] a
witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation
[that] thou knowest not, and nations
[that] knew not thee shall run unto
thee because of the LORD thy God, and
for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
glorified thee.
6 # Seek ye the LORD while he may be
found, call ye upon him while he is
near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts: and
let him return unto the LORD, and he
will have mercy upon him; and to our
God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 # For my thoughts [are] not your
thoughts, neither [are] your ways my
ways, saith the LORD.
9 For [as] the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the
snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it
may give seed to the sower, and bread
to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth
out of my mouth: it shall not return
unto me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall
prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent
it.
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be
led forth with peace: the mountains and
the hills shall break forth before you
into singing, and all the trees of the
field shall clap [their] hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up
the fir tree, and instead of the brier
shall come up the myrtle tree: and it
shall be to the LORD for a name, for an
everlasting sign [that] shall not be
cut off.

CHAPTER 56
1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye
judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation [is] near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth
this, and the son of man [that] layeth
hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath
from polluting it, and keepeth his hand
from doing any evil.
3 # Neither let the son of the
stranger, that hath joined himself to
the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath
utterly separated me from his people:
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I
[am] a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the
eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and
choose [the things] that please me, and
take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine
house and within my walls a place and a
name better than of sons and of
daughters: I will give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that
join themselves to the LORD, to serve
him, and to love the name of the LORD,
to be his servants, every one that
keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy
mountain, and make them joyful in my
house of prayer: their burnt offerings
and their sacrifices [shall be]
accepted upon mine altar; for mine
house shall be called an house of
prayer for all people.
8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the
outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I
gather [others] to him, beside those
that are gathered unto him.
9 # All ye beasts of the field, come to
devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the
forest.
10 His watchmen [are] blind: they are
all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs,
they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which]
can never have enough, and they [are]
shepherds [that] cannot understand:
they all look to their own way, every
one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, [say they], I will fetch
wine, and we will fill ourselves with
strong drink; and to morrow shall be as
this day, [and] much more abundant.

CHAPTER 57
1 The righteous perisheth, and no man
layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men
[are] taken away, none considering that
the righteous is taken away from the
evil [to come].
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall
rest in their beds, [each one] walking
[in] his uprightness.
3 # But draw near hither, ye sons of
the sorceress, the seed of the
adulterer and the whore.
4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
against whom make ye a wide mouth,
[and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not
children of transgression, a seed of
falsehood,
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under
every green tree, slaying the children
in the valleys under the clifts of the
rocks?
6 Among the smooth [stones] of the
stream [is] thy portion; they, they
[are] thy lot: even to them hast thou
poured a drink offering, thou hast
offered a meat offering. Should I
receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast
thou set thy bed: even thither wentest
thou up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts
hast thou set up thy remembrance: for
thou hast discovered [thyself to
another] than me, and art gone up; thou
hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a
covenant] with them; thou lovedst their
bed where thou sawest [it].
9 And thou wentest to the king with
ointment, and didst increase thy
perfumes, and didst send thy messengers
far off, and didst debase [thyself
even] unto hell.
10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of
thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, There
is no hope: thou hast found the life of
thine hand; therefore thou wast not
grieved.
11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or
feared, that thou hast lied, and hast
not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy
heart? have not I held my peace even of
old, and thou fearest me not?
12 I will declare thy righteousness,
and thy works; for they shall not
profit thee.
13 # When thou criest, let thy
companies deliver thee; but the wind
shall carry them all away; vanity shall
take [them]: but he that putteth his
trust in me shall possess the land, and
shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye
up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my
people.
15 For thus saith the high and lofty
One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and
holy [place], with him also [that is]
of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend for ever,
neither will I be always wroth: for the
spirit should fail before me, and the
souls [which] I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness
was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me,
and was wroth, and he went on frowardly
in the way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal
him: I will lead him also, and restore
comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips;
Peace, peace to [him that is] far off,
and to [him that is] near, saith the
LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked [are] like the
troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 [There is] no peace, saith my God,
to the wicked.

CHAPTER 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy
voice like a trumpet, and shew my
people their transgression, and the
house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight
to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the
ordinance of their God: they ask of me
the ordinances of justice; they take
delight in approaching to God.
3 # Wherefore have we fasted, [say
they], and thou seest not? [wherefore]
have we afflicted our soul, and thou
takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day
of your fast ye find pleasure, and
exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and
debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do
this] day, to make your voice to be
heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
a day for a man to afflict his soul?
[is it] to bow down his head as a
bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and
ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this
a fast, and an acceptable day to the
LORD?
6 [Is] not this the fast that I have
chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,
and to let the oppressed go free, and
that ye break every yoke?
7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the
hungry, and that thou bring the poor
that are cast out to thy house? when
thou seest the naked, that thou cover
him; and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own flesh?
8 # Then shall thy light break forth as
the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the
glory of the LORD shall be thy
rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD
shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he
shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take
away from the midst of thee the yoke,
the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking vanity;
10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to
the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in
obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the
noonday:
11 And the LORD shall guide thee
continually, and satisfy thy soul in
drought, and make fat thy bones: and
thou shalt be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not.
12 And [they that shall be] of thee
shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called,
The repairer of the breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 # If thou turn away thy foot from
the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure
on my holy day; and call the sabbath a
delight, the holy of the LORD,
honourable; and shalt honour him, not
doing thine own ways, nor finding thine
own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own]
words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in
the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride
upon the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob
thy father: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken [it].

CHAPTER 59
1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither
his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins
have hid [his] face from you, that he
will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with
blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue
hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor [any]
pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive
mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and
weave the spider's web: he that eateth
of their eggs dieth, and that which is
crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves
with their works: their works [are]
works of iniquity, and the act of
violence [is] in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make
haste to shed innocent blood: their
thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity;
wasting and destruction [are] in their
paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and
[there is] no judgment in their goings:
they have made them crooked paths:
whosoever goeth therein shall not know
peace.
9 # Therefore is judgment far from us,
neither doth justice overtake us: we
wait for light, but behold obscurity;
for brightness, [but] we walk in
darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the
blind, and we grope as if [we had] no
eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the
night; [we are] in desolate places as
dead [men].
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn
sore like doves: we look for judgment,
but [there is] none; for salvation,
[but] it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are
multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our
transgressions [are] with us; and [as
for] our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against
the LORD, and departing away from our
God, speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart
words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice standeth afar
off: for truth is fallen in the street,
and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he [that]
departeth from evil maketh himself a
prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it
displeased him that [there was] no
judgment.
16 # And he saw that [there was] no
man, and wondered that [there was] no
intercessor: therefore his arm brought
salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and an helmet of salvation
upon his head; and he put on the
garments of vengeance [for] clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
18 According to [their] deeds,
accordingly he will repay, fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies;
to the islands he will repay
recompence.
19 So shall they fear the name of the
LORD from the west, and his glory from
the rising of the sun. When the enemy
shall come in like a flood, the Spirit
of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him.
20 # And the Redeemer shall come to
Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me, this [is] my covenant
with them, saith the LORD; My spirit
that [is] upon thee, and my words which
I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD,
from henceforth and for ever.

CHAPTER 60
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come,
and the glory of the LORD is risen upon
thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover
the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the LORD shall arise upon
thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy
light, and kings to the brightness of
thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and
see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons
shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at [thy] side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow
together, and thine heart shall fear,
and be enlarged; because the abundance
of the sea shall be converted unto
thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall
come unto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover
thee, the dromedaries of Midian and
Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come:
they shall bring gold and incense; and
they shall shew forth the praises of
the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be
gathered together unto thee, the rams
of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee:
they shall come up with acceptance on
mine altar, and I will glorify the
house of my glory.
8 Who [are] these [that] fly as a
cloud, and as the doves to their
windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring thy sons from far, their silver
and their gold with them, unto the name
of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy
One of Israel, because he hath
glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall
build up thy walls, and their kings
shall minister unto thee: for in my
wrath I smote thee, but in my favour
have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open
continually; they shall not be shut day
nor night; that [men] may bring unto
thee the forces of the Gentiles, and
[that] their kings [may be] brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will
not serve thee shall perish; yea,
[those] nations shall be utterly
wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto
thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and
the box together, to beautify the place
of my sanctuary; and I will make the
place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted
thee shall come bending unto thee; and
all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy
feet; and they shall call thee, The
city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy
One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and
hated, so that no man went through
[thee], I will make thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the
Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of
kings: and thou shalt know that I the
LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for
iron I will bring silver, and for wood
brass, and for stones iron: I will also
make thy officers peace, and thine
exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in
thy land, wasting nor destruction
within thy borders; but thou shalt call
thy walls Salvation, and thy gates
Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more thy light
by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee: but the
LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting
light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down;
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself:
for the LORD shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended.
21 Thy people also [shall be] all
righteous: they shall inherit the land
for ever, the branch of my planting,
the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified.
22 A little one shall become a
thousand, and a small one a strong
nation: I the LORD will hasten it in
his time.

CHAPTER 61
1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon
me; because the LORD hath anointed me
to preach good tidings unto the meek;
he hath sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to
the captives, and the opening of the
prison to [them that are] bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of
the LORD, and the day of vengeance of
our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in
Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they might be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of
the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 # And they shall build the old
wastes, they shall raise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the
waste cities, the desolations of many
generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed
your flocks, and the sons of the alien
[shall be] your plowmen and your
vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of
the LORD: [men] shall call you the
Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the
riches of the Gentiles, and in their
glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 # For your shame [ye shall have]
double; and [for] confusion they shall
rejoice in their portion: therefore in
their land they shall possess the
double: everlasting joy shall be unto
them.
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate
robbery for burnt offering; and I will
direct their work in truth, and I will
make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among
the Gentiles, and their offspring among
the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they [are] the
seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD,
my soul shall be joyful in my God; for
he hath clothed me with the garments of
salvation, he hath covered me with the
robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decketh [himself] with ornaments, and
as a bride adorneth [herself] with her
jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her
bud, and as the garden causeth the
things that are sown in it to spring
forth; so the Lord GOD will cause
righteousness and praise to spring
forth before all the nations.

CHAPTER 62
1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will
not rest, until the righteousness
thereof go forth as brightness, and the
salvation thereof as a lamp [that]
burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy
righteousness, and all kings thy glory:
and thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory
in the hand of the LORD, and a royal
diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed
Forsaken; neither shall thy land any
more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt
be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land
Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 # For [as] a young man marrieth a
virgin, [so] shall thy sons marry thee:
and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice
over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold
their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he
establish, and till he make Jerusalem a
praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath sworn by his right
hand, and by the arm of his strength,
Surely I will no more give thy corn [to
be] meat for thine enemies; and the
sons of the stranger shall not drink
thy wine, for the which thou hast
laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall
eat it, and praise the LORD; and they
that have brought it together shall
drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 # Go through, go through the gates;
prepare ye the way of the people; cast
up, cast up the highway; gather out the
stones; lift up a standard for the
people.
11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed
unto the end of the world, Say ye to
the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy
salvation cometh; behold, his reward
[is] with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy
people, The redeemed of the LORD: and
thou shalt be called, Sought out, A
city not forsaken.

CHAPTER 63
1 Who [is] this that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments from Bozrah? this
[that is] glorious in his apparel,
travelling in the greatness of his
strength? I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore [art thou] red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone;
and of the people [there was] none with
me: for I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my
garments, and I will stain all my
raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance [is] in mine
heart, and the year of my redeemed is
come.
5 And I looked, and [there was] none to
help; and I wondered that [there was]
none to uphold: therefore mine own arm
brought salvation unto me; and my fury,
it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in
mine anger, and make them drunk in my
fury, and I will bring down their
strength to the earth.
7 # I will mention the lovingkindnesses
of the LORD, [and] the praises of the
LORD, according to all that the LORD
hath bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he hath bestowed on them
according to his mercies, and according
to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they [are] my
people, children [that] will not lie:
so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was
afflicted, and the angel of his
presence saved them: in his love and in
his pity he redeemed them; and he bare
them, and carried them all the days of
old.
10 # But they rebelled, and vexed his
holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to
be their enemy, [and] he fought against
them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses, [and] his people, [saying],
Where [is] he that brought them up out
of the sea with the shepherd of his
flock? where [is] he that put his holy
Spirit within him?
12 That led [them] by the right hand of
Moses with his glorious arm, dividing
the water before them, to make himself
an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as
an horse in the wilderness, [that] they
should not stumble?
14 As a beast goeth down into the
valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused
him to rest: so didst thou lead thy
people, to make thyself a glorious
name.
15 # Look down from heaven, and behold
from the habitation of thy holiness and
of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and
thy strength, the sounding of thy
bowels and of thy mercies toward me?
are they restrained?
16 Doubtless thou [art] our father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us, and
Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O
LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer;
thy name [is] from everlasting.
17 # O LORD, why hast thou made us to
err from thy ways, [and] hardened our
heart from thy fear? Return for thy
servants' sake, the tribes of thine
inheritance.
18 The people of thy holiness have
possessed [it] but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down thy
sanctuary.
19 We are [thine]: thou never barest
rule over them; they were not called by
thy name.

CHAPTER 64
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the
heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
that the mountains might flow down at
thy presence,
2 As [when] the melting fire burneth,
the fire causeth the waters to boil, to
make thy name known to thine
adversaries, [that] the nations may
tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things
[which] we looked not for, thou camest
down, the mountains flowed down at thy
presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world
[men] have not heard, nor perceived by
the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O
God, beside thee, [what] he hath
prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and
worketh righteousness, [those that]
remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou
art wroth; for we have sinned: in those
is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean [thing],
and all our righteousnesses [are] as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away.
7 And [there is] none that calleth upon
thy name, that stirreth up himself to
take hold of thee: for thou hast hid
thy face from us, and hast consumed us,
because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our
father; we [are] the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all [are] the work of
thy hand.
9 # Be not wroth very sore, O LORD,
neither remember iniquity for ever:
behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are]
all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised thee, is
burned up with fire: and all our
pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these
[things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us very sore?

CHAPTER 65
1 I am sought of [them that] asked not
[for me]; I am found of [them that]
sought me not: I said, Behold me,
behold me, unto a nation [that] was not
called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the
day unto a rebellious people, which
walketh in a way [that was] not good,
after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoketh me to anger
continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth
incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and
lodge in the monuments, which eat
swine's flesh, and broth of abominable
[things is in] their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not
near to me; for I am holier than thou.
These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire
that burneth all the day.
6 Behold, [it is] written before me: I
will not keep silence, but will
recompense, even recompense into their
bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities
of your fathers together, saith the
LORD, which have burned incense upon
the mountains, and blasphemed me upon
the hills: therefore will I measure
their former work into their bosom.
8 # Thus saith the LORD, As the new
wine is found in the cluster, and [one]
saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing
[is] in it: so will I do for my
servants' sakes, that I may not destroy
them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of
my mountains: and mine elect shall
inherit it, and my servants shall dwell
there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of
flocks, and the valley of Achor a place
for the herds to lie down in, for my
people that have sought me.
11 But ye [are] they that forsake the
LORD, that forget my holy mountain,
that prepare a table for that troop,
and that furnish the drink offering
unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the
sword, and ye shall all bow down to the
slaughter: because when I called, ye
did not answer; when I spake, ye did
not hear; but did evil before mine
eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I
delighted not.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye
shall be hungry: behold, my servants
shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty:
behold, my servants shall rejoice, but
ye shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for
joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
sorrow of heart, and shall howl for
vexation of spirit.
15 And ye shall leave your name for a
curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD
shall slay thee, and call his servants
by another name:
16 That he who blesseth himself in the
earth shall bless himself in the God of
truth; and he that sweareth in the
earth shall swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are
forgotten, and because they are hid
from mine eyes.
17 # For, behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever
[in that] which I create: for, behold,
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her
people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and
joy in my people: and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her,
nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an
infant of days, nor an old man that
hath not filled his days: for the child
shall die an hundred years old; but the
sinner [being] an hundred years old
shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and
inhabit [them]; and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat: for as the days of a tree
[are] the days of my people, and mine
elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor
bring forth for trouble; for they [are]
the seed of the blessed of the LORD,
and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that
before they call, I will answer; and
while they are yet speaking, I will
hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock: and dust [shall be]
the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 66
1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is]
my throne, and the earth [is] my
footstool: where [is] the house that ye
build unto me? and where [is] the place
of my rest?
2 For all those [things] hath mine hand
made, and all those [things] have been,
saith the LORD: but to this [man] will
I look, [even] to [him that is] poor
and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth
at my word.
3 He that killeth an ox [is as if] he
slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb,
[as if] he cut off a dog's neck; he
that offereth an oblation, [as if he
offered] swine's blood; he that burneth
incense, [as if] he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delighteth in their
abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions,
and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear: but
they did evil before mine eyes, and
chose [that] in which I delighted not.
5 # Hear the word of the LORD, ye that
tremble at his word; Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my
name's sake, said, Let the LORD be
glorified: but he shall appear to your
joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city, a
voice from the temple, a voice of the
LORD that rendereth recompence to his
enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought
forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath
seen such things? Shall the earth be
made to bring forth in one day? [or]
shall a nation be born at once? for as
soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not
cause to bring forth? saith the LORD:
shall I cause to bring forth, and shut
[the womb]? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be
glad with her, all ye that love her:
rejoice for joy with her, all ye that
mourn for her:
11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied
with the breasts of her consolations;
that ye may milk out, and be delighted
with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the Gentiles like a
flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye
shall be borne upon [her] sides, and be
dandled upon [her] knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will I comfort you; and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And when ye see [this], your heart
shall rejoice, and your bones shall
flourish like an herb: and the hand of
the LORD shall be known toward his
servants, and [his] indignation toward
his enemies.
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with
fire, and with his chariots like a
whirlwind, to render his anger with
fury, and his rebuke with flames of
fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will
the LORD plead with all flesh: and the
slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and
purify themselves in the gardens behind
one [tree] in the midst, eating swine's
flesh, and the abomination, and the
mouse, shall be consumed together,
saith the LORD.
18 For I [know] their works and their
thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues; and
they shall come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them,
and I will send those that escape of
them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish,
Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to]
Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar
off, that have not heard my fame,
neither have seen my glory; and they
shall declare my glory among the
Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your
brethren [for] an offering unto the
LORD out of all nations upon horses,
and in chariots, and in litters, and
upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to
my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the
LORD, as the children of Israel bring
an offering in a clean vessel into the
house of the LORD.
21 And I will also take of them for
priests [and] for Levites, saith the
LORD.
22 For as the new heavens and the new
earth, which I will make, shall remain
before me, saith the LORD, so shall
your seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, [that]
from one new moon to another, and from
one sabbath to another, shall all flesh
come to worship before me, saith the
LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look
upon the carcases of the men that have
transgressed against me: for their worm
shall not die, neither shall their fire
be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorring unto all flesh.

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of
Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in
Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2 To whom the word of the LORD came in
the days of Josiah the son of Amon king
of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
reign.
3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto
the end of the eleventh year of
Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of
Judah, unto the carrying away of
Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I
knew thee; and before thou camest forth
out of the womb I sanctified thee,
[and] I ordained thee a prophet unto
the nations.
6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I
cannot speak: for I [am] a child.
7 # But the LORD said unto me, Say not,
I [am] a child: for thou shalt go to
all that I shall send thee, and
whatsoever I command thee thou shalt
speak.
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I
[am] with thee to deliver thee, saith
the LORD.
9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and
touched my mouth. And the LORD said
unto me, Behold, I have put my words in
thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over
the nations and over the kingdoms, to
root out, and to pull down, and to
destroy, and to throw down, to build,
and to plant.
11 # Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest
thou? And I said, I see a rod of an
almond tree.
12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou
hast well seen: for I will hasten my
word to perform it.
13 And the word of the LORD came unto
me the second time, saying, What seest
thou? And I said, I see a seething pot;
and the face thereof [is] toward the
north.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of
the north an evil shall break forth
upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15 For, lo, I will call all the
families of the kingdoms of the north,
saith the LORD; and they shall come,
and they shall set every one his throne
at the entering of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls
thereof round about, and against all
the cities of Judah.
16 And I will utter my judgments
against them touching all their
wickedness, who have forsaken me, and
have burned incense unto other gods,
and worshipped the works of their own
hands.
17 # Thou therefore gird up thy loins,
and arise, and speak unto them all that
I command thee: be not dismayed at
their faces, lest I confound thee
before them.
18 For, behold, I have made thee this
day a defenced city, and an iron
pillar, and brasen walls against the
whole land, against the kings of Judah,
against the princes thereof, against
the priests thereof, and against the
people of the land.
19 And they shall fight against thee;
but they shall not prevail against
thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the
LORD, to deliver thee.

CHAPTER 2
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to
me, saying,
2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem,
saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the
love of thine espousals, when thou
wentest after me in the wilderness, in
a land [that was] not sown.
3 Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD,
[and] the firstfruits of his increase:
all that devour him shall offend; evil
shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house
of Jacob, and all the families of the
house of Israel:
5 # Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity
have your fathers found in me, that
they are gone far from me, and have
walked after vanity, and are become
vain?
6 Neither said they, Where [is] the
LORD that brought us up out of the land
of Egypt, that led us through the
wilderness, through a land of deserts
and of pits, through a land of drought,
and of the shadow of death, through a
land that no man passed through, and
where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful
country, to eat the fruit thereof and
the goodness thereof; but when ye
entered, ye defiled my land, and made
mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where [is] the
LORD? and they that handle the law knew
me not: the pastors also transgressed
against me, and the prophets prophesied
by Baal, and walked after [things that]
do not profit.
9 # Wherefore I will yet plead with
you, saith the LORD, and with your
children's children will I plead.
10 For pass over the isles of Chittim,
and see; and send unto Kedar, and
consider diligently, and see if there
be such a thing.
11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods,
which [are] yet no gods? but my people
have changed their glory for [that
which] doth not profit.
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at
this, and be horribly afraid, be ye
very desolate, saith the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two
evils; they have forsaken me the
fountain of living waters, [and] hewed
them out cisterns, broken cisterns,
that can hold no water.
14 # [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a
homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him,
[and] yelled, and they made his land
waste: his cities are burned without
inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and
Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy
head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto
thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, when he led thee by the
way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the
way of Egypt, to drink the waters of
Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the
way of Assyria, to drink the waters of
the river?
19 Thine own wickedness shall correct
thee, and thy backslidings shall
reprove thee: know therefore and see
that [it is] an evil [thing] and
bitter, that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not
in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
20 # For of old time I have broken thy
yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou
saidst, I will not transgress; when
upon every high hill and under every
green tree thou wanderest, playing the
harlot.
21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine,
wholly a right seed: how then art thou
turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange vine unto me?
22 For though thou wash thee with
nitre, and take thee much sope, [yet]
thine iniquity is marked before me,
saith the Lord GOD.
23 How canst thou say, I am not
polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?
see thy way in the valley, know what
thou hast done: [thou art] a swift
dromedary traversing her ways;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness,
[that] snuffeth up the wind at her
pleasure; in her occasion who can turn
her away? all they that seek her will
not weary themselves; in her month they
shall find her.
25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod,
and thy throat from thirst: but thou
saidst, There is no hope: no; for I
have loved strangers, and after them
will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is
found, so is the house of Israel
ashamed; they, their kings, their
princes, and their priests, and their
prophets,
27 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my
father; and to a stone, Thou hast
brought me forth: for they have turned
[their] back unto me, and not [their]
face: but in the time of their trouble
they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where [are] thy gods that thou
hast made thee? let them arise, if they
can save thee in the time of thy
trouble: for [according to] the number
of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye
all have transgressed against me, saith
the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your
children; they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your
prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 # O generation, see ye the word of
the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto
Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore
say my people, We are lords; we will
come no more unto thee?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments,
[or] a bride her attire? yet my people
have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek
love? therefore hast thou also taught
the wicked ones thy ways.
34 Also in thy skirts is found the
blood of the souls of the poor
innocents: I have not found it by
secret search, but upon all these.
35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am
innocent, surely his anger shall turn
from me. Behold, I will plead with
thee, because thou sayest, I have not
sinned.
36 Why gaddest thou about so much to
change thy way? thou also shalt be
ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed
of Assyria.
37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him,
and thine hands upon thine head: for
the LORD hath rejected thy confidences,
and thou shalt not prosper in them.

CHAPTER 3
1 They say, If a man put away his wife,
and she go from him, and become another
man's, shall he return unto her again?
shall not that land be greatly
polluted? but thou hast played the
harlot with many lovers; yet return
again to me, saith the LORD.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high
places, and see where thou hast not
been lien with. In the ways hast thou
sat for them, as the Arabian in the
wilderness; and thou hast polluted the
land with thy whoredoms and with thy
wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been
withholden, and there hath been no
latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's
forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto
me, My father, thou [art] the guide of
my youth?
5 Will he reserve [his anger] for ever?
will he keep [it] to the end? Behold,
thou hast spoken and done evil things
as thou couldest.
6 # The LORD said also unto me in the
days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen
[that] which backsliding Israel hath
done? she is gone up upon every high
mountain and under every green tree,
and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all
these [things], Turn thou unto me. But
she returned not. And her treacherous
sister Judah saw [it].
8 And I saw, when for all the causes
whereby backsliding Israel committed
adultery I had put her away, and given
her a bill of divorce; yet her
treacherous sister Judah feared not,
but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the
lightness of her whoredom, that she
defiled the land, and committed
adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous
sister Judah hath not turned unto me
with her whole heart, but feignedly,
saith the LORD.
11 And the LORD said unto me, The
backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
12 # Go and proclaim these words toward
the north, and say, Return, thou
backsliding Israel, saith the LORD;
[and] I will not cause mine anger to
fall upon you: for I [am] merciful,
saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep
[anger] for ever.
13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity,
that thou hast transgressed against the
LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy
ways to the strangers under every green
tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice,
saith the LORD.
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith
the LORD; for I am married unto you:
and I will take you one of a city, and
two of a family, and I will bring you
to Zion:
15 And I will give you pastors
according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and
understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye
be multiplied and increased in the
land, in those days, saith the LORD,
they shall say no more, The ark of the
covenant of the LORD: neither shall it
come to mind: neither shall they
remember it; neither shall they visit
[it]; neither shall [that] be done any
more.
17 At that time they shall call
Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and
all the nations shall be gathered unto
it, to the name of the LORD, to
Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the imagination of their
evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah
shall walk with the house of Israel,
and they shall come together out of the
land of the north to the land that I
have given for an inheritance unto your
fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put thee
among the children, and give thee a
pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the
hosts of nations? and I said, Thou
shalt call me, My father; and shalt not
turn away from me.
20 # Surely [as] a wife treacherously
departeth from her husband, so have ye
dealt treacherously with me, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high
places, weeping [and] supplications of
the children of Israel: for they have
perverted their way, [and] they have
forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, ye backsliding children,
[and] I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto thee; for thou
[art] the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain [is salvation hoped
for] from the hills, [and from] the
multitude of mountains: truly in the
LORD our God [is] the salvation of
Israel.
24 For shame hath devoured the labour
of our fathers from our youth; their
flocks and their herds, their sons and
their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our
confusion covereth us: for we have
sinned against the LORD our God, we and
our fathers, from our youth even unto
this day, and have not obeyed the voice
of the LORD our God.

CHAPTER 4
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith
the LORD, return unto me: and if thou
wilt put away thine abominations out of
my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD
liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in
righteousness; and the nations shall
bless themselves in him, and in him
shall they glory.
3 # For thus saith the LORD to the men
of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your
fallow ground, and sow not among
thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD,
and take away the foreskins of your
heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants
of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth
like fire, and burn that none can
quench [it], because of the evil of
your doings.
5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in
Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet
in the land: cry, gather together, and
say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go
into the defenced cities.
6 Set up the standard toward Zion:
retire, stay not: for I will bring evil
from the north, and a great
destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket,
and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on
his way; he is gone forth from his
place to make thy land desolate; [and]
thy cities shall be laid waste, without
an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth,
lament and howl: for the fierce anger
of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that
day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart
of the king shall perish, and the heart
of the princes; and the priests shall
be astonished, and the prophets shall
wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely
thou hast greatly deceived this people
and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto
the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to
this people and to Jerusalem, A dry
wind of the high places in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my
people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 [Even] a full wind from those
[places] shall come unto me: now also
will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds,
and his chariots [shall be] as a
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than
eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from
wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge
within thee?
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and
publisheth affliction from mount
Ephraim.
16 Make ye mention to the nations;
behold, publish against Jerusalem,
[that] watchers come from a far
country, and give out their voice
against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they
against her round about; because she
hath been rebellious against me, saith
the LORD.
18 Thy way and thy doings have procured
these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy
wickedness, because it is bitter,
because it reacheth unto thine heart.
19 # My bowels, my bowels! I am pained
at my very heart; my heart maketh a
noise in me; I cannot hold my peace,
because thou hast heard, O my soul, the
sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is
cried; for the whole land is spoiled:
suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my
curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard,
[and] hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my people [is] foolish, they
have not known me; they [are] sottish
children, and they have none
understanding: they [are] wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no
knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it
was] without form, and void; and the
heavens, and they [had] no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo,
they trembled, and all the hills moved
lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no
man, and all the birds of the heavens
were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful
place [was] a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of the LORD, [and] by his
fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The
whole land shall be desolate; yet will
I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and
the heavens above be black: because I
have spoken [it], I have purposed [it],
and will not repent, neither will I
turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the
noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they
shall go into thickets, and climb up
upon the rocks: every city [shall be]
forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what
wilt thou do? Though thou clothest
thyself with crimson, though thou
deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
though thou rentest thy face with
painting, in vain shalt thou make
thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise
thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a
woman in travail, [and] the anguish as
of her that bringeth forth her first
child, the voice of the daughter of
Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that]
spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is]
me now! for my soul is wearied because
of murderers.

CHAPTER 5
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets
of Jerusalem, and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof,
if ye can find a man, if there be [any]
that executeth judgment, that seeketh
the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD liveth;
surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the
truth? thou hast stricken them, but
they have not grieved; thou hast
consumed them, [but] they have refused
to receive correction: they have made
their faces harder than a rock; they
have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are]
poor; they are foolish: for they know
not the way of the LORD, [nor] the
judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and
will speak unto them; for they have
known the way of the LORD, [and] the
judgment of their God: but these have
altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst
the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest
shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the
evenings shall spoil them, a leopard
shall watch over their cities: every
one that goeth out thence shall be torn
in pieces: because their transgressions
are many, [and] their backslidings are
increased.
7 # How shall I pardon thee for this?
thy children have forsaken me, and
sworn by [them that are] no gods: when
I had fed them to the full, they then
committed adultery, and assembled
themselves by troops in the harlots'
houses.
8 They were [as] fed horses in the
morning: every one neighed after his
neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these [things]?
saith the LORD: and shall not my soul
be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 # Go ye up upon her walls, and
destroy; but make not a full end: take
away her battlements; for they [are]
not the LORD'S.
11 For the house of Israel and the
house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the
LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said,
[It is] not he; neither shall evil come
upon us; neither shall we see sword nor
famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind,
and the word [is] not in them: thus
shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of
hosts, Because ye speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy
mouth fire, and this people wood, and
it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you
from far, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is]
an ancient nation, a nation whose
language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say.
16 Their quiver [is] as an open
sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest,
and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy
daughters should eat: they shall eat up
thy flocks and thine herds: they shall
eat up thy vines and thy fig trees:
they shall impoverish thy fenced
cities, wherein thou trustedst, with
the sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith
the LORD, I will not make a full end
with you.
19 # And it shall come to pass, when ye
shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our
God all these [things] unto us? then
shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have
forsaken me, and served strange gods in
your land, so shall ye serve strangers
in a land [that is] not your's.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob,
and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and
without understanding; which have eyes,
and see not; which have ears, and hear
not:
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will
ye not tremble at my presence, which
have placed the sand [for] the bound of
the sea by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it: and though the waves
thereof toss themselves, yet can they
not prevail; though they roar, yet can
they not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and
a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let
us now fear the LORD our God, that
giveth rain, both the former and the
latter, in his season: he reserveth
unto us the appointed weeks of the
harvest.
25 # Your iniquities have turned away
these [things], and your sins have
withholden good [things] from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked
[men]: they lay wait, as he that
setteth snares; they set a trap, they
catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are]
their houses full of deceit: therefore
they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea,
they overpass the deeds of the wicked:
they judge not the cause, the cause of
the fatherless, yet they prosper; and
the right of the needy do they not
judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these
[things]? saith the LORD: shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as
this?
30 # A wonderful and horrible thing is
committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and
the priests bear rule by their means;
and my people love [to have it] so: and
what will ye do in the end thereof?

CHAPTER 6
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather
yourselves to flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in
Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in
Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out
of the north, and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion
to a comely and delicate [woman].
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall
come unto her; they shall pitch [their]
tents against her round about; they
shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise,
and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us!
for the day goeth away, for the shadows
of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and
let us destroy her palaces.
6 # For thus hath the LORD of hosts
said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a
mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the
city to be visited; she [is] wholly
oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters,
so she casteth out her wickedness:
violence and spoil is heard in her;
before me continually [is] grief and
wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest
my soul depart from thee; lest I make
thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 # Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They
shall throughly glean the remnant of
Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand
as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I speak, and give
warning, that they may hear? behold,
their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they
cannot hearken: behold, the word of the
LORD is unto them a reproach; they have
no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of
the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I
will pour it out upon the children
abroad, and upon the assembly of young
men together: for even the husband with
the wife shall be taken, the aged with
[him that is] full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned
unto others, [with their] fields and
wives together: for I will stretch out
my hand upon the inhabitants of the
land, saith the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto
the greatest of them every one [is]
given to covetousness; and from the
prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt [of
the daughter] of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when [there is]
no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? nay, they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they
blush: therefore they shall fall among
them that fall: at the time [that] I
visit them they shall be cast down,
saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the
ways, and see, and ask for the old
paths, where [is] the good way, and
walk therein, and ye shall find rest
for your souls. But they said, We will
not walk [therein].
17 Also I set watchmen over you,
[saying], Hearken to the sound of the
trumpet. But they said, We will not
hearken.
18 # Therefore hear, ye nations, and
know, O congregation, what [is] among
them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, [even] the fruit
of their thoughts, because they have
not hearkened unto my words, nor to my
law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me
incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane
from a far country? your burnt
offerings [are] not acceptable, nor
your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
before this people, and the fathers and
the sons together shall fall upon them;
the neighbour and his friend shall
perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a
people cometh from the north country,
and a great nation shall be raised from
the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and
spear; they [are] cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roareth like the
sea; and they ride upon horses, set in
array as men for war against thee, O
daughter of Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our
hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken
hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman
in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor
walk by the way; for the sword of the
enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
26 # O daughter of my people, gird
[thee] with sackcloth, and wallow
thyself in ashes: make thee mourning,
[as for] an only son, most bitter
lamentation: for the spoiler shall
suddenly come upon us.
27 I have set thee [for] a tower [and]
a fortress among my people, that thou
mayest know and try their way.
28 They [are] all grievous revolters,
walking with slanders: [they are] brass
and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is
consumed of the fire; the founder
melteth in vain: for the wicked are not
plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver shall [men] call
them, because the LORD hath rejected
them.

CHAPTER 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S
house, and proclaim there this word,
and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all
[ye of] Judah, that enter in at these
gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel, Amend your ways and your
doings, and I will cause you to dwell
in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
The temple of the LORD, The temple of
the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are]
these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways
and your doings; if ye throughly
execute judgment between a man and his
neighbour;
6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, neither
walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in
this place, in the land that I gave to
your fathers, for ever and ever.
8 # Behold, ye trust in lying words,
that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense unto Baal, and walk after other
gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this
house, which is called by my name, and
say, We are delivered to do all these
abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my
name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it],
saith the LORD.
12 But go ye now unto my place which
[was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at
the first, and see what I did to it for
the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all
these works, saith the LORD, and I
spake unto you, rising up early and
speaking, but ye heard not; and I
called you, but ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto [this]
house, which is called by my name,
wherein ye trust, and unto the place
which I gave to you and to your
fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight,
as I have cast out all your brethren,
[even] the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up cry nor prayer
for them, neither make intercession to
me: for I will not hear thee.
17 # Seest thou not what they do in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the
fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead [their] dough, to make cakes to
the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings unto other gods, that
they may provoke me to anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith
the LORD: [do they] not [provoke]
themselves to the confusion of their
own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be
poured out upon this place, upon man,
and upon beast, and upon the trees of
the field, and upon the fruit of the
ground; and it shall burn, and shall
not be quenched.
21 # Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings
unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers,
nor commanded them in the day that I
brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or
sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them,
saying, Obey my voice, and I will be
your God, and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto
you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked in the counsels
[and] in the imagination of their evil
heart, and went backward, and not
forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came
forth out of the land of Egypt unto
this day I have even sent unto you all
my servants the prophets, daily rising
up early and sending [them]:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor
inclined their ear, but hardened their
neck: they did worse than their
fathers.
27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these
words unto them; but they will not
hearken to thee: thou shalt also call
unto them; but they will not answer
thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This
[is] a nation that obeyeth not the
voice of the LORD their God, nor
receiveth correction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their
mouth.
29 # Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem],
and cast [it] away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for the
LORD hath rejected and forsaken the
generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done
evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they
have set their abominations in the
house which is called by my name, to
pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places
of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons
and their daughters in the fire; which
I commanded [them] not, neither came it
into my heart.
32 # Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that it shall no more
be called Tophet, nor the valley of the
son of Hinnom, but the valley of
slaughter: for they shall bury in
Tophet, till there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people
shall be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth; and none shall fray [them] away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the
cities of Judah, and from the streets
of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride:
for the land shall be desolate.

CHAPTER 8
1 At that time, saith the LORD, they
shall bring out the bones of the kings
of Judah, and the bones of his princes,
and the bones of the priests, and the
bones of the prophets, and the bones of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the
sun, and the moon, and all the host of
heaven, whom they have loved, and whom
they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought,
and whom they have worshipped: they
shall not be gathered, nor be buried;
they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than
life by all the residue of them that
remain of this evil family, which
remain in all the places whither I have
driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 # Moreover thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall,
and not arise? shall he turn away, and
not return?
5 Why [then] is this people of
Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit,
they refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they
spake not aright: no man repented him
of his wickedness, saying, What have I
done? every one turned to his course,
as the horse rusheth into the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth
her appointed times; and the turtle and
the crane and the swallow observe the
time of their coming; but my people
know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the
law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo,
certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen
of the scribes [is] in vain.
9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are
dismayed and taken: lo, they have
rejected the word of the LORD; and what
wisdom [is] in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives
unto others, [and] their fields to them
that shall inherit [them]: for every
one from the least even unto the
greatest is given to covetousness, from
the prophet even unto the priest every
one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? nay, they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they
blush: therefore shall they fall among
them that fall: in the time of their
visitation they shall be cast down,
saith the LORD.
13 # I will surely consume them, saith
the LORD: [there shall be] no grapes on
the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and
the leaf shall fade; and [the things
that] I have given them shall pass away
from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the
defenced cities, and let us be silent
there: for the LORD our God hath put us
to silence, and given us water of gall
to drink, because we have sinned
against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good
[came; and] for a time of health, and
behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard
from Dan: the whole land trembled at
the sound of the neighing of his strong
ones; for they are come, and have
devoured the land, and all that is in
it; the city, and those that dwell
therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents,
cockatrices, among you, which [will]
not [be] charmed, and they shall bite
you, saith the LORD.
18 # [When] I would comfort myself
against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in
me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the
daughter of my people because of them
that dwell in a far country: [Is] not
the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in
her? Why have they provoked me to anger
with their graven images, [and] with
strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is
ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my
people am I hurt; I am black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is
there] no physician there? why then is
not the health of the daughter of my
people recovered?

CHAPTER 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine
eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a
lodging place of wayfaring men; that I
might leave my people, and go from
them! for they [be] all adulterers, an
assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues [like]
their bow [for] lies: but they are not
valiant for the truth upon the earth;
for they proceed from evil to evil, and
they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his
neighbour, and trust ye not in any
brother: for every brother will utterly
supplant, and every neighbour will walk
with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his
neighbour, and will not speak the
truth: they have taught their tongue to
speak lies, [and] weary themselves to
commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of
deceit; through deceit they refuse to
know me, saith the LORD.
7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them; for how shall I do for the
daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot
out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh
peaceably to his neighbour with his
mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 # Shall I not visit them for these
[things]? saith the LORD: shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as
this?
10 For the mountains will I take up a
weeping and wailing, and for the
habitations of the wilderness a
lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none can pass through
[them]; neither can [men] hear the
voice of the cattle; both the fowl of
the heavens and the beast are fled;
they are gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
[and] a den of dragons; and I will make
the cities of Judah desolate, without
an inhabitant.
12 # Who [is] the wise man, that may
understand this? and [who is he] to
whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken,
that he may declare it, for what the
land perisheth [and] is burned up like
a wilderness, that none passeth
through?
13 And the LORD saith, Because they
have forsaken my law which I set before
them, and have not obeyed my voice,
neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the
imagination of their own heart, and
after Baalim, which their fathers
taught them:
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will feed them, [even] this people,
with wormwood, and give them water of
gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the
heathen, whom neither they nor their
fathers have known: and I will send a
sword after them, till I have consumed
them.
17 # Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Consider ye, and call for the mourning
women, that they may come; and send for
cunning [women], that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up
a wailing for us, that our eyes may run
down with tears, and our eyelids gush
out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out
of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are
greatly confounded, because we have
forsaken the land, because our
dwellings have cast [us] out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye
women, and let your ear receive the
word of his mouth, and teach your
daughters wailing, and every one her
neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our
windows, [and] is entered into our
palaces, to cut off the children from
without, [and] the young men from the
streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the
carcases of men shall fall as dung upon
the open field, and as the handful
after the harvestman, and none shall
gather [them].
23 # Thus saith the LORD, Let not the
wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither
let the mighty [man] glory in his
might, let not the rich [man] glory in
his riches:
24 But let him that glorieth glory in
this, that he understandeth and knoweth
me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise
lovingkindness, judgment, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in
these [things] I delight, saith the
LORD.
25 # Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will punish all [them
which are] circumcised with the
uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the
children of Ammon, and Moab, and all
[that are] in the utmost corners, that
dwell in the wilderness: for all
[these] nations [are] uncircumcised,
and all the house of Israel [are]
uncircumcised in the heart.

CHAPTER 10
1 Hear ye the word which the LORD
speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the
way of the heathen, and be not dismayed
at the signs of heaven; for the heathen
are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people [are]
vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of
the forest, the work of the hands of
the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with
gold; they fasten it with nails and
with hammers, that it move not.
5 They [are] upright as the palm tree,
but speak not: they must needs be
borne, because they cannot go. Be not
afraid of them; for they cannot do
evil, neither also [is it] in them to
do good.
6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like
unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great,
and thy name [is] great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of
nations? for to thee doth it appertain:
forasmuch as among all the wise [men]
of the nations, and in all their
kingdoms, [there is] none like unto
thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and
foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of
vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought
from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the
work of the workman, and of the hands
of the founder: blue and purple [is]
their clothing: they [are] all the work
of cunning [men].
10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he
[is] the living God, and an everlasting
king: at his wrath the earth shall
tremble, and the nations shall not be
able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The
gods that have not made the heavens and
the earth, [even] they shall perish
from the earth, and from under these
heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, [there
is] a multitude of waters in the
heavens, and he causeth the vapours to
ascend from the ends of the earth; he
maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in [his]
knowledge: every founder is confounded
by the graven image: for his molten
image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no
breath in them.
15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of
errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob [is] not like
them: for he [is] the former of all
[things]; and Israel [is] the rod of
his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is]
his name.
17 # Gather up thy wares out of the
land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will sling out the inhabitants of the
land at this once, and will distress
them, that they may find [it so].
19 # Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is
grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a
grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my
cords are broken: my children are gone
forth of me, and they [are] not: [there
is] none to stretch forth my tent any
more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish,
and have not sought the LORD: therefore
they shall not prosper, and all their
flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is
come, and a great commotion out of the
north country, to make the cities of
Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
23 # O LORD, I know that the way of man
[is] not in himself: [it is] not in man
that walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with
judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou
bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen
that know thee not, and upon the
families that call not on thy name: for
they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured
him, and consumed him, and have made
his habitation desolate.

CHAPTER 11
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
2 Hear ye the words of this covenant,
and speak unto the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the
man that obeyeth not the words of this
covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the
day [that] I brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, from the iron
furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do
them, according to all which I command
you: so shall ye be my people, and I
will be your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I
have sworn unto your fathers, to give
them a land flowing with milk and
honey, as [it is] this day. Then
answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim
all these words in the cities of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, Hear ye the words of this
covenant, and do them.
7 For I earnestly protested unto your
fathers in the day [that] I brought
them up out of the land of Egypt,
[even] unto this day, rising early and
protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked every one in the
imagination of their evil heart:
therefore I will bring upon them all
the words of this covenant, which I
commanded [them] to do; but they did
[them] not.
9 And the LORD said unto me, A
conspiracy is found among the men of
Judah, and among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the
iniquities of their forefathers, which
refused to hear my words; and they went
after other gods to serve them: the
house of Israel and the house of Judah
have broken my covenant which I made
with their fathers.
11 # Therefore thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will bring evil upon them,
which they shall not be able to escape;
and though they shall cry unto me, I
will not hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry
unto the gods unto whom they offer
incense: but they shall not save them
at all in the time of their trouble.
13 For [according to] the number of thy
cities were thy gods, O Judah; and
[according to] the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have ye set up
altars to [that] shameful thing, [even]
altars to burn incense unto Baal.
14 Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up a cry or prayer
for them: for I will not hear [them] in
the time that they cry unto me for
their trouble.
15 What hath my beloved to do in mine
house, [seeing] she hath wrought
lewdness with many, and the holy flesh
is passed from thee? when thou doest
evil, then thou rejoicest.
16 The LORD called thy name, A green
olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly
fruit: with the noise of a great tumult
he hath kindled fire upon it, and the
branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted
thee, hath pronounced evil against
thee, for the evil of the house of
Israel and of the house of Judah, which
they have done against themselves to
provoke me to anger in offering incense
unto Baal.
18 # And the LORD hath given me
knowledge [of it], and I know [it]:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox
[that] is brought to the slaughter; and
I knew not that they had devised
devices against me, [saying], Let us
destroy the tree with the fruit
thereof, and let us cut him off from
the land of the living, that his name
may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest
righteously, that triest the reins and
the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
them: for unto thee have I revealed my
cause.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the
men of Anathoth, that seek thy life,
saying, Prophesy not in the name of the
LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the
young men shall die by the sword; their
sons and their daughters shall die by
famine:
23 And there shall be no remnant of
them: for I will bring evil upon the
men of Anathoth, [even] the year of
their visitation.

CHAPTER 12
1 Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I
plead with thee: yet let me talk with
thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth
the way of the wicked prosper?
[wherefore] are all they happy that
deal very treacherously?
2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they
have taken root: they grow, yea, they
bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in
their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou
hast seen me, and tried mine heart
toward thee: pull them out like sheep
for the slaughter, and prepare them for
the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and
the herbs of every field wither, for
the wickedness of them that dwell
therein? the beasts are consumed, and
the birds; because they said, He shall
not see our last end.
5 # If thou hast run with the footmen,
and they have wearied thee, then how
canst thou contend with horses? and
[if] in the land of peace, [wherein]
thou trustedst, [they wearied thee],
then how wilt thou do in the swelling
of Jordan?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house
of thy father, even they have dealt
treacherously with thee; yea, they have
called a multitude after thee: believe
them not, though they speak fair words
unto thee.
7 # I have forsaken mine house, I have
left mine heritage; I have given the
dearly beloved of my soul into the hand
of her enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in
the forest; it crieth out against me:
therefore have I hated it.
9 Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a
speckled bird, the birds round about
[are] against her; come ye, assemble
all the beasts of the field, come to
devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my
vineyard, they have trodden my portion
under foot, they have made my pleasant
portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, [and
being] desolate it mourneth unto me;
the whole land is made desolate,
because no man layeth [it] to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high
places through the wilderness: for the
sword of the LORD shall devour from the
[one] end of the land even to the
[other] end of the land: no flesh shall
have peace.
13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap
thorns: they have put themselves to
pain, [but] shall not profit: and they
shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the
LORD.
14 # Thus saith the LORD against all
mine evil neighbours, that touch the
inheritance which I have caused my
people Israel to inherit; Behold, I
will pluck them out of their land, and
pluck out the house of Judah from among
them.
15 And it shall come to pass, after
that I have plucked them out I will
return, and have compassion on them,
and will bring them again, every man to
his heritage, and every man to his
land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they
will diligently learn the ways of my
people, to swear by my name, The LORD
liveth; as they taught my people to
swear by Baal; then shall they be built
in the midst of my people.
17 But if they will not obey, I will
utterly pluck up and destroy that
nation, saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 13
1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and
get thee a linen girdle, and put it
upon thy loins, and put it not in
water.
2 So I got a girdle according to the
word of the LORD, and put [it] on my
loins.
3 And the word of the LORD came unto me
the second time, saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast got,
which [is] upon thy loins, and arise,
go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a
hole of the rock.
5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates,
as the LORD commanded me.
6 And it came to pass after many days,
that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go
to Euphrates, and take the girdle from
thence, which I commanded thee to hide
there.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged,
and took the girdle from the place
where I had hid it: and, behold, the
girdle was marred, it was profitable
for nothing.
8 Then the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
9 Thus saith the LORD, After this
manner will I mar the pride of Judah,
and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, which refuse to
hear my words, which walk in the
imagination of their heart, and walk
after other gods, to serve them, and to
worship them, shall even be as this
girdle, which is good for nothing.
11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the
loins of a man, so have I caused to
cleave unto me the whole house of
Israel and the whole house of Judah,
saith the LORD; that they might be unto
me for a people, and for a name, and
for a praise, and for a glory: but they
would not hear.
12 # Therefore thou shalt speak unto
them this word; Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled
with wine: and they shall say unto
thee, Do we not certainly know that
every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus
saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all
the inhabitants of this land, even the
kings that sit upon David's throne, and
the priests, and the prophets, and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness.
14 And I will dash them one against
another, even the fathers and the sons
together, saith the LORD: I will not
pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but
destroy them.
15 # Hear ye, and give ear; be not
proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God,
before he cause darkness, and before
your feet stumble upon the dark
mountains, and, while ye look for
light, he turn it into the shadow of
death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul
shall weep in secret places for [your]
pride; and mine eye shall weep sore,
and run down with tears, because the
LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen,
Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, [even]
the crown of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be
shut up, and none shall open [them]:
Judah shall be carried away captive all
of it, it shall be wholly carried away
captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them
that come from the north: where [is]
the flock [that] was given thee, thy
beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall
punish thee? for thou hast taught them
[to be] captains, [and] as chief over
thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a
woman in travail?
22 # And if thou say in thine heart,
Wherefore come these things upon me?
For the greatness of thine iniquity are
thy skirts discovered, [and] thy heels
made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye
also do good, that are accustomed to do
evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the
stubble that passeth away by the wind
of the wilderness.
25 This [is] thy lot, the portion of
thy measures from me, saith the LORD;
because thou hast forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts
upon thy face, that thy shame may
appear.
27 I have seen thine adulteries, and
thy neighings, the lewdness of thy
whoredom, [and] thine abominations on
the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee,
O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made
clean? when [shall it] once [be]?

CHAPTER 14
1 The word of the LORD that came to
Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof
languish; they are black unto the
ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is
gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their
little ones to the waters: they came to
the pits, [and] found no water; they
returned with their vessels empty; they
were ashamed and confounded, and
covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for
there was no rain in the earth, the
plowmen were ashamed, they covered
their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the
field, and forsook [it], because there
was no grass.
6 And the wild asses did stand in the
high places, they snuffed up the wind
like dragons; their eyes did fail,
because [there was] no grass.
7 # O LORD, though our iniquities
testify against us, do thou [it] for
thy name's sake: for our backslidings
are many; we have sinned against thee.
8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour
thereof in time of trouble, why
shouldest thou be as a stranger in the
land, and as a wayfaring man [that]
turneth aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why shouldest thou be as a man
astonied, as a mighty man [that] cannot
save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the
midst of us, and we are called by thy
name; leave us not.
10 # Thus saith the LORD unto this
people, Thus have they loved to wander,
they have not refrained their feet,
therefore the LORD doth not accept
them; he will now remember their
iniquity, and visit their sins.
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not
for this people for [their] good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear
their cry; and when they offer burnt
offering and an oblation, I will not
accept them: but I will consume them by
the sword, and by the famine, and by
the pestilence.
13 # Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold,
the prophets say unto them, Ye shall
not see the sword, neither shall ye
have famine; but I will give you
assured peace in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The
prophets prophesy lies in my name: I
sent them not, neither have I commanded
them, neither spake unto them: they
prophesy unto you a false vision and
divination, and a thing of nought, and
the deceit of their heart.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning the prophets that prophesy
in my name, and I sent them not, yet
they say, Sword and famine shall not be
in this land; By sword and famine shall
those prophets be consumed.
16 And the people to whom they prophesy
shall be cast out in the streets of
Jerusalem because of the famine and the
sword; and they shall have none to bury
them, them, their wives, nor their
sons, nor their daughters: for I will
pour their wickedness upon them.
17 # Therefore thou shalt say this word
unto them; Let mine eyes run down with
tears night and day, and let them not
cease: for the virgin daughter of my
people is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous blow.
18 If I go forth into the field, then
behold the slain with the sword! and if
I enter into the city, then behold them
that are sick with famine! yea, both
the prophet and the priest go about
into a land that they know not.
19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?
hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast
thou smitten us, and [there is] no
healing for us? we looked for peace,
and [there is] no good; and for the
time of healing, and behold trouble!
20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our
wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our
fathers: for we have sinned against
thee.
21 Do not abhor [us], for thy name's
sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy
glory: remember, break not thy covenant
with us.
22 Are there [any] among the vanities
of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or
can the heavens give showers? [art] not
thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we
will wait upon thee: for thou hast made
all these [things].

CHAPTER 15
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though
Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet]
my mind [could] not [be] toward this
people: cast [them] out of my sight,
and let them go forth.
2 And it shall come to pass, if they
say unto thee, Whither shall we go
forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus
saith the LORD; Such as [are] for
death, to death; and such as [are] for
the sword, to the sword; and such as
[are] for the famine, to the famine;
and such as [are] for the captivity, to
the captivity.
3 And I will appoint over them four
kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to
slay, and the dogs to tear, and the
fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of
the earth, to devour and destroy.
4 And I will cause them to be removed
into all kingdoms of the earth, because
of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of
Judah, for [that] which he did in
Jerusalem.
5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O
Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or
who shall go aside to ask how thou
doest?
6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the
LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore
will I stretch out my hand against
thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with
repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the
gates of the land; I will bereave
[them] of children, I will destroy my
people, [since] they return not from
their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to me
above the sand of the seas: I have
brought upon them against the mother of
the young men a spoiler at noonday: I
have caused [him] to fall upon it
suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that hath borne seven
languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while [it
was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and
confounded: and the residue of them
will I deliver to the sword before
their enemies, saith the LORD.
10 # Woe is me, my mother, that thou
hast borne me a man of strife and a man
of contention to the whole earth! I
have neither lent on usury, nor men
have lent to me on usury; [yet] every
one of them doth curse me.
11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be
well with thy remnant; verily I will
cause the enemy to entreat thee [well]
in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction.
12 Shall iron break the northern iron
and the steel?
13 Thy substance and thy treasures will
I give to the spoil without price, and
[that] for all thy sins, even in all
thy borders.
14 And I will make [thee] to pass with
thine enemies into a land [which] thou
knowest not: for a fire is kindled in
mine anger, [which] shall burn upon
you.
15 # O LORD, thou knowest: remember me,
and visit me, and revenge me of my
persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I
have suffered rebuke.
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat
them; and thy word was unto me the joy
and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am
called by thy name, O LORD God of
hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the
mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
because of thy hand: for thou hast
filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my
wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be
healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me
as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
19 # Therefore thus saith the LORD, If
thou return, then will I bring thee
again, [and] thou shalt stand before
me: and if thou take forth the precious
from the vile, thou shalt be as my
mouth: let them return unto thee; but
return not thou unto them.
20 And I will make thee unto this
people a fenced brasen wall: and they
shall fight against thee, but they
shall not prevail against thee: for I
[am] with thee to save thee and to
deliver thee, saith the LORD.
21 And I will deliver thee out of the
hand of the wicked, and I will redeem
thee out of the hand of the terrible.

CHAPTER 16
1 The word of the LORD came also unto
me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife,
neither shalt thou have sons or
daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the LORD concerning
the sons and concerning the daughters
that are born in this place, and
concerning their mothers that bare
them, and concerning their fathers that
begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths;
they shall not be lamented; neither
shall they be buried; [but] they shall
be as dung upon the face of the earth:
and they shall be consumed by the
sword, and by famine; and their
carcases shall be meat for the fowls of
heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth.
5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not
into the house of mourning, neither go
to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
taken away my peace from this people,
saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness
and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall
die in this land: they shall not be
buried, neither shall [men] lament for
them, nor cut themselves, nor make
themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves]
for them in mourning, to comfort them
for the dead; neither shall [men] give
them the cup of consolation to drink
for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house
of feasting, to sit with them to eat
and to drink.
9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to
cease out of this place in your eyes,
and in your days, the voice of mirth,
and the voice of gladness, the voice of
the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride.
10 # And it shall come to pass, when
thou shalt shew this people all these
words, and they shall say unto thee,
Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all
this great evil against us? or what
[is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin
that we have committed against the LORD
our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them,
Because your fathers have forsaken me,
saith the LORD, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and
have worshipped them, and have forsaken
me, and have not kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your
fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one
after the imagination of his evil
heart, that they may not hearken unto
me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of
this land into a land that ye know not,
[neither] ye nor your fathers; and
there shall ye serve other gods day and
night; where I will not shew you
favour.
14 # Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that it shall no more
be said, The LORD liveth, that brought
up the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt;
15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought
up the children of Israel from the land
of the north, and from all the lands
whither he had driven them: and I will
bring them again into their land that I
gave unto their fathers.
16 # Behold, I will send for many
fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall
fish them; and after will I send for
many hunters, and they shall hunt them
from every mountain, and from every
hill, and out of the holes of the
rocks.
17 For mine eyes [are] upon all their
ways: they are not hid from my face,
neither is their iniquity hid from mine
eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their
iniquity and their sin double; because
they have defiled my land, they have
filled mine inheritance with the
carcases of their detestable and
abominable things.
19 O LORD, my strength, and my
fortress, and my refuge in the day of
affliction, the Gentiles shall come
unto thee from the ends of the earth,
and shall say, Surely our fathers have
inherited lies, vanity, and [things]
wherein [there is] no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself,
and they [are] no gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once
cause them to know, I will cause them
to know mine hand and my might; and
they shall know that my name [is] The
LORD.

