[UBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY] BS185.1911.N5C.2 1911 Bible The Holy Bible 16II— I9II TBib' ' ■ ' • -^ The I9II Bible ^X OF PS/*^^ The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by King James's special command I6II The Text carefully corrected and amended by American Scholars I9II With a New System of References Oxford University Press American Branch New York: 35 West 32nd Street Henry Frowde liOndon, Toronto, and Melbourne I911 COPYRIGHT igil BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMERICAN BRANCH PREFACE The present edition of the Authorized Version of the Bible commemorates the tercentenary of that great historic Version. 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X THE NAMES AND ORDER OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR CHAPTERS THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PAGE GENESIS 3 Exodus 57 Leviticus 103 Numbers 136 Deuteronomy .... 183 Joshua 222 Judges 249 Ruth 276 I Samuel ..... 280 II Samuel 315 I Kings 344 n Kings 378 I Chronicles .... 410 II Chronicles .... 441 Ezra 478 Nehemiah 489 Esther 505 Job 513 Psalms 540 Proverbs 607 50 40 27 36 34 24 21 4 31 24 22 25 29 36 10 13 10 42 150 31 PAGE Ecclesiastes .... 630 Song of Solomon . . 638 Isaiah 642 Jeremiah 694 Lamentations . . . 753 Ezekiel 758 Daniel 812 Hosea 829 Joel 837 Amos 840 Obadiah 846 Jonah 847 Micah 849 Nahum 854 Habakkuk . . . . 856 Zephaniah . , . . 859 Haggai 862 Zechariah .... 864 Malachi 873 VI' THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT MATTHEW . 881 . . . 28 Mark . 916 . . . 16 Luke .... . 938 . . . 24 John .... . 975 . . . 21 The Acts . . . . . 1002 . . 28 To the Romans . . 1037 . . 16 I Corinthians . . 1051 . . 16 II Corinthians . . 1065 . . 13 Galatians . . . 1074 . . 6 Epbesians . . . 1079 . . 6 Philippians . . . . 1084 . . . 4 Colossians . . . 1088 . . 4 I Thessalonians . 1092 . . . 5 n Thessalonians . . 1095 . . 3 PAGE I Timothy .... 1097 II Timothy .... 1101 Titus 1104 Philemon 1106 To the Hebrews . . 1107 Epistle of James . . 1118 I Peter 1122 II Peter 1126 I John 1129 II John 1133 III John 1134 Jude 1135 Revelation .... 1136 I V THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED GENESIS [I 26 CHAPTER 1. IN the '^beginning '^God -^created the ^heaven and the dearth. 2 And the earth was ^without form, and /void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the .^Spirit of God 2moved upon the face of the -^^waters. ,3 And Grod said, Let there be ^'light: and there was light. 4 And GrOd saw the light, that it was good: and Grod divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called 7 Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6 And God said. Let there be a S'^firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God ma.de 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 v/aters under the heaven be gathered to- gether 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 its 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 its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind : and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morn- ing were the third day. 14 And God said. Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven CHAP. I ^ Psa. 119. 160 Prov.8. 22,23 Jer, 17. 12 John I. I, 2 Eph. 3. 9 Col. I. 18 Heb. I. 10 1 John 1. I Rev. 1. 8 ; 3. 14; 21. 6; 22. 13 * Deity (names of). Gen. 2. 4, 7. (Gen. 1. 1 ; Mai. 3. 18.) ' John I. 1-3 Eph. 3. 9 v^ol. I. 15-17 Rev. 4. II. d vers. 1,8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 20 Ex. 16. 4 Johns. 13 Acts 1. 10, II 2 Cor. 12.2-4 Phil. 3. 20 Rev. 20. II. ' Gen. 2. I 2 Pet. 3. 5-7 Isa. II. 9 Zech. 14. 9 Rev. 21. 1. /Jer. 4.23 Nah. 2. 10 Isa. 55. II. !/ HolySpirit. Gen. 6. 3. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) ft Isa. 57. 20 Dan. 7. 2, 3, 17 Rev. 13. I John 7. 38, 39. i vers. 3, 4, s, 14, IS, 16, t8 Isa. 2. s John I. 4, 9 Mt. 5. 14 Phil. 2. IS I John I. 5-7. J vers. 14, 16, i3 Ex. 13. 21, 22 John I. 9 ; 8. 12 Rom. 13. 12 1 Thes. 5.2-7 2 Pet. I. 19 Rev. 22. 5. <•■ vers. 6, 7, 8, 23, 2S, 26 Gen. IS- S- I ax. 4. 17 Isa. 7. 14 Mt. 12. 39, 40. "' Gen. 15. s i 22. 17 Dan. 12. 3 Mt. 2. 2. " Gen. I. I. " Gen. I. I. -P Gen. 9. 1 ; 14. 18, iQ ; 26. 3 Mt. 5. 3, 12. i Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 26-28; Gen. 9. 6. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) "■ Psa. 8. 6. 1 or, waste and empty. 2 brooded. 3 expanse. 4 lit. sea mon- sters. 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 fir- mament 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 morn- ing 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 mov- eth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its 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 morn- ing were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind! and it was so. 25 And Grod made the beast of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its 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. I 27] GENESIS [2 22 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 mito 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. 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 s 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 be- fore 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. CHAP. I * Gen. I. I. ' The Eight Covenants (i ; Edenic). Gen. 2. 1K-17. (Gen. I. 28 ; Heb. 8. 10.) " Gen. 9. I Isa. 2. 6 Ezk. 26. 2 Isa, II. 9. 5 or, a liuing CHAP. 2 "Sabbath. Ex. 16. 22-25. (Gei^ 2. 3 ; Mt. 12. 1.) * Sanctify, iwly (O.T.). Ex. 10. 23. (Gen. 2. 3 ; Zech. 8. 3.) ' Gen. I. I. " vers. 16, 17 Gen. 3. 6, 19, 22,23 Lev. II. 1-47 Deut. 3.3. Cf. Mt. 4. 4 ; Lk. 4. 4 I Cor. 8. 13. ' Death (spir- itual). Mt. 8. 22. (Gen. 2. i7;Eph.2.5.) " vers. 20-25 Gen. 3. 1-24 Rom. 5. 14 I Cor. 15. 22 I Tim. 2. 13. '' vers. 20-25 Gen. 3. 1-24. '" Gen. I. I. I or, eastward to Assyria, 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 ytree of life also in the midst of the %arden, 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 ^Ethi- opia. 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 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 Grod 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 what- soever ^ 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 Asleep 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. CHAP. 2 * Ex. 12. 46 Num. g. 12 John 19. 36 Eph. 5. 30. " Gen. 3. 7-11, 21 3 Cor. s. 3. 2 Heb. Issah. 3lsh, 2 23] GENESIS 23 And Adam said, This is now 2 bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 2 Woman, because she was taken out of 3Man. 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. NOW^the ^serpent was more sub- tile 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 igods, 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 them- selves aprons. [324 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and 2Adam 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 com- manded thee that thou shouldest not eat? CHAP. 3 * Satan, vers. 1, 2, 4, 13, 14 ; I Chr. 21. I. (Gen. 3. I ; Rev. 20. 10.) tvers. 1-14 John 3. 14 Mt. 23. 33. " Temptation. vers. 1-6, 12, 13; Gen. 22. 1. (Gen. 3. I ; Jas. I. 2.) d Gen. 2. 3, * vers. 6, 7, 22. Cf. I John 2. 16 Lk. 4. 18 I Cor. 2. 9-14. / Gen. 3. 5. V vers. 8, 10 Psa. 27. S Mt. 10. 26. h Gen. 4. 16 Ex. 33. 14, 15 Lev. 22. 3. )■ Gen. 6. 13 Ex. 3. 4 I Sam. 3. 4. J The Eight Covenants. Gen. 8. 21. (Gen. 1. 28 ; Heb. 8. 10.) k Gen. 8. 21 Jer. 17. 5-8 Gal. 3. 10-14. I Sacrifice {prophetic]. Psa. 2. 1-3. (Gen. 3. 15 ; Heb. 10. 18.) '" Christ {first aduentK Gen. 12. 3. (Gen. 3. IS ; Acts 1. 9.) " Gen. 25. 26. ^ vers. 16, 17 John 16. 6 Rev. 21. 4. 1' vers. 16, 17 John 16. 6, 20-22 Rev, 21. 4. 1 2 Thes. 3. 10 Eph. 4. 28 1 Cor. 10. 16-28 cf. Isa. 55. 2 John 6. 27, 32-58- *■ Death (phys- ical). Gen. S- S- (Gen. 3. 19 ; Heb, 9. 27.) * Gen. 2. 19. < Faith. Gen. 4. 4. (Gen 3. 20 ; Heb. "• 39-) " G2n. 4. 1 2 Cor. II. 3. " Righteous- ness {gar- ment). Job 29. 14. (Gen. 3. 21 ; Rev. 19. 8.) '" Gen. a. 8. *^ Gen. a. 8. !/ Rev. 19. 15, 21 Heb. 4. la Eph. 6. 17 Isa. 2. 4. 1 or, God. 2 or, the man. 3 Heb. Hauah, living. 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 isaid unto the serpent. Because thou hast done this, thou art -^'cursed above all cat- tle, 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; he 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. Be- cause thou hast hearKened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of v^hich 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 s^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 forever: 33 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 Cherubim, and a flaming J'sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 4 GENESIS [53 CHAPTER 4. 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 ^re- spect 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, ishalt thou not be ^'acceptsd ? and if thou doest not well, 2 sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall he 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 ar't 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 ''''vag- abond Shalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain said unto the LORD, 3My 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 vaga- bond 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 CHAP. 4 " Gen. 3. 20. b Heb. n. 4. "^ Gen. 4. 4-9 Heb. II. 4. d Gen. 4. 4-9, Heb. II. 4. « Jer. 50. 6 Isa. S3. 7 Mt. 10. 6, 16 John 10. 27-29. / vers. 3-5 Heb. II. 4 I John 3. 12 Heb. 9. 22, 28. ^ Gen. 4. 2. h Faith. Gen. S. 22-24. (Gen. 3. 20 ; Heb. II. 39.) i vers. 4, 5 Acts 10. 34 Heb. II. 4. j Sacrifice (typical). Gen. 8. 20. (Gen. 4. 4 ; Heb. 10. 18.) * Gen. 19. 21 Isa. 56. 7 Eph. I. 6 Gal. 2. 6. I Gen. 9. 6 Rom. 3. 25 Col. I. 14, 20 Heb. 9. 22 Rev. I. 5; 19. 2, 13- '" vers. 12, 14 Acts 19. 13. " Mai. 3. 12. " Gen. 4. 18. P Gen. 4. 17. 1 vers. 20, 23 Gen. 36. 2. '' Gen. 4. 22, 23. * Gen. 4. 19. ' Gen. 9. 27 ; 18. 6 Heb. XI. 9, 13; 1-3. 14 I Pet. I. 17, " Gen. 31. 27 I Ki, 10. 13 Rev. 14. 2. " Gen. 4. 19. '"' Ex. 23. 3. ^ I Ki. 14. 21, Josh. 15. 41. y Gen. 4.18, 19, 24. -' Heb. n. 4. ■^ Gen. 2. 19. b Gen. 4. 26; ilk. 3. 38. «gGen. 4. 2. d Gen. 4. 25. « Gen. 5. 6, 9, 10, II Lk. 3. 38. 1 Heb. is there not a lifting up? 2 or, a sin offering. 3 or, my in- iquity is too great for for- giveness. 4 or, gave Cain a sign. 5 or, the forger of every bronze cut- ting instru- ment. 6 or, who wounded me 7 or, who hurt me. B appointed. CHAP. 5 Gen. I. I. 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/Enochwas bornlrad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Me- hujael begat Methusael : and Methu- sael 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 waa the father of such as dwell in ''tents, and of such as have cattle. 21 Aiid his brother's name was Ju- bal: he was the father of all such as handle the ^'harp and organ. 22 And ^Zillah, she also bare Tu- bal-cain, ^an instructer of every arti- ficer in ^^ brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was -^ Naamah. 23 And J 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 sev- enfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. 25 And ^^Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name s'^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 hoTji a son; and he called his name "^Enosh: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. CHAPTER 5. THIS is the book of the genera- tions 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 5 4] GENESIS [6 7 own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth : 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hun- dred 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 '^Enosh: 7 And Seth lived after he begat Enosh 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 Enosh lived ninety years, and begat i^Cainan: 10 And Enosh lived after he begat -^Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters : 11 And all the days of Enosh 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 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 7 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. CHAP. 5 IDeath {phys- ical). Gen. 6. 17. (Gen. 3. 19 : Heb. 9.27.) " Gen. 4. 26. d Gen. g. I4' ' Gen. s. 9. / Gen. 5. 13, 15. i6i 17 1 Chr. I, 2 Neh. II. 4. i' Lk. 3. 37. A Gen. s. 16, 18, 19, 20 I Chr. I. 2. i Gen. s. 24. J Gen. 5. 22, 25, 26, 27 1 Chr. I. 3. * vers. 22, 24 Gen. 6. 9 17. I ; 24. 40 Ex. 16. 4 Lev. 18. 3 2 Cor. 5. 7 Gal. 5. 16, 25 Col. 2. 6. I Faith, vers. 22-24 ; Gen. 6. 22. (Gen. 3. 20 ; Heb, "• 39-) *" Gen. s. 18, 21, 22, 23 Lk. 3. 37 Heb. II. s Jude 14. " Miracles (O.T.). Gen. 7. II. (Gen. S. 24 ; Jon. a. i-io.) " Heb. II. s. P Gen. s. 38. a Gen. s 31 I Chr. I. 3 Lk.3. 36. ' Gen. 41. SI Mt. 6. 28 Mk. 6. 48 Lk. 5. 5 ; 12. 27 Mt. II. 28-30. * Gen. s. 28. ' Gen. 7. 23. '* Gen. 9. 26. * Gen, 7. 13 ; 9. 18, 22 ; 10. I, 6 I Chr. I. 4, 8; 4.40 Psa. 78. SI ; 105. 23. I Heb. Kenan, a that is, Rest, or, Comfort. CHAP. 6 » Holy Spirit. Ex. 28. 3. (Gen. I. 2 ; Mai. 2. IS.) ' Gen. 1. 1. I or, govern, or, abide with. 25 And Methuselah lived ^an hun- dred 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, "Ilam, and Japheth. CHAPTER 6. 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 wicked- ness 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 6 8] GENESIS [7^5 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 .f corrupt be- tore 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 the7door of the ark shalt thou set in the side there- of; 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 its 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. CHAP. 6 » Righteous- ness. Gen. 7. I. (Gen.; 6. 9 ; Lk. a. • Gen. 17. I Deut. 18. 13; 32-4 Job 1. I, 8 Psa. 37. 37 2 Chr. j6. 9 Psa. 138. 8 Heb. 6. 1 ; 7. II ; 10. 14 I John 4. 17, 18. / Gen. 5. 32, ^ ver. 5 Job 17. I, 14 Psa. 14. I Dan. 10. 8 Acts 13. 35-37 Rom. I. 23 ; 8. 21 1 Cor. 15. 51- ^ u Eph. 4. 22-24 2 Pet. I. 4 ; 2. 12, 19. A vers. 15-23 Gen. 7. 1-24 ; 8. 1-19 Mt. 24. 38 Lk. 17. 27 Heb. II. 7 1 Pet, 3. 20 .Ex. 2. 3,5. » Gen. 6. 14. /John 10. 9. * vers, 5-7 Gen. 7. 17-24 ; 9. 11-16 Mt. 24. 37-39 Lk. 17. 26, 27 Heb. II. 7 2 Pet. 2. 4-9 ; 3- 3-9- I Death (phy. ical). Lk. 16. 22, 23. (Gen. 3. 19; Heb. 9, 27.) ♦" Gen. 9. 9, ". 17 ; 17. 7, 19, 21 Ex. 6. 4 Lev, 26. 9 Rom. 3. 31 ; Heb. 8.6; 10. 9. "^ Faith. Gen. 12. 1-5. (Gen. 3. 20 ; Heb. "• 39-) CHAP. 7 " Gen. 7. 23. 6 Gen. 6. 14. " Righteous- ness. Gen. 15. 6. (Gen. 6, 9; Lk.2.2S.) a Lev, 4, 12 ; »4- I-S7 Deut, 12. 15 Job 14. 4 Psa, 51. 2, 5-7 John 13. 1-17 Eph. 5. 25-27 Heb. 9. 13, 14 ; TO. 19-221 I John I. 7 Rev. I. 5, 6. '' Gen. 6. 17. / Miracles (O.T.). Gen. 8. 2. (Gen. 5. 24 ; Jon. 2. l-IO.) ? 2 Ki. 7. 2, 19 Isa. 24. 18 Mai. 3. 10 Gen. 8, 6-n Isa. 60. 8 Josh, 2. 15 a Cor. II, 33, h Gen, 9. 26. i Gen. 5. 38 CHAPTER 7. 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 genera- tion. 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 sev- ens, 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 fiace 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 its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah 7 16] GENESIS [8 20 into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. i6 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 in- creased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted 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 ex- ceedingly 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 lof 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 7 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. 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 assuaged ; 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 con- tinually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the moun- tains seen. CHAP. 7 y Gen. 5. 29; 6. 8, 10, 13 ; 7- s ; 8. I, z8, 20 ; 9. 17 Isa. 54. 9 Mt. 34- 37 Lk. 17. 26 Heb. II. 7. 1 or, of the spirit of life. CHAP. 8 ^ Gen. 9. IS 19. 29 ; 30. 22 ; 40.23 Ex. 2. 24 Lev. 26. 42-45 Jud. 8. 34 Psa. 22. 27 Jer. 31. 34 Heb. 8. 13; 10. 3, 17- * Ex. 10. 13 ; IS 10 Num. II. 31 Psa. 148. 8 Prov. 30. 4 Ezk. 37. 9 Hos. 13. 15 Amos 4. 13 John 3. 8 Acts 2. a. - Miracles (O.T.). Gen, II. 7-9. (Gen. 5. 24 ; Jon. a. i-io.) ' Gen. 6. 14. ■ Jer. SI. 27. / Gen. 7. 23. S Lev. II. ig Deut. 14. 14 I Ki. 17. 4, 61 Job 38. 41 Psa. 147. 9 Prov. 30. 17 Song- 5. II Isa. 34. II Lk. 12. 24. » Zech. 4. II. i Gen. 12. 7 Ex. 17.3; 27. I ; 30- 27 Josli. 8. 20 Isa. 6. 6 Heb. 13. 10 Rev. 6. 9. I Heb. were ; ingoing and decreasing. 2 Heb. fam- ilies. 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 Graven, 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 faceof the v/hole 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 plucked 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 cover- ing of the ark, and looked, and, be- hold, 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 Gro forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons* wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every liv- ing 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 whatso- ever creepeth upon the earth, after their 2kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an %ltar unto the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl. 8 21] and oiferedy burnt ^'offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelied a svveet ^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, seed- time and ^harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. CHAPTER 9. 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 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 mul- tiply; 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 cove- nant 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 be- tween me and you and every living GENESIS 1929 CHAP. 8 J Gen. 22. 7, 8 Ex, 38. I Lev. I. 4 ; 6. 9 Isa. I. II Psa. 40. 6-8 Heb. 10. 1-14. k Sacrifice {typical). Gen. 12. 7, 8. (Gen. 4. 4 ; Heb. 10. 18.) I Ex. 29. 18, 25.41 Lev. I. 9, Num. 15. 3,7, 10, 13, 14, 24 Ezk. 20. 41 Eph. 5. 2 Phil. 4. 18 Rev. s- 8 ; 8. 13 Mt. 16. 23. ■^ The Eight Couenants. Gen. 15. 18. (Gen. I. 28 ; Heb. 8. 10.) « Eccl. II. 9- " Ex. 23. 16. CHAP. 9 » Gen. I. 28. b Gen. 42. 22 Deut. 18. 19 ; 23. 21 Psa. 10. 13 Isa. I. 12 Mic. 6. 8 Lk. II. 50, 51 ; 23. 23, 24 1 Cor. 4. 1, 2. 'Kingdom (O.T.). Ex. 3. i-io. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. a) d Gen. 37. 22 Lev. 17. 4 Joel 3. 19 Mt. 23. 35 Heb. 9. 22. ' Gen. 7. 23. /Gen. I. 1. i> Gen. 6. 14. ft Gen. 6. 17. » Gen. 17. II Ex. 3. 12 ; 12. 13, 16 2 Thes. 1. 5 ; 3: ^7 Gen. X. 14, refs. J vers. 13-16 Ezk. I. 28 Rev. 4. 3; 10. I. k Gen. 9. 12. i Gen. 9. 25. "' Gen. 5. 32. " Gen. q. 25. " Lev. 10. 9 Num. 6. 3, 20 Song I. 2, 4 Isa. 28. 1, 7 Rom. 14. 21 Mt. 9. 17 John 2. 3-10 Rev. 16. 19. P Prov. 20. I Isa. 5. II, 22 Rom. 14. 21 I Cor. 6. 10 Gal. 5. 21 Eph. 5. 18. » Zech. 3. 3. ^ Gen. 9. 18, 22, 26, 27. ' Gen. s. 32 ; II. 10, II Lk.3.36. 'Gen. 5. 32; 1 or, did. 2 or, theii creature that is with you, for per- petual generations : 13 I ido set my 7 bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a '^token of a cove- nant 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 cove- nant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more be- come 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 cove- nant 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 hus- bandman, and he planted a vine- yard: 21 And he drank of the ^wine, and was /drunken ; and he was uncov- ered 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 fa- ther; and their faces were back- ward, 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 ^'Ca- naan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed 6e the LORD God of ^Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Oapheth, 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. 10 10 I] GENESIS [II 4 CHAPTER 10. NOW these are the generatiorxs of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons bom after the flood. 2 The sons of '^Japheth; <^Gomer, and 'Magog, and <^Madai, and ^Ja- van, and Tubal, and/Meshech, and Tiras. 3 Andthesonsof 1 Chr. 1. 15. '' Ezk. 27. 8, II. i I Chr. I. 6. .;' Num. 13. 21. k Deut. 20. 17. 1 Mt. II. 21. "' Gen. 20. 1, 2. " Acts 8. 26. " Gen. 19. 24. /' Gen. 13. 10 2 Pet. 2. 6. « Gen. 14. 2. ' Deut. 29. 23. * Gen. 5. 32. ' Gen. 9. 26. " Gen. II. 17. '' Gen. 9. 27. "■ I Chr. I. 17. ^ Gen. II. 10. !■' ver. 23 Mt.i.3.4. - Ijen. 10. 22. " I Chr. I. 17. * Gen. 10. 22. ' I Chr. I. 18. fLk.3.35. * Gen. 10. 21. /Gen. II. 16 Lk. 3. 35. ^ I Chr. I. 19. * Gen. 10. 25. '■ I Chr. I. 20. J I Chr. I. 21. ^ I Chr. I. 22. ' I Chr. I. 23. '" I Chr. 8. 9. " Gen. 7. 23. " Gen. 6. 17. 1 or, as some read, Ro- danim. 2 or, he went into Assyria. 3 or. the streets of the city. 4 or, Japheth 's elder brother. 5 or, Arphach- shad. 6 Heb. Shelah. 7 Heb. Diui- CHAP. II " vers. 1-9 Acts 2. 6. t> Gen. 10. 10 Isa. II. II. " Mt. 3. 12 2 Tim. 3. 17. Gen. 33. 18. » Deut. II. 30 Jud. 7. I. J Deut. 20. 17. k The theoph- anies. Gen. 17. I. (Gen. 12. 7 ; Rev. 1.9.) i Sacrifice {typical), vers. 7, 8 ; Gen. 13. 18. (Gen. 4. 4 ; Heb. 10. 18.) '" Gen. 28. 19 Amos 3. 14. " Gen. 13. 3 Josh. 7. a ; 8. I, 24, 28 Jen 49. 3, ° Gen, 26. I ; 41. 56 Ruth I. 1 Isa. 26. 9 Amos 8. ir-13 Mat. s. 6; 24. 7 Rev. 6. 5-8 : 7. 16; 18. 8. i' Ex. 12. 13. 5 Gen. 21. 2. ''■ Ex. I. 13. * Gen. 12. 17, 18, 20. ' Miracles (O.T.). Gen. 15. 17. (Gen. 5. 24 ; Jon. 2. 1-10.) " Gen. 12. 15. '' Zech. 14. 12. 1 that is, Shechern. 2 Heb. tere- binth, a tree. 3 Heb. Negeb, ^region de- scribed Josh. 15. 21-62. 4 omit " might." CHAP. 13 '^ Gen. 12. I. h Gen. 14. 23 Prov. 10. 22 Eccl. 5. 12 Jer. 9. 23 Lk. 12. 15-21 2 Cor. 8. 9 I Tim. 6. 10 Jas. 2. 5. •^ Gen. 12. 8. d Gen, 12. a '^ 2 Pet. 2. 7. / vers. 7, 8 Gal. 5. 20 Rom. 13. 13 I Tim. 6. 4 Jas. 3. 14, 16. 3 Ex. 3. 8. 'i Psa. 22. 22 Mt. 12. 48-50 ; 23. 8 ; 28. 10 1 Pet. I. 22 ; 3- 8 2 Pet. I. 7 1 John 2. 10 3. 14-16 ; 4. 20. i Separation, vers, 7, II, 14- 17; Ex. 6. 6, 7. (Gen. 12. I, 2 ; 2 Cor. 6. 14-17.) J Gen. 3. 5. h Gen. 19. 24. ' Gen. 10. 19. "' Gen. 2. 8. " Gen. 19. 30. " 2 Pet. 2. 7. P Josh. 3. 17. «.Gen. 12. I. '■ Mai. 3. 12. * Gen. 17. 8. ' Gen. 19. 24. 1 Heb. men, brethren. 2 circle. 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. 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, un- to 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, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell to- gether: 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, be- tween me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we he 1'^^ 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 2plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed -^'Sodom and ^Gomorrah, even as the ^-'^gar- den 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 Hand of ^Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward ^ Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were 13 13 14] GENESIS [14 23 ^wicked and sinners Lord exceedingly. before the 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 east- ward, 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 num- bered. 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 JMamre, which is in -Hebron, and built there an ^^altar unto the LORD. CHAPTER 14. AND it came to pass in the days - of ^Amraphel king of '^Shinar, Arioch king of ^EUasar, ^Chedor- laomer king of ^Elam, and /Tidal king of 1 nations; 2 That these made ^war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of '^Gomorrah, Shinab king of ^Ad- mah, and Shemeber king of ./Ze- boiiir-, 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 ^'Che- dorlaomer, 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 P Re- phaims in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the ^ Zuzims in Ham, and the 2'''Emeni 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 « Ama- lekites, 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 ; CHAP. 13 " Prov. 15. 8, 9, 26 I John s. 19. '■ Gen. 3. 5. "' Israel {cove- nant), vers. 15-17 ; Gen. 15. 4, s. (Gen. 12. 2, 3 ; Rom. II. 26.) '^ Faith, vers. 14-18; Gen. 14. 22, 23. (Gen. 3. 20 ; Heb. II. 39.) y Gen. 18. I. " Gen. 23. 2, 19 Josh. 10. 3, 36. " Sacrifice (typical). Gen. 22. 8, 13. (Gen. 4. 4 ; Heb. 10. 18.) 3 Heb. tere- binths =oa.k. trees. CHAP. 14 * ver. 9. i> Gen. II. 2. '^ Gen. 14. 9. d Gen. 14. 4, s. * vers. I, 9 Ezk. 32. 24. /Gen. 14. 9. S Ex. 17. 16 2 Cor. 10. 4 I Pet. 2. II Rev. 12. 7. fi Gen. 10. 19. » ver. 8 Hos. II. 8. .;' Deut. 29. 23. * Gen. 14. 8. i Gen. 19. 30. "^Gen. 14.8,10. " Lev. 2. 13. ° Gen. 14. I. P Gen. 15. 20. 2 Deut. 2. 20. *■ Deut. 2. II. * Gen. 36. 20, 21, 29 Deut. 2. 12, 22. f Ezk. 35. 7. " Deut. 33. 2. '' Num. 27. 14. '" Ex. 17. 8. ^ Gen. 15. 16. y Gen. 14. 2. ' Gen. 14. 2. " Gen. 14. 3. i Gen. 14. I. " Gen. 14. I. d Gen. 14. I. ' Gen. 40. 1 Ex. 2. 6, II John 19. 20 Acts 6. I Phil. 3. 5. / Gen. 14. 34. ^ Gen. 14. 24. h ver. 24. t Josh.. 19. 47. ;■ Acts 9. 3. fc Heb. 7. I, 2. i Deity (names of). Gen. IS. 2. (Gen. I. I ; Mai. 3. 18.) '" Gen. 12. I. " Heb, 7. 2-9 Lev. 27. 30, 32. " Faith, vers. 22, 23 ; Gen. 15. 6. (Gen. 3. 20 ; Heb. 11. 39-) 1 Heb. Goiim. 2 The terrible. 3 Goiim. 4 or, bitumen pools. 5 By the tere- binths. Gen. 13. 18. 6 or, led out. 7 El El yon. 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with * Tidal king of snations, and -^Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of ^Ella- sar ; 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 ^He- brew; for he dwelt in the splain 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 farmed his trained servants, bom in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto z'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 7 Damascus. i6 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. ig 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, who hath delivered thine ene- mies 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 lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a H 14 24] GENESIS [l6 6 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 who went with me, /Aner, ^Eshcol, and ^Mamre; let them take their portion. CHAPTER 15. 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, i^Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this EUezer of ^Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one bom 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 7 right- eousness. 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, 2Lord 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 ^turtle- dove, 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 dovm 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 theirs, and shall serve them ; and they shall •^afflict them four hundred years ; CHAP. 14 P Gen. 14. 13. 3 Gen. 14. 13. *■ Gen. 14. 13. CHAP. IS "■ Acts 26. 19 b 2 Sam. 22. 3 Eph. 6. 16. <■ Bible prayers (O.T.). Gen. 17. 17, 18. (Gen. 15. 2 ; Hab. 3. i-i6.) <^ Deity (names of). Gen. 17. I. (Gen. 1. i; Mai. 3. 18.) * Acts g. 3. /Gen. I. 16. ff Israel {coue- nant). vers. 4, 5; Gen. 17. 15-19. (Gen. 12. 2, 3 ; Rom. II. 26.) h Faith. Gen. 21. 1-6. (Gen. 3. 20 ; Heb. II- 39-) =■ Rom. 4. 1-25 Gal. 3. 6, 7. J Righteous- ness. Prov. 21. ig, 21. (Gen. 6. g ; Lk. 2. 25.) Gen. II. 31. I Gen. 11. 28 Dan. 2. 10. "' Mai. 3. !2. " Num. 19. 2. <* Lev. 16. 5. P Ex. 25. s. 4 Lev. I. 14 2 Cor. 8. 9. •■ Lev. I. 14. * Ex. I. II, 12 Heb. 10.32, 33 1 Pet. 5. 9. f isa. 46. 4. " Ex. 20. 5 Heb. I. 9. '' vers. 17-21 Ex. 3. 8, 17 Ezk. 16.3, 45. "-' Ex. 25. 37 ; 39-37 2 Pet. I. 19 Rev. 4. 5. ^ Miracles (O.T.). Gen. IQ. 24, 25, 26. (Gen. 5. 24 ; Jon. 2. i-io.) y The Eight Covenants. Ex, 19. 25. (Gen. I. 28; Heb. 8. 10.) ^ Ex. 12. 13. " Gen. 2. i^. 6 Num. 24. 21. ' Gen. 23. 10 Ex. 3. 8 Num. 13. 29. d Ex. 3. 8. « Gen. 14. 5. /Gen. 15. 16. 3 Deut. 20. 17. h Gen. 10. 16. i 2 Chr. 3. I. 1 0 Lord Jeho- vah. 2 0 Lord Jeho- vah. 3 birds of prey. CHAP. 16 " Gen. 21. 2. * Gen. 12. I. " Ex. I. 13. d Gen. 16. IS ; 21. 9 ; 25. 13 Gal. 4. 24, 25. * Gen. 16. I. / Mai. 3. 12. ^ Gen. 17. 8. h Gen. 3. s. I Heb. that which is good to thee. 15 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and after- ward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt goto 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 be- tween 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 un- to the great river, the river ^Eu- phrates: 19 The '^Kenites, and the Keniz- zites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the ^ Hittites, and the ^Per- izzites, and the '^Rephaims, 21 And the /Amorites, and the * Gen. 16. I. i Ex. I. 13. J Prov. I. 26; 17.5 Jer. 20. 7 Heb. II. 36 Mt. 27. 31, 41 Mk. 10. 34; 15- 2O1 31 Lk. 14. 29 i 18. 32 ; 22. 63 ; 23. II. 36 He5. 13. a. 20 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 sdl 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 Abra- ham's wife. CHAPTER 21. AND the Lord visited Sarah as - he had ^said, and the LORD dii unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For '^Sarah ^conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his -^old age, at the set time of v/hich 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 borne him a son in his old age. 8 And the child c^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 borne unto Abraham,7mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abra- ham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son : for the son of this bond- woman 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. 21 13] GENESIS 13 And also of the son of the bond- woman 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 lifted 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. i8 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 wilder- ness, 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 ^Phicol 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 v.'ith me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son : but accord- ing 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 v/ill swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abi- melech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I know 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 Abi- melech; and both of them made a covenant. CHAP. 21 k Gen. 21. 31 32, 33 ; 26.33 ; 28. 10 ; 46.4! 2 Sam. 3. 10 1 Ki. 4. 25 2 Ki. 23. 8 2 Chr. 30. 5. I Gen. 16. I. '" Gen. 3. 5. " John 4. 14. " Psa. 92. 12. P Deut. 33. 2. ? Mai. 3. 12. *■ Ex. 12. 13. ' Gen. 20. 2. ' Gen. 21. 3s; 26. 26. " Gen. 12. I. '' Ruth 2. 20. "' Gen. 21. 14, 31, 32; 26. 23; 28. 10; 46. I 2 Sam. 3. 10 1 Ki. 4. 25 2 Ki. 23. 8 2 Chr. 30. 5. •^ Amos I. 8. ^ Gen. 21. 14. - Deity {names of). Gen. 35- II. (Gen. 1. 1; Mai. 3. la) I that is, The well of the covenant. z lit. tree. CHAP. 22 " Temptation. Ex. 17. 2, 7. (Gen. 3. I ; Jas. I. 2.) * I Cor. 10. 13 2 Pet. 2. 9 Rev. 3. 10 las. 2, 12 Deut. 6. i5 Mt. 4. 7 I Cor. 10. 9 Mk. 14. 38 Jas. I. 13, 14 Heb. 2. 18; 4. IS- ■^ Gen. 17. 19. tl 2 Chr. 3. I. ^ Faith, vers. 1-14 ; Gen. 50. 24, 25. (Gen. 3. 20; Heb. II. 39.) /Resurrection. Heb. IX. 17- 19. (Job iq. 25 ; I Cor. 15. 52.) ^ vers. 7, 8 Ex. 12. 3-3 ; 29- 39 Lev. 3. 7 Num. 6. 12 John 1. 29, 36 Acts 8. 32 I Pet. I. 19 Rev. 5. 6-13 ; 6. 1-16 ; 12. ij; 22. I, 3. I the knife. 21 [22 7 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abra- ham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by them- selves ? 30 And he said, For these seven ev/e 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 1 ^"^'Beer-sheba ; because there they sware both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the ^^Philistines. 33 And Abraham plantedsL^grove in ;'Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the -ever- lasting God. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. CHAPTER 22. AND it came to pass after these . things, that God «did ^test Abraham, and said unto him, Abra- ham : and he said. Behold, he7-e I ain. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son 'Isaac, whom thou iovest, and get thee into the land of ^Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the moun- tains 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 bis son; and he took the fire in his hand, and la 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 a'^larab for a burnt offering ? 22 8] GENESIS [23 13 8 And Abraham said. My son, God will provide himself ^a lamb for a ''^bumt offering: so they went both of them together. 9 And they cameto the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the urood 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 J 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 sjehovah-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 notwithheld thy son, thine only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will mul- tiply 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 ene- mies; 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; be- cause 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 Arid it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor ; 21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, CHAP. 22 '« Sacrifice (typical). vers. 8. 13 ; Ex. 12. 3-11, 27. (Gen, 4. 4 ; Heb. 10. 18.) i Gen. 12. 1. J Gen. 3. 5. I: Gen. 15. 9. I Dan. 7. 24. '" Israel (coue- nant). vers. 16-18; Gen. 26. 2-5. ' Israel (cove- nant), vers. i3-iS;Gen.37. 13-28. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) I Christ (first adventK Gen. 49. 10. (Gen. 3. 15; Acts I. 9-) '" Psa. 121. 5. " Gen. 32. 28. ° John 10. 9. -'' vers. 18, 22 Gen. 31. 13, 45, 51. 52 Ex. 24. 4 Num. 3. 36 Ex. 13. 21, 22 Psa. 99. 7 Jer. I. 18 Rev. 3. 12. '/ Gen. 12. 8. *■ Gen. 31. 13 Lev. 27. 2 Num. 6. 2 Psa. 116. 14,18 Eccl. 5. 4, 5. ' Gen. 28. 18. ' Gen. II. 20. 3 or, beside Mm. 4 that is, the house of God. CHAP. 29 " Mai. 3. iz. l> John 4. 14. " Gen. II. 31. d Gen. 31. 24. ••' Ruth 4. II. I Heb. chil- dren. 36 20 And Jacob vowed a ^'Vow, say- ing, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and rai- ment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my fa- ther'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. THEN Jacob vvent on his journey, and came into the "land of the ipeople 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 its 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 thein. 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 Aiid Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he 29 ^3] GENESIS 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 La- ban 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, Surel}^ 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 J Rachel. 17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well fa- voured. i8 And Jacob ioved R.achel; 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 ^VQ her to another man: abide with me. 20 And ^Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed unto him hut 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 even- ing, 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? v/herefore then hast thou beguiled me? 26 And Laban said. It must not be so done in our 2country, 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. CHAP. 29 /Gen. 25. 21. 'J Gen. 30. 28; y- 1, 8, 41 Ex. 2. 9 Lev. 19. 13 Mai. 3. 5 Lk. 10. 7 John 4. 36 Jas. 5- 4 Rom. 6. 23. '' Gen. 31. 24. i Gen. 29. 25. i Ruth 4. II. t Gen. 32. 28. ' Gen. 46. 18. '*' Gen. 29. 31, 32; 39. II, i8, 2o;3i. i4;33-2- '' Gen. 30. 3, 4, S- 7; .35- 22,25; 37. 2; 46. 25. " Gen. II. 30. '' Gen. 49. 3. '/ Gen. 34. 25; 42. 24; 46. 10; 48- 5; 49- S- '■ Gen. 49. 5. ' Lev. 19. 24 Deut. 10. 21 Psa. 40.3; 100. 4; 150. 6 Eph. I. 5, 12, 14 Phil. I. II Rev. 19. 5. ' Gen. 44. 18. 2 Behold, a son ! 3 that is, Hearing. CHAP. 30 '' Prov. 14. 30 ^ Gen. 29. 29. "" Gen 49. 16. I that is, Judgment. ^7 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 Ra- chel, 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 s/Reu- ben : for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction ; now therefore my husband v/ill 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 borne him three sons : therefore was his name called 5^'Levi. 35 And she conceived again, and bare a son : and she said. Now will I Upraise the LORD: therefore she called his name s^judah; and left bearing. CHAPTER 30. 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 i' Dan. 7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid con- ceived again, and bare Jacob a sec- ond son. 31 30 8] GENESIS [30 38 8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name 2(/Naphtali. 9 When -^Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took /Zilpah her maid and gave her i' 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 7Reuben went in the days of wheat ^"harvest, and found '^man- drakes 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 m.y 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 en- dued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons : and she called his name e^Zebulun. 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name 7/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 ^^ Jo- seph ; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. 35 And it came to pass, when Ra- chel had borne Joseph, that Jacob CKAP. 30 d Gen. 35. 25; 46. 24; 49. 21 Ex. I. 4 1 Chr. 2, 2; 7. 13- ^ Gen. 29. 25. / Gen. 46. 18. i' Gen. 32. 28. h Gen. 35. 26; 46. 16; 49. 19 Ex. I. 4 Num. I. 25; 32- I. 33 Deut. 33. 20 Josh. 22. 10 Rev. 7. s- i Gen. 49. 20 Ex. I. 4 Num. 1.40,41 Deut. 33.24,25 Josh. 19. 24-31 Jud. I. 31, 32; 6- 35; 7- 23 2 Chr. 30. II Ezk. 48. 2, 3, Lk. 2. 36 Rev. 7. 6 Josh. 17. 7. .; Gen. 49. 3. /< Ex. 23. 16. I vers. 14-16 Songy. 13. "' Ruth 4. II. " Gen. 29. 13. " Gen. 49. 13. P Gen. 34. I, 3. 5, 13, 25, 26. ? Gen. 41. 39. " Gen. 31. 24. * Gen. 3. 5. ' Isa. I. 18. " Gen. 32. 28. " Gen. 31. 24. "' Isa. 1. x8. 2 Heb. wres- tlings of God. 3 that is, a troop. 4 that is, Happy. S that is,Hired. 6 that is. Dwelling. 7 Judged, or Avenged. 8 that is, Add- ing. 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 know- est 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 ray 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 an- swer 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 werespeckledandspotted.ancf 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 Ja- cob fed the rest of ^ Laban 's flocks. 37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and peeled white strakes in them, and made the ^white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the 33 30 39] GENESIS t3l 25 gutters in the vvatering 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 ail 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, whenso- ever 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 v/hen 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 exceed- ingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. CHAPTER 31. AND he heard the words of La- - ban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that wasour father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this ^wealth. 2 And Jacob beheld the counte- nance 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 '^Ra- chel and ^eah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward m.e 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 tome. CHAP. 30 Gen. 3. 5. CHAP. 31 " Num. 14. 21. * Mai. 3. 12. ' Ruth 4. II. d Gen. 29. 25. ^ Gen. 29. 15. / Gen. 12. 8. 'J Gen. 28. 18 Ex. 28. 41 I Sam. 16.3,12 1 Ki. iq. 15, 16 Psa. 2. 2 Zech. 4. 1-6 Mt. 3. 13-17 John I. 41 Acts 2. 4; 4- 25-27 2 Cor. 1. 21, 22 I John 2.26,27. h Gen. 28. 18. i Gen. 28. 20. J Gen. 15. 6. ^ Gen. 17. 12. I Gen. 17. 19. '" Gen. 17. 8. " Gen. 32. 28. ' vers. 20, 26 Num. 33.11,15 Deut. 4. 42 Josh. 20. 3, 9 Psa. 35. 8 Lk. 21. 34 Gal. 2. 4 Heb. 13. 2 Jude 4. P Gen. 31. 24. 'J Lk. 4. 27. '■ Gen. 24. 29, 30; 28. 2; 29.10, 13, 15, 22, 26; 30. 27; 31. 26, 48, 55- 1 Heh. a pillar. 2 or, the price paid us. 3 Heb. tera- phim. So in vers. 34, 35. 4 Meaning, t/ie Euphrates. 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 ring- straked, speckled, and grisled. 11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said. Here am. 1. 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 6^anointedst the i-^^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 2 our ^'money. 16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's : now then, what- soever 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 inPadan-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 ^un- awares 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 driver, 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 33 31 26] GENESIS [31 51 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 1 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 sim- ages, 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 scustom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. 36 And Jacob v/as wroth, and quarrelled 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 be- fore my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. CHAP. 31 Gen. 4. 21. Gen. 2Q. 25. ■' Gen. 15- 9- ■■'■ Mt, 10. 6. •f Gen. 3S- iGen 29. 15. -Gen. 12. I. "Gen 17. 19 b Gen. Ex.3 39- 32 • 7- Gen. 32. 33. Gen. 31. 24. /Jud. io.i7;i Josh. 13. a6. 5 or, ieraphim. 7 Aramaic : the, heap of witness. 8 Hcb. ihr hcnfj of wit- ness. 9 that is, A beacon; watchtowcr. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ew^es and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the ^'rams of thy flock ha.ve I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee: 1 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 tv/o daughters, and six years for thy cattle : and thou hast changed my J'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 afflic- tion 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 borne? 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 Os^cob took a stone, and set it up for a '^pillar. . 46 And Jacob said unto his bre- thren, Gather stones ; and they took stones, and made an heap : and they did eat there upon the heap. 47 And 'Laban called it ^Jegar- sahadutha: but Jacob called it sGal- eed. 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 9/Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from an- other. 50 If thou shait afflict my daugh- ters, or if thou Shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness be- twixt me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Be- hold this heap, and behold this 34 31 52] GENESIS [32 24 pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee ; 52 This heap he 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 betwixtus. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father ^ Isaac. 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his bre- thren 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. 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 I'Ma- hanaim. 3 And Jacob sent messengers be- fore him to '''Esau his brother unto the 'land of ^Seir, the country of '^Edom. 4 And he commanded them, say- ing, 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 menser vants, and women- servants : 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 that 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 : CHAP. 31 3 Gen. 12. I. '!■ Gen. II. 26. i Gen 17. 19. CHAP. 32 " Josh. 13. 26, 30; 21. 38 2 Sam. 2. 8, 12, 29; 17. 24, 27; 19- 32 I Ki. 2. 8; 4. 14 I Chr. 0. So. * Gen. 25. 25. - Mai. 3. 12. d Ezk. 35. 7- « Mai. I. 4. f Bible prayers (O.T.). vers. 9-11; Ex. 32. II. (Gen. 15.2; Hab. 3. i-i6.> 3 Lk. 15. 19; 2C. 35, 36 Acts 5. 41; 13. Eph. 4. I Col. I. 10 I Thes. 2. 12 sThes. I. 5,11 Rev. 4. 11; 5. 2-12. ^ 2 Sam. 21. 19 Isa. o. 4 Jer. 48. 17 Zech. II. 7-14. i Josh. 3. 17. J Gen. 16. 10. k Gen. 15. 9. I Gen. 25. 25. '" Gen. -2. z8 " Num. 21. 24 Deut. 2. 37 Josh. 13. z Jud. II. 13. 10 I am not .^worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed 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 fore- most, saying. When ''Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, W"hose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 18 Then thou shalt say. They he thy servant ^'^ Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, be- hold, 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 vs,aves, and his tv/o 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 35 32 25] GENESIS [3320 him there wrestled a man with until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he pre- vailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was 2out 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 s/Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is pre- served. 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. 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 yAnd 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 hhat God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. CHAP. 32 " Gen. 25. 33; 19, 36; 28. 29.18:31.3; I. 9; 35- 9; 34i 47- 10; 32 37' 49 P Gen. 32. 31 Jud. 8. 8, 9, 17 1 Ki. 12. 25. ? Gen. 32. 30. 2 or, strained out of joint. 3 that is, the face of God. CHAP. 33 « Gen. 3. s. i> Gen. 29. 25. « Ruth 4. II. d Gen. 41. 39. * Gen. 18. 2; 42. 6; 43. 26. / Gen. 32. 28. ^ Gen. 45. 14, IS- h Gen. 48. 9. t Gen. 32. 16. J Gen. 32. 28. ^- Psa. 9. 7. I Ezk. 35. 7. *" Gen. 25. 25. « Jud. 8. 5. ° Gen. 35. 4; 37. 12 Josh. 20. 7; 24. 1, 25, 32 Jud. 9. 1,18,157 1 Ki. 12. 25 2 Chr. 10. I. P Mai. 3. 12. ? Gen. 17. 8. ''Gen. 34.4, 6, 26 Josh. 24. 32 Jud. 9. 28. ' Josh. 24. 32. < Gen. 17. 12. iHeb. What is all this band to thee? 2 or, company. 3 that is, Booths. 4 or, in peace to the city of Shechem. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves : and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed them- selves. 8 And . he said, iWhat meanest thou by ^all this 2drove which I met? And he said. 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 7 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 -^'en- dure, 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 s^^Suc- coth, 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, v/hich 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. 36 34 GENESIS [3430 CHAPTER 34. 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 ii^kindly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Haraor, 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 imtil they were come. 6 And Kamor the father of She- chem v>rent out unto Jacob to com- mune 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 de- ceitfully, 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 daugh- CHAP 34 " Gen. 30 21. i Gen. 29 23- ' Gen. 33. 19. d Ruth 2. so. ■^ ver. 14 Deut. 7. Neh. 13 1 Cor.7.Q 2 Cor. 6. 3.4 :is. 14— Heb. 13. I Tim. 4 Rom. 7. Rev. 19. 4 • 3 1-4 7-9- /Gen. 3. 5. 3 Gen. 17. 10. h Gen. 33. 19. : Josh. 24. 32. / Gen. 32. 28. Mai. 3. 12. I Gen. 29. 33. Gen. 30. 21. I Heb. to the heart. 2 or, was hon- oured above. ters 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 '^Ha- mor, and ^Shechem Hamors 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 con- sent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are cir- cumcised. 23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? onl}'^ let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 24 And unto Hamor and unto She- chem 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 the 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 slev/ 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, be- cause 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 37 34 31] GENESIS [35 29 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 them- selves together against me, and slay me; and 1 shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31 And they said. Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? CHAPTER 35 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 house- hold, and to all that were with him. Put away the strange gods that are among you, and ibe 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 yRebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath A' 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 liim, I am ^JGod ^Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company CHAP. 34 ' Deut. 20. 17. CHAP. 35 » Gen. 12. 8. h Gen. 2S. 25. •■- Zech. 3- 3- '' Gen. 33. 18. •^ Gen. 17. 8. /Gen. 25. 21. ^ Gen. 12. 8. ft The theoph- anies. Ezk. 40. 3. (Gen. 12. 7; Rev. I. 9.) i Gen. 32. 28. } Deity (names of). Ex. 3.13- 15. (Gen. I. 1; Mai. 3. 18.) fc Gen. 17. I. I Mai. 3. 12, "' Gen. 17. '19. " Gen. 12. I. " Gen. 28. r8. P Mic. 5. 3. II Ruth 4. II. •■ Rom. 8. 22. s Gen. 42. 4; 43. IS. 29, 34; 44- iz; 45. 14, 22; 46. 19; 49. 27 Deut. 33. 12. ' Mic. 5. 3. " Gen. 49. 3. " Gen. 29. 29. '" Gen. 29. 25. •^ Gen. 29. 33. V Gen. 49. 5. - Goi. 44. 18. " Gen. 30. 20. * Gen. 41. 35. <= Geu. 35. 18. d Gen. 49. 16. ' Gen. 46. 18. /Gen. 3c. II. i' Gen. 30. 13. 3; ft Josh. 15. 31. II. i Gen. 13. 18. 1 Heb. liiirify yourselves. 2 The God 0/ Bcih-el. 3 The oak of tears. 4 El Shaddai. 5 that is, Sen 0/ my sorrow. 6 that is, Son of my right hand. 7 cr, Kiriath- arba. j 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 vAll 1 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 mid- wife 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 e Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was bur- ied 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 fa- ther'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 J'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 ;yGad, andA'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 7'^ 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 I people, being old and full of days : 38 36 GENESIS [36 33 and his sonsy Esau and Jacob buried him. CHAPTER 36. NOW these are the generations of Esau, who is ^Edom. 2 Esau took his wives of the daugh- ters of -^ Canaan ; ^ Adah the daughter of '^Elon the ^Hittite, and /Ahoii- bamah the daughter of A'Anah the daughter of ^'Zibeon the Hivite; 3 And ? Bashemath ./Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 4 And '^ Adah bare to Esau '^Eli- phaz ; and Bashemath bare '''''Reuei ; 5 And ''^Ahoiibamah bare ^Jer.sh, and/jaalam. and '7Korah : these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of C!)anaan. 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 strang- ers 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 ^Edom, in mount Seir : 10 These are the names of Esau's sons; ^»^Eliphaz the son of -'Adah the wife of Esau, J Reuei 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 w^e 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 i'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 '^'Te- man, duke Omar, duke ^Zepho, duke '«Kenaz, 16 Duke Korah, duke "Gatam, and duke Amalek; these are the dukes CHAP. 35 J Gen. 25. 23. CHAP. 36 " Gen. 25. 30. * Gen. 17. 8. '■' vers, d, 10, 12, 16. li Gen. 26. 34. '^ Gen. 15. 20. / vers. 5, 14, 18, 25. 4' I Chr. I. 52. ''vers.14, 18, 20. I' Gen. 36. 14. i Gen. 36. 4, 10, 13, 17- J Gen. 16. II. /< Gen. 36. 2. I Gen. 36. 12. "- Gen. 36. 17. » Gen. 36. 2. " Gen. 36. 14, 18 I Chr. I. 35, i' Gen. 36. 14, 18 I Chr. I. 35. i Gen. 38. 18 1 Chr. I. 3£. *■ Mai. 3. 12. « Gen. 25. 25. ' Ezk. 35. 7. "' Gen. 25. 30. '■' Deut. 23. 7. I Sam. 21. 7 I Chr. 18. 13. ^' Gen. 36. 12. " Gen. 36. 2. '' Gen. 36. 4. ' Gen. 36. 3. ° Gen. 36. IS I Chr. I. 36. b Gen. 36. 16 I Chr. I. 36. '^ Gen. 36. 4, II, 15, 16. d Ex. 17. 8. ^ Gen. 36. 17 I Chr. I. 37. /Gen. 36. 17 I Chr. I. 37. ^ Gen. 36. 2. '•- Gen. 36. 2. i Gen. 36. 2. ;■ Gen. 36. 5. k Gen. 36. II. / Gen. 36. II. " Gen. 36. II I Chr. I. 36. " Gen. 36. II. 0 Mai. I. 4. !■' Gen. 36. 13. 4 Gen. 14. 6. ■■ Gen. 36. 29 I Chr. I. 38. ' Gen. 36. 24. t ver. 29 I Chr. I. 38. " Gen. 36. 30. 'Gen. 36. 27,30 I Chr. 1.38,42. '" Gen. 36.28, 30. ^ Gen. 36. 20. y Gen. 36. 20. ^ Gen. 36. 30 I Chr. I. 39. " I Chr. I. 39- i Gen. 36. 20 1 Chr. I. 40. •2 Sam. 21. 8, 10, II. d I Chr. I. 40; 8. 6. ' I Chr. I. 40. / I Chr. I, 40. ? I Chr. I. 40. ''Gen. 36. 20,29 I Chr. 1.38,40. i I Chr. 1. 40. J I Chr. 1. 40,41. k Gen. 36. 26. I Gen. 36. 25. '" I Chr. 1.41. » I Chr. I. 41. ° Gen. 36. 21. P I Chr. I. 42. * Gen. 35. 21. *■ I Chr. I. 42. '^ I Chr. I. 42. ' Gen. 36. zo. " Gen. 36. 21. '' Gen. 36. 22. '■ Gen. 36. 33 1 or, chiefs. 2 or, Aiah. 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 Miz- zah: 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 Aho- libamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholi- bamah 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 'ZHorite, 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. 2 2 And the children of J'Lotan were ^Hori and ^Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. 23 And the children of ^Shobal were these ; '.Alvan, and ^^Manahath, and fc'Ebal,/Shepho, and & Onam. ,24 And these are the -'''children of 2 Zibeon ; both 2/Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the warm springs 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. 39 36 34] GENESIS 34 And "^Jobab died, and J'Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. 35 And -Husham died, and ^Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote ^Mi- dian in the field of 'Moab, reigned in his stead : and the name of his city ivas ^^Avith. 36 And ' Hadad died, and /Samlah of cb^Masrekah reigned in his stead. 37 And /''Samlah died, and ^Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. 38 And 7 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 ^Ha- tred, the daughter of =''Mezahab. 40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of -^Esau, accord- ing to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Tim- nah, duke ^Alvali, duke Jetheth, 41 Duke ^'Aholibamahjduke^'Elah, duke '^'^'Pinon, 4 2 Duke^Kenaz, duke Teman, duke ^'Mibzar, 43 Duke -Magdiel, duke ^Iram: these be the dukes of '^^Edom, accord- ing to their habitations in the '^land of their possession: he is Esau the father of st^the Edomites. CHAPTER 37. AND <^ Jacob dwelt in the land - wherein his father was a stran- ger, in the land of '^Canaan. 2 These are the generations of Ja- cob. '^Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock vdth 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 ofhisyold 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: [37 20 CHAP. 35 ^ Gen. 36. 35 iChr. 1.45, 46. y Jer. 49. 20. ^ Gen. 36. 34. ".Gen. 36. 36 I Chr. 1.46,47. h Ex. 2. 15 Num. 31. 8 Jud. 6. I I S3. 60. 6 Hab. 3. 7. '^ Gen. 19. 37. d I Chr. I. 46. * Gen. 36. 35. / Gen. 36. 37. 9 I Chr. I. 47. h Gen. 35. 36. i Gen. 36. 38. J Gen. 36. 37. fc ver. 39 I Chr. I. 49, 50; 27.28. I ver. 39 I Chr. I. 49. »" Gen. 36. 33. « Gen. 36. 38. " I Chr. I. 50. P X Chr. I. so. ? I Chr. t. 50. r I Chr. r. 50. » Gen. 25. 25. ' I Chr. I. 40. " I Chr. I. 52. " 1 Chr, I. 52. '" I Chr. I. 52. == 1 Chr. I. 53. y 1 Chr. I. S3. ^ 1 Chr. I. 54. « I Chr. 1. 54. l> Mai. I. 4. ' Mai. 3. la. d Gen. 36. '9. 3 or, Edom. CHAP. 37 " Gen. 32. 28. b Gen. 17. 8. "^ Gen. 41. 33. d Gen. 29. 29. ^ Gen. 46. 18. / Isa. 46. 4. S Lev. 23. ro. ft Psa. 8. 6. i Psa. 8. 3. J Gen. 1. i5. A Prov. 14. 30. I Gen. 33. 18. '" Israel (his- tory), vers. 13-28; Gen. 46. 1-6. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. n. 26.) " Gen. 13. 18. " 2 Ki. 6. 13. I Heb. master of dreams. 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 -^Momin- ion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dream-s, 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 ystars 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 v/ord 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 Ajid 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. 40 37 211 GENESIS [38 14 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 blcod, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon Mm ; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. 23 And it came to pass, when 'Jo- seph 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 ^^'rnyrrh, going to carry it down to -^Egypt. 26 And Judah said unto his bre- thren, What J'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 Midian- ites 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 vjas not in the pit ; and he rent his clothes. 30 And he returned unto his bre- thren, 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 6e 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 CHAP. 37 P Gen. 49. 3. « Gen. q. 6. •■ Gen. 41. 39. * Gen. 3. s. ' Gen. 16. II. " Num. 32. 1 Deut. 4. 43; 34- I Jud. 5. 17 1 Ki. 17. X 2 Ki. 15. 29 Psa. 60. 7 Jer. 8. 22 Ezk. 47. 18 Zech. 10. 10. " Ex. 25. 6. "" Ex. 30. 23. ^ Ex. 12. 13. y Psa. 30. 9 Prov. 10. 2; II. 4 Mt. 16. 26 I Cor. 13. 3 1 Tim. 4. 8 2 Tim. 3. 16. * Job 16. 15 Jer. 4. z8 Ezk. 27. 31 Dan. 9. 3 Jon. 3. 5-3 Lk. 10. 13 Rev. 6. 12; II. 3- " Gen. 25. 2. 6 Gen. 39, I. ' Gen. 41. 38. 2 Sheol, abode of the dead. CHAP. 38 " Gen. 44. 18. * I Sam. 22. I. " Gen. 38. 12. d Deut 20. 17. ' Gen. 38. 6, 7; 46. 12. /Gen. 38. 8, 9; 46. 12 Num. 26. 19 I Chr. 2. 3. 9 Gen. 38. II, 14, 26 Num. 26. 20. h Gen. 38. 3. « Gen. 38. II, Mt. I. 3. 3 Gen. 3a 6. fc Gen. 38. 5. i Gen. 44. 18. "'Gen.38.13,14. " Gen. 38. I. " I Sam, 22. I. P Gen. 38. 6. 1 Gen. 38. 12. " Zech. 3. 3. 2grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father vvept for him. 36 And the '^Midfanites sold him into Egypt unto '^Potiphar, an officer of ^Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard. CHAPTER 38. AND it came to pass at that time, . that « Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain -^AduUamite, whose nam.e 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 .fShelali: 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 vvent in unto his bro- ther's v/ife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. io 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 ^gar- 41 38^5] ments off from her, and covered her with a ^ vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an lopen 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; be- cause 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.) Andshe 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 2 bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave them to 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 widow- hood. 20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the wom- an'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: be- hold, 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 whore- dom. 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 An d Judah ''acknowledged them, and said. She hath been more right- eous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. CHAP. 38 ' Gen. 24. 65. ' Prov. 3. 6. GENESIS [39 9 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 bro- ther 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. Ruth 4. 18. ' Num. 26. 20 Josh. 7. 1, 17 Mt. 1. 3. I that is, the gate. CHAP. 39 " Gen. 41. 39. * Ex. 12. 13. ' Gen. 37. 36. d Gen. 41. 33. ' Ex. I. 13. /Gen. 16. II. ? Gen. 41. 39. '• Mt. 28. 18 John 5. 22, 27 Acts 20. 23 Eph. I. 22 I Tim. 3. 1,2 Tit. I. 7 Heb. 3. 6 I Pet. 2. 25. » Gen. 39. 4. J Ex. I. 13. 'vGen. 3. 5. CHAPTER 39. 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, who 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 pros- per in his hand. 4 And c^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 7 Egyp- tian'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 aught 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 mas- ter knoweth 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 42 39 101 GENESIS [4014 back any thing from me but thee, because tnou 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 v^ithin. 12 And she caught him by his ^gar- ment, saying. Lie v/ith me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13 And it came to pass, Vv^hen 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 imto him accord- ing to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me : iS 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 hea.rd 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 showed 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 i hand ; because the Lord was v/ith j him, and that which he did, the i Lord made it to prosper. I : Zech. 3. 3. Gen. 14. 13. Gen. 21. 9. " vers. 20-23 Psa. I05.i7-i( Isa. 53. 8 Jer. 32. 2-12 2 Cor. II. 23 Eph. 3. i;q. ! Psa. 69. 33 Isa. 61. I Lk. 4. i6-2i. Ex. 12. 13. Gen. 41. 38 Gen. 41. 1-36 Dan. 2. 1-45; 4- 4-37; 5- 5- 31; 7. 16; 8. 17- 19; 10. 21 I Cor. 12. 10, /Gen. 41. 38. CHAPTER 40. AND it came to pass after these " things, that the butler of the king of ''Egypt and his baker had of- fended their lord the king of Egypt. 2 And ''Tharaoh was wroth against two of his oflScers, 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 Jo- seph 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, who 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 v/ard 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 in- terpreter 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 its 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 A-^re- store 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 show ^^kind- ness, I pray thee, unto me, and make 43 40 15] GENESIS [4120 mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: 15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the 2 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, / had ithree -^^white baskets on my head: 17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bake- meats 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 Yetwithin three days shall Pha- raoh 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, whichwas 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 re- member Joseph, but forgat him. CHAPTER 41. AND it came to pass at the end of - two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the iriver. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven v/ell favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they ate the reedgrass. 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 lean- fleshed 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 CHAP. 40 t Mai. 3. 12. J Gen. 14. 13. I or, three Ibaskets with fine bread. CHAP. 41 "■ Psa. 106. 15. b Dan. 2. 10. " Ex. 12. 13. d Gen. 41. 38. ^ Gen. 14. 13. /Acts 3. 31. 3 Gen. 41. 39. h Zech. 3. 4 Psa. 45. 14 Ruth 3. 3 Isa. 63. 3 Rev. 3. 5, 18; 4. 4; 7- 14 Mt. 27. 28 Lk. 15. 22. < Psa. 106. ig. rthat is, the Nile. 2 or, sacred scribes. 3 or, brink. 4 or, the reed- grass. 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 morn- ing that his spirit was troubled ; and he sent and called for all the ^'^magi- cians of ^Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and ^Pharaoh told them his dream; but //zere was none that could interpret them unto Pha- raoh. 9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day : 10 Pharaoh was wroth vdth 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 in- terpreted 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 inter- pret 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 3bank 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 Heanfieshed, such as I never saw in all they land of Egypt for badness: 20 And the lean and the ill fa- voured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 44 41 211 GENESIS [41 50 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, with- ered, thin, and blasted v»^ith 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 showed 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 showeth unto Pha- raoh. 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 com under the hand of ^Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the Hand against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land CHAP. 41 ^ ver. 8 Dan. 4. 7. I Dan. 2. 28, 29, 45 Rev. 4. I. P Gen. 47. 13. ? Gen. 41. 38. >■ Mai. 3. Ex. 12. 13. Gen. 3. 5. " Gen 28, 37 42:47 50. 6. 41 39 7. 1. 14. 41. 11,20; "Gen. 28:39. 41; 42 46. 29 Deut 37- 2, 3, 7; 45- 3; 49. 22; 33- 13- '"Gen 41 39- " ver. 50 Gen. 46. 20. ^Gen. 41. so- *Gen. 46. 20 Num 41. 16 so; I. 6 or, swallowed up. 7 or, lean. 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 showed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou ai-t: 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 dm 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 J'Poti-pherah priest of "On. And Joseph v/ent 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, that was in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, that 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; iovit was with- out number. 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath the daughter 45 41 51] GENESIS of ^Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. 51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn s^'^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 s'^Ephraim : For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. 53 And the seven years of plen- teousness, 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 un- to 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. [42 24 CHAP. 41 '• Gen. 46. 20; 48. 13, 20 Josh. 17. = Num. 2.. 20; 32- 33 Jud. I. 27 2 Ki. 20. 21; ■ Gen. s. 29. li Gen. 46. 20; 48. I, C, 14, l; 20; 50. 23 I Chr. 7. 22. CHAPTER 42. 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 com in -^ Egypt. 4 -^^But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, ^Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest perad venture mis- chief befall him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the/land of A'^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 him- self strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them ; and he said "unto them, Whence come ye? And they S that is, For getting. 0 that is, Fn Jul. CHAP. 42 Gen. 32. 28. 3 Gen. 17. Rom. 3. 19. J Gen. 49. 3. said, i' rom 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 thena. 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 I are come. 13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, be- hold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. 14 And Joseph said unto them, I That is it that I spake unto you, I saying, Ye are spies : i 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 01 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 he 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 bro- ther 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 be- sought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us. 22 And ./Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, say- ing. 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 I them by an interpreter. I 24 And he turned himself about 46 42 25] GENESIS [43^3 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 isacks with corn, and to ''^re- store 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, be- hold, 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 ail that befell unto them ; saying, 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, /spake 2roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 And we said unto him, We are true me/z; we are no spies: 32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day v^ith our father in the i'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 bro- ther 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 trafHck in the land. 35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of %ioney was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. 36 And Oacob 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 Gen. 29. 33. I Gen. 3. 5. See Gen. 43. -" ver. 7. Mai. 3. 12. ■' Gen. 32. c3. Gen. 41. 39. Gen. 29. 33. "' Gen. 35. i3. ■ Gen. 49. 3. 2 Heb. with us hard things. 3 Heb. Shcol, abode of the 6 Heb. 7. d Ex. 30. 23. go down with you ; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone; if mis- chief befall him by the v/ay in which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrowto the ^grave. CHAPTER 43. AND the famine was sore in the - land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the com 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, say- ing, 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 cer- tainly know that he would sa3% 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 1 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 v/e 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, cany it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight : 13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man : 47 43^4] GENESIS t44S 14 And iGod ^Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, 1 am bereaved. 15 And the men took that pre- sent, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16 Andwhen Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the s/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 i"" Joseph's house. 18 And the men were afraid, be- cause they were brought into Jo- seph'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 occa- sion 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 treas- ure 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 pre- sent 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. CHAP. 43 •^Gen. 17- I. /Gen. 4;44- 24. 2;39- ^Gen 41 39- ^Gen 17- 12. i Gen. 29. ; J Gen. 3. s. I Ex. I. 13. Gen. 14. 13. " Ex. 8. 26 Lev. II. 10-42 Deut. 7. 25, 26; 32. 16 1 Ki. II. 5-7 2 Chr. 15. 8 Dan. 9. 27; II. 31; 12. II Mt. 24. IS Tit. I. 16 I Pet. 4. 3. 0 Eccl. II. 9- J' Gen. 45. 23. r, steward. 3 or, youngest. 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 ser- vant 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 7 eyes, and saw his brother '^Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your 3younger 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, v,rho 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 youngefet according to his ^youth : and the men marvelled one at another. 34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamm's mess was /five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. CHAPTER 44. 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 7s not this it in which my lord clrinketh, and whereby indeed he 44 6] GENESIS [45 idivineth? 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, Where- fore saitb 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 sil- ver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy ser- vants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bond- men. 10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words : he with whom it is found shall be my ser- vant; 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 ^Benja- min'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 ? know ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? 16 And s'Judah said. What shall v/e 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 2servants, 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 aj-t even as ? Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, say- ing. Have ye a father, or a brother ? 20 And we said unto my lord, We CHAP 44 " Gen. 17 12. b Mai. 3. 12. ' Gen. 17. 8. d I Cor. 1 8. /Gen. 41. 39. » Gen. 37. 26; 33. II, 12, 20, 23, 26; 43. 3, 8 44. 14; 49. 8 I Chr. 5. 2. ''Gen. 44. i8. iGen. 41. 38. J Isa. 46. 4. k Gen. 3. s. I Heb. 7. 22. t or, maketh trial. 2 Heb. slaues. 3 Sheol, abode of the dead. CHAP, 45 ' Gen. 41. 39. 49 have a father, an old man, and a child of his7 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 ser- vants. 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 ser- vants, 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 vAll we go down : for we may not see the man's face, ex- cept 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 v>^ith sor- row to the 3grave. 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 sgrave. 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. THEN ^Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried. Cause 45 2] GENESIS [4528 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 Pha- raoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his bre- thren, 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 bre- thren, 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 57ears kath the famine been in the /land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be sowing 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 fa- ther, 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 slialt 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 fa- mine; lest thou, and thy house- hold, and all that thou hast, come to ^^ poverty. 12 And, behold, your ''eyes see, and the eyes of my brother J 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. CHAP. 45 Gen. 41. 38. vers. 5, 7 Josh. 24. 17 Job 7. 20 Psa. 07. 10 Prov. 3. 8, II I Thes. 5. 23 Jude 1. /Ma!. 3. iz. 13. 18; 20. 13; 23. zi; 28.19,22 2 Cor. 8. 2, 9 Jas. 2. 5 Rev. 2. 9; 3. 17, 18. .; Gen. 35. iB. k Num. 14. 21. I Gen. 17. I Gen. 32. 28. " Ex. 12. 13. /• Gen. 41. 39. 50 15 Moreover he kissed all his bre- thren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. 16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Jo- seph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his ser- vants. 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 yours. 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 ''Ja- cob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of /Joseph, v^hich 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. 46 GENESIS (46 30 CHAPTER 46. 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 Eeer- sheba: and the sons of Israel car- ried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and tlieir 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, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons : ^^ Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 And the sons of Reuben; ^Ha- nocli, and./ Plialiu,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 'Xevi; ^^Ger- shon, ^'Kohath, and ^<^'Merari. 12 And the sons of •^'-Judah; J'Er, and Onan, and -Shelah, and Pharez, and '^Zarah : but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of -^Pharez were ^Hezron and ^^Hamul. 13 Aiidthesonsoflssachar; ^Toia, and/Phuvah, and Job, and ,f Shim- ron. .14 And the sons of ^^Zebulun ; ^Sered, and/Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These he the sons of -^'Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Pa- CHAP. 46 " Israel (his- tory), vers. I- 6; Ex,3.i5-i7. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) I' Gen. 21. 33. •-" Gen. 17. 19. '■' Gen. 3. 5. <= Gen. 41. 38. / Mai. 3. 13. ^ Gen. 17. 8. h Gen. 49. 3. i Ex. 6. 14 Num. 26. s. J Ex. 6. 1 1 Num. 2C. s, 8. k Ex. 6. 14 I Chr. s 3. I Ex. 6. 14 Num. 26. 6. '" Gen. 2). 33. " Ex. 6. 15 Num. 26. 12. " Ex. 6. 15. 1' Ex. 6. 15 Num. 26, 12. '/ Ex. 6. 15. *■ Num. 26. 13 I Chr. 4. SI. '■" Deut. 20. 17. ' Gen. 49. 5. " Ex. 6. 17 Num. 3. 25; 7. 7; lo- 17 Josh. 21. 6. '' Num. 3. 29. '" Ex. 6. 16, 19 Num. 3.17,20, 33. 35. 36; 4-3J, 33. 42. '^ Gen. 44. i3. y Gen. 33. 3- = Gen. 38. s. " Gen. 38. 30. h Ruth A. iS. <•• Mt. I. 3. '' Num. 26. 21 I Chr. 2. 5. ^ Num. 26. 23. /Num. 26. 23 I Chr. 7. I. •" Num. 26. 24. '' Gen. 30. 20. i Num. 26. 26. J Num. 26 26. /■• Gen. 29. 25. ' Gen. 30. 21. '" Gen. 30. II. " Num. 26. 15. " Num. 26. 15. P Num. 26. 16. '' Num. 26. 16. *■ Num. 26. 17. * Num. 26. 17. ' Gen. 30. 13. " Num. 25. 44 I Chr. 7. 30. ' Num. 26. 44 I Qir. 7. 30. I Chr. 7. 30, ' Num. 26. 45 - Num. 26. 45 1 Chr. 7. 31. " Gen. 29. 24. " Gen. 31. 24. * Ruth 4. II. <■ Gen. 35. 18. f! Gen. 41. 51. ^ Gen. 41. 52. /Gen. 41. '^5. ^ Gen. 41. 45. h Num. 26. 33, 40. ! Num. 26. 33. / Jud. 3. IS 2 Sam. 16. 5. k 2 Ki. 5. I. ^T Chr. 7. 12,15. '" Num. 26. 40. " Gen. 49. 16. " NurtL 26. 48. /' Num. 26. 49. * Num. 26. 49. *■ Gen. 29. 29. * Gen. 44. 18. ' Gen. 41. 39. " Mai. 3. 12. dan-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; "Jim- nah, and 'Ishuah, and "^'Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; -^Heber, and J'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, whom /Asenath the daughter of .s'Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjarnin were ^(Belah, and Becher, and ^Ashbel, .; Gera, and ^Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and -^Huppim, and ''-'^Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, that 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 '7Shillem. 25 These are the sons of ' Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob : all the souls we/e seven. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; 27 And the sons of Joseph, that were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that 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 JosepU, 51 46 31] GENESIS [4720 Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. 31 And Joseph said unto his bre- thren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and show ^'Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of 7' '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 Jyouth 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. 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 bre- thren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his bre- thren, What is your occupation ? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pha- raoh, 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 Pha- raoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, iHow old art thou ? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my ^pil- CHAP. 46 " Gen. 41. 38. "" Gen. 17. 8, ' ^ Psa. 23. 1. y Eccl. ri. g. ^ Ex. I. 13. CKAP. 47 Ex. 12. 13. Gen. 32. 28. - Ex. 6. 4 Psa. 119. 54 Heb. II. 13 I Pet. 2. n. (l Ex. I, 11; 12. Num. 33. 3. ' Gen. 17. 12, / Gen. 41. 39. 9 Gen. 17. 12. h Deut. s. 16. i Gen. 3. 5. / Gen. 41. 38. k Mai. 3. 12. I Ex. 12. 13. "* Ex. I. 13. r Heb. How many are the days of the years cd thy life 7 2 Heb. led, that is, as a shepherd. grimage are sii 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 com- manded. 12 And Joseph nourished his fa- ther, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, ac- cording to their families. 13 And there was no bread in 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 un- to Joseph, and said, Give us bread : for why should we die in their pres- ence ? for the money faileth. 16 And /Joseph said. Give your cattle ; and I v^^ill give you for your cattle, if o I Chr. 6. I Ezra 8. 18. /Gen. 44. 18. y Num. 24. 9 Rev. 5. 5 Dcut. 33. 22 I Pet. s-8. ^ Num.2. 3; 10. Josh. 7. i; 15. I Sam. 17. 52 Mt. 2. 6 Rev. 5. 5. i Christ {first advent). 2 Sam. 7. 16. (Gen. 3. 15; Acts I. 5.) J Ezk. 21. 27 Dan, 7. 22 Lk. 21. 24 Acts 2. 35; 3. 21 Rom. II. 25 1 Cor. 4. 5; II. 26 2 Pet. 1. 19 Rev. 2. 25. /'■ 3 Thes. 2. I. I Zech. 3. 3. '" Gen. 3. s- " Isa. 1. 18. " Gen. 30. 20. i> Gen. 30. 18 Ex. I. 3. 1 Mai. 3. 12. '■ Gen. 30. 6; 49. Ex. r. 4 Josh. 19. 47. » Gen. 49. 16. t Psa. 58. 4 Prov. 23. 32. " Psa. 23. 3. '' Gen. 23. 20. "' Ex. 14. 13 Isa. 12. 2 Rom. I. 16 Eph. 2. 8, 9 Tit. 2. 11; 3. 5 Isa. 43. II Lk. I. 47; 2. II I John 4. 14 Jude 25. ^ Gen. 30. II. ■' Num. 13. 30 John 16. 33 Rom. 12. 21 I John 2. 13, Rev. 2. 7, II, 17, 26; 13.7; 17. 14; 21. 7- ^ Gen. 30. 13. " John II. 44. 1 or, hocked oxen. 2 or, shall the peoples be obedient. 3 Heb. beach. 4 or, folds, or, pens. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assemblv. mine honour, be not thou united : for in their an^er 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 be- fore 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 peoples 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 ''''^eyess72oZ/6e red with wine, and his teeth -'^ white with milk. 13 ^Zebulun shall dwell at the 3haven of the sea; and he shall be for an shaven of ships : and his bor- der shall be unto Zidon. 14 /Issachar is a strong ass couch- ing 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's ^'heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 I have waited for thy '^salva- tion, O Lord. 19 -^Gad, a troop shall JJovercome 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. 54 49 22] GENESIS [50 14 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a -^^vell; 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, bless- ings 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 A'crown of the head of him that v/as ^separate from his brethren. 27 ^^Benjamin shall ravin as a 2 wolf : in the morning he shall de- vour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 28 All these a?-e the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is zY 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 iEphron the ^'Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of ''Machpelah, which is before Mam.re, 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 vjas 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 ^delded up the ghost, and vvas gathered unto his people. CHAPTER 50. AND Joseph fell upon his father's - face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. CHAP. 49 '• John 4. 14. "^ Gen. 32. 28. d Psa. 23. I. •^ Gen. 17. I. /Gen. 41. 39. s Ezk. 21. 25. h Gen. 35. i8. i Acts 20. 29. j Gen. 50. 13. t Gen. 15. 20. ' Gen. 23. 19. '« Gen. 17. 8. " Gen. 12. I. " Gen. 21. 2. P Gen. 17. 19. * Gen. 25. 21. "■ Gen. 29. 25. ' Gen. 10. 15. sHeb. daughters. 6 or, chief among. CHAP, so '^ Ex. I. 13. b Gen. 41. 39. " Gen. 41. 38. d Gen. 3. 5. * Mai. 3. 12. /■Gen. 17. 8. ^ Ex. 12. 13. A Ruth 3. 2 2 Sam. 24. 16- Jen SI. 33 Dan. 2. 35. i Josh. 3. 17. .;■ Deut. 20. 17. * Gen. 12. I. 'Gen. 23-8,10, 13, 14, 16, 17; 2S. 9;49-29i30- '" Gen. 15. 20. I that is, The mourning of the Egyptians 2 And Joseph commanded his ser- vants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians em- balmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the daj'^s of those who are embalmed: and the '^Egyptians mourned for him three- score and ten days. 4 And when the days of his mourn- ing were past, '^Joseph spake unto the house of 'Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your f^eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father made me sw^ear, say- ing, 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 s'^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 -^thresh- ingfioor of Atad, which is beyond 'Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamenta- tion : and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the iCanaanites, 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 lAbel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto him ac- cording 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 burying- place of ^Ephron the '^'Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, be, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 55 50^5] GENESIS [5026 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 com- mand before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, '^Forgive, I pray thee now, the tres- pass of thy brethren, and their sin ; for the}/ 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. CHAP. 50 " Psa. 32. I, " Ruth 2. 20. P Gen. 41. 52. ? Num. 26. 29; 27- i; 36. I Josn, 17. I, 3 Jud. 5. 14 I Chr. 2. 21, 23; 7- Hi 15- ■ Gen 41. 51, ' Faith, vers. Ex. I. 17. ^vjen. 3. 20; Heb. II. 39.) 24, 25; 17. (Gen. 3. 20; I Gen. 17. ig. " Gen. 32. 28. " Gen. 24. 8. 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 bre- thren, 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 hun- dred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. 56 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED I I EXODUS [2 5 CHAPTER 1. NOW these are the names of the children of Israel, that came into <^^Egypt; every man and his household came with '^ Jacob. 2 "^Reuben, ^^Simeon, ^Levi, and /Judah, 3 Issachar, Gen. 32. 23. ■^ Gen. 49. 3. d Gen. 29. 33. ^ Gen. 49. 5. /Gen. 44. 18. ^ Gen. 30. 20. h Gen. 3S. 18. i Gen. 49. 16. ; Gen. 30. 11. k Gen. 30. 13. I Gen. 41. 39. '" Mai. 3. 12. " Ex. I. 19, 22; 2- 5. 7, 8, 9, 10 Heb. II. 24. " Gen. 47. It. P Psa, 92. 12. 4 Gen. 25. 12; 41.56 Ex. 3. 8, 22; 6. 5.7; 7-5; "-7; 14. 30 Isa. 19. 21 Acts 7. 22. *■ Ex. 2. 23 Deut. 5. 6 Rom. 6. 16 Ga!. 4.3, 9,S4, 25; 5- I- * Gen. 14. 13. i Faith. Ex. 2. 1-3. (Gen. 3. 2o; rieb= 11. 39-) " Ex. I. II. «' Ex. I. 13. " Num. 16. II. k Faith, vers. 1-3; Ex. 12. 21-28. (Gen. 3. 20; Heb. II. 39) 57 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 6e 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 V;;^omen ; 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 mul- tiplied, and w^axed 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 bom ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. CHAPTER 2. 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 bitiimen 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 see 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. 2 6] EXODUS [3S 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child : and, behold, the babe wept. And she had ^^compas- sion 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 ntirse 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/ vv^ages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child sgrew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daugh- ter, and he became her son. And she called his name i^^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 He- brew, 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 sec- ond 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 ? intend- est 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 dv/elt 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, CHAP. 2 d Psa. 78. 38; 86. 15; III. 4 Lam. 3. 2z Mt. 9. 36 Heb. 5. 2 I Pet. 3. 8. " Gen. 14. 13. /Gen. 29. 15. ? Psa. 92. 13. '' Ex. 3. 4. J Mai. 3. 12. k John 4. 14. I Gen. -6. 35. '" Psa. 23. I. "Ex.4.2S;i8.2. '' Ex. 18. 3 1 Chr. 23. 15, 16; 26. 24. ^' E.x. 12. 13. 'J Job 3. 24 Psa. 31. 2 Isa. 21. 2; 35. 10 Lam. I. 22 Ezk. 9. 4: 21. Mk.7.34;8.i2. '' Ex. I. 14. " Gen. 12. I. -' Gen. 17. 19. '- Gen. 32. 28. I that is, Drawn out. CHAP. 3 " Kingdom (O.T.). vers. i-io:Ex.iQ. 9; (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) * Ex. 3. 4. '^ Ex. 4. i3; iB. I, 2, 9, XO, 12. '' Gen. 36. 35. •-' Ex. 17. 6 Deut. I. 2 I Ki. 8. 9 Psa. 106. 19. / Ex. 4. 10, iiS Josh. I. 5 Mt. 23. 2 John I. 17 Acts 3. 22 Rom. 10. 5 Heb. 10. 28 Rev. 15. 3. 9 Gen. 12. I. h Gen. 17. 19. i Gen. 32. 28. J Ex. 12. 13. '• Ex. I. 13. 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 'l)ondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bond- age. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant v^ith ^Abraham, with ^ Isaac, and with ^^ Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the chil- dren of Israel, and God had respect unto them. CHAPTER 3. ^^"M'OW '^Moses kept the flock of i.^ ^ 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 ap- peared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned v/ith 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 ofl 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 d of ^acob. 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 that are in 7 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 ^'Egyp- 58 3 9] EXODUS [47 tians, 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 ^^''Canaanite, and the "Hittite, and the ^Amoiite, and the /Perizzite, and the Kivite, and the Jebusite. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the op= pression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto ^/Phara.oh, 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 Pha- raoh, 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, Be- hold, 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 Gk>d said unto Moses, ^I AM THAT ^'1 AM: and he said. Thus Shalt thou say unto the chil- dren of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shait thou say unto the children of ^Israel, The LORD, God of your fathers, the God of Abra- ham, 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 imto them. The Lord, God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saving, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt : 17 And I have said, I vdll bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the J'Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the =Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. CHAP. 3 I Mai. 3. 12. '" Deut. 20. 17. "Gen. 15. 20. " Gen. 15. 16. f Gen. 13. 7 Ex. 33. 2 Deut. 20. 17 Josh. 17. IS Jud. 1. 4 1 Ki. 9. 20 Ezra 9. I. 'i Rom. 9. 17. *" Gen. 9. 12. ^ vers. 13-1S Gen. 4. 26 2 Chr. 2. y. Psa. 8. I PrOV. 22. I Joel 2. 32 Mt. I. 21 John 17. 6 Acts 2. 38 Phil. 2. 9, 10 Heb. I. 4 Rev. 2. 13. ' Deity (names of). Ex. 54.6, 7. (Gen. I. i; Mai. 3. 18.) » Ex. 6. 3 Job II. 7 Psa. 68. 4; 90.2 Isa. 44. 6 Mt. 18. 20 John 8. 58 2 Cor. I. 20 Heb. 13. 8 Rev. I. 4, 8, 17; 4- 8. '' Israel {his- tory), vers. 15-17; Ex. 12. 1-13. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) "' Ex. 12. 14 Josh. 4. 7 Psa. 135. 13 rios. 12. 5 Mt. 26. 13 Acts 10. 4. '' Lev. 4. 15 Deut. 5. 23 Psa. 107. 33 Mt. 15. 2 Acts 4. 5 Tit. I. 5 I Pet. 5. 1 Rev. 4. 4, 10; 5- 5-14- ' Ex. 3. 8. 2Chr. 3. I ' Gen. 14. 13. ' Deut. I. I, 19 Isa. 35, I, 6 Hos. 9.10; 13.5 Acts 7. 30-44; 13- 18 Heb. 3. 8, 17. Ex. I. 13. CHAP. 4 « Ex. 3.4. *Ex. 4. 20; 7.12 Psa. no. z; 2^9 Rev. 2. 27; II. i;i2. S;i9. 15. - miracles (O.T.). vers. 3, 4. 6, 7; Ex. 7. 10-12. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I-IO.) 'I Gen. 12. I. ^Gen. 17. 19. /Gen. 32. 23. " ver. 6 Lev. 13. 1-55; 14. 1-57 Num. 5- 2 2 Ki. 51 Isa. 6. 5-7; 52. Lk. 6. 43-45 I John I. 7. 59 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, v/e beseech thee, three days' jour- ney into the '^wilderness, that v/e 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 Arfd I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my won- ders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people fa- vour 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 ask of her neighbour, and of her that so- journeth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and rai- ment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon^your daughters; and ye shall spoil the "^Egyptians. CHAPTER 4. AND '^Moses answered and said, - But, behold, they will not be- lieve 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> Leauen. vers. 8, 15-20, 34, 39; Ex. 13. 3, 6, 7. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33.) I vers. 11-13 John I. 29 I Cor. 5. 7 Eph. 2. 13 iPet. 1.18, 19 Rev. I. 6. .; Gen. 9. 12. k Zech. 14. 12. I Gen. 12. 10; 26. 2; 37. 28; 42. 2; 46. 4 Ex. 12. 41 Josh.2. io;s.9 Joel 3. 19 Mt. 2. 13 Rev. II. 8. '» Ex. 3. IS. " Lev. 23. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 21, 24, 27, 35> 36. 37 Num. 28. 18, 25, 26; 29. I, 7, 12 Lsa. 66. 23 Zech. 8.20-22; 14. 16 Heb. 10. 23. " Mai. 3. 12. P Ex. 12. 13. 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 yow, 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 unlea- vened bread ; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth lea- vened 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 he 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 0/ unleavened bread ; for in this self- same day have I brought your arm- ies out of the ^land of /Egypt : there- fore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 18 In the first month, on the four- teenth 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 lea- vened, 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. 68 12 2r EXODUS [12 47 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb ac- cording to your families, and kill the ^passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of rhyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the tv/o side posts with the blood that is in the basin; 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 tor an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land v/hich 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 sac- rifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the chil- dren 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 J'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 fiocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. CHAP. 12 ' Ex. 12. II. Psa. 51. 7. John 10. 9. Ex. I. 13. " Num. 23. 19 Josh. 23. 14 1 Ki. 8. 56 Psa. 105. 42 Lk. 24. 49 Acts I. 4; 2. 33. 39 Rom. 4. 13-21 Heb. 10. 23 2 Pet. I. 4; 3. I John 2.25. -' Faith, vers. zi-28; Ex. 14. 21,22. (Gen. 3. 20; Heb. II. 39-) ' Ex. 4. 14. ^ Miracles (O.T.). vers. 29, 30; Ex. 14. 21-31. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I- 10.) y Rom. 9. 17. "Gen. 47. II. " Ex. 13. 20. 5 Ex. 12. 13. " Mai. 3. 12. d Ex. 4. 14, ^ Ex. 12. II. /Gen. 17. 12. 3 Gen. 17. 10. I or, a night of watching unto the LORD. 2 or, this same night is a night of uiatchingunto the LORD for all. etc. 3 or, through- out. 4 or, alien. 5 or, sojourner. 6 or, do it. 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 knead- ingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked 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 gave unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. 37 And the children of Israel jour- neyed 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 pre- pared for themselves any victual. 40 Now the sojourning of the chil- dren 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 la night to be much ob- served unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: 2this 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 ser- vant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten ; thou Shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone there- of. ^ 47 All the congregation of Israel shall skeep it. 12 4S] EXODUS [13 20 48 And when a stranger shall so- journ with thee, and v/ill 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: but 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 self- same day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their ^armies. CHAPTER 13. AND the Lord spake unto «Moses, . saying, 2 Sanctify unto me all the first- born, 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 lea- vened 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 ^'Canaanite, and the /Hittite, and the Ex. 12. 13. ;' Ex. I. 13. J Rom. 9. 17. '•■ vers. 19, 20 Ex. 19. 17; 29. 14; cf. Heb. 13. 11-13; Ex. 33- 7> " Lev. 4. 12, 21; 6. 11; 8. 17; q. Deut. 23. 14. I Israel [his- tory), vers. 19-31; Ex. 19. 1-8. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) " Miracles (O.T.). vers. 21-31 ;^Ex. 15. 23-25. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. 1- 10.) '' Faith, vers. 21, 22; Josh. 6. 20. (Gen. 3. 20; Heb. II. 39-) I Heb. make strong. 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 Egyp- tians ? For it were better for us to serve the '' Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. 13 And Moses said unto the peo- ple. Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will do for you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day," ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak imto 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, who went before the ''camp of ^Israel, re- moved 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 dark- ness 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 71 14 24] EXODUS [15 ^9 went in after them into the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his c^a^iots, 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 heav- ily : 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 re- turned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyp- tians 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 horse- men, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them. 29 But thechildren 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 Egyp- tians dead upon the sea shore. 31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyp- tians: and the people feared the Lord, 2and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses. CHAPTER 15. THEN sang «Moses and the chil- dren 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 salva- tion: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. CHAP. 14 2 or, ancj they be/ieued in the LORD, and in. CHAP. 15 Ex. 3. 4. & Num. 21. 17 Deut. 31. 19 2 Sam. 22. I Psa. 40. 3 Song I. I Isa. 26. 19 Jer. 20. 13 Eph. s. 19 Rev, 5. 9; 14. 3; IS- 3- ' vers. 1, 21 Psa. 41. 11; Rom. 8. 37 1 Cor. 15. 54- 57 2 Cor. 2. 14 1 John 5. 4 Rev. 15. 2. d Num. 14. 21. ' Rom. 9. 17. / Ex. 13. 18. !J Gen. 6. 17. A Num. IX. 4, Deut. 12. 13, 20, 21 Psa. 78. 18, 30 Mk. 4. 19 John 8. 44 Rom. 7. 7 1 John 2. 16, 17- J Num. 14. 21. h Psa. 60. 8; 87. 4; X08. 9. Isa. 14. 29, 31 Joel 3. 4 I Mai. 1. 4. '" Gen. 19. 37. " Gen. 17. 8. I or, Philistia. the 3 The Lord is a man of war : 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 be- come 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 nos- trils 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 diyide the spoil; my ^Must 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, 7 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 whom thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habi- tation. 14 The peoples shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of i^'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, whom 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 72 15 20] 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 wilder- ness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to 2^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 imto the LoRD; and the Lord showed him a tree, vjkich 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 dili- gently 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. AND they took their journey from - Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of ^Sin, which is be- tween '^Elim and -^Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month EXODUS [16 12 after their departing out of the 4and 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 fiesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilder- ness, 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 ail the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall knov/ 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? CHAP. IS » Ex. 4. 14- P Gen. 16. 7; 20. 1 I Sam. 15. 7; 27.8. 1 Num. 33. 8, 9. »■ Ex. 16. 2-8; 17- 3 Num. 14. 2- 36; 16. II, 41; Deut. 1. 27 Psa. 106. 25 John 6. 41, 43, 61 1 Cor. 10. 10 PhiL 2. 14. * Miracles (O.T.). vers. 23-25; Ex. 16. 14-35. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. 1- 10.) i Ex. X. 13. " Psa. 103. 3; 147- 3 Hos. 6. I Mai. 4. 2 Mt. 4. 23, 24 Mk. 3. 10 Lk. 4. 40 Acts 4. 30 Rom. 8. 18-23 1 Cor. 12. 9, 28, 30 I Pet. 2. 24 Rev. 22. 2. «' John 4. 14. * Num. 33. 9 Neh. 8. IS Psa. 02. 12 Song'7. 7 Ezk. 40. 16- 37; 41. 18-26 John 12. 13 Rev. 7. 9. 2 that is, Bit- terness. CHAP. i6 •^Ex 17- I.' iEx. 15- 27. ^Ex. 34- 32- d Mai. 3. 12. ' Ex. 12. 13. /Ex. 15. 34. h Ex. 4. 14. < Num.'i4. 21. 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 ap- peared in the cloud. 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak imto 73 l6 13] EXODUS [17 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 the7quails 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 knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath %iven you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. Gather of it every man according to his eating, an ^^''oraer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for those who are in their 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. ig And Moses said. Let no man leave of it till the morning. 20 Notwithstanding they heark- ened 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 Tnan : and all the rulers of the con- gregation 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 sab- bath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and boil that which ye will boil; 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. /Num. 11.31, Psa. 105. 40. Ic vers. 31, 33,35 Num. 11.5,7,9 Deut. 8. 3, 16 Josh. 5. 12 Neh. 9. 20 Psa. 78. 24 John 6. 31, 49, =8 Heb. 9. 4 Rev. 2. 17. ; Miracles (O.T.). vers. 14-31;; Ex. 17. 5-7. (Gen. 5. 2a; Jon. 2. i- xo.) "' Ex. i6. 36. " Ex. i6."36. 0 Sabbath. vers. 22-25; Ex. 20. 8-11. (Gen. 2. 3; Mt. 12. I.) /' Ex. 16. 15. '• Mai. 3. 12. ' Ex. 12. 13. t Ex. 4. 14- " Gen. 17. 8. ' vei s. 16, 18, 22, 32> 33- I or, What is it? CHAP. 17 Ex. 16. I. 'Ex.17. 8; 19. 2. ■ Ex. 3. 4. 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 dfiy 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 ^and 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 gene- rations. 34 As the Lord commanded Mo- ses, 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 par/ of an ephah. CHAPTER 17. 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 v/ater for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people quarrelled with Moses, and said. Give us water that we may drink. And 'Moses said unto them. Why quarrel ye with 74 17 3] EXODUS [i8 12 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 chil- dren 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, '^'Gro 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 in7Horeb; 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 i^Massah, and ^^Meribah, be- cause of the quarrelling of the chil- dren 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 i'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 Ama- lek: 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 pre- vailed: 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. CHAP. 17 <' Temptation. vers. 2, 7; Num. 14. 22. (Gen. 3. i; Jas. I. 2.) ' Ex. 15. 24. /Ex. 14. 15. 'J I Sam. 30. 6 John 8. 59; ic. 31. h Ezk. 2. 6. i Christ {as StoneK I Cor. 10. 4. (Ex. 17. 6; I Pet. 2. 8.) / Ex. 3. I, i Miracles (O.T.). vers. 5-7; Lev. 10. 1, 2. (Gen. s- 24; Jon. 2. i-io.) ' Deut. 6. 16: 9. 22; 33. 8. "' Num. 20. 13, 24; 27. 14 Deut. 32. 51; 33-8. Psa. SI. 7, "'' vers. 9-16 Gen. 36. 12 Deut. 25.17-19 1 Sam. 15. 2- 21. 32. 33; 28. 18 2 Sam. 1. 1-16. " Ex. 17. I. P Num. 27. i8. ? Ex. 17. 8. ' Num. 27. 18. '" Ex. 4. 14. ' Ex. 17. 12; 24. 14. " Ex. 17. 10. '■' Ex. 3. 15. "' Inspiration. Ex. 19. 6, 7. (Ex. 4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) ^ Sacrifice {typical). Lev. I. 3.17. (Gen. 4. 4; Keb. 10. 18.) 1 that is, Test- ing. 2 tha.t is, Chid- ing, or, Strife, 3 that is, The LORD my banner. See Jud. 6. 24. CHAP 18 "■ Gen. 36. 35. b Ex. 3. 4. "^ Ex. 12. 13. <' Ex. 2. 21. * Ex. 2. 22. /Mai. 3. 12. S I Chr. S3. 17. 'i Rem. 9. 17. ' Ex. 3. I. / Ex. I. 13. i Rom. 8. 22. I Ex. 4. 14. 75 15 And Moses built an ^"altar, and called the name of it 3 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. 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 whom the name of the one was ' Gershora ; 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 deliv- ered 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 ^/zefr 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 7 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 knov^r 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. l8 13] EXODUS [19 II 13 And it came to pass on the mor- row, that Moses sat to judge the people : and the people stood around 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 around thee from morning unto even ? 15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God : 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make the7n 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 ^'^per- form 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 or- dinances and laws, and shalt show 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 cov- etousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 22 And tet 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. CHAP. 18 ' Gen. 26. 3. " 2 Cor. 3. 4 I Thes. I. 8. 0 Psa. 9. 7. P Mai. 3. 12. CHAP. 19 ^ Israel (his- tory), vers. I- 8; Ex. 20. 1- 17. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) Ex. 12. 13. ' Law {of Moses). Ex. 20. 1-17. (Ex. 19. i; Gal. 3. 1-29.) d Ex. 34. 32. Ex. 17. 1. /Ex.3. 4. Gen. 32. 28. h Ex. I. 13. i Separation. Ex. 33. 16. (Gen. 12. 1; 2 Cor. 6. 14-17.) J Deut. 14. 2; 26.18 Psa 135. 4 Eccl. a. 8 Tit. 2. 14 I Pet. 2. 9. * Inspiration. vers, 6^7; Ex. 20. I. (Ex. 4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) I Kingdom (O. T.). Ex. 24. 12. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12 . 8.) 76 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. IN the third month, when the chil- dren 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 6^ 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 7 pecu- liar treasure unto me above all peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a king- dom 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 19 12] EXODUS 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 sanc- tified 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 alto- gether 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 Grod 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, who 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 <2 sanctify it. CHAP. 19 "' Ex. 34. 3a. " vers. 13-16 Ex. 20. 18 Lev. 23. 24; Num. 10. 2-10 I Cor. 14. 8; IS- 52 I Thes. 4. 16 Rev. I. 10; 4. i; 8. 2, 6, 13; 9. 14. " Psa. 114. 7 Isa. 66. 2, 5 Joel 2. I, 10 Acts 7. 32 1 Cor. 2. 3 2 Cor. 7. IS Eph. 6. 5 Phil. 2. 12, 13. P I Sam. 14. IS Isa. 2. 19, 31 3 Joel 2. 10 Nah. I. 5 Hag. 3. 6, 7, 21 Mt. 27. 51 Heb. 12. 21, 26, 27. S Sanctify, holy (O.T.). Ex. 28. 1-3. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) »■ Ex. 4- 14- » The Eight Covenants. Deut. 30. I. (Gen. I. z8;! Heb. 8. 10.) CHAP. 20 " Law lof Moses', vers. 1-17; Ex. 31. 18. (Ex. 19. i; Gal. 3. 1-29.) b Inspiration. Ex. 24. 3, 4, 7, 8, 12. (Ex. 4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) ' Israel {his- tory K vers. i« 17; Ex. 40. I- 38. (Gen. i2.i 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) d Mai. 3. 12. ' Ex. 12. 13. /Ex. 1. 14. 3 Ex. 34. 14 Deut. 4.34;S- 9; 6. 15 Josh. 24. 19 Nah. I. 2 Zeph.i.i8;3. 8 Zech. 1.1418. a 2 Cor. II. 2 Jas. 4. 4, 5. n Num. 14. 18, Psa. 23. 6; 85. 10; 103. 8; 107. i; 136. 1-26 Hab. 3. 2 Mt. 9. 13 Lk. I. 50 Rom. 15. 9 Jude 21. » Rom. 3. 19. J Sabbath. vers. 8-11; Ex. 31. 13-16. (Gen. 2. 3; Mt. 12. I.) i Deut. s. 16. I Lev. 20. 10 Jer. 3. 8, 9 Mt. 5. 27-32; 12. 39; 19. 9 Rom. 2. 22 Gal. 5. 19 Jas. 4. 4 Rev. 2. 22. 77 [20 15 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. A ND God ^spake all these ^words, -t^ "^saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the '^land of ^Egypt, out of the house of /bond- age, 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 be- neath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou Shalt not bow down thy- self 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 showing '^^ mercy unto thou- sands 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 hal- lowed it. 13 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 ^adul- tery. 15 Thou Shalt not steal. 20 i6] EXODUS [21 20 i6 Thou Shalt not bear false wit- ness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou Shalt not covet thy neigh- bour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man- servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 18 And all the people saw the thun- derings, 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 Gk>d speak with us, lest w^e die. 20 And Moses said unto the peo- ple, 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 chil- dren 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. NOW these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an ^Hebrew sei*vant, 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. CHAP. 20 ' Ex. 3. 4. ' Ex. IS- 25 XO.4 I Ki 10 I Psa 26 2; 66. 10 Mai ?. 10 John 6. 6 2 Co 1. 2 ■V, 8. 24. ' I Ki. 6. 7 Eph. 2. 8 Tit. 3. 5. P Num. 18. 32 Psa. 106. 38 Isa. 47. 6 Jer. 34. 16 Ezk. 20. 30 Mai. I. 7 Acts 15. 20 3 Pet. 2. 20. CHAP. Gen. 14. l> John 10. 9. Gen. 17. d Psa. 19. 13. r, espoused. 4 If his master has given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her chil- dren 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 awl; 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 2betrothed 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 will I appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come ^presumptu- ously 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 scurseth 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 78 21 21] EXODUS [22 10 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 pun- ished : for he is his money. 22 If men strive, and hurt a wom- an with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mis- chief follow : he shall be surely ^pun- ished, according as the woman's hus- band shall 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 man- servant'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 gore in time past, and it hath been testi- fied 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 6?^ransoni 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 gore a manser- vant 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 an- •''Isa. S3. 5 Zech. 13. 6 I Pet. 3. i8. f Psa. 49- 7 Job 33. 24 Isa. 35. 10 Mt. 20. 28 Mk. 10. 45 I Tim. 2. 6. A See Zech. n. 12. 13 Mt. 26. IS Phil. 2. 7. i Gen. 23. 15." 4 or, fined. S or, ransom. 6 or, redemp- tion. CHAP. 22 <" Acts 3. 21. Acts 3. 21. "-' Gen. 17. 12. •^ Deut. 25. I or, be no bloodguitti- ness. 2 or, blood- guiltiness for him. other'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 was wont to gore 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. 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 ino blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be 2blood 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,orsheep : heshall 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 an- other 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 restitu- tion. 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, whe- ther it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of ^lost thing, which another chal- lengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges ; and whom the judges shall ^con- demn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a man deliver unto his neigh- bour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or 79 22 "] EXODUS [23 II 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 neigh- bour'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 aught 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 things ^it came for his .fhire. 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 Switch 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 stran- ger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the ^-'land of fEgypt. 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 crj^ ; 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 neigh- bour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: CHAP 22. /Gen. 24. 8. S Gen. 29. 1$. 'i Mai. 3. 12. i Ex. 12. 13. j Deut. 10. 18 Psa. 68. s Isa. I. 17 Mt. 23. 14 Acts 6. I 1 Tim. 5. 3-16 Jas. I. 27. fc Deut. 23. 19, 20 Nell. 5. 7, 10 Psa. 15. 5 Prov. 28. 8 Ezk. 18. 8, 13, 17 Mt. 25. 27 Lk. 19. 23. i Deut. 23. 18. 3 or, it is reck- oned in (Heb. cometli into) its hire. 4 or, sorceress. 5 or, judges, vers. 8, 9. CHAP. 23 » Mai. 3. 12. Ex. X2. 13. 80 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 sgods, 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 its 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. THOU shalt not receive a false re- port: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multi- tude 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 judg- ment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thee far from a false mat- ter; 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 per- verteth 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 23 121 EXODUS [244 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 hand- maid, and the stranger, may be re- freshed. 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 ap- pointed of the month / Abib ; for in it thou earnest out from Egypt : and none shall appear before me empty :) 16 And the feast of 6'^harvest, the '^^firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field : and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors 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 boil 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, 7 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 '^^Amorite, and the '^Hittite, and the ^Perizzite, and the /Canaanite, the Hivite, and the ^Jebusite: 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 CHAP. 23 ' Zech. 4. II. d Eph. 5. 15. ' Leauen. vers. 15, 18; Ex. 29. 2, 23. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33-) / Ex. 13. 4. ^ Josh. 3. IS Isa. 9. 3 Jer. 8. 20 Joel 3. 13 Mt. 13. 39 Rev. 4. 15. h Lev. 23. 10. t Deut. 5. 16. J Deut. 4. 25 Jud. 2. 12 I Ki. 14. 9 Psa. 78. 40, 56; 95. 8 Isa. I. 4 I Cor. 13. 5 Heb. 3. 8, IS. k Ex. 34. 9 Num. 14. ig, 20 Isa. 40. 2; 55. 7 Acts 13. 38, 39 Eph. I. 7. I Isa. 50. 8 Nah. I. 2 Lk. 18. 3 I Tim. 5. 14 I Pet. 5. 8. ™ Gen. 15. 16. " Gen. 15. 20. 0 Ex. 3. 8. P Deut. 20. 17. ? 2 Chr. 3. X. ' Gen. II. 30. ' Mai. 3. 12. < Deut. 20. 17. ■ Gen. 13. 20. Ex. 13. 18. I or, pillars. CHAP. 24 * Ex. 4. 14. " Lev. 10. 1-7. <* Inspiration. vers. 3, 4, 7, 8, 12; Ex. 32. 16. (Ex. 4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) « Gen. 28. 18. 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 peoples 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 Hi- vite, the ^Canaanite, and the ^^Hit- tite, 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. 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, accord- ing to the twelve tribes of Israel. 81 24 5] EXODUS [2519 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offer- ings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in .basins; and half of the blood he 7 sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the co- venant, 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 thei'e was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in its clearness. 11 And upon the ennobles 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 %rvQ thee '^^tables of stone, and a law, and command- ments 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. CHAP. 24 /vers. 6-8 Lev. I. 5, 11; 3.8, 13; 8. 19,24 Num.10. 17-2:2 Ezk. 36. 25 Heb. 9. 13, 19- 21; 10. 22 I Pet. I. 2. S Num. 21. 18 Prov. 8. 16 Acts 17. II 1 Cor.i.26;2.8. 'i Gen. I. 28 Ex. 20. 1-26; 32. 19; 34. I, 4, 28, 29 Deut. 10. 4, 5 Isa. 61. 8 Rom. 3. 21-27; 6. 14, is; 7. 4 2 Cor. 3.3,7-11 Gal. 2. 16; 3. 10-26; 4. 21-31 Heb. 9. 4; 10. 11-17. » Kingdom (O.T.). Deut. 30.1-9. (Gen. 1. 26;Zech.i2.8.) j Psa. 103. 21 Isa, 61. 6 Jer. 33. 21 Joel I. 9; 2. 17 Mt. 20. 26 Mk. 10. 45 Rom. 12. 7 I Pet. I. 12; 4. 10, II. *; Num. 27. 18. I Ex. 17. 10. '" Num. 14. 31. " Ex. 34. 32. " Num. 14. 21. P Gen. 3. 5. CHAP. 25 " vers. 3-39 Ex. 26. 6, 29, 32, 37; 30- 3> S Psa. 45. 13 I John 3. 2. * Ex. 27. 2-19; 30. 18 Num. 21. 9. '^ Ex. 28. I, 4, 31. 36 1 Cor. 15. 47. d Ex. 26. I, 31, 36; 27. 16; .^5. 6-35; 38. 18-23 John 19. 2, 5 I Tim. 6. 15. ' Lev. 14. 4. / Gen. 15. 9. H vers. 10, 13, 23, 28 Ex. 26. 15, z6, 32. 37; 27. 1, 6; 36. 20, 31, 36. A Ex. 30. 34 John 19. 40 Acts 2. 25-31. i Ex. 30. 1. J Gen. 2. 12. ft Ex. 28. 4. ' vers. 9, 40 I Tim. I. i6 Heb. 8. 2, 5; 10. I. "■ Ex. 25. 8 Rom. 3. 9 I Cor. 3. 16 Eph. 2. 19-22 Heb. 9. 23, 24. " vers. 11-22 Ex. 26. 33, 34 Num. 10.33-36 Heb. 9. 4 Rev. II. 19. " Ex. 25. 5. P Ezk. 21. 25. '1 Ex. 25. 10. ■'■ vers. 17-22 Ex. 26. 34; 30. 6; 37- 6-9. 35 Lev. 16. 1-15. I or, seal, and so elsewhere. 3 Heb. tent- dwelling, Ex. 25 8. Seevor. CHAPTER 25. 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 ^scar- let, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 5 Andy rams' skins dyed red, and ibadgers' skins, and i'^acacia wood, 6 Oil for the light, '^'spices foranaint- ing oil, and for sweet ? incense, 7 J Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ^ ephod, and in the breastplate. 8 And let them make me a sanc- tuary ; that I may dwell among them, 9 According to all that I show thee, after the ^pattern of the 2^^'taber- nacle, and the pattern of all the in- struments thereof, even so shall ye make it. 10 And they shall make an ^^ark of '^acacia 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 comers thereof; and two rings shall he in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt make staves of acacia 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 s/iaZ? be the length thereof, and acubit anda half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two che- rubim o/gold, 0/ 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 S2 25 201 EXODUS [26 other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubim 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 cherubim 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 cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in command- ment unto the children of Israel. 23 Thou shalt also make a table 0/ acacia 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 ^acacia 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 bov/ls thereof, to cover withal: o/pure gold shalt thou make them. 30 And thou shalt set upon the table ^showbread before me alway. 31 And thou shalt make a candle- stick of pure gold : of beaten work shall the ^'^candlestick be made : his Bhaft, 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 candle- stick out of the other side : 33 Three bowls made like unto CHAP. 25 Ex. 25. 5. John 6. 33-58; 12. 24-33 Heb. 12. 2, 3. ' Ex. 37. 17 I Ki. 7. 49 1 Chr. 28. 15 2 Chr. 4. 7, 20 Mt. 5. 14, cf. Phil. 2. 15, 16 John I. 4-9; 3. 19-21; 8. 12 Heb. 9. 2 Rev. 1. 12, 13, 20; 2. i; II, 4. ' Gen. 15. 17. "•' Num. 4. 9 1 Ki. 7. 49 2 Chr. 4. 21 Isa,6.6;44.i2. <= Ex. 38. 25, 29 2 Chr. 3. 8; 8. 18; 9. 9, 13 Mt. 18. 24; 25. 15-28 Rev. 16. 21. y Ex. 25. 9. CHAP. 26 ' Lk, I. 35 John 3. 13 Rom. I. 3, 4. Heb. 7. 26. Ex. 25. 4- Lev. 14. 4. « Psa. 133. I Rom. 12. 4, 5 I Cor. 12. 12, 13, 20; 6. 17. Eph. I. 23; 4. ii 3i 13- I or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in vers. 6, 7, 12, 13, iSi 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 27, 30, 35- 2 or, be over against one another. 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 piure gold. 37 And thou shalt m.ake the seven 'lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. 38 And the ^^snuffers thereof, and the snuflxiishes 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 showed thee in the mount. CHAPTER 26. MOREOVER thou shalt make the ifabernacle with ten ''^curtains o/fine twined linen, and blue, and '''purple, and 'scarlet: with cherubim 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 cur- tain from the selvedge in the coup- ling; and likewise shalt thou make in the ^^outermost 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 cur- tain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may stake hold one of another. 6 And thou shalt make fifty ^hooks of gold, and couple the curtains to- 83 26 7] EXODUS [26 35 gether with the hooks: 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 he. thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall he all of one measure. 9 And thou shalt couple five cur- tains by themselves, and six cur- tains by themselves, and shalt dou- ble the sixth curtain in the forefront of the stabernacle. 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 hooks of /brass, and put the .^'^hooks into the loops, and couple the tent to- gether, 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 taber- nacle 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 o/badgers' skins. 15 And thou shalt make ^'boards for the tabernacle of J acacia 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 sJiall 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 he twenty boards: CHAP. 26 / Ex, 35. 3. h Gen. ig. 9. : vers. 15-29 Ex. 35. 11; 36. 20-34; 39- 33; 40. 18 Num.3. 36; 4- 31 1 Ki. 6, 9 Psa. 133. I Eph. 4. 3, 13. J Ex. 25. S- * Eph. 2. 20. I Ex. 26. 36. Lev. 14. 4. P Ex, 25. 10. 1 Ex. 25. 17. 3 or, tent of meeting, Ex. 25. 22. 21 And their forty sockets 0/ silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 And for the sides of the taber- nacle westward thou shalt make six boards. 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the -^'corners of the taber- nacle in the two sides. 24 And they shall be coupled to- gether 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 an- other board. 26 And thou shalt make bars of acacia wood ; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 And five bars for the boards of the otherside of the tabernacle, arid 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 showed 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 cherubim shall it be made: 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four '^pillars of acacia wood over- laid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the ^hooks, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the /ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you be- tween 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 candle- stick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the 84 26 36] EXODUS [28 3 south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36 And thou shalt make an ='liang- ing for the door of the tent, o/blue, and '^purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle- work. 37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars 0/ acacia 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. AND thou shalt make an altar of - acacia 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: the ^ horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with '^ brass. 3 And thou shalt make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its fleshhooks, and its 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 comers 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 "^acacia 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 showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it. 9 And thou shalt make the court of the itabernacle : 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. CHAP, 26 *■ vers. 31-37 Ex. 27. 16; 36. 35-38; 38. 9-19 •Mt. 27. 51 Mk. 15. 38 Lk. 23. 45 Heb. 6. 19, 20; 9. 3; 10. 19-22. ' John 10. 9. t Ex. 25. 4. « Ex. 25. 3. CHAP. 27 " Eph. 2. 20. 6 Dan. 7. 24, " Ex. 25. 3. d Ex. 25. 5. * Ex. 26. 36. / Gen. 28. 18. ^ John 10. 9. h Ex. 25. 4. i Lev. 14. 4. .;' Zech. 4. 11. ^ Gen. 15. 17. i Ex. 4. 14. 1 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in ver. 19. 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. " Ex. 4. 14. * Sanctify, holy (O.T.). vers. 1-3; Ex. 29- 37. 44- (Gen, 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) ' Lev. 10. 1-7. d Ex. 6. 23. « Ex. 6. 23; 38. 21 Lev. 10. 6, 12, 16 Num. 4. 28, 33 I Chr. 24. 2, 3, 4, S- /Zech. 3. 3. ^ Num. 14. 21. '> Holy Spirit. Ex. 31. 3. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) 85 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pil- lars 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 o/ brass. 20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil J olive beaten for the light, to cause the -^lamp to burn always. 21 In the ^tabernacle of the congre- gation 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. 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 /gar- ments 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 28 4] EXODUS 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 breast- plate, and an yephod, 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 shoulder- pieces 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 chil- dren of Israel : thou shalt make them to be set in ^settings 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 ^'settings o/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 settings. 15 And thou shalt make the ^'^breastplate of judgment with cun- ning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; o/gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scar- let, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. 16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length CHAP. 28 i ver. 4x Ex. 29. 1-46; 30. 30 Lev. 8. 31-33 • Heb. 7. 35-28; 10. 19-22. 3 vers. 6, 8, 12, iS. 25-31 Ex. 39. 2 Lev. 8. 7 Jud.8.27;i7.s I Sam. 2. 18; 23. 6, 9; 30. 7 Hos. 3. 4, 5. fc vers. 37. 39 Ex. 29. 6; 39. 28, 31 Lev. 8. 9; 16. 4 Psa. no. 4 Ezk. 21. 25-27 Zech. 3. 5 Heb. 7. 17 Rev. II. 15. I vers. 8, 27, 28 Isa. II. 5 Eph. 6. 14 I Pet. I. 13 Rev. I. 13. ™ Zech. 3. 3. " Ex. 4. 14. ■* Ex. 25. 4. P Lev. 14. 4. 9 Ex. 28. 4. '' Gen. 2. 12. ^ vers. II, 13, J4> i7> 25 Ex. 39. 6, 13, 16, 18. t Num. 7. 9 Isa. 9. 6; 22. 22; 63. I Lk. 15. 4, 5. " Ex. 3. 15. " Ex. 28. II. ^ vers. 15-30 Ex. 25. 7; 29. S; 35- 9, 27; 39- 8-21 Lev. 8. 8 Isa. 59. 17 Eph. 6. 14 I Thes. 5. 8 Rev. 9. 9, 17. ■'-■ Ex. 39. 10 Job 28. 19 Ezk. 28. 13 Rev. 21. 20. ■v Ex. 39. II Ezk. 27. 16; Rev. 4. 3; 21. 19. - Ex. 39. 12 Rev. 9. 17; 21. « Ex. 39. 12 Isa. 54. 12 Ezk. 27. 16. t Ex. 39. 12 Rev. 21. 20. ' John II. 44. d Ex. 3. 15. <• Lev. 8. 8 Num. 27. 21 Deut. 33. 8 I Sam. 28. 6 Ezra 2. 63 Neh. 7. 65. .' Ex. 4. 14 [28 30 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 diam.ond. 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, /zTcethe engravings of a signet ; every one with his name shall they be according to the tw^elve 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 settings, 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 breast- plate 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 under- neath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. 28 And they shall bind the breast- platejby the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the cu- rious 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 breast- plate 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 86 28 31] EXODUS [29 12 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 s'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 6eneaf/2 upon the hem of it thou shalt make ^^pomegranates o/blue, and of ^purple, and of J scar- let, round about the ^hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: 34 A golden bell and a ^pome- granate, a golden bell and a pome- granate, 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 ©/needle- work. 40 And for Aaron's sons thou Shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and '^bon- nets 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. CHAP. 28 'J Ex. 28. 4. '■-vers. 33, 34 Ex. 39. 2^-26 1 Ki. 7. 18, 20, 42 2 Ki. 25. 17 John 15. 16 Rom. 7. 4 Gal. 5. 22, 23 Col. I. 10. Lev. 14. 4. Mt. 9. 20. ; Ex, 28. 33- "' Ex. 28. 4. " Ex. 29. g: 39. 28 Lev. 8. 13 Isa. 3. 20 Ezk. 44. 18. " Num. 14.21. P Ex. 28. 3. 1 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25.22. CKAP. 29 ■ Lev. 1. 3-9 Psa. 51. 17-19; 69- 30, 31 Heb. 10. 4- * Gen. 15. 9. •^ Leauen. vers. 2, 23; Ex. 34. 18, 25. (Gen. 19. 3;JMt. 13. 33.) " ' Leauen. vers. 18, 25; Lev. 2. 4, 5, II. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33-) Ex. 13. , *" La IV (of Moses), vers. 18-28; Lev. I. 1-16, 34. (Ex. 19. i; Gal. 3. 1-29.) Ex. 23. 16. ' Deut. 16. 9-16 Rom. 5. I, 2. Lev. 23. 10. Ex. 12. II. ' Deut. 5. 16. Ex. 34. 32. 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 womb 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 it not, then shalt thou break its 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 in- gathering at the year's end. 23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel, 24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy bor- ders: 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 boil a kid in its 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 com- mandments. 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 knew 94 34 30] EXODUS [3524 not that the skin of his face Jshone while he talked with him. 30 And when -Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, be- hold, the skin of his face shone ; and the)' 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 speak- ing 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. AND ^ Moses gathered all the con- - gregation 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 through- out your habitations upon the sab- bath day. 4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Is- rael, 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/scar- let, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 7 And .Grams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and ^^ acacia vvood, 8 And oil for the light, and ^spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet J incense, 9 And ^ onyx stones, and stones to CHAP. 34 y Num. 6. 25. ^ Ex. 4. 14. " Ex. 19. I, 18, 20; 24. 16; 31. 18; 34. 4, 29 Num. Q. s; 10. 12; 26. 64 Gal. 4. 24. b 2 Cor. 3. 13. ' Num. 6. 25. CHAP. 35 « Ex. 3. 4. b Inspiration. Num. II. 24. (Ex. 4. is; Rev. 22. 19.) <= Sabbath. vers. 2, 3; Lev. 19. 3, 30. (Gen.2.3;Mt. 12. I.) d Ex, 25. 3. ' Ex. 25- 4- / Lev. 14. 4. ^ Gen. 15. 9. h Ex. 25. 5. i Ex. 25. 6. J Ex. 30. I. i Gen. 2. 12. I Ex. 28. 4. "■ Ex. 26. 6. " Gen. 28. 18. " Ex. 25. 10. P Ex. 25. 17. 1 Ex. 26. 36. *■ Gen. 15. 17. ' John ro. 9. t Ex. 30. 18. " Zech. 3. 3. " Ex. 4. 14. 1 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in vers. IS, 18. 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex, 25. 22. 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 itabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its ^'^ hooks, and its boards, its bars, its '^ pillars, and its sockets, 12 The ^ark.and the staves there- of, wzY/z the /mercy seat, and the ^'vail of the covering, 13 The table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread, 14 The candlestick also for the light, and its furniture, and its ^' lamps, with the oil for the light, 15 And the incense altar, and its 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 its brasen grate, its staves, and all its vessels, the ^laver and its foot, 17 The hangings of the court, its 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 stabernacle of the congregation, and for all his ser- vice, 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 acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. 95 35 25] EXODUS [36 15 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 pur- ple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' haij\ 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 v/oman, 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 chil- dren of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name -^ Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of J'Hur, of the tribe of -Judah; 31 And he hath filled him with the ^spirit of God, in wisdom, in under- standing, 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 wis- dom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the em- broiderer, 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. THEN wrought Bezaleel and «A- holiab, 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 thatthe 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 CHAP. 35 Ex. 30. I. y Ex. 31. 2. ^ Gen. 49. 10 <^ Holy Spirit. Num. II. 17, 215, 26, 29. (Gen. 1. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) i 2 Tim. 2. 15. " Ex. 25. 3- d Ex. 36. 1. ' Ex. 31. 6. / Josh. 19. 47. V Ex. 25. 4. h Lev. 14. 4. CHAP. 36 • ver. 2 Ex. 31. 6. I' Ex. 3. 4. '' 2 Cor. 3. 5. '' Psa. 2. 8. ' Ex. 26. 6. I or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in vers. 13, 14, 20, 22, 21, 25, 27. 28, 31, 32, 96 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 sanc- tuary, came every man from his work which they made ; 5 And they spake unto Moses, say- ing. 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 re- strained from bringing. 7 For the stuff they had was ^suf- ficient for all the work to make it, and too much. 8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the itabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim 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 wei'e 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 "'outermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. 12 Fifty loops made he in one cur- tain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain that was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another. 13 And he made fifty ^hooks of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the hooks: so it became one tabernacle. 14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the taber- nacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was 36 i6] EXODUS the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size. i6 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops upon the /outermost 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 .sTiooks 0/ '^^ 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 J acacia, wood, stand- ing 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 ail 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 its two tenons, and two sockets under an- other board for its two tenons. 25 And for the other side of the ta- bernacle, 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 taber- nacle 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 we/'e sixteen sock- ets of silver, imder every board two sockets. 31 And he made bars of acacia 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 taber- nacle for the sides westward. 33 And he made the middle bar CHAP. 36 / Psa. 2. 8. h Ex. 25. 3. i Gen. 13. 9. J Ex. 25. s. * Eph. 2. 20. I Ex. 26. 36. "' Ex. 2S. 4- " Lev. 14. 4. " Gen. 28. 18. P John 10. 9. 1 Ex. 38. 17, 19, 28 I Ki. 7. 16-42 2Chr.3. 15; 4. 12, 13 Jer. 52. 22 Eph. 1. 22; 4. 15 Col. I. 17, 18; 2. 19 Heb. 2. 7. 2 Heb, tent of meeting. Ex. 25.22. CHAP. 37 Ex. 31. 2. Ex. 25. 10. Ezk. 21. 25. d Ex. 25. 17. [379 from to shoot through the boards 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 over- laid the bars with gold. 35 And he made a ^vail of blue, and ^^^purple, and ''^scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim made he it of cunning work. 36 And he made thereunto four ^pillars of acacia wood, and over- laid 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 needlevxTork ; 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 0/ brass. CHAPTER 37. AND ^Bezaleel made the <^ark of ' acacia wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cu- bit 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 tw^o rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. 4 And he made staves of acacia 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 cherubim 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 cherubim on the two ends thereof. 9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to an- other ; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubim. 97 37 ^°] EXODUS [38 10 10 And he made the table o//acacia ; 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 i'crown of gold round about. 12 Also he made thereunto a bor- der 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 lie made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table. 16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, its dishes, and its spoons, and its bowls, and its covers to cover v*^ithal, of pure gold. 17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold : of beaten v/ork made he the candlestick; its shaft, and its branch, its bowls, its knops, and its 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, its knops, and its 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 the seven '^^ lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, of pure gold. 24 Of a ^talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof. 25 And he made the 7 incense altar of acacia wood: the length of it was CHAP. 37 / Ex. 25. 5. 3 Ezk. 21. £S. Ex. 25. 39. J Ex. 30. I. k Dan. 7. 24. I or, after the art of the per- fumer. CHAP. 3E Eph. 2. 20. I- Ex. 25. 3. ' Ex. 23. 3. » Ex. 25. 5. ' Ex. 30. 18. /John 10. 9. ^ Ex. 26. 36. I or, tent of meeting. E? 25. 22. So i ver. 30. 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 0/ acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet ^spices, laccording to the work of the apothecary. CHAPTER 38. AND he made the altar of burnt - offering of acacia 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 basins, 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 ^''acacia 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 ^lavero/ brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assem- bling, who assembled at the 7 door of the itabernacle of the congrega- tion. 9 And he made the court : on the south side southward the A' hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits : 10 Their pillars were twenty, and 98 38 III EXODUS [395 their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the /^pillars and their fillets were 0/ silver. 11 And for the north side the hang- ings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sock- ets 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 o/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 %ate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cu- bits; 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 pil- lars and their fillets o/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 ypurple, and ^'scarlet, and fine twined linen : and twenty cubits ivas the length, and the height in the .breadth was five cubits, ansv/erable 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 ^taber- nacle, and of the court round about, were of brass. 21 This is the sum of the taber- nacle, even of the tabernacle of testi- mony, as it was ''counted, according to the commandnleqt of '^^Moses, /or 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 used for CHAP. 58 I Gen. 28. 18. '■ John 10. 9. J Ex. 25. 4. J^ Lev. 14. 4. I Gen. 15. 6. "' Ex. 3. 4. " Ex. 4. 14. " Ex. 31. 2. ^ Ex. 31.2. 'i Gen. 49. 10. *■ Ex. 38. I. ' Ex. 31. 6. < Josh. 19. 47. " 2 Tim. 2. 15. " Ex. 25. 39. «" Gen. 23. 15. ' vers. 25-28 Ex. 26. 19; 30. 13-16 Num. 3. 44-51 Eph. I. 7 Col. I. 14 I Pet. 1.18,19. y Gen. 28. 18. ' Ex. 25. 3. » Ex. 25. 39. b Gen. 23. 15. " John 10. 9. d John 10. 9. 2 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So m vers. 21, 31. CHAP. 39 « Ex. 25. 4- b Lev. 14. 4. '^ Zech. 3. 3. d Ex. 4. 14. ^ Ex. 3. 4. /Ex. 28. 4. the work in all the v/ork 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 thou- sand 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 hun- dred 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 thou- sand and four hundred <^ shekels. 30 And therewith he made the sockets to the ^ door of the taber- nacle 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. 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 com- manded ^ 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; 99 39^] EXODUS [3934 of gold, blue, and purple, and scar- let, and fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moses. 6 And they wrought c^'onyx stones inclosed in ^-^ settings of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. 7 And he put them on the shoul- ders 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 pur- ple, 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 y topaz, and a carbuncle : this was the first row. 11 And the second row, an '^'eme- rald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 12 And the third row, a ^figure, an agate, and an -'''^amethyst. 13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a "jasper: they wer-e in- closed in settings of gold in their inclosings. 14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Is- rael, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the tv^relve tribes. 15 And they made upon the breast- plate chains at the ends, 0/ wreathen work of pure gold, 16 And they made two settings 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 settings, 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, CHAP. 39 Ex. 3. 15. J Ex. 28. 17. I Ex. 28. 19. '" Ex. 28. 19. « Rev. 4. 3. " John II. 44. r Mt. 9. 20. ? Ex. 28. 33. »■ Ex. 25. 4. "' Lev. 14. 4. ( Ex. 4. 14. " Ex. 28. 4. " Ezk. 21. 25. Gen. 15. 9. 1 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in vers. 33, 40. 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in ver. 38. above the curious girdle of the ephod. 21 And they did bind the breast- plate 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 breast- plate 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 pome- granates; 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 0/ 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, 0/ 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 itabernacle of the stent of the con- gregation finished : and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. 33 And they brought the taberna- cle unto Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its ^^'hooks, its boards, its bars, and its ^"pillars, and its sockets, 34 And the covering of J'rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of 100 39 35] EXODUS [40 24 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 showbread, 37 The pure candlestick, with the '^lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the ves- sels thereof, and the oil for light, 38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet '^^in- cense, and the hanging for the ta- bernacle '^ door , 39. The brasen altar, and its grate of y brass, its staves, and all its ves- sels, the .Slaver and its foot, 40 The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the hanging for the court ^^gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the ves- sels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation, 41 The cloths of service to do ser- vice in the holy place, and the holy ^garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office. 42 7 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 LOR.D had command- ed, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them. CHAPTER 40. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, - '^^saying, 2 On the first day of the first month Shalt thou set up the 1 tabernacle of the 2tent 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 hang- ing 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 be- tween the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein. CHAP. 39 ' Ex. 26. 36. '^ Ex. 25. 10. b Ex. 25. 17. "^ Gen. 15. 17. d Ex. 30. I. * John 10. 9. / Ex. 25. 3. 3 Ex. 30. 18. '' John 10. 9. i Zech. 3. 3. J Ex. 17. 1 Num. I, 54; 7. 5.7,8 Deut. I. 3 Josh, I. 7, 8 Psa. 103. 10 Isa. 8. 20 Mt. 9. 29 Acts 7. 44 I Cor. 15. 3, 4 Eph. 1. 11 Rev. 22. 12. CHAP. 40 " Israel (his- tory), vers. I- 38; Lev. 16. I- 34. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. n. 26.) i Ex. 30. 18. " Ex. 4. 14. (' John 10. 9. « Zech. 3. 3. /Ex. 3. 4. 3 Gen. 28. 18. fi Ex. 25. 10. t Ex. 25. 17. J Ex. 26. 36. I or, tent- clu/elling. Ex. 25.8. So in vers. 5, 6, 9, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34. 35, 36, 38. 2 or, tent of meeting, Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 6, 7, 12, 19. 3 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hang- ing at the court gate. 9 And thou shalt take the anoint- ing 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 its vessels, and sanctify the altar : and it shall be an altar most holy. 11 And thou shalt anoint the '^laver and its foot, and sanctify it. 12 And thou shalt bring ^ Aaron and his sons unto the ^'door of the ^taber- nacle 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 priest- hood 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 taber- nacle, and fastened its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its .^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 testi- mony 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 7 vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD com- manded 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 40 25] EXODUS [4038 the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 25 And he lighted the ^' lamps be- fore the Lord; as the Lord com- manded 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 hy the door of the taber- nacle of the tent of the congrega- tion, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the ^^^meal offering; as the Lord commanded Moses. 30 And he set the ^^aver 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 CHAP. 40 k Gen. 15. 17. I Ex. 30. I. Ex. 29. 41. ■ Ex. 30. 18. John 10. 9. '' Num. 14. 21. 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 w^lien 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. lOS THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES CALLED I^] LEVITICUS [2 5 CHAPTER 1. AND the LORD called unto «Mo- - ses, and spake unto him out of the itabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 sacri- fice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish : unto the 'door of i the tabernacle of the congregation j shall he bring it, that it may be gra- ciously received for him 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 of- fering, and cut it into its 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 its inwards and its 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 its blood round about upon the altar. 12 And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat : and the priest shall lay them in order CHAP. I " Law (of Moses). ver.x— ch. i6. 34. (Ex. ig. i; Gal. 3, 1-29.) * Sacrifice {typical). vers. 3-17; Lev. 2. 1-16, (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. 18.) ' John 10. 9. d Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. Ex. 4. 14. /Gen. 19. 24 Ex. 3.2; 13.21 Mai. 3. 2, 3 Mk. 9. 43-48 I Cor. 3. 12-14 1 Pet. I. 7 Rev. 20. 15. 9 Lev. 16. s. h Gen. Ig. 9 Lev. 5. 7, 11; 12. 6, 8; 14. 22, 30; 15. 14, 29 Num. 6. 10 Lk. 2. 24 2 Cor. 8. 9. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 3, 5. CHAP. 2 " Ex. 29. 41. J Song 5. 16 Lk. I. 35 John 6. 32-35, 48-38; 12. 24 Heb. 7. 26. ' Ex. 4. 14. d Lev. 2. I. ^ Ex. 3. 15. / Sacrifice {typical). vers. 1-16; Lev. 3. 1-17. (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. 18.) 'J Ex. 29. 41. h Ex. 4. 14. « Leauen. vers. 4, 5, 11; Lev. 6. 16, 17. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33-) 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 rYupon the altar: it is a burnt sacri- fice, 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 its 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 its crop with its 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. AND v/hen any will offer a meal - '^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 ^meal 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 meal offering baken in the oven, it shall be ^unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unlea- vened wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if thy oblation be a meal 103 2 6] LEVITICUS [3 ^5 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 meal offering. 7 And if thy oblation be a meal offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 And thou shalt bring the meal offering that is made of these things unto the LORD : and when it is {jre- sented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar. 9 And the priest shall take from the meal offering a ^memorial there- of, 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 meal 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 meal offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any ^'honey, in any offer- ing of the Lord made by fire. 12 As for the oblation of the ''^first- fruits, 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 meal offering shalt thou season with i'^'salt ; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. 14 And if thou offer a meal offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meal 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 meal 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. 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 CHAP, a J Ex. 3. 15. ft Gen. 6. 13, cf. 2 Cor. 5. 16 Psa. ig. 9, 10 Prov. s. 3; 16. 24; 24. 13; 25. 16,27; 27. 7 Isa. 2. 22, cf. Phil. 3- 3 Rom. 8. 8, 9. i Lev. 33. 10. '" Num. 18. 19 Mt. 5. 13 Mk. 9. 49, 50 Lk. 14. 34 Col. 4. 6. CHAP. 3 ' Sacrifice {typical}. vers. 1-17; Lev. 4. 3-35. (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. i3.) I Tim. 5. 22. John 10. 9. d Ex. 4. 14. Lev. 16. 5. / 1 Tim, s. S Ex. 4. 14. 1 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 8, 13. at the '"door of the itabernacle 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 con- gregation: 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 in- wards, 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 offer- ing 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 shaliy lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation : and the sons of .4' 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 cov- ereth 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 104 3 '6] LEVITICUS [423 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. 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 com- mandments 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 laccording to the sin of the peo- ple; then let him <^bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bul- lock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock imto the ^ door of the 2tabernacle 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 fin- ger 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, v/ith the kidneys, it shall he take away, 10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offer- ings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. 11 And the skin of the bullock, CHAP. 4 ' Acts 3. 17. b Sacrifice (typical). vers. 3-35; Lev. 5. 1-19. (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. 18.) John 10. 9. d Ex. 26. 36. Dan. 7. 24. /Gen. 3. 5. ? Rom. 3. ig. h I Tim. 5. i Ex. 26. 36. J Dan. 7. 24. k Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. ' Forgiveness. vers. 20,26,31, 35; Lev. 5. 10, 13, 16, 18. (Lev. 4. 20; Mt. 26. 28.) Acts 3. 17. " Rom. 3. 19. I or, so bring- ing guiltiness on the people. 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its 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 it on the wood with fire : where the ashes are poured out shall it 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 com- mandments of the Lord concern* ing 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 offering, and bring it before the tabernacle of the con- gregation. 15 And the elders of the congre- gation 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 J 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 its fat from it, and burn it upon the altar. 20 And he shall do with the bul- lock 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 it as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congre- gation. 22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done some w/za^ 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 105 4 24] LEVITICUS [5 ^0 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 ^7 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 its blood at the bot- tom of the altar of burnt offering. 26 And he shall burn all its fat upon the altar, as ^ the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: %nd 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 Scommon 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 offer- ings; 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 CHAP. 4 " Lev. 16. 5. P vers. 4, etc. 1 ver. 30. ' Lev. 3. 5. ' ver. 20 Num. 15. 28 Num. 15. 27. " Lev. 3. 14. " Lev. 3. 3. '" Ex. 20. 18; Lev. I. 9. 3 Heb. people of the land. 4 or, after the custom of. CHAP, s " Sacrifice [typical]. vers. 1-19; Lev. 6. 1-7. (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. 18.) b Num. 6. 7 Isa. 6. 5; 64. 6 Mt. 23. 27 2 Cor. 6. 17 Gal. s- 19 Heb. 9. 13. "^ Rom. 3. 19. d Gen. 24. 8. * Lev. 16. 21; 26. 40 Psa. 32. 3-5 Prov. 28. 13 Rom. 10. 9, 10 I Tim. 6. 13 1 John I. 9; 4. 2,3.15 2 John 7. /vers. i-!9 Lev. 6. 1-7; 7. 1-7 Mt. 18. 15 Lk. 17. 3, 4 2 Cor. 5. 19 Col. 2. 13. 3 Lev. 16. 5. ' Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall bum it upon the altar, ^accord- ing 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. AND if a soul ^'sin, and hear the - voice of swearing, and is a wit- ness, 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 he ^ carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of un- clean cattle, or the carcase of un- clean 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 he 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 sv%^ear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it he 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 as his /guilt offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the iTgoats, 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 guilty act that he hath committed, two tur- tledoves, or two young ^pigeons, un- to 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 thai which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its head from its 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 106 m LEVITICUS [6 12 for a burnt offering, according to the custom: 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 frankin- cense 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 ii on the altar, ac- cording 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 theremnantsha.il be the priest's, as a ''m.eal offering. 14 And the LORD spake unto Mo- ses, 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 -^she- kels 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 forbid- den to be done by the commandments of the Lord ; though he know it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 18 And he shall bring a ram with- out blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offer- ing, unto the priest : and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and knew it not, and it shall be forgiven him. 19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord. CHAP, s } Forgiueness. vers. 10, 13, 16, 18; Lev. 6. 7. (Lev. 4. 20; Mt 26. zB.) '-• Ex. 3. 13. I Ex. 2Q. 41. '" Acts 3. 17. " Gen. 15. 9, ° Gen. 23. ig. CHAP. 6 ° Sacrifice (typical). vers. 1-7. Lev. 16. 1-34. (Gen. 4. ii; Heb. 10. 18.) 6 Psa. 119. 163 Prov. 6. 17; 12. 22; 13. S John 8. 44 Acts s- 3, 4 Eph. 4. 25 Col. 3. 9 Rev. 21. 8. •= Acts 2. 42. d Mt. 10. 6. ' Rom. 3. 19. /Acts 3. 21. 9 Gen. 15. 9. i Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. « Forgiueness. Lev. 19. 22. (Lev. 4. 20; Mt. 26. 28.) .;' Ex. 4. 14. * Zech. 3. 3. I or, t/ie clay wrierein he con f esse th fiis trespass. CHAPTER 6. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, - saying, 2 ''If a soul sin, and commit a tres- pass against the Lord, and '^lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in •^fel- lowship, 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 violent- ly 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 lof his trespass offer- ing. 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a c?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 for all that he hath done in trespassing therein. 8 And the LORD spake unto Mo- ses, saying, 9 Command 7 Aaron and his sons, saying. This is the law of the burnt offering : It is the burnt offering, be- cause 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 %arment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed Vv^ith the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11 And he shall put off" his gar- ments, 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 bum wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; 107 6 13] LEVITICUS [7 10 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 ^meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar. 15 And he shall take of it his hand- ful, of the '^^flour of the meal offer- ing, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meal 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 '^un- leavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the 2tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. 17 It shall not be baken with lea- ven. 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 chil- dren of Aaron shall eat of 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 Mo- ses, 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; me tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal 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 meal 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 ^meal offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten. 24 And the LORD spake unto Mo- ses, 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 CHAP. 6 ' Ex. 29. 41. Ex. 3. 15. ' Leaver), vers. 16, 17; Lev. 7. 12, 13. (Gen. iQ. 3; Mt. 13. 33-) P Deut. 33. 10. 9 Ex. 39. 41. Ex. 4. 14. Zech.3. 3. < Ex. 25. 3. 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 26, 30. CHAP. 7 108 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 there- of upon any ^garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place. 28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is boiled shall be broken: and if it be boiled 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. IIKEWISE this is the law of ■* the trespass offering: it zs 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 ccvereth 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 tres- pass 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 meal 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 offer- eth it. 10 And every meal offering, min. Ill LEVITICUS [736 gled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of <^ Aaron have, one as much as another. 11 And this is the law of the sac- rifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD. 12 If he offer it for a '^thanksgiv- ing, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving "^^unlea- vened 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 offer- ing 6e a ^vow, or a voluntary offer- ing, 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 ofhis peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be slm- puted 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 are clean shall eat thereof. 20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offer- ings, 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 un- cleanness 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 peo- ple. CHAP. 7 Ex. 4. 14. ' Neh. 12. 8 Psa. 50. 14 Mt. 15. 36; 26. 27 John II. 41 Rom. I. 21 Eph. 5. 20 Phil. I. 3 Col. 3. 15 I Thes. 5. 18. d Leaven, vers. 12, 13; Lev. 8. 2,26. (Gen. 19. 3j Mt. 13. 33.) /vers. 17, 18 Ex. 5. 3 Ezra 6. 15 Psa. 16. 10 Hos. 6, 2 Mt. 16. 21; 26. 61; 27. 40, 63 Mk. 10. 34 Lk. 9. 22; 13.32 Acts 2. 27, 31; 10. 40 I Cor. 15. 4. ^ 2 Cor. 5. 19. Lev. 16. 5. Ex. 29. 24. Ex. 4. 14. I or, service. 22 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no man- ner 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 man- ner of blood, whether it he of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whatsoever soul it he that eat- eth 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 Is- rael, 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 /or a ^wave offering before the Lord. 31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar : but the breast shall be 7 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 sacri- fices 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 an- ointing of Aaron, and of the anoint- ing 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 109 7 37] LEVITICUS [8 25 them, by a statute for ever through- out their generations. 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the '^'meai offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the 2/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, jfiL 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 congre- gation together unto the "^'door of the 2tabernacle 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 con- gregation. 5 And Moses said unto the congre- gation. 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 boimd it unto him there- with. 8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the 3/ Urim and the Thummim. 9 And he put the 4/^' 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 stabernacle and all that was therein, and sanc- tified them. 11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, both the ^-"'laver and its foot, to sanctify them. 12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 29. 41. '"' Ex. 3. 4. " Ex. 34. 32. 2 or, consecra- tion. CHAP. 8 " Ex. 4. 14. J Zech. 3. 3. <= Gen. 15. 9. dLeauen. vers. 2, 26; Lev. 10. 12. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33.) * John 10. 9. /Ex.3. 4. (f John 10. 9. h Ex. 4. 14. i Ex. 28. 4. J Ex. 28. 30. k Ex. 28. 4. I Ezk. 21. 25. '"Ex. 30. 18. " I Tim. 5. 23. " Dan. 7. 24. P Sanctify, holy. (O.T.). Lev. 27. 14-22. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) 1 Gen. 15. 9. »■ Ex. 28. 3. 1 See Ex. 29. 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 4, 31, 33i 35- 3 that is, the Lights and the Perfec- tions. 4 or, turban. 5 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 6 or, bound headtlres. 7 Heb. cover. 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 ^^iaid 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 ''atonement upon it. 16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kid- neys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar. 17 But the bullock, and its hide, its flesh, and its 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 !Zram. 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 no 8 26] LEVITICUS [914 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 un- leavened bread, that \vas 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 olfer- ing 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 sa- vour: 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 "con- secration it vv^as Moses' part; as the Lord commanded Moses. 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood vi^hich 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 sanc- tified 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 con- gregation : and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of scon- secrations, as I commanded, say- ing, 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 con- gregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end : for seven days shall he conse- crate you. 34 As he hath done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an Jatonement for you. 35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congre- gation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am com- manded. 36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. CHAP. 8 * Ex. 29. 24.'^ I Gen. 13. 9. « Ex. 23. 5. '' Ex. 4. 14. '" Zech. 3. 3. ^ John 10. 5. y Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. CHAP. 9 " Ex. 3. 4. * Ex. 4. 14. •^ Lev. ID. 5. d Ex. 29. 41. •^ Num. 14. 21. / Dan. 7. 24. ^ Lev. 8. 16. k Lev. 4. S. i Lev. 4. 11; 8. 17- y Lev. i.s;8.i9. ■^ Lev. 8. 20. I Lev. 8. 21. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in ver. 23. CHAPTER 9. 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, with- out 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 -^^meal offering min- gled with oil : for to day the LORD will appear unto you. 5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the 1 ta- bernacle 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 atone- ment for them ; as the LORD com- manded. 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 Ex. 4. 14. d Ex. 30. I. ^ Miracles (O.T.). vers. I, 2; Num.11. 1-3. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I- 10.) /Ex. 3-4- 3 Num. 14. 21. '» Num. 3. 30. i Ex. 6. 18. .;• Ex. 6. 23. i John 10. 9. ' I Tim. I. 9 2 Tim. 3. 2 Heb. 10. 29. '" Leauen. Lev. 23. 6-17. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33-) " Ex. 29. 24. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in ver. 9. iia 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 itabernacle of the con- gregation, lest ye die : for the anoint- ing 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 or 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 differ- ence between holy and ^unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the chil- dren 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 meal 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 these are 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 10 i6] LEVITICUS [II 27 statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded. 16 And Moses diligently sought the '^goat of the sin offering, and, be- hold, it was burnt: and he was angry with /Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of !Z Aaron who 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 ''atone- ment 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 p?ace, as I commanded. 19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Be- hold, 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. AND the Lord spake unto ^Mo- - ses and to '^ Aaron, saying unto them, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 it cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; it is unclean unto you. 5 And the iconey, because it chew- eth the cud, but divideth not the hoof ; it is unclean unto you. 6 And the share^ because it chew- eth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; it is unclean unto you. 7 And the/ swine, though it divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet it cheweth not the cud ; it 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 ail that are in the waters : whatsoever hath fins CHAP. 10 Lev. 16. 5. ^' Ex. 6. 23. i Ex. 4. 14. ' Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16 17. CHAP. II " Ex. 3. 4. * Ex. 4. 14. ' vers. 3-7, 26 Deut. 14. 6-8; 6. 6-9 Josh. I. 9 Psa. I. 2; 119. 97 Acts 17. II I Tim. 4. 15. J vers. 3-7, 26 Deut. 14. 6-8 Job 23. 12 Psa. 119. 97, 103 Jer. 15. 16 Mt. 4. 4 Lk. 4. 4 2 Tim. 2. 15. /Deut. 14. 8 Isa. 65. 4; 66. 3> 17 Mt. 7. 6 Lk. 15. 16 2 Pet. 2. 22. 3 Gen. 8. 7. h Lev. 14. 8; Num. 19. 10 22; 31. 24. Lev. II. 3. I Heb. sha- phan. 2 Heb. arne- beth. 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 abomina- tion unto you : 11 They shall be even an abomi- nation 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 its kind; 15 Every ,?^raven after its kind; 16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after its kind, 17 And the little owl, and the cor- morant, and the great owl, 18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, 19 And the stork, the heron after its 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 up- on 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 its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grass* hopper after its 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 un- clean : whosoever toucheth the car- case of them shall be unclean until the even, 25 And whosoever beareth aught of the carcase of them ^^shall wash his clothes, and be unclean imtil 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 th^m shall be unclean. 27 And whatsoever goeth upon its 113 II 28] LEVITICUS [12 5 paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are un- clean unto you: v/hoso 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 he unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth ; the wea- sel, and the mouse, and the ^tortoise after its kind, 30 And the ferret, and the chame- leon, 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 are dead, shall be unclean until the even. 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; v/hether it he any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it he, wherein any work is done, 7 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 falletli, whatsoever is in it shall be un- clean ; 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 he oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are un- clean, 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 un- clean. 37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall he clean. 38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their car- case 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 un- til the even. 40 And ''he that eateth of the car- case of it shall wash his clothes, and CHAP. II j Lev. 15. 12. '•• Lev. 6. 28; 15. I Lev. 17. 15; 22.8 Deut. 14. 21 Ezk. 4. 14; 44. 31- Ex. 12. 13. Gen. 3 or, great lizard. 4 or, many feet. Gen. 17. 10. 114 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 he 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 abomina- tion. 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 your- selves, 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 yon 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 diiference between the unclean and the clean, and be- tween the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. CHAPTER 12. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, - saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, saying, If a woman have con- ceived 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 ^circum- cised. 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days ; she shall touch no hal- lowed 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 12 6] LEVITICUS [13 22 shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days. 6 And when the days of her puri- fying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a '^iamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young ^pigeon, or a turtle- dove, for a sin offering, unto the '^door of the itabernacie of the con- gregation, 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 fema.le. 8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtle doves, 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. 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 spriest, 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 g'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 b John I. 29 I Pet. 1.18,19. Lev. I. 14. d John 10. 9. • Ex. 29. 33 Lev. i6. 17. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25.22. CHAP. 13 " Ex. 3. 4. * Ex. 4. 14. '^ Zech. 14. 12. d Ex. 4. 6. ' Deut. 17.8, 9; 24. 8 Mai. 2. 7 Lk. 17. 14. 3 Psa. 19. 12 John 13. 8, 10. « IN um. 12. 10, 12 2 Ki. 5. 27 2 Chr. 26. 19 John 3. 19, 20. » Psa. 71 20. j Ex. 4. 6. i< Zech. 14. 