CHAPTER 17
1 The sin of Judah [is] written with a
pen of iron, [and] with the point of a
diamond: [it is] graven upon the table
of their heart, and upon the horns of
your altars;
2 Whilst their children remember their
altars and their groves by the green
trees upon the high hills.
3 O my mountain in the field, I will
give thy substance [and] all thy
treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high
places for sin, throughout all thy
borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt
discontinue from thine heritage that I
gave thee; and I will cause thee to
serve thine enemies in the land which
thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a
fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn
for ever.
5 # Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be]
the man that trusteth in man, and
maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the
desert, and shall not see when good
cometh; but shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, [in] a salt
land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in
the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by
the waters, and [that] spreadeth out
her roots by the river, and shall not
see when heat cometh, but her leaf
shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither
shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 # The heart [is] deceitful above all
[things], and desperately wicked: who
can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try
the reins, even to give every man
according to his ways, [and] according
to the fruit of his doings.
11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on
eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he
that getteth riches, and not by right,
shall leave them in the midst of his
days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 # A glorious high throne from the
beginning [is] the place of our
sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that
forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and]
they that depart from me shall be
written in the earth, because they have
forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be
healed; save me, and I shall be saved:
for thou [art] my praise.
15 # Behold, they say unto me, Where
[is] the word of the LORD? let it come
now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from
[being] a pastor to follow thee:
neither have I desired the woeful day;
thou knowest: that which came out of my
lips was [right] before thee.
17 Be not a terror unto me: thou [art]
my hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that
persecute me, but let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed, but
let not me be dismayed: bring upon them
the day of evil, and destroy them with
double destruction.
19 # Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and
stand in the gate of the children of
the people, whereby the kings of Judah
come in, and by the which they go out,
and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word
of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all
Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these
gates:
21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to
yourselves, and bear no burden on the
sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the
gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden out of
your houses on the sabbath day, neither
do ye any work, but hallow ye the
sabbath day, as I commanded your
fathers.
23 But they obeyed not, neither
inclined their ear, but made their neck
stiff, that they might not hear, nor
receive instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if ye
diligently hearken unto me, saith the
LORD, to bring in no burden through the
gates of this city on the sabbath day,
but hallow the sabbath day, to do no
work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the
gates of this city kings and princes
sitting upon the throne of David,
riding in chariots and on horses, they,
and their princes, the men of Judah,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and
this city shall remain for ever.
26 And they shall come from the cities
of Judah, and from the places about
Jerusalem, and from the land of
Benjamin, and from the plain, and from
the mountains, and from the south,
bringing burnt offerings, and
sacrifices, and meat offerings, and
incense, and bringing sacrifices of
praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27 But if ye will not hearken unto me
to hallow the sabbath day, and not to
bear a burden, even entering in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day;
then will I kindle a fire in the gates
thereof, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not
be quenched.

CHAPTER 18
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's
house, and there I will cause thee to
hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter's
house, and, behold, he wrought a work
on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay
was marred in the hand of the potter:
so he made it again another vessel, as
seemed good to the potter to make [it].
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me,
saying,
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with
you as this potter? saith the LORD.
Behold, as the clay [is] in the
potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine
hand, O house of Israel.
7 [At what] instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down,
and to destroy [it];
8 If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I
will repent of the evil that I thought
to do unto them.
9 And [at what] instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it
obey not my voice, then I will repent
of the good, wherewith I said I would
benefit them.
11 # Now therefore go to, speak to the
men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I frame evil against you, and
devise a device against you: return ye
now every one from his evil way, and
make your ways and your doings good.
12 And they said, There is no hope: but
we will walk after our own devices, and
we will every one do the imagination of
his evil heart.
13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask
ye now among the heathen, who hath
heard such things: the virgin of Israel
hath done a very horrible thing.
14 Will [a man] leave the snow of
Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of
the field? [or] shall the cold flowing
waters that come from another place be
forsaken?
15 Because my people hath forgotten me,
they have burned incense to vanity, and
they have caused them to stumble in
their ways [from] the ancient paths, to
walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, [and] a
perpetual hissing; every one that
passeth thereby shall be astonished,
and wag his head.
17 I will scatter them as with an east
wind before the enemy; I will shew them
the back, and not the face, in the day
of their calamity.
18 # Then said they, Come, and let us
devise devices against Jeremiah; for
the law shall not perish from the
priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor
the word from the prophet. Come, and
let us smite him with the tongue, and
let us not give heed to any of his
words.
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken
to the voice of them that contend with
me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good?
for they have digged a pit for my soul.
Remember that I stood before thee to
speak good for them, [and] to turn away
thy wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children
to the famine, and pour out their
[blood] by the force of the sword; and
let their wives be bereaved of their
children, and [be] widows; and let
their men be put to death; [let] their
young men [be] slain by the sword in
battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their
houses, when thou shalt bring a troop
suddenly upon them: for they have
digged a pit to take me, and hid snares
for my feet.
23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their
counsel against me to slay [me]:
forgive not their iniquity, neither
blot out their sin from thy sight, but
let them be overthrown before thee;
deal [thus] with them in the time of
thine anger.

CHAPTER 19
1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a
potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of
the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the
son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry
of the east gate, and proclaim there
the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the
LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants
of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring evil upon this place, the
which whosoever heareth, his ears shall
tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and
have estranged this place, and have
burned incense in it unto other gods,
whom neither they nor their fathers
have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
have filled this place with the blood
of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places
of Baal, to burn their sons with fire
[for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which
I commanded not, nor spake [it],
neither came [it] into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that this place shall
no more be called Tophet, nor The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The
valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of
Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and
I will cause them to fall by the sword
before their enemies, and by the hands
of them that seek their lives: and
their carcases will I give to be meat
for the fowls of the heaven, and for
the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate,
and an hissing; every one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the
flesh of their sons and the flesh of
their daughters, and they shall eat
every one the flesh of his friend in
the siege and straitness, wherewith
their enemies, and they that seek their
lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in
the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break
this people and this city, as [one]
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot
be made whole again: and they shall
bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be]
no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place,
saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants
thereof, and [even] make this city as
Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses of the kings of Judah, shall be
defiled as the place of Tophet, because
of all the houses upon whose roofs they
have burned incense unto all the host
of heaven, and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet,
whither the LORD had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court of
the LORD'S house; and said to all the
people,
15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will bring
upon this city and upon all her towns
all the evil that I have pronounced
against it, because they have hardened
their necks, that they might not hear
my words.

CHAPTER 20
1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the
priest, who [was] also chief governor
in the house of the LORD, heard that
Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the
prophet, and put him in the stocks that
[were] in the high gate of Benjamin,
which [was] by the house of the LORD.
3 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out
of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto
him, The LORD hath not called thy name
Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will make thee a terror to thyself, and
to all thy friends: and they shall fall
by the sword of their enemies, and
thine eyes shall behold [it]: and I
will give all Judah into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall carry
them captive into Babylon, and shall
slay them with the sword.
5 Moreover I will deliver all the
strength of this city, and all the
labours thereof, and all the precious
things thereof, and all the treasures
of the kings of Judah will I give into
the hand of their enemies, which shall
spoil them, and take them, and carry
them to Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell
in thine house shall go into captivity:
and thou shalt come to Babylon, and
there thou shalt die, and shalt be
buried there, thou, and all thy
friends, to whom thou hast prophesied
lies.
7 # O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and
I was deceived: thou art stronger than
I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision
daily, every one mocketh me.
8 For since I spake, I cried out, I
cried violence and spoil; because the
word of the LORD was made a reproach
unto me, and a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention
of him, nor speak any more in his name.
But [his word] was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I
was weary with forbearing, and I could
not [stay].
10 # For I heard the defaming of many,
fear on every side. Report, [say they],
and we will report it. All my familiars
watched for my halting, [saying],
Peradventure he will be enticed, and we
shall prevail against him, and we shall
take our revenge on him.
11 But the LORD [is] with me as a
mighty terrible one: therefore my
persecutors shall stumble, and they
shall not prevail: they shall be
greatly ashamed; for they shall not
prosper: [their] everlasting confusion
shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest
the righteous, [and] seest the reins
and the heart, let me see thy vengeance
on them: for unto thee have I opened my
cause.
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the
LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of
the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14 # Cursed [be] the day wherein I was
born: let not the day wherein my mother
bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed [be] the man who brought
tidings to my father, saying, A man
child is born unto thee; making him
very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities
which the LORD overthrew, and repented
not: and let him hear the cry in the
morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the
womb; or that my mother might have been
my grave, and her womb [to be] always
great [with me].
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the
womb to see labour and sorrow, that my
days should be consumed with shame?

CHAPTER 21
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah
from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent
unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah,
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
priest, saying,
2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for
us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
maketh war against us; if so be that
the LORD will deal with us according to
all his wondrous works, that he may go
up from us.
3 # Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus
shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;
Behold, I will turn back the weapons of
war that [are] in your hands, wherewith
ye fight against the king of Babylon,
and [against] the Chaldeans, which
besiege you without the walls, and I
will assemble them into the midst of
this city.
5 And I myself will fight against you
with an outstretched hand and with a
strong arm, even in anger, and in fury,
and in great wrath.
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of
this city, both man and beast: they
shall die of a great pestilence.
7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will
deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his
servants, and the people, and such as
are left in this city from the
pestilence, from the sword, and from
the famine, into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of their enemies, and
into the hand of those that seek their
life: and he shall smite them with the
edge of the sword; he shall not spare
them, neither have pity, nor have
mercy.
8 # And unto this people thou shalt
say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set
before you the way of life, and the way
of death.
9 He that abideth in this city shall
die by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence: but he that
goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans
that besiege you, he shall live, and
his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10 For I have set my face against this
city for evil, and not for good, saith
the LORD: it shall be given into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall burn it with fire.
11 # And touching the house of the king
of Judah, [say], Hear ye the word of
the LORD;
12 O house of David, thus saith the
LORD; Execute judgment in the morning,
and deliver [him that is] spoiled out
of the hand of the oppressor, lest my
fury go out like fire, and burn that
none can quench [it], because of the
evil of your doings.
13 Behold, I [am] against thee, O
inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of
the plain, saith the LORD; which say,
Who shall come down against us? or who
shall enter into our habitations?
14 But I will punish you according to
the fruit of your doings, saith the
LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the
forest thereof, and it shall devour all
things round about it.

CHAPTER 22
1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the
house of the king of Judah, and speak
there this word,
2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O
king of Judah, that sittest upon the
throne of David, thou, and thy
servants, and thy people that enter in
by these gates:
3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye
judgment and righteousness, and deliver
the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no
violence to the stranger, the
fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed
innocent blood in this place.
4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then
shall there enter in by the gates of
this house kings sitting upon the
throne of David, riding in chariots and
on horses, he, and his servants, and
his people.
5 But if ye will not hear these words,
I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that
this house shall become a desolation.
6 For thus saith the LORD unto the
king's house of Judah; Thou [art]
Gilead unto me, [and] the head of
Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee
a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are
not inhabited.
7 And I will prepare destroyers against
thee, every one with his weapons: and
they shall cut down thy choice cedars,
and cast [them] into the fire.
8 And many nations shall pass by this
city, and they shall say every man to
his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD
done thus unto this great city?
9 Then they shall answer, Because they
have forsaken the covenant of the LORD
their God, and worshipped other gods,
and served them.
10 # Weep ye not for the dead, neither
bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him
that goeth away: for he shall return no
more, nor see his native country.
11 For thus saith the LORD touching
Shallum the son of Josiah king of
Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah
his father, which went forth out of
this place; He shall not return thither
any more:
12 But he shall die in the place
whither they have led him captive, and
shall see this land no more.
13 # Woe unto him that buildeth his
house by unrighteousness, and his
chambers by wrong; [that] useth his
neighbour's service without wages, and
giveth him not for his work;
14 That saith, I will build me a wide
house and large chambers, and cutteth
him out windows; and [it is] cieled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15 Shalt thou reign, because thou
closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy
father eat and drink, and do judgment
and justice, [and] then [it was] well
with him?
16 He judged the cause of the poor and
needy; then [it was] well [with him:
was] not this to know me? saith the
LORD.
17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are]
not but for thy covetousness, and for
to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do
[it].
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah; They shall not lament
for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or,
Ah sister! they shall not lament for
him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his
glory!
19 He shall be buried with the burial
of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond
the gates of Jerusalem.
20 # Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and
lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry
from the passages: for all thy lovers
are destroyed.
21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity;
[but] thou saidst, I will not hear.
This [hath been] thy manner from thy
youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all thy
pastors, and thy lovers shall go into
captivity: surely then shalt thou be
ashamed and confounded for all thy
wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest
thy nest in the cedars, how gracious
shalt thou be when pangs come upon
thee, the pain as of a woman in
travail!
24 [As] I live, saith the LORD, though
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah were the signet upon my right
hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
25 And I will give thee into the hand
of them that seek thy life, and into
the hand [of them] whose face thou
fearest, even into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy
mother that bare thee, into another
country, where ye were not born; and
there shall ye die.
27 But to the land whereunto they
desire to return, thither shall they
not return.
28 [Is] this man Coniah a despised
broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein
[is] no pleasure? wherefore are they
cast out, he and his seed, and are cast
into a land which they know not?
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word
of the LORD.
30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this
man childless, a man [that] shall not
prosper in his days: for no man of his
seed shall prosper, sitting upon the
throne of David, and ruling any more in
Judah.

CHAPTER 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy
and scatter the sheep of my pasture!
saith the LORD.
2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of
Israel against the pastors that feed my
people; Ye have scattered my flock, and
driven them away, and have not visited
them: behold, I will visit upon you the
evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my
flock out of all countries whither I
have driven them, and will bring them
again to their folds; and they shall be
fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them
which shall feed them: and they shall
fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
5 # Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will raise unto David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall
reign and prosper, and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and
Israel shall dwell safely: and this
[is] his name whereby he shall be
called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that they shall no more
say, The LORD liveth, which brought up
the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought
up and which led the seed of the house
of Israel out of the north country, and
from all countries whither I had driven
them; and they shall dwell in their own
land.
9 # Mine heart within me is broken
because of the prophets; all my bones
shake; I am like a drunken man, and
like a man whom wine hath overcome,
because of the LORD, and because of the
words of his holiness.
10 For the land is full of adulterers;
for because of swearing the land
mourneth; the pleasant places of the
wilderness are dried up, and their
course is evil, and their force [is]
not right.
11 For both prophet and priest are
profane; yea, in my house have I found
their wickedness, saith the LORD.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto
them as slippery [ways] in the
darkness: they shall be driven on, and
fall therein: for I will bring evil
upon them, [even] the year of their
visitation, saith the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the
prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in
Baal, and caused my people Israel to
err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of
Jerusalem an horrible thing: they
commit adultery, and walk in lies: they
strengthen also the hands of evildoers,
that none doth return from his
wickedness: they are all of them unto
me as Sodom, and the inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts concerning the prophets; Behold,
I will feed them with wormwood, and
make them drink the water of gall: for
from the prophets of Jerusalem is
profaneness gone forth into all the
land.
16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Hearken not unto the words of the
prophets that prophesy unto you: they
make you vain: they speak a vision of
their own heart, [and] not out of the
mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that
despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye
shall have peace; and they say unto
every one that walketh after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil
shall come upon you.
18 For who hath stood in the counsel of
the LORD, and hath perceived and heard
his word? who hath marked his word, and
heard [it]?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is
gone forth in fury, even a grievous
whirlwind: it shall fall grievously
upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not
return, until he have executed, and
till he have performed the thoughts of
his heart: in the latter days ye shall
consider it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet
they ran: I have not spoken to them,
yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel,
and had caused my people to hear my
words, then they should have turned
them from their evil way, and from the
evil of their doings.
23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the
LORD, and not a God afar off?
24 Can any hide himself in secret
places that I shall not see him? saith
the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and
earth? saith the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said,
that prophesy lies in my name, saying,
I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 How long shall [this] be in the
heart of the prophets that prophesy
lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the
deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause my people to
forget my name by their dreams which
they tell every man to his neighbour,
as their fathers have forgotten my name
for Baal.
28 The prophet that hath a dream, let
him tell a dream; and he that hath my
word, let him speak my word faithfully.
What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith
the LORD.
29 [Is] not my word like as a fire?
saith the LORD; and like a hammer
[that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I [am] against
the prophets, saith the LORD, that
steal my words every one from his
neighbour.
31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets,
saith the LORD, that use their tongues,
and say, He saith.
32 Behold, I [am] against them that
prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD,
and do tell them, and cause my people
to err by their lies, and by their
lightness; yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them: therefore they shall
not profit this people at all, saith
the LORD.
33 # And when this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee,
saying, What [is] the burden of the
LORD? thou shalt then say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you,
saith the LORD.
34 And [as for] the prophet, and the
priest, and the people, that shall say,
The burden of the LORD, I will even
punish that man and his house.
35 Thus shall ye say every one to his
neighbour, and every one to his
brother, What hath the LORD answered?
and, What hath the LORD spoken?
36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye
mention no more: for every man's word
shall be his burden; for ye have
perverted the words of the living God,
of the LORD of hosts our God.
37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet,
What hath the LORD answered thee? and,
What hath the LORD spoken?
38 But since ye say, The burden of the
LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD;
Because ye say this word, The burden of
the LORD, and I have sent unto you,
saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of
the LORD;
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will
utterly forget you, and I will forsake
you, and the city that I gave you and
your fathers, [and cast you] out of my
presence:
40 And I will bring an everlasting
reproach upon you, and a perpetual
shame, which shall not be forgotten.

CHAPTER 24
1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two
baskets of figs [were] set before the
temple of the LORD, after that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had
carried away captive Jeconiah the son
of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the
princes of Judah, with the carpenters
and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had
brought them to Babylon.
2 One basket [had] very good figs,
[even] like the figs [that are] first
ripe: and the other basket [had] very
naughty figs, which could not be eaten,
they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto me, What
seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs;
the good figs, very good; and the evil,
very evil, that cannot be eaten, they
are so evil.
4 # Again the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel; Like these good figs, so will I
acknowledge them that are carried away
captive of Judah, whom I have sent out
of this place into the land of the
Chaldeans for [their] good.
6 For I will set mine eyes upon them
for good, and I will bring them again
to this land: and I will build them,
and not pull [them] down; and I will
plant them, and not pluck [them] up.
7 And I will give them an heart to know
me, that I [am] the LORD: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their
God: for they shall return unto me with
their whole heart.
8 # And as the evil figs, which cannot
be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus
saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah
the king of Judah, and his princes, and
the residue of Jerusalem, that remain
in this land, and them that dwell in
the land of Egypt:
9 And I will deliver them to be removed
into all the kingdoms of the earth for
[their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all
places whither I shall drive them.
10 And I will send the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, among them,
till they be consumed from off the land
that I gave unto them and to their
fathers.

CHAPTER 25
1 The word that came to Jeremiah
concerning all the people of Judah in
the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the
first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon;
2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake
unto all the people of Judah, and to
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah
the son of Amon king of Judah, even
unto this day, that [is] the three and
twentieth year, the word of the LORD
hath come unto me, and I have spoken
unto you, rising early and speaking;
but ye have not hearkened.
4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all
his servants the prophets, rising early
and sending [them]; but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to
hear.
5 They said, Turn ye again now every
one from his evil way, and from the
evil of your doings, and dwell in the
land that the LORD hath given unto you
and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serve
them, and to worship them, and provoke
me not to anger with the works of your
hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me,
saith the LORD; that ye might provoke
me to anger with the works of your
hands to your own hurt.
8 # Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Because ye have not heard my
words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the
families of the north, saith the LORD,
and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant, and will bring them against
this land, and against the inhabitants
thereof, and against all these nations
round about, and will utterly destroy
them, and make them an astonishment,
and an hissing, and perpetual
desolations.
10 Moreover I will take from them the
voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride, the sound
of the millstones, and the light of the
candle.
11 And this whole land shall be a
desolation, [and] an astonishment; and
these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years.
12 # And it shall come to pass, when
seventy years are accomplished, [that]
I will punish the king of Babylon, and
that nation, saith the LORD, for their
iniquity, and the land of the
Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual
desolations.
13 And I will bring upon that land all
my words which I have pronounced
against it, [even] all that is written
in this book, which Jeremiah hath
prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings
shall serve themselves of them also:
and I will recompense them according to
their deeds, and according to the works
of their own hands.
15 # For thus saith the LORD God of
Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of
this fury at my hand, and cause all the
nations, to whom I send thee, to drink
it.
16 And they shall drink, and be moved,
and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S
hand, and made all the nations to
drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
18 [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities
of Judah, and the kings thereof, and
the princes thereof, to make them a
desolation, an astonishment, an
hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this
day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his
people;
20 And all the mingled people, and all
the kings of the land of Uz, and all
the kings of the land of the
Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah,
and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of
Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all
the kings of Zidon, and the kings of
the isles which [are] beyond the sea,
23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all
[that are] in the utmost corners,
24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all
the kings of the mingled people that
dwell in the desert,
25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of
the Medes,
26 And all the kings of the north, far
and near, one with another, and all the
kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon
the face of the earth: and the king of
Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken,
and spue, and fall, and rise no more,
because of the sword which I will send
among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to
take the cup at thine hand to drink,
then shalt thou say unto them, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall
certainly drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on
the city which is called by my name,
and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye
shall not be unpunished: for I will
call for a sword upon all the
inhabitants of the earth, saith the
LORD of hosts.
30 Therefore prophesy thou against them
all these words, and say unto them, The
LORD shall roar from on high, and utter
his voice from his holy habitation; he
shall mightily roar upon his
habitation; he shall give a shout, as
they that tread [the grapes], against
all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise shall come [even] to the
ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a
controversy with the nations, he will
plead with all flesh; he will give them
[that are] wicked to the sword, saith
the LORD.
32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Behold, evil shall go forth from nation
to nation, and a great whirlwind shall
be raised up from the coasts of the
earth.
33 And the slain of the LORD shall be
at that day from [one] end of the earth
even unto the [other] end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented, neither
gathered, nor buried; they shall be
dung upon the ground.
34 # Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and
wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye
principal of the flock: for the days of
your slaughter and of your dispersions
are accomplished; and ye shall fall
like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way
to flee, nor the principal of the flock
to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
and an howling of the principal of the
flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD
hath spoiled their pasture.
37 And the peaceable habitations are
cut down because of the fierce anger of
the LORD.
38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the
lion: for their land is desolate
because of the fierceness of the
oppressor, and because of his fierce
anger.

CHAPTER 26
1 In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah came this word from the LORD,
saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the
court of the LORD'S house, and speak
unto all the cities of Judah, which
come to worship in the LORD'S house,
all the words that I command thee to
speak unto them; diminish not a word:
3 If so be they will hearken, and turn
every man from his evil way, that I may
repent me of the evil, which I purpose
to do unto them because of the evil of
their doings.
4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus
saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken
to me, to walk in my law, which I have
set before you,
5 To hearken to the words of my
servants the prophets, whom I sent unto
you, both rising up early, and sending
[them], but ye have not hearkened;
6 Then will I make this house like
Shiloh, and will make this city a curse
to all the nations of the earth.
7 So the priests and the prophets and
all the people heard Jeremiah speaking
these words in the house of the LORD.
8 # Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah
had made an end of speaking all that
the LORD had commanded [him] to speak
unto all the people, that the priests
and the prophets and all the people
took him, saying, Thou shalt surely
die.
9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name
of the LORD, saying, This house shall
be like Shiloh, and this city shall be
desolate without an inhabitant? And all
the people were gathered against
Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
10 # When the princes of Judah heard
these things, then they came up from
the king's house unto the house of the
LORD, and sat down in the entry of the
new gate of the LORD'S [house].
11 Then spake the priests and the
prophets unto the princes and to all
the people, saying, This man [is]
worthy to die; for he hath prophesied
against this city, as ye have heard
with your ears.
12 # Then spake Jeremiah unto all the
princes and to all the people, saying,
The LORD sent me to prophesy against
this house and against this city all
the words that ye have heard.
13 Therefore now amend your ways and
your doings, and obey the voice of the
LORD your God; and the LORD will repent
him of the evil that he hath pronounced
against you.
14 As for me, behold, I [am] in your
hand: do with me as seemeth good and
meet unto you.
15 But know ye for certain, that if ye
put me to death, ye shall surely bring
innocent blood upon yourselves, and
upon this city, and upon the
inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the
LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all
these words in your ears.
16 # Then said the princes and all the
people unto the priests and to the
prophets; This man [is] not worthy to
die: for he hath spoken to us in the
name of the LORD our God.
17 Then rose up certain of the elders
of the land, and spake to all the
assembly of the people, saying,
18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in
the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and
spake to all the people of Judah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Zion shall be plowed [like] a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and
the mountain of the house as the high
places of a forest.
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all
Judah put him at all to death? did he
not fear the LORD, and besought the
LORD, and the LORD repented him of the
evil which he had pronounced against
them? Thus might we procure great evil
against our souls.
20 And there was also a man that
prophesied in the name of the LORD,
Urijah the son of Shemaiah of
Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against
this city and against this land
according to all the words of Jeremiah:
21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with
all his mighty men, and all the
princes, heard his words, the king
sought to put him to death: but when
Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and
fled, and went into Egypt;
22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into
Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and [certain] men with him into
Egypt.
23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of
Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim
the king; who slew him with the sword,
and cast his dead body into the graves
of the common people.
24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that
they should not give him into the hand
of the people to put him to death.

CHAPTER 27
1 In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee
bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy
neck,
3 And send them to the king of Edom,
and to the king of Moab, and to the
king of the Ammonites, and to the king
of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by
the hand of the messengers which come
to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of
Judah;
4 And command them to say unto their
masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say
unto your masters;
5 I have made the earth, the man and
the beast that [are] upon the ground,
by my great power and by my
outstretched arm, and have given it
unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
6 And now have I given all these lands
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon, my servant; and the
beasts of the field have I given him
also to serve him.
7 And all nations shall serve him, and
his son, and his son's son, until the
very time of his land come: and then
many nations and great kings shall
serve themselves of him.
8 And it shall come to pass, [that] the
nation and kingdom which will not serve
the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, and that will not put their
neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, that nation will I punish,
saith the LORD, with the sword, and
with the famine, and with the
pestilence, until I have consumed them
by his hand.
9 Therefore hearken not ye to your
prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to
your dreamers, nor to your enchanters,
nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto
you, saying, Ye shall not serve the
king of Babylon:
10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to
remove you far from your land; and that
I should drive you out, and ye should
perish.
11 But the nations that bring their
neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him, those will I
let remain still in their own land,
saith the LORD; and they shall till it,
and dwell therein.
12 # I spake also to Zedekiah king of
Judah according to all these words,
saying, Bring your necks under the yoke
of the king of Babylon, and serve him
and his people, and live.
13 Why will ye die, thou and thy
people, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath
spoken against the nation that will not
serve the king of Babylon?
14 Therefore hearken not unto the words
of the prophets that speak unto you,
saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto
you.
15 For I have not sent them, saith the
LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my
name; that I might drive you out, and
that ye might perish, ye, and the
prophets that prophesy unto you.
16 Also I spake to the priests and to
all this people, saying, Thus saith the
LORD; Hearken not to the words of your
prophets that prophesy unto you,
saying, Behold, the vessels of the
LORD'S house shall now shortly be
brought again from Babylon: for they
prophesy a lie unto you.
17 Hearken not unto them; serve the
king of Babylon, and live: wherefore
should this city be laid waste?
18 But if they [be] prophets, and if
the word of the LORD be with them, let
them now make intercession to the LORD
of hosts, that the vessels which are
left in the house of the LORD, and [in]
the house of the king of Judah, and at
Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
19 # For thus saith the LORD of hosts
concerning the pillars, and concerning
the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the residue of the vessels
that remain in this city,
20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
took not, when he carried away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and
all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel, concerning the
vessels that remain [in] the house of
the LORD, and [in] the house of the
king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
22 They shall be carried to Babylon,
and there shall they be until the day
that I visit them, saith the LORD; then
will I bring them up, and restore them
to this place.

CHAPTER 28
1 And it came to pass the same year, in
the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah
king of Judah, in the fourth year,
[and] in the fifth month, [that]
Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet,
which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me in
the house of the LORD, in the presence
of the priests and of all the people,
saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel, saying, I have broken
the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3 Within two full years will I bring
again into this place all the vessels
of the LORD'S house, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took
away from this place, and carried them
to Babylon:
4 And I will bring again to this place
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah, with all the captives of Judah,
that went into Babylon, saith the LORD:
for I will break the yoke of the king
of Babylon.
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto
the prophet Hananiah in the presence of
the priests, and in the presence of all
the people that stood in the house of
the LORD,
6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen:
the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy
words which thou hast prophesied, to
bring again the vessels of the LORD'S
house, and all that is carried away
captive, from Babylon into this place.
7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word
that I speak in thine ears, and in the
ears of all the people;
8 The prophets that have been before me
and before thee of old prophesied both
against many countries, and against
great kingdoms, of war, and of evil,
and of pestilence.
9 The prophet which prophesieth of
peace, when the word of the prophet
shall come to pass, [then] shall the
prophet be known, that the LORD hath
truly sent him.
10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the
yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's
neck, and brake it.
11 And Hananiah spake in the presence
of all the people, saying, Thus saith
the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from
the neck of all nations within the
space of two full years. And the
prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 Then the word of the LORD came unto
Jeremiah [the prophet], after that
Hananiah the prophet had broken the
yoke from off the neck of the prophet
Jeremiah, saying,
13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the
yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for
them yokes of iron.
14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of
iron upon the neck of all these
nations, that they may serve
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and
they shall serve him: and I have given
him the beasts of the field also.
15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto
Hananiah the prophet, Hear now,
Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee;
but thou makest this people to trust in
a lie.
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will cast thee from off the
face of the earth: this year thou shalt
die, because thou hast taught rebellion
against the LORD.
17 So Hananiah the prophet died the
same year in the seventh month.

CHAPTER 29
1 Now these [are] the words of the
letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent
from Jerusalem unto the residue of the
elders which were carried away
captives, and to the priests, and to
the prophets, and to all the people
whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away
captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and
the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes
of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
carpenters, and the smiths, were
departed from Jerusalem;)
3 By the hand of Elasah the son of
Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of
Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah
sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon) saying,
4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel, unto all that are carried
away captives, whom I have caused to be
carried away from Jerusalem unto
Babylon;
5 # Build ye houses, and dwell [in
them]; and plant gardens, and eat the
fruit of them;
6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and
daughters; and take wives for your
sons, and give your daughters to
husbands, that they may bear sons and
daughters; that ye may be increased
there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city
whither I have caused you to be carried
away captives, and pray unto the LORD
for it: for in the peace thereof shall
ye have peace.
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Let not your prophets
and your diviners, that [be] in the
midst of you, deceive you, neither
hearken to your dreams which ye cause
to be dreamed.
9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in
my name: I have not sent them, saith
the LORD.
10 # For thus saith the LORD, That
after seventy years be accomplished at
Babylon I will visit you, and perform
my good word toward you, in causing you
to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected end.
12 # Then shall ye call upon me, and ye
shall go and pray unto me, and I will
hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me],
when ye shall search for me with all
your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith
the LORD: and I will turn away your
captivity, and I will gather you from
all the nations, and from all the
places whither I have driven you, saith
the LORD; and I will bring you again
into the place whence I caused you to
be carried away captive.
15 # Because ye have said, The LORD
hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
16 [Know] that thus saith the LORD of
the king that sitteth upon the throne
of David, and of all the people that
dwelleth in this city, [and] of your
brethren that are not gone forth with
you into captivity;
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Behold, I will send upon them the
sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
and will make them like vile figs, that
cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
18 And I will persecute them with the
sword, with the famine, and with the
pestilence, and will deliver them to be
removed to all the kingdoms of the
earth, to be a curse, and an
astonishment, and an hissing, and a
reproach, among all the nations whither
I have driven them:
19 Because they have not hearkened to
my words, saith the LORD, which I sent
unto them by my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending [them]; but
ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
20 # Hear ye therefore the word of the
LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I
have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel, of Ahab the son of
Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of
Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you
in my name; Behold, I will deliver them
into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon; and he shall slay them before
your eyes;
22 And of them shall be taken up a
curse by all the captivity of Judah
which [are] in Babylon, saying, The
LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like
Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted
in the fire;
23 Because they have committed villany
in Israel, and have committed adultery
with their neighbours' wives, and have
spoken lying words in my name, which I
have not commanded them; even I know,
and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.
24 # [Thus] shalt thou also speak to
Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel, saying, Because thou
hast sent letters in thy name unto all
the people that [are] at Jerusalem, and
to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26 The LORD hath made thee priest in
the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that
ye should be officers in the house of
the LORD, for every man [that is] mad,
and maketh himself a prophet, that thou
shouldest put him in prison, and in the
stocks.
27 Now therefore why hast thou not
reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which
maketh himself a prophet to you?
28 For therefore he sent unto us [in]
Babylon, saying, This [captivity is]
long: build ye houses, and dwell [in
them]; and plant gardens, and eat the
fruit of them.
29 And Zephaniah the priest read this
letter in the ears of Jeremiah the
prophet.
30 # Then came the word of the LORD
unto Jeremiah, saying,
31 Send to all them of the captivity,
saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that
Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and
I sent him not, and he caused you to
trust in a lie:
32 Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not
have a man to dwell among this people;
neither shall he behold the good that I
will do for my people, saith the LORD;
because he hath taught rebellion
against the LORD.

CHAPTER 30
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel,
saying, Write thee all the words that I
have spoken unto thee in a book.
3 For, lo, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will bring again the
captivity of my people Israel and
Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause
them to return to the land that I gave
to their fathers, and they shall
possess it.
4 # And these [are] the words that the
LORD spake concerning Israel and
concerning Judah.
5 For thus saith the LORD; We have
heard a voice of trembling, of fear,
and not of peace.
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man
doth travail with child? wherefore do I
see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all
faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day [is] great, so
that none [is] like it: it [is] even
the time of Jacob's trouble; but he
shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I
will break his yoke from off thy neck,
and will burst thy bonds, and strangers
shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their
God, and David their king, whom I will
raise up unto them.
10 # Therefore fear thou not, O my
servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither
be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will
save thee from afar, and thy seed from
the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be in rest, and
be quiet, and none shall make [him]
afraid.
11 For I [am] with thee, saith the
LORD, to save thee: though I make a
full end of all nations whither I have
scattered thee, yet will I not make a
full end of thee: but I will correct
thee in measure, and will not leave
thee altogether unpunished.
12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise
[is] incurable, [and] thy wound [is]
grievous.
13 [There is] none to plead thy cause,
that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast
no healing medicines.
14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee;
they seek thee not; for I have wounded
thee with the wound of an enemy, with
the chastisement of a cruel one, for
the multitude of thine iniquity;
[because] thy sins were increased.
15 Why criest thou for thine
affliction? thy sorrow [is] incurable
for the multitude of thine iniquity:
[because] thy sins were increased, I
have done these things unto thee.
16 Therefore all they that devour thee
shall be devoured; and all thine
adversaries, every one of them, shall
go into captivity; and they that spoil
thee shall be a spoil, and all that
prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health unto thee,
and I will heal thee of thy wounds,
saith the LORD; because they called
thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is]
Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
18 # Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
will bring again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his
dwellingplaces; and the city shall be
builded upon her own heap, and the
palace shall remain after the manner
thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed
thanksgiving and the voice of them that
make merry: and I will multiply them,
and they shall not be few; I will also
glorify them, and they shall not be
small.
20 Their children also shall be as
aforetime, and their congregation shall
be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of
themselves, and their governor shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I
will cause him to draw near, and he
shall approach unto me: for who [is]
this that engaged his heart to approach
unto me? saith the LORD.
22 And ye shall be my people, and I
will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD
goeth forth with fury, a continuing
whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon
the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall
not return, until he have done [it],
and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days ye
shall consider it.

CHAPTER 31
1 At the same time, saith the LORD,
will I be the God of all the families
of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus saith the LORD, The people
[which were] left of the sword found
grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel,
when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto
me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee
with an everlasting love: therefore
with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
4 Again I will build thee, and thou
shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:
thou shalt again be adorned with thy
tabrets, and shalt go forth in the
dances of them that make merry.
5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the
mountains of Samaria: the planters
shall plant, and shall eat [them] as
common things.
6 For there shall be a day, [that] the
watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall
cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion
unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with
gladness for Jacob, and shout among the
chief of the nations: publish ye,
praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy
people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the
north country, and gather them from the
coasts of the earth, [and] with them
the blind and the lame, the woman with
child and her that travaileth with
child together: a great company shall
return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and
with supplications will I lead them: I
will cause them to walk by the rivers
of waters in a straight way, wherein
they shall not stumble: for I am a
father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my
firstborn.
10 # Hear the word of the LORD, O ye
nations, and declare [it] in the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered
Israel will gather him, and keep him,
as a shepherd [doth] his flock.
11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob,
and ransomed him from the hand of [him
that was] stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing
in the height of Zion, and shall flow
together to the goodness of the LORD,
for wheat, and for wine, and for oil,
and for the young of the flock and of
the herd: and their soul shall be as a
watered garden; and they shall not
sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the
dance, both young men and old together:
for I will turn their mourning into
joy, and will comfort them, and make
them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people
shall be satisfied with my goodness,
saith the LORD.
15 # Thus saith the LORD; A voice was
heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and]
bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her
children refused to be comforted for
her children, because they [were] not.
16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine eyes from
tears: for thy work shall be rewarded,
saith the LORD; and they shall come
again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end,
saith the LORD, that thy children shall
come again to their own border.
18 # I have surely heard Ephraim
bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a
bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned;
for thou [art] the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I
repented; and after that I was
instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I
was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my
youth.
20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a
pleasant child? for since I spake
against him, I do earnestly remember
him still: therefore my bowels are
troubled for him; I will surely have
mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
21 # Set thee up waymarks, make thee
high heaps: set thine heart toward the
highway, [even] the way [which] thou
wentest: turn again, O virgin of
Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou
backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath
created a new thing in the earth, A
woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; As yet they shall use
this speech in the land of Judah and in
the cities thereof, when I shall bring
again their captivity; The LORD bless
thee, O habitation of justice, [and]
mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah
itself, and in all the cities thereof
together, husbandmen, and they [that]
go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul,
and I have replenished every sorrowful
soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and
my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 # Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will sow the house of
Israel and the house of Judah with the
seed of man, and with the seed of
beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, [that]
like as I have watched over them, to
pluck up, and to break down, and to
throw down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to
build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no
more, The fathers have eaten a sour
grape, and the children's teeth are set
on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own
iniquity: every man that eateth the
sour grape, his teeth shall be set on
edge.
31 # Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, and with the
house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers in the day
[that] I took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt; which my
covenant they brake, although I was an
husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this [shall be] the covenant
that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts;
and will be their God, and they shall
be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the LORD: for
they shall all know me, from the least
of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the LORD: for I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more.
35 # Thus saith the LORD, which giveth
the sun for a light by day, [and] the
ordinances of the moon and of the stars
for a light by night, which divideth
the sea when the waves thereof roar;
The LORD of hosts [is] his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from
before me, saith the LORD, [then] the
seed of Israel also shall cease from
being a nation before me for ever.
37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above
can be measured, and the foundations of
the earth searched out beneath, I will
also cast off all the seed of Israel
for all that they have done, saith the
LORD.
38 # Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that the city shall be built to
the LORD from the tower of Hananeel
unto the gate of the corner.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go
forth over against it upon the hill
Gareb, and shall compass about to
Goath.
40 And the whole valley of the dead
bodies, and of the ashes, and all the
fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto
the corner of the horse gate toward the
east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it
shall not be plucked up, nor thrown
down any more for ever.

CHAPTER 32
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from
the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah
king of Judah, which [was] the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2 For then the king of Babylon's army
besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the
prophet was shut up in the court of the
prison, which [was] in the king of
Judah's house.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut
him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou
prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will give this city into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall take it;
4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not
escape out of the hand of the
Chaldeans, but shall surely be
delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth
to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his
eyes;
5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to
Babylon, and there shall he be until I
visit him, saith the LORD: though ye
fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not
prosper.
6 # And Jeremiah said, The word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum
thine uncle shall come unto thee,
saying, Buy thee my field that [is] in
Anathoth: for the right of redemption
[is] thine to buy [it].
8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to
me in the court of the prison according
to the word of the LORD, and said unto
me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that
[is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the
country of Benjamin: for the right of
inheritance [is] thine, and the
redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for
thyself. Then I knew that this [was]
the word of the LORD.
9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my
uncle's son, that [was] in Anathoth,
and weighed him the money, [even]
seventeen shekels of silver.
10 And I subscribed the evidence, and
sealed [it], and took witnesses, and
weighed [him] the money in the
balances.
11 So I took the evidence of the
purchase, [both] that which was sealed
[according] to the law and custom, and
that which was open:
12 And I gave the evidence of the
purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of
Hanameel mine uncle's [son], and in the
presence of the witnesses that
subscribed the book of the purchase,
before all the Jews that sat in the
court of the prison.
13 # And I charged Baruch before them,
saying,
14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Take these evidences,
this evidence of the purchase, both
which is sealed, and this evidence
which is open; and put them in an
earthen vessel, that they may continue
many days.
15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Houses and fields
and vineyards shall be possessed again
in this land.
16 # Now when I had delivered the
evidence of the purchase unto Baruch
the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the
LORD, saying,
17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made
the heaven and the earth by thy great
power and stretched out arm, [and]
there is nothing too hard for thee:
18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto
thousands, and recompensest the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom
of their children after them: the
Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of
hosts, [is] his name,
19 Great in counsel, and mighty in
work: for thine eyes [are] open upon
all the ways of the sons of men: to
give every one according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his
doings:
20 Which hast set signs and wonders in
the land of Egypt, [even] unto this
day, and in Israel, and among [other]
men; and hast made thee a name, as at
this day;
21 And hast brought forth thy people
Israel out of the land of Egypt with
signs, and with wonders, and with a
strong hand, and with a stretched out
arm, and with great terror;
22 And hast given them this land, which
thou didst swear to their fathers to
give them, a land flowing with milk and
honey;
23 And they came in, and possessed it;
but they obeyed not thy voice, neither
walked in thy law; they have done
nothing of all that thou commandedst
them to do: therefore thou hast caused
all this evil to come upon them:
24 Behold the mounts, they are come
unto the city to take it; and the city
is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, that fight against it,
because of the sword, and of the
famine, and of the pestilence: and what
thou hast spoken is come to pass; and,
behold, thou seest [it].
25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord
GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and
take witnesses; for the city is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 # Then came the word of the LORD
unto Jeremiah, saying,
27 Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of
all flesh: is there any thing too hard
for me?
28 Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will give this city into the
hand of the Chaldeans, and into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and he shall take it:
29 And the Chaldeans, that fight
against this city, shall come and set
fire on this city, and burn it with the
houses, upon whose roofs they have
offered incense unto Baal, and poured
out drink offerings unto other gods, to
provoke me to anger.
30 For the children of Israel and the
children of Judah have only done evil
before me from their youth: for the
children of Israel have only provoked
me to anger with the work of their
hands, saith the LORD.
31 For this city hath been to me [as] a
provocation of mine anger and of my
fury from the day that they built it
even unto this day; that I should
remove it from before my face,
32 Because of all the evil of the
children of Israel and of the children
of Judah, which they have done to
provoke me to anger, they, their kings,
their princes, their priests, and their
prophets, and the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 And they have turned unto me the
back, and not the face: though I taught
them, rising up early and teaching
[them], yet they have not hearkened to
receive instruction.
34 But they set their abominations in
the house, which is called by my name,
to defile it.
35 And they built the high places of
Baal, which [are] in the valley of the
son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and
their daughters to pass through [the
fire] unto Molech; which I commanded
them not, neither came it into my mind,
that they should do this abomination,
to cause Judah to sin.
36 # And now therefore thus saith the
LORD, the God of Israel, concerning
this city, whereof ye say, It shall be
delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon by the sword, and by the
famine, and by the pestilence;
37 Behold, I will gather them out of
all countries, whither I have driven
them in mine anger, and in my fury, and
in great wrath; and I will bring them
again unto this place, and I will cause
them to dwell safely:
38 And they shall be my people, and I
will be their God:
39 And I will give them one heart, and
one way, that they may fear me for
ever, for the good of them, and of
their children after them:
40 And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not
turn away from them, to do them good;
but I will put my fear in their hearts,
that they shall not depart from me.
41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do
them good, and I will plant them in
this land assuredly with my whole heart
and with my whole soul.
42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I
have brought all this great evil upon
this people, so will I bring upon them
all the good that I have promised them.
43 And fields shall be bought in this
land, whereof ye say, [It is] desolate
without man or beast; it is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans.
44 Men shall buy fields for money, and
subscribe evidences, and seal [them],
and take witnesses in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
and in the cities of the mountains, and
in the cities of the valley, and in the
cities of the south: for I will cause
their captivity to return, saith the
LORD.

CHAPTER 33
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto Jeremiah the second time, while he
was yet shut up in the court of the
prison, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD the maker
thereof, the LORD that formed it, to
establish it; the LORD [is] his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee,
and shew thee great and mighty things,
which thou knowest not.
4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel, concerning the houses of this
city, and concerning the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are thrown down
by the mounts, and by the sword;
5 They come to fight with the
Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them
with the dead bodies of men, whom I
have slain in mine anger and in my
fury, and for all whose wickedness I
have hid my face from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and
cure, and I will cure them, and will
reveal unto them the abundance of peace
and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity of
Judah and the captivity of Israel to
return, and will build them, as at the
first.
8 And I will cleanse them from all
their iniquity, whereby they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon
all their iniquities, whereby they have
sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed against me.
9 # And it shall be to me a name of
joy, a praise and an honour before all
the nations of the earth, which shall
hear all the good that I do unto them:
and they shall fear and tremble for all
the goodness and for all the prosperity
that I procure unto it.
10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there
shall be heard in this place, which ye
say [shall be] desolate without man and
without beast, [even] in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man, and
without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride, the voice
of them that shall say, Praise the LORD
of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for
his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of
them that shall bring the sacrifice of
praise into the house of the LORD. For
I will cause to return the captivity of
the land, as at the first, saith the
LORD.
12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again
in this place, which is desolate
without man and without beast, and in
all the cities thereof, shall be an
habitation of shepherds causing [their]
flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in
the cities of the vale, and in the
cities of the south, and in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
shall the flocks pass again under the
hands of him that telleth [them], saith
the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will perform that good
thing which I have promised unto the
house of Israel and to the house of
Judah.
15 # In those days, and at that time,
will I cause the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David;
and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved,
and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and
this [is the name] wherewith she shall
be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 # For thus saith the LORD; David
shall never want a man to sit upon the
throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the
Levites want a man before me to offer
burnt offerings, and to kindle meat
offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually.
19 # And the word of the LORD came unto
Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break
my covenant of the day, and my covenant
of the night, and that there should not
be day and night in their season;
21 [Then] may also my covenant be
broken with David my servant, that he
should not have a son to reign upon his
throne; and with the Levites the
priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be
numbered, neither the sand of the sea
measured: so will I multiply the seed
of David my servant, and the Levites
that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came
to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Considerest thou not what this
people have spoken, saying, The two
families which the LORD hath chosen, he
hath even cast them off? thus they have
despised my people, that they should be
no more a nation before them.
25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant
[be] not with day and night, [and if] I
have not appointed the ordinances of
heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of
Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that
I will not take [any] of his seed [to
be] rulers over the seed of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause
their captivity to return, and have
mercy on them.

CHAPTER 34
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah
from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, and all his army, and all
the kingdoms of the earth of his
dominion, and all the people, fought
against Jerusalem, and against all the
cities thereof, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king
of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall burn it with fire:
3 And thou shalt not escape out of his
hand, but shalt surely be taken, and
delivered into his hand; and thine eyes
shall behold the eyes of the king of
Babylon, and he shall speak with thee
mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to
Babylon.
4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O
Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the
LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the
sword:
5 [But] thou shalt die in peace: and
with the burnings of thy fathers, the
former kings which were before thee, so
shall they burn [odours] for thee; and
they will lament thee, [saying], Ah
lord! for I have pronounced the word,
saith the LORD.
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all
these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah
in Jerusalem,
7 When the king of Babylon's army
fought against Jerusalem, and against
all the cities of Judah that were left,
against Lachish, and against Azekah:
for these defenced cities remained of
the cities of Judah.
8 # [This is] the word that came unto
Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the
king Zedekiah had made a covenant with
all the people which [were] at
Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto
them;
9 That every man should let his
manservant, and every man his
maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an
Hebrewess, go free; that none should
serve himself of them, [to wit], of a
Jew his brother.
10 Now when all the princes, and all
the people, which had entered into the
covenant, heard that every one should
let his manservant, and every one his
maidservant, go free, that none should
serve themselves of them any more, then
they obeyed, and let [them] go.
11 But afterward they turned, and
caused the servants and the handmaids,
whom they had let go free, to return,
and brought them into subjection for
servants and for handmaids.
12 # Therefore the word of the LORD
came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel; I made a covenant with your
fathers in the day that I brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondmen, saying,
14 At the end of seven years let ye go
every man his brother an Hebrew, which
hath been sold unto thee; and when he
hath served thee six years, thou shalt
let him go free from thee: but your
fathers hearkened not unto me, neither
inclined their ear.
15 And ye were now turned, and had done
right in my sight, in proclaiming
liberty every man to his neighbour; and
ye had made a covenant before me in the
house which is called by my name:
16 But ye turned and polluted my name,
and caused every man his servant, and
every man his handmaid, whom ye had set
at liberty at their pleasure, to
return, and brought them into
subjection, to be unto you for servants
and for handmaids.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye
have not hearkened unto me, in
proclaiming liberty, every one to his
brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty
for you, saith the LORD, to the sword,
to the pestilence, and to the famine;
and I will make you to be removed into
all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And I will give the men that have
transgressed my covenant, which have
not performed the words of the covenant
which they had made before me, when
they cut the calf in twain, and passed
between the parts thereof,
19 The princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and
the priests, and all the people of the
land, which passed between the parts of
the calf;
20 I will even give them into the hand
of their enemies, and into the hand of
them that seek their life: and their
dead bodies shall be for meat unto the
fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts
of the earth.
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his
princes will I give into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of
them that seek their life, and into the
hand of the king of Babylon's army,
which are gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command, saith the
LORD, and cause them to return to this
city; and they shall fight against it,
and take it, and burn it with fire: and
I will make the cities of Judah a
desolation without an inhabitant.

CHAPTER 35
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah
from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah,
saying,
2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites,
and speak unto them, and bring them
into the house of the LORD, into one of
the chambers, and give them wine to
drink.
3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of
Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and
his brethren, and all his sons, and the
whole house of the Rechabites;
4 And I brought them into the house of
the LORD, into the chamber of the sons
of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of
God, which [was] by the chamber of the
princes, which [was] above the chamber
of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the
keeper of the door:
5 And I set before the sons of the
house of the Rechabites pots full of
wine, and cups, and I said unto them,
Drink ye wine.
6 But they said, We will drink no wine:
for Jonadab the son of Rechab our
father commanded us, saying, Ye shall
drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your
sons for ever:
7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow
seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have
[any]: but all your days ye shall dwell
in tents; that ye may live many days in
the land where ye [be] strangers.
8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of
Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in
all that he hath charged us, to drink
no wine all our days, we, our wives,
our sons, nor our daughters;
9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell
in: neither have we vineyard, nor
field, nor seed:
10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have
obeyed, and done according to all that
Jonadab our father commanded us.
11 But it came to pass, when
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and
let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the
army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of
the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at
Jerusalem.
12 # Then came the word of the LORD
unto Jeremiah, saying,
13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Go and tell the men of
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Will ye not receive instruction to
hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
14 The words of Jonadab the son of
Rechab, that he commanded his sons not
to drink wine, are performed; for unto
this day they drink none, but obey
their father's commandment:
notwithstanding I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking; but ye
hearkened not unto me.
15 I have sent also unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early
and sending [them], saying, Return ye
now every man from his evil way, and
amend your doings, and go not after
other gods to serve them, and ye shall
dwell in the land which I have given to
you and to your fathers: but ye have
not inclined your ear, nor hearkened
unto me.
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son
of Rechab have performed the
commandment of their father, which he
commanded them; but this people hath
not hearkened unto me:
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring upon Judah and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil
that I have pronounced against them:
because I have spoken unto them, but
they have not heard; and I have called
unto them, but they have not answered.
18 # And Jeremiah said unto the house
of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye
have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab
your father, and kept all his precepts,
and done according unto all that he
hath commanded you:
19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the
son of Rechab shall not want a man to
stand before me for ever.

CHAPTER 36
1 And it came to pass in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, [that] this word came
unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write
therein all the words that I have
spoken unto thee against Israel, and
against Judah, and against all the
nations, from the day I spake unto
thee, from the days of Josiah, even
unto this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil which I purpose
to do unto them; that they may return
every man from his evil way; that I may
forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son
of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD, which he had spoken unto him,
upon a roll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go
into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go thou, and read in the
roll, which thou hast written from my
mouth, the words of the LORD in the
ears of the people in the LORD'S house
upon the fasting day: and also thou
shalt read them in the ears of all
Judah that come out of their cities.
7 It may be they will present their
supplication before the LORD, and will
return every one from his evil way: for
great [is] the anger and the fury that
the LORD hath pronounced against this
people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did
according to all that Jeremiah the
prophet commanded him, reading in the
book the words of the LORD in the
LORD'S house.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they
proclaimed a fast before the LORD to
all the people in Jerusalem, and to all
the people that came from the cities of
Judah unto Jerusalem.
10 Then read Baruch in the book the
words of Jeremiah in the house of the
LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the
son of Shaphan the scribe, in the
higher court, at the entry of the new
gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears
of all the people.
11 # When Michaiah the son of Gemariah,
the son of Shaphan, had heard out of
the book all the words of the LORD,
12 Then he went down into the king's
house, into the scribe's chamber: and,
lo, all the princes sat there, [even]
Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the
son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son
of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of
Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of
Hananiah, and all the princes.
13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all
the words that he had heard, when
Baruch read the book in the ears of the
people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent
Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto
Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the
roll wherein thou hast read in the ears
of the people, and come. So Baruch the
son of Neriah took the roll in his
hand, and came unto them.
15 And they said unto him, Sit down
now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch
read [it] in their ears.
16 Now it came to pass, when they had
heard all the words, they were afraid
both one and other, and said unto
Baruch, We will surely tell the king of
all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell
us now, How didst thou write all these
words at his mouth?
18 Then Baruch answered them, He
pronounced all these words unto me with
his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink
in the book.
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch,
Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and
let no man know where ye be.
20 # And they went in to the king into
the court, but they laid up the roll in
the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and
told all the words in the ears of the
king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the
roll: and he took it out of Elishama
the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read
it in the ears of the king, and in the
ears of all the princes which stood
beside the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse
in the ninth month: and [there was a
fire] on the hearth burning before him.
23 And it came to pass, [that] when
Jehudi had read three or four leaves,
he cut it with the penknife, and cast
[it] into the fire that [was] on the
hearth, until all the roll was consumed
in the fire that [was] on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent
their garments, [neither] the king, nor
any of his servants that heard all
these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah
and Gemariah had made intercession to
the king that he would not burn the
roll: but he would not hear them.
26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the
son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son
of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of
Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and
Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid
them.
27 # Then the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had
burned the roll, and the words which
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,
saying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and
write in it all the former words that
were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim
the king of Judah hath burned.
29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king
of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou
hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast
thou written therein, saying, The king
of Babylon shall certainly come and
destroy this land, and shall cause to
cease from thence man and beast?
30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have
none to sit upon the throne of David:
and his dead body shall be cast out in
the day to the heat, and in the night
to the frost.
31 And I will punish him and his seed
and his servants for their iniquity;
and I will bring upon them, and upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon
the men of Judah, all the evil that I
have pronounced against them; but they
hearkened not.
32 # Then took Jeremiah another roll,
and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the
son of Neriah; who wrote therein from
the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of
the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah
had burned in the fire: and there were
added besides unto them many like
words.

CHAPTER 37
1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah
reigned instead of Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor
the people of the land, did hearken
unto the words of the LORD, which he
spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal
the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest to the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto
the LORD our God for us.
4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out
among the people: for they had not put
him into prison.
5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth
out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans
that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings
of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
6 # Then came the word of the LORD unto
the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king
of Judah, that sent you unto me to
enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army,
which is come forth to help you, shall
return to Egypt into their own land.
8 And the Chaldeans shall come again,
and fight against this city, and take
it, and burn it with fire.
9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not
yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall
surely depart from us: for they shall
not depart.
10 For though ye had smitten the whole
army of the Chaldeans that fight
against you, and there remained [but]
wounded men among them, [yet] should
they rise up every man in his tent, and
burn this city with fire.
11 # And it came to pass, that when the
army of the Chaldeans was broken up
from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's
army,
12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of
Jerusalem to go into the land of
Benjamin, to separate himself thence in
the midst of the people.
13 And when he was in the gate of
Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was]
there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son
of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and
he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
14 Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I
fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he
hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
Jeremiah, and brought him to the
princes.
15 Wherefore the princes were wroth
with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put
him in prison in the house of Jonathan
the scribe: for they had made that the
prison.
16 # When Jeremiah was entered into the
dungeon, and into the cabins, and
Jeremiah had remained there many days;
17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
took him out: and the king asked him
secretly in his house, and said, Is
there [any] word from the LORD? And
Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he,
thou shalt be delivered into the hand
of the king of Babylon.
18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king
Zedekiah, What have I offended against
thee, or against thy servants, or
against this people, that ye have put
me in prison?
19 Where [are] now your prophets which
prophesied unto you, saying, The king
of Babylon shall not come against you,
nor against this land?
20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O
my lord the king: let my supplication,
I pray thee, be accepted before thee;
that thou cause me not to return to the
house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I
die there.
21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded
that they should commit Jeremiah into
the court of the prison, and that they
should give him daily a piece of bread
out of the bakers' street, until all
the bread in the city were spent. Thus
Jeremiah remained in the court of the
prison.