12. I Isa. I. 18. or, look. "5 cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again : 8 And if the priest see that, be- hold, 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 Uiving 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 7 leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pro- nounce 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 un- clean: foj' 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 showed 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 pro- nounce 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 somewhat dark ; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: 22 And if it spread much abroad in 13 23] LEVITICUS [13 47 the skin, then the priest shall pro- nounce him unclean : it is a plague. 23 But if the bright spot stay in its place, and spread not, it is a burn- ing boil; and the priest shall pro- nounce him clean. 24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the "living 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 burn- ing: wherefore the priest shall pro- nounce him unclean : it is the plague of leprosy. 26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there 6e no white hair in the bright spot, and it 6e 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 its place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark ; it is a ris- ing 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 : CHAP. 13 " Psa. 71. 20. ' I Ki. 8. 38 2 Chr. 6. 29 Isa. I. 5. P vers. 4, 6. 1 vers. 7, 27. Lev. 21. 5. Zech. 14. 12. 'Ezk.24. 17, 22 Mic. 3. 7. Lam. 4. 15. ''Num. 5. 2; 12. 14 2 Ki.7.3; 15.5 2 Chr. 26. 21 Lk. 17. 12. y vers. 47-59 Lev. 19. 19 Deut. 22. n Isa. I. 18 Heb. 9. 19. Zech. 3. 3. 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 pro- nounce 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 un- clean. 37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean : and the priest shall pro- nounce 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 un- clean: 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 habita- tion be. 47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a Jwoollen -garment, or a linen garment ; u6 13 48] LEVITICUS [14 13 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 showed 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 w^arp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, v,^herein 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 its colour, and the plague be not spreadj it is unclean; thou Shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it he bare within or without. 56 And if the priest look, and, be- hold, 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 gar- ment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin ; it is a spreadingp/a^we ; 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. CHAP. 14 Ex. 4. 6. 'Zech. 14. 12. ■■ vers. 4, 6, 4( SI- 52 Num. 19. 6 Josh. 2. 18, 2 Isa. i.i8;63. Heb. 9. 19. <^ Psa. 51. 7. ^ Lev. 14. 4. /John II. 44. 9 Gen. 3. 5. '■ John Ex. 29. 24. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in ver. 23. CHAPTER 14. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, - saying, 2 This shall be the lav/ 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 ot 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 pro- nounce 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 ''^meal offer- ing, 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 itabernacle 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 oflfer- 117 14 14] LEVITICUS [1439 ing 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 sojne 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 be- fore 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 shall he 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 meal 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 meal 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 offer- ing, 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 ta- bernacle 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 "v/ave offering be- fore the Lord : 25 And he shall kill the lamb of tiie trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the CKAP. 14 Ic Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. I Lev. I. 14. ' John 10. g. " Ex. 29. z] '' Ex. 29. 41. *■ Ex. 29. 33. Zech. 14. 12. Ex. 3. 4. Ex. 4. 14. Mai. 3. 12. '■' Gen. 17. 8. y Gen. 12. 7; 13 17; 17. 8 Dent. 32. 49. 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 Kven such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the i'meal 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 ^'Mo- ses and unto ^ Aaron, saying, 34 When ye be come into the Mand of -^Canaan, which I give to Ji'you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in p. house of the land of your possession ; 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, say- ing, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house : 36 Then the priest shall command that they 2empty 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 hollo\ / strakes, greenish or reddish, v»?hich 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: 118 14 40] LEVITICUS [15 II 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 mortar, and shall plaster 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 plastered; 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 mortar 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 plas- tered: then the priest shall pro- nounce 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 run- ning 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: " Lev. 13. SI Zech. 5. 4. " I Ki. g. 6, 9 2 Ki. 10. 27; 18. 4 Jer. 52. 13. ' Zech. 14. 12. *■ Lev. 14. 4. '' Psa. SI. 7. 'J Zech. 3. 3. CHAP. 15 « Ex. 3. 4. Ex. 4. 14. 10 j\ um. 19. 7, John 13. 10 I Cor. 6. II Eph. s. 26 Tit. 3- 5 Heb. 10. 22. d Lev. 15. s. 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 .^'gar- ment, 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. AND the Lord spake unto ^^Moses - and to ''^ Aaron, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 unclean- ness 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 119 15^2] LEVITICUS [l6 3 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 itabernacle 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 copu- lation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. 18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copula- tion, they shah both A'bathe them- selves 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 ever^'^ thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be un- clean: 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 un- clean 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. CHAP. 15 • Lev. I. 14. /John 10. 9. Lev. 15. 5. '« Lev. I. 14. John 10. 9. J Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in ver. 29. 2 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25.8. CHAP. 16 " Israel (/i/s- iory). vers. 1- 34; Num.3. 1- 10. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26) Ex. 3. 4. Ex.4. 14. Ex. 26. 36. d Ex. 25. 17. Ex. 25. 10. 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 un- cleanness 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 her- self seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle doves, or two young ^^pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the ^door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 30 And the priest stjall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering ; and the priest shall make an 7 atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall ye separate the chil- dren of Israel from their unclean- ness; that they die not in their un- cleanness, when they defile my 2tabernacle 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 there- with; 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. 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 pZace within the ^vail before the ^^mercy seat, which is upon the ^ark; that he die not: for I will ap- pear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the 120 l6 4] LEVITICUS [l6 24 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 ^iwitve 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 congre- gation of the children of Israel two kids of the ^goats for ajsin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for him- self, 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 Uabemacle 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 it /or 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 bul- lock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shgrll make an atone- ment 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 tes- timony, 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 east- ward; 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 ia for the peo- ple, and bring its blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he CHAP. 16 / Gen. 15. 9. S Ex. 28. 4. ^ Zech. 3. 3. t vers. 1-34 Isa. 53. 5 Rom. 4. 35 2 Cor. 5. 21 I Pet. 2. 24; 3. J Sacrifice {typical), vers. 2-34; Lev. 17. n. (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. iS.) « Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. ' Lev. 16. 5. '" John 10. 9. " Ex. 4. 14. > vers. 8-10 Psa. 22. i8 Prov. 16. 33; 18. 18 Jon. I. 7 Mt. 27. 35 Mk. 15. 24 Lk. 23. 34 John 19. 24 Acts I. 26. P Lev. 10. 1 Num. 16. 6-46 1 Ki. 7. 50 2 Chr. 4. 22 Heb. 9. 4 Rev. 8. 3, 5. Ex. 30. I. Ex. 26. 36. Ex. 25. 17. > vers. 1-34 Ex. 30. 11-16 Lev. I. 1-4, 5- 17; 4- 1-35; 5- 1-19; 17. 11; 2 Chr. 29. 24 Rom. 5. II. "' Dan. 7. 24. " 1 Tim. 5. 22. "•' Lev. 5. 5. ^ Mai. 3. 12. y Zech. 3. 3. tent 0/ 'ting. Ex. 1 or, meeting. 25. 22. So in vers. 16, 17, 20, 23, 33. 2 or, for. 121 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 atone- ment for the holyp/ace, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their trans- gressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their unclean- ness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goethin to make an ^atone- ment 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 chil* dren of Israel. 20 And when he hath made an end of making atonement in 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 it 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 it away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon it all their iniquities unto a -^and 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. i6 25] LEVITICUS [17 13 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 sojoumeth 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 he 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 "^conse- crate 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 -^^ar- ments: 33 And he shall make an atone- ment 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 atone- ment for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded '^^Moses. CHAPTER 17. 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 com- manded, saying, 3 What man soever there he of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or CHAP. 16 ' Lev. 15. 5. " Lev. IS- 5- l> Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. ^ Ex. 28. 3. d Zech. 3. 3. Law {of Moses). Lev. 26. 2. (Ex. 19. i; Gal. 3. I- 39.) CHAP. 17 " Ex. 4. 14. 6 Lev. x6. g. * John 10. g. d 2 Cor. g. 19. « Gen. 9. 6. / Hairy ones. Dent. 32. 17; 2 Chr. n. 15. !^ Sacrifice ^ {typical). See prophetic, Gen. 3. IS- (Gen. 4. 4; Heb. 10. 18.) I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 5, 6, 9. 2 or, tent- diuelliny. Ex. 25.8. 3 or, satyrs. Lit. hairy ones. 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 con- gregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the 2tabernacle 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 un- to 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 he of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, that offer- etli a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the con- gregation, 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 atone- ment for your .^"souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto thechildren of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among 3^ou, 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. 122 17 H] LEVITICUS [l8 26 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: who- soever 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 iintil 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. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, ■ saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 ^Canaans 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 there- in: 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 naked- ness. 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 theirs is thine own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy CHAP. 17 Lev. 15. 5. CHAP. 18 Ex. 12. 13. i Mai, 3. 12. ■ Gen. 17. 8. d Rom. 10. s Gal. 3. 13. / Prov. 6. 25, 33- 3 Rom, 7. 14. h 2 Ki. 16. 3. i Lev. 20 2, 3, 1 Ki. II. 7 2 Ki. 23. 10 Jer. 32. 35 Amos 5. 36 Acts 7. 43. Rom. I. 27. * Mai. 3. 12. I or, set them apart to Mo- 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 kins- woman. 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 v/ife; 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 daugh- ter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen : it is v/ickedness. 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 ipass through the ^^fire to ^ Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. 22 Thou shalt not lie with 7* man- kind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand be- fore 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 : there- fore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the ^land itself vom- iteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abom- 123 i8 27] LEVITICUS [1923 inations ; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that so- journetti among you ; 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who 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. 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 ajn the LORD your God. 5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it lat your own will. 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught 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 the fallen grapes of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. 19 » Sabbath. vers. 3, 30; Lev. 23. 3. (Gen. 2. 3; Mt. 12. 1.) i Ex. 20. 3-5 2 Ki. 17. 33-35 Jer. 35, 15 Dan. g. 27; 12. II Hos. 3. 4, 5 Mt. 4. 10; 24. 15 1 Cor, 8. 4-6; 10. 14 Col. 3. s 2 Thes. 2. 3-9 I John 5. 21 Rev. 13. 1-18 " Ex. 33. 4. 'i Lev. 23. 10, 22 Ruth 2. 3-14 Psa. 126. 5 Prov. 22. 8 Hos. 8. 7; 10. 12. 13 Mt. 13. 30, 39 Gal. 6. 7-9 Rev. 14.15,16. * Ex. 23. 16. / vers. 9, 10 Lev. 23. 22 Ruth 2. 2-23 Mic. 7. 1, 2 Mt. 15. 27 I Cor. 15. 22 Rev. 20. 4. S Lev. 19. 9. h Gen. 29. 15. t Psa. 119. 165, marg. Isa. 8. 14; 28. 16; 57. 14 Jer. 6. 21 Rom. 9.32, 33; 14. 21 I Cor. 8. 9. J Prov. 9. 8; 27. Jer. IS. TS Lk. 17. 3 i Phil. 2. IS 1 Tim. 5. I, 20 2 Tim. 4. 2 Tit.i. i3;2. 15 Rev. 3. 19. i Zech. 3. 3. Lev. 13. 47. ' Rom. 7. 14. John 10. 9. Gen. 15. 9. P Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. 1 Forgiveness. Num. 15. 25, 26, 28. (Lev. 4. 20; Mt. 26. 28.) Psa. 32. I. ''Mai. 3. 12. 1 or, so that it may be re- ceived from you with favour, 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. n Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. 12 Aiid ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou pro- fane 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 : 1 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 rather /rebuke thy neighbour, and not in- cur sin because of him. 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the chil- dren of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: 1 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 ; there shall be a scourging : 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 stabernacle of the con- gregation, even a ^ram for a trespass offering. 22 And the priest shall make an /atonement for him with the ram ot 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 124 19 24] LEVITICUS [20 14 shall count the fruit thereof as un- circumcised : 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 3'e use en- chantment, 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|: lam the LORD. 29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her" to be a harlot; 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. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, - saying, 2 Again, thou shalt say to the chil- dren of Israel, Whosoever he he of the children of Israel, or of the CHAP. 19 ' Lev. 26. z Psa. 89. 7; III. 9 Heb. 12.9,28. * Ex. 12. 13. CHAP. 20 "Gen. 3. 5. Deut. 17. 2-5. Ex. 20. 3. ciLev 19 31- «Heb 12 14. /Ex. Deut Ezk. 31- ■ 14 37- 13 . 2 28. ?Ex. Prov 21. 17 20. h Lev. Deut John 18 22 8.4 20 22 i Lev. 18. Deut. 27 8 33- J Gen. Lev. Deut Jud. 19- 5 18. 22 23.17 9.22. I Lev. Deut 18. 27 17 23' strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Moiech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I Vv^U set my face against that man, ajid will cut him off from among his people ; because he hath given of his seed unto Moiech, 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 Moiech, 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 Moiech, 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: y I am the LORD who doth 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 he 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 adul- terer 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 he upon them. 12 Andif a man lie with his daugh- ter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon. them. 13 Jli a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomina- tion: 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 123 20 15] LEVITICUS [21 12 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 na- kedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a disgraceful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sis- ter'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 na- kedness; 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 customs of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed ail 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, ^who have /separated you from other peoples. 25 Ye shall therefore put differ- ence between clean beasts and un- clean, 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, CHAP. 2c I Mai. 3. 12. ™ 1 Ki. I!. ?5. Deut. 5. 16. ver. 26 Ex. 19. s; 33. 16 Deut. 7.6; 14. I Ki. 8. S3. '' Separation. vers. 24-26; Num. 6. 1-8. (Gen. 12. i; 2Cor.6.i4-i7.) * I Sam. 28. 9. CHAP. 21 Ex. 4, 14. !> Isa. 3. 24; 15. 2; 22. X2 Jer. 16. 6 Ezk. 37. 21. = Ex. 28. 3. ctZcch. 3. 3. 126 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 the nations, 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. 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: there- fore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife that is a harlot, 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 there- fore ; for he offereth the bread Qf 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 harlot, she profaneth her father : she shall be burnt with fire. 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whox 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 sanctu- 21 ^3] LEVITICUvS [22 i6 ary of his God; for the -^crown of I 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 Mo- ses, saying, 17 Speak unto .f Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in all 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 ap- proach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a iflat 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 ^vaii, 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 And7Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. CHAPTER 22. 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 in all your gene- rations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel CHAP, 21 Ezk. 21. 25. / Deut. 24. 1-3. Ex. 4. 14. fe Gen. 3. s. Ex. a6. 36. J Ex. 3. 4. CHAP. 22 Ex. 4. 14. Ex. 4. 14. Deut. 24. 1-3. / Eccl. II. 9. 137 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 run- ning 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, whatso- ever 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 with 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 food. 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 bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall add 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 incur the ini- quity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 22 IT] LEVITICUS [2313 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, Whoso- ever 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 offer- ings, which they will offer unto the Lord for a burnt offering; 19 Ye shall offer acceptably 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 sac- rifice of peace offerings uiito the Lord to i^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 J maimed, or having 2a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offer- ing by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lack- ing 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 sa stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their ^cor- ruption is in them, and blemishes he in them: they shall not be ac- cepted 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 thence- forth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And whether it he cow or ^ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. 29 And when ye will offer a sacri- fice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it that ye be accepted. 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: lam the LORD. 31 Therefore shall ye keep my CHAP. 22 9 Lev. 16, 5, '■- 2 Chr. 36. 22. « Gen. 28. 20. J Mt. 15. 30, 31; 18.8 Mk. 9. 43 Lk. 14. 13, 21. k Mai. 3. 12. I Gen. 6. ii. ™ Ex. 22. 30. " Mai. 3. 12. " Ex. iz. 13. I or, mane a special vow. 2 or, soren. 3 or, the hand ofaforeirner. 4 or, she goat. CHAP. 33 '^ vers. 4, 5, 6, 10, IS, 24, 27, 34, 37. 38 Ex. 10. 9; 12. 14-16 2 Chr. 7. 8-11 Zech. 14. 16- 19 Mk. 14. I, 2 John 5. 1; 7. h Ex. 12. 1.5. « Sabbath. Num. 15. 32- 36. (Gen. 2. 3; Mt. 12. I.) d Ex. 12. XI. ' Leaven, vers. 6-17; Num. 6. 15, 17, 19. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33.) / Lev. 19. 9. ff Ex. 23. i5. n vers. 10-15 Gen. 37. 7 Ruth 2. 7, 15 Psa. 126. 6. » John 6. 39, 40, 44 ' I Cor. 15. 23 I Thes. 4. 13- 18 Jas. I. 18. y Ex. 29. 41. 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 who have hallowed you, 33 That brought you out of the ^aand of ^Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD. CHAPTER 23. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, J^ 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 donq: 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 ^pass- over. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month us the feast of ^unlea- vened 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 Mo- ses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, and say unto them. When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall / reap the ^har- vest 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 sab- bath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb with- out blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13 And the -/meal offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour 128 23I4J LEVITICUS [2338 mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour : and the drink offering there- ' ^ Gen. 13. e. of shall be of wine, the fourth part j of an hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, I 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 through- out your generations in all your dwellings. CHAP. 23 I Ex. 25. 24. 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 meal offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habi- tations 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 bul- lock, and two -^rams : they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meal 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 iam.bs 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 dwell- ings throughout your generations. 22 And when ye ''reap the -^harvest of your ^land, thou shalt not imake 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 Is- Lev. 23. : Gen. IS- 9. •P Lev. iC. 5. Lev. 19. 9. Ex. 23. 16. < Mai. 3. 12. Lev. 19. 9. Ex. 3. 15. '"Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. I or, wholly 3 or, closing festiual. 129 rael, saying, In the seventh m.onth, in the first day of the m.onth, shall ye have a sabbath, a ^'memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convo- cation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offer- ing 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 offer- ing made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no work in that sam.e day : for it is a day of atone- ment, 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 through- out 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 Is- rael, saying. The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of 2tabernacles /or 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 offer- ing made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a -^'meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon its day: 38 Beside the sabbaths of ths 23 39] LEVITICUS [2423 Lord, and beside your gifts, and be- side all yourJvovvs, 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 gath- ered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall he a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of enclosed 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 cele- brate 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. 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 testi- mony, in the itabernacle of the con- gregation, shall ^Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually : if shall be a statute for ever in all your gene- rations. 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 frankin- cense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a ^memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. CHAP. 23 y Gen. 23. 20. Ex. 15. 27. " Ex. 13. 13. CHAP. 24 " Zech. 4. n. b Gen. 15. 17. "^ Ex. 26. 36. d Ex. 4. 14. « Ex. 3. IS. / Ex. 1. 13. •5' vers. 11-16 Psa. 74. 10, 18 Ezk. 20. 27, 28 Mk. 3. ^-30 Rev. 2. 9; 13. 1-6; 17. 3. h Ex. 3. 4. i Josh. ig. 47. J I Tim. 5. 22. fc Num. 15. 30. I Gen. 3. 5. "■ Acts 3. 21. 1 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 2". 22. 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, bein£ taken from the children of Is- rael 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/Egyp- tian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israel- itish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp ; 11 And the Israelitish woman's son i'^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 showed 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 J lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying. Whoso- ever 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 congre- gation 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 custom 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 chil- dren of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the 130 25^] LEVITICUS [2528 camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. CHAPTER 25. AND the Lord spake unto ^Moses - in mount '^Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, and say unto them, When ye come into the 'land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sab- bath 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 ofthe land shall be food for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth v^ith thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be food. 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 trum- pet of the .^jubilee 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 through- out all the land unto all the inhabi- tants thereof: it shall be a ^jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubilee 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 jubilee ; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the in- crease thereof out of the field. 13 In the year of this jubilee ye CHAP. Ex. 3. 4. Ex. 34. 33. Mai. 3. !2. d Mai. 3. 12. Ex. 23. 16. / Lev. 19. 9. 3 Lev. as. 10. '> Ex. 2g. 33 Lev. 16. 17. « vers. 8-53 Lev. 27. 17-24 Num. 36. 4 Lk.4, 18, 19,21 Acts 3. 19-21 Rom. 8. 18-23 Heb. 4.1-11:9. * Acts 3. 21. 131 shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy est aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not op- press one another: 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and accord- ing 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 few- ness 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 stat- utes, 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 bless- ing 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 the fruits come in ye shall eat o/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 pos- session ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his pos- session, 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 jubi- 25 29] LEVITICUS [2555 lee : and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his posses- sion. 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 with- in 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 genera- tions: it shall not go out in the ^jubilee. 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 re- deemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. 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 of the Levites does not redeem it, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their pos- session among the children of Israel. 34 But the field of the 2suburbs of their cities m.ay 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, as ifhewere a stranger, or a sojourner ; so shall he 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 ajn the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of ^Egypt, to give you the Hand of '^Canaan, and to be your God. 39 And if thy brother that dwell- eth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not com- pel 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 jubilee: 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. CHAF. 25 ' Lev. 25. 10. ' Gen. 15. 6. " Ex. 6. 25. Ex. 22. 25. PGen. 17. 13. 1 Gen. 17. 3. Mai. 3. 12. Ex. 12. 13. ' Lev. 26. 33,=33 Ezk. 36. 24; 37. 21, 28 Isa. II. 10; 60. 3; 66. 19 Lk. 21. 24 Acts 15. 7, 14, 17; 28. 28 Rom. II. 11-25 I Cor. 10. 32 Eph. 2. II. " Imputation. Lev. 27. i3. (Lev. 2S. so; Jas. 2. 23.) Lev. 25. I or, for a full year shall he have the right of redemp- tion. 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 But thy bondmen, and thy bond- maids, whom thou mayest hold, s/ia/Z be of the ^nations 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, v%rhich they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for j^our children after you, to inherit them for a posses- sion; 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 breth- ren may redeem him : 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or anyttiaX. 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 w^as sold to him unto the year of jubilee : 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 be- hind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemp- tion out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and accord- ing 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 ^jubilee, both he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of 13a 26 I] LEVITICUS [26 28 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. YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing limage, 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 ray 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 Gk)d, and ye shall be my people. 13 I am. the LORD your God, who 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 CHAP. 25 Mai. 3. la. ' Ex. 12. 13. CHAP. 26 '^ Law {of Moses}. Lev. 37. 1-34. (Ex. 19. i; Gal. 3. i-2q.) Lev. iQ. 30. "^ vers. 15, 30, 43, 44- d Mt. II. 29. ' Lev. 26. II. /Gen. 3. s- SI Psa. 59. 12 Prov. 16. 19 Isa. 28. 1-3 Dan. 4. 37 Lk. I. 51 Jas. 4. 6 I Pet. s. S- Ex. 25. 3. Zech. 14. 12. J Ex. s. 3- iDeut. 14.28,29 Psa. 16. 11; 17. 15; 22. 26; 34. 10; 37. 18, 19 Prov. 27. 20 Eccl. 1. 8; 4. 8 Isa. 55. 2 Hag. 1. 6 John 6. 51 Phil. 4, 19. I or, pillar. 2 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 3S..8. 3 or, penalty. me, and will not do all these com- mandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my stat- utes, or if your soul ^abhor my judg- ments, 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 pimish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the i^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 cat- tle, 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 ^breach of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the 7 pestilence among you; and ye shall be de- livered 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 133 26 29] LEVITICUS [277 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 v/ill not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the ^land into /desolation : and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, 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 he in your enemies' land; eve;z 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 nations, 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 con- trary 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 uncircum- cised hearts be humbled, and they CHAP. 26 « Isa. 51. 17-23 Jer. 6. 11; 25. 15-23 Ezk. s. 13; 36. 18-28 Zech. 8. 2, 3, 23- ™ Deut. n. 2 Isa. S3. 5 Jer. 30. 14; 31. 18 Heb. 13. 8. Mai. 3. 12. P Deut. 29. 22- 28 Isa. 1. 7,.8; 6. 11-13 Lam. 5. 18 Ezk. 33. 28,29 Mic.3. 12— 4.1 Lk. 2i.t24. 1 Deut. 8. 19,20 Josh. 23. 13,16 Esth. 4. 16 Psa. 1. 6 Prov. 29. 18 Mk. 4. 38 Lk. 13. 33, 35 John 10. 28 2 Pet. 3. 6, 9. Lev. s- S- Gen. 32. 28. ' Gen. 17. 19. Ex. 3. 4. CHAP. 27 " Law {of Moses), vers. 1-34; Deut. 5. 1-22. (Ex. 19. i; Gal. 3.1-29.) * Gen. 28. 20. Gen. 23. 15. then accept of the punishment oi their iniquity : 42 Then will I remember my cov- enant with ^Jacob, and also my cov- enant 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: be- cause, 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 re- member the covenant of their ances- tors, whom I brought forth out of the land of ^ Egypt in the sight of the nations, 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. AND the Lord spake unto ^Moses, - saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 esti- mation shall be fifty ^shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanc- tuary. 4 And if it 6e 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 she- kels of silver. 7 And if it be from sixty years old and above ; if it be a. male, then thy 134 27 8] LEVITICUS [2734 estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he be poorer than thy esti- mation, then he shall present him- self before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ^ability that vowed shall the priest value him. 9 And if it he 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 ex- change thereof shall be holy. 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacri- fice 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 there- of unto thy estimation. 14 And when a man shall ^sanc- tify 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 ^jubilee, according to thy es- timation it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall '^reckon unto him the money accord- ing to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, 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 re- deemed any more. 21 But the field, when it goeth out CHAP. 27 d Ezra 2. 69 Neh. 5. 8 Dan. I. 4 Mt. 25. IS Acts II. zq I Pet. 4. n. ' Sanctify, holy (O.T.). vers. 14-22; Josh. 5. 15. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) / Gen. 17. 12. 3 Lev. 25. 10. ft Imputation. vers. 18, 23; I Sam. 22. 15. (Lev. 25. so; Jas. 2. 23.,! t vers. 1-34 Num. 18. 14 Acts 17. 23. / Mai. 3. 12. k Gen. 23. 15. I Lev. 27. 21. ■ Gen. 14. 20. " MaL 3. 12. Ex. 3. 4. P Ex. 34. 32. I or, that for which he ex- changed it. in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field ^devoted ; the pos- session 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 un- to him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubilee : and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord. 24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the /land did be- long. 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, zsthe LORD'S : it is holy unto the LORD. 31 And if a man will at all redeem aught 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 what- soever 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 ichange thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded ^Mo- ses for the children of Israel in mount /Sinai. 135 I ^] THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED NUMBERS [I 26 CHAPTER 1. AND the Lord spake unto ^Moses - in the wilderness of ^Sinai, in the itabernacle 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 con- gregation 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 up- ward, 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 o//Reuben; <^Ehzur 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; -^Gama- liel the son of JPedahzur. 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;yEliasaph 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 that are expressed by ^/lerrnames: CHAP. I « Ex. 3. 4. * Ex. 3.;. 32. « Mai. 3. 12. rf Ex. 12. 13. " Ex. 4. 14. /Josh. Z2. 34. y Num. 2. 10. h Num. 1. 23. i Num. 2. 12. ;' Num. 2. 12; 7. 36, 41; 10. 19. /' Gen. 49. 10. I Num. 2. 3; 7. 13, 17; 10. 14 Ruth 4. 20 iChr. 2. 10,11. '" Num. 7.12,17 Ruth 4. 19, 20. " Num. 2. 5. " Num. 2. s; 7. 18, 2-;; 10. 15 1 Chr, 2. 14; 15. 24; 24. 6; 26. 4 2 Chr. 17. 7 J 35- 9 Ezra 10. 22 Neh. 12.21,36. P Num. 2. s; 7. 18, 23; 10. 15. 4 Mt. 4- 13- *■ Num. 2. 7. ^ Num. 2. 7; 7. 24; 10. 16. t Gen. 41. 39. " Num. I. 33. ^ Num. 2. 18. "" Num. 2. 18; 7.48, 53; 10.22 I Chr. 7. 26. '^ Num. 2. 2057. 54- y Num. 2. 20. ' Num. 1. 37. " Num. 2. 22; 7. 60-65; 10. 24. J Num.. 2. 22; 7. 60. ' Josh. 19. 47. d Num. 2. 25; 7. 66-71. "^ Num. 2. 25. / Gen. 30. 13. 9 Num. 2.27; 7. 72, 77; 10. 26. 'iNum. 2.27; 7. 72, 77; 10. 26. «■ Gen. 30. ir, J Num. 2. 14. ': Num.2. 14; 7. 42, 47; 10. 20. I Num. 7. 78- 83; 10. 27. '" Num. 2. 29. " u-x. 4. 14. " Ex. 34. 32. P Gen. 49. 3. * Josh. 22. 34. "■ Num. 10. 19 Josh. 19.9; 21.9 Jud. I. 3, 17 1 Chr. 4. 42; 12. 25 2 Chr. 15. 9 Rev. 7. 7. * Gen. 30. II. ' Gen. 49. 10. I or, tent meeting '»L. 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, bj'' the house of their fa- thers, 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 wilder- ness of ^ Sinai. 20 And the children of /Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their gene- rations, 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 fami- lies, 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 fami- lies, 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 fami- lies, 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; 136 I 27] NUMBERS [I io 27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thou- sand and six hundred. CHAP. 1 Mt. 4. 13- 28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their fami- "Gen.41.39. lies, by the house of their fathers, | according to the number of the j names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go » Num. i. 33. forth to war ; | 29 Those that were numbered of | them, even of the tribe of Issachar, I 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 ^^Eph- raim, 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, eve/z of the tribe of -^ Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hun- dred. 34 Of the children of J^Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of - oen. 30. 13. the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war : 35 Those that were numbered of j j ex. 4. them, even of tl^e tribe of Manas- seh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. " Num. 2. 18 Josh. 16. 4; 17. Jud. I. 29 Isa. II. 13 Jer. 7. 15 EzK. 37. 16 Hos. 4. 17; 7. 8; 8. 11; II. 8. V vers. 34, 35 Gen. 41. 51. Num. I. 37. ■* Deut. 27. 12 Josh. 18. 20, 28 Jud. I. 21; 20. I Sam. 10. 21 I Ki. 12. 21 Jer. 17. 26 Rom. 11. 1 Rev. 7. 8. ' Josh. 19. 47. 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. Ex. 6. 25. 2 or, tent- dwelling. Ex 25. 8. So in vers. 50, 50, SI, 51, S3. 53- 137 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 fami- lies, 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 w^ere 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 ot 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, v^ei-e fifty and three thousand and four hundred. 44 These are those that were numbered, whom 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 num- bered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hun- dred 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 Oniythoushaltnot 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 2tabernacle of tes- timony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels there- of; and they shall minister imto it, I 51 NUMBERS [2 24 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 mail by his own camp, and every man by his own ■ Ex. 12. 13. I Num. i6. 10. ™ Gen. /jg. 5. " Gen. 46. n. " Num. 3. 29. P Ex. 6. 17. * Ex. 6. 18. >■ Ex. 6. 18. « Ex. 6. 18. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 3 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in vers. 8, 23, 25, 26. 2?) 35. 36, 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 Mo- ses, 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 v>;hole congre- gation before the itabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the ^tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep all the in- struments 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 Mo- ses, saying, 12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openethsthe womb am.ong the children of Israel : therefore the Le- vites 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 ac- cording to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 17 And these v.rere 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 Aiid the sons of Kohath by their families; ^/Amram, and Izehar, 'He- bron, and ^Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari by their 139 3 21] NUMBERS [345 families ; ^ Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites ac- cording 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 num- bered 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 he Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the taberna- cle, and the tent, the covering there- of, and the ^''hanging for the ^'door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 26 And the ^^hangings of the court, and the curtain for the ^doorofthe 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 JKohath was the family of the ^Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the f Hebronites, and the family of the ''^Uzzielites: these are the fami- lies 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 '^Ko- hath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. 30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Ko- hathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. 31 And their charge shall be the ^ark, and the table, and the candle- stick, 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 CHAP. 3 Ex. 6. ig. Ex, 26. ' John 10. 9. Ex. 26. 36. ' John 10. 9. y Num. 3. ag. ' Num. 4. 2, 4, 15; 7. 9; 16. X Josh. 21. 5, 20 I Chr. 15. 5, 23. 6. d Ex. 25. 10. Ex. 6. 23. Ex. 6. 25. 140 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 taber- nacle 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 congre- gation 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, whom 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 thou- sand. 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 num- ber 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 ; andthe 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 first- born 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 3 46] NUMBERS [419 Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle ; and the Le- vites 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 first- born of the children of Israel, who are more than the Levites ; 47 Thou Shalt even take five she- kels apiece by the poll, after the ^shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:) 48 And thou shalt give the7money, 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 three- score 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. 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 up- ward even until fifty years old, all that are fitted to do the work in the itabemacle 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 for- ward, 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 cover- ing 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 show- bread 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 J scarlet, and cover the CHAP. 3 i Gen. 23. 15. .;' Gen. 17. 12. !< Ex. 4. 14. i Gen. 17. 12. "' Ex. 6. 23. " Gen. 23. 15. CHAP. 4 " Ex. 3. 4. * Ex. 4. 14. •^ Num. 16. 10. 37, 39> 41, 43, 47- 2 or, cups to pour out withal. 3 or, tent- divelling. Ex. 25. 8. So in vers. 25, 26,31. 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 its b^'lamps, and its ^^ tongs, and its 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 cover- ing 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 7 censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basins, 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 per- taineth the oil for the light, and the sweet ^'^ incense, and the daily "meal offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the stabernacle, 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 141 4 20] NUMBERS [445 appoint them every one to his ser- vice 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 Mo- ses, 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 up- ward imtil fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to ^perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congrega- tion. 24 This is the service of the fami- lies of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 ^And they shall bear the cur- tains of the tabernacle, and the ta- bernacle 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 fami- lies 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 fami- lies, by the house of their fathers ; 30 From thirty years old and up- ward 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 con- gregation. 31 And ^^this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congrega- tion ; the -^boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the J'pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, 32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with CHAP. 4 !> Gen. 46. II. Gen. 26. 3. ' Num. 3. 25, 26. ' Ex. 26. 14. E.x. 26. 36. John 10. 9. John 10. 9. " Num. 3. 36, 37- Ex. 26. 15. Ex. 25. 9. 4 or, seal skin. S or, princes. all their ^instruments, and with all their service : and by name ye shall order 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 schief 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 up- ward 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 num- bered of the families of the Kohath- ites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom 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 up- ward 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 num- bered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congrega- tion, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the command- ment 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 up- ward 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 are those that were numbered of the families of the sons 142 4 4^] NUMBERS [5 21 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 num- bered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, 47 From thirty years old and up- ward 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 con- gregation, 48 Even those that were numbered of them, v/ere 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 accord- ing to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they num- bered of him, as the Lord com- manded Moses. CHAPTER 5. 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 Is- rael, 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 ^make complete restitution for his trespass with the principal there- of, 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, the trespass shall be recompensed unto the Lord, and shall be the priest's; beside the /ram of the 6^^^ atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. 9 And every offering of all the CHAP. 4 Gen. 46. II. i Ex. 6. 25. CHAP. 5 Ex. 4. 6. b Ex. 3. 4. d Lev. 5. s. ' vers. 7, 8 Ruth 2. 12 Jer. 25. 14 Lk. 14. 12, 14 Rom. 12. 17 I Cor. 3.11-15 Heb. 10. 30. /Gen. 15. 9. 9 Ex. 29. 33. fi Lev. 16. 17. « Rom. 7. 14. j Gen. 3. 5. * Ex. 20. 5. 'Ex.3 IS- "' Ex. 20. 5. " Gen. 24. 8. I or, te dweUi 25.8. nt- ng. Ex 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 Pto- ses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, and say unto them. If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 And a man lie with her ^car- nally, 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 shairpour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of ^memorial, bringing in- iquity 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 itabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water : 18 And the priest shall set the wo- man before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the meal 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 wo- man, 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 143 5 22] NUMBERS [6 15 an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to fall away and thy belly to swell ; 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to svv'ell, and thy thigh to fall away : 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 caus- eth 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 me- morial 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 hus- band, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: 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 de- filed; 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the wo- man 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. 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 vine- CHAP, 5 Rom. 3. 19. CHAP. 6 " Separation, vers. 1-8; Num. 16. 20- 26. (Gen. 12. i; 2 Cor. 6. n- I7-) ' Gen. 28. 20. " Num. 6. 13, 18, iQ, 20, 21 Jud.'i3. s, 7; 16.7 Lam. 4. 7 Amos'2. 11,12. d Ex. 28. 3. * Rev. 22. 7. / Lev. I. 14. ^ John 10. 9. h Lev. 16. 17. i Ex. 29. 33. J Mt. 10. 6. i Gen. 15. 9. I Leauen. vers. I.?, X7, 19; Num. 9. II. (Gen. 19. 3; Mt. 13. 33.) 2 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 13, 18. gar 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 ivine 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 near no dead body. 7 He shall not make himself un- clean 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 Mai. 3. 13, / Ex. 30. I. k Num. 16, X. ' Num. 16. 10, 37 And the LORD spake unto Mo- ses, saying, 38 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their ^garments throughout their genera- tions, 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 command- ments 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, who brought you out of the J' land of ^Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God. CHAPTER 16. 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 Is- rael, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the con- gregation, 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 if, he fell upon his face: 5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will show 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, Ko- rah, 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 imto ^Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of ^Levi: 157 l6 9] NUMBERS [l6 36 9 Seemefh it 6m/ a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to him- self to do the service of the ^taber- nacle 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 to- gether 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: who said, We will not come up: 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a Hand 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 inher- itance 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 cen- sers; 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 2tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the con- gregation: and the ^^glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congre- gation. 20 And the Lord spake unto Mo- ses 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 CHAP. x6 " Ex. 32. 26, 28 Num. 3.6; 16. 7; 17. 8; 18. 21 Deut. 10. 9; 31- 9; 33- 3 Psa. 135. 20 Mai. 3. 3. " Ex. 4. 14. '^ Ex. 15. 24. F Num. 16. 1 « Num. 16. I •■ Mai. 3. 12. « Gen. 3. 5. ' John : '" Num. 14. 21. ^ Separation. vers. 20-26; Deut. 22. 10. (Gen. 12. i; 2 Cor. 6.14-17.) Psa. 71. 20. " Miracles (O.T.). vers. 31-35; Num. 17. 8. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I- 10.) 1 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 25. 8, So in vers. 34, 27. zor, tent of^ meeting, iix. 25. 22. So in vers. 19, 42, 43i 50. 3 Heb. Sleol, abode of the dead. So in ver. 33. Spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with ali the congregation ? 23 And the Lord spake unto Mo- ses, 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 congre- gation, saying. Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. 27 So they gat up from the taber- nacle of J Korah, Dathan, and Abi- ram, 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 vis- ited after the visitation of all men ; theii 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 ^living into the spit; 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 asun- der 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 Mo- ses, saying, 158 1 6 37] NUMBERS [17 12 37 Speak unto '^Eleazarthe 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 cover- ing 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 ybrasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar : 40 To he a <§" memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, that 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 con- gregation 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 congre- gation. 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 in- cense, and go -^'quickly unto the con- gregation, 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 com- manded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the peo- ple: 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 CHAP. 16 b Ex. 6. 23. « Gen. I. 14. / Ex. 25. 3. a Ex. 3. 13. A Ex. 30. I. i Num. 16. I. j Ex. 15. 24. i Rev. 22. 7. I Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. "' Zech. 14. 12. " John 10. g. CHAP. 17 « Ex. 4. 14. Ex. 3. 4. 'i Miracles (O.T.). Num. 20. 7-11. (Gen. 5. 24; fjon. 2. I-IO.) « Ex. 4. 14. /Gen. 9. 12. ■J Ex. 15. 24. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 7, 8. 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. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, ^ saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes accord- ing 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 itabernacle 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 chil- dren 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 be- fore the Lord in the tabernacle of witness. 8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the taber- nacle 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 .ftourmurings 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. 159 17^3] NUMBERS [l8 20 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the 2 tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we all be con- sumed with dying? CHAPTER 18. 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 itabernacle 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 ta- bernacle 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 oiferings 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 theirs, every '^meal offering of theirs, and every sin of- fering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall CHAP. X7 2 or, tent- dwelling. Ex. CHAP. 18 • Ex. 4. 14. « Ex. 6. 25. d Ex. 26. 36. ' Ex. 25. 41. / Ex. 29. 24. «' Lev. 23. 10. h Mai. 3. 12. i Lev. 27. 21. J Gen. 17. 12. k Gen. 23. 15. I Lev. 16. 5. '" Ex. 29. 24. " Lev. 2. 13. " Ex. 4. 14. /' Mai. 3. 12. 1 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 3, 4, 6, 21, 22, 23, 31. 2 or, uoived to God. 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 Is- rael: 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 s^devoted in Israel shall be thine. 15 Every thing that openeth the womb in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine : neverthe- less the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 16 And those that are to be re- deemed from a month old shall thou redeem, according to thine estima- tion, 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 sv,7eet 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 in- heritance in their /land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine in- heritance among the children of Israel. 160 l8 21] NUMBERS [19 13 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 ni^h the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the ^'Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the con- gregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: if 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 in- herit: therefore I have said unto them. Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25 And the LORD spake unto Mo- ses, 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 pai't 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. CHAP. 18 ? Gen. 14. 20. ^ Ex. 6. 25. • Gen. 14. 20. < Gen. 15. 6. " Ex. 20. 25. CHAP. 19 Ex. 4. 14. 6 vers, i-io Gen. 15. 9 Deut. 21. 3-6 r Sam. 16 2 Heb. 9. 13. " Mt. II. 29. d Ex. 6. 23. 'Num. 19.2. /Psa. SI. 7. 3 Lev. 14. 4. h Lev. 15. S< i Heb. 9. 13. y vers. 13, 20, 21 Num. 31. 23. I cr, tent of meeting. Ex. 35. 22. 2 Lit. purge himself from 3 or, tent- divelling. Ex. 25-8. CHAPTER 19. 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 v^rhich never came ^yoke: 3 And ye shall give it unto ^Ele- azar the priest, that he may bring it forth without the camp, and one shall slay it before his face : 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle of its blood directly before the itabernacle of the con- gregation seven times: 5 And one shall burn the ^heifer in his sight ; its skin, and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall he burn : 6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and /hyssop, and i'^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 it shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be un- clean 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 Is- rael, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a stat- ute for ever. 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall spurify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he pur- ify 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 3tabemacleof the Lord; and that 161 19 ^4] NUMBERS [20 i6 soul shall be cut off from Israel : be- cause 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 un- clean 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 per- sons 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 un- clean, 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 un- clean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual stat- ute unto them, that he that sprin- kleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touch- eth 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. THEN came the children of Is- rael, even the whole congrega- tion, into the ^desert of "Zin in the 2first 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 CHAP. 20 Num. 13. 21. * Ex. 15. 20 Num. 26. 59. ' Num. 16. 19, 42. J tLX. 3. 4. ^ Ex. 4. 14. /Ex. 17.2 Num. 14. 2. ff Ex. 12. 13. h Ex. 28. 33. i Ex. 4. 14. J John 10. 9. i- Gen. 3. 5. I Miracles Deut. 23. 4. 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; Hesh- bon is perished even unto ^Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, w^hich reacheth unto ^^^Medeba. 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to spy out '^Jaa- zer, and they took the villages there- of, and drove out the Amorites that were there. 33 And they turned and went up by the v/ay 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 peo- ple, 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. AND the children of Israel set for- - ward, 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 w^as 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 ^^ Zip- per was king of the Moabites at that time. 5 He sent messengers therefore unto ^'Balaam the son of Beor to yPethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to 164 22 6] NUMBERS [22 31 call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from -^'Egypt: be- hold, 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 observe 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, Ba- lak 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 sil- ver and gold, ^I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. CHAP. 22 * Ex. 12. 13. 2,Num. 22. 5. Gen. 49. 19. »JMal. 3. 12. P Gen. 19. 37. *■ I Ki. 22. 14 2 Chr. 18. 13. ' ver. 35 Num. 23. 12, 26; 24. 13. ' Ex. 4. 24. " See 2 Ki. 6. Dan. 10. 7 Acts 22. 9 2 Pet. 2. 16 Jude II. " Psa. 23. 3. » Mt. 7. 14. Gen. 21. 9. y See Gen. 21. i. 6. 17 24. 16, 31. Gen. 3. 5. 165 rg Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord v^ill 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 tv/o 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 v^ray, 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 an- gel 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 ^nar- row place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. 27 And when the ass saw the an- gel 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 J^ opened the ^eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his 22 32] NUMBERS [23 18 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 v/ent 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 an- gel 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 caniest 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. 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 CHAP. 23 ' Deut. 32. 3 Job 9. 20 Prov. 14. 2 Mt. 17. 17 Lk. 9. 41 Phil. 2. IS. lum. 21. 1^ d Num. 22. 2. ' Inspiration. Num. 23. s, 12-16. (Ex. 4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) CHAP. 23 Gen. 15. 9. b Inspiration. vers. 5, iz-i6; Deut. 4. 2, 13. (Ex.4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) Gen. 19. > Holy Spirit. Num. 27. 18 (Gen. 1.2; Mai. 2. 15.) Mt. 13. i 'Gen. Sam. 15. Num. 23. 22. k Gen. 2. 9, 17 2 Chr. 1. 10-12 Psa. 133. 6 Prov. I. 7 Isa. 5. 13 Jer. 3. IS Hos. 4. 1-6; 6.6 Lk. I. 77 Col. I. 9, 10 2 Pet. I. 2. I or, tent- diuelling. Ex. 23-8. I and said, Balaam the son of ^Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said : 4 He hath said, who heard the words of God, who saw the vision of the ^Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open : 5 How goodly are thy tents, O Ja- cob, and thy ifabernacles, 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 6A.gag, and his king- dom shall be exalted. 8 God brought him forth out of ^^ Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a ^ wild ox : 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 i unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD I hath kept thee back from honour. j 12 And Balaam said unto Balak, j Spake I not also to thy messengers ! which thou sentest unto me, saying, I 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can- not go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what j the Lord saith, that will I speak ? I 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 j said, and the man whose eyes are 1 open hath said : 16 He hath said, who heard the ' words of God, and knew the '^'knowl- edge of the most High, who 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 167 24 18] NUMBERS [26 shall come a ^Star out of ^'^ Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Is- rael, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. 18 And "Edom shall be a posses- sion, 0 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 de- stroy him that remaineth of the city. 20 And when he looked on =''Ama- lek, he took up his -Sparable, 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. A ND Israel abode in ^Shittim, and CHAP. 24 '""■ Num. 23. 10, 21 Deut. 32. 9 I Ki. 18. 31 Psa. 20. i; 24. 6; 46. II Isa. 2. 3; 14. 1; 27. 6; 41. 21 Hos. 12. 12. " Mai. I. 4. o Ezk. 35. 7. P Num. 24. 17. '^^goat for a sin offer- ing, 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 food of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and the 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 /first- fruits, when ye bring a new meal 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 of- fering for a sweet savour unto the Lord ; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28 And their meal offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, 17a 28 29] NUMBERS [29 28 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 the meal offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings. CHAPTER 29. 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 offer- ing for a sweet savour unto the Lord ; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year v/ithout blemish: 3 And their meal offering shall be 0/ 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 the meal offering, and the daily burnt offering, and the meal offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their custom, 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 /or 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 meal offering shall be o/flour mingled Vvdth 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 meal offering of it, and their drink offerings. 12 And Jon the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no CHAP. 89 <* that is, October; also vers. 7, 12. * Lev. 23. 24. 'Psa. 35. 13 isa. 58. 5. d Num. 28. 19. Lev. 16. 3, 5. / Lev. 23. 34 Deut. 16. 13 Ezk. 45. 25. S Gen. 15. 9. 'i Ex. 29. 41. Lev. J Lev. 16. 5. fc vers. 3, 4, 9, 10 Num. 15. 12; 28. 7, 14. servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days : 13 And ye shall offer a burnt offer- ing, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord ; thir- teen young bullocks, two .^rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish: 14 And their ''^meal 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, the meal offering, and the 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 meal offering and their drink offerings for the bul- locks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall he according to their number, -^'after the custom : 19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meal 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 meal offering and their drink offerings for the bul- locks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the custom: 22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the drink offering. 23 And on the fourth day ten bul- locks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: 24 Their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the custom: 25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, the meal offering, and the drink offering. 26 And on the fifth day nine bul- locks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: 27 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bul- locks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the custom: 28 And one goat for a sin offering; 173 29 29] NUMBERS [30 14 beside the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the drink offering. 29 And on the sixth day eight bul- locks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: 30 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bul- locks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the custom : 31 And one goat /or a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, the meal offering, and the drink offering. 32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish : 33 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bul- locks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the custom : 34 And one goat /or a sin offering ; beside the continual burnt offering, the meal offering, and the 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 offer- ing, 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 meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the custom : 38 And one goat for a sin offering ; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the drink offering. 39 These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your set feasts, beside your ^vows, and your freewill offer- ings, for your burnt offerings, and for your ^''^meal 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. 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 CHAP. 29 ' Gen. a8. 20 Lev. 7. II, 16; 21. 22, 23. '" Ex. 29. 41. " Ex. 3. 4. CHAP. 30 Ex. 3. 4- b Lev. 27. 2 Deut. 23. 21 Jud. II. 30, 35 Eccl. 5. 4. d Lev. 5. 4 Mt. 14. 9 ' Acts 23. 14. Gen. 24, I / Job 22. 27 Psa. 22. 25; so. 14; 66. 13, 14; 116. 14, 18 Nah. I. 15. -" Eccl. II. 9. h Psa. 32. ; Deut. 34. his soul with a bond ; he shall not break his word, he shall/do accord- ing 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< Num. 3a. 33- 47 1 Chr. 5. 8 Isa. 15. 2 Jer. 48. I, a ' Josh. Num. 13. 24. Ex. 12. 13. P Deut. e. x6. Gen. 17. 19. Gen. 32. 28. ' vers. II, 12 Deut. I. 36 Josh. 14. 8, 9, x^Th Tim. 4. 15. Deut. 1. 36. Num. 13. 6. ''Josh. 14.6,14. Num. 14. 6. y Num. 27. 18. Ex. 33. II. Josh. 3. 17. Rom. 3. 19. Gen. 30. II. d Josh. : Gen. / Ex. 6. 23. Gen. 17. 8. 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 in- heritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side -^ Jordan, or forward j 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 com- manded /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 ?'Succoth. 6 And they departed from Suc- coth, 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 J 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 wil- derness of ''Sin. 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and en- camped in Dophkah. 13 And they departed from Doph- kah, and encamped in Aiush. 14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at ^Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 15 And they departed from Rephi- dim, and pitched in the wilderness of/Sinai. 16 And they removed from the des- ert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth- hattaavah. 17 And they departed from ?Ki- broth-hattaavah, and encamped at 'Hazeroth. 18 And they departed from Haze- roth, and pitched in Rithmah. 19 And they departed from Rith- mah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez. 20 And they departed from Rim- mon-parez, and pitched in ^Libnah. 21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. 22 And they journeyed from Ris- sah, and pitched in Kehelathah. 23 And they went from Kehela- thah, and pitched in mount Shapher. 24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Hara- dah. 25 And they removed from Hara- dah, and pitched in Makheloth. 26 And they removed from Blakhe- loth, and encrmped at ''Tahath. 178 33^7] NUMBERS [346 27 And they departed from ^^Ta- hatli, 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 Hash- monah, and encamped at Moseroth. 31 And they departed from Mose- roth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. 32 And they removed from Bene- jaakan, and encamped at Hor-ha- gidgad. 33 And they went from Hor-hagid- gad, and pitched in Jotbathah, 34 And they removed from Jot- bathah, and encamped at Ebronah. 35 And they departed from Ebro- nah, and encamped at ^'Ezion-gaber. 36 And they removed from^Ezion- gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of -^Zin, which is J'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 command- ment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the chil- dren ofilsrael 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 ^Canaan- ite, which dwelt in the south in the land of /Canaan, heard of the com- ing of the children of Israel. 41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. 42 And they departed from Zal- monah, and pitched in Funon. 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 Em, and pitched in ^Dibon-gad. 46 And they removed from Dibon- gad, and encamped in Almon-dibla- thaim. 47 And they removed from Almon- diblathaim, and pitched in the moun- tains of yAbarim, before Nebo. 48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by -^'Jordan near Oericho. 49 And they pitched by Jordan, from ^^'Beth-jesimoth even unto '^Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. 50 And the LORD spake unto CHAP. 33 " Num. 33. 26. " Num. 33. 38 Deut. 2. 8 1 Ki. 9. 26; 22. 48 2 Chr. 8. 17; 20. 36. '" Num. 33. 35. ^ Num. 13. 21. ^ Num. 27. 14. « Mai. 3. 12. "» Mai. 1.4. b Ex. 4. 14. ' Ex. 12. 13. d Num. zi. I. ' Deut. 20. 17. /Gen. 17.8. S Num. 21. II. h Gen. 19. 37. » Num. 21. 30. / Deut. 32. 49. k Josh. 3. 17. J Josh. 6. 2. "* Josh. 12. 3; y. 20 Ezk. 25. 9. " Num. 25. I. " Ex. 32. 4. P Gen. 3. 5. CHAP. 34 " Num. 13. 21. h Mai. I. 4. <^ Psa. 2. 8. d Lev. 2. 13. « Josh. 15. 3. / Deut. 9. 23. y ver. 5 Josh. 15. 4. h Num. 34. 4. i Ex. 12. 13. Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 in- habitants 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 in- heritance : every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of j 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 whom 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. 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 borders 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 ^Akrab- bim, 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 179 34^ NUMBERS [357 a border: this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north bor- der: 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 ofyHamath; 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 She- pham : 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 there- of 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 inheri- tance on this side Jordan near ^'Jericho eastward, toward the sun- rising. 16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 17 These are the names of the men who shall divide the land unto you : ^'Eleazar the priest, and ^-^Joshua the son of J^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 Am- mihud. 21 Of the tribe of ^Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 22 And the prince of the tribe of CHAP. 34 j Num. 13. 21. fi Num. 34. 10 Ezk. 47. 17; ' Num. 34. 9. -aKi.23.33. " Deut. 3. 17 Josh. 19. 35 I Ki. 15. 20 Mt. 14. 34 Lk, 5. 1. 0 Josh. 3. 17, P Mai. 3. 12. 9 Ex. 3. 4. »■ Josh. 22. 34. • Gen. 30. II. ' Gen. 41. 51. " Josh. 6. 2. " Ex. 6. 23. "' Num. 14. 6. ' Num. 27. 18. f Ex. 33. II. * Gen. 49. 10. '^ Deut. I. 36. 6 Num. I. 23. " Num. 1. 37. '' Josh. 19. 47. ' Gen. 41. 39. / Num. I. 33. s Mt. 4. 13. ft Num. 2. 5. i 2 Sam. 3. 15. J Gen. 30. 13. h I Chr. 8. 7. I Isa. 9. I. "* Gen. 17. 8. CHAP. 35 " Gen. 19. 37. * Ex. 6. 25. ' Ex. 6. 25. 'I Ex. 21. 13 Deut. 19. 2-9 Josh 20. 2 Psa. 46. 6; 142. 5 Isa. 4. 6 Rom. 8. I, 33, Phil. 3. 9 Heb. 6. 18, 19. 180 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. AND the Lord spake unto Moses - in the plains of ^Moab by Jor- dan 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 "^Le- vites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shall measure from with- out 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 thou- sand 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 35 8] NUMBERS [3534 and eight cities : them shall ye give with their suburbs 8 And the cities v/hich ye shall give shall he of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall take many ; but from them that have few ye shall take few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherit- eth. 9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Is- rael, and say unto them, When ye be come over ^Jordan into the/ land ofi'Canaan; 11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the manslayer may flee thither, which killeth any person without intention. 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 re- fuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person without intention may flee thither. 16 And if he smite him with an in- strument of iron, so that he die, he IS a ^miu'derer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he smite him with throw- ing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a J 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 avenger 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 avenger CHAP. 35 ' Josh. 3. 17. / Mai. 3. 13. i> Gen. 17. 8. '' Deut. 19. 1-13 Josh. 20. 1-9 I Thes. 4. 6. i vers. 16-34 Gen. g. 6 Ex. 20. 13 Mt. 5. 21, 22 John 8. 44 Acts 3. 14; 7. Gal. 5. 21 I John 3. 15 Rev. 21. 8; 22 IS- J Num. 35. 16, It Rev. 22. 7. I Acts 3. 21. "* Mai. 3. 12. " Num. 35. 16. ° Rom. 3. 19. P Ex. 20. 25. 1 Gen. 9. 6. 181 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 manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments : 25 And the congregation shall de- liver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the con- gregation 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 manslayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled ; 27 And the avenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood : 28 Because he should have re- mained in the city of his refuge un- til the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall retmn into the '''Hand of his possession. 29 So these things shall be for a sta- tute of judgment unto you through- out 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 com- pensation for the life of a murderer, who is '^guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death. 32 And ye shall take no compensa- tion 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 36 NUMBERS [3613 dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. CHAPTER 36. AND the chief fathers of the fa- - milies of the children of '^Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Ma- nasseh, of the families of the sons of '^Joseph, came near, and spake be- fore 'Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel : 2 And they said, The LORD com- manded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was com- manded by the Lord to give the in- heritance of ^Zelophehadour 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 in- heritance 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 ^jubilee 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 in- heritance be taken away from the in- heritance of the tribe of our fathers. 5 And Moses commanded the chil- dren 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 CHAP. 36 Num. s6. 29. Gen. 41. 39. " Ex. 3. 4. d Num. 26. 33. Lev. 25. / Num. 26. 33. Num. 26. 33. ft Num. 26. 33. Gen. 41. 51. ;■ Gen. 19. fc Josh. 3. 17. I Josh. 6. dothcommandconcerningthedaugh- ters 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 pos- sesseth 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 re- move 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 Ze- lophehad : 11 For/Mahlah, 6"^Tirzah, ^.nd ^Hog- lah, and Milcah, and Noah,the daugh- ters 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 rem.ained 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 Oericho. 182 THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED III DEUTERONOMY 22 CHAPTER 1. THESE are the words which -^^ Moses spake unto all '^Israel on this side 'Jordan in the wilder- ness, 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 A'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 command- ment under them ; 4 After he had slain ^Sihon the king of the 7 Amorites, who dwelt in ^Heshbon, and Og the king of ^Bashan, who 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 Amor- ites, 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 i' Canaanites, and unto ''Le- banon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land be- fore you : go in and possess the land which the LORD sw^are 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 CHAP. Ex. 3. 4. i> Israel (his- tory I. vers. 6- 8, 19-40; Deut. 7. 6-8. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) ' Josh. 3. 17. 'i Ex. 13. 18. " Deut. 33. 2. /Num. II. 35. ■y Ex. 3. 1. '• Ezk. 35, 7. « Josh. 2. 10. j Gen. 15. 16. " Num. 21. 26. ' Num. 21. 33. *" Josh. 9. 10; 12. 4; 13. 12, 31; 21. 27, " Josh. 13. 31. ''' Mai. 3. 12. P Gen. 19. 37. 1 Deut. 20. 17. •■ Psa. 72. 16. * Gen. 2. 14. t Gen. 12. I. " Gen. 17. 19. " Gen. 32. 28. *'' Gen. 16. 10. ^ Gen. I. i6. y Ex. 12. 25. ^ Gen. 18. 14. « Deut. 9. 23. * Gen. ig. 16. <= Mai. 3. 12. 183 more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath .>' promised you! 12 Hov^ can I myself alone bear your ctunbrance, and your burden, and yoiu" strife? 13 Take you wise men, and under- standing, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing that 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 that 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 -^ Am- orites, 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. Let us send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must I 23] DEUTERONOMY [2 4 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 com- mandment 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 peoples are greater and taller than we ; the cities are great and walled up to heaven ; and more- over we have seen the sons of the ,§^Anakim there. 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The Lord your God who 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 be- lieve 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 show 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 7 Je- phunneh ; 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 CHAP. I <* Num. 13. 34. ' E;x. xs. 34. /Ex. 12. 13. S Num. 13. 22. h Gen. 3. 5. i Num. 13. 6, 30; 14. 6, 24, 30, 38; 26. 65 Josh. 14. 6, 13; } Num. 13. 6. * Num. 14. 6. 27. 18. I Ex. 13. 18. "* 2 Ki. II. 8, II Eccl. 9. 18 Isa. 54. 17 Jer. 21. 4; 51. 20 2 Cor. 10. 4 Eph. 6. 10-18 Heb. 4. 12. " Psa. 19. 13. 0 Ezk. 35. 7. P Num. 14, 45. S Num. 27. 14. CHAP, a Ex. 13. 18. Ezk. 35. 7. Gen. 25. 25. me for your sakes, saying, Thou also Shalt not go in thither. 38 ^Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither : encourage him : for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, who 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 wilder- ness 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 ^^weap- ons 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, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and overthrew you in ^Seir, even unto /Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept be- fore 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. 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 com- passed 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, who dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves there- fore: 184 2 5] DEUTERONOMY [2 30 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 food of them for ^money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy v%rater 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 6een with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who 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, Dis- tress not the Moabites, neither con- tend with them in battle : for I will not give thee of their land for a pos- session; because I have given ^Ar unto the children of 7 Lot /or a pos- session. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the -^Anakims ; 11 Who 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 de- stroyed 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: CHAP, a i Mai. 3. xa. • Gen. 17. ta. /2Ki. x6. 6. 9 Num. 33. 35. '' Gen. 19. 37. « Isa. 15. X. i 2 Pet. 3. 7. * Num. X3. aa. . Gen. X4. s Deut. 3. 10. " Gen, 14. 6. ' Num. 21. 18, " Gen. xg. 38. P Gen. X4. 5. ? Josh. X3. 3; 18. 23 a Ki. X7. 3X. ♦■ Acts 8. 36. * Jer. 47. 4. ' Num. 21. 13. " Josh. a. 10. " Gen. 15. 16. *" Num. 21. 26. * Mai. 3. la. y Gen. 17. la. * Gen. 35. 25. ° Ezk. 35. 7. 5 Isa. 15. I. ' Josh. 3. X7. X Heb. Rapha, one to be feared. 185 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of ^ Ammon, dis- tress 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 nnto the children of Lot for a pos- session. 20 (That also was accounted a land of igiants: 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, who 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 who dwelt in Hazerim, even unto ^^Azzah, the ^Caphtorims, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river ^Amon: be- hold, I have given into thine hand ^'Sihon the ^Amorite.kingof ^Hesh- bon, and his ^land : begin to possess it, and contend with him in bat- tle. 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 food for J'money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet ; 29 As the children of ^Esau who dwell in -^Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in '^Ar, did unto me ; until I shall pass over ^Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giv- eth 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. 2 31] DEUTERONOMY [3 20 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 chil- dren of /Ammon thou camest not, nor unto the margin of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us. CHAPTER 3. THEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and ^Og the king of '^Bashan cameoutagainst 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, who 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 king- dom 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 Hesh- bon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil d Num. 3a. 34 Josh. 13. 9, 16, «5 Jud. XI. 36, 33 I Sam. 30. a3 a Sam. 24. 5 a Ki. 10. 33 X Chr. n. 44 Isa. 17. a Jer. 43. tg. • Gen. 37. 25. /Gen. 19. 38. CHAP, 3 * Num. 21. 33. 6 Num. ax. 33. 'Josh. 13. 31. ^iron furnace, even out of ^Egypt, to be unto him a people of inherit- ance, 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 con- suming fire, even a '^jealous God. 25 When thou shalt beget chil- dren, 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 wit- ness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from ofif 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 na- tions, whither the LORD shall lead you. 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and CHAP. 4 Psa. 8. 3. It Dan. a. 33. I Ex. 12. 13. ■ Josh. 3. 17. " Ex. 20. s. Mai. 3. 12. P Josh 3. 17. Gen. I. 14. Ex. 12. 13. » Gen. 3.5. 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 for- get 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 testings, by 'signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great ter- rors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in ^Egypt be- fore your ^eyes? 35 Unto thee it was showed, 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 in- struct thee: and uponf earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved thy fa- thers, 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 be- fore thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land /or 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, 188 4 41] DEUTERONOMY [520 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 sun rising; 42 That the manslayer might nee thither, who should kill his neigh- bour unintentionally, and hated him not in times past ; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 43 ^'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 Mo- ses set before the children of Israel: 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the chil- dren of Israel, after they cam.e forth out of Egypt, 46 On this side Jordan, in the val- ley over against ^Beth-peor, in the land of ^Sihon king of the '^Amor- ites, who dwelt at /Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they w^ere come forth out of Egypt : 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side Jordan toward the sun rising ; 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. 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 cove- nant 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 CHAP. 4 " Ex, 3. 4. " Josh. 20, 8; 21. 36 I Chr. 6. 78, •" Num. 26. 7. '■ I Ki. 22. 3, 6, 2^Ki. 8. 29. y Gen. 37. 25. ^ Gen. 30. II. " Josh. 20. 8; 21. 27 I Chr. 6. 71. * Num. 21.33. ' Deut. 3. 29. d Josh. 2. 10. ^ Gen. 15. 16. /Num. 21. 26. 3 Deut. 2. 36. h Num. 21. 13. i Deut. 3. 8, J Josh. 3. 17. ft Deut. 3.17,27. I or, decliui- ties. CHAP, s " Ex. 3. 4. " Law (of Moses}, vers. 1-22; Deut. 6. i-S. (Ex. 19. 1; Gal. 3. 1-29.) " Ex. 3. 1. d Mai. 3. 13. * Ex. 12. 13. /Ex. I. 14. ^ Ex. 20. 5. h Rom. 3. 19. t Gen. 28. IS Deut. 32. 47 I Ki. 8. 34 Psa. 49. II Isa. 14. I Ezk. 7. 2; 34. 27; 38. 19 Dan. II. 39 Joel 2. 21 Amos 7. 17 Zech. 9. 16. you at that time, to show 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, who brought thee out of the /4and 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 shaltnot bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a .fjealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth ^e/zera^zon of them that hate me, 10 And showing mercy unto thou- sands 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 sanc- tify 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 sab- bath of the LORD thy God: in itthoM shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy m.an- servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man- servant 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: there- fore 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 adul- tery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 189 2I| DEUTERONOMY [6 II 21 Neither shalt thou covet 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 y 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 showed 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 o/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 spo- ken 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 sta- tutes, 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 CHAP 5 Inspiration. Deut, (Ex Rev 4- is; 22. 19.) * Num. 14.21. I Mai. 3. 12. CHAP 6 ^ Law (of lUoses). vers. 1-5; Psa. X. 2. (Ex. iQ. i; Gal. 3. 1-29.) b Ex. 12. 25. ' Gen. I. 14. d Gen. 3. 5. /Gen. 17. 19. !/ Gen. 32. 28. A John 4. 14. as the Lord your God hath com- manded 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 yom- days in the land which ye shall possess. CHAPTER 6. NOW these are the command- ments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might ^do thein in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightestfearthe Lord thy God, to keep ail his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, a.id 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 com- mand thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them dili- gently 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 cb'Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou fiUedst not, and '^^welis digged, which thou diggedst 190 6 12] DEUTERONOMY [7 II not, vineyards and ^olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou Shalt have eaten and art full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee forth out of the land of 7 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 peoples that 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 kin- dled 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 'Uand 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 sta- tutes, 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 showed 39; 13- 3. 6, 7; 34. 18. ' Ex. 13. 7. / Ex. 12. 10; 34. 25- ? Ex. la. 6. h Ex. 12. 8, 9 2 Chr. 35. 13. » 2 Ki. 23. 23 John 2. 13, 23. J Ex. 34. 22. t Ex. 6. 25. ' Ex. 12. 13. <" Ex. 23. 16 Lev. 23. 34 Num. 29. 12. " Ex. 23. 14, 17; 34- 23. " Deut. 1. 16 1 Chr. 23. 4; 26. 29 2 Chr. 19. S, I P Ex. 23. 2, 6 Lev. 19. 13. 1 Gen. 3. 5. '■ Mai. 3. 12. • Ex. 34. 13 1 Ki. 14. 15; 16.33 2 Ki. 17. 16; 21. 3 2 Chr. 33. 3- I or, booths. So in ver. 16. 2 or, pillar, 201 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 itabemacles 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 ht 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, through- out thy tribes : and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 /Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, nei- ther 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 Hand 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 nmage; which the LORD thy God hateth. 17 '1 DEUTERONOMY [I8 CHAPTER 17. THOU ^halt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evil-favouredness: 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 wicked- ness 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 com- manded ; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired dili- gently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomi- nation 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 thi;ee 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, bein^ 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 inquire; and they shall show 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 show thee; and thou shalt ob- serve to do according to all that they inform thee : 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according tothe judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not turn from the sen- CHAP. 17 ' Deut. 15. 21 Mai. I. 8, 13, 14. ■ Lev. 24. 14, 16 Deut. 13. 10 Josh. 7. 25. d 2 Chr. 19. 10 Hag. 2. II Mai. 2. 7. * Gen. 18. 14. /See Ex. 21. 13, 20, 22, 28; 22. 2; Num. 35. II, 16, 19; Deut. 19. 4, 10, II. i' Num. 15. 30 Ezra 10. 8 Hos. 4. 4. h Psa. 19. 13. • Mai. 3. 12. J I Sam. 8. 5, 19, so. '' See I Sam. 9. 15; 10. 24; 16. 12; I Chr. 22. ' Ex. 12. 13. "' Deut. 28. 68; seejer.42. 15; Hos. II. 5. Ex. 6. 25. CHAP. 18 Num. 16. 10. 202 tence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And.^the man that will do '^^pre- sumptuously, 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 presump- tuously. .14 When thou art come unto the ^and which the Lord thy God giv- eth thee, and shalt possess it, and Shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, 71 will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou Shalt without fail 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, who 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 mul- tiply 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 sta- tutes, 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. 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 inher- itance. 2 Therefore shall they have no l8 3] DEUTERONOMY [19 5 inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 And this shall be the priests' 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 com, 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, v^rhere he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his soul 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, who 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 Gk)d 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 Grod doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou Shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. 14 For these nations, whom thou Shalt possess, hearkened unto ob- servers 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 de- siredst of the LORD thy God in CHAP. x8 6 Lev. 23. 10. Ex. 6. 25. d 2 Chr. 31. 4 Neh.i2. 44,47. Mai. 3. 12. / Lev. la 26, 57,30 Deut. 12. 29- 31- ^ Lev. 19.26,31; 20.27 Isa. 8. 19. " vers. 15, 18, 19 John I. 4S; 7. 16; 8. 28; 12. 49, 50; 14. 10, 24; 17.8 Acts 3. 22, 23; 7-37- Ex. 3. X. .; Acts 3. 23. * Deut. 13. 5. Jer. 14. 14, IS Zech. 13. 3. I Deut. 13. I, 2 Jer. 2. 8. Jer. 28. 9. Psa. 19. 13. CHAP. 19 * Ex. 21. 13 Num. 35. 10, Josh. 20. 2. Acts 3. 17. 203 ^ 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. 1.8 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and hejshall speak unto thern all that I shall command him. 19 J 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, that 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, 6«^the prophet hath spoken it '^presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. CHAPTER 19. 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 manslayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of the man- slayer who shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour '^unintentionally, 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 ax to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neigh- 196] DEUTERONOMY [20 9 bour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live : 6 Lest the ^avenger of the blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, be- cause 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, say- ing, 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 com- mandments 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 /or an inherit- ance, and so blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hate his neigh- bour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fieeth 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 7 landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inher- itance, 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 sin- neth : 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, that shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make dili- gent inquisition: and, behold, z/the CHAP. 19 ■ Num. 35, 12. ' Mai. 3. la. Ex. xa. 35. / Gen. 9. 6. 3 Num. as- la. h Gen. 3. 5. i Psa. 103. 13. i Deut. 27. 17 Job6. i8;8. 13; 13. 27; 24.3)30. Psa. 16. 11; 23. I, 2; 27. II Prov. 4. i8;22. 28; 23. 10 Jer. 6. 16 Heb. 12. 13. CHAP. 20 Ex. 12. 13. witness he a false witness, a/icf 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 that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; hut life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. CHAPTER 20. 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, who 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 fur- ther unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fear- ful 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 20 10] DEUTERONOMY [21 13 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 pro- claim 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 peoples found therein shall be tribu- taries 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, thon 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 peoples, whom the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them ; the ^Hittite, and the ^Amor- ite, the -^Canaanite, and the /Periz- zite, the Hivite, and the -TJebusite ; as the Lord thy God hath com- manded 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 wielding an ax 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 he not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. CHAP, ao 4 Zech. la. a. Gen. IS. 20. t^Gea 15. 16. ' Gen. 10. iS; 12. 6 Ex. 3. 17; 33. 2; 21. 3 Josh. 17. 13 Ezra 9. I Oba. 20 Zech. 14. 21. / Ex, 3, 8. s 2 Chr. 3. X. CHAP. 21 Deut. 5. 16. * Num. 19. 2. Mt. II. 29. d Num. 16. 10. Gen. 9. 6. /Gen. 3. 5. S Bible prayers (O.T.). Deut. 26. 5-10. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) h Psa. 32. t See Psa. 45. CHAPTER 21. 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 watered 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 re- deemed, 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 0/ 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 ^be- 205 21 14] DEUTERONOMY [22 14 wail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shaltgo 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 shaltlet her go whither she will ; but thou Shalt not sell her at all for 7 money, thou Shalt not make a slave of her, because thou hast -^'humbled her. 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, ^and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated ; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated : 16 Thenitshallbe,>''^whenhemak- eth 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 begin- ning of his strength; /the right of the firstborn is his. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have ^chastened him, will not hearken unto them : 19 Then shall tiis 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 is 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 ^and be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveththee for an inheritance. CHAP. 21 17. la. >Gen i Gen Deut, Jud 34- 2 22. 29 I. 19. 24. I Gen. 29. 33. I Chr. s. 2; 6. 10 Chr. II. 19, " Prov. 3. 6. "SeeiChr.s.i. P Gen. 25. 31, 33- 1 Psa. 94. 12. *■ Deut. 19. 6; 22. 26 ActS23,29;2S. II, 25; 26. 31. 'Josh. 8. 29; 10. 26, 27 John 19. 31. ■ Deut. 5. 16. CHAP. 22 " Acts 3. 21. <■ Zech. 3. 3. 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 ^^proofs 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 hehateth her; 17 And, lo, he hath said shameful things against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the proofs 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 tine 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 proofs 0/ 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 harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. 32 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 '> Gen. 9. la. y Gsn. 34. 7 Jud. 20. 6, 10 2 Sam. 13. la, 13- k Lev. x8.8:ao. Deut. 37. ao X Cor. 5. I. ! See Ruth 3. 9 Ezk. 16. 8. CHAP. 23 Eph. 5. 30. Gen. 15. Ex. la. 13. Num. 33. 5. / Num. S3, s- ff Gen. 36. 9. ft Deut. 7. a6. < Ex. I. 13. / Mai. 3. la. 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 hum- bled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 '^A man shall not take his father's wife, nor ^uncover his father's skirt. CHAPTER 23. HE that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy "member cut off, shall not enter into the congre- gation of the Lord. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD ; even to the 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 gene- ration 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 /Pe- thor of Mesopotamia, to curse f hee. 5 Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, be- cause 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 ^Edom- ite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not -^ abhor an ^Egyptian; be- cause thou wast a stranger in his yland. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congre- gation 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 un- 307 23"] DEUTERONOMY [249 cleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: n 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 un- clean 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 pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no daughters of Israel consecrated to an idol, nor a ^sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou Shalt not bring the ''hire of a harlot, 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 Grod will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 23 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 CHAP. 33 ^ I Ki. 14. 34; 15. 12; 22. 46 2 Ki. 23. 7. ' Gen. 29. 15. " Ex. 22. 31, cf. Mt. 7. 6 Phil. 3. 2 2 Pet. 2. 2* Rev. 22. 15. Gen. 17. 13. P Ex. 22. 25. ? Gen. a6. 3. Ex. xa. 35. CHAP. 34 ' Gen. 3. 5. 6 vers. I, 3 Gen. 2. 23, 24, cf. Eph. 5. 25- 33 Isa. 50. 1 Jer. 3. 8 Mt. I. 19; 5. Mk. xo. i-xa. " Mai. 3. 12. d Mt. 9. 3. ' Zech. 14. 12. / Ex. 4. 6. 8 Ex. 6. as. thy God, which thou hast ^pro- mised 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 neigh- bour's standing corn. CHAPTER 24. 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 scandalous thing in her: then let him write her a bill of ^ divorce- ment, 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 an- other man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce- ment, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife ; 4 Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is de- filed ; for that is abomination before the Lord : and thou shalt not cause the ^land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee /or 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 tlie 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/lep- rosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the A'^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, 308 24 101 DEUTERONOMY [25 12 after that ye were come forth out of ^Egypt. 10 When thou dost lend thy bro- ther 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 he 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, whe- ther he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land with- in 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 judg- ment of the stranger, nor of the fa- therless ; 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 for- got 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 shait 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. CHAP. 24 Ex. 13. 13. Gen. 29. 15. / Ex. 23. 16. * Lev. 23. : ' Zech. 4. ir. Lev. xg. 9. CHAP. 25 " Ex. 22. 9 John 3. 17-19 Rom. 3. 19-26; S- 18; 8. 1, 33, Cor. II. 31 I John 3.20- Jude 4. h I Cor. Q. 9 1 Tim. 5. 18. ' John II. 44. I Gen. 3. s. Psa. 103. 13. 209 CHAPTER 25. IF there be a controversy between men, and they come tmto judg- ment, 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 imto 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 hus- band'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 first- born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother who 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 hus- band'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 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. 25^3] DEUTERONOMY [26 16 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 Uand 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. 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 // 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 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 so- journed there with a few, and be- CHAP. as / Oeut. 5. x6. ? Ex. 17. 8. fc Ex. X2. 13. i Mai. 3. !•. " Lev. 33. 10. * Bible prayers (O.T.). Deut. 26. 13-15 (Gen. 15. 2: Hab. 3. 1-16.) Lk. 4. 27. Ex. X. 14. / Ex. la. 13. Gen. 1. 14. ft Mai. 3. 12. Lev. 23. 10. / Deut. 5. 16. I Gen. 14. ao. "^ Bible prayers (O.T.). Josh. 7. 7-9. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) came there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the ^Egyptians evil en- treated 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 afflic- tion, and our labour, and our oppres- sion: 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 ilsigns, 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 thin^ 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 in- crease 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 stran- ger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy com- mandments which thou hast com- manded 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 aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught thereof for the dead : but I have hearkened to the voice of the LoRD my God ; I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habi- tation, 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 210 26 17] DEUTERONOMY [27 26 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 peo- ple, 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. 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 giv- eth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in tmto the land which the Lord thy Grod giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD, Cxod 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 plaster them with plaster. 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 iwhole stones : and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God: 7 And thou shalt offer peace offer- ings, 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, say- ing, Be still, and hearken, O Israel; CHAP. 26 " Ex. 12. 25. CHAP. 27 " Ex. 3. 4. * Josh. 3. 17. ' Deut. II. 29. d Ex. 6. 25. ' Deut. II. 29. /Josh. 3. 17. 3 Num. I. 23. h Num. 16. 10. » Num. 2. 5. J Gen. 41. 39. 't Num. I. 37. !■ Deut. II. 29. '" Josh. 22. 34. " Gen. 30. II. " Gen. 30. 13. P Mt. 4. 13. 1 Josh. 19. 47. ■■ Isa. 9. 1. ' Ex. 32. 4. ' Deut. 19. 14. I or, unhewn. 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; .s'Simeon, and -^^Levi, and Judah, and ^Issa- char, and 7 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 he 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 6e he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, father- less, and widow. And all the peo- ple shall say. Amen. 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife ; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the peo- ple 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 re- ward 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. 28 I] DEUTERONOMY [28 26 CHAPTER 28. 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 command- ments 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 tYion be in the city, and blessed shalt t\ion he 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 in- crease of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading trough. 6 Blessed shall thon &e when thou comest in, and blessed shall thou be when thou goest out. 7 The Lord shall cause thine ene- mies that rise up against thee to be smitten befoi e 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 store- houses, 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 peoples 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 CHAP. a8 Mai. 3. xa. Deut. 5. 16. •-' Mai. 3. 13. li Rev. z2. 7. Ex. 5. 3- / Ex. 25. 3. I or, fiery drought. 212 of the Lord thy God, which I com- mand 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 ob- serve 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 kneading trough. 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; be- cause of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The Lord shall make the ^pes- tilence 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 1 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 food unto all fowls of the air, and unto 28 27] DEUTERONOMY J28 52 the beasts of the earth, and no man shall scare them away. 27 The Lord will smite thee with the disease of .^'Egypt, and with the ''^hemorrhoids, 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 noon- day, as the blind gropeth in dark- ness, 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 as- tonishment, a ^proverb, and a /by- word, 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 theniy but shalt neither CHAP. 28 s Ex. 12. 13. h I Sam. 5. 6, 9, 12; 6. 4, 5, i Times of the Gentiles. vers. 28, i',9-52, 63-68; 2 Ki. 18. 9-12. (Lk. 21. 24; Rev.16.14.) } Gen. 3. g. * Acts 3. 21. I Psa. 34. 7; 35. Dan. 6. 27 ■ Hoc. 5. 14. ' Deut. 5. 16. ' Gen. 3. 5. » I Ki. 9. 7 2 Chr. 7. 20 Psa. 69. II Jer. 24. 9. P I Ki. 9. 7 2 Chr. 7. 20 Job 17. 6; 30. 9 Psa. 44. 14J 69. Rom. 15. 3. * Zech. 4. II. '■ Gen. 15. 13 Ex. I. 14 Deut. 5. 6 2 Ki. 17. 6; 25. 8-11 Jer. 23. 3-8 Amos 9. 14, 15 Isa. 61. I, cf. Lk. 4. 18 ■ John 8. 32-36 Gal. 5. I Eph. 4. 8 2 Tim. 2. 26. Gen. 1. 14. ' Mt. II. 29. " Dan. 2. 33. 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 its fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them for they shall go into 'cap- tivity. 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 hearken- edst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he command- ed 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 abun- dance 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, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young : 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: who also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have utterly ruined 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 213 28 53]. DEUTERONOMY [29 5 all thy gates throughout all thy Mand, 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, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall dis- tress thee : 54 So that the man thai 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 chil- dren whom 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 ene- mies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adven- ture 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 that 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 fear- ful 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 sick- nesses, 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 CHAP. 28 ' Mai. 3. 12. " Gen. 3. 5. y Zech. 12. 2. ' Israel (his- tory), vers. 58-68; Deut. 30. 1-7. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) Num. 14. 21. Ex. 12. 13. / Deut. 5. 16. CHAP. 29 " Ex. 3. 4. * Mai. 3. 12. ' Gen. 19. 37. d Ex. 3. I. •■ Rom. 9. 17. /Gen. I. 14. s Ex. 7. 9. 2X4 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 peoples, 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 trem- bling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of soul: 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 bond- women, and no man shall buy you. CHAPTER 29. THESE are the words of the covenant, which the LORD com- manded « 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 ser- vants, and unto all his land ; 3 The great testings Avhich thine eyes have seen, the /signs, and those great AVniracles: 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 29 6] DEUTERONOMY [30 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 j 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 ^Reu- benites, 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 standethhere 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 abomi- nations, 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 selfwill of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst : CHAP. 29 '' Josh. 2. 10. i Num. 21. 26. j Num. 21. 33. fc Num. 21. 33. ' Num. 26. 7. '" Gen. 31. II. " Gen. 41. 51. " Gen. 24. 8. P Gen. 12. I. 1 Gen. 17. 19. '' Gen. 32. 28. s Mai. 3. 12. < Ex. 12. 13. « Mt. 27. 34. " Prov. 5. 4 Lam. 3. IS, 19 Heb. 12. 15 Rev. 8. II. "' Ex. 20. 5. * Zech. 14. 12. y Lev. 2. 13. ' Gen. 19. 24. " Gen. 10. 19. b Gen. 14. 2. '^ Gen. 10. 19; 14. 2, 8 Hos. II. 8. d Deut. 5. 16. * Jer. 10. 10. / Psa. 25. 14 Dan. 2. 18-47 Amos 3. 7 Mt. 6. 4-6, 18 Lk. 8. 17 Rom. 2. 16 I Cor. 14. 25. S Inspiration. Deut. 31. 24. (Ex. 4. is; Rev. 22. 19.) CHAP. 30 " The Eight Covenants, 2 Sam. 7. 8. (Gen. I. 28; Heb. 8. 10.) A Israel [his- tory}, vers. I- 7; Deut. 31. 16-23. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) ' Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 1-9; Deut. 33. 4, 5. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) 21t 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, andJ'salt, ancf burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any g^ass groweth therein, like the overthrow of -Sodom, and '^Gomor- rah, '^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 luito them : 27 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are writ- ten 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. ^ AND it shall come to pass, when -tJL 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, 30 2] DEUTERONOMY [31 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 chil- dren, 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 ^re- turn 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, who ^persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I com- mand 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 y land, for good : for the LORD will again re- joice over thee for good, as he re- joiced 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. CHAP. 30 d Christ (sec- ond advent), Psa, 2. 1-9. (Deut. 30. 3; Acts I. 9-11.) ' vers. 3-5 Isa. II. II, 12; 66. 18-20 Jer. 16. 14, 15; 5^.5-8 Ezk. 37. 11-14, 25 Zech. 8. 7, 8, 20-23 Mt. 23. 37-39; 24.31 Rom. II. 25- 27. / Psa. 2. 8. ^ Mai. 3. 12. fi Gen. 17. 10. i Psa. 7. i; 10. 2; 31- IS Jer. 17. 18 Mt. 5. 10-12 John 5. 16; 15. 20 Acts 7. £2; 9. 2 Tim. 3. 12. J Deut. s. 16. i- Josh. 3. 17. I Gen. 12. I. "" Gen. 17. 19. " Gen. 32. 28. CHAP. 31 " Ex. 3. 4- b Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. '■ Josh. 2. 10. d Num. 21. 33. ^ Gen. 15. 16. / Mai. 3. 12. 216 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 1 denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong 3;oMr 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 may- est 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. 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 '^Jo- shua, 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 3'e 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. 31 7] DEUTERONOMY [3127 7 And Moses called unto cfjoshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people into 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, who 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 1 taber- nacles, 11 When all Israel is come to ap- pear 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, who have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the yiand 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 2 taber- nacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and pre- sented 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 'Moor 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. CHAP. 31 s Num. 27. 18. h Ex. 25. Deut. 15. I. Deut. 5. 16. ■■ Josh. 3. 17. ' Num. 27. i3. " John. 10. 9. ' Israel [his- tory), vers. 16-23; Deut. 32. 8, 9. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 36.) " Psa. 9. o Nah. I. 7 Mt. 24. 6 John 14. I, 37 X Cor. II. 30- Heb. 12. 4-11 I Pet. 4. 12. Ex. 33. II. »■ Mai. 3. 12. ' Inspiration, 2 Sam. 23. 2. (Ex. 4. 15; Rev. 22. 19.) i Ex. 6. 23. Ex. 25. Heb. booths. ! or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. So in vers. 14, 15,15. 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 Hand which I sware unto them : and I will be with thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Mo- ses had made an end of writing the ^words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the ^Levites, who 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 217 3128] DEUTERONOMY [3224 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 v^ill 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. 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 per- fect : 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, con- sider the years of many genera- tions: ask thy father, arid he will show 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 accord- ing to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his in- heritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilder- ness; he encircled, he instructed him, he ^kept him as the apple of his y eye: CHAP. 3 Gen. 6. 11. CHAP. 32 Mt. 15. 9. " Israel (his- tory), vers. 8, 9; Deut. 34. 1- 5. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) d Gen. 2. 19. « Psa. I2X. s. / Gen. 3. 5. ? Gen. 15. 9. h Num. 21. 33. t Lev. 16. 5. y Deut. 33. 5,26 Isa. 44. 2. It Ex. 20. 5. I Psa. 10. 3 Jer. 14. 21. '" Psa. 39. 5 Eccl.i.2;i2 Isa. 44. 9 Acts 14. IS Rom. I. 21 Eph. 4. 17 I Pet. I. 18. " Ex. 20. s. I Heb. Sheol, abode of the dead. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, bear- eth 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 cf^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 Butyjeshurun waxed fat, and kicked : thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God ivho made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to -^jealousy with strange gods, with abomina- tions provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto demons, not to God ; to gods whom they knew not, to new ^ods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast for- gotten God that formed thee. 19 And when the Lord saw it, he ^abhorred them, because of the pro- voking 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 jea- lousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their ^''''vanities: and I will move them to '^jealousy with those that are not a people; I will pro- voke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the low- est ihell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the moun- tains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hun- ger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction : I will also send the teeth of beasts 218 32 25] DEUTERONOMY [3252 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 suck- ling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, 1 would make the re- membrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their ad- versaries 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 under- standing 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 thou- sand, 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 ^Go- morrah : their grapes are grapes of ^'gall, their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the ^poison of Mragons, 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 pro- tection. 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. CHAP. 32 " Deut. 32. 33 Job 6. 4; 20. 16 Psa. 58. 4; 140. 3 Rom. 3. 13 Jas. 3. 8. P Gen. 19. 24. 9 Gen. 10. 19. Mt. 27. 34. Deut. 32. 24. I « Deut. 5. 16. " Ex. 3. 4. ■*' Num. 27. 18. ' Ex. 33. 11. y Josh. 3. 17. ' Num. 27. 13. '^ Mai. 3. 12. 6 Josh. 6. 2. ' Gen. 17. 8. d Ex. 4. 14. ' Num. 20. 22. /Num. 13. 21. 219 40 For I lift up my hand to hea- ven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judg- ment; 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 de- vour 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 j 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 J Jordan to possess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Mo- ses 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 pos- session : 50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as ^Aaron thy brother died in moimt ^Hor, and was gath- ered 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 be- fore thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel. 33^] DEUTERONOMY [3325 CHAPTER 33. AND this is the blessing, where- * with ^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 c?^ 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 diej and let no^ his men be few. 7 And this is the blessing of Jjn- dah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be '^suffi- cient 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 chil- dren: 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 CHAP. 33 « Ex. 3. 4. b Ex. 34. 32. " Num. 6. 2S. d Gen. 21. 21 Num. 10. 12; 12. 16; 13. 3, 26 1 Sam. 25. I I Ki. II. 18 Hab. 3. 3. ^ Deut. 33. 3. /Gen. 2. 3 1 Sam. 2. 9 2 Chr. 5. 41 Psa. 30. 4; 149. 9 Dan. 7. 18-27 Mt. 4. 5; 27. 52 Rom. I. 7 I Cor. X. 2 Eph. 1. I Phil. I. I Heb. 3. I. ^ Num. 24. 17. A Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 4, s; Josh. 1. 1-5. (Gen. 1. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) i Josh. 22. 34. J Gen. 49. 10. i 2 Cor. 3. s- I Ex. 28. 30. ™ Prov. 3. 6, " Ex. 30. I. " Lev. I. 1-17; 6.8-13 Psa. SI. 19 Heb. 10. 8-10. P Gen. 35. 18. ? Psa. 8. 3. »■ Gen. 41. 39. * Num. 14. 21. ' Dan. 7. 24. " Num. 23. 22. " Num. L. 33. '" Gen. 41. 51. =^ Mt. 4. 13. y Gen. 30. II. * Ezk. 21. 25. " Josh. 19. 47, b Num. 21. 33. ' Isa. 9. I. d Lev. 26. 26. « Gen. 30. 13. /Ex. 25. 3, 220 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 pre- cious 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 ^orns are like the horns of ^^wild oxen : with them he shall push the peoples 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, Re- joice, 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 JGad 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 por- tion of the lawgiver, was /ze 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. 33 26] DEUTERONO!yiY [34 12 26 There is none like unto the Grod of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his ex- cellency 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 he 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 excel- lency ! and thine enemies shall ^be found liars unto thee; and thou shait tread upon their high places. CHAPTER 34. AND ^Moses w^ent up from the - plains of ^Moab unto the moun- tain of Nebo, to the top of -^Pisgah, that is over against '^Jericho. And the Lord ^showed 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 CHAP. 33 3 Num. 24. 17. h Mai. 3. 13. 1 or, falsely fawn upon thee. CHAP. 34 « Ex. 3. 4. b Gen. 19. 37. " Deut. 3. 27. d Josh. 6. 2. ' Israel (his- tory 1. vers. 1- 5; Josh. 3.9-17. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) /Gen. 37. 25. ^ Josh. 19. 47. h Gen. 41. 51. t Gen. 49. 10. J Psa. 2. 8. fc Ex. 15. 27. i Gen. 19. 30. ™ Gen. 12. I. " Gen. 17. 19. " Gen. 32. 28. P Gen. 3. s. * Deut. 3. 29. *■ Num. 27. 18. « Ex. 33. II. t Holy Spirit Jud. 3. 10. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) " I Tim. 5. 22. " Ex. 3. 4. *" Gen. I. 14. ' Ex. 12. 13. !^ Rom. 9. 17. ''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 landof 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 won- ders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of -^ Egypt to J Pha- raoh, 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 showed in the sight of all Israel. 221 I ^] THE BOOK OF JOSHUA CHAPTER 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 border. 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 ob- serve to do ^according to all the law, which Moses my servant com- manded 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 dis- mayed: 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 com- mand the people, saying, Prepare you victuals ; for within ''three days ye shall pass over this ''Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which CHAP, s ' Ex. 3. 4. > Isa. 42. I. * Kingdom (O.T.). vers. i-S; Jud. 2. 16- 18. (Gen. 1.26; Zech. 12. 8.) d vers. 1, 10, 13, 16 Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. ' Ex. 33. XI. / Ex. 34. 13. 9 Mai. 3. 12. h Isa. 63. 2-6. « Psa. 72. 16. ; Gen. 2. 14. * Gen. 15. 20. ' vers. 7, 8 Phil. 2. a. "' Gen. I. 5. " Lev. 7. 17, 18. " Josh. 3. 17. P Num. 26. 7. ? Gen. 30. II. "■ Gen. 41. 51. * Gen. 13. 8. ' Num. 24. 18 Jud. 3. 29 iChr.5.24; 19. Psa. 60. 12; 108. 13 Jer.46. IS Heb. II. 34- " Num. 14. 9. [2 3 the Lord your God giveth you to it. ^ vers. I, 23, 2\ Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. !> vers. I, 23 Ex. 33. II. J Mai. 3. 12. /Josh. 6. 2. 12 And to the /Reubenites, and to the ^'Gadites, and to half the tribe of 'Manasseh, spake Joshua, say- ing, 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 be- fore 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. 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 /Jeri- cho, 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, that are entered into thine house: for 2 41 JOSHUA [33 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 imto me, but I knew not whence they vjere: 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 know not : pursue after them fquickly ; 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 who 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 be- cause of you. 10 For v/e 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 Amo- rites, 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 m.elt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is Grod in '''^heaven above, and in earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have showed you ^kindness, that ye will also show 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 j brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our ; lives from death. j 14 And the men answered her. Our life for yours, 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 CHAP. 3 •J Rev. 22. 7. "i Josh. 3. 17. » Ex. 13. 18. Ex. 12. 13. A Gen. 15. 16. I Num. 21. 21, 33, 26; 32. 33. "* Num.'ai. 33. ^ Gen. I. I. ■ Ruth 2. 20. P Gen. 9. 12. ? Gen. 7. II. *■ Lev. 7. 17, 18. > I Cor. I. 8. ' Gen. 24. 8. "' Lev. 14. 4. " Rom. 3. 19. "' Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. iHe'o.deuoted. CHAP. 3 vers. I, s, 6, 7. 9. 10 Num. 27. 18. * Num. 25. I. " Josh. 3. 17. d Lev. 7. 17, 18. ' vers. 3, 6, 8, II, 13. 14, 15 Ex. 25. 10. 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 pur- suers meet you ; and hide yourselves there ^'three days, until the pur- suers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. 17 Aiid the men said unto her, We will be ^blam.eless 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 mo- ther, 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 ^guilt- less: 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 busi- I ness, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to I swear. i 21 And she said. According unto i 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 re- tamed: 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. the AND ^Joshua rose early in I . morning; and they removed I from -^Shittim, and came to -Jordan, I he and all the children of Israel, and : lodged there before they passed over. I 2 And it cam.e to pass after '^three days, that the officers went through I the host; i 3 And they commanded the peo- ; pie, saying, When ye see the ^ark of 223 3 4] JOSHUA [48 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 be- tween you and it, about two thou- sand 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 be- fore 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 co- venant, 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 chil- dren 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 with- out fail drive out from before you the ^Canaanites, and the /Hittites, and the Hivites, and the ^Perizzites, and the ^Girgashites, and the ^^Am- orites, 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 tp 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 as one 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 be- fore the people; 15 And as they that bare the ark CHAP, 3 / Ex. 6. 25. 3 Ex. 3. ,. 1* Israel {his- tory). vers. 9- 17; Josh. 24. 29-33- (Gen- 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) » Deut. 20, 17. / Gen. 15. 20. h Ex. 3. 8. i Gen. 10. 16. '" Gen. 15. 16. " 2 Chr. 3. I. "Rev. 21.12,14. P Ex. 23. 16. i Miracles (O.T.). vers- 14-17; Josh. 4- 1-18. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I- *■ also called Zartanah andZarthan, 1 Ki. 4. 12; 7. 46. » Lev. 2. 13. < Gen. 13. 10 Num. 33. 14 Deut. 3. 25 Josh. I. 2; 3. 15; 4- 3. 9 2 Sam. 17. 22; I Ki. 17. 3 Mt. 3. 6 Mk. I. 9. CHAP. 4 ■ Josh. 3. 17. t> vers. 1, 4, 5, a, 9, 10, 14, IS, 17, Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. Rev. 21. 12,14. d vers. 5, 7, 9, 10, II, 16, 18 Ex. 25. 10. ' Gen. I. 14. /Ex. 3. IS. 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 its banks all the time of /harvest,) 16 That the ? waters which came down from above stood and rose up as one 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 peo- ple were passed clean over Jordan. CHAPTER 4. 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 tv/elve 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 you 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, say- ing. 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 224 4 9] JOSHUA [57 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 who bare the ark of the covenant stood : and they are there unto this day. 10 For the priests who 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 fMoses 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 J 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 Jo- shua, 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 m.idst 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 its 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, on the easternmost border of Jeri- cho. 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in ^Gilgal, 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your chil- CHAP. 4 'J Ex. 3. 4. '' Josh. 22. 34. i Gen. 30. II. i J Gen. 41. 51. I fe Josh. 6. 2. I I I Deut. 8. 19. "^ Miracles (O.T.). vers. 1-18; Josh. 6. 6-25. (Gen. 5. 34; Jon. a. 1- 10.) " Josh. 5. 9; 9. 6; 14. 6; 15. 7 Jud. 2. I 1 Sam. 7. 16; II. 15; 15- 21 2 Ki. 2. I Amos 4. 4. "* Josh. 4. ig. PEx. 13. 18. I or, they. CHAP. 5 Gen. 15. 16. 4 Josh. 3. 17. ' Deut 30. 17. d vers. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 14, IS Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. Gen. 17. 10. / vers. 4, 5, 6. 9 Ex. 12. 13. ^Ex. 3. Mai. 3. la. dren 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, fintil 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 peoples of the earth might know the hand of the LoPvD, that it is mighty: that lye might fear the Lord your Grod tor ever. CHAPTER 5. AND it came to pass, when all the - kings of the '^-Amorites, who were on the side of ''■'Jordan v/est- ward, and all the kings of the ^Canaanites, who 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 chil- dren 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 bom in the wilder- ness 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, who came out of Egypt, were con- simied, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD : unto whom the Lord sware that he would not show 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 225 5 8] JOSHUA [6 15 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 en- camped in Gilgal, and kept the ^passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of i'^'^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 cap- tain 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 Hs ^holy. And Joshua did so. CHAPTER 6. 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. CHAP. 5 i Eph. 2. iz. } Psa. 69. 9. h Josh. 4. 19. I Ex. 12. II. *" Josh. 6. 2. « Ex. 18. IS. " Gen. 17. 8. P Gen. 3. 5. 'i Gen. 3. 24. "■ Ex. 23. 22. ' John 4. 24. ' John II, 44. " Sanctify, holy (O.T.). Josh. 6. ig. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) " Gen. 2, 3. CHAP. 6 " vers, s, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 22, 25, 26, 27 Num. 27. 18. * Deut. 34. 3 Josh. 2. i; 3. 16; 5. 13; 6. 26; 8. 2; 16. I 1 Ki. 16. 34 2 Ki. 2. 5 Mt. 20. 29 Lk. 10. 30 Heb. II. 30. "^ vers. 4, 6, 7, 8, 9. ". ", 13 Ex. 25. 10. d vers. 4, 5 Ex. 19, 13-16. ' Dan. 7. 24. ^ vf-rs. 5, r6, Num. 23. 21 ^ Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. Isa. 52. 12. 4 And seven priests shall bear be- fore 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 soimd 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 trum- pets 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, w^hen 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 co- venant of the Lord followed them. 9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trum- pets, and the ^rearward 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 com- passed the city, going about zYonce: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. 12 And Joshna rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 And the seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns be- fore the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets : and the armed men went before them ; but the rearward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. 14 And the second day they com- passed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. 15 And it came to pass on the 226 6 i6] JOSHUA [79 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 J 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 your- selves 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 ''''^''^con- secrated 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, and 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 And 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 Ra- hab, and her father, and her mo- ther, 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 house- hold, and all that she had; and she J vers. 17, 23, 25 Heb. II. 31. fc vers. 19. 24 Ex. 38. 27. ' Ex. 25. 3. '" Sanctify, holy (O.T.). Josh. 7. 13. (Gen. 2. 3: Zech, 8. 3.) » Ex. 28. 3. " Faith, vers. 20, 25; Psa. 2. 12. (Gen. 3.20. Heb. II. 39.) '' IViiracles (O.T.). vers. 6-25; Josh. 10, 12-14. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I- 10. 1 'i vers. 24, 25,26 Gen. II. d-8. ' Ex. 25. 3. ' Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. ' Josli. 6. 2. " I Sam. 14. 24 1 Ki. 22. 16 2 Chr. 18. 15 Mt. 26. 63 Mk. 5. 7 Acts iq. 13. I or, with the loss of. dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messen- gers, whom 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: hes hall lay the foundation thereof lin 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 through- out all the country. CHAP. 7 " Lev. 5. 6. b vers. 16-26 Josh. 22. 20. ^ Josh. 7. 18 I Chr. 2. 7. d vers. 1, 17,18, Gen. 38. 30. ^ vers. 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 21, 25 Num. 27. 18. /vers. 3-3 Josh. 8. 1-29. !/ Josh. 18. 12 I Sam. 13. 5; 14- 23 Hos. 4. 15; 5. 8; 10. 5. '* Gen. 12. 8. i called also Aija Gen. 12. 8. > vers. 3-5 Josh. 7. 2. ^ E.x. 25. 10. ' Bible prayers (O.T.). Jud. 13. 8, 9. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) "' Josh. 3. 17. " Gen. 15. 16. " Deut. 20. 17. P Mai. 3. 12. z or, declivity (of the hill). CHAPTER 7. BUT the children of Israel com- mitted a ^trespass in the ac- cursed 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, say- ing, Go up and spy the country. And the men went up and spied out ?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 7 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 igoing down: where- fore 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, v/hen Israel turneth their backs before their enemies ! 9 For the ^Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the /land shall hear 227 7 10] JOSHUA [8 3 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 ene- mies, hut turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the ac- cursed 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 ac- cursed thing from among you. 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe that the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof ; and the family that the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household that 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 trans- gressed 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 O^dah was taken : 17 And he brought the families 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 CHAP, 7 ? Ex. 3. 13-15. *• Sanctify, holy (O.T.). I Ki. 7. 51. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) ' vers. 1-29 Num. 14. 6; 27. 18 Josh. 7. 2. Gen. 49. 10. " vers. 18-20,24 Josh. 7. 1. " Josh. 7. I. "■ Num. 14. 21. " Lev. 5. 5. y Zech. 3. 3. ' Gen. 23. 15. ** Psa. 10. 3. > ver. 26 Hos. 2. 15. ' Josh. 7. 24. CHAP. 8 " vers. 1, 3, 9, lOi 13. IS. 16. 18, 31, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, Num. 27. 18. Mai. 3. 12. •^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 sil- ver under it. 23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto. Joshua, and unto ail the chil- dren 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 Is- rael 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 fierce- ness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of ^Achor, unto this day. CHAPTER 8. AND the Lord said unto ^Joshua, . Fear not, neither be thou dis- mayed : 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 thou- 238 8 4] JOSHUA [8 27 sand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. 4 And he commanded them, say- ing, 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, v/hen ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: <^^ according to the com- mandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. 9 ^Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in am- bush, 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 thou- sand 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 Hers 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 if, 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 knew 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. Psa. 72. 16. ' Gen. 15. 20. d vers. I, 10 Gen. 15. 16. * Deut. 20. 17. /Ex. 3.8. 9 a Chr. 3. I. '> vers. 2, 3, 6, 8, 15,22, 24,27 Num. 27. 18. J Josh. 9. 17; 10. 2, 12, 41 2 Sam. 2. 12; Neh. 7. 25. k Gen. 12. 8. I Josh. 6. 2. "' Prov. 13. 17 Lk. 14. 32 2 Cor. 5. 20. " Zech. 3. 3. " Josh. 4. 19. P vers. 1-27 Deut. 7. 1-4 Jud. 2. 2 3 Cor. 6. 14-18. 9 Ex. 12. 13. •■ Josh. 2. ' Num. 21. 33. " Num. 21. 33. Deut. I. 4. 2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with /^Joshua and with Israel, with one Accord. 3 And when the inhabitants of y 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 ^'^am- bassadors, 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 moldy. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at ^Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We are 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, who 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 moldy : 13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our gar- ments 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. 230 9 ^^] JOSHUA [10 II i6 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 jour- neyed, and came unto their cities on the -^third day. Now their cities were JGibeon, and ^Chephirah, and ^Beeroth, and '^Kirjath- jearira. 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 allthecongregation,'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 w^ood 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 de- stroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid for 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 a.nd drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should ^choose. CHAP. 9 * Lev. 7. 17, x8 y Josh. 9. 3. ' Josh. 18. 26 Ezra 2. 25 Neh. 7. 29. " 2 Sam. 4. 2, 3. 5. 9; 23- 37- * I Sam. 7. 1. ' Ex. 15. 24. > vers. 5, 6, 13 Gen. 13. 18. i Josh. 10. 32. .;' Josh. 4. 19. i Rev. 22. 7. I Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. ''' Josh. 4. 19. ■' Rev. 22. 7. " Josh. 9. 3. ^ Josh. 10. 11; 16. s 1 Sam. 13. 18 2 Chr. 8. s; 25. I Ki. 9. 17. 1 ver. II Josh. 15. 35 1 Sam. 17. I 2 Chr. II. 9 Neh. II. 30 Jer. 31. 7. "■ vers. 16, 17, 21, 28, 29 Josh. 12. 16; IS- 41- 'Josh. 10. 10. I Heb. de- uoted. CHAPTER 10. NO W it came to pass, when ^Adoni- zedec 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-zedec king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of/ Hebron, and unto Piramkingof .^■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 Jar- muth, the king of ^Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves to- gether, 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 to7Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us -^quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings oftheAmorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered to- gether against us. 7 So ''Joshua ascended from ''''^Gil- gal, 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, for he went up from Gil- gal 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 'Mak- kedah. 11 And it camie to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to ^Beth-horon, that 231 10 12] JOSHUA IIO 33 the Lord cast down great stones from lieaven upon them unto ^ Aze- kah, and they died : they were more who 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 ene- mies. Is not this written in the book of 2jasher? 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 JMakkedah. 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 Jo- shua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest that re- mained 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. CHAP, xo ' Josh. 10. 10. Psa. 8. 3. " called also Aijalon Josh. 21. 24 z Sam. 14. 31. '" Miracles (O.T.). vers. 12-14; Jud. 14. s, 6, 19. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I-IO.) y vers. 16, 17, 21, 28, 29 Josh. 10. 10. ' Mt. 23. 37. ' Gen. 13. 18. ' Josh. 10. 32. ■Josh. 6. 2. 1 Rev. 22. 7. "■ Jud. 10. 6. ' Josh. II. 3, ' Josh. II. I. » Ex. 3. 4. I Heb. devot- ing. So vers. 12, 20, 21. 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 de- liver them up all slain before Israel: thou Shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. 7 So ^Joshua came, and all the peo- ple of war with him, against them by the waters of /Merom f sud- denly ; 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-raaim, 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 cha- riots 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 idestroying 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 Jo- shua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as ^'^ Moses the servant of the LORD com- manded. 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; 233 II 15] JOSHUA [12 14 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 moun- tain of Israel, and the valley of the same ; 17 Even from the mount ^^Halak, that goeth up to -^^Seir, even unto jJ' 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 bat- tle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might de- stroy them, as the LORD com- manded Moses. 21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the )f 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 Ana- kims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in 7 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 accord- ing to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war. CHAPTER 12. NOW these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Is- rael smote, and possessed their land on the other side « Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river CHAP, zi *" Mai. 3. 12. ^ Josh. 12. 7. " Ezk. 35- 7- I'Josh. 12. 7; 13- S- * Psa. 72. 16. " Deut. 3. 8. * Gen. 14. 2. ' Josh. 9. 3. d Psa. 95. 8. * Ezk. II. 19. / vers. 21, 22 Num. 13. 22. ^ Gen. 13. 18. A Josh. 10. 38. » Gen. 49. 10. / Gen. 10. 19 Acts 8. 26. i I Sam. 5. 8; 7. 14; 17. 4; SI. 10; 27.2 2 Sam. I. 20; 15. 18; 21. 20 2 Ki. 12. 17. < I Sam. 5. 1. 2 or, Bald Mountain. CHAP. 12 " Josh. 3. 17. ■> vers. I, 2 Num. 21. 13. ' vers. 2, 5 Josh. 2. 10. d vers. 2, 8 Gen. 15. 16. Num. 21. 26. / Deut. 2. 36. i/ Gen. 37. 25. h Gen. 19. 38. » Num. 34. II. / Lev. 2. 13. A Num. 33. 49. ' Deut. 3. 17. ™ Nam. 21. 33. " vers. 4, s Num. 21. 33. " Deut. I. 4. P Josh. 13. 31. 9 Deut. 3. 8. *■ Deut. 3. 10. « 2 Sam. 3. 3. t Deut. 3. 14. « Gen. 37. 25- " Num. 21. 26. "-Ex. 3. 4. " Num. 26. 7. y Gen. 30. II. ' Gen. 41. 51. " Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. b Josh. 3. 17. «Josh. II. 17. d Psa. 72. 16. 'Josh. II. 17. / Ezk. 35. 7. S> Gen. 15. 20. t> Deut. 20. 17. i Ex. 3. 8. j 2 Chr. 3. I. *Josh.-6. 2. I Gen. 12. 8 Josh. 7. 2. ™ vers, 9, 16 Gen. 12. 8. » Mt. 23. 37. * Gen. 13. 18. P Josh. 10. 32. 9 Josh, 10. 33. " Josh. 10. 38. * I Chr. 4. 39. ' Num. 14. 45, 1 or, valley. 2 or, the springs of Pisgah. 3 or, slopes. 234 '^Amon 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 i'^Gilead, even unto the driver 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 2/ Ashdoth-pisgah : 4 And the border of '^^Og king of «Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Rephaim, that dwelt at ^Ash- taroth 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 whom ^Joshua and the chil- dren 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 ac- cording 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 9Gezer, one ; 13 The king of 'Debir, one; the king of ^Geder, one; 14 The king of ^Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 12 15] JOSHUA [13 23 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 kingof -^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 height 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. NOW ^Joshua was old and stricken in years ; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remain- eth yet very much '^land to be pos- sessed. 2 This is the land that yet re- maineth: all the borders of the ^Philistines, and all ^Geshuri, 3 From ^Sihor, which is before /Egypt, even unto the border of ^Ekron northward, which is ^^count- ed 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 Her- mon unto the entering into Hamath. 6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misre- photh-maira, 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 com- manded 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 in- heritance, which 'Moses gave them, beyond ^Jordan eastward, even as I CHAP. la " Josh. 21. 13. ; " 1 Sam. 22. xA "- Josh. 10. xo. * I Ki. 4. 10. yjosh. 13. 4; XQ. 30 jud. 1. 31 r Sam. 4. i; 29. I 1 Ki. 20. 26, 30 2 Ki. 13. 17. ' Josh. II. I. "Josh. 11. I. b Josh. 17. II. ' called also Megiddon and Arma- geddon Josh. 17. n Jud. 1.27:5.19 1 Ki. 4. 12; 9.15 2 Ki. 9. 27; 23. 29. 30 1 Chr. 7. 29 2 Chr. 35. 22 Zech. 12. II. ti Josh. 19. 37. ' Josh. 19. 11; /"l^'iS. 19. s 1 Chr. 7. 29. '» Song 6. 4. CHAP. 13 " Num. 27. 18. '' Mai. 3. 12. "■ vers. 2, 3 Amos I. 8. d I Sam. 27. 8. ' I Chr. 13. 5 Isa. 23. 3 Jer. 2. 18. / Ex. 12. 13. S Zeph. 2. 4. '» Gen. 15. 6. « vers. 3, 4 Deut. 20. 17. J Neh. 4. 7. A Jud. I. 18 2 Sam. I. 20 Jer. 25. 20; 47. Zeph. 2. 4, 7. I 2 Sam. 6. 10; 15. 18; 18. 2; "' I Sam. 5. 10. " Deut. 2. 23. " Josh. 13. 6. P Josh. 12. i3. 1 vers. 4. 10, 21 Gen. 15. 16. *■ Josh. II. 17. * Deut. 3. 9 I Ki. 5. 6. < Gen. 41. 51. " Num. 26. 7. '' Ex. 3.4. '"Josh. 3. 17. * vers. 26, 33 Deut. 2. 36. y vers. 9, 16 Num. 21. 13. ' vers. 9, 16 Num. 21. 30. f Num.. 21. 30. b vers. 10, 21, 27 Josh. 2. 10. <" Num. 21. 26. rf vers. 10, 25 Gen. 19. 38. ' Gen. 37. 25. fz Sam. 3. 3. 9 Deut. 3. 8. h vers. II, 12, 30, 31 Num. 21. 33. » Deut. 3. 10. .;■ vers. 12, 30, 31 Num. 21. 33. * vers. 12, 31 Deut. I. 4. I vers. 12, 31 Josh. 13. 31. " Gen. 49. 5. " vers. 15, 23 Josh. 22. 34. " Josh. 21. 37 I Chr. 6. 79. P—b 236. see page Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; 9 From -^Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river JArnon, and the city that is in the midst of the val- ley, and all the plain of ^Medeba unto ^Dibon ; 10 And all the cities of ^Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in ^Heshbon, unto the border of the children of ^Ammon; n And ^Gilead, and the border of the /Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount. .^^Hermon, and all ^' Bashan unto ^ Salcah ; . 12 All the kingdom of JOg in Ba- shan, who reigned in -^'Ashtaroth and in ''Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the Rephaim: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out. 13 Nevertheless the children of Is- rael expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshur- ites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. 14 Only unto the tribe of ^'^Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacri- fices of the Lord, Grod 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 inherit- ance according to their families. 16 And their border was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Amon, and the city that is in the midst of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba; 17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Ba- moth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, 18 And Jahaza, and ^Kedmeoth, 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, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of ''^Midian, ^Evi, and wRekem, and ^Zur, and J^^Hur, and ^Reba, who 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 in- 235 13 24] JOSHUA [14 14 heritance of the children of Reuben according to 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 border 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 <^Ra- math-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from -^'Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; 27 A.nd in the valley, Beth-aram, and ^Beth-nimrah, and /Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the king- dom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and its 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 Ma- nasseh by their families. 30 And their border was from Ma- hanaim, all Bashan, all the king- dom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: 31 And half Gilead, and Ash- taroth, and ^Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for 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. AND these are the counfrieswhich ^ 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 chil- dren of Israel, distributed for in- heritance to them. 2 By /lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the CHAP. 13 P Josh. 21. 37 I Chr. 6. 79 Jer. 48. 21. ? called also Shebam and Shibmah Isa. 16. 8, 9. ' Deut. 3. 29. ' Deut. 3. 17. ' Num. 3. 49. " Gen. 36. 35. " Num. 31. 8. ^ Num. 31. 8. " Num. 25. 1:5. y Num. 31. 8. * Num. 31. 8. " Num. 32. 5. A Num. 22. 5. ' Gen. 30. II. d Num. 21. 32, * Mai. 3. 12. / Deut. 3. II. *■ Gen. 31. e,g. h vers. 26, 30 Gen. 32. 2. » Isa. ig. 6. jjud. 8.5. k Num. 34. II. ' Num. 21. 33 Deut. 1.4; 3.10 Josh. 13. 12. "■ Gen. 50. 23. " Josh. 6. a. CHAP. 14 " Mai. 3. 12. J Gen. 17. 8. ' Ex. 6. 23. d vers. I, 6, 13 Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. ' Ex. 33. II. / Lev. 16. 8. ?Ex.3. 4. h Josh. 3. 17. i Ex. 6. 23. J Gen. 41. 39. l< Gen. 41. SI. I Num. I. 33, '" Gen. 49. 10. " Josh. 4. 19. " vers. 6, 13, 14 Deut. I. 36. J' Num. 13. 6. ? called also Meribah ver. 7 Deut. 9. 23. '■ vers. 8, 9, 14 Num. 32. II, 12. ' vers. 12, IS Num. 13. 22, ' Gen. 13. 18. hand of .^TVIoses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inherit- ance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side ''Oordan: but unto the ^Levites he gave none inherit- ance among them. 4 For the children of /Joseph were two tribes, ^Tilanasseh and ^Eph- raim: 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 sub- stance. 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 ^Calebthe son of/Jephunnehthe Ke- iiezite 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 Mo- ses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy 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 fol- lowed 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 fol- lowed 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 wan- dered 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 -^Anakim 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 Jephun- neh ^Hebron for an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the 236 14 ^5] JOSHUA [15 22 inheritance of Caleb the son of Je- phunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord, God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron before was iKirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Ana- kim. And the land had rest from war. CHAPTER 15. y^HIS then was the lot of the •^ tribe of the children o.*" Judah by their families; even to the bor- der of ^Edom the wilderness of '^Zin southward was the 'uttermost part of the south border. 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 com- pass to Karkaa: 4 From thence it passed toward i^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 quar- ter was from the bay of the sea at the ^uttermost part of Jordan: 6 And the border went up to7Beth- 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 Hin- nom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the Rephaim north- ward: 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 ; ;CHAP. 14 I or, city of Arba. CHAP. 15 " vers. I, 21 Mai. I. 4. * Num. 13. 21. « Psa. 2. 8. d Lev. a. 13. ' See also Meribah Ex. 17. 7. /Josh. 13. 25. ^ Num. 34. 4. h vers. 4, 47 Ex. 12. 13. i Psa. 2. 8. ;Josh. 18. 19, 21. '' Josh. 15. 61; 18. 22. ' Josh. 18. 17. '" Gen. 49. 3. " vers. 7, IS Josh. 10. 38. " Josh, 7. 24. P Josh. 4. 19. ? Josh. 18. 17. *■ 2 Sam. 17. 17 1 Ki. 1. 9. » Josh. i8. 16 2 Ki. 23. 10 2 Chr. 33. 6 Neh. II. 30 Jer. 7.31; 19.2. < Mt. 23. 37. " vers. 9, 10 I Chr. 13. 6. '' Ezk. 35. 7. ^ Jud. I. 33. * vers. II, 45,46 Zeph. 2. 4. y vers. 12, 13, 20, 21, 63 Gen. 49. 10. ' vers. 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 Deut. I. 36. " Num. 13. 6. * Num. 27. 18. ' vers. 13, 14 Num. 13. 22. d Gen. 13. 18. * Num. 13. 22. / Num. 13. 22. ^ Num. 13. 23. fi Josh. 15. 16 Jud. I. 12. » vers. 16, 17 Jud. I. 12. J Mai. 3. 13. and the border was drawn to ^"^Baa- lah, 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 boundary of the children of Jjudah 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 / Ahimanjandc^'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 smit- eth 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 bless- ing ; for thou hast given me a south 7land; 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 ac- cording to their families. 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah to- ward the border of Edom south- ward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 237 15 23] JOSHUA [i6 7 23 And Kedesh, and '^Hazor, and Ithnan, 24 '^Ziph, and Telem, and Bealotli, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Ke- rioth, and '''^Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Amam, and Shema, and -'^Mola- dah, 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Hesh- mon, and Beth-palet, 28 And ^Hazar-shual, and /Beer- sheba, and Bizjothjah, 29 Baalah, and lim, and ^Azem, 30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and ^Hormah, 31 And ^Ziklag, and Madmannah, and ^Sansannah, 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and "Ain, and Rimmon : all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages : j 33 And in the valley, ^'Eshtaol, and ^'Zoreah, and Ashnah, 34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, 35 Jarmuth, and -^AduUam, JJ'So- coh, 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; six- teen 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, J 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-san- nah, which is Debir, 50 And Anab, and ^Eshtemoh, and Anim, 51 And Goshen, and '^Holon, and Giloh ; eleven cities with their vil- lages: CHAP. IS !< I Ki. 9. ig. i I Sam. 23. 14. '=' Josh. 15. 3. " Josh. 19. 2 I Chr. 4. 28 Neh. II. 26. " Josh. 19. 3 I Chr. 4. 28 Neh. II. 27. P Gen. 21. 33. « Josh. 19. 3 1 Chr. 4. 29. ^ Num. 14. 45. * I Sam. 27. 6. ' called also Debir and Kirjath- sannah vers. IS, 31, 49 Josh. 10. 38. " Josh. 21. 16. '■ Josh. 19. 41 Jud. 13. 25; 16. 31; 18. 2, 8, II. '" Jud. 13. 2. ^' I Sam. 22. 1. ^ I Sam. 17. I I Ki. 4. 10. - Josh. 10. 10. " I Sam. 17. S2. b Jud. 20. I 1 Sam. 7.3,12; 10. 17 2 Ki. 25. 23 2 Chr. 16. 6 Jer. 40. 6:41. 1 Hos. 5. I. '■ Josh. 10. 32. 'I 2 Chr. 28. 18. '' Josh. 10. 10. /Josh. 19. 7. y I Sam. 23. 4. '' 2 Chr. II. 8; 14. 9; 20. 37 Mic. I. 15. ' I Sam. 5. I. J Gen. 10. 19 Acts 8. 26. I' Josh. 21. 14 1 Sam. 30. 27 I Chr. 6. S7- ' Josh. 21. 14 1 Sam. 30. 28 I Chr. 6. 57. ™ called also Hilen Josh. 21. IS I Chr. 6. 58, ■' Gen. 23. 2. " Gen. 13. 18. ^ I Sam. 25. 2. 'J 1 Sam. 25. 43; 29. I, II. *■ called also Gibeath Jud. 19. is; 20. 1 Sam. 10. 26; 11. 4; 13. 2, 16 2 Sam. 6. 3 Isa. 10. 29 Hos. s- 8;'9. 9. " 2 Chr. II. 7 Neh. 3. 16. ' Josh. 18. 14. " I Sam. 7. I. '' I Sam. 23 29; 24. I 2 Chr. 20. 2 Song I. 14 Ezk. 47. 10. '" 2 Chr. 3. I. •• Mt. 23. 37. ■'' Gen. 49. 10. CHAP. 16 " Gen. 41. 39. * Josh. 3. 17. '■' vers. I, 2 Gen. 12. 8. '( Gen. 48. 3. ^ 2 Sam. 15. 32. / vers. 3, s Josh. 10. 10. ^ Josh. 10. 33. '' Gen. 41. 51. » vers. 4, 5, 8, 9 Num. I. 33. J Josh. 17. 7. 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, 53 And Janum, and Beth-tap- puah, 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 "Kir- jath-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 inha- bitants 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. 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 f^^Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of "^ Archi to Ataroth, 3 And goeth down westward to the border of Japhleti, unto the border of /Beth-horon the nether, and to ' Jordan : this was the south coast. 20 And Jordan was the boundary of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Ben- 240 I8 21] JOSHUA [19 28 jamin, 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-hog lah, and the valley of Keziz, 22 And Beth-arabah, and Zema- raim, and Eeth-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. 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, inherit- , ance '^Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and ^Moladah, 3 And ^Hazar-shual, and/Balah, and 31, 32. 33> 34- " vers. 9, 10,11, Gen. 17. 8. P Gen. 37. 25. ? Gen. 8. 20. vers. 13, 30, 31.32 1 Chr. 9. 20. ■ vers. 13, 31, 32 Ex. 6. 23. ' vers. 16, 20,31 Lev. 5. 6. " Num. 25. 18. '' Zech. 14. 12. «• Mai. 3. 12. =^Josh. 7. I. y Gen. 38. 30. ' Gen. 30. II. " Ex. 29. 41. 6 Josh. 3. 17. '^ Deut. 8. 19. I or, a great altar in ap- 2 or, tent- dwel/ing. Ex. 25. 8. Also ver. 29. 3 OT, families. 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 congre- gation 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 2tabernacle 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 JZerah 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 ^meal 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, say- ing. In time to come your children might speak unto our children, say- ing, What have ye to do with the Lord, God of Israel? 25 For the Lord hath made ^Jor- dan 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 v/e 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 245 22 28] JOSHUA [23 13 betv/een us, and you, and our gene- rations after us, that we might do the service of the '^Lord before him with our burnt oiferings, 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, Be- hold the ^pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacri- fices; but it is a witness between us and you. 29 God forbid that we should re- bel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meal 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 that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of P«Ianasseh spake, it pleased them. 31 And Phinehas the son of Elea- zar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manas- seh, 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 Elea- zar the priest, and the princes, re- turned 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 chil- dren of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not in- tend any more 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. CHAP. 22 d Deut. 13. 5, 6. Ex. 25. 9. / Gen. 37. 25. Mai. 3. 12. h Gen. 30. II. • Josh. 4. 12113. 15, 23; 20. 8; 22. 9,10,11,25,31, Rev. 7. 5. 4 Witness. CHAP. 23 ' vers. 1, 2 Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. Josh. 3. 17. d Ex. 12. 25. Gen. 34. 9. CHAPTER 23. AND it came to pass a long time - after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their ene- mies 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 writ- ten 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 Gk)d. 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 t 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 be- fore you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges '246 23 14] JOSHUA [2416 ill your sides, and thorns in your /eyes, until ye vers. 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 17, 27,28, 29. 33. 32. 33 Deut. 20. 17. ' Gen. 49. 10. d Mai. 3. 12. vers. 3, 17 Num. I. 23. /vers. 4, 5 Ex. 3. 8. 9 Mt. 23. 37. h Gen. 49. 10. « Gen. 13. 18. i Gen. 23. =. 4 Num. 13. 22. I Num. 13. 22. "* Num. 13. 22. " vers. II, 12 Josh. 10. 38. " Josh. 15. 16. P vers. 12, 13, 14, 15, 20 Deut. I. 36. ? vers. 12, 13 Josh. 15. i6. '■ Jud. 3. 9. ' Mai. 3. 12. ' Ex. 3. 4. " Ex. 15. 27. '' Num. 14. 43. "' Gsn. 10. 19 Acts 8. 26. ^ Josh. 13. 3. y Zeph. 2. 4. " Num. 13. 22. " 2 Chr. 3. I. b Num. X. 37. ' Gen. 41. 39. d vers. 22, 23 Gen. 12. 8. « Gen. 48. 3. xH&h.deuoted. [I 24 eth 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 daugh- ter 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 Tier 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 ne- ther 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 wilder- ness 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 Ca- naanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly ^destroyed it. And the name of the city was called ^Hor- mah. 18 Also Judah took ^'Gaza with the territory thereof, and -^Askelon with the territory thereof, and J'Ekron with the territory thereof. 19 AndtheLORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, be- cause they had chariots of iron. 20 And they gave Hebron unto Ca- leb, 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 Jebu- sites dwell with the children of ''Ben- jamin 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 spy out 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 249 I 25] JUDGES [2 12 unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will show thee mercy. 25 And when he showed 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 yDor and her towns, nor the inha- bitants 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 2tribute, 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 Ahiab, 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-she- mesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth- anath ; but he dwelt among the Ca- naanites, 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 J' Dan into the moun- tain : 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. CHAP. I / Gen. xg. 20. ' Gen. 41.51. A I Sam. 31. 12. « Josh. 17. II. / 1 Chr. 7. 20. * Josh. 17. II. ' Josh. 12. 21. "' Num. I. 33. " Josh. 10. 33. <'Mt.4. 13. P Josh. 19. 13. 9 Gen. 30. 13. *■ Jud. 10. 6. ' Josh. 12. 18. ' Mum. 13. 21. " Mai. 3. 12. " Isa. 9. I. ''' I Sam. 6. 9, i2i 13. 14. IS. IQ, 20 2 Ki. n. II, 13 2 Chr. 28. 18. ' vers. 34, 35,36 Gen. 15. 16. V Josh. 19. 47. * Josh. 10. 12. " I Ki. 4. 9. * Gen. 41. 39. 2 or, tasks. CHAP, 2 " Josh. 4. 19. d vers. I, 12 Ex. 12. 13. ' Josh. 9. 6. vers. II, 17 Num. 24. 21. " Josh. II. I. d Isa. 55. I. ' Jer. 23. 29. 1 or, oak. 2 or, tent pin. CHAP. 5 " vers. I, 12, 15 Jud. 4. 6. 4 Num. 35. 12, " Ezk. 35. 7. d Mai. I. 4. ' Ex. 19. 16. / Ex. 34. 32- ^ Jud. 3. 31. 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 inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here ? that thou shalt say, No. 21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a 2nail of the tent, and took an ^ham- mer 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 show 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. THEN sang Deborah and ^Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the LORD for the <^a- venging 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 ^trem- bled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5 The mountains melted from be- fore 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 by- ways. 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 253 5^^] JUDGES [6 5 of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. 10 Speak, ye that ride on -^^ white asses, ye that sit lin 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 to- ward 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 re- maineth have y 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: hp was sent on foot into the valley. For the divi- sions of /Reuben there were great ^thoughts of heart. 16 Why abodest thou among the ^sheepfoids, 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 by his bays. 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 -^Me- giddo; they took no gain of Jmoney. 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 trod- den down strength. 22 Then were the horsehoofs bro- ken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they CHAP. 5 '' Isa. 1. 18. » Deut. 28. 41. j Ex. 24. II. i Psa. 8. 6. I Num. I. 33. " Ex. 17. 8. " Num. I. 37. " vers. 14, 18 Mt. 4. 13. P vers. 15, 16 Josh. 22. 34. ? 2 Sam. 7. 8. *■ Gen. 37. 25. ' Josh. 3. 17. ' Josh. ig. 47. " Gen. 30. 13. " Isa. 9. I. "' Gen. 17. 8. ' Josh. 12. 21. y Gen. 17. 12. ' Gen. I. 16. ** vers. 20, 26, 23, 30 Jud. 4. 9. * Jud. 4. 17, 18, 21, 22; 5. 6. ' Jud. 4. II. d Isa. 55. X. ' Jer. 23. 119. / Psa. 22. 16. 9 Ezk. I. 15-21. h Mai. 3. 12. I Heb. 0(1 car- pets. 3 or, resolves. " vers. 1, z Gen. 36. 35. vers. 3, 33 Ex. 17. 8. I Chr. 7. 28. 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 Ken- ite 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 work- men's ^hammer : and with the ham- mer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, yea, she /pierced and smote through his temple. 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 found? 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. 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 pre- vailed 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 chil- dren 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 v»dth their 254 6 6] JUDGES [6 28 cattle and their tents, and they came as ^grasshoppers for multi- tude; for both they and their cam- els were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impo- verished 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, who 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 fron .before you, and gave you their land ; ID And I said unto you, f I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the /^Am.orites, 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 / Abi-ezrite : and his son ^'Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Mid- ianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord ap- peared 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 he all his '^^miracles which our fathers told us of, say- ing, 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 weakest 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 d vers. 8, 13 Ex. 12. 