CHAPTER 38
1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan,
and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and
Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur
the son of Malchiah, heard the words
that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the
people, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD, He that
remaineth in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: but he that goeth forth to
the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall
have his life for a prey, and shall
live.
3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall
surely be given into the hand of the
king of Babylon's army, which shall
take it.
4 Therefore the princes said unto the
king, We beseech thee, let this man be
put to death: for thus he weakeneth the
hands of the men of war that remain in
this city, and the hands of all the
people, in speaking such words unto
them: for this man seeketh not the
welfare of this people, but the hurt.
5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold,
he [is] in your hand: for the king [is]
not [he that] can do [any] thing
against you.
6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him
into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of
Hammelech, that [was] in the court of
the prison: and they let down Jeremiah
with cords. And in the dungeon [there
was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah
sunk in the mire.
7 # Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,
one of the eunuchs which was in the
king's house, heard that they had put
Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then
sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8 Ebed-melech went forth out of the
king's house, and spake to the king,
saying,
9 My lord the king, these men have done
evil in all that they have done to
Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have
cast into the dungeon; and he is like
to die for hunger in the place where he
is: for [there is] no more bread in the
city.
10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech
the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence
thirty men with thee, and take up
Jeremiah the prophet out of the
dungeon, before he die.
11 So Ebed-melech took the men with
him, and went into the house of the
king under the treasury, and took
thence old cast clouts and old rotten
rags, and let them down by cords into
the dungeon to Jeremiah.
12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said
unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast
clouts and rotten rags under thine
armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah
did so.
13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords,
and took him up out of the dungeon: and
Jeremiah remained in the court of the
prison.
14 # Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into
the third entry that [is] in the house
of the LORD: and the king said unto
Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide
nothing from me.
15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If
I declare [it] unto thee, wilt thou not
surely put me to death? and if I give
thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken
unto me?
16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly
unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD
liveth, that made us this soul, I will
not put thee to death, neither will I
give thee into the hand of these men
that seek thy life.
17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah,
Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts,
the God of Israel; If thou wilt
assuredly go forth unto the king of
Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall
live, and this city shall not be burned
with fire; and thou shalt live, and
thine house:
18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the
king of Babylon's princes, then shall
this city be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with
fire, and thou shalt not escape out of
their hand.
19 And Zedekiah the king said unto
Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that
are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they
deliver me into their hand, and they
mock me.
20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not
deliver [thee]. Obey, I beseech thee,
the voice of the LORD, which I speak
unto thee: so it shall be well unto
thee, and thy soul shall live.
21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this
[is] the word that the LORD hath shewed
me:
22 And, behold, all the women that are
left in the king of Judah's house
[shall be] brought forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, and those [women]
shall say, Thy friends have set thee
on, and have prevailed against thee:
thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and]
they are turned away back.
23 So they shall bring out all thy
wives and thy children to the
Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape
out of their hand, but shalt be taken
by the hand of the king of Babylon: and
thou shalt cause this city to be burned
with fire.
24 # Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah,
Let no man know of these words, and
thou shalt not die.
25 But if the princes hear that I have
talked with thee, and they come unto
thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto
us now what thou hast said unto the
king, hide it not from us, and we will
not put thee to death; also what the
king said unto thee:
26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I
presented my supplication before the
king, that he would not cause me to
return to Jonathan's house, to die
there.
27 Then came all the princes unto
Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told
them according to all these words that
the king had commanded. So they left
off speaking with him; for the matter
was not perceived.
28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of
the prison until the day that Jerusalem
was taken: and he was [there] when
Jerusalem was taken.

CHAPTER 39
1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of
Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all
his army against Jerusalem, and they
besieged it.
2 [And] in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
ninth [day] of the month, the city was
broken up.
3 And all the princes of the king of
Babylon came in, and sat in the middle
gate, [even] Nergal-sharezer,
Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,
Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the
residue of the princes of the king of
Babylon.
4 # And it came to pass, [that] when
Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them,
and all the men of war, then they fled,
and went forth out of the city by
night, by the way of the king's garden,
by the gate betwixt the two walls: and
he went out the way of the plain.
5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after
them, and overtook Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho: and when they had
taken him, they brought him up to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to
Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he
gave judgment upon him.
6 Then the king of Babylon slew the
sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his
eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all
the nobles of Judah.
7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes,
and bound him with chains, to carry him
to Babylon.
8 # And the Chaldeans burned the king's
house, and the houses of the people,
with fire, and brake down the walls of
Jerusalem.
9 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard carried away captive into Babylon
the remnant of the people that remained
in the city, and those that fell away,
that fell to him, with the rest of the
people that remained.
10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard left of the poor of the people,
which had nothing, in the land of
Judah, and gave them vineyards and
fields at the same time.
11 # Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
gave charge concerning Jeremiah to
Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard,
saying,
12 Take him, and look well to him, and
do him no harm; but do unto him even as
he shall say unto thee.
13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris,
and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all
the king of Babylon's princes;
14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah
out of the court of the prison, and
committed him unto Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he
should carry him home: so he dwelt
among the people.
15 # Now the word of the LORD came unto
Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the
court of the prison, saying,
16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the
Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring my words upon this city for
evil, and not for good; and they shall
be [accomplished] in that day before
thee.
17 But I will deliver thee in that day,
saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be
given into the hand of the men of whom
thou [art] afraid.
18 For I will surely deliver thee, and
thou shalt not fall by the sword, but
thy life shall be for a prey unto thee:
because thou hast put thy trust in me,
saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 40
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard had let him go
from Ramah, when he had taken him being
bound in chains among all that were
carried away captive of Jerusalem and
Judah, which were carried away captive
unto Babylon.
2 And the captain of the guard took
Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD
thy God hath pronounced this evil upon
this place.
3 Now the LORD hath brought [it], and
done according as he hath said: because
ye have sinned against the LORD, and
have not obeyed his voice, therefore
this thing is come upon you.
4 And now, behold, I loose thee this
day from the chains which [were] upon
thine hand. If it seem good unto thee
to come with me into Babylon, come; and
I will look well unto thee: but if it
seem ill unto thee to come with me into
Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land
[is] before thee: whither it seemeth
good and convenient for thee to go,
thither go.
5 Now while he was not yet gone back,
[he said], Go back also to Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom
the king of Babylon hath made governor
over the cities of Judah, and dwell
with him among the people: or go
wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto
thee to go. So the captain of the guard
gave him victuals and a reward, and let
him go.
6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with
him among the people that were left in
the land.
7 # Now when all the captains of the
forces which [were] in the fields,
[even] they and their men, heard that
the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam governor in the land,
and had committed unto him men, and
women, and children, and of the poor of
the land, of them that were not carried
away captive to Babylon;
8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan and Jonathan the sons of
Kareah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men.
9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan sware unto them and to
their men, saying, Fear not to serve
the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon, and it shall
be well with you.
10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at
Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which
will come unto us: but ye, gather ye
wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and
put [them] in your vessels, and dwell
in your cities that ye have taken.
11 Likewise when all the Jews that
[were] in Moab, and among the
Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were]
in all the countries, heard that the
king of Babylon had left a remnant of
Judah, and that he had set over them
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan;
12 Even all the Jews returned out of
all places whither they were driven,
and came to the land of Judah, to
Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered
wine and summer fruits very much.
13 # Moreover Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that [were] in the fields, came
to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
14 And said unto him, Dost thou
certainly know that Baalis the king of
the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam believed them not.
15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake
to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying,
Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no
man shall know [it]: wherefore should
he slay thee, that all the Jews which
are gathered unto thee should be
scattered, and the remnant in Judah
perish?
16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said
unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou
shalt not do this thing: for thou
speakest falsely of Ishmael.

CHAPTER 41
1 Now it came to pass in the seventh
month, [that] Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the
seed royal, and the princes of the
king, even ten men with him, came unto
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
and there they did eat bread together
in Mizpah.
2 Then arose Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and the ten men that were
with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the
sword, and slew him, whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the
land.
3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that
were with him, [even] with Gedaliah, at
Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were
found there, [and] the men of war.
4 And it came to pass the second day
after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man
knew [it],
5 That there came certain from Shechem,
from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even]
fourscore men, having their beards
shaven, and their clothes rent, and
having cut themselves, with offerings
and incense in their hand, to bring
[them] to the house of the LORD.
6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went
forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping
all along as he went: and it came to
pass, as he met them, he said unto
them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam.
7 And it was [so], when they came into
the midst of the city, that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast
them] into the midst of the pit, he,
and the men that [were] with him.
8 But ten men were found among them
that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not:
for we have treasures in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and
of honey. So he forbare, and slew them
not among their brethren.
9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast
all the dead bodies of the men, whom he
had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it
which Asa the king had made for fear of
Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah filled it with
[them that were] slain.
10 Then Ishmael carried away captive
all the residue of the people that
[were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's
daughters, and all the people that
remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan
the captain of the guard had committed
to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried
them away captive, and departed to go
over to the Ammonites.
11 # But when Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that [were] with him, heard of
all the evil that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah had done,
12 Then they took all the men, and went
to fight with Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and found him by the great
waters that [are] in Gibeon.
13 Now it came to pass, [that] when all
the people which [were] with Ishmael
saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces that [were]
with him, then they were glad.
14 So all the people that Ishmael had
carried away captive from Mizpah cast
about and returned, and went unto
Johanan the son of Kareah.
15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
escaped from Johanan with eight men,
and went to the Ammonites.
16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah,
and all the captains of the forces that
[were] with him, all the remnant of the
people whom he had recovered from
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from
Mizpah, after [that] he had slain
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [even]
mighty men of war, and the women, and
the children, and the eunuchs, whom he
had brought again from Gibeon:
17 And they departed, and dwelt in the
habitation of Chimham, which is by
Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they
were afraid of them, because Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, whom the king of
Babylon made governor in the land.

CHAPTER 42
1 Then all the captains of the forces,
and Johanan the son of Kareah, and
Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all
the people from the least even unto the
greatest, came near,
2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet,
Let, we beseech thee, our supplication
be accepted before thee, and pray for
us unto the LORD thy God, [even] for
all this remnant; (for we are left
[but] a few of many, as thine eyes do
behold us:)
3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the
way wherein we may walk, and the thing
that we may do.
4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto
them, I have heard [you]; behold, I
will pray unto the LORD your God
according to your words; and it shall
come to pass, [that] whatsoever thing
the LORD shall answer you, I will
declare [it] unto you; I will keep
nothing back from you.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD
be a true and faithful witness between
us, if we do not even according to all
things for the which the LORD thy God
shall send thee to us.
6 Whether [it be] good, or whether [it
be] evil, we will obey the voice of the
LORD our God, to whom we send thee;
that it may be well with us, when we
obey the voice of the LORD our God.
7 # And it came to pass after ten days,
that the word of the LORD came unto
Jeremiah.
8 Then called he Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces which [were] with him, and all
the people from the least even to the
greatest,
9 And said unto them, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye
sent me to present your supplication
before him;
10 If ye will still abide in this land,
then will I build you, and not pull
[you] down, and I will plant you, and
not pluck [you] up: for I repent me of
the evil that I have done unto you.
11 Be not afraid of the king of
Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not
afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I
[am] with you to save you, and to
deliver you from his hand.
12 And I will shew mercies unto you,
that he may have mercy upon you, and
cause you to return to your own land.
13 # But if ye say, We will not dwell
in this land, neither obey the voice of
the LORD your God,
14 Saying, No; but we will go into the
land of Egypt, where we shall see no
war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet,
nor have hunger of bread; and there
will we dwell:
15 And now therefore hear the word of
the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to
enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn
there;
16 Then it shall come to pass, [that]
the sword, which ye feared, shall
overtake you there in the land of
Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were
afraid, shall follow close after you
there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
17 So shall it be with all the men that
set their faces to go into Egypt to
sojourn there; they shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: and none of them shall
remain or escape from the evil that I
will bring upon them.
18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; As mine anger and my
fury hath been poured forth upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my
fury be poured forth upon you, when ye
shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be
an execration, and an astonishment, and
a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall
see this place no more.
19 # The LORD hath said concerning you,
O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into
Egypt: know certainly that I have
admonished you this day.
20 For ye dissembled in your hearts,
when ye sent me unto the LORD your God,
saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our
God; and according unto all that the
LORD our God shall say, so declare unto
us, and we will do [it].
21 And [now] I have this day declared
[it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the
voice of the LORD your God, nor any
[thing] for the which he hath sent me
unto you.
22 Now therefore know certainly that ye
shall die by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence, in the place
whither ye desire to go [and] to
sojourn.

CHAPTER 43
1 And it came to pass, [that] when
Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
unto all the people all the words of
the LORD their God, for which the LORD
their God had sent him to them, [even]
all these words,
2 Then spake Azariah the son of
Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the proud men, saying
unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely:
the LORD our God hath not sent thee to
say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn
there:
3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth
thee on against us, for to deliver us
into the hand of the Chaldeans, that
they might put us to death, and carry
us away captives into Babylon.
4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces, and all the
people, obeyed not the voice of the
LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and
all the captains of the forces, took
all the remnant of Judah, that were
returned from all nations, whither they
had been driven, to dwell in the land
of Judah;
6 [Even] men, and women, and children,
and the king's daughters, and every
person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of
the guard had left with Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and
Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the
son of Neriah.
7 So they came into the land of Egypt:
for they obeyed not the voice of the
LORD: thus came they [even] to
Tahpanhes.
8 # Then came the word of the LORD unto
Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 Take great stones in thine hand, and
hide them in the clay in the brickkiln,
which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the
men of Judah;
10 And say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will send and take
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne upon
these stones that I have hid; and he
shall spread his royal pavilion over
them.
11 And when he cometh, he shall smite
the land of Egypt, [and deliver] such
[as are] for death to death; and such
[as are] for captivity to captivity;
and such [as are] for the sword to the
sword.
12 And I will kindle a fire in the
houses of the gods of Egypt; and he
shall burn them, and carry them away
captives: and he shall array himself
with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
putteth on his garment; and he shall go
forth from thence in peace.
13 He shall break also the images of
Beth-shemesh, that [is] in the land of
Egypt; and the houses of the gods of
the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

CHAPTER 44
1 The word that came to Jeremiah
concerning all the Jews which dwell in
the land of Egypt, which dwell at
Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph,
and in the country of Pathros, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil
that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and
upon all the cities of Judah; and,
behold, this day they [are] a
desolation, and no man dwelleth
therein,
3 Because of their wickedness which
they have committed to provoke me to
anger, in that they went to burn
incense, [and] to serve other gods,
whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye,
nor your fathers.
4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising early and
sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this
abominable thing that I hate.
5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear to turn from their
wickedness, to burn no incense unto
other gods.
6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was
poured forth, and was kindled in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and]
desolate, as at this day.
7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel;
Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil
against your souls, to cut off from you
man and woman, child and suckling, out
of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with
the works of your hands, burning
incense unto other gods in the land of
Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell,
that ye might cut yourselves off, and
that ye might be a curse and a reproach
among all the nations of the earth?
9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of
your fathers, and the wickedness of the
kings of Judah, and the wickedness of
their wives, and your own wickedness,
and the wickedness of your wives, which
they have committed in the land of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled [even] unto
this day, neither have they feared, nor
walked in my law, nor in my statutes,
that I set before you and before your
fathers.
11 # Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will set my face against you for evil,
and to cut off all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of
Judah, that have set their faces to go
into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, and they shall all be consumed,
[and] fall in the land of Egypt; they
shall [even] be consumed by the sword
[and] by the famine: they shall die,
from the least even unto the greatest,
by the sword and by the famine: and
they shall be an execration, [and] an
astonishment, and a curse, and a
reproach.
13 For I will punish them that dwell in
the land of Egypt, as I have punished
Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence:
14 So that none of the remnant of
Judah, which are gone into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or
remain, that they should return into
the land of Judah, to the which they
have a desire to return to dwell there:
for none shall return but such as shall
escape.
15 # Then all the men which knew that
their wives had burned incense unto
other gods, and all the women that
stood by, a great multitude, even all
the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah,
saying,
16 [As for] the word that thou hast
spoken unto us in the name of the LORD,
we will not hearken unto thee.
17 But we will certainly do whatsoever
thing goeth forth out of our own mouth,
to burn incense unto the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings
unto her, as we have done, we, and our
fathers, our kings, and our princes, in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty
of victuals, and were well, and saw no
evil.
18 But since we left off to burn
incense to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto her, we
have wanted all [things], and have been
consumed by the sword and by the
famine.
19 And when we burned incense to the
queen of heaven, and poured out drink
offerings unto her, did we make her
cakes to worship her, and pour out
drink offerings unto her, without our
men?
20 # Then Jeremiah said unto all the
people, to the men, and to the women,
and to all the people which had given
him [that] answer, saying,
21 The incense that ye burned in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your
kings, and your princes, and the people
of the land, did not the LORD remember
them, and came it [not] into his mind?
22 So that the LORD could no longer
bear, because of the evil of your
doings, [and] because of the
abominations which ye have committed;
therefore is your land a desolation,
and an astonishment, and a curse,
without an inhabitant, as at this day.
23 Because ye have burned incense, and
because ye have sinned against the
LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of
the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in
his statutes, nor in his testimonies;
therefore this evil is happened unto
you, as at this day.
24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the
people, and to all the women, Hear the
word of the LORD, all Judah that [are]
in the land of Egypt:
25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel, saying; Ye and your
wives have both spoken with your
mouths, and fulfilled with your hand,
saying, We will surely perform our vows
that we have vowed, to burn incense to
the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings unto her: ye will
surely accomplish your vows, and surely
perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear ye the word of the
LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land
of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my
great name, saith the LORD, that my
name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man of Judah in all the
land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD
liveth.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for
evil, and not for good: and all the men
of Judah that [are] in the land of
Egypt shall be consumed by the sword
and by the famine, until there be an
end of them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the
sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah, and all
the remnant of Judah, that are gone
into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall know whose words shall
stand, mine, or their's.
29 # And this [shall be] a sign unto
you, saith the LORD, that I will punish
you in this place, that ye may know
that my words shall surely stand
against you for evil:
30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into
the hand of his enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek his life; as I
gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
his enemy, and that sought his life.

CHAPTER 45
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet
spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
when he had written these words in a
book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for
the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow;
I fainted in my sighing, and I find no
rest.
4 # Thus shalt thou say unto him, The
LORD saith thus; Behold, [that] which I
have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up,
even this whole land.
5 And seekest thou great things for
thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold,
I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith
the LORD: but thy life will I give unto
thee for a prey in all places whither
thou goest.

CHAPTER 46
1 The word of the LORD which came to
Jeremiah the prophet against the
Gentiles;
2 Against Egypt, against the army of
Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was
by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah.
3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and
draw near to battle.
4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye
horsemen, and stand forth with [your]
helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put
on the brigandines.
5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed
[and] turned away back? and their
mighty ones are beaten down, and are
fled apace, and look not back: [for]
fear [was] round about, saith the LORD.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the
mighty man escape; they shall stumble,
and fall toward the north by the river
Euphrates.
7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a
flood, whose waters are moved as the
rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and
[his] waters are moved like the rivers;
and he saith, I will go up, [and] will
cover the earth; I will destroy the
city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye
chariots; and let the mighty men come
forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans,
that handle the shield; and the
Lydians, that handle [and] bend the
bow.
10 For this [is] the day of the Lord
GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that
he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour, and it
shall be satiate and made drunk with
their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts
hath a sacrifice in the north country
by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O
virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain
shalt thou use many medicines; [for]
thou shalt not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of thy shame,
and thy cry hath filled the land: for
the mighty man hath stumbled against
the mighty, [and] they are fallen both
together.
13 # The word that the LORD spake to
Jeremiah the prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should
come [and] smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in
Migdol, and publish in Noph and in
Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and
prepare thee; for the sword shall
devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant [men] swept
away? they stood not, because the LORD
did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell
upon another: and they said, Arise, and
let us go again to our own people, and
to the land of our nativity, from the
oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of
Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed
the time appointed.
18 [As] I live, saith the King, whose
name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as
Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as
Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt,
furnish thyself to go into captivity:
for Noph shall be waste and desolate
without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer,
[but] destruction cometh; it cometh out
of the north.
21 Also her hired men [are] in the
midst of her like fatted bullocks; for
they also are turned back, [and] are
fled away together: they did not stand,
because the day of their calamity was
come upon them, [and] the time of their
visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a
serpent; for they shall march with an
army, and come against her with axes,
as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest,
saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than
the grasshoppers, and [are]
innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be
confounded; she shall be delivered into
the hand of the people of the north.
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish
the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and
Egypt, with their gods, and their
kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them
that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the
hand of those that seek their lives,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of
his servants: and afterward it shall be
inhabited, as in the days of old, saith
the LORD.
27 # But fear not thou, O my servant
Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel:
for, behold, I will save thee from afar
off, and thy seed from the land of
their captivity; and Jacob shall
return, and be in rest and at ease, and
none shall make [him] afraid.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant,
saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee;
for I will make a full end of all the
nations whither I have driven thee: but
I will not make a full end of thee, but
correct thee in measure; yet will I not
leave thee wholly unpunished.

CHAPTER 47
1 The word of the LORD that came to
Jeremiah the prophet against the
Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote
Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters
rise up out of the north, and shall be
an overflowing flood, and shall
overflow the land, and all that is
therein; the city, and them that dwell
therein: then the men shall cry, and
all the inhabitants of the land shall
howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the
hoofs of his strong [horses], at the
rushing of his chariots, [and at] the
rumbling of his wheels, the fathers
shall not look back to [their] children
for feebleness of hands;
4 Because of the day that cometh to
spoil all the Philistines, [and] to cut
off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper
that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil
the Philistines, the remnant of the
country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon
is cut off [with] the remnant of their
valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long
[will it be] ere thou be quiet? put up
thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be
still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD
hath given it a charge against
Ashkelon, and against the sea shore?
there hath he appointed it.

CHAPTER 48
1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto
Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is
confounded [and] taken: Misgab is
confounded and dismayed.
2 [There shall be] no more praise of
Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil
against it; come, and let us cut it off
from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt
be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall
pursue thee.
3 A voice of crying [shall be] from
Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction.
4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones
have caused a cry to be heard.
5 For in the going up of Luhith
continual weeping shall go up; for in
the going down of Horonaim the enemies
have heard a cry of destruction.
6 Flee, save your lives, and be like
the heath in the wilderness.
7 # For because thou hast trusted in
thy works and in thy treasures, thou
shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall
go forth into captivity [with] his
priests and his princes together.
8 And the spoiler shall come upon every
city, and no city shall escape: the
valley also shall perish, and the plain
shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath
spoken.
9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may
flee and get away: for the cities
thereof shall be desolate, without any
to dwell therein.
10 Cursed [be] he that doeth the work
of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed
[be] he that keepeth back his sword
from blood.
11 # Moab hath been at ease from his
youth, and he hath settled on his lees,
and hath not been emptied from vessel
to vessel, neither hath he gone into
captivity: therefore his taste remained
in him, and his scent is not changed.
12 Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will send unto
him wanderers, that shall cause him to
wander, and shall empty his vessels,
and break their bottles.
13 And Moab shall be ashamed of
Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
14 # How say ye, We [are] mighty and
strong men for the war?
15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out
of] her cities, and his chosen young
men are gone down to the slaughter,
saith the King, whose name [is] the
LORD of hosts.
16 The calamity of Moab [is] near to
come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
17 All ye that are about him, bemoan
him; and all ye that know his name,
say, How is the strong staff broken,
[and] the beautiful rod!
18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit
Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and
sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab
shall come upon thee, [and] he shall
destroy thy strong holds.
19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the
way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and
her that escapeth, [and] say, What is
done?
20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken
down: howl and cry; tell ye it in
Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
21 And judgment is come upon the plain
country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah,
and upon Mephaath,
22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and
upon Beth-diblathaim,
23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon
Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah,
and upon all the cities of the land of
Moab, far or near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his
arm is broken, saith the LORD.
26 # Make ye him drunken: for he
magnified [himself] against the LORD:
Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,
and he also shall be in derision.
27 For was not Israel a derision unto
thee? was he found among thieves? for
since thou spakest of him, thou
skippedst for joy.
28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the
cities, and dwell in the rock, and be
like the dove [that] maketh her nest in
the sides of the hole's mouth.
29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he
is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and
his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
haughtiness of his heart.
30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD;
but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies
shall not so effect [it].
31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and
I will cry out for all Moab; [mine
heart] shall mourn for the men of
Kir-heres.
32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for
thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy
plants are gone over the sea, they
reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the
spoiler is fallen upon thy summer
fruits and upon thy vintage.
33 And joy and gladness is taken from
the plentiful field, and from the land
of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail
from the winepresses: none shall tread
with shouting; [their] shouting [shall
be] no shouting.
34 From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto
Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz, have
they uttered their voice, from Zoar
[even] unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of
three years old: for the waters also of
Nimrim shall be desolate.
35 Moreover I will cause to cease in
Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth
in the high places, and him that
burneth incense to his gods.
36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for
Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall
sound like pipes for the men of
Kir-heres: because the riches [that] he
hath gotten are perished.
37 For every head [shall be] bald, and
every beard clipped: upon all the hands
[shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins
sackcloth.
38 [There shall be] lamentation
generally upon all the housetops of
Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I
have broken Moab like a vessel wherein
[is] no pleasure, saith the LORD.
39 They shall howl, [saying], How is it
broken down! how hath Moab turned the
back with shame! so shall Moab be a
derision and a dismaying to all them
about him.
40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he
shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread
his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong
holds are surprised, and the mighty
men's hearts in Moab at that day shall
be as the heart of a woman in her
pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from
[being] a people, because he hath
magnified [himself] against the LORD.
43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare,
[shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of
Moab, saith the LORD.
44 He that fleeth from the fear shall
fall into the pit; and he that getteth
up out of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for I will bring upon it, [even]
upon Moab, the year of their
visitation, saith the LORD.
45 They that fled stood under the
shadow of Heshbon because of the force:
but a fire shall come forth out of
Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of
Sihon, and shall devour the corner of
Moab, and the crown of the head of the
tumultuous ones.
46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people
of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are
taken captives, and thy daughters
captives.
47 # Yet will I bring again the
captivity of Moab in the latter days,
saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the
judgment of Moab.

CHAPTER 49
1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith
the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he
no heir? why [then] doth their king
inherit Gad, and his people dwell in
his cities?
2 Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will cause an
alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of
the Ammonites; and it shall be a
desolate heap, and her daughters shall
be burned with fire: then shall Israel
be heir unto them that were his heirs,
saith the LORD.
3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled:
cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you
with sackcloth; lament, and run to and
fro by the hedges; for their king shall
go into captivity, [and] his priests
and his princes together.
4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the
valleys, thy flowing valley, O
backsliding daughter? that trusted in
her treasures, [saying], Who shall come
unto me?
5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon
thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from
all those that be about thee; and ye
shall be driven out every man right
forth; and none shall gather up him
that wandereth.
6 And afterward I will bring again the
captivity of the children of Ammon,
saith the LORD.
7 # Concerning Edom, thus saith the
LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in
Teman? is counsel perished from the
prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O
inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring
the calamity of Esau upon him, the time
[that] I will visit him.
9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would
they not leave [some] gleaning grapes?
if thieves by night, they will destroy
till they have enough.
10 But I have made Esau bare, I have
uncovered his secret places, and he
shall not be able to hide himself: his
seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and
his neighbours, and he [is] not.
11 Leave thy fatherless children, I
will preserve [them] alive; and let thy
widows trust in me.
12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold,
they whose judgment [was] not to drink
of the cup have assuredly drunken; and
[art] thou he [that] shall altogether
go unpunished? thou shalt not go
unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink
[of it].
13 For I have sworn by myself, saith
the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a
desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a
curse; and all the cities thereof shall
be perpetual wastes.
14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD,
and an ambassador is sent unto the
heathen, [saying], Gather ye together,
and come against her, and rise up to
the battle.
15 For, lo, I will make thee small
among the heathen, [and] despised among
men.
16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,
[and] the pride of thine heart, O thou
that dwellest in the clefts of the
rock, that holdest the height of the
hill: though thou shouldest make thy
nest as high as the eagle, I will bring
thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
17 Also Edom shall be a desolation:
every one that goeth by it shall be
astonished, and shall hiss at all the
plagues thereof.
18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities]
thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall
abide there, neither shall a son of man
dwell in it.
19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion
from the swelling of Jordan against the
habitation of the strong: but I will
suddenly make him run away from her:
and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may
appoint over her? for who [is] like me?
and who will appoint me the time? and
who [is] that shepherd that will stand
before me?
20 Therefore hear the counsel of the
LORD, that he hath taken against Edom;
and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall
draw them out: surely he shall make
their habitations desolate with them.
21 The earth is moved at the noise of
their fall, at the cry the noise
thereof was heard in the Red sea.
22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as
the eagle, and spread his wings over
Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart
of the mighty men of Edom be as the
heart of a woman in her pangs.
23 # Concerning Damascus. Hamath is
confounded, and Arpad: for they have
heard evil tidings: they are
fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the
sea; it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, [and]
turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows
have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left,
the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall
in her streets, and all the men of war
shall be cut off in that day, saith the
LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall
of Damascus, and it shall consume the
palaces of Ben-hadad.
28 # Concerning Kedar, and concerning
the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall
smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye,
go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of
the east.
29 Their tents and their flocks shall
they take away: they shall take to
themselves their curtains, and all
their vessels, and their camels; and
they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on
every side.
30 # Flee, get you far off, dwell deep,
O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the
LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon hath taken counsel against you,
and hath conceived a purpose against
you.
31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy
nation, that dwelleth without care,
saith the LORD, which have neither
gates nor bars, [which] dwell alone.
32 And their camels shall be a booty,
and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter into all
winds them [that are] in the utmost
corners; and I will bring their
calamity from all sides thereof, saith
the LORD.
33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for
dragons, [and] a desolation for ever:
there shall no man abide there, nor
[any] son of man dwell in it.
34 # The word of the LORD that came to
Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in
the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah
king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
the chief of their might.
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four
winds from the four quarters of heaven,
and will scatter them toward all those
winds; and there shall be no nation
whither the outcasts of Elam shall not
come.
37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before them
that seek their life: and I will bring
evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger,
saith the LORD; and I will send the
sword after them, till I have consumed
them:
38 And I will set my throne in Elam,
and will destroy from thence the king
and the princes, saith the LORD.
39 # But it shall come to pass in the
latter days, [that] I will bring again
the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 50
1 The word that the LORD spake against
Babylon [and] against the land of the
Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Declare ye among the nations, and
publish, and set up a standard;
publish, [and] conceal not: say,
Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols
are confounded, her images are broken
in pieces.
3 For out of the north there cometh up
a nation against her, which shall make
her land desolate, and none shall dwell
therein: they shall remove, they shall
depart, both man and beast.
4 # In those days, and in that time,
saith the LORD, the children of Israel
shall come, they and the children of
Judah together, going and weeping: they
shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with
their faces thitherward, [saying],
Come, and let us join ourselves to the
LORD in a perpetual covenant [that]
shall not be forgotten.
6 My people hath been lost sheep: their
shepherds have caused them to go
astray, they have turned them away [on]
the mountains: they have gone from
mountain to hill, they have forgotten
their restingplace.
7 All that found them have devoured
them: and their adversaries said, We
offend not, because they have sinned
against the LORD, the habitation of
justice, even the LORD, the hope of
their fathers.
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon,
and go forth out of the land of the
Chaldeans, and be as the he goats
before the flocks.
9 # For, lo, I will raise and cause to
come up against Babylon an assembly of
great nations from the north country:
and they shall set themselves in array
against her; from thence she shall be
taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a
mighty expert man; none shall return in
vain.
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all
that spoil her shall be satisfied,
saith the LORD.
11 Because ye were glad, because ye
rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine
heritage, because ye are grown fat as
the heifer at grass, and bellow as
bulls;
12 Your mother shall be sore
confounded; she that bare you shall be
ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the
nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry
land, and a desert.
13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it
shall not be inhabited, but it shall be
wholly desolate: every one that goeth
by Babylon shall be astonished, and
hiss at all her plagues.
14 Put yourselves in array against
Babylon round about: all ye that bend
the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows:
for she hath sinned against the LORD.
15 Shout against her round about: she
hath given her hand: her foundations
are fallen, her walls are thrown down:
for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD:
take vengeance upon her; as she hath
done, do unto her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and
him that handleth the sickle in the
time of harvest: for fear of the
oppressing sword they shall turn every
one to his people, and they shall flee
every one to his own land.
17 # Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the
lions have driven [him] away: first the
king of Assyria hath devoured him; and
last this Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon hath broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will punish the king of Babylon and his
land, as I have punished the king of
Assyria.
19 And I will bring Israel again to his
habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel
and Bashan, and his soul shall be
satisfied upon mount Ephraim and
Gilead.
20 In those days, and in that time,
saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel
shall be sought for, and [there shall
be] none; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found: for I will
pardon them whom I reserve.
21 # Go up against the land of
Merathaim, [even] against it, and
against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste
and utterly destroy after them, saith
the LORD, and do according to all that
I have commanded thee.
22 A sound of battle [is] in the land,
and of great destruction.
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth
cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations!
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and
thou art also taken, O Babylon, and
thou wast not aware: thou art found,
and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD.
25 The LORD hath opened his armoury,
and hath brought forth the weapons of
his indignation: for this [is] the work
of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of
the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the utmost
border, open her storehouses: cast her
up as heaps, and destroy her utterly:
let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go
down to the slaughter: woe unto them!
for their day is come, the time of
their visitation.
28 The voice of them that flee and
escape out of the land of Babylon, to
declare in Zion the vengeance of the
LORD our God, the vengeance of his
temple.
29 Call together the archers against
Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp
against it round about; let none
thereof escape: recompense her
according to her work; according to all
that she hath done, do unto her: for
she hath been proud against the LORD,
against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall
in the streets, and all her men of war
shall be cut off in that day, saith the
LORD.
31 Behold, I [am] against thee, [O
thou] most proud, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts: for thy day is come, the time
[that] I will visit thee.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and
fall, and none shall raise him up: and
I will kindle a fire in his cities, and
it shall devour all round about him.
33 # Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The
children of Israel and the children of
Judah [were] oppressed together: and
all that took them captives held them
fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD
of hosts [is] his name: he shall
throughly plead their cause, that he
may give rest to the land, and disquiet
the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 # A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans,
saith the LORD, and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her
princes, and upon her wise [men].
36 A sword [is] upon the liars; and
they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her
mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and
upon their chariots, and upon all the
mingled people that [are] in the midst
of her; and they shall become as women:
a sword [is] upon her treasures; and
they shall be robbed.
38 A drought [is] upon her waters; and
they shall be dried up: for it [is] the
land of graven images, and they are mad
upon [their] idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the
desert with the wild beasts of the
islands shall dwell [there], and the
owls shall dwell therein: and it shall
be no more inhabited for ever; neither
shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
and the neighbour [cities] thereof,
saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide
there, neither shall any son of man
dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the
north, and a great nation, and many
kings shall be raised up from the
coasts of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the
lance: they [are] cruel, and will not
shew mercy: their voice shall roar like
the sea, and they shall ride upon
horses, [every one] put in array, like
a man to the battle, against thee, O
daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon hath heard the
report of them, and his hands waxed
feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and]
pangs as of a woman in travail.
44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion
from the swelling of Jordan unto the
habitation of the strong: but I will
make them suddenly run away from her:
and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may
appoint over her? for who [is] like me?
and who will appoint me the time? and
who [is] that shepherd that will stand
before me?
45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the
LORD, that he hath taken against
Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the land of the
Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
flock shall draw them out: surely he
shall make [their] habitation desolate
with them.
46 At the noise of the taking of
Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry
is heard among the nations.

CHAPTER 51
1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
raise up against Babylon, and against
them that dwell in the midst of them
that rise up against me, a destroying
wind;
2 And will send unto Babylon fanners,
that shall fan her, and shall empty her
land: for in the day of trouble they
shall be against her round about.
3 Against [him that] bendeth let the
archer bend his bow, and against [him
that] lifteth himself up in his
brigandine: and spare ye not her young
men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land
of the Chaldeans, and [they that are]
thrust through in her streets.
5 For Israel [hath] not [been]
forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the
LORD of hosts; though their land was
filled with sin against the Holy One of
Israel.
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and
deliver every man his soul: be not cut
off in her iniquity; for this [is] the
time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will
render unto her a recompence.
7 Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in
the LORD'S hand, that made all the
earth drunken: the nations have drunken
of her wine; therefore the nations are
mad.
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and
destroyed: howl for her; take balm for
her pain, if so be she may be healed.
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she
is not healed: forsake her, and let us
go every one into his own country: for
her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and
is lifted up [even] to the skies.
10 The LORD hath brought forth our
righteousness: come, and let us declare
in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
11 Make bright the arrows; gather the
shields: the LORD hath raised up the
spirit of the kings of the Medes: for
his device [is] against Babylon, to
destroy it; because it [is] the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of
his temple.
12 Set up the standard upon the walls
of Babylon, make the watch strong, set
up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes:
for the LORD hath both devised and done
that which he spake against the
inhabitants of Babylon.
13 O thou that dwellest upon many
waters, abundant in treasures, thine
end is come, [and] the measure of thy
covetousness.
14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by
himself, [saying], Surely I will fill
thee with men, as with caterpillers;
and they shall lift up a shout against
thee.
15 He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heaven by his understanding.
16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there
is] a multitude of waters in the
heavens; and he causeth the vapours to
ascend from the ends of the earth: he
maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasures.
17 Every man is brutish by [his]
knowledge; every founder is confounded
by the graven image: for his molten
image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no
breath in them.
18 They [are] vanity, the work of
errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like
them; for he [is] the former of all
things: and [Israel is] the rod of his
inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his
name.
20 Thou [art] my battle axe [and]
weapons of war: for with thee will I
break in pieces the nations, and with
thee will I destroy kingdoms;
21 And with thee will I break in pieces
the horse and his rider; and with thee
will I break in pieces the chariot and
his rider;
22 With thee also will I break in
pieces man and woman; and with thee
will I break in pieces old and young;
and with thee will I break in pieces
the young man and the maid;
23 I will also break in pieces with
thee the shepherd and his flock; and
with thee will I break in pieces the
husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and
with thee will I break in pieces
captains and rulers.
24 And I will render unto Babylon and
to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all
their evil that they have done in Zion
in your sight, saith the LORD.
25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O
destroying mountain, saith the LORD,
which destroyest all the earth: and I
will stretch out mine hand upon thee,
and roll thee down from the rocks, and
will make thee a burnt mountain.
26 And they shall not take of thee a
stone for a corner, nor a stone for
foundations; but thou shalt be desolate
for ever, saith the LORD.
27 Set ye up a standard in the land,
blow the trumpet among the nations,
prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of
Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a
captain against her; cause the horses
to come up as the rough caterpillers.
28 Prepare against her the nations with
the kings of the Medes, the captains
thereof, and all the rulers thereof,
and all the land of his dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and
sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD
shall be performed against Babylon, to
make the land of Babylon a desolation
without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have
forborn to fight, they have remained in
[their] holds: their might hath failed;
they became as women: they have burned
her dwellingplaces; her bars are
broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another, to
shew the king of Babylon that his city
is taken at [one] end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,
and the reeds they have burned with
fire, and the men of war are
affrighted.
33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; The daughter of
Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it
is] time to thresh her: yet a little
while, and the time of her harvest
shall come.
34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon
hath devoured me, he hath crushed me,
he hath made me an empty vessel, he
hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he
hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out.
35 The violence done to me and to my
flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the
inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood
upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall
Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will plead thy cause, and
take vengeance for thee; and I will dry
up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a
dwellingplace for dragons, an
astonishment, and an hissing, without
an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions:
they shall yell as lions' whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their
feasts, and I will make them drunken,
that they may rejoice, and sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith
the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to
the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is
the praise of the whole earth
surprised! how is Babylon become an
astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she
is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof.
43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry
land, and a wilderness, a land wherein
no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son
of man pass thereby.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring forth out of his mouth
that which he hath swallowed up: and
the nations shall not flow together any
more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon
shall fall.
45 My people, go ye out of the midst of
her, and deliver ye every man his soul
from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 And lest your heart faint, and ye
fear for the rumour that shall be heard
in the land; a rumour shall both come
[one] year, and after that in [another]
year [shall come] a rumour, and
violence in the land, ruler against
ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days come,
that I will do judgment upon the graven
images of Babylon: and her whole land
shall be confounded, and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heaven and the earth, and
all that [is] therein, shall sing for
Babylon: for the spoilers shall come
unto her from the north, saith the
LORD.
49 As Babylon [hath caused] the slain
of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall
fall the slain of all the earth.
50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go
away, stand not still: remember the
LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come
into your mind.
51 We are confounded, because we have
heard reproach: shame hath covered our
faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
52 Wherefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will do judgment
upon her graven images: and through all
her land the wounded shall groan.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to
heaven, and though she should fortify
the height of her strength, [yet] from
me shall spoilers come unto her, saith
the LORD.
54 A sound of a cry [cometh] from
Babylon, and great destruction from the
land of the Chaldeans:
55 Because the LORD hath spoiled
Babylon, and destroyed out of her the
great voice; when her waves do roar
like great waters, a noise of their
voice is uttered:
56 Because the spoiler is come upon
her, [even] upon Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, every one of
their bows is broken: for the LORD God
of recompences shall surely requite.
57 And I will make drunk her princes,
and her wise [men], her captains, and
her rulers, and her mighty men: and
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake, saith the King, whose name
[is] the LORD of hosts.
58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The
broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly
broken, and her high gates shall be
burned with fire; and the people shall
labour in vain, and the folk in the
fire, and they shall be weary.
59 # The word which Jeremiah the
prophet commanded Seraiah the son of
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he
went with Zedekiah the king of Judah
into Babylon in the fourth year of his
reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet
prince.
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the
evil that should come upon Babylon,
[even] all these words that are written
against Babylon.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When
thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see,
and shalt read all these words;
62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou
hast spoken against this place, to cut
it off, that none shall remain in it,
neither man nor beast, but that it
shall be desolate for ever.
63 And it shall be, when thou hast made
an end of reading this book, [that]
thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast
it into the midst of Euphrates:
64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall
Babylon sink, and shall not rise from
the evil that I will bring upon her:
and they shall be weary. Thus far [are]
the words of Jeremiah.

CHAPTER 52
1 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name [was] Hamutal the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did [that which was] evil in
the eyes of the LORD, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done.
3 For through the anger of the LORD it
came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah,
till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.
4 # And it came to pass in the ninth
year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he
and all his army, against Jerusalem,
and pitched against it, and built forts
against it round about.
5 So the city was besieged unto the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth
[day] of the month, the famine was sore
in the city, so that there was no bread
for the people of the land.
7 Then the city was broken up, and all
the men of war fled, and went forth out
of the city by night by the way of the
gate between the two walls, which [was]
by the king's garden; (now the
Chaldeans [were] by the city round
about:) and they went by the way of the
plain.
8 # But the army of the Chaldeans
pursued after the king, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and
all his army was scattered from him.
9 Then they took the king, and carried
him up unto the king of Babylon to
Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he
gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the
sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he
slew also all the princes of Judah in
Riblah.
11 Then he put out the eyes of
Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound
him in chains, and carried him to
Babylon, and put him in prison till the
day of his death.
12 # Now in the fifth month, in the
tenth [day] of the month, which [was]
the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan,
captain of the guard, [which] served
the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13 And burned the house of the LORD,
and the king's house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses
of the great [men], burned he with
fire:
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans,
that [were] with the captain of the
guard, brake down all the walls of
Jerusalem round about.
15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard carried away captive [certain] of
the poor of the people, and the residue
of the people that remained in the
city, and those that fell away, that
fell to the king of Babylon, and the
rest of the multitude.
16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard left [certain] of the poor of the
land for vinedressers and for
husbandmen.
17 Also the pillars of brass that
[were] in the house of the LORD, and
the bases, and the brasen sea that
[was] in the house of the LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the
brass of them to Babylon.
18 The caldrons also, and the shovels,
and the snuffers, and the bowls, and
the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass wherewith they ministered, took
they away.
19 And the basons, and the firepans,
and the bowls, and the caldrons, and
the candlesticks, and the spoons, and
the cups; [that] which [was] of gold
[in] gold, and [that] which [was] of
silver [in] silver, took the captain of
the guard away.
20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve
brasen bulls that [were] under the
bases, which king Solomon had made in
the house of the LORD: the brass of all
these vessels was without weight.
21 And [concerning] the pillars, the
height of one pillar [was] eighteen
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits
did compass it; and the thickness
thereof [was] four fingers: [it was]
hollow.
22 And a chapiter of brass [was] upon
it; and the height of one chapiter
[was] five cubits, with network and
pomegranates upon the chapiters round
about, all [of] brass. The second
pillar also and the pomegranates [were]
like unto these.
23 And there were ninety and six
pomegranates on a side; [and] all the
pomegranates upon the network [were] an
hundred round about.
24 # And the captain of the guard took
Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah
the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door:
25 He took also out of the city an
eunuch, which had the charge of the men
of war; and seven men of them that were
near the king's person, which were
found in the city; and the principal
scribe of the host, who mustered the
people of the land; and threescore men
of the people of the land, that were
found in the midst of the city.
26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard took them, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them,
and put them to death in Riblah in the
land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried
away captive out of his own land.
28 This [is] the people whom
Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in
the seventh year three thousand Jews
and three and twenty:
29 In the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive
from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and
two persons:
30 In the three and twentieth year of
Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain
of the guard carried away captive of
the Jews seven hundred forty and five
persons: all the persons [were] four
thousand and six hundred.
31 # And it came to pass in the seven
and thirtieth year of the captivity of
Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth [day] of the month, [that]
Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the
[first] year of his reign lifted up the
head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
brought him forth out of prison,
32 And spake kindly unto him, and set
his throne above the throne of the
kings that [were] with him in Babylon,
33 And changed his prison garments: and
he did continually eat bread before him
all the days of his life.
34 And [for] his diet, there was a
continual diet given him of the king of
Babylon, every day a portion until the
day of his death, all the days of his
life.

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 How doth the city sit solitary, [that
was] full of people! [how] is she
become as a widow! she [that was] great
among the nations, [and] princess among
the provinces, [how] is she become
tributary!
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and
her tears [are] on her cheeks: among
all her lovers she hath none to comfort
[her]: all her friends have dealt
treacherously with her, they are become
her enemies.
3 Judah is gone into captivity because
of affliction, and because of great
servitude: she dwelleth among the
heathen, she findeth no rest: all her
persecutors overtook her between the
straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because
none come to the solemn feasts: all her
gates are desolate: her priests sigh,
her virgins are afflicted, and she [is]
in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her
enemies prosper; for the LORD hath
afflicted her for the multitude of her
transgressions: her children are gone
into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her
beauty is departed: her princes are
become like harts [that] find no
pasture, and they are gone without
strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of
her affliction and of her miseries all
her pleasant things that she had in the
days of old, when her people fell into
the hand of the enemy, and none did
help her: the adversaries saw her,
[and] did mock at her sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned;
therefore she is removed: all that
honoured her despise her, because they
have seen her nakedness: yea, she
sigheth, and turneth backward.
9 Her filthiness [is] in her skirts;
she remembereth not her last end;
therefore she came down wonderfully:
she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my
affliction: for the enemy hath
magnified [himself].
10 The adversary hath spread out his
hand upon all her pleasant things: for
she hath seen [that] the heathen
entered into her sanctuary, whom thou
didst command [that] they should not
enter into thy congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek
bread; they have given their pleasant
things for meat to relieve the soul:
see, O LORD, and consider; for I am
become vile.
12 # [Is it] nothing to you, all ye
that pass by? behold, and see if there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,
which is done unto me, wherewith the
LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of
his fierce anger.
13 From above hath he sent fire into my
bones, and it prevaileth against them:
he hath spread a net for my feet, he
hath turned me back: he hath made me
desolate [and] faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is
bound by his hand: they are wreathed,
[and] come up upon my neck: he hath
made my strength to fall, the Lord hath
delivered me into [their] hands, [from
whom] I am not able to rise up.
15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all
my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he
hath called an assembly against me to
crush my young men: the Lord hath
trodden the virgin, the daughter of
Judah, [as] in a winepress.
16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye,
mine eye runneth down with water,
because the comforter that should
relieve my soul is far from me: my
children are desolate, because the
enemy prevailed.
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and
there is] none to comfort her: the LORD
hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that]
his adversaries [should be] round about
him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman
among them.
18 # The LORD is righteous; for I have
rebelled against his commandment: hear,
I pray you, all people, and behold my
sorrow: my virgins and my young men are
gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers, [but] they
deceived me: my priests and mine elders
gave up the ghost in the city, while
they sought their meat to relieve their
souls.
20 Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in
distress: my bowels are troubled; mine
heart is turned within me; for I have
grievously rebelled: abroad the sword
bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh: [there
is] none to comfort me: all mine
enemies have heard of my trouble; they
are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou
wilt bring the day [that] thou hast
called, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before
thee; and do unto them, as thou hast
done unto me for all my transgressions:
for my sighs [are] many, and my heart
[is] faint.

CHAPTER 2
1 How hath the Lord covered the
daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto
the earth the beauty of Israel, and
remembered not his footstool in the day
of his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the
habitations of Jacob, and hath not
pitied: he hath thrown down in his
wrath the strong holds of the daughter
of Judah; he hath brought [them] down
to the ground: he hath polluted the
kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger
all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn
back his right hand from before the
enemy, and he burned against Jacob like
a flaming fire, [which] devoureth round
about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy:
he stood with his right hand as an
adversary, and slew all [that were]
pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle
of the daughter of Zion: he poured out
his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath
swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed
up all her palaces: he hath destroyed
his strong holds, and hath increased in
the daughter of Judah mourning and
lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his
tabernacle, as [if it were of] a
garden: he hath destroyed his places of
the assembly: the LORD hath caused the
solemn feasts and sabbaths to be
forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in
the indignation of his anger the king
and the priest.
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he
hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath
given up into the hand of the enemy the
walls of her palaces; they have made a
noise in the house of the LORD, as in
the day of a solemn feast.
8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the
wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath
stretched out a line, he hath not
withdrawn his hand from destroying:
therefore he made the rampart and the
wall to lament; they languished
together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground;
he hath destroyed and broken her bars:
her king and her princes [are] among
the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more];
her prophets also find no vision from
the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
sit upon the ground, [and] keep
silence: they have cast up dust upon
their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins
of Jerusalem hang down their heads to
the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my
bowels are troubled, my liver is poured
upon the earth, for the destruction of
the daughter of my people; because the
children and the sucklings swoon in the
streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where
[is] corn and wine? when they swooned
as the wounded in the streets of the
city, when their soul was poured out
into their mothers' bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness
for thee? what thing shall I liken to
thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what
shall I equal to thee, that I may
comfort thee, O virgin daughter of
Zion? for thy breach [is] great like
the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and
foolish things for thee: and they have
not discovered thine iniquity, to turn
away thy captivity; but have seen for
thee false burdens and causes of
banishment.
15 All that pass by clap [their] hands
at thee; they hiss and wag their head
at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying,
Is] this the city that [men] call The
perfection of beauty, The joy of the
whole earth?
16 All thine enemies have opened their
mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash
the teeth: they say, We have swallowed
[her] up: certainly this [is] the day
that we looked for; we have found, we
have seen [it].
17 The LORD hath done [that] which he
had devised; he hath fulfilled his word
that he had commanded in the days of
old: he hath thrown down, and hath not
pitied: and he hath caused [thine]
enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set
up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O
wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears
run down like a river day and night:
give thyself no rest; let not the apple
of thine eye cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the
beginning of the watches pour out thine
heart like water before the face of the
Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for
the life of thy young children, that
faint for hunger in the top of every
street.
20 # Behold, O LORD, and consider to
whom thou hast done this. Shall the
women eat their fruit, [and] children
of a span long? shall the priest and
the prophet be slain in the sanctuary
of the Lord?
21 The young and the old lie on the
ground in the streets: my virgins and
my young men are fallen by the sword;
thou hast slain [them] in the day of
thine anger; thou hast killed, [and]
not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day
my terrors round about, so that in the
day of the LORD'S anger none escaped
nor remained: those that I have
swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy
consumed.

CHAPTER 3
1 I [am] the man [that] hath seen
affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought [me into]
darkness, but not [into] light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he
turneth his hand [against me] all the
day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made
old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and
compassed [me] with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as
[they that be] dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I
cannot get out: he hath made my chain
heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he
shutteth out my prayer.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn
stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying
in wait, [and as] a lion in secret
places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and
pulled me in pieces: he hath made me
desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as
a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his
quiver to enter into my reins.
14 I was a derision to all my people;
[and] their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness,
he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with
gravel stones, he hath covered me with
ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far
off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope
is perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering mine affliction and my
misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath [them] still in
remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore
have I hope.
22 # [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that
we are not consumed, because his
compassions fail not.
23 [They are] new every morning: great
[is] thy faithfulness.
24 The LORD [is] my portion, saith my
soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD [is] good unto them that
wait for him, to the soul [that]
seeketh him.
26 [It is] good that [a man] should
both hope and quietly wait for the
salvation of the LORD.
27 [It is] good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth
silence, because he hath borne [it]
upon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if
so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth [his] cheek to him that
smiteth him: he is filled full with
reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off for
ever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will
he have compassion according to the
multitude of his mercies.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly
nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the
prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the right of a man
before the face of the most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the
Lord approveth not.
37 # Who [is] he [that] saith, and it
cometh to pass, [when] the Lord
commandeth [it] not?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High
proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man
complain, a man for the punishment of
his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and
turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart with [our]
hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have
rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and
persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou
hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a
cloud, that [our] prayer should not
pass through.
45 Thou hast made us [as] the
offscouring and refuse in the midst of
the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their
mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us,
desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of
water for the destruction of the
daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth
not, without any intermission,
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold
from heaven.
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart
because of all the daughters of my
city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a
bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the
dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then]
I said, I am cut off.
55 # I called upon thy name, O LORD,
out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not
thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day [that]
I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear
not.
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes
of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong:
judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance
[and] all their imaginations against
me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O
LORD, [and] all their imaginations
against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up
against me, and their device against me
all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their
rising up; I [am] their musick.
64 # Render unto them a recompence, O
LORD, according to the work of their
hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse
unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger
from under the heavens of the LORD.

CHAPTER 4
1 How is the gold become dim! [how] is
the most fine gold changed! the stones
of the sanctuary are poured out in the
top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable
to fine gold, how are they esteemed as
earthen pitchers, the work of the hands
of the potter!
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the
breast, they give suck to their young
ones: the daughter of my people [is
become] cruel, like the ostriches in
the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child
cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for
thirst: the young children ask bread,
[and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately are
desolate in the streets: they that were
brought up in scarlet embrace
dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of
the daughter of my people is greater
than the punishment of the sin of
Sodom, that was overthrown as in a
moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow,
they were whiter than milk, they were
more ruddy in body than rubies, their
polishing [was] of sapphire:
8 Their visage is blacker than a coal;
they are not known in the streets:
their skin cleaveth to their bones; it
is withered, it is become like a stick.
9 [They that be] slain with the sword
are better than [they that be] slain
with hunger: for these pine away,
stricken through for [want of] the
fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have
sodden their own children: they were
their meat in the destruction of the
daughter of my people.
11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury;
he hath poured out his fierce anger,
and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it
hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12 The kings of the earth, and all the
inhabitants of the world, would not
have believed that the adversary and
the enemy should have entered into the
gates of Jerusalem.
13 # For the sins of her prophets,
[and] the iniquities of her priests,
that have shed the blood of the just in
the midst of her,
14 They have wandered [as] blind [men]
in the streets, they have polluted
themselves with blood, so that men
could not touch their garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it
is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not:
when they fled away and wandered, they
said among the heathen, They shall no
more sojourn [there].
16 The anger of the LORD hath divided
them; he will no more regard them: they
respected not the persons of the
priests, they favoured not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed
for our vain help: in our watching we
have watched for a nation [that] could
not save [us].
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot
go in our streets: our end is near, our
days are fulfilled; for our end is
come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the
eagles of the heaven: they pursued us
upon the mountains, they laid wait for
us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the
anointed of the LORD, was taken in
their pits, of whom we said, Under his
shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21 # Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of
Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz;
the cup also shall pass through unto
thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt
make thyself naked.
22 # The punishment of thine iniquity
is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he
will no more carry thee away into
captivity: he will visit thine
iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will
discover thy sins.

CHAPTER 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon
us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to
strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our
mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money;
our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we
labour, [and] have no rest.
6 We have given the hand [to] the
Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to
be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are]
not; and we have borne their
iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there
is] none that doth deliver [us] out of
their hand.
9 We gat our bread with [the peril of]
our lives because of the sword of the
wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven
because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion,
[and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand:
the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind,
and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the
gate, the young men from their musick.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our
dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head:
woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for
these [things] our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion,
which is desolate, the foxes walk upon
it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever;
thy throne from generation to
generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for
ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and
we shall be turned; renew our days as
of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us;
thou art very wroth against us.

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL

CHAPTER 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth
year, in the fourth [month], in the
fifth [day] of the month, as I [was]
among the captives by the river of
Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened,
and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth [day] of the month,
which [was] the fifth year of king
Jehoiachin's captivity,
3 The word of the LORD came expressly
unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of
Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by
the river Chebar; and the hand of the
LORD was there upon him.
4 # And I looked, and, behold, a
whirlwind came out of the north, a
great cloud, and a fire infolding
itself, and a brightness [was] about
it, and out of the midst thereof as the
colour of amber, out of the midst of
the fire.
5 Also out of the midst thereof [came]
the likeness of four living creatures.
And this [was] their appearance; they
had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and
every one had four wings.
7 And their feet [were] straight feet;
and the sole of their feet [was] like
the sole of a calf's foot: and they
sparkled like the colour of burnished
brass.
8 And [they had] the hands of a man
under their wings on their four sides;
and they four had their faces and their
wings.
9 Their wings [were] joined one to
another; they turned not when they
went; they went every one straight
forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces,
they four had the face of a man, and
the face of a lion, on the right side:
and they four had the face of an ox on
the left side; they four also had the
face of an eagle.
11 Thus [were] their faces: and their
wings [were] stretched upward; two
[wings] of every one [were] joined one
to another, and two covered their
bodies.
12 And they went every one straight
forward: whither the spirit was to go,
they went; [and] they turned not when
they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living
creatures, their appearance [was] like
burning coals of fire, [and] like the
appearance of lamps: it went up and
down among the living creatures; and
the fire was bright, and out of the
fire went forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and
returned as the appearance of a flash
of lightning.
15 # Now as I beheld the living
creatures, behold one wheel upon the
earth by the living creatures, with his
four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and
their work [was] like unto the colour
of a beryl: and they four had one
likeness: and their appearance and
their work [was] as it were a wheel in
the middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their
four sides: [and] they turned not when
they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so
high that they were dreadful; and their
rings [were] full of eyes round about
them four.
19 And when the living creatures went,
the wheels went by them: and when the
living creatures were lifted up from
the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go,
they went, thither [was their] spirit
to go; and the wheels were lifted up
over against them: for the spirit of
the living creature [was] in the
wheels.
21 When those went, [these] went; and
when those stood, [these] stood; and
when those were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up over
against them: for the spirit of the
living creature [was] in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament
upon the heads of the living creature
[was] as the colour of the terrible
crystal, stretched forth over their
heads above.
23 And under the firmament [were] their
wings straight, the one toward the
other: every one had two, which covered
on this side, and every one had two,
which covered on that side, their
bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the
noise of their wings, like the noise of
great waters, as the voice of the
Almighty, the voice of speech, as the
noise of an host: when they stood, they
let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the
firmament that [was] over their heads,
when they stood, [and] had let down
their wings.
26 # And above the firmament that [was]
over their heads [was] the likeness of
a throne, as the appearance of a
sapphire stone: and upon the likeness
of the throne [was] the likeness as the
appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as
the appearance of fire round about
within it, from the appearance of his
loins even upward, and from the
appearance of his loins even downward,
I saw as it were the appearance of
fire, and it had brightness round
about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is
in the cloud in the day of rain, so
[was] the appearance of the brightness
round about. This [was] the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of the
LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon
my face, and I heard a voice of one
that spake.