13. /Ex. [. 13. 9 Ex. 3. 14- ft Gen. 15. 16. «Jud. 8. 27:9.5. / vers. II, 24 Jud. 6. 34. k called also Gedeon and Jerubbaal Jud. 7. i; 8. 4, 23, 27, 50, 32 Heb. II. 32. I Jud. 6. II. Ex. 7. 9. " Gen. 41. SI. * called also Jerubbaal vers. II, 13,19, 22, 24, 27, 29, 34. 36, 39- Ex. 29. I. vers. 25, 31, 32 I Ki. 18. 21. I or, locusts. 2 or, The LORD is peace. 3 I-Ieb. Ashe- rah. I have found grace in thy sight, then show me a ^sign that it is really thyself that taikest 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 vjill 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 unlea- vened cakes, and lay ^/?em 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 un- leavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. 22 And when ^Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for I have seen the 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 2 Jehovah-shalom : unto this day it is yet in ^Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, T^e 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 sgrove 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 v/ood of the ^grove which thou shalt cut dov»rn. 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 house- hold, 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 255 6 291 JUDGES [79 the 3grove 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 inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of ^Joashhath done this thing. 30 Then the men of the city said un- to 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 w' Joash said unto ail 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 before 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 ^ Abi-ezer 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 pressed 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 CHAP. 6 ' Jud. 6. 31. " vers. II, 30 Jud. 7. 14; 8. 29, 32. ' called also Gideon Jud. 7.1; 8. 35; 5. s, 16, 24, 57. y Josh. 17. 16 Hos. I. 5; 2. * Holy Spirit Jud. II. 29. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) " vers. II, 2\ Jud. 8. 2, 32. 6 Gen. 30. 13. <= Mt. 4- 13- d Isa. 9. I, ' Lev. 13. 47. 3 Heb. Ashe- rah. 4 Heb. Let Baal plead. CHAP. 7 " called also Jerulibaal vers. 2, 4, 5,7, 13, 14, IS, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25 Jud. 6. II. b 2 Sam. 23. 25. ' Deut. 23. 18. d I Cor. 10. 4. ' Ex. 19. 13-16. / vers. 8, 13, la, Gen. 36. 35. it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. CHAPTER 7. 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 ai-e with thee are too many for me to give the Midian- ites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, say- ing. Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying. Who- soever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. A^d 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 ^J^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, 256 101 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 Phu- rah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed men that were in the host. 12 And the Midianites and the ^Amalekites and ail 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 mul- titude. 13 And v/hen 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 Andhisfellowansweredandsaid, 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 hun- dred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and 2z 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 begin- ning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake JUDGES CHAP. 7 !> Ex. tj. 8. « Gen. 15. 17. J Gen. 3. 24. 'j Jud. 6. II. ' also called Zaretan Josh. 3. 16. " Isa. 9. I. " Gen. 30. 13. " Gen. 41. 51. P Num. I. 33. 1 John I. 28. »" Josh. 3. 17. » Jud. 8. 3 Psa. 83. II Isa. 10. 26. t Jud. 8. 3. 1 or, locusts. 2 or, torches. 3 or, For the LORD, and for Gideon. '* vers. 1, 2 Num. I. 33. Lev. 19. 9. ■^ vers. 2, 32 Jud. 6. 34. •< vers. 3, 5, 12, 22, 26, 28 Gen. 36. 35- ' Jud. 7. 25. /Jud. 7. 25. [8 4 the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitch- ers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried. They 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 fel- low, 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 '"'^Naph- tali, 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 to- gether, 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. AND the m,en of ^Ephraim said . unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou w^entest 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 'Abi-ezer? 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 257 8 5] JUDGES [8 28 hundred men that were v/ith him, faint, yet pursuing them. 5 And he said unto the men of .S'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 ^Zalmun- na, 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 itear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. 8 And he went up thence to ^'Pe- nuel, and spake unto them likewise : and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had an- swered him. Q 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 Zalmun- na fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Ze- bah 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 inquired 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 ^ vers. 5, 8, 14, IS- i6- '» vers. 6, 7, ro, 12, IS, 18, 31. vers, c, o, 7, n, 12, 15, 18, .Psa. 83. II. } vers. 5, 6, 8, 14, 15, 16. * vers, a, g, 17 Gen. 32. 30. called also Jerubbaal vers. 4, 7, II, 13, 21, 22, 23, 2;, 27, 28, 30, 30, 32. 35 Jud. 6. II. Jud. 6. 31. " Jud. 4. 6, 12 Psa. 8-). 12. " Gen. 13. 8. }' Eccl. II. 9, Zech. 3. 3. Ex. 25. 4. " ver. 32 Jud. 6. I Heb. thresh. 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 '^Ta- bor ? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one re- sembled 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 be 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 cam- els' 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 deli- vered 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. 23 Thus v/as Midian subdued b&= 858 8 29] JUDGES [919 fore 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 ^'Shechera, 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 Abi-ezrites. 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 ^re- membered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: 35 Neither showed they 'kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the good- ness which he had showed unto Israel. CHAPTER 9. AND ^ Abimelech the son of * Jerub- . baal 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 three- score 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, v/ho followed him. 5 And he went unto his father's house at i^Ophrah, and slew his bre- thren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: but ^'^Jotham the youngest CHAP. 8 "■ Isa. 30. 15. * called also Gideon Jud. 6. 32. !/ Gen. 33. 18. ^Jud. 9. I. " Isa. 46. 4. b I Ki. i3. zi. ' Jud. 9. 4, 46. d Gen. 8. i. « Ruth z. 20. 4 or, the Baalim. CHAP. Q "vers. I-S7 Jud. 8. 31 3 Sam. II. ZI. * called also Gideon Jud. 6. II, 32. " vers. I, 2, 3, 6, 7, 18, 20, 23, 24, z5, z€, 31, 34. 39, 41- 4'5, 47, 49. 57 Gen. 33. 18. (I Gen. 2. 23. « Ex. 38. 27. /vers. 4,46 Jud. 8. 33. ^ Jud. 6. II. '' vers. 7, 21,57. i ver. 20. J Gen. 28. i3. li Deut. II. 29. ' Parables (O.T.). vers. 7-iS; 2 Sam. 12. 1-4. (Jud. 9. 7-15; Zech. II. 7-14) '" Gen. 31 • 13 » Zech. 4. II. '■ vers. 10. Lk. 13. e II P Mt. 9. 2 '1 Psa. 17. 8. ' Psa. 72. 16. ' Josh. 24 14. i Gen. 36. 35- son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. 6 And all the men ot Shechem gathered together, and all the house of ^Millo, and went, and made Abi- melech king, by theoak of the /pillar that was in Shechem. 7 And Vv^hen 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, where- with 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 pro- moted 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 arid put your trust in my iZshadow: 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 259 9 20] JUDGES [944 sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also re- joice 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 Jerub- baal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, v\^ho slew them ; and upon the men of Shechem, who 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 trod 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 J' Jerub- baal ? and sZebul 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 bre- thren are come to Shechem ; and, be- hold, they fortify the city against thee. CHAP. 9 ver. 6. " vers. 28, 31, 35. 39, 41- Josh. 24. 32. y called also Gideon Jud. 6. n, 32. Oi 36. " Gen. 33. 19. i Mai. 3. 13. I Heb. thy hand shall find. 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 ithou shalt find possible. 34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that ivere 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 tbe top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him. Thou seest the shadow 01 the mountains as if they were men. 37 And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the '^iand, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim. 38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, where- with thou saidst, Who z's Abimelech, that we should serve him ? is not this the people that thou hast de- spised? 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 Aru- mah: 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 Abime- lech. 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 com- pany that vjas with him, rushed for- ward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the 260 9 45] JUDGES [10 12 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 peo- ple that were with him ; and Abime- lech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoul- der, 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 The- bez, 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 bum it with fire. 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abime- lech's head, and ^ail 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 wicked^ ness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his sev- enty brethren : 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon CHAP. 9 Lev. 2. 13. ' called also Gideon Jud. 6. II. 2 or, crushed his skull. CHAP. 10 " Jud. 9. I. 6 Num. 2. s. ' Num. 32. 41. d Mai. 3. 12. ^ Gen. 37. 23, /vers. 6, 10 I Ki. 18. 21. ^ Jud. 2. 13. '» Mt. 4. 24. t called also Sidon Gen. 10. 19; 49- 13 Josh. II. 8 Jud. I. 31 Ezra 3. 7 Ezk. 28. 21. J vers. 6-18 Gen. 19. 33. i vers. 6, 7, 11 Amos I. 8. I Josh. 3. 17. '" vers. 8, 11 Gen. 15. i5. " Gen. 49. 10. " Num. I. 37. P Num. I. 33. * Ex. I. 13. '' ver. 6. ' Ex. 17. 8. I or, the^ Baalim 'and the Ashta- roth. their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of ^Jerubbaal. CHAPTER 10. 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 ,^Ashta- roth, 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 Amnion. 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 ''^Amo- rites, which is in Gilead. 9 Moreover the children of Am- nion 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 the Baalim. 11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not / 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, 261 10 13] JUDGES [II 19 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 en- camped in ^Gilead. And the chil- dren 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 inhabit- ants of Gilead. CHAPTER 11. 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 another woman, 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dv^elt in the ^ land of Tob: and there were gathered idle men to Jephthah, and went out with him. 4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of '^Am- mon 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 Am- mon. 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? 3 And the elders of Gilead said CHAP. 10 Gen. 37. 25. " Gen. 31. 49. •' vers. 2, 3, 5, 7,11, 12, 30,34 Jud. 12. 4, 7. * Jud. II. 29. ' Mai. 3. 12. <1 vers. 4, 15, 27, Gen. 19. 38. " Deut. 8. 19. /vers. II, 29, Gen. 31. 49. ^ vers. 13, 16 Ex. 12. 13. h vers. 13, 18, 22, 26 Num. 21. 13. « Josh. 3. 17. .;■ Acts 3. 21. k Ex. 13. 18. I See also Meribah vers. 16, 17 Num. 27. 14. Num. 27. 14. Mai. 3. P vers. 19, 20, ai Josh.'z. 10. i vers. 19, 21, 22, 23 Gen. 15. 16. 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 ^wit- ness 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 messen- gers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of *'' Egypt, from ^Ar- non 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 '^ Ka- desh. 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 un- to/Sihon king of the ^Amorites, the 262 II 20] 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 territory: but Sihon gathered all his people to- gether, 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 inha- bitants of that country. 32 And they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto ^Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jor- dan. 23 So now the LORD, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Am-orites from before hio people Israel, and should- est thou possess it ? 24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to pos- sess? 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 ^Zip- por, 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 are along by the border 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 chil- dren 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 J'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 chil- dren of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatso- ever Cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, JUDGES Gen. 32. 22. Josh. 3. 17. i um. 23. 2. '•" vers. 26, 33 Deut. 2. 36. ' Holy Spirit. Jud. 13. 25. (Gen. 1. 2; Mai. a. 15.) y Gen. 37. 25. ' Gen. 41. 51 b Ezk. 27. 17. ' vers. I, 4, IS Num. I. 33. ' vers. 1, 2, 4, 7 Jud. II. 1. [12 I 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 deli- vered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to "^Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the 1 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 fa- ther, 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 companions. 38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away /or two months: and she went v/ith her companions, and be- wailed her virginity upon the moun- tains. 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. AND the men of ^Ephraim ga* ^ thered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto ^Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of 263 12 2] JUDGES [13 10 Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. 8 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 deli- vered 7726 not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand : where- fore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? 4 T hen Jephthah gathered together all the men of -^Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gi- lead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 And the Gileadites took the fords of ^Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites that were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Ai't thou an Ephraimite ? If he said, Nay ; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sib- boleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the fords 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 daugh- ters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 10 Then died Ibzan, and was bur- ied at Beth-lehem. 11 And after him Elon, a/Zebu- lonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in c?'Aijalon in the country of Zebulon. 13 And after him ^'Abdon the son of ^Hillel, a yPirathonite, judged Israel. 14 And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, that rode on three- CHAP, xa ' Gen. 37. 25. d Josh. 3. 17. « vers. 8, 10 Mic. 5. 2. /vers. 11. 12 Mt. 4- 13- S Josh. 10. 13. h Josh. ai. 30 a Chr. 34. 20. « ver. 15. / ver. x5 2 Sam. 23. 30 I Chr. n. 31; 27. 14. * ver. 13. ' ver. 13. ™ Mai. 3. la. Ex. 17. CHAP. 13 i> called also Zoreah and Zareah Jud. 13.25116. 31; 18. 2, 8, II. < vers. 2> as Josh. 19. 47. i vers. 8, 9, II, 12. 13 15, 16, 19, 21 22 Jud. 16. 31. 'Gen. 11. 30. / Bible prauers (O.T.). Jud. 1 16.28 (Gen. 15- 2; Hab. 3. i-i6.) score 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. 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 ap- peared unto the woman, and said unto her. Behold now, thou art bar- ren, and bearest not : but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 4 Now therefore bevv^are, 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, nei- ther 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 entreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God whom 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 showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man 264 13"] JUDGES [14 10 hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. II 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. 13 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 the 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 ^meal offering, and oifered 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 the 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 meal offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor CHAP. X3 f Ex. 29. 4X. '» Jud. 14. 12; 15. 4, 16; 16. 9, 12, 14, 20, 28, 2?. 30 Heb. II. 32. Psa. 92. Z2. / Holy Spirit. Jud. 14. 6, 19. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) ' Josh. 15. 33. I or, wonder- ful. CHAP. 14 " vers. I, 3, s, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20 Jud. 13. 24. d Eph. 2. II, / Holy Spirit. vers. 6, 19; Jud. 15. 14. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. a. 15.) ? il/liracles (O.T.). vers. S, 6, 19; Jud. IS- 14-17- (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. x-io.) would as at this time have told us such things as these. 24 And the v/oman 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. AND ^Samson went down to Tim- - nath, and saw a woman in '^Timnath of the daughters of the ^Philistines. 2 And he came up, and told his fa- ther 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 'Aincircumcised 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: lor at that time the Philistines had ^dominion over Is- rael. 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Tim- nath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. 6 Andthe/Spiritofthe Lord came mightily upon him, and he Isa. I. 31; 43. 17- J Gen. 21. Q. I or, subdue. 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 i^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 withes that were never dried, then shall I be '^^weak, and be as another man. 8 Then the lords of the Philis- tines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the cham- ber. And she said unto him. The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, 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 used, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. 12 Delilah therefore took nev^r ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are 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 Philis- tines be upon thee, Samson. And 267 l6 15] JUDGES [173 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 Phi- listines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed 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. But he knew not that the Lord was departed from him. 21 And 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 Philis- tines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Sam- son 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 oiu* country, which slew many of us. 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said. CHAP. 16 * Gen. 17. 13. I Gen. 3. s. Gen. 10. 19. Psa. 92. 12. ' Bible prayers (O.T.).iSam. i.ii. * Hos. 3. 4. i Ex. 28. 3. .; vers. 7-9 Mic. 5. 2. k Gen. 4g. 10. I Ex. 6. 25. "* Ex. 28. 3. I Heb. filled the hand of. CHAP. i8 " vers. I, 2, i6, 22, 23, 23, 26, Josh. 19. 47. * vers. 2, 8, II Jud. 13. 2. ' Josh. 13. 33. d Num. 10. 33. * Mai. 3. 12. /vers. 2, 3, 4, 13, 15, 18, 22, 23, 26, 27, 31 Jud. 17. I. ? vers. 14, 27 Isa. 10. 30. Ji Jud. 10. 6. • Isa. 30. 13. J Heb. 6. 12. >< Deut. I. 41. ' I Sam. 7. 1. t or, Camp of Dan. Ephraim, to the house of j 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 doest thou in thispZace? 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 v/hether 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 bre- thren 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 hun- dred men armed with ^weapons of war, 12 And they went up, and pitched in ''Kirjath-jearim, in Judah : where- fore they called that place iMaha- neh-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. 269 I8 IS] JUDGES [194 Do ye know that there is in these houses an ^'^ephod, and 'Seraphim, and a graven image, and a <^ molt- en 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 armed with their weapons of war, v/ho 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 im- age, 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 cat- tle and the heavy things 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 to- gether, and overtook the children of Dan. 23 And they cried unto the chil- dren 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 CHAP. 18 '" Ex. 28. 4. " vers. 14, 17, 18, 20 Hos. 3. 4. Ex. 32. y Ex. 6. 25. Mai. 3. 12. Isa. 30. IS. Jud. 10. 6. " 2 Sam. 10. 6. ' Josh. 19. 47. Jud. 18. 7. Josh. 18. I. CHAP. 19 ' vers. 1, 2, : Mic. s. 2. life, with the lives of thy house- hold. 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 that 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 Ma- nasseh, 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. AND it came to pass in those - days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of ^Beth- lehem-judah. 2 And his concubine played the harlot 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 dam- sel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. 270 19 5] 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 morn- ing 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, Be- hold, 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 de- parted, and came over against Jebus, which is '^Jerusalem ; and there were with him two asses saddled, his con- cubine 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 m.aster 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 hy Gi- beah, which helongeth to / Benja- min. 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 lodge. JUDGES CHAP. 19 * Mt. 23. 37. [1926 ■ 2 Chr. 3. 1. d Josh. 15. 57. Josh. 18. 25. / Num. I. 37. 3 Jud. 3. 15. h Gen. 3. 5. 2 Cor. 6. 15. 271 16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, who 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 to- ward the farther 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 who is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing. 20 And the old man said. Peace he 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 roimd 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 seem- eth good unto you : but unto this man do not so vile a thing. 25 But the men would not heark- en 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 19 27] JUDGES [20 19 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 ai the door of the house, with her hands 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 borders 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. 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 chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, pre- sented 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 murdered, answered and said, I came into i'Gibeah that helongeth 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 CHAP, 19 / Rev. 21. 12, 14. * Mai. 3. 12. I Ex. 12. 13. I Heb. accord- ing to her bones, or, /imb by limb. CHAP, so " Josh. 19. 47. Gen. 21. 33. ' Gen. 37. 25. » vers. I, 3 Josh. 15. 38. ■ vers. 3-48 Num. I. 37. / Ex. 6. 25. S Josh. 15. 57. h 2 Cor. 6. 15. i Josh. 15. 57. J Gen. 49. xo. 1 or, Beth-el. 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 thou- sand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, accord- ing to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit to- gether as one man. 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Ben- jamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you ? 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of -^^Belial, who are in ^Gibeah, that v^e 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, who 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 hun- dred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. 18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Hhe house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said. Who of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Ben- jamin? And the Lord said, yjudah shall go up first. 19 And the children of Israel rose 272 20 20] JUDGES [20 43 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 de- stroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men. 22 And the people, the men of Is- rael, 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 Benja- min 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 eight- een 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 in- quired of the Lord, (for the -^'ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28 And ^Phinehas, the son of i^^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 v/ill 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 them- selves 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 peo- ple, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth CHAP. 20 % Ex. 25. 10. 1 1 Chr. 9. ao. Ex. 6. 23. » Ex. 4. 14. Lev. 7. 17, 18. " vers. 35, 36, 40, 43 Jud. 3. 15. I or, Beth-el. 373 up to Hhe 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 high- ways. 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put them- selves in array at Baal-tamar: and the Hers 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 sv/ord. 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 whom they had set against Gibeah. 37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote ail 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 re- tired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Is- rael 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 be- hind them, and, behold, the flame of all 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 they who came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. 43 Thus they inclosed the Ben- 20 44] JUDGES [21 19 jamites round about, and chased them, and trod 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 to- ward the wilderness unto the rock of ^Rimmon: and they ^gleaned of them in the highways five thou- sand 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 Benja- min, 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. 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 Is- rael, 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 offer- ings. 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 con- cerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying. He shall surely be put to death. 6 And the children of Israel re- pented 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 CHAP. 20 ■ Josh. 15. 57. 'ver.47 Jud. 21. 13. ' Lev, 19. 9. " vers. I, 5, 8 Josh. ig. 38. 'j vers. I, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 33 Num. I. 37. ' Gen. 24. d I Sam. II. 9. ' vers. 12, 19, 21 Josh. 18. X. / Mai. 3. 12. 9 Gen. 17. 8. 2 Cor. 3. s. 2 Heb. deuote. 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 inhabit- ants 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 2(jestroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. 12 And they found among the in- habitants of ^Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with any male : and they brought them unto the camp to ^Shiloh, which is in the /land of vers. 3, 5, 14, 16, 17 Ruth I. 2. ■ 2 Sam. 9. 7 2 Ki. 8. 3 Neh. 5. 5. d vprs. 3, 9 Ruth I. 2. perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well ; let him do the kins- man'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 be- fore one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that the woman carrje into the floor. 15 Also he said. Bring the /^mantle that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he meas- ured 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 meas- ures of barley gave he me ; for he said to me. Go not empty unto thy mother in law. 18 Then said she. Sit still, m.y 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. 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 eld- ers 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 ivas our brother "^^Elimelech's: 4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying. Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, re- deem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem if 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 278 4 6] RUTH [422 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 re- deem it. 7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning re- deeming and concerning exchang- ing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testi- mony 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 -^^pur- chased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his in- heritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his ^ bre- thren, 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 ^Xeah, v/hich two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in ^Ephratah, and be famous in '^^Beth-lchem: CHAP. 4 / Deut. 8. 19. 3 vers. 9, 10 Ruth I. 2. '' Eph. I. 14. i Gen. 13. 8. J Gen. 29. 9, II, 16, 17, 18, 20, 28: 30. 22, 25; 3S. 19. 24- * Gen. 29. 25. I Mic. 5. 3. " Mic. 5. 2. " Gen. 38. 6. 0 Gen. 44. 18. P Acts 3. 21. 1 Isa. 46. 4. '^ I Chr. 2. 12 Mt. I. 3 Lk. 3. 32. ' Isa. XX. z. ' vers. 17, 22 Acts X3. 22. Mt. X. 3. " vers. 19, 20 Num. I. 7. ' Ex. 6. 23. '^ vers. 20, 21 Mt. I. 4- -" vers. 17, 21, 12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom "Tamar bare unto ^Judah, of the seed that 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 con- ception, and she bare a son. 14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, who hath not left thee this day v/ithout a kinsman, and may his name be- come famous in Israel. 15 And he shall be unto thee a /re- storer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine ?old age: for thy daughter in law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne 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 ^<^'Nah- shon, and Nahshon begat '^ Salmon, 21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat J'Obed, 22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. 279 1 1] THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL [i 23 CHAPTER 1. NOW there was a certain man of -^Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was '^Elka- nah, 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 J 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 Penin- nah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 But unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Han- nah: but the Lord had shut up her womb. 6 And her rival also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, be- cause 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 hus- band 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 the door 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 CHAP, z " also, Rama, Ramah ver. 19. b vers. 4, 8, 19, 21, 23 I Sam. 2. II, ' I Chr. e 34- •27. d I Ki. II .26. ' I Sam. 1.4. /John 4. 24. i' Deity (names of). Mai. 2. 15. (Gen. 1. i; Mai. 3. 18.) h vers. 3, 9, 24 Josh. 18. 1. » I Sam. 2. 12, 20; 3. 2, 8, 9, 12, 14; 4. II, 13 1 Ki. 2. 27. J 1 Sam. 2. 34; 4. 4, II, 17, 19. I ver. 3, I vers, s, 4, 8, 19, 21, 23. ♦"vers. 3, 9, 12, 13. Ml i7i 25- " Bible prayers (O.T.).iSam. 2. I. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. I- 16.) P Gen. 9. 21. ? Prov. 20. 27. »■ Gen. ig. 6. * 2 Cor. 6. ig. ' ver. 27. " I Sam. 2. 11; 7. 17; 8. 4; 15. 34; 19. 18, 22, 23; 20. i; 22. 6; 25- I. " I Sam. 3. 19, I that is, Worthless- ness. 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 con- tinued 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 i^ Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and vexation have I spoken hither- to. 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 hand- maid 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 morn- ing 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 v»ras 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, / will not go lip 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 a8o I 24] I SAMUEL [2 21 good ; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word. So the woman tarried, and gave her son suck until she weaned him. 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with 2three -^bullocks, and one epbah of ^'flour, and a bottle of v/ine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh : and the child was young. 25 And they slew the 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 -peti- tion 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 She v/orshipped the Lord there. CHAPTER 2. AND Hannah Sprayed, and said, Jt%, 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: nei- ther 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 borne 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 ^pil- lars of the earth are the LORD'S, CHAP. X ^ Ex. 29. 1. y Lev. 2. I. ' ver. 17 I Ki. 2. 16, 20 Esth. s. 6-8; 7. 2, 3; 9. 12 Psa. 20. 5 Dan. 6. 7, 13 I John 5. 15. 2 or, a bullock of three years old. 3 or, they. CHAP. 2 " Bible prayers (O.T.).2Sam. 7. 18. (Gen.15. z; Hab. 3. i- 16.) * Dan. 7. 24. ' Gen. 49. 18. rf Gen. II. 30. * Gen. 13. 2. / Eph. 4. 2. S Lk. 16. ZO-22. h Num. 14. 21. i Gen. 28. 18. J Psa. 121. 5. k Deut. 33. 3. ' Ex. 23. 22. '" Gen. 31. 13. " vers. II, 20 I Sam. I. I. " I Sam. I. 19. ' vers. II, 12, 20, 22, 27 I Sam. I. 3. V 2 Cor. 6. 15. ' Josh. 18. I. » Rom. 3. 23. ' vers. 18, 21, 26 I Sam. 3. 19, 20. " Ex. 28. 4. I Heb. Sheol. 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 fiesh was boiling, v/ith 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 fieshhook 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 boiled flesh of thee, but raw. 16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat first, and then take as much as thy soul desireth ; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shaltgive it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. 17 Wherefore the %in of the young men was very great before the Lord: for the men despised the offering of the LORD. 18 But ^Samuel ministered before the Lord, bein^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 281 2 22] I SAMUEL [39 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 3tabernacle of the congrega- tion. 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 entreat 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 ap- pear unto the house of thy father, when they were in ^Egypt in -^Pha- raoh's house? 28 And did I J'^choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to he my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn -in- cense, 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 sacri- fice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation ; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief- est 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 CHAP, a " Psa. 92. 12. ^ Ex. 12. 13. '' Rom. 9. 17. V Deut. 7. e-8. ' Ex. 30. I. "■ Gen. 3. 5. b Gen. I. 14. ' 1 Sam. I. 3. rf 1 Sam. I. 3. « Ex. 38. 27. 2 or, did ser- vice. 3 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22. CHAP. 3 " vers. I, ■?, 4, 6, 7-8,59.10, II, IS, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21. » vers. I, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16 X Sarn. i. 3. Gen. 15. X. d vers. I, 15 Gen. 15. I. « Gen. 3. s. /Gen. 15. 17. 9 Ex. 25. 10. '> Gen. 3. 9. i Isa. 4s. X. I or, widely spread. 282 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 he 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 faith- ful priest, who 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. AND the child ^Samuel ministered - unto the Lord before ^Eli. And a ^word from the Lord was unusual in those days; there was no ipublic ^^vision. 2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his ^eyes had begun 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 3 ^^] I SAMUEL 12 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; be- cause his sons made themselves accursed, 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 morn- ing, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to show 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. AND the word of ^Samuel C£une - to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the ^Philistines to battle, CHAP. 3 i Gen. 26. 3. ^ called also Shemuel vers. 10, 20 I Sam. 1. 20; 10. 1, 25; 15. II, 22, 28; 16. I, 13 Heb. n. 32. I Psa. 92. la. "■ Josh. 19. 47. " Gen. 21. 33. " Josh. 18. 1. CHAP. 4 I Sam, 3. 19, 0 vers. X, 2, 3, 6, 7,9, 10, 17 Amos I. 8. '' Josh. 12. 18. d vers. 3, 4, 5, 6, II, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22 Ex. 25. 10. ' vers. 3, 4, 12 Josh. 18, I., /vers. II, 13, 14, 15. 16 I Sam. I. 3. 3 X Sam. I. » vers. 4, II, 17. 19 X Sam. I. 3. » Num. 23. 21. j Gen. 14. 13. * Ex. I. 13. ♦ Zech. 14. 13. *" I Tim. 6. ij. " Num. I. 37. 283 and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in ^Aphek. 2 And the Philistines put them- selves 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 Philis- tines? 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, who dwelleth between the cherubim : 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 cove- nant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great 2 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 /He- brews ? And they understood that the ark of the Lord v/as 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 your- selves 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 '^Ben- jamin out of the army, and came to 4 13] I SAMUEL [5 12 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 ^watch- ing : 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 mean ef/i 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 back- ward 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, Phi- nehas' 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 borne a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it. 21 And she named the child i^l-cha- bod, 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 de- parted from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. CHAPTER 5. AND the ^Philistines took the ^ark » of Grod, 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. CHAP. 4 Mt. 34. 42. P Gen. 3. s. I Sam. 14. 3. Num. 14 ji. 1 that is, There is no glory. CHAP, s " vers. I, a, 8, Amos I. 8. > vers. I, 2, 3, 8, II, 13, 15, 18, IQ, 21 Ex. 25. xo. • vers. 3, 5, 6, 7 Josh. II. 22; 13- 3 2 Chr. 26. 6 Neh. 13.23,24 Zeph. 2. 4. Mt. II. 29. » vers. 9, 12, 13, 14, IS, 18, 19, 20 Jud. I. 33. J Deut. 28. 27. k Lev. 19. 9. ' Ex. 23. 16. '" Gen. 3. 5. " ver. i3. 0 Ex. 6. 25. P vers. 16, 17 Zeph. 2. 4. 1 Sam. 5. ' Gen. 10. 19 Acts 8. 26. * Josh. ^3. 3. ' Josh. II. 22 " Gen. 4. 3. " Jer. 6. 26. I or, guilt offering. 7. that is, a meadow. with the mice of gold and the im- ages of their iemerods. 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 0/ 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,aBeth-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 zY, they returned to /Ekron the same day. 17 And these are the golden eme- rods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for ^Ashdod one, for ^'Gaza one, for ^Askelon one, for ^Gathone, 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 2^'' Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-she- mite. 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 peo- ple 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 thev sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought 285 7^1 I SAMUEL [8 8 again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you. CHAPTER 7. 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 4Cirjath-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 re- turn 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 I'^Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. 5 And Samuel said, Gather all Is- rael 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 chil- dren 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 J 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 Philis- CHAP. 7 " Josh. IS- 9; 18. 14 Jud. 18. 12 I Sam. 6. 21 1 Chr. 13. s 2 Chr. I. 4 Jer. 26. 20. * vers. I, 2 Ex. 25. 10. ' 2 Sam. 6. 3, 4 1 Chr. 13. 7. d I Sam. 7. I. « vers. 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, I Sam. 3. 19, 20. / vers. 3, 4 Jud. 2. 13. 9 vers. 3, 7, 8, 10, II, 13, 14 Amos I. 8. ft I Ki. 18. 21. i vers. 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16 Josh. 15. 38. / Gen. 22. 7, 8. * Num. 32. II, 12. ' Acts 3. 21. "* Zeph. 2. 4. " Josh. II. 33. 0 Gen. 15. 16. P Gen. 12. 8. 1 Josh. 4. 19. ♦■ z Sam. 1. 19. 1 or, the Baalim and the Ashta- roth. 2 that is, the stone of help. CHAP. 8 " Israel {his- tory), vers. 1-8; 2 Sam. 7. 8-17. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) * vers. I, 4, 6, 7, 10, 19, 21, 22 X Sam. 3. 19, ' Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 1-7; I Sam. 9. 15-17. (Gen. 1-26; Zech. 12. 8.) d I Chr. 6. 33; 15- 17- •■ I Chr. 6. 28. /Gen. 21. 33. a I Sam. i. 19. h Heb. 12. 25. t Ex. 12. 13. tines, 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 borders of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philis- tines all the days of Samuel. 14 And the cities which the Phi- listines had taken from Israel were ^restored to Israel, from ^'^'^Ekron even unto "Gath; and the territory 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. AND it ^came to pass, when -^Sa- - muel 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 Sa- muel, 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 peo- ple 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 286 8 91 I SAMUEL [9 10 even unto this day, wherein 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 then show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORJ) 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 he his horse- men; and some shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint him cap- tains over thousands, and cap- tains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to /reap his ^harvest, and to make his instru- ments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers, 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your ^olive- yards, 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 v/ill take your men- servants, and yoiu" 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 whom 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 meike them a king. And Samuel said unto CHAP. 8 > Lev. 19. 9. * Ex. 23. 16. CHAP 9 " vers. I, 16, Num. I. 37- * ver. 3 1 Sam. 10. 21 2 Sam. 21. 14 Chr. ir. 32. d vers, r, 4, 21 Jud. 3. 15. ' called also Shaul ver. 17 1 Sam. II. 15; 16. I, 14; 18. 13; 23. 14; 28. 6. 7; 31- 4 2 Sam. 3. i; 7-iS- / X Sam. 9. X. V vers. 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, IS, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27. Mai. 3. 12. i 2 Sam. 15. 27; 24. II 3 Chr. 9. 29 Isa. 30. 10. the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. CHAPTER 9. NOW there was a man of «Ben- jamin, 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; per- adventure he can show 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 7 shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, w^hen a man went to inquire 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. 387 9 11] I SAMUEL [10 5 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 4eer 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 /Phi- listines: 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 be- fore 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 small- est 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 chief chamber, and made them sit CHAP. 9 ' I Sam. 9. 9, " vers. 14, ig, 17, 18, 10, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 I Sam. 3. 19, " Mai. 3. 12. " Gen. 31. 13. P Amos I. 8. '^ Kingaom (O.T.). vers. 15-17; I Sam. 10. 17-25. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) *■ I Sam. 9. 9. ' Mt. 10. 6. ' Lev. 7. 17, ' vers. I, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, X sam. 3. 19, * Rev. 15. 7. Ruth 4. XI. d vers. 2, 20, Num. I. 37. or, oak. 288 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 shoul- der, and //7a^ which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which hath been kept ! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the peo- ple. 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 show thee the word of God. CHAPTER 10. 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 he 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 iplain 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 carry- ing 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 10 6] I SAMUEL [II 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 i'psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a ^^harp, before them; and they shall pro- phesy : 6 And the ^Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt pro- phesy 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; a.nd, 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 show thee what thou shalt do. 9 And it was so, that v/hen he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and ail those signs came to pass that day. 10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of pro- phets 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'll come unto the son of '^Kish ? Is ''''^Saul also among the prophets ? 12 And one of the same place an- swered 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 CHAP. 10 I Chr. 16. 9. ^ Gen. 4. 21. ' Holy Spirit. vers. 6, 10 I Sam. II. 6. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) j Gen. I. 14. *■■ Josh. 4. 19. I I Sam. 9. I. "• vers. II, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21, 26 I Sam. 9. 2. " Deut. 28. 37. " Josh. 15. 38. P Ex. 12. 13. ? Ex. I. 13. "■ Heb. 12. 25. ' 2 Sam. 4. 9 2 Chr. 15. 6 Prov. 24. 10 Heb. 13. 3. < Deut. 7. 6-8. " Kingdom (O.T.I.iSam. 15. 1-23. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) " Josh. 15. 57. "' 2 Cor. 6. 15. 2 Heb. Let the king Hue. CHAP. 289 Israel, Thus saith the LORD, Gk)d 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 fa- milies, thefamily of Matriwas taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found. 22 Therefore they inquired of the Lord further. Is the man yet come hither? 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 peo- ple. 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 ^'liingdom, 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. 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 an- II 3] I SAMUEL [12 8 swered 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' res- pite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel : and then, if there be no man to save us, v/e 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 borders of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying. Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after > Josh. 21. 17. « Ex. 15. 13-16. fOAUL reigned one year; O when he had reigned Mai. >= Gen. 14. 13. I Josh. 4. 19. I i "* vers, s, II, Josh. 7. : and two years over Israel, 2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thou- sand were with Saul in '^Michmash and in mount ^Beth-el, and a thou- sand 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 garri- son of the .^Philistines that was in ^'Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the ^trumpet throughout all the 7 land, saying, Let the -^Hebrews hear. 4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philis- tines. 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 291 13 7] I SAMUEL [14 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, ac- cording 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 the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings. Ajnd 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 earnest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash ; 12 Therefore said I, The Philis- tines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made sup- plication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered the 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 estab- lished 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 appointed him to he 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 Ben- jamin. 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 Ben- jamin : but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. 17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned CHAP. 13 " Josh. 3. 17. f Gen. 30. II. i Gen. 37. 25. ''vers. 8, 10, 11, 13, IS I Sam. 3. 19, * Josh. 18. 23. ' Josh. 10. 10. " Ezra 2. 57 Neh. 7. 59; II. 3J,. " I Sam. 18. I CHAP. 14 " vers. I, 2, 16, 17, 18, ic, 20, 31, 24, 33, 3J, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, SO- SJt, 52 X Sam. 9. 2. b vers. I, 4, II, 19, 21, 22, 30, 31, 36, 37, 46, 47, 52 Amos I. 8. ' Psa. 2. 8. d Josh. 15. 57. ^ Ex. 28. 33. /Isa. 10. 28. Ki. 4. 3 Chr. 8. 4. '' I Sam. 22. 9 I Chr. 6. 7, 8, Ezra 7. 2. 1 1 Sam. 4. 21. J I Sam. I. 3. fci Sam. I. 3. ' Josh. 18. I. " Ex. 28. 4. " 1 Sam. 18. I. vers. 5, 31 I Sam. 13. 2. 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 down upon the valley of ^^Zeboim toward the wil- derness. 19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the He- brews 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 ax, 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 Phi- listines went out to the pass of Michmash. CHAPTER 14. 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 ^utter- most part of '^^Gibeah under a ^'pome- granate 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 yPhinehas, 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 passes, 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 south- ward over against Gibeah. 6 And Jonathan said to the young 39a 14 7] I SAMUEL [14 29 man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garri- son 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 he 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 armour- bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armour- bearer. 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 ar- mourbearer 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 a great trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth ^^qnaked : 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 niunbered, behold, CHAP. 14 P Eph. 3. II. 1 Gen. I. 14. Gen. 14. 13. Ruth 4. 3. ' Mt. XI. 29. Ex. 19. 18. '■ Mt. 24. 42. "' Num. 1. 37. Ex. 25. Gen. 14. 13. Josh. 7. 2. * Josh. 6. a6. • vers. 34, 29, Psa. 34. 8. d Mai. 3. 13. / Gen. 3. 5. I or, con- fusion. 2 or, a stream I of honey. Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there. 18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ^ark of God. Few 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 inoise 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 them- selves, 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, who 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 m.en of Israel who had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also fol- lowed 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 o/the ^^land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, sthe honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the peo- ple 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 honey- comb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his /eyes were en- lightened. 28 Then answered one of the peo- ple, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying. Cursed he the man that eat- eth any food this day. And the people were faint. 29 Then said Jonathan, My father 293 14 30] I SAMUEL [14 52 hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been en- lightened, 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 .^Aija- lon: and the people were very faint. 32 And the people flev/ 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 3trans- gressed': roll a great stone unto me this day. 34 And Saul said, ^Disperse your- selves 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 Philis- tines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he an- swered him not that day. 38 And Saul said. Draw ye near hither, all the chiefs 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 Jona- than my son, he shall surely die. But there vjas 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 Jona- CHAP. 14 ' Josh. 10. 12. / Deut. 28. 31. * Gen. 19. 33. I Mai. 1. 4. '" 2 Sam. 8. 3; xo. 6 2 Chr. 8. 3. Ex. 17. 8. ' I Sam. 31. a I Chr. 8. 33; 9. 39; 10. 2. P I Sam. i3. 17, 19. i called also Eglah 1 Sam. 18. 20, 27, 28; 19. II, 12, 17 2 Sam. 3. 13; 6. 16; 21. 8 z Chr. 15. 29. '' I Sam. 17. 55- 57; 26. S-16 2 Sam. 2. 8, 9, 12-31; 3. 6-39. ' I Sam. 26. 5 a Sam. 2. 8; 3. 23 X Ki. 2. 5 I Chr. 8. 33; 9. 36; 26. 23. Sam. 9. ; 3 or, dealt treacherous- 4 or, Show the right. than 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 be- tween 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 Is- rael ? 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 fol- lowing the Philistines: and the Phi- listines 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 deliv- ered 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 Ahi- maaz: 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. 394 15^] I SAMUEL 11525 CHAPTER 15. ^QAMUEL also said unto ^Saul, v3 The Lord sent me to 'anoint thee to he '^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 idestroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suck- ling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot- men, and ten thousand men of ^Judah. 5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6 And Saul said unto the -^^Ken- ites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them : for ye showed '' kind- ness 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 fromyHavilah 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 he 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 3place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to "^Gilgal. 13 And Samuel came to Saul: and CHAP. IS * vers. 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24, 20, 27, 23, 31, 32,33, 3;, 3S 1 Sam. 3. 13, 20. 0 vers. 1, 4, s, 6, 7, g, II, 13, 13, IS, 16, 20, 24, 26, 31, 34, I Sam. 9. 2. ■^ Gen. 31. 13. d Kingdom (O.T.i. vers. 1-23; I Sam. 16. 1-13. (Gen. 1. 26; Zech.i2. 8.) vers. 2-20, 32 Ex. 17. 8. / vers. 2. 6, 7 Ex. 12. 13. s Gen. 49. 10. h Num. 24. 21. i Ruth 2. 20. > Gen. 25. 18. '•■ Ex. 15. 22. ' vers. 8, 9, 20, 32,33 Num. 24. 7. "* Gen. 36. 3. " I Ki. 18. 19. " Josh. 4. 19. P Gen. 22. i3 Deut. II. 27, 28 1 Sam. 12. 14, jlr.3.13 Acts 5. 29, 32 Rom. I. 5; 5. 19 2 Thes. I. 8 I Pet. I. 2. 1 Gen. 15. 9. '' Num. 14. 9. ' Ex. 7. II. ' Gen. 15. 16. " Lev. 19. 4. ■' vers. 23, 26 Heb. 12. 25. Ex. 23. 21. 2 Keb. de- voted. Saul said unto him. Blessed he thou of the Lord : I have performed the commandment of the LORD. 14 And Samuel said, What mean' eth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen w^hich 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 2 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 Idestroy 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 s^estroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been ut- terly destroyed, to sacrifice imto the Lord thy God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel said. Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in /obey- ing 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 trans- gressed 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 395 15 26] I SAMUEL [l6 15 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 robe, and it rent. 28 And Samuel said unto him. The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Is- rael 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. 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 CHAP. 15 * I Sam. I. 19. y Josh. 15. 57. * vers. I, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, II, 13 X Sam. 3. 19, 0 vers. 1, 2, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, ai, 22, 23 I Sam. 9. a. d Dan. 7. 24. ' Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 1-13; 2 Sam. a. 1-4. (Gen. i.26;Zech.i2. 8.) /Num. 19. 2. !> Isa. II. I. h vers. 3, 12 Gen. 31. 13. < Mic. 5. a. j I Sam. 17. 13, 28 2 Chr. II. 18. h Eph. 3. 18. I Isa. 6. 9. "' I Sam. 17. 13 z Chr. 2. 13. " vers. 8, 9, 10 Deut. 7. 6-8. 0 I Sam. 17. 13 I Chr. a. 13. P Gen. 4. a. ? Gen. 13. 8. ^ Holy Spirit. vers. 13, 14; I Sam. 19. 20, 23. (Gen. I. 2; Mai 2. IS-) ' vers. 13, 19-23 Acts 13. aa. Sam. I. 19. thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. 3 And call ^Jesse to the sacrifice, and I willshowthee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt ^^anointunto 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 sancti- fied Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on ;Eli- ab, 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 heeth 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 cam.e mightily 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 terrified him. 15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God terrifieth thee. 296 l6 i6] I SAMUEL [17 18 i6 Let our lord now command thy servants, who 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 ser- vants, 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. I 19 Wherefore Saul sent messen- j gers unto Jesse, and said. Send me David thy son, who 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 armour- : bearer. | 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, say- ing. Let David, I pray thee, stand before me ; for he hath found fa- vour in my sight. 23 And it came to pass, when the ; evil spirit from God was upon Saul, i 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. NOW the ^Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which helongeth to '^Ju- dah, 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 Philis- tines. 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 be- tween them. 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, CHAP. 17 * Gen. 49. 10. vers. 2-58 I Sam. g. 2. / ver. 23 I Sam. 21. 3 Sam. ai. 19 r Chr. 20. 5. ? Josh. II. 22. h vers. 5, 38 Eph. 6. 17. • Ex. 25. J Deut. 7. 6-8. * vers. 12-58 Acts 13. 32. I Mic. s. 2. '" vers. 12, IS Mic. 5. 2. P X Sam. 16. 8. named /Goliath, of Gen. a. 7. ' vers. I, 3, 4. Si 6> 7. 8| 8. *o II, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 23, 29. 30 Acts 13. 22. i I Sam. 14. I 13, 45; 18. 4; 19. 2; 20. 12, 17, 42; 33- 16 2 Sam. I. 26; 9. 7. ^Jerusalem ; in his tent. but he put his armour /Zech. 3. If vers. 6, 17, 21, 25, 27, 30 Amos 1. 8. 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. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Ab- ner 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, / am the son of thy servant <^ Jesse the Beth- lehemite. CHAPTER 18. AND it came to pass, when he - had made an end of speaking unto ^Saul, that the -^soul of Jona- than 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 /gar- ments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. 5 And David went out whitherso- ever 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 peo- ple, 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 >f Philis- tine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instru- ments of music. 7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath siain 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 399 I8 9] I SAMUEL [194 ascribed hut 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 an evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he pro- phesied 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. 13 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 cap- tain 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 Hhe one of the twain. 22 And Saul commanded his ser- vants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say. Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his CHAP. 18 '' Gen. 3. 5. Gen. 49. 10. .; vers. 17, 19 I Sam. 14. 49. 'a Sam. 21. 8. " vers. 20, 27, 28 I Sam. 14. 49. Gen. 17. 10, I or, a second time. CHAP. 19 « vers. I, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, II, 14. IS, 17, 18- 19, 20, 21, 24 I Sam. 9. 2. ■= vers. I, 3, a., 5, 6,7,8,9,10 II, 12, 14, IS, 18, 19, 20, 22 Acts 13. 23. 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 "fore- skins 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 Mi- chal 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 Philis- tines 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. AND «Saul spake to '^Jonathan his - son, and to all his servants, that they should kill ^David. 2 But Jonathan Saul's son de- lighted much in David: and Jona- than 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 p/ace, 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 300 19 5] I SAMUEL [20 4 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 salva- tion 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 showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought Da- vid to Saul, and he was in his pres- ence, 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, say- ing, 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 limage, 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 j slay him. j 16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image j in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. I 17 And Saul said unto Michal, | Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he I CHAP. 19 ' vers. 5, 8 Amos t. 8. / vers. II, 12, 13. 17 I Sam. 14. 49. * vers. 18, 20, 22, 2; I Sam. 3. 19, h vers. 18, 19, 22 23 I Sam. I. 19. / vers. 18,19,22. * Holy Spirit vers. 20, 23; 2 Sam. 23. 2. (Gen. 1. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) ' John 4. 14. I Heb. tera- phim. CHAP. 20 ^ vers. I, 3,4. 5, 6, 10, 1 1, 12 15. 16, 17 18, 24, 25, 27 28, 33. 34i 35 ,39, 41, 42 Acts 13. 22. Sam. 19. 1 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 6^ 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 pro- phesying, 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. AND "David fled from -^Naioth in - ^Ramah, and came and said be- fore ^-^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 for- bid ; thou Shalt not die : behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will show 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 j truly as the LORD liveth, and as ; thy soul liveth, there is but a step j between me and death. I 4 Then said Jonathan unto David, 301 20 5] I SAMUEL [20 30 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, // 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 slialt deal ^kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee : but, 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, be- hold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and show 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 show 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 show 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 7 house of David, saying. Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies. 17 And Jonathan caused David to /vers, s, 12, 19 Lev. 7. 17, i8. S vers. 6, : Mic. 5. 2 h vers. 7, 9, 33 Acts 2. 23. J 2 aarn. 7. 11. fc Rev. 22. 7. ' I Sam. 14. 50. "■ vers. 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32,33 j; Sam. 9. 2. Gen. 7. 2. 7 Gen. 3. 5. 302 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, Ip^ay thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table. 30 Then Saul's anger was kindled 20 31] I SAMUEL [21 10 CHAP. 20 Deut. 7. 6-8. against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebel- lious woman, do not I know that thou hast =' chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and uiito the confusion of thy mother's naked- ness? ! 31 For as long as the son of Jesse j liveth upon the ground, thou shalt ; not be established, nor thy king- dom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. 32 And Jonathan answered Saul ' his father, and said unto him, ! j , gam. m. 9 Wherefore shall he be slain? what i Neh. li. ^ 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, be- cause his father had done him shame. thy seed for ever. and departed: and Jonathan went into the city. my seed and And he arose CHAP, 22 vers. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, iz, 12 Acts 13. 22. Isa. 10. 3a. vers. 2-9 I Sam. 32. 9- 23 Psa. 52. title. ' vers. 4, 6 Gen. 3. 19. 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 Jona- than 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 wea- pons unto his lad, and said unto him, Gro, carry them to the city. 41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place to- ward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one j another, and wept one with another, ; until David exceeded. I 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 be- tween me and thee, and between, / vers. 4, 6 Gen. 2. 3. Lev. 7. 17, 18. Ex. 25. 30. ' vers. 7, 10, 1 Sam. 9. 2, j Gen. 36. 9. '' Deut. I. 41. : Gen. 9. 5. "" 2 Pet. 3. 12. " T Sam. 17. 4. " Amos I. 8. P Ex. 28. 4. I or, accoutre- ments. 2 or, and be- sides when there is to day other sanctified in the vessel. I CHAPTER 21. THEN came « David to '^Nob to I <^Ahimelech the priest: and j Ahimelech was afraid at the meet- I ing of David, and said unto him, I Why art thou alone, and no man I with thee ? I 2 And David said unto ^Ahimeleclr j the priest. The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto I me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send ' thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed m^'ser- I vants to such and such a place. j 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, I and said, There is no common ^bread i under mine hand, but there is/ hal- lowed bread ; if only the young men have kept themselves from women, 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth wom- en have been kept from us about these .s^three days, since I came out, and the ^vessels of the young men ' are holy, and the bread is in a man- ! ner common, ^yea, though it were j sanctified this day in the vessel. ' 6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread : for there was no bread there but the ^^showbread, 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 ser- vants of ^Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD ; and his name was Doeg, an J Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that be- longed to Saul. 8 And David said unto Ahime- lech, 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 303 21 "^ I SAMUEL [22 17 day for fear of Sanl, 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 j Achish the king of Gath. 13 And he changed his behaviour 1 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. j 14 Then said Achish unto his ser- I vants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: I wherefore thenhave ye brought him i to me? j 15 Have I need of mad men, that [ ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this/e/?ow come into my house? CHAPTER 22. ^T\ AVID therefore departed thence, J-^ and escaped to the cave '^Adul- 1am : and when his brethren and all liis 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 Miz- peh 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; de- part, 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 liim;) 7 Then Saul said unto his servants CHAP. 21 ? vers. 11-15 I Sam. 27. I- 12; 28. I, 2; 29. r-ii. Josh. II. 22 Mai. 3. la. CHAP. 22 " vers. I, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 17, 20, 21, 22 Acts 13. 32. b 2 Sam. 23. 13 1 Chr. II. 15 Gen. 38. 1, 12, 20 Josh. 12. 15 Mic. I. 13. ' 2 Sam. 24. II. d Gen. 49. 10. ' vers. 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 21, 22 I Sam. 9. a. /Josh. IS. 57- f I Sam. I. 19. '' Jud. 3. 15. * Isa. II. I. / Josh. 9. 6. * vers. 9, 18 Gen. 36. 9. " vers. 9, II, 12, 20 I Sam. 14. 3. ' I Sam. 17. 4. ? Imputation. 2 Sam. 19. 18, 19. (Lev. 25. 50; Jas. 2. 23.) ' 2 Cor. 5. 19. 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 cap- tains of thousands, and captains of hundreds ; 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that showeth 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 showeth 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 '^Edom- ite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to ''Nob, to ''^'Ahime- lech the son of "Ahitub. 10 And he inquired of the LORD I 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 inquired 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 faith- ful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is hon- ourable in thine house? 15 Did I then begin to inquire 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 Da- vid, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. 304 22 i8] I SAMUEL [23 19 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 Ahime- lech the son of Ahitub, named ^ Abia- thar, escaped, and fled after David. 21 And Abiathar showed 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. THEN they told «David, saying, Behold, the '^Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. 2 Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah. 3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in ^ Ju- dah: how much more then if we come to ^Keilah against the ar^nies of the Philistines ? 4 Then David inquired of the Lord yet again. And the LORD answered him and said. Arise, go down to ^Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 5 So David and his men v^^ent to Keilah, and fought with the Phi- listines, 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 A^'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 CHAP. 2 Ex. 28. 4. ' 2 Sam. 15. 24- 37; 19. 9-15 I Ki. I. 7, 19; 2. 22, 26, 27, 35 Mk. 2. 26. CHAP. 23 " vers. I, 2, 3, 4, S, 6, 7> 8, 9> 10, 12, 13, 14, IS, 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 Acts 13. 22. b vers, i-s, 27, 28 Amos I. 8. * Gen. 49. 10. d ver. 4. vers. I, 2, 7, II, 12 Neh. 3. 17. /vers. 6, 9 I Sam. 22. : y I Sam. 21. 1. Ex. 28. 4. i vers. 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 14, IS, 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 2S, 26, 27, 28 I Sam. 9. 2. J Zech. 12. 2. k I Sam. 26. : ivers. 14,15,19, 24. " I Sam. 18. 1. " 1 Sam. 26. 1 Psa. 54. title. ' Josh. 15. 57. 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 Jbesiege 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 cer- tainly 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, who 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 for- bare to go forth. 14 And David abode in the wilder- ness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of '^Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but Gk)d 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 23 20] I SAMUEL [2413 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 subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowl- edge 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 through- out 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 v/ent 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 in- vaded the 4and. 28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place iSela-hammah- lekoth. 29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at ^En-gedi. CHAPTER 24. 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 CHAP. 23 Ex. 2. 6. 'J Mai. 3. 12. Gen. 49. : Mai. 3. 12. ' Josh. 15. 62. I that is, The rock of divi- sions or escape. CHAP. 24 ^ vers. I, 2, 3, 4 5, 7, 8, 9, 16, 22 I Sam. 9, 2. - vers. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 22 Acts 13. 22. d Josh. 15. 62. ' 2 Sam. 7. / Gen. 3. 5. ^ Deut. 28. 37. 306 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 7. 8, 9, ic II, 12 Acts 13. 22. 4 Lev. 26. 38. vers. I, 4 I Sam. 9. 2. d Mai. 3. 12. / vers. 2-12 I Sam. 21. ? Josh. II. 22. I Sam. 23. 43. 1 1 Sam. 30. 5 2 Sam. 2. 2. J I Sam. 25. 3- k I Sam. 30. s 1 Chr. 3. I. ' I Sam. 30. 1, 26. ' Gen. 49. 10. Josh. 13. 2. ' Ex. 17. 8. f Ex. 15. 22. - Ex. 12. 13. ' Num. 24. 21. f Josh. II. 22. 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 part 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 -^Car- melitess, -^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 per- taineth 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 /Amalek- ites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to !7Shur, 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 an inroad 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 Phi- listines. 12 And Achish believed David, say- ing, He hath made his people Israel 28 11 I SAMUEL [28 21 utterly to abhor him ; therefore he shall be my servant for ever. CHAPTER 28. 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 ga- thered all Israel together, and they pitched in /Gilboa. 5 And v/hen Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. 6 And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by ^'dreams, nor by ^Urim, nor by prophets. 7 Then said Saul unto his ser- vants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire 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 ^ vers. I, 4, 5, IS. 19 b vers. 1, 2 I Sam. 31. 10. Acts 13. : d vers. 7, 11,12, 14, IS, ID, 20 I Sam. 3. 19, I Sam. I. 19. /vers. 3, 4, s, 6, 7- 8, 9rio, 12, 13, 14, 15, 2C, 21, 25 1 Sam. 9. 2. Ex. 7. II. h Mai. 3. 12. : 2 Ki. 4. 8. t Ex. 28. 30. Josh. 17. II. Psa. 32. I. I or, his full length. shall I bring up unto thee? said, Bring me up Samuel. And he 12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice : and the woman spake to Saul, say- ing. Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. 13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sav/est 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 bov^^ed 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 Grod is departed from me, and answerethme 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 mor- row 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 lall along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Sa- muel : 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. 311 28 22] I SAMUEL [306 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. NOW the ^Philistines gathered together all their armies to '^Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by the fountain which is in Jezreel. 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thou- sands: but '^David and his men passed on in the ^rearward with ^Achish. 3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these /He- brews here ? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of ^Saul the king of Israel, who 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 Philis- tines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Blake 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, say- ing, 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: ifor I have not found evil in CHAP. 28 P Lev. 2. I. CHAP. 29 vers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9. " Amos 1. 8. * Josh. 12. 18. * vers. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, g, II Acts 13. 22. d Isa. 52. 12. / Gen. 14. 13. S vers. 3, 5 I Sam. 9. 2. I Sam. 14. 21. I Sam. 18. 7. / ver. 3. k Mai. 3. 12. I or, make him- self pleasing. CHAP. 30 ' vers. I, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 13, IS, 17, 18, ig, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 31 Acts 13. 22. b vers. 1, 14, 26 1 Sam. 27. 6. * vers. I, 12, 13 Lev. 7. 17, 18. J vers. I, 13, Ex. 17. 8. ' I Sam. 25. 3. I Sam. 25. 3. ' I Sam. 27. 3. I or, made a raid upon. 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 arj? 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 Philis- tines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel. CHAPTER 30. AND it came to pass, when ^David • and his men were come to '^Zik- lag on the '^ third day, that the ^Amalekites had Mnvaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Zik- lag, and burned it with fire; 2 And had taken the women cap- tives, 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 Jez- reelitess, and ^Abigail the wife of /Nabal the .?^Carmelite. 6 And David was greatly dis- tressed; 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: SJ2 30 7] I SAMUEL [30 29 but David encouraged himself in the Lord his Gk>d. 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 inquired of 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 v^ent, 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, who 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 driuik 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 that 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 com- pany? 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 V Phi- listines, and out of the land of Judah. 17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening CHAP. 30 I Sam. 22. 20. Ex. 28. 4. ''■ vers. 10, 21. t Ex. I. 13. Ex. 12. 13. " Gen. 49. 10. Deut. I. 36. P Mai. 3. 12. ■ Deut. 28. 31. ' 2 Cor. 6. 15. ' Gen. 49. 10. Josh. 13. so. 313 of the next day : and there escaped not a man of them, save four hun- dred young men, who 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, who 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 aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his chil- dren, 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 share 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 Zik- lag, 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 who were in ^''Beth-el, and to them who were in south Ramoth, and to them who were in Jattir, 28 And to them who were in Aroer, and to them who were in Siphmoth, and to them who were in ^ Eshtemoa, 29 And to them who were in Ra- 30 30] I SAMUEL [31 13 chal, and to them vjho were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them who were in the cities of the ^Kenites, 30 And to them who were in ^Hor- mah, and to them who were in Chor- ashan, and to them who were in Athach, 31 And to them who were in J Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. CHAPTER 31. NOV/ the Philistines fought a- gainst Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the ^'Philis- tines, 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 ^ Melchi-shua, Saul's sons. 3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him ; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 4 Then said Saul unto his armour- bearer, 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 witli him. CHAP. 30 "' Num. 24. 21. ^ Num. 14. 4S. y Gen. 13. 18. CHAP. 31 " vers. I, 2, 7, 8, 9, II Amos I. 8. 6 vers. 2, 3, 4, 5,6,7,8,11/12 I Sam. 9. 2. ' 1 Sam. 18. I. d I Chr. 8. 33; ic. 2. ^ I Sam. Id. 49. / Eph. 3. II. 3 Josh. 3. 17. h Mai. 3. 12. i Jud. 2. 13. J ver. 12. i I Sam. II. 9. I ver. 10 Josh. 17. II, 16 Jud. I. 27 3 Sam. 21. 12. 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 for- sook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. 8 And it came to pass on the mor- rov/, 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 fas- tened his body to the wall of jBeth- shan. 11 And when the inhabitants of -^'Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; 12 All the valiant mxen 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, j and fasted seven days. 314 I] THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL [i 23 CHAPTER 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, Frora 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, over me, and slajr me: for languish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me. 10 So I stood over him, and slev/ 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 brace- let that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord. II Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and like- wise all the men that were with him: CHAP. I " vers. I, 2, 1;, 5, 6, 12, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24 X Sani. 9. 2. c vers. 1,2, 3, - 5, II, 13, 14, i; 16, 17 Acts 13. 22. ' vers. 1-16 Ex. 17. 8. <3 I Sam. 27. 5. Lev. 7. 17, 18. / 1 Sam. 18. I. » Isa. 58. 6. J Gen. 49. 10. f= Josh. II. 22. I Josh. 13. 3. "" Amos I. 8. " Eph. a. II. * Ex. 15. I. P t Sam. 18. I. I Heb. The upright. 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 Amalek- ite. 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, if is written in the book of ijasher.) 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 m.ighty, the bow of /Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returneji 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. 315 I 24] II SAMUEL [2 22 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 Jon- athan, 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. AND it came to pass after this, - that ^David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of '^Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said. Unto ^Hebron. 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 Ja- besh-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 showed this ./kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him. 6 And now the LORD show kind- ness and truth unto you : and I also will '^requite you this kindness, be- cause 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 * Lev. 14. 4. *■ Deut. 1. 41. CHAP. 2 " Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 1-4; 3 Sam. 5. 1-3. (Gen. I. 23; Zech. 12. 8.) * Gen. 49. 10. '^ Gen. 13. 18. d vers. 2, 3, 4, s, 10, II, 13, 15, 17. 30, 31 Acts 13. 22. « I Sam. 25. 43. /i Sam. 23. 3. i' I Sam. 25. 3. '' I Sam. 27. 3. i vers. 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15 I Sam. 9. 3. J Ruth 2. 20. i Nam. 5. 7, 8. I vers. 3, 12-31 I Sam. 14. 50. ™ vers. 8, 12 1 Sam. 14. 50. " ver. 10 2 Sam. 3. 8, It, is; 4- S, 8, 12. " vers. 8, 12, 29 Gen. 32.2. J' Gen. 37. 25. » Ezk, 27. 6. *■ Num. X. 33. * vers. 9, 15, 25, Num. I. 37. ' ver. 0. " Josh. 9. 3. " I Ki. 2. 5. "' ver. 18. '■ Rev. 21. 12, 14. .'/ Josh. 9. 3. " 7-. Sam. 3. 39; 8. 16; 16. 10; 18. 2; 21. 17; 33.18 I Chr. 2. 16; 18. 12; 27. 24. <• I Ki. 2. s. b vers. 18, 24 1 Sam. 26. 6. "^ vers. 19-32 2 Sam. 3. 27- 30 I Chr. 27. 7. d vers. 18-33. 316 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, that pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the ser- vants of David. 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side j so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in J* 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 '^Asaliel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe. 19 And ^Asahel pursued after Ab- ner ; 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? 2 23] II SAMUEL [3^4 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 Aramah, that Ueth 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 pur- sued 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 follow- ing Abner : and when he had gath- ered 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. 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. CHAP. 3 ^ Gen. 13. 8. / Ex. 19. 13-16. S Josh. 3. 17. '> Mic. 5. 2. t Gen. 13. i8. CHAP. 3 " vers. I, 6, 7,8, 10, 13, 14 1 Sam. 9. 2. b vers. I, 2, 5,6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18/19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 28, 31- 33- 35 Acts 13. 22. ' I Sam. 25. 43. d I Sam. 27. 3. ' I Sam. 25. 3. / I Sam. 27. 3. ^ 2 Sam. 18. 33. I '. I Chr. 3. 2. i 2 Sam. 13.37 r Chr. 3. a. J Deut. 3. 14 Josh. 13. 13 2 Sam. 13. 38; I Chr. 2. 23. 4 I Ki. 1. 5. ! I Ki. I. s, 11; 2. 13 I Chr. 3. s. "' I Chr. 3. 3. " I Chr. 3. 3. " I Chr. 3. 3. P vers. 6-37 I Sam. 14. 50. V 2 Sam. 21. 8, 10, II. '■ 2 Sam. 2. 8. ' Deut. 23. 18. ' Gen. 49. 10. " Ruth 2. 20. '■ Heb. II. 5. "Josh. 19. 47. '^ Gen. 21. 33. •' Mai. 3. 12. ' vers. 12, 13,21 Josh. 9. 6. " Gen. 17. 10. 2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of -^Ahinoam the ^Jezreel- itess; 3 And his second, Chileab, of '? Abi- gail the wife of Nabal the /Carmel- ite; 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, She- phatiah 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 ^Tsh-bosheth, and said, Am I a ^dog's head on ^Judah's side? I do show "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, and yet 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 J' land? saying also, Make thy -league v/ith 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, De- liver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for an hundred '^foreskins of the '^Philistines. 317 3^5] II SAMUEL [339 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 he 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 pursu- ing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them : but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him av/ay, 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 CHAP. 3 1 Sam. 25. 4, li a Sam. 16. 5. Num. I. 37. / Gen. 13. 3 I Ki. 2. 5. vers. 23, 25, 28,37 I Sam. 14. 50. John 4. 14. j Isa. 30. 15. ' Rom. 3. 19. Ex. 4. 6. " I Sam. 26. 6. Josh. 9. 3. P Gen. 37. 34. 9 Psa. 34. 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 king- dom 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 by the sword, or that lacketh bread. 30 So Joab and '^Abishai his bro- ther slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at ^Gi- beon 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 food while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I ^taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down. 36 And all the people took no- tice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. 37 For all the people and all Is- rael 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 318 4^] II SAMUEL [59 hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. CHAPTER 4. 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 f Benjamin : (for Bee- roth also was reckoned to Benjamin : 3 And the Beerothites fled to '^Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this, day.) 4 And Ooiiathan, 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 thej' 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 bed- chamber, 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, who 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, Be- hold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in '^Ziklag, who CHAP. 4 " vers. I, 2, 4, 8, 10 X Sam. 9. 2. b Gen. 13. 18. -^ vers. 2, 5, 6,9. d vers. 5, 6, 9. ' vers. 5, g. /vers. 2, 3, 5, 9 Josh. 9. 17. s Num. I. 37. h Neh. II. 33. « I Sam. 18. I. J called also Meribbaal 2 Sam. 9. 6, 10-13; i5. I, <; 19- ^, 23, 30. i 2 Sam. 2. 3. I vers. 8, 9, n Acts 13. 22. '"iSam. 10. rg. " I Sam. 27. 6. " Gen. 13. 18. P 2 Sam. 2. 8. CHAP. 5 " Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 1-3; 2 Sam. 7. 8-16. (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) 4 Gen. 2. 23. *■ I Sam. 9. 2. d Psa. 28. 9 Prov. 15. 14 Isa. 40. II Jer. 15. 16 Ezk. 34. 2, 23 John 21. 15-17 Acts 20. 28 1 Pet. 5. 2 Jude 12 Rev. 7. 17. " vers. I, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, Acts 13. 22. /Josh. 9. 6. S Gen. 49. 10. h Mt. 23. 37. i Mai. 3. 12. j Mt. 15. 14. ^ Mic. 4. 2. 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. THEN came all the tribes of Is- rael 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 v/ast 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 Is- rael. 4 David was thirty years old v/hen he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5 In Hebron he reignedover<^Judah seven years and six months: and in ^Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years overall Israel and Judah. 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the Hand: who spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the J 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 water- course, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall he chief and captain. Wherefore they said. The blind and the lame shall not come into the house, 9 So David dv^elt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And 3x9 5^°] II SAMUEL [6 " 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 Icingdom for his people Israel's sake. 13 And David took him more con- cubines 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 Jerusa- lem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and '^Nathan, and /Solomon, 15 (Zibhar 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 inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will certainly 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 im- ages, 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 inquired of the Lord, he said. Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the Jmulberry trees. 34 And let it be, when thou hearest CHAP. 5 1 1 Ki. 5. is,"24; II. 27 2 Ki. 12. 20 1 Chr. II. 8 2 Chr. 32, 5. "• I Ki. 5. 1, 12; q. It; 10. II 1 Clir. 14. I 2 Chr. 2. II. " Mt. II. 21. " I Chr. 3. s; 14.4. P I Chr. 22. 9= « I Chr. 3. 6; 14- 5- »• I Chr. 3. 7; 14. 6. » 1 Chr. 3. 8; 14. 7. < I Chr. 3. 8. " vers. 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25 Amos I. 8. " Isa. 17. 5. "' I Chr. 14. II. *^ ver. 18. J' vers. 23, 24 I Chr. 14. 14, IS- ' Josh. 31. 17. " I Chr. 14. 16. I or, marching. CHAP. 6 " vers. I, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 Acts. 13. 22. !> Gen. 4'9. 10. ' vers. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, IS, 16, Ex. 25. 10. d vers. 3, 4 I Sam. 7. I. ' Josh. 15. 57. / vers. 6-8. ^ ver. 4 I Chr. 13. 7. >> ver. 3. » Gen. 4. 21. J I Chr. 16. 9. !• Miracles (O.T.). I Ki. 13. 4-6. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I-IO.) I I Chr, 13. II. '" I Chr. 13. 13; li- 25- " Josh. 13. 3. the sound of a Agoing 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. 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 tiience the ^ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth be- tween the cherubim. 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 7 Uzzah and ". 13. 16, 18, 19, 25, 26, 27, 29. b 2 Sam. 12. I I Ki. 1. 8. 45 1 Clir. 17. i; 29. 29 2 Chr. 9. 29; 20.25 Psa. 51. title. " Ex. 25. xo. <' Ex. 26. I. ' vers. 2, 3, 4, 17- /vers. 5, 8, 17, iR, 20, 26 Acts 13. 22. S vers. 5, 13, 27 Psa. 127. I. '' vprs. 6, 23 Ex. 12. 13. '■ vers. 6, 11, 13 Ex. 25. 9. j 2 Sam. 5. 2. * The Eight Covenants. Heb. 8. 8. (Gen. I. 28; Heb. 8. 10.) "' Israel (his- tory), vers. 8- 17; 2 Ki. 17. 6- 23. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) " I Chr. 17. 7 Psa. 78. 70 John lo. 16. thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidser\'ants whom 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. AND it came to pass, when the ' king sat in his '^house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from ail 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 dwelieth 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 mj^ servant /David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou fbuiid 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 ^ taber- nacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Is- rael 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 peo- ple, over Israel : 9 And I was with thee w^hither- soever 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 snail the children of wicked- ness afflict them any more, as be- foretime, 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 331 7 12] II SAMUEL [8 7 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 bow- els, 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 ini- quity, 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 king- dom 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 thus far? 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 ac- cording 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 be- side 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 tor a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy J'land, before thy people, whom thou re- deemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods ? 24 For thou hast confirmed to thy- self 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 con- cerning thy servant, and concem- CHAP. 7 " vers. 1-29 1 Chr. 17. 1-27 Isa. 22. 22, 23 Jer. 23. 24-30; 23. 5-8 Ezk. 21. 25-27 Zech. 14. 9 Lk. I. 31-33 Acts 15. 13-18 Rev. 3. 7; 22. 16, 20. P I Chr. 17. 13; z8. 6 cf. Heb. I. 5 Job 17. 14; 29. 16 Psa. 27. 10 Isa. 9. 6 John 20. 17,21 Rom. 8. 15 1 Cor. 4. 15 2 Cor. 6. 18 Gal. 4. 6. 1 Judgments {the seven). vers. 14, 15; 2 Sam. 12. 13, 14. (2 Sam. 7. 14; Rev. 22. 12.) »■ Psa. 94. 12. » Isa. 53. 5. < I Sam. 9. 2. " Christ {first advent). Psa. 2. 12. (Gen. 3. i."^; Acts I. 9.) '' Kingdom (O.T.). vers. 8-i6; 2 Sam. 23. i-S- (Gen. I. 26; Zech. 12. 8.) '•" Gen. 15. I. ^ Bible prayers (O.T.).2Sam. 24. 17. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) y Mai. 3. 12. ' Ex. 12. 25. I or, law of the Man. I Chr. 17. 17; Heb. CHAP. 8 " vers. I, 2, 3, 4, 5- 6, 7. 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, IS, 18 Acts 13. 22, > vers. I, 12 Amos 1. 8. ' 2 Sam. 10. 16 1 Ki. II. 23 I Chr. i3. 3; 19. 16. d ver. 12. ' vers. 3, 5, 12 I Sam. 14. 47. .f Gen. 2. 14. " vers. 5, 6, 13 Lk. 4. 27. h vers. 5, 6 Acts 9. 3. « ver. 3. j vers. 6, 13 Mt. 4. 24. * vers. 6, 14 Gen. 45. 5-7. I Mt. 23. 37. X or, helped. ing his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said. 26 And let thy name be magni- fied 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 ser- vant, 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 are 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. AND after this it came to pass, - that ^David smote the ''Philis- tines, and subdued them. : and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines. 3 And he smote Moab, and meas- ured them with a line, laying them down on 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 extend his territory at the river/Euphrates. 4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hun- dred horsemen, and twenty thou- sand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots. 5 And when the c^^Syrians of ^^Da- mascus came to succour ^ Hadadezer kingof Zobah, David slew of the Sy- rians two and twenty thousand men. 6 Then David put garrisons in ySyria of Damascus: and the Sy- rians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD 1 ^'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 8J II SAMUEL [913 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 Jotam his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smit- ten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Tci. 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 dedi- cated of all nations which he sub- dued; 12 Of 2Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of ^ Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of ^Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Re- hob, 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 garri- sons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went. 15 And David reigned over all Is- rael; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. 16 And ^ Joab the son of ^ Zeruiah was over the host; and J^'Jehosha- phat the son of ^Ahilud was re- corder ; 17 And '^ Zadok the son of ^ Ahitub, and ^Ahimelech the son of ^Abia- thar, vjere the priests ; and Seraiah was the ^scribe; 18 And /Benaiah the son of 6, 7, 8, 10, II, la, 13, 14, 17, 18, 22, 23, 25.27 Acts 13. 22. A I Ki. 2. 5. " Gen. ig. 38. <* Zech. 13. 2. - Deut.3. It. / Mt. 23. 37- 3»4 mon 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 Am- nion saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Am- nion, 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 Sj'rians 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 Heiam. And the Syrians set them- selves in array against David, and fought with him. 18 And the Syrians fled before Is- rael; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horse- men, and smote Shobach the cap- tain 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 Amnion any more. CHAPTER 11. AND it came to pass, after the - year was expired, at the time when kings. ^o forth to battle, that ^David sent 'Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of ^Amnion, and ^''besieged ^Rabbah. But David tarried still at /Jerusalem. 2 And it came to pass at eventide, 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 bathing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3 And David sent and inquired n 4] II SAMUEL [II 27 after the woman. And one said, 7s not this 5^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 fol- lowed him a mess of meat from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the ser- vants 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 //zj journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? 11 And Uriah said unto David, The yark, 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, say- ing, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye CHAP. II ' 2 Sam. 12. 24 I Ki. I. XI, 15, 16, 28, 31; 2. 13, 18, 19. '> vers. 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 24, 26 I Ki. 15. s. ■ Gen. 15. 20. J Ex. 25. 10. * Gen. 49. 10. ' Gen. 9. 21. Jud. 9. I. Jud. 9. 50. Gen. 15. 20. P I Ki. 2. 5. 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 v/all, 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 showed 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 at 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 mes- senger, Thus Shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another : make thy bat- tle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. 26 And v/hen 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. 325 12 I] II SAMUEL [12 23 CHAPTER 12. AND the Lord sent '^Nathan unto -TjL '^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 Mai. 3. 12. Mt. 4. 24. / Mt. 23. 37. 2 Cor. II. 3. '» vers. 31-34 2 Sam. 16. 15- 23; 17. 1-23 I Chr. 27. 33, 34- ' vers. 12, 13, 14, 22, 30, 31, 32> 33. 37 Acts 13. 22. i Rev. 22. 7. I or, four years. 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 thQ king to hear thee. 4 Absalom said moreover. Oh that I were made judge in the '^land, that every man that 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 Absa- lom 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 iforty 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 through- out 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 /^Ahith- ophel the Gilonite, ^ David's coun- sellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong ; for the peo- ple increased continually with Ab- salom. 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 Je- rusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Ab- salom : 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 330 15 16] 11 SAMUEL [I6 unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. i6 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, who 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 that came after him from ^^-^Gath, passed on be- fore the king. 19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, V/herefore 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 earnest but yes- terday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go v/hither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren : mercy and truth be witii thee. 21 And -"Ittai ansv/ered 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 peo- ple 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 %yes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: 26 But if he thus say, I have no de- light 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 thon a ^^seer? re- turn into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, ^Ahimaaz thy CHAP. 15 * 2 Sam. 8. 18 ' Josh. " Josh. II. " John 18. 1. P vers. 24, 25, 27. 29. 35. 36 I Ki. I. 39. ? Ex. 6. 25. *■ vers. 24, 25, Ex. 25. 10. ■ vers. 2^, 27- 29. 35. 35 I Sam. 22. 20. ' Gen. 3. 5. " I Sam. 9. 9. " vers. 27, 36 2 Sam. 18. 15. ' Mt. 23. 37. Psa. 32. I. ' vers. 12, 31 34- Chr. 27. 33. ' 2 Sam. 16. 16 17- 5. 14 I Chr. 27. 33 Josh. 16. 2. t> Psa. 55. 22. " 2 Sam. 17. 17. CHAP. i5 " vers. I, s, 6, 10, II, 13, 16, 23 Acts 13. 22. * vers. 1, 2, 3, 2 Sam. 9. 2. ' vers. I, 4 2 Sam. 4. 4. son, and Jonathan the son of Abi- athar. 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 ^Je- rusalem : and they tarried there. 30 And David v,rent up by the as- cent oi 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, J'Ahithophel is among the conspira- tors with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolish- 32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top 0/ the mount, where his habit was to worship 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 6e thy servant : then may- est 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 Za- dok's son, and '^Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye shall hear. 37 So -^Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem. CHAPTER 16. 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 hun- dred loaves of bread, and an hun- dred bunches of raisins, and an 331 l6 2] II SAMUEL [17 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 vers, i-io 2 Sam. 18. 33. unto the king. All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, -s^Blessed fee the Lord thy God, who 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 ser- vant, I saw a great timiult, but I knew not what it was. ^o And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still. 31 And, behold, Cushi came; and i 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, 7s 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, C Absalom, my son, my son ! CHAPTER 19. AND it was told «Joab, Behold, -lX. the king weepeth and mourneth for '^Absalom. 2 And the ^victory that day was turned into mourning unto ail 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, who this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the livesof 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 re- 335 19 7] II SAMUEL [19 28 gardest neither "princes nor ser- vants : 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 ser- vants: 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 handof the/Philistines; and now he is fled out of the ^land from Absalom. 10 And Absalom, whom we anoint- ed 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 toy 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 aj-e my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? 13 And say ye to I Sam. 22. 20. It Gen. 49. 10. i 2 Sam. 17. 25. "' Gen. 2. 23. " Josh. 3. 17. " Josh. 4. 19. P Gen. 45. 21. 1 vers. 16, 18, ail 83 2 Sam. 16. 5. »■ Jud. 3. 15. • 2 Sam. 16. 5. ' Num. I. 37. " vers. 17, 29 2 Sam. 9. 2. ' vers. 17, 24 I Sam. 9. 2. «' 2 Cor. 5. 19. " Imputation. vers. 18, 19; Psa. 3a. 2. (Lev. 25. so; Jas. 2. 23.) ' Mt. 23. 37. ■ Gen. 41. 39. ' I Sam. 26. 6. - vers. 24, 25, 2 Sam. 4. 4. d Num. 14. 36. 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 J Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. 20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, be- hold, 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 <^Ze- ruiah 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 adver- saries unto rae ? 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 ag^ain 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 336 19 29] II SAMUEL [206 servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right there- fore 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, for- asmuch 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 con- duct him over Jordan. 33 Now ^ Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old : and he had provided the king with sus- tenance while he lay at /Maha- naim; for he was a very great man. 33 And the king said unto Bar- zillai, 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? where- fore 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 recom- pense 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, ^^^Chim- ham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that v/hich shall seem good unto thee: and whatso- ever 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 Bar- zillai, and blessed him; and he re- turned unto his own place. 40 Then the king went on to "Gil- gal, and Chimham went on with him: and aU the people of <^Judah CHAP. 19 ' Ruth 4. 3- /a Sam. 7. 11. ^ vers. 32-34, 39 I Ki. a. 7. k Josh, 3. 17. • vers. 31, 32, 33, 34. 39- J Gen. 32. 2. A Psa. 34. 8. I vers. 38, 40 Jer. 41. 17. "* vers. 37, 40. " Josh. 4. 19. " Gen. 49. 10. P Gen. 49. xo. 1 Josh. 3. 17. CHAP. 20 2 Cor. 6. 15. * vers. 2, 6, 7, 10, 21, 22. ■ vers. 2, 6, 7, 10, 21, 22. d Jud. 3. 15. Acts 13. 22. ? Josh. 3. 17. Mt. 23. 37. » vers. 4-13 2 Sam. 17. 25. J Lev. 7. 17, 18. k vers. 6, 10 I Sam. 26. 6. I a Sam. 18. 33. conducted the king, and also had the people of Israel. 41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our bre- thren 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 an- swered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: where- fore then be ye angry for this mat- ter? 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? were not we the first to speak of bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. CHAPTER 20. 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 ^Da- vid, 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 She- ba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from g" 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 ap- pointed him. 6 And David said to ^'Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did ''Absa- lom: take thou thy lord's servants, 337 20 7] II SAMUEL [21 3 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 vjere at the great stone which is in/Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab's ^gar- ment that he bad 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 peo- ple 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 CHAP. 20 * I Ki. a. 5. " 2 Sam. 8. : 15. 18 I Ki. I. 38. " vers. 7. 23 2 Sam. 8. xl P Josh. 9. 3. ? Zech. 3. 3. •■ Gen. 9. 6. * Gen. 4. 2. ' Zech. 13. a. " I Ki. 2. 5. " Mt. 23. 37. •"a Sam. 23. 22. * 2 Sam. 8. 18. y I Ki. 12. 18. ' 2 Sam. 8. 17. « I Ki. I. 39. * 1 Sam. 23. CHAP. 21 " Gen. 12. 20. * vers. X, 3, 7, II, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22 Acts 13. 22. " vers. I, a, 4, 6, 7, 8, II, 13, 13.14 I Sam. 9. 2. d Gen. 15. x6. ' Psa. X19. X39. /Gen. 49. 10. ' Ex. 29. 33 Lev. 16. 17. words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. 18 Then she spake, saying. They were wont to speak in old time, say- ing. They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter, 19 I am one of them that are peace- able and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mo- ther in Israel: why wilt thou swal- low 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 JAdoram was over the tri- bute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder : 25 And Sheva was -scribe : and ^Za- dok and '^Abiathar were the priests: 26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David. CHAPTER 21. THEN there was a '^famine in the days of '^David three years, year after year ; and David inquired of the Lord. And the LORD answered. It is for -^Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. 2 And the king called the Gibeon- ites, 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 Is- rael had sworn unto them : and Saul sought to slay them in his ^zeal for the children .of Israel and^Judah.) 3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make .fiatone- 338 21 4] II SAMUEL [22 3 ment, that ye may bless the inher- itance 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 territories of Israel, 6 Let seven men of his sons be de- livered 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 ./Mephibo- sheth, 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 bare to ^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 toge- ther, 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 ^Jona- than his son from the men of ^Jabesh-gilead, who 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 ga- thered the bones of them that were hanged. 14 And the bones of Saul and Jo- nathan his son buried they in the CHAP, ai fc Josh. 15. 57. <■ Deut. 7. 6-8. / 3 Sam. 4. 4. '' Gen. 24. 8. ' t Sam. 18. I. " a Sam. 4. 4. " I Sam. 14. 49. * 1 Sam. 18. xg. P Ex. 23. 16. ? Gen. 37. 34. •■ I Sam. 18. I. ' 1 Sam. XI. 9. ' I Sam. 31. xa. " vers. X2, 15, 17, 18, 19 Amos I. 8. " X Sam. 28. 4. '" Num. I. 37. ' Gen. 36. 3. V Mai. 3. 13. ' Ex. 35. 3. ' I Sam. 26. 6. i a Sam. 2. 18. * called also Mebunnai I Chr. II. 39; 37. XI. Gen. 20 II. « Isa. 40. 6. > Num. 6. 25- A 2 Cor. 6 IS- 1 1 Chr. I . 12. "" I Chr. I 1. 12. "vers. 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 14 16 Amos I. 8. " vers. 10, Ex. IS I 13 3S- 1 I- 34> j 1 Ex. 23 16. •"i Sam 22. X. *2 Sam. S.18. ' vers. 14 16, 24 Mic. 5. ,15. 2. " John 4 14. I or, armed. 7 But the man that shall touch them must be ifenced with iron and the staff of a spear ; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the dwelling. 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. g 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 Philis- tines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and j the Lord wrought a great ^victory I 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 to- gether into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentils: 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 'AduUam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of ^Rephaim. 14 And David was then in the hold, and the garrison of the Philis- tines 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 Da- vid : but he would not drink there- of, 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 woul d not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. 34« 23 i8] II SAMUEL [24 10 18 And ^Abishai, the brother of ^Joab, the son of -^Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among the three. 19 Was he not most honourable of the three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. 20 And J'Benaiah the son of Je- hoiada, 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 dov/n 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 a 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, Mebun- nai 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, Hid- dai of the brooks of ^Gaash, 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, ^Azma- veth the Barhumite, 32 "EliahbatheShaalbonite,ofthe sons of Jashen, ^Jonathan, 33 Shammah the ^Hararite, -* Ahi- am the son of Sharar the Hararite, 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the J'Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 35 Hezrai the ^Carmelite, -^Paarai the Arbite, 36 Igal the son of Nathan of <^Zo- bah, Bani the ^Gadite, 37 Zelek the ^Ammonite, Nahari the ^Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, CHAP. 33 " I Sam. 26. 6. '" I Ki. 2. s. * vers. 18, 37 2 Sam. 2. is. y vers. 20, 22. ' Josh. 15. 21 1 Chr. II. 22. " Ex. I. 13. * vers. 20, 22 2 Sam. 8. 18 iKi. 1.38:2. 25. 29, 30, 31, 35. 4^; 4- 1- '2 Sam. 3. 18. ^ 2 Sam. 2. 18. * I Chr. II. 26. / Jud. 7. I. ^i Ghr. II. 37; 27. 10. ^ also called Pelonite 1 Chr. II. 27; 27. 10. ' I Chr. II. 40. i I Chr, u. 28; 27. 9. t Amos 1. 1. ' 2 Sam. 21. 18. "' I Chr. II. 12, " vers. 28, 29 Ezra a. 22. * 1 Chr. II. 3c 2 Sam. 4. 3, 3, Ezra 2. a Neh. 7. 7; 10. f Josh. 15. 57. 1 Num. I. 37. •■ Jud. 12. 13. » Josh. 24. 30. ' I Chr. XI. 33. " I Chr. II. 33. ^ I Chr. II. 34. "' ver. II. * I Chr. II. 35. y Deut. 3. 14. * I Sam. 27. 3. " also called Naarai I Chr. II. 37. * I Sam. 14. 47. ■^ Gen. 30. 11. d Gen. 19. 38. * Josh. 9, 17. /I Chr. 11.28; i'Tc'hr. 2. 53; II. 40. h I Ki. 15. 5. « Gen. ig. 20. CHAP. 24 " vers. 1, 10, II, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24,25 Acts 13. 32. 0 Gen. 49. 10. ' vers. 2, 15 Josh. 19. 47. A vers. 2, 7, 15 Gen. 21. 33. " Gen. 3. 5. /Josh. 3. 17. 'J Gen. 37. 25. h Mai. 3. 12. • Jud. 10. 6. j Mt. II. 21. A- Deut. 20. 17. 1 Gen. 49. 10. '" Mai. 3. 12. " Mt. 23. 37. " I Ki. 2. 5. 38 /Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an .^Ith- rite, 39 ''^ Uriah the ^Hittite: thirty and seven in all. CHAPTER 24. 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, who 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 valley of Gad, and to- ward 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 Oudah, even to Beer-sheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the ''''land, they came to ''Jerusa- lem 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 342 24 III n SAMUEL 12425 CHAP. 24 P vers. 13. i3 I Sam. 22. s 1 Chr. 21. 9; 29. 2.; 2 Chr. 25. 23. thee, O Lord, take away the in- iquity 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, I 12 Go and say unto David, Thus U ^ sam 9 9 saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, ! that I may do it unto thee. : ' ver. h. 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 m.e. Lev. 7. 17, 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his 'mer- cies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. Gen. 50. ; Oman 1 Chr. 21. 15 2 Chr. 3. I. Bible prayers (O.T.). .1 Ki. 3. 5-9. ^Gen. 13.2; Hab. 3- 1-16.) vers. 16-25. 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 de- stroy 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 ^"^'threshing- place of '^ Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David J'spake unto the ! Lord when he saw the angel that c Gen. 23. 15 smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wick- edly: but these sheep, what have ''"""" '^• they done ? let thine hand, I pray j 2 Chr. 3. Zech. 14. 12. I thee, be against me, and against I my father's house. 18 And Gad came that day to i David, and said unto him, Go up, [rear an altar unto the LORD in I the threshingfloor of ^Araunah the I ^Jebusite. I 19 And David, according to the I saying of Gad, went up as the LORD I 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 j king with his face to the ground. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his ser- vant ? And David said. To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an ! altar unto the Lord, that the ^plague I may be stayed from the people. j 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 sa- crifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood. I 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. j 24 And the king said unto Arau- ; nah, Nay ; but I wall surely buy it I of thee at a price : neither will I , oifer burnt offerings unto the LORD I my God of that which doth cost me i nothing. So David bought the I threshingfloor and the oxen for i fifty 'shekels of silver. I 25 And David built there an ^altar j unto the LORD, and offered burnt I offerings and peace offerings. So I the Lord was entreated for the j land, and the plague was stayed 1 from Israel. 343 THE 1 1] FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS [i 24 CHAPTER 1. NOW king ^David was old and stricken in years; and they cov- ered hira with clothes, but he gat no heat. a 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 ' Shunanimite, and brought her to the king. 4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and minis- tered 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 dis- pleased him at any time in say- ing. Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after /Ab- salom. 7 And he conferred with Joab the son of .^'Zeruiah, and with '^Abi- athar the priest: and they follow- ing ^Adonijah helped him. 8 ButyZadok the priest, and ^Be- naiah the son of O^hoiada, and '^'Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. 9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings 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 brothei , he called not. CHAP. X " vers. I, 8, ii 13, 28, 31, 33, 37, 38. 43. 47 Acts 13. 22. b ver. 15 I Ki. 2. 17-25. I « ver. 15 1 Ki. 2. 21 2 Ki. 4. 36. vers. 7-53 I Ki. 2. 13-25. ' 2 Sam. 3. 4. a Sam. i8. 33. ' 2 Sam. 2. 18. * vers. 7, 19, 25,42 I Sam. 22. 20. I • vers. 5, 7-53. .; vers. 8, 26, 32, ! 31, 38, 39, 44, ! 45- * vers. 8, 10, a6, 32, 36, 38, 44 2 Sam. 23. 22. '" vers. 8, 10, II, 22, 23, 24, 3a, 34, 45 2 Sam. 7. 2. " Josh 15. 7. " Gen. 13. 8. P Gen. 49. 10. ? vers. 10, II, la, 13, 17, ig, 21, 26, 30, 33, 34, 37, 38. 39, 43> 46, 47. SO, 51. 52, 53 a Chr. aa. 0. vers. II, 15, 16, aS, 31 2 Sam. II. 3. n Wherefore Nathan spake unto 'Bath-sheba the mother of Solo-' mon, saying, Hast thou not heard " » Ki. a. 5. that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord * ^^" ^ 5 knoweth it not? I 344 12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou may est 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 reignetli; and now, my lord the king, thou knov/est it not : 19 And he hath slain oxen and fatlings 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 I 25] I KINGS [I 48 reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? 25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fatlings 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 ser- vant Solomon, hath he not called. 27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed 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 re- deemed 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 ^^re- verence 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 JGihon; 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 Je- noiada 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 CHAP. X Lev. 19. 30. V ver. 45 3 Chr. 3a. 30; 33.14- ' Gen. 31. 13. Ex. 19. 13-16. l> Gen. 49. 10. ■ vers. 33, 44 a Sam. 8. 18 d ver. 33. • vers. 8, 34 2 Sam. 8. 17; 1 Ki. 2. 35. Dan. 7. 24. I Ki. 2. 5. I Sam. 17. 17. J Gen. 3. 5. 345 with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord, king David. 38 So Zadok the priest, and Na- than the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Chereth- ites, 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 trimipet ; and all the people said, God save king Sok)mon. 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 Na- than 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 ser- vants 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, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine /eyes even seeing it. I 49] I KINGS [2 19 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, say- ing, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, say- ing, 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 show 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. NOW the days of ^ David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged <^ Solomon his son, say- ing, 2 I go the way of all the earth : be thou strong therefore, and show 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 testimo- nies, as it is written in the law of '^Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whitherso- ever thou turnest thyself: 4 That the Lord may establish 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 yAbner 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 ithe grave in peace. 7 But show '^kindness unto the CHAP. X * Dan. 7. 24. CKAP. a " vers. X, 10, II, 12, 24, 26, 3a, 33. 44, 45 Acts 13. 22. * vers. 1, 13, 13, 17. 19. 22, 23, 25. 27, =9, 4ip 45.46 X Chr. 32. 9. •'Ex. 3.4. d ver. 28 3 Sam. 2. 14, 27; 3- 24.37,29; 10. 9; 14. i; xS. 14; 19. s; 24. 3 X Ki. X. 7. * vers, s, 22 2 Sam. 2. i8. / vers, s, 32 I Sam. 14. 50. ff vers. 5, 3a 1 Sam. 14. 50. h vers. 5, 3a 2 Sam. 17. ag. » ver. 32 1 Chr. 2. 17. J Gen. 9. 6. * Ruth a. ao. i 2 Sam. 19. 31. "* vers. 2-28 2 Sam. 18. 33. " vers. 8, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41. 42,44 ^ a Sam. x6. 5. ° Gen. 46. 21. P Jud. 3. 15. ? 2 Sam. 16. 5. •■ Gen. 32. a. ' Josh. 3. 17. ' Rom. 3. 19. " Gen. 2. 31. " Gen. 13. 18. « Mt. 33. 37. * vers. 13-25 1 Ki. I. 5. V 2 Sam. 3. 4. ' vers. X3, 18, 19 2 Sam. II. 3. " I Sam. I. 27. i vers. 17, 21,22 I Ki. I. 3. '-' vers. X7, 2i,aa I Ki. I. 3. I Heb. Sheof. 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, f/zow/^asf with thee ^^Shimei the son of ^Gera, a /Ben- jamite of ^Bahurim, wiio 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 svvare 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 ithe 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 ^^Jerusaiem. 12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father ; and his kingdom was established greatly. 13 And -^Adonijah the son of JHag- gith came to -Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said. Peaceably. 14 He said moreover, I have some- what 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. 346 2 20] I KINGS [2 41 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 Shunam- mite 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, who 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 -^^ Jehoi- ada ; and he fell upon him that he died. 26 And. unto Abiathar the priest said the liing, 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 wast 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 taber- nacle of the Lord ; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, say- mg, Go, fall upon him. 30 And Benaiah came to the taber- nacle 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 / Ex. 12. 25. 9 vers. 25, 29, 30. 34- 35. 46 2 Sam. 23. 2s ijer. J Ex. 25. 10. Sam. 1. 3. I Josh. 18. I. " Gen. 9. 6. f vers. 31, 33 2 Sam. 7. II. * Gen. 49. 10. Psa. 127. I. Mt. 23. 37. ' John 18. I. "' Josh. II. 22. 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 may- est take avv'ay 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 re- turn 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 tor ever from the LORD. 34 So Benaiah the son of ^Jehoi- ada 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 Abr- athar. 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 ser- vants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of ^^Gath. And they told Shimei, say- ing, 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 v/as told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. 347 2 42] I KINGS [3 ^9 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, say- ing, 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 com- mandment that I have charged thee with? 44 The king said moreover to Shi- mei, Thou knowest all the wicked- ness 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 he blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever. 46 So the king commanded Bena- iah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was estab- lished in the hand of Solomon. CHAPTER 3. 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 build- ing his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jeru- salem 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 showed 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 CHAP. 2 " Gen. 24. 8. CHAP. 3 " vers. I, 3, 4, 5> 6, 10, 15 1 Chr. 22. 9. 5 I Ki. 7. 8; 9. 16, 24; II. I, 18-22 2 Chr. 8. II. "Ex. 13. 13. d vers. I, 3, 6, 7. 14 Acts 13. 22. ■ Josh. 9. /vers. 5, IS Gen. 28. 12. 3 Bible prayers (O.T.). I Ki. 8. 23. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) h 2 Chr. I. 8, > I Ki. 2. 4; 9. 4. 3 Ruth 2. 30. fc Deut. 7. 6. I Deut. 7. 6-8. "* Gen. 13. i6; I5-5- " Gen. i6. 10. " Ezk. II. 19. P Heb. 5- 14- 1 I Ki. 4. 29, 30, 31; S. 12; 10.24 Eccl. I. 16. "■ I Ki. 15. 5. * Mt. 23. 37. t Ex, 25. 10. " Num. 27. 2. " Lev. 7. 17, 18. I Heb. hear- ing. 2 or, hatii not been. thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O LORJ> 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 whom thou '^hast ^chosen, a great people, '-"'that can- not 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 evil : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? 10 And thespeech 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; nei- ther hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine ene- mies; but hast asked for thyself un- derstanding 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 2shall 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, be- hold, 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 ^hird 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 us two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died 348 3 20] I KINGS [4 22 in the night; because she over- laid 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, whom 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 judg- ment 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. SO king ^Solomon was king over all Israel. 2 And these were the princes that 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 ^Je- hoiada 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 house- CHAP. 3 1 Cor. I. 24. CHAP. 4 " vers. I, 7, II, i IS, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34 I Chr. 23. 9. b vers. 2, 4 1 Ki. 1. 39. ' 2 Sam. 8. 17. < 2 Sam. 23.22. ' 2 Sam. 8. 18. / 1 Sam. 22. 20. 3 I Ki. 5. 14. ft Neh. II. 17. i Rev. 21. 12,14. J Jud. I. 33. k Mai. 3. 12. f Josh. 12. 17. ™ X Chr. 7. 29. " Josh. 17. n. " Josh. 12. 21. P Josh. 3. 16. 9 I Ki. 21. I. ■■ I Sam. 31. 12. ' Deut. 4. 43. f Num. 32. 41. " Gen. 41. 51. 1 " Gen. 37. 25. '* Deut. 3. 4. * vers. 13, 19 Num. 21. 33. 2' Ex. 25. 3- " Gen. 32. a. " Isa. 9. 1. !> 2 Sam. 15. 32. " Gen. 30. 13. d Num. 2. g. ' Num. I. 37. / Josh. 2. 10. s Gen. 15. 16. '' Num. 21. 33. « Gen. 49. 10. J Gen."i6. 10. ^ Amos 1. 8. I vers. 21, 30 Ex. X2. 13. hold: and ^Adoniram the son ^^Abda was over the tribute. of 7 And Solomon had ^twelve offi- cers over all Israel, who provided i victuals for the king and his house- I hold : 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 yBeth-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 ; who 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 Jok- neam : 13 The son of Geber, in ^Ramoth- gilead; to him pertained the towns of O^ir the son of "Manasseh, which are in ^'Gilead; to him also per- tained the region of ^'Argob, which is in '^ Bashan, threescore great cities with walls andJbrasen 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'^Ussachar: 18 Shimei the son of Elah, in ^Ben- jamin: 19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of /Sihon king of the Ex. 20. 25. » John'ig. 30. / vers. 9, 15 Ex. 26. 15. * I Ki. 2.4; 9.4. I Gen. 26. 3. 2 Sam. 7. 13 [ Chr. 22. 10. Acts 13. 22. ' Ex. 25. 8 Lev. 26. II 2 Cor. 6. 16 Rev. 21. 3. 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 ax nor any ^' tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in build- ing. 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 ^fin- ished 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 houss with timber of cedar. 11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, 12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, ^ii thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I ^perform jmy word with thee, '''which I spake unto ''David thy father: 13 And 'T will dv/ell among the children of Israel, and will not for- sake 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 ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he built tw^enty 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 tem- ple 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 351 6 21] I KINGS [79 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 Coracle ; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he over- laid 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 cherubim o/''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 cherubim were of one measure and one form. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house : and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their v/ings touched one another in the midst of the house. 28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and ^palm trees and open flowers, within and with- out. 30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and with- out. 31 And for the entering of the oracle he made "doors 0/ 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 cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim, 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. CHAP. 6 ? a Sam. x6. a; Zech. 4. II. ' Ex. 15. 37. " John 10. 9. CHAP. 7 " vers. I, 8, 13, 14. 40, 45. 47> 48, SI I Chr. 22. □. h Psa. 7a. 16. Ex. 28. 33. ' Josh. 3. 17. d Dan. 2. 33. ' Psa. 60. 6. /Josh. 3.16. 9 Ex. 25. 30. h Ex. 25. 31. t 2 Sam. 16. 23. j Gen. 15. 17. h Ex. 25. 38. ' Lev. 16. 12. ™ John 10. 9. " Acts 13. 22. " Sanctify, holy (O.T.). 2 Chr. 2. 4. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) P Ex. 38. 27. ? Mt. 13. 44. CHAP. 8 * vers. I, 2, s, 12, 22, 54, 63, 65 I Chr. 22. 9. b vers. I, 3-7, 9, 21 Ex. 25. 10. ' vers. I, 15-18, 20, 24-26, 66 Acts 13. 22. d Mic. 4. 2. « Ex. 6. 25. / 2 Sam. 16. 23. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25.22. exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. 48 And Solomon made all the ves- sels that pertained unto the house of the Lord : the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the ^showbread 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 basins, 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 ves- sels, did he put among the ^treas- ures of the house of the LORD. CHAPTER 8. 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 assem- bled 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 itabernacle 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 its place, into the /oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cheru- bim. 7 For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered 354 8 8] I KINGS [8 32 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 with- out: 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 congre- gation of Israel: (and all the con- gregation of Israel stood ;) 15 And he said. Blessed he the Lord, God of Israel, who spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand ful- filled 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 Da- vid 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 Is- rael, 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 « Ex. 3. 4. Ex. 3. .;■ Pilal. 3. 12. fe vers. 9, 16,21, SJ. 5"- 65 Ex. 12. 13. I vers. 10, II Psa. 73. 14. "* Num. 14. 21. Deut. 7. 6-8. Gen. 26. 3. P Kingdom (O.T.). I Ki. II. 9-13, 32, 36. (&en. I. 26-28; Zech. 12. 8.) 1 Ex. 12. 25. » Bible prayers (O.T.). I Ki. 17. 20. (Gen. 15. 3; Hab. 3. 1-16.) Gen. 3. s. Psa. 32. ' Gen. 24. 8. 355 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 Is- rael, 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 ser- vant 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, O LORD, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou pro- misedst him, saying. There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if thy children but take heed to their way» to 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 ser- vant David my father. 27 But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot con- tain 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 this day : 29 That thine %yes 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 sup- plication 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 8 33] I KINGS [8 53 do, and judge thy servants, '^con-I damning the wicked, to bring his \ way upon his head ; and justifying the righteous, to give him accord- ing to his righteousness. 33 When thy people Israel be smit- ten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and -^con- fess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house : 34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the J'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, mil- dew, locust, or if there be ^^caterpil- lar ; if their enemy ^besiege them in the land of their cities ; whatsoever yplague, whatsoever sickness there be; 38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who 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 know- est ; (for thou, even thou only, know- est the hearts of all the children of men;) 40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the a^land which thou gavest unto our fathers. 41 Moreover concerning the stran- ger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake ; 4 2 (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 dwell- ing place, and do according to all CHAP. { Deut. 25. Lev. s- S- ' vers. 35, 36 Gen. 2. 5. ' Ex. 4. 12, 15. I Mai. 3. 12. Ex. 5. 3. d 2 Chr. 6. 28 Psa. 78. 46; 105. 34 Isa. 33. 4 Jer. 51. 14, 27. /Zech. 14. 12. Deut. 5. 16. i vers. 43, 44,48 Ex. 3. 13-15. > vers. 44, 48 Deut. 7. 6-8. J Mai. 3. la. k Neh. I. 6 Psa. 106. 6 Dan. 9. 5. I Dan. 6. 10. "' Psa. 32. I. " Gen. 3. 5. ' Separation. Ezra 6. 21. (Gen. 12. 1; 2 Cor. 6. 14- 17-) that the stranger calleth to thee for : that all peoples 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 them- selves 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, who led them away captive, and pray unto thee -^toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fa- thers, 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, that 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 peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest 356 8 54] I KINGS [99 our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God. 54 And it was so, that when Solo- mon 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, where- with I have made supplication be- fore 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 peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. 61 Let your heart therefore be per- fect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his com- mandments, 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 ^dedi- cated 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 ^'meal 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 meal offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a CHAP. 8 P 2 Chr. 6. 13. ? Ex. 12. 25. "".Ex. 12. 25. • Deut. 4. 7. ' Num. 7. 10. " Gen. 2. 3. '' Ex. 29. 41. "Ex. 25. 3. ^ Num. 13.21. CHAP. 9 " vers. I, 2, 10- 12, 15-17, 19, 21-23, 25-28 I Chr. 22. 9. * Josh. 9, 3. '- vers. 3, 7 Gen. 2. 3. d Ex. 35. 9. vers. 3, 7 Ex. 3. 13-15. / Gen. 3. s. 9 vers. 4, 5, 34 Acts 13. 2a. A Ex. la. 35. » Deut s- x6, / Deut. 28. 37. * Deut. 28. 37. I Mai. 3. 12. great congregation, from the enter- ing 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 joy- ful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done unto David his servant, and unto Israel his people. CHAPTER 9. AND it came to pass, when ^Solo- • mon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's de- sire which he was pleased to do, 2 That the LORD appeared to So- lomon 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 sup- plication, that thou hast made be- fore me: I have '^hallowed this ^ house, v/hich 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 upright- ness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judg- ments: 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 command- ments 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 2 land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hal- lowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight ; and Israel shall be a /proverb and a ^'byword among all peoples: 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, 357 9 ^^] I KINGS [10 6 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 cha- riots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in ^Leba- non, and in all the land of his * dominion. 30 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 idestroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond- service unto this day. 22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his CHAP. 9 "■ vers. 9, 16 Ex. 12. 13. " a Sam. 5. ii- P Josh. 20. 7. 1 Ex. 25. 39, •■ vers. IS, 24 2 Sam. 5. 9. ' Mt. 23. 37. t Josh. 15. 23. " Josh. 12. 21. '' Josh. 10. 33. '" vers. 16, 24 1 Ki. 3. I. ■^ Deut. 20. 17. V Josh. 10. 10. ' Josh. 19. 44. " Psa. 72. 16. b Psa. 8. 6. ' Gen. 15. 16. d Gen. 15. 20. ' Ex. 3. 8. /zChr. 3. I. f Gen. 8. ao. A vers. 26, 27 I Ki. 10. II, aa. » Num. 33. 35. / 2 Ki. 16. 6. fc Ex. 13. 18. I Mai. 3. 12. '» Mai. I. 4- " a Sam. 5. 11. " X Ki. 10. 11; aa. 48 I Chr. 29. 4' a Chr. 8. 18; Q. ID Job 22. 24; 28. x6 Psa. 45. 9 Isa. 13. 12. P Ex. 25. 39. I Hob. deuote. "■ vers. I, 4, 10, 2 Chr. 9. I-I3' Esth. I. q; 5. 2 Isa. 49. 23 Mt. 12. 42 Lk. n. 31. * Psa. 73. 10, IS Isa. 60. 6 Jer. 6. 20 Ezk. 27. aa; 38. 13- • vers. 1-4, 10, 13, 14, 16, 21, 23, 24, 36, 28 I Chr. 22. 9. d Ex. 20. 30. « Mt. 33. 37. / Ex. 25. 6. 9 ver. I. ft vers. I, 4, 10, *3- » X Cor. 1. 24. / Ex. 24. 13. servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 23 These were the chief of the offi- cers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who 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 be- fore the Lord. So he finished the house. 26 And king Solomon made a -^^navy of ships in ^Ezion-geber, which is besides Eloth, on the shore of the ^Red Sea, in the ^iand of ^^^Edom. 27 And '^Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the ser- vants of Solomon. 28 And they came to ^Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hun- dred and twenty /talents, and brought it to king Solomon. CHAPTER 10. 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 com- muned 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 358 10 7] I KINGS [10 29 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 ex- ceedeth the fame which I heard. 8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, who stand con- tinually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. 9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord '^^loved Israel for ever, there- fore made he thee king, to do judg- ment and justice. 10 And she gave the king an hun- dred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and pre- cious 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 oi the almug trees /pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, Sharps 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, what- soever she asked, beside ^/zaf 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 mer- chantmen, and of the traffic 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 0/ beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three himdred shields 0/ 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 CHAP. 10 ft Isa. S3. X. I Gen. 3. 5. "■ John 3. 16. "1 Ki. 9. 2<5. ° I Ki. 9. 28. P Gen. 28. 18. « Gen. 4. 31. •■ I Chr. 16. 9. ' a Chr. 9. 14. ' Psa. 72. 16. " Rev. 21. 13, " I Ki. 22 Psa. 48 Isa. 23. 60. 9 Ezk. 27 .48 7 m; 25- '" I Ki. 9 26. " 2 Sam. 5.11. V Zech. 3. 3. Mt. 33. 37. » vers. 28, 29 Ex. 12. 13. ' Gen. 15. 20. d Mt. 4. 24. 1 or, and the king's mer- chants re- ceiued them in drouas, each drove at a price. 359 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 king- dom. 21 And all king Solomon's drink- ing vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were 0/ silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 22 For the king had at sea a navy of ^'Tarshish with the ^navy of '^Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tarshish, bring- ing 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 Anjd 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 cha- riots, and twelve thousand horse- men, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at ^Jerusalem. 27 And the king made silver to 6e in Jerusalem as stones, and ce- dars made he to be as the syca- more trees that are in the vale, for abundance. 28 And Solomon had horses brought out of '^Egypt, land linen yarn: the king's merchants re- ceived the linen yam at a price. 29 And a chariot-team 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 ^Sjrria, did they bring them out by their means. Ill] I KINGS [II 25 CHAPTER 11. BUT king ^Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of '^Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, ^Ammonites, ^Edom- ites, '^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 hun- dred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solo- mon 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 vers. 1-8 a Chr. 13. 21 And ^Rehoboam the son of ^So- lomon reigned in ^Judah. Reho- boam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in "Jeru- salem, the city which the Lord did ^choose out of all the tribes of Is- rael, 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 simages, and igroves, 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 na- tions which the Lord cast out be- fore the children of Israel. 25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam., that ^Shi- shak king of "^Egyptcameup against Jerusalem : 26 And he took away the trea- sures 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 captains of the guard, who 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 Re- hoboam, 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. NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of ^Ne- bat reigned <^ Abijam over Judah. 365 15 2] I KINGS [1527 2 Three years reigned he in '^Jeru- salem. And his mother's name was Maachah,the daughter ofAbishalom. 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^Uriahthe'^^Hittite. 6 And there was war between ^Re- hoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. 7 Now the rest of the acts of Abi- jam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chro- nicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8 And Abijam slept with his fa- thers; and they buried him in the city of David: and J 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 ^sodom- ites 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 lan idol in a2grove; 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 dedi- cated, 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. CHAP. IS "^ Mt. 23. 37. d vers. 3-5, 8, II, 24 Acts 13. 22. ' Gen. 15. 17. /Gen. 3. s. if called also Urijah 2 Sam. II. 3. 15; 12. 9, 15. h Gen. 15. 20. i 2 Chr. 9. 31. J vers. 9-24 a Chr. 14. I- 15; 15. 1-18; 16. Mt! 1. 7, 8. ^ vers. 8-25, 28, 32. 33- ' Deut. 23. 17. ™ Mai. 3. 12. " ver. 10 2 Chr. 15. 16. * I Ki. 10. I. P John 18. 1. ? Num. 7. 10. "■ vers. 17-21, 27-29, 32-34 1 Ki. 16. 1-6 2 Chr. 16. 1-6. ' vers. 16,17,19, 21, 22, 27, 28, 32. 33- < vers. 17, 21, 22 Josh. 18. 25. " ver. 20. " Mt. 4. 24. '" Acts 9. 3. ^ Josh. 9. 6. 'J ver. 18. ' 2 Ki. 15. 29 2 Chr. 16. 4. " Josh. 19. 47. i a Ki. 15. 29. ' Num. 34. II. '' Mai. 3. la. ' Isa. 9. I. /vers. 21, 33 Song 6. 4. S I Ki. 12. 17. h Josh. 21. 17. « Num. 1.37. / Josh. 18. 26. i Isa. 46. 4. 1 1 Ki. 22. 5. '" I Ki. II. 31. " Num. 2. 5. " Josh. 19. 44. 1 or, a scan- dalous image. 2 Heb. Ashe- rah. 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 trea- sures 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 J'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 procla- mation 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 jMiz- pah. 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 ? But 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 Oehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead. 25 And Nadab the son of ''^^ Jero- boam 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 15 28] I KINGS [l6 18 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 de- stroyed him, according unto the say- ing 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 where- with 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 chro- nicles 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 Ahi- jah 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 la 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 pos- terity 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 Baa- sha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 6 And Baasha slept with his fa- thers, and was buried in /Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. 7 And also by the hand of the pro- phet Jehu the son of .^Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baa- CHAP. IS P Amos I. 8. ' Zech. 12. 2. Josh. 18. I. ' vers. 7, 12 2 Chr. 19. 2; 20. 34. 6 ver. 7 2 Chr. 19. 2; 20.34- *•■ vers. I, 3-8, 11-13 I Ki. 15. 16. d vers. 3, 26, 31 I Ki. II. a6. * Deut. 23. 1-8. /vers. 6, 8, 9, y, 17, 23 Song 6. 4. h vers. 8, 10, 15, Ki, 12. 17, j vers. 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20 2 Ki. 9. 31. Gen. 5, 21. ' vers. 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, i3, 20. ' Josh. 19. 44. Amos I. 8. " vers. 21,23, 28 2 Ki. 8. 26 2 Chr. 22. 2 Mic. 6. 16. ^ vers. 16, 17,21- 23. 25, 27-30. sha, 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 y'Zimri, cap- tain 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, ana 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 a single male, neither of his kins- folks, 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 pro- phet, 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 Is- rael? 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 en- camped heard say, Zimri hath con- spired, 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 Gib- bethon, 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 367 I6 19] I KINGS [17 10 king's house over him with fire, and died, ig 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 -^Sa- maria 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 v/ay 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 showed, are they not written in the book of the chro- nicles 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 Sa- maria 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 J Jezebel CHAP. 16 ' 1 Ki. II. 31. ' vers. 29, 32 1 Ki. 20. I 2 Ki. 17. 5, 6; 18. 0, 10 Isa. 9. 9 Acts 8. s, 14. ' Ex. 25. 39. " Gen. 3. 5. " vers. 24, 28, 29, 32. "' vers. 29-33 1 Ki. 17. i; 18. 1-20, 41-46; 19. i; 20. 1-43; 21. 1-29; 22. 1-40 iChr. 18. 1-34. '^ vers. 28, 29- 33- y 1 Ki. 19. a. ' Jud. 10. 6. "■ vers. 31, 3a I Ki. 18. 21. 6 Gen. 8. 20. « Gen. 12. 8. d Num. 14. 6; 27. 18. * Ex. 33. II. 1 Heb. Ashe- rah. 2 or, with the loss of. CHAP. 17 " see also Elias ver. 22 1 Ki. 18. 21, 36. 40 2 Ki. I. 8, 10; 2. 8, II, 14, 15 Mai. 4. 5. b I Ki. 21. 17,28 2 Ki. 1. 3, 8; 9.36. ' Gen. 37. 25. d I Ki. 16. 28. * vers. I, 7, 14 Gen. 2. 5. /Gen. 8. 7. y 2 Sam. 5. 2. >' Josh. 3. 17. < Mai. 3. 13. »■ ver. 10. 't Jud. 10. 6. ' ver. 9. 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 igrove; 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 foun- dation thereof ^in Abiram his first- born, and set up the gates thereof 2in his youngest son Segub, accord- ing to the word of the Lord, which he spake by ^Joshua the son of ^Nun. CHAPTER 17. 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 ac- cording 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 com- manded the /ravens to iffeed thee there. 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD : for he went and dwelt by, the brook Che- rith, 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 helongeth to -^Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have com- manded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to 'Zare- phath. 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. 368 17"] I KINGS [l8 13 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 afterward 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 accord- ing 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 the chamber, 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 Grod, 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 ^re- vived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the cham- ber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said,! See, thy son liveth. CHAP. 17 '■'vers. 1,15, 16, x8, 22-24. " Miracles (O.T.). vers. 14-24; I Ki. i3. 30-38. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I- 10.) " Rom. 3. 23. P Bible prayers (O.T.). I Ki. 18. 36. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) 1 Psa. 85. 6. g CHAP. 18 " vers. I, 2, 7, 6, II, i<>-i7, 21, 22, 25, 2;', 30, 31,36,4642,46 0 vers. 1-20, 41- 46 I Ki. 16. s8. d I Ki. i6. 24. ' vers. 4, 7, 16. } I Ki. 19. 2. ' vers. 3-7, 16. '»2 Sam. 5. 2. • Mai. 3. 12. J Mt. 10. 6. ft Gen. 24. 8. » Eccl. ri. 9. I or, here, my. 369 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. AND it came to pass after many - days, that the word of the Lord came to ^Elijah in the third year, saying. Go, show thy self unto '^Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore ^famine in ^Samaria. 3 And Ahab called ^Obadiah, who 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 through 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 Jlose not all the beasts. 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Oba- diah went another way by himself. 7 And as Obadiah w^as in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou ithat my lord Elijah? 8 And he answered him, lam; go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. 9 And he said. What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy ser- vant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? 10 As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whi- ther my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not thei'e; he took an ^oath of the king- dom and nation, that they foimd thee not. 11 And now thou say est. 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 I8 14] I KINGS [l8 37 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 show 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 for- saken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed s^^^Baalim. 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount ''Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hun- dred and fifty, and the prophets of the 3groves four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table. 20 So Ahab sent unto all the chil- dren of Israel, and gathered the pro- phets 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 peo- ple, I, even I only, am left 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 1 will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under : 24 And call ye on the name of your god, 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 pro- phets of Baal, Choose you one bul- lock 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 "* vers. i8, 19, 31, 22, 25, 26, 40. " vers. 20, 4a 1 Sam. 15. la 2 Ki. 4. 25 2 Chr. 26. 10 Song 7. 5 Isa. 35. 2 Jer, 50. 19 Amos 9. 3. '' vers. 17-40 Num. 22. 41 Jud. 2. 11-13; 6. 25-32 I Ki. 19. 18 a Ki. 10. 18-28 II. 17, r8; 23. Jer. 19. 1-0 Hos. 13. 1, z Rom. II. 4. « Ex. 39. I. *■ Gen. 21. 9. ' Rev. 21. 12,14. f Bible prayers (O.T.). iKi. 19. 4. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) ' Gen. 17. 19. 3 Heb. Ashe- rah. 4 or, oblation. 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 about 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 meditating, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or perad- venture he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their custom with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And it came to pass, when mid- day was past, and they prophesied until the tijne 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 meas- ures 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 sec- ond 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 ^sacri- fice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and ^said, O 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 18 38] I KINGS [19 14 this people may know that thou, Lord, art 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 God; the Lord, he is 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 J 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 ^nees, 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. 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 CHAP. 18 "' Miracles (O.T.). vers. 30-38; 2 Ki. I. 10- la. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. a. I-IO.) ' Jud. 5. 21 Psa. 83. 9. ^ vers. 41, 44,45 '"Gen. a. 5. 3 Chr. 6. 13. " Psa. 78. 14. CHAP, ig I Ki. 16. 38. - vers. 1, 2, Q, 13, 19-21 I Ki. 17. I. d I Ki. 21. 5, 7, 15. 23, 25 2 Ki. 9. 30, 36 Rev. 2. 20. * Gen. 21. 33. / I Ki. 12. 17. 9 Bible prayers (O.T.). 2Ki. 6. 17. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) * Ex. 3. I. Ex. 20. 5. I Heb. the sound of a soft whisper. ■^Beer-sheba, which helongeth to yjudah, 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 < Psa. 27. 5. ' vers. 13, 28 Ex. 3. 14. ing 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 ser- vants; and it shall be, that what- soever is pleasant in thine .?eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and / take it away. v/ 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 Sa- maria 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 armonr 7 boast him- self 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 pro- phet unto Ahab king of Israel, say- ing. 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, 373 20 l6] I KINGS [20 36 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. i6 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking him- self '^Mrunk 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 cha- riots, 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 room: 25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast /lost, horse for horse, and chariot for cha- riot : and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he heark- ened 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 Ajid the children of Israel were numbered, and were all provisioned, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before CHAP, ao ' Gen. 9. ax. • vers, ao, ai, a6-aQ Lk. 4. a?. ? vers. 26, 30 Josh. la. 18. Gen. I Ki. 15 20. ' Acts 3. 21. Acts 9. 3. ' Parables (O.T.). vers. 35-40; iKi.33. 19-23- (Jud- 9- 7-15; Zech. II. 7-X4.) them like two little flocks of kids ; but the Syrians filled the country. 38 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said. Thus saith the Lord, Be- cause 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 multi- tude 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 chil- dren 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 the 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, we pray thee, put 'sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perad- venture 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 Is- rael, and said, Thy servant Ben- hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, 7s 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, 1 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 com- panion by the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him. 36 Then said he unto him, Because 373 20 37] I KINGS [21 15 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 hashes 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 2ashes 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 the man whom I sappointed 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. AND it came to pass after these - things, that ^Naboth the Jez- reelite had a vineyard, which was in '^Jezreel, hard by the palace of -^Ahab king of ^Samaria. 3 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. CHAP, ao ' Ex. 35. 39. Deut. 7. 33. X or, a cover over his eyes. a or, cover from his eyes. 3 or, devoted. CHAP, ax ■ vers. 7, 12,14, 18 a Ki. 9. 31. » ver. 23 2 Sam. a. 9; 4. 4 X Ki. 18. 46 2 Ki. 8. ag; 9. x6, 30, 36; 10. 7. ' vers. 1-4, 6-5, 12-16, 18, 19. / Gen. a, 8. ' Gen. 17. X2«. f> Prov. ao. 37. » Eph. I. 13. J Ex. a4. XI. * Isa. 58. 6. ' vers. 10, 13 2 Cor. 6. 15. ' I Ki. 19. a. X Ki. ig. 2. " vers. I, 4, o, 7, x6 2 Ki. 9. 21, 2; P Gen. X7. la. 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 vine- yard for money ; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vine- yard 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 Na-= both the Jezreelite. 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and 'sealed themwith hisseai, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the 7 nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the letters, say- ing, Proclaima ^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 wit- nessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the peo- ple, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they car- ried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. 14 Then they sent to "Jezebel, say- ing, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15 And it came to pass, when Jeze- bel 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. 374 21 i6] I KINGS [22 12 i6 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 Na- both, 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 posses- sion? 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 poste- rity, and will cut off from Ahab every male, and him that is guarded and fortified 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 provoca- tion 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, who 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 chil- dren 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 J'hum- bleth himself before me? because CHAP. 2x '1 vers. 17, 20, 28 1 Ki. 17. I. '■ vers. 17, 28 I Ki. 17. I. » I Ki. 16. 24. ' Deut. 23. 18. " I Ki. II. 31. '• I Ki. II. 26. "' Gen. 15. i6. ^ Gen. 37. 34. 'J Prov. 16. 10. CHAP. 22 " vers. I, 3, 31 Mt. 4. 24. i b ver. 5. I •■ I Ki. 12. 17. I '' vers. 3, 4, 6, I 12, 15, 20, 23 Deut. 4. 43. ^ Gen. 37. 25. /vers. 4, 7, 33, 48 2 Ki. 3. 14 2 Chr. 17. 3, 10; 19. z, 4; 20. 3, 18, 30. S ver. 5. h 2 Chr. i8. t ver. 9 2 Chr. 18. 7. r vers. 8, 9, 13- 15, 24-26, 28. '" Gen ^• =■ " vers. 10 16. 37 24. " ver. 24. P ver. 2? 2 Chr. 18. 10 23- ?Dan 7- 24. '■ vers. Lk.4 IX 27 35 he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: 6u^ in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. CHAPTER 22. 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 ^Ra- moth in ^Gilead is ours, and we 6e 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, Inquire, 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, j Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead i 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 be- sides, that we might inquire of him ? 8 And the king of Israel said unto i'^Jehoshaphat, There /s yet one man, /-^Micaiah the son of ' Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD : but I hate him ; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said. Hasten hither jMi- caiah the son of ^Iralah. 10 And the king of Israel and Jeho- shaphat the king of ^Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in an '^'open place in the en- trance of the gate of ^'Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. ■ 11 And ^Zedekiah the son of /Che- naanah made him i'homs 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, 375 22 13] I KINGS [22 36 and prosper: for the LORD shall de- liver 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 %djure 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 no ^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 concern- ing me, but evil? 19 And he said, ''^Hear thou there- fore the word of the Lord : I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and ail 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 Che- naanah went near, and smote Mi- caiah on the cheek, and said, Which CHAP. 23 Josh. 6. 36. * Psa. 23. I. " Parables (O.T.). vers. ig-23; 2 Ki. 14. 9. (Jud. q. 7- 15; Zech. n. 7-I4-) ' vers. 20-22 2 Chr. 18. a Rom. 4. ai; 14-5 Gal. s. 8. ' vers. 20, 39- 41, 49. 51 r Ki. 16. 28. Chr. 18. 25. Gen. 39. ao. 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 Jjoash 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 Jeho- shaphat 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 him- self, and went into the battle. 31 Now the king of Syria com- manded 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 Jeho- shaphat, 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 pursu- ing him. 34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the armour : wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot. Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host ; for I am sore 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 hollow of the chariot. 36 And there went a proclama- tion throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country. 376 22 yj] I KINGS [22 53 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. 38 And they washed the chariot by 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 chro- nicles 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 AjQd Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, CHAP. 22 ' Deut. 23. 18. » vers. 49, SI-S3 a Ki. I. 2-18; 8. 24-29; 9. 16- 29 2Chr. 20. 35- 37; 22. 1-9. ' ver. 5. ti vers. 41, 43, 46 I Ki. IS. 8. ' I Ki. 12. 17. / Mt. 23. 37. ' 2 Chr. 20. 31. h Gen. 3. 5. » Deut. 23. 17. J Mai. 3. 12. /' Mai. I. 4. ' I Ki. 10. 22. '" I Ki. 9. 38. " Num. 33. 35. " ver. 40. P Acts 13. 22. i I Ki. II. 31. >■ I Ki. II. 26. * Rom. 3. 23. ' I Ki. 18. ax. are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 46 And the remnant of the ^'sodom- ites, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he put out of the ./ land. 47 There was then no king in •^'Edom: a deputy was king. 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of ^Tarshish 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 ^^ebat, who made Israel to -^sin: 53 For he served ^Baal, and wor- shipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. 377 THE I I] SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS [2 ^ CHAPTER 1. THEN Moab rebelled against Is- rael 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, inquire 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 because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron ? 4 Now therefore thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on v/hich 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 because there is not a God in Is- rael, that thou sendest to inquire 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 Tish- bite. 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 6e a man of God, then let fire come down from ./heaven, and ^consume thee ''^°**' '* ''• and thy fifty. And there came i 378 CHAP. I " I Ki. 16. 28. * vers. 2-18 I Ki. 33. 40. <■ I Ki. i6. 24. d of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Eli- sha went over. 15 And when the sons of the pro- phets who 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, Be- hold now, there be with thy ser- vants 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 foimd 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 wa- ters ; 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 v/as going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and ^mocked him, and said unto him. 2 24] II KINGS [323 Go up, thou ^bald head; go up, thou bald head. 34 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 lads of them. 25 And he went from thence to mount ^'Carmel, and from thence he returned to ^'Samaria. CHAPTER 3. 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, wherewith he 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 num- bered all Israel. 7 And he went and sent to Jeho- shaphat 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 made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the cattle that followed them. 10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to de- liver them into the hand of Moab I 11 But Jehoshaphat said, 7s there CHAP, a Lev. ai. s. ' I Ki. i8. 19. ' I Ki. 16. 34. CHAP. 3 ' 2 Ki. I. 17. " vers. 1, 6 I Ki. 16. 24. d 1 Ki. 22. 5. * I Ki. 13. 17. ft Ki. i8. 21. ^ Rom. 3. 23. '' I Ki. n. 3x. ' I Ki. H. 26. .' Gen. 15. 9. A Lev. 13. 47. t vers. 8, 9, x2, 20, 26 Mai. I. 4. "' vers. II, 13, aVi. 2. 15. " I Ki. 22. s. " Jud. 10. 14. Pi Ki. 18. 19. 1 X Ki. 17. 1 a Ki. s. 16. *■ X Ki. 12. 17. ' I Sam. 10. 5. ' Ezk. I. 3; 3- 14, 22} 8. I. " Gen. 18. 10, 14. " John 4. 14. '" Ex. 29. 41. * Miracles 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. Where- fore 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 II KINGS [5 CHAP. 4 I Ki. 18. 19. Gen. 3. 5. I Resurrection. vers. 32-35; Psa. 16. 9-11. (Job 19. 25; I Cor. 15. 52.) Josh. 4. ig. Mai. 3. 12. Lev. 23. 10. CHAP. 5 ^ vers. 9, II, 17 Lk. 4. 27. •> vers. I, S Mt. 4. 24. 382 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 Ajpened 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 ivas a dearth in the ''land ; and the sons of the pro- phets were sitting before him : and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil 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 fresh ears of corn in scrip. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. 43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hun- dred 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, ac- cording to the word of the LORD. CHAPTER 5. NOW ^Naaman, captain of the host of the king of '''Syria, was a great man with his master, and II KINGS [5 21 honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, hut he was a 'leper. 2 And the ^Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Is- rael a little maid; and she waited on '^'Naaraan's wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in y 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, be- hold, I have therewith sent Naa- man 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 1 strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. CHAP. 5 Ex. 4. 6. <* vers. 3, 20 Lk. 4. 27. ' vers. I, 2, 6, 9, II, 17, 20, 21, 23. 27- / I Ki. 16. 24. '1 Mai. 3. 12. « Ex. 25. 39. Ex. 3S. 27. ^ vers. 8-10,20, 25 2 KL 2. 15. I Josh. 3. 17. vers. 10, 12- Gen. 7. 2. Acts 9. 3. P Miracles (O.T.). vers, lo-ii, 27;2Ki. 6. 5-7. (Gen. 5. 24;. Jon. 2. i-io.) 1 Ex. 33. 21. "■ 2 Ki. 4. 12. 2 or, present. 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 2 blessing of thy servant. 16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I ! will receive none. And he urged I him to take it; but he refused. 17 And Naaman said, Shall there I not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will hence- forth 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 Rimm.on: when I bow down myself in the house of Rim- mon, 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 ot Elisha the man of God, said, Be- hold, my master hath spared Naa- man 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 Naa- man. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well ? 333 5^2] II KINGS [6 19 22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Be- hold, 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 ^gar- ments. 23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of sil- ver 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 be- fore his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, 2^Gehazi? And he said, Thy ser- vant went no whither, 26 Ajid 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 re- ceive ^'money, and to receive gar- ments, and ^'^oliveyards, and vine- yards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? 27 The -^leprosy therefore of Naa- man shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as J' white as snow. CHAPTER 6. 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 ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, mas- ter! for it was borrowed. 6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed 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 CHAP, s ' Ex. 25. 39. ' Zech. 3. 3. " a Ki. 4. la. ^ Gen. 17. la. *" Zech. 4. II. « Ex. 4. 6. V Isa. X. 18. 3 Heb. Ophel. " vers. 1, 12,17- a Ki. 2. ig. * Josh. 3. 17. ' Miracles (O.T.). vers. 5-7,18-ao; 2 Ki. 13. 21. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. i-io.) ?^ Jezebel. 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off" from Ahab every male, and the guarded and fortified 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 he none to bury her. And he opened the door, and ^ed. 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. CHAP. 9 ' a Ki. ». IS. 8 vers. I, 4, 14 Deut. 4. 43. " ver. 14. d Gen. 13. 8. ' I Ki. 19. 16. / vers. 7-9, 25, 29 I Ki. 16. 28. 9 I Ki. 19. a. h I Ki. II. 31, i I Ki. II. 26. i I Ki. 15. 16. ft Deut. 23. 18. ' Zech. 3. 3. '" Ex. 19. 13-16. " I Ki. 19. 16. " 2 Ki. 8. 28. P I Ki. 19. 15. * vers. 14, IS Mt. 4. 24. Lk. 4. 27. vers. 16-29 2 Ki. 8. 24. Ki. 12. 17. vers. 21, 25,26 lKi.2I. I. I Ki. 19. 2. Ex. 7. II. 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 Ra- moth-gilead, he and all Israel, be- cause 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 // 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 horse- man, and send to meet them, and let him say. Is it peace? 18 So there went one on horse- back to meet him, and said. Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, V/hat 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, who 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, say- ing. 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 Aha- ziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in the portion of ^'Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 And it came to pass, when Jo- ram saw Jehu, that he said, 7s it peace, Jehu? And he answered. What peace, so long as the "^whore- doms of thy mother -^Jezebel and her ^witchcrafts are so many? 23 And Joram turned his hands. 388 9 24] 11 KINGS [10 10 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 ilaid 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 vnW 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 fol- lowed 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 ^Me- giddo, and died there. 28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to '^Jerusalem, and bur- ied 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 Aha- ziah 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 to 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 CHAP. 9 ' Josh. 17. IX. Josh. 13. 21. » Mt. 23. 37. Acts 13. 22. <* I Ki. 16. 9. I Ki. 17. X. /i Ki. 17. X. Deut. 23. 18. Ki. 19. 