CHAPTER 2
1 And he said unto me, Son of man,
stand upon thy feet, and I will speak
unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me when
he spake unto me, and set me upon my
feet, that I heard him that spake unto
me.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I
send thee to the children of Israel, to
a rebellious nation that hath rebelled
against me: they and their fathers have
transgressed against me, [even] unto
this very day.
4 For [they are] impudent children and
stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them;
and thou shalt say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear, (for they
[are] a rebellious house,) yet shall
know that there hath been a prophet
among them.
6 # And thou, son of man, be not afraid
of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns [be]
with thee, and thou dost dwell among
scorpions: be not afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks,
though they [be] a rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto
them, whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear: for they
[are] most rebellious.
8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say
unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like
that rebellious house: open thy mouth,
and eat that I give thee.
9 And when I looked, behold, an hand
[was] sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of
a book [was] therein;
10 And he spread it before me; and it
[was] written within and without: and
[there was] written therein
lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

CHAPTER 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
eat that thou findest; eat this roll,
and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused
me to eat that roll.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man,
cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy
bowels with this roll that I give thee.
Then did I eat [it]; and it was in my
mouth as honey for sweetness.
4 # And he said unto me, Son of man,
go, get thee unto the house of Israel,
and speak with my words unto them.
5 For thou [art] not sent to a people
of a strange speech and of an hard
language, [but] to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange
speech and of an hard language, whose
words thou canst not understand.
Surely, had I sent thee to them, they
would have hearkened unto thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not
hearken unto thee; for they will not
hearken unto me: for all the house of
Israel [are] impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made thy face strong
against their faces, and thy forehead
strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have
I made thy forehead: fear them not,
neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they [be] a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of
man, all my words that I shall speak
unto thee receive in thine heart, and
hear with thine ears.
11 And go, get thee to them of the
captivity, unto the children of thy
people, and speak unto them, and tell
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether
they will hear, or whether they will
forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I
heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the
glory of the LORD from his place.
13 [I heard] also the noise of the
wings of the living creatures that
touched one another, and the noise of
the wheels over against them, and a
noise of a great rushing.
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took
me away, and I went in bitterness, in
the heat of my spirit; but the hand of
the LORD was strong upon me.
15 # Then I came to them of the
captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by
the river of Chebar, and I sat where
they sat, and remained there astonished
among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of
seven days, that the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made thee a
watchman unto the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth,
and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou
shalt surely die; and thou givest him
not warning, nor speakest to warn the
wicked from his wicked way, to save his
life; the same wicked [man] shall die
in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he
turn not from his wickedness, nor from
his wicked way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy
soul.
20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth
turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die: because thou
hast not given him warning, he shall
die in his sin, and his righteousness
which he hath done shall not be
remembered; but his blood will I
require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the
righteous [man], that the righteous sin
not, and he doth not sin, he shall
surely live, because he is warned; also
thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 # And the hand of the LORD was there
upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go
forth into the plain, and I will there
talk with thee.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into
the plain: and, behold, the glory of
the LORD stood there, as the glory
which I saw by the river of Chebar: and
I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit entered into me, and
set me upon my feet, and spake with me,
and said unto me, Go, shut thyself
within thine house.
25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they
shall put bands upon thee, and shall
bind thee with them, and thou shalt not
go out among them:
26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to
the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt
be dumb, and shalt not be to them a
reprover: for they [are] a rebellious
house.
27 But when I speak with thee, I will
open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that
heareth, let him hear; and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for they
[are] a rebellious house.

CHAPTER 4
1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a
tile, and lay it before thee, and
pourtray upon it the city, [even]
Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a
fort against it, and cast a mount
against it; set the camp also against
it, and set [battering] rams against it
round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron
pan, and set it [for] a wall of iron
between thee and the city: and set thy
face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and thou shalt lay siege
against it. This [shall be] a sign to
the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and
lay the iniquity of the house of Israel
upon it: [according] to the number of
the days that thou shalt lie upon it
thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years
of their iniquity, according to the
number of the days, three hundred and
ninety days: so shalt thou bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them,
lie again on thy right side, and thou
shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days: I have appointed thee
each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face
toward the siege of Jerusalem, and
thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and
thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon
thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from
one side to another, till thou hast
ended the days of thy siege.
9 # Take thou also unto thee wheat, and
barley, and beans, and lentiles, and
millet, and fitches, and put them in
one vessel, and make thee bread
thereof, [according] to the number of
the days that thou shalt lie upon thy
side, three hundred and ninety days
shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat
[shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a
day: from time to time shalt thou eat
it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by
measure, the sixth part of an hin: from
time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley
cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung
that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall
the children of Israel eat their
defiled bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my
soul hath not been polluted: for from
my youth up even till now have I not
eaten of that which dieth of itself, or
is torn in pieces; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have
given thee cow's dung for man's dung,
and thou shalt prepare thy bread
therewith.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of
man, behold, I will break the staff of
bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care; and
they shall drink water by measure, and
with astonishment:
17 That they may want bread and water,
and be astonied one with another, and
consume away for their iniquity.

CHAPTER 5
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a
sharp knife, take thee a barber's
razor, and cause [it] to pass upon
thine head and upon thy beard: then
take thee balances to weigh, and divide
the [hair].
2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third
part in the midst of the city, when the
days of the siege are fulfilled: and
thou shalt take a third part, [and]
smite about it with a knife: and a
third part thou shalt scatter in the
wind; and I will draw out a sword after
them.
3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in
number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4 Then take of them again, and cast
them into the midst of the fire, and
burn them in the fire; [for] thereof
shall a fire come forth into all the
house of Israel.
5 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is]
Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst
of the nations and countries [that are]
round about her.
6 And she hath changed my judgments
into wickedness more than the nations,
and my statutes more than the countries
that [are] round about her: for they
have refused my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye multiplied more than the
nations that [are] round about you,
[and] have not walked in my statutes,
neither have kept my judgments, neither
have done according to the judgments of
the nations that [are] round about you;
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee,
and will execute judgments in the midst
of thee in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in thee that which I
have not done, and whereunto I will not
do any more the like, because of all
thine abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of thee, and the sons
shall eat their fathers; and I will
execute judgments in thee, and the
whole remnant of thee will I scatter
into all the winds.
11 Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the
Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast
defiled my sanctuary with all thy
detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also
diminish [thee]; neither shall mine eye
spare, neither will I have any pity.
12 # A third part of thee shall die
with the pestilence, and with famine
shall they be consumed in the midst of
thee: and a third part shall fall by
the sword round about thee; and I will
scatter a third part into all the
winds, and I will draw out a sword
after them.
13 Thus shall mine anger be
accomplished, and I will cause my fury
to rest upon them, and I will be
comforted: and they shall know that I
the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal,
when I have accomplished my fury in
them.
14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and
a reproach among the nations that [are]
round about thee, in the sight of all
that pass by.
15 So it shall be a reproach and a
taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the nations that
[are] round about thee, when I shall
execute judgments in thee in anger and
in fury and in furious rebukes. I the
LORD have spoken [it].
16 When I shall send upon them the evil
arrows of famine, which shall be for
[their] destruction, [and] which I will
send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will
break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and
evil beasts, and they shall bereave
thee; and pestilence and blood shall
pass through thee; and I will bring the
sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken
[it].

CHAPTER 6
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy
against them,
3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear
the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith
the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to
the hills, to the rivers, and to the
valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will
bring a sword upon you, and I will
destroy your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate,
and your images shall be broken: and I
will cast down your slain [men] before
your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcases of
the children of Israel before their
idols; and I will scatter your bones
round about your altars.
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities
shall be laid waste, and the high
places shall be desolate; that your
altars may be laid waste and made
desolate, and your idols may be broken
and cease, and your images may be cut
down, and your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst
of you, and ye shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
8 # Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye
may have [some] that shall escape the
sword among the nations, when ye shall
be scattered through the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall
remember me among the nations whither
they shall be carried captives, because
I am broken with their whorish heart,
which hath departed from me, and with
their eyes, which go a whoring after
their idols: and they shall lothe
themselves for the evils which they
have committed in all their
abominations.
10 And they shall know that I [am] the
LORD, [and that] I have not said in
vain that I would do this evil unto
them.
11 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite
with thine hand, and stamp with thy
foot, and say, Alas for all the evil
abominations of the house of Israel!
for they shall fall by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the
pestilence; and he that is near shall
fall by the sword; and he that
remaineth and is besieged shall die by
the famine: thus will I accomplish my
fury upon them.
13 Then shall ye know that I [am] the
LORD, when their slain [men] shall be
among their idols round about their
altars, upon every high hill, in all
the tops of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under every thick
oak, the place where they did offer
sweet savour to all their idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon
them, and make the land desolate, yea,
more desolate than the wilderness
toward Diblath, in all their
habitations: and they shall know that I
[am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the
Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An
end, the end is come upon the four
corners of the land.
3 Now [is] the end [come] upon thee,
and I will send mine anger upon thee,
and will judge thee according to thy
ways, and will recompense upon thee all
thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee,
neither will I have pity: but I will
recompense thy ways upon thee, and
thine abominations shall be in the
midst of thee: and ye shall know that I
[am] the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an
only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it
watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou
that dwellest in the land: the time is
come, the day of trouble [is] near, and
not the sounding again of the
mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury
upon thee, and accomplish mine anger
upon thee: and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will
recompense thee for all thine
abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither
will I have pity: I will recompense
thee according to thy ways and thine
abominations [that] are in the midst of
thee; and ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come:
the morning is gone forth; the rod hath
blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of
wickedness: none of them [shall
remain], nor of their multitude, nor of
any of their's: neither [shall there
be] wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth
near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor
the seller mourn: for wrath [is] upon
all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to
that which is sold, although they were
yet alive: for the vision [is] touching
the whole multitude thereof, [which]
shall not return; neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of
his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to
make all ready; but none goeth to the
battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the
multitude thereof.
15 The sword [is] without, and the
pestilence and the famine within: he
that [is] in the field shall die with
the sword; and he that [is] in the
city, famine and pestilence shall
devour him.
16 # But they that escape of them shall
escape, and shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of them
mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all
knees shall be weak [as] water.
18 They shall also gird [themselves]
with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame [shall be] upon all
faces, and baldness upon all their
heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the
streets, and their gold shall be
removed: their silver and their gold
shall not be able to deliver them in
the day of the wrath of the LORD: they
shall not satisfy their souls, neither
fill their bowels: because it is the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 # As for the beauty of his ornament,
he set it in majesty: but they made the
images of their abominations [and] of
their detestable things therein:
therefore have I set it far from them.
21 And I will give it into the hands of
the strangers for a prey, and to the
wicked of the earth for a spoil; and
they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them,
and they shall pollute my secret
[place]: for the robbers shall enter
into it, and defile it.
23 # Make a chain: for the land is full
of bloody crimes, and the city is full
of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of
the heathen, and they shall possess
their houses: I will also make the pomp
of the strong to cease; and their holy
places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall
seek peace, and [there shall be] none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief,
and rumour shall be upon rumour; then
shall they seek a vision of the
prophet; but the law shall perish from
the priest, and counsel from the
ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince
shall be clothed with desolation, and
the hands of the people of the land
shall be troubled: I will do unto them
after their way, and according to their
deserts will I judge them; and they
shall know that I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth
year, in the sixth [month], in the
fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in
mine house, and the elders of Judah sat
before me, that the hand of the Lord
GOD fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as
the appearance of fire: from the
appearance of his loins even downward,
fire; and from his loins even upward,
as the appearance of brightness, as the
colour of amber.
3 And he put forth the form of an hand,
and took me by a lock of mine head; and
the spirit lifted me up between the
earth and the heaven, and brought me in
the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the
door of the inner gate that looketh
toward the north; where [was] the seat
of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of
Israel [was] there, according to the
vision that I saw in the plain.
5 # Then said he unto me, Son of man,
lift up thine eyes now the way toward
the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the
way toward the north, and behold
northward at the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of
man, seest thou what they do? [even]
the great abominations that the house
of Israel committeth here, that I
should go far off from my sanctuary?
but turn thee yet again, [and] thou
shalt see greater abominations.
7 # And he brought me to the door of
the court; and when I looked, behold a
hole in the wall.
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig
now in the wall: and when I had digged
in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said unto me, Go in, and
behold the wicked abominations that
they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold
every form of creeping things, and
abominable beasts, and all the idols of
the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon
the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy
men of the ancients of the house of
Israel, and in the midst of them stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with
every man his censer in his hand; and a
thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man,
hast thou seen what the ancients of the
house of Israel do in the dark, every
man in the chambers of his imagery? for
they say, The LORD seeth us not; the
LORD hath forsaken the earth.
13 # He said also unto me, Turn thee
yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater
abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of
the gate of the LORD'S house which
[was] toward the north; and, behold,
there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15 # Then said he unto me, Hast thou
seen [this], O son of man? turn thee
yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater
abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner
court of the LORD'S house, and, behold,
at the door of the temple of the LORD,
between the porch and the altar, [were]
about five and twenty men, with their
backs toward the temple of the LORD,
and their faces toward the east; and
they worshipped the sun toward the
east.
17 # Then he said unto me, Hast thou
seen [this], O son of man? Is it a
light thing to the house of Judah that
they commit the abominations which they
commit here? for they have filled the
land with violence, and have returned
to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they
put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury:
mine eye shall not spare, neither will
I have pity: and though they cry in
mine ears with a loud voice, [yet] will
I not hear them.

CHAPTER 9
1 He cried also in mine ears with a
loud voice, saying, Cause them that
have charge over the city to draw near,
even every man [with] his destroying
weapon in his hand.
2 And, behold, six men came from the
way of the higher gate, which lieth
toward the north, and every man a
slaughter weapon in his hand; and one
man among them [was] clothed with
linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his
side: and they went in, and stood
beside the brasen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel
was gone up from the cherub, whereupon
he was, to the threshold of the house.
And he called to the man clothed with
linen, which [had] the writer's inkhorn
by his side;
4 And the LORD said unto him, Go
through the midst of the city, through
the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark
upon the foreheads of the men that sigh
and that cry for all the abominations
that be done in the midst thereof.
5 # And to the others he said in mine
hearing, Go ye after him through the
city, and smite: let not your eye
spare, neither have ye pity:
6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both
maids, and little children, and women:
but come not near any man upon whom
[is] the mark; and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the
ancient men which [were] before the
house.
7 And he said unto them, Defile the
house, and fill the courts with the
slain: go ye forth. And they went
forth, and slew in the city.
8 # And it came to pass, while they
were slaying them, and I was left, that
I fell upon my face, and cried, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy
all the residue of Israel in thy
pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of
the house of Israel and Judah [is]
exceeding great, and the land is full
of blood, and the city full of
perverseness: for they say, The LORD
hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD
seeth not.
10 And as for me also, mine eye shall
not spare, neither will I have pity,
[but] I will recompense their way upon
their head.
11 And, behold, the man clothed with
linen, which [had] the inkhorn by his
side, reported the matter, saying, I
have done as thou hast commanded me.

CHAPTER 10
1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the
firmament that was above the head of
the cherubims there appeared over them
as it were a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne.
2 And he spake unto the man clothed
with linen, and said, Go in between the
wheels, [even] under the cherub, and
fill thine hand with coals of fire from
between the cherubims, and scatter
[them] over the city. And he went in in
my sight.
3 Now the cherubims stood on the right
side of the house, when the man went
in; and the cloud filled the inner
court.
4 Then the glory of the LORD went up
from the cherub, [and stood] over the
threshold of the house; and the house
was filled with the cloud, and the
court was full of the brightness of the
LORD'S glory.
5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings
was heard [even] to the outer court, as
the voice of the Almighty God when he
speaketh.
6 And it came to pass, [that] when he
had commanded the man clothed with
linen, saying, Take fire from between
the wheels, from between the cherubims;
then he went in, and stood beside the
wheels.
7 And [one] cherub stretched forth his
hand from between the cherubims unto
the fire that [was] between the
cherubims, and took [thereof], and put
[it] into the hands of [him that was]
clothed with linen: who took [it], and
went out.
8 # And there appeared in the cherubims
the form of a man's hand under their
wings.
9 And when I looked, behold the four
wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by
one cherub, and another wheel by
another cherub: and the appearance of
the wheels [was] as the colour of a
beryl stone.
10 And [as for] their appearances, they
four had one likeness, as if a wheel
had been in the midst of a wheel.
11 When they went, they went upon their
four sides; they turned not as they
went, but to the place whither the head
looked they followed it; they turned
not as they went.
12 And their whole body, and their
backs, and their hands, and their
wings, and the wheels, [were] full of
eyes round about, [even] the wheels
that they four had.
13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto
them in my hearing, O wheel.
14 And every one had four faces: the
first face [was] the face of a cherub,
and the second face [was] the face of a
man, and the third the face of a lion,
and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up.
This [is] the living creature that I
saw by the river of Chebar.
16 And when the cherubims went, the
wheels went by them: and when the
cherubims lifted up their wings to
mount up from the earth, the same
wheels also turned not from beside
them.
17 When they stood, [these] stood; and
when they were lifted up, [these]
lifted up themselves [also]: for the
spirit of the living creature [was] in
them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD departed
from off the threshold of the house,
and stood over the cherubims.
19 And the cherubims lifted up their
wings, and mounted up from the earth in
my sight: when they went out, the
wheels also [were] beside them, and
[every one] stood at the door of the
east gate of the LORD'S house; and the
glory of the God of Israel [was] over
them above.
20 This [is] the living creature that I
saw under the God of Israel by the
river of Chebar; and I knew that they
[were] the cherubims.
21 Every one had four faces apiece, and
every one four wings; and the likeness
of the hands of a man [was] under their
wings.
22 And the likeness of their faces
[was] the same faces which I saw by the
river of Chebar, their appearances and
themselves: they went every one
straight forward.

CHAPTER 11
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and
brought me unto the east gate of the
LORD'S house, which looketh eastward:
and behold at the door of the gate five
and twenty men; among whom I saw
Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah
the son of Benaiah, princes of the
people.
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man,
these [are] the men that devise
mischief, and give wicked counsel in
this city:
3 Which say, [It is] not near; let us
build houses: this [city is] the
caldron, and we [be] the flesh.
4 # Therefore prophesy against them,
prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon
me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith
the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of
Israel: for I know the things that come
into your mind, [every one of] them.
6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this
city, and ye have filled the streets
thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Your slain whom ye have laid in the
midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and
this [city is] the caldron: but I will
bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will
bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord
GOD.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst
thereof, and deliver you into the hands
of strangers, and will execute
judgments among you.
10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will
judge you in the border of Israel; and
ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
11 This [city] shall not be your
caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh
in the midst thereof; [but] I will
judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD: for ye have not walked in my
statutes, neither executed my
judgments, but have done after the
manners of the heathen that [are] round
about you.
13 # And it came to pass, when I
prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my
face, and cried with a loud voice, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a
full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 Again the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy brethren, [even] thy
brethren, the men of thy kindred, and
all the house of Israel wholly, [are]
they unto whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, Get you far from
the LORD: unto us is this land given in
possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Although I have cast them far off
among the heathen, and although I have
scattered them among the countries, yet
will I be to them as a little sanctuary
in the countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; I will even gather you from the
people, and assemble you out of the
countries where ye have been scattered,
and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and
they shall take away all the detestable
things thereof and all the abominations
thereof from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and
I will put a new spirit within you; and
I will take the stony heart out of
their flesh, and will give them an
heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes,
and keep mine ordinances, and do them:
and they shall be my people, and I will
be their God.
21 But [as for them] whose heart
walketh after the heart of their
detestable things and their
abominations, I will recompense their
way upon their own heads, saith the
Lord GOD.
22 # Then did the cherubims lift up
their wings, and the wheels beside
them; and the glory of the God of
Israel [was] over them above.
23 And the glory of the LORD went up
from the midst of the city, and stood
upon the mountain which [is] on the
east side of the city.
24 # Afterwards the spirit took me up,
and brought me in a vision by the
Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of
the captivity. So the vision that I had
seen went up from me.
25 Then I spake unto them of the
captivity all the things that the LORD
had shewed me.

CHAPTER 12
1 The word of the LORD also came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the
midst of a rebellious house, which have
eyes to see, and see not; they have
ears to hear, and hear not: for they
[are] a rebellious house.
3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare
thee stuff for removing, and remove by
day in their sight; and thou shalt
remove from thy place to another place
in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they [be] a rebellious
house.
4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff
by day in their sight, as stuff for
removing: and thou shalt go forth at
even in their sight, as they that go
forth into captivity.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their
sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear [it]
upon [thy] shoulders, [and] carry [it]
forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover
thy face, that thou see not the ground:
for I have set thee [for] a sign unto
the house of Israel.
7 And I did so as I was commanded: I
brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff
for captivity, and in the even I digged
through the wall with mine hand; I
brought [it] forth in the twilight,
[and] I bare [it] upon [my] shoulder in
their sight.
8 # And in the morning came the word of
the LORD unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, hath not the house of
Israel, the rebellious house, said unto
thee, What doest thou?
10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; This burden [concerneth] the
prince in Jerusalem, and all the house
of Israel that [are] among them.
11 Say, I [am] your sign: like as I
have done, so shall it be done unto
them: they shall remove [and] go into
captivity.
12 And the prince that [is] among them
shall bear upon [his] shoulder in the
twilight, and shall go forth: they
shall dig through the wall to carry out
thereby: he shall cover his face, that
he see not the ground with [his] eyes.
13 My net also will I spread upon him,
and he shall be taken in my snare: and
I will bring him to Babylon [to] the
land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not
see it, though he shall die there.
14 And I will scatter toward every wind
all that [are] about him to help him,
and all his bands; and I will draw out
the sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I [am] the
LORD, when I shall scatter them among
the nations, and disperse them in the
countries.
16 But I will leave a few men of them
from the sword, from the famine, and
from the pestilence; that they may
declare all their abominations among
the heathen whither they come; and they
shall know that I [am] the LORD.
17 # Moreover the word of the LORD came
to me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with
quaking, and drink thy water with
trembling and with carefulness;
19 And say unto the people of the land,
Thus saith the Lord GOD of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, [and] of the
land of Israel; They shall eat their
bread with carefulness, and drink their
water with astonishment, that her land
may be desolate from all that is
therein, because of the violence of all
them that dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited
shall be laid waste, and the land shall
be desolate; and ye shall know that I
[am] the LORD.
21 # And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
22 Son of man, what [is] that proverb
[that] ye have in the land of Israel,
saying, The days are prolonged, and
every vision faileth?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to
cease, and they shall no more use it as
a proverb in Israel; but say unto them,
The days are at hand, and the effect of
every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain
vision nor flattering divination within
the house of Israel.
25 For I [am] the LORD: I will speak,
and the word that I shall speak shall
come to pass; it shall be no more
prolonged: for in your days, O
rebellious house, will I say the word,
and will perform it, saith the Lord
GOD.
26 # Again the word of the LORD came to
me, saying,
27 Son of man, behold, [they of] the
house of Israel say, The vision that he
seeth [is] for many days [to come], and
he prophesieth of the times [that are]
far off.
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; There shall none of my
words be prolonged any more, but the
word which I have spoken shall be done,
saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 13
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel that prophesy, and
say thou unto them that prophesy out of
their own hearts, Hear ye the word of
the LORD;
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the
foolish prophets, that follow their own
spirit, and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the
foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps,
neither made up the hedge for the house
of Israel to stand in the battle in the
day of the LORD.
6 They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The LORD saith: and
the LORD hath not sent them: and they
have made [others] to hope that they
would confirm the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and
have ye not spoken a lying divination,
whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it];
albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen
lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against
you, saith the Lord GOD.
9 And mine hand shall be upon the
prophets that see vanity, and that
divine lies: they shall not be in the
assembly of my people, neither shall
they be written in the writing of the
house of Israel, neither shall they
enter into the land of Israel; and ye
shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
10 # Because, even because they have
seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
[there was] no peace; and one built up
a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with
untempered [morter]:
11 Say unto them which daub [it] with
untempered [morter], that it shall
fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and ye, O great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall
rend [it].
12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall
it not be said unto you, Where [is] the
daubing wherewith ye have daubed [it]?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will even rend [it] with a stormy wind
in my fury; and there shall be an
overflowing shower in mine anger, and
great hailstones in [my] fury to
consume [it].
14 So will I break down the wall that
ye have daubed with untempered
[morter], and bring it down to the
ground, so that the foundation thereof
shall be discovered, and it shall fall,
and ye shall be consumed in the midst
thereof: and ye shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon
the wall, and upon them that have
daubed it with untempered [morter], and
will say unto you, The wall [is] no
[more], neither they that daubed it;
16 [To wit], the prophets of Israel
which prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
and which see visions of peace for her,
and [there is] no peace, saith the Lord
GOD.
17 # Likewise, thou son of man, set thy
face against the daughters of thy
people, which prophesy out of their own
heart; and prophesy thou against them,
18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to
all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon
the head of every stature to hunt
souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my
people, and will ye save the souls
alive [that come] unto you?
19 And will ye pollute me among my
people for handfuls of barley and for
pieces of bread, to slay the souls that
should not die, and to save the souls
alive that should not live, by your
lying to my people that hear [your]
lies?
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I [am] against your pillows,
wherewith ye there hunt the souls to
make [them] fly, and I will tear them
from your arms, and will let the souls
go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to
make [them] fly.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and
deliver my people out of your hand, and
they shall be no more in your hand to
be hunted; and ye shall know that I
[am] the LORD.
22 Because with lies ye have made the
heart of the righteous sad, whom I have
not made sad; and strengthened the
hands of the wicked, that he should not
return from his wicked way, by
promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more
vanity, nor divine divinations: for I
will deliver my people out of your
hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD.

CHAPTER 14
1 Then came certain of the elders of
Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
3 Son of man, these men have set up
their idols in their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before
their face: should I be enquired of at
all by them?
4 Therefore speak unto them, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Every man of the house of Israel that
setteth up his idols in his heart, and
putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to
the prophet; I the LORD will answer him
that cometh according to the multitude
of his idols;
5 That I may take the house of Israel
in their own heart, because they are
all estranged from me through their
idols.
6 # Therefore say unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Repent, and turn [yourselves] from your
idols; and turn away your faces from
all your abominations.
7 For every one of the house of Israel,
or of the stranger that sojourneth in
Israel, which separateth himself from
me, and setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock
of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to a prophet to enquire of him
concerning me; I the LORD will answer
him by myself:
8 And I will set my face against that
man, and will make him a sign and a
proverb, and I will cut him off from
the midst of my people; and ye shall
know that I [am] the LORD.
9 And if the prophet be deceived when
he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have
deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand upon him, and will
destroy him from the midst of my people
Israel.
10 And they shall bear the punishment
of their iniquity: the punishment of
the prophet shall be even as the
punishment of him that seeketh [unto
him];
11 That the house of Israel may go no
more astray from me, neither be
polluted any more with all their
transgressions; but that they may be my
people, and I may be their God, saith
the Lord GOD.
12 # The word of the LORD came again to
me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sinneth
against me by trespassing grievously,
then will I stretch out mine hand upon
it, and will break the staff of the
bread thereof, and will send famine
upon it, and will cut off man and beast
from it:
14 Though these three men, Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, they
should deliver [but] their own souls by
their righteousness, saith the Lord
GOD.
15 # If I cause noisome beasts to pass
through the land, and they spoil it, so
that it be desolate, that no man may
pass through because of the beasts:
16 [Though] these three men [were] in
it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters; they only shall be
delivered, but the land shall be
desolate.
17 # Or [if] I bring a sword upon that
land, and say, Sword, go through the
land; so that I cut off man and beast
from it:
18 Though these three men [were] in it,
[as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they
shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they only shall be
delivered themselves.
19 # Or [if] I send a pestilence into
that land, and pour out my fury upon it
in blood, to cut off from it man and
beast:
20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were]
in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither son nor
daughter; they shall [but] deliver
their own souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How
much more when I send my four sore
judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword,
and the famine, and the noisome beast,
and the pestilence, to cut off from it
man and beast?
22 # Yet, behold, therein shall be left
a remnant that shall be brought forth,
[both] sons and daughters: behold, they
shall come forth unto you, and ye shall
see their way and their doings: and ye
shall be comforted concerning the evil
that I have brought upon Jerusalem,
[even] concerning all that I have
brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort you, when ye
see their ways and their doings: and ye
shall know that I have not done without
cause all that I have done in it, saith
the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 15
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, What is the vine tree
more than any tree, [or than] a branch
which is among the trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any
work? or will [men] take a pin of it to
hang any vessel thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for
fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends
of it, and the midst of it is burned.
Is it meet for [any] work?
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was
meet for no work: how much less shall
it be meet yet for [any] work, when the
fire hath devoured it, and it is
burned?
6 # Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
As the vine tree among the trees of the
forest, which I have given to the fire
for fuel, so will I give the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7 And I will set my face against them;
they shall go out from [one] fire, and
[another] fire shall devour them; and
ye shall know that I [am] the LORD,
when I set my face against them.
8 And I will make the land desolate,
because they have committed a trespass,
saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 16
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know
her abominations,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto
Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity
[is] of the land of Canaan; thy father
[was] an Amorite, and thy mother an
Hittite.
4 And [as for] thy nativity, in the day
thou wast born thy navel was not cut,
neither wast thou washed in water to
supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at
all, nor swaddled at all.
5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of
these unto thee, to have compassion
upon thee; but thou wast cast out in
the open field, to the lothing of thy
person, in the day that thou wast born.
6 # And when I passed by thee, and saw
thee polluted in thine own blood, I
said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy
blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee
[when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.
7 I have caused thee to multiply as the
bud of the field, and thou hast
increased and waxen great, and thou art
come to excellent ornaments: [thy]
breasts are fashioned, and thine hair
is grown, whereas thou [wast] naked and
bare.
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked
upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the
time of love; and I spread my skirt
over thee, and covered thy nakedness:
yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the
Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I
throughly washed away thy blood from
thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
10 I clothed thee also with broidered
work, and shod thee with badgers' skin,
and I girded thee about with fine
linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments,
and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and
a chain on thy neck.
12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead,
and earrings in thine ears, and a
beautiful crown upon thine head.
13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and
silver; and thy raiment [was of] fine
linen, and silk, and broidered work;
thou didst eat fine flour, and honey,
and oil: and thou wast exceeding
beautiful, and thou didst prosper into
a kingdom.
14 And thy renown went forth among the
heathen for thy beauty: for it [was]
perfect through my comeliness, which I
had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
15 # But thou didst trust in thine own
beauty, and playedst the harlot because
of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
fornications on every one that passed
by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take,
and deckedst thy high places with
divers colours, and playedst the harlot
thereupon: [the like things] shall not
come, neither shall it be [so].
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels
of my gold and of my silver, which I
had given thee, and madest to thyself
images of men, and didst commit
whoredom with them,
18 And tookest thy broidered garments,
and coveredst them: and thou hast set
mine oil and mine incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine
flour, and oil, and honey, [wherewith]
I fed thee, thou hast even set it
before them for a sweet savour: and
[thus] it was, saith the Lord GOD.
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons
and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne
unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed
unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of
thy whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast slain my children,
and delivered them to cause them to
pass through [the fire] for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and
thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered
the days of thy youth, when thou wast
naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in
thy blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy
wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith
the Lord GOD;)
24 [That] thou hast also built unto
thee an eminent place, and hast made
thee an high place in every street.
25 Thou hast built thy high place at
every head of the way, and hast made
thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast
opened thy feet to every one that
passed by, and multiplied thy
whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication
with the Egyptians thy neighbours,
great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched
out my hand over thee, and have
diminished thine ordinary [food], and
delivered thee unto the will of them
that hate thee, the daughters of the
Philistines, which are ashamed of thy
lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the whore also with
the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the
harlot with them, and yet couldest not
be satisfied.
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy
fornication in the land of Canaan unto
Chaldea; and yet thou wast not
satisfied herewith.
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the
Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these
[things], the work of an imperious
whorish woman;
31 In that thou buildest thine eminent
place in the head of every way, and
makest thine high place in every
street; and hast not been as an harlot,
in that thou scornest hire;
32 [But as] a wife that committeth
adultery, [which] taketh strangers
instead of her husband!
33 They give gifts to all whores: but
thou givest thy gifts to all thy
lovers, and hirest them, that they may
come unto thee on every side for thy
whoredom.
34 And the contrary is in thee from
[other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas
none followeth thee to commit
whoredoms: and in that thou givest a
reward, and no reward is given unto
thee, therefore thou art contrary.
35 # Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word
of the LORD:
36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy
filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy
whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all
the idols of thy abominations, and by
the blood of thy children, which thou
didst give unto them;
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all
thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken
pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast
loved, with all [them] that thou hast
hated; I will even gather them round
about against thee, and will discover
thy nakedness unto them, that they may
see all thy nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee, as women that
break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will give thee blood in
fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give thee into their
hand, and they shall throw down thine
eminent place, and shall break down thy
high places: they shall strip thee also
of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair
jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company
against thee, and they shall stone thee
with stones, and thrust thee through
with their swords.
41 And they shall burn thine houses
with fire, and execute judgments upon
thee in the sight of many women: and I
will cause thee to cease from playing
the harlot, and thou also shalt give no
hire any more.
42 So will I make my fury toward thee
to rest, and my jealousy shall depart
from thee, and I will be quiet, and
will be no more angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the
days of thy youth, but hast fretted me
in all these [things]; behold,
therefore I also will recompense thy
way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord
GOD: and thou shalt not commit this
lewdness above all thine abominations.
44 # Behold, every one that useth
proverbs shall use [this] proverb
against thee, saying, As [is] the
mother, [so is] her daughter.
45 Thou [art] thy mother's daughter,
that lotheth her husband and her
children; and thou [art] the sister of
thy sisters, which lothed their
husbands and their children: your
mother [was] an Hittite, and your
father an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister [is] Samaria,
she and her daughters that dwell at thy
left hand: and thy younger sister, that
dwelleth at thy right hand, [is] Sodom
and her daughters.
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their
ways, nor done after their
abominations: but, as [if that were] a
very little [thing], thou wast
corrupted more than they in all thy
ways.
48 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor
her daughters, as thou hast done, thou
and thy daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy
sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread,
and abundance of idleness was in her
and in her daughters, neither did she
strengthen the hand of the poor and
needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took
them away as I saw [good].
51 Neither hath Samaria committed half
of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied
thine abominations more than they, and
hast justified thy sisters in all thine
abominations which thou hast done.
52 Thou also, which hast judged thy
sisters, bear thine own shame for thy
sins that thou hast committed more
abominable than they: they are more
righteous than thou: yea, be thou
confounded also, and bear thy shame, in
that thou hast justified thy sisters.
53 When I shall bring again their
captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
her daughters, and the captivity of
Samaria and her daughters, then [will I
bring again] the captivity of thy
captives in the midst of them:
54 That thou mayest bear thine own
shame, and mayest be confounded in all
that thou hast done, in that thou art a
comfort unto them.
55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her
daughters, shall return to their former
estate, and Samaria and her daughters
shall return to their former estate,
then thou and thy daughters shall
return to your former estate.
56 For thy sister Sodom was not
mentioned by thy mouth in the day of
thy pride,
57 Before thy wickedness was
discovered, as at the time of [thy]
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and
all [that are] round about her, the
daughters of the Philistines, which
despise thee round about.
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and
thine abominations, saith the LORD.
59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
even deal with thee as thou hast done,
which hast despised the oath in
breaking the covenant.
60 # Nevertheless I will remember my
covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee
an everlasting covenant.
61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways,
and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thine elder and thy
younger: and I will give them unto thee
for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant
with thee; and thou shalt know that I
[am] the LORD:
63 That thou mayest remember, and be
confounded, and never open thy mouth
any more because of thy shame, when I
am pacified toward thee for all that
thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 17
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and
speak a parable unto the house of
Israel;
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A
great eagle with great wings,
longwinged, full of feathers, which had
divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and
took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young
twigs, and carried it into a land of
traffick; he set it in a city of
merchants.
5 He took also of the seed of the land,
and planted it in a fruitful field; he
placed [it] by great waters, [and] set
it [as] a willow tree.
6 And it grew, and became a spreading
vine of low stature, whose branches
turned toward him, and the roots
thereof were under him: so it became a
vine, and brought forth branches, and
shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle
with great wings and many feathers:
and, behold, this vine did bend her
roots toward him, and shot forth her
branches toward him, that he might
water it by the furrows of her
plantation.
8 It was planted in a good soil by
great waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and that it might bear fruit,
that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up
the roots thereof, and cut off the
fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall
wither in all the leaves of her spring,
even without great power or many people
to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall
it prosper? shall it not utterly
wither, when the east wind toucheth it?
it shall wither in the furrows where it
grew.
11 # Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the rebellious house,
Know ye not what these [things mean]?
tell [them], Behold, the king of
Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath
taken the king thereof, and the princes
thereof, and led them with him to
Babylon;
13 And hath taken of the king's seed,
and made a covenant with him, and hath
taken an oath of him: he hath also
taken the mighty of the land:
14 That the kingdom might be base, that
it might not lift itself up, [but] that
by keeping of his covenant it might
stand.
15 But he rebelled against him in
sending his ambassadors into Egypt,
that they might give him horses and
much people. Shall he prosper? shall he
escape that doeth such [things]? or
shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?
16 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
surely in the place [where] the king
[dwelleth] that made him king, whose
oath he despised, and whose covenant he
brake, [even] with him in the midst of
Babylon he shall die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with [his]
mighty army and great company make for
him in the war, by casting up mounts,
and building forts, to cut off many
persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by
breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had
given his hand, and hath done all these
[things], he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
[As] I live, surely mine oath that he
hath despised, and my covenant that he
hath broken, even it will I recompense
upon his own head.
20 And I will spread my net upon him,
and he shall be taken in my snare, and
I will bring him to Babylon, and will
plead with him there for his trespass
that he hath trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his
bands shall fall by the sword, and they
that remain shall be scattered toward
all winds: and ye shall know that I the
LORD have spoken [it].
22 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
also take of the highest branch of the
high cedar, and will set [it]; I will
crop off from the top of his young
twigs a tender one, and will plant [it]
upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of
Israel will I plant it: and it shall
bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and
be a goodly cedar: and under it shall
dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
shadow of the branches thereof shall
they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall
know that I the LORD have brought down
the high tree, have exalted the low
tree, have dried up the green tree, and
have made the dry tree to flourish: I
the LORD have spoken and have done
[it].

CHAPTER 18
1 The word of the LORD came unto me
again, saying,
2 What mean ye, that ye use this
proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying, The fathers have eaten sour
grapes, and the children's teeth are
set on edge?
3 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye
shall not have [occasion] any more to
use this proverb in Israel.
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the
soul of the father, so also the soul of
the son is mine: the soul that sinneth,
it shall die.
5 # But if a man be just, and do that
which is lawful and right,
6 [And] hath not eaten upon the
mountains, neither hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of
Israel, neither hath defiled his
neighbour's wife, neither hath come
near to a menstruous woman,
7 And hath not oppressed any, [but]
hath restored to the debtor his pledge,
hath spoiled none by violence, hath
given his bread to the hungry, and hath
covered the naked with a garment;
8 He [that] hath not given forth upon
usury, neither hath taken any increase,
[that] hath withdrawn his hand from
iniquity, hath executed true judgment
between man and man,
9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath
kept my judgments, to deal truly; he
[is] just, he shall surely live, saith
the Lord GOD.
10 # If he beget a son [that is] a
robber, a shedder of blood, and [that]
doeth the like to [any] one of these
[things],
11 And that doeth not any of those
[duties], but even hath eaten upon the
mountains, and defiled his neighbour's
wife,
12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy,
hath spoiled by violence, hath not
restored the pledge, and hath lifted up
his eyes to the idols, hath committed
abomination,
13 Hath given forth upon usury, and
hath taken increase: shall he then
live? he shall not live: he hath done
all these abominations; he shall surely
die; his blood shall be upon him.
14 # Now, lo, [if] he beget a son, that
seeth all his father's sins which he
hath done, and considereth, and doeth
not such like,
15 [That] hath not eaten upon the
mountains, neither hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of
Israel, hath not defiled his
neighbour's wife,
16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not
withholden the pledge, neither hath
spoiled by violence, [but] hath given
his bread to the hungry, and hath
covered the naked with a garment,
17 [That] hath taken off his hand from
the poor, [that] hath not received
usury nor increase, hath executed my
judgments, hath walked in my statutes;
he shall not die for the iniquity of
his father, he shall surely live.
18 [As for] his father, because he
cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother
by violence, and did [that] which [is]
not good among his people, lo, even he
shall die in his iniquity.
19 # Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son
bear the iniquity of the father? When
the son hath done that which is lawful
and right, [and] hath kept all my
statutes, and hath done them, he shall
surely live.
20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
The son shall not bear the iniquity of
the father, neither shall the father
bear the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the righteous shall be
upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all
his sins that he hath committed, and
keep all my statutes, and do that which
is lawful and right, he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath
committed, they shall not be mentioned
unto him: in his righteousness that he
hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the
wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:
[and] not that he should return from
his ways, and live?
24 # But when the righteous turneth
away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, [and] doeth
according to all the abominations that
the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live?
All his righteousness that he hath done
shall not be mentioned: in his trespass
that he hath trespassed, and in his sin
that he hath sinned, in them shall he
die.
25 # Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is
not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel;
Is not my way equal? are not your ways
unequal?
26 When a righteous [man] turneth away
from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and dieth in them; for his
iniquity that he hath done shall he
die.
27 Again, when the wicked [man] turneth
away from his wickedness that he hath
committed, and doeth that which is
lawful and right, he shall save his
soul alive.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth
away from all his transgressions that
he hath committed, he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The
way of the Lord is not equal. O house
of Israel, are not my ways equal? are
not your ways unequal?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house
of Israel, every one according to his
ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and
turn [yourselves] from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not
be your ruin.
31 # Cast away from you all your
transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart
and a new spirit: for why will ye die,
O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death
of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD:
wherefore turn [yourselves], and live
ye.

CHAPTER 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation
for the princes of Israel,
2 And say, What [is] thy mother? A
lioness: she lay down among lions, she
nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps:
it became a young lion, and it learned
to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was
taken in their pit, and they brought
him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited,
[and] her hope was lost, then she took
another of her whelps, [and] made him a
young lion.
6 And he went up and down among the
lions, he became a young lion, and
learned to catch the prey, [and]
devoured men.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces,
and he laid waste their cities; and the
land was desolate, and the fulness
thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him on
every side from the provinces, and
spread their net over him: he was taken
in their pit.
9 And they put him in ward in chains,
and brought him to the king of Babylon:
they brought him into holds, that his
voice should no more be heard upon the
mountains of Israel.
10 # Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy
blood, planted by the waters: she was
fruitful and full of branches by reason
of many waters.
11 And she had strong rods for the
sceptres of them that bare rule, and
her stature was exalted among the thick
branches, and she appeared in her
height with the multitude of her
branches.
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she
was cast down to the ground, and the
east wind dried up her fruit: her
strong rods were broken and withered;
the fire consumed them.
13 And now she [is] planted in the
wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
ground.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her
branches, [which] hath devoured her
fruit, so that she hath no strong rod
[to be] a sceptre to rule. This [is] a
lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation.

CHAPTER 20
1 And it came to pass in the seventh
year, in the fifth [month], the tenth
[day] of the month, [that] certain of
the elders of Israel came to enquire of
the LORD, and sat before me.
2 Then came the word of the LORD unto
me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of
Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of
me? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
will not be enquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man,
wilt thou judge [them]? cause them to
know the abominations of their fathers:
5 # And say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; In the day when I chose
Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto
the seed of the house of Jacob, and
made myself known unto them in the land
of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand
unto them, saying, I [am] the LORD your
God;
6 In the day [that] I lifted up mine
hand unto them, to bring them forth of
the land of Egypt into a land that I
had espied for them, flowing with milk
and honey, which [is] the glory of all
lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away
every man the abominations of his eyes,
and defile not yourselves with the
idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your
God.
8 But they rebelled against me, and
would not hearken unto me: they did not
every man cast away the abominations of
their eyes, neither did they forsake
the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will
pour out my fury upon them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the
midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name's sake,
that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, among whom they [were], in
whose sight I made myself known unto
them, in bringing them forth out of the
land of Egypt.
10 # Wherefore I caused them to go
forth out of the land of Egypt, and
brought them into the wilderness.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and
shewed them my judgments, which [if] a
man do, he shall even live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave them my
sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
them, that they might know that I [am]
the LORD that sanctify them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled
against me in the wilderness: they
walked not in my statutes, and they
despised my judgments, which [if] a man
do, he shall even live in them; and my
sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I
said, I would pour out my fury upon
them in the wilderness, to consume
them.
14 But I wrought for my name's sake,
that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, in whose sight I brought
them out.
15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto
them in the wilderness, that I would
not bring them into the land which I
had given [them], flowing with milk and
honey, which [is] the glory of all
lands;
16 Because they despised my judgments,
and walked not in my statutes, but
polluted my sabbaths: for their heart
went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them
from destroying them, neither did I
make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But I said unto their children in
the wilderness, Walk ye not in the
statutes of your fathers, neither
observe their judgments, nor defile
yourselves with their idols:
19 I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my
statutes, and keep my judgments, and do
them;
20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they
shall be a sign between me and you,
that ye may know that I [am] the LORD
your God.
21 Notwithstanding the children
rebelled against me: they walked not in
my statutes, neither kept my judgments
to do them, which [if] a man do, he
shall even live in them; they polluted
my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour
out my fury upon them, to accomplish my
anger against them in the wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand,
and wrought for my name's sake, that it
should not be polluted in the sight of
the heathen, in whose sight I brought
them forth.
23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also
in the wilderness, that I would scatter
them among the heathen, and disperse
them through the countries;
24 Because they had not executed my
judgments, but had despised my
statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths,
and their eyes were after their
fathers' idols.
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes
[that were] not good, and judgments
whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted them in their own
gifts, in that they caused to pass
through [the fire] all that openeth the
womb, that I might make them desolate,
to the end that they might know that I
[am] the LORD.
27 # Therefore, son of man, speak unto
the house of Israel, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this
your fathers have blasphemed me, in
that they have committed a trespass
against me.
28 [For] when I had brought them into
the land, [for] the which I lifted up
mine hand to give it to them, then they
saw every high hill, and all the thick
trees, and they offered there their
sacrifices, and there they presented
the provocation of their offering:
there also they made their sweet
savour, and poured out there their
drink offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What [is] the
high place whereunto ye go? And the
name thereof is called Bamah unto this
day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye
polluted after the manner of your
fathers? and commit ye whoredom after
their abominations?
31 For when ye offer your gifts, when
ye make your sons to pass through the
fire, ye pollute yourselves with all
your idols, even unto this day: and
shall I be enquired of by you, O house
of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord
GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
32 And that which cometh into your mind
shall not be at all, that ye say, We
will be as the heathen, as the families
of the countries, to serve wood and
stone.
33 # [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
surely with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured
out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the
people, and will gather you out of the
countries wherein ye are scattered,
with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured
out.
35 And I will bring you into the
wilderness of the people, and there
will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers
in the wilderness of the land of Egypt,
so will I plead with you, saith the
Lord GOD.
37 And I will cause you to pass under
the rod, and I will bring you into the
bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you
the rebels, and them that transgress
against me: I will bring them forth out
of the country where they sojourn, and
they shall not enter into the land of
Israel: and ye shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus
saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye
every one his idols, and hereafter
[also], if ye will not hearken unto me:
but pollute ye my holy name no more
with your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in mine holy mountain, in the
mountain of the height of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD, there shall all the house
of Israel, all of them in the land,
serve me: there will I accept them, and
there will I require your offerings,
and the firstfruits of your oblations,
with all your holy things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet
savour, when I bring you out from the
people, and gather you out of the
countries wherein ye have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in
you before the heathen.
42 And ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD, when I shall bring you into the
land of Israel, into the country [for]
the which I lifted up mine hand to give
it to your fathers.
43 And there shall ye remember your
ways, and all your doings, wherein ye
have been defiled; and ye shall lothe
yourselves in your own sight for all
your evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD, when I have wrought with you for
my name's sake, not according to your
wicked ways, nor according to your
corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD.
45 # Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set thy face toward the
south, and drop [thy word] toward the
south, and prophesy against the forest
of the south field;
47 And say to the forest of the south,
Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a
fire in thee, and it shall devour every
green tree in thee, and every dry tree:
the flaming flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south
to the north shall be burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I the
LORD have kindled it: it shall not be
quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say
of me, Doth he not speak parables?

CHAPTER 21
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward
Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward
the holy places, and prophesy against
the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus
saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against
thee, and will draw forth my sword out
of his sheath, and will cut off from
thee the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from
thee the righteous and the wicked,
therefore shall my sword go forth out
of his sheath against all flesh from
the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the
LORD have drawn forth my sword out of
his sheath: it shall not return any
more.
6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with
the breaking of [thy] loins; and with
bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto
thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou
shalt answer, For the tidings; because
it cometh: and every heart shall melt,
and all hands shall be feeble, and
every spirit shall faint, and all knees
shall be weak [as] water: behold, it
cometh, and shall be brought to pass,
saith the Lord GOD.
8 # Again the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus
saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword
is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore
slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it
contemneth the rod of my son, [as]
every tree.
11 And he hath given it to be
furbished, that it may be handled: this
sword is sharpened, and it is
furbished, to give it into the hand of
the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it
shall be upon my people, it [shall be]
upon all the princes of Israel: terrors
by reason of the sword shall be upon my
people: smite therefore upon [thy]
thigh.
13 Because [it is] a trial, and what if
[the sword] contemn even the rod? it
shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.
14 Thou therefore, son of man,
prophesy, and smite [thine] hands
together, and let the sword be doubled
the third time, the sword of the slain:
it [is] the sword of the great [men
that are] slain, which entereth into
their privy chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword
against all their gates, that [their]
heart may faint, and [their] ruins be
multiplied: ah! [it is] made bright,
[it is] wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go thee one way or other, [either]
on the right hand, [or] on the left,
whithersoever thy face [is] set.
17 I will also smite mine hands
together, and I will cause my fury to
rest: I the LORD have said [it].
18 # The word of the LORD came unto me
again, saying,
19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee
two ways, that the sword of the king of
Babylon may come: both twain shall come
forth out of one land: and choose thou
a place, choose [it] at the head of the
way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may
come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and
to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the
parting of the way, at the head of the
two ways, to use divination: he made
[his] arrows bright, he consulted with
images, he looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination
for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to
open the mouth in the slaughter, to
lift up the voice with shouting, to
appoint [battering] rams against the
gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build
a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false
divination in their sight, to them that
have sworn oaths: but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity, that they may
be taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye have made your iniquity to
be remembered, in that your
transgressions are discovered, so that
in all your doings your sins do appear;
because, [I say], that ye are come to
remembrance, ye shall be taken with the
hand.
25 # And thou, profane wicked prince of
Israel, whose day is come, when
iniquity [shall have] an end,
26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the
diadem, and take off the crown: this
[shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him
that is] low, and abase [him that is]
high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn,
it: and it shall be no [more], until he
come whose right it is; and I will give
it [him].
28 # And thou, son of man, prophesy and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning
the Ammonites, and concerning their
reproach; even say thou, The sword, the
sword [is] drawn: for the slaughter [it
is] furbished, to consume because of
the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee,
whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to
bring thee upon the necks of [them that
are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is
come, when their iniquity [shall have]
an end.
30 Shall I cause [it] to return into
his sheath? I will judge thee in the
place where thou wast created, in the
land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation
upon thee, I will blow against thee in
the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee
into the hand of brutish men, [and]
skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire;
thy blood shall be in the midst of the
land; thou shalt be no [more]
remembered: for I the LORD have spoken
[it].

CHAPTER 22
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou
judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?
yea, thou shalt shew her all her
abominations.
3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord
GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the
midst of it, that her time may come,
and maketh idols against herself to
defile herself.
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood
that thou hast shed; and hast defiled
thyself in thine idols which thou hast
made; and thou hast caused thy days to
draw near, and art come [even] unto thy
years: therefore have I made thee a
reproach unto the heathen, and a
mocking to all countries.
5 [Those that be] near, and [those that
be] far from thee, shall mock thee,
[which art] infamous [and] much vexed.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every
one were in thee to their power to shed
blood.
7 In thee have they set light by father
and mother: in the midst of thee have
they dealt by oppression with the
stranger: in thee have they vexed the
fatherless and the widow.
8 Thou hast despised mine holy things,
and hast profaned my sabbaths.
9 In thee are men that carry tales to
shed blood: and in thee they eat upon
the mountains: in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness.
10 In thee have they discovered their
fathers' nakedness: in thee have they
humbled her that was set apart for
pollution.
11 And one hath committed abomination
with his neighbour's wife; and another
hath lewdly defiled his daughter in
law; and another in thee hath humbled
his sister, his father's daughter.
12 In thee have they taken gifts to
shed blood; thou hast taken usury and
increase, and thou hast greedily gained
of thy neighbours by extortion, and
hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
13 # Behold, therefore I have smitten
mine hand at thy dishonest gain which
thou hast made, and at thy blood which
hath been in the midst of thee.
14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine
hands be strong, in the days that I
shall deal with thee? I the LORD have
spoken [it], and will do [it].
15 And I will scatter thee among the
heathen, and disperse thee in the
countries, and will consume thy
filthiness out of thee.
16 And thou shalt take thine
inheritance in thyself in the sight of
the heathen, and thou shalt know that I
[am] the LORD.
17 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
18 Son of man, the house of Israel is
to me become dross: all they [are]
brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in
the midst of the furnace; they are
[even] the dross of silver.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye are all become dross,
behold, therefore I will gather you
into the midst of Jerusalem.
20 [As] they gather silver, and brass,
and iron, and lead, and tin, into the
midst of the furnace, to blow the fire
upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather
[you] in mine anger and in my fury, and
I will leave [you there], and melt you.
21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow
upon you in the fire of my wrath, and
ye shall be melted in the midst
thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the midst of
the furnace, so shall ye be melted in
the midst thereof; and ye shall know
that I the LORD have poured out my fury
upon you.
23 # And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art]
the land that is not cleansed, nor
rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 [There is] a conspiracy of her
prophets in the midst thereof, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey; they
have devoured souls; they have taken
the treasure and precious things; they
have made her many widows in the midst
thereof.
26 Her priests have violated my law,
and have profaned mine holy things:
they have put no difference between the
holy and profane, neither have they
shewed [difference] between the unclean
and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from my sabbaths, and I am profaned
among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof
[are] like wolves ravening the prey, to
shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to
get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them
with untempered [morter], seeing
vanity, and divining lies unto them,
saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when
the LORD hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used
oppression, and exercised robbery, and
have vexed the poor and needy: yea,
they have oppressed the stranger
wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them,
that should make up the hedge, and
stand in the gap before me for the
land, that I should not destroy it: but
I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine
indignation upon them; I have consumed
them with the fire of my wrath: their
own way have I recompensed upon their
heads, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 23
1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, there were two women, the
daughters of one mother:
3 And they committed whoredoms in
Egypt; they committed whoredoms in
their youth: there were their breasts
pressed, and there they bruised the
teats of their virginity.
4 And the names of them [were] Aholah
the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and
they were mine, and they bare sons and
daughters. Thus [were] their names;
Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem
Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she
was mine; and she doted on her lovers,
on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
6 [Which were] clothed with blue,
captains and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding
upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with
them, with all them [that were] the
chosen men of Assyria, and with all on
whom she doted: with all their idols
she defiled herself.
8 Neither left she her whoredoms
[brought] from Egypt: for in her youth
they lay with her, and they bruised the
breasts of her virginity, and poured
their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I have delivered her into
the hand of her lovers, into the hand
of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These discovered her nakedness: they
took her sons and her daughters, and
slew her with the sword: and she became
famous among women; for they had
executed judgment upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw
[this], she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her
whoredoms more than her sister in [her]
whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians [her]
neighbours, captains and rulers clothed
most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon
horses, all of them desirable young
men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled,
[that] they [took] both one way,
14 And [that] she increased her
whoredoms: for when she saw men
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of
the Chaldeans pourtrayed with
vermilion,
15 Girded with girdles upon their
loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon
their heads, all of them princes to
look to, after the manner of the
Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of
their nativity:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her
eyes, she doted upon them, and sent
messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into
the bed of love, and they defiled her
with their whoredom, and she was
polluted with them, and her mind was
alienated from them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and
discovered her nakedness: then my mind
was alienated from her, like as my mind
was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in
calling to remembrance the days of her
youth, wherein she had played the
harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she doted upon their paramours,
whose flesh [is as] the flesh of asses,
and whose issue [is like] the issue of
horses.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance
the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising
thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps
of thy youth.
22 # Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up
thy lovers against thee, from whom thy
mind is alienated, and I will bring
them against thee on every side;
23 The Babylonians, and all the
Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa,
[and] all the Assyrians with them: all
of them desirable young men, captains
and rulers, great lords and renowned,
all of them riding upon horses.
24 And they shall come against thee
with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and
with an assembly of people, [which]
shall set against thee buckler and
shield and helmet round about: and I
will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee according to their
judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against
thee, and they shall deal furiously
with thee: they shall take away thy
nose and thine ears; and thy remnant
shall fall by the sword: they shall
take thy sons and thy daughters; and
thy residue shall be devoured by the
fire.
26 They shall also strip thee out of
thy clothes, and take away thy fair
jewels.
27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to
cease from thee, and thy whoredom
[brought] from the land of Egypt: so
that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes
unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I will deliver thee into the hand [of
them] whom thou hatest, into the hand
[of them] from whom thy mind is
alienated:
29 And they shall deal with thee
hatefully, and shall take away all thy
labour, and shall leave thee naked and
bare: and the nakedness of thy
whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy
lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30 I will do these [things] unto thee,
because thou hast gone a whoring after
the heathen, [and] because thou art
polluted with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy
sister; therefore will I give her cup
into thine hand.
32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt
drink of thy sister's cup deep and
large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn
and had in derision; it containeth
much.
33 Thou shalt be filled with
drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the
cup of thy sister Samaria.
34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck
[it] out, and thou shalt break the
sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own
breasts: for I have spoken [it], saith
the Lord GOD.
35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thou hast forgotten me, and
cast me behind thy back, therefore bear
thou also thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms.
36 # The LORD said moreover unto me;
Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and
Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their
abominations;
37 That they have committed adultery,
and blood [is] in their hands, and with
their idols have they committed
adultery, and have also caused their
sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass
for them through [the fire], to devour
[them].
38 Moreover this they have done unto
me: they have defiled my sanctuary in
the same day, and have profaned my
sabbaths.
39 For when they had slain their
children to their idols, then they came
the same day into my sanctuary to
profane it; and, lo, thus have they
done in the midst of mine house.
40 And furthermore, that ye have sent
for men to come from far, unto whom a
messenger [was] sent; and, lo, they
came: for whom thou didst wash thyself,
paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst
thyself with ornaments,
41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a
table prepared before it, whereupon
thou hast set mine incense and mine
oil.
42 And a voice of a multitude being at
ease [was] with her: and with the men
of the common sort [were] brought
Sabeans from the wilderness, which put
bracelets upon their hands, and
beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43 Then said I unto [her that was] old
in adulteries, Will they now commit
whoredoms with her, and she [with
them]?
44 Yet they went in unto her, as they
go in unto a woman that playeth the
harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and
unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
45 # And the righteous men, they shall
judge them after the manner of
adulteresses, and after the manner of
women that shed blood; because they
[are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in
their hands.
46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
bring up a company upon them, and will
give them to be removed and spoiled.
47 And the company shall stone them
with stones, and dispatch them with
their swords; they shall slay their
sons and their daughters, and burn up
their houses with fire.
48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease
out of the land, that all women may be
taught not to do after your lewdness.
49 And they shall recompense your
lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear
the sins of your idols: and ye shall
know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 24
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth
month, in the tenth [day] of the month,
the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
2 Son of man, write thee the name of
the day, [even] of this same day: the
king of Babylon set himself against
Jerusalem this same day.
3 And utter a parable unto the
rebellious house, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot,
set [it] on, and also pour water into
it:
4 Gather the pieces thereof into it,
[even] every good piece, the thigh, and
the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice
bones.
5 Take the choice of the flock, and
burn also the bones under it, [and]
make it boil well, and let them seethe
the bones of it therein.
6 # Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe to the bloody city, to the pot
whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum
is not gone out of it! bring it out
piece by piece; let no lot fall upon
it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her;
she set it upon the top of a rock; she
poured it not upon the ground, to cover
it with dust;
8 That it might cause fury to come up
to take vengeance; I have set her blood
upon the top of a rock, that it should
not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Woe to the bloody city! I will even
make the pile for fire great.
10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire,
consume the flesh, and spice it well,
and let the bones be burned.
11 Then set it empty upon the coals
thereof, that the brass of it may be
hot, and may burn, and [that] the
filthiness of it may be molten in it,
[that] the scum of it may be consumed.
12 She hath wearied [herself] with
lies, and her great scum went not forth
out of her: her scum [shall be] in the
fire.
13 In thy filthiness [is] lewdness:
because I have purged thee, and thou
wast not purged, thou shalt not be
purged from thy filthiness any more,
till I have caused my fury to rest upon
thee.
14 I the LORD have spoken [it]: it
shall come to pass, and I will do [it];
I will not go back, neither will I
spare, neither will I repent; according
to thy ways, and according to thy
doings, shall they judge thee, saith
the Lord GOD.
15 # Also the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
16 Son of man, behold, I take away from
thee the desire of thine eyes with a
stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn
nor weep, neither shall thy tears run
down.
17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for
the dead, bind the tire of thine head
upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon
thy feet, and cover not [thy] lips, and
eat not the bread of men.
18 So I spake unto the people in the
morning: and at even my wife died; and
I did in the morning as I was
commanded.
19 # And the people said unto me, Wilt
thou not tell us what these [things
are] to us, that thou doest [so]?
20 Then I answered them, The word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
profane my sanctuary, the excellency of
your strength, the desire of your eyes,
and that which your soul pitieth; and
your sons and your daughters whom ye
have left shall fall by the sword.
22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye
shall not cover [your] lips, nor eat
the bread of men.
23 And your tires [shall be] upon your
heads, and your shoes upon your feet:
ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye
shall pine away for your iniquities,
and mourn one toward another.
24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign:
according to all that he hath done
shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye
shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
25 Also, thou son of man, [shall it]
not [be] in the day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their
glory, the desire of their eyes, and
that whereupon they set their minds,
their sons and their daughters,
26 [That] he that escapeth in that day
shall come unto thee, to cause [thee]
to hear [it] with [thine] ears?
27 In that day shall thy mouth be
opened to him which is escaped, and
thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb:
and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and
they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 25
1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against the
Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the
word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha,
against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned; and against the land of
Israel, when it was desolate; and
against the house of Judah, when they
went into captivity;
4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee
to the men of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their
palaces in thee, and make their
dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy
fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for
camels, and the Ammonites a
couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall
know that I [am] the LORD.
6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast clapped [thine] hands, and
stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in
heart with all thy despite against the
land of Israel;
7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out
mine hand upon thee, and will deliver
thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I
will cut thee off from the people, and
I will cause thee to perish out of the
countries: I will destroy thee; and
thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
8 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the
house of Judah [is] like unto all the
heathen;
9 Therefore, behold, I will open the
side of Moab from the cities, from his
cities [which are] on his frontiers,
the glory of the country,
Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and
Kiriathaim,
10 Unto the men of the east with the
Ammonites, and will give them in
possession, that the Ammonites may not
be remembered among the nations.
11 And I will execute judgments upon
Moab; and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
12 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
that Edom hath dealt against the house
of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself
upon them;
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I
will also stretch out mine hand upon
Edom, and will cut off man and beast
from it; and I will make it desolate
from Teman; and they of Dedan shall
fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people Israel:
and they shall do in Edom according to
mine anger and according to my fury;
and they shall know my vengeance, saith
the Lord GOD.
15 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
the Philistines have dealt by revenge,
and have taken vengeance with a
despiteful heart, to destroy [it] for
the old hatred;
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will stretch out mine hand
upon the Philistines, and I will cut
off the Cherethims, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance
upon them with furious rebukes; and
they shall know that I [am] the LORD,
when I shall lay my vengeance upon
them.

CHAPTER 26
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first [day] of the month,
[that] the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath
said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is
broken [that was] the gates of the
people: she is turned unto me: I shall
be replenished, [now] she is laid
waste:
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I [am] against thee, O Tyrus,
and will cause many nations to come up
against thee, as the sea causeth his
waves to come up.
4 And they shall destroy the walls of
Tyrus, and break down her towers: I
will also scrape her dust from her, and
make her like the top of a rock.
5 It shall be [a place for] the
spreading of nets in the midst of the
sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the
Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil
to the nations.
6 And her daughters which [are] in the
field shall be slain by the sword; and
they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
7 # For thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king
of kings, from the north, with horses,
and with chariots, and with horsemen,
and companies, and much people.
8 He shall slay with the sword thy
daughters in the field: and he shall
make a fort against thee, and cast a
mount against thee, and lift up the
buckler against thee.
9 And he shall set engines of war
against thy walls, and with his axes he
shall break down thy towers.
10 By reason of the abundance of his
horses their dust shall cover thee: thy
walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the
chariots, when he shall enter into thy
gates, as men enter into a city wherein
is made a breach.
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall
he tread down all thy streets: he shall
slay thy people by the sword, and thy
strong garrisons shall go down to the
ground.
12 And they shall make a spoil of thy
riches, and make a prey of thy
merchandise: and they shall break down
thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant
houses: and they shall lay thy stones
and thy timber and thy dust in the
midst of the water.
13 And I will cause the noise of thy
songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard.
14 And I will make thee like the top of
a rock: thou shalt be [a place] to
spread nets upon; thou shalt be built
no more: for I the LORD have spoken
[it], saith the Lord GOD.
15 # Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus;
Shall not the isles shake at the sound
of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when
the slaughter is made in the midst of
thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea
shall come down from their thrones, and
lay away their robes, and put off their
broidered garments: they shall clothe
themselves with trembling; they shall
sit upon the ground, and shall tremble
at [every] moment, and be astonished at
thee.
17 And they shall take up a lamentation
for thee, and say to thee, How art thou
destroyed, [that wast] inhabited of
seafaring men, the renowned city, which
wast strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, which cause their terror
[to be] on all that haunt it!
18 Now shall the isles tremble in the
day of thy fall; yea, the isles that
[are] in the sea shall be troubled at
thy departure.
19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I
shall make thee a desolate city, like
the cities that are not inhabited; when
I shall bring up the deep upon thee,
and great waters shall cover thee;
20 When I shall bring thee down with
them that descend into the pit, with
the people of old time, and shall set
thee in the low parts of the earth, in
places desolate of old, with them that
go down to the pit, that thou be not
inhabited; and I shall set glory in the
land of the living;
21 I will make thee a terror, and thou
[shalt be] no [more]: though thou be
sought for, yet shalt thou never be
found again, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 27
1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
2 Now, thou son of man, take up a
lamentation for Tyrus;
3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art
situate at the entry of the sea, [which
art] a merchant of the people for many
isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O
Tyrus, thou hast said, I [am] of
perfect beauty.
4 Thy borders [are] in the midst of the
seas, thy builders have perfected thy
beauty.
5 They have made all thy [ship] boards
of fir trees of Senir: they have taken
cedars from Lebanon to make masts for
thee.
6 [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they
made thine oars; the company of the
Ashurites have made thy benches [of]
ivory, [brought] out of the isles of
Chittim.
7 Fine linen with broidered work from
Egypt was that which thou spreadest
forth to be thy sail; blue and purple
from the isles of Elishah was that
which covered thee.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad
were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O
Tyrus, [that] were in thee, were thy
pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise
[men] thereof were in thee thy calkers:
all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in thee to occupy thy
merchandise.
10 They of Persia and of Lud and of
Phut were in thine army, thy men of
war: they hanged the shield and helmet
in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army
[were] upon thy walls round about, and
the Gammadims were in thy towers: they
hanged their shields upon thy walls
round about; they have made thy beauty
perfect.
12 Tarshish [was] thy merchant by
reason of the multitude of all [kind
of] riches; with silver, iron, tin, and
lead, they traded in thy fairs.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they
[were] thy merchants: they traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass in
thy market.
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded
in thy fairs with horses and horsemen
and mules.
15 The men of Dedan [were] thy
merchants; many isles [were] the
merchandise of thine hand: they brought
thee [for] a present horns of ivory and
ebony.
16 Syria [was] thy merchant by reason
of the multitude of the wares of thy
making: they occupied in thy fairs with
emeralds, purple, and broidered work,
and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they
[were] thy merchants: they traded in
thy market wheat of Minnith, and
Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18 Damascus [was] thy merchant in the
multitude of the wares of thy making,
for the multitude of all riches; in the
wine of Helbon, and white wool.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro
occupied in thy fairs: bright iron,
cassia, and calamus, were in thy
market.
20 Dedan [was] thy merchant in precious
clothes for chariots.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of
Kedar, they occupied with thee in
lambs, and rams, and goats: in these
[were they] thy merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah,
they [were] thy merchants: they
occupied in thy fairs with chief of all
spices, and with all precious stones,
and gold.
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the
merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and]
Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.
24 These [were] thy merchants in all
sorts [of things], in blue clothes, and
broidered work, and in chests of rich
apparel, bound with cords, and made of
cedar, among thy merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of
thee in thy market: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in
the midst of the seas.
26 # Thy rowers have brought thee into
great waters: the east wind hath broken
thee in the midst of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy
merchandise, thy mariners, and thy
pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers
of thy merchandise, and all thy men of
war, that [are] in thee, and in all thy
company which [is] in the midst of
thee, shall fall into the midst of the
seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound
of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the
mariners, [and] all the pilots of the
sea, shall come down from their ships,
they shall stand upon the land;
30 And shall cause their voice to be
heard against thee, and shall cry
bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon
their heads, they shall wallow
themselves in the ashes:
31 And they shall make themselves
utterly bald for thee, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for
thee with bitterness of heart [and]
bitter wailing.
32 And in their wailing they shall take
up a lamentation for thee, and lament
over thee, [saying], What [city is]
like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the
midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the
seas, thou filledst many people; thou
didst enrich the kings of the earth
with the multitude of thy riches and of
thy merchandise.
34 In the time [when] thou shalt be
broken by the seas in the depths of the
waters thy merchandise and all thy
company in the midst of thee shall
fall.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles
shall be astonished at thee, and their
kings shall be sore afraid, they shall
be troubled in [their] countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall
hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror,
and never [shalt be] any more.

CHAPTER 28
1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of
Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou
hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the
seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet thou [art] a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the
heart of God:
3 Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that they can hide
from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine
understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver
into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom [and] by thy
traffick hast thou increased thy
riches, and thine heart is lifted up
because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thou hast set thine heart as
the heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring
strangers upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of thy
wisdom, and they shall defile thy
brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the
pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of
[them that are] slain in the midst of
the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that
slayeth thee, I [am] God? but thou
[shalt be] a man, and no God, in the
hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord
GOD.
11 # Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation
upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto
him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou
sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of
God; every precious stone [was] thy
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and
the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created.
14 Thou [art] the anointed cherub that
covereth; and I have set thee [so]:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of
God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from
the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise
they have filled the midst of thee with
violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of God: and I will
destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of
thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I
will cast thee to the ground, I will
lay thee before kings, that they may
behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by
the multitude of thine iniquities, by
the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore
will I bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee, it shall devour thee,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the
earth in the sight of all them that
behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the
people shall be astonished at thee:
thou shalt be a terror, and never
[shalt] thou [be] any more.
20 # Again the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set thy face against
Zidon, and prophesy against it,
22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon;
and I will be glorified in the midst of
thee: and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be
sanctified in her.
23 For I will send into her pestilence,
and blood into her streets; and the
wounded shall be judged in the midst of
her by the sword upon her on every
side; and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
24 # And there shall be no more a
pricking brier unto the house of
Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all
[that are] round about them, that
despised them; and they shall know that
I [am] the Lord GOD.
25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I
shall have gathered the house of Israel
from the people among whom they are
scattered, and shall be sanctified in
them in the sight of the heathen, then
shall they dwell in their land that I
have given to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell safely therein,
and shall build houses, and plant
vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence, when I have executed
judgments upon all those that despise
them round about them; and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD their God.

CHAPTER 29
1 In the tenth year, in the tenth
[month], in the twelfth [day] of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
against him, and against all Egypt:
3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon
that lieth in the midst of his rivers,
which hath said, My river [is] mine
own, and I have made [it] for myself.
4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and
I will cause the fish of thy rivers to
stick unto thy scales, and I will bring
thee up out of the midst of thy rivers,
and all the fish of thy rivers shall
stick unto thy scales.
5 And I will leave thee [thrown] into
the wilderness, thee and all the fish
of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the
open fields; thou shalt not be brought
together, nor gathered: I have given
thee for meat to the beasts of the
field and to the fowls of the heaven.
6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt
shall know that I [am] the LORD,
because they have been a staff of reed
to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of thee by thy
hand, thou didst break, and rend all
their shoulder: and when they leaned
upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all
their loins to be at a stand.
8 # Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee,
and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9 And the land of Egypt shall be
desolate and waste; and they shall know
that I [am] the LORD: because he hath
said, The river [is] mine, and I have
made [it].
10 Behold, therefore I [am] against
thee, and against thy rivers, and I
will make the land of Egypt utterly
waste [and] desolate, from the tower of
Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
11 No foot of man shall pass through
it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be
inhabited forty years.
12 And I will make the land of Egypt
desolate in the midst of the countries
[that are] desolate, and her cities
among the cities [that are] laid waste
shall be desolate forty years: and I
will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through
the countries.
13 # Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At
the end of forty years will I gather
the Egyptians from the people whither
they were scattered:
14 And I will bring again the captivity
of Egypt, and will cause them to return
[into] the land of Pathros, into the
land of their habitation; and they
shall be there a base kingdom.
15 It shall be the basest of the
kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself
any more above the nations: for I will
diminish them, that they shall no more
rule over the nations.
16 And it shall be no more the
confidence of the house of Israel,
which bringeth [their] iniquity to
remembrance, when they shall look after
them: but they shall know that I [am]
the Lord GOD.
17 # And it came to pass in the seven
and twentieth year, in the first
[month], in the first [day] of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon caused his army to serve a
great service against Tyrus: every head
[was] made bald, and every shoulder
[was] peeled: yet had he no wages, nor
his army, for Tyrus, for the service
that he had served against it:
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will give the land of Egypt
unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
and he shall take her multitude, and
take her spoil, and take her prey; and
it shall be the wages for his army.
20 I have given him the land of Egypt
[for] his labour wherewith he served
against it, because they wrought for
me, saith the Lord GOD.
21 In that day will I cause the horn of
the house of Israel to bud forth, and I
will give thee the opening of the mouth
in the midst of them; and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 30
1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth
the day!
3 For the day [is] near, even the day
of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day; it
shall be the time of the heathen.
4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt,
and great pain shall be in Ethiopia,
when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and
they shall take away her multitude, and
her foundations shall be broken down.
5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and
all the mingled people, and Chub, and
the men of the land that is in league,
shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that
uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride
of her power shall come down: from the
tower of Syene shall they fall in it by
the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
7 And they shall be desolate in the
midst of the countries [that are]
desolate, and her cities shall be in
the midst of the cities [that are]
wasted.
8 And they shall know that I [am] the
LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt,
and [when] all her helpers shall be
destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers go forth
from me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall
come upon them, as in the day of Egypt:
for, lo, it cometh.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also
make the multitude of Egypt to cease by
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the
terrible of the nations, shall be
brought to destroy the land: and they
shall draw their swords against Egypt,
and fill the land with the slain.
12 And I will make the rivers dry, and
sell the land into the hand of the
wicked: and I will make the land waste,
and all that is therein, by the hand of
strangers: I the LORD have spoken [it].
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also
destroy the idols, and I will cause
[their] images to cease out of Noph;
and there shall be no more a prince of
the land of Egypt: and I will put a
fear in the land of Egypt.
14 And I will make Pathros desolate,
and will set fire in Zoan, and will
execute judgments in No.
15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin,
the strength of Egypt; and I will cut
off the multitude of No.
16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin
shall have great pain, and No shall be
rent asunder, and Noph [shall have]
distresses daily.
17 The young men of Aven and of
Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and
these [cities] shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be
darkened, when I shall break there the
yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her
strength shall cease in her: as for
her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in
Egypt: and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
20 # And it came to pass in the
eleventh year, in the first [month], in
the seventh [day] of the month, [that]
the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of
Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it
shall not be bound up to be healed, to
put a roller to bind it, to make it
strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I [am] against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and will break his arms, the
strong, and that which was broken; and
I will cause the sword to fall out of
his hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse
them through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and put my sword
in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's
arms, and he shall groan before him
with the groanings of a deadly wounded
[man].
25 But I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and the arms of
Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall
put my sword into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out
upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and disperse them
among the countries; and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 31
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the third [month], in the
first [day] of the month, [that] the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom
art thou like in thy greatness?
3 # Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar
in Lebanon with fair branches, and with
a shadowing shroud, and of an high
stature; and his top was among the
thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great, the deep
set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants, and
sent out her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted
above all the trees of the field, and
his boughs were multiplied, and his
branches became long because of the
multitude of waters, when he shot
forth.
6 All the fowls of heaven made their
nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the
field bring forth their young, and
under his shadow dwelt all great
nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in
the length of his branches: for his
root was by great waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could
not hide him: the fir trees were not
like his boughs, and the chesnut trees
were not like his branches; nor any
tree in the garden of God was like unto
him in his beauty.
9 I have made him fair by the multitude
of his branches: so that all the trees
of Eden, that [were] in the garden of
God, envied him.
10 # Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thou hast lifted up thyself in
height, and he hath shot up his top
among the thick boughs, and his heart
is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into
the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen; he shall surely deal with him:
I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the
nations, have cut him off, and have
left him: upon the mountains and in all
the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the
rivers of the land; and all the people
of the earth are gone down from his
shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of
the heaven remain, and all the beasts
of the field shall be upon his
branches:
14 To the end that none of all the
trees by the waters exalt themselves
for their height, neither shoot up
their top among the thick boughs,
neither their trees stand up in their
height, all that drink water: for they
are all delivered unto death, to the
nether parts of the earth, in the midst
of the children of men, with them that
go down to the pit.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day
when he went down to the grave I caused
a mourning: I covered the deep for him,
and I restrained the floods thereof,
and the great waters were stayed: and I
caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and
all the trees of the field fainted for
him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the
sound of his fall, when I cast him down
to hell with them that descend into the
pit: and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best of Lebanon, all that
drink water, shall be comforted in the
nether parts of the earth.
17 They also went down into hell with
him unto [them that be] slain with the
sword; and [they that were] his arm,
[that] dwelt under his shadow in the
midst of the heathen.
18 # To whom art thou thus like in
glory and in greatness among the trees
of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down
with the trees of Eden unto the nether
parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in
the midst of the uncircumcised with
[them that be] slain by the sword. This
[is] Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 32
1 And it came to pass in the twelfth
year, in the twelfth month, in the
first [day] of the month, [that] the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto
him, Thou art like a young lion of the
nations, and thou [art] as a whale in
the seas: and thou camest forth with
thy rivers, and troubledst the waters
with thy feet, and fouledst their
rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
therefore spread out my net over thee
with a company of many people; and they
shall bring thee up in my net.
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land,
I will cast thee forth upon the open
field, and will cause all the fowls of
the heaven to remain upon thee, and I
will fill the beasts of the whole earth
with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the
mountains, and fill the valleys with
thy height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the
land wherein thou swimmest, [even] to
the mountains; and the rivers shall be
full of thee.
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will
cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with
a cloud, and the moon shall not give
her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will
I make dark over thee, and set darkness
upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many
people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the
countries which thou hast not known.
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed
at thee, and their kings shall be
horribly afraid for thee, when I shall
brandish my sword before them; and they
shall tremble at [every] moment, every
man for his own life, in the day of thy
fall.
11 # For thus saith the Lord GOD; The
sword of the king of Babylon shall come
upon thee.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I
cause thy multitude to fall, the
terrible of the nations, all of them:
and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt,
and all the multitude thereof shall be
destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts
thereof from beside the great waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble
them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts
trouble them.
14 Then will I make their waters deep,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
saith the Lord GOD.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt
desolate, and the country shall be
destitute of that whereof it was full,
when I shall smite all them that dwell
therein, then shall they know that I
[am] the LORD.
16 This [is] the lamentation wherewith
they shall lament her: the daughters of
the nations shall lament her: they
shall lament for her, [even] for Egypt,
and for all her multitude, saith the
Lord GOD.
17 # It came to pass also in the
twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of
the month, [that] the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude
of Egypt, and cast them down, [even]
her, and the daughters of the famous
nations, unto the nether parts of the
earth, with them that go down into the
pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go
down, and be thou laid with the
uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of
[them that are] slain by the sword: she
is delivered to the sword: draw her and
all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall
speak to him out of the midst of hell
with them that help him: they are gone
down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by
the sword.
22 Asshur [is] there and all her
company: his graves [are] about him:
all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of
the pit, and her company is round about
her grave: all of them slain, fallen by
the sword, which caused terror in the
land of the living.
24 There [is] Elam and all her
multitude round about her grave, all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, which
are gone down uncircumcised into the
nether parts of the earth, which caused
their terror in the land of the living;
yet have they borne their shame with
them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst
of the slain with all her multitude:
her graves [are] round about him: all
of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword: though their terror was caused
in the land of the living, yet have
they borne their shame with them that
go down to the pit: he is put in the
midst of [them that be] slain.
26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all
her multitude: her graves [are] round
about him: all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword, though they caused
their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie with the
mighty [that are] fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to
hell with their weapons of war: and
they have laid their swords under their
heads, but their iniquities shall be
upon their bones, though [they were]
the terror of the mighty in the land of
the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the
midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt
lie with [them that are] slain with the
sword.
29 There [is] Edom, her kings, and all
her princes, which with their might are
laid by [them that were] slain by the
sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go
down to the pit.
30 There [be] the princes of the north,
all of them, and all the Zidonians,
which are gone down with the slain;
with their terror they are ashamed of
their might; and they lie uncircumcised
with [them that be] slain by the sword,
and bear their shame with them that go
down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be
comforted over all his multitude,
[even] Pharaoh and all his army slain
by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the
land of the living: and he shall be
laid in the midst of the uncircumcised
with [them that are] slain with the
sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his
multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 33
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of
thy people, and say unto them, When I
bring the sword upon a land, if the
people of the land take a man of their
coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon
the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn
the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of
the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if
the sword come, and take him away, his
blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet,
and took not warning; his blood shall
be upon him. But he that taketh warning
shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword
come, and blow not the trumpet, and the
people be not warned; if the sword
come, and take [any] person from among
them, he is taken away in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at the
watchman's hand.
7 # So thou, O son of man, I have set
thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the
word at my mouth, and warn them from
me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked
[man], thou shalt surely die; if thou
dost not speak to warn the wicked from
his way, that wicked [man] shall die in
his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at thine hand.
9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked
of his way to turn from it; if he do
not turn from his way, he shall die in
his iniquity; but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak
unto the house of Israel; Thus ye
speak, saying, If our transgressions
and our sins [be] upon us, and we pine
away in them, how should we then live?
11 Say unto them, [As] I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked; but that the
wicked turn from his way and live: turn
ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for
why will ye die, O house of Israel?
12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto
the children of thy people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall
not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of
the wicked, he shall not fall thereby
in the day that he turneth from his
wickedness; neither shall the righteous
be able to live for his [righteousness]
in the day that he sinneth.
13 When I shall say to the righteous,
[that] he shall surely live; if he
trust to his own righteousness, and
commit iniquity, all his
righteousnesses shall not be
remembered; but for his iniquity that
he hath committed, he shall die for it.
14 Again, when I say unto the wicked,
Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from
his sin, and do that which is lawful
and right;
15 [If] the wicked restore the pledge,
give again that he had robbed, walk in
the statutes of life, without
committing iniquity; he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he hath
committed shall be mentioned unto him:
he hath done that which is lawful and
right; he shall surely live.
17 # Yet the children of thy people
say, The way of the Lord is not equal:
but as for them, their way is not
equal.
18 When the righteous turneth from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his
wickedness, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall live thereby.
20 # Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is
not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will
judge you every one after his ways.
21 # And it came to pass in the twelfth
year of our captivity, in the tenth
[month], in the fifth [day] of the
month, [that] one that had escaped out
of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The
city is smitten.
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me
in the evening, afore he that was
escaped came; and had opened my mouth,
until he came to me in the morning; and
my mouth was opened, and I was no more
dumb.
23 Then the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those
wastes of the land of Israel speak,
saying, Abraham was one, and he
inherited the land: but we [are] many;
the land is given us for inheritance.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood,
and lift up your eyes toward your
idols, and shed blood: and shall ye
possess the land?
26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work
abomination, and ye defile every one
his neighbour's wife: and shall ye
possess the land?
27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; [As] I live, surely they
that [are] in the wastes shall fall by
the sword, and him that [is] in the
open field will I give to the beasts to
be devoured, and they that [be] in the
forts and in the caves shall die of the
pestilence.
28 For I will lay the land most
desolate, and the pomp of her strength
shall cease; and the mountains of
Israel shall be desolate, that none
shall pass through.
29 Then shall they know that I [am] the
LORD, when I have laid the land most
desolate because of all their
abominations which they have committed.
30 # Also, thou son of man, the
children of thy people still are
talking against thee by the walls and
in the doors of the houses, and speak
one to another, every one to his
brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and
hear what is the word that cometh forth
from the LORD.
31 And they come unto thee as the
people cometh, and they sit before thee
[as] my people, and they hear thy
words, but they will not do them: for
with their mouth they shew much love,
[but] their heart goeth after their
covetousness.
32 And, lo, thou [art] unto them as a
very lovely song of one that hath a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument: for they hear thy words,
but they do them not.
33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo,
it will come,) then shall they know
that a prophet hath been among them.

CHAPTER 34
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto
the shepherds; Woe [be] to the
shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds
feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you
with the wool, ye kill them that are
fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
4 The diseased have ye not
strengthened, neither have ye healed
that which was sick, neither have ye
bound up [that which was] broken,
neither have ye brought again that
which was driven away, neither have ye
sought that which was lost; but with
force and with cruelty have ye ruled
them.
5 And they were scattered, because
[there is] no shepherd: and they became
meat to all the beasts of the field,
when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the
mountains, and upon every high hill:
yea, my flock was scattered upon all
the face of the earth, and none did
search or seek [after them].
7 # Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD;
8 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
surely because my flock became a prey,
and my flock became meat to every beast
of the field, because [there was] no
shepherd, neither did my shepherds
search for my flock, but the shepherds
fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD;
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
[am] against the shepherds; and I will
require my flock at their hand, and
cause them to cease from feeding the
flock; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more; for I will deliver
my flock from their mouth, that they
may not be meat for them.
11 # For thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I, [even] I, will both search
my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock
in the day that he is among his sheep
[that are] scattered; so will I seek
out my sheep, and will deliver them out
of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the
people, and gather them from the
countries, and will bring them to their
own land, and feed them upon the
mountains of Israel by the rivers, and
in all the inhabited places of the
country.
14 I will feed them in a good pasture,
and upon the high mountains of Israel
shall their fold be: there shall they
lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat
pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will
cause them to lie down, saith the Lord
GOD.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and
bring again that which was driven away,
and will bind up [that which was]
broken, and will strengthen that which
was sick: but I will destroy the fat
and the strong; I will feed them with
judgment.
17 And [as for] you, O my flock, thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge
between cattle and cattle, between the
rams and the he goats.
18 [Seemeth it] a small thing unto you
to have eaten up the good pasture, but
ye must tread down with your feet the
residue of your pastures? and to have
drunk of the deep waters, but ye must
foul the residue with your feet?
19 And [as for] my flock, they eat that
which ye have trodden with your feet;
and they drink that which ye have
fouled with your feet.
20 # Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD
unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will
judge between the fat cattle and
between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and
with shoulder, and pushed all the
diseased with your horns, till ye have
scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and
they shall no more be a prey; and I
will judge between cattle and cattle.
23 And I will set up one shepherd over
them, and he shall feed them, [even] my
servant David; he shall feed them, and
he shall be their shepherd.
24 And I the LORD will be their God,
and my servant David a prince among
them; I the LORD have spoken [it].
25 And I will make with them a covenant
of peace, and will cause the evil
beasts to cease out of the land: and
they shall dwell safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places
round about my hill a blessing; and I
will cause the shower to come down in
his season; there shall be showers of
blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall
yield her fruit, and the earth shall
yield her increase, and they shall be
safe in their land, and shall know that
I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the
bands of their yoke, and delivered them
out of the hand of those that served
themselves of them.
28 And they shall no more be a prey to
the heathen, neither shall the beast of
the land devour them; but they shall
dwell safely, and none shall make
[them] afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a plant
of renown, and they shall be no more
consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen
any more.
30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD
their God [am] with them, and [that]
they, [even] the house of Israel, [are]
my people, saith the Lord GOD.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my
pasture, [are] men, [and] I [am] your
God, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 35
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against
mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I [am]
against thee, and I will stretch out
mine hand against thee, and I will make
thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou
shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know
that I [am] the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual
hatred, and hast shed [the blood of]
the children of Israel by the force of
the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time [that their]
iniquity [had] an end:
6 Therefore, [as] I live, saith the
Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto
blood, and blood shall pursue thee:
sith thou hast not hated blood, even
blood shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most
desolate, and cut off from it him that
passeth out and him that returneth.
8 And I will fill his mountains with
his slain [men]: in thy hills, and in
thy valleys, and in all thy rivers,
shall they fall that are slain with the
sword.
9 I will make thee perpetual
desolations, and thy cities shall not
return: and ye shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
10 Because thou hast said, These two
nations and these two countries shall
be mine, and we will possess it;
whereas the LORD was there:
11 Therefore, [as] I live, saith the
Lord GOD, I will even do according to
thine anger, and according to thine
envy which thou hast used out of thy
hatred against them; and I will make
myself known among them, when I have
judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I [am] the
LORD, [and that] I have heard all thy
blasphemies which thou hast spoken
against the mountains of Israel,
saying, They are laid desolate, they
are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted
against me, and have multiplied your
words against me: I have heard [them].
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the
whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee
desolate.
15 As thou didst rejoice at the
inheritance of the house of Israel,
because it was desolate, so will I do
unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O
mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all
of it: and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.

CHAPTER 36
1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto
the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the LORD:
2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the
enemy hath said against you, Aha, even
the ancient high places are our's in
possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because they have
made [you] desolate, and swallowed you
up on every side, that ye might be a
possession unto the residue of the
heathen, and ye are taken up in the
lips of talkers, and [are] an infamy of
the people:
4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the rivers, and to
the valleys, to the desolate wastes,
and to the cities that are forsaken,
which became a prey and derision to the
residue of the heathen that [are] round
about;
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Surely in the fire of my jealousy have
I spoken against the residue of the
heathen, and against all Idumea, which
have appointed my land into their
possession with the joy of all [their]
heart, with despiteful minds, to cast
it out for a prey.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning the
land of Israel, and say unto the
mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in
my jealousy and in my fury, because ye
have borne the shame of the heathen:
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I
have lifted up mine hand, Surely the
heathen that [are] about you, they
shall bear their shame.
8 # But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye
shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people of
Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I [am] for you, and I
will turn unto you, and ye shall be
tilled and sown:
10 And I will multiply men upon you,
all the house of Israel, [even] all of
it: and the cities shall be inhabited,
and the wastes shall be builded:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and
beast; and they shall increase and
bring fruit: and I will settle you
after your old estates, and will do
better [unto you] than at your
beginnings: and ye shall know that I
[am] the LORD.
12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon
you, [even] my people Israel; and they
shall possess thee, and thou shalt be
their inheritance, and thou shalt no
more henceforth bereave them [of men].
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
they say unto you, Thou [land]
devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy
nations;
14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no
more, neither bereave thy nations any
more, saith the Lord GOD.
15 Neither will I cause [men] to hear
in thee the shame of the heathen any
more, neither shalt thou bear the
reproach of the people any more,
neither shalt thou cause thy nations to
fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
16 # Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel
dwelt in their own land, they defiled
it by their own way and by their
doings: their way was before me as the
uncleanness of a removed woman.
18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them
for the blood that they had shed upon
the land, and for their idols
[wherewith] they had polluted it:
19 And I scattered them among the
heathen, and they were dispersed
through the countries: according to
their way and according to their doings
I judged them.
20 And when they entered unto the
heathen, whither they went, they
profaned my holy name, when they said
to them, These [are] the people of the
LORD, and are gone forth out of his
land.
21 # But I had pity for mine holy name,
which the house of Israel had profaned
among the heathen, whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do
not [this] for your sakes, O house of
Israel, but for mine holy name's sake,
which ye have profaned among the
heathen, whither ye went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name,
which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of
them; and the heathen shall know that I
[am] the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when
I shall be sanctified in you before
their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the
heathen, and gather you out of all
countries, and will bring you into your
own land.
25 # Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you, and ye shall be clean: from
all your filthiness, and from all your
idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you:
and I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give you
an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep my judgments, and do
[them].
28 And ye shall dwell in the land that
I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be
my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your
uncleannesses: and I will call for the
corn, and will increase it, and lay no
famine upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the
tree, and the increase of the field,
that ye shall receive no more reproach
of famine among the heathen.
31 Then shall ye remember your own evil
ways, and your doings that [were] not
good, and shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight for your iniquities and
for your abominations.
32 Not for your sakes do I [this],
saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto
you: be ashamed and confounded for your
own ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day
that I shall have cleansed you from all
your iniquities I will also cause [you]
to dwell in the cities, and the wastes
shall be builded.
34 And the desolate land shall be
tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the
sight of all that passed by.
35 And they shall say, This land that
was desolate is become like the garden
of Eden; and the waste and desolate and
ruined cities [are become] fenced,
[and] are inhabited.
36 Then the heathen that are left round
about you shall know that I the LORD
build the ruined [places, and] plant
that that was desolate: I the LORD have
spoken [it], and I will do [it].
37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet
[for] this be enquired of by the house
of Israel, to do [it] for them; I will
increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of
Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so
shall the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men: and they shall know that
I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 37
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and
carried me out in the spirit of the
LORD, and set me down in the midst of
the valley which [was] full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round
about: and, behold, [there were] very
many in the open valley; and, lo, [they
were] very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can
these bones live? And I answered, O
Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon
these bones, and say unto them, O ye
dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these
bones; Behold, I will cause breath to
enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and
will bring up flesh upon you, and cover
you with skin, and put breath in you,
and ye shall live; and ye shall know
that I [am] the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded:
and as I prophesied, there was a noise,
and behold a shaking, and the bones
came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and
the flesh came up upon them, and the
skin covered them above: but [there
was] no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto
the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say
to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Come from the four winds, O breath, and
breathe upon these slain, that they may
live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me,
and the breath came into them, and they
lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
exceeding great army.
11 # Then he said unto me, Son of man,
these bones are the whole house of
Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are
dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut
off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
O my people, I will open your graves,
and cause you to come up out of your
graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD, when I have opened your graves, O
my people, and brought you up out of
your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and
ye shall live, and I shall place you in
your own land: then shall ye know that
I the LORD have spoken [it], and
performed [it], saith the LORD.
15 # The word of the LORD came again
unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee
one stick, and write upon it, For
Judah, and for the children of Israel
his companions: then take another
stick, and write upon it, For Joseph,
the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the
house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into
one stick; and they shall become one in
thine hand.
18 # And when the children of thy
people shall speak unto thee, saying,
Wilt thou not shew us what thou
[meanest] by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which [is] in the hand of
Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
fellows, and will put them with him,
[even] with the stick of Judah, and
make them one stick, and they shall be
one in mine hand.
20 # And the sticks whereon thou
writest shall be in thine hand before
their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the
children of Israel from among the
heathen, whither they be gone, and will
gather them on every side, and bring
them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in
the land upon the mountains of Israel;
and one king shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations,
neither shall they be divided into two
kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves
any more with their idols, nor with
their detestable things, nor with any
of their transgressions: but I will
save them out of all their
dwellingplaces, wherein they have
sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall
they be my people, and I will be their
God.
24 And David my servant [shall be] king
over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in my
judgments, and observe my statutes, and
do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land
that I have given unto Jacob my
servant, wherein your fathers have
dwelt; and they shall dwell therein,
[even] they, and their children, and
their children's children for ever: and
my servant David [shall be] their
prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of
peace with them; it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them: and I
will place them, and multiply them, and
will set my sanctuary in the midst of
them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with
them: yea, I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I
the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them
for evermore.

CHAPTER 38
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,
the land of Magog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against
him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put
hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring
thee forth, and all thine army, horses
and horsemen, all of them clothed with
all sorts [of armour, even] a great
company [with] bucklers and shields,
all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with
them; all of them with shield and
helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house
of Togarmah of the north quarters, and
all his bands: [and] many people with
thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for
thyself, thou, and all thy company that
are assembled unto thee, and be thou a
guard unto them.
8 # After many days thou shalt be
visited: in the latter years thou shalt
come into the land [that is] brought
back from the sword, [and is] gathered
out of many people, against the
mountains of Israel, which have been
always waste: but it is brought forth
out of the nations, and they shall
dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a
storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to
cover the land, thou, and all thy
bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall
also come to pass, [that] at the same
time shall things come into thy mind,
and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to
the land of unwalled villages; I will
go to them that are at rest, that dwell
safely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor
gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey;
to turn thine hand upon the desolate
places [that are now] inhabited, and
upon the people [that are] gathered out
of the nations, which have gotten
cattle and goods, that dwell in the
midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants
of Tarshish, with all the young lions
thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou
come to take a spoil? hast thou
gathered thy company to take a prey? to
carry away silver and gold, to take
away cattle and goods, to take a great
spoil?
14 # Therefore, son of man, prophesy
and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; In that day when my people of
Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not
know [it]?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place
out of the north parts, thou, and many
people with thee, all of them riding
upon horses, a great company, and a
mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my
people of Israel, as a cloud to cover
the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring thee against my
land, that the heathen may know me,
when I shall be sanctified in thee, O
Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; [Art] thou
he of whom I have spoken in old time by
my servants the prophets of Israel,
which prophesied in those days [many]
years that I would bring thee against
them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the
same time when Gog shall come against
the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
[that] my fury shall come up in my
face.
19 For in my jealousy [and] in the fire
of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in
that day there shall be a great shaking
in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and
the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts
of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the
men that [are] upon the face of the
earth, shall shake at my presence, and
the mountains shall be thrown down, and
the steep places shall fall, and every
wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against
him throughout all my mountains, saith
the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall
be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with
pestilence and with blood; and I will
rain upon him, and upon his bands, and
upon the many people that [are] with
him, an overflowing rain, and great
hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and
sanctify myself; and I will be known in
the eyes of many nations, and they
shall know that I [am] the LORD.

CHAPTER 39
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy
against Gog, and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee,
O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and
Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave
but the sixth part of thee, and will
cause thee to come up from the north
parts, and will bring thee upon the
mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy
left hand, and will cause thine arrows
to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of
Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and
the people that [is] with thee: I will
give thee unto the ravenous birds of
every sort, and [to] the beasts of the
field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field:
for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord
GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and
among them that dwell carelessly in the
isles: and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in
the midst of my people Israel; and I
will not [let them] pollute my holy
name any more: and the heathen shall
know that I [am] the LORD, the Holy One
in Israel.
8 # Behold, it is come, and it is done,
saith the Lord GOD; this [is] the day
whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of
Israel shall go forth, and shall set on
fire and burn the weapons, both the
shields and the bucklers, the bows and
the arrows, and the handstaves, and the
spears, and they shall burn them with
fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out
of the field, neither cut down [any]
out of the forests; for they shall burn
the weapons with fire: and they shall
spoil those that spoiled them, and rob
those that robbed them, saith the Lord
GOD.
11 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] I will give unto Gog a
place there of graves in Israel, the
valley of the passengers on the east of
the sea: and it shall stop the [noses]
of the passengers: and there shall they
bury Gog and all his multitude: and
they shall call [it] The valley of
Hamon-gog.
12 And seven months shall the house of
Israel be burying of them, that they
may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land
shall bury [them]; and it shall be to
them a renown the day that I shall be
glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of
continual employment, passing through
the land to bury with the passengers
those that remain upon the face of the
earth, to cleanse it: after the end of
seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers [that] pass
through the land, when [any] seeth a
man's bone, then shall he set up a sign
by it, till the buriers have buried it
in the valley of Hamon-gog.
16 And also the name of the city [shall
be] Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse
the land.
17 # And, thou son of man, thus saith
the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of
the field, Assemble yourselves, and
come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for
you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the
mountains of Israel, that ye may eat
flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the
mighty, and drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, of
lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all
of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be
full, and drink blood till ye be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have
sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table
with horses and chariots, with mighty
men, and with all men of war, saith the
Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the
heathen, and all the heathen shall see
my judgment that I have executed, and
my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know
that I [am] the LORD their God from
that day and forward.
23 # And the heathen shall know that
the house of Israel went into captivity
for their iniquity: because they
trespassed against me, therefore hid I
my face from them, and gave them into
the hand of their enemies: so fell they
all by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and
according to their transgressions have
I done unto them, and hid my face from
them.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Now will I bring again the captivity of
Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole
house of Israel, and will be jealous
for my holy name;
26 After that they have borne their
shame, and all their trespasses whereby
they have trespassed against me, when
they dwelt safely in their land, and
none made [them] afraid.
27 When I have brought them again from
the people, and gathered them out of
their enemies' lands, and am sanctified
in them in the sight of many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I [am] the
LORD their God, which caused them to be
led into captivity among the heathen:
but I have gathered them unto their own
land, and have left none of them any
more there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more
from them: for I have poured out my
spirit upon the house of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 40
1 In the five and twentieth year of our
captivity, in the beginning of the
year, in the tenth [day] of the month,
in the fourteenth year after that the
city was smitten, in the selfsame day
the hand of the LORD was upon me, and
brought me thither.
2 In the visions of God brought he me
into the land of Israel, and set me
upon a very high mountain, by which
[was] as the frame of a city on the
south.
3 And he brought me thither, and,
behold, [there was] a man, whose
appearance [was] like the appearance of
brass, with a line of flax in his hand,
and a measuring reed; and he stood in
the gate.
4 And the man said unto me, Son of man,
behold with thine eyes, and hear with
thine ears, and set thine heart upon
all that I shall shew thee; for to the
intent that I might shew [them] unto
thee [art] thou brought hither: declare
all that thou seest to the house of
Israel.
5 And behold a wall on the outside of
the house round about, and in the man's
hand a measuring reed of six cubits
[long] by the cubit and an hand
breadth: so he measured the breadth of
the building, one reed; and the height,
one reed.
6 # Then came he unto the gate which
looketh toward the east, and went up
the stairs thereof, and measured the
threshold of the gate, [which was] one
reed broad; and the other threshold [of
the gate, which was] one reed broad.
7 And [every] little chamber [was] one
reed long, and one reed broad; and
between the little chambers [were] five
cubits; and the threshold of the gate
by the porch of the gate within [was]
one reed.
8 He measured also the porch of the
gate within, one reed.
9 Then measured he the porch of the
gate, eight cubits; and the posts
thereof, two cubits; and the porch of
the gate [was] inward.
10 And the little chambers of the gate
eastward [were] three on this side, and
three on that side; they three [were]
of one measure: and the posts had one
measure on this side and on that side.
11 And he measured the breadth of the
entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and]
the length of the gate, thirteen
cubits.
12 The space also before the little
chambers [was] one cubit [on this
side], and the space [was] one cubit on
that side: and the little chambers
[were] six cubits on this side, and six
cubits on that side.
13 He measured then the gate from the
roof of [one] little chamber to the
roof of another: the breadth [was] five
and twenty cubits, door against door.
14 He made also posts of threescore
cubits, even unto the post of the court
round about the gate.
15 And from the face of the gate of the
entrance unto the face of the porch of
the inner gate [were] fifty cubits.
16 And [there were] narrow windows to
the little chambers, and to their posts
within the gate round about, and
likewise to the arches: and windows
[were] round about inward: and upon
[each] post [were] palm trees.
17 Then brought he me into the outward
court, and, lo, [there were] chambers,
and a pavement made for the court round
about: thirty chambers [were] upon the
pavement.
18 And the pavement by the side of the
gates over against the length of the
gates [was] the lower pavement.
19 Then he measured the breadth from
the forefront of the lower gate unto
the forefront of the inner court
without, an hundred cubits eastward and
northward.
20 # And the gate of the outward court
that looked toward the north, he
measured the length thereof, and the
breadth thereof.
21 And the little chambers thereof
[were] three on this side and three on
that side; and the posts thereof and
the arches thereof were after the
measure of the first gate: the length
thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.
22 And their windows, and their arches,
and their palm trees, [were] after the
measure of the gate that looketh toward
the east; and they went up unto it by
seven steps; and the arches thereof
[were] before them.
23 And the gate of the inner court
[was] over against the gate toward the
north, and toward the east; and he
measured from gate to gate an hundred
cubits.
24 # After that he brought me toward
the south, and behold a gate toward the
south: and he measured the posts
thereof and the arches thereof
according to these measures.
25 And [there were] windows in it and
in the arches thereof round about, like
those windows: the length [was] fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
26 And [there were] seven steps to go
up to it, and the arches thereof [were]
before them: and it had palm trees, one
on this side, and another on that side,
upon the posts thereof.
27 And [there was] a gate in the inner
court toward the south: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south an
hundred cubits.
28 And he brought me to the inner court
by the south gate: and he measured the
south gate according to these measures;
29 And the little chambers thereof, and
the posts thereof, and the arches
thereof, according to these measures:
and [there were] windows in it and in
the arches thereof round about: [it
was] fifty cubits long, and five and
twenty cubits broad.
30 And the arches round about [were]
five and twenty cubits long, and five
cubits broad.
31 And the arches thereof [were] toward
the utter court; and palm trees [were]
upon the posts thereof: and the going
up to it [had] eight steps.
32 # And he brought me into the inner
court toward the east: and he measured
the gate according to these measures.
33 And the little chambers thereof, and
the posts thereof, and the arches
thereof, [were] according to these
measures: and [there were] windows
therein and in the arches thereof round
about: [it was] fifty cubits long, and
five and twenty cubits broad.
34 And the arches thereof [were] toward
the outward court; and palm trees
[were] upon the posts thereof, on this
side, and on that side: and the going
up to it [had] eight steps.
35 # And he brought me to the north
gate, and measured [it] according to
these measures;
36 The little chambers thereof, the
posts thereof, and the arches thereof,
and the windows to it round about: the
length [was] fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.
37 And the posts thereof [were] toward
the utter court; and palm trees [were]
upon the posts thereof, on this side,
and on that side: and the going up to
it [had] eight steps.
38 And the chambers and the entries
thereof [were] by the posts of the
gates, where they washed the burnt
offering.
39 # And in the porch of the gate
[were] two tables on this side, and two
tables on that side, to slay thereon
the burnt offering and the sin offering
and the trespass offering.
40 And at the side without, as one
goeth up to the entry of the north
gate, [were] two tables; and on the
other side, which [was] at the porch of
the gate, [were] two tables.
41 Four tables [were] on this side, and
four tables on that side, by the side
of the gate; eight tables, whereupon
they slew [their sacrifices].
42 And the four tables [were] of hewn
stone for the burnt offering, of a
cubit and an half long, and a cubit and
an half broad, and one cubit high:
whereupon also they laid the
instruments wherewith they slew the
burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43 And within [were] hooks, an hand
broad, fastened round about: and upon
the tables [was] the flesh of the
offering.
44 # And without the inner gate [were]
the chambers of the singers in the
inner court, which [was] at the side of
the north gate; and their prospect
[was] toward the south: one at the side
of the east gate [having] the prospect
toward the north.
45 And he said unto me, This chamber,
whose prospect [is] toward the south,
[is] for the priests, the keepers of
the charge of the house.
46 And the chamber whose prospect [is]
toward the north [is] for the priests,
the keepers of the charge of the altar:
these [are] the sons of Zadok among the
sons of Levi, which come near to the
LORD to minister unto him.
47 So he measured the court, an hundred
cubits long, and an hundred cubits
broad, foursquare; and the altar [that
was] before the house.
48 # And he brought me to the porch of
the house, and measured [each] post of
the porch, five cubits on this side,
and five cubits on that side: and the
breadth of the gate [was] three cubits
on this side, and three cubits on that
side.
49 The length of the porch [was] twenty
cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits;
and [he brought me] by the steps
whereby they went up to it: and [there
were] pillars by the posts, one on this
side, and another on that side.

CHAPTER 41
1 Afterward he brought me to the
temple, and measured the posts, six
cubits broad on the one side, and six
cubits broad on the other side, [which
was] the breadth of the tabernacle.
2 And the breadth of the door [was] ten
cubits; and the sides of the door
[were] five cubits on the one side, and
five cubits on the other side: and he
measured the length thereof, forty
cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
3 Then went he inward, and measured the
post of the door, two cubits; and the
door, six cubits; and the breadth of
the door, seven cubits.
4 So he measured the length thereof,
twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty
cubits, before the temple: and he said
unto me, This [is] the most holy
[place].
5 After he measured the wall of the
house, six cubits; and the breadth of
[every] side chamber, four cubits,
round about the house on every side.
6 And the side chambers [were] three,
one over another, and thirty in order;
and they entered into the wall which
[was] of the house for the side
chambers round about, that they might
have hold, but they had not hold in the
wall of the house.
7 And [there was] an enlarging, and a
winding about still upward to the side
chambers: for the winding about of the
house went still upward round about the
house: therefore the breadth of the
house [was still] upward, and so
increased [from] the lowest [chamber]
to the highest by the midst.
8 I saw also the height of the house
round about: the foundations of the
side chambers [were] a full reed of six
great cubits.
9 The thickness of the wall, which
[was] for the side chamber without,
[was] five cubits: and [that] which
[was] left [was] the place of the side
chambers that [were] within.
10 And between the chambers [was] the
wideness of twenty cubits round about
the house on every side.
11 And the doors of the side chambers
[were] toward [the place that was]
left, one door toward the north, and
another door toward the south: and the
breadth of the place that was left
[was] five cubits round about.
12 Now the building that [was] before
the separate place at the end toward
the west [was] seventy cubits broad;
and the wall of the building [was] five
cubits thick round about, and the
length thereof ninety cubits.
13 So he measured the house, an hundred
cubits long; and the separate place,
and the building, with the walls
thereof, an hundred cubits long;
14 Also the breadth of the face of the
house, and of the separate place toward
the east, an hundred cubits.
15 And he measured the length of the
building over against the separate
place which [was] behind it, and the
galleries thereof on the one side and
on the other side, an hundred cubits,
with the inner temple, and the porches
of the court;
16 The door posts, and the narrow
windows, and the galleries round about
on their three stories, over against
the door, cieled with wood round about,
and from the ground up to the windows,
and the windows [were] covered;
17 To that above the door, even unto
the inner house, and without, and by
all the wall round about within and
without, by measure.
18 And [it was] made with cherubims and
palm trees, so that a palm tree [was]
between a cherub and a cherub; and
[every] cherub had two faces;
19 So that the face of a man [was]
toward the palm tree on the one side,
and the face of a young lion toward the
palm tree on the other side: [it was]
made through all the house round about.
20 From the ground unto above the door
[were] cherubims and palm trees made,
and [on] the wall of the temple.
21 The posts of the temple [were]
squared, [and] the face of the
sanctuary; the appearance [of the one]
as the appearance [of the other].
22 The altar of wood [was] three cubits
high, and the length thereof two
cubits; and the corners thereof, and
the length thereof, and the walls
thereof, [were] of wood: and he said
unto me, This [is] the table that [is]
before the LORD.
23 And the temple and the sanctuary had
two doors.
24 And the doors had two leaves
[apiece], two turning leaves; two
[leaves] for the one door, and two
leaves for the other [door].
25 And [there were] made on them, on
the doors of the temple, cherubims and
palm trees, like as [were] made upon
the walls; and [there were] thick
planks upon the face of the porch
without.
26 And [there were] narrow windows and
palm trees on the one side and on the
other side, on the sides of the porch,
and [upon] the side chambers of the
house, and thick planks.

CHAPTER 42
1 Then he brought me forth into the
utter court, the way toward the north:
and he brought me into the chamber that
[was] over against the separate place,
and which [was] before the building
toward the north.
2 Before the length of an hundred
cubits [was] the north door, and the
breadth [was] fifty cubits.
3 Over against the twenty [cubits]
which [were] for the inner court, and
over against the pavement which [was]
for the utter court, [was] gallery
against gallery in three [stories].
4 And before the chambers [was] a walk
of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of
one cubit; and their doors toward the
north.
5 Now the upper chambers [were]
shorter: for the galleries were higher
than these, than the lower, and than
the middlemost of the building.
6 For they [were] in three [stories],
but had not pillars as the pillars of
the courts: therefore [the building]
was straitened more than the lowest and
the middlemost from the ground.
7 And the wall that [was] without over
against the chambers, toward the utter
court on the forepart of the chambers,
the length thereof [was] fifty cubits.
8 For the length of the chambers that
[were] in the utter court [was] fifty
cubits: and, lo, before the temple
[were] an hundred cubits.
9 And from under these chambers [was]
the entry on the east side, as one
goeth into them from the utter court.
10 The chambers [were] in the thickness
of the wall of the court toward the
east, over against the separate place,
and over against the building.
11 And the way before them [was] like
the appearance of the chambers which
[were] toward the north, as long as
they, [and] as broad as they: and all
their goings out [were] both according
to their fashions, and according to
their doors.
12 And according to the doors of the
chambers that [were] toward the south
[was] a door in the head of the way,
[even] the way directly before the wall
toward the east, as one entereth into
them.
13 # Then said he unto me, The north
chambers [and] the south chambers,
which [are] before the separate place,
they [be] holy chambers, where the
priests that approach unto the LORD
shall eat the most holy things: there
shall they lay the most holy things,
and the meat offering, and the sin
offering, and the trespass offering;
for the place [is] holy.
14 When the priests enter therein, then
shall they not go out of the holy
[place] into the utter court, but there
they shall lay their garments wherein
they minister; for they [are] holy; and
shall put on other garments, and shall
approach to [those things] which [are]
for the people.
15 Now when he had made an end of
measuring the inner house, he brought
me forth toward the gate whose prospect
[is] toward the east, and measured it
round about.
16 He measured the east side with the
measuring reed, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed round about.
17 He measured the north side, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed
round about.
18 He measured the south side, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
19 # He turned about to the west side,
[and] measured five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed.
20 He measured it by the four sides: it
had a wall round about, five hundred
[reeds] long, and five hundred broad,
to make a separation between the
sanctuary and the profane place.