2. < I Ki. i I or, pro- nounced this decree against him. " vers. 1, 10, II, * vers. 1, 12, 17, 3S>36 1 Ki. 16. 24. d I Ki. 19. 16. Gen. 3. s. by his servant ^Elijah the/Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall Num. 21. 13. ' Num. ai. 33. * vers. I, 2 2 Ki. 8. 24. (2 2 Ki. 12. 20 a Chr. 24. 2, 4, 22, 24. ' vers. 1-3, 13, 14, 20. / Mai. 3. 12. I' Gen. 24. 8. ft Deut. I. 41. * ver. 17. J Acts 13. 22. * Ezk. 21. 26. I Gen. 28. 18. vers. 4, IS 2 Ki. 12. 9 2 Chr. 23. 1, 11; 24. 2, 12, 14, 22. " Gen. II. 3. * a Chr. 33. 17. P X Ki. 18. ai. ^^ weapons in his hand: and he that Cometh within the ranks, 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 hun- dreds 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 sab- bath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. 10 And to the captains over him- dreds did the priest give king /Da- vid'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 tem- ple of the Lord. 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a ^pillar, as the cus- tom was, and the captains 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 com- manded the captains of the hun- dreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them. Have her forth without the ranks: 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 to 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 391 II 19] 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 ca.me 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 '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. IN the seventh year of ^Jehu ^Je- hoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in ^Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of ^Beer-sheba. 2 And Num. 7. 10. < vers. 9-16 2 Chr. 24. 4-16 Ezra 9. 9 Neh. 2. 3, 8, 17, 18 Isa. 58. 12; 60. 10 Judes Rev. 3. a; 21. 1-27. J John 10. 9. A 2 Sam. 8. 17. I Heb. 3. 1. " ver. s. " 2 Tim. a. ij. 0 Rom. 3. 23. P L Ki. 19. 15. 1 vers. 17, Mt. 4. 24. ^ Josh. II. 2a. • I Ki. 12. 17. « Gen. a. 3. " 1 Ki. 22. 5. " a Chr. 21. 4. «'2Ki. 8. 34. ' 1 Ki. 19. ig. pie, 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 7door put there- in 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 over- sight of the house of the Lord : and they paid 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 ail 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, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of sil- ver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord : 14 But they gave that to the "work- men, 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 faith- fully. 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 !7Syria 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 392 12 20] II KINGS [13 21 ^Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chro- nicles 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 Shime- ath, and Jehozabad the son of Sho- mer, 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. IN the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of ^Ahaziah king of ^ Judah Jehoahaz the sonof ^Jehu began to reign over Israel in ^Sa- maria, and rez^ned seventeen years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and fol- lowed the ^ sins of /Jeroboam the son of i'Nebat, who induced Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he de- livered 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 yjehoahaz 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 Je- roboam, who induced Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there re- mained the igrove also in Samaria.) 7 Neither did he leave of the peo- ple to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten cha.riots, 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 Jeho- ahaz, 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 CHAP. 12 y a Ki. II. 2. ' 3 Sam. 5. 9. ° Acts 13. 22. b 2 Ki. 14. I. CHAP. 13 » 2 Ki. 8. 24. o I Ki. 12. 17. ' I Ki. 19. i6. d vers. I, 6, 9, 10, 13 z Ki. z6. 24. ' vers. 2, 6, II Rom. 3. 23. /i Ki. XI. 31. 3 vers. 2, II 1 Ki. II. 26. h vers. 3, 4, 7, 17, 19, 22, 34 Mt. 4. 24. » vers. 24, 25 Amos I. 4. J vers. I, 7-9, 22 2 Ki. 10. 35 3 Chr. 25. 17. t vers. 5, 17 Lk. 4. 27. I ver. 4. "* 2 Ki. 14. I. " ver. 14. " vers. 14-17, so, 21 z Ki. a. 1$. f vers. 9, 12, 13, 25 s Chr. 25. 18 Hos. I. I. ? Josli. 12. 18. •■ Mai. 3. 12. • Gen. 23. 6. I Heb. Aahe. rah. of Joash king of Judah began Jeho- ash the son of O^hoahaz 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 depart- ed not from all the sins of Jero- boam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin : but he v/alked 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 chro- nicles of the kings of Israel ? 13 And ^^ Joash slept with his fa- thers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was bturied 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 horse- men 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 shouidest 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 ^sepul- chre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones 393 CHAP T-, ' Miracles (O.T.). 2Ki. 19. 35. (Gen. 5. 24; Jon. 2. I-IO.) " I Ki. 19. 15. " Gen. 12. I. '" Gen. 17. 19. '^ Gen. 32. =8. y vers. 3, 24, 25. ' ver. 10 2 Ki. 14. 9, 13. CHAP. 14 " a Ki. 13. 14. i vers. 2, 8, 23 2 Chr. 25. I- '^ 2 Ki. 13. 14. (I I Ki. 12. 17. ' Mt. 23. 37. /vers. 3, 20 Acts 13. 22. ^ Num. 35. i6. fc Ex. 3. 4. J Lev. 2. 13. * Isa. 16. 1. I vers. I, 8-23. "» a Ki. 13. 25. " I Ki. 19. i5. " Parables (O.T.). 2Chr. 25. 18. (Jud. 9. 7-15; Zech. II. 7-14.) P Psa. 72. 16. 5 Num. 14. 21. *■ vers. II, 13 Jud. I. 33. ' 2 Ki. 12. 2. I I Ki. la. 17. » 2 Ki. 8. 24. " Mt. 23. 37- "' Eph. 2. 20. * vers. 14, 16, 23 I Ki. 16. 24. V 2 Ki. 13. 25. * ver. 28. "2 Ki. II. a. » 2 Ki. 13. 4. ' Josh. 10. 32. 13 22] II KINGS of Elisha, he ^revived, and stood up on his feet. I 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 ^Abra- ham, ^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 J'Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead. 25 And ^Jehoash the son of Je- hoahaz 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. 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 ac- cording 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 slev^ his servants who had slain the king his father. 6 But the children of the ^David : and -^^ Jotham his son reigned in his stead. 8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Za- chariah 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 fa- thers had done: he departed not from the ^sins of Jeroboam the son of ^'^Nebat, who induced Israel to sin. 10 And "Shallum the son of ^Ja- besh 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 Za- chariah, behold, they ai-e 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 be- gan 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 sonof^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 Tiph- sah, and all that were therein, and 395 15^7] n KINGS [I6 the territory 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 induced Israel to sin. 19 And ^'Pul the king of -^Assyria came against theJf'land : and Mena- hem 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 ^mo- ney 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 depart- ed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin. 25 But ^Pekah the son of ^'Rema- liah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Sa- maria, 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 Pe- kahiah, 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. CHAP. IS " ver. 14. ■^ I Chr. 5. s6. ^ vers. 19, 20,29 Gen. 2. 14. y Mai. 3. 12, ' Ex. 25. 39. " Gen. 17. la. 6 Gen. 23. jg. " vers, as, 27, 29-321 37- i vers. 27, 30, 32. 37 2 Ki. 16. I 3 Chr. 28. 6. ' vers. 25, 27, 30, 32, 37- } 2 Ki. 16. 7, 10 I Chr.g. 6, 26. 3 I Ki. IS. 20. A Josh. 2o. 7. i Josh. XI. I. / Gen. 37. 25. fc Josh. 20. 7. 1 Mai. 3. 12. "^ Isa. 9. 1. " a Ki. x^. I, 3, 4,6. * vers. 13, 30, 32,34- P 1 Ki. 12. 17. 2 Mt. 23. 37. *■ a Chr. 27. 1. » 2 Chr. 27. 6. '2 Ki. 16.5,6,9. " Mt. 4. 24. ' vers. I, 5 a Ki. IS- 27. a Ki. 15. 25. 396 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD : he depart- ed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin. 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came/Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Amos : * Gen. 10. 19 Acts 8. 26. t2Ki. 17.3. "- vers. 9, 10, 34 I Ki. 16. 24. " Zech. 12. 2. I or, pillars. 2 Heb. Ashe- rah. 3 that is, I piece 0/ brass. 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 custom. 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. 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 Za- chariah. 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 limages, and cut down the 2groves, and brake in pieces the /brasen i'serpent that -^^Moses had made: for unto those days the chil- dren of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it sNehushtan. 5 He trusted in the LORD, God of Israel ; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Ju- dah, 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 ^Shal- maneser king of Assyria came up against '^^Samaria, and '^besieged it. 399 i8 10] 11 KINGS [l8 31 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 ^"^La- chish, saying, I have offended; re- turn from me: that which thou put- test on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hun- dred ^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 oif tJie 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 the ^Tartan and the Rabsaris and the ^Rab-shakeh 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, who was over the household, and/Sheb- na the ,?^scribe, and ^^ Joah the son of ^Asaph the recorder. 19 And ^/ze/Rab-shakeh 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,) / have counsel and ' Times of the Gentiles. (Lk. 21. 24; Rev. 16. 14.) P 2 Ki. 17. 6. 1 2 Ki. 17. 6. '■2Ki. 17.6, « 2 Ki. 17. 6. « a Chr, 32. 1, " Josh. 10. 32. " Ex. 25. 39. ■^ 2 Ki. 16. 20. "^ Gen. z8. 18. y 1 Ki. 12. 17. ' Isa. 20. 1. "vers. 19,26-28 2 Ki. 19. 4, 8. * Josh. 10. 32. ' Mt. 23. 37. * vers. 26, 37 2 Ki. 19. 2 Isa. 22. 20. ' vers. 26, 37 Isa. 23. ao; 36-3- /vers. 26, 37 2 Ki. 19. 2. S' 2 Sam. 8. 17. h Isa. 36. 3, II, i vers. 18, 37 2 Chr. 29. 13 Isa. 36. 3, 22. J vers. 17, 19, 26-28, 37. k I Ki. 14. 15. tx. 12. 13. ™ Psa. 22. 16. " 2 Ki. 23. 29 Jer. 25. 19; 37. 5; 43- 9; 46- 2; Ezk. 17. 17; 30. 21; 31. 2; 32. 2. " Gen. 8. 20. P Mai. 3. 12. 'i ver. 18. '■ vers. 18, 26, 37- ' yer. 18. ' Amos 3. 3. 4 Heb. Ara- mean. 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 Eg5'pt 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 Jeru- salem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem ? 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assy- ria, and I will deliver thee two thou- sand 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 the Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the ^Syrian language; for we understand z7.' and talk not with us in the Jews' lan- guage in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 27 But the Rab-shakeh 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 who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own water with you ? 28 Then the Rab-shakeh 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 pres- ent, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine. 400 I8 32] II KINGS [19 IG and every one of his "fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own ^'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 nnto Heze- kiah, 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 ai-e the gods of J'Ha- math, and of -Arpad? where are the gods of ^Sepharvaim, '^Hena, and -^Ivah? have the}^ 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 de- liver ^Jerusalem out of mine hand? 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word : for the king's commandment was, say- ing, Answer him not. 37 Then came Eliakim the son of "^Hilkiah, who was over the house- hold, and Shebna the /scribe, and .^Joah the son of Asaph the re- corder, to /^Hezekiah with their clothes rentj, and told him the words of the Rab-shakeh. CHAPTER 19. AND it came to pass, when king xiL 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, to ^Isaiah the prophet the son of J^moz. 3 And they said unto him. Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and de- rision : 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 off^the Rab- shakeh, 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. CHAP. 18 » Lk. 13. 6. "Jer.a. 13. '" Zech. 4. II. ^ I Ki. 22. 20. y Num. 13.31. ' 2 Ki. iq. 13 Isa. 10. 9; 37. 13- " 2 Ki. 17. 24. t> 2 Ki. 19. 13 Isa. 37. 13, ■^ 2 Ki. 17. 24. d Mt. 23. 37. ' ver. 18. f 2 Sam. 8. 17. 3 ver. i3. h 2 Ki, 16. 20. CHAP. 19 " Psa. 32. 1. h Gen. 37. 34. " 2 Ki. x8. 18. dzKi. 18. 18. ' Isa. I. I. /vers. 2, 20 Isa. I. i. 8 vers. 4, 8 a Ki. 18. 17. A vers. 4, 6, 8, 10, II, 17, 20, 32. 35. 36 Gen. 2. 14. »■ Lev. 24. XI- 16. J Mai. 3. 12. y Josh. 21. 13. I Josh. 10. 32. '« I Ki. 12. 17. « 2 Ki. 17. 6. " Gen. II. 31. P Amos I. 5. 1 2 Ki. 18. 34. "■ 2 Ki. 17. 24. ' 2 Ki. 18. 34. ' 2 Ki. 17. 24. " Bible prayers (O.T.). 2Ki. 20. 3. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) »' Gen. I. I. '^ Gen. 3. 5. *vers. 16,20, 36 2 Chr. 32. I. 1 Heb. devot- ing. 5 So the servants of king Heze« kiah 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 put a spirit within 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 the Rab-shakeh 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 Tir- hakah 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 Heze- kiah 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 de- livered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed; as '^Gozan, and ^Haran, and Rezeph, and the chil- dren of /Eden who were in The- lasar? 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 messen- gers, 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, who dwellest between the cherubim, 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 -^Senna- cherib, who hath sent him to re- proach the living God. 401 19^7] II KINGS [20 3 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their J 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 de- stroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the king- doms of the earth may know that thou, O Lord, alone art God, 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 Assy- ria 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 innermost parts of his territory, and into the forest of his » I Ki. 22. 26 2 Chr. 33. 20- Mt. 1. 10. ' vers. 18-35. Mai. 3. 12. I Ki. 13. 2. I Ki. 12. 17. I Heb. AshO' rah. CHAP, a: « Mt. 33. 37. h 1 Chr. 9. 13; 6. 41; 8. 21 2 Chr. 23. I Ezra 10. 29, 39 Neh. II. 5, 13. ' Acts 13. 33. d vers. 8, xo, X3, 14. 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 gar- den 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 Jeru- salem. And his mother's name was MeshuUemeth, the daughter of Ha- ruz of Jotbah. 30 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 con- spired 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 sepul- chre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER 22. 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 Jedi- dah, 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 eigh- teenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent '^^'Shaphan the son of Aza- 404 22 4] II KINGS [233 Hah, the son of Meshullam, the ^scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 4 Go up to /Hilkiah the i^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 who are 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, be- cause 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 showed 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 Hil- kiah 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, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found : for great is the ^wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the v^ords of this book, to do according unto all that which is .iwritten concerning us. 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahi- kam, 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 CHAP. 23 2 Sam. 8. 17. / vers. 8, X2, 14 2 Ki. 23. 4, 24 1 Clir. 6. 13 2 Chr. 34. 9; fczra 7. I Jer. sg. 3.^ S vers. 4, 8 Heb. 3. I. h John 10. 9. ' Gen. 17. 12. : ver. 4. K vers. 3, 8-10, 12, 14. t vers. 13, 14 2 Chr. 34. 20- Jer. 26. 24; 14; 40. 5, 6. Gen. 36. • ver. 14 2 Chr. 34. 20. ' Mt. 3. 7. " ver. 12. ? a Chr. 34. 22. ' I Ki. 12. 17. Gen. 3. s. I or, enjoined us. CHAP. 23 Mt. 23. 37. ' Gen. 26. 3. 405 dwelt in Jerusalem in the outer quarter;) 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 who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord, God of Israel, As touch' ing the words which thou hast heard ; 19 Because thine heart was ten- der, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heard- \ est what I spake against this place, 1 and against the inhabitants thereof, i that they should become a desola- I tion and a curse, and hast rent thy \ clothes, and wept before me ; I also i have heard thee, saith the LORD. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather j 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. AND the king sent, and they - gathered unto him all the eld- ers 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 peo- ple, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the v»rords of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. 3 And the king stood by a '^pil- lar, 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 -^per- form the words of this covenant that 23 4] II KINGS [2321 were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. 4 And the king commanded ^Hil- kiah 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 vers. 4, 6, 12 John 18. 1. * vers. 4, IS, 17. Gen. 12. 8. ,;■ Mk. 3. 14. ft Psa. 3. 3. ' Deut. 23. 17. "> Ex. 26. 36. " Josh. ai. 17. ' Gen. 21. 33. P vers. 4, 5 1 Ki. iS. ai. 9 Josh. 15. 8. f vers. 10, 13 Lev. 18. 21. I Ki. xa. 17. t Mt. 23. 37. Gen. 6. iz. " I Chr, 22. 9. '" Jud. 2. 13. " Jud. 10. 6. !/ Gen. 19. 38. * I Ki. II. 31. <• 1 Ki. II. 26. * Rom. 3. 23. * Ex. ao. 25. rfvers. 18, 19 a Ki. 17. 24. ' 1 Ki. 13. 2. / Ex. 12. II. 1 Heb. Ashe- rah. a or, pillars. 3 Heb. Ashe- rim , 406 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 ^^cor- ruption, which ^Solomon the king of Israel had builded for the ^' Ash- toreth the abomination of the -^Zido- nians, and for Chemosh the abomi- nation of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of J' Ammon, did the king defile. 14 And he brake in pieces the 2images, and cut down the sgroves, 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 induced 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 pow- der, and burned the igrove. 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 sepul- chres, and burned them upon the altar, and 'polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who pro- claimed these v.^ords. 17 Then he said, What monument is that which I see ? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who 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 Is- rael 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 /pass- 23 22] II KINGS [24 5 over 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 Jeru- salem. 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 7 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 ail his might, according to ail 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 re- move Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast oif 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 /Eu- phrates: 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 sepul- chre. 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 Je- CHAP. 23 7. II. h Mai »Gen /2Ki, iEx. J I Ki, 3.1a. I. 26. 3. 23. 4. 3- 4- . 13. 3. Ki. 12. 17. " vers. 29, 33- 35 2 Ki. 18. 21. " vers. 39, 34 Ex. 12. 13. P Gen. 3. 14. 1 vers. 29, 30 Josh. 12. az. *■ Mt. 23. 37. ' Mai. 3. la. < 2 Ki. 24. i3 jer. £2. I, " a Ki. 24. 18 Jer. 52. I. ^' vers. 89,33-33 Josh. 21. 13. •^ 3 Ki. 2S. 6, 20, 21. * Num. 13. 21. V Ex. as. 39- * 3 Chr. 36. 4. " vers. 35, 36 2 Ki. 24. 1 2 Chr. 36. 8 Jer. 22. 18, 24; 26. 21, 23; 36. 9, 28, 30. » vers. 30, 31. * Gen. 17. 12. CHAP. 24 " called also Nebuchad- rezzar 1 Chr. 6. IS 2 Chr. 35. 6 Neh. 7. 6 Esth. 2. 6 Ezk. 26. 7; 29. J? Dan. X. i; 2. I, 46; 4. I, 37. * Gen. 15. 7. ' Lk. 4. 27. d Gen. 19. 38. * Gen. 9. 6. / Ex. 23. 21. s 2 Ki. 23. 34 2 Chr. 36. 4. 407 rusalem. And his mother's name vx>as '^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 '^Haniath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred Jtalents of silver, and a talent of gold. 34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made^Eli- akim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed 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 taxa- tion, to give zY unto Pharaoh-nechoh. 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five yeai's old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Je- rusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pe- daiah of Rumah. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, ac- cording to all that his fathers had done. CHAPTER 24. IN his days ^Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoia- kim 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 Jeru- salem with innocent blood ; which the Lord would not /pardon. 5 Now the rest of the acts of .?" Je- hoiakim, and all that he did, are 24 q II KINGS [258 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 Ne- hushta, 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 Baby- lon 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 /Je- rusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none re- mained, save the poorest sort of the people of the ^/land. 15 And he carried away Jehoia- chin 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 cap- tive to Babylon. 17 And the king of Babylon made CHAP. 24 h Ex. 12. 13. i Jer. a6. 32; 36. 12, 25. J vers. X, 10, XI. i Israel {his- tory I. vers. io-i6;°2 Ki. 25. 1-7. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) I Zech. 12. 2. "^ Zech. 12. 2. " I Ki. 12. 17. " I Chr. 22. 9. P Mt. 23. 37. 1 Mai. 3. la. •■ called also Mattaniah ver. 20 2 Ki. 25. 2, 7 I Chr. 3. 15 Jer. 21. 7; 27. 12; 32. 3; 34. 8; 37. 1,21; 38.14. 'vers. 17, i8,20. ' 2 Ki. 23. 31. " Josh. 21. 13. " 2 Ki. 23. 34. ECHAP. 25 " vers. X, 8, 22 2 Ki. 24. X. b Israel (his- tory}, vers. I- 7; Ezra I. 3-5. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) * vers. 2, 7 2 Ki. 24. 17. Gen. 4. 25. " Gen. 4. 26. i Gen. s. 9. ■ Gen. 5. 12 Lk. 3. 37. ^ Gen. g. 24. S' Gen. s- 21. '1 Gen. 7. 23. i vers. 4, 17, 24 Gen. , 26. / Gen. 5. 32. li vers. 4, 5 Gen. 9. 37. ' Gen. 10. 2. '"■ Gen. 10. 2. " Gen. 10. 2. " Gen. 10. 2. P Gen. 10. 3. 1 Gen. 10. 3- *■ Gen. 10. 4. * Gen. 10. 4. ' vers. 8-10 Gen. 10. 6. " vers. 8, ii Gen. 10. 6. '^ vers. 8, 13 Gen. 9. 25. "' Gen. 10. 7. ^ Gen. 10. 7. ^ vers. 9, 22, 32 Gen. 10. 7. ' Gen. 10. 13. " Amos I. 8. t> Jer. 47. 4. ' Gen. 10. 15. d Gen. 10. 15. « 2 Chr. 3. I. /Gen. 15. 16. ^ Gen. 10. 16. A Gen. 10. 17. i Gen. 10. 18. J Gen. 10. 18. 't Num. 13. 21. I vers. 17, 18, 24 Gen. 10. 22. '" Gen. 10. 22. " Gen. 10. 23. " Gen. 10. 23. P Gen. 10. 24. 5f vers. 18, 24 Gen. 10. 24. *■ Gen. 10. 21. * vers. 19, 25 Gen. 10. 25. < Gen. 10. 25. " Gen. 10. 26. " Gen. 10. 27. ''" Gen. 10. a8. " Gen . 10. 29. V Gen. 10. 2Q. ' Gen. II. 18. " Gen. II. 31. t> vers. 27, 28, 32.34 Gen. 12. I. ' Gen. 17. 19. d Gen. 16. II. " Gen. 25. 13. / Gen. 25. 13. S Gen. 25. 14. h Gen. 25.(15. » Gen. 25. 2. j Gen. 25. 2. k vers. 32, 33 Gen. 25. 2. I Gen. 25. 2. "» Gen. 25. 4. " Gen. 25. 4. " Gen. 25. 4. P Gen. 25. 1. 1 Gen. 25. 25. *■ vers. 35, 35 Gen. 36. iz. « vers. 35, 37 Gen. 36. 4. ' Gen. 36. II. " Gen. 36. II. " Gen. 36. II. ^ Gen. 36. II. * Gen. 36. 13. ' see page 411. 23 And -^"Ophir, and JHavilah 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 ^Ishmaei. 29 These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, ^Nebaioth ; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and /Mib- sam, 30 Gen. 36. 22. >i Gen. 36. 23. i Gen. 36. 23. ,'■ Gen. 36. 23. 't Gen. 36. 24. ^ Gen. 36. 25. '" Gen. 36. 26. " Gen. 36. 21. " Gen. 35. 28. P Mai. 3. 12. ^ vers. 43, 51,54 Mai. I. 4. *■ vers. 43, 44 Gen. 36. 32. ' Gen. 36. 32. ' Jer. 49. 13. " Gen. 36. 34. '■ Jer. 49. 20. «' Gen. 36. 35. '^ Gen. 36. 35. y Gen. 36. 35. ' -ers. 47, 48 Gen. 36. 36. " vers. 48, 49 Gen. 36. 37. 0 vers. 49, 50 Gen. 36. 33. ' Gen. 36. 38. d Gen. 36. 39. ' Gen. 36. 39. / Gen. 36. 39. ^ Gen. 36. 41. '» Gen. 36. 41. i Gen. 36. 42. .;' Gen. 36. 42. * Gen. 36. 43. CHAP. 2 " Gen. 49. 3. 0 Num. I. 23. « Gen. 49. s. d Gen. 44. 18. * Num. 2. 5. / Gen. 49. 16. ^ Gen. 41. 39. '' Gen. 35. 18. i Gen. 30. 8. J Gen. 30. II. k Gen. 30. 13. ' Gen. 38. 3. "' Gen. 38. 4. " Gen. 38. 5. " Deut. 20. 17. P Gen. 38. 6. 2 vers. 4, 5 Ruth 4. 18. " vers. 4, 6 Gen. 38. 30. ' Mt. 1. 3. t Gen. 46. 12. " ver. 8. ;xKi4.3x. "^ Josh. 7. I. ■" Josh. 7. I. y ver. 6. ' vers. 25-27, Nvim. I. 7. * vers. 10, II Ex. 6. 23. 'Mt. 1.4. (also Salmon.) d vers. II, 12 Ruth 2. I. ' Ruth 4. 17. /Isa. II. I. ^ I Sam. 16. 6. 'i I Sam. 16. 8. t Acts 13. 22. / 2 Sam. 2. 18. ^ 2 Sam. 17. 25. t I Sam. 26. 6. "' I Ki. 2. 5. " 2 Sam. 2. 18. " 2 Sam. 17. 25. P Gen. 16. II. 9 Ex. 31. 2. "■ Ex. 31. 2. ' Num. 26. 29. / Num. 3a. 41. " Mai. 3. 12. '' 2 Sam. 3. 3. »' Mt. I. 3. '= T Chr. 4. 5. 411 and "Ethan, and ^Heman, and Cal- col, and Dara: five of them in all. 7 And the sons of ^Carmi ; ^Achar, the troubler of Israel, who trans- gressed in the thing accursed. 8 And the sons of JEthan ; 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 : i5 Whose sisters were /Zeruiah, and ^Abigail. And the sons of Ze- ruiah; ^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 kis wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. 19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who 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 O^ir, 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 Keuath, and the towns there- of, 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. 2 26] I CHRONICLES [38 26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah ; she was the mother of Onam. 27 And the sons of Ram the first- bom 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 Abi- shur. 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 with- out children. 31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; JSheshan. And the children of Sheshan ; -Ah- lai. 32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai ; Jether, and '^ Jonathan: and Jether died without children. 33 And the sons of Jonathan; Pe- leth, 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, who was the father of Ziph; and the sonsof Mareshahthe father of /Hebron. 43 And the sons of .^^Hebron; Ko- rah, and Tappuah,and ^^Rekem, and Shema. 44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem be- gat 'Shammai. 45 And the son of Shammai was Maon : and Maon was the father of Beth-zuf. 46 And Ephah,.; Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. 47 Andthesonsof Jahdai; Regem, CHAP, a V vers. 34, 35. " I Chr. II. 41. " ver. 33. b Ex. I. 13. " ver. 38. d ver. 37. ' ver. 41. /ver. 43 I Chr. 15. 9. ' ver. 42. h ver. 44. t ver. 45. J vers. 46, 48,49 Deut. I. 36. ft Josh. 15. 16. 1 1 Chr. 4. 4. '" ver. 19 I Chr. 4. 4. " vers. 52, S3. " ver. 54. P ver. 54 I Chr. 4. 4. ? ver. 51. ' Ezra 2. 22. * 2 Sam. 8. 17. ' Num. 24. 21. CHAP. 3 " vers. I, 9 Acts 13. 22. i Gen. 13. 18. ' I Sam. 25. 43. rf I Sam. 27. 3. ' I Sam. 25. 3. / 1 Sam. 27. 3. » a Sam. 18. 33. h 2 Sam. 3. 3. i I Ki. I. s. J z Sam, 3. 4. ft 2 Sam. 3. s. ' Mt. 93. 37. "* vers, s, 10 I Chr. 22. 9. " also called Bath-sheba a Sam. 11. 3. ° a Sam. 5. 15. 412 and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. 48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah. 49 She barealso Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gi- bea: 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 Kir- jath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. 53 And the families of Kirjath-jea- rim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mish- raites; of them came the Zareath- ites, 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 who 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. NOW these were the sons of «Da- vid, who were born unto him in ^Hebron ; the firstborn Amnon, of •^Ahinoam the ^Jezreelitess ; the sec- ond Daniel, of ^Abigail the /Car- melitess : 2 The third, .?Absaloni the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai kingof/^Geshur: the fourth, ^Adoni- jah the son ofyHaggith: 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-shuathe daughterof Ammiel: 6 ^Ibhar also, and Elishama,- and Eliphelet, 7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 3 9] I CHRONICLES [4 ^9 9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister. 10 And Solomon's son was /Re- hoboam, ^Abia his son, ^ Asa his son, ;^Jehoshaphat his son, 11 Ooram his son, ^''Ahaziah his son, ^'Joash his son, 12 ^^Amaziah his son, ^"Azariah his son, J'Jotham his son, 13 Ahaz bis 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: Je- coniah his son, Zedekiah his son. 17 And the sons of '^Jeconiah; Assir,/Salathiel his son, 18 Maichiram also, and esTedaiah, 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; Pe- latiah, and Jesaiah : the sons of Re- phaiah, the sons of Aman, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah. 22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemai- ah ; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. 23 And the sons of Neariah ;./Eii- oenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. 24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Da- laiah, and Anani, seven. CHAPTER 4. THE sons of '^Judah; ^Pharez, <^Hezron,and^^Carnii, 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 Zoi^athites. 3 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Id- bash : and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi: 4 And Penuel the father of ^Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. CHAP. 3 P 2 Chr. 9. 31. 3 2 Chr. 13. I. »■ I Ki. 15. 8. « I Ki. 22. 5. < a Ki. 8. 21. " I Ki. 22. 40. "2 Ki. II. 2. "' 2 Ki. 14. I. ^- 2 Ki. ig. I. y 2 Chr. 27. 6. ' 2 Ki. 16. 20. " 3 Ki. 21. i3. b I Ki. 13. 2. ■^ 2 Ki. 23. 34. d 2 Ki. 24. 17. ' 2 Chr. 36. 9. / Mt. I. 12. 3 ver. 19. h Lk. 3. 26. « Ezra 2. 2. 3 ver. 24. CHAP 4 "Gen. 44 18. b Ruth 4. 18. ' Mt. I. 3 d Josh. 7. I. « ver. 18. /iChr. 2. SO. 9 I Chr. 2 SI- h I Chr. 2. 24- « ver. 9. } Bible prayers (O.T.). I Chr. 29. 10-19. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab, 3. 1-16.) * Psa. 121. 5. '_ver. 13. '" ver. II. " Jud. 3. 9. " ver. 14, P Deut. I. 36. 1 ver. xg. ' ver. 4. ' ver. 17. ( Deut. 3. 14. 413 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, Ze- reth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan. 8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobe- bah, 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. Be- cause I bare him with sorrow. 10 And ^ Jabez 7 called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and en- large my border, 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, who 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; Oth- niel, 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 P Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Im, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz. 16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph,andZiphah,Tiria, andAsareel. 17 And the sons of Ezra v.;ere, Jether, and Pvlered, 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, whom Mered took. 19 And the sons of his wife Ho- diah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and -^Eshte- moa the ^ Maachathite. 4 20] I CHRONICLES [59 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 1 2^ Judah were, Er the father of Le- cah, and Laadah the father of [ Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that lyrought 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 -spotters, and those that dwelt among plants and 7 hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 24 The sons of = Simeon were, Ne- muel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and ^Shaul: 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, '^Mishma his son. 26 And the sons of Mishma; Ha- muel 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 i'^Ezem, and at Tolad, 30 And at ^^Bethuel, and at ^Hor- mah, and at J 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 She- maiah ; 38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their fami- CHAP. 4 " Gen. 38. s. " Gen. 44. 18. ^ Psa. 8. 6. ^ Mt. 27. 7. 'J Job I. 10. ' Num. I. 23. " Gen. 46. 10. 6 vers. 25, 26 Gen. 35. 14. * ver. 27. d Gen. 21. 33. * Josh. IS- 26. /Josh. 15. 28. S Josh. 15. 29. fi Josh. 19. 4. i Num. 14. 45. J X Sam. 27. 6. k Acts 13. 22. I Neh. 7. 5. '" 1 Chr. 9. 12; 27. 25- " Josh. 12. 13. " Mai. 3. 12. y Isa. 30. 15. ? Gen. 5. 32. *■ 2 Ki. 16. 20. » I Ki. 12. 17. t Ezk. 35. 7. " Ex. 17. 8. 1 Heb. words; that is, re- cords. 2 Heb. de- voted. CHAP. 5 "» vers I. 3 Gen. 49. 3- b vers Gen. 25- 2 31- "Gen. 41 39- dGen 46 ■ 9- 'Gen 46 9- /Gen. 46 9- i'Gen 46 .9. ft ver. 8. i vers 2 Ki. 6, 15 26 29. / vers Gen. 6, 2. 26 14. /i vers Num 6,26 . 26. 7. I Deut. a 36. *" Num. 32- 3 "Gen . 2. 14. lies : 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 Jjudah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and 2destroyed 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 Nea- riah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 43 And they smote the rest of the ^^Amaiekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day. CHAPTER 5. NOW the sons of '^Reuben the first- born of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he de- filed his father's bed, his '^birthright was given unto the sons of <^ Joseph the son of Israel: and the geneal- ogy 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 Jo- seph's :) 3 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, ^Hanoch, and ^Pallu, /Hezron, and .^Carmi. 4 Thesonsof^Uoel; 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 fami- lies, 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 414 5 ^^] I CHRONICLES [6 13 their cattle were multiplied in the land of ^Gilead. lo 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 ^Salcah: 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 Abi- hail 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 Ji'Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of -Ma- nasseh, 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, andNephish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deli- vered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was en- treated of them ; because they put their trust in him. 21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thou- sand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hun- dred thousand. 22 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. • CHAP, s 0 Gen. 37. 25. P X Sam. 9. 2. 2 vers. 19, 20 I Chr. 27. 31 Psa. 83. 6. "■ Gen. 30. II. ' vers. II, 12, 16, 23. ' Deut. 3. 10. « I Chr. 7. 34. '' vers. I, 7, 19 Neh. 7. 5. "■ 1 Ki. 12. 17. ■^ 2 Ki. 14. 28. V Josh. 22. 34. » Gen. 41. 51. " ver. 10. * Mai. 3. 12, " Jud. 3. 3. Gen. 30. II. » 2 Ki. 17. 6. /2Ki. 17.6. '■■ 2 Ki. 17. 6. CHAP. 6 "Gen. 46. II. 6 Num. 3. 29. ' vers. 1, 16, 19, 29. 44. 47. 63, Gen. 46. II. d vers. 2, 3, 18 Ex. 6.18. ' Ex. 6. 18. /vers. 2, 18 Ex. 6. 18. y Ex. 4. 14. h Ex. 3. 4. i Ex. 15. 20. } vers. 3, 49, so, 54,57 Ex. 4. 14. i Lev, 10. 1-7. I vers. 3, 4, 50 Ex. 6. 23. "» Ex. 38. 21. » vers. 4, 50 X Chr. 9. 20. " Ezra 7. s. P vers. 6, 51 Ezra 7. 4. ? ver. 52 Ezra 7. 3. •■ vers. 6, 7, 52. ' vers. 7, 8, 52 I Sam. 14. 3. t vers. 8, 53 1 Ki. I. 39. « vers. 8, 9, 53 2 Sam. 18. 19. " ver. 10. ^ vers. 10, 33 I Chr. 22. 9. * Mt. 23. 37. y I Chr. 7. II. ^ ver. 13 Ezra 7. 2. " s Ki. 22. 4. 6 vers. 13, 14 X Chr. 9. II Ezra 7. I. 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 Hoda- viah, 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 peoples 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. THE sons of Levi; ^Gershon, ^Kohath, and '^Merari. 2 And the sons of Kohath; ^Am- ram, Izhar, and '^Hebron, and yUzziel. 3 And the children of Amram; rAaron, and -^^Moses, and ^Miriam. The sons also of /Aaron ; Nadab, and '^Abihu, ^Eleazar, and '^^Itha- mar. 4 Eleazar begat «Phinehas, Phine- has 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 .TZadok, and Zadok begat ^Shallum, 13 And Shallum begat ^Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat ^Azariah, 4~^5 6 14] I CHRONICLES [6 56 14 And Azariah begat ^Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak, 15 And Jehozadak went into cap- tivity, 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 are the names of the sons of Gershom; I Chr. 9. 43. i ver. 38 1 Chr. 9. 43, 44. I ver. 37. "* I Chr. 9. 44. " I Chr. 9. 44. " I Chr. 9. 44. P I Chr. 9. 44. 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 Sheha- riah, 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 ^Pylaachah: 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 ^Jona- than, and JMalchi-shua, and ^Abi- nadab, 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 i'Az- maveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat ^^Moza, 37 And ^Moza begat BinearyRapha was his son, Eleasah his son, -^Azel his son: 38 And ^Azel had six sons, whose names are these, ^'^Azrikam, Boch- eru, 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. I CHRONICLES [929 CHAPTER 9. SO all Israel were reckoned by ^ge- nealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and '^Judah, who were car- ried away to ^Babylon for their transgression. 2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, t^Levites, and the ^Nethinims. 3 And in /Jerusalem dwelt of the children of c?^Judah, and of the children of -^Benjamin, and of the children of ^Ephraim, and /Manas- seh; 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of ^Pha- vez 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 Pilichri, 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 $^Hil- kiah, 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 -^^ Jero- ham, 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 Meshil- lemith, 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 CHAP. 9 " vers. I, 22 Neh. 7. 5. * I Ki. 12. 17. ■^ Gen. II. 9. d Ex. 6. 25. * Ezra 2. 43; 7. 7; 8. 17 Neh. 3. 26; 7. 46J 10. 2S; II. 3. / Mt 23. 37- > Gen. 49. 10. h vers. 3, 7 Num. I. 37. » Num. 1. 33. J Gen. 41. 51. !< Ruth 4. 18. I Gen. 44. 18. ^ Josh. 18. X. " Gen. 38. 30. " Neh. II. 10. ^ I Chr. 6. 13. 1 2 Ki. P.2. 4. ^ Neh. j:i. II. * Neh. II. 12. < Neh. XI, 12. " Ezra 2. 37; 10. 20 Neh. II. 13. " Neh. II. 15. '" Neh. II. 15. *' Gen. 46. II. y Neh. II. 17, 22. ' Neh. II. 17. " Ezra 2. 22. t vers. 19, 31 Ezra 2. 42. ' Neh, II, 19. <* Neh, 12. 25. ' Num. 16. 10. / 1 Chr. 26. I. ^ Num. 16, I, h ver. 31 I Chr, 26. I, » Ex. 6. 25 Num. 25. 7, 11; 31. 6 Josh. 22. 13 Jud. 20. 28 I Chr. 6. 50 Psa, 106. 30. / Ex. 6. 23. i I Chr. 26. a, 14. I I Chr. 26. I, 2, 9. "• John 10. 9. " Acts 13. 22. " I Sam. 3. 19, P I Sam. 9. 9. 9 Mk. 3. 14. J'Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph ; 16 And Obadiah the son of She- maiah, the son of -Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Eikanah, that dwelt in the villages of the «Neto- phathites. 17 And the porters vjere, ^Shallum, and <^Akkub,and ^Talmon, and Ahi- nian, and their brethren: Shallum ivas 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 c^'Ko- rah, 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 hast of the Lord, were keepers of the entry. 20 And ^Phinehas the son of./EIea- zar was the ruler over them in time past, and the Lord was with him. 21 And ^Zechariah the son of ^Me- shelemiah was porter of the ''''door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 23 Ail these that were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom ^^Bavid and ^Sam- uel 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 por- ters, toward the east, west, north, and south. 25 And their brethren, who 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 oi^ce, and were over the chambers and trea^ suries 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 per- tained 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 ap- pointed to oversee the vessels, and 420 9 30] I CHRONICLES [10 H all the instruments of the sanc- tuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the =^frank- incense, 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, v/ho was the firstborn of Shalium 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 ^showbread, to prepare it every sabbath. 33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers v^ere free: for they were employed in thai work day and night. 34 These chief fathers of the Le- vites were chief throughout their gen- erations ; 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 JBaal, 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 Gen. 13. iS. ' Gen. a. 33. <* z Sam. 9. 2. ' a Sam. 5. a. / 1 Sam. 3. 19, 20. S-Nlt. 23. 37. '> 2 Chr. 3. 1. • vcr. 4 Josh. 18. 16, 28 Jud. 19. 10, i: J Mic. 4. 2. ft I Ki. 2. s. ' vers. 6, 3) 2 Sam. a. : a Sam. 5. 9. 2 Ki. 12. 5. " I Clir. 13. 6; 27. 2. P I Chr. 27. 32. * X Sam. 2a. I. "" 2 Sam. 5. 18. ' vers. i6-r8, 26 Mic. s. 2. ' John 4. 14. " I Sam. 26. 6. " a Ki. a. s. '" vers. 22, 24 a Sam. 23. 22. ' a Sam. 8. 18. y Ex. I. 13. I or, strong- hold. was a parcel of ground full of bar- ley; 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 de- liverance. 15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of ^ AduUam ; 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 o/their lives they brought it. Therefore he v/ould 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 ho- nourable 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 Pvloab : 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 staif, 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 a- mong the thirty, but attained not to 422 II 26] I CHRONICLES [12 17 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 Harorlte, ^Helez the '^Pelonite, a8 ^Ira the son of ^^Ikkesh the ^Te- koite, Abi-ezer the Antothite, 29 ySibbecai the .^Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30 Pflaharaithe/'^Netophathite, He- led the son of ^Baanah the Neto- phathite, 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of/Gibeah, that pertained to the children of ^Benjamin, ^Benaiah the^^^Pirathon- ite, 32 Hurai of the brooks of '^ Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 33 ^Azmaveth the Bahanimite, Eli- ahba the Shaalbonite, 34 The sons of Hashem the Gizon- ite, Jonathan the son of Shage the /^Hararite, 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Ha- rarite, Eiiphal the son of Ur, 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahi- jah the Pelonite, 37 Hezro the ? Carmelite, ''Naarai the son of Ezbai, 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mib- har 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 Ith- rite, 41 ^'Uriah the ^Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 42 Adinathe son of Shiza the^Reu- benite, 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. NOW these are they that came to '^David to '^Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of '^ Saul the son of '^^ish: and they were CHAP. II ' 2 Sam. 2. 18. " 2 Sam. 23. 26 b I Chr. 27. 10 * 2 Sam. 23. 38, d 2 Sam. 23. 26. ' Amos I. I. / 2 Sam. 21. 18. ' 2 Sam. 21. 18. * Ezra 2. 22. »2Sam. 23. 29. / Josh. 15. 57. >< l a Sam. 23. 22. '^ Jud. 12. 13. " Josh. 24. 30. '^ 2 Sam. 23. 31. ? 2 Sam. 23. II. « X Sam. 27. 3. '' 2 Sam. 23. 35. ' Gen. 19. 38. * Josh. 9. 17. " 2 Sam. 23. 26. » I Ki. 15. 5. ^ Gen. 15. 20. * Num. 26. 7. CHAP. X2 " vers. 1, 8, 16- X9, 21-23, 3^1 38,39 Acts 13. 22. b vers, i, 20 I Sam. 27. 6. * vers. I, 2, 19, 23,29 I Sam. 9. 2. d X Sam. 9. I. * vers. 2, 16, 29 Num. I. 37. /i Chr. 9. 19. ^ Gen, 30. 11. f* Josh. 3. 17. » Gen. 49. 10. .>aTim. 3. 4, among the mighty men, helpers of the war. 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and j the left in hurling stones and shoot- ing arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of ^Benjamin. 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Jo- ash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibe- athite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, i and Jehu the Antothite, i 4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a ! mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and i Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite, 5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bea- liah, and Shemariah, and Shepha- tiah the Haruphite, 6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Aza- reel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the/Korhites, I 7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. 8 And of the <^Gadites there sepa- rated themselves unto David into the hold in 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 se- cond, Eliab the third, 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jere- miah 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 vjas 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 its 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. 423 12 18] I CHRONICLES [13 2 i8 Then the ^Spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the cap- tains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of ^Jesse : peace, peace be imto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them cap- tains of the band. ig And there fell some of '^^Manas- seh to David, when he came with the "Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon ad- visement sent him away, saying. He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of OMV heads. 2 o 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 ^He- bron, 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 ''AaroniteSjand 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 Benja- min, the kindred of Saul, three thou- sand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the charge of the house of Saul. 30 And of the children of ^Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hun- dred, mighty men of valour, famous throughoutthehouseof their fathers. 31 And of the half tribe of Ma- CHAP. xa * Holy Spirit. X Chr. 28. 12. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. s. 15.) ' Gen. 41. S«- Gen. 13. 18. P Num. X. 23. Num. 16. 10. Ex. 4. 14 z Chr. 37. 17. Num. I. 33. < vers. 33, 40 Mt. 4. 13. Ezk. II. 19. vers. 34, 40 Isa. g. I. ■ Josh. 19. 47. y Josh. 3. 17. Num. 26. '7. 6 Gen. 13. Num. a. 5. CHAP. X3 " vers. I, 2, 6, 8, 11-13 Acts Z3. 83 Ex. 6. 25. nasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressed by name, to come and make David king. 32 And of the children of Issachar, who were men that had understand- ing of the times, to know what Is- rael ought to do ; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their command- ment. 33 Of '^Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all in- struments of war, fifty thousand, who 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 thou- sand. 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 J^ Jor- dan, of the ^Reubenites, and the «Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of in- struments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand. 38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a per- fect heart to ^Hebron, to make Da- vid 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 Da- vid three days, eating and drinking : for their brethren had prepared for them. 40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto -^Issachar and Zebu- lun 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. AND ^David consulted with the - captains of thousands and hun- dreds, and with every leader. 2 And David said unto all the con- gregation 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 who are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather them- selves unto us: 424 13 3] I CHRONICLES [1417 3 And let us bring again the ^ark of our God to us: for we inquired 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 to- gether, 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 Is- rael, to/Baalah, that is, to -^Kirjath- jearini, v»rhich belonged to -^Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubim, 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 tim- brels, and v/ith cymbals, and with strumpets. g 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, be- cause the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza : wherefore that place is called iPerez-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. NOW ^Hiram king of ^Tyre sent messengers to -^David, and tim- ber of cedars, with masons and car- penters, to build him an house. 2 And David perceived that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted CHAP. 13 d vers. 3, 5-7, 9, 10, 12-14 Ex, 25. 10. ' I Sam. 9. 2. /Gen. 3.5. ff Josh. 13. 3. A Ex. 12. 13. i Num. 13. SI. > Josh. 15, 9. ft I Sam. 7. 1. ' Gen. 49. 10. "' I Sam. 7. I, ''2 Sam. 6. 3. • Gen. 4. 21. P I Chr. 16. 9. 1 Ex. xg. 13-16. ' vers. 13, 14 2 Sam. 6. 10. ' Josh. 13. 3. 1 that is, The breach of Uzza. CHAP. 14 " 2 Sam. g. IX. * Mt. II. 21. ' vers. 1-3, 8, 10-22, 14, 16, I? Acts X3. 22. d Mt. 23. 37. ' I Chr. 22. 9. / 2 Sam. 5. 15. ^vers. 8-10, 13, Amos I. 8. '» a Sam. 5. s8. i 2 Sam. 5. 20. J 2 Sam. s. 83, 24. ft Josh. 9. 3. » 2 Sam. J. 25. "» Mai. 3. X2, I or, walking. up on high, because of his people Israel. 3 And David took more wives at Josh. 3. 17. CHAP. 20 « I Ki. 2. 5. * vers. I, 3 Gen. 19. 38. ' Zech. 12. 2. d vers. 1-3, 7, Acts 13. E2. ' Mt. 23. 37. / Deut. 3. II. 3 Ezk. 21. 36. ft Ex. 35. 39. brother, and they set themselves In array against the children of Am- mon. 12 And he said. If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Am- mon 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 fied before him. 15 And when the children of Am- mon 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 Is- rael; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand foot- men, and killed Shophach the cap- tain of the host. 19 And when the servants of Ha- darezer 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. AND it came to pass, that after -tA. 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 '^Amnion, and came and '^besieged Rabbah. But '^Da- vid tarried at ^Jerusalem. And Joab smote /Rabbah, and de- stroyed it. 2 And David took the ^crovm of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a ^^ talent of gold. 430 20 3] I CHRONICLES [21 17 and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head : and he brought also exceed- ing much spoil out of the city. 3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and icut 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 ''Kushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the Rapha: 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 Rapha. 7 But when he defied Israel, Jo- nathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him. 8 These were born unto the Rapha in Gath ; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. CHAPTER 21. CHA.P. ao Jesh. io. 33. / vers. 4, 5 Amos J., 8. k 2 Sam. 21. 18 i 2 Sam. 21. 18 "' I Sam. 17. 4 I " Josh. 13. 3. I " Josh. II. 22. I or, set them to saws, etc. ; 2 Sam. 12. 31. CHAP. 21 " vers. I, 2, 5, 8-11, 13, 16-15, 21-25, 28, 30 Acts 13. 22. b Gen. 21. 33. ' Josh. 19. 47. d I Ki. 12. 17. *■ Num. 16. 10. /Num. I. 37. ^ Gen. 15. 6. ft aSam. 24. II. » I Sam. 9. 9. AND Satan stood up against Is- - rael, and provoked ^ David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people. Go, num- ber Israel from ^ Beer-sheba even to j '^Dan ; and bring the number of them I ■' ^^"^ ^- '" to me, that I may know it. j 3 And Joab answered, The LORD j '' ^x. s 3 make his people an hundred times so many more as they be : but, my ' Mai. 3. 12. lord the king, are they not all my i lord's servants ? why then doth my lord require this thing? why v/ill 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 thou- sand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword; 2 Sam. 24.11. Mt. 23. 37. vers. 15-28 2 Sam. 24. 16. 1 Gen. 3. 5. •• Gen. 37. 34. 431 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, put away the iniquity of thy ser- vant ; 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 ythree days the sword of the Lord, even the -^pestilence, in the 4and, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the terri- tory 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 Grod, 75 it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as 21 18] I CHRONICLES [22 12 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. i8 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 thresh- ingfloor of Oman the Jebusite. ig And David went up at the say- ing of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. 20 And Oman turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him. hid themselves. Now Oman was threshing "wheat. 21 And as David came to Oman, Oman looked and saw David, and v^ent out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to Oman, Grant me the place of this thresh- ingfloor, 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 Oman 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 thresh- ing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the ^meal offering; I give it all. 24 And king David said to Oman, 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 Oman 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 an- swered him from heaven by fire up- on 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 Oman the Je- busite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For the 1 ^tabernacle of the Lord, which JMoses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at ^Gibeon. CHAP. 21 ' a Sam. 7. xi. ' Zech. 14. 12. " John 12. 24. " Ex. 39. 41. "' Gen. 23. 15. * Ex. 25. 9. y Ex. 3. 4. ^ Josh. 9. 3. I or, tent- dwelling. Ex. 'vers. 1-5,7, 17 Acts 13. 22. b Mai. 3. 12. ' Ex. 25. 3. d Jud. 10. 6. 'Mt. II. 21. /vers. 5-7, 9, i> Num. 14. 21. h Gen. 9, 6. i s Sam. 12. 24 1 Ki. 2. 12; 3. 1; 4. 25; 8. 22; 9. i; II. 4, II 2 Chr. I. xi; 9- 30 Prov. X. I. J Num. 6. a6. * Isa. 30. 15. t Gen. 6. x8. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. CHAPTER 22. 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 ma- sons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 3 And David prepared iron in abun- dance 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 magnifi- cent, of fame and of ,?^glory through- out 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 ypeace and -^'quietness unto Israel in his days. 10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be ray son, and I will be his father ; and I will ^estab- lish 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 Gk)d, as he hath said of thee. 12 Only the LORD give thee wis- dom and understanding, and give 439 22 13] I CHRONICLES [2323 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 num- ber. 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 be- fore 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 covenantof the LORD, and the holy vessels of Gk)d, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD. CHAPTER 23. 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 up- ward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. 4 Of whom, twenty and four thou- sand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord ; and six thousand were officers and judges : 5 Moreover four thousand were CHAP, aa « Ex. 3. 4. "Ex. ag. 39. " 2 Tim. a. 15. P Ex. as. 10. CHAP. 23 " vers. I, 6, 25, 27 Acts 13. 22. 6 I Chr. 22. 9. « Ex. 6. 25. d Num. 16. 10. ' Gen. 46. XI. /vers. 6, 21 Gen. 46. II. S vers. 7, 10 Ex. 6. 17. • I Chr. 29. 8. J ver. 7. * Num. 3. 29. ' vers. 12, 13 Ex. 6. x8. "» Ex. 6. 18. " vers, xa, 20 Ex. 6. 18. ' Ex. 2. 22. P vers. 15, 17 Ex- 18. 4. 1 X Chr. 26, 24. *■ I Chr. 24. 21; 26. 25. ' I Chr. 34. 24, 25- '■ vers. 21, 23 Ex. 6. 19. * ver. 22. ' ver. ax. " Ex. 6. 19. ' I Chr. 24, 30. 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, haa.- dan, and .^Shimei. 8 The sons of -^^Laadan ; the chief was Oehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. 9 Thesonsof Shimei; Sheiomith, 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; there- fore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house. 12 Thesonsof ^'Kohath; ^Amram, Izhar, '^Hebron, and '^Uzziel, four. 13 Thesonsof 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, ''Ger- shom, and/Eliezer. 16 Of the sonsof 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 Ofthe sons of Izhar; Sheiomith the chief. i 19 Of the sons of Hebron ; Jeriah I the first, Amariah the second, Ja- haziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. I 20 Of the sons of Uzziel; ^Micah the first, and Jesiah the second. 21 The sons of Merari ; Mahli, and j ^Mushi. The sons of Mahli; «^Ele- azar, and Kish. 22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their bre- thren the sons of ^Kish took them. 23 The sons of Mush!; ^Mahli, and ^Eder, and Jeremoth, three. 433 23 24] I CHRONICLES [2423 24 These were the sons of Levi after the house oftheir 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 ^Jeru- salem for ever: 26 And also unto the ^Levites; they shall no more carry the itaber- nacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. 27 For by the last words of Da- vid 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 '^showbread, and for the fine flour for '^meal 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 com- manded unto them, continually be- fore the Lord : 32 And that they should keep the charge of the stabernacle of the con- gregation, 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. NOW these are the ^divisions of the sons of ^Aaron. The sons of Aaron ; Nadab, and <^Abihu, ^Elea- zar, and "^Ithamar. 2 But Nadab and Abihu died be- fore their father, and had no chil- dren : therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. 3 And ^ David distributed them, both /Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and 'workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will he wholly at thy command- ment. CHAP. 28 9 Num. 7. 10. •■ Ex. 6. 25. ' Ex. 25. 31. ' Gen. 15. 17. " Ex. 25. 30. ^ Ex. 30. I. " Ex. 35. 9. ^ John 19. 30. •" 2 Tim. 2. 15. I or, uessels. CHAP. 29 * vers. I, 9, 10, 20, 22-24, ^1 Acts 13. 22. 6 vers. 1, 19, 23- 25, 28 I Chr. 22. 9. Ex. 25. 3. ' Gal. 5. 24 Col. 3. 2-5. / Ex. 25. 39. U I Ki. 9. 28. h Ex. 28. 3. • vers. Q, 17 Gen. 4. 3-5. I or, stones for inlaid work. CHAPTER 29. FURTHERMORE «David the king said unto all the congre- gation, <^ Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet j'^oung 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 tilings 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, igUstering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abun- dance. 3 Moreover, because I have set my ^affection to the house of my God, have I acquired as my own property gold and silver, and this have I 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 i'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 Vv^ho 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, under the hand of Jehiel the Ger- shonite. 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: 439 29 III I CHRONICLES [29 30 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 shadov/, 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 Com- eth 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, who 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 imagina- tion of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart tmto thee: 19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy com- mandments, 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 con- CHAP. 29 / Bible prayers (O.T.). 2Chr. 6. 14. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) I Num. 14. 2x. Ex. 15. I. " Psa. 93. I. ? Gen. 17. 19. ♦■ Gen. 15. 9. » I Ki. I. 39. ' Eph. 5. 21. " Isa. II. I. " Gen. 13. i3. ^ Mt. 23. 37. * Isa. 46. 4. y I Sam. 3. 19, ' I Sam. 9. 9. " 2 Sam. 7. 2. * 2 Sam. 24. II. gregation. Now bless the LoRD your God. And all the congregation blessed the Lord, God of their fa- thers, 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 thou- sand 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 he the chief governor, and ^Zadok to be priest. 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of Da- vid his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. 24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons like- wise of king David, ^submitted themselves unto Solomon the king. 25 And the LoRD magnified Solo- mon 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 J'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. 440 THE SECOND BOOK OF THE I ^ CHRONICLES [2 4 CHAPTER AND ^Solomon the son of '^David - was strengthened in his king- dom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him ex- ceedingly. 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 congre- gation with him, went to the high place that was at "^ Gibeon ; for there was the itabernacle of the congrega- tion of God, which ^-^ Moses the ser- vant 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 ^fBezaleel the son of Uri, the son of ^Hur, had made, he put before the 2tabernacle of the LORD : and Solo- mon 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 thou- sand 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 showed great mercy un- to David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead. 9 Now, O Lord God, let thy pro- mise unto David my father be estab- lished: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth iny 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, Be- cause this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine ene- mies, neither yet hast asked long life- but laast asked wisdom and " vers. I, 4, 8, 9 Acts 13. 32. b vers. 1-3, 5-8, II, 13, 14, 16 I Chr. 22. 9. <■ Josh. 9. 3. d Ex. 3. 4. * Ex. 25. 10. / Mt. 23. 37. 3 Ex. 25. 3. 'i Ex. 31. 2. i Ex. 31. 2. / Gen. 16. 10. i" I Cor. I. 24. ' vers. 10-12 Num. 24. 16. '" vers. II, 13 Gen. 13, 2. « Ex. 38. 27. " vers. 16, 17 Ex. 12. 13. P Gen. IS- ao- ? Mt. 4. 24. 1 or, tent of meeting. Ex. 25. 22; also vers. 6, 13. 2 or, tent- d we I ling. Ex. 25-8. " vers. 1-3, II I Chr. 22. 9. * Acts 2. 23. '^ Gen. 39. 4. 1' 2 Sam. 5. i: / vers. 3, 7, 12, Acts 13. 132. knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king : 1 2 Wisdom and knowledge is grant- ed 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 thou- sand 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 sycamore trees that are in the vale for abundance. 16 And Solomon had horses brought out of ^Egypt, and a company of the king's merchants purchased droves 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. AND ^Solom.on ^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 bur- dens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to -^oversee them. 3 And Solomon sent to ^uram 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 441 2 5] II CHRONICLES [37 name of the LORD my God, to ^dedi- cate it to him, and to burn before him sweet '^^incense, and for the con- tinual ^showbread, 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 ordi- nance 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 incense before him ? 7 Send m.e now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in sil- ver, 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 Le- banon : for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in i^Lebanon ; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house v/hich I am about to build shall be wonder- ful great. 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand meas- ures 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 under- standing, 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 0 Sanctify, holy (O.T.). 2 Chr. 5. I. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) Ti Ex. 30. I. < Ex. 25. 30. > Gen. I. I. t Ex. 25, 3. I Ex. 25. 4- '" Ex. 25. 4. " Gen. 49. 10. ° Mt. 23. 37. P Psa. 72. 16. ? John 3. 16. •■ Josh. ig. 47. * Acts 9. 36. I Mai. 3. 12. CHAP. 3 vers. I, 3 I Chr. 22. 9. I' Acts 13. 22. ' 2 Sam. 24. 16. ?^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 cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubim 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 che- rub 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 cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cu- bits: 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 cherubim there- on. 15 Also he made before the house two ^'pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the ^capital 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. 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 CHAP. 3 / John 10. 9. 3 Ex. 25. 39. h Gen. 23. IS. i Ex. 25. 4. .;' Ex. 35. 4. * Gen. 28. 18. I Ex. 36. 38. ""2 Sam. 16.23 " Ex. 28. 33. CHAP. 4 Ex. 25. 3. ft vers. 3, 4, 15 Deut. 22. 10. ' vers. 7, 20 Ex. 25. 31. 'John 10. 9. ^ Ex. 25. 3. h I Ki. 7. 13. vers. II, 16, 18,19 I Chr. 22. 9. .;■ Gen. 28. 18. i- Ex. 36. 38. I Ex. 28. 33. '" Ex. 30. 18. I or, ordi- nance. height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 3 And under it v^as 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 ^prescribed 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 basins of gold. 9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and /doors for the court, and over- laid 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 basins. 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 bowls, and the ^capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two bowl -shaped capitals which were on the top of the pillars; 13 And four hundred pomegran- ates on the two wreaths ; two rows of ^pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two bowls of the capi- tals 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. 443 4 16] II CHRONICLES [6 2 i6 Tbe 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 ves- sels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables v/hereon the ^'showbread was set; 20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the prescribed custom before the ^oracle, of pure gold ; ai And the flowers, and the lamps, and the ^'tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold; 22 And the snuffers, and the basins, 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. THUS all the work that «So1q- mon made for the house of the Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that '''David his father had 'dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, placed he in the treasuries 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 '^(Jeru- salem, to bring up the %rk 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 .b'Levites took up the ark. 5 And they brought up the ark, and the 1 tabernacle of the congre- gation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. 6 iUso king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which CHAP. 4 " Josh. 3. xj. " Dan. 2. 33. P I Ki. 7. 46. 1 Josh. 3. i6. *■ Ex. 25. 30. « Gen. 15. 17. ' 2 Sam. 16. 23. " Ex. 25. 38. " Lev. 16. 12. CHAP. 5 vers. I, 2, 6 I Chr, 22. 9. 0 vers. 1, 2 Acts 13. 22. ' Sanctify, holy (O.T.). 2 Chr. 25. 5. (Gen. 2. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) d Mt. 23. 37. " vers. 2, 4-10 Ex. 25. 10. / Mic. 4. 2. ? Ex. 6. 25. '» Ex. 24. 12. i Ex. 3. 4. J Ex. 3. 1. !' Ex. 12. 13. J Ex. 6. 2S. '" I Chr. 6. 3S. « I Chr. 6. 33. <* Isa. I. 18. i' I Chr. 16. 9. * Gen. 4. 21. ''Ex. 19. 13-16. ' Psa. 9. 7. ' vers. 13, 14 Psa. 78. 14. " Num. 14. 21. I or, tent of meeting. Ex. " vers. X, 13 I Chr. 22. 9. could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto its place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cheru- bim: 8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim 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 yKoreb, 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 who were the singers, all of them of ^^^ Asaph, of '^Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being ar- rayed in ^white linen, having cym- bals and /psalteries and i-'harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with 'trum- pets :) 13 It came even to pass, when 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 music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good ; for his mercy ^endnreth 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. 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. 444 6 3] II CHRONICLES [6 25 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 fuliiiled 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 v/as in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD, Grod 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 Notv,;ithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. 10 The Lord therefore hath ^per- formed his word that he hath spo- ken ; 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 2 kneeled down upon his knees be- fore 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; who keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: 15 Thou who hast kept with thy * vers. 4, 6-8, 10, 15-17, 4a Acts 13. 22. ' Mai. 3. X2, d Ex. 12. 13. Gen. 26. 3. / Ex. 12. 25. ? vers. II, 41 Ex. 25. 10, Ex. 2S. 3. i I Ki. 8. 54 Psa. 95. 6 Dan. 6. 10 Mt. 17. 14 Mk. I. 40; 10. Lk. 22. 41 Acts 7. 60; g. 40:20.36; 21.5 Phil. 2. 10. / Bible prayers (O.T.). 2Chr. 14. II. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) i2Chr.a.6;cf. Isa. 66. I. I Gen. 3. £. Psa. 32. I. " Rom. 3. 23. ' Gen. 24. 8. P Le7. s. s. 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 pro- mised 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 Is- rael, 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 sup- plications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from hea- ven; and when thou hearest, ^'for- give. 22 If a man '^sin against his neigh- bour, 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 recompens- ing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his right- eousness. 24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, be- cause they have sinned against thee ; and shall return and /confess thy name, and pray and make sup- plication before thee in this house ; 25 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of th}^ people Is- rael, and bring them again unto the 445 6 26] II CHRONICLES [73 ^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 ^'ca- terpillars; if their enemies ^'besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be: 29 Then what prayer or what sup- plication 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 stran- ger, who 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 heaven, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Is- rael, 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 heaven CHAP. 6 » Deut. 5. x6. Deut. 38. 23, I Ki. »7. i; 18. 4S- Mai. 3. la. ' Ex. s. 3. Ki. 8. 37. " I Chr. 28. 9 Prov. 21. 2; 24. 12. ' Prov. ao. 9 Eccl. 7. 20 Rom. 3. q, 19, a^: 5- " Gal. 3. 10 Jas. 3. 2 I John I. 8. V Mai. 3. 12. Psa. 33. X. ' Gen. 3. 5. Deut. 33. 3. CHAP. 7 ' yers. x, 5, 7, 8, 10-13 I Chr. aa. 9. Psa. 9. 7. their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 36 If they sin against thee, -^(for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their ene- mies, and they carry them away captives unto a Jland 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, say- ing, 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, whi- ther they have carried them cap- tives, 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 heaven, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and -forgive thy people that 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. 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 Is- rael 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. 446 7 4] II CHRONICLES [8 5 4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. 5 And king Solomon offered a sacri- fice 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 in- struments of music 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 i'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 v/hich Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the ^meal offer- ings, and the fat. CHAP. 7 Num. 7. 10. Ex. 6. 25. / vers. 6, 10, 17, 18 ActS^IS. 23. Gen. 2. 3. ■■» Ex. 25. 3- / Num. 13. 21. k vers. 8, 22 Ex. 12. 13. I John 19. 30. " Mai. 3. 12. Ex. 5. 3. 8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great con- | gregation, from the entering in of j *" ^'°''- '^- ''• /Hamath unto the river of ^'Egypt. | 9 And in the eighth day they made j '' ^^a. 32. x. a solemn assembly : for they kept , the dedication of the altar seven ' Gen. 3. 5. days, and the feast seven days. 10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent j the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed 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. Ex. 25. 9. ' Deut. 5. 16. Deut. 28. 37. Deut. 28. 37. 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 ^Uocusts to devour the '^land, or if I send ^pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, that are called by my name, shall /humble them- selves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and * vers. 1-3, 6, 8-12, i6-i3 I Chr. 22. 9. * 2 Sam. 5. II. " Acts 3. 21. d I Sam. 14. 47. ' Num. 13. 21. /Josh. 10. 10. 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 judg- ments; 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 for- sake my statutes and my command- ments, 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 ray 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. Be- cause they forsook the Lord, God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and wor- shipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them. CHAPTER 8. AND it came to pass at the end - of twenty years, wherein ^Solo- mon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house, 2 That the cities which <^Hurara 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 wil- derness, and all the store cities, which he built in ^Hamath. 5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and /Beth-horon the nether, 447 8 6] II CHRONICLES [9 8 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 ^ Amor- ites, and the ''^Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the '^Jebusites, who 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 tri- bute 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 cap- tains 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, be- cause the places are holy, where- unto the ^ark of the LORD hath 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 com- mandment of ^'Moses, on the sab- baths, 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 1 ta- bernacles. 14 And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the ^Levites to their charges, to praise and min- ister 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 CHAP. 8 i' Josh. 19. 44. h Mt. 23. 37. » Psa. 72. 16. J Psa. 8. 6. fc Gen. 15. 20. I Gen. 15. 16. " Ex. 3. 8. " 2 Chr. 3. I. " 1 Ki. 3. I. P vers. II, 14 Acts 13. 22. ? Ex. 25. 10. •■ Ex. 3. 4. « Ex. 6. 25. ' Num. 33. 35. " 2 Ki. i6. 6. " Mai. 3. 12. "' Mai. I. 4. =^2 Sam. 5. II. V I Ki. 9. 28. ' Ex. 25. 39. I Heb. booths. CHAP. 9 " I Ki. 10. I. ' vers. I, 3, 12 I Ki. 10. I. " vers. 1-3, 9, 10, 12-15, 20, 22, 23, 35, aS- 1 Chr. 23. 9. d Mt. 23. 37. ' Ex. 25. 6. / Ex. 25. 3. ff I Cor. X. 24. h Isa. 53. I. i Gen. 3. s. X or, train. 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 J'Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty "talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. CHAPTER 9. 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 abun- dance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 2 And Solomon solved for 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 Mt. II. ag. J Lev. a6. 28. ^ I Ki. II. 31. I Gen. 26. 3. "• I Ki. II. 2g. " Josh. 18. I. " vers. 16, ig Acts 13. 2a. P Isa. II. I. ? I Ki. 12. 17. "■ Mt. 23. 37. ' Num. 14. 9. I or, grown. CHAP. II « vers. I, 3, s, 17, 18, 21, 22 2 Chr. 9. 31. 6 2 Sam. 7. II. " vers. I, 3, 10, 12,23 Num. I. 37. d 2 Chr. 12. 5, 7. XS- « vers. 3, 17 I Chr. 22. g. /i Ki. II. 31. 9 Mic. 5. 2. A Amos I. I. » Josh. 15. 58. j I Sam. 22. I. t Josh. II. 22. Uosh. 15.44. ™ I Sam. 23. 14. " Josh. 10. 32. " Josh. 10. 10. P Jud. 13. a. ? Josh. 10. 12. 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 inherit- ance 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 Ha- doram 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 'Jeru- salem. 19 And Israel -^rebelled against the house of David unto this day. CHAPTER 11. AND when ^Rehoboam was come ' to Jerusalem, he gathered ot the '^house of Judah and -^Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Reho- boam. 2 But the word of the Lord came to ^Shemaiah the man of God, say- ing, 3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of ^Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, say- ing, 4 Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: retmn 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 Jeru- salem, and built cities for defence in Judah. 6 He built even Ex. 25. 3. CHAPTER 12. AND it came to pass, when "^Reho- - boam had established the king- dom, 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 ^Shi- shak king of ^ Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trans- gressed against the Lord, 3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen : and the people were without num- ber that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the ^Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fenced cities which per^amerf to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 5 Then came Shemaiah the pro- phet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered to- gether to Jerusalem because of Shi- shak, 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 right- eous. 7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled them- selves; 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 king- doms 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 trea- sures 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 Reho- boam 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 451 12 13] II CHRONICLES [13 IS him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in ^ Judahsome good was found. 13 So king Rehoboam strength- ened 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 pro- phet, and of ''^^Iddo the '^seer con- cerning '^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. NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began ^Abijah to reign over Judah. 2 He reigned three years in Jeru- salem. 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 Zeraaraim, 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 king- dom over Israel to ^David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of 'salt? 6 Yet Jeroboam the son of /Ne- bat, the servant of A'' 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 Solo- mon, when Rehoboam was young CHAP. la » r Ki. 12. 17. y Mt. J3. 37. I< Gen. 4. 22. ' Gen. 19. 38. ™ 2 Chr. 9. 29. " I Sam. 9. 9. 0 Neh. 7. 5. i Acts 13. 22. »■ 2 Chr. 13. X, CHAP. 13 " called also Abia, Abiah, and Abijam 1 Ki. 15. 1-8 2 Chr. II. 20- 22 Mt. I. 7. * Josh. 15. 57. " vers. 1-22. d vers. 5, 6, 8 Acts 13. 22. ' Lev. 2. 13. /iKi. II. 26. 3 vers. 6, 7 I Chr. 22. 9. h 2 Cor. 6. 15. i 2 Chr. 9. 31. .;' vers. 9, 10 Ex. 4. 14. fc Ex. 6. 25. I Mai. 3. 12. "• Ex. 28. 3. « Gen. 15. 9. " Ex. 30. 1. P Ex. 25. 30. 1 Ex. as. 31. *■ Gen. 15. 17. 'Cf.Actss.39- ' I Ki. II. 31. " 1 Ki. 12. 17. 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 the golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. 9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of 7 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 f/z err business: 11 And they bum unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet ^incense: the /showbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the 9 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 am- bushment 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 be- fore 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 13^9] II CHRONICLES [156 cblldren of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord, God of their fathers. 19 And Abijah pursued after Je- roboam, 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 Abi- jah: and the Lord smote him, and he died. ai 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 say- ' ings, are written in the story of the 1 prophet "^^Iddo. CHAPTER 14. 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. 3 And Asa did that which was good and right in the /eyes of the Lord his God: 3 For he took av/ay the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the ^ im- ages, and cut down the « groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the Lord, God of their fathers, and to do the law and the command- ment. 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the 3 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; be- cause the Lord had given him rest. 7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them v,^alls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet be- fore 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 bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of ^^Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hun- dred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour. CHAP. X3 Gen. 13. 8. " a Chr. 9. 39. CHAP, 14 " a Chr. 13. I. * Acts 13. sa. * vers. 1-15 X Ki. 15. a, d Mai. 3. IS. * Isa. 30. 15. /Gen, 3.5. ^ Mt.;ii. 23, 39. '» Num. I. 37, i Gen. a. 13. J vers. 9, 10 Josh. IS. 44. * Bible prayers (O.T.). 2 Chr. 20. 6. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. X-16.) I Gen. 16. 10. "* Gen. 10. 19. " Gen. a. 13. 0 Mt. 23. 37. 1 or, pillars. 2 Heb. Aahe^ 3 or, sun Im- ages. CHAP. »s " Holy Spirit 2 Chr. 20. 14. (Gen. 1. z; MaL 2. 15.) 4 vers. 1-18 I Ki. 15. 8. * X Ki. 12. 17. * vers. 2, 8, 9 Num. X. 37. 453 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 no- thing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no pov/er: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this Anul- titude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. 12 So the Lord smote the Ethio- piEins 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 w^ere overthrown, that they could not re- cover themselves; for they were de- stroyed 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 a terror from 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. 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 for- sake 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 Is- rael, 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 vexa- tions were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 A«d nation was destroyed of 15 7] II CHRONICLES [l6 10 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 pro- phet, 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 be- fore the porch of the LORD. 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of /Ephraim and ^Manas- seh, and out of ^Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abun- dance, 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. 13 And they entered into the cove- nant 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 '''^shout- ing, and with trumpets, and with cornets. 15 And all Judah rejoiced at the '^oath: for they^had sworn v^ith all their heart, and sought him with their v/hole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORO gave them rest round about. 16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he re- moved her from being ^queen, be- cause she had made a scandalous image ^in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped if, and burnt it at the brook / Kidron. 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: neverthe- less 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. CHAP. 15 X Sam. 10. 19. /z Cor. la. 8- xo. ' Gen. 43. 32. * Mai. 3. ij, < Tit. 3. 5. J Num. I. 33. * Gen. 41. 51. I Num. X. 23. "* Num. 23.21. " Gen. 34. 8. " X Ili. 10. I. P John i3. I. 1 Num. 7. xo. I Heb. for an Asherah, " vers. 1-14 I Ki, 15. 8, t vers. X, 3, e, 6 x Ki. xs. 16. * X Ki, 12. 17. d vers. I, s, 6 Josii. x8. 25. * vers. 2, 4 I Ki. 15. la /vers, 2, 7 Mt. 4. 24. 9 Acts 9. 3. '' Josh. 9. 6. » I Ki. ig. 20. > Josh. 19. 47. i Isa. 9. I. I Josh. 2X. 17. " Josh. 15. 38. " X Sam. g. 9. " Gen. 2. 13. P Gen. 3. s. ? Psa. 119. 32. '' Gen. 6. 9. ' Gen. 39. 30. 19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa. CHAPTER 16. 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. a 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 Is- rael ; and they smote *Ijon,and7't)an, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of ''^Naphtali. 