CHAPTER 43
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate,
[even] the gate that looketh toward the
east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of
Israel came from the way of the east:
and his voice [was] like a noise of
many waters: and the earth shined with
his glory.
3 And [it was] according to the
appearance of the vision which I saw,
[even] according to the vision that I
saw when I came to destroy the city:
and the visions [were] like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I
fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the LORD came into
the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect [is] toward the east.
5 So the spirit took me up, and brought
me into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of the LORD filled the house.
6 And I heard [him] speaking unto me
out of the house; and the man stood by
me.
7 # And he said unto me, Son of man,
the place of my throne, and the place
of the soles of my feet, where I will
dwell in the midst of the children of
Israel for ever, and my holy name,
shall the house of Israel no more
defile, [neither] they, nor their
kings, by their whoredom, nor by the
carcases of their kings in their high
places.
8 In their setting of their threshold
by my thresholds, and their post by my
posts, and the wall between me and
them, they have even defiled my holy
name by their abominations that they
have committed: wherefore I have
consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom,
and the carcases of their kings, far
from me, and I will dwell in the midst
of them for ever.
10 # Thou son of man, shew the house to
the house of Israel, that they may be
ashamed of their iniquities: and let
them measure the pattern.
11 And if they be ashamed of all that
they have done, shew them the form of
the house, and the fashion thereof, and
the goings out thereof, and the comings
in thereof, and all the forms thereof,
and all the ordinances thereof, and all
the forms thereof, and all the laws
thereof: and write [it] in their sight,
that they may keep the whole form
thereof, and all the ordinances
thereof, and do them.
12 This [is] the law of the house; Upon
the top of the mountain the whole limit
thereof round about [shall be] most
holy. Behold, this [is] the law of the
house.
13 # And these [are] the measures of
the altar after the cubits: The cubit
[is] a cubit and an hand breadth; even
the bottom [shall be] a cubit, and the
breadth a cubit, and the border thereof
by the edge thereof round about [shall
be] a span: and this [shall be] the
higher place of the altar.
14 And from the bottom [upon] the
ground [even] to the lower settle
[shall be] two cubits, and the breadth
one cubit; and from the lesser settle
[even] to the greater settle [shall be]
four cubits, and the breadth [one]
cubit.
15 So the altar [shall be] four cubits;
and from the altar and upward [shall
be] four horns.
16 And the altar [shall be] twelve
[cubits] long, twelve broad, square in
the four squares thereof.
17 And the settle [shall be] fourteen
[cubits] long and fourteen broad in the
four squares thereof; and the border
about it [shall be] half a cubit; and
the bottom thereof [shall be] a cubit
about; and his stairs shall look toward
the east.
18 # And he said unto me, Son of man,
thus saith the Lord GOD; These [are]
the ordinances of the altar in the day
when they shall make it, to offer burnt
offerings thereon, and to sprinkle
blood thereon.
19 And thou shalt give to the priests
the Levites that be of the seed of
Zadok, which approach unto me, to
minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a
young bullock for a sin offering.
20 And thou shalt take of the blood
thereof, and put [it] on the four horns
of it, and on the four corners of the
settle, and upon the border round
about: thus shalt thou cleanse and
purge it.
21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of
the sin offering, and he shall burn it
in the appointed place of the house,
without the sanctuary.
22 And on the second day thou shalt
offer a kid of the goats without
blemish for a sin offering; and they
shall cleanse the altar, as they did
cleanse [it] with the bullock.
23 When thou hast made an end of
cleansing [it], thou shalt offer a
young bullock without blemish, and a
ram out of the flock without blemish.
24 And thou shalt offer them before the
LORD, and the priests shall cast salt
upon them, and they shall offer them up
[for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.
25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every
day a goat [for] a sin offering: they
shall also prepare a young bullock, and
a ram out of the flock, without
blemish.
26 Seven days shall they purge the
altar and purify it; and they shall
consecrate themselves.
27 And when these days are expired, it
shall be, [that] upon the eighth day,
and [so] forward, the priests shall
make your burnt offerings upon the
altar, and your peace offerings; and I
will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 44
1 Then he brought me back the way of
the gate of the outward sanctuary which
looketh toward the east; and it [was]
shut.
2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate
shall be shut, it shall not be opened,
and no man shall enter in by it;
because the LORD, the God of Israel,
hath entered in by it, therefore it
shall be shut.
3 [It is] for the prince; the prince,
he shall sit in it to eat bread before
the LORD; he shall enter by the way of
the porch of [that] gate, and shall go
out by the way of the same.
4 # Then brought he me the way of the
north gate before the house: and I
looked, and, behold, the glory of the
LORD filled the house of the LORD: and
I fell upon my face.
5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of
man, mark well, and behold with thine
eyes, and hear with thine ears all that
I say unto thee concerning all the
ordinances of the house of the LORD,
and all the laws thereof; and mark well
the entering in of the house, with
every going forth of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious,
[even] to the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of
Israel, let it suffice you of all your
abominations,
7 In that ye have brought [into my
sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in
heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to
be in my sanctuary, to pollute it,
[even] my house, when ye offer my
bread, the fat and the blood, and they
have broken my covenant because of all
your abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of
mine holy things: but ye have set
keepers of my charge in my sanctuary
for yourselves.
9 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; No
stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter
into my sanctuary, of any stranger that
[is] among the children of Israel.
10 And the Levites that are gone away
far from me, when Israel went astray,
which went astray away from me after
their idols; they shall even bear their
iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my
sanctuary, [having] charge at the gates
of the house, and ministering to the
house: they shall slay the burnt
offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they shall stand before
them to minister unto them.
12 Because they ministered unto them
before their idols, and caused the
house of Israel to fall into iniquity;
therefore have I lifted up mine hand
against them, saith the Lord GOD, and
they shall bear their iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto
me, to do the office of a priest unto
me, nor to come near to any of my holy
things, in the most holy [place]: but
they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of the
charge of the house, for all the
service thereof, and for all that shall
be done therein.
15 # But the priests the Levites, the
sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of
my sanctuary when the children of
Israel went astray from me, they shall
come near to me to minister unto me,
and they shall stand before me to offer
unto me the fat and the blood, saith
the Lord GOD:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary,
and they shall come near to my table,
to minister unto me, and they shall
keep my charge.
17 # And it shall come to pass, [that]
when they enter in at the gates of the
inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come
upon them, whiles they minister in the
gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon
their heads, and shall have linen
breeches upon their loins; they shall
not gird [themselves] with any thing
that causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the
utter court, [even] into the utter
court to the people, they shall put off
their garments wherein they ministered,
and lay them in the holy chambers, and
they shall put on other garments; and
they shall not sanctify the people with
their garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their
heads, nor suffer their locks to grow
long; they shall only poll their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest drink wine,
when they enter into the inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their
wives a widow, nor her that is put
away: but they shall take maidens of
the seed of the house of Israel, or a
widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my people [the
difference] between the holy and
profane, and cause them to discern
between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand
in judgment; [and] they shall judge it
according to my judgments: and they
shall keep my laws and my statutes in
all mine assemblies; and they shall
hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead
person to defile themselves: but for
father, or for mother, or for son, or
for daughter, for brother, or for
sister that hath had no husband, they
may defile themselves.
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall
reckon unto him seven days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into
the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to
minister in the sanctuary, he shall
offer his sin offering, saith the Lord
GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an
inheritance: I [am] their inheritance:
and ye shall give them no possession in
Israel: I [am] their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering,
and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; and every dedicated thing in
Israel shall be their's.
30 And the first of all the firstfruits
of all [things], and every oblation of
all, of every [sort] of your oblations,
shall be the priest's: ye shall also
give unto the priest the first of your
dough, that he may cause the blessing
to rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any
thing that is dead of itself, or torn,
whether it be fowl or beast.

CHAPTER 45
1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot
the land for inheritance, ye shall
offer an oblation unto the LORD, an
holy portion of the land: the length
[shall be] the length of five and
twenty thousand [reeds], and the
breadth [shall be] ten thousand. This
[shall be] holy in all the borders
thereof round about.
2 Of this there shall be for the
sanctuary five hundred [in length],
with five hundred [in breadth], square
round about; and fifty cubits round
about for the suburbs thereof.
3 And of this measure shalt thou
measure the length of five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth of ten
thousand: and in it shall be the
sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].
4 The holy [portion] of the land shall
be for the priests the ministers of the
sanctuary, which shall come near to
minister unto the LORD: and it shall be
a place for their houses, and an holy
place for the sanctuary.
5 And the five and twenty thousand of
length, and the ten thousand of
breadth, shall also the Levites, the
ministers of the house, have for
themselves, for a possession for twenty
chambers.
6 # And ye shall appoint the possession
of the city five thousand broad, and
five and twenty thousand long, over
against the oblation of the holy
[portion]: it shall be for the whole
house of Israel.
7 # And a [portion shall be] for the
prince on the one side and on the other
side of the oblation of the holy
[portion], and of the possession of the
city, before the oblation of the holy
[portion], and before the possession of
the city, from the west side westward,
and from the east side eastward: and
the length [shall be] over against one
of the portions, from the west border
unto the east border.
8 In the land shall be his possession
in Israel: and my princes shall no more
oppress my people; and [the rest of]
the land shall they give to the house
of Israel according to their tribes.
9 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it
suffice you, O princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute
judgment and justice, take away your
exactions from my people, saith the
Lord GOD.
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a
just ephah, and a just bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of
one measure, that the bath may contain
the tenth part of an homer, and the
ephah the tenth part of an homer: the
measure thereof shall be after the
homer.
12 And the shekel [shall be] twenty
gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty
shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
maneh.
13 This [is] the oblation that ye shall
offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an
homer of wheat, and ye shall give the
sixth part of an ephah of an homer of
barley:
14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the
bath of oil, [ye shall offer] the tenth
part of a bath out of the cor, [which
is] an homer of ten baths; for ten
baths [are] an homer:
15 And one lamb out of the flock, out
of two hundred, out of the fat pastures
of Israel; for a meat offering, and for
a burnt offering, and for peace
offerings, to make reconciliation for
them, saith the Lord GOD.
16 All the people of the land shall
give this oblation for the prince in
Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince's part
[to give] burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and drink offerings, in the
feasts, and in the new moons, and in
the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the
house of Israel: he shall prepare the
sin offering, and the meat offering,
and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings, to make reconciliation for
the house of Israel.
18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the
first [month], in the first [day] of
the month, thou shalt take a young
bullock without blemish, and cleanse
the sanctuary:
19 And the priest shall take of the
blood of the sin offering, and put [it]
upon the posts of the house, and upon
the four corners of the settle of the
altar, and upon the posts of the gate
of the inner court.
20 And so thou shalt do the seventh
[day] of the month for every one that
erreth, and for [him that is] simple:
so shall ye reconcile the house.
21 In the first [month], in the
fourteenth day of the month, ye shall
have the passover, a feast of seven
days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22 And upon that day shall the prince
prepare for himself and for all the
people of the land a bullock [for] a
sin offering.
23 And seven days of the feast he shall
prepare a burnt offering to the LORD,
seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid
of the goats daily [for] a sin
offering.
24 And he shall prepare a meat offering
of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah
for a ram, and an hin of oil for an
ephah.
25 In the seventh [month], in the
fifteenth day of the month, shall he do
the like in the feast of the seven
days, according to the sin offering,
according to the burnt offering, and
according to the meat offering, and
according to the oil.

CHAPTER 46
1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of
the inner court that looketh toward the
east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the sabbath it shall be
opened, and in the day of the new moon
it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way
of the porch of [that] gate without,
and shall stand by the post of the
gate, and the priests shall prepare his
burnt offering and his peace offerings,
and he shall worship at the threshold
of the gate: then he shall go forth;
but the gate shall not be shut until
the evening.
3 Likewise the people of the land shall
worship at the door of this gate before
the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new
moons.
4 And the burnt offering that the
prince shall offer unto the LORD in the
sabbath day [shall be] six lambs
without blemish, and a ram without
blemish.
5 And the meat offering [shall be] an
ephah for a ram, and the meat offering
for the lambs as he shall be able to
give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
6 And in the day of the new moon [it
shall be] a young bullock without
blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they
shall be without blemish.
7 And he shall prepare a meat offering,
an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah
for a ram, and for the lambs according
as his hand shall attain unto, and an
hin of oil to an ephah.
8 And when the prince shall enter, he
shall go in by the way of the porch of
[that] gate, and he shall go forth by
the way thereof.
9 # But when the people of the land
shall come before the LORD in the
solemn feasts, he that entereth in by
the way of the north gate to worship
shall go out by the way of the south
gate; and he that entereth by the way
of the south gate shall go forth by the
way of the north gate: he shall not
return by the way of the gate whereby
he came in, but shall go forth over
against it.
10 And the prince in the midst of them,
when they go in, shall go in; and when
they go forth, shall go forth.
11 And in the feasts and in the
solemnities the meat offering shall be
an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to
a ram, and to the lambs as he is able
to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
12 Now when the prince shall prepare a
voluntary burnt offering or peace
offerings voluntarily unto the LORD,
[one] shall then open him the gate that
looketh toward the east, and he shall
prepare his burnt offering and his
peace offerings, as he did on the
sabbath day: then he shall go forth;
and after his going forth [one] shall
shut the gate.
13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt
offering unto the LORD [of] a lamb of
the first year without blemish: thou
shalt prepare it every morning.
14 And thou shalt prepare a meat
offering for it every morning, the
sixth part of an ephah, and the third
part of an hin of oil, to temper with
the fine flour; a meat offering
continually by a perpetual ordinance
unto the LORD.
15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb,
and the meat offering, and the oil,
every morning [for] a continual burnt
offering.
16 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the
prince give a gift unto any of his
sons, the inheritance thereof shall be
his sons'; it [shall be] their
possession by inheritance.
17 But if he give a gift of his
inheritance to one of his servants,
then it shall be his to the year of
liberty; after it shall return to the
prince: but his inheritance shall be
his sons' for them.
18 Moreover the prince shall not take
of the people's inheritance by
oppression, to thrust them out of their
possession; [but] he shall give his
sons inheritance out of his own
possession: that my people be not
scattered every man from his
possession.
19 # After he brought me through the
entry, which [was] at the side of the
gate, into the holy chambers of the
priests, which looked toward the north:
and, behold, there [was] a place on the
two sides westward.
20 Then said he unto me, This [is] the
place where the priests shall boil the
trespass offering and the sin offering,
where they shall bake the meat
offering; that they bear [them] not out
into the utter court, to sanctify the
people.
21 Then he brought me forth into the
utter court, and caused me to pass by
the four corners of the court; and,
behold, in every corner of the court
[there was] a court.
22 In the four corners of the court
[there were] courts joined of forty
[cubits] long and thirty broad: these
four corners [were] of one measure.
23 And [there was] a row [of building]
round about in them, round about them
four, and [it was] made with boiling
places under the rows round about.
24 Then said he unto me, These [are]
the places of them that boil, where the
ministers of the house shall boil the
sacrifice of the people.

CHAPTER 47
1 Afterward he brought me again unto
the door of the house; and, behold,
waters issued out from under the
threshold of the house eastward: for
the forefront of the house [stood
toward] the east, and the waters came
down from under from the right side of
the house, at the south [side] of the
altar.
2 Then brought he me out of the way of
the gate northward, and led me about
the way without unto the utter gate by
the way that looketh eastward; and,
behold, there ran out waters on the
right side.
3 And when the man that had the line in
his hand went forth eastward, he
measured a thousand cubits, and he
brought me through the waters; the
waters [were] to the ancles.
4 Again he measured a thousand, and
brought me through the waters; the
waters [were] to the knees. Again he
measured a thousand, and brought me
through; the waters [were] to the
loins.
5 Afterward he measured a thousand;
[and it was] a river that I could not
pass over: for the waters were risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could
not be passed over.
6 # And he said unto me, Son of man,
hast thou seen [this]? Then he brought
me, and caused me to return to the
brink of the river.
7 Now when I had returned, behold, at
the bank of the river [were] very many
trees on the one side and on the other.
8 Then said he unto me, These waters
issue out toward the east country, and
go down into the desert, and go into
the sea: [which being] brought forth
into the sea, the waters shall be
healed.
9 And it shall come to pass, [that]
every thing that liveth, which moveth,
whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very
great multitude of fish, because these
waters shall come thither: for they
shall be healed; and every thing shall
live whither the river cometh.
10 And it shall come to pass, [that]
the fishers shall stand upon it from
En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall
be a [place] to spread forth nets;
their fish shall be according to their
kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many.
11 But the miry places thereof and the
marishes thereof shall not be healed;
they shall be given to salt.
12 And by the river upon the bank
thereof, on this side and on that side,
shall grow all trees for meat, whose
leaf shall not fade, neither shall the
fruit thereof be consumed: it shall
bring forth new fruit according to his
months, because their waters they
issued out of the sanctuary: and the
fruit thereof shall be for meat, and
the leaf thereof for medicine.
13 # Thus saith the Lord GOD; This
[shall be] the border, whereby ye shall
inherit the land according to the
twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall
have two] portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well
as another: [concerning] the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it unto
your fathers: and this land shall fall
unto you for inheritance.
15 And this [shall be] the border of
the land toward the north side, from
the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as
men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which
[is] between the border of Damascus and
the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon,
which [is] by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be
Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and
the north northward, and the border of
Hamath. And [this is] the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure
from Hauran, and from Damascus, and
from Gilead, and from the land of
Israel [by] Jordan, from the border
unto the east sea. And [this is] the
east side.
19 And the south side southward, from
Tamar [even] to the waters of strife
[in] Kadesh, the river to the great
sea. And [this is] the south side
southward.
20 The west side also [shall be] the
great sea from the border, till a man
come over against Hamath. This [is] the
west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto
you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 # And it shall come to pass, [that]
ye shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance unto you, and to the
strangers that sojourn among you, which
shall beget children among you: and
they shall be unto you as born in the
country among the children of Israel;
they shall have inheritance with you
among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, [that] in
what tribe the stranger sojourneth,
there shall ye give [him] his
inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 48
1 Now these [are] the names of the
tribes. From the north end to the coast
of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to
Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of
Damascus northward, to the coast of
Hamath; for these are his sides east
[and] west; a [portion for] Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the
east side unto the west side, a
[portion for] Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the
east side even unto the west side, a
[portion for] Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from
the east side unto the west side, a
[portion for] Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from
the east side unto the west side, a
[portion for] Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from
the east side even unto the west side,
a [portion for] Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the
east side unto the west side, a
[portion for] Judah.
8 # And by the border of Judah, from
the east side unto the west side, shall
be the offering which ye shall offer of
five and twenty thousand [reeds in]
breadth, and [in] length as one of the
[other] parts, from the east side unto
the west side: and the sanctuary shall
be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto
the LORD [shall be] of five and twenty
thousand in length, and of ten thousand
in breadth.
10 And for them, [even] for the
priests, shall be [this] holy oblation;
toward the north five and twenty
thousand [in length], and toward the
west ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the east ten thousand in
breadth, and toward the south five and
twenty thousand in length: and the
sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the
midst thereof.
11 [It shall be] for the priests that
are sanctified of the sons of Zadok;
which have kept my charge, which went
not astray when the children of Israel
went astray, as the Levites went
astray.
12 And [this] oblation of the land that
is offered shall be unto them a thing
most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the
priests the Levites [shall have] five
and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth: all the length
[shall be] five and twenty thousand,
and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it,
neither exchange, nor alienate the
firstfruits of the land: for [it is]
holy unto the LORD.
15 # And the five thousand, that are
left in the breadth over against the
five and twenty thousand, shall be a
profane [place] for the city, for
dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city
shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these [shall be] the measures
thereof; the north side four thousand
and five hundred, and the south side
four thousand and five hundred, and on
the east side four thousand and five
hundred, and the west side four
thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be
toward the north two hundred and fifty,
and toward the south two hundred and
fifty, and toward the east two hundred
and fifty, and toward the west two
hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over
against the oblation of the holy
[portion shall be] ten thousand
eastward, and ten thousand westward:
and it shall be over against the
oblation of the holy [portion]; and the
increase thereof shall be for food unto
them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall
serve it out of all the tribes of
Israel.
20 All the oblation [shall be] five and
twenty thousand by five and twenty
thousand: ye shall offer the holy
oblation foursquare, with the
possession of the city.
21 # And the residue [shall be] for the
prince, on the one side and on the
other of the holy oblation, and of the
possession of the city, over against
the five and twenty thousand of the
oblation toward the east border, and
westward over against the five and
twenty thousand toward the west border,
over against the portions for the
prince: and it shall be the holy
oblation; and the sanctuary of the
house [shall be] in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the
Levites, and from the possession of the
city, [being] in the midst [of that]
which is the prince's, between the
border of Judah and the border of
Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from
the east side unto the west side,
Benjamin [shall have] a [portion].
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from
the east side unto the west side,
Simeon [shall have] a [portion].
25 And by the border of Simeon, from
the east side unto the west side,
Issachar a [portion].
26 And by the border of Issachar, from
the east side unto the west side,
Zebulun a [portion].
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from
the east side unto the west side, Gad a
[portion].
28 And by the border of Gad, at the
south side southward, the border shall
be even from Tamar [unto] the waters of
strife [in] Kadesh, [and] to the river
toward the great sea.
29 This [is] the land which ye shall
divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel
for inheritance, and these [are] their
portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 # And these [are] the goings out of
the city on the north side, four
thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city [shall be]
after the names of the tribes of
Israel: three gates northward; one gate
of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate
of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand
and five hundred: and three gates; and
one gate of Joseph, one gate of
Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand
and five hundred measures: and three
gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of
Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and
five hundred, [with] their three gates;
one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one
gate of Naphtali.
35 [It was] round about eighteen
thousand [measures]: and the name of
the city from [that] day [shall be],
The LORD [is] there.

THE BOOK OF DANIEL

CHAPTER 1
1 In the third year of the reign of
Jehoiakim king of Judah came
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto
Jerusalem, and besieged it.
2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of
Judah into his hand, with part of the
vessels of the house of God: which he
carried into the land of Shinar to the
house of his god; and he brought the
vessels into the treasure house of his
god.
3 # And the king spake unto Ashpenaz
the master of his eunuchs, that he
should bring [certain] of the children
of Israel, and of the king's seed, and
of the princes;
4 Children in whom [was] no blemish,
but well favoured, and skilful in all
wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and
understanding science, and such as
[had] ability in them to stand in the
king's palace, and whom they might
teach the learning and the tongue of
the Chaldeans.
5 And the king appointed them a daily
provision of the king's meat, and of
the wine which he drank: so nourishing
them three years, that at the end
thereof they might stand before the
king.
6 Now among these were of the children
of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah:
7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs
gave names: for he gave unto Daniel
[the name] of Belteshazzar; and to
Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael,
of Meshach; and to Azariah, of
Abed-nego.
8 # But Daniel purposed in his heart
that he would not defile himself with
the portion of the king's meat, nor
with the wine which he drank: therefore
he requested of the prince of the
eunuchs that he might not defile
himself.
9 Now God had brought Daniel into
favour and tender love with the prince
of the eunuchs.
10 And the prince of the eunuchs said
unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king,
who hath appointed your meat and your
drink: for why should he see your faces
worse liking than the children which
[are] of your sort? then shall ye make
[me] endanger my head to the king.
11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the
prince of the eunuchs had set over
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee,
ten days; and let them give us pulse to
eat, and water to drink.
13 Then let our countenances be looked
upon before thee, and the countenance
of the children that eat of the portion
of the king's meat: and as thou seest,
deal with thy servants.
14 So he consented to them in this
matter, and proved them ten days.
15 And at the end of ten days their
countenances appeared fairer and fatter
in flesh than all the children which
did eat the portion of the king's meat.
16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of
their meat, and the wine that they
should drink; and gave them pulse.
17 # As for these four children, God
gave them knowledge and skill in all
learning and wisdom: and Daniel had
understanding in all visions and
dreams.
18 Now at the end of the days that the
king had said he should bring them in,
then the prince of the eunuchs brought
them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
19 And the king communed with them; and
among them all was found none like
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
therefore stood they before the king.
20 And in all matters of wisdom [and]
understanding, that the king enquired
of them, he found them ten times better
than all the magicians [and]
astrologers that [were] in all his
realm.
21 And Daniel continued [even] unto the
first year of king Cyrus.

CHAPTER 2
1 And in the second year of the reign
of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar
dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit
was troubled, and his sleep brake from
him.
2 Then the king commanded to call the
magicians, and the astrologers, and the
sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to
shew the king his dreams. So they came
and stood before the king.
3 And the king said unto them, I have
dreamed a dream, and my spirit was
troubled to know the dream.
4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king
in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell
thy servants the dream, and we will
shew the interpretation.
5 The king answered and said to the
Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me:
if ye will not make known unto me the
dream, with the interpretation thereof,
ye shall be cut in pieces, and your
houses shall be made a dunghill.
6 But if ye shew the dream, and the
interpretation thereof, ye shall
receive of me gifts and rewards and
great honour: therefore shew me the
dream, and the interpretation thereof.
7 They answered again and said, Let the
king tell his servants the dream, and
we will shew the interpretation of it.
8 The king answered and said, I know of
certainty that ye would gain the time,
because ye see the thing is gone from
me.
9 But if ye will not make known unto me
the dream, [there is but] one decree
for you: for ye have prepared lying and
corrupt words to speak before me, till
the time be changed: therefore tell me
the dream, and I shall know that ye can
shew me the interpretation thereof.
10 # The Chaldeans answered before the
king, and said, There is not a man upon
the earth that can shew the king's
matter: therefore [there is] no king,
lord, nor ruler, [that] asked such
things at any magician, or astrologer,
or Chaldean.
11 And [it is] a rare thing that the
king requireth, and there is none other
that can shew it before the king,
except the gods, whose dwelling is not
with flesh.
12 For this cause the king was angry
and very furious, and commanded to
destroy all the wise [men] of Babylon.
13 And the decree went forth that the
wise [men] should be slain; and they
sought Daniel and his fellows to be
slain.
14 # Then Daniel answered with counsel
and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the
king's guard, which was gone forth to
slay the wise [men] of Babylon:
15 He answered and said to Arioch the
king's captain, Why [is] the decree
[so] hasty from the king? Then Arioch
made the thing known to Daniel.
16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of
the king that he would give him time,
and that he would shew the king the
interpretation.
17 Then Daniel went to his house, and
made the thing known to Hananiah,
Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
18 That they would desire mercies of
the God of heaven concerning this
secret; that Daniel and his fellows
should not perish with the rest of the
wise [men] of Babylon.
19 # Then was the secret revealed unto
Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel
blessed the God of heaven.
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be
the name of God for ever and ever: for
wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the
seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth
up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the
wise, and knowledge to them that know
understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret
things: he knoweth what [is] in the
darkness, and the light dwelleth with
him.
23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O
thou God of my fathers, who hast given
me wisdom and might, and hast made
known unto me now what we desired of
thee: for thou hast [now] made known
unto us the king's matter.
24 # Therefore Daniel went in unto
Arioch, whom the king had ordained to
destroy the wise [men] of Babylon: he
went and said thus unto him; Destroy
not the wise [men] of Babylon: bring me
in before the king, and I will shew
unto the king the interpretation.
25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before
the king in haste, and said thus unto
him, I have found a man of the captives
of Judah, that will make known unto the
king the interpretation.
26 The king answered and said to
Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar,
Art thou able to make known unto me the
dream which I have seen, and the
interpretation thereof?
27 Daniel answered in the presence of
the king, and said, The secret which
the king hath demanded cannot the wise
[men], the astrologers, the magicians,
the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
28 But there is a God in heaven that
revealeth secrets, and maketh known to
the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be
in the latter days. Thy dream, and the
visions of thy head upon thy bed, are
these;
29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts
came [into thy mind] upon thy bed, what
should come to pass hereafter: and he
that revealeth secrets maketh known to
thee what shall come to pass.
30 But as for me, this secret is not
revealed to me for [any] wisdom that I
have more than any living, but for
[their] sakes that shall make known the
interpretation to the king, and that
thou mightest know the thoughts of thy
heart.
31 # Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a
great image. This great image, whose
brightness [was] excellent, stood
before thee; and the form thereof [was]
terrible.
32 This image's head [was] of fine
gold, his breast and his arms of
silver, his belly and his thighs of
brass,
33 His legs of iron, his feet part of
iron and part of clay.
34 Thou sawest till that a stone was
cut out without hands, which smote the
image upon his feet [that were] of iron
and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the
brass, the silver, and the gold, broken
to pieces together, and became like the
chaff of the summer threshingfloors;
and the wind carried them away, that no
place was found for them: and the stone
that smote the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth.
36 # This [is] the dream; and we will
tell the interpretation thereof before
the king.
37 Thou, O king, [art] a king of kings:
for the God of heaven hath given thee a
kingdom, power, and strength, and
glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men
dwell, the beasts of the field and the
fowls of the heaven hath he given into
thine hand, and hath made thee ruler
over them all. Thou [art] this head of
gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another
kingdom inferior to thee, and another
third kingdom of brass, which shall
bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be
strong as iron: forasmuch as iron
breaketh in pieces and subdueth all
[things]: and as iron that breaketh all
these, shall it break in pieces and
bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and
toes, part of potters' clay, and part
of iron, the kingdom shall be divided;
but there shall be in it of the
strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou
sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And [as] the toes of the feet [were]
part of iron, and part of clay, [so]
the kingdom shall be partly strong, and
partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men: but
they shall not cleave one to another,
even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall
the God of heaven set up a kingdom,
which shall never be destroyed: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other
people, [but] it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms, and it
shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the
stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands, and that it brake in
pieces the iron, the brass, the clay,
the silver, and the gold; the great God
hath made known to the king what shall
come to pass hereafter: and the dream
[is] certain, and the interpretation
thereof sure.
46 # Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell
upon his face, and worshipped Daniel,
and commanded that they should offer an
oblation and sweet odours unto him.
47 The king answered unto Daniel, and
said, Of a truth [it is], that your God
[is] a God of gods, and a Lord of
kings, and a revealer of secrets,
seeing thou couldest reveal this
secret.
48 Then the king made Daniel a great
man, and gave him many great gifts, and
made him ruler over the whole province
of Babylon, and chief of the governors
over all the wise [men] of Babylon.
49 Then Daniel requested of the king,
and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, over the affairs of the
province of Babylon: but Daniel [sat]
in the gate of the king.

CHAPTER 3
1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image
of gold, whose height [was] threescore
cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six
cubits: he set it up in the plain of
Dura, in the province of Babylon.
2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to
gather together the princes, the
governors, and the captains, the
judges, the treasurers, the
counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the
rulers of the provinces, to come to the
dedication of the image which
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
3 Then the princes, the governors, and
captains, the judges, the treasurers,
the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all
the rulers of the provinces, were
gathered together unto the dedication
of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king had set up; and they stood before
the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set
up.
4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it
is commanded, O people, nations, and
languages,
5 [That] at what time ye hear the sound
of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of
musick, ye fall down and worship the
golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king hath set up:
6 And whoso falleth not down and
worshippeth shall the same hour be cast
into the midst of a burning fiery
furnace.
7 Therefore at that time, when all the
people heard the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all
kinds of musick, all the people, the
nations, and the languages, fell down
[and] worshipped the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
8 # Wherefore at that time certain
Chaldeans came near, and accused the
Jews.
9 They spake and said to the king
Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree,
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and
all kinds of musick, shall fall down
and worship the golden image:
11 And whoso falleth not down and
worshippeth, [that] he should be cast
into the midst of a burning fiery
furnace.
12 There are certain Jews whom thou
hast set over the affairs of the
province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have
not regarded thee: they serve not thy
gods, nor worship the golden image
which thou hast set up.
13 # Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage
and fury commanded to bring Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they
brought these men before the king.
14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto
them, [Is it] true, O Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve
my gods, nor worship the golden image
which I have set up?
15 Now if ye be ready that at what time
ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute,
harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, ye fall down
and worship the image which I have
made; [well]: but if ye worship not, ye
shall be cast the same hour into the
midst of a burning fiery furnace; and
who [is] that God that shall deliver
you out of my hands?
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego,
answered and said to the king, O
Nebuchadnezzar, we [are] not careful to
answer thee in this matter.
17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve
is able to deliver us from the burning
fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us]
out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O
king, that we will not serve thy gods,
nor worship the golden image which thou
hast set up.
19 # Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of
fury, and the form of his visage was
changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego: [therefore] he spake, and
commanded that they should heat the
furnace one seven times more than it
was wont to be heated.
20 And he commanded the most mighty men
that [were] in his army to bind
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and]
to cast [them] into the burning fiery
furnace.
21 Then these men were bound in their
coats, their hosen, and their hats, and
their [other] garments, and were cast
into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace.
22 Therefore because the king's
commandment was urgent, and the furnace
exceeding hot, the flame of the fire
slew those men that took up Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego.
23 And these three men, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound
into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace.
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was
astonied, and rose up in haste, [and]
spake, and said unto his counsellors,
Did not we cast three men bound into
the midst of the fire? They answered
and said unto the king, True, O king.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four
men loose, walking in the midst of the
fire, and they have no hurt; and the
form of the fourth is like the Son of
God.
26 # Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to
the mouth of the burning fiery furnace,
[and] spake, and said, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of
the most high God, come forth, and come
[hither]. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of
the fire.
27 And the princes, governors, and
captains, and the king's counsellors,
being gathered together, saw these men,
upon whose bodies the fire had no
power, nor was an hair of their head
singed, neither were their coats
changed, nor the smell of fire had
passed on them.
28 [Then] Nebuchadnezzar spake, and
said, Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent
his angel, and delivered his servants
that trusted in him, and have changed
the king's word, and yielded their
bodies, that they might not serve nor
worship any god, except their own God.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That
every people, nation, and language,
which speak any thing amiss against the
God of Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and
their houses shall be made a dunghill:
because there is no other God that can
deliver after this sort.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province
of Babylon.

CHAPTER 4
1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all
people, nations, and languages, that
dwell in all the earth; Peace be
multiplied unto you.
2 I thought it good to shew the signs
and wonders that the high God hath
wrought toward me.
3 How great [are] his signs! and how
mighty [are] his wonders! his kingdom
[is] an everlasting kingdom, and his
dominion [is] from generation to
generation.
4 # I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in
mine house, and flourishing in my
palace:
5 I saw a dream which made me afraid,
and the thoughts upon my bed and the
visions of my head troubled me.
6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in
all the wise [men] of Babylon before
me, that they might make known unto me
the interpretation of the dream.
7 Then came in the magicians, the
astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the
soothsayers: and I told the dream
before them; but they did not make
known unto me the interpretation
thereof.
8 # But at the last Daniel came in
before me, whose name [was]
Belteshazzar, according to the name of
my god, and in whom [is] the spirit of
the holy gods: and before him I told
the dream, [saying],
9 O Belteshazzar, master of the
magicians, because I know that the
spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee,
and no secret troubleth thee, tell me
the visions of my dream that I have
seen, and the interpretation thereof.
10 Thus [were] the visions of mine head
in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in
the midst of the earth, and the height
thereof [was] great.
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and
the height thereof reached unto heaven,
and the sight thereof to the end of all
the earth:
12 The leaves thereof [were] fair, and
the fruit thereof much, and in it [was]
meat for all: the beasts of the field
had shadow under it, and the fowls of
the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof,
and all flesh was fed of it.
13 I saw in the visions of my head upon
my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an
holy one came down from heaven;
14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew
down the tree, and cut off his
branches, shake off his leaves, and
scatter his fruit: let the beasts get
away from under it, and the fowls from
his branches:
15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his
roots in the earth, even with a band of
iron and brass, in the tender grass of
the field; and let it be wet with the
dew of heaven, and [let] his portion
[be] with the beasts in the grass of
the earth:
16 Let his heart be changed from man's,
and let a beast's heart be given unto
him; and let seven times pass over him.
17 This matter [is] by the decree of
the watchers, and the demand by the
word of the holy ones: to the intent
that the living may know that the most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and
giveth it to whomsoever he will, and
setteth up over it the basest of men.
18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar
have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar,
declare the interpretation thereof,
forasmuch as all the wise [men] of my
kingdom are not able to make known unto
me the interpretation: but thou [art]
able; for the spirit of the holy gods
[is] in thee.
19 # Then Daniel, whose name [was]
Belteshazzar, was astonied for one
hour, and his thoughts troubled him.
The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar,
let not the dream, or the
interpretation thereof, trouble thee.
Belteshazzar answered and said, My
lord, the dream [be] to them that hate
thee, and the interpretation thereof to
thine enemies.
20 The tree that thou sawest, which
grew, and was strong, whose height
reached unto the heaven, and the sight
thereof to all the earth;
21 Whose leaves [were] fair, and the
fruit thereof much, and in it [was]
meat for all; under which the beasts of
the field dwelt, and upon whose
branches the fowls of the heaven had
their habitation:
22 It [is] thou, O king, that art grown
and become strong: for thy greatness is
grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and
thy dominion to the end of the earth.
23 And whereas the king saw a watcher
and an holy one coming down from
heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down,
and destroy it; yet leave the stump of
the roots thereof in the earth, even
with a band of iron and brass, in the
tender grass of the field; and let it
be wet with the dew of heaven, and
[let] his portion [be] with the beasts
of the field, till seven times pass
over him;
24 This [is] the interpretation, O
king, and this [is] the decree of the
most High, which is come upon my lord
the king:
25 That they shall drive thee from men,
and thy dwelling shall be with the
beasts of the field, and they shall
make thee to eat grass as oxen, and
they shall wet thee with the dew of
heaven, and seven times shall pass over
thee, till thou know that the most High
ruleth in the kingdom of men, and
giveth it to whomsoever he will.
26 And whereas they commanded to leave
the stump of the tree roots; thy
kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after
that thou shalt have known that the
heavens do rule.
27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be
acceptable unto thee, and break off thy
sins by righteousness, and thine
iniquities by shewing mercy to the
poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy
tranquillity.
28 # All this came upon the king
Nebuchadnezzar.
29 At the end of twelve months he
walked in the palace of the kingdom of
Babylon.
30 The king spake, and said, Is not
this great Babylon, that I have built
for the house of the kingdom by the
might of my power, and for the honour
of my majesty?
31 While the word [was] in the king's
mouth, there fell a voice from heaven,
[saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to
thee it is spoken; The kingdom is
departed from thee.
32 And they shall drive thee from men,
and thy dwelling [shall be] with the
beasts of the field: they shall make
thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven
times shall pass over thee, until thou
know that the most High ruleth in the
kingdom of men, and giveth it to
whomsoever he will.
33 The same hour was the thing
fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he
was driven from men, and did eat grass
as oxen, and his body was wet with the
dew of heaven, till his hairs were
grown like eagles' [feathers], and his
nails like birds' [claws].
34 And at the end of the days I
Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto
heaven, and mine understanding returned
unto me, and I blessed the most High,
and I praised and honoured him that
liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an
everlasting dominion, and his kingdom
[is] from generation to generation:
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth
[are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth
according to his will in the army of
heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of
the earth: and none can stay his hand,
or say unto him, What doest thou?
36 At the same time my reason returned
unto me; and for the glory of my
kingdom, mine honour and brightness
returned unto me; and my counsellors
and my lords sought unto me; and I was
established in my kingdom, and
excellent majesty was added unto me.
37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and
extol and honour the King of heaven,
all whose works [are] truth, and his
ways judgment: and those that walk in
pride he is able to abase.

CHAPTER 5
1 Belshazzar the king made a great
feast to a thousand of his lords, and
drank wine before the thousand.
2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the
wine, commanded to bring the golden and
silver vessels which his father
Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the
temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that
the king, and his princes, his wives,
and his concubines, might drink
therein.
3 Then they brought the golden vessels
that were taken out of the temple of
the house of God which [was] at
Jerusalem; and the king, and his
princes, his wives, and his concubines,
drank in them.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods
of gold, and of silver, of brass, of
iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 # In the same hour came forth fingers
of a man's hand, and wrote over against
the candlestick upon the plaister of
the wall of the king's palace: and the
king saw the part of the hand that
wrote.
6 Then the king's countenance was
changed, and his thoughts troubled him,
so that the joints of his loins were
loosed, and his knees smote one against
another.
7 The king cried aloud to bring in the
astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the
soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and
said to the wise [men] of Babylon,
Whosoever shall read this writing, and
shew me the interpretation thereof,
shall be clothed with scarlet, and
[have] a chain of gold about his neck,
and shall be the third ruler in the
kingdom.
8 Then came in all the king's wise
[men]: but they could not read the
writing, nor make known to the king the
interpretation thereof.
9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly
troubled, and his countenance was
changed in him, and his lords were
astonied.
10 # [Now] the queen, by reason of the
words of the king and his lords, came
into the banquet house: [and] the queen
spake and said, O king, live for ever:
let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor
let thy countenance be changed:
11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in
whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods;
and in the days of thy father light and
understanding and wisdom, like the
wisdom of the gods, was found in him;
whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy
father, the king, [I say], thy father,
made master of the magicians,
astrologers, Chaldeans, [and]
soothsayers;
12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit,
and knowledge, and understanding,
interpreting of dreams, and shewing of
hard sentences, and dissolving of
doubts, were found in the same Daniel,
whom the king named Belteshazzar: now
let Daniel be called, and he will shew
the interpretation.
13 Then was Daniel brought in before
the king. [And] the king spake and said
unto Daniel, [Art] thou that Daniel,
which [art] of the children of the
captivity of Judah, whom the king my
father brought out of Jewry?
14 I have even heard of thee, that the
spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and
[that] light and understanding and
excellent wisdom is found in thee.
15 And now the wise [men], the
astrologers, have been brought in
before me, that they should read this
writing, and make known unto me the
interpretation thereof: but they could
not shew the interpretation of the
thing:
16 And I have heard of thee, that thou
canst make interpretations, and
dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read
the writing, and make known to me the
interpretation thereof, thou shalt be
clothed with scarlet, and [have] a
chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt
be the third ruler in the kingdom.
17 # Then Daniel answered and said
before the king, Let thy gifts be to
thyself, and give thy rewards to
another; yet I will read the writing
unto the king, and make known to him
the interpretation.
18 O thou king, the most high God gave
Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom,
and majesty, and glory, and honour:
19 And for the majesty that he gave
him, all people, nations, and
languages, trembled and feared before
him: whom he would he slew; and whom he
would he kept alive; and whom he would
he set up; and whom he would he put
down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up,
and his mind hardened in pride, he was
deposed from his kingly throne, and
they took his glory from him:
21 And he was driven from the sons of
men; and his heart was made like the
beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the
wild asses: they fed him with grass
like oxen, and his body was wet with
the dew of heaven; till he knew that
the most high God ruled in the kingdom
of men, and [that] he appointeth over
it whomsoever he will.
22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast
not humbled thine heart, though thou
knewest all this;
23 But hast lifted up thyself against
the Lord of heaven; and they have
brought the vessels of his house before
thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy
wives, and thy concubines, have drunk
wine in them; and thou hast praised the
gods of silver, and gold, of brass,
iron, wood, and stone, which see not,
nor hear, nor know: and the God in
whose hand thy breath [is], and whose
[are] all thy ways, hast thou not
glorified:
24 Then was the part of the hand sent
from him; and this writing was written.
25 # And this [is] the writing that was
written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This [is] the interpretation of the
thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy
kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and
given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they
clothed Daniel with scarlet, and [put]
a chain of gold about his neck, and
made a proclamation concerning him,
that he should be the third ruler in
the kingdom.
30 # In that night was Belshazzar the
king of the Chaldeans slain.
31 And Darius the Median took the
kingdom, [being] about threescore and
two years old.

CHAPTER 6
1 It pleased Darius to set over the
kingdom an hundred and twenty princes,
which should be over the whole kingdom;
2 And over these three presidents; of
whom Daniel [was] first: that the
princes might give accounts unto them,
and the king should have no damage.
3 Then this Daniel was preferred above
the presidents and princes, because an
excellent spirit [was] in him; and the
king thought to set him over the whole
realm.
4 # Then the presidents and princes
sought to find occasion against Daniel
concerning the kingdom; but they could
find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch
as he [was] faithful, neither was there
any error or fault found in him.
5 Then said these men, We shall not
find any occasion against this Daniel,
except we find [it] against him
concerning the law of his God.
6 Then these presidents and princes
assembled together to the king, and
said thus unto him, King Darius, live
for ever.
7 All the presidents of the kingdom,
the governors, and the princes, the
counsellors, and the captains, have
consulted together to establish a royal
statute, and to make a firm decree,
that whosoever shall ask a petition of
any God or man for thirty days, save of
thee, O king, he shall be cast into the
den of lions.
8 Now, O king, establish the decree,
and sign the writing, that it be not
changed, according to the law of the
Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
9 Wherefore king Darius signed the
writing and the decree.
10 # Now when Daniel knew that the
writing was signed, he went into his
house; and his windows being open in
his chamber toward Jerusalem, he
kneeled upon his knees three times a
day, and prayed, and gave thanks before
his God, as he did aforetime.
11 Then these men assembled, and found
Daniel praying and making supplication
before his God.
12 Then they came near, and spake
before the king concerning the king's
decree; Hast thou not signed a decree,
that every man that shall ask [a
petition] of any God or man within
thirty days, save of thee, O king,
shall be cast into the den of lions?
The king answered and said, The thing
[is] true, according to the law of the
Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
13 Then answered they and said before
the king, That Daniel, which [is] of
the children of the captivity of Judah,
regardeth not thee, O king, nor the
decree that thou hast signed, but
maketh his petition three times a day.
14 Then the king, when he heard [these]
words, was sore displeased with
himself, and set [his] heart on Daniel
to deliver him: and he laboured till
the going down of the sun to deliver
him.
15 Then these men assembled unto the
king, and said unto the king, Know, O
king, that the law of the Medes and
Persians [is], That no decree nor
statute which the king establisheth may
be changed.
16 Then the king commanded, and they
brought Daniel, and cast [him] into the
den of lions. [Now] the king spake and
said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou
servest continually, he will deliver
thee.
17 And a stone was brought, and laid
upon the mouth of the den; and the king
sealed it with his own signet, and with
the signet of his lords; that the
purpose might not be changed concerning
Daniel.
18 # Then the king went to his palace,
and passed the night fasting: neither
were instruments of musick brought
before him: and his sleep went from
him.
19 Then the king arose very early in
the morning, and went in haste unto the
den of lions.
20 And when he came to the den, he
cried with a lamentable voice unto
Daniel: [and] the king spake and said
to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the
living God, is thy God, whom thou
servest continually, able to deliver
thee from the lions?
21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O
king, live for ever.
22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath
shut the lions' mouths, that they have
not hurt me: forasmuch as before him
innocency was found in me; and also
before thee, O king, have I done no
hurt.
23 Then was the king exceeding glad for
him, and commanded that they should
take Daniel up out of the den. So
Daniel was taken up out of the den, and
no manner of hurt was found upon him,
because he believed in his God.
24 # And the king commanded, and they
brought those men which had accused
Daniel, and they cast [them] into the
den of lions, them, their children, and
their wives; and the lions had the
mastery of them, and brake all their
bones in pieces or ever they came at
the bottom of the den.
25 # Then king Darius wrote unto all
people, nations, and languages, that
dwell in all the earth; Peace be
multiplied unto you.
26 I make a decree, That in every
dominion of my kingdom men tremble and
fear before the God of Daniel: for he
[is] the living God, and stedfast for
ever, and his kingdom [that] which
shall not be destroyed, and his
dominion [shall be even] unto the end.
27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he
worketh signs and wonders in heaven and
in earth, who hath delivered Daniel
from the power of the lions.
28 So this Daniel prospered in the
reign of Darius, and in the reign of
Cyrus the Persian.

CHAPTER 7
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king
of Babylon Daniel had a dream and
visions of his head upon his bed: then
he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum
of the matters.
2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my
vision by night, and, behold, the four
winds of the heaven strove upon the
great sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from
the sea, diverse one from another.
4 The first [was] like a lion, and had
eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings
thereof were plucked, and it was lifted
up from the earth, and made stand upon
the feet as a man, and a man's heart
was given to it.
5 And behold another beast, a second,
like to a bear, and it raised up itself
on one side, and [it had] three ribs in
the mouth of it between the teeth of
it: and they said thus unto it, Arise,
devour much flesh.
6 After this I beheld, and lo another,
like a leopard, which had upon the back
of it four wings of a fowl; the beast
had also four heads; and dominion was
given to it.
7 After this I saw in the night
visions, and behold a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong
exceedingly; and it had great iron
teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces,
and stamped the residue with the feet
of it: and it [was] diverse from all
the beasts that [were] before it; and
it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold,
there came up among them another little
horn, before whom there were three of
the first horns plucked up by the
roots: and, behold, in this horn [were]
eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth
speaking great things.
9 # I beheld till the thrones were cast
down, and the Ancient of days did sit,
whose garment [was] white as snow, and
the hair of his head like the pure
wool: his throne [was like] the fiery
flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning
fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth
from before him: thousand thousands
ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him:
the judgment was set, and the books
were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice
of the great words which the horn
spake: I beheld [even] till the beast
was slain, and his body destroyed, and
given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the
beasts, they had their dominion taken
away: yet their lives were prolonged
for a season and time.
13 I saw in the night visions, and,
behold, [one] like the Son of man came
with the clouds of heaven, and came to
the Ancient of days, and they brought
him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion,
and glory, and a kingdom, that all
people, nations, and languages, should
serve him: his dominion [is] an
everlasting dominion, which shall not
pass away, and his kingdom [that] which
shall not be destroyed.
15 # I Daniel was grieved in my spirit
in the midst of [my] body, and the
visions of my head troubled me.
16 I came near unto one of them that
stood by, and asked him the truth of
all this. So he told me, and made me
know the interpretation of the things.
17 These great beasts, which are four,
[are] four kings, [which] shall arise
out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High
shall take the kingdom, and possess the
kingdom for ever, even for ever and
ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the
fourth beast, which was diverse from
all the others, exceeding dreadful,
whose teeth [were of] iron, and his
nails [of] brass; [which] devoured,
brake in pieces, and stamped the
residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that [were] in
his head, and [of] the other which came
up, and before whom three fell; even
[of] that horn that had eyes, and a
mouth that spake very great things,
whose look [was] more stout than his
fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war
with the saints, and prevailed against
them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the
most High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall
be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which
shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth, and shall
tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this
kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall
arise: and another shall rise after
them; and he shall be diverse from the
first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak [great] words
against the most High, and shall wear
out the saints of the most High, and
think to change times and laws: and
they shall be given into his hand until
a time and times and the dividing of
time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they
shall take away his dominion, to
consume and to destroy [it] unto the
end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and
the greatness of the kingdom under the
whole heaven, shall be given to the
people of the saints of the most High,
whose kingdom [is] an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominions shall serve
and obey him.
28 Hitherto [is] the end of the matter.
As for me Daniel, my cogitations much
troubled me, and my countenance changed
in me: but I kept the matter in my
heart.

CHAPTER 8
1 In the third year of the reign of
king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto
me, [even unto] me Daniel, after that
which appeared unto me at the first.
2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to
pass, when I saw, that I [was] at
Shushan [in] the palace, which [is] in
the province of Elam; and I saw in a
vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw,
and, behold, there stood before the
river a ram which had [two] horns: and
the [two] horns [were] high; but one
[was] higher than the other, and the
higher came up last.
4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and
northward, and southward; so that no
beasts might stand before him, neither
[was there any] that could deliver out
of his hand; but he did according to
his will, and became great.
5 And as I was considering, behold, an
he goat came from the west on the face
of the whole earth, and touched not the
ground: and the goat [had] a notable
horn between his eyes.
6 And he came to the ram that had [two]
horns, which I had seen standing before
the river, and ran unto him in the fury
of his power.
7 And I saw him come close unto the
ram, and he was moved with choler
against him, and smote the ram, and
brake his two horns: and there was no
power in the ram to stand before him,
but he cast him down to the ground, and
stamped upon him: and there was none
that could deliver the ram out of his
hand.
8 Therefore the he goat waxed very
great: and when he was strong, the
great horn was broken; and for it came
up four notable ones toward the four
winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a
little horn, which waxed exceeding
great, toward the south, and toward the
east, and toward the pleasant [land].
10 And it waxed great, [even] to the
host of heaven; and it cast down [some]
of the host and of the stars to the
ground, and stamped upon them.
11 Yea, he magnified [himself] even to
the prince of the host, and by him the
daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and
the place of his sanctuary was cast
down.
12 And an host was given [him] against
the daily [sacrifice] by reason of
transgression, and it cast down the
truth to the ground; and it practised,
and prospered.
13 # Then I heard one saint speaking,
and another saint said unto that
certain [saint] which spake, How long
[shall be] the vision [concerning] the
daily [sacrifice], and the
transgression of desolation, to give
both the sanctuary and the host to be
trodden under foot?
14 And he said unto me, Unto two
thousand and three hundred days; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
15 # And it came to pass, when I,
[even] I Daniel, had seen the vision,
and sought for the meaning, then,
behold, there stood before me as the
appearance of a man.
16 And I heard a man's voice between
[the banks of] Ulai, which called, and
said, Gabriel, make this [man] to
understand the vision.
17 So he came near where I stood: and
when he came, I was afraid, and fell
upon my face: but he said unto me,
Understand, O son of man: for at the
time of the end [shall be] the vision.
18 Now as he was speaking with me, I
was in a deep sleep on my face toward
the ground: but he touched me, and set
me upright.
19 And he said, Behold, I will make
thee know what shall be in the last end
of the indignation: for at the time
appointed the end [shall be].
20 The ram which thou sawest having
[two] horns [are] the kings of Media
and Persia.
21 And the rough goat [is] the king of
Grecia: and the great horn that [is]
between his eyes [is] the first king.
22 Now that being broken, whereas four
stood up for it, four kingdoms shall
stand up out of the nation, but not in
his power.
23 And in the latter time of their
kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but
not by his own power: and he shall
destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper,
and practise, and shall destroy the
mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall
cause craft to prosper in his hand; and
he shall magnify [himself] in his
heart, and by peace shall destroy many:
he shall also stand up against the
Prince of princes; but he shall be
broken without hand.
26 And the vision of the evening and
the morning which was told [is] true:
wherefore shut thou up the vision; for
it [shall be] for many days.
27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick
[certain] days; afterward I rose up,
and did the king's business; and I was
astonished at the vision, but none
understood [it].

CHAPTER 9
1 In the first year of Darius the son
of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,
which was made king over the realm of
the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I
Daniel understood by books the number
of the years, whereof the word of the
LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that
he would accomplish seventy years in
the desolations of Jerusalem.
3 # And I set my face unto the Lord
God, to seek by prayer and
supplications, with fasting, and
sackcloth, and ashes:
4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God,
and made my confession, and said, O
Lord, the great and dreadful God,
keeping the covenant and mercy to them
that love him, and to them that keep
his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed
iniquity, and have done wickedly, and
have rebelled, even by departing from
thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy
servants the prophets, which spake in
thy name to our kings, our princes, and
our fathers, and to all the people of
the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness [belongeth]
unto thee, but unto us confusion of
faces, as at this day; to the men of
Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that
are] near, and [that are] far off,
through all the countries whither thou
hast driven them, because of their
trespass that they have trespassed
against thee.
8 O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion
of face, to our kings, to our princes,
and to our fathers, because we have
sinned against thee.
9 To the Lord our God [belong] mercies
and forgivenesses, though we have
rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of
the LORD our God, to walk in his laws,
which he set before us by his servants
the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed
thy law, even by departing, that they
might not obey thy voice; therefore the
curse is poured upon us, and the oath
that [is] written in the law of Moses
the servant of God, because we have
sinned against him.
12 And he hath confirmed his words,
which he spake against us, and against
our judges that judged us, by bringing
upon us a great evil: for under the
whole heaven hath not been done as hath
been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As [it is] written in the law of
Moses, all this evil is come upon us:
yet made we not our prayer before the
LORD our God, that we might turn from
our iniquities, and understand thy
truth.
14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon
the evil, and brought it upon us: for
the LORD our God [is] righteous in all
his works which he doeth: for we obeyed
not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast
brought thy people forth out of the
land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and
hast gotten thee renown, as at this
day; we have sinned, we have done
wickedly.
16 # O Lord, according to all thy
righteousness, I beseech thee, let
thine anger and thy fury be turned away
from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy
mountain: because for our sins, and for
the iniquities of our fathers,
Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a
reproach to all [that are] about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the
prayer of thy servant, and his
supplications, and cause thy face to
shine upon thy sanctuary that is
desolate, for the Lord's sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and
hear; open thine eyes, and behold our
desolations, and the city which is
called by thy name: for we do not
present our supplications before thee
for our righteousnesses, but for thy
great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O
Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for
thine own sake, O my God: for thy city
and thy people are called by thy name.
20 # And whiles I [was] speaking, and
praying, and confessing my sin and the
sin of my people Israel, and presenting
my supplication before the LORD my God
for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I [was] speaking in
prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I
had seen in the vision at the
beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the
evening oblation.
22 And he informed [me], and talked
with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now
come forth to give thee skill and
understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy
supplications the commandment came
forth, and I am come to shew [thee];
for thou [art] greatly beloved:
therefore understand the matter, and
consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon
thy people and upon thy holy city, to
finish the transgression, and to make
an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to
bring in everlasting righteousness, and
to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand,
[that] from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build
Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince
[shall be] seven weeks, and threescore
and two weeks: the street shall be
built again, and the wall, even in
troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself: and the people of the prince
that shall come shall destroy the city
and the sanctuary; and the end thereof
[shall be] with a flood, and unto the
end of the war desolations are
determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease,
and for the overspreading of
abominations he shall make [it]
desolate, even until the consummation,
and that determined shall be poured
upon the desolate.

CHAPTER 10
1 In the third year of Cyrus king of
Persia a thing was revealed unto
Daniel, whose name was called
Belteshazzar; and the thing [was] true,
but the time appointed [was] long: and
he understood the thing, and had
understanding of the vision.
2 In those days I Daniel was mourning
three full weeks.
3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came
flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did
I anoint myself at all, till three
whole weeks were fulfilled.
4 And in the four and twentieth day of
the first month, as I was by the side
of the great river, which [is]
Hiddekel;
5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and
looked, and behold a certain man
clothed in linen, whose loins [were]
girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
6 His body also [was] like the beryl,
and his face as the appearance of
lightning, and his eyes as lamps of
fire, and his arms and his feet like in
colour to polished brass, and the voice
of his words like the voice of a
multitude.
7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision:
for the men that were with me saw not
the vision; but a great quaking fell
upon them, so that they fled to hide
themselves.
8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw
this great vision, and there remained
no strength in me: for my comeliness
was turned in me into corruption, and I
retained no strength.
9 Yet heard I the voice of his words:
and when I heard the voice of his
words, then was I in a deep sleep on my
face, and my face toward the ground.
10 # And, behold, an hand touched me,
which set me upon my knees and [upon]
the palms of my hands.
11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man
greatly beloved, understand the words
that I speak unto thee, and stand
upright: for unto thee am I now sent.
And when he had spoken this word unto
me, I stood trembling.
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not,
Daniel: for from the first day that
thou didst set thine heart to
understand, and to chasten thyself
before thy God, thy words were heard,
and I am come for thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of
Persia withstood me one and twenty
days: but, lo, Michael, one of the
chief princes, came to help me; and I
remained there with the kings of
Persia.
14 Now I am come to make thee
understand what shall befall thy people
in the latter days: for yet the vision
[is] for [many] days.
15 And when he had spoken such words
unto me, I set my face toward the
ground, and I became dumb.
16 And, behold, [one] like the
similitude of the sons of men touched
my lips: then I opened my mouth, and
spake, and said unto him that stood
before me, O my lord, by the vision my
sorrows are turned upon me, and I have
retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my
lord talk with this my lord? for as for
me, straightway there remained no
strength in me, neither is there breath
left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me
[one] like the appearance of a man, and
he strengthened me,
19 And said, O man greatly beloved,
fear not: peace [be] unto thee, be
strong, yea, be strong. And when he had
spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and
said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast
strengthened me.
20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore
I come unto thee? and now will I return
to fight with the prince of Persia: and
when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of
Grecia shall come.
21 But I will shew thee that which is
noted in the scripture of truth: and
[there is] none that holdeth with me in
these things, but Michael your prince.

CHAPTER 11
1 Also I in the first year of Darius
the Mede, [even] I, stood to confirm
and to strengthen him.
2 And now will I shew thee the truth.
Behold, there shall stand up yet three
kings in Persia; and the fourth shall
be far richer than [they] all: and by
his strength through his riches he
shall stir up all against the realm of
Grecia.
3 And a mighty king shall stand up,
that shall rule with great dominion,
and do according to his will.
4 And when he shall stand up, his
kingdom shall be broken, and shall be
divided toward the four winds of
heaven; and not to his posterity, nor
according to his dominion which he
ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked
up, even for others beside those.
5 # And the king of the south shall be
strong, and [one] of his princes; and
he shall be strong above him, and have
dominion; his dominion [shall be] a
great dominion.
6 And in the end of years they shall
join themselves together; for the
king's daughter of the south shall come
to the king of the north to make an
agreement: but she shall not retain the
power of the arm; neither shall he
stand, nor his arm: but she shall be
given up, and they that brought her,
and he that begat her, and he that
strengthened her in [these] times.
7 But out of a branch of her roots
shall [one] stand up in his estate,
which shall come with an army, and
shall enter into the fortress of the
king of the north, and shall deal
against them, and shall prevail:
8 And shall also carry captives into
Egypt their gods, with their princes,
[and] with their precious vessels of
silver and of gold; and he shall
continue [more] years than the king of
the north.
9 So the king of the south shall come
into [his] kingdom, and shall return
into his own land.
10 But his sons shall be stirred up,
and shall assemble a multitude of great
forces: and [one] shall certainly come,
and overflow, and pass through: then
shall he return, and be stirred up,
[even] to his fortress.
11 And the king of the south shall be
moved with choler, and shall come forth
and fight with him, [even] with the
king of the north: and he shall set
forth a great multitude; but the
multitude shall be given into his hand.
12 [And] when he hath taken away the
multitude, his heart shall be lifted
up; and he shall cast down [many] ten
thousands: but he shall not be
strengthened [by it].
13 For the king of the north shall
return, and shall set forth a multitude
greater than the former, and shall
certainly come after certain years with
a great army and with much riches.
14 And in those times there shall many
stand up against the king of the south:
also the robbers of thy people shall
exalt themselves to establish the
vision; but they shall fall.
15 So the king of the north shall come,
and cast up a mount, and take the most
fenced cities: and the arms of the
south shall not withstand, neither his
chosen people, neither [shall there be
any] strength to withstand.
16 But he that cometh against him shall
do according to his own will, and none
shall stand before him: and he shall
stand in the glorious land, which by
his hand shall be consumed.
17 He shall also set his face to enter
with the strength of his whole kingdom,
and upright ones with him; thus shall
he do: and he shall give him the
daughter of women, corrupting her: but
she shall not stand [on his side],
neither be for him.
18 After this shall he turn his face
unto the isles, and shall take many:
but a prince for his own behalf shall
cause the reproach offered by him to
cease; without his own reproach he
shall cause [it] to turn upon him.
19 Then he shall turn his face toward
the fort of his own land: but he shall
stumble and fall, and not be found.
20 Then shall stand up in his estate a
raiser of taxes [in] the glory of the
kingdom: but within few days he shall
be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in
battle.
21 And in his estate shall stand up a
vile person, to whom they shall not
give the honour of the kingdom: but he
shall come in peaceably, and obtain the
kingdom by flatteries.
22 And with the arms of a flood shall
they be overflown from before him, and
shall be broken; yea, also the prince
of the covenant.
23 And after the league [made] with him
he shall work deceitfully: for he shall
come up, and shall become strong with a
small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon
the fattest places of the province; and
he shall do [that] which his fathers
have not done, nor his fathers'
fathers; he shall scatter among them
the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea],
and he shall forecast his devices
against the strong holds, even for a
time.
25 And he shall stir up his power and
his courage against the king of the
south with a great army; and the king
of the south shall be stirred up to
battle with a very great and mighty
army; but he shall not stand: for they
shall forecast devices against him.
26 Yea, they that feed of the portion
of his meat shall destroy him, and his
army shall overflow: and many shall
fall down slain.
27 And both these kings' hearts [shall
be] to do mischief, and they shall
speak lies at one table; but it shall
not prosper: for yet the end [shall be]
at the time appointed.
28 Then shall he return into his land
with great riches; and his heart [shall
be] against the holy covenant; and he
shall do [exploits], and return to his
own land.
29 At the time appointed he shall
return, and come toward the south; but
it shall not be as the former, or as
the latter.
30 # For the ships of Chittim shall
come against him: therefore he shall be
grieved, and return, and have
indignation against the holy covenant:
so shall he do; he shall even return,
and have intelligence with them that
forsake the holy covenant.
31 And arms shall stand on his part,
and they shall pollute the sanctuary of
strength, and shall take away the daily
[sacrifice], and they shall place the
abomination that maketh desolate.
32 And such as do wickedly against the
covenant shall he corrupt by
flatteries: but the people that do know
their God shall be strong, and do
[exploits].
33 And they that understand among the
people shall instruct many: yet they
shall fall by the sword, and by flame,
by captivity, and by spoil, [many]
days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall
be holpen with a little help: but many
shall cleave to them with flatteries.
35 And [some] of them of understanding
shall fall, to try them, and to purge,
and to make [them] white, [even] to the
time of the end: because [it is] yet
for a time appointed.
36 And the king shall do according to
his will; and he shall exalt himself,
and magnify himself above every god,
and shall speak marvellous things
against the God of gods, and shall
prosper till the indignation be
accomplished: for that that is
determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of
his fathers, nor the desire of women,
nor regard any god: for he shall
magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour
the God of forces: and a god whom his
fathers knew not shall he honour with
gold, and silver, and with precious
stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong
holds with a strange god, whom he shall
acknowledge [and] increase with glory:
and he shall cause them to rule over
many, and shall divide the land for
gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the
king of the south push at him: and the
king of the north shall come against
him like a whirlwind, with chariots,
and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries,
and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the
glorious land, and many [countries]
shall be overthrown: but these shall
escape out of his hand, [even] Edom,
and Moab, and the chief of the children
of Ammon.
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also
upon the countries: and the land of
Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the
treasures of gold and of silver, and
over all the precious things of Egypt:
and the Libyans and the Ethiopians
[shall be] at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east and out
of the north shall trouble him:
therefore he shall go forth with great
fury to destroy, and utterly to make
away many.
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles
of his palace between the seas in the
glorious holy mountain; yet he shall
come to his end, and none shall help
him.

CHAPTER 12
1 And at that time shall Michael stand
up, the great prince which standeth for
the children of thy people: and there
shall be a time of trouble, such as
never was since there was a nation
[even] to that same time: and at that
time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written
in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to shame
[and] everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as
the brightness of the firmament; and
they that turn many to righteousness as
the stars for ever and ever.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the
words, and seal the book, [even] to the
time of the end: many shall run to and
fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
5 # Then I Daniel looked, and, behold,
there stood other two, the one on this
side of the bank of the river, and the
other on that side of the bank of the
river.
6 And [one] said to the man clothed in
linen, which [was] upon the waters of
the river, How long [shall it be to]
the end of these wonders?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen,
which [was] upon the waters of the
river, when he held up his right hand
and his left hand unto heaven, and
sware by him that liveth for ever that
[it shall be] for a time, times, and an
half; and when he shall have
accomplished to scatter the power of
the holy people, all these [things]
shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not:
then said I, O my Lord, what [shall be]
the end of these [things]?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for
the words [are] closed up and sealed
till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made
white, and tried; but the wicked shall
do wickedly: and none of the wicked
shall understand; but the wise shall
understand.
11 And from the time [that] the daily
[sacrifice] shall be taken away, and
the abomination that maketh desolate
set up, [there shall be] a thousand two
hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and
cometh to the thousand three hundred
and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end
[be]: for thou shalt rest, and stand in
thy lot at the end of the days.

HOSEA

CHAPTER 1
1 The word of the LORD that came unto
Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah,
kings of Judah, and in the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
Israel.
2 The beginning of the word of the LORD
by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea,
Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and children of whoredoms: for the land
hath committed great whoredom,
[departing] from the LORD.
3 So he went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim; which conceived,
and bare him a son.
4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his
name Jezreel; for yet a little [while],
and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel
upon the house of Jehu, and will cause
to cease the kingdom of the house of
Israel.
5 And it shall come to pass at that
day, that I will break the bow of
Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
6 # And she conceived again, and bare a
daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call
her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more
have mercy upon the house of Israel;
but I will utterly take them away.
7 But I will have mercy upon the house
of Judah, and will save them by the
LORD their God, and will not save them
by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by
horses, nor by horsemen.
8 # Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah,
she conceived, and bare a son.
9 Then said [God], Call his name
Lo-ammi: for ye [are] not my people,
and I will not be your [God].
10 # Yet the number of the children of
Israel shall be as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured nor numbered;
and it shall come to pass, [that] in
the place where it was said unto them,
Ye [are] not my people, [there] it
shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the
sons of the living God.
11 Then shall the children of Judah and
the children of Israel be gathered
together, and appoint themselves one
head, and they shall come up out of the
land: for great [shall be] the day of
Jezreel.

CHAPTER 2
1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and
to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for
she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I
her husband: let her therefore put away
her whoredoms out of her sight, and her
adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her
as in the day that she was born, and
make her as a wilderness, and set her
like a dry land, and slay her with
thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her
children; for they [be] the children of
whoredoms.
5 For their mother hath played the
harlot: she that conceived them hath
done shamefully: for she said, I will
go after my lovers, that give [me] my
bread and my water, my wool and my
flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 # Therefore, behold, I will hedge up
thy way with thorns, and make a wall,
that she shall not find her paths.
7 And she shall follow after her
lovers, but she shall not overtake
them; and she shall seek them, but
shall not find [them]: then shall she
say, I will go and return to my first
husband; for then [was it] better with
me than now.
8 For she did not know that I gave her
corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied
her silver and gold, [which] they
prepared for Baal.
9 Therefore will I return, and take
away my corn in the time thereof, and
my wine in the season thereof, and will
recover my wool and my flax [given] to
cover her nakedness.
10 And now will I discover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers, and none
shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11 I will also cause all her mirth to
cease, her feast days, her new moons,
and her sabbaths, and all her solemn
feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her
fig trees, whereof she hath said, These
[are] my rewards that my lovers have
given me: and I will make them a
forest, and the beasts of the field
shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days
of Baalim, wherein she burned incense
to them, and she decked herself with
her earrings and her jewels, and she
went after her lovers, and forgat me,
saith the LORD.
14 # Therefore, behold, I will allure
her, and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak comfortably unto her.
15 And I will give her her vineyards
from thence, and the valley of Achor
for a door of hope: and she shall sing
there, as in the days of her youth, and
as in the day when she came up out of
the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith
the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me
Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
17 For I will take away the names of
Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall
no more be remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a
covenant for them with the beasts of
the field, and with the fowls of
heaven, and [with] the creeping things
of the ground: and I will break the bow
and the sword and the battle out of the
earth, and will make them to lie down
safely.
19 And I will betroth thee unto me for
ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me
in righteousness, and in judgment, and
in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 I will even betroth thee unto me in
faithfulness: and thou shalt know the
LORD.
21 And it shall come to pass in that
day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I
will hear the heavens, and they shall
hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn,
and the wine, and the oil; and they
shall hear Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her unto me in the
earth; and I will have mercy upon her
that had not obtained mercy; and I will
say to [them which were] not my people,
Thou [art] my people; and they shall
say, [Thou art] my God.

CHAPTER 3
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet,
love a woman beloved of [her] friend,
yet an adulteress, according to the
love of the LORD toward the children of
Israel, who look to other gods, and
love flagons of wine.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen
[pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer
of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide
for me many days; thou shalt not play
the harlot, and thou shalt not be for
[another] man: so [will] I also [be]
for thee.
4 For the children of Israel shall
abide many days without a king, and
without a prince, and without a
sacrifice, and without an image, and
without an ephod, and [without]
teraphim:
5 Afterward shall the children of
Israel return, and seek the LORD their
God, and David their king; and shall
fear the LORD and his goodness in the
latter days.

CHAPTER 4
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye
children of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the
land, because [there is] no truth, nor
mercy, nor knowledge of God in the
land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing,
and stealing, and committing adultery,
they break out, and blood toucheth
blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and
every one that dwelleth therein shall
languish, with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the
fishes of the sea also shall be taken
away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove
another: for thy people [are] as they
that strive with the priest.
5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day,
and the prophet also shall fall with
thee in the night, and I will destroy
thy mother.
6 # My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me:
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of
thy God, I will also forget thy
children.
7 As they were increased, so they
sinned against me: [therefore] will I
change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and
they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 And there shall be, like people, like
priest: and I will punish them for
their ways, and reward them their
doings.
10 For they shall eat, and not have
enough: they shall commit whoredom, and
shall not increase: because they have
left off to take heed to the LORD.
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take
away the heart.
12 # My people ask counsel at their
stocks, and their staff declareth unto
them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath
caused [them] to err, and they have
gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the
mountains, and burn incense upon the
hills, under oaks and poplars and elms,
because the shadow thereof [is] good:
therefore your daughters shall commit
whoredom, and your spouses shall commit
adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters
when they commit whoredom, nor your
spouses when they commit adultery: for
themselves are separated with whores,
and they sacrifice with harlots:
therefore the people [that] doth not
understand shall fall.
15 # Though thou, Israel, play the
harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and
come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye
up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD
liveth.
16 For Israel slideth back as a
backsliding heifer: now the LORD will
feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let
him alone.
18 Their drink is sour: they have
committed whoredom continually: her
rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
19 The wind hath bound her up in her
wings, and they shall be ashamed
because of their sacrifices.

CHAPTER 5
1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken,
ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O
house of the king; for judgment [is]
toward you, because ye have been a
snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon
Tabor.
2 And the revolters are profound to
make slaughter, though I [have been] a
rebuker of them all.
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid
from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou
committest whoredom, [and] Israel is
defiled.
4 They will not frame their doings to
turn unto their God: for the spirit of
whoredoms [is] in the midst of them,
and they have not known the LORD.
5 And the pride of Israel doth testify
to his face: therefore shall Israel and
Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah
also shall fall with them.
6 They shall go with their flocks and
with their herds to seek the LORD; but
they shall not find [him]; he hath
withdrawn himself from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against
the LORD: for they have begotten
strange children: now shall a month
devour them with their portions.
8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and]
the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at]
Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day
of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel
have I made known that which shall
surely be.
10 The princes of Judah were like them
that remove the bound: [therefore] I
will pour out my wrath upon them like
water.
11 Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken
in judgment, because he willingly
walked after the commandment.
12 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim
as a moth, and to the house of Judah as
rottenness.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and
Judah [saw] his wound, then went
Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to
king Jareb: yet could he not heal you,
nor cure you of your wound.
14 For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a
lion, and as a young lion to the house
of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go
away; I will take away, and none shall
rescue [him].
15 # I will go [and] return to my
place, till they acknowledge their
offence, and seek my face: in their
affliction they will seek me early.

CHAPTER 6
1 Come, and let us return unto the
LORD: for he hath torn, and he will
heal us; he hath smitten, and he will
bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in
the third day he will raise us up, and
we shall live in his sight.
3 Then shall we know, [if] we follow on
to know the LORD: his going forth is
prepared as the morning; and he shall
come unto us as the rain, as the latter
[and] former rain unto the earth.
4 # O Ephraim, what shall I do unto
thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto
thee? for your goodness [is] as a
morning cloud, and as the early dew it
goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed [them] by the
prophets; I have slain them by the
words of my mouth: and thy judgments
[are as] the light [that] goeth forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not
sacrifice; and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed
the covenant: there have they dealt
treacherously against me.
8 Gilead [is] a city of them that work
iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a
man, [so] the company of priests murder
in the way by consent: for they commit
lewdness.
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the
house of Israel: there [is] the
whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an
harvest for thee, when I returned the
captivity of my people.

CHAPTER 7
1 When I would have healed Israel, then
the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,
and the wickedness of Samaria: for they
commit falsehood; and the thief cometh
in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth
without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts
[that] I remember all their wickedness:
now their own doings have beset them
about; they are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their
wickedness, and the princes with their
lies.
4 They [are] all adulterers, as an oven
heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from
raising after he hath kneaded the
dough, until it be leavened.
5 In the day of our king the princes
have made [him] sick with bottles of
wine; he stretched out his hand with
scorners.
6 For they have made ready their heart
like an oven, whiles they lie in wait:
their baker sleepeth all the night; in
the morning it burneth as a flaming
fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have
devoured their judges; all their kings
are fallen: [there is] none among them
that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among
the people; Ephraim is a cake not
turned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength,
and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray
hairs are here and there upon him, yet
he knoweth not.
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth
to his face: and they do not return to
the LORD their God, nor seek him for
all this.
11 # Ephraim also is like a silly dove
without heart: they call to Egypt, they
go to Assyria.
12 When they shall go, I will spread my
net upon them; I will bring them down
as the fowls of the heaven; I will
chastise them, as their congregation
hath heard.
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled
from me: destruction unto them! because
they have transgressed against me:
though I have redeemed them, yet they
have spoken lies against me.
14 And they have not cried unto me with
their heart, when they howled upon
their beds: they assemble themselves
for corn and wine, [and] they rebel
against me.
15 Though I have bound [and]
strengthened their arms, yet do they
imagine mischief against me.
16 They return, [but] not to the most
High: they are like a deceitful bow:
their princes shall fall by the sword
for the rage of their tongue: this
[shall be] their derision in the land
of Egypt.

CHAPTER 8
1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He
shall come] as an eagle against the
house of the LORD, because they have
transgressed my covenant, and
trespassed against my law.
2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we
know thee.
3 Israel hath cast off [the thing that
is] good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by
me: they have made princes, and I knew
[it] not: of their silver and their
gold have they made them idols, that
they may be cut off.
5 # Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast
[thee] off; mine anger is kindled
against them: how long [will it be] ere
they attain to innocency?
6 For from Israel [was] it also: the
workman made it; therefore it [is] not
God: but the calf of Samaria shall be
broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they
shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no
stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if
so be it yield, the strangers shall
swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall
they be among the Gentiles as a vessel
wherein [is] no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a
wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath
hired lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among
the nations, now will I gather them,
and they shall sorrow a little for the
burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim hath made many
altars to sin, altars shall be unto him
to sin.
12 I have written to him the great
things of my law, [but] they were
counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the
sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat
[it; but] the LORD accepteth them not;
now will he remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins: they shall return
to Egypt.
14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker,
and buildeth temples; and Judah hath
multiplied fenced cities: but I will
send a fire upon his cities, and it
shall devour the palaces thereof.

CHAPTER 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as
[other] people: for thou hast gone a
whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a
reward upon every cornfloor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not
feed them, and the new wine shall fail
in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S
land; but Ephraim shall return to
Egypt, and they shall eat unclean
[things] in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine [offerings]
to the LORD, neither shall they be
pleasing unto him: their sacrifices
[shall be] unto them as the bread of
mourners; all that eat thereof shall be
polluted: for their bread for their
soul shall not come into the house of
the LORD.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day,
and in the day of the feast of the
LORD?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of
destruction: Egypt shall gather them
up, Memphis shall bury them: the
pleasant [places] for their silver,
nettles shall possess them: thorns
[shall be] in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the
days of recompence are come; Israel
shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a
fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for
the multitude of thine iniquity, and
the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my
God: [but] the prophet [is] a snare of
a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred
in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted
[themselves], as in the days of Gibeah:
[therefore] he will remember their
iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the
wilderness; I saw your fathers as the
firstripe in the fig tree at her first
time: [but] they went to Baal-peor, and
separated themselves unto [that] shame;
and [their] abominations were according
as they loved.
11 [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall
fly away like a bird, from the birth,
and from the womb, and from the
conception.
12 Though they bring up their children,
yet will I bereave them, [that there
shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe
also to them when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is]
planted in a pleasant place: but
Ephraim shall bring forth his children
to the murderer.
14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou
give? give them a miscarrying womb and
dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal:
for there I hated them: for the
wickedness of their doings I will drive
them out of mine house, I will love
them no more: all their princes [are]
revolters.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is
dried up, they shall bear no fruit:
yea, though they bring forth, yet will
I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of
their womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because
they did not hearken unto him: and they
shall be wanderers among the nations.

CHAPTER 10
1 Israel [is] an empty vine, he
bringeth forth fruit unto himself:
according to the multitude of his fruit
he hath increased the altars; according
to the goodness of his land they have
made goodly images.
2 Their heart is divided; now shall
they be found faulty: he shall break
down their altars, he shall spoil their
images.
3 For now they shall say, We have no
king, because we feared not the LORD;
what then should a king do to us?
4 They have spoken words, swearing
falsely in making a covenant: thus
judgment springeth up as hemlock in the
furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear
because of the calves of Beth-aven: for
the people thereof shall mourn over it,
and the priests thereof [that] rejoiced
on it, for the glory thereof, because
it is departed from it.
6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria
[for] a present to king Jareb: Ephraim
shall receive shame, and Israel shall
be ashamed of his own counsel.
7 [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off
as the foam upon the water.
8 The high places also of Aven, the sin
of Israel, shall be destroyed: the
thorn and the thistle shall come up on
their altars; and they shall say to the
mountains, Cover us; and to the hills,
Fall on us.
9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the
days of Gibeah: there they stood: the
battle in Gibeah against the children
of iniquity did not overtake them.
10 [It is] in my desire that I should
chastise them; and the people shall be
gathered against them, when they shall
bind themselves in their two furrows.
11 And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that
is] taught, [and] loveth to tread out
[the corn]; but I passed over upon her
fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride;
Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall
break his clods.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness,
reap in mercy; break up your fallow
ground: for [it is] time to seek the
LORD, till he come and rain
righteousness upon you.
13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have
reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the
fruit of lies: because thou didst trust
in thy way, in the multitude of thy
mighty men.
14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among
thy people, and all thy fortresses
shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled
Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the
mother was dashed in pieces upon [her]
children.
15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because
of your great wickedness: in a morning
shall the king of Israel utterly be cut
off.

CHAPTER 11
1 When Israel [was] a child, then I
loved him, and called my son out of
Egypt.
2 [As] they called them, so they went
from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim,
and burned incense to graven images.
3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking
them by their arms; but they knew not
that I healed them.
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with
bands of love: and I was to them as
they that take off the yoke on their
jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
5 # He shall not return into the land
of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his
king, because they refused to return.
6 And the sword shall abide on his
cities, and shall consume his branches,
and devour [them], because of their own
counsels.
7 And my people are bent to backsliding
from me: though they called them to the
most High, none at all would exalt
[him].
8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?
[how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how
shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall
I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is
turned within me, my repentings are
kindled together.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of
mine anger, I will not return to
destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and
not man; the Holy One in the midst of
thee: and I will not enter into the
city.
10 They shall walk after the LORD: he
shall roar like a lion: when he shall
roar, then the children shall tremble
from the west.
11 They shall tremble as a bird out of
Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of
Assyria: and I will place them in their
houses, saith the LORD.
12 Ephraim compasseth me about with
lies, and the house of Israel with
deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God,
and is faithful with the saints.

CHAPTER 12
1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and
followeth after the east wind: he daily
increaseth lies and desolation; and
they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians, and oil is carried into
Egypt.
2 The LORD hath also a controversy with
Judah, and will punish Jacob according
to his ways; according to his doings
will he recompense him.
3 # He took his brother by the heel in
the womb, and by his strength he had
power with God:
4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and
prevailed: he wept, and made
supplication unto him: he found him
[in] Beth-el, and there he spake with
us;
5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD
[is] his memorial.
6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep
mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God
continually.
7 # [He is] a merchant, the balances of
deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to
oppress.
8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become
rich, I have found me out substance:
[in] all my labours they shall find
none iniquity in me that [were] sin.
9 And I [that am] the LORD thy God from
the land of Egypt will yet make thee to
dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of
the solemn feast.
10 I have also spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions, and used
similitudes, by the ministry of the
prophets.
11 [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead?
surely they are vanity: they sacrifice
bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars
[are] as heaps in the furrows of the
fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of
Syria, and Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he kept [sheep].
13 And by a prophet the LORD brought
Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet
was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most
bitterly: therefore shall he leave his
blood upon him, and his reproach shall
his Lord return unto him.

CHAPTER 13
1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he
exalted himself in Israel; but when he
offended in Baal, he died.
2 And now they sin more and more, and
have made them molten images of their
silver, [and] idols according to their
own understanding, all of it the work
of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let
the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
3 Therefore they shall be as the
morning cloud, and as the early dew
that passeth away, as the chaff [that]
is driven with the whirlwind out of the
floor, and as the smoke out of the
chimney.
4 Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the
land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no
god but me: for [there is] no saviour
beside me.
5 # I did know thee in the wilderness,
in the land of great drought.
6 According to their pasture, so were
they filled; they were filled, and
their heart was exalted; therefore have
they forgotten me.
7 Therefore I will be unto them as a
lion: as a leopard by the way will I
observe [them]:
8 I will meet them as a bear [that is]
bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend
the caul of their heart, and there will
I devour them like a lion: the wild
beast shall tear them.
9 # O Israel, thou hast destroyed
thyself; but in me [is] thine help.
10 I will be thy king: where [is any
other] that may save thee in all thy
cities? and thy judges of whom thou
saidst, Give me a king and princes?
11 I gave thee a king in mine anger,
and took [him] away in my wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound
up; his sin [is] hid.
13 The sorrows of a travailing woman
shall come upon him: he [is] an unwise
son; for he should not stay long in
[the place of] the breaking forth of
children.
14 I will ransom them from the power of
the grave; I will redeem them from
death: O death, I will be thy plagues;
O grave, I will be thy destruction:
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
15 # Though he be fruitful among [his]
brethren, an east wind shall come, the
wind of the LORD shall come up from the
wilderness, and his spring shall become
dry, and his fountain shall be dried
up: he shall spoil the treasure of all
pleasant vessels.
16 Samaria shall become desolate; for
she hath rebelled against her God: they
shall fall by the sword: their infants
shall be dashed in pieces, and their
women with child shall be ripped up.

CHAPTER 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy
God; for thou hast fallen by thine
iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the
LORD: say unto him, Take away all
iniquity, and receive [us] graciously:
so will we render the calves of our
lips.
3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not
ride upon horses: neither will we say
any more to the work of our hands, [Ye
are] our gods: for in thee the
fatherless findeth mercy.
4 # I will heal their backsliding, I
will love them freely: for mine anger
is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he
shall grow as the lily, and cast forth
his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his
beauty shall be as the olive tree, and
his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow
shall return; they shall revive [as]
the corn, and grow as the vine: the
scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of
Lebanon.
8 Ephraim [shall say], What have I to
do any more with idols? I have heard
[him], and observed him: I [am] like a
green fir tree. From me is thy fruit
found.
9 Who [is] wise, and he shall
understand these [things]? prudent, and
he shall know them? for the ways of the
LORD [are] right, and the just shall
walk in them: but the transgressors
shall fall therein.

JOEL

CHAPTER 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to
Joel the son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear,
all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath
this been in your days, or even in the
days of your fathers?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and
[let] your children [tell] their
children, and their children another
generation.
4 That which the palmerworm hath left
hath the locust eaten; and that which
the locust hath left hath the
cankerworm eaten; and that which the
cankerworm hath left hath the
caterpiller eaten.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and
howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because
of the new wine; for it is cut off from
your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon my land,
strong, and without number, whose teeth
[are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath
the cheek teeth of a great lion.
7 He hath laid my vine waste, and
barked my fig tree: he hath made it
clean bare, and cast [it] away; the
branches thereof are made white.
8 # Lament like a virgin girded with
sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink
offering is cut off from the house of
the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S
ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land
mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the
new wine is dried up, the oil
languisheth.
11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen;
howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat
and for the barley; because the harvest
of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig
tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree,
the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
[even] all the trees of the field, are
withered: because joy is withered away
from the sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye
priests: howl, ye ministers of the
altar: come, lie all night in
sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for
the meat offering and the drink
offering is withholden from the house
of your God.
14 # Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn
assembly, gather the elders [and] all
the inhabitants of the land [into] the
house of the LORD your God, and cry
unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the
LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction
from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our
eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the
house of our God?
17 The seed is rotten under their
clods, the garners are laid desolate,
the barns are broken down; for the corn
is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan! the herds
of cattle are perplexed, because they
have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate.
19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the
fire hath devoured the pastures of the
wilderness, and the flame hath burned
all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field cry also
unto thee: for the rivers of waters are
dried up, and the fire hath devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.

CHAPTER 2
1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let
all the inhabitants of the land
tremble: for the day of the LORD
cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess,
a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon the
mountains: a great people and a strong;
there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it,
[even] to the years of many
generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and
behind them a flame burneth: the land
[is] as the garden of Eden before them,
and behind them a desolate wilderness;
yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them [is] as the
appearance of horses; and as horsemen,
so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the
tops of mountains shall they leap, like
the noise of a flame of fire that
devoureth the stubble, as a strong
people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be
much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they
shall climb the wall like men of war;
and they shall march every one on his
ways, and they shall not break their
ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another;
they shall walk every one in his path:
and [when] they fall upon the sword,
they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the
city; they shall run upon the wall,
they shall climb up upon the houses;
they shall enter in at the windows like
a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them;
the heavens shall tremble: the sun and
the moon shall be dark, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice
before his army: for his camp [is] very
great: for [he is] strong that
executeth his word: for the day of the
LORD [is] great and very terrible; and
who can abide it?
12 # Therefore also now, saith the
LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all
your heart, and with fasting, and with
weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your
garments, and turn unto the LORD your
God: for he [is] gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repenteth him of the evil.
14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and
repent, and leave a blessing behind
him; [even] a meat offering and a drink
offering unto the LORD your God?
15 # Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify
a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the
congregation, assemble the elders,
gather the children, and those that
suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go
forth of his chamber, and the bride out
of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of
the LORD, weep between the porch and
the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O LORD, and give not thine
heritage to reproach, that the heathen
should rule over them: wherefore should
they say among the people, Where [is]
their God?
18 # Then will the LORD be jealous for
his land, and pity his people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say
unto his people, Behold, I will send
you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye
shall be satisfied therewith: and I
will no more make you a reproach among
the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you
the northern [army], and will drive him
into a land barren and desolate, with
his face toward the east sea, and his
hinder part toward the utmost sea, and
his stink shall come up, and his ill
savour shall come up, because he hath
done great things.
21 # Fear not, O land; be glad and
rejoice: for the LORD will do great
things.
22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the
field: for the pastures of the
wilderness do spring, for the tree
beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the
vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion,
and rejoice in the LORD your God: for
he hath given you the former rain
moderately, and he will cause to come
down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first
[month].
24 And the floors shall be full of
wheat, and the fats shall overflow with
wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years
that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and
the palmerworm, my great army which I
sent among you.
26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be
satisfied, and praise the name of the
LORD your God, that hath dealt
wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I [am] in the
midst of Israel, and [that] I [am] the
LORD your God, and none else: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
28 # And it shall come to pass
afterward, [that] I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh; and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, your
old men shall dream dreams, your young
men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour
out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the
heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day
of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, [that]
whosoever shall call on the name of the
LORD shall be delivered: for in mount
Zion and in Jerusalem shall be
deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and
in the remnant whom the LORD shall
call.

CHAPTER 3
1 For, behold, in those days, and in
that time, when I shall bring again the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, and
will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them
there for my people and [for] my
heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted
my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my
people; and have given a boy for an
harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that
they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me,
O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts
of Palestine? will ye render me a
recompence? and if ye recompense me,
swiftly [and] speedily will I return
your recompence upon your own head;
5 Because ye have taken my silver and
my gold, and have carried into your
temples my goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the
children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto
the Grecians, that ye might remove them
far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the
place whither ye have sold them, and
will return your recompence upon your
own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and your
daughters into the hand of the children
of Judah, and they shall sell them to
the Sabeans, to a people far off: for
the LORD hath spoken [it].
9 # Proclaim ye this among the
Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the
mighty men, let all the men of war draw
near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
and your pruninghooks into spears: let
the weak say, I [am] strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all
ye heathen, and gather yourselves
together round about: thither cause thy
mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come
up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for
there will I sit to judge all the
heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the
harvest is ripe: come, get you down;
for the press is full, the fats
overflow; for their wickedness [is]
great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley
of decision: for the day of the LORD
[is] near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be
darkened, and the stars shall withdraw
their shining.
16 The LORD also shall roar out of
Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the
earth shall shake: but the LORD [will
be] the hope of his people, and the
strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I [am] the
LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass
through her any more.
18 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the mountains shall drop
down new wine, and the hills shall flow
with milk, and all the rivers of Judah
shall flow with waters, and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the
LORD, and shall water the valley of
Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and
Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence [against] the children
of Judah, because they have shed
innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and
Jerusalem from generation to
generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood
[that] I have not cleansed: for the
LORD dwelleth in Zion.

AMOS

CHAPTER 1
1 The words of Amos, who was among the
herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah
king of Judah, and in the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of
Israel, two years before the
earthquake.
2 And he said, The LORD will roar from
Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the habitations of the
shepherds shall mourn, and the top of
Carmel shall wither.
3 Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Damascus, and for
four, I will not turn away [the
punishment] thereof; because they have
threshed Gilead with threshing
instruments of iron:
4 But I will send a fire into the house
of Hazael, which shall devour the
palaces of Ben-hadad.
5 I will break also the bar of
Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant
from the plain of Aven, and him that
holdeth the sceptre from the house of
Eden: and the people of Syria shall go
into captivity unto Kir, saith the
LORD.
6 # Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I
will not turn away [the punishment]
thereof; because they carried away
captive the whole captivity, to deliver
[them] up to Edom:
7 But I will send a fire on the wall of
Gaza, which shall devour the palaces
thereof:
8 And I will cut off the inhabitant
from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the
sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn
mine hand against Ekron: and the
remnant of the Philistines shall
perish, saith the Lord GOD.
9 # Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Tyrus, and for four,
I will not turn away [the punishment]
thereof; because they delivered up the
whole captivity to Edom, and remembered
not the brotherly covenant:
10 But I will send a fire on the wall
of Tyrus, which shall devour the
palaces thereof.
11 # Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Edom, and for four, I
will not turn away [the punishment]
thereof; because he did pursue his
brother with the sword, and did cast
off all pity, and his anger did tear
perpetually, and he kept his wrath for
ever:
12 But I will send a fire upon Teman,
which shall devour the palaces of
Bozrah.
13 # Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of the children of
Ammon, and for four, I will not turn
away [the punishment] thereof; because
they have ripped up the women with
child of Gilead, that they might
enlarge their border:
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall
of Rabbah, and it shall devour the
palaces thereof, with shouting in the
day of battle, with a tempest in the
day of the whirlwind:
15 And their king shall go into
captivity, he and his princes together,
saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 2
1 Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Moab, and for four, I
will not turn away [the punishment]
thereof; because he burned the bones of
the king of Edom into lime:
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and
it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth:
and Moab shall die with tumult, with
shouting, [and] with the sound of the
trumpet:
3 And I will cut off the judge from the
midst thereof, and will slay all the
princes thereof with him, saith the
LORD.
4 # Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away [the punishment]
thereof; because they have despised the
law of the LORD, and have not kept his
commandments, and their lies caused
them to err, after the which their
fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah,
and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem.
6 # Thus saith the LORD; For three
transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away [the punishment]
thereof; because they sold the
righteous for silver, and the poor for
a pair of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth
on the head of the poor, and turn aside
the way of the meek: and a man and his
father will go in unto the [same] maid,
to profane my holy name:
8 And they lay [themselves] down upon
clothes laid to pledge by every altar,
and they drink the wine of the
condemned [in] the house of their god.
9 # Yet destroyed I the Amorite before
them, whose height [was] like the
height of the cedars, and he [was]
strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his
fruit from above, and his roots from
beneath.
10 Also I brought you up from the land
of Egypt, and led you forty years
through the wilderness, to possess the
land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up of your sons for
prophets, and of your young men for
Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye
children of Israel? saith the LORD.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to
drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a
cart is pressed [that is] full of
sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish
from the swift, and the strong shall
not strengthen his force, neither shall
the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth
the bow; and [he that is] swift of foot
shall not deliver [himself]: neither
shall he that rideth the horse deliver
himself.
16 And [he that is] courageous among
the mighty shall flee away naked in
that day, saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 3
1 Hear this word that the LORD hath
spoken against you, O children of
Israel, against the whole family which
I brought up from the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 You only have I known of all the
families of the earth: therefore I will
punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together, except they be
agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when
he hath no prey? will a young lion cry
out of his den, if he have taken
nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the
earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall
[one] take up a snare from the earth,
and have taken nothing at all?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city,
and the people not be afraid? shall
there be evil in a city, and the LORD
hath not done [it]?
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,
but he revealeth his secret unto his
servants the prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not
fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can
but prophesy?
9 # Publish in the palaces at Ashdod,
and in the palaces in the land of
Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves
upon the mountains of Samaria, and
behold the great tumults in the midst
thereof, and the oppressed in the midst
thereof.
10 For they know not to do right, saith
the LORD, who store up violence and
robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
An adversary [there shall be] even
round about the land; and he shall
bring down thy strength from thee, and
thy palaces shall be spoiled.
12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd
taketh out of the mouth of the lion two
legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall
the children of Israel be taken out
that dwell in Samaria in the corner of
a bed, and in Damascus [in] a couch.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of
Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of
hosts,
14 That in the day that I shall visit
the transgressions of Israel upon him I
will also visit the altars of Beth-el:
and the horns of the altar shall be cut
off, and fall to the ground.
15 And I will smite the winter house
with the summer house; and the houses
of ivory shall perish, and the great
houses shall have an end, saith the
LORD.

CHAPTER 4
1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan,
that [are] in the mountain of Samaria,
which oppress the poor, which crush the
needy, which say to their masters,
Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his
holiness, that, lo, the days shall come
upon you, that he will take you away
with hooks, and your posterity with
fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches,
every [cow at that which is] before
her; and ye shall cast [them] into the
palace, saith the LORD.
4 # Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at
Gilgal multiply transgression; and
bring your sacrifices every morning,
[and] your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish
the free offerings: for this liketh
you, O ye children of Israel, saith the
Lord GOD.
6 # And I also have given you cleanness
of teeth in all your cities, and want
of bread in all your places: yet have
ye not returned unto me, saith the
LORD.
7 And also I have withholden the rain
from you, when [there were] yet three
months to the harvest: and I caused it
to rain upon one city, and caused it
not to rain upon another city: one
piece was rained upon, and the piece
whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two [or] three cities wandered
unto one city, to drink water; but they
were not satisfied: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and
mildew: when your gardens and your
vineyards and your fig trees and your
olive trees increased, the palmerworm
devoured [them]: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence
after the manner of Egypt: your young
men have I slain with the sword, and
have taken away your horses; and I have
made the stink of your camps to come up
unto your nostrils: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and
ye were as a firebrand plucked out of
the burning: yet have ye not returned
unto me, saith the LORD.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee,
O Israel: [and] because I will do this
unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O
Israel.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the
mountains, and createth the wind, and
declareth unto man what [is] his
thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the high
places of the earth, The LORD, The God
of hosts, [is] his name.

CHAPTER 5
1 Hear ye this word which I take up
against you, [even] a lamentation, O
house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she
shall no more rise: she is forsaken
upon her land; [there is] none to raise
her up.
3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city
that went out [by] a thousand shall
leave an hundred, and that which went
forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten,
to the house of Israel.
4 # For thus saith the LORD unto the
house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye
shall live:
5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into
Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for
Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
and Beth-el shall come to nought.
6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live;
lest he break out like fire in the
house of Joseph, and devour [it], and
[there be] none to quench [it] in
Beth-el.
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and
leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 [Seek him] that maketh the seven
stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow
of death into the morning, and maketh
the day dark with night: that calleth
for the waters of the sea, and poureth
them out upon the face of the earth:
The LORD [is] his name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled
against the strong, so that the spoiled
shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the
gate, and they abhor him that speaketh
uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading
[is] upon the poor, and ye take from
him burdens of wheat: ye have built
houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not
dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant
vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine
of them.
12 For I know your manifold
transgressions and your mighty sins:
they afflict the just, they take a
bribe, and they turn aside the poor in
the gate [from their right].
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep
silence in that time; for it [is] an
evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may
live: and so the LORD, the God of
hosts, shall be with you, as ye have
spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good,
and establish judgment in the gate: it
may be that the LORD God of hosts will
be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of
hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing
[shall be] in all streets; and they
shall say in all the highways, Alas!
alas! and they shall call the
husbandman to mourning, and such as are
skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards [shall be]
wailing: for I will pass through thee,
saith the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of
the LORD! to what end [is] it for you?
the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and
not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion,
and a bear met him; or went into the
house, and leaned his hand on the wall,
and a serpent bit him.
20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be]
darkness, and not light? even very
dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days,
and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings
and your meat offerings, I will not
accept [them]: neither will I regard
the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of
thy songs; for I will not hear the
melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters,
and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices
and offerings in the wilderness forty
years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of
your Moloch and Chiun your images, the
star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go
into captivity beyond Damascus, saith
the LORD, whose name [is] The God of
hosts.

CHAPTER 6
1 Woe to them [that are] at ease in
Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, [which are] named chief of the
nations, to whom the house of Israel
came!
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and
from thence go ye to Hamath the great:
then go down to Gath of the
Philistines: [be they] better than
these kingdoms? or their border greater
than your border?
3 Ye that put far away the evil day,
and cause the seat of violence to come
near;
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and
stretch themselves upon their couches,
and eat the lambs out of the flock, and
the calves out of the midst of the
stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol,
[and] invent to themselves instruments
of musick, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint
themselves with the chief ointments:
but they are not grieved for the
affliction of Joseph.
7 # Therefore now shall they go captive
with the first that go captive, and the
banquet of them that stretched
themselves shall be removed.
8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself,
saith the LORD the God of hosts, I
abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate
his palaces: therefore will I deliver
up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there
remain ten men in one house, that they
shall die.
10 And a man's uncle shall take him up,
and he that burneth him, to bring out
the bones out of the house, and shall
say unto him that [is] by the sides of
the house, [Is there] yet [any] with
thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall
he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not
make mention of the name of the LORD.
11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth,
and he will smite the great house with
breaches, and the little house with
clefts.
12 # Shall horses run upon the rock?
will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for
ye have turned judgment into gall, and
the fruit of righteousness into
hemlock:
13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of
nought, which say, Have we not taken to
us horns by our own strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up against
you a nation, O house of Israel, saith
the LORD the God of hosts; and they
shall afflict you from the entering in
of Hemath unto the river of the
wilderness.

CHAPTER 7
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto
me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers
in the beginning of the shooting up of
the latter growth; and, lo, [it was]
the latter growth after the king's
mowings.
2 And it came to pass, [that] when they
had made an end of eating the grass of
the land, then I said, O Lord GOD,
forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall
Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall
not be, saith the LORD.
4 # Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto
me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to
contend by fire, and it devoured the
great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I
beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob
arise? for he [is] small.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also
shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
7 # Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the
Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a
plumbline, with a plumbline in his
hand.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what
seest thou? And I said, A plumbline.
Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set
a plumbline in the midst of my people
Israel: I will not again pass by them
any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be
desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel
shall be laid waste; and I will rise
against the house of Jeroboam with the
sword.
10 # Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el
sent to Jeroboam king of Israel,
saying, Amos hath conspired against
thee in the midst of the house of
Israel: the land is not able to bear
all his words.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall
die by the sword, and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of their
own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou
seer, go, flee thee away into the land
of Judah, and there eat bread, and
prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at
Beth-el: for it [is] the king's chapel,
and it [is] the king's court.
14 # Then answered Amos, and said to
Amaziah, I [was] no prophet, neither
[was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an
herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore
fruit:
15 And the LORD took me as I followed
the flock, and the LORD said unto me,
Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
16 # Now therefore hear thou the word
of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not
against Israel, and drop not [thy word]
against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy
wife shall be an harlot in the city,
and thy sons and thy daughters shall
fall by the sword, and thy land shall
be divided by line; and thou shalt die
in a polluted land: and Israel shall
surely go into captivity forth of his
land.

CHAPTER 8
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto
me: and behold a basket of summer
fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou?
And I said, A basket of summer fruit.
Then said the LORD unto me, The end is
come upon my people of Israel; I will
not again pass by them any more.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be
howlings in that day, saith the Lord
GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies
in every place; they shall cast [them]
forth with silence.
4 # Hear this, O ye that swallow up the
needy, even to make the poor of the
land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be
gone, that we may sell corn? and the
sabbath, that we may set forth wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel
great, and falsifying the balances by
deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
[yea], and sell the refuse of the
wheat?
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency
of Jacob, Surely I will never forget
any of their works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this,
and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein? and it shall rise up wholly as
a flood; and it shall be cast out and
drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will
cause the sun to go down at noon, and I
will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into
mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up
sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness
upon every head; and I will make it as
the mourning of an only [son], and the
end thereof as a bitter day.
11 # Behold, the days come, saith the
Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in
the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the
words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to
sea, and from the north even to the
east, they shall run to and fro to seek
the word of the LORD, and shall not
find [it].
13 In that day shall the fair virgins
and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of
Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan,
liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba
liveth; even they shall fall, and never
rise up again.

CHAPTER 9
1 I saw the Lord standing upon the
altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of
the door, that the posts may shake: and
cut them in the head, all of them; and
I will slay the last of them with the
sword: he that fleeth of them shall not
flee away, and he that escapeth of them
shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence
shall mine hand take them; though they
climb up to heaven, thence will I bring
them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in
the top of Carmel, I will search and
take them out thence; and though they
be hid from my sight in the bottom of
the sea, thence will I command the
serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity
before their enemies, thence will I
command the sword, and it shall slay
them: and I will set mine eyes upon
them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the Lord GOD of hosts [is] he
that toucheth the land, and it shall
melt, and all that dwell therein shall
mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like
a flood; and shall be drowned, as [by]
the flood of Egypt.
6 [It is] he that buildeth his stories
in the heaven, and hath founded his
troop in the earth; he that calleth for
the waters of the sea, and poureth them
out upon the face of the earth: The
LORD [is] his name.
7 [Are] ye not as children of the
Ethiopians unto me, O children of
Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I
brought up Israel out of the land of
Egypt? and the Philistines from
Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD
[are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I
will destroy it from off the face of
the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
saith the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will
sift the house of Israel among all
nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a
sieve, yet shall not the least grain
fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall
die by the sword, which say, The evil
shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 # In that day will I raise up the
tabernacle of David that is fallen, and
close up the breaches thereof; and I
will raise up his ruins, and I will
build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of
Edom, and of all the heathen, which are
called by my name, saith the LORD that
doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, and the treader of grapes
him that soweth seed; and the mountains
shall drop sweet wine, and all the
hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity
of my people of Israel, and they shall
build the waste cities, and inhabit
[them]; and they shall plant vineyards,
and drink the wine thereof; they shall
also make gardens, and eat the fruit of
them.
15 And I will plant them upon their
land, and they shall no more be pulled
up out of their land which I have given
them, saith the LORD thy God.

OBADIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the
Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard
a rumour from the LORD, and an
ambassador is sent among the heathen,
Arise ye, and let us rise up against
her in battle.
2 Behold, I have made thee small among
the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
3 # The pride of thine heart hath
deceived thee, thou that dwellest in
the clefts of the rock, whose
habitation [is] high; that saith in his
heart, Who shall bring me down to the
ground?
4 Though thou exalt [thyself] as the
eagle, and though thou set thy nest
among the stars, thence will I bring
thee down, saith the LORD.
5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers
by night, (how art thou cut off!) would
they not have stolen till they had
enough? if the grapegatherers came to
thee, would they not leave [some]
grapes?
6 How are [the things] of Esau searched
out! [how] are his hidden things sought
up!
7 All the men of thy confederacy have
brought thee [even] to the border: the
men that were at peace with thee have
deceived thee, [and] prevailed against
thee; [they that eat] thy bread have
laid a wound under thee: [there is]
none understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in that day, saith the
LORD, even destroy the wise [men] out
of Edom, and understanding out of the
mount of Esau?
9 And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall
be dismayed, to the end that every one
of the mount of Esau may be cut off by
slaughter.
10 # For [thy] violence against thy
brother Jacob shame shall cover thee,
and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11 In the day that thou stoodest on the
other side, in the day that the
strangers carried away captive his
forces, and foreigners entered into his
gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem,
even thou [wast] as one of them.
12 But thou shouldest not have looked
on the day of thy brother in the day
that he became a stranger; neither
shouldest thou have rejoiced over the
children of Judah in the day of their
destruction; neither shouldest thou
have spoken proudly in the day of
distress.
13 Thou shouldest not have entered into
the gate of my people in the day of
their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not
have looked on their affliction in the
day of their calamity, nor have laid
[hands] on their substance in the day
of their calamity;
14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in
the crossway, to cut off those of his
that did escape; neither shouldest thou
have delivered up those of his that did
remain in the day of distress.
15 For the day of the LORD [is] near
upon all the heathen: as thou hast
done, it shall be done unto thee: thy
reward shall return upon thine own
head.
16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy
mountain, [so] shall all the heathen
drink continually, yea, they shall
drink, and they shall swallow down, and
they shall be as though they had not
been.
17 # But upon mount Zion shall be
deliverance, and there shall be
holiness; and the house of Jacob shall
possess their possessions.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a
fire, and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau for stubble, and
they shall kindle in them, and devour
them; and there shall not be [any]
remaining of the house of Esau; for the
LORD hath spoken [it].
19 And [they of] the south shall
possess the mount of Esau; and [they
of] the plain the Philistines: and they
shall possess the fields of Ephraim,
and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin
[shall possess] Gilead.
20 And the captivity of this host of
the children of Israel [shall possess]
that of the Canaanites, [even] unto
Zarephath; and the captivity of
Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad,
shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up on mount
Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and
the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

JONAH

CHAPTER 1
1 Now the word of the LORD came unto
Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great
city, and cry against it; for their
wickedness is come up before me.
3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto
Tarshish from the presence of the LORD,
and went down to Joppa; and he found a
ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the
fare thereof, and went down into it, to
go with them unto Tarshish from the
presence of the LORD.
4 # But the LORD sent out a great wind
into the sea, and there was a mighty
tempest in the sea, so that the ship
was like to be broken.
5 Then the mariners were afraid, and
cried every man unto his god, and cast
forth the wares that [were] in the ship
into the sea, to lighten [it] of them.
But Jonah was gone down into the sides
of the ship; and he lay, and was fast
asleep.
6 So the shipmaster came to him, and
said unto him, What meanest thou, O
sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if
so be that God will think upon us, that
we perish not.
7 And they said every one to his
fellow, Come, and let us cast lots,
that we may know for whose cause this
evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots,
and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we
pray thee, for whose cause this evil
[is] upon us; What [is] thine
occupation? and whence comest thou?
what [is] thy country? and of what
people [art] thou?
9 And he said unto them, I [am] an
Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of
heaven, which hath made the sea and the
dry [land].
10 Then were the men exceedingly
afraid, and said unto him, Why hast
thou done this? For the men knew that
he fled from the presence of the LORD,
because he had told them.
11 # Then said they unto him, What
shall we do unto thee, that the sea may
be calm unto us? for the sea wrought,
and was tempestuous.
12 And he said unto them, Take me up,
and cast me forth into the sea; so
shall the sea be calm unto you: for I
know that for my sake this great
tempest [is] upon you.
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to
bring [it] to the land; but they could
not: for the sea wrought, and was
tempestuous against them.
14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD,
and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we
beseech thee, let us not perish for
this man's life, and lay not upon us
innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast
done as it pleased thee.
15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him
forth into the sea: and the sea ceased
from her raging.
16 Then the men feared the LORD
exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice
unto the LORD, and made vows.
17 # Now the LORD had prepared a great
fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was
in the belly of the fish three days and
three nights.

CHAPTER 2
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his
God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine
affliction unto the LORD, and he heard
me; out of the belly of hell cried I,
[and] thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep,
in the midst of the seas; and the
floods compassed me about: all thy
billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy
sight; yet I will look again toward thy
holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, [even]
to the soul: the depth closed me round
about, the weeds were wrapped about my
head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the
mountains; the earth with her bars
[was] about me for ever: yet hast thou
brought up my life from corruption, O
LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I
remembered the LORD: and my prayer came
in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities
forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with
the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay
[that] that I have vowed. Salvation
[is] of the LORD.
10 # And the LORD spake unto the fish,
and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry
[land].

CHAPTER 3
1 And the word of the LORD came unto
Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great
city, and preach unto it the preaching
that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto
Nineveh, according to the word of the
LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding
great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the
city a day's journey, and he cried, and
said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be overthrown.
5 # So the people of Nineveh believed
God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on
sackcloth, from the greatest of them
even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of
Nineveh, and he arose from his throne,
and he laid his robe from him, and
covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat
in ashes.
7 And he caused [it] to be proclaimed
and published through Nineveh by the
decree of the king and his nobles,
saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd
nor flock, taste any thing: let them
not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with
sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God:
yea, let them turn every one from his
evil way, and from the violence that
[is] in their hands.
9 Who can tell [if] God will turn and
repent, and turn away from his fierce
anger, that we perish not?
10 # And God saw their works, that they
turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil, that he had said
that he would do unto them; and he did
[it] not.

CHAPTER 4
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly,
and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and
said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not
this my saying, when I was yet in my
country? Therefore I fled before unto
Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a
gracious God, and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness, and
repentest thee of the evil.
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I
beseech thee, my life from me; for [it
is] better for me to die than to live.
4 # Then said the LORD, Doest thou well
to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and
sat on the east side of the city, and
there made him a booth, and sat under
it in the shadow, till he might see
what would become of the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd,
and made [it] to come up over Jonah,
that it might be a shadow over his
head, to deliver him from his grief. So
Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the
morning rose the next day, and it smote
the gourd that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did
arise, that God prepared a vehement
east wind; and the sun beat upon the
head of Jonah, that he fainted, and
wished in himself to die, and said, [It
is] better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou
well to be angry for the gourd? And he
said, I do well to be angry, [even]
unto death.
10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had
pity on the gourd, for the which thou
hast not laboured, neither madest it
grow; which came up in a night, and
perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that
great city, wherein are more than
sixscore thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right hand and
their left hand; and [also] much
cattle?

MICAH

CHAPTER 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to
Micah the Morasthite in the days of
Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of
Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria
and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O
earth, and all that therein is: and let
the Lord GOD be witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth
out of his place, and will come down,
and tread upon the high places of the
earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten
under him, and the valleys shall be
cleft, as wax before the fire, [and] as
the waters [that are] poured down a
steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob [is]
all this, and for the sins of the house
of Israel. What [is] the transgression
of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what
[are] the high places of Judah? [are
they] not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an
heap of the field, [and] as plantings
of a vineyard: and I will pour down the
stones thereof into the valley, and I
will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof
shall be beaten to pieces, and all the
hires thereof shall be burned with the
fire, and all the idols thereof will I
lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of
the hire of an harlot, and they shall
return to the hire of an harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I
will go stripped and naked: I will make
a wailing like the dragons, and
mourning as the owls.
9 For her wound [is] incurable; for it
is come unto Judah; he is come unto the
gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.
10 # Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep
ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah
roll thyself in the dust.
11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of
Saphir, having thy shame naked: the
inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in
the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall
receive of you his standing.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited
carefully for good: but evil came down
from the LORD unto the gate of
Jerusalem.
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind
the chariot to the swift beast: she
[is] the beginning of the sin to the
daughter of Zion: for the
transgressions of Israel were found in
thee.
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents
to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib
[shall be] a lie to the kings of
Israel.
15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee,
O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come
unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for
thy delicate children; enlarge thy
baldness as the eagle; for they are
gone into captivity from thee.

CHAPTER 2
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and
work evil upon their beds! when the
morning is light, they practise it,
because it is in the power of their
hand.
2 And they covet fields, and take
[them] by violence; and houses, and
take [them] away: so they oppress a man
and his house, even a man and his
heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Behold, against this family do I devise
an evil, from which ye shall not remove
your necks; neither shall ye go
haughtily: for this time [is] evil.
4 # In that day shall [one] take up a
parable against you, and lament with a
doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be
utterly spoiled: he hath changed the
portion of my people: how hath he
removed [it] from me! turning away he
hath divided our fields.
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that
shall cast a cord by lot in the
congregation of the LORD.
6 Prophesy ye not, [say they to them
that] prophesy: they shall not prophesy
to them, [that] they shall not take
shame.
7 # O [thou that art] named the house
of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD
straitened? [are] these his doings? do
not my words do good to him that
walketh uprightly?
8 Even of late my people is risen up as
an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the
garment from them that pass by securely
as men averse from war.
9 The women of my people have ye cast
out from their pleasant houses; from
their children have ye taken away my
glory for ever.
10 Arise ye, and depart; for this [is]
not [your] rest: because it is
polluted, it shall destroy [you], even
with a sore destruction.
11 If a man walking in the spirit and
falsehood do lie, [saying], I will
prophesy unto thee of wine and of
strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people.
12 # I will surely assemble, O Jacob,
all of thee; I will surely gather the
remnant of Israel; I will put them
together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the
flock in the midst of their fold: they
shall make great noise by reason of
[the multitude of] men.
13 The breaker is come up before them:
they have broken up, and have passed
through the gate, and are gone out by
it: and their king shall pass before
them, and the LORD on the head of them.

CHAPTER 3
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads
of Jacob, and ye princes of the house
of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know
judgment?
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil;
who pluck off their skin from off them,
and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them; and
they break their bones, and chop them
in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh
within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD,
but he will not hear them: he will even
hide his face from them at that time,
as they have behaved themselves ill in
their doings.
5 # Thus saith the LORD concerning the
prophets that make my people err, that
bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace;
and he that putteth not into their
mouths, they even prepare war against
him.
6 Therefore night [shall be] unto you,
that ye shall not have a vision; and it
shall be dark unto you, that ye shall
not divine; and the sun shall go down
over the prophets, and the day shall be
dark over them.
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and
the diviners confounded: yea, they
shall all cover their lips; for [there
is] no answer of God.
8 # But truly I am full of power by the
spirit of the LORD, and of judgment,
and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of
the house of Jacob, and princes of the
house of Israel, that abhor judgment,
and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and
Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward,
and the priests thereof teach for hire,
and the prophets thereof divine for
money: yet will they lean upon the
LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among
us? none evil can come upon us.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake
be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of
the house as the high places of the
forest.

CHAPTER 4
1 But in the last days it shall come to
pass, [that] the mountain of the house
of the LORD shall be established in the
top of the mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills; and people
shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say,
Come, and let us go up to the mountain
of the LORD, and to the house of the
God of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth of
Zion, and the word of the LORD from
Jerusalem.
3 # And he shall judge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations afar
off; and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up
a sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under
his vine and under his fig tree; and
none shall make [them] afraid: for the
mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken
[it].
5 For all people will walk every one in
the name of his god, and we will walk
in the name of the LORD our God for
ever and ever.
6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I
assemble her that halteth, and I will
gather her that is driven out, and her
that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a
remnant, and her that was cast far off
a strong nation: and the LORD shall
reign over them in mount Zion from
henceforth, even for ever.
8 # And thou, O tower of the flock, the
strong hold of the daughter of Zion,
unto thee shall it come, even the first
dominion; the kingdom shall come to the
daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is
there] no king in thee? is thy
counsellor perished? for pangs have
taken thee as a woman in travail.
10 Be in pain, and labour to bring
forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman
in travail: for now shalt thou go forth
out of the city, and thou shalt dwell
in the field, and thou shalt go [even]
to Babylon; there shalt thou be
delivered; there the LORD shall redeem
thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11 # Now also many nations are gathered
against thee, that say, Let her be
defiled, and let our eye look upon
Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of
the LORD, neither understand they his
counsel: for he shall gather them as
the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of
Zion: for I will make thine horn iron,
and I will make thy hoofs brass: and
thou shalt beat in pieces many people:
and I will consecrate their gain unto
the LORD, and their substance unto the
Lord of the whole earth.

CHAPTER 5
1 Now gather thyself in troops, O
daughter of troops: he hath laid siege
against us: they shall smite the judge
of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,
[though] thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee
shall he come forth unto me [that is]
to be ruler in Israel; whose goings
forth [have been] from of old, from
everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until
the time [that] she which travaileth
hath brought forth: then the remnant of
his brethren shall return unto the
children of Israel.
4 # And he shall stand and feed in the
strength of the LORD, in the majesty of
the name of the LORD his God; and they
shall abide: for now shall he be great
unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this [man] shall be the peace,
when the Assyrian shall come into our
land: and when he shall tread in our
palaces, then shall we raise against
him seven shepherds, and eight
principal men.
6 And they shall waste the land of
Assyria with the sword, and the land of
Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus
shall he deliver [us] from the
Assyrian, when he cometh into our land,
and when he treadeth within our
borders.
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in
the midst of many people as a dew from
the LORD, as the showers upon the
grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor
waiteth for the sons of men.
8 # And the remnant of Jacob shall be
among the Gentiles in the midst of many
people as a lion among the beasts of
the forest, as a young lion among the
flocks of sheep: who, if he go through,
both treadeth down, and teareth in
pieces, and none can deliver.
9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon
thine adversaries, and all thine
enemies shall be cut off.
10 And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the LORD, that I will cut
off thy horses out of the midst of
thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy
land, and throw down all thy strong
holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out
of thine hand; and thou shalt have no
[more] soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut
off, and thy standing images out of the
midst of thee; and thou shalt no more
worship the work of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out
of the midst of thee: so will I destroy
thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in
anger and fury upon the heathen, such
as they have not heard.

CHAPTER 6
1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith;
Arise, contend thou before the
mountains, and let the hills hear thy
voice.
2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S
controversy, and ye strong foundations
of the earth: for the LORD hath a
controversy with his people, and he
will plead with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done unto
thee? and wherein have I wearied thee?
testify against me.
4 For I brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the
house of servants; and I sent before
thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak
king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam
the son of Beor answered him from
Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know
the righteousness of the LORD.
6 # Wherewith shall I come before the
LORD, [and] bow myself before the high
God? shall I come before him with burnt
offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with
thousands of rams, [or] with ten
thousands of rivers of oil? shall I
give my firstborn [for] my
transgression, the fruit of my body
[for] the sin of my soul?
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is]
good; and what doth the LORD require of
thee, but to do justly, and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
9 The LORD'S voice crieth unto the
city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see
thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath
appointed it.
10 # Are there yet the treasures of
wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure [that is]
abominable?
11 Shall I count [them] pure with the
wicked balances, and with the bag of
deceitful weights?
12 For the rich men thereof are full of
violence, and the inhabitants thereof
have spoken lies, and their tongue [is]
deceitful in their mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make [thee]
sick in smiting thee, in making [thee]
desolate because of thy sins.
14 Thou shalt eat, but not be
satisfied; and thy casting down [shall
be] in the midst of thee; and thou
shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver;
and [that] which thou deliverest will I
give up to the sword.
15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not
reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but
thou shalt not anoint thee with oil;
and sweet wine, but shalt not drink
wine.
16 # For the statutes of Omri are kept,
and all the works of the house of Ahab,
and ye walk in their counsels; that I
should make thee a desolation, and the
inhabitants thereof an hissing:
therefore ye shall bear the reproach of
my people.

CHAPTER 7
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have
gathered the summer fruits, as the
grapegleanings of the vintage: [there
is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired
the firstripe fruit.
2 The good [man] is perished out of the
earth: and [there is] none upright
among men: they all lie in wait for
blood; they hunt every man his brother
with a net.
3 # That they may do evil with both
hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and
the judge [asketh] for a reward; and
the great [man], he uttereth his
mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
4 The best of them [is] as a brier: the
most upright [is sharper] than a thorn
hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and]
thy visitation cometh; now shall be
their perplexity.
5 # Trust ye not in a friend, put ye
not confidence in a guide: keep the
doors of thy mouth from her that lieth
in thy bosom.
6 For the son dishonoureth the father,
the daughter riseth up against her
mother, the daughter in law against her
mother in law; a man's enemies [are]
the men of his own house.
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD;
I will wait for the God of my
salvation: my God will hear me.
8 # Rejoice not against me, O mine
enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when
I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be]
a light unto me.
9 I will bear the indignation of the
LORD, because I have sinned against
him, until he plead my cause, and
execute judgment for me: he will bring
me forth to the light, [and] I shall
behold his righteousness.
10 Then [she that is] mine enemy shall
see [it], and shame shall cover her
which said unto me, Where is the LORD
thy God? mine eyes shall behold her:
now shall she be trodden down as the
mire of the streets.
11 [In] the day that thy walls are to
be built, [in] that day shall the
decree be far removed.
12 [In] that day [also] he shall come
even to thee from Assyria, and [from]
the fortified cities, and from the
fortress even to the river, and from
sea to sea, and [from] mountain to
mountain.
13 Notwithstanding the land shall be
desolate because of them that dwell
therein, for the fruit of their doings.
14 # Feed thy people with thy rod, the
flock of thine heritage, which dwell
solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst
of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan
and Gilead, as in the days of old.
15 According to the days of thy coming
out of the land of Egypt will I shew
unto him marvellous [things].
16 # The nations shall see and be
confounded at all their might: they
shall lay [their] hand upon [their]
mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like a
serpent, they shall move out of their
holes like worms of the earth: they
shall be afraid of the LORD our God,
and shall fear because of thee.
18 Who [is] a God like unto thee, that
pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the
transgression of the remnant of his
heritage? he retaineth not his anger
for ever, because he delighteth [in]
mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have
compassion upon us; he will subdue our
iniquities; and thou wilt cast all
their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 Thou wilt perform the truth to
Jacob, [and] the mercy to Abraham,
which thou hast sworn unto our fathers
from the days of old.

NAHUM

CHAPTER 1
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of
the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God [is] jealous, and the LORD
revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and [is]
furious; the LORD will take vengeance
on his adversaries, and he reserveth
[wrath] for his enemies.
3 The LORD [is] slow to anger, and
great in power, and will not at all
acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his
way in the whirlwind and in the storm,
and the clouds [are] the dust of his
feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it
dry, and drieth up all the rivers:
Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the
flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the
hills melt, and the earth is burned at
his presence, yea, the world, and all
that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation?
and who can abide in the fierceness of
his anger? his fury is poured out like
fire, and the rocks are thrown down by
him.
7 The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in
the day of trouble; and he knoweth them
that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will
make an utter end of the place thereof,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD?
he will make an utter end: affliction
shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while [they be] folden together
[as] thorns, and while they are drunken
[as] drunkards, they shall be devoured
as stubble fully dry.
11 There is [one] come out of thee,
that imagineth evil against the LORD, a
wicked counsellor.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though [they
be] quiet, and likewise many, yet thus
shall they be cut down, when he shall
pass through. Though I have afflicted
thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from
off thee, and will burst thy bonds in
sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a
commandment concerning thee, [that] no
more of thy name be sown: out of the
house of thy gods will I cut off the
graven image and the molten image: I
will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy
solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for
the wicked shall no more pass through
thee; he is utterly cut off.

CHAPTER 2
1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up
before thy face: keep the munition,
watch the way, make [thy] loins strong,
fortify [thy] power mightily.
2 For the LORD hath turned away the
excellency of Jacob, as the excellency
of Israel: for the emptiers have
emptied them out, and marred their vine
branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made
red, the valiant men [are] in scarlet:
the chariots [shall be] with flaming
torches in the day of his preparation,
and the fir trees shall be terribly
shaken.
4 The chariots shall rage in the
streets, they shall justle one against
another in the broad ways: they shall
seem like torches, they shall run like
the lightnings.
5 He shall recount his worthies: they
shall stumble in their walk; they shall
make haste to the wall thereof, and the
defence shall be prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers shall be
opened, and the palace shall be
dissolved.
7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive,
she shall be brought up, and her maids
shall lead [her] as with the voice of
doves, tabering upon their breasts.
8 But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool
of water: yet they shall flee away.
Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but
none shall look back.
9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the
spoil of gold: for [there is] none end
of the store [and] glory out of all the
pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and waste:
and the heart melteth, and the knees
smite together, and much pain [is] in
all loins, and the faces of them all
gather blackness.
11 Where [is] the dwelling of the
lions, and the feedingplace of the
young lions, where the lion, [even] the
old lion, walked, [and] the lion's
whelp, and none made [them] afraid?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough
for his whelps, and strangled for his
lionesses, and filled his holes with
prey, and his dens with ravin.
13 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith
the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her
chariots in the smoke, and the sword
shall devour thy young lions: and I
will cut off thy prey from the earth,
and the voice of thy messengers shall
no more be heard.

CHAPTER 3
1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all
full of lies [and] robbery; the prey
departeth not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of
the rattling of the wheels, and of the
pransing horses, and of the jumping
chariots.
3 The horseman lifteth up both the
bright sword and the glittering spear:
and [there is] a multitude of slain,
and a great number of carcases; and
[there is] none end of [their] corpses;
they stumble upon their corpses:
4 Because of the multitude of the
whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts, that
selleth nations through her whoredoms,
and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith
the LORD of hosts; and I will discover
thy skirts upon thy face, and I will
shew the nations thy nakedness, and the
kingdoms thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon
thee, and make thee vile, and will set
thee as a gazingstock.
7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all
they that look upon thee shall flee
from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid
waste: who will bemoan her? whence
shall I seek comforters for thee?
8 Art thou better than populous No,
that was situate among the rivers,
[that had] the waters round about it,
whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her
wall [was] from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her
strength, and [it was] infinite; Put
and Lubim were thy helpers.
10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went
into captivity: her young children also
were dashed in pieces at the top of all
the streets: and they cast lots for her
honourable men, and all her great men
were bound in chains.
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou
shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek
strength because of the enemy.
12 All thy strong holds [shall be like]
fig trees with the firstripe figs: if
they be shaken, they shall even fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, thy people in the midst of
thee [are] women: the gates of thy land
shall be set wide open unto thine
enemies: the fire shall devour thy
bars.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege,
fortify thy strong holds: go into clay,
and tread the morter, make strong the
brickkiln.
15 There shall the fire devour thee;
the sword shall cut thee off, it shall
eat thee up like the cankerworm: make
thyself many as the cankerworm, make
thyself many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants
above the stars of heaven: the
cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts,
and thy captains as the great
grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges
in the cold day, [but] when the sun
ariseth they flee away, and their place
is not known where they [are].
18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of
Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the
dust]: thy people is scattered upon the
mountains, and no man gathereth [them].
19 [There is] no healing of thy bruise;
thy wound is grievous: all that hear
the bruit of thee shall clap the hands
over thee: for upon whom hath not thy
wickedness passed continually?

HABAKKUK

CHAPTER 1
1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet
did see.
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and
thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto
thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not
save!
3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and
cause [me] to behold grievance? for
spoiling and violence [are] before me:
and there are [that] raise up strife
and contention.
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and
judgment doth never go forth: for the
wicked doth compass about the
righteous; therefore wrong judgment
proceedeth.
5 # Behold ye among the heathen, and
regard, and wonder marvellously: for
[I] will work a work in your days,
[which] ye will not believe, though it
be told [you].
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans,
[that] bitter and hasty nation, which
shall march through the breadth of the
land, to possess the dwellingplaces
[that are] not their's.
7 They [are] terrible and dreadful:
their judgment and their dignity shall
proceed of themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than
the leopards, and are more fierce than
the evening wolves: and their horsemen
shall spread themselves, and their
horsemen shall come from far; they
shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth
to eat.
9 They shall come all for violence:
their faces shall sup up [as] the east
wind, and they shall gather the
captivity as the sand.
10 And they shall scoff at the kings,
and the princes shall be a scorn unto
them: they shall deride every strong
hold; for they shall heap dust, and
take it.
11 Then shall [his] mind change, and he
shall pass over, and offend, [imputing]
this his power unto his god.
12 # [Art] thou not from everlasting, O
LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall
not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained
them for judgment; and, O mighty God,
thou hast established them for
correction.
13 [Thou art] of purer eyes than to
behold evil, and canst not look on
iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon
them that deal treacherously, [and]
holdest thy tongue when the wicked
devoureth [the man that is] more
righteous than he?
14 And makest men as the fishes of the
sea, as the creeping things, [that
have] no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with the
angle, they catch them in their net,
and gather them in their drag:
therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their
net, and burn incense unto their drag;
because by them their portion [is] fat,
and their meat plenteous.
17 Shall they therefore empty their
net, and not spare continually to slay
the nations?

CHAPTER 2
1 I will stand upon my watch, and set
me upon the tower, and will watch to
see what he will say unto me, and what
I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the LORD answered me, and said,
Write the vision, and make [it] plain
upon tables, that he may run that
readeth it.
3 For the vision [is] yet for an
appointed time, but at the end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely
come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up
is not upright in him: but the just
shall live by his faith.
5 # Yea also, because he transgresseth
by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither
keepeth at home, who enlargeth his
desire as hell, and [is] as death, and
cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto
him all nations, and heapeth unto him
all people:
6 Shall not all these take up a parable
against him, and a taunting proverb
against him, and say, Woe to him that
increaseth [that which is] not his! how
long? and to him that ladeth himself
with thick clay!
7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that
shall bite thee, and awake that shall
vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties
unto them?
8 Because thou hast spoiled many
nations, all the remnant of the people
shall spoil thee; because of men's
blood, and [for] the violence of the
land, of the city, and of all that
dwell therein.
9 # Woe to him that coveteth an evil
covetousness to his house, that he may
set his nest on high, that he may be
delivered from the power of evil!
10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy
house by cutting off many people, and
hast sinned [against] thy soul.
11 For the stone shall cry out of the
wall, and the beam out of the timber
shall answer it.
12 # Woe to him that buildeth a town
with blood, and stablisheth a city by
iniquity!
13 Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of
hosts that the people shall labour in
the very fire, and the people shall
weary themselves for very vanity?
14 For the earth shall be filled with
the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
15 # Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbour drink, that puttest thy
bottle to [him], and makest [him]
drunken also, that thou mayest look on
their nakedness!
16 Thou art filled with shame for
glory: drink thou also, and let thy
foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the
LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto
thee, and shameful spewing [shall be]
on thy glory.
17 For the violence of Lebanon shall
cover thee, and the spoil of beasts,
[which] made them afraid, because of
men's blood, and for the violence of
the land, of the city, and of all that
dwell therein.
18 # What profiteth the graven image
that the maker thereof hath graven it;
the molten image, and a teacher of
lies, that the maker of his work
trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood,
Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it
shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over
with gold and silver, and [there is] no
breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But the LORD [is] in his holy
temple: let all the earth keep silence
before him.

CHAPTER 3
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon
Shigionoth.
2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech,
[and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy
work in the midst of the years, in the
midst of the years make known; in wrath
remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One
from mount Paran. Selah. His glory
covered the heavens, and the earth was
full of his praise.
4 And [his] brightness was as the
light; he had horns [coming] out of his
hand: and there [was] the hiding of his
power.
5 Before him went the pestilence, and
burning coals went forth at his feet.
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he
beheld, and drove asunder the nations;
and the everlasting mountains were
scattered, the perpetual hills did bow:
his ways [are] everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in
affliction: [and] the curtains of the
land of Midian did tremble.
8 Was the LORD displeased against the
rivers? [was] thine anger against the
rivers? [was] thy wrath against the
sea, that thou didst ride upon thine
horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?
9 Thy bow was made quite naked,
[according] to the oaths of the tribes,
[even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst
cleave the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw thee, [and] they
trembled: the overflowing of the water
passed by: the deep uttered his voice,
[and] lifted up his hands on high.
11 The sun [and] moon stood still in
their habitation: at the light of thine
arrows they went, [and] at the shining
of thy glittering spear.
12 Thou didst march through the land in
indignation, thou didst thresh the
heathen in anger.
13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation
of thy people, [even] for salvation
with thine anointed; thou woundedst the
head out of the house of the wicked, by
discovering the foundation unto the
neck. Selah.
14 Thou didst strike through with his
staves the head of his villages: they
came out as a whirlwind to scatter me:
their rejoicing [was] as to devour the
poor secretly.
15 Thou didst walk through the sea with
thine horses, [through] the heap of
great waters.
16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my
lips quivered at the voice: rottenness
entered into my bones, and I trembled
in myself, that I might rest in the day
of trouble: when he cometh up unto the
people, he will invade them with his
troops.
17 # Although the fig tree shall not
blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in
the vines; the labour of the olive
shall fail, and the fields shall yield
no meat; the flock shall be cut off
from the fold, and [there shall be] no
herd in the stalls:
18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I
will joy in the God of my salvation.
19 The LORD God [is] my strength, and
he will make my feet like hinds'
[feet], and he will make me to walk
upon mine high places. To the chief
singer on my stringed instruments.

ZEPHANIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 The word of the LORD which came unto
Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of
Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son
of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the
son of Amon, king of Judah.
2 I will utterly consume all [things]
from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will
consume the fowls of the heaven, and
the fishes of the sea, and the
stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I
will cut off man from off the land,
saith the LORD.
4 I will also stretch out mine hand
upon Judah, and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will
cut off the remnant of Baal from this
place, [and] the name of the Chemarims
with the priests;
5 And them that worship the host of
heaven upon the housetops; and them
that worship [and] that swear by the
LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
6 And them that are turned back from
the LORD; and [those] that have not
sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the
Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD [is]
at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a
sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
8 And it shall come to pass in the day
of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will
punish the princes, and the king's
children, and all such as are clothed
with strange apparel.
9 In the same day also will I punish
all those that leap on the threshold,
which fill their masters' houses with
violence and deceit.
10 And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the LORD, [that there shall
be] the noise of a cry from the fish
gate, and an howling from the second,
and a great crashing from the hills.
11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for
all the merchant people are cut down;
all they that bear silver are cut off.
12 And it shall come to pass at that
time, [that] I will search Jerusalem
with candles, and punish the men that
are settled on their lees: that say in
their heart, The LORD will not do good,
neither will he do evil.
13 Therefore their goods shall become a
booty, and their houses a desolation:
they shall also build houses, but not
inhabit [them]; and they shall plant
vineyards, but not drink the wine
thereof.
14 The great day of the LORD [is] near,
[it is] near, and hasteth greatly,
[even] the voice of the day of the
LORD: the mighty man shall cry there
bitterly.
15 That day [is] a day of wrath, a day
of trouble and distress, a day of
wasteness and desolation, a day of
darkness and gloominess, a day of
clouds and thick darkness,
16 A day of the trumpet and alarm
against the fenced cities, and against
the high towers.
17 And I will bring distress upon men,
that they shall walk like blind men,
because they have sinned against the
LORD: and their blood shall be poured
out as dust, and their flesh as the
dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them in the
day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole
land shall be devoured by the fire of
his jealousy: for he shall make even a
speedy riddance of all them that dwell
in the land.

CHAPTER 2
1 Gather yourselves together, yea,
gather together, O nation not desired;
2 Before the decree bring forth,
[before] the day pass as the chaff,
before the fierce anger of the LORD
come upon you, before the day of the
LORD'S anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the
earth, which have wrought his judgment;
seek righteousness, seek meekness: it
may be ye shall be hid in the day of
the LORD'S anger.
4 # For Gaza shall be forsaken, and
Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive
out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron
shall be rooted up.
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea
coast, the nation of the Cherethites!
the word of the LORD [is] against you;
O Canaan, the land of the Philistines,
I will even destroy thee, that there
shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings
[and] cottages for shepherds, and folds
for flocks.
7 And the coast shall be for the
remnant of the house of Judah; they
shall feed thereupon: in the houses of
Ashkelon shall they lie down in the
evening: for the LORD their God shall
visit them, and turn away their
captivity.
8 # I have heard the reproach of Moab,
and the revilings of the children of
Ammon, whereby they have reproached my
people, and magnified [themselves]
against their border.
9 Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely
Moab shall be as Sodom, and the
children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even]
the breeding of nettles, and saltpits,
and a perpetual desolation: the residue
of my people shall spoil them, and the
remnant of my people shall possess
them.
10 This shall they have for their
pride, because they have reproached and
magnified [themselves] against the
people of the LORD of hosts.
11 The LORD [will be] terrible unto
them: for he will famish all the gods
of the earth; and [men] shall worship
him, every one from his place, [even]
all the isles of the heathen.
12 # Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be]
slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand
against the north, and destroy Assyria;
and will make Nineveh a desolation,
[and] dry like a wilderness.
14 And flocks shall lie down in the
midst of her, all the beasts of the
nations: both the cormorant and the
bittern shall lodge in the upper
lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing
in the windows; desolation [shall be]
in the thresholds: for he shall uncover
the cedar work.
15 This [is] the rejoicing city that
dwelt carelessly, that said in her
heart, I [am], and [there is] none
beside me: how is she become a
desolation, a place for beasts to lie
down in! every one that passeth by her
shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.

CHAPTER 3
1 Woe to her that is filthy and
polluted, to the oppressing city!
2 She obeyed not the voice; she
received not correction; she trusted
not in the LORD; she drew not near to
her God.
3 Her princes within her [are] roaring
lions; her judges [are] evening wolves;
they gnaw not the bones till the
morrow.
4 Her prophets [are] light [and]
treacherous persons: her priests have
polluted the sanctuary, they have done
violence to the law.
5 The just LORD [is] in the midst
thereof; he will not do iniquity: every
morning doth he bring his judgment to
light, he faileth not; but the unjust
knoweth no shame.
6 I have cut off the nations: their
towers are desolate; I made their
streets waste, that none passeth by:
their cities are destroyed, so that
there is no man, that there is none
inhabitant.
7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me,
thou wilt receive instruction; so their
dwelling should not be cut off,
howsoever I punished them: but they
rose early, [and] corrupted all their
doings.
8 # Therefore wait ye upon me, saith
the LORD, until the day that I rise up
to the prey: for my determination [is]
to gather the nations, that I may
assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon
them mine indignation, [even] all my
fierce anger: for all the earth shall
be devoured with the fire of my
jealousy.
9 For then will I turn to the people a
pure language, that they may all call
upon the name of the LORD, to serve him
with one consent.
10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
my suppliants, [even] the daughter of
my dispersed, shall bring mine
offering.
11 In that day shalt thou not be
ashamed for all thy doings, wherein
thou hast transgressed against me: for
then I will take away out of the midst
of thee them that rejoice in thy pride,
and thou shalt no more be haughty
because of my holy mountain.
12 I will also leave in the midst of
thee an afflicted and poor people, and
they shall trust in the name of the
LORD.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do
iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall
a deceitful tongue be found in their
mouth: for they shall feed and lie
down, and none shall make [them]
afraid.
14 # Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
Israel; be glad and rejoice with all
the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The LORD hath taken away thy
judgments, he hath cast out thine
enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the
LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou
shalt not see evil any more.
16 In that day it shall be said to
Jerusalem, Fear thou not: [and to]
Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
17 The LORD thy God in the midst of
thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy; he will
rest in his love, he will joy over thee
with singing.
18 I will gather [them that are]
sorrowful for the solemn assembly,
[who] are of thee, [to whom] the
reproach of it [was] a burden.
19 Behold, at that time I will undo all
that afflict thee: and I will save her
that halteth, and gather her that was
driven out; and I will get them praise
and fame in every land where they have
been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you
[again], even in the time that I gather
you: for I will make you a name and a
praise among all people of the earth,
when I turn back your captivity before
your eyes, saith the LORD.

HAGGAI

CHAPTER 1
1 In the second year of Darius the
king, in the sixth month, in the first
day of the month, came the word of the
LORD by Haggai the prophet unto
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the
son of Josedech, the high priest,
saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, This people say, The time is
not come, the time that the LORD'S
house should be built.
3 Then came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell
in your cieled houses, and this house
[lie] waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in
little; ye eat, but ye have not enough;
ye drink, but ye are not filled with
drink; ye clothe you, but there is none
warm; and he that earneth wages earneth
wages [to put it] into a bag with
holes.
7 # Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring
wood, and build the house; and I will
take pleasure in it, and I will be
glorified, saith the LORD.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it
came] to little; and when ye brought
[it] home, I did blow upon it. Why?
saith the LORD of hosts. Because of
mine house that [is] waste, and ye run
every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is
stayed from dew, and the earth is
stayed [from] her fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the
land, and upon the mountains, and upon
the corn, and upon the new wine, and
upon the oil, and upon [that] which the
ground bringeth forth, and upon men,
and upon cattle, and upon all the
labour of the hands.
12 # Then Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest, with all the
remnant of the people, obeyed the voice
of the LORD their God, and the words of
Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their
God had sent him, and the people did
fear before the LORD.
13 Then spake Haggai the LORD'S
messenger in the LORD'S message unto
the people, saying, I [am] with you,
saith the LORD.
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit
of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of
Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, and the spirit of all the
remnant of the people; and they came
and did work in the house of the LORD
of hosts, their God,
15 In the four and twentieth day of the
sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.

CHAPTER 2
1 In the seventh [month], in the one
and twentieth [day] of the month, came
the word of the LORD by the prophet
Haggai, saying,
2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to
Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, and to the residue of the
people, saying,
3 Who [is] left among you that saw this
house in her first glory? and how do ye
see it now? [is it] not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing?
4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
saith the LORD; and be strong, O
Joshua, son of Josedech, the high
priest; and be strong, all ye people of
the land, saith the LORD, and work: for
I [am] with you, saith the LORD of
hosts:
5 [According to] the word that I
covenanted with you when ye came out of
Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among
you: fear ye not.
6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet
once, it [is] a little while, and I
will shake the heavens, and the earth,
and the sea, and the dry [land];
7 And I will shake all nations, and the
desire of all nations shall come: and I
will fill this house with glory, saith
the LORD of hosts.
8 The silver [is] mine, and the gold
[is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall
be greater than of the former, saith
the LORD of hosts: and in this place
will I give peace, saith the LORD of
hosts.
10 # In the four and twentieth [day] of
the ninth [month], in the second year
of Darius, came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet, saying,
11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask
now the priests [concerning] the law,
saying,
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt
of his garment, and with his skirt do
touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or
oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And
the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If [one that is]
unclean by a dead body touch any of
these, shall it be unclean? And the
priests answered and said, It shall be
unclean.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So
[is] this people, and so [is] this
nation before me, saith the LORD; and
so [is] every work of their hands; and
that which they offer there [is]
unclean.
15 And now, I pray you, consider from
this day and upward, from before a
stone was laid upon a stone in the
temple of the LORD:
16 Since those [days] were, when [one]
came to an heap of twenty [measures],
there were [but] ten: when [one] came
to the pressfat for to draw out fifty
[vessels] out of the press, there were
[but] twenty.
17 I smote you with blasting and with
mildew and with hail in all the labours
of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to
me, saith the LORD.
18 Consider now from this day and
upward, from the four and twentieth day
of the ninth [month, even] from the day
that the foundation of the LORD'S
temple was laid, consider [it].
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as
yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the
pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath
not brought forth: from this day will I
bless [you].
20 # And again the word of the LORD
came unto Haggai in the four and
twentieth [day] of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of
Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens
and the earth;
22 And I will overthrow the throne of
kingdoms, and I will destroy the
strength of the kingdoms of the
heathen; and I will overthrow the
chariots, and those that ride in them;
and the horses and their riders shall
come down, every one by the sword of
his brother.
23 In that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel,
my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith
the LORD, and will make thee as a
signet: for I have chosen thee, saith
the LORD of hosts.

ZECHARIAH

CHAPTER 1
1 In the eighth month, in the second
year of Darius, came the word of the
LORD unto Zechariah, the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
2 The LORD hath been sore displeased
with your fathers.
3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto
me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom
the former prophets have cried, saying,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye
now from your evil ways, and [from]
your evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the
LORD.
5 Your fathers, where [are] they? and
the prophets, do they live for ever?
6 But my words and my statutes, which I
commanded my servants the prophets, did
they not take hold of your fathers? and
they returned and said, Like as the
LORD of hosts thought to do unto us,
according to our ways, and according to
our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
7 # Upon the four and twentieth day of
the eleventh month, which [is] the
month Sebat, in the second year of
Darius, came the word of the LORD unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the
son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
8 I saw by night, and behold a man
riding upon a red horse, and he stood
among the myrtle trees that [were] in
the bottom; and behind him [were there]
red horses, speckled, and white.
9 Then said I, O my lord, what [are]
these? And the angel that talked with
me said unto me, I will shew thee what
these [be].
10 And the man that stood among the
myrtle trees answered and said, These
[are they] whom the LORD hath sent to
walk to and fro through the earth.
11 And they answered the angel of the
LORD that stood among the myrtle trees,
and said, We have walked to and fro
through the earth, and, behold, all the
earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
12 # Then the angel of the LORD
answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how
long wilt thou not have mercy on
Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah,
against which thou hast had indignation
these threescore and ten years?
13 And the LORD answered the angel that
talked with me [with] good words [and]
comfortable words.
14 So the angel that communed with me
said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous
for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great
jealousy.
15 And I am very sore displeased with
the heathen [that are] at ease: for I
was but a little displeased, and they
helped forward the affliction.
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am
returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my
house shall be built in it, saith the
LORD of hosts, and a line shall be
stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts; My cities through prosperity
shall yet be spread abroad; and the
LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall
yet choose Jerusalem.
18 # Then lifted I up mine eyes, and
saw, and behold four horns.
19 And I said unto the angel that
talked with me, What [be] these? And he
answered me, These [are] the horns
which have scattered Judah, Israel, and
Jerusalem.
20 And the LORD shewed me four
carpenters.
21 Then said I, What come these to do?
And he spake, saying, These [are] the
horns which have scattered Judah, so
that no man did lift up his head: but
these are come to fray them, to cast
out the horns of the Gentiles, which
lifted up [their] horn over the land of
Judah to scatter it.

CHAPTER 2
1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and
looked, and behold a man with a
measuring line in his hand.
2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And
he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem,
to see what [is] the breadth thereof,
and what [is] the length thereof.
3 And, behold, the angel that talked
with me went forth, and another angel
went out to meet him,
4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this
young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be
inhabited [as] towns without walls for
the multitude of men and cattle
therein:
5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto
her a wall of fire round about, and
will be the glory in the midst of her.
6 # Ho, ho, [come forth], and flee from
the land of the north, saith the LORD:
for I have spread you abroad as the
four winds of the heaven, saith the
LORD.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that
dwellest [with] the daughter of
Babylon.
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts;
After the glory hath he sent me unto
the nations which spoiled you: for he
that toucheth you toucheth the apple of
his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand
upon them, and they shall be a spoil to
their servants: and ye shall know that
the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
10 # Sing and rejoice, O daughter of
Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell
in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
11 And many nations shall be joined to
the LORD in that day, and shall be my
people: and I will dwell in the midst
of thee, and thou shalt know that the
LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his
portion in the holy land, and shall
choose Jerusalem again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the
LORD: for he is raised up out of his
holy habitation.

CHAPTER 3
1 And he shewed me Joshua the high
priest standing before the angel of the
LORD, and Satan standing at his right
hand to resist him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The
LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the
LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke
thee: [is] not this a brand plucked out
of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those
that stood before him, saying, Take
away the filthy garments from him. And
unto him he said, Behold, I have caused
thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I
will clothe thee with change of
raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre
upon his head. So they set a fair mitre
upon his head, and clothed him with
garments. And the angel of the LORD
stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested
unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou
wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt
keep my charge, then thou shalt also
judge my house, and shalt also keep my
courts, and I will give thee places to
walk among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest,
thou, and thy fellows that sit before
thee: for they [are] men wondered at:
for, behold, I will bring forth my
servant the BRANCH.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid
before Joshua; upon one stone [shall
be] seven eyes: behold, I will engrave
the graving thereof, saith the LORD of
hosts, and I will remove the iniquity
of that land in one day.
10 In that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, shall ye call every man his
neighbour under the vine and under the
fig tree.

CHAPTER 4
1 And the angel that talked with me
came again, and waked me, as a man that
is wakened out of his sleep,
2 And said unto me, What seest thou?
And I said, I have looked, and behold a
candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl
upon the top of it, and his seven lamps
thereon, and seven pipes to the seven
lamps, which [are] upon the top
thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon
the right [side] of the bowl, and the
other upon the left [side] thereof.
4 So I answered and spake to the angel
that talked with me, saying, What [are]
these, my lord?
5 Then the angel that talked with me
answered and said unto me, Knowest thou
not what these be? And I said, No, my
lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me,
saying, This [is] the word of the LORD
unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might,
nor by power, but by my spirit, saith
the LORD of hosts.
7 Who [art] thou, O great mountain?
before Zerubbabel [thou shalt become] a
plain: and he shall bring forth the
headstone [thereof with] shoutings,
[crying], Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the
foundation of this house; his hands
shall also finish it; and thou shalt
know that the LORD of hosts hath sent
me unto you.
10 For who hath despised the day of
small things? for they shall rejoice,
and shall see the plummet in the hand
of Zerubbabel [with] those seven; they
[are] the eyes of the LORD, which run
to and fro through the whole earth.
11 # Then answered I, and said unto
him, What [are] these two olive trees
upon the right [side] of the
candlestick and upon the left [side]
thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto
him, What [be these] two olive branches
which through the two golden pipes
empty the golden [oil] out of
themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest
thou not what these [be]? And I said,
No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These [are] the two
anointed ones, that stand by the Lord
of the whole earth.

CHAPTER 5
1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine
eyes, and looked, and behold a flying
roll.
2 And he said unto me, What seest thou?
And I answered, I see a flying roll;
the length thereof [is] twenty cubits,
and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
3 Then said he unto me, This [is] the
curse that goeth forth over the face of
the whole earth: for every one that
stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this
side according to it; and every one
that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on
that side according to it.
4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD
of hosts, and it shall enter into the
house of the thief, and into the house
of him that sweareth falsely by my
name: and it shall remain in the midst
of his house, and shall consume it with
the timber thereof and the stones
thereof.
5 # Then the angel that talked with me
went forth, and said unto me, Lift up
now thine eyes, and see what [is] this
that goeth forth.
6 And I said, What [is] it? And he
said, This [is] an ephah that goeth
forth. He said moreover, This [is]
their resemblance through all the
earth.
7 And, behold, there was lifted up a
talent of lead: and this [is] a woman
that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
8 And he said, This [is] wickedness.
And he cast it into the midst of the
ephah; and he cast the weight of lead
upon the mouth thereof.
9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and
looked, and, behold, there came out two
women, and the wind [was] in their
wings; for they had wings like the
wings of a stork: and they lifted up
the ephah between the earth and the
heaven.
10 Then said I to the angel that talked
with me, Whither do these bear the
ephah?
11 And he said unto me, To build it an
house in the land of Shinar: and it
shall be established, and set there
upon her own base.

CHAPTER 6
1 And I turned, and lifted up mine
eyes, and looked, and, behold, there
came four chariots out from between two
mountains; and the mountains [were]
mountains of brass.
2 In the first chariot [were] red
horses; and in the second chariot black
horses;
3 And in the third chariot white
horses; and in the fourth chariot
grisled and bay horses.
4 Then I answered and said unto the
angel that talked with me, What [are]
these, my lord?
5 And the angel answered and said unto
me, These [are] the four spirits of the
heavens, which go forth from standing
before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The black horses which [are] therein
go forth into the north country; and
the white go forth after them; and the
grisled go forth toward the south
country.
7 And the bay went forth, and sought to
go that they might walk to and fro
through the earth: and he said, Get you
hence, walk to and fro through the
earth. So they walked to and fro
through the earth.
8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto
me, saying, Behold, these that go
toward the north country have quieted
my spirit in the north country.
9 # And the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
10 Take of [them of] the captivity,
[even] of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of
Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon,
and come thou the same day, and go into
the house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah;
11 Then take silver and gold, and make
crowns, and set [them] upon the head of
Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest;
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus
speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying,
Behold the man whose name [is] The
BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his
place, and he shall build the temple of
the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of
the LORD; and he shall bear the glory,
and shall sit and rule upon his throne;
and he shall be a priest upon his
throne: and the counsel of peace shall
be between them both.
14 And the crowns shall be to Helem,
and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to
Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a
memorial in the temple of the LORD.
15 And they [that are] far off shall
come and build in the temple of the
LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD
of hosts hath sent me unto you. And
[this] shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the voice of the LORD
your God.

CHAPTER 7
1 And it came to pass in the fourth
year of king Darius, [that] the word of
the LORD came unto Zechariah in the
fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even]
in Chisleu;
2 When they had sent unto the house of
God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and
their men, to pray before the LORD,
3 [And] to speak unto the priests which
[were] in the house of the LORD of
hosts, and to the prophets, saying,
Should I weep in the fifth month,
separating myself, as I have done these
so many years?
4 # Then came the word of the LORD of
hosts unto me, saying,
5 Speak unto all the people of the
land, and to the priests, saying, When
ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and
seventh [month], even those seventy
years, did ye at all fast unto me,
[even] to me?
6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did
drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves],
and drink [for yourselves]?
7 [Should ye] not [hear] the words
which the LORD hath cried by the former
prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited
and in prosperity, and the cities
thereof round about her, when [men]
inhabited the south and the plain?
8 # And the word of the LORD came unto
Zechariah, saying,
9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, Execute true judgment, and shew
mercy and compassions every man to his
brother:
10 And oppress not the widow, nor the
fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor;
and let none of you imagine evil
against his brother in your heart.
11 But they refused to hearken, and
pulled away the shoulder, and stopped
their ears, that they should not hear.
12 Yea, they made their hearts [as] an
adamant stone, lest they should hear
the law, and the words which the LORD
of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the
former prophets: therefore came a great
wrath from the LORD of hosts.
13 Therefore it is come to pass, [that]
as he cried, and they would not hear;
so they cried, and I would not hear,
saith the LORD of hosts:
14 But I scattered them with a
whirlwind among all the nations whom
they knew not. Thus the land was
desolate after them, that no man passed
through nor returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.

CHAPTER 8
1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts
came [to me], saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was
jealous for Zion with great jealousy,
and I was jealous for her with great
fury.
3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned
unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst
of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be
called a city of truth; and the
mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy
mountain.
4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There
shall yet old men and old women dwell
in the streets of Jerusalem, and every
man with his staff in his hand for very
age.
5 And the streets of the city shall be
full of boys and girls playing in the
streets thereof.
6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it
be marvellous in the eyes of the
remnant of this people in these days,
should it also be marvellous in mine
eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold,
I will save my people from the east
country, and from the west country;
8 And I will bring them, and they shall
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and
they shall be my people, and I will be
their God, in truth and in
righteousness.
9 # Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let
your hands be strong, ye that hear in
these days these words by the mouth of
the prophets, which [were] in the day
[that] the foundation of the house of
the LORD of hosts was laid, that the
temple might be built.
10 For before these days there was no
hire for man, nor any hire for beast;
neither [was there any] peace to him
that went out or came in because of the
affliction: for I set all men every one
against his neighbour.
11 But now I [will] not [be] unto the
residue of this people as in the former
days, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 For the seed [shall be] prosperous;
the vine shall give her fruit, and the
ground shall give her increase, and the
heavens shall give their dew; and I
will cause the remnant of this people
to possess all these [things].
13 And it shall come to pass, [that] as
ye were a curse among the heathen, O
house of Judah, and house of Israel; so
will I save you, and ye shall be a
blessing: fear not, [but] let your
hands be strong.
14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As
I thought to punish you, when your
fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the
LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
15 So again have I thought in these
days to do well unto Jerusalem and to
the house of Judah: fear ye not.
16 # These [are] the things that ye
shall do; Speak ye every man the truth
to his neighbour; execute the judgment
of truth and peace in your gates:
17 And let none of you imagine evil in
your hearts against his neighbour; and
love no false oath: for all these [are
things] that I hate, saith the LORD.
18 # And the word of the LORD of hosts
came unto me, saying,
19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The
fast of the fourth [month], and the
fast of the fifth, and the fast of the
seventh, and the fast of the tenth,
shall be to the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts;
therefore love the truth and peace.
20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; [It
shall] yet [come to pass], that there
shall come people, and the inhabitants
of many cities:
21 And the inhabitants of one [city]
shall go to another, saying, Let us go
speedily to pray before the LORD, and
to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go
also.
22 Yea, many people and strong nations
shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in
Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In
those days [it shall come to pass],
that ten men shall take hold out of all
languages of the nations, even shall
take hold of the skirt of him that is a
Jew, saying, We will go with you: for
we have heard [that] God [is] with you.

CHAPTER 9
1 The burden of the word of the LORD in
the land of Hadrach, and Damascus
[shall be] the rest thereof: when the
eyes of man, as of all the tribes of
Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD.
2 And Hamath also shall border thereby;
Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very
wise.
3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong
hold, and heaped up silver as the dust,
and fine gold as the mire of the
streets.
4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out,
and he will smite her power in the sea;
and she shall be devoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon shall see [it], and fear;
Gaza also [shall see it], and be very
sorrowful, and Ekron; for her
expectation shall be ashamed; and the
king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,
and I will cut off the pride of the
Philistines.
7 And I will take away his blood out of
his mouth, and his abominations from
between his teeth: but he that
remaineth, even he, [shall be] for our
God, and he shall be as a governor in
Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
8 And I will encamp about mine house
because of the army, because of him
that passeth by, and because of him
that returneth: and no oppressor shall
pass through them any more: for now
have I seen with mine eyes.
9 # Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:
behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he
[is] just, and having salvation; lowly,
and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt
the foal of an ass.
10 And I will cut off the chariot from
Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem,
and the battle bow shall be cut off:
and he shall speak peace unto the
heathen: and his dominion [shall be]
from sea [even] to sea, and from the
river [even] to the ends of the earth.
11 As for thee also, by the blood of
thy covenant I have sent forth thy
prisoners out of the pit wherein [is]
no water.
12 # Turn you to the strong hold, ye
prisoners of hope: even to day do I
declare [that] I will render double
unto thee;
13 When I have bent Judah for me,
filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised
up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons,
O Greece, and made thee as the sword of
a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over
them, and his arrow shall go forth as
the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall
blow the trumpet, and shall go with
whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them;
and they shall devour, and subdue with
sling stones; and they shall drink,
[and] make a noise as through wine; and
they shall be filled like bowls, [and]
as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save
them in that day as the flock of his
people: for they [shall be as] the
stones of a crown, lifted up as an
ensign upon his land.
17 For how great [is] his goodness, and
how great [is] his beauty! corn shall
make the young men cheerful, and new
wine the maids.

CHAPTER 10
1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time
of the latter rain; [so] the LORD shall
make bright clouds, and give them
showers of rain, to every one grass in
the field.
2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and
the diviners have seen a lie, and have
told false dreams; they comfort in
vain: therefore they went their way as
a flock, they were troubled, because
[there was] no shepherd.
3 Mine anger was kindled against the
shepherds, and I punished the goats:
for the LORD of hosts hath visited his
flock the house of Judah, and hath made
them as his goodly horse in the battle.
4 Out of him came forth the corner, out
of him the nail, out of him the battle
bow, out of him every oppressor
together.
5 # And they shall be as mighty [men],
which tread down [their enemies] in the
mire of the streets in the battle: and
they shall fight, because the LORD [is]
with them, and the riders on horses
shall be confounded.
6 And I will strengthen the house of
Judah, and I will save the house of
Joseph, and I will bring them again to
place them; for I have mercy upon them:
and they shall be as though I had not
cast them off: for I [am] the LORD
their God, and will hear them.
7 And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a
mighty [man], and their heart shall
rejoice as through wine: yea, their
children shall see [it], and be glad;
their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will hiss for them, and gather
them; for I have redeemed them: and
they shall increase as they have
increased.
9 And I will sow them among the people:
and they shall remember me in far
countries; and they shall live with
their children, and turn again.
10 I will bring them again also out of
the land of Egypt, and gather them out
of Assyria; and I will bring them into
the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and
[place] shall not be found for them.
11 And he shall pass through the sea
with affliction, and shall smite the
waves in the sea, and all the deeps of
the river shall dry up: and the pride
of Assyria shall be brought down, and
the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
12 And I will strengthen them in the
LORD; and they shall walk up and down
in his name, saith the LORD.

CHAPTER 11
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the
fire may devour thy cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is
fallen; because the mighty are spoiled:
howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the
forest of the vintage is come down.
3 # [There is] a voice of the howling
of the shepherds; for their glory is
spoiled: a voice of the roaring of
young lions; for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.
4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the
flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold
themselves not guilty: and they that
sell them say, Blessed [be] the LORD;
for I am rich: and their own shepherds
pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the
inhabitants of the land, saith the
LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men
every one into his neighbour's hand,
and into the hand of his king: and they
shall smite the land, and out of their
hand I will not deliver [them].
7 And I will feed the flock of
slaughter, [even] you, O poor of the
flock. And I took unto me two staves;
the one I called Beauty, and the other
I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one
month; and my soul lothed them, and
their soul also abhorred me.
9 Then said I, I will not feed you:
that that dieth, let it die; and that
that is to be cut off, let it be cut
off; and let the rest eat every one the
flesh of another.
10 # And I took my staff, [even]
Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I
might break my covenant which I had
made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and
so the poor of the flock that waited
upon me knew that it [was] the word of
the LORD.
12 And I said unto them, If ye think
good, give [me] my price; and if not,
forbear. So they weighed for my price
thirty [pieces] of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it
unto the potter: a goodly price that I
was prised at of them. And I took the
thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast
them to the potter in the house of the
LORD.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff,
[even] Bands, that I might break the
brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 # And the LORD said unto me, Take
unto thee yet the instruments of a
foolish shepherd.
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd
in the land, [which] shall not visit
those that be cut off, neither shall
seek the young one, nor heal that that
is broken, nor feed that that standeth
still: but he shall eat the flesh of
the fat, and tear their claws in
pieces.
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that
leaveth the flock! the sword [shall be]
upon his arm, and upon his right eye:
his arm shall be clean dried up, and
his right eye shall be utterly
darkened.

CHAPTER 12
1 The burden of the word of the LORD
for Israel, saith the LORD, which
stretcheth forth the heavens, and
layeth the foundation of the earth, and
formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup
of trembling unto all the people round
about, when they shall be in the siege
both against Judah [and] against
Jerusalem.
3 # And in that day will I make
Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
people: all that burden themselves with
it shall be cut in pieces, though all
the people of the earth be gathered
together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will
smite every horse with astonishment,
and his rider with madness: and I will
open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,
and will smite every horse of the
people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say
in their heart, The inhabitants of
Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the
LORD of hosts their God.
6 # In that day will I make the
governors of Judah like an hearth of
fire among the wood, and like a torch
of fire in a sheaf; and they shall
devour all the people round about, on
the right hand and on the left: and
Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in
her own place, [even] in Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of
Judah first, that the glory of the
house of David and the glory of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify
[themselves] against Judah.
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that
is feeble among them at that day shall
be as David; and the house of David
[shall be] as God, as the angel of the
LORD before them.
9 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] I will seek to destroy all
the nations that come against
Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of
David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon
me whom they have pierced, and they
shall mourn for him, as one mourneth
for [his] only [son], and shall be in
bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for [his] firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great
mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning
of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every
family apart; the family of the house
of David apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the house of Nathan
apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi
apart, and their wives apart; the
family of Shimei apart, and their wives
apart;
14 All the families that remain, every
family apart, and their wives apart.

CHAPTER 13
1 In that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and
for uncleanness.
2 # And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I
will cut off the names of the idols out
of the land, and they shall no more be
remembered: and also I will cause the
prophets and the unclean spirit to pass
out of the land.
3 And it shall come to pass, [that]
when any shall yet prophesy, then his
father and his mother that begat him
shall say unto him, Thou shalt not
live; for thou speakest lies in the
name of the LORD: and his father and
his mother that begat him shall thrust
him through when he prophesieth.
4 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the prophets shall be
ashamed every one of his vision, when
he hath prophesied; neither shall they
wear a rough garment to deceive:
5 But he shall say, I [am] no prophet,
I [am] an husbandman; for man taught me
to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And [one] shall say unto him, What
[are] these wounds in thine hands? Then
he shall answer, [Those] with which I
was wounded [in] the house of my
friends.
7 # Awake, O sword, against my
shepherd, and against the man [that is]
my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts:
smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered: and I will turn mine hand
upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, [that] in
all the land, saith the LORD, two parts
therein shall be cut off [and] die; but
the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part
through the fire, and will refine them
as silver is refined, and will try them
as gold is tried: they shall call on my
name, and I will hear them: I will say,
It [is] my people: and they shall say,
The LORD [is] my God.

CHAPTER 14
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh,
and thy spoil shall be divided in the
midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against
Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall
be taken, and the houses rifled, and
the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and
the residue of the people shall not be
cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and
fight against those nations, as when he
fought in the day of battle.
4 # And his feet shall stand in that
day upon the mount of Olives, which
[is] before Jerusalem on the east, and
the mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and
toward the west, [and there shall be] a
very great valley; and half of the
mountain shall remove toward the north,
and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee [to] the valley of
the mountains; for the valley of the
mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea,
ye shall flee, like as ye fled from
before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my
God shall come, [and] all the saints
with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the light shall not be
clear, [nor] dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall
be known to the LORD, not day, nor
night: but it shall come to pass,
[that] at evening time it shall be
light.
8 And it shall be in that day, [that]
living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the
former sea, and half of them toward the
hinder sea: in summer and in winter
shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all
the earth: in that day shall there be
one LORD, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a
plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up,
and inhabited in her place, from
Benjamin's gate unto the place of the
first gate, unto the corner gate, and
[from] the tower of Hananeel unto the
king's winepresses.
11 And [men] shall dwell in it, and
there shall be no more utter
destruction; but Jerusalem shall be
safely inhabited.
12 # And this shall be the plague
wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against
Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in
their holes, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] a great tumult from the
LORD shall be among them; and they
shall lay hold every one on the hand of
his neighbour, and his hand shall rise
up against the hand of his neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall fight at
Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the
heathen round about shall be gathered
together, gold, and silver, and
apparel, in great abundance.
15 And so shall be the plague of the
horse, of the mule, of the camel, and
of the ass, and of all the beasts that
shall be in these tents, as this
plague.
16 # And it shall come to pass, [that]
every one that is left of all the
nations which came against Jerusalem
shall even go up from year to year to
worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, [that] whoso will
not come up of [all] the families of
the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them
shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not
up, and come not, that [have] no
[rain]; there shall be the plague,
wherewith the LORD will smite the
heathen that come not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of
Egypt, and the punishment of all
nations that come not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
20 # In that day shall there be upon
the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO
THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S
house shall be like the bowls before
the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in
Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD
of hosts: and all they that sacrifice
shall come and take of them, and seethe
therein: and in that day there shall be
no more the Canaanite in the house of
the LORD of hosts.

MALACHI

CHAPTER 1
1 The burden of the word of the LORD to
Israel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet
ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?
[Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith
the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his
mountains and his heritage waste for
the dragons of the wilderness.
4 Whereas Edom saith, We are
impoverished, but we will return and
build the desolate places; thus saith
the LORD of hosts, They shall build,
but I will throw down; and they shall
call them, The border of wickedness,
and, The people against whom the LORD
hath indignation for ever.
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall
say, The LORD will be magnified from
the border of Israel.
6 # A son honoureth [his] father, and a
servant his master: if then I [be] a
father, where [is] mine honour? and if
I [be] a master, where [is] my fear?
saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O
priests, that despise my name. And ye
say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine
altar; and ye say, Wherein have we
polluted thee? In that ye say, The
table of the LORD [is] contemptible.
8 And if ye offer the blind for
sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye
offer the lame and sick, [is it] not
evil? offer it now unto thy governor;
will he be pleased with thee, or accept
thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that
he will be gracious unto us: this hath
been by your means: will he regard your
persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
10 Who [is there] even among you that
would shut the doors [for nought]?
neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine
altar for nought. I have no pleasure in
you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither
will I accept an offering at your hand.
11 For from the rising of the sun even
unto the going down of the same my name
[shall be] great among the Gentiles;
and in every place incense [shall be]
offered unto my name, and a pure
offering: for my name [shall be] great
among the heathen, saith the LORD of
hosts.
12 # But ye have profaned it, in that
ye say, The table of the LORD [is]
polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even]
his meat, [is] contemptible.
13 Ye said also, Behold, what a
weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed
at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye
brought [that which was] torn, and the
lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an
offering: should I accept this of your
hand? saith the LORD.
14 But cursed [be] the deceiver, which
hath in his flock a male, and voweth,
and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt
thing: for I [am] a great King, saith
the LORD of hosts, and my name [is]
dreadful among the heathen.

CHAPTER 2
1 And now, O ye priests, this
commandment [is] for you.
2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will
not lay [it] to heart, to give glory
unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts,
I will even send a curse upon you, and
I will curse your blessings: yea, I
have cursed them already, because ye do
not lay [it] to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and
spread dung upon your faces, [even] the
dung of your solemn feasts; and [one]
shall take you away with it.
4 And ye shall know that I have sent
this commandment unto you, that my
covenant might be with Levi, saith the
LORD of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and
peace; and I gave them to him [for] the
fear wherewith he feared me, and was
afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth,
and iniquity was not found in his lips:
he walked with me in peace and equity,
and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest's lips should keep
knowledge, and they should seek the law
at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger
of the LORD of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way;
ye have caused many to stumble at the
law; ye have corrupted the covenant of
Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you
contemptible and base before all the
people, according as ye have not kept
my ways, but have been partial in the
law.
10 Have we not all one father? hath not
one God created us? why do we deal
treacherously every man against his
brother, by profaning the covenant of
our fathers?
11 # Judah hath dealt treacherously,
and an abomination is committed in
Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath
profaned the holiness of the LORD which
he loved, and hath married the daughter
of a strange god.
12 The LORD will cut off the man that
doeth this, the master and the scholar,
out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and
him that offereth an offering unto the
LORD of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again,
covering the altar of the LORD with
tears, with weeping, and with crying
out, insomuch that he regardeth not the
offering any more, or receiveth [it]
with good will at your hand.
14 # Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the
LORD hath been witness between thee and
the wife of thy youth, against whom
thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is]
she thy companion, and the wife of thy
covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he
the residue of the spirit. And
wherefore one? That he might seek a
godly seed. Therefore take heed to your
spirit, and let none deal treacherously
against the wife of his youth.
16 For the LORD, the God of Israel,
saith that he hateth putting away: for
[one] covereth violence with his
garment, saith the LORD of hosts:
therefore take heed to your spirit,
that ye deal not treacherously.
17 # Ye have wearied the LORD with your
words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we
wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one
that doeth evil [is] good in the sight
of the LORD, and he delighteth in them;
or, Where [is] the God of judgment?

CHAPTER 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and
he shall prepare the way before me: and
the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly
come to his temple, even the messenger
of the covenant, whom ye delight in:
behold, he shall come, saith the LORD
of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his
coming? and who shall stand when he
appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's
fire, and like fullers' sope:
3 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and
purifier of silver: and he shall purify
the sons of Levi, and purge them as
gold and silver, that they may offer
unto the LORD an offering in
righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as
in the days of old, and as in former
years.
5 And I will come near to you to
judgment; and I will be a swift witness
against the sorcerers, and against the
adulterers, and against false swearers,
and against those that oppress the
hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and
the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger [from his right], and fear not
me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.
7 # Even from the days of your fathers
ye are gone away from mine ordinances,
and have not kept [them]. Return unto
me, and I will return unto you, saith
the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein
shall we return?
8 # Will a man rob God? Yet ye have
robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we
robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye
have robbed me, [even] this whole
nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing, that [there
shall] not [be room] enough [to receive
it].
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not destroy
the fruits of your ground; neither
shall your vine cast her fruit before
the time in the field, saith the LORD
of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you
blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome
land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13 # Your words have been stout against
me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What
have we spoken [so much] against thee?
14 Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve
God: and what profit [is it] that we
have kept his ordinance, and that we
have walked mournfully before the LORD
of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy;
yea, they that work wickedness are set
up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even
delivered.
16 # Then they that feared the LORD
spake often one to another: and the
LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a
book of remembrance was written before
him for them that feared the LORD, and
that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the
LORD of hosts, in that day when I make
up my jewels; and I will spare them, as
a man spareth his own son that serveth
him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern
between the righteous and the wicked,
between him that serveth God and him
that serveth him not.

CHAPTER 4
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that
shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the
LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
2 # But unto you that fear my name
shall the Sun of righteousness arise
with healing in his wings; and ye shall
go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked;
for they shall be ashes under the soles
of your feet in the day that I shall do
[this], saith the LORD of hosts.
4 # Remember ye the law of Moses my
servant, which I commanded unto him in
Horeb for all Israel, [with] the
statutes and judgments.
5 # Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the
fathers to the children, and the heart
of the children to their fathers, lest
I come and smite the earth with a
curse.

THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