5 And it came to pass, when Baa- sha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease. 6 Then Asa the king took all Ju- dah; 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, be- cause 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 show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is ^per- fect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly : therefore from hence- forth thou Shalt have wars. 10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a ^prison house; for hewas ina ragewithhim because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. 454 i6 "] II CHRONICLES [l8 3 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 ^phy- sicians. 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 ov/n 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 apothe- caries' art: and they made a very great burning for him. CHAPTER 17. 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 gar- risons in the '^land of Judah, and in the cities of <^Ephraim, which ^Asa his father had taken. 3 And the Lord was with Jeho- shaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father ^David, and sought not unto the /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 igroves out of Judah. 7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben- hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zecha- riah, and to Nethaneel, and to Mi- chaiah, to teach in the cities of i'Judah. 8 And with them he sent -^^Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemi- ramoth, and Jehonathan, and Ado- nijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adoni- jah, Levites; and with them Eli- shama and Jehoram, priests. 9 And they taught in Judah, and CHAP. 16 t Mt. g. 12. " Acts 13. Z2. CHAP. 17 « i Ki. 22. s. '' Mai. 3. 12. ■^ Num. I. 33. '■i I Ki. 15. 8. ' Acts 13. 22, / I Ki. 18. 21. a I Ki. 12. 17. h Ex. 6. 25. i Mai. 3. 12. ;■ Amos i. 8. * 1 Ki. 22. 5. I z Chr. q. 14. ™ Gen. IS- 9- " Lev. t6. 5. " Mt. 23. 37. P Num. I. 37. [ Heb. Ashe- rim. " vers. 1-34 I Ki. 16. 28. t' vers. 2, 9 I Ki. 16. 34. » vers. 2, 3, 5, II, 14, 19, 28 Deut. 4. 43. had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about through- out all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. 10 And a terror from the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the ^ lands that were round about Judah, so that they made ho war against Jehosha- phat. 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 great works in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in ^Jeru- salem. 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 hun- dred 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 four- score thousand ready prepared for the war. 19 These waited on the king, be- side those vjhom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah. CHAPTER 18. 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 "^per- suaded him to go up with him to ^^Ramoth-gilead. 3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, 455 I8 4] II CHRONICLES [l8 28 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, Inquire, 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 inquire of him? 7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the Lord : but I hate him ; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same zs ^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 Je- hoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their rohes, and they sat in an -^open place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. 10 And ^Zedekiah the son of Che- naanah had made him y 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 de- liver it into the hand of the king. 12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, say- ing, Behold, the words of the pro- phets declare good to the king with one assent ; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, 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 ' vers. 7, 8, 12- 14, 23-aS, 27 X Kl. 23. 8. Gen. X. a. » vers. 10, 23 1 Ki. 22. II. / Dan. 7, 24. k vers. 10, ; Mt. 4. 24." I Num. 22. 18, 20. 3S; 23- i2» 36; 24. 13. Josh. 6. 26. " Jer. 23. 1-8; 31. 10. Psa. 23. 1. P I Ki. 22. 5. S Job 12. 16, 17 Isa. 19. 12-14. Gen, 39. ao. 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 Is- rael ^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. ig 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, Where v/ith? 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 cer- tainly 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 Je- 456 I8 29] II CHRONICLES [20 5 hoshaphat the king of -^^Judah %ent up to Ramoth-gilead. 29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himser; and they went to the battle. 30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, say- ing. 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 Jeho- shaphat, that they said. It is the king of Israel. Therefore they com- passed about him to fight: but Je- hoshaphat 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 per- ceived 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 10. 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 tc king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the yiingodly, 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 igroves out of the .^land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. 4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Je- rusalem: and he went out again through the people from '^Beer-she- ba to moimt Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord, God of their fathers. CHAP. XQ « I Ki. 22. s. * I Ki. 12. 17. ' Mt. 23. 37. d I Ki. 16. 1. ' X Sam. q. 9. fz Sam. 22. 5. ? Mai. 3. 12. '» Gen. ai. 33. i Gen. 4. 4, 5. j Ex. 6, 25, « I Chr. 6. 7, II, 52; 23. 19; 24. 23 2 Chr. 31. 15 Ezra 7. 3; 10. 42 Neh. 10. 3; 11. 4; 12. 2, 13 Zeph. I. 1. I Heb. Aahe- roth. CHAP. 20 " vers. 1, 10, 22, Gen. 19. 38. 6 Mt. 4. 24. 'Josh. 15. 6a. a Isa. 58. 6. 457 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 Je- hoshaphat setof the/Levites, and o/ 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 lav/ and com- mandment, 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 be- fore you. Deal courageously, and the Lord shall be with the good. CHAPTER 20. 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 fee 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 20 6] II CHRONICLES [20 26 congregation of Judah and Jeru- salem, 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 nations? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to with- stand 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 -^pesti- lence, 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. 13 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 O^dah 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 ^Jeru- salem, 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 yours, 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 valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. 17 Ye shall not need to fight in ' vers. 5, 8 Ex. 25. 9. Bible prayers (O.T.). 2Chr. 30. 18. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. 1-16.) Mai. 3. X2. h Ex. 5. 3. > vers. 10, 22, Ezk. 3S. 7- J tLx. 12. 13. k Gen. 3. s- ' I Ki. 12. 17. X Chr. 9. ig. Ex. 6. 25. " I Chr. 6. 39- P Holy Spirit. 2 Chr. 34. ao. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 2. 15.) ? Mt. 33. 37. ■ 1 Ki. 22. 5. ' Nuni. 10. 21, ' I Chr. 9. 19. " Amos I. 1. " Psa. 9. 7. this battle : set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jeru- salem: 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 down before the Lord, worshipping the LORD. 19 And the Levites, of the children of the ^Kohathites, and of the chil- dren 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 in- habitants 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 am- bushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who were come against Judah ; and they were smitten. 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabit- ants 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 them- selves, more than they could can y away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much. 26 And on the fourth day they 20 27] II CHRONICLES [21 13 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 ^Je- hoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to /Jerusalem with joy ; for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies. 38 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 vjas 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 vjhich was right in the sight of the Lord. 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away : for as yet the peo- ple had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. 34 Now the rest of the acts of Je- hoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of ^Hanani, who is men- tioned 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- gaber. 37 Then Eliezer the son of Doda- vah 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 Tar- shish. CHAPTER 2L NOW Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of ^David. CHAP. 20 "- I Ki. 12. 17. == I Ki. 22. s- y Mt. 23. 37. ' I Chr. 16. q. " Gen. 4. 21. * Isa. 30. 15. ' 1 Ki. 22. 42. d I Ki. 15. 3. ' I Ki. 16. I. /vers. 35-37 I Ki. 22. 40. S vers. 36, 37 Jon. I. 3. h Num. 33. 35, i Josh. 15. 44. Acts 13. 22. > 1 Chr. 21. 4. Gen. 24. 53. d vers. 3, 9, 16 1 Ki. 22. 50 2 Ki. I. 17; 8. 16 2 Chr. 22. 6. ' vers. 6, 13 X Ki. 16. 28. / Gen. 3. s. ^ 2 Sam. 7. II. A Ex. 12. 2*. ♦ vers. 8-10 Gen. 36. 9. / Josh. 21. 13. 4 Mt. 23. 37. I Gal. 5. i(,. "' I Ki. 12. 17. " I Ki. 17. I. " I Ki. 22. 5. P I Ki. 15. 3. And '^Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Je- hiel, 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 Jehorani ; 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 Jeru- salem. 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 de- stroy the i^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 re- volted 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 who compassed him in, and the captains of the cha- riots. 10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did/Lib- nah 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 ^Jerusa- lem to commit ^fornication, and com- pelled '^^ Judah thereto. 12 And there came a writing to him from '^Elijah the prophet, say- ing. Thus saith the LoRD, God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of "^Jehosha- phat thy father, nor in the ways of /Asa king of Judah, 13 But hast walked in the way of 459 21 U] II CHRONICLES [231 the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jeru- salem to go a ^whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who 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 shalf have great sick- ness 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 against 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 ^Jehoa- haz, 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. AND the inhabitants of ^Jerusa- - lem made -^Ahaziah his young- est 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 Jerusa- lem. His mother's name also was /Athaliah the daughter of A'^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 CHA Kai ? Isa. X. 21. •• Zech. 14. X2. * Amos 1.8. ' 2 Chr. 9. 14. " Gen. 2. 13- * 2 Chr. 2Ki. 8 25- 23 24. ' Jer. 30. 12. CHAP. 22 " Mt. 23. 37. J 2 Ki. 8. 24. ' 2 Chr. 9. 14. d I Chr. 21. 4. ' I Ki. 12. 17. /vers. 2, 10-12 2 Ki. II. 1. i vers. 3-8 I Ki. 16. 28. i 2 Ki. I. 17, .;■ I Ki. 19. IS- *: vers. 5, 6 Mt. 4. 24. ' vers. 5, 6 Deut. 4. 43. '" Lk. 4. 27. " I Ki. 21. I. " I Ki. 19. 16. P I Ki. 16. 24. ? I Ki. 12. 17. *■ 2 Ki. II. a. ' I Chr. ai. 4. ' 2 Ki, II. 17. " Mai. 3. 12. after the death of his father to his destruction. 5 He walked also after their coun- sel, and went v.rith '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 anoint- ed 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 min- istered 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 i' 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 bedcham- ber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king ^Jehoram, the wife of '' Jeho- iada the priest, (for she was the sis- ter of Ahaziah,) hid him from Atha- liah, 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. 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 460 23 2] II CHRONICLES [23 21 of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. a 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 Je- hoiada 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 de- livered 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 S^CTOwn,anA gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king. IS Now when -^Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to CHAP. 33 " Ex. 6. 25. J Mt. 23. 37- ' yers. 3, 9, i£ Acts 13. 22. 2Ki. II. I. * Num. 7. 10. ' I Ki. 18. 21. "* 2 Sam. 8. 17 » Heb. 3. X. * Ex. 25. 3. F 2 Tim. a. 15. ? Gen. 17. 12. *■ a Ki. II. 17. * vers. 16, 2S Acts 13. 22. 1 1 Ki. 12. 17. " Mt. 23. 37. « Holy Spirit. Job 26. 13. ff Psa. 7a. 16. »■ Psa. 34. a. • Mai. I. 4. * vers. 21, 23 Jud. I. 33. "aKi.x3.14. • 1 Ki. 12. 17. "-aKi. II. 2. » 2 Ki. 8. 24. y Mt. 23. 37. * 2 Ki. 13. 4. " Josh. 10. 32. CHAP. 26 " called also Azariah and Ozias vers. 3, 8, 9, II, 14, 18, ig, 21-23 a Ki. 15. 13. h vers. I, 4 2 Ki. 14. I. « 2 Ki. 16, 6. << Acts 3. 21. * vers. I, 3, 8, 9,11,14,18,19, 21-23. D vers. 6, 7 Amos I. 8. h Josh. II. 22. i I Sam. 5. I. / 2 Chr. 9. 14. * Gen. 19. 38. I Ex. 12. 13. "* Eph. a. 20. " John 4. 14. " I Ki. 18. 19. P a Sam. 8. 17. 27 Now after the time that Ama- ziah 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 28. THEN all the people of Judah took ^Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father <^ Amaziah. a 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 Je- rusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4 And he did that which v^as 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 understand- ing 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 ^Ara- bians that dwelt in Gur-baal, 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 him- self exceedingly. 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the ^^^corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turn- ing of the wall, and fortified them. 10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many ^^vells : for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: hus- bandmen 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 464 26 12] II CHRONICLES [28 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 tmder their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty pow- er, to help the king against the enemy. 14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and ^'helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones. 15 And he made in Jerusalem en- gines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bul- warks, 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 destruc- tion: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to bum 'incense upon the altar of incense. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him four- score priests of the LORD, that were valiant men : 18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him. It apper- taineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the sons of ^Aaron, that are ^consecrated to bum incense : go out of the sanctuary ; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. 19 Then Uzziali 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. ao 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 quickly from thence; yea, him- self 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 separate 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 Jland. CHAP. a6 1 Eph. 6. 17. •■ Ex. 30. «. ' Ex. 4. 14. t Ex. 28. 3. " Lev. 16. 12. "Ex. 4. 6. "" Miracles (O.T.). vers. i6-ai; Dan. 3. 19-37. (Gen. s. 24; Jon. 2. I- 10.) * a Chr. 27. 6. y Mai. 3. 12. ' Isa. I. I. " Isa. 1. I. CHAP. 27 Mt. 23. 37. 4 a Ki. 15. 13. d 2 Chr. 33. 14 Neh. 3.26; II. ' 1 Ki. 12. 17. / Gen. xg. 38. 9 Ex. 25. 39. h ver. 6 2 Ki. 15. 5, 3a 1 Chr. 5. 17 2 Chr. 26. 23 Isa. X. I Hos. 1. 1 Mic. X. z. » Acts 13. 22. 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 fa- thers, 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 Jo- tham his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER 27. JOTHAM was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in ^Jerusalem. His mother's name also vjas Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. 3 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 peo- ple did yet ^corruptly. 3 He built the upper 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, be- cause he prepared his ways before the Lord his God. 7 Now the rest of the acts of Jo- tham,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 fa- thers, and they buried him in the city of ^David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER 28. AHAZ was twenty years old when - he began foreign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the 28 2] II CHRONICLES [28 23 sight of the Lord, like «David his father: 3 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 or ^Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the <^ abominations of the na- tions whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He sacrificed also and burnt in- cense 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 mul- titude 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 ^Rema- liah slew in /Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, who 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 car- ried 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 bond- women 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, whom ye have taken captive of your bre- thren: 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 CHAP. 38 " Acts 13. 22. b Ex. 32. 4. * 1 Ki. 18. 21. d Josh. 15. 8. * Gen. 43. 32. / vers. 5, 33 Mt. 4. 94. ' vers, s, a3 Acts 9. 3. > 2 Ki. 15. 27. <2Ki. IS 25. /iKi. 12 «7. * vers Num 7. . I. 12 33- ' vers. iKi. 1 9, IS 24. "•Isa. 14 24. «Mt. as- 37- "Josh .6 a. PEx. IS- 27. 9 vers 16 20 ■ Gen. 36. 9. ' Amos X. 8. ' Jud. I. 33. * Josh. 10. 12. " Josh. 15. 41. '" Gen. 2. as. ' 2 Ki. 15. ag. 466 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 tres- pass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel. 14 So the armed men left the cap- tives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. 15 And the men who were ex- pressed 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 car- ried away captives. 18 The ^Philistines also had in- vaded 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 dis- tressed 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, that smote him : and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they 28 24] II CHRONICLES [29 19 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 Grod, and shut up the /doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every ^corner of ^Je- rusalem. 25 And in every several city of '^Judah he made high places to bum incense unto other gods, and pro- voked to anger the Lord, Ck)d of his fathers. 26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, be- hold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 27 And Ahaz slept with his fa- thers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel : and '^Heze- kiah his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER 29. HEZEKIAH began to reign when he \was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mo- ther's name was Abijah, the daugh- ter 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 re- paired 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 ^eyesof 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 ,f 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 tiouble, CHAP. 28 y John 10. 9. ' Eph. a. ao. " Mt. 23. 37. * I Ki. 12. 17. « 2 Ki. 16. 20. CHAP. 29 " vers. 2, 25-27, Acts 13. 22. ' Ex. 6. 25. d Sanctify, holy (O.T.). Psa. 2. 6. (Gen. a. 3; Zech. 8. 3.) ' Gen. 3. 5. /Gen. 15. 17. ^ Ex. 30. I. h Heb. 2. 3. « Gen. 46. IX. J Ezra 10. 36. k 2 Ki. x8. x8. ' I Chr. 6. 33. "• X Chr. 16. 41. " John 18. I. "a Ki. 16. 20. P Ex. 25. 30. 467 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 cap- tivity 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 imto 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 .Ko- hathites: and of the sons of ^Me- rari, Kish the son of y 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 Mat- taniah: 14 And of the sons of '^Heman; Je- hiel, and Shimei : and of the sons of ^^^Jeduthun ; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. 15 And they gathered their bre- thren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the com- mandment 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 «Kid- ron. 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 six- teenth 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/showbread 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. 29 20] II CHRONICLES [30 5 they are before the altar of the Lord. 2o Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. 31 And they brought seven ^bul- locks, 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 zY 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 /or the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they •=^iaid their hands upon them: 24 And the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood upon the altar, to make an Jf'atonement for ail Israel : for the king commanded that the bm-nt 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 "^eer, 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 /orcfamecf by David king of Israel. 28 And all the congregation wor- shipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offer- ing 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 Le- vites to sing praise unto the LORD CHAP. 39 S Ex. 29. X. ' Gen. 13. 9. ' Lev. x6. g. * Ex. 29. 14. " X Ki. 12. 17. " Ex. 4. 14. '" Ex. 24. 6-8. * I Tim. g. 22. V Ex. 29. 33 • Lev. 16. 17. ' Ex. 6. 25. " I Chr. 16. 9. 4 Gen. 4. 21. ' 2 Sam. 24. II. d z Sam. 9. 9. ' 2 Sam. 7. 2. /Mk.3. 14. 9 Ex. 28. 3. * Rev. 22. 7. CHAP. 30 '■ 2 Ki. 16. 20. f> I Ki. 12. 17. • vers. I, 10, ] Num. I. 33. d Gen. 41. SI. ' Mt. 23. 37. /Ex. 12. zx. s a Cor. 3. s. ft Gen. ax. 33. 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 bre- thren the Levites did help them, till the viTork was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified them- selves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify them- selves 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. 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 congre- gation 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 .^sufficient- ly, 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 468 30 6] II CHRONICLES [3025 ^ 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 tirriQ in such sort as it was written. 6 So the posts went with the let- ters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Is- rael, 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, who tres- passed 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, hut ^'^ 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 chil- dren 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 Smocked them. 11 Nevertheless divers of ^'Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun hum- bled themselves, and came to Jeru- salem. 13 Also in Judah the hand of Ck>d 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 Jeru- salem 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 sancti- fied themselves, and brought in the CHAP. 30 ; Josh, 15. 47. / Gen. 17. 19. >jen. 2. 14. I Deut. 10. 16. " Rom. 6. 13-19 Mt. II. 28-30. « Mai. 3. 12. " Ex. 20. 6. P vers. 10; II, Mt. 4. 13. 1 Gen. ai. 9. *■ Gen. 30. 13. ^ Ex. 30. I. 'John 18. I. " Ex. 6. 25. " Ex. 3. 4. ^ Gen. 7. 2. ' Num. a. 5. y Bible prayers (O.T.I. Ezra 9. 6. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. I- 16.) * Ex. 23. ai. <» Lk. 19. 10. 6 a Ki. 16. 20. Mt. 23- 37- d Ex. 6. 25. Num. 24. i6. A Mai. 3. 12. 469 burnt offerings into the house of the Lord. 16 And they stood in their place after their order, 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 con- gregation 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 m.any of Ephraim, and Manas- seh, -^Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Kezekiah Jprayed 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 comfort- ably 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 thou- sand 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. 30 26] II CHRONICLES [31 ^8 26 So there was great joy in Jeru- salem: for since the time of 'Solo- mon 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 dwell- ing place, even unto heaven. CHAPTER 31. 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 posses- sion, into their own cities. 2" And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the ^Le- vites 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 morn- ing and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sab- baths, 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 en- couraged in the law of the LORD. 5 And as soon as the command- ment 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 .f^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, CHAP. 30 i I Chr. 22. Q. / Acts 13. 22. CHAP. 31 " Num. I. 37. * Num. I, 33. ' Gen. 41. 51. d Ex. 6. 25. ' Lev. 23. 10. /Gen. 14. 20. / Gen. 14. 20. ft Num. 7. 10. « Ex. 6. 25. Gen. 39. 4. " Ezra 2. 40 Neh. 7. 43. ' vers. 16-19 Neh. 7. s. I or, pillars. 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 peo- ple Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concern- ing the heaps. 10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of '^'^Zadok ansv^rered 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 7 tithes and the ^dedicated things faithfully : over which Cono- niah 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 Isma- chiah, 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 offer- ings of God, to distribute the ob- lations of the Lord, and the most holy things. 15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and '^Jeshua, and She- maiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to t'he great as to the small: 16 Beside, to those reckoned by ''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 And also, to the priests, re- corded by genealogy by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and up- ward, in their charges by their courses; 18 And to those reckoned by gene- alogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their 470 31 m II CHRONICLES [3218 daughters, through all the congre- gation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness: 19 Also of the sons of /Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were ex- pressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites. ao And thus did Hezekiah through- out all $^Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God. 21 And in every work that he be- gan 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. AFTER these things, and the - establishment thereof, '^Senna- cherib 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 captsiins of war over the people, and gathered them to- gether to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfort- ably 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: CHAP. 3t P Ex. 4. 14. 1 I Ki. 13. 17. CHAP. 32 vers. 2, 9, 10 > vers. I, 4, 7, 9-11, 21, 22 Gen. 2. 14. " vers. I, a, 9, 10, 22. d Isa. 14. 24. ' Mt. 23. 37- / Mai. 3. 12. ' a Sam. 5. 9. h vers. 5, 30, 33 Acts 13. 22. » Jer. 17. g. I I Tim. 5. 12. ft 2 Ki. 16. 20. I I Ki. 12. 17. "" Josh. 10. 32. " Mt. 23. 37. " 2 Ki. 18. 19. P Zech. 12. a. 1 vers. II, IS I Ki. 32. 20. [ John 4. 34. Cf. 2 Ki. 18. 29-35- Mai. 3. 12. 2 Ki. 19. 9. I Heb. de- uoted. 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 Oudah. 9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Je- rusalem, (but he himself laid siege against ^^Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and imto 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 i'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 ^wor- ship before one altar, and burn in- cense upon it? 13 Know ye not ^what I and my fathers have done unto all the peo- ples 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 fa- thers 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 Heze- kiah 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 Crod 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 471 32 19] II CHRONICLES f33 9 trouble them; that they might take the city. 19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the peoples 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, who 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 kingof Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. 24 In those days Hezekiah v^as sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him assign. 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 inhabit- ants 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 in- crease 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 CHAP. 32 ' Isa. I. I. ' vers. 20, 3a Isa. I. I. ' Gen. I. 14. Prov. 16. 15. Ex. 25. 6. Isa. 22. 9-12. Josh. 9. 4. / Mai. 3. 12. Isa. 36.-39. Ki. 13. 17. / Mt. 23. 37. CHAP. 33 '2 Ki. 21. I. ft 2 Chr. 28. 3 Deut. 18. 9. ' Josh. 15. ( d Ex. 7. II. ' vers. 7, 14 Acts 13. 22. ft Chr. 32. 9. I Heb. Ashe- roih. 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 Baby- lon, who sent unto him to inquire 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, be- hold, they are ^written in the vi- sion of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Araoz, 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 Ma- nasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER 33. MANASSEH ^was tv/elve 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 nations, whom the LORD had cast out be- fore 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 the Baalim, and made igroves, 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 sonof ' 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 472 33 8] II CHRONICLES [344 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 command- ed 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 nations, whom the Lord had destroyed be- fore the children of Israel. 10 And the LORD spake to Ma- nasseh, 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, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his Grod, and /humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his king- dom. 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 ^^^ Jerusa- lem, 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 sa- crifice 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. CHAP. 33 m Deut 5. 16. i Gen. a. 14. J Prov. 16. 19. fc z Chr. 27. 3. 1 1 Ki. 12. 17. " Mt. 23. 37. ' 2 Ki. 12. S- 1 Sam. 9. 9. P vers. 20-25 2 Ki. 21. 18. 1 Mai. 3. 12. ■ I Ki. 13. a. 2 or, sun im- ages. CHAP. 34 ■ I Ki. 13. 2. b Acts 13. 22. Ex. 32. 4. 2 or, sun im- ages. Heb. Asherim. 19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up 2groves 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 sa- crificed 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. « TOSIAH was eigiit years old J 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, an d 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 Jeru- salem from the high places, and the igroves, 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 strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 473 34 5] II CHRONICLES [3426 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 c^'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 pow- der, 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 ^ Sha- phan the son of Azaliah, and Maase- iah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the 7 house of the Lord his God. 9 And when they came to -^Hil- kiah the ^high priest, they delivered the ''''money that was brought into the house of God, which the "Le- vites that kept the ^ doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the rem- nant 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 over- sight 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 if, 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 MeshuUam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward ; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music. 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 Le- vites 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 lav/ of the Lord given by -Moses. 15 And Hilkiah answered and said CHAP. 34 Gen. 41. 51. /vers. 6, 9 Num. I. 33. ^ Num. I. 33. h Isa, 9. I. i vers. 8, 15, 16, la, 20 2 Ki. 22. 3. J Ex. 25. 9. *: 3 Ki. 22. 4. I Heb. 3. I. •" Gen. 17. 12. " Ex. 6. 25. " John 10. 9. P I Ki. 12. 17. J vers. 9, 32 Num. I. 37. "■ Mt. 23. 37. ' 2 Tim. 2. ig. ' a Ki. 12. 5. " Gen. 39. 4. " Gen. 46. II. '^ a Sam. 8. 17. ^ Gen. 17. la. ^ 2 Ki. 22. 4. ' Ex. 3. 4. " a Ki. 22. 12. b a Ki. 22. 12. ■^ a Ki. 22. 14. 3 Heb. Ashe- rim. 4 or, sun im- ages. Heb. Asherim. 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 to- gether 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 Sha- phan 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 Hil- kiah, and "^Ahikam the son of Sha- phan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and "^Asa- iah a servant of the king's, saying, 21 Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LoRD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this book. 22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to ^Hul- dah the prophetess, the wife of Shal- lum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the suburb:) 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 be- fore 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 ot 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 inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, God of Israel, 474 34 27] II CHRONICLES [35^3 concerning the words which thou hast heard ; 27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst ^humble thyself be- fore 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 y 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 coun- tries 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 fol- lowing the Lord, the God of their fathers. CHAPTER 35. MOREOVER « Josiah kept a '^passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem : and they killed the pass- over on the ^fourteenth day of the first month, 2 And he set the priests in their ^charges, and encouraged them to CHAP. 34 d Prov. 16. 19. ' I Ki, 12. 17. / Mt. 23. 37. f Ex. 6. 25. fi 2 Ki. II. 14. i Cf. 3 Chr. 6. / Gen. 26. 3. >• I Ki. II. 5. i Jer. 3. 10. CHAP. 35 ' I Ki. 13. 2. <= Ex. 12. 6. d a Chr. 23. I ' Ex. 25. 10. /vsrs.3,4 X Chr. 22. 9. f vers. 3, 4, 15 Acts 13. 22. >i I Chr. 9. 10. « Ex. 3. 4. > a Ki. 22. 4. * Heb. 9. 6. » » Chr. 5. la; 7. 6; 8. 14, is; 13. xo; 29. 25- 34- 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 2 Ki. 23. 34. * vers. 3, 4 Ex. 12. 13. d Deut. 25. X. ' Ex. 25. 39. / 2 Ki. 83. 34. «■ a Chr. 35. 20. 'i 2 Ki. 23. 34. i Mt. 23. 37. J vers. 6, 7, 10, 2 Ki. 34. X. 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 Jo- siah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Is- rael: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Jo- siah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord, 27 And his deeds, first and last, be- hold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. CHAPTER 36. THEN the people of the ^and 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 Je- rusalem. 3 And the king of "^Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and '^imposed a fine on the land, a hundred <^ talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Ju- dah and Jerusalem, and changed 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 jup /Nebu- chadnezzar 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, £ind put them in his temple at Babylon. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and bis abominations 476 36 9] II CHRONICLES [36 23 which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and ^Oudah: and (jehoi- achin 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 ex- pired, 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 Jeru- salem. 11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jeru- salem. 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself be- fore ^Jeremiah the prophet speak- ing 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 abomina- tions of the nations; 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 mes- sengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compas- sion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they ^mocked the messen- gers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets. CHAP. 36 k I Ki. la. 17. ' ver. 9. " called also Coniah, Je- coniah, and Jeconias 2 Ki. 24. 6, 8, 12, 15; 25. 27 1 Chr. 3. i6 Esth. 2. 6 Jer. 24. i; 52. Ezk. 1. 2 Mt. I. II. " vers. 10, IX 2 Ki. 24. 17. " Jer. X. I. P Deut 10, 16. 1 Psa. 9S. 8. »■ Ex. 20. 25. • Gen. 2. 3. < Gen. 21. 9. " Prov. 6. 15; 29. I Jer. 8. za. " Gen. 15. 7. "' called also Elam and Medo-Persia ver. 22 Ezra 4. 5; 6. 14: 9. 9 Dan. 8. 20; 10. I, 13, 20; II. 2. ' Mai. 3. X2. y ver. 23 Ezra X. i, 7; 3- 7; 4- 5; 5- 13 Isa.{44, 28; 45- 1 Dan. I. ax; 6. 28; 10. X. " vers. 30, 22, 23. " Isa. 55. ri Jer. 25. 12, 34 Dan. 9. z; 11. Lk. 9. 31; 12. 50; 22- 37 John 19. 28 Heb. 9. 6 I Pet s. 9, i Prov. 30. 27. ' vers. 22, 23 Ezra I. I, 7; 3- 7; 4- 5; 5- 13 Isa. 44. 23; 45- I Dan. I. 21; 6. 28: 10. I. 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 Grod, and brake down the wall of Je- rusalem, 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 ser- vants 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 4and 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 J'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 saitli -^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, Vvrhich is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up. 477 I ^] EZRA [2 i8 CHAPTER 1. NOW in the first year of ^Cyrus king of '^Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jere- miah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclama- tion throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord, Grod 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 Jeru- salem. 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with .^sil- ver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God which 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 Vv^hose spirit God had awak- ened, 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 treasuier, and num- bered 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 bowls of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hun- " vers. I, 2, 7, 8 a Chr. 3S. 32. * vers. I, 2, 8 2 Ciir. 36. 20. ''Gen. I. X. d Mt. 23. 37. ' Gen. 49. ro. / Israel (his- tory}, vers. I- 5j Ezra 6. 15- 18. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) ' Ex. 38. 27. h Num. I. 37. i Ex. 6. 25. / Gen. 24. 53. fca Ki. 24. I. i see also Zerubbabel V r. II Ezra g. 14, 16. '" ver. 8. " 2 Ki. 24. I. l> 1 Ki. 12. 17. "^ see also Sheshbazzar I Chr. 3. 19 Ezras- 2, 8; 2. 4, 21 4. 6, 9. 4- 3 Hag. 23 Zech, d Ezra 3. 2, 8, 9; 4- 3- ^ Neh. 7. 7, /Neh. 7. 7. -* Neh. 7. 7; 10. 27. h Neh. 7. 8. i Neh. 7. 10. / Nsh. 7. II. t Neh. 7. II. '^Neh. 7. 15. "* Ezra 8. la Neh. 7. 17; 10. 15- » Neh. 7. 18 Ezra B. 13. " Neh. 7. 20. P Neh. 7. ji. 'I Neh. 7. ai. dred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. II All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did '''^Shesh- bazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. CHAPTER 2. NOW these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom '^Nebuchadnez- zar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and '^Judah, every one unto his city; 2 That came with ^Zerubbabel: ^(Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reela- iah, Mordecai, ^Bilshan, /Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Neh. 7. 56. h vers. 55, 58 I Chr. 22. 9. i ver. 47. .;■ Neh. 7. 59. i Neh. 7. 59. / Neh. 7. 61. "> Neh. 7. 63. " 2 Sam. 19. 31. [2 61 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 '3 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 chil- dren of Nekoda, the children of ^^Gazzam, 49 The children of -^Uzza, the I children of JPaseah, the children of ^Besai, 50 The children of Asnah, the children of ^^Mehunim, the children of Nephusim, I 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 g 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 chil- dren of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two. 59 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Che- rub, Addan, and Tmmer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel : 60 The children of Delalah, 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; who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the 479 2 62] 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 iTirshatha 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 to- gether 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 sing- ing women. 66 Their horses were seven hun- dred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five ; 67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five ; their asses, six thou- sand 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 ^Jeru- salem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in its place: 69 They gave after their •^ability into the treasure of the work three- score and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pounds 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. 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 Is- rael, 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 its bases; for fear was upon them be- cause of the people of those coun- tries: and they offered burnt offer- EZRA CHAP, a ' Neh. 7, 5. " Ex. 20. 25. ' Ex. z8. 30. ' Mt. 23. 37. ' Lev. 27. 8. ' Zech. 3. 3. " Ex. 6. 25. t or, Governor. [3 12 CHAP. 3 Ezra 5. 2. d Ex. 3. 4. * Lev. 23. 2. /Ex.23. 3. ^ Gen. 17. 12. h Jud. 10. 6. i Mt. II. 21. J Psa. 72. 16. fc Acts 9. 36. J 2 Chr. 36. 22. "■ 2 Chr 36. 20. " vers. B-io Ex. 25. 9. P 2 Tim. 2. 15. ?Neh.3. 18,24; 10. 9. »• Ex. 6. ag. ' I Chr. 6. 39. < Acts 13. 22. " Ex. IS. I. " Psa. 9. 7. ^ Num. 23. 21. I Heb. booths. ings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and even- ing. 4 They kept also the ^feast of ifabernacles, 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 conti- nual 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 of- ferings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid. 7 They gave i I Sam. 14. 3. i I Chr. 6. 6. J I Chr. 9. 20. * Ex. 6. 23. ' Ex. 4. 14. ™ ver. I. " 2 Sam. 8. 17. " Ex. 3. 4. P Ex. 6. 2S- 5 vers. 7, 24 I Chr. 9. 2. *■ ver. I. » Mt. 22. 37. ' ver. I. " 2 Sam. 8. 17. ^ Ex. 6. 25. '" X Ki. 12. 17. ^ Gen. 49. 10. y Gen. 17. 13. ' Ex. 29. 41. " Psa. 40. 8. b Ex. 25. 39. "^ Lev. 2. 13. d Ex. 24. 13. I vers. 12-26 are in Ara- maic. [7J5 will to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. 14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsel- lors, to inquire 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 Jeru- salem, 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, offer- ing willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem : 17 That thou mayest buy speed- ily with this Jmoney bullocks, rams, lambs, with their ^mealofferings 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 that 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 w^ithout prescribing how much. 23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be care- fully 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 touch- ing any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ^^mi- nisters 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 484 7 26] magistrates and judges, who 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 he unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to impri- sonment. 27 Blessed be the LORD, God of our fathers, Vv^ho 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 counsel- lors, 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 to- gether out of Israel chief men to go up with me. CHAPTER 8. THESE are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the '^gene- alogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of '^Ar- taxerxes the king. 2 Of the sons of '^Phinehas; Ger- shom : of the sons of '^'^Ithamar ; ^Da- niel: of the sons of /David; .b^Hat- tush. 3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by ge- nealogy 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 ; Je- shaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. 8 And of the sons of Shephatiah ; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourecore 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. n And of the sons of Bebai ; ^Ze- EZRA CHAP. 7 ' Ex. 4. 12, 15. [8 23 " vers. X, 3 Neh. 7. 5. Chr. 9. 20. / vers. 2, 20 Acts 13. 22. 7 Neh. 3. 10. 4; 12. 15.32 7- 17. I I Ex. 6. 19. Gen. 46. II. Ex. 6. 25. ' vers. 21, 23 Isa. 58. 6. 'i Gen, 15. 13. chariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males. 12 And of the sons of Azgad; Jo- hanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males. 13 And of the last sons of Ado- nikam, whose names are these, Eli- phelet, 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 Hhree days : and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons ofy Levi. 16 Then sent I for Eiiezer, 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 command- ment 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 ''?/Iahli, 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 appoint- ed for the service of the ^Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethi- nims: all of them were expressed by name. 21 Then I proclaimed a /fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might i^afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a prosperous way for us, and for ovu- 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 485 8 24] EZRA [97 God for this: and he was entreated of us. 34 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 ves- sels, 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 into their hand six hundred and fifty -^talents of silver, and silver vessels an hun- dred talents, and of gold an hun- dred talents; 27 Also twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand 2 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, un- til 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 Jeru- salem: 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 everyone: and all the weight was written at that time. 35 Also the children of those that had been carried away, that were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve ^bullocks for all Is- vers. 24, 35 Rev. 21. 12, 14. ' Ex. 25. 39. ' Ex. 6. 25. " Mt. 33. 37. " Ex. 39. I. '" Gen. 15. 9. ■^ Lev. 16. 5. y Ex. 29. 14. 2 or, daries. CHAP. 9 '^ Mai. 3. zx. " Gen. 15. - Ex. 3. Gen. 19. : /Ex. I. 13. If Gen. 15. 16. h Zecli. 3. 3. J Bible prayers (O.T.). Neh. I. 5. (Gen. 15. 3; Hab. 3. I- 16.) rael, ninety and six ^rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he -^goats for a Jsin offering : all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD. 36 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's ^ lieu- tenants, and to the governors on this side the River: and they fur- thered the people, and the house of God. CHAPTER 9. 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 peoples of the ^lands, doing accord- ing to their abominations, even of the '^Canaanites, the ^Hittites, the ^Perizzites, the Jebusites, the ^Am- monites, the Moabites, the /Egyp- tians, and the c?^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 peoples 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 m.y mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished. 4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, be- cause of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished 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 ini- quities 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 iniqui- ties have we, our kings, ajid 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. 486 9 8] 8 And now for a little space grace hath been snowed from the LOR.D our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our Grod may lighten our ^'eyes, and give us a little ^re- viving in our -'''^bondage. 9 For we are 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 CJod, and to ''repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in/^Judah and in '^'Jerusalem. j 10 And now, O our God, what shall j we say after this ? for we have for- \ saken thy commandments, j 11 Which thou hast commanded | by thy servants the prophets, say- I ing, The ^land, unto which ye go to I possess it, is an unclean land with | the filthiness of the peoples of the | lands, v^ith their abominations, which have filled it from one end to i 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 com- | mandments, and join in affinity with the peoples 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 ai't righteous: for we remain yet es- caped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee be- cause of this. EZRA CHAP. 9 l< Gen. 3. 5. [10 12 ' vers. 8, 9 Psa. 8-i. 6. '" Ex. I. 14. " 2 Chr. 36. 20. " 2 Ki. 12. 5. P Gen. 49. 10. 9 I Ki. 12. 17. '■ Mt 23. 37. ' Mai. 3. 12. • Separation. vers. 10-12; lizra 10. 10. (Gen. 13. 1 1 2 Cor. 6. 14- I7-) CHAP. 10 " Ezra 7. I. '' Lev. 5. 5. <^ J Thes. 4. 13. li Ex. 6. 25. ^ Neh. 12. 22, 23. / vers. 8, 9 Lev. 7. 17, 18. CHAPTER 10. "jVrOW when f^Ezra had prayed, -Li and when he had '^confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there as- sembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children : for the people wept very sore. ' Num. I. 37. h Ezra. 7. I. ' Lev. 5. s. J Psa. x6. II. >< Separation. vers. 10, 11; Neh. 9. 2. (Gen. 12. i; 2 Cor. 6. 14- 17) Mai. 3. 2 AndShechaniahthesonof Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have tres- passed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the peoples of the land : yet now there is ^hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let us make a co- venant 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 Is- rael, to swear that they would 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 ^Elia- shib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the trans- gression of them that had been carried away. 7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the capti- vity, that they should gather them- selves together unto Jerusalem ; 8 And that yirhosoever 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 to- gether unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on j the twentieth day of the month ; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of //ir's matter, and for the great rain. 10 And -^^Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them. Ye have trans- gressed, and have taken strange i 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 peoples of the ^land, and from the strange wives. 12 Then all the congregation an- swered and said with a loud voice. As thou hast said, so must we do. 487 10 13] 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 that 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 Asa- hel 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 dimmer ; Ha- nani, and Zebadiah. 21 And of the sons of ^Harim ; Maa- seiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. 22 And of the sons of Pashur; ^Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Ne- thaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same EZRA CHAP, xo " Ex. 6. 25. Ezra 3. 3. Rom. 3. 19. f Gen. 15. 9. 1 I Chr. 9. 12. Chr. 24. 8. Neh. 12. 41. ' Neh. 12. 17, Neh. la. 15. [10 44 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 Elea- zar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. 26 And of the sons of Elam ; Mat- taniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah. 27 And of the sons of Zattu ; Eli- oenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jere- moth, and Zabad, and Aziza. 28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jeho- hanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. 29 And of the sons of Bani ; Me- shullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Ja- shub, 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 ; Eli- ezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shema- riah. 33 Of the sons of ^'Hashum ; Mat- tenai, 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 Jaa- sau, 38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, 39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, 41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, She- mariah, 42 Shallum, Amariah, anc? 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. 488 I ^] THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH [2 8 CHAPTER 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 ^ Shu- shan the palace, 2 That "^Hanani, one of my bre- thren, came, he and certain men of ^ Judah ; and I asked them concern- ing the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and con- cerning ^Jerusalem. 3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the /cap- tivity there in the province are in great affliction and 6^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 cove- nant and mercy for them that love him and observe his command- ments: 6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine -^'eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy ser- vant, 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 trans- gress, 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 CHAP, z " Neh. 10. I. b Esth. g. i8. ' Neh. 7. 2. d Gen. 49. 10. • Mt. 23. 37. /Deut. 28. 41, ' Psa. 69. 9. fc Gen. 1. X. i Bible prayers (O.T.). Neh. 4. 4. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. I- x6.) / Deut. 7. 21. fc Gen. 3. 5. ' Lev. 5. s. ™ Gen. 6. 11,12. " Ex. 3. 4. ' Psa. 2. 8. P Deut. 30. 3. ? Psa. 6a. II. CHAP. 2 Ezra 7. I. * Israel {his- tory K vers. 1-9; Neh. 8. 1-8. (Gen. 12. 2, 3; Rom. II. 26.) ' Ex. 39. 42. 489 and thy people, whom thou hast re- deemed by thy great ^ power, and by thy strong hand. II 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. 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' sepul- chres, 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 ap- pertained 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. 2 9] NEHEMIAH f3 12 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 /^Am- monite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the chil- dren 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 thei-e 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 %ell, and to the dung gate, 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 Je- rusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Je- rusalem, that we be no more a re- proach. 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 ^Ho- ronite, and /Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and ^Geshem the ^Ara- bian, 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 Grod of heaven, he CHAP. 3 Neh. 6. I, 2, K, 12, 14; 13. / ver. 19 Neh. 13. 28. S called also Tobijah ver. 19 Neh. 4. 3, 7; 6. I, 12, 14. 17, 19; 13- 4> 7. 8. 'i vers. 10, 19 Gen. 19. 38. i Mt. 23. 37. i Lev. 7. 17, 18. << Rev. 20. 2. I John 4. 14. ™ Ex. 24. II. " ver. 10. " ver. 10. P ver. ig. ? Neh. 6. 1,2,6. ■"z Chr. 0- iV ' Ex. 3. IS. CHAP. 3 ■* vers. 20, 21 Neh. 13. 4, 7, b vers. I, io Heb. 3- I- ' John 10. 9. d Neh. 12. 39. ^ Neh. 12. 39 Jer. 31. 38 Zech. 14. 10. /Josh. 6. 2. ^ vers. 4, 21 Ezra 8. 33. h 2 Kl. 12. 5. • ver. 30 Neh. 6. 18. / vers, s, a? Amos 1. 1. k Ex. 24. II. I Neh. 13. 28. "* I Chr. 27. 30. « Josh. 9. 3. » Josh. 18. 26. P Mt. 23. 37. 1 Ezra 8. 2. <• I Chr. 24. 8. ' Neh. 10. 24. will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor ^memorial, in Jerusalem. CHAPTER 3. 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 MeshuUam the son of ^ Be- rechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. 5 And next unto them the /Teko- ites repaired; but their ^nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord. 6 Moreover the old gate repaired Oehoiada the son of Paseah, and MeshuUam 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 Ja- don 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 gold- smiths. Next unto him also re- paired 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 ^Kalohesh, the 490 3^3] NEHEMIAH [44 ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daug^hters. 13 The valley gate repaired Ka- nun, 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 Shailun 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 men. 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 bre- thren, Bavai the son of J'Henadad, the ruler of the half part of =Keilah. 19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Miz- pah, 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 vjall unto the door of the house of Elia™ shib 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 Aza- riah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah beside his cv/n 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. CHAP. 3 Jer. 6. I. " vers. 15, 16 Aces 13. 22. '' Josh. 15. 58. "' Ex. 6. 25. ' Neh. 8. 7; 9. 4,5- / Ezra 3. 9 Neh. 3. 24. I Sam. 23. 4. Eph. 2. 20. * vers. 26, 31 z Chr. 9. 2. * vers. 26, 27 2 Chr. 27. 3. li Neh. X2. 36, 42. Eph. 2. 30. CHAP. 4 " vers. I, 7 Neh. 2. 10. f> Jer. 10. 10. "^ Gen. 21. 9. <* 2 Ki. 17. 24. ' Psa. 85. 6. /vers. 1, 7 Neh. 2. 10, ' vers. 3, 7 Gen. 19. 38. A Bible prayers (O.T.). Neh. 0. s. (Gen. 15. 2; Hab. 3. I- 16.) Ma!. 3 12. ; or, jackal. 25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which standeth 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 I against the water gate toward the i east, and the tower that standeth 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 re- paired 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 Meshul- 1am 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 mer- chants, over against the gate Miph- kad, and to the going up of the ^corner. 32 And between the going up of the comer unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. CHAPTER 4. BUT it came to pass, that when '^Sanballat heard that we build- ed 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 ifox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. 4 ^^Hear, O our God ; for we are de- spised : and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the ^land of captivity : 491 4 5] NEHEMIAH [55 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 '^Ara- bians, 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 to- gether 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 that 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, who 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 ser- vants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the CHAP. 4 / Psa. 32. X. ft Isa. 44. ' 2 Chr. 9. 14. Josh. 13. 3. " Mt. 23. 37. Gen. 49. 10. P Ex. 24. II. ? Deut. 7. 21. •■ Gen. 49. 10. Deut. I. 41. ' Ex. 24. II. " Ex. 19. 13-16. Mt. 23. 37. CHAP. 5 Ruth 4. 3. ♦ Gen. 17. 12. rulers were behind all the house of ^'Judah. 17 They that 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 And 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 v/e 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 -^Je- rusalem, 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 that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. CHAPTER 5. 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 must buy com 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 into '^bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for 493 5 6] NEHEMIAH [6 8 other men have our lands and vine- yards. 6 And I was very angry v/hen 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 bro- ther. And I gathered a great as- sembly against them. 8 And I said unto them, We after our ^ability have redeemed our bre- thren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; 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 re- proach of the nations, our enemies? 10 I likewise, and my brethren, and niy servants, might exact of them /money and corn : I pray you, let us leave off this usury. 11 i'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 com, 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 J 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 emp- tied. 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 charge- able 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. CHAP, s d Ex. 23. 25. * Lev. 27. 8. /Gen. 17. 12. 3 Acts 3. 21. h Zech. 4. II. * Gen. 24. 3. J Ex. 12. 25. i Gen. 26. 3. ' Ex. 19. 18. "* Mai. 3. 12. " Gen. 49. 10. " Ezra 7. 1. P Gen. 23. 15. ? Ex. 38. 27. '■ Ruth 4. 3. * Ex. 1. 14. CHAP. 6 " vers. 1, 2, s, iz, 14 Neh. a. 10. * vers. I, la, 14, Neh. 2. 10. ' Neh. 2. 19. d 2 Chr. 9. 14. ' John 10. 9. / Psa. 40. 9. B Mt. 33. 37. 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 nations that are about us. 18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were pre- pared 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 Grod, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. CHAPTER 6. NOW it came to pass, when -^San- ballat, and ^Tobiah, and ^Ge- shem the ^Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had build- ed 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 re- ported among the nations, 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 ^Jeru- salem, saying. There is a iiing 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 493 6 9] NEHEMIAH [7 14 thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. 9 For they all made us afraid, say- ing, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. ID 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 tem- ple, 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 m.an 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 pro- nounced 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 To- biah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the pro- phetess 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 nations 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 Wbles of yjudah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of To- biah 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 Meshul- 1am 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. CHAP. 6 Gen. 3. 5. Ex.24. " i Gen. 49. 10. CHAP. 7 John 10. 9. i Ex. 15. I. Mt. 23. 37. / vers. 61-65 Num. I. 18 I Chr. r. I, 3 Ezra 2. 59-63 John I. 13; 3. 3,7,8 Rom. 8. 16, 17 Gal. 3. 26-25 Heb. 7. 3, 6 I Pec. I. 23. 3 vers, s, Ezra 2. 5. 494 CHAPTER 7. 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 ^Ha- nani, 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 Jeru- salem, every one in his watch, and every one to he 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 attlie 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 ^''Nebuchad- nezzar 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, yjeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raa- miah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bil- shan, -^'Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, ^Baanah. The number, / 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 thou- sand two hundred fifty and four. 13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five. 14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore. 7 ^5] NEHEMIAH [7 61 15 The children of "Binniii, six hundred forty and eight. 16 The children of Bebai, six hun- dred 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 hun- dred fifty and five. 21 The children of ^'Ater of ^Heze- kiah, 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 hun- dred twenty and eight. 28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two. 29 The men of ^Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and J'Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three. 30 The men of -Ramah and ^Gaba, six hundred twenty and one. 31 The men of ^Michmas, an hun- dred 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, d. 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and ^Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Shere- biah, /Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said. Stand up and ^ bless the Lord your God for ever and ever : and blessed be thy -^glo- rious 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 wor- shippeth thee. 7 iThou 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 ^Girgash- ites, 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 J Egypt, and heardest their cry by the ^Red Sea; 10 And showedst ^signs and won- ders 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 497 CHAP. 9 d Gen. 28. lO. Ex. 34. 32. /Sabbath. vers. 13, 14; Mt. 12. X. (Gen. 2. 3; Mt. la. 1.) i' Ex. 3. 4. '» John 7. 37. • Ex. 12. 25. y Psa. 55. 8. fe Ex. I. 14. ' Ex. 23. 21. "* vers. 17, 31 Ex. 2o. 6. " Ruth 2. 30. » Ex. :2. 4. P Psa. 73. 14. 9 Ex. i5. 15. •■ Josh. a. 10. ' Num. 21. 26. ' Num. 21. 33. " Num. 21. 3j " Gen. 1. 16. *" Deut. 5. 16. * John 4. 14. y Zech. 4. II. ^ Deut. 8. 19. « Psa. 8. 6. * Holy Spirit. Job 26. 13. (Gen. I. 2; Mai. 3. 15.) 9 13] NEHEMIAH the night by a "^pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. 13 Thou earnest down also upon mount <^ Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and command- ments: 14 And madest known unto them thy holy /sabbath, and command- edst 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 command- ments, 17 And refused to obey, neither w^ere mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hard- ened their necks, and in their re- bellion appointed a captain to re- turn to their ^bondage: but thou ai't 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 pro- vocations ; 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mer- cies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pilla.r of the /cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way ; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go. 20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and with- heldest not thy i'manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 21 Yea, forty years didst thou sus- tain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 23 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they [930 possessed the land of ^Sihon, and the land of the king of -s^Heshbon, and the land of ^Og king of ^Ba- shan. 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the ^stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, con- cerning 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 sub- duedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with } their kings, and the peoples 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 J'oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted them- selves in thy great goodness. 26 Nevertheless they were dis- obedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who ^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 mer- cies 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: there- fore 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 proud- ly, and hearkened not unto thy com- mandments, 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: 498 9 31] NEHEMIAH [10 33 CHAP. 9 / Psa. 8. 6. 3 Psa. i6. II. ^ Ex. 6. 25. CHAP, xo " Neh. I. X. h Neh. 13. X, 12, 31- ' Neh. 12. 42. d Ezra 8. 2. ' Neh. 12. 14. /Neh. 7.42; 12. 15. 0 Neh. 12. 3. ft Ezra 8. a. yet would they not give ear : there- fore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the "^ lands. 31 Nevertheless for thy great mer- cies' sake thou didst not utterly con- i '^ °^"'- 7- =' sume 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 testi- monies, 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 imto 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 .^Tpleasure, 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. NOW those that sealed were, Ne- hemiah, the iTirshatha, the son of '^Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, 2 Seraiah, Azariah, '^Jeremiah, 3 Pashur, Amariah, ^Malchijah, 4 ^Hattush, ^Shebaniah, Malluch, 5 /Harim, i^Meremoth, Obadiah, 6 ^^Daniel, ^Ginnethon, Baruch, 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, /Shemaiah: these were the priests. 499 « Neh. 12. 4, 16. ;■ Neh. 12. 6. k Ex. 6. as. I Ezra. 3. 9. "' Neh. 8. 7. " Neh. 8. 7. " Neh, II. 22; 12. 34. P Ezra. 2. 12. 1 Neh. II. 24. '■ Neh. 3. 12. * Ezra 2. 2. ' I Chr. 9. 3. " MaL 3. 12. '' Ex. 24. II. '" Gen. 24. 8. * Ex. 3. 4. f Mai. 3. 12, ' Gen. 23. 15. " Ex. 25. 30. * Ex. 29. 41. '■ Ex. 29. 14. d Ex. 29. 33. 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; Pa- rosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani, 15 Bunni, /Azgad, Bebai, 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, 18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, ig 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 peoples of the ^'lands unto the lav/ of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one hav- ing knowledge, and having under- standing; 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 command- ments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the J'land, nor take their daughters for our sons : 31 And if the peoples 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 r.s, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a -shekel for the ser- vice of the house of our God ; 33 For the '^showbread, and for tlie continual '^meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sab- baths, 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. 10 34] NEHEMIAH [II 17 34 And we cast the 4ots among the priests, the /Levites, and the peo- ple, 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 of- ferings, 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 ai-e the vessels of the sanc- tuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God. CHAPTER 11. 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 them- selves 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 ser- vants, 4 And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the CHAP. 10 ' Lev. 16. 8. / Ex. 6. 25. s Lev. 23. 10. h Gen. 14. 20. i Ex. 4. 14. J Num. 16, 10. CHAP. II « Mt. 23. 37. * Gen. 49. 10. ' Ex. 6. 25. d, vers. 3, 21 I Chr. 9. a. ' I Chr. 22. 9. /vers. 4, 7, 31, Num. I. 37. S Gen. s. 12. '' vers. 4, 6 Ruth 4. 18. « Gen. 39. 4. j Neh. 12. 6, 19. k Neh. 8. 4. ' I Chr. 9. II. "* I Chr. 9. 12. " Neh. 12. 36. " I Chr. 9. 12. P Ex. 6. 25. 1 1 Chr. 9. 14. *" I Chr. 9. 14. ' vers. 17, 22 I Chr. 9. 15. vers. 17, 22 I Chr. 9. 15. Neh. 12. 9, children of/Benjamin. Of the chil- dren of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of She- phatiah, the son of .f Mahalaleel, of the children of ''^Perez ; 5 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Ha- zaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. 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 Benja- min; Sallu the son of MeshuUam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maa- seiah, 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 7 Joiarib, Jachin. 11 Seraiah the son of -^Hilkiah, the son of MeshuUam, the son of Zadok, the son of ^Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God. 13 And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hun- dred 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 Zab- diel, the son of one of the great men. 15 Also of the /Levites: Shemaiah the son of ^Hashub, the son of -" Azri- kam, 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 500 II i8] NEHEMIAH [12 23 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 -^J 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 command- ment concerning them, that a cer- tain portion should be for the singers, due for every day. 24 And Pethahiah the son of "Me- shezabeel, pf the children of ^Zerah the son of./ Judah, was at the king's hand in ail matters concerning the people. 25 And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at A'^Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekab- zeel, and in the villages thereof, 26 Andat 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 i^Ziklag, and at Me- konah, and in the villages thereof, 29 And at En-rimmon, and at '^Za- reah, and at Jarmuth, 30 Zanoah, ''''^AduUam, and in their villages, at -"^Lachish, and the fields thereof, at ^Azekah, and in the vil- lages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley of /Hin- nom. 31 The children also of Benjamin from ^Geba dwelt at ^Michmash, and -^Aija, and ^Beth-el, and in their villages, 32 Andat "Anathoth, ^'Nob, Ana- niah, 33 Hazor, ^Ramah, ^Gittaim, 34 /Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, 35 ^Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. CHAP. XX '' I Chr. 9. 16. «' I Chr. 9. 17. •^ I Chr. 9. 17. J* Gen. 49. 10. ' 2 Chr. 27. 3. « Mt. 23. 37. * Neh. 3. 17. ' Neh. 10. II. Josh. 15. 26. i Josh. 15. 28. J vers. 27, 30 Gen. 21. 33. k I Sam. 27. 6. ' Jud. 13. 2. "• I Sam. 22. 1. " Josh. 10. 32. " Josh. 10. 10. P Josh. 15. 8. 'i Josh. 21. 17. *■ I Sam. 13. 2. * also called Ai Gen. 12. 8 Josh. 7. 2. ' Gen. 12. 8. " Jer. I. I. " I Sam. 21. 1. ^ Josh. 18. 25. " 2 Sam. 4. 3. y Ezra 2. 33. * I Chr. 8. 12. I or, courses. " vers. 1, 47 Ezra 2. 2. * Mt. I. 12. ' Ezra 3. 2. d Ezra 8. 2. * Neh. 10. 5. /ver. 16. ^ Neh. 10. 6. '' ver. 21. « Ezra 2. 2. ;■ Ex. 6. 35. ft vers. 8, 25, 35 I Chr. 9. 15. I Neh. II. 17. *" Ezra 7. I. " Neh. 10. 5. ° ver. 4. P Neh. 10. 6. ? vers. 17, 41 Ezra 10. 25. •■ ver. 42. ' Neh. 8. 4. ' ver. 23. " Num. 16. 10. 36 And of the Levites were i divi- sions in Judah, and in Benjamin. CHAPTER 12. 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 Oeshua. 8 Moreover the /Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and -^Mattaniah, who 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 fa- thers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jere- miah, Hananiah; 13 Of ^'Ezra, MeshuUam; of Ama- riah, Jehohanan; 14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of She- baniah, Joseph; 15 Of «Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 16 Of ^Iddo, Zechariah; of/Ginne- thon, Meshullam; 17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of^Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; 18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of She- maiah, Jehonathan ; 19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, 'Uzzi; 20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 21 Of ^Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Je- daiah, Nethaneel. 22 The Levites in the days of Eli- ashib, Joiada, and Oo^^anan, 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. 501 12 24] NEHEMIAH [12 47 24. And the chief of the Levites: ^^Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and ^Je- shua the son of ^Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, ac- cording to the commandment of JDavid the man of God, ward over against ward. 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, MeshuUam, Talmon, =Ak- kub, 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 ap- pointed 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 Me- shuUam, 34 Judah, and Benjamin, and She- maiah, 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 i^Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David CKAP. 12 '' Nell. lu. II. "■ Neh. 8. 7. '■' Neh. g. /}. :' vers. 21, 36, Acts 13. 22. - I Chr. 9. 17. " vers. 10,12. b "Ezra. 3. 2. ' 2 Sam. 8. 17. Ezra 2. 23. j Josh. 4. 19. ^ Josh. 21. 17. I Ezra a. 24. "* Gen. 49. 10. " ver. 41. " ver. 18. P ver. 41. 1 vers. 35, ^6 I Chr. 6. 39. *■ Neh. 11. 13. ' Neh. 3. 1. ' Neh. 3. I. " ver. 35. " Neh. 10. 3. "■ Gen. 39. 4. •^ Mt. 23. 37. ^ Lev. 23. 10. ' Gen. 14. 20. " Ex. 6. 25. i Gen. 49. 10. ' I Chr. 22. 9. I or, the por- 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 fur- naces 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, Maa- seiah, Miniarain, ^''Michaiah, Elioe- nai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; 42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehoha- nan, and ^'Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their ^'over- seer. 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 J'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 Ne- hemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day Uts portion: and they sanctified holy 50a 13 NEHEMIAH (13 22 things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of ^Aaron. CHAPTER 13. 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 chil- dren 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 'sepa- rated from Israel all the mixed mul- titude. 4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our Gk)d, was allied unto / Tobiah : 5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal offerings, the .^frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, w^hich v^as 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 thir- tieth 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 i a chamber in the courts of the house j of God. 8 And it grieved me sore : there- I fore 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 meal offer- ing and the frankincense. 10 And I perceived that the por- tions 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 to- gether, and set them in their place. CHAP. 12 .i Ex. 4. 14. CHAP. 13 iix. 3. 4. Num. 22. 5. Gen. 3. 14. - Separation. John 15. 18, 19. (Gen. 12. i; 2 Cor. 6. 14- I7-) /vers. 4, 7, ! Neh. 2. 10. " vers. 5, 9 M:. 2. II. Ex. 6. 25. <■■ Gen, 49. ' Gen. 14. 20. 2 Sam. 8. 17. Ex. 6. 25. Neh. 8. 4. Gen. 15. 6. Mt. 23. 37. Deut. 8. 19. Ex. 24. 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 "Le- vites, ^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 untotheir brethren. 14 Remember me, O my God, con- cerning 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, who brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 17 Then I contended v/ith the ^'no- bles 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 command- ed 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 sab- bath 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 f/za/ they should come aric? keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me 503 13 23] NEHEMIAH [13 31 according to the greatness of thy mercy. 23 In those days also saw I Jews that had ^^married wives of -^^Ash- dod, 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 oflf their hair, and made them swear by God, saying. Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daugh- ters unto your sons, or for your- selves. 26 Did not JSolomon 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 CHAP. 13 " vers. 23, 27 Gen. 34. 9. ^ I Sam. 5. I. y I Chr. 22. 9. ' Rom. 3. 23. Neh. la. II, 22. b Heb. 3. I. ' Neh. 2. 10. d Nell. 2. 10. ' Lev. 23. 10. Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trans- gress against our God in marrying strange wives? 38 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 priest- hood, and the covenant of the priest- hood, 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 ^first- fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good. 504 I ^] THE BOOK OF ESTHER [I 22 CHAPTER 1. NOW it came to pass in the days of lAhasuerus, (this is Ahasue- rus who 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 ^Shu- shan the palace, 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his ^princes and his servants; the power of ''Per- sia and /Media, the rnobles and princes of the provinces, being be- fore him: 4 When he showed the riches of his ^glorious kingdom and the ho- nour of his excellent ^majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days. 5 And when these days were ex- pired, 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 2beds 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 offi- cers 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 Aha- 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman,Biz- tha, ^Harbona, ^Bigtha, and Abag- tha, 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 show the peoples and the princes her beauty : for she was fair to look on. CHAP. I " Esth. 8. 9. i Gen. 2. 13. • vers. 2, 5 Esth. 9. 18. • vers. 3, 4, 18 2 Chr. 36. 20. / vers. 14, 18 Esth. 10. a Isa. 21. a Dan. 8. ao. S'Ex. 24. II. ft Num. 14. 21. * Psa. 93. I. J Ex. 25. 4. k Ex. 25. 4. I Ex. 38. 27. "' Gen. 28. 18. " Isa. 63. 2. 0 Isa. I. 18. P Psa. 16. II. 1 vers. 9, II, 12, "■ I Ki. 10. I. * Esth. 7. 9. ' Esth. 2. 21. " Ezk. 21. 26. " Dan. 2. 10. ** vers. 16, 21. * vers. 3, 14, i3. y Gen. 26. 3. ' vers. 14, 16, " Gen. 3. 5. * Neh. 12. 22 Dan. 5. 28; 6. 8, 12, 15, z8. ' 2 Ki. 17. 6. 1 or, Xerxes. 2 or, couches. 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, who knew the times, (for so was the king's custom toward all that knew law and judgment: 14 And the next unto him was Car- shena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and ^Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and -^"Media, who saw the king's face, and who sat the first in the kingdom ;) 15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, be- cause she hath not ^performed the commandment of the king Ahasue- rus by the chamberlains? 16 And ^Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hathi not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples 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 report- ed. The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not. 18 Likewise shall the ladies of Per- sia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, who 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 Ahasue- rus; 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 pub- lished 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 505 2 I] ESTHER 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. 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 wom- en, 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. that pleas- eth 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 wa^yMordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a A^Benjamite ; 6 Who had been carried away from ^^ Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeco- niah king of ^ Judah, whom yNebu- chadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, ^^Esther, his uncle's daugh- ter: 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 andjhis decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shu- shan 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 be- longed to her, and seven maidens, that were meet to be given her, out CHAP. 2 ' vers. I, vers. 2, 8, 10 Lk. 15. 22. *-' Psa. 126. 5, 6. d Esth. 3. I. ' 1 Sam. 15. 8. / Psa. 9. 7. !> Eph. I. 13. ^ a Sam. 8. 17. of Haman. Then the king said. Hang him thereon. 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then v»ras the king's wrath pacified. CHAPTER 8. ON that day did the king Aha- suerus give the house of Ha- man 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 be- fore 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 to 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 Ha- man the son of "^Hammedatha the ^Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that 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 Mor- decai 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 to 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 accord- ing to all that Mordecai commanded 510 ESTHER 8 10] unto the Jews, and to the i lieute- nants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces that 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. lo And he wrote in the king Aha- suerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by 2posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young drome- daries : .11 Wherein the king granted the '^Jews that 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 v/omen, 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 A copy of the writing for a de- cree to be given out in every pro- vince was published unto all the people, and that the Jev/s should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. 14 So the 2posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the de- cree 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 l^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 glad- ness, 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 peoples of the ^land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. CHAPTER 9. NOW in the twelfth month, that is, the month «Adar, on the | ' "'"• '"^''''p'- thirteenth day of the same, when 1 S" [914 CHAP. 3 Esth. 1. I, ;■ Gen. 2. 13. * vers. 11-17 Rom. 2. 28, 2 ' Esth. 3. 7. '" vers. 14, IS Esth. 9. 18. " Gen. 3. 8. * Ex. 25. 4. ■" Isa. I. 18. * Ezk. ai. 26. »■ Zech. 3. 3. * Ex. 23. 4. ' Mai. 3. 12. 1 or, satraps. 2 or, swift messengers. CHAP. 9 ' vers. I, IS, 17, ig, 21 Esth. 3. 7. b vers, gsti? 3.4, 31 2.5- 20, "^ vers. 18. 6, II x5. 9- 2 or, A duer- sary, or, Ac- cuser.Sow&vs. 7-9, 12; Job 2. 2, 3i 6, 7- CHAP. 2 ' Satan, vers. 2, 3, 6, 7; Psa. 109